Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and The Legal Chronicle
SECTION THREE
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1942
VOL. 44, NO. 37
United We Stand
By THOMAS F. DOYLE
together for national unity, to
build understanding on the foun-
Editor's Note:—A review of the vast year demonstrates how effec-
tively increased cooperation and understanding among racial dation of justice and freedom
and religious groups have helped to blunt if not remove alto- for every citizen."
admonition
The
President's
gether the claws of fifth columnists. In the followintsr article,
Mr. Doyle. staff member of the National Conference of Chris- came in the midst of sustained
tians and Jews. discusses the effects of interfaith cooperation and vigorous assaults by relig-
ious leaders in every part of the
on the danegorus activities of fifth columnists.
country on the evils of bigotry
Interfaith cooperation during recognition of the basic Amer and race hatred. Axis propagand-
the past year has played an im- ican t en en t s of equality. The ists found their greatest obstacle
in the united stand by Protestant,
portant part in forestalling Fifth keynote of this new spirit was Catholic and Jewish spokesmen
column activities and in neutraliz- sounded in a letter addressed by against efforts to delude and de-
ing and counteracting Axis prop- President Roosevelt to the Na- ceive the people in a time of
American people along religious tional Conference of Christian crisis.
and racial lines. Such coopera- and Jews in connection with the
Church people showed them-
aganda aimed at dividing the nationwide observance of Brot- selves only too well aware that
tion has also helped to mobilize herhood Week last February. "In it is a part of Axis strategy to
the three faiths in communities every time of danger in the "divide and conquer." They know
throughout the country in civilian past," the President said, "the that the Nazis have been trying
defense activities.
good sense and loyalty of our for a long time to turn Chris-
Frequent appeals are being people has repudiated the coun- tians against Jews as part of the
made by church leaders for sel of those who sought to divide campaign to confuse, divide and
understanding and good will be- and confuse them by arousing demoralize the American people.
tween all races and creeds. Ex- suspicion and hatred."
Because they know the aim of
posing and refuting fallacies
"More than ever before," the the anti-Jewish campaign, relig-
based upon alien racial teachings, Chief Executive asserted, "now ious leaders have been in the
religious spokesmen have 'helped is the time for men of good will
to develop a more, widespread in America to stand and work
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A
Happy \ew Year
To You of the House of Israel
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MEN
My personal and heartfelt greetings to
you all during this New Year season—
the beginning of another serious year
of work and opportunity.
Working together, the problems of the
World can be met. We face the New
Year with hope and confidence that right
will prevail and that a new day, bright
with Peace and Happiness, will dawn,
ere long, in our troubled world.
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Lady Of Land Sends Michigan
Jewry a Heartening Message
THE WHITE HOUSE
Washington
August 26, 1942
My Dear Mr. Margolis:
I am very glad indeed to again send a message
through the Detroit Jewish Chronicle to the Jewish
people of your constituency at the Jewish New Year
season.
War years are tragic for all people, and Jewish
people all over the world have suffered for a long time
in war torn and conquered countries. Now in this coun-
try they are helping their fellow Americans to win the
war and we all join together in the hope that for all
people of all minorities, the victory will mean a happier
life in the future.
Sincerely yours,
Eleanor Roosevelt.
A New Year Message From the
Navy Secretary, Fronk Knox
Aug. 25, 1942
My dear Mr. Margolis:
In reply to your request for a message to the Jew-
ish people of Detroit on the occasion of the annual cele-
bration of their New Year, September 12th, 1942, I am
glad to comply in suggesting the following thoughts as
appropriately significant at this time:
To a people who, throughout their long history,
have been noted for their sustained ability to sacrifice,
I need hardly point out, except by way of vivid remind.
er , that this new year holds an increasing degree of
sacrifice, not only for the principles and ideals they have
long cherished, but for actual Survival in whatever terms
one chooses to define that phrase :—whether as a people,
a religious community, a form of government and life
under such government, or as an independent nation.
And this introduces my second and more important
thought which is expressed both as fact and as good
counsel: In order to survive, the people of this nation,
the United States of America, must subordinate all in-
terests of race, of creed, of sect, group or self-centered
individuality to the end of integration in a great national
effort for survival. Disunity or the setting of personal
or group interests ahead of national welfare can, in
moral and spiritual respects, more seriously defeat our
ends than anything our enemies can accomplish from
outside our territorial domain.
I feel sure that your people, at the start of their
New Year, will not be unmindful of these truths and,
as part of their anniversary celebration, it is my hope
that they may nobly dedicate themselves to the realiza-
tion of these truths in daily living through the coming
period of months or years when we must all think of
ourselves primarily as citizens of a Great Nation on
Trial.
Sincerely yours,
Frank Knox.
Expresses Faith and Hope In
Revivification of Peace
By CORDELL HULL
Secretary of State
In extending cordial greetings to AMerican Jewry
at the season of the Jewish New Year, I desire to give
expression to the faith and the hope which we all
cherish of the revivification of peace through united ef-
fort and of the lasting victory of the creed of human
brotherhood. May the early achievement of that goal
be vouchsafed by all-wise Providence.
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By ABRAHAM SRERE
President Jewish Welfare Federation
On behalf of the Detroit Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion, I extend greetings and best wishes to Jewry every-
where for a much happier New Year than the preceding
one. In the light of what has befallen our fellow Jews in
many countries, this requires faith and courage.
Would you make a fitting resolution on New Years
Day—then resolve to do your utmost by way of service
and money to further the work of those organizations
who are administering to the needs of our suffering
brethern wherever possible.
Jewish Welfare Federation,
By Abraham Srere,
President.
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