4
VETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
JACOB H, SCHAKNE
JACOB MARGOLIS
Pres.-Gen. Mgr.
Editor
General Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave.
Telephorie: CAdillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle
$3.00 Per Year
Subscription in Advance
To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter
must reach this .office by Tuesday evening of each week.
When mailing notices, kindly cuse one side of paper only.
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub-
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon-
sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers
Entered as Seconc=class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
Sabbath Readings of the Law
Pentateuchal portion—Exodus 35.1-38.20;
30.11-16.
Prophetical portion—II Kings 12.1-17.
ADAR 28, 5703
MARCH 5. 1943
Britain Acts
Britain has agreed to permit 35,000
Balkan Jewish refugees to enter Pal-
estine. This is a good beginning, but it is
only a beginning and should not satisfy
even the minimalist requirements.
There are millions of refugee Jews in
Europe, many of whom are eager to es-
cape from the gehenna created by the
Axis. Every opportunity should be given
to them to enable them to find a refuge,
and at the present time there is no haven
that offers greater security, safety and
surcease from misery than does Palestine.
Britain is fulfilling an obligation which
every decent and humane Britisher felt
was hers. From all classes and groups as
well as individuals the cry went up that
Britain could not ask the other countries
of the world to do something for suffer-
ing European Jewry, until Britain had
done everything within her power to ease
the burden of wretchedness and misery of
millions of homeless, oppressed Jews.
In a case such as this, expediency and
political consideration must be subordi-
nated to the urgency of literally saving
millions of lives. The Arab world may
not approve of the widest opening of the
gates of Palestine, but when we speak of
the Arab world in a case like this, are we
speaking of the masses of Arabs or only
of their political leaders? We doubt very
much that the Arab masses would object
to the rescuing of the largest possible
number of refugee Jews if the matter
were presented to them on the basis of
humanitarianism. And it must be pre-
sented to them on this basis, for the
rescuing of these hapless people is not a
political question but is simply one of
common decency and humanity.
Some of the ambitious, greedy Arab
leaders may object, but if they discover
that the overwhelming majority of their
own people favor it, they, too, will accept
the decision.
The present is a most propitious time
for insisting upoon the freest possible mi-
gration to Palestine, for right now British
prestige is at high tide in the Arab world
on account of the expulsion of Rommel
from Egypt and Libya.
Britain can do many things now which
she may have hesitated to do if her for-
tunes in the Near East were downgrade.
Again the Jew
Adolf Hitler is too busy to talk to the
German people ; in fact, he is too busy
to talk to his own party members, for at
the last party meeting held in Munich
his proclamation was read 'to the as-
sembled old guard of the Nazi party.
Would the man who believes himself
heaven-sent and God-inspired have dele-
gated an underling to deliver his message
if he had glad tidings to impart. Most
assuredly not. The reason was not his
busyness at the Russian front, but the
fact that he could no longer face a Ger-
man public that had been promised vic-
tories and yet more victories, so that by
now the ultimate victory should have been
won.
All of the Hitlerian outgivings are in-
teresting if for no other reason than the
state of mind that they reflect.
We are already nauseatingly familiar
with all his theses. He has worn them
threadbare by endless repetition but he
does vary the thesis according to the con-
ditions that obtain in the Reich and at
the front. His last message to the people
of the Reich and to the party is'anything
I
but inspirational. There is one thesis of
which he never tires and he apparently
believes that the party and the people
share his belief that the Jew is the eternal
scapegoat who can always be used when
all else fails.
In his last message he mentions the
Jews six times, as against only one men-
tion of the banking houses of New York
and London. The unspeakable Bolsheviks,
the war-mongering British and Americans
are completely forgotten. This was one
speech that was not beamed on the out-
side world. It was for the special edifica-
tion and encouragement of the party and
the masses of Germans.
Some of the choice morsels of silly anti-
Semitism with which the weary, disillu-
sioned people were regaled are so inept
that they reveal the complete bankruptcy
of the Fuehrer. For instance, this bit of
imbecility:
"We shall break and smash the might
of the Jewish world coalition, and man-
kind, struggling fof. its fedom, will win
final victory in this strugele." ,)
Or this profound gem:
"The realization of the criminal and
accursed activity of Jewry will thus be
spread by this war among all peoples.
The Jews believe they are at the very
gates of the millenium, but this year,
like last, they will experience horrible
disillusionment."
So the war against the Jews is on again
with all the fanaticism that has character-
ized the Nazi regime, from its very in-
ception.
We doubt whether even the most
fanatical Nazi party member can be
stirred to action by such an appeal. Even
they know that the Jews have been so
completely crushed on the European con-
tinent that to speak of "the Jewish coali-
tion" is the sheerest nonsense.
It is our fervent hope that on the next
anniversary of the founding of the Nazi
party, that there will be no Nazi party to
which a message can be addressed or
read by an underling. This hope may be
realized if the home and front break-
downs reach the state of collapse to which
they are tending.
The Yiddish Film
Despite the fact that the Yiddish Thea-
ter in Detroit did not materialize this
season, yet those who are interested in
the Yiddish drama have had an oppor-
tunity to see their favorite actors and
actresses upon the screen at Littman's
Peoples Theater.
Abraham Littman has made every ef-
fort to bring the best films available, and
all those who are interested in Yiddish
should avail themselves of the opportuni-
ties offered and should make every effort
to bring as many of their friends as pos-
sible.
The Yiddish film can be enjoyed by
those who are not as conversant with
Yiddish as they might be. Many who do
not know Russian or French do not stay
away from these theaters that show Rus-
sian and French films because of • their
limited knowledge of the language.
Yiddish can be perpetuated only if
those who are concerned about its sur-
vival see to it that large numbers of
American children and young people are
exposed to it.
I
March 5, 1943
Plain Talk...
•
by AI Segal
If I Were Christian
CHRISTIAN
citizen sends me
A a tract entitled
"Signs of
Christ's Coming" by which to
comfort me in my Jewish tra-
vails. The tract says that all the
terrible things that have been
happening in the world are cgr-
tain signs of Christ's second
coming, in accordance with Ne: ,
Testament prophecies.
The citizen says it will be all
right with the Jews, too, in the
hour of the second coming.
Righteousness will rule the earth,
and the Jews will be embraced
by its justice.
If I were a Christian I should
be horribly troubled by the pros-
pect of this visitation. It would
be as if an old teacher of mine
were coming; he taught me the
way to go in the world. Now he
was coming and my house was
in awful disorder. My windows
smashed. All my lights broken
and the house in darkness. My
doorstep foul with the blood of
the broken heads of people who
had roughhoused there.
I should be embarrassed es-
pecially on account of the Jews,
the kinsman of Jesus. What will
he say about the Jews? These
hecatombs of slaughtered Jews
piled high in Poland! These dis-
criminations that set Jews apart
almost everywhere! These revile-
ments against Jews that are
heard even among peoples that
are at the moment fighting for
a more righteous world!
What will He say? Yet He may
say nothing at all. What would
trouble me as a Christian was
the reproachful way He might
look at me. I have seen his re-
proachful eyes on big crucifixes.
'f he way He looks at people with
sad rebuke up there on the hill
in front of Holy Cross Church.
He looks at them from his height
as they climb toward Him up
the Hill.
f
I
f
Y
ES, that's what would trou-
ble me: His coming to my
door, all of a sudden some day,
and just looking at me in the
same way that he looks at people
by the church on the hill. I would
know what he meant: "I was
but one of 'the crucified! Man
is forever crucifying his breth-
ren. I was only one."
I would speak for myself . . .
"But, 0 my Master, I myself
have tried to be faithful in all
things. I have hurt no fellow-
man. I have loved by neighbors.
I have tried to go in the foot-
steps of the Good Samaritan on
the Jericho road. I have tried to
be a Christian."
But even as I said this I would
know that it was only myself I
was defending. He was looking
through me at the Christian
world. At 2000 years of the
Christian world! These massed
church steeples! These ancient
altars that testify to the an-
tiquity of His teaching! These
murdered dead in the long graves
into which they fell as they died !
These starved dead ! These per-
cuted and these despised who
are being set 'aside in portions of
the world where cold murder is
disapproved as a social custom !
These dead among all the altars!
I shouldn't know what more to
say to him. I would feel like an
embarrased member of a delin-
quent family that had suddenly
been asked to give an honest ac-
counting of what it had done
with its inheritance. My own as-
sets of virtue would not be
re un po tuegyh. to make .up for the bank-
1 I f
T WRITE this with a reverent
and friendly heart, for some
my best friends are Christian
gentlemen. They hate only hate
itself; they are men of good will;
they respect other men in accord-
ance with their essential merits
and by no measure of race or
religion or blood count. Once in
awhile they apologize to me for
the Christian world.
Were I a Christian with faith
in the prophecies of my Scrip-
ture — the second coming of
Christ and all that — I should
want to make the world ready
for the Visitor. I might speak to
all my neighbors.
"My neighbors, we are told
He's coming and the world must
be safe for him, lest He be cru-
cified again. We should be
ashamed to welcome Him in the
world as it is, 2000 years after
His Sermon on the Mount. We
should be afraid and ashamed.
"How safe will He be this
time in the world? He is a Jew
and what comfort will he find
amid the stones that are for
Jews. He preaches a society made
good by righteousness and corn-
passion, and what friendliness
will he get from men who call
righteousnes, radical and despise
compassion as weakness?
"He must not suffer another
crucifixion.
"My Christian neighbors, we
might try to make the world safe
for Him by brotherhood. Broth-
erhood that is more than a mor-
sel to roll sweetly on our tongues.
Brotherhood established by jus-
tice. Brotherhood that serves
every man his just due at the
common table. Brotherhood that
understands it is of the family
of man and what is my special
virtue that I may say, No, this
is not my brother and he may
of
See
SEGAL—Page
13
ONE WAY TO BRAND HIM
Two Grandmothers
We learn that it takes two Jewish
grandmothers to make one a Jew in Nazi-
fied France. The great Aryan scientists
must have discovered after making thou-
sands of experiments that the French can
stand larger doses of Semitic blood before
they become Judaized.
Perhaps it is Gallic wit or Gallic salt
that neutralized the effect of Semitic
blood, or perhaps the Aryan is such a
tender being that the slightest infusion of
inferior blood so disturbs the delicate
balance that he loses his race superiority.
Some day these "profound and erudite"
racial 'theorists may give us the results
of their painstaking researches and studies
that enabled them to measure the amount
of Semitic blood needed to Judaize a
Frenchnlan and the amount needed for a
German.
Unfortunately this hocus pocus and non-
sense affects the lives of human beings.
If this were no so, the comic 'spirit would
be edified no end by this "thorough"
Germanic imbecility.
n,/
✓ o NA i/uDf o k
U. S. Treasury I), pt.
The Columbus, Ohio, Crlizeti