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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and the Legal Chronicle
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Sabbath Readings of the Law
Pentateuchal portion—Leviticus 25:1-27:34.
Prophetical portion--Jeremiah 16:19-17:14.
MAY 8, 1942
IYAR 21, 5702
Social Justice
Stalin's Assurances
•
8 . 1 942
• •
• •STRICTLYCONFIDENTIAL•
Joseph Stalin told the people of the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on
by Phineas pJ. ja Bl irhoi n
May Day that he had no territorial am-
• WE'RE TELLING YOU
P el la, which opens with AElij,
bitions. This was no doubt an answer to
naarnniel
It really is high time for the of Jabal, Biblical ane, iho
k irded
..t„,
Adolf Hitler's fear-inspiring declaration various Jewish and non-Jewish "such as dwell in
' of
,
that Germany would be overrun by Asi- groups that are trying to fight closes with biography of
racial and religious prejudice to ben Asher Halevi
ah
sh ena ci z
atic hordes if they lost the war.
take a gander at our northern Levita, author of the famous
on.
neighbor
.
.
.
The
situation
in
cordance
"Safer
Hazichronoths
The Stalin pronouncement is an attack th e rovince
inci
"...
l000f Queb ec calls for Levita, incidentally, is
on the Nazi morale front and should do a thorough
gh
oking-into
. . . The as the founder of the egz
much to hasten the disintegration and anti-Semitism rampant there is study of Hebrew grammar, modern
and
something Hitler himself would was the teacher of many pi•om
collapse of the Nazi economic structure. be
proud of . . . It's settin g a tent Christian Hebraists or e ; •
ar ly
And, incidentally, many in Britain and new high for the Western he m- sixteenth-sentry
nti i' Ibtaly. m.
He
isphere in a field in which our carts c
invited
by
K•in
America who fear that the Soviets are score should be zero . .
If I to occuy a chair of Hebrew at
wondering whether the the university at Paris hut d
bent upon military conquest of Europe you're
foreman of the Vi h you.: collabor- dined on the grounds timi. as e -
and Asia should be less fearful.
ationists is fully aware of what' s Jew, he did not care to hav
an
Let us look at the record to see if there cooking, listen to Harry Hersh- _ exception made in his case to e the
field's reassuring words .. . "La. rule, then in force
is any reason to accept Stalin's assur- val knows what he's doing," says prohibig
in France
tin any Jew from
so:
HarrY. "he has a treaso i n for j t ourning in that country
ances that he has no wish, by force of everythin
arms, to enlarge the boundaries of the
"Drys Schwarze Korps", official
e),
1:e g
Soviets
at the
ex
e and
Asiapense
of the countries of ( n a nsp( e )f lkil n litler's Elite Guard, • ABOUT PEOPLE
in t
owners is a very practical one. They are the states of the United States of the Fuehrer "will meet a eviolenelt. Broadway next season . . . The
probably know better than anybody that America.
death in a jail or a hospital" veteran actor has been in retire•
it would be a most profitless venture
. . . Could she mean the bug- ment for many years . . . Con-
2. From the date of the establishment house 9
In any case, here's gratulations to Leslie (Mr. V)
i
events prove her right— Howard on th e a a
should they have made the changes re- of the Soviet Republics till the invasion of hopng
o f his
quired by the postal authorities.
but soon . . . Over in Brooklyn daug hter,
, to Capta
tarn Dale
The
Poland
by
Hitler
in
September
of
1939,
one
of
the
movie
palaces
has
in-
Harris
of
Ruth
readers
the Canadian Army._
of the magazine wanted certain the Soviets never attacked any of its stalled a shooting gallery in the Here e Ed
t
we've
been
Pan-
Levy
as hailing
a new the
Jewish
ypes of articles and comments and if neighbors. It
i
lobby, the idea being that if you kee
was only after Hitler in- buy a defense stam p you get a c baseball star—so ima g ine our
they could not get them they would not waded
l e thalee t to . te Tsit te yto hu et p arccu
N go o o t d o i t itly dth i tae s i l.: adt
rlIt t icy as
Poland that the Soviets marched
feiallse7l into • m' aie
buy and read a periodical that was much
into Poland and later into Latvia, Es- a thousand dollar's worthofffde it 0+ turns
out that he isn't Jewish
n
the same as any other law observing pub- thonia, Lithuania, Finland, Bessarabia and fense bonds and stamps in two er - ...,,
all . . .. He's an Episcopalian
lication.
days—not only because Brooklyn whose or
name was Whitier,
Bukovina. Whether one accepts their ex- ,t es are naturally patriotic, but but who at the age
of seven was
For years Social Justice was dedicated planation, that it was necessary for them . s br oa tsusew t e h r e target d at which their fi ev v e; his stepfather's surname,
to the task of disseminating anti-Semitism. to do
ai
this in order to protect themselves, less than a repnre'sentlavtaison nothing
Anti
Ad- * THF ZIONIST
- Britishism, anti - Rooseveltisrn and is immaterial. The fact remains that they Bled Adolf.
FRONT
Nazism,
Negotiations
between
the
did
did not threaten or break the peace of •.113isB
DEPARTMENT
ists and non-Zionists for the crea
see ms
Before America's entry into the war Europe for 22 years.
ms you can find anything tion of an extended • I
in the Bible if
i t t was able to do this without danger of
•
you look hard powerful Jewish Agencyahilvennile,
enough
. . . Here's s bit
3. The Third International with head-
eal O'Hara with thi columnist now reached the official stage
prosecution, as long as it did not violate quarters in Moscow carried on an un-
from with the arrival of Dr Chain;
f.
aiah:
the postal laws on blasphemy and obscen- interrupted and intensive
will
tf lik k "In that day the Lord Weizmann in this count; '
e
away
.
.
.
their
round
The outlook is
propaganda
ity, and the
ti
. .3' .• l
libel laws. It had constitu- campaign with the avowed purpose of Sunsdayi, eatththembanquet . gtv . en Last Wh eiz t ma, nnh's progi: good
am is so heavy,
a lsyti ltIt oialtit
i h vh is e s Zionist work and
tional right of freedom of the press. This persuading the workers in other coup- his honor, Pierre van Paa
ssen was ll w
right is a precious one and only in cases tries to char
i contributon
i to the
resented Hebrew
with ambsleevenbt eenthe his seie
ge their political, economic century
- Allied war effort, that he will
of clear violation should our postal au- and social
. spervobab I months to. stay
It here
ial structures, and pattern them Committee for a Jewish Arym the
thorities and courts deprive an y publica-
Van Pa
i TUbtf f o ur l
collects old Bibles,
after those of the Soviets,
bwhetherAi
ny
m
tion of it and to the credit of our postal
and has a very impressive array with the exception erfcan 'i tor
o ` Wemiel l I.
hdem . in his
In the light of these facts we may ac- of them
s home • . . Well- Winkle, made as powerful an MI:
authorities and the courts they have not cept Stalin's assurances. And we may ex-
ke t t rCom
o epan- pres
b
b sion on British audiences as
ion", the is lates tP w o oc-b i
lie photri
eenit fl Aybib n a tHil
deprived
publications of their mailing pest every effort to be made to co
r t lel Sil l v&r , on i his
of stories, poems, etc • • • .
a nd publication
nvi
n
s recent
rights except in the clear-
ce department is of course particu-
g 11 • •
told
by
somebod
wh h ve
est cases,
the peoples of continental Europe to e s- lad y interes ted in a lot
' t
g
prose
returned
from
Englar
° , an ai s l 1 .1 %11 .10
Soviet
Social Justice still has the r ght of tablish
. . Republics and become part poem by the Biblical wroter whom
attended a number of I the
Silver
i
f
ree p ress but now it must not violate the Rbli exis ing Uni on of Soviet Socialist we know as the Preacher . . . meetings, that the audiences lit-
epucs.
Other Jewish authors represented really cheered themselves hoarse
Espionage and Trading With the Enemy
in the volume are Max Beer- .
. . Incidentally, as a direct re-
Laws if it wants to continue to appear.
Should the countries of Europe, decide, bohm and Louis Untermeyer ,
of Dr. Silver's activities in
Can it do this? And if it did would its by plebiscite, to do this, there may emerge A not unexpected Biblical flavor sult
England, British Jewry contrib.
readers support it? a Union of Republics of Europe. This may strikes you also when you inspect uted $500,000 to the Keren Haye-
f never
mean the achievement of that just and the newly published Volume Six sod—a before
igure
The owners, editor and publisher must enduring peace for which all so devoutly of the Universal Jewish Encyclo- reached before in that c ountry.
have had very serious doubts, and it wish.
seems that they concluded that the
War Production Board Officials Give Blessing
This much we know for a certainty:
cess of indoctrination had gone on to lopro-
ng,
so persistently and so intensively that the that should the policy pursued up till to Experimental Salvage Drive of Bnai Brith
readers would accept no other brand of now continue after the war, the Jews of
subversive propaganda.
the Soviets will not suffer from the plague
It has been our contention for a long of anti-Semitism.
time that the readers and supporters of
•
Social Justice and similar hateful periodi-
cals were frustrated, resentful, botched
Republicans End Isolation
and bungled human beings who were able The Republican Party, under the lead-
to compensate by hating and persecuting ership of Wendell Willkie has decided
those whom they thought were in any way to abandon its isolationist policy. We
responsible for their lack of success and
believe the action means a definite
failure to adjust.
change in the foreign policy of the Grand
These men and women, former read- Old Party and is not merely a vote-.
ers of Social Justice, will still seek out- catching maneuver in the forthcoming
lets for their emotions. These emotions Congressional campaign.
It means to
that
can be channeled along helpful lines and both major parties are committed
a
into useful activities. Many will find these policy of winning the peace as well as
outlets when the constant impacts of the the war. If such had been the attitude
baleful
cease. propaganda of Social Justice, of the Republican Party under the lead-
ership of Henry Cabot Lodge after the
We do not mourn the demise of a mis- last war, there may not have been a
Herbert Gutterson (center) chief of the General Salvage Sec-
named periodical. Nobody can say that
War II. This sort of speculation tion of the War Production Board, and his assistant, Douglas Hart-
it was dedicated to Social Justice. In World
will not get us very far. We shall leave shorne (left), receive from Philip M. Klutznick (right), president
fact it can be more truthfully said that it it to the "might have beeners".
of the Supreme Advisory Council of Aleph Zadik Aleph, a set 0 f
sought to aggravate and perpetuate some
three containers labeled "old rags," "old metals" and "old rubbers. . .
Now
we II,
are
winning
Two thousand sets of these containers were distributed to as
of the worst social injustices. In our day World
War
to committed
winning the to
peace,
and
many homes in 20 cities by the Bnai Brith youth salvage corps as
no man can be aligned with the forces of to fashion such instrumentalities, pacts, part
of an experimental Salvage for Victory drive designed to test
social justice who preaches racial and unions as will prevent as far as humanly the efficacy of systematic and continuous househald reclamation of
religious hatred and this is what Social possible a recurrence of another global dom.
urgently needed materials for the factories and furnaces of
free-
Justice did above everything else. conflict.
The slogan of the campaign, which is printed on each con-
tainer, is "Victory—It's in the Bag—If you
do your share in the
national Salvage Campaign."