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the whip of power. Diaz struck,
hard. And Madero was impris-
oned by his enemy. Released
j
from jail—he
was held only un- WASHINGTON, D. C. — Amer-
til the re-election of Diaz was can relatives and friends of per-
assured — Madero crossed the sons abroad who are technically
border into Texas and called for enemies or allies of the enemy
a revolution. The date was Oc- may not communicate with them
tober 5, 1910.
by letter or other forms of com-
After issuing one eloquent call munication unless a special license
after another, Madero won to in "proper cases" is granted, the
his side the leaders of many of HIAS office here learned.
This situation has arisen fol-
the Mexican states. Showing fine
generalship, generosity and high lowing the publication in the Fed-
idealism, the Mexican leader with eral Register of regulations issued
Jewish blood vanquished Diaz by the Secretary of the Treasury
after seven months of bloody in pursuance to the Trading with
fighting. His liberal proclama- the Enemy Act. he regulations
tions won him the support of were approved by the President
the populace, which was tired of of the United States on Dec. 26,
the Diaz regime. On November 1941.
6, 1911, Mexico had a President
who was of Jewish stock. And
the people gave him every inch Calls Christian Fronters "Bums"
of their support and faith.
NEW YORK. (JPS)—Defining
Madero found himself beset the Christian Front as "a bunch
with difficulties. Practical things of bums," Assemblyman Patrick
like handling politicians harassed H. Sullivan said he
will offer a
Madero. He tried with all his resolution in the Legislature
pro-
heart to rule according to the testing against the admission to
Constitution of the Republic. But the bar of John F. Cassidy,
he had retained the Diaz Con- Brooklyn Christian Front leader.
gress. The army men were old
The 6-foot, 5-inch Catholic,
Diaz followers who had to come
along with Madero when they who said he once threw out of
his office a Christian Front dele-
sensed the power of the masses. gation
because the group had
But they did all they could to
protested
to him that he em-
block any of Madero's fine ef-
forts to bring order out of chaos. ployed Jews exclusively in his
law office, bitterly attacked the
The opportunists in the land anti-Semitic Christian Front.
continued to breed trouble. Za-
pata in the south and Orozco
That all-Gershwin broadcast you
and Felix Diaz in the north re-
volted. They were beaten, for heard the other night in the "Mu-
the new Republic still had the sic for Brazil" broadcast was at
power to win a few skirmishes. the specific request of the Bra-
But finally General Victoriano zilian Government, one of whose
Huerta rebelled. What followed principals felt there was no bet-
ter American music than that of
shocked the world. Madero was the
late George Gershwin.
killed by Huerta's men on Feb.
22, 1913. One of the leading
American magazines said in its
no means free of anti-Semitic
issue of March 1, 1913:
"It will take more than prot- propaganda, which is readily
estations from General Huerta supplied by the Nazis, Mexico
to convince the world that the has little anti-Semitism. The
killing of Francisco Madero and Jews, however, feel lost. They
ex-Vice-President Suarez was look to all sides and find no
not political assassination. The friendly voices calling to them.
Perhaps some day another Ma-
murder, as it appears to be, took
place on Saturday night last dero will give them hope—or
when the two men were being maybe thousands of refugees,
conveyed by auto from the Pal- looking for a haven, will come
ace to the penitentiary and an to Mexico and make of it a real
attack by rescuers is alleged as home and carry into the land a
the cause. Such a story is easily warmth which comes not from
found and a potential attack !s the tropical sun but from a
functioning Jewish spirit.
easily arranged."
The Jews in Mexico today—
there - are 10,000 of them—are
mostly Ashkenazic with a few
Sephardim mixed in. They have
established small enterprises, live
quietly, hope that anti-Semitism
will not reach and destroy them.
They feel that there is a fu-
ture for them in the land. They
are comfortable; some of them
make a good living. The recent
rapid social changes in Mexico
have found the Jews adapting
Her new defense
themselves. In Mexico City there
job snakes her more
are a Jewish bank, synagogues,
interesting. Just as
a cultural club and Yiddish news-
papers. There is also a Jewish
something new added
school, founded 16 years ago.
to Old Golds makes
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the city attend classes in the
school. Their parents speak Yid-
dish, but assimilation is rapidly
overtaking the Jews in the com-
munity. Now one finds that the
children rarely speak Yiddish.
Spanish is their tongue.
The most significant thing
about Mexican Jewry, however,
is that the Jews in the land be-
lieve, rightly or not, that they
are isolated from the rest of
the Jewish world. American
Jews pay little attention to
them. Although the Spanish-
speaking American lands are by
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