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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

power pacts, and even league of nations
did not prevent a highly industrialized,
and THE LEGAL HRQNICLE
streamlined, technologically advanced na-
Published Weekly by Jewish Chroh4.10 Publishing Co., Inc.
tion from breaking the peace; invading
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
President
and conquering their industrially and
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post- technologically under-developed and nu-
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1819.
merically inferior neighbors. And we may
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the so called "have not nations" guaran-
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Now let us examine the peace plan of
Publisher
JACOB MARGOLIS
the
Nazis:
MAURICE M. SAFIR....Advertising Manager
Germany has a plan for a just and en-
To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter
during peace which she calls "The New
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only. Order for Europe". This plan envisages
a united Europe dominated and controlled
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub-
by the master Aryan race, with the other
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon-
sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers. nations of Europe graded according to
their racial purity, economic develop-
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
ment, cultural status and above all by the
Pentateuchal portion—Leviticus 1:1-5:26
extent of their collaboration and co-oper-
Prophetical portion—Isaiah 43:21-44:23
ation during the war. Stripped of all fine
NISAN 2. 5702 phrases, it means an unlimited sovereign'
MARCH 20. 1942
Third Reich imposed upon subservient
colonials.
Let Us End Isolationism
As a people with a tradition and prac-
tice
of freedom and equality for a cen-
Twice in the last quarter-century we
tury
and a half, the concept of a master
abandoned our isolationism.
Aryan race dominating a slave non-Aryan
In World War I we espoused the cause population is most odious. It violates every
of the Entente because we believed their decent and humane feeling. It means a
cause just. We helped win the war for return to barbarism and medievalism
the Allies but through shortsightedness which we had all thought was but a hate-
and false notions of our responsibility we ful memory in':ifkan's ascent to a better
lost the peace. Our isolationists persuaded and fuller life.
the American people that our task was
Despite our 'horror and loathing we
ended with the signing of the ill-starred must face the facts, and what are some
Versailles Treaty.
of them?
Knowing that traditions and old ideas
The free nations of Europe persisted
die hard, the isolationists raised the cry in the idea of unlimited sovereignty and
of "entangling alliances" so stridently, in- economic autonomy in face of the ration-
sistently and mightily that we were per- alization in industry, streamlined commu-
force compelled to repudiate the covenant r-fircation and power technology. Their po-
of the League of Nations. We never' litical, economic and social concepts were
joined that now non-functioning body.
valid for a simple agricultural age but
Would our joining the League have not for the modern power age. We know
made that organization a European and better than any people on earth that un-
world peace-preserving agency will now limited sovereignty and economic autono-
be a question for endless disputations and my is not unworkable. Long before the
discussions for those who love to indulge power age we organized our political and
in the beguiling and intriguing pastime economic life upon the basis of limited
of "what might have been".
sovereignty of the States and the Fed-
The indisputable fact, however, is that eral Government, and the notion of
the League without us did not prevent a state, group of states, or even a
region to attempt to function as an
the present conflict.
Now let us examine briefly our record autonomous economic unit was to us
unthinkable. Of all the many factors
as non-isolationists.
In World War I we were the arsenal that have contributed to the rise of Amer-
of Democracy. We sent more than 2,000,- ica as the richest and most peaceful
000 men overseas to make the world safe country on earth none has been more
for Democracy and help defeat the then important than the idea of limited sov-
aggressors: the German and Austro-Hun- ereignty and free exchange based upon
garian Empires. We loaned the. Allied economic interdependence.
We believe that Europe is industrially,
nations billions of dollars that have not
technologically, culturally and geograph-
been repaid.
With the defeat of the aggressors we ically ready for a Federation of States
felt that we had made the world "safe for patterned on ours.
If we are not to be drawn into another
Democracy". We had done our job well
and thoroughly, and what more could be war in 25 years we must make the New
expected of us? We believed naively, Order of Germany impossible of realiza-
albeit wrongly, that we had fought the tion and reject emphatically the out-
war that was to "end all wars". moded economic, social and political
We left the business to Britain, France practice of the free nations that have per-
and Italy of so emasculating the aggres- sisted up till now.
If we have really abandoned our iso-
sors that they would never again threaten
the peace and security of the world. They lationism, our responsibility will continue
proceeded along the old established lines until Europe achieves a just and enduring
of annexations, indemnities, buffer states, peace based upon the concepts of liberty
steel rings; occupation of enemy terri- and equality which we have enjoyed un-
tory ; reduction of enemy forces to a mini- interruptedly since the founding of the
mum ; balance of power pacts, plus the Republic.
We have immense moral authority and
novel imported idea of Wilson's League
of Nations which we' had repudiated. De- enormous material resources. These can
spite all these elaborate precautions, and must be used to bring to Europe a
peace did not endure; consequently we United States of Europe.
are again engaged in a world war and
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have abandoned our isolationism.
What is our role in World War II?
Serious Charges
We are the arsenal of Democracy: lend-
If the charges made by Lords Davies
ing and leasing munitions, food, tanks,
planes and ships to the United Nations, and Wedgewood in the House of Lords
instead of lending them cash. We are debate on the Struma, that the Palestine
sending our men to the four corners of administration is anti-Semitic, are true,
the world, but we do not know where then more than protest and memorial
meetings are needed. This is a matter of
or how many.
In World War II we are fighting to grave concern to the Government of the
preserve and perpetuate the "Four Free- United States as one of the United Na-
tions, for few things are better established
doms" and "Our Way of Life".
Our peace aims are incorporated in in our melancholy world than the insep-
the Atlantic Charter, an instrument pat- arability of Nazi-Fascism and anti-Semit-
terned after Wilson's FOurteen Points. It ism. To charge the administration with
is a tentative program, for we can hardly anti-Semitism is tantamount to a charge
foretell what conditions will obtain when of subversive activity. Our State Depart-
ment would do well to make the needed
the conflict ends.
Without disparaging pacts and char- inquiries and, if the inquiries disclose
ters, we do know that ententes, alliances, any taint of anti-Semitism, be it ever so
cordon sanitaires, steel rings, partial dis- slight, then those so tainted should be
armaments of aggressors and balance of removed pronto.

Detroit

Chronicle

March 20, 1942

.'.Heard in the Lobbies.'.

W USTHSI CH
By DAVID DEUTS
C NH GTON HEADLINERS
WALTER WINCHELL,
'
That
Fascist-minded
M. P. who
The Ratzis are hot after the
man who coined the term . . . recently let out a blast in Parlia-
Walter Winchell's radio's spon- ment against Israel Moses Sieff
sors are being flooded with let- should be biting his finger-nails
ters to drop him from the air now . . . Sieff, grand-looking and
. . . A number of the newspapers, swell-talking British industrialist,
notably the Washington Times- was called in by Leon Henderson
Herald, are slashing the column for the Office of Price Adminis-
to ribbons or forgetting it en- tration and also by Industrial Ad-
tirely . . . But Winchell, news- visory Council to let them know
paper hero, who began hammering how our British cousins do in war
away at Hitler in the far long production ... Sieff will be spend-
ago when influential Jews tried to ing his days in Washington to help
get him to stop, is hitting back speed up the hour of smashing at-
as hard as he's getting . . . tack on Hitler . . . Sieff, one of
Congressional enemies are trying the most influential men in Eng-
to make it appear that the famous land, has a chain of over 300
columnist is evading naval duty shops . . . Just as clear in think-
wh le talking on the air and ing out Jewish problems as in-
pounding out his daily stint. They dustrial problems.
Was that handsome Lewis Rus-
maliciously overlook the fact that
Winchell repeatedly asks for duty kin, young drugstore-chain ty-
outside his propaganda efforts for coon we saw walking into the
the Navy and his Admiral keeps Office of Price Administration in
telling him: Stay put where you Washington? . . . Yes, guess it
are until I give other orders . . was, for he's one of the dollar-
Fed up with the Hearst outfit, a-year men.
That was the old maestro, Ben
Winchell is looking for other out-
lets. George Backer's New York Bernie, who was buzzing around
Post is trying to corner the col- Washington offering a scheme for
umn, which, in New York, is said "Wake Up, America." . . . Ben's
to be good for 200,000 readers a idea is to have radio performers,
day . . . Marshall Field's Chi- listened to by millions, sell Amer-
cago Sun and New York PM also ica's danger to the dial-twisters,
want to grab off the crusading instead of leaving it to sober-
gossiper . . . Winchell says if he mouthed politicians . . . Thanks,
goes to the New York Post it's Ben, for joining up . . . That's
only if Backer will guarantee also for your son, Sergeant Jason
Leonard Lyons stays in with his Bernie, at Ft. Monmouth.
And over there at the War De-
Broadway column. Lyons is a
Winchell protege. Winchell even partment is Morris Troper, famed
coined the title, "The Lyons ,IDC executive, called in to give
Den." . . . Pretty useful guy, benefit of his accounting knowl-
Walter Winchell, and plenty pow- edge to strategic bureau.
erful--with 855 journals using his RANDOM SHOTS
stuff . . . Classic crack of Win-
Press agent for Rialto Thea-
chell was in his feud with Mrs. ter, Gotham's notorious horror-
Patterson, Washington Times- movie palace, reports that its
Herald and isolationist. Mrs. Pat- owner, literate Arthur Mayer,
terson reportedly took a personal has a pact with Jascha Heifetz
slam at the Jewish scribe and . . . Fiddler loves murder mys-
added: "stop looking for Nazis teries and Mayer reciprocates on
under the bed." So our boy, Wal- violin . . . So Heifetz can walk
ter, shot back: "and finding into Rialto,. at 42nd St. and Sev-
them." Give Winchell a hand, all enth Ave. whenever the marquee
you Americans, for the great moves him—and Mayer can slide
job he did in raising $155,000
through the Navy Relief Show at into an orchestra seat free any
New York's Madison Square Gar- time Heifetz gives a concert.
Wonder why the sport colum-
den, biggest sum ever collected
from a one-night stand . . . nists have overlooked Buddy
When will some self-respecting Blattner, whom the St. Loun,
Jewish organization give an ap- Cardinals are using on secund
propriate medal to this hero of base . . . Remember 21-year-old
Blattner a few years back when
the war against hate?
he went to Europe to demon-
MORE NEWSPAPERMEN
strate the art of ping pong (par-
Talking of newspapermen makes don, table tennis), at which he's
the story of J. M. Stein appro- ace?
that Boris Morros has
priate . . . He's one of the most
remarkable all-around Jews in the finished producing "Tales of
land . . . Has just resigned as Manhattan," he might get
Editor of the Brownsville Her- around to filming his own tale
ald to give more time to assist- of the days when he used to
ing. Red Cross . . . Joined the earn a living in Boston by bat-
Herald three decades ago as re- ting out a piano to accompany
porter, has owned the paper twice Yiddish movies in the old silent
and made it famous throughout days.
the Lone Star State . . . Stein is
Hope the censors won't con-
chairman of the town's Red Cross, fuse Martin Agronsky with his
whose duties are great because uncle, Gershon, publisher of the
Brownsville is on the border and Palestine Post of Jerusalem ...
near the seacoast . . . It there's Young, tall Agronsky, who used
anything Jewish going on in the to set type on his uncle's eight-
town, Stein heads it and sees it page daily in Jerusalem, got the
through.
Navy Department hot and both-
While Stein is dropping out, ered the other day with his
William Loeb is taking on . . broadcast from the Far East
Loeb is the son of the man who blasting at old munitions . . .
used to be Theodore Roosevelt's Agronsky's doing pretty well
secretary . . . He just added the even though he abandoned his
Burlington, Vt., Daily News to
his St. Albans, Vt., Messenger, early attempt to make a place
of which he's president and pub- in journalism by abbreviating
lisher . . . Loeb got his start as to Agrons for a few months.
Irving Berlin's still at it. He
a newspaper reporter, working for
International News Service • . . just turned over $2,500 to Navy
Is now one of the most enter- Relief Society from royalties for
prising owners in New England. "I Threw a Kiss Into the Ocean".
Navy now has copyright on sing-
YIDDISH IN JUKEBOXES
able tune . .. No favorites with
Don't let out a krechtz, but the Berlin, since Treasury Dept. al-
old Yiddish folk tunes have at ready has several such copy-
last made the grade . . . The best rights.
of the bandleaders are jiving Jew- FILE AND FORGET
ish melodic: for the juke box
Barney Wood, nation's hit-
trade . . . They say the response
is terrific . . . Benny Goodman parader, will give a hypo to his
is collecting a nice bit of change brother, Barney Rapp, by tour-
on "My Little Cousin," a swingin' ing small-town theaters with the
version of "My Green Cousin" band leader and his outfit . . .
from one of the goulashes they Barry will not only sing but re-
turn to the clarinet, which he
call Yiddish musical comedies . •
Fact it, it's the best-selling plat- usedt play with Vincent Lopez'
ter the clarinetist band-leader has orchestra.
pressed in years . . . Listen to
If you see wife of William S.
those Andrews Sisters wail thro' Paley, Columbia Broadcasting
"What To Do," a Yiddish tune head, in the ads posing in the
by way of Russia . . . Amusing doorway of an airliner, don't
these girls should hit the tops think of her as immodest. That's
only on Jewish successes . . . her way of helping out New
Remember how the Andrews Sis- York Infirmary for Women, turn-
ters started the craze for "Bei ing over to charity proceeds of
Mir Bist Du Schoen?" . . . And commercial posing.
if you think of Cab Calloway as
Guess Paul Muni is over his
a dark-skinned cantor, try push- mad at Hollywood since he and
ing a nickel into your local juke- lovely Luise Rainer are sched-
box to brine out his fascinatin' uled to be reunited in an RKO
version of "Nein, Nain." . . . picture called "China Sky," by
Nain, Nain, Hitler, if Jews have Pearl Buck.
something to offer—there are tak-
Sounds swell, remembering the
ers in this old U. S. A.
gorgeous "Good Earth".