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Sabbath Readings of the Law
as cultured, civilized and humane as the
other advanced nations of Western Eu-
rope and ourselves.
Were they transformed into an uncul-
tured, uncivilized and inhumane people
because . the policy of their government
had changed? We doubt it. We believe
that a vast majority of suffering, disil-
lusioned, miserably weary Germans feel
as much victimized and trapped as do
many of the conquered peoples.
If we are to hate anything let us hate
that monstrous, evil thing called National
Socialism, but let us be reasonable, tol-
erant toward the long suffering German
people.
The Philosophy of Terror
July
1 94 2
PLAIN TALK
by
AL SEGAL
•
"On Vacation"
on vacation from my regu- comfort of the club car, h
e re a
I AM
far employment but not from lized that was the matter with
being Jewish, it seems. I have some He was
i just
ust too comfort
had to take the Jewish part of
me along to work at it and so a b le . He looked about the car for
w
with
here I am at my typewriter on
whom he might
the loveliest of vacation (lays, exchange Jewish (1) 1 N):'00ibin
l illl Sg , and
b
brooding on the matter of being enjoy a session o
. •
•
.
f
Jewish.
but
there was no one.
I am sitting on the terrace of
1 1
i
the Sands' house in Greensboro,
N. C. It's all bright among Mrs. MR. ZILCH felt ill at ease,
Sands' petunias and verbenas, AvA crossed one leg over the
which tumble in a wild profus- other, then reversed his l egs
ion from the slope of her gar- :111(.1.orythocurslywsitithlokneod osnaetiscfiageatti.wil
iftier:
den.
—
Americans of this generation and for
that matter of several generations back
are unacquainted with terror. In fact,
JULY 17. 1942
AB 3. 5702 terror as known and practiced by Eur 0-
pean and Asiatic despots in wholly ui Certainly, this is neither the an. He looked at the passing
known
to Americans since the first land- time nor the place to be think- tsocra and decided it was far
Emil Ludwig Disappointed
ing of Jewish problems whichlovely for a man who is
ings on the North American continent.
are always dark and have no re- Jewish and should be worrying,
Emil Ludwig, noted writer of biogra- The only experience Americans have lation at all to petunias and ver- H e took up the magazines and
Pentateuchal portion.—Deut. 1:1-3:22.
Prophetical portion.—Isaiah 1:1-27.
r
benas or to the dazzling sunlight other reading matter that a club
plies, would have us all condemn the had with terror, of a very limited char- on
the Sands terrace.
car provides for the recreation
German people as well as the National acter, was during the period followin g
Record"
But-
But my unwilling mind must of its customers . . .ial "The
Socialist Party and its leaders. He is not the war between the States and called b
go searching in this luminous air ter and Egg Industr
y for some Jewish problem to take ' " "The Boot and Shoe Index"
at all pleased with the American reac- students of the period The Tragic Era,
'Ia . S I t N ‘ • ll l ill G u ide ' ' . .
hold of. It's like running after
tion to the Gallup poll question on our
Nibblin
.‘' 'l g t It ( ) r 1 e o f th e se li t e ra ry
a
crow
when
there
are
plenty
The terror practiced by the Nazis ill of bright humming birds around repasts and another, Mr. Zilch
attitude toward hating Hitler and the
came at last to a handsom e fold-
the
slaughter of the hostages has filled to look i it c i 0 .
German people and the vote, against hat-
er advertising the pleasures of
From
n t e m p I a t jog Mrs. Shamdale-on-the-Bluff, that well-
ing the German people would be reversed the whole civilized world with horror , SSands'petunias
• fall to known summer resort by the
if he had it within his power to reverse it, bafflement and indignation.
brooding over the most obvious seashore.
f
The slaughter of the hostages is o fact that there is never any va- It was illustrated in .. colors
Emil Ludwig, like many sufferers from
. T s
front being Jewish. In the ;
the
essence of the philosophy of terro r cation
to knock out Mr. Zilch's
Hitlerism, feels very strongly on the sub-
midst of paradisical leisure I
i
.is the saying
, ing is
must take up this burden. I am t eyes,
-
'
ject. Yet strong feeling can hardly be sub- of the Nazis.
suddenly reminded: "It's Thurs- bright green, rolling golf course
ate like hotel done
This is not the first time that terror a day already and you must start 1 . ' the chute lite
stituted for clear thinking. We are all too
blue shut-
writing your weekly piece in in drizzling 1
white
ready to indict a whole nation and hold a method has been used by despots and order
order to provide the readers with tetra. . . the lively hues of the
it responsible for the acts of the groups revolutionaries who believed that exter - something Jewish to worry about geometrical flower garden.
Mr. Zilch thought of a word
of sadistic, ruthless leaders who are re- mination of all opposition was the wa r , during the coming week."
What
will
my
old
and
widely
thi
i n tg a llel ssant(h i a nd echiC.laevden it was
sponsible for the brutal mistreatment of to achieve success. The cynical, debauched
known friend, Mr. Zilch, think oyes," he said definitely, "it is
all dissidents. rulers of Rome were past masters in the if I don't provide him with a heaven."
But even as he was
We are told that the German people art of terrorizing their opponents by tak- Jewish problem to torture him- saying this, his eyes fell upon
with next week? Mr. Zilch the words, done in red ink, "Re-
elected Hitler and that he derives his ing hostages. Other Oriental despots and self
never feels exactly right with- stricted Clientele."
out
some
stimulation to exacer-
authority from them; consequently they conquerors used it to serve their sinister bate the pain
Mr. Zilch gave up the deepest
of being a Jew.
sigh he had in his abdomen.
are responsible. It is true a larger number ends when they saw fit to employ it.
Mr. Zilch is himself on vaca- This was something! He could
The French terror is still the subject tion and so far has managed to feel satisfied now! How won-
of Germans voted for Hitler than for any
have a very good time, almost
other candidate before he was appointed of many romances and horror tales.
al-
all the way from his home town derful it was, the way God al-
brings a Jewish problem to
to the chancellorship under Hindenburg.
Regimes of terror have been predicated Njhheeres he bloi:ii i;le(1 ) 1 telt:. train for ways
mind of a man who is feeling
u le •
where he the
uncontfortable without one! Here
All sorts, conditions and classes, voted for upon the theory of race or class superior- now abides. This la is not,
to say, in the wilderness, almost
at the
him because he promised every group ity. The French revolutionaries considered however, that the trip was per- top of the Blue Ridge Mountains,
ect rom the moment he got on
that it would be preferred and its prob. the Bourbons, nobility and clergy as sub- the train
at dusk, a Jewish problem sud-
denly appears to comfort an un-
lems would be solved. But did any of human. The proletarian revolutionaries
Mr. Zilch had seated himself
comfortable man.
in
the
club
car and had stretched
these groups vote for him with the under- rated the former ruling classes and the
Now Mr. Zilch could feel at
out his legs and could very well
standing that he would immediately usher bourgeoise as less than human, while the have felt that everything was home. This was something for
him to brood on agreeably all
in a campaign of ruthlessness and despo- Nazi race theorists insist that all non- all right with him. He was vag- the
way. Mr. Zilch fell into deep
uely aware of something being
liation such as had never before been Aryans are inferior sub-humans.
missing in this untroubled leis- brooding . . . Restricted clientele!
. . . Yes, that's the way it al-
witnessed in the long and often bloody,
The Nazis combine as never before, ure. Yes! Suddenly, it came to ways was . . . His ancestors were
him,
like
a
flash:
In
his
leisurely
brutal history of Germany.
in the history of civilization, the belief in hours at home Mr. Zilch, after pogrommed and now he's get-
this . . . Restricted clien-
The only groups that expected and the efficacy of naked force and racial one sigh and another, always ting
brought up the matter of being tele . .. He had a good mind to
hoped for a campaign of terror were the superiority.
a Jew. It was always at hand go to that hotel and ask for a
and if he was turned down,
street fighting, vicious, barbaric Storm
If we bear this fact in mind we can when there was nothing else to room
Mr
worry about and there was al- speak up to the clerk
then understand all the brutal terror of ways somebody with whom to ex- Zilch passed the time away by
Troopers and the Elite Guards.
making up a speech to give the
The burning of the Reichstag build- the Nazis since that catastrophic day in change fretful Jewish problems.
As
he
sat
in
the
abundant
See SEGAL—Page 9
ing signaled Hitler's accession to power. January, 1933, when Hitler was made the
From that day to this the German Chancellor of the Reich.
The phenomenon of terror was not man- Reunion in America
people have never been allowed to ex-
ifest
in the First World War because the
press themselves on any subject. Every
Imperial
Reich, though it did believe in
man of character and probity who would
not accept the Nazi creed has been sil- naked force, did not incorporate a racial
enced, imprisoned or liquidated. Every superiority theory as part of its philoso-
organization that claimed the loyalty of phy. Then, too, there are many people
any group has been dissolved. The Ger- who believe in the superiority of their
man people are under the constant sur- race. In fact, this is a very common preju-
veillance of a merciless Gestapo and the dice and affliction of mankind. But for-
Brown and Black Shirt bandits. These tunately for mankind these racial super-
guardians of law and order in the Third iority believers did not believe in naked
Reich are well organized and disciplined. force or were not in a position to use it.
No dissent is permitted and no opposi- Consequently a mere racial or class su-
tion dare show itself as long as these periority belief has not made for terror.
Modern science has done• much to des-
co-ordinators hold sway. How can one
therefore say that Hitler and his gang are troy the myth of racial superiority among
supported by the German people. And intelligent reasonable people. It has left
how can anyone say that his program of untouched those violent madmen whose
ruthlessness and brutality is approved or capacity violence
unreasoning hatred and un-
even condoned by the German people? bridled ‘iolence leads them to disregard
any scientific findings that run counter to
If the German people were permitted their insane ambitions of world domina-
to express themselves in secret Gallup don.
A joyous reunion at the offices of the National Refugee Service
polls on the many activities of the Nazis,
between a refugee father and mother, escaped from Europe's hell,
Civilization will have come of age when and their soldier son. The parents arrived June 25, two of the
then we could know what their attitudes
were. But until we do have such informa- terror and counter terror are no longer nearly 1,000 Jewish refugees who reached America in June, with
the help of the Joint Distribution Committee, which together with
tion we must confine ourselves to reason- used, approved or condoned.
the United Palestine Appeal and National Refugee Service, receives
ing and deduction.
It is our fervent hope that this is the its funds from the United Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Overseas
last time in man's bloody history that ter- Needs and Palestine. The boy and his elder brother came as refugees
ror as a philosophy will have •a single dis- in 1938, were helped to resettle by NRS. Now both lads are helinni:
peopl
America—serving in the Army, while their paeentk_can count on
e Weimar Repulbic were ciple or protagonist.
NRS assistance.