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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
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Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
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Sabbath Readings of the Law
Pentateuchal portion—Num. 16:18-18-32.
Prophetical portion--I Samuel 11 :14-12:22.
JUNE 19, 1942
TAMMUZ 5, 5702
Due Process Vindicated
George Christians of the Crusader
White Shirts has been tried, convicted
and sentenced to prison for five years.
This is the American way. He was in-
dicted ; publicly tried by a jury of his
peers ; was represented by counsel ; and
the jury empanelled in the cause ; was
instructed by the Court that he is pre-
sumed to be innocent; and that the Gov-
ernment must overcome that presumption
by evidence that convinces beyond doubt ;
was convicted by the unanimous vote of
the jury and sentenced by the Court.
Some of our impatient and impulsive
friends would have us suspend the above
described procedure in the cases of well
known, vicious anti-Semites and in their
impatience criticized Attorney General
Francis Biddle for not proceeding against
them with greater speed.
We are not among those who would
suspend due process. Only the most im-
minent danger or the greatest emer-
gency should remove these cases from
the civil courts and place them in the
hands of any other authority.
We pride ourselves upon the fact that
our courts are always open. Even in most
parlous times the writ of habeas corpus
was not denied. Certainly no one can
say that these are parlous times ; or that
the danger is imminent ; or the emer-
gency great within the borders of our
own land.
Attorney General Frances Biddle's
method is vindicated in the Christians
case and we are confident that it will be
equally vindicated in all the cases against
the racketeering, hate spreading anti-
Semites and anti-Rooseveltians.
Fin Home Use Only
and The Legal Chronicle
J une
1942
to desist from raiding the cities of the
Reich.
The German people who were assured
that Germany would be immune from
raids now know differently and they are
suffering intensely from these raids.
by AL SEGAL
Who but the demons, the Jews could
have upset all of Goerings plans and
loosed the massed bombings on the
Reich.
The great Goebbels has lost some of
the lustre since the mechanized armies
of Hitler have met with reverses. It was
E HAVE our Quislings, THERE really
.
not so difficult to engender great enthu-
-, great
too, it seems, a Chicago
many of us who nave
siasm among the German people when eentlernan writes. "I refer to relish at all for Jewish political n
success followed success, until it ap- the group of Reform rabbis power. We want n o p„,\. i. s. ex.
who have organized
against cept what authority out spirit-
peared that that victory was theirs. But Jewish
national aspirations. We ual endowment gives u>
now the ingenuity and resourcefulness of stand on the threshold of a push the world forward on to thie
he!)
Goebbels are taxed to the utmost and legally recognized Jewish state way of
o f a sk socfi o a i l . 15 1 515 1:1 s i i ) i ( 1 . ,:sti
:II Place
the best he can do, is to trot out the in Palestine and these men work res .s.
much abused and villified scape goat, to thwart the victory."
I print this excerpt from my in the world but only f
the Jews.
or a
correspondent's letter because it decent part in the brotherhood
He must believe that the German peo- i t;l e ifI n e dctstha at deplorable i s )t r a etveale o n f t of w Ill e all
ples have no memory. That they must
: not seek a ,eparate
to
have all forgotten the definite assur- a m on us. There are ladies and content lo
tts)tastue;swebt(t)tnlat tt.heqntue
r g e ea ntt i l y e m w eenr e wa h o je (la y s ishi f s ttahte ev at: le-
ances that were given them, that under
of which we are citizens,
no circumstances could a foreign bomber hot with a fierce patriotism and t tions
o
get through to reach their sacred land. who burn against dissidents with 1.rloo t o .e usrenx t voibleh it i l e:t p lu )It trt.in the
We have very grave doubts that he a furious anger such as, given
power, often lets itself position of people wh j(1,1staspainriel
can change the despair and desperation political
to be politicians. We would
of the German people into hatred against out I n o n fiorti n i g nea sra to ds.so
rather serve the function of
do
that prophets who carry brave ban-
the Jews for what is now happening to I am apprehensive suggest
of
firing
nets
toward a more
them.
squads occurring in a Jewish lovely world.
In any event this present propaganda state. If—G od
d !—it eve r
We don't want an ambiguous
ite sure a
effort, for home consumption only. came to that I am qu
identity which gives an impres-
Jewish
firing
squad
would
be-
shows to what extremes the Nazis are have like a certain Jewish theo- sion of two national loyalties.
now driven in their efforts to keep up logical student in the last war. We can't give our support to
a claim of exclusive Jewish
the morale of the German people.
PLAIN TALK
•
"Let Them Be Heard"
•
Donald Nelson Speaks
Donald M. Nelson, Chairman of t he
War Production Board, speaking at t he
commencement exercises at the Univ er-
sity of Wisconsin delivered a hearteni ng
message to the world when he declare d .
"For the first time in the histor y of th e
human race there can be enough of every .
thing to go round. Povert y
is not inevitable
any more. The sum total of the world's
greatest possible output of goods, divided
by the sum total of the world's inhabitants,
no longer means a little less than enough
for everybody. The possibilities in that sim-
ple statement are beyond calculation, and
what we are fighting for is the right to turn
some of those possibilities into realities."
"The unexpected rate of output of war
supplies came because "the same sort of
thing is happening now in munitions pro-
ductio n that happened in the productio
n of
automobiles back around 1914 and 1915."
"In part. of course, it is due to the fact
that the men who are making the goods, the
managers, the engineers, the foreme n and
the workers alike, are working as they never
worked before to make that things we need
so desperatel y on the battle line. But be-
yond that I think that what we are seeing
is the natural result of the application of
munitions productio n of the best mass pro-
duction techniques. What had formerly been
a hand operatio n has- become a mechanized,
conveyor-belt job."
"You ca n conjure up a nightmare for
yourself if you choose, of course." he said.
"You can imagine that all of this activity will
Joseph Goebbels again threatens to
just stop, overnight ; that the men wh
o are
exterminate the Jews. This time he
now s o busy will fall into idleness; that the
threatens to have them exterminated
marvelous energ y and strength which are
even beyond the confines of Europe.
now being used so fully will someho w be
dissipated: that the natio n which so brilliant
Perhaps he has in mind the Jews of
ly found the way to produce for destruction
Japan and those conquered areas in the
will be utterly baffled by the problem of
Pacific now controlled by his Axis part-
producing for peace. But I do not for a
ner.
minute believe that anything of that kind
will happen."
The reason for the latest outburst is
the mass bombing of German cities by
This is not the statement of a starry-
the R. A. F. According to Goebbels it eyed dreamer, a Utopian visionaire, but
is not the planned action of the Bomber of an efficient tough-minded, practical
Command but "The Jews had by their executive who was chosen for the most
'frivolous play' incited British and Amer- difficult job in the United States.
ican bombers to bomb German cities."
There may be some who do npt be-
Now he threatens that if these bomb- lieve that poverty can be ended for all
ings, which by the way he admits are the world, but students of industry and
causing bitter suffering among the Ger- economics are of the opinion that the
man people, do not cease the Nazis will tremendous war output of Europe and
exterminate the Jews.
the United States if and when converted
He makes another interesting admis- to peace time uses and equitably distrib-
sion when he wrote that we never doubt- uted would bring an end to poverty on
ed that the heaviest damage could be those two continents.
Poverty has been the most potent cause
caused by air raids.
for an-Semitism in Europe and particu-
For
all of
the responsible,
suffering and and
damage
the
Jews
are
if the larly in Germany since the end of War I.
An fortunes
examination
of an
the unmistakable
rise and fall re-
of
R. A. F. continues, the reprisals against Nazi
shows
the Jews means extermination. lationship with the unemployment, wage,
He certainly does not believe that the and relief indices.
R. A. F. will discontinue their raids be-
Anti-Semitism in our country was
cause of reprisal threats against an in- definitely on the rise with the increasing
nocent and a helpless people. He cer- poverty and unemployment of millions
tainly must know that the Jews of Amer- of workers. That whole brood of anti-
ica and Britain have no such influence Semites who are now almost silenced had
among those who are carrying on the their day in the sun when times were
war, so as to enable them, even if they worst and they could blame it on the
could, persuade the bomber commands Jews.
He had been made as soldier statehood in a land in which
and had been marched to the other people who are not Jews
front and had come to the cli- have lived as a majority for a
matic moment when he must very
long time We abhor the
shoot at the enemy. The heads idea of asserting such a claim
of the enemy could be distinct- by
a
:so dbl ooshd
d e
ly seen, bobbing up and down w force of rms
hich surely must result if a
in the trenches.
Jewish state is imposed on the
"Fire!"
the
captain
com- non-Jewish population.
mantled and there was a hot
We seek no governanc e over
of rifl
salvo
student failed to join to do to look after the house of
in the unanimity of firing. He, Israel in America
and the in-
in
fact,
at
the
command,
"Fire !" had turned around and habitants thereof. .
, view
1%
e 1 iew , with alarm a polit-
fired his rifle into the woods.
ical Judaism which might alien-
The captain roared. Soldiers, ate from Jewish life many Jews
he said, must fire forward, not who would resent a ,Judaism
backward . . . "Aim forward! that seemed to drag them, Willy
Forward!"
Hilly, as nationals into a Jewish
The bewildered soldier replied state.
that didn't seem to make sense.
We must desire and contribute
He pointed forward to the bob- generously to a Palestine that
bing heads of the enemy . • • shall be a prosperous home for
"Don't you see those heads?" homeless Jews to live in.
he asked. "They are living peo-
We believe that Jews can live
ple. If I shoot forward I might in Palestine in amity with
hit the living people. So I shoot Arabs, working side by side with
backward."
them, Jew and Arab taking an
I think a firing squad of a equal share of the government
Jewish state might feel the same which shall be not a Jewish
way about its victim . . "B u t state but a state of all the
this is a living man. He has a people who live in Palestine.
head and heart. And if his We believe that in Palestine
head doesn't think with ours, Jews should live and prosper
should we shoot him? No." not by special privilege of ex-
It would be a most under- elusive Jewish statehood but by
standing firing squad and I equal rights, just as by equal
recommend the pattern of its rights they have lived and pros-
wisdom
v so d osme to all t those
of
o u n s pered in America and other
countries.
set the brand
traitor
We
think
particularly of
those of us who cannot march
along to a political Zion. In America where Jews have at-
of
not as
fact, I think it's about time twined political office
group
to speak
all of us Jews but as equal citizens, in
there did
arise for
an articulate
accordance with their merits.
who do not want to be carried We envisage a Palestine in
along
erned into
by a a Jewish
Jewish nation
state. gov-
which Jews will play a similar
part, seeking nothing special for
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by NEHER
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