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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

December lb

mously increased and intensified. Despite
this
the number of labor conscripts re-
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quired
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JACOB H. SCHAKNE
Pres.-Gen. Mgr.
JACOB MARGOLIS
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Editor
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S the great travail struggles of mankind, to trial by the ,twig
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A on to the victory, as the ment of every heart. True, th,, r(
sibility for an endorsement of viewi expressed by its writers. man people that victory will be theirs.
ri se can be neither death penalty not
h- ens of t'.- mpss „,.ed
It seems reasonable to conclud that. higher
toward the Judgment Seat imprisonment in a judgment so
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
one of the reasons for the creation of (there is the Nazi dictum that diffuse as that of the conse'enc e
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
defense commissioners is the very weak- half the Jews suriving in oc- Of all men. Yet, your honors,
Europe must be extnmi- which, if any of the traditional
ness of the industrial structure that i:: cupid
Sabbath Reading. of the Law
rutted within the year), as the legal penalties can fit these
supported so largely by foreign, con- cries of the starving rise on all crimes?
Pentateuchal portion—Genesis 44.18-47.27.
the winds, people are beginning
scripted, resentful, hostile labor.
"Death? Dying is but the in-
Prophetical portion—Ezekiel 37.15-28.
ask: What's to be done with stant's pain. The executed
It is also reasonable to assume that the to
, i . t i i . , i , n g i- .
Hitler
after
this
is
all
over?
oh b I l lis vio eu vs ertta okei tih
t lies oblivious
DECEMBER 18. 1542
TEBET 11, 5703 special agents of Hitler are given their
the h i nL
i
What's the penalty to be?
ment
' It
new powers not because of the immediate
A gentleman who is not Jew- will be but one death in retribu-
i
s
ish
writes
use
about
this.
He
Hon
for
the
million
murders
that
danger
from
the
Allied
armies,
but
ra-
The Jewish Theater
himself a lawyer and wants the were perpetrated.
Jacob Ben Ami, who headed the splen- ther by reason of the immediate danger matter of Hitler handled in a "Imprisonment? It what
his
did cast at Littman's Theater, spoke at a from the anti-Nazi Germans and the for- Perfectly legal way. He would after all, Napoleon lived out ease,
have Hitler tried by a court of days on St. Ilelena with army
meeting of the Theater Guild. The audi- eign workers.
Jews set up by in- friends and with servants. It was
This would be an excellent time for distinguished
ence discovered that Jacob Ben Ami is
ternational agreement.
rather a luxurious imprisonment
the
Attorney
General
to
announce
a
not only a consummate artist and a noted
A criminal trial, he says, al- measured to the ,state of an ex-
director, but a profound student of the change in status of refugee Germans and ways is conducted in the nqme emperor. No, your honors, for
Austrians. Such an act would convince of the people. The idea is that Uhler there must be no im-
Jewish theater and drama.
trillions
of Germans that their sadistic the criminal has aggrieved the Prisonment that, as his crimes
He spoke on the need of a communal
people of the State and they, recede into history, may provide
theater. He approached the subject re- leaders are to be held responsible and not through their renresentat ves, li'm with a gilded cage.
honors, I commend Hit-
alistically and objectively. He deplored they. All the fulminations and explana- are entitled to be his .judge-."Your
tions
of
Joseph
Goebbels
would
not
ex-
Upon which people does the ler to the judgment of mankind's
the present low state of the Jewish thea-
greater weight of Hitler's crimes conscience by which he shall he
ter and drama, and drew comparisons plain away the hard fact that the United rest. Obviously, the Jews, th
the made outcast from the society
Nations
do
make
a
distinction
between
gentleman argues. They were th? ' .of man. Not like the outcast who
with the American theater and drama
duped people and their criminal first of his victims and their Is in prison and for whom daily
and the Jewish theater and drama in the
leaders.
bodies st'll keep on making the bread and the shelter of a roof
South America ; both comparisons were
biggest of the Hitler hecatombs. are always assured. I mean the
The
evidence
points
to
a
weakening
of
definitely unfavorable to the Jewish thea-
True, the indictments against outcast who becomes a wanderer
ter in the United States. He recognized the industrial home front. We can crack Hitler are many . . . his crimes on the earth shunned by every
the fact that the cinema had taken the that home front wide open by friendly against the Poles and his crimes "I mean that Hitler shall he
against Czechoslovaks, his crimes
place of the stage for the masses of the assurance to the German people who by against
the Norwegians and his ban'shed to the far horizons of
now
must
be
wearied
unto
death
by
a
American people, with the consequenc3 decade of Hitlerism.
crimes against the Greeks, etc., the earth. He shall have the
etc. , But, the gentleman says, mountains. the valleys and the
that those who do attend the "legitimate"
rivers for his footsteps and where-
the legal practice is to try a
theater had a better appreciation of the
soever he goes men shall know
rriminal on the indictment that
drama and demanded better plays and
Look at file Darlan Record
includes the most heinous of his him . .. "There goes Hitler" .. .
He shall have the whole world
performances.
His other crimes may be
Admiral Darlan has been called many crimes.
but no roof under which to rest
brought in as collateral evidence
In South America where he was able hard names and has been accused of of criminality.
his head, except that which kind-
ness provides.
to play for 20 consecutive weeks, the many heinous offenses, not the least of
Ye7, he concludes, though the
"Yes, he may find a night's
assimilative process had not affected the which is Quislingism.
Jews are not a State they are in rest in the chimney corner of
sense a people. It certainly the but of a compassionate Rus-
Jewish population and therefore the Jew-
In appraising Darlan we would do well every
the case of the Jewish People sian peasant . . . in the tene-
ish masses as well as those with better to look at the record. And what is that is
vs. H'tler, he says . . . "Hear ment of a Polish Jew . . . under
dramatic taste had need for a Jewish record?
ye, hear ye!" he cries as if he the eaves of a cottage in Lidice
theater which he and his co-workers were
Darlan remained in France after the were the bailiff opening court restored. Their kindness shall not
able to satisfy.
embrace him but take him in as
Compeign armistice was signed. When for the trial of Hitler.
the stray wolf hound is sheltered
f 5
In the United States he found that al- Petain got rid of Laval he made Darlan
`n the stable. He must not be
as a friend of the court allowed to perish: he must live
though the Jewish cinema did not draw his successor. Darlan was probably the
I might interject: "If your for the fullness of retribution.
the masses away from the Jewish theater, actual ruler of unoccupied France, al-
honors please, I ask for a change
f I f
yet there were not enough of those who though final decisions were probably of
venue. This is not particularly
had need for a better theater, and those made by Petain. We must therefore the case of the Jews. Isn't it
IS every day, as he won-
ders, shall he a full pen-
who had such need found satisfaction for charge Darlan with responsibility for all rather Mankind vs. Hitler? Isn't
the case of Christianity and ance for the multitudes he drove,
that need in the "legitimate" American that has happened since he became the it
Judaism as well? The case of homeless, over the pathways of
actual ruler of France.
theater.
all the little people of the world the world. He shall be allowed
What did he do? He permitted the whose sons he has made to per- to live by brief kindness. He shall
As a result of all this, there are few
worthwhile plays being written ; the ac- Japanese to occupy French Indo-China. ish on the battlefields . . . The live by the day like the many
little peoples' sons all around of his exiles who saw no hope
tors cannot do an artistic job ; while the He ordered the French to resist the Brit. the
world who had to die . . . in tomorrow.
enterprisers make no profit from the plays ish in Syria. This record apparently was sons of Americans, sons of Rus- "In the morning he shall rise
not satisfactory to Hitler for had it been, sians, sons of Britons, sons of from the but of the Russian, or
they do put on.
the Dutch, the Belgians, the the tenement of the Jews, or from
Some attempts have meen made to cor- he would not have been supplanted by Greeks,
the French and the under the eaves of the cottage
rect these shortcomings, but without suc- Laval.
Poles . . . Case of the multitudes in Lidice. He will be told it is
On the other hand the record discloses whom he made to perish by star- time to go, Hitler. They will give
cess. The Jewish Art Theater, a brave
a crust of bread by which
and noble venture headed by Maurice that no ships or French colonial posses- vation . . . case of the innocent him
slaughtered . . . case of he may live to the next stopping
sions were turned over to Hitler. We may hostages
Schwartz, had to close.
He must not be allowed
Lidice . . . yes, and case of the
pe die.
There is only one way out as he sees it, be assured that every pressure was ex- Jews. Yet great as is the num- to
and that is the creation of a communal erted to compel him to turn over the fleet ber of the Jews he caused to "He shall be made to drink to
perish, the immense heap of their the dregs the hitter cup of Ow
theater. The leaders of American Jewry and the colonies to the Nazis. They would dead
is only a hillock beside the living who are homeless wander-
must assume the responsibility for the have been of immeasurable value to the mountainous heap of the corpses ers. For, sirs, is not the greater
burden of his crime in the de-
theater. A larger public must be edu- Nazi war effort, but Darlan resisted all of all these others.
"Your honors, I ask for a gradation and the long-suite , I
cated to an appreciation of the best in threats, promises and blandishments.
The record disproves the charges of change of venue to the conscience
Jewish drama and theater.
See SEGAL—Page 9
This is a challenge. Will American Quislingism. Darlan did not join with the
Jewry meet it? The Theater Guild is Nazis. He never became their representa-
HEBREW CALENDAR
making an heroic attempt and, with the tive. He remained at all times a French-
whose interests were French and
aid of the whole community, it can and man
5703-1942
none other.
will succeed.
Fast of Tebeth ...........................................................................
Dee. •
It seams that he had considerable
prestige and his authority was accepted
5703 - 1943
by the French political and army heads. Rosh Chodesh Shevat
Straws in the Wind
Jan. ,
There are straws in the wind that indi- Whether he was in North Africa by de- Chamisho Osor B'Shevat
Jan. 21
cate that all is not well in the Third sign or accident we do not know, but we *Rosh Chodesh Adar I
Feb.
0
Reich. Among these straws are the de- do know that he grasped the opportunity *Rosh Chodesh Adar H
Mar.
of
aligning
himself
with
the
American
and
mand by Adolf Hitler for 400,000 skilled
**Fast of Esther
Mar. 20
French workers instead of the 150,000 British forces and has thus rendered Purim
Mar.
21
service and has saved many lives.
originally demanded (and according to great
Shushan Purim
Mar. 22
What
part
he
has
played
in
the
sinking
the best available information, only 90, of the fleet in Toulon harbor we do not Rosh Chodesh Nisan
Apr. 'i
000 have been conscripted to date) : the
Passover
Apr. 20
know,
but
it
is
certain
that
he
favored
making of the Gauleiters into &Anse
rather than have it fall into the hands *Rosh Chodesh Iyar
May 6
commissioners; and the fear of the 6,000,- it
Lag B'Omer
of the Nazis.
May 2 3
000 foreign workers already at work in
June 4
Darlan may not be the knight in shin- Rosh Chodesh Sivan
the Reich.
Shevuoth
June 9
ing
armor,
the
heroic
liberator,
the
stormy
The labor shortage must be especially
*Rosh Chodesh Tammuz
July 4
petrel,
but
he
is
certainly
not
a
Quisling,
Fast of Tammuz
acute if Hitler feels compelled to con- a Pavelitch, an Antonescue.
July 20
Rosh Chodesh Ab
Aug. 2
script 400,000 French workers. At best
On his record he is not such a bad Fast of Ab
Aug. 1 0
the French were hostile and embittered, choice as temporary administrator of *Rosh Chodesh Ellul
Sept. I
but with the occupation of all of France French North Africa. And when the storm
by the Nazi hordes this feeling of hos- has died down it may be discovered that
Also observed previous day.
tility and bitterness must have been enor- he was a wise and sound choice.
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