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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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WASHINGTON
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Charles B. Hudson, E. J. Garner,
Ralph Townsend and George Syl-
vester Viereck. The indictment
also named as involved in the
conspiracy such well-known pub-
lications as Scribner's Commen-
tator and the New York Enquir-
er, and 30 groups including the
America First Committee, the Ku
Klux Klan and the Black Legion,
as well as less well-known organ-
izations and magazines.
in their program for world
supremacy. The war dominated
GREAT LAKES
the interest of Jews in Washing-
ECORSE
ton, whether in connection with
refugees from Axis-dominated
Europe, with the battle against
native "little Hitlers," with the
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agitation for a Jewish Army in
Despite perennial rumors about
Palestine or with the exploits of
Jewish heroes in our own armed Jewish draft-dodgers, assiduously
forces.
spread by Nazi sympathizers, this
The beginning of actual hos- has already produced more than
tilities against the Nazis did not its quota of Jewish heroes, as did
improve the status of the refugees the last. By March, six of 75
they had driven to our shores. Distinguished Flying Crosses
Most refugees, in fact, automatic- awarded had gone to Jews—more
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ally became "enemy aliens" sub- than twice as many as were to
ject to internment at the will of be expected from the Jewish pro-
the authorities. The Government portion in the country's popula-
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feared that some of them might tion.
be forced, through friends or rela-
The heroes included many close
TErrace 2-9577
tives still in Nazi power, to spy to the nation's heart, such as
TYler 4-9898
or sabotage the war effort of the Corporal Meyer Levin. Levin was
United Nation s. Short-wave bombardier in the plane command-
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radios, cameras, guns, were taken ed by Colin Kelley. Using a
from them and registered, while bombsight he had never tried be-
the Justice Department forbade fore, he loosed the missile that
travelling or changes of address sank a Japanese battleship of
without special permission. Under the Haruna class—the only Japa-
military orders in California, Ore- nese dreadnaught completely des-
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gon and Washington, they had to troyed so far in the war.
keep within five miles of their
Another was Lieut. Commander
homes and obey an 8 p. in. cur-
few. Those who entered the coun- Solomon S. Isquith, who received
try on temporary visas still need the Navy Cross for saving 90
per cent of his mates on the tar-
special
permission to work.
INCORPORATED
get ship Utah, sunk at Pearl Har-
Attorney General Francis Bid- bor, by "his cool and efficient
dle came out in favor of distinc- manner of directing abandonment
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tions between loyal and disloyal under bombing attack." Still an-
aliens, as did Rep. John M. Tolan other was Ensign Stanley Caplan.
(D., Calif.) whose National De- With only eight months experi-
DETROIT, MICHIGAN
fense Migration Committee asked ence, he and three other ensigns
that each community be author- took a destroyer out of Pearl
ized to set up a committee which Harbor under the Japanese bomb-
could pass on an alien's reliabil- ing and helped shoot down four
ity. But the necessary Congres- planes and depth bomb two sub-
sional action was not forthcom- marines. Dozens of other Jewish
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ing. In fact, the House of Rep- boys have already been cited or
resentatives voted down a pro- decorated—some of them posthum-
posal of Rep. Samuel Dickstein ously.
(D., N.Y.) that his Committee on
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On the other side of the world,
Immigration be given full power in Palestine, Jewish fighting men
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suggested that Latin American voices were raised in behalf of
countries liberalize their immigra- such a force. Not only the tradi-
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ment thawed some frozen funds. a special Committee for a Jew-
President Roosevelt issued several ish Army joined the fight. This
statements insisting that employ- group, of Jews and Gentiles alike,
ers cease discriminating against was led by Pierre van Paasson,
aliens simply because they are famous as a war reporter and
aliens. He backed his committee author. It promised the United
on Fair Employment Practice to Nations a force of 203,000 Pales-
the limit in its fight against such tinian and stateless Jews to help
discrimination.
beat back Marshal Rommel from
The committee also fought dis- the Middle East.
crimination against native-born
Still, many influential Jews
Jews, finding against 18 large thought that Palest . nians should
corporations in the east and mid- be satisfied to serve in British
dle west. All the firms declared units. The British pointed out
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guilty promised to obey the com- that more than 30,000 of them
mittee's instructions. Two eastern were so serving,. On the other
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brnis. later succeeded in having hand many Gentiles, especially in
the findings against them vacated Congress, came out in behalf of
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by showing that discrimination a Jewish Army.
had finally ended.
Congressmen were also prom-
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were threatened with public hear- their sentiments in May on the
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ings. The committee found that 25th anniversary of the introduc-
Jews were discriminated against Con of the joint resolution en-
in several departments of the dorsing the Balfour Declaration.
Federal Government. It thus bore Sen. Robert Wagner (D., N.Y.)
out the contention of W. M. Kip- speaking at the celebration, ad-
linger in his popular book "Wash- vised Americans to begin thinking
ington is Like That" that Jews about a post-war plan for Pales-
are no more numerous, propor- tine.
tionately, in Washington bureaus President Roosevelt, in his mes-
than in any other phase of Amer- sage to the gathering, reiterated
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The seditious publications that estine as a national home for the
droned continually about how Jewish people, and reviewed the
"Washington is run by J ews ,' accomplishments and growth of
ran into serious difficulties after the Jewish community there in
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Pearl Harbor. The difficulties laudatoryterms that brought
arose not because they were anti- great satisfaction tothe Zion-
Semitic, but because they tended lsts' Dr. Chaim Weizma nn, in
to impede the war effort. With this . country with a chemical in-
the declaration of war, the Sedi- vention said to be as important
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tion Act went into effect and the as the contribution in won
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Several publishers were sen-
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contributors indicted. George W.
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