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February 12, 1943

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

The Effects of Total Occupation of France

The occupation of the former
free zone of France has prac-
tically come to an end. German
troops, with headquarters in
Montpellier, occupy the whole of
the valley of the Rhone from
Lyons to Marseilles, the majority
of the Mediterranean coast and
the whole of the Franco-Span-
ish frontier, via Toulouse. The
Italians, who are far fewer in
numbers than the Germans, oc-
cupy Nice and the remainder of
the Alps-Maritimes department,
part of Savoie, including Cham-
bery and Modane. The remainder
of Savoie and Haute-Savoie and
the Toulon region are occupied,
in common, by Germans and Ital-
ians. Tuvergne and the Plateau
Central are not occupied.
In Annecy, where the Italians
have made their headquarters in
the chateau, the officers and sol-
diers hardly show themselves.
The few officers who make pur-
chases in the town stand in the
queues along with the natives.
The Italians are the most polite
and avoid intervening with the
French police administration and
hurting the feelings of the popu-
lation. In Germar -occupied areas,
the Germans are more in evi-

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deAce. They supervise the tele-
phone and telegraph systems and
censor letters. A Gestapo office is
established in every town occu-
pied by the Germans. In Vichy,
the Germans do not merely con-
trol the entrances to the town,
but are met everywhere, in the
streets, the town-hall, public of-
fices and even within the Hotel
du Parc.
Food difficulties are increasing.
For certain foods, the occupa-
tion troops make requisitions, and
it is expected that especially
salad oil and fresh vegetables will
soon no longer be obtainable.
Prices have already risen since
the occupation. The reduction in
supplies available on the black
market is due less to the com-
plete shortage of everything
than to the peasants' reluctance
to sell anything for paper money,
which is visibly losing value. In
the unoccupied Plateau Central,
the food situation is better. Sup-
plies are relatively good in
Haute-Savoie. Food supplies are
inadequate and of poor quality
and are becoming increasingly
difficult to obtain in the three
big towns of Lyons, Marseilles
and Toulouse.

credited by the District toward
the District goal of 10,000 new
members, Mr. Starr states that
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the 300 members needed to com-
ganization. Members are urged plete the goal set by the Dis-
to bring their family and friends trict will be initiated this spring
at a special Victory initiation.
to this meeting.
Pisgah Lodge and Pisgah Bowl-
ing League are now engaged in
INTER-FAITH
a campaign of selling United
States War Bonds as part of the
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Greater Detroit Bnai Brith Coun-
cils drive to sell $1,000,000 of panied by Julius Chajes, noted
War Bonds in one month to spon- composer and pianist awl Mr.
sor two Submarine Chasers. Wezemael will be accompanied by
There is keen rivalry between the Dr. Charles Wuerth, organist and
teams, according to Max Gold- music director of Nardin Park
hoff, chairman of Pisgah Lodge Methodist Church.
War Service Committee and co-
Gilbert Gervais, is a young De-
chairman of the city-wide bond troit organist who has won many
•drive. Total sales of these groups prizes as a pianist, and is the
to date is well over the $300,- organist and director of music of
000 mark.
the Epiphany Roman Catholic
Church.
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
Mr. Joseph Q. Mayne, executive
Plans are being completed for secretary of the Detroit Round
a short membership drive at the Table will be the chairman of
request of District Grand Lodge the evening.
No. 6, Bnai Brith in honor of
J. D. Callaghan, music critic
Bnai Brith's hundredth year. The of the Detroit Free Press will be
lodge has been given a quota of the commentator.
850 new members, ten members
Tickets will be 50 cents includ-
for each year of its existence. ing tax and may be obtained
Isadore Starr chairman of the through Grinnel Brothers or the
Membership Committee states Detroit Round Table office, 907
that over 500 new members were Washington Blvd. Bldg.
secured during Pisgah Lodge's
85th anniversary membership
campaign and they are being — BUY WAR BONDS —

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to link its • drive to sell $1,000,-
000 in United States War Bonds
in one month to the sponsoring
of two submarine chasers and to
set the goal of sales in this
drive to the amount required to
assure the building of these two
submarine chasers.
To Bear Shield
Upon the launching of these
submarine chasers, the vessel's
prow will bear a large shield an-
nouncing: "This Fighting Ship
is sponsored and made possible
by the War Bond purchases of
the People of the Greater De-
troit Bnai Brith Council." When
the ship is launchced a plaque
bearing the above wording will
be placed in a prominent place
in the ship.
If a Bnai Brith bond repre-
sentative fails to call you up,
a call to TOwnsend 8-1347 will
bring a representative to your
home or office.
The following members of the
Greater Detroit Bnai Brith Coun-
cil are actively engaged in this
$1,000,000 bond sales drive to
sponsor two submarine chasers
as its contribution in the effort
to conquer the Axis submarine
menace: Pisgah Lodge, Louis
Marshall Lodge, Theodor Herzl
Lodge, East Side Lodge, Pisgah
Auxiliary, Business and Profes-
sional Auxiliary, Theodor Herzl
Auxiliary, East Side Auxiliary
and Louis Marshall Auxiliary. The
junior Bnai Brith groups A. Z. A.
and girls also are cooperating.

Jan Struther To Speak
At Fisher Town Hall

Jan Struther, author of "Mrs.
Miniver" the book from which
the year's leading film was in-
spired, will speak at Detroit
Town Hall in the Fisher Thea-
tre, Wednesday morning, Feb.
17. Her subject will be "A
Pocketful of Pebbles" or "Mrs.
Miniver Carries On."
The author started her series
on the life of the typical English
family in the London Times.
When "Mrs. Miniver" became the
principal topic of London table
talk, the New Statesman offer-
ed a prize for a satire in the
popular essays. Jan Struther
wrote the satire, and won the
prize. More than 1,000,000
copies of her book have been dis-
tributed, and the film of the same
name has been described by crit-
ics as "one of the ten best of
all time."

RE-ELECT
for a THIRD TERM

"NED"

H.

SMITH

(COMMON PLEAS COURT)

NNed H. SMITH

(COMMON PLEAS JUDGE)

ON THE HOME FRONT

By BENJAMIN KAUFMAN

Congressional Medal of Honor
•
Notional Commander
Jewish Wor Veterans of the U. S.

Last week, the newspapers car-
ried two stories.
One of them was about three
Polish visitors, who had arrived
in America by way of Canada,
where they had trained as flying
instructors. They were going back
to England for active service
training flying cadets.
They had this to say about the
United States and Canada: "Out
here one doesn't get the feel of
being in the war. You seem to be
taking it so lightly."
But, in another column on the
same page, I saw something else.
It was a list of American casual-
ties and among them was the
name of a boy I knew. His father
and I had served in some com-
pany in France. For years he
had lived a couple of blocks from
me. I remembered him as a pub-
lic school kid, throwing snow-
balls and yelling and ducking out
of the way of the cops. I remem-
bered seeing him one day wearing
long pants instead of knickers and
looking very proud of himself.
And then, only a year ago, I had
seen him going into his home,
wearing khaki. Now he was dead,
and there would be a gold star in-
stead of a blue one in the window
of the house where his mother
and sister and kid brother lived.
It seems now that it was not
really so long ago that this boy's
father and I landed back in this
country rejoicing in the rosy hope
that we had won "a war to end
war." We did not want to think
about war any more. We were
sure it wasn't necessary. Our
children were to be trained and
educated for peace. We would
even frown upon military toys.
But over in Germany, a new gen-
eration was also growing up—

growing up for war. Boys were
being brought up to believe that
it is man's destiny to die in bat-
tle for the glory of his country,
that it is right and necessary to
hate and to kill and that nations
and individuals must take what
they want by brute force.
Some Americans began to wake
up, to realize that war was again
becoming inevitable. But they
were discouraged by everyone else.
Preparedness suggested by vet-
erans' organizations was scoffed
at as "militarism."
Then Fascism and its more
vicious offspring, Nazism, went
into action. Frightful atrocities
were committed. Many Americans
still said, "That's Europe's busi-
ness, not ours." Only the treacher-
ous attack of the Japs on Pearl
Harbor awakened us to the fact
that when other countries are
geared for war, we cannot remain
geared for peace.
And my buddy's boy together
with many thousands of other
American boys went off to war.
America is not taking the war
lightly. I didn't take it lightly
when I saw that boy's name on
the casualty list, even though he
was only a neighbor. His family,
his friends, and the families and
friends of all the other thousands
who have given their lives, are
not taking it lightly.
America will never again fail
to realize that training our chil-
dren for peace is not enough. We
must see to it that all other na-
tions do the same. If Germany is
able to fight again, that means we
shall have to fight again. It is up
to all of us to prevent that, so
that our children's children can
be brought up in a secure and
lasting peace.

Eden Denies British
Refused Visas for
2,000 Jewish Children

East Side Sunday School
Is Now Functioning

LONDON. (Palcor) — Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden denied
in the House of Common the
story that the British government
had refused visas to admit into
Great Britain 2,000 children
from France, who were conse-
quently deported 'to Germany.
Replying to a query on this
matter by Thelma Cazalet Keir,
Conservative M. P., Mr. Eden
declared that he "had no knowl-
edge that Jewish children in
France had been refused visas for
Great Britain and in consequence
had been deported to Germany.
"It is deplorable," he stated,
"that any story to this effect,
which has no basis of fact and is
likely to encourage misrepresenta-
tion of this country's attitude
toward the refugee problem,
should have been circulated.
"The Vichy authorities declined
to allow the Jewish children to
leave France. Subsequently they
modified their decision to the ex-
tent of sanctioning exit permits
for 500 children, whom the
United States authorities were
willing to accept; but they would
not agree to accept thousands of
other visas which were available
for the United Kingdom, the Do-
minions, Palestine and other
countries.
"On the German entry into
unoccupied France, the embarka-
tion of even the 500 children to
whom exit permits had been
granted was stopped.
"When the application was
made to the government to en-
able the children to come to
England from France, there were
more visas for them for the
United Kingdom and other coun-
tries than there were children
who would be permitted to leave."
Miss Eleanor Rathbone, Inde-
pendent M. P., referring to Mrs.
Keir's "rather loosely worded
statement," said that the ques-
tion concerned "the refusal of
the government during that pe-
riod when there was still an un-
occupied France to grant visas
for children with near relatives
in England."
The Foreign Secretary re-
joined, "I am dealing with a re-
port concerning these children,
and there were more visas avail-
able than there were children
able to come."
The query of William Galla-
cher, Communist M. P., regarding

On Nov. 1, 1942, a Sunday
School was established by Con-
gregation Beth Itzchok at 3836
Fisher Ave. for the benefit of
the East Side younger Jews. The
Sunday School has been a suc-
cess. It has furnished religious
instruction and has provided en-
tertainment for the groups.
There are three classes, each
class functioning independently.
The studies consist of Jewish his-
tory, current events, songs, and
plays. The older group is in ad-
dition to its regular studies is
learning to read and write He-
brew and Jewish under the able
guidance of Rabbi Jacob Hober-
man. The Sunday School classes
are taught by Mr. and Mrs. A.
Warsan.
The classes recently had a Cha-
misho Osor b'Shvat party. The
class is hoping to present a Pu-
rim play with the aid of their
instructors.
Those living on the East Side
who want additional info , illation
should call PLaza 1048.

Neugarten Sunshine Club
Organizes Committees

Mrs. Martin Krauss, president
of the Neugarten Sunshine Club,
held a meeting of the various
committee chairmen at her home.
The chairmen are organizing
their committees for the new
term, and plans are already un-
der way for the spring money-
raising project.
Mrs. Benjamin Krell, Jr., war
effort chairman, held a meeting
of her committee at her home
on Feb. 12. War bonds and
stamps are to be sold at all meet-
ings, with a goal of $50,000 set.
This phase of the war effort com-
mittee received splendid support
at the January meeting, Mrs.
Jacob E. Newman reported. There
will also be boxes for salvage
collection. All members and
friends are urged to bring dis-
carded hosiery as well as clean
white sheets or cases, to be
turned over to the American So-
ciety for the Control of Cancer
to be used for bandages.
The next meeting is scheduled
for Feb. 22.

an anti-Semitic leaflet directed
against these children which had
been circulated among the mem-
bers of the House, remained un-
answered.

