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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
"NO DUNKIRK FOR US"
By EDDIE CANTOR
EDITOR'S NOTE: On the occasion of the New Year Eddie Cantor
has add d this special message to the Jews of America,
concerning a cause which is very close t o his heart. Mr. Cantor.
whose career as a human bein g equals in prominence his
as an outstanding comedian, tells in his own way what the
United Jewish Appeal means to him and his family.
Believe me, I wish I could be
in your home and talk to you face
to face. Because this is a prob-
lem which involves you and me.
We're not the only ones—there
are a lot of other people con-
cerned in this—hundreds of thou-
sands, yes, millions. But the
trouble is that as soon as any-
body mentions them, you and I
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begin to think of the word, "char-
ity." And charity has nothing to
do with it. The days of giving
to somebody else are over. We
know now that the help we give
really helps us as much as it
helps anyone else. I don't think
I'm doing anything noble when
I give to the United Jewish Ap-
peal. The U.J.A. helps the Jews
in Europe and it helps the Jews
in Palestine and it helps the refu-
gees in our own country, right
here. But when I give to the
U.J.A. I'm doing it as much for
myself, for my wife, my daugh-
ters and say grandchildren as I
do it for anyone else. We're all
in the same boat. Do you think
that Hitler has a list on which
you or I or any other Jew is
exempt? As far as the Nazis are
concerned, the only good Jews are
dead Jews. Remember, there can't
be a Dunkirk for the Jewish peo-
ple.
Are you getting tired of the
story of Jewish misery? Are you
beginning to feel that maybe we
ought to forget about the whole
Jewish problem during the war?
If you are, you're falling into
a Nazzi trap. When you lose the
capacity to be moved by a story
of Jewish tragedy—beware! When
you say, "It's all the same old
story"—beware! When our hearts
fail to respond and when our
emotions are frozen, we have fallen
victim to the Nazi propaganda.
How can we expect to arouse the
world to our plight if we our-
selves are going to react with no
more feeling than a scarecrow?
Don't let anybody tell you to
wait until the war is over to solve
the Jewish problem. Hitler is
solving it in his own way right
now and if we don't do some-
thing about it there will be
nothing left to mark the place
of Jewish communities in Europe
but the graves of hundreds of
thousands of massacred, murdered
Jewish men, women and children.
And if they die, we may be next.
They'•e
fighting
our
battle.
They've been on the firing line
for nine years. It's our patriotic
duty to help them; to give the
oppressed Jews in Europe the
courage to carry on; to give the
heroic Jews of Palestine, fighting
for democracy, the means to help
us win; to help the refugees in
the United States to be good
Americans.
Don't take my word for it. The
highest government leaders will
tell you that the fullest support
of the United Jewish Appeal this
year is a part of our war work
as Americans. If we want to pro-
tect our own liberty and our own
security, we've got to do every-
thing we can to free our fellow-
Jews over there. This is a tre-
mendous job but it's being done
every day at this moment. The
Joint Distribution Committee is
help:n• hundreds of thousands of
Jews in Europe, Latin America
and in many other lands; the
United Palestine Appeal is build-
ing up Palestine, which is devot-
ing all of its manpower and re-
sources to help keep the Axis out
of the Middle East, and the Na-
tional Refugee Service is giving
the refugees among us a chance
for a new life.
As Americans • we know that
we've got to fight on every front
wherever it is—in India, Aus-
tralia,—to save our freedom at
home. As Jews we can do no less.
It's all part of the same fight
and the United Jewish Appeal is
our lend-lease program to help
the Jewish people come through
the war to victory and freedom.
We must be in this fight with
everything we have. We must
do it now for the sake of all
the things we hold dear—for
out' families, yours and mine; for
our children and their children.
Let's begin to make sacrifices now
and we will win for ourselves and
America. Give to the limit this
year to the United Jewish Ap-
peal!
GOVERNORS
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September I I, 1942
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freedoms as outlined by our great President will be re-
stored to the conquered people of the earth."
CHARLES A. SPRAGUE
OREGON
"The whole world is indebted to the ancient Hebrews
for their legacy of a purified religion and to modern Jews
for their alert social c'qnscience. Victims in sonie lands of
cruelty and violence and in others of prejudice and dis-
crimination, Jews naturally wonder what the future holds
for them. While I know that utter despair has at times
driven Jews to self-destruction the great majority are
sustained by the same hope which has supported them in
past centuries of trial. Now the security of minorities is
recognized as a prime objective of the foes of the axis
powers. Though we gird the sword to put down the ag-
gressor our final reliance must be on the spread of moral
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races, creeds and nations and is indispensable to avert
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"On the occasion of the Jewish New Year. Rosh
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to take this means of
again extending greetings of the season to the Jewish
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always been a keystone of the Keystone State, and they
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R. M. JEFFERIES
SOUTH CAROLINA
"With every call that I have made for patriotic
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self-sacriftzing service the Jewish people of this state have
cooperated 100 per cent. They believe in their 'ountry
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and they want to protect their freedom. I hope that
before the date of another New Year for the Jewish
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complete victory for the democracies, and in the peace
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to render unlimited patriotic service to their state and
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HARLAN J. BUSHFIELD
SOUTH DAKOTA
"May unity prevail in all creeds throughout this
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nation, so that the great peril which has been thrust
upon us and the entire world will soon be over and peace
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PRENTICE COOPER
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"It is with pleasure that I send greetings and best
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the occasion of the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashonah)."
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ARTHUR B. LANGLIE
WASHINGTON
"The humanitarian work which has been carried on
to maintain the life and hope of large sections of the
Jewish people in many other parts of the world who were
the first victims of the Axis assault upon freedom will be
our continuing concern. Whatever our social or racial ori-
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today are united to fight for that freedom which guaran-
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SPESSA RD L. HOLLAND
FLORIDA.
In his response to the governors' Rosh Hashonah greetings,
Dr. Israel Goldstein, president of the Synagogue Council, said
"We accept your expression of good will and friendship with
more than formal acknowledgement. Your utterance is expressive
of the spiritual bond which unites Christian and Jew in the
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American fellowship as fellow-builders and fellow-defenders of
our democracy, pledged with out lives to safeguard it from all
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harm. As the sons and daughters of American Israel go to their
synagogues on Rosh Hashonah to utter their prayers and their
hopes for the new year in their religious calendar, they will re-
dedicate themselves to the principles and purposes which underlie
both our American and our Jewish heritage."
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