DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

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Protecting the Refugees

The war creates a serious problem for
refugees in this country.
They will be listed, at once, as alien
enemies, since they are recorded as na-
tionals of Germany and Italy, in spite of
their having been disfranchised in the
Nazi-Fascist countries. But in reality they
are violently anti-Nazi and pro-American,
and their one hope is to acquire the cov-
eted citizenship in this country.
It is important that innocents should
not be made to suffer as a result of the
war. England faced a similar problem,
and solved it. For instance, a report that
has just come to us from London, through
the British Press Service, states:

Sabbath Chanukah and Rosh Chodesh Tebet
Scriptural Selections
Pentateuchal portions—Gen. 41 :1-44:17; Num.
28 :9-15; Num. 7:42-53.
Prophetical portion—Zech. 2:14-4:7.
Rosh Chodesh Tehet and Chanukah Scriptural
Selections, on Sunday
Num. 28:1-15; 7:48-53.
Scriptural Selections for Chanukah Week
Monday, Num. 7:1-17; Tuesday, Num. 7:18-29;
Wednesday, Num. 7:24-35;. Thursday, Num.
7 :30-41; Friday, Num. 7:36-47.
Eighth Day of Chanukah Reading of the Law
Num. 7:54-8:4.
KISLEV 29, 5702
DECEMBER 19, 1941

Chanukah's Spirit

Chanukah has assumed a position of
significance in Jewish history by virtue of
the festival's very nature of inspiring
courage in the heart of the Jew.
It is the Feast of the Maccabees, and
the heroism which marked the fight for
Jewish survival more than 2,000 years ago
acts like a clarion call in every generation,
for Jews to stick fast to their ideals and
to the major principle that right super-
sedes might.
In our own time, we see Jewish rights
threatened, we are witnesses to a battle
for decency and faith as against tyranny
and oppression. And it is no longer a bat-
tle of the spirit alone. It is a fight in which
Jews are engaged as soldiers, and in
which Jewish military forces are serving
as part of the Allied cause, in Russia and
in Lybia and in Palestine, and now in this
country.
An age-old battle is renewed in the
present world struggle, and once again
the Jew is in the center of the fight.
As in the days of old, the Maccabean
spirit is certain to triumph.
In the faith that tyranny will collapse,
we extend best wishes for a happy Chan-
ukah to the Jewish community.

Community Planning

Our entire community set-up may
change in the course of the next few
weeks.
The first responsibility of all Ameri-
cans is to aid in a complete victory over
the Axis.
Therefore, a re-evaluation of our re-
sources, our efforts, our thoughts, will be
in order.
It is clear at the outset, just as it was
clear to the Jews in England, and in
Palestine, and alsewhere where Jews con-
tinued to carry on a wholesome existence,
that normal life will go on; that religious
and educational efforts will not be inter-
rupted, since they will become necessities
in strengthening our morale.
By the same token, since this is a war
to secure freedom for all mankind, the
work for the relief of suffering millions
of Jews will not only go on, but will have
to be increased; and efforts for the up-
building of Palestine will have to be re-
doubled, since we must recognize that
Palestine, after the war, will be the chief
sanctuary and haven of refuge for hun-
dreds of thousands of declassed and ex-
patriated Jews.
What is required at present is patience.
In the course of the not distant future,
our program will be clarified and our aims
and ideals and aspirations will acquire
clearer meaning.
In the meantime, it is well that the
community should think in terms of the
courageous spirit of the democracies.
What we must enforce is discipline and
calmness and faith. With these, we shall
soon achieve total victory over the de-
structive forces of Germany, Japan and
Italy.

December 19, 1941

.'.Heard in the Lobbies.'.

By DAVID DEUTSCH
IRVING BERLIN
THIS Is WAR
Irving Berlin may be a bit too
Well, now we're in the trenches.
It will be a relief to escape the old to don a tin helmet. but you
torrents of words from the inter- can rely on him to be on the
ventionists and isolationists. The front line with fighting tunes to
old lines of division and bound- cheer us on to victory . . . Any
aries have disappeared. Now all day now the king of in Pan Al-
of us are Americans First. All of ley will give out with a rousing
us are in the front line to fight martial song that will be a
and to win . . . How has the first worthy successor to "God Bless
shock of war affected the Jewish America" and "Any Bonds To-
scene? (1) It has forced the day."
There's a buzzing of activity
America First and its anti-Sem-
itic fringe to go out of business on the Hollywood front where
or take cover for a while. (2) It anti-Nazi scripts are being has-
has suddenly aroused the plethora tily overhauled to bring them up-
of Jewish institutes worrying to-date . . . Talking about mak-
about postwar problems to the ing things timely, there was a
"Government figures show that the major-
realization that they were really deep purple blush on the cheek
ity of friendly aliens in Britain, who are for
only prewar outfits. (3) It has of the publisher of the New York
the most part Jews, have found employment.
started Zionists speculating that Times the other a. m. when at
A high n ercentawe of these aliens are em-
now America will throw its full the very moment when IIitler and
ployed in front line defense work. More than
diplomatic force behind the de- Mussolini were declaring war on
85. per cent of them, between the ages of 16
mand for a Jewish Army. (4) the United States, New Yorkers
and 65, are engaged in this. The men, are for
It has automatically raised the were reading an editorial in
the most part serving with the Pioneer Corps,
question of what will happen to which the Times said the U. S.
and the women are in the Auxiliary Terri-
the refugees and how many of should offer as an inducement to
torial Service and other services. Large num-
them will be interned by the Gov- Russia to fight Japan a declara-
bers are engaged in the manufacture of muni-
ernment for the duration. There tion of war by us against the
tions. Among the latter are Jewish scientists,
are two schools of thought on this Axis powers . . . Which proves
researchers and inventors who have con-
subject. Some say less money will that the Nazi Furorq, is so un-
tributed much of strategic significance to-
be needed for refugee work be- predictable that he sornetimes in-
wards the war effort."
cause the Government will pro- sists on doing the predictable,
vide for the maintenance of those
to be contrary, the bum.
This country will pattern many of its it takes into custody. Others ar- just
When Louis Liusky celebrated
policies after Great Britain's. On the ques- gue that more money will be his 65th birthday, he was in
tion of press censorship, for example, it needed if heads of families are Uniontown miles away from his
interned and their families left family or colleagues. Which means
has already been announced by the Presi- without
support.
that the veteran Zionist leader
dent that he will follow the British sys-
likes nothing better than being
tem of "filtering the news." It is to be DID You KNOW THAT
in harness.
hoped that the British way of avoiding
Ambassador Laurence Stein-
There were many cigar mer-
hardships for friendly aliens, including the hardt was greatly impressed with chants who were upset by the
when he stopped off cellophane shortage because of
Jewish refugees from Germany and Italy, Palestine
there recently on his way back war demands, but how come that
will also be followed by our government. to the U. S. from Russia. That Edna Ferber's book, "Saratoga
only the Washington papers car- Trunk," printed in hundreds of
ried Secretary of War Stimson's thousands of copies, comes to the
"America First" Dissolves
endorsement of a Jewish Army? readers in a shiny cellophane
That Arthur Krock would like to
Dissolution of the America First Com- meet Judge Jerome Frank in a wrapper?
David ben Gurion, the chairman
mittee was announced late last week by Clark alley because the Gauleiter of the Executive of the Jewish
plastered all over the leading page Agency, was not happy about
General Wood.
of the Satevepost the fact that those newspaper interviews which
Krock, the head of the N. Y. compared his brows to John L.
Now the question must be asked:
Times Washington bureau, was Lewis' luxuriant eye adornments.
What about Pelley and Sanctuary and Jewish?
That the temporary
their anti-Semitic activities which were of freezing of the funds of all refu- TOBRUK CENSORS
a pro-Nazi nature prior to the outbreak gees in the Latin American coun- They have blacked out the mo-
at war caused a minor panic vie theaters in Yorkville (Nazi
of the war? What about Coughlin's So- tries
because relatives in the U. S. playground) which hitherto
cial Justice and similar publications which could not get any money to them? showed German films. Which
prevented complete preparedness for this That the J. D. C. is thinking of should be a lesson to those refu-
country by their campaigns of hatred for launching a special relief pro- gees who thought they couldn't
for 500,000 Polish Jews make a living except by exhibit-
the Roosevelts and their linking of the gram
now in Soviet Russia? That Boake ing Nazi war flickers.
administration to Jews?
Carter, the radio columnist, has
Once in a while the British
Gerald L. K. Smith has made a complete become a staunch supporter of throw us a bone and say a kind
Palestine and the Bible?
word about Jewish heroism in the
about face—and that is the proper Ameri-
war. But they never permit their
can method of achieving unity in our TRUCE IN ZIONIST CIRCLES
censors to let the bars down on
ranks, in order that we may have com-
Those who anticipated that the newspapermen's accounts from the
plete victory against Nazism and all it Cincinnati convention would bring front. The lifting of the siege of
bitter war within Zionist ranks Tobruk was the occasion for some
stands for—including race and religious a are
going to be caught offside rousing dispatches, but nowhere
hatred, anti-Semitism, anti-humanism.
in their prognostications. The did the word Jew appear. Al-
But what about some of the others? Zionist leaders have decided to though the Jews from Palestine
a truce for the duration were known to have stood out
Are they prepared to repudiate their hat- declare
of the war and all attempts to
their bravery, the correspond-
red for the Jews? Or, will they stick to change the administration of the by
ents merely spoke of the Buffs
their old story—repeated by Hitler many Zionist funds will be dropped as an East Kent Regiment, never
a hot potato. There's even giving the slightest hint that a
times, and lately in his war talk against like
a good possibility that the unity great ninny Jews made up this
this country a week ago—that the Roose- program will be enlarged to em-
fighting force.
velt policy is one of "Jewish war-monger- brace the Revisionists. That would outstanding
Copyright, 1941, by Independent
Jewish
Press
Service, Inc.
be news.
ing"?

Anti-Semitism is pro-Nazism and anti-
Americanism. Let this be made known,
and let there be close watch of those who
persist in spreading libels against the
Jews and in appealing to hatred against
our people.

Coughlin's Predictions

"It's All-Out War; May Last 8 Years,"
reads the headline on Father Charles E.
Coughlin's last issue of Social Justice.
Is this a prediction, Father Coughlin?
The trouble with the Coughlin predic-
tions is that heretofore they have been
his hopes.

Room for 15!

Of the 86 Jewish refugees who were
refused asylum in several American re-
publics and who finally found temporary
haven in Curacao, 15 will be granted im-
migration visas for permanent entry in
this country.
This action by our government revives
interest in this tragic case and in the sad
events of our time which point to preva-
lence of a closed door policy which will
not permit the creation of a home for
so few as 86 people, including old men
and women.
The horrors of a world maddened by
selfishness have not subsided. If the after-
math of war will not bring relief, then
this will indeed by a sad world to live in.

WE'RE IN IT;WE'VE GOT TO WIN IT 1„

by BRESSLER

