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April 9,
1943
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
HITLERISM
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upon,, become dangerous when
gathered into the hands of a cun-
ning megalomaniac to use to de-
flect from their normal course a
whole people and lead them,
blindly, to their own self-destruc-
tion. Add to these powerful
driving forces an element of de-
lusion—a delusion such as that
one people is foreordained to he
the Master Race—the "Herren-
Volk"—and the poisonous mix-
ture will corrode the texture of
mind and of character. Its cor-
ruption will escape beyond the
control of rational men. Then
only a major surgical operation
can cleanse the disease from the
tissues—an operation that the
Germans will have to undergo be-
fore they can be made healthy
again.
If we are to make any progress
at all, we must maintain our faith
in the ultimate triumph of jus-
tice. We must continue to battle,
not only against active enemies—
the Nazis and their satellites—
we must force ourselves forward
despite setbacks and inertia. In
such a noble work as that in
which you are engaged there can
and must be no interruption even
while you are doing your own
full part in the war that civilized
men are waging in all parts of
the globe in order to make se-
cure the right to continue to be
civilized.
We are now engaged all over
the world in attacking and de-
stroying pestelential Nazism. The
goal for which we are giving so
many lives must always be kept
before us. We are not fighting
for territorial aggrandizement.
We are not fighting because we
desire to conquer other nations.
We are not fighting to rule other
peoples. We are not fighting be-
cause we wish to impose upon
other lands our own form of gov-
ernment, even though we believe
that it might be the best for all,
as we are certain that it is the
best for us.
We are fighting against a men-
ace—a deadly menace that has
already blighted millions of lives
and that threatens further to de-
stroy men and their rights and
liberties, including the rights and
liberties of the tragically betrayed
and duped German people them-
selves. We are struggling to
maintain, where it still exists, and
to bring back where it has been
destroyed, that standard of de-
cency which nations and peoples
must have if they are not to be
reuced to the level of animals.
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We have engaged in this war in
the hope that when a victory is
achieved, our fighting men and
women can lay down their arms
and return once more to a well
deserved peace within which all
of us can enjoy economic, social
and religious security.
Every man who carries a rifle
or mans a tank, or sails a ship,
of flies a plane for us and the
other United Nations — whether
his name is Colin Kelly or Meyer
Levin—is a living symbol of a
unity that is cemented by the
determination to recreate civiliza-
tion into something finer and
more enduring than the world
has seen thus far.
It is not too early to begin to
think about the peace and the
kind of world that we tire trying
to build. Complicated problems
will cry for solution. There will
be pressing and urgent questions
of food, of health, of housing,
and of rehabilitation, both physi-
cal and spiritual. And always
there will be the greater task of
total reconstruction. This recon-
struction must be fundamental
upbuilding, not just tinkering.
The damage already done to the
souls of men is too profound to
permit us to rely upon palliatives
or more haphazard repairs. We
will require new plans; new ideas;
new methods. We must begin to
think realistically and bluntly, but
unselfishly, too, or else all of the
loss of life and labor will have
been in vain. We must be alert
to the dangers of smugness and
inertia which may load us and the
world into another disastrous
war. Mankind simply cannot af-
fordanother war. I am con-
vinced that if we do not settle
the issue once and for all—and
I mean for all—our civilization
will not survive. The best that
we could hope for would be a
rapid retrogression to the dark
ages from which the indestructible
soul of man would have to start
all over again the long and des-
perately toilful climb to the goal
which man must reach or die.
One of the pressing post-war
problems will be the rehabilitation
of our smaller Allies and nation-
alities, from which our own Na-
tion has drawn so much, is to be
permitted to live their own lives,
undisturbed by foreign aggres-
sion. As for the United States,
it has no interest in minorities
outside of its own borders, other
than that of being a good neigh-
bor, counsellor and friend. In
the interest of justice and peace,
we and our Allies will see to it
that when this conflict is over
the liberated peoples will not mal-
treat or mistreat the minorities
within their borders. Nor, within
our own land, will we fail to
dwell in justice and in peace
among ourselves.
Men grow only as they absorb
the finer elements of their own
and related cultures, and nations
grow only as rapidly and as sol-
idly as their people. A freer in-
termingling and cross-fertilization
of philosophies and ideals needs
to be engaged in after the peace,
to the everlasting benefit of man-
kind. The first freedom, upon
which all other freedoms are
based, is freedom of thought.
Every nation, small or large,
that cherishes the tradition of
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liberty, as well as every minority
group within such a nation, has
contributed and is contributing in
the struggle against the maniacal
Hitler and his trained brutes.
Warriors with a tradition of
dearly prized freedom, American,
British, French, Greek, Yugoslav
—whether Protestant, Catholic, or
Jew—are taking part in the pres-
ent world - encircling struggle
against the barbarism of the Axis
powers, whose avowed aim is to
enslave mankind. The chief Nazi
gangster once said, "we or they"
—the armed gang against the
hosts of civilized men and wo-
men. And so, we the civilized
world, will give hint what he has
asked for; death and eternal in-
famy.
Hitler makes no distinction as
to peoples or their creeds. He is
the sworn enemy of all religions
and of all morality. In Norway
the Lutheran faith is the objec-
tive of his destructive fury; in
Czechoslavakia priests and clergy-
men have been imprisoned; in
Poland the executioner has cut
down priests as well as rabbis,
and the concentration camps have
had their fill of churchmen of
many faiths. Everywhere that
they could reach with their long-
range guns, the Nazis have de-
molished and destroyed the free-
dom of religion and, coincident-
ally, the freedoms of speech, of
assembly and of press.
The Christian churches also
know who is the real enemy of
both man and God. They also
not only pray; they fight the
scourge of mankind.
It is a rule of life that the
things worth having are the things
worth fighting for. It seems to
me that another lesson is that
passivity beyond a certain point
shades into deterioration, mainly
because the rest of the world is
moving on and the obnoxious
weeds of life—bigotry, intoler-
ance, cynicism, disbelief—grow
to towering size and density and
ultimately choke all that is good.
Like any soil that is expected to
produce, democracy and liberty
need to be constantly tended,
pruned, watered and fertilized if
they are to function properly.
Freedom is a gift that has to be
earned, and earned over and ov,.!•
again. The keen edge of our
fighting faith must be keen by
constant whetting.
In default of the watchful-
ness required to cultivate the
garden of freedom, we carelessly
permitted the savage weeds of
Nazism to choke it and to cover
it with litter and dank foulness.
It will take years of blood and
sweat to redeem our disastrous
neglect.
No criminal—not even such a
one as Hitler—could undertake
to commit his hellish offenses
against civilization without some
actual or carefully built up self-
justification. He could not have
hoped to secure a following for
his ghastly undertakings without
providing a scapegoat, not only
for himself, but for those whom
he might be able to entice to
his banner. There was nothing
novel in Hitler's idea that the
Jews, who had been persecuted
during the dark ages, could again
be caused to serve their ancient
role of scapegoat—a role that all
civilized human beings had hope-
fully assumed had become one of
familiar history that had best be
forgotten. And so he whipped
up hate against the Jews, his
own hate and that of his nether-
men—nethermen devoid of heart,
of mind, of human decency.
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U. S. CONSULTS WITH LATIN AMERICAN
NATIONS ABOUT ACCEPTING REFUGEES
WASHINGTON (WNS)—The
United States has taken up with
countries in Latin America the
possibility of their acceptance of
substantial numbers of refugees
from Axis-dominated countries,
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
declared this week.
Speaking in connection with
the forthcoming Anglo-American
refugee conference in Bermuda,
Mr. Hull said that both Britain
and the United States would
keep all interested nations ad-
vised of the progress made at
the Bermuda deliberations. Ile
added that America and Britain
have for it long time been giv-
ing special consideration to the
problem of finding havens for
refugees fleeing persecution.
At the present time, it was in-
dicated, the United States is
canvassing other members of the
United Nations and neutral coun-
tries to find out what countries
will accept refugees on satis-
factory terms. Apparently, how-
ever, special emphasis is being
given to countries in Latin Am-
erica.
(In London, Prime Minister
Winston Churchill said that the
question of rescuing the Jews
in Nazi-held lands would be dis-
cussed in Parliament upon the
return of Anthony Eden, British
Foreign Secretary, who has re-
viewed the refugee problem with
Secretary of State Cordell Hull
and other American officials in
Washington.—Ed. Note.)
The suggestion made recently
in London by the Archbishop of
Canterbury, Dr. William Temple,
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Model Seder At Beth
Tefilo Sunday, April 11
The inter-club Passover meet-
ing of all junior-intermediate
groups, Young Israel of Detroit,
has been scheduled for 2 o'clock
Sunday afternoon, April 11, at
the Taylor-Wilson Synagogue.
The program will include a fes-
tival play and a model Seder,
replete with discussions, recita-
tions and songs.
Participating will be the fol-
lowing units and their respective
sponsors: Story hours — Beth
Tefilo Emanuel, Mrs. M. J. Wohl-
gelernter; Beth Tikvah, Char-
llotte Kelman; B'nai Moshe, Mrs.
Meier Levi. Juniors—Reios Girls,
Hannah Cohen. Intermediates —
Batya Girls, Miss Kelman and
Blanche Ribiat. Ezra (boys and
girls meeting Saturday after-
noons at the Young Israel Joy
Road building), Alexander Ro-
berg. Boy Scout Troop, Sol B.
Cohen.
that the United Nations approach
Eire regarding that country's
willingness to accept refugees,
particularly children, was report-
ed to have received serious con-
sideration in official quarters here
and it is likely that the possibil-
ity of Eire becoming a sanctuary
for numbers of refugees will be
explored in greater detail at the
Bermuda conference.
Eire is one of the few neutral
nations in Europe and is report-
ed to have adequate food sup-
plies. The belief was expressed
here that a plea on behalf of the
refugees to Eire by the Vatican
or by the United States would
meet with favorable results.
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