September 19, 1941
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
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ANTI-SEMITISM CHIEF TOPIC
AT SENATE MOVIE PROBE
While Denying Anti-Jewish Bias, Senator Nye
Lists Jews in Movie Industry; Warns Jews
Will Be Scapegoats in Post-War Period
more than half the motion-pic- who are "pro-war" because they Chile Denies Maurice Schwarz:
Charge
ture theaters in the nation are are themselves dominated by hate
in thei hands of "four or five in- and are determined in order to
SANTIAGO,
Chile (JPS) -
dividuals, each of them I believe wreak vengeance on Adolf Hit-
an American citizen, but in the ler to plunge this nation into Taking direct issue with Maurice
American-Yiddish actor
majority born abroad in lands war," Clark said. But rushing Schwartz,
had charged in New York
that have been saturated with to his own defense, he hastened who
that he had great difficulty in
hate, with fear, with prejudice to add that he was not an anti- obtaining a transit visa through
and with persecution."
Semite.
Chile because he was a Jew,' the
Nye attacked the Chicago Sen-
Chilean Foreign Minister denied
His
own
body,
Senator
Clark
WASHINGTON (JPS) — For Committee investigating into the tinel, which he termed "a publi-
that religion or race had anything
said,
bears
"scars
received
in
the first time in the history of necessity of a resolution to in- cation for the Jewish people",
to do with the issuance of im-
America, the evil spirit of anti- vestigate the motion-pictffre in- for calling him anti-Semitic. fist fights in combating intoler- migration papers by his Govern-
ance roused by the Ku Klux
Semitism dominated a Congres- dustry.
"Jews are feeding their persecu- Klan in Missouri".
ment. He asserted that any regu-
sional probe as film leaders,
Senator Gerald P. Nye, who tion complexes to their own det-
lations governing transit visas
branded as Jews, were paraded had meticulously listed only Jew- riment," he asserted. A few
Again and again Mr. Willkie and similar documents applied to
before a five-man sub-commit- ish names in a recent St. Louis moments before he had charged came back with the observation all foreigners and not merely to
tee''of the Interstate Commerce America First speech assailing that the men mainly responsible that the investigation was un- Jews.
the movie industry as "war- for the anti-Nasi pictures were necessary if it sought to prove
mongers", was the chief plain- "of the Jewish faith, each one the attitude of Hollywood on
Be civil to all; sociable to
tiff who continually reiterated foreign born". He named Darryl industry is anti-Nazi and friend- many; familiar with few; friend
that it was Jews who were inject- F. Zanuck, Harry Warner, Bar- Germany. "The motion-picture
Season's Greetings and Best Wishes ing the "anti-Semitic issue" into ney Balaban and Joseph Schenck. lv to the cause of liberty," he to one; enemy to none.
—Benjamin Franklin.
the hearings and denied any In denyingt his anti-Semitism, reiterated.
racial bias while at the same Nye said: "Shall we not speak of
The charge that John T. Flynn,
time charging that Jews were it at all? Isn't it better that economist head of the America
Hoppg Nen, Year to All
the leaders in the industry and we bring these whisperings out First Committee, had ghosted
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were injecting their "foreign- into the open, give ourselves, Senator Clark's speech was inti-
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les Tobey (R. N.H.) and one of our country, it is but natural are against Hitler, he declared.
supporter of the Administration's to expect that a perplexed, ang- "But there is a great difference
foreign policy, Ernest W. Mac- ry, burdened, unemployed people between hating Hitler and hat-
will be ready to respond to the ing Fascism." Still disavowing
Farland (D. Ariz.).
New Year's Greetings to All
agitators who will want to help anti-Semitism, Mr. Flynn asked:
Nye's Testimony
Season's Greetings!
them find the scapegoat respons- "Are we to bring over here the
Most ominous in the testimony ible for it all, some one upon citizens of these countries,
of Senator Nye, who was in the whom to place the blame for aroused as they are, and to put
witness chair for four hours on every misery that grows out of into their hands the most power-
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one day and testified for hours this present world madness.
ful instrument of propaganda
on other occasions in the week-
"Organized forces and their that we possess to be used
AND
long hearings, was his warning leaders will find a goat. Who against our minds in the interest
that after the war Americans that goat will most likely be we of their European hatreds?"
would be looking for scapegoats have good reason to recognize
For Over Half a Century
The pictures Nye wants inves-
and they would find them in the from what we are hearing and tigated are "Convoy", "Flight
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ics of "Some-of-my best-friends-
The
Senator
alleged
that
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had been charged with anti-Semi- pro-war policy in Hollywood are, Nye admitted, amid laughter,
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page statement Nye said that slightest degree of tolerance fensive".
those who have not toed the
mark on every step that would
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take us nearer war". At this
point Nye mentioned the name
of Harry Warner as one of the
intolerant movie magnates. He
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"I," said the Senator, "was one
A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!
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meeting."
SEASON'S GREETINGS
In delivering his lengthy pap-
er, Nye said that he hoped "that
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our Jewish people will so con-
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duct themselves as to invite
A Happy and Prosperous New Year to All
more of such spirit as ours".
Wendell L. Willkie, special
cdunsel for the motion-picture
industry, alertly dealt with
charges made by the Senators
in a series of verbal and written
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overwhelmingly approved by the
Congress and by the people".
Willkie denied Nye's allegation
that the motion-picture industry
must back a British victory be-
cause only with a British con-
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profits. He stressed that the
American people were anti-Hitler
and that the films reflected this
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The spirit of the Senators at-
tacking the movie industry, us-
ing the investigation as • a front
to forward their isolationist
views, was reflected in the ad-
mission of Senator Bennet Clark
of Missouri, who admitted that
he had seen but few of the
movies which he labelled as
"war-mongering".
The note of warning that Sen-
ator Nye had sounded was echoed
by the Missouri legislator, who
too envisaged post-war hatred.
"If this country goes to war and
if a million men pour out their
blood on the battlefields of the
world, then when it is all over
and America is looking around
for the men responsible for this
infamy and the roll of the guilty
is called, the anmes of the men
who rule this industry must
stand high on the list before
the „bar of public opinion in
that angry America which will
inevitably follow the war." He
then went on to name Nicholas
Schenck, Warner Brothers and
Darryl Zanuck, as though he were
reading a carbon-copy of Nye's
testimony. The industry is dom-
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