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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

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The Legal Chronicle

May 21, 1943

"A Strategic Success"

The Axis debacle in Tunisia was not
a defeat but a "strategic success," ac-
cording to the radio address of Lieut.
General Kurt Dittmar, the military ace
of Nazi propaganda.

Plain alk... by AI

Segal

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True to the insane tradition of Nazism,
Yes, We Know
even a debacle cannot be called a "de-
feat". The belief that a word is tanta-
mount to reality is a phobia that is T WAS saddened recently to ill E KNOW, too, from th
found only among primitive people among
find something dirty and al- VV long experience of our lift.
whom taboo has become so imbedded together tin - Catholic in the that it is egregious sin to attach
a whole class of men the of-
that its violation is punished more severe- Catholic Te.legraPli of Cincin- to
natl. This isn't Christianity, I fense of one of them. So we pr.-
than are serious crimes among more thought. This isn't in line with fer to think rather of the many
the Christly teaching . . . The gentle priests who walk humbly
civilized people.

Sermon on the Mount . . . The on the earth and deal justly from
Golden rule . . . This is far from hearts of compassion.
the likeness of the exemplar of
Yes, for their sake we could
Christian nobility, the great and forget this vicious utterance
gentle saint who was Francis of were it not that by being circa-
Asissi. He called even the birds lated in print it is multiplied
his brothers. This isn't the mind many times. It is like the noxious
of the ninny Catholics I know as weed that sends its seed on the
The Food Conference
fine gentlemen who scorn malice winds to reproduce its vile sal
ething too profane for ov(I'vr itthhe earth. .
However, the Nazis try to make use ' stia nheths
When the armies of the Axis surren-
•
anguished penitence
tiered in Tunisia they left the larders even of the greatest adversities. The Cishrisom
It was the more saddening be- a man who had sent malice
"strategic success" suddenly revived the cause it came from a priestly abroad must look at his life at
of the city of Tunis as bare as the cup- Nazi campaign against the Jews. Now the hand.
the end of his days: "One day I
board of Old Mother Hubbard. It is re- Nazis discover that the hopelessly divided The editorial piece in the spewed venom against my neigh-
Catholic Telegraph had to do bors. It was carried f.'u• and
ported that the first trainload of food Allies are now united in the service of with
th e execution by the Japa- wide. It came to this heart and
shipped to Tunis by the United Nations "world Jewry". That is not for European nese of American airmen who that, and people took it as if it
consumption but for the special edifica- bombed Tokio. In the course of were precious balm, since it came
was greeted with cheers.
e otherthis act of savagery from me in whom they had faith.
tion of the Arabs.
the editorial said: "The Japanese, One heart and another took it
We may well imagine the joy and
li k
other oriental people, the and the hate was fertilized and
The Nazis know that there are un-
jubilation of the people of the occupied scrupulous
are quick to learn and grew and the harvest of human
Arab leaders who would stir Jews,
ready to gain knowledge from hate was increased, and men
countries of Europe, if and when the up all the discord and foment all the any
source."
a i n suspicion
s rttei
i
n :t Kati b otr.ts,-.
I do not protest that Jews are vtlilrennekdqn with
United Nations capture the Axis armies hatreds within their power against the
against their neighbors.-
not quick to learn and ready to 0 my Lord God, forgive me."
now infesting their lands. If the people Jews because of Palestine.
gain knowledge from any source. We Jews know from an im-
of Tunis, who had suffered from Axis
This futile attempt to strengthen home Yes, we have lived long and manse history the way of malice
much knowledge from and hate to reproduce their
occupation for but six months, were morale by calling the African debacle a gained
many sources. We have also giv- hideous image many fold. wry
stripped of everything, what must be the "strategic success," and the attempt to en knowledge. We are proud of have heard evil whisperings un-
condition of the people of those countries stir up the passions of the Arabs, will our Book and our teachers, til they grew to the ugly tumult
among whom was one named of pogroms; we have heard dou-
them
The
German
mothers,
that have suffered from Axis occupation avail
fathers
and nothing.
wives of
the
hundred
thou- Jeswuse. have
ble-talk increase to a loud Bable
gained knowledge of falsehood.
for more than three years.
sand Axis prisoners taken in Tunisia know even from those who have hated Yet we are not afraid for
From their falsehood we have
The Tunis incident again focuses atten- that they were defeated. They make take us.
learned to understand the langu- ourselves. We have kept on liv-
age of double talk. We know ing, despite many deaths that
tion on that difficult problem of feeding some consolation in the fact that they what
is meant when, without were decreed against us; we have
are prisoners. They may have learned
the children of France, Belgium, Holland through underground sources and by lis- provocation and without any rea- held our heads high amid foul
whisperings and have stood re-
and Poland. The Food Conference now tening to forbidden broadcasts that pris- son, this editorial, by the trick
of a seemingly casual remark, spected among decent men. We
being held at Hot Springs will no doubt oners taken by the United Nations are wraps Jews in one bundle with a have replied to calumny by go-
be importunated by those who have urged treated decently and humanely. But the criminal enemy against whom ing our way to follow our lights
passion at the moment which were given to us by the
average
thtuarte tohfe 2l000ss0000f popular
that the feeding of the innocent children all
of
flames high. We know the mean- Law and the Prophets. Not all
Africa, knows capture
of us, of course, have been faith-
ing of this from ancient times;
of the occupied countries cannot and will men with va '
st quantities of material, is the malice of double talk is an ful to these lights, for we are
like other people not all of whom
not help the Axis. not a "strategic success," but a catas- old, old story.
Because
of
our
knowing
pain
as
follow the bright light of the
trophic
defeat.
We know that the leaders of the
New Testament. In a few weeks
an ancient intimate of ours,
we we shall assemble in our syna-
United Nations have refused to heed the
Herr Goebbels is not stumped by such are more sad than hurt by this. gogues to celebrate the holiday
pleas of the warm-hearted and sympa-
By long suffering an old
inconsequential
reverses as the capture of may
become at last endurable, which by tradition is the anniver-
thetic men and women who want the
the
entire
African
army
of
the
Axis.
He
but
it
is depressing to see such nary of our receiving the Ten
starving children fed. We know, too, that
an utterance printed and spread Commandments. We have lived
will
continue
to
harangue
his
people,
and
it is not because the leaders of the United
by hands religiously ordained to and we shall survive our being
Nations are cruel and unsympathetic, but his ace military propagandist, Lieut. Gen- the service of mankind. tossed to current passion in one
enemy.
because they believed that more lives eral Kurt Dittmar can be counted on No, it is not we who are hurt bundle with the despised
I
f
to
convert
more
defeats
to
"strategic
suc-
by
such
aspersions.
Our
knowl-
would be saved than would be destroyed
edge of life and people confirms pit UT WE are afraid of hate
by this hard policy, that they have not cesses". This will go on endlessly until what the Jew Jesus said about fli-t/mailsy. members of the human
the
last
radio
station
in
Germany
is
taken
We know hate as the
heeded these urgent pleas.
evil utterance: "Those things
over by the United Nations.
who is the father of mo.t
which proceed out of the mouth satan
ev il ; we know it as the author
The fact that nothing has been done,
come forth from the heart; they
defile a man."
up till now, for these victims, is no reason

Pentateuchal portion—Leviticus 25:1-26:2.
Prophetical portion—Jeremiah 32:6-27.

MAY 21, 1943

IYAR 16,

If additional evidence were needed to
prove that the Nazis have regressed to
a primitive status, this bit of evidence
should satisfy the most skeptical psychic-
trists and sociologists.

Are. You Discriminated Against?
why the same policy should be pursued,
if the circumstances have so changed,
The Metropolitan Council on Fair Em-
that the shipment of food under properly
ployment
Practice will hold hearings in
supervised conditions would not imperil Detroit late
in June for the purpose of
the chances of United Nations success.
ascertaining the incidence of discrimina-
The Food Conference will no doubt re- tion in employment in our community.
examine the whole situation, and it is our
The Council cannot make special in-
fervent hope that they will decide to send vestigations
and, consequently, it can
the needed food to all starvation areas only act to correct any abuses or discrim-
and save the lives of as many children ination if the cases are brought to its
as possible.
attention.

On account of the acute manpower
shortage, many who are discriminated
against in one place proceed to forget
Samuel Zygelbojm, 49-year-old mem- about it, because at the next place they
ber of the exiled Polish National Council, make application they are taken on.
committed suicide in London.
Unless those who are discriminated
Zygelbojm had escaped the physical against make complaint immediately, the
Nazi terror, but he could not endure Council will not be able to do anything
the, to him, cold and indifferent attitude about it, but if the complainants should
of those to whom appeals had been notify the agencies, that want to eradi-
made to rescue his countrymen from the cate all discrimination, instead of merely
foulest and most beastial pogroms. talking about it to their families and
We do not know how many less well friends, then proper and effective action
known men and women have committed can and will be taken.
suicide because they could not live in a
Work opportunities are no doubt plen-
world of violence, unreason and inhu- tiful at this time, yet there must be equal-
manity. It is not too easy for some sensi- ity in work opportunity and no person
tive people to accept a Hitlerian world should be refused employment because
of naked brutal force. of race, color or creed.
Perhaps the suicide of Samuel Zygel-
If you are a victim of discrimination,
bojm will arouse the indifferent. If it be sure to write or see the Metropolitan
does this, then his tragic act will not Council representative or communicate
have been in vain. with the Community Council.

See SEGAL—Page 9

NRS Project Helps Older Refugees
To Useful War Work For America

Zygelbojm Commits Suicide

Over-age and handicapped refugees assemble army sewing kits in a
sheltered workshop established by the National Refugee Service. Oper-
ating on a certificate from the Federal Wage and Hour Division the
shop enables such refugees to earn small sums of money and do useful
war work. However, after a period in the workshop, many of the
workers gain enough confidence in their working ability to take real
jobs in war industry. The project is one of the many undertaken in
behalf of refugees by the National Refugee Service which is included
in the United Jewish Appeal together with the Joint Distribution Com.
mittee and the United Palestine Appeal.

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