March 19, 1943

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Sabbath Readings of the Law

Pentateuchol portion—Leviticus 1.1-5.26;
Deuteronomy 25.17-19.
Prophetical portion—I Samuel 15.2-34.

ADAR 12. 5703

MARCH 19, 1943

Purim

Once more the Jewish people will cele-
brate Purim ; the discomfiture of Haman
and the vindication of Mordecai.
Before the advent of Hitler, Purim was
a festive occasion for many of our people
in many lands, but since the Nazis have
appeared, the deliverance of our people
from the sinister machinations of a Ha-
man has become a much less joyous event.
We may well ask ourselves on this
Purim, how long will we be the victims of
barbarians? When will the time come
when the fear of pogroms will no longer
haunt us? When shall we feel genuinely
secure? When will the world become
civilized? For it is morally certain that
as long as the world mistreats the Jew,
discriminates against him ; threatens him
with pogroms, treats him as an inferior
and unjustly—so long will man be un-
civilized.
If, at the end of this war, the Jew
becomes a citizen everywhere, with equal
political, social and economic rights, du-
ties, responsibilities and obligations, then
will something have been achieved. But if
this is not achieved, then we must perforce
conclude that mankind has not yet become
civilized.
It may be some consolation to know
that the Hamans have received their just
punishment, yet it would be so much bet-
ter if we did not have to experience and
endure the Hamans.
It is our great hope that with the pass-
ing of Hitler that the last Haman shall
have disappeared from among us and
that the Purim of the future will be a
day of unmixed joyonsness.

Beware the "Double Cross"

Vice-President Henry A. Wallace pleads
with his countrymen that they should not
make a peace, that could be interpreted
by the Russians as a "double cross".
This feeling of being double crossed is
a most dangerous feeling, because when
a strong nations feels that way, the peace
of the world is endangered.
One of the great and mischievous fal-
lacies of our time is the belief that the
decisions of the powerful nations, made
at the peace table, should be accepted by
all nations, whether they are defeated or
have not contributed much to the victory.
Italy felt aggrieved at the end of the
last war. She felt she was double crossed.
This was as prolific a source of dissatis-
faction as was the feeling of the Germans
that they had been dealt with harshly
by the Allied powers.
There are those who would give scant
consideration to the Russians because
they do not approve of their political,
economic and religious practices.
We should have learned by now that a
peace, to be enduring, must be a just one.
If it is not, then the spirit of revenge, the
feeling of resentment and frustration will
be fired by those who know how to in-
flame the people. Those who felt resentful,
frustrated, double crossed, succeeded in
creating police military states where no
dissident voice could be raised.
To ask men not to take advantage of
victory are counsels of perfection, yet we
must do exactly that if peace, security and
freedom are to be enjoyed by our war-torn
and troubled world.
Russia must not be double crossed. That
is basic. The peoples of the Axis nations
must be treated justly and fairly if the
four freedoms are to be more than a
happy phrase.
Our world needs no more police mili-
tary states. Men of good will and under-
standing can so arrange the post-war
world that the police military state shall
become but a hideous memory.

The Roosevelt Plan

Plain

Talk... by Al Segal

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Peace and Zion

they hold their heads in an atti-

ELL, now, let's have peace
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in Israel and, that in mind, tude of stiff-necked intolerance.
The way for a Zionist to ap-
may I bring an olive branch to

the Zionists. I decided to take up
this function of peacemaker after
a session with a Zionist in the
sweat room of our gymnasium. In
the habiliments of nature in
which we were both clothed, I
could see that he, too, was my
brother and we could have no
quarrel. (Nakedness is the nob-
lest uniform of fraternity.)
' My Zionist friend worked up
a profuse sweat in the hot com-
partment as he grew vehement
and said I was just the same as
a fascist. Wasn't I, as a flop-
Zionist, lining myself up with tfie
fascist element in Jewish life.
He asked me: Did I, by the facts
of my own economy andif my
standing as a liberaPmind d citi-
zen, really belong among the mil-
lionaires? He looked at me with
sad reproaches .(He gave me the
idea that being a non-Zionist
was something brutally capitalis-
tic.)
I looked upon my poor nak-
edness and was humbly aware
that, stripped to the skin as I
was, I hadn't the least aspect of
a capitalist.
Yet I could not get angry with
my Zionist brother and could only
feel sorry at his spoiling his
sweat bath in this way. It is a
doctrine of our sweat room that
the most beneficial results can
be obtained only if the subject is
relaxed in body and quiet in
mind.
By considerable effort 1 was
able at last to disengage myself
from him, hot in a most friendly
way. I am a fellow who at least
within his own circle believes in
preserving fraternity in Israel.
The matter remained heavy on
my mind, though, and I could
not help but reflect that it was
no good at all that men in Israel
had come almost to internecine
warfare on account of Palestine
and were bringing into their own
ranks the hot breath of the larger
Nv r with such aspersions as "fas-
cist!"

proach this olive-branch is first
to face frankly certain facts of
the current life:
That the Arabs never will
stand for a Jewish state in

That, being politically mindful
of how the Arabs will feel about,
the British Government never will
grant a Jewish state in Palestine.
That the Zionists never will
be strong enough to go to was
for the conquest of a Jewish
state in Palestine.
That the main thing is not the
prestige of a Jewish state in
Palestine but the happiness of
the Jewish people who live there
and will go to live there in the
future.
No reasonable Zionist can dis- -
pute any of these propositions.
Having conditioned his mind t..)
these stern facts, he may • now
approach with tolerance to con-
sider a way to justice and peace
in Palestine.
It has to do with the plan of
Dr. Judah L. Magnes, president
of the Hebrew University in Jeru-
salem, which has been mentioned
briefly here before. Zionists,
scarcely looking at it, have
shrugged it off with the offhand
assertion that Dr. Magnes is a
visionary anyway, as if being a
visionary had suddenly been dis-
covered to be something new and
meretricious in Jewish life.

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HAVE lately seen some let-
ters of Dr. Magnes who is
one of the founders in Palestine
of an association called IHUD.
meaning Union. It means union
and cooperation with the Arabs
in contrast with the aggression
challenge of Jewish statehood
which practically says to Arabs:
"Palestine is ours and it must
be a land of, for and by Jews."
"This organization," Dr. Mag-
nes says, "is opposed to the
creation of a Jewish state or of
an Arab state in Palestine, but
this organization favors the es-
tablishment in Palestine of the
Jewish National Home upon the
basis that there be equal political
rights to both Jews and Arabs
in a bi-national Palestine.
"The IHUD organization aka
favors the creation of a Feder-
ation of Palestine, Transjordar,
Syria and the Lebanon and this
Federation should be connected

The comprehensive social and economic
plan presented by President Roosevelt is
an extension of the New Deal. This will
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not please those who have never been T seemed to me
that as a more
able to reconcile themselves to the idea
or less responsible columnist
that the day of rugged individualism is it might be becoming in me to
bring the olive branch that I am
past.
It is a borrowed olive
The post-war planners realize that the offering.
branch. It has been casually
problems of changeover from war to tossed about in the Jewish press
peace production cannot be left to chance. and I am picking it up. It is
humbly for the careful
They also realize that private industry will offered
examination by Zionists who cer-
not be able to absorb the demobilized tainly don't look their best when
See SEGAL page 9
Action Now!
service men in the armed forces and in-
dustry. Those of us who have known a
There is a concerted move on foot to satisfactorily functioning economic system
persuade the government of the United of individual initiative and private enter-
States to admit refugees from the Nazi prise would like very much to see a re-
terror.
turn to those times, but if we are realistic
The first reaction of the State Depart- we must realize that private enterprise
ment was not favorable.
and individual initiative failed to function
This was to be expected in view of the in the crisis beginning in 1929. In passing
fact that the Johnson Act, passed two judgment on the soundness and validity
of
decades ago limits the number of aliens the Roosevelt post-war plan we must ask
that may be admitted to this country.
ourselves, will it function better than the
In ordinary times the quota law may system of private enterprise? It is wholly
have been an insuperable barrier, but we a question of functioning and not one of
can hardly believe that in such extraor- prejudices, traditions, fancies and pref-
dinary times as these that a way cannot erences.
be found to suspend the Johnson Act
We may not be very happy over the
here, temporarily.
prospect
of more and more governmental
Many emergency acts are passed in
control
and
direction of our economy.
war time. The members of Congress know
What
can
be
done about it? Can those
when they pass the emergency legisla-
who
controlled
and directed the economy
tion that it is only for the duration, and
of
America
before
1929 undertake to give
will be repealed when the emergency is
full
time
employment
to the American
over.
workers?
We
doubt
it.
But we do not
The plight of the refugee Jews of Eu-
doubt
that
these
American
workers will
rope calls for immediate emergency legis-
lation, or even a presidential proclama- clamor for work opportunities, and some-
body will have to furnish these work
tion.
Now that some of the Axis sattelites opportunities.
Unless there is some unforseen and rev-
are willing to allow Jewish refugees to
leave, we should hasten to take advan- olutionary change in our industrial estab-
tage of the offer. Certainly all American lishii'ent, it seems reasonably certain that
Jews are reasonably agreed on the ur- private industry will not be able to em-
gent need of saving as many of our ploy all the employables seeking em-
brothers and sisters as possible from the Ployment.
The American people will eventually
Axis ghettos and concentration camps.
This is a humanitarian undertaking pass upon this or some other post-war
that should enlist the support and effort social and economic plan. It would do "HP" DUTY—U.S. Coast Guardsmen stationed at one Philadelphia
of every Jewish organization in America. well to keep in mind the all-important training center don't have to worry about drawing a kitchen police
The Johnson Act should be suspended fact of workability. One should ask, not assignment. The "KP" work is done for them by members of the
Cross Canteen Corps. Judging by the quantities of food the
for the duration. Write to your Congress- who formulated and proposed the plan, Red
canteen workers are preparing here, it's a safe guess that Uncle
man. Get your friends to write to their but will it function in the best interests Sam's Coast Guardsmen are well fed.
Congressman. of the greatest number?

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