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dishonest one. The German workers had
the technological skill and abliity, the
inventive genius at all times, to achieve
economic self-sufficiency without looting,
but economic self-sufficiency based upon
labor and ingenuity did not fit into the
pattern of Nazi ideology of exploitation,
robbery and despoilation. The master
Aryans had to prove their superiority by
compelling all the inferior breeds to work
for them.
If the majority of the Germans are
anti-Nazi, and we believe they are, then
this latest appeal by Goebbels will fail.

October

30 r42

PLAIN TALK

by AL SEGAL

"Things to Come"

PROPHECY IS BECOMING A Anti-Semitism is no more than
profession if one is to judge by the hoodlum pulling. a Jew's beard
a new magazine out this month. though the library that has been
It is called "Predictions of Things written . on anti-Semitism seems
to Conic by Authorities Likely to t t ill (i ) le se l id l (l ) : e 10
.r in olilsgi i v t y t. e . s itpu tt o untlh.
be Right."
This is no star-gazing but esti-
It is the twisted soul of malice'
mates
future
e of7n:
knownf)iicttsheof life. Thus,
i ,4 the(1 ) .n e degradation of human c h a it v Y the
.
is a prophecy of when and how to its lowest denominator. In acter
its
the war will end by Max \Ver- aspect as a national policv it is
ner, famed war analyst. He comes metely low life organized for
to the conclusion that the was politics, like an organization of
c , ris i i cnitythe politics of an
is likely to end in the fall of g Ait ine g isitii
1943 if America and Britain his
hard on the Western side and
That it is frequently found in
if, at the sonic. time, Russia makes the higher levels of society does
a powerful offensive in the East. not make it any less the gutter-
There are prophetic answers to ripe. This meanness of our hu-
the question "Will war marriages man-kind often is clothed in the
last?" and "Where are stock apparel of respectability and h as
prices going?" and "Will there be been seen in k the sacred office
of
a postwar slump or boom?" and some of the clergy.
what your new automobile will
I could entertain the brightest
be like after this is all over.
hopes of the future of Jews if
It's all responsive to the agon- there were an education process
ized questionings of mankind who by which anti-Semitism could he
look eagerly at tomorrow. He presented for what it is—a status
has already seen the worst and of human charactr consorting with
can be sure only of one thing: swine. . . . "That is you, the
Tomorrow can't be any worse than anti-Semite. This is you wallow.
today.
ing in the filth of malice and
If you are a Jew your anxious rooting in the garbage of false-
inquiries have to do with your hood. This is your character."
own fate in particular as well
But I am not sure that the
as with the destiny of mankind intelligence of this malice is cap-
in general.. . . . "What's to be- able of recognizing its own image
come of me?" and "Where will in the swine. A swine never
the victory leave me?"
would know himself in a mirror.
If you are a Jew you wonder Especially on the upper levels
what these prophets have to say the meanness of anti-Semitism,
about you and are disappointed dressed in dinner jackets and
to find there is no mention of virgin-white shirt front, might be
your fate in the first issue of unable to recognize the swine as
"Predictions of Things to Come." its authentic image. . . . "This
You say well, I guess I am an can't
,, be me. I have a white shirt
old, old problem and they seem on.
to he taking up the newer ones
No, among the things to come
first.
I can't find any prospect of a
Yet I thought Jews shouldn't cure for any of the old nwan-
he left anxiously hanging while nesses of human nature whether
they wait to hear their fate from in the unspeakable anti-Semite or
thee literary prophets in sonic in other species of the human-
future issue. Suppose next month kind, including sonic of the Jews.
the magazine reveals nothing in People throw away their ideals
their eager eyes. And if the but hold fast, as to precious treas-
month after that they are left ures, to the cankerous maggots
to keep on looking in the bleak of their malice, their falsehoods,
darkness?
their prejudices and hates.
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It hurts me to have to speak
this
way of any of the human-
FELT I SHOULD MYSELF
kind, for some of my best friends
do something about this at are human beings. Yet my essen-
once. I shall myself join the tial faith and compassion do not
profession of the prophets. What's let me abandon anti-Semites to
there to lose? Nobody ever both- hopelessness.
ers to check up on prophets these
I I f
days. Today's analgesic proph-
ecy is swallowed up by tomorrow's DERII APS, I REASON, there is
pain.
Yes, I can see a dazzling future L a way to control their char-
for Jews if some specific can be acters even if there is no cure
found to cure the abysmal mean- for them. I learned something
ness of the portion of the hu- hopeful to this end on a visit to
man-kind called anti-Semitic.
See SEGAL—Page I3

France Vindicated
The threat of conscription of French
skilled labor for work in Germany is
Sabbath Readings of the Law
Pentateuchal portion—Genesis 18.1-22.24.
indicative of an acute shortage of man-
Prophetical portion—II Kings 4.1-37.
power in the Third Reich. Laval, Petain
and Doriot all know this and by their
OCTOBER 30. 1942
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actions give definite clues as to their
position on French-Nazi collaboration.
The New Nazi Line
Petain refused to go on the air and
Again the Nazi line has changed. This tell the French workers that they should
is not a surprising phenomenon to those go to Germany. Laval is in a very delicate
who have followed the constantly chang- position. This power-lusting stooge wants
ing Nazi line from the day that Hitler to remain in power at all costs. He does
assured the world of the peaceful inten- not dare outrage his own countrymen to
tions of the party and the Third Reich.
the point of precipitating revolution, and
Changes take place in a dictatorship yet he dare not refuse to carry out Nazi
without notice, for it is implicit in a dic- orders. Doriot, who covets Laval's job,
tatorship that no consultation, public dis- will promise anything if only he is given
cussion and debate are needed for any what he wants.
change of policy.
If we had any doubts as to the position
The latest change is particularly inter- and attitude of the French people, all
esting and significant. It is such a turn- doubts are now dispelled by their refusal
about-face that it is indicative of profound to cooperate and collaborate even though
disturbance in the Hitlerian paradise.
it means the repatriation of French
In a recent speech in Munich, Joseph prisoners of war.
Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda, among
The French people do not want to
other things said :
become part of the Nazi New Order in
Europe.
This war is, therefore, nn longer an affair
concerning a Prussia or a Bavaria. a Saxony
None of the peoples of Europe want to
or a Wuertemberg. Rather it is one of the
become part of the New World Order.
German commo n cause that interests us all.
Will any peoples of Europe exchange
To date. from the national viewpoint. we
the
way of life of freedom, equality, civil
have fought only for illusory objectives, for
government for regimentation, inequality
the House of Prussia. or Hapsburg: for so-
cialism and for national socialism; for ques-
and police military government.
tions of proletariat or bourgeoise.
All the invaded peoples of Europe have
But today it is for more important things
answered
and are answering that ques-
we are fighting: For coal, for iron, for pe-
tion with an unequivocal "No".
troleum, and above all. for wheat for our
daily bread.
The case of France is different from
Everything the enemy has lost so far (in
that of any other country on the unhappy
these wheat, coal and iron regions) has come
European continent, for France has been
into our hands. Whereas once we were a
living under the terms of an armistice.
people suffering from lack of space, today we
The sword of Damocles has been hanging
no longer suffer. All that remains for us to
do is to organize the space our soldiers have
over its head for more than two years.
conquered, give it form and render is useful
There was always the threat of occupation
(to the Germans).
of the unoccupied area if the Nazis were
His final peroration was an appeal to displeased. The bait of freeing prisoners
of war was held out to the wretched,
the German people in these words:
starved, distraught French people.
We possess this year the last, but at the
The game of jockeying for position has
same time the biggest, chance in our na-
been played for two years. The showdown
tional history. We will never have a more
came with the demand for 150,000 skilled
favorable opportunity than that which we
have today.
French workers. The French workers were
The day of propaganda is over. The asked to go voluntarily. The number that
struggle has become one of grim holding volunteered was so negligible that this
on to the plunder that has been stolen plan was quickly abandoned. Conscrip-
tion is now threatened. If tried, this, too,
from the peoples of Europe.
will probably be a failure. When this
It seems hardly credible that Joseph fails, the Nazis will force them at bayonet
Goebbels would confess that National So- point, according to latest reports. They First Tri-Lingual Jewish Book Week Annual Issued
cialism is an illusion, but he has stated may resort to such desperate methods,
so unequivocally and explicitly, and for for the manpower shortage is desperate
once the whole show is given away. The and the Nazis are desperate men.
grandiose plan for a thousand years of
The French have again been vindi-
National Socialism is ditched in the face cated. They are proving that they are not
of the hard realities of keeping up the a decadent, degenerate people. They are
morale and working efficiency of a weary, a chastened, disillusioned civilized people
disillusioned, perplexed people.
who will again contribute their share to
No longer is the destruction of Bolshe- the mosaic of world culture.
vism and democratic plutocracy of para-
mount importance. In fact, it never was.
German Refugee Status
The paramount objective was the despoil-
ing and robbing of weaker nations of their
Although Attorney General Francis
oil, iron, wheat and wealth. The mask is Biddle has not yet announced a change
off. The idealism was a delusion and a in the status of German refugees, yet
snare which has now become apparent such a change is expected in the very
to all. near future.
Will the German workers respond to
Such action is entirely consistent with
this latest plea of Goebbels?
the policy of our country in its treatment
Will the German people continue to of aliens of countries with which we arc
sacrifice the lives of their sons, husbands at war, as was evidenced by the recent
and brothers to retain the loot taken by change in the classification of Italians.
their armies?
Some impatient and over-zealous men
The German people do not approve of and women have felt that German refu-
robbing and looting any more than do gees should never have been classed as
other people. They know that individuals enemy aliens. Their zeal outran good judg-
as well as nations achieve economic self- ment in this matter, for until a thorough
sufficiency only by their own labor and investigation was made, the office of the
ingenuity. Attorney General could not announce a
Never was the time more opportune for policy, despite the fact that it was gen-
assurance to the German people that they erally known that most German refugees
Dr. Solomon Grayzel, General Editor, presents copy of the first
will be accepted in the community of were the bitterest and most implacable tri-lingual
Jewish Book Week Annual, to Dr. Mordecai Soltes, Chair-
European nations, when peace comes, if enemies of Nazism.
man of the National Committee for Jewish Book Week, at its Open
they repudiate their thieving and looting
Once more we are telling the German Meeting and Celebration last Thursday evening, at the Waldorf-
Astoria Hotel, N. Y. C. The Annual contains Sections in English.
leaders.
people, in language that cannot be mis- Hebrew
and Yiddish, and was prepared by corresponding editorial
The plea of lebensraum so assidously understood, that we are at war with committees.
disseminated by Hitler was a specious and Nazism and not with the German people.
National Jewish Book Week will be observed from Nov. 22-29,

Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.

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