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CLIFTON AVENUE

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CINCINNATI 20, OHIO

June II, 1943

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

and The Legal Chronicle

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and A FLAG

o , Beyond the shoulder of the world this Flag Day a mn

knows what you are doing and hates you for it.

For you are causing the Symbol of Freedom to be raised-
and loved--by little children. And these children, in this
man's world of tomorow, are not to be free. They are
destined, boy and girl alike, to be his slaves.

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To this man, trained from youth in merciless conquest, it
is only a question of time before he gets these two children
in his power as he and his fellows got the boys and girls of
Poland, Norway, Holland, France. You he will kill.
They, if young enough, will be systematically schooled by
him to loathe and despise their Flag and all you have
taught them to hold dear. Make no mistake, the work will
be done thoroughly. This man is expert in the murder
of children's souls.

He has made his plans carefully. He knows the route num-
bers of the highways that run through this town. He
knows the names of the railroads. He knows from long
experience in warfare the quantity of troops and machine
guns it will require to take the town. And once here, you
may be sure, he will know what to do.

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Of these things he is certain—from a life-long study in th
cold science of total war.

But on some things this man knows he must gamble. He
must gamble on the hope that to you, now, your own per-
sonal convenience is more important than your country's
life. He must gamble and is gambling that recent victories
have made you feel secure; that you are already seeking
ways to evade your duty in the illusion the war is now
safely won. He is gambling that you are beginning to lie
down on the job.

If his gamble is correct, if you are telling yourself it is all
over but the shouting, there is more than a faint chance
that the flag waving from your post office next Flag Day
will not be the one that floats there today.

For there is one point on which you and your enemy can
safely agree: This war will not be over until one side or
the other is utterly defeated. And only increasing deter-
mination on our part to put all things second to winning
this war will make absolutely certain that the defeated side
will not be our own.

"The Patriotic Voice of American Jewry"

DEPARTMENT OF MICHIGAN

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JEWISH WAR VETERANS and AUXILIARY
of The UNITED STATES

