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tion as an economic unit. This means the
nations must surrender part of their sov-
ereignty or prepare for bigger and bet-
ter wars.
We in the United States have lived
under the limited soverei gnty plan for
so long that we accept it as a part of our
heritage. Our states surrendered part of
their sovereignty and the Federal gov-
ernment surrendered part of its sover-
ei gnty when the Constitution was adopt-
ed. This' arrangement has been as great
a factor in our growth and development
as any single factor in our history. It has
enabled us to function as an economic
unit; creating the largest free trade and
free movement area in the world,
I. 1942
• • •STRICTLYCONFIDENTIAL• •
by Phineas Biron
THERE AND HERE
•
.what e witha t eDr
Note to Hirohito: The Pa-
' Man Wise and the'-i'
d ldren
thans, who are the Afghans of chi,
James Waterman
India and one of that county y,,.
's 111 e mg Junsatt itn,d e 't . V i S s tee I ) hPeonl i t S. Wi se r
JACOB MARGOLIS
, leVai h
Publisher-Editor
most
warlike
tribes,
may
be
"
in his or 'Iv!' own
MAURICE M. SAFIR....Advertising Manager
Moslems in their creed, but they ri ght.
To insure publication, all correspondenc e
claim descent from one Afghans, WEEKLY GIGGLE
and news matter
must reach
osef
erem son
wher
w as
Jiah
this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
of Malikath Saul, the commander-
When mailing notices, kindl y
All of Europe today is a f
use one side of paper only.
in chief
i f of the Hebrews under t fat y of jokes of an anti-Naczi
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub-
Kin g Solomon
Washin g ton nure, reports Curt
"s ;
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon-
"Underground Europe,;; Hi
rumors that th . e. . Dies Commit-
al
a bo
book
sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers.
tee will be dissolved ere long— tITt belongs on your must
list,
which won't make us at all mad As
Sabbath Readings of the Law
• . . We need a good Congres- lowing ( s ' t x o alny lpit c ' on h i t :erun it' es ill(' fol•
ig a Nor-
Pentateuchal portion—Leviticus 21:1-24:23.
sional investigating body to do to an fisherma n who rowed Nor-
out
a fjord
Prophetical portion—Ezekiel 44:15-31.
o
to (1 0, bud we surely don't need
MAY 1, 1942
th e job t one in th e
IYAR 14, 5702
Mr.
lute sovereignty will oppose any attempt Dies has been doing way
ashore
• • Iatch
l tii te;c1 as he hauled
it . .
the"'
,.
to limit their sovereignty es pecially in
exchanged
1 c .,.., o 1. . boat,
Polish Jewry's Plight
been a sudden rise in the de- ' ' few mon s with them, and
mand for Henri Torres' biog- then threw them overboard
The story of Polish Jewry is one of to join with the enlightened and pro- raphy of Pierre Laval, t which
. On his return somebod y ask ed
and . him
why he had done that . . •
was published last year
year
unrelieved and unending tragedy: Ty- gressive elements in Europe that know which
gives the lowdown on Iairntlhe on t:ghbt ut the
were , Iliitish
.
phus, starvation, insult and humiliation. that salvation can only come if and when the I o w d o NV n collaborationist
mans," he replied y . . 7'1 1; t Gier.
In their case, only determination, endur- Europe becomes an economically function- leader of Vichy France
,
Y
Expected in this country before w ere alive . .
How could N'OU
ance, courage, elasticity and an over- ing unit, made up of states with limited you
read this is Sidney Bern- leave living men to drown in the
mastering will to live will enable them sovereignty.
stein of the British Ministry of sea?" . • . "Well," conceded
Information, who will remain the fisherman, 'one of them did
to survive. These same qualities enabled
Once Europe accepts the American here for some time on a co- say they were alive—but vou
us to survive the Petluars and Denikins, plan of limited sovereignty it must fol- ordination job.
know how those Nazis lie'''..
Then there's the one which'
the Kishineffs and Homols.
low that no minority can hope to enjoy WAR ECHOES
Leonard Lyons says he got via
Protective coloration and aping the political autonomy any more than any
Nazi Germany must have been the grapevine from Holland,
Gentiles will not help in this instance, as minority in the United States expects or surprised the other night when about the group of faithful
an American orchestra conduct- Netherlanders who began to
it has not really helped in any case where would want political autonomy. Our in- ed by a Polish-born Jew short- greet one another in the streets
the perverted anti-Semites were bent habitants are citizens of their respective waved a Wagner concert across by raising their hands and
states and of the United States with all the Atlantic. The conductor was shouting "Heil Rembrandt! . . "
upon extermination.
the duties, obligations, rights and privi- Artur Rodzinski, and he took The greeting soon was being
Our unfortunate brothers and sisters leges appertaining.
the curse off the composer whom shouted at meetings and in the
Nazis are boosting as their market places and wherever the
in Warsaw, Lublin and the other Nazi-
In a Europe as envisaged by Professor the
very own by playing a little People of Amsterdam would as.
Kingsly all groups could retain their number Wagner had composed semble . • . The Gestapo, puz-
created ghettos look to us for help.
The Joint Distribution Committee is cultural autonomy if they chose to do so in his youth, dedicated to the zled by the prevalence of the
just as do the minority groups in this British nation, and entitled "Heil Rembrandt" salute, finally
doing what it can under the hard circum- country.
"Rule Brittania Overture" . . . collared a Dutchman and asked
When you see "Mrs. Miniver, ,, him how come . . . "It's very
stances with which it is faced. Certainly
If we have abandoned our isolationism which
is expected to be the simple," the Hollander told
more should be done and perhaps more p ° ur duty is clear. We must do all in our first important
film, you can be them, "we're simply following
could be done, but it hardly befits us gi ower to prevent a recurrence of another sure that the behavior of the the German example . . , We
obal war.
Miniver family during a bomb hell our best painter, the way
who are far removed from the scene and
raid is true to life . . . Director you do yours" . . . And from
•
the actual problems to sit in judgment on
William Wyler, who in his boy- France, where "le val" means
those wlw are trying to do everything
hood lived through many a born- "the valley," we get the fol-
The Morale Front
they can.
bardment in his native Alsace lowing lesson in French gram-
during the first World War, re- mar: "What's the difference be-
What we can and must do is contrib-
All
is
not
going
so
well
in
Germany.
members exactly how people tween 'le val' and 'Laval,' a
ute as much as we can to the Allied L.
ther a purge has already taken place act under such circumstances
teacher asked his class. "'Le
Jewish Campaign now soliciting funds or Hitler is planning one on a grandiose • . . Credit the promotion de- val,"' replied
the bright pupil,
for the many urgent needs of unfortunate ' c ale. It does seem rather silly for the partment of Columbia Pictures "sim Pl Y means a low place—
Polish Jewry. Fu ehrer to ask for a grant of power to with a novel stunt . . . Their but 'Laval' means the lowest
pu nish or liquidate any recalcitrant or new anti-Nazi film, "The Wife .depths imaginable."
•
op position elements when he has exer- Takes a Flier," will be adver- ABOUT PEOPLE
by a trailer showing Adolf,
Realism
cis ed that authority since the great purge tised
Benito and
Hirohito talking
That nattily uniformed naval
of
Prof. J. Donald Kingsly of Antioch gr June, 1934. His Reichstag unanimously about the picture . . . The new commander whom you see at
show Bill (Showman) Rose is Jewish meetings about town is
College, noted political scientist, offered re anted him the power and authority to preparing
for his sparkling none other than Rabbi Joshua L.
a 10-point program for reconstruction in move, discipline or punish anybody who nightspot,
the Diamond Horse- Goldberg, formerly of Astoria.
after the war, at a University of Michi- Fu his opinion was not doing what the shoe, includes a song called Long . Island, and now a chap-
ehrer thinks he should.
gan post-war conference.
"Some of My Best Friends Are lain in the Navy. In the first
Moscow
calls this speech of April 26 Americans," to be sung by a World War he served as an
Among the 10 proposals there are two the
trio representing the Hit'nMuss interpreter with the American
that merit special consideration, for they ag beginning of the spring offensive Hior-ic
combine.
Army, but now he confesses
ainst
the
German
people,
and
so
it
deal with matters too infrequently may
that at the time he knew prac-
THIS
AND
THAT
well
be.
All
the
old
demagogic
tically no English.
touched upon by those who are honestly trio
mert powerful creator of
and sincerely concerned about the post- off ks are pulled out of the hat in this fi tnim t /k
In reply to various inquiries
er-rtha
gt io us
lit ngoowo d
war world.
ensive and not the least is he threat
the we've received : Emanuel Neu-
th at a defeat would mean the t annihila-
mw
ak iii i is
mann's resignation from the
Proposal number 2 of the ten is as tion of Germany.
rounds of A
churches
nhg
follows:
I
screen production
.Emergency Committee for Zion-
. . . It's the America's
t would seem that now is the most tof jaerell Anderson "Journey ist Affairs has not, to the best
"Limitation of national sovereignt y cape.
o M J erusalem," starring Sid of our knowledge, taken effect.
° PP ortune time for an Allied propaganda
cially as rega rd • economic
. ... Abe Goldberg, the Zionist lead-
offe nsive against the depressed
matters. "
Lumet . . . Ohio S tate
Univet
, is doing a splendid job as
, war- 't
'
h
ry, uncertain German people.
ave a music scholar- chairman of the Jewish Council
And proposal 6, which reads as fol-
ship
to
be
known
as
the
lows:
the Russian War Relief.
Walter
Now is the time to assure the German Damrosch
Scholarship,
, which
people that a German defeat does not
Sidney Luckmann, who was
"Cultural but not political autonomy for
help gifted young musicians Columbia's bibg football star
mean their annihilation but only the an- will
minorities."
follow in the footsteps of that some seasons ago, now is as-
nihilation of the Nazi regime and its great master . .
Yes, that sistant coach at Holy Cross Col-
Political and economic scientists have
Who that lege.
been wrestling, for decades, with the all fronts, persistently, vigorously, unin- represented with two paintings Furrier I. J. Fox, whose son
of the crucifixion of Jesus at already is in the Army, will have
problem of sovereignty. It is a perplexing terra
y. The dropping of leaflets by the
Gallery's exhibit of a soldier son-in-law soon. The
and difficult problem. The notion of ab- the R. A. F. in 1939 was ineffective be- than Puma
the Chrsts" is none other G
fortunate young man is Sergt.
solute sovereignty has been accepted as cause of the loyalty of the people to th
. ono of
e of
D her
r. Ste ap ihnetn ing
ryue lieHt orFoovcitz, who is marry-
h . W ise .
indispensable to governmental function Nazi regime; the c er taint y of v ictorye ; S ings
shows the crucified ifilgure
for so long, that it has been practically the burning passion to regain a place
Winchell's Girl Friday
impossible to find a formula that would o in the sun. This honeymoon seems to be of Jesus on a background of • Walter
. the world to know that
ver.
Th
ucifixions,
with
storm
troopers
the
largest
contribution made
festive
satisfy the believers in absolute sover-
e festive spirit has given way
the foreground brandishin
New York's Catholic Cheri-
eignty and those who insist that the idea to uncertainty, weariness and even hos- swastika banners and driving g to
ties by any individual was the
is baneful and a source of discord and tility. So why should not all the Allied women and children before sum
given by her boss.
them . . . • The Wise family, in-
air forces drop leaflets upon
distrust resulting in wars.
the German
Poet
is sad
do-
Professor Kingsly comes to grips with populace, assuring them that all they cidentally, occupies over a page ing
his Louis
bit to Unterrneyer
brighten this
in "Who's Who in America," world.
the problem in his emphasis upon the
economic aspect for he says "especially
as regards economic matters." This is
the crux of the whole matter. No country
of Europe is an actual functioning eco-
nomic sovereign, and that which does not
function cannot hope to continue to live
for long. Consequently one of the most
urgent matters that will face any post-
war reconstruction conference will be to
find a method, plan, or formula that will
enable the European continent to func-
need to do is to get rid of Hitler, Goering,
Goebbels and company and that there is
no intention on the part of decent hu-
manity to exterminate them.
To break the fightin g morale of the
German production
JEWISH CALENDAR
Lag b'Omer .................................... Tuesday, May 5
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sh Chodesh Sivan ............................... Sunday, May 17
front is enormously Shevuoth
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important. It cannot be done quickly
and easily if the workers believe that Rosh Chodesh Tam ............ Friday and Saturday, May 22-23
their own salvation is in victory. we
muz ......... Monday and Tuesday, June 15-10
must make them realize that there
Fast of Tammuz ....................................... Thursday, July 2
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greater salvation for them in the defeat Rosh Chodesh Ab .. ... .
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of the Nazi
. .Wednesday, July 15
party and its leaders than a
victory for German arms.
Tisha b'Ab ......................................................... Thursday, July 23
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Rosh Chodesh Ellul ................ Thursday and Friday, Aug. 13 and 14