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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle

An Open Letter to Lord Halifax

April 3

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Cardozo Club To
Hold Bingo Party

By HENRY MONTOR

with the facts. They need only
On Wednesday evening, April
be outlined.
15, the Cardozo Club will be
1. Prior to the outbreak of nests at a bingo party at the
war in 1939, officials of the Brit- Workmen's Circle Education al
ish Government in Palestine act- Center, 11529 Linwood Ave., at
ed either as though the Jews 8:30 p. m. Proceeds from this
there were transients with lim- affair will go to the Russian War
ited rights or colonials of lim- Relief Fund.
ited intelligence. The Chamber-
lain White Paper was the returned to the Jewish National
supreme expression of that atti- Home. They want to be part of
tude. It means restriction of a Jewish Army. The most bare-
immigration, of land purchase, faced pretexts are preferred as
of fundamental rights of citizens to why a Jewish Army cannot he
returning to their homeland. established, even though under
Open opponents of the White British Command.
Paper, including Winston Chur-
3. The Czechs, the Poles, the
chill, condemned it as violative Free French, the soldiers of other
of . every British pledge to the Allied armies stir the imagina-
Jews. In some quarters it was tion of free people everywhere
condoned as necessitated by the as their exploits are recorded in
policy to keep the owrld "at newsprint and on the air. But
neace." Even some friends of nowhere does an account appear
the Jews were lured by that of the participation in the Middle
argument. They contended that Eastern warfare of the Jews of
Jews ought not force their Palestine. What leprous scabs
views with resnect to Palestine are theirs that their name must
if in the withholding of their nowhere be spoken? Tel Aviv
rights peace might be safeguard- Street in Tobruk that memorial-
ed. That there was no peace is izes the steadfastness of Jews
a cliche.
in the defense of that fortress,
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2. There has been no official the flag that was planted at
withdrawal of the Chamberlain Keren, Eritrea by the pioneers
White Paper since 1939, even of Galilee, the sun-baked veter-
though the bankruptcy of every ans who scoured the Ethiopian
international policy followed by mountain fastnesses under Cap-
Great Britain before that period tain Wingate, the ,600 who
is sustained by the ledger of guarded the beaches of Greece
history. The men who were the and did not bemoan their fate
advocates of iZonism when they as prisoners at Corinth, being
were in the opposition are con- consoled by the escape of their
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spicuous by their silence now comrades -- these, and many
that their names appear on offi- more, must they all be buried
as the Unknown Soldier? To be
cial Government stationery.
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Through the international corri- buried as unknown when their
dors whispers are allowed to identity, their gallantry and
float that echo of silent prom- their Jewishness are known—
ises, of confidential sympathy, this must corrode the good will
of even the most admiring friend
of potential advocacy. But the
Britain.
But
censorship
acts are stentorian. There are of
reaches out to the Hebrew and
thousands
of
young,
capable
Jews
Season's Greetings
who could be assisted to reach English press of Palestine, to
Palestine from Europe. The Jew- the correspondents at Cairo and
ish Agency has submitted statis- London and a score of other
tics to show that the war needs communication centers.
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4. And what are the reasons
of Palestine require more men
for agricultural and industrial for all this? Your less diplo-
labor. The answer on the six- matic spokesmen have said that
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month schedule application for you do not want to offend the
immigration certificates is yet to Arabs of the Middle East. Also
be heard. Jews of Palestine have that you wish to give no encour-
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enlisted in the British Army. agement to the Jews lest they
The number approaches 5,000. may count upon an autonomous
Many stay aloof despite the urg- existence in Palestine after the
WYANDOTTE, MICH.
ings of Jewish Agency officials. war.
They wonder why the shedding
Democracy in America has
of their blood must leave them taught us to think for ourselves
nameless heroes. They are Jews and, as a free people, to speak
our thoughts. We have no con-
fidence in the diplomacy of Brit-
ain, no matter how greatly we
You Can Buy
admire the free institutions of
QUALITY KOSHER MEAT
your country. We in America
with Confidence from
remember that Henry L. Stim-
son is Secretary of War today
because ten years ago you would
not listen to him as Secretary
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of State in the matter of the
Far East. The murder of de-
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cency in international affairs has
(Between Burlingame and Webb)
left its entrails across the his-
Next to lireore's
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tory of a decade. Every enemy
of Zionism whom your Govern-
ment encouraged and nutured
has risen to expose himself as
your enemy today. Have Egypt,
Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia sent
you their warriors for the demo-
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cratic battle front in apprecia-
tion of the limitations you placed
on Jewish immigration and land
purchase? How many more sac-
rifices of Jews must you offer
to convince yourself that you
are worshipping at the wrong
shrine?
Astute British diplomats in
London and Washington are
counting on two assumptions;
first, that Hitler has so reduced
the value of the Jews in the
eyes of the world that any ob-
jections from them can be dis-
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regarded; and, second, that since
the U.S.A. and Britain are allied
in this war, Jews will not dare
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to criticize Britain for fear of
being called unpatriotic. Inso-
far as the first accumption is
concerned, worth is the value
a people places on itself. It is
not conferred by others.
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regards the second [yrsumption,
no self-respecting Jew fears be-
ing called unpatriotic in criti-
AMERICAN BUTT
cism of injustice.
5. The future counts more
than the present. It is in eager
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search for the future that Jews
wish to make every contribution
to the present struggle. But if
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for those who think in terms of
future for their people and not
merely in terms of their petty
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personal safety there is no hope,
no plan, no future—what shall
!animate their reticence when
they see ingratitude or what
WILLIAM HAKALOW
shall withhold their anger when
they fear baseness?
Wars can be won even with

My Lord:
Since this is not Oriental In-
dia, where once you were a
successful Viceroy, but the Unit-
ed States of America, where you
have long ago discovered the
abrpt ways of democracy, I
conic to the point at once.
There is in the United States
a substantial body of Jewish
public opinion which is deeply
dissatisfied with the conduct of
Great Britain with respect to the
Jews in Palestine. I have not
measured the strength of that
opinion but can only submit that
it is widespread and needs only
to be touched off by an imagina-
tive leadership to flame high as
a burning oil pit.
What are the causes of that
dissatisfaction? Your secretaries
have too often passed on to you
the contents of memoranda and
you have too often had confer-
ences with spokesmen voicing
embitterment to be unacquainted

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Aaron B. Margolis

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111IMINIIMM

Jewish women who joined the Auxiliary Territorial Service io
Palestine arriving at a training camp where they are welcomed by
sergeant. The Zionist Organization of America is now engaged in co
listing the support of enlightened public opinion for the establishment
of a Jewish
based on .,,AleLtilik._
- fightingiorce
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realism. The Mesisah will not
enter on a white donkey when
the American ad British flags
fly in Berlin. There will still be
hate for Jews—as presumably
there will still be other ills, of
an economic, social and political
character.
But to the extent that it is
possible intelligent people are
planning for a minimum of such
ills. If sonic degree of self-de-
termination is to be provided for
the Jews' of Europe, barometer
and scapegoat for every tornado,
they must have a place to be
where they can be Jews without
suffering for it. History, in-
stinct, experience—all point to
Palestine as that place.

Is Great Britain, which t o-
day is trustee for the establi,b-
ment of the Jewish National
Home in Palestine, prepared to
i;how the way to the new era
of international integrity by
making clear its intention to
honor its pledge—more, to pledge
its honor that freedom shall he
vouchsafed the Jews in Pales-
tine as to others elsewhere?
To remain silent, to accumu-
late the acts which reveal hos-
tile rather than sympathetic in-
tentions, to trust to wartime
hysterias to keep critics silent—
none of these win confidence
or give incentive to people who
stand at the last frontier Of
hope.

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