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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Detroit Jewish ChroniCle
October 16, 1942
This declaration comes at a most op-
portune
time. Its repercussions should be
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Publ shed Weekiy by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. felt throughout the Third Reich.
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
We say opportune, for now more than
President
JACOB MARGOLIS
Publisher-Editor
at any time since this global conflict
started, are the Nazis faced with serious
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to insure publication, all correspondence and news matter
Despite the fact that there are 6,000,
nust reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
Nhen mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only. 000 of the workers of the conquered and
the Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- sattelite countries in the Reich, yet the
T HERE has been a lot of talk share in the functions of citizen.
,ects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon- need for additional manpower has become
T in some of the press lately shNot
cent with
,• all el other
-----.
sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers. so desperate that Laval has been com-
about the number of Jews who Americans.
pelled to attempt to conscript 133,000 work in Washington for the gov- for Jewish
is that
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
covet public power
eminent. Mr. Kiplinger (Kiplin-
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. French workers, who are to be sent to
life. Not that I
I
Letter) says in his recent ,
Germany in exchange for some French gar's
book, titled "This Is Washington " . jealous for the public prestige ilonf
war prisoners. Every device known to that the number of Jews w orking Jews. Not that I am One who
Sabbath Reading, of the Law
that Jews as Jews must
the
Nazis is being employed to wheedle, in Washington is not out of pro- Protests
h i ' their portion in the govern-
have
Pentateuchal portion—Genesis 6.9-11.3'2
port'on.
There
seems
to
be
so
inveigle
and
coerce
French
skilled
labor,
ment.
Prophetical portion—Isaiah 54.1--55.5
many of them in Washington be-
but apparently without success.
To desire pomp, place and power
cause
they
are
concentrated
in
a
OCTOBER 16, 1942
CHESHVAN 5, 5703
The reason this fact is emphasized few of the departments.
for Jews because they are Jews
is as viciously un-American as to
more than the sabotaging and violence in
(The idea is that a dozen ap- keep Jews out of public life be-
all
the
conquered
countries
is
because
ples look like a bigger number cause they are Jews.
Bishop Wears Mogen Dovidl
sabotage and violence have been implicit of apples in a shoe box, for ex- I stand on the American prin.
ample, than they would in a
According to recent reports from in the program of the conquered peoples, large
ciple that no American may suf-
packing case.)
b
Paris we learn the Msgr. Chaptal Bishop but when the French government is corn-
It seems an accepted notion that far any attainder of his rights
pelled to conscript its own workers for Jews are all right if, in public hY reason of race, color, religion
of Paris appeared in public with a Mogen shipment to the Reich it indicates that the life, they are in proportion to or social position. When you es-
Dovid on his arm. Many Parisian Catho- manpower shortage must be grim and their percentage in the popula- tablish the principle that Jews
tint which is about four per cent, m ay participate in the affairs of
lies followed the example of their bishop. acute.
only i n prortion
op
to
Many Jews humbly accept being the
numbers in the population
This demonstration of solidarity with
The prospect of another winter in Rus- limited by quota. Some of us their state
to see Jews in public life you attaint every American who
the Jews of occupied France is entirely sia and the failure to take Stalingrad abhor
at all. Jews, they say, should is a Jew.
consistent with the tenets of Christianity, must have made the German people more make themselves as scarce as poi_ America wasn't built On
sible in the public places. Their basis of quotas. There is no thing
the
For is not Christianity a part of Judaism hopeless and must have increased the thought
is that if Jews stick their in the Constitution about special
spirit of defeatism that has been growing
and is it not ethically and philosophically despite all the heroic attempts of Hitler, heads into the sand deeply citizens or inferior citizens or
enough they will not been seen separate citizens or grades of
part of the Judaeo-Christian system? Goebbels and Goering to scotch it.
and if they aren't seen no harm citizenship. (The irresponsible Mr.
Enlightened, socially - conscious Chris-
When the German people learn that can befall them. Pegler recently proposed some sort
of separate citizenship for Ameri-
(The ostrich has tried this
tians know that the pagan philosophy of the official position of Britain and Amer- philosophy
in all his generations cans Of foreign birth.) America
i ca is a clear and unequivocal repudiation
ostriches get shot anyway.) isn't a complex of political mi-
Nazism strikes at the heart of Christian- of Van Sittartism, which is the tenet that but Myself,
I am not yet ready to norities whose civil rights are
ity as much as it does against Judaism. all people share their leaders' culpability, accept a proscription that puts limited by their percentage in the
They know that the racial purity hokum and we may be sure they will learn about me in an inferior posit on in population. America isn't a Bal-
singles out the the Jews as particular it, then we may expect that those Ger- A merican public life. I submit kan state in which the partici-
that I, a full American, must potion of any minority is ure-
must scribed in accordance with the
victims but that does not deceive them mans who have never been won over to ic eligible
gible to any position in pub-
lie
life for which I am fitted, ferocity of the hate the majority
the
grandiose
war
plans
of
the
Nazis
will
as to the aims and purposes of the Nazis
begin to show less interest and enthusiasm regardless of my race or religion. has worked up against it.
and they realize that if Rosenberg and for enduring privation and working long I may not be put in the place of As an American I am afraid
a special or separate American of the idea of limiting Americans
Von Schirach have their way they will be hours for the Fuehrer.
in the matter of participating in who are Jews to quotas, but not
compelled to abandon their Christian be-
because of Jews alone. How far
If and when this happens on a large the public life of the country.
are we going after we have start-
liefs and practices.
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scale then the important home front will
a'
a'
ed limiting Jews in public life by
Nazi tactics have been realistic, flexible begin to crack. With the home front
FEEL hurt because I must, quotas . . . "No, Segal, you may
and opportunistic. Where brutal direct breached, it should not take long for the
perforce, take the discrimina- not be tenth assistant in Petro-
assault was indicated they did not hesitate effects to be felt at the fighting front.
tions that pi ivate employers im- leum Control because the Jewish
pose upon Jews, since a man's quota is filled up."
to employ all the brutalities for which
The task of breaking the morale of the business,
I think of Catholics. Some peo-
even if it is a public
the sadistic Gestapo are infamous. Where German workers is a collosal one. It can corporation,
is guarded by the ple don't like Catholics. Those
more indirect and subtle methods were be done, but it must be done intelligently. sanctities that encompass private may say, now that Jews have been
considered more effective, then such
The best I can do put in their place, we must start
The Simon-Roosevelt pronouncement is ownership.
about this is to protest bitterly working. on Catholics. Let's count
methods were used.
intelligent for it allays the fears of a
to hope prayerfully for a time all the Catholics and 00 the basis
In the case of the Christian churches, people that have been led to believe, by and
when my great-great grandchil- of the count we shall determine
ministers and priests and their communi- Joseph Goebbels, that defeat meant exter- dren will be judged by their in- just how many Catholics shall be
dividual merits alone, not by the allowed to work for the govern-
cants they combined both methods. All mination.
blood in their veins or the reli- ment."
responsible Christian leaders in Germany
1 think of the Theosophists.
There should be forthcoming a clear gious faith in their hearts.
and the conquered countries know that and unequivocal pronouncement that the
But, because I am an Ameri- They aren't popular in the sense
Nazi success means not only the exter- German people will be included as equals can, I must resist with a full in- of having a large following. They
may even be offensive to sonic peo-
mination of the Jews but it means also in the European community of nations tensity of patriotism any restric- ple
since their idea of immor-
tion
that
limits
my
participation
the end of Christianity, and that Christian- when the peace comes.
in public life merely because I am tality doesn't run along with the
ity will have no legal status and may
American who is a Jew. I re- popular concept. They believe that
Such a pronouncement, we believe, an
even be compelled to go underground as
sent any quota that makes me a after the transition called death
further weaken the German will to four per cent or 10 per cent or souls return to the earth to live
have many of the organizations and move- would
fight for the New Order of the Nazis.
even 25 per cent citizen. My just
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ments that flourished before the pagans
took over.
The struggle against Nazism is certainly Bnai Brith Centennial
as much a Christian struggle as it is Jew-
ish; for Nazism means that the human
Bnai Brith was founded a century ago
being has but pne loyalty and that loyalty in New York, on October 13, 1843, when
is to the Fuehrer who is the symbol of the Jews of the United States numbered
all authority, secular as well as religious. but 25,000.
If Christian churches are still open and
Free America of 1843 attracted adven-
if ministers and priests still function in
Germany, it is not because the pagan ramous, pioneering, liberty-loving Jews
leaders are reconciled to the present state from England, Holland, Portugal, Spain,
of affairs. This is far from the fact. The England and Germany. They had their
truth is that the religious loyalties are so separate synagogues but they had no sec-
deeply rooted that they cannot be quickly ular, cultural organization where they
extirpated and consequently they accept
the situation and hope by persistent propa- could meet as Jews. This need which in
ganda among the children and youth to a sense was unique brought the Bnai Brith
compel the elders to accept paganism. into being. We say "unique", for prior to
It is consequently not surprising to read this time no country had opened its doors
that the Bishop of Paris put the Mogen wide to the immigrants from all the
Dovid on his sleeve. He knows that. this countries of the world.
symbol distinguishes the Judaeo-Christian
From that day down to the present the
© The National Jewish Monthly, B'nal B'rith.
world from the Nazi pagan world.
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YEARS
BEFORE THE' "MAYFLOWER"
In fact all Christians of Europe should Bnai Brith has remained a cultural or-
wear the Mogen Dovid so that the Nazis ganization where Jews of all social, eco-
Columbus discovered America 450 years ago — thanks to the
Jews of Spain. His 1492 expedition was financed without in-
may know that the hundreds of millions nomic and political groups may belong.
terest by Luis de Santangel, chancellor of the King, and aided
of Christians of Europe are arrayed Then as now it was the great cohesive
by other Marranos, such as Gabriel Sanchez, the royal treasurer
against them in this struggle of civilization force in Judaism that concerned itself
and Juan Cabrero, the royal chamberlain. At least five of
against barbarism.
with the problems and activities of all
Columbus's crew of 120 were Marranos; Luis de Torres, the in-
Jews.
terpreter, who had just been baptized, was the first to set foot
Breaking German Morale
in the New World. The astronomical tables of Abraham Zacuto,
Ns'
It is the devout and earnest wish that
translated from the Hebrew, guided Columbus on the voyage.
Lord Simon and President Roosevelt Bnai Brith continue its championing of
His second expedition, in 1493, was directly financed by the
simultaneously announced that all Ger- all Jewish causes over the whole world
confiscated wealth of Spanish Jewry, which had been expelled
mine will not be punished for the crimes on an even greater scale when peace
the previous year. And on top of everything else, many famous
committed by the Nazi leaders. comes again to an embattled world.
scholars are convinced that Columbus himself was actually a
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Marrano