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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

BATTLE OF THE HOME FRONT—.

September 4 1942

against our Government and our

do not sympathize with the eau.
PISGAH
Allies.
of democracy, or they fail t o ii.
By JOSEPH KLEINFELD
What are the appeasers wait-
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derstand what the war meari n
ing for now? No longer do the
or the kind of war it is in whit (
EDITOR'S NOTE:—Preparin g
for the final all-out efforts, the line
small pamphleteers, the Lizzie
we are engaged.
of our native appeasers is shifting. Mr. Kleinfeld, public rela-
Dillings, the Hudsons, the Trues,
In this war, these appeases
tinns director of the Anti-Nazi League points out the reasons
,
the Sanctuarys mean very much.
whether they are in Congress
for this change in policy in an article which traces the growth
Their job is done; they have suc-
on the street corners of ut
of the home front fight against native Fascism.
cities,
ceeded in advance-guarding the
whether
h e 1. 01 '1' meet
appeaser
line.
secret places at night, are
"Pearl Harbor is long past." along the streets of New York
themselves
o
reads an editorial in the New alai conic across speakers asking
The third act will start the day
of f the strate
directed at us by Hitler an
York Daily News for Aug. 25, for "Jewish blood to run" in after elections this fall and the
Hirohito. For these appeasers rep .
1942. "It put us officially into them. Yet by the end of 1949, principals are already preparing
resent
one of the . secret weap
the war, though President Roose- it had become an accepted thing to make their entrances. When
o
of the Axis—a weaam not mad,
welt, in publishing the so-called for street-corner speakers to de- and if Hitler consolidates his vic-
of steel, or chemicals but of rei II
Atlantic Charter Aug. 15, 1941, nounce the Jews in terms that tories in Russia. a gigantic peace
Lain intangible factors which
had already put us into alliance the Nazis had used in Berlin be- offensive will begin.
ad
up to what might he called at
with Great Britain without the fore they seized power.
It will not come from Ger-
consent of Congress. . . ."
peasementism
as
contrasted
to
th
The significance of this (level- many. It wil conic in the form of
isolationism to which they Pt ( l,
That subtle parroting of the cement was not only social and letters-to-the-editor or as yielded
tend to subscribe..
Nazi "Roosevelt-is-responsible-for- political; it had psychological hints on the editorial pages of
The battle on the hoine-frot
the-war" propaganda line is by undertones which at the time the appeaser press. Filially it will
is one that demands
now an old trick Of the Daily were overlooked. People lost their the U. S. Senate and the House
ands unceasin.
active participation. There
news and its esteemed contempor- sense of surprise after hearing emerge in full-blown speeches in
a;
many phases to it. We must to.
aries, the Chicago Tribune and the same thing—fantastic as it of Representatives.
forget
that
a
significant,
if
n(
the Washington Times-Herald. No may have sounded at first—re-
The Congressional appeasers
as colorful, a part of the figi
longer does such blatant propa- peated by so many persons in : 0 are impatient, waiting for No-
is the economic one. against Na:
ganda evoke the surprise or shock many places. In other words, th.. vember 4 and also waiting for
control still exerted indirect'
as it did when we used to read t Joe McWilliamses had served the prospects of a long, cold win-
over certain sections of Amer
For the type of morale-destroying their purpose.
ter to deaden the enthusiasm of
can industry. The huge I. G. Pa l
a few weeks after Pearl Harbor.
Organized anti-Semitism grew the American people. Then they
MRS. SAUL ROSENMAN
benindustry, through its Patent t
propaganda has become almost to be no longer foreign and will be able to suggest that we
and pooling agreements, coui
commonplace—indeed, almost ex- apart. Soon the halls of Congress can still escape from the holo- Detroit, represented by its tires- even
now explain in u
re than no
pected when you pick up one of echoed similar anti-Semitic props- caust and anyway, what's the use ident, Mis. Sam A aron
,
pledged
might
suspect about the reason
the appeaser newspapers. What ganda and the Congressional Rec- —we're only fighting to preserve $1000 towards the furnishings of for certain
of
our
shortages
i
is happening before our eyes is was filled with the same drivel. the British Empire.
the new home at Ann Arbor. 11Irs. vital materials and processes,
an intensification of the softening I indbergh could publicly espouse
Preparatory to the final all-out Saul Rosenman, also of Detroit, Yet
another phase of the holm
up process used by the Nazi is anti-Semitism and blame the appeaser effort, the line is shift-
and District Hillel, chairman, Pre- front battle is the one again
a prelude to further inroads' Jews (and the British and the ing. To take the place, in part
sented a descriptive picture of discrimination. It is not an exit':
An "umbrella" under which to dminist•ation) for the war. The at least, of the red-herring tech- the home, in its original setting, troz.ation to state that the ova
advance toward their directive.
nique,
i.
e.
smearing
every
sin-
stage was set.
as well as the progressive steps effort is imperilled by discrimina
There is, in a sense, a perfect
When war did break out, the cere anti-Nazi, a la the Dies Com- taken since its purchase last No. tory practices still prevailing
blatant and obvious appeaser talk Nazis threw their propaganda mittee, as a "red", the other bo-
ii
and the growth of anti-Semitic machine into high gear. After a gey, "British propaganda," will vember. Mrs. Rosenman an- many war industries. Discrimina
flounced
that
this
Foundation
thin
on
the
basis
of
race,
colt,
parallel between this over more few months of seeming unity, the he revived and polished off for was the first to be' purchased out- creed or national origin has thi(. '
propaganda in 1939 and '40. Only appeasers started again, intensi- domestic consumption.
right by the organization, and effect of impending a united war
There are two reasons for the With
a few years back it would have 'lying their old accusations, their
its completion, another chap- effort by all elements of our
change
in
the
appeaser
line.
The
seemed almost fantastic to walk maledictions and their smears
first is the failure of the "red ter in the accomplishments of people against Nazism. It cause,
menace" talk to evoke a response B'nai B'rith will be dedicated to confusion in the minds of Amer
from the American people who the. American Jewish Youth. icons as to the (ooses for whirl
The home is being furnished we are fighting.. Particularly ii
have succeeded in drawing their
own line between the Communist in Swedish Modern Motif, and the case of the Negro people .,
boast of every facility d e - America, sharp refo r ms are need
party here and the Soviet Union s will
i re d in a recreational, relig i ons
abroad. Americans are not allow-
ed zit once. At this late hold
ing their distaste for domestic and cultural center. It will in- they must be given not only i
communism to keep them from elude an Auditorium, Readires raison de combattre but a raise.
admiring and encouraging the Room, large Social Lounge, Li- d ietre•
Russian people's magnificent de- brary (Louis Weiss Memorial),
Domestic Depts.
Both Stores
fence of their homeland against Music Room. Ping Bong Room=,
and a beautiful Chapel for relig- British Chief Rabbi
the. Nazi invader.
The other reason is more for- ions worship. There will also be to Broadcast New Year
accomodations for ten boy.;
tuitous. The crisis in Tmlia. Th. , living
t,
profound distrust of large. groups w " will render
service to the Message to America
Foundation
in return for their
of Americans for the British Tor-
„
is being used to good ad- Inn g fIn g. " A spacious. kitchen and
Chief Rabbi Joseph Hertz, the
vantage. You may be sure that panty are being fully outfitted Chief Rabbi of Great Britain, will
Senator Robert R. Reynolds was to make possible the serving of broadcast it Jewish New. Year
not thinking of the Indian people Sunday night suppers to at least (Rosh Hashanah) message on
when he asked that we require. 100 students as well as the Pass- Thursday evening, September 10.
w meals desired by so many. at 11:30 p.m. Eastern War Time,
our ally, Great Britain, to grant (e).
immediate independence to the The house is situated one half according. to an announcement by
The alien-baiting Senator, who block from campus and occupies Dr. Israel Goldstein, president,
bas never been exactly noted fol• spacious, beautifully landscaped of the Synagogue Council of
370,000,000 people of India." grounds. Every Jewish student America.
The Chief Rabbi's address will
his espousal of the people's cause, attending the University
will
proudly point to this home as hi.: be carried over the red network
was
attempting
to create
furthe
mistrust
of the British.
His
weas- religious and social affiliation. and d of the National Broadcasting
cling was made easier by the will lend credit to his people by Company, as part of a Rosh Has-
d absorbing,
benefits
rem`
fact
that the case all
for the
the Indian
tonal
radio • program conducted
people is certainly a good 011C. tiered through this great institu- by the Synagogue Council of
America. The musical part of the
Nor do the continued failures of thin.
The fonnal dedication of the pi ogram will he under the direr.
the seemingly indestructible Brit-
ish Tory caste tend to create con- Found:it ion will take place in tion of Prof. A. W. Binder, Pro-
fidence in the future of the Bri.- early November at which tion• fessor of Liturgical Music at the
J
ish Empire.
the home will be officially opened ewish
Institute of Religion.

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But look now for an intensified to the public.
barrage against the British and
Other Detroit women attending
ISRAEL
their "propaganda." Attempts wi!! the luncheon were Mrs. Charles
be made to smear every liberal Solovich, first vice-president of
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group in the country as "con- this. District arid Mrs. Louis Scho-
trolled by the British." stak. Pisgah Auxiliary Hill••! children of the age. of four, and it
The day after Bishop William Chairman.
includes a High School Depart-
T. Manning, in a sermon at the
ment and all 11StitUtl. of Adult
Cathedral of St. John the Divine,
Classes in Jewish Studies, The
denounced
Senator
Reynolds' Kamp was zit one time associated
statement as "a dangerous awl with William Dudley Polley and
pecularly despicable form of sab- tabble - "user Gerald L. K. Smitli
otage," the Daily News published ho is running for the Republi-
a cartoon labelling Bishop Ma u i_ can nomination for U. S. Senator
rung as 'The Champ Shusher" in Michigan.
saying "shush" to an impressively
The Non - Sectarian Anti - Nazi
drawn Reynolds holding a copy League, veteran organization of
of the "Four Freedoms," sudden- the fight against Nazism has in-
ly become a champion of freedom tensified its efforts to awaken the
for oppressed peoples.
American people to the dangers
The lack of respect for the they are facing. From its central
cloth shown in this cartoon is (offices in New York, the League
somewhat surprising even on the is sendine. tout literature to every
editorial page of the News. Per- part of the country, pointing out
haps the News is aiming to ap- the importance of the battle on
peal to "Christian" Front ele- the home-front and the vital ne-
ments by centering its attack or cessity of not letting up in the
an Episcopalian Bishop.
fight. The Anti-Nazi League has
Recently, our Congressional ap- been in the forefront of the
peasers have developed a new campaign to keep certain Con-
tack in their efforts to confuse gressmen whose unwholesome rec-
the public. Somewhat encourage.) ords are well known from being
by the primary results, they have elected to office, making it clear
intensified their campaign to that along with other pro-demo-
smear every organization fighting cratic organizations, it is not
them. Latest example is a little fighting those isolationists who
booklet entitled "Native Nazi were honest and sincere. if sadly
Purge Plot," by Joseph P. Kam». mistaken, before Pearl Harbor EMMA LAZAROFF' ScHAVEn
a pro-Fascist who used to be and who have since seen the
Confirmation Department net s
identified with labor-baiting activ- light.
on
Saturday morning while 811
ities. The booklet is issued under
The danger lies with those in- other classes are held .01 Su n'
the imprimatur of Kamp's "Con-
gressional Education League," a dividuals who are appeasers, day morning.
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one-man organization whose Bul- spearheads of sinister forces who,
at the first opportunity. will come
The new season's movie W
letin was included in the list of
subservise publications presented out with suggestions for a nego- should be something. .
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to the Washington Grand Jury tiated peace with Hitler. These ready announced are Franz 1l 1 , l 1
native
Fascists
are
not
interested
fel's
"Song
of
Bernadette"
investigating subversive activity.
in winning the war; either they film authorized by Emil Lath"

