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May 7,
Legal Chronicle
mittee of Palestine stands disbanded and
Arab nationalists are almost defenseless
against organized Jewry and high finance
in the world."
No, my friends, the above quoted reso-
lution was not passed by a Nazi organi-
zation but by the Moslems of India who
are seeking some form of self rule and
Independence. This was not the resolu-
tion of "racially superior Aryans," but
of Moslems and Arabs who certainly can-
not claim to be of essentially different
racial stocks than those of the Jews.
Plain Talk..
•
1943
by AI Segal
Mr. Blackerey And I
MY GOOD
friend and Chris- THE CLERGIES—Christian an
tian gentleman, Mr. Black- Jewish—have emphasized un-
erby, writes me a letter which essential differences and envel-
modesty prohibits me from print- oped them in the odor of sane-
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
ing in full. I mention it only be- tity. In my own youth I was
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
And can anyone imagine Arab nation- cause it brings up the matter taught to believe that I was
being Jew and being Chris- somebody sacredly different be-
alists in Palestine defenseless against or- of
Readinns of the Law for Saturday. May 7
thin, and what's the difference cause of the foods I ate or did
Pentateuchal portion: Leviticus 19:1-20:27.
ganized Jewry and high finance in the between us, anyway? not eat.
Prophetical portion: Amos 9:7-15.
Mr. Blackerby says he con-
Mr. Blackerby's teaching was
world? We had believed that after the siders
me one of the best Chris- that he was sacredly different
MAY 6. 1943
IYYAR 2, 5703 cruel fate that had befallen European thins he knows and takes me into because of certain creedal prac-
the fold of the Christian fellow- tices which set him exclusively
Jewry that there were none left who ship.
He has no ordination to apart from other people who
could or would talk of the power and do this, being no reverend doc- weren't accepted at t he coin-
Giraud Does Move
tor, but Mr. Blackerby just takes munion table.
might of organized Jewry.
it upon himself.
As the last of the Nazis and Fascists
Neither he nor I was taught
Lest I be expelled from the that there was any likeness bo-
If
pressure
of
this
kind
is
brought
to
are driven out of North Africa, the posi-
Kehillah I should hasten to sa y t•een us. Our teachers made
tion of General Henri Giraud becomes bear upon Britain, then how much weigh- that may Christian virtues, as Mr. mystical virtues of our unim-
tier and more persistent must be the Blackerby sees them, have noth- portant differences. Our being
clearer and more satisfactory.
ing to do with Christian theology. trivilally different was made much
pressure used by the Arab and Islamic Mr. Blackerby's Christianity i s more of than our being so much
According to latest advices from Al-
world nearer to Palestine and in Palestine not connected with any theology alike—in the ethical ideals of
geria, all political prisoners were ordered itself.
or creedal group. our respective faiths, in our mo-
When Mr. Blackerby was still ral concepts, in the idea of
freed and all concentration camps were
quite a young man he formulated brotherhood which is in both
Despite
this
and
other
pressures,
we
yet
abolished. This is a step in the right direc-
a religious principle that has our faiths, in doing unto others
tion. This step indicates that the idea of believe that a forthright, humane policy been most satisfactory to him on which is a teaching that is an
the way of his life: He thinks inheritance of both of us.
political prisoners and concentration of free immigration to Palestine can and that to be kindly and compas- In our own group, in recent
camps is as foreign and odious to French- should be pursued by Britain. She is today sionate, to be just and to be ears I have heard occasional
aware of the brotherhood is be- speeches that expressly glorified
men as it is to Americans and Britons. in a position where she can do the humane ing Christian enough. Believing our being different from other
that he finds these virtues in me, people. I was almost made to
In the acrimonious discussions that have thing and, what is more, she will have he calls me a good Christian. feel that I was like one of those
that botanists call
taken place, since the landing of United the backing of all the clear thinking, hu- Now, I am not a man who ac- exceptions
sports " in plant life. But, hav-
mane
and
forthright
peoples
of
the
United
cents
the
fragrance
of
incense
Nations troops in North Africa, those who
selfishly and retires with it in ing at last arrived at years which
Nations.
attacked Giraud forgot that the French
self-righteousness in his own confer upon men a gleam of
I am no longer in-
Incense should be passed - understanding,
-' •
had not been indoctrinated with Nazi
It would be pure tragedy if no help for shrine.
around for the refreshment of fluenced by claims that would
ideology. This does not mean that there Jewish refugees were to come out of the all who equally deserve it. Waft- make of me a special kind of
person because of this difference
were not native Nazis and Fascists in Bermuda conference.
ing
some of
it back
to to
Mr.
that
is minor in the
Blackerby,
I feel
bound
say or
sum
of which
my life.
France. We need only mention the Doriots,
that Mr. Blackerby is one of the
Blackerby, too, has rid his
best Jews I know.
Deats, DeBrinons and Lavals to dispel
The Coal Strike
It all adds up to the idea that mind
of the deadly
myth
of spe-
cial differences
which
religious
the notion that all Frenchmen believe in
between being a good Jew and teachers imposed upon it in
The miners' strike caused profound a good Christian there is no es- hi s youth. He feels much more
liberty, fraternity and equality. But for
sential difference. If Mr. Black-
the most part the French people and their repercussions throughout the country, and erby's idea of being a Christian Christian without it.
He and I see and cherish only
it gave Joseph Goebbels and the Italian contains kindness,
leaders have believed in and do believe Fascists an opportunity to point out to
compassion, the likenesses that bring us to-
and the brotherhood, that, gether: Our common inheritance
in liberty, equality and fraternity, and their people that only dictatorship work: justice
to my mind, is also the sum of of moral precepts, our common
General Henri Giraud is among these satisfactorily in times of crisis. The best being a Jew.
idea that to get along in fellow-
Blackerby believes that if ship with other people is the
Frenchmen.
answer to that specious claim is the pro- we Mr.
had all been let alone by our main end, our faith that the
duction miracle achieved under our ar- respective clergies (they wer e world must and can be made
General Giraud is not trying to decide rangement of civil control.
like salesman offering competing good by brotherhood, our respect
goods in the same line) Chris- for essential human dignity
now what kind of a constitution the
The proof that we are a country gov- tians and Jews might have turned whether it occurs in black skin,
French people will adopt after the peace
to be more loving brethren
erned by civil authority, was made crystal out
than they are.
is won. He has, however, indicated that
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the constitution will be more liberal than
the constitution of the Third Republic,
and that the working people of France
will enjoy greater economic freedom and
equality than they have enjoyed up till
now.
Under a constitution that guarantees
freedom and equality to all, we may
be sure that the Jews of France and her
colonies will not be deprived of any of
the rights, privileges and immunities en-
joyed by other Frenchmen.
We are hopeful that when the last Nazi
and Fascist has been driven out of North
Africa or captured that every vestige of
discrimination against the Jews of North
Africa will be removed. This is not wishful
thinking but is based upon the definite
steps already taken by the Giraud gov-
ernment.
Believe It or Not
The Bermuda conference is history. It
certainly lived up to the advance promise
that not too much was to have been ex-
pected from it.
One does get some idea of the diffi-
culties under which it labored by items
such as the following:
At the annual session of the All-India
Moslem League which met recently at
New Delhi, among the many resolutions
adopted was this gem: "The League con-
demns the new Zionist propaganda, par-
ticularly in the United States, aimed at
removing restrictions on Jewish immigra-
tion in Palestine. This propaganda is a
deliberate attempt to perpetuate a wrong
on the Arab and Islamic world at a time
When the Arab National Higher Com-
clear when President Roosevelt in his
speech on Sunday night told his nation-
wide audience that he had turned over
the business of milling coal to Secretary
of the Interior Harold Ickes, a civilian.
No Flowers This Year
Under the terrific stress of a crippling
strike in war time, the President, who is
Commander-in-Chief of the armed forces,
could have delegated a military man to
take over the coal mines, and could have
placed the whole matter in the hands of
the military authorities. He did no such
thing, for he knows, as do the majority
of Americans, that there is no present
need for military rule and the exercise
of military authority in the United States.
Had the President, however, placed the
mines under military control, then Joseph
Goebbels would have had the opportunity
of pointing out to the German workers
that we were compelled to adopt Nazi
methods and procedures in order to get
the coal needed for the war industries.
The President must have been a keen
disappointment to Joseph Goebbels and
must have chagrined him no end, for the
President did not immediately order the
mine workers union to disband; to de-
liver their funds, books and papers to
the FBI. The President does not want
any legislation passed that would destroy
the social and economic gains of the wage
workers won in the last decade.
President Roosevelt appealed not to the
passions and prejudices, but to the reason
of the American people. He asked for
fairness and presented the case of the
government with restraint and modera-
tion.
We have not used Nazi-Fascist methods
and tactics up till now, and it is safe to
assume that during the coming days of
strain and storm we shall not do so.
The familiar Mother's Day flowers will never be missed today
by the mother above or countless others like her. Mothers know
their distant sons in the service still remember them, and proudly
buy their own War Bond corsages to hasten the time when they can
wear the flowers of peace again on Mother's Day.
U. S. Trecunry Dow- ► nent