April 16, 1943

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

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and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

"General Giraud to Restore Jewish
Property Confiscated by the Nazis in
by Al Segal
Pres.-Gen. Mgr.
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
North Africa" and "Nazis Take Jewish
Editor
JACOB MARGOLIS
Money When They Flee from Gabes" are
General Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave.
but
two news- stories that tell of the
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difficulties that were faced by General
T seems to me that we don't lege at Cincinnati. Ile was not
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make enough over Elijah whom one of the professional prophets;
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon- Giraud in North Africa, and these same,
sibility for en endorsement of views expressed by its writers if not greater, difficulties will have to be on an evening this season we an untutored shepherd who felt
have at our tables, We have called upon and went to address
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post- faced by those who will have the job of the brimming cup ready for him the king and the people.
He went to the king Ahab to
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. the restoration of Jewish rights and prop- through the Seder evening, at
the appointed moment the young- denounce him for the murder of
erty in all the lands occupied or controlled est child runs to the front door Naboth the peasant. Naboth had
Readings of the Law for the First Day of
to open it for him, the father refused to give up his ancestral
by Nazis.
Passover, Tuesday, April 20
rises with the cup in hand to lands on which the king planned
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 12:21-51; Num. 28:
Anyone who has had to deal with the greet the unseen guest, utters to build his capital and his palace
16-25.
the ritual words prescribed in . and for that reason the king's
legal problems that arise out of vested the
Hagaddah for the occasion— wife Jezebel (that terrible woman
Prophetical portion—Josh. 5:2, 6:1.
interests and purchases for value knows and says nothing particularly re- of wide notoriety!) caused him
Readings of the Law for Second Day of
sponsive to the dramatic build- to be slain.
Passover, Wednesday, April 21
that the settlement of such issues takes up.
Then the way was clear for the
Pentateuchal portion—Lev. 22:26, 23:44; Num. time, patience, acumen and judicial calm
From my own youth I have king to take over Naboth's lands
28:16-25.
if justice is to be done to all parties been dissapointed in the unsatis- and one day when King Ahab
Prophetical portion—Kings 23:1-9, 21-25.
factory climax. When I grew old was looking over the place, Elijah
concerned.
Readings of the Law for Sabbath Hagadol,
enough to take over the Seder confronted him.
April 17
We may be sure that wherever the on my own account, I never felt, "Wilt thou kill, and likewise
in reciting the formal words, that take possession?" he asked with
Pentateuchal portion—Leviticus 14.1-15.33.
Nazis have gone they have complicated there was any welcome in them. withering wrath.
Prophetical portion—Malachi 3.4-24.
"Thus saith
matters, in regard to property owner-
Here I had been waiting and Jehovah: On the spot where the
NISAN 11, 5703
for the fine old gentleman dogs lapped the blood of Naboth,
APRIL 16, 1943
ship, that with the best and most honest ready
all evening and when, finally, he shall the dogs lap thy blood, yea,
intentions it will take considerable time entered, my formal utterance even thine."
didn't appear to be addressed to
Yes, this was Elijah, as far
The Nazi Dictionary
to straighten out the mess that they have him at all, had no relation to back
as his time, pronouncing
the social hope and the dream that the judgement of inexorable re-
in the lexicon of Nazism, "defeat" and left.
Elijah represents.
that must fall upon
The Nazis have proved once more that I should guess that if he were tribution
"retreat" cannot be found, if we are to
iniquity by poetic justice ex-
today he would be one of quisitely in operation.
believe Joseph Goebbels, Hermann Goe- too many of those who would emancipate living
those people who dream of a
You may paraphrase Elijah to
riing and Adolf Hitler. And to prove that mankind are often only covetous men post-war bright, new world and bring him up to date: "On the
would
be
a
good
friend
of
Vice-
spot
where the dogs lapped the
there are no such words in their diction- who take advantage of turmoil, confusion, President Wallace.
I don't like blood of Lidice, shall the dogs
ary the German General Staff, a group suspicion and hatred to deprive the hated to drag him into current politics lap thy blood, yea, even thine . .
but I must say that he would lie On the spot where the dogs lapped
of correct and meticulous gentlemen, and helpless of their property.
called a New Dealer, the term by the blood of hostages . . . On
avoid the use of those words most scru-
which it is the fashion to at- the spot where the dogs lapped
tempt to smear all who have vi- the blood of Warsaw and the
pulously.
sions of a better way o f social blood of Rotterdam, the blood of
Passover
living.
In the Russian winter offensive the
the Greeks and the blood of the
He would be the wise-crack of Jugoslays, shall the dogs lap thy
Once more we celebrate Passover and people
German army detached itself from the
who attempt to dispose of blood.
troops of the Soviet. And who can say that recall that we were delivered from the the idea of brotherhood by a de- But Elijah was not only a
risive "globaloney."
of retribution; he was a
when they removed themselves ten, twenty slavery of a cruel people whose rulers To refresh my acquaintance prophet
prophet of a more just and
were
so
superior
and
mighty
in
their
own
with him I have been looking him lovely world which is the bright
or a hundred miles that they did not
up and find that in his time he dream of men of good will even
detach themselves from the Soviet troops? estimation that they married nobody but was
prophetic agitator for right unto now.
Then to avoid the use of the dread those of their own immediate families. and justice. The Universal Jew-
ish Encyclopedia has a picture of
MORJEIN/STERN says of
word "defeat", the armies of Field Mar- This was carrying the theory of blood him by the British artist, Fred- DR.
Li him: "Elijah . . . appears
eric
Shields.
There
he
looks
like
even
beyond
the
Nazi
dogma
of
blood
shal Von Paulus, in the Stalingrad area,
a brother of John Brown of Os- at first as a social reformer,
sowotomic, the Kansas prophet championing like Nathan before
merely fought heroically to the last man. and race.
him and the great prophets after
of
freedom who was hanged.
The Nazi theories are not new in the
They were not defeated. That could never
:huiliNna, ntthaegec(iii,usethoofsetheinsl
There is in him the same holy
( ;)( 'tel lryi s hdti i,
be, for have not those fastidiously correct history of civilization, but we do hope, wrath, the same aspect of Godly enslaved and oppressed
by the
that make John growing, despotic power of the
gentlemen told us that no Germans ever in this holiday of emancipation, that this righteousness
Brown's picture a pageant of the king and queen and the new so-
is the last time that one group of men human spirit trudging up Mt. cial
retreat or are defeated.
and economic order ...Elijah
.Elijah
Sinai amid had
the thunder
and light-
The 1500 hundred mile detachment of shall impose such barbaric and unscien- sling.
to flee
for his life and to eon-
ceal himself in out-of-the-way
Rommel's Afrika Corps is not a retreat; tific dogmas upon the helpless victims
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places and endure bitter privations
HE
encyclopedia
contains
a
it was simply a masterful,. strategic de- of their spite and hate.
and hair-breadth escapes. Yet
biographical report on Elijah uncompromisingly and umleviat-
tachment of his forces from those of
On this Passover the dimmest witted by Dr. Julian Morgenstern, pres-
See SEGAL, Page 17
General Bernard Montgomery.
among our people must realize that free- ident of the Hebrew Union Col-
This refusal to use words that have an dom and equality are not won for all
accepted connotation is not a word phobia time, without effort, travail and unending
but is rather a part of the Hitlerian vigilance. We daresay that millions of
master plan to tell lies, the bigger the European Jews had no fears of enslave-
better, and to perpetuate the belief in ment, before the Nazis rose to power.
his invincibility and infallibility.
"How could we return to those ancient
The German people had been told for
dogmas
and practices of discrimination
years that no German army would ever
based
upon
blood and race?" they must
retreat nor would it suffer defeat; ergo,
they do not retreat nor do they suffer have asked themselves. Yes, it did seem
defeat; they detach themselves or they preposterous and almost unimaginable,
fight heroically till the last man is dead. but yet it did happen, because there are
These psychotics will continue to at- men whose lust for power so brutalizes
tempt to fool their people until the very them that there are no limits to their
end. They who have attained to place depravity and ruthlessness.
Now that we know that there are such
and power through lies, broken promises,
chicanery and suppression of truth find it depraved and ruthless men, we must
rather ea§y to tell their dupes, despite all dedicate ourselves to the task of achieving
the reverses they have suffered, that the freedom and equality for all men every-
"gallant" and "glorious" Nazi armies do where.
Some may say that we should concern
not know the meaning of defeat and re-
ourselves
with our own deliverance and
treat.
In other brutally reactionary and re- with the achieving of freedom and equal-
gressive periods in human history, we find ity for ourselves and leave the job of
the same meticulous regard for verbal world freedom and equality to the others.
and legal niceties. The Inquisitioins in Such a point of view is fallacious, for it
Spain, Portugal and Latin America were fails to realize that as long as there are
most correct and scrupulous in carrying men who do not enjoy freedom and
equality, it means that there are those
out the letter of the law.
Perhaps some of the Nazi learned men who rule them and deprive them of their
had studied the trials of the Inquisition, rights, and that these rulers and deprivers
gi
and yet again they hardly needed instruc- may become strong enough to extend
tion, for when men are committed to the the domain of inequality and slavery and
theory that any means are justifiable just we may be among their victims.
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The struggle for emancipation will go
so long as they attain the desired ends,
on and we who were among the first
they need no instruction.
It is very difficult to live in a world to enjoy liberation should be in the fore-
where such absurdities pass as good coin front of that army of free and heroic
of the realm. We are confident that even spirits that is determined to carry on
the Germans will in due time recognize until the last human injustice and in-
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them as counterfeit.
equality is but an historic memory.

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