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o ■ pria 30. 94:

the Nazis had won the war.
The Italian Fascists were never con-
querors and certainly are not now. They
are just a lot of bad second guessers. If
by the granting of a few unimportant con-
by AI Segal
cessions they can be neutralized it would
not be wise or realistic to refuse to grant
these concessions and appease them.
Our State Department is not infallible
but up till now, it seems to us, that it
has handled our foreign policy with sa-
gacity and perspicacity. Above all it has
handled it with a minimum of loss of the ti TEWISH FRONTIER" recent- which he lived. That would (10
lives of our men in the armed forces, (I 13, reported an incident at a his social part. He became
and with no loss of prestige and self- Press conference in the State ward of Hull and in due cot,
respect. If Secretary of State Hull be- Department office. I. F. Stone, his descendants dropped the i 0
N eves that concessions should be made correspondent of PM and The position and became just Ilui:s.
Nation was asking Mr. Hull some
to the Italians we should approve his tqhueestfioonrnswrabovuict
notwo
y u t ing, S0,
C 0, too, w ie have the Carpen
policy.
Vic hyman P e
big
tern, the Masons and th.:

Plain. Falk...

•
Names

Pentateudhal portion—Leviticus 16.1-18.30. in North Africa. (Mr. Stone has Shepherds who named themselv
es
Prophetical portion—Ezekel 22.1-18.
been one of the most diligent for their occupations; the Blacks
Soviet-Polish Break
critics of the State Department.) the Whites, the Reds who thus
APRIL 30. 1943
NISAN 25
25. 5703
'quote "Jewish Frontier": memorialized their complexions. ,
The Union of Socialist Soviet Republics "Instead
stead of answering, Mr. Hull the Longfellows, the Shorts, the
and the Polish government in exile have asked the correspondent for his Littlejohns and the Stouts who in
When Should We Appease?
this way handed down their pli y
broken off diplomatic relations. Whal name'
reply. Then ical shortcomings and surpluses
The State Department of the United the ultimate repercussions or Foreign , "'Stone', was the
Commissar Vyachevslaw Molotov's action have aan notoltiehie. r, nag ' uee,stiotnoo: "hYaovu ttoemitilis eirthegesilLo,raaetniho an as i;nathaen i tl
States has pursued a policy of friendliness will be is rather difficult to predict. Unless you
not?' There is n no record
of e s
Blumenthals
who named them:
and realism in its French and Spanish there is something more than meets the what followed. We must assume, selves for lovely things to be seen
policies. This policy has displeased many eye, it seems hardly credible that th . therefore, that the 'rest was si- in nature; the Berliners, the Eng.
a the I s lent' "
who would have had nothing to do with matter should now arise, in view of
Vichy and who are equally irreconcilable fact that the affair of the alleged killings "Jewish Frontier" then went Oppenheimers and the Frankfurt-
to say that formerly Mr. ers who, like the Hulls, were
in their opposition to a modus vivendi was supposed to have taken place in 1940. on
Stone's name was Isidore Fein- named for places.
with Franco.
The Soviet Foreign Commissar charges stein. He had it legally changed. Upon the Jews surnames fre-
Some of the former irreconcilables on the Nazis with the death of the 10,000
i n iptosed I the au-
Now I can't guess just what quently were imposed
lorttheMrN. oH
French policy may have changed their officers and further charges that
malicious
e w wlii tut;
rtuh ll Ahfoi ped to.t tr.ow til
French
Poles
mar, migrit endlh
w ow
minds in view of the excellent results are using the incident to get territorial by suggesting that. ic a rils4 rs i uStone such
a name as Eselkopf which
achieved by our policy of having kept concessions.
formerly had another name. Nor means donkeys head. Their cons-
Vichy neutral. There are, however, those
tion, dtt not practice
p;aoctincoen -Jews
a -
It seems generally agreed that there is it fair to presume that so en-edY
who believe that any policy of patience are a number of anti-
lightened
d n
man
a
e
L
M
Soviet officials in could
changing Hull might give such a name i 'is'
and diplomacy is a policy of appeasement. the Polish government in exile who are surname
(pig's foot)—a
was an act so meretrics- Schweinefuss
The word appeasement has a malodorous not averse to creating difficulties among ious that the correspondent who name quite well known in Amer-
connotation, and it is used by the irre- the Allies. The Soviet government has had done it didn't deserve to be ican cities of considerable Ger-
concilables to cover any policy other apparently known this fact for some time, i nswered. man extraction.
It all adds up to the point
than forthright, hostile action.
and consequently has encouraged the doelsnr'atnin 'tknbelieveh that Mr. Hull that there is nothing inherent in
is
t
tineovtha
They will point to the futile efforts Poles in Moscow to issue a Polish paper sacred
invt, the history of a surname to
n amt ees r e tha
o rw
to appease Hitler and in this they are in that city. The Soviets may even recog- all quite su
tha t there i t iswhao moral i
synthetic, that they are ' o S tib
le The
correct. But they are correct only be- nize a second Polish government in exile no t possessions of the spirit but itiggeastti o taot
Wilke k fain) ily became the
cause one cannot appease a conqueror. in Moscow. This would no doubt corn 2 yfr . nytene iences that m en took German
Willkies of current
h paua rpeoose of prop. er f anglicized
ame; he aD uh by y m a trreasqn u a least iobnec atte
A conqueror will accept concessions glad- Plicate matters, but it may bring the identification
mmunity
life
the
Mar
ly because they are less costly, but it whole issue to a head and may thereby grew more complicated.
be came by
eral
will not deter him from carrying out his ease the strained relations that exist.
Was Mr. Hull's family name Schoenberg's,the
translation,
well-a
,
accepted
ted
litBel-
Hull
fir
definite plan of conquest. The conqueror
n
oe
m
Vi
r
e
h
e
onfiil
n
n
i
h
Many among the Allies are depressed aolfwadise
n g monts. Names were changed and

is not sated until he has achieved his goal. by the break because they feel it will
In the case of the N azis it was a ll o f give aid, comfort and hope to Jose ]r
h
Europe, then the world. Those who Goebbels.
dealt with Hitler, no doubt knew, that
We do not share such depression ; for
he was intent on European conquest as a even though Goebbels may have had a
minimum and if they attempted to ap- hand in bringing about the break, we fail
pease we believe it was because they to see in it more than propaganda for
wanted more time to organize their forces Nazi home consumption.
in order to be able to resist.
The fact that the question of territorial
The cases of France and Spain are concessions to Poland is mentioned; indi-
essentially different. In •the case of cates that both the Russains and the Poles
France we had a country that had suf- are certain of ultimate victory. If they
fered a. humiliating defeat- and yet did were not, why should they now be con-
not want to surrender completely. She cerned with a matter that is definitely
still had some strength. Her navy and for the peace table. If Goebbels can get
colonial possessions were of some con- any comfort out of this fact he must
sequence. It was the business of the have reached the point of grasping at
Allies to keep her neutral as long as straws.
they could, and if it were necessary to
There is even a more important reason
appease her then such was the correct that persuades us that there is nothing
policy. France was not a conquerer, she in the incident to cause any great con-
was conquered and any concessions made cern. It is the fact that the Polish people
to her did not whet her appetite for more who have lived under Nazi terror for two
concessions. and a half years are as bitterly anti-Nazi
Franco's Spain, although not a con- as they were when the brutal hordes of
quered country is yet so weak as a re- Hitler first invaded and conquered their
sult of the civil war that she cannot be country.
considered a much greater threat than
We feel confident that Britain and the
was France. To keep her neutral is the United States will find a formula that will
business of the Allies, and if we do ap- heal the break.
pear to appease and grant her economic
concessions it is good sound, realistic
Are We Disappointed?
diplomacy to keep her from joining the
Axis powers.
The Bermuda Conference met, talked.
The Allies will probably be faced, in resolved and adjourned.
the not too distant future, with the prob- The decisions and findings are secret
lem of finding the correct policy to apply as were the sessions. We shall have to
to Italy. The irreconcilables will raise wait patiently until an official communi-
a hue and cry against any dealings with cation is issued before we know what
those Italians who may have had even recommendations were made to the Uni-
the most tenuous connection with Italian ted States Congress and the British House
Fascism. They will call any and all con- of Commons.
cessions, cowardly appeasement.
However, we have the feeling that
Italy also presents a case where ap- very little was done to ease the cruel lot
peasement will not be base and coward- of the refugees in enemy countries.
ly betrayal. For it must be recalled that Whether more could be done we are in
the blatant Mussolini never hoped to be no position to say.
the conqueror of Europe let alone a world
Yet we are reasonably certain that
conqueror. Even this comical, strutting most of those who had great hopes and
duce never asked for more than Nice, expectations have a let down feeling.
Corsica. Jibuti and Tunisia. He wanted The early fanfare, brave talk and high
to be lord of a Mediterranean empire. purposes gave way to cautious, chilling,
He knew that Italian natural resources, official pronouncements.
manpower and technology doomed Italy In our anxiety and eagerness to help
to be a second-rate power at best.
the victims of Axis terror we forget that
Then, too, one must not forget the
pus- the war is a stubborn fact, and that poli-
sillanious role of Italy in the war. She cies, procedures and methods must be
remained neutral until she thought that predicated upon this fact.

ginning and for a Ion time e after their possessors went from there
m re-
th
.eginning th e early
g y Hull, r , on to make the new name
. e b
e
i e all the e pople
of their time, spected
Why may not Feinstein be half
were identified by their physical
characteristic or by their occu- anglicized to Stone? Or Goldstein
pations. They were, it is safe to to Gould? Or Rosenwasser to
say, John the Red, William the Rosewater? Or Rabinowitz to
Little, Thomas the Lean, Arthur Robinson?
Some of us have ourselves been
the Shepherd,
Then came a time when one of inclined to scoff' f at Jews who
them thought of taking up a change their names, as if in so
doing they discard something es-
es-
name that would more closely sentially and sacredly Jewish?
identify him as a social being, a What sacred Jewish tradition is
member of the community. There
were so many other Johns who there in a name that was arbi-
trarily
were red and Williams who were who
first wished
carried on
it? the ancestor
little and Thomases who were
If my name were Blumenthal
lean. Let us say his name wa. s
Edward.
dward. Edward was living i n I could become Mr. Flowers with
the city of Hull, England, and the same integrity as that of
what would be more fitting than many a Schmidt who became
to name himself for the city in
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