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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
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JACOB MARGOLIS
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and destruction over the whole world.
A man or a nation that learns from ex-
perience is a wise man or nation, but a
man or nation that does not learn from
experience is a fool.
Are we wise or are we foolish? The
future will tell.
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The Plight of Italy
June
Plain - Falk
•
18,
1943
. . . by Al Segal
Self-Respect
At a recent press conference following
the fall of Pantelleria, President Roose- I HEAR of an incident in the ITIIE
CAPTAIN'S anger roa
velt advised the Italians to get rid of
Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto -I.. What did this mean? Cis red.
which has turned out to be a should be firing forward but aim
their
Fascist
leaders.
He
promised
the
was
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
great victory for the defenders. firing backward instead.
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Italian people that they would be ac- According to all accounts the
"This way" . . . the cap t air
eepted as a respected nation among the ghetto was liquidated, as they pointed
Chaim's gun toward
the
community of nations.
Sabbath Readings of the Law
say, in the battle, but it was a enemy.
great
victory.
The
persecuted
It
is
meet
and
proper
that
the
Presi-
Pentateuchal portion—Numbers 8 :1-12 :16.
"That way?" . .. Chaim's e yes
dent should talk over the heads of Fascist perished in battle for their self- were as full of dreams as on the
Prophetical portion—Zekariah 2:14-4:7.
respect
and
there
is
no
defeat
day
they
took him from the Yes hi-
leader•
d irectly to the people. It is agreed vhere men lay down their li
vali to go to the war . .. "That
Ves
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JUNE 18. 1943
SIVAN
almost unanimously that Italy's participa- for that.
way? I shouldn't fire that way.
tion in the war as an Axis partner was Among those who (lied in the I'd be shooting at those living
the act of Mussolini and his lieutenants. Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto was people if I fired that way. I can't
Conference Election
Chaim Gruenbaum. You must go shoot at living people. Don't you
The people themselves never approved back
to the last war to get fully see the living people coming to-
The Detroit delegation to the American and, after they were in, have never had acquainted with Chaim Gruen- ward us?"
Jewish Conference was chosen at the any heart or stomach for the wh ole baum. He was a pacifist then. All this goes to show how deep
and he thought it was a bias- in his character and philosophy
obscene
election held in Brown Memorial Chapel bloody,
We have
very business.
grave doubts as to the phemous waste to fire abullet
Chaim's pacifi sm w as.
b
through a heart which God had
This was the Chaim Gruen-
of Those
Temple
Beth
on Tuesday,
June
15. ability of the people of Italy to revolt as made with such exquisite perfec- baum
who fell in the Battle of
who
will El represent
Detroit
Jewry
don.
4, as the but
armed
th e ov- To kill was bad enough and to himself
e Warw Ghe In the years
thsatto.
are Rabbi Morris Adler, Aaron Droock, ernment,
that forces
does support
not mean
af
lntlesreifthten Tlanstghwiar illlie h devoted
n lay down one's life in a battle
Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, Rabbi Leon Fram. sabotage, disorganization and d• aln g tht
• sir IT
Rabbi
abbi B. Benedict Glazer, Aaron Rosen-
. is ocation was also an affront to the Most when he wasn't cilob' blitt(
High,
blessed
be
His
great
name.
Three
times
a
cannot
so
badly
damage
and
impair
the
' day he praigseil IG°(Oci
berg, Morris Schauer, Daniel Temchin war effort that
God had numbered a man's days in the synagogue and at bedtime
and Rabbi Max J. Wohlgelernter.
a t ey would affect the and
it was
for a man he recited prayers by which
t h h imself to being
Every shade of Jewish opinion is re armed forces to the point that they could to sub mi
miimself
killed commended himself to .
His nethercht.
no
longer
carry
on.
in
a
battle
before
the
ordained
resented by the delegation, and this is as
Then Hitler` came, and the ai\;-
ti
me.
Our
action
in
removing
t
l'
g
a ian nati
nihilation squads marching daily
it should be, for if those who subscribe from the cat
nationals And now to think of Chaim through
the ghetto. Those who
n
egory
enemy
to but one ideology had been chosen, then have convinced
the of Italians
in aliens
Italy must
that Gruenbaum laying down his life die 1 by eixiecution really were
it would not be represe
in a ' battle! His finger still was better off
representative of the
Ian those who died
we do not hold them responsible for the on the trigger when the Nazis at more slowly by
national Jewish community.
starvation. There
l•ist
captured
him—dead
in
the
were
no
more
shoes for Chaim
acts of their leaders, and consequently Lite' of the Warsaw Ghat
We hope the Detroit pattern will be the statement of President Roosevelt will
to ct oh be blee, nsir the tattered I
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub-
'acts of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon-
libility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers
every problem in Jewish life will to save them from the t
effor t ,
heorm
rohristigthaotf at‘hv eai rt
m '°
G 1.11en-
.
of
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happy heart for battle. You may been leather to patch them with.
have heard of him. He is the one
Chaim Gruenbaum's time now
The present plight of
of Italy proves that Yeshivah when they called him the Torah he was eating from
thh neniitvs arw. it he eylocsk f(nii up0f fif.nonr
brave pronouncements, unless backed by
i the Tree of Life and in this
technological development, vast natural off dreams . . . "Oh, yes, that way t
h ilsie hblanf e:o „ N iveas"1111
Emil Ludwig, the noted biographer. resources, technically trained personnel, war,"
to :1v1e 1"s.
he said and got up and was ideas about life and its 1 'holinnees7
testified recently before the House For- are of little or no value.
sent off' to the training camp.
Life wasn't holy if it was lived
eign Affairs Committee.
he was the famous soldier like the cattle under the butcher's
Italy could carry on a war successfully in Yes,
reverse action f wh
the knife.God t
He predicted that Hitler would be as- against the industrially and technologi- story
aborninati hoin,
is told. His (c)aptairlip
sassinated by the Junkers.
tally backward Ethio pians, but carrying him the wo r s t soldier in the
ive
t n in
corn- l ife an(l i oil.\
( .1:1 %s
1.:ii ie h;t1 it l to be higher
He asserted that after the death of on a war against the United States and pany. i Chaim's firs t irritations
hour in battle than the ox. To surrender to
Hitler that the Junkers, the generals Britain is another matter. Despite the toppe of all the rritations the humiliation was to deprecate the
captain had suffered on Isis ac- 1 or k
would then try to negotiate a peace. He enormous distances that separate us
of God who had made man
count. The enemy's
and
e e in the grandeur of
warned against the generals. He told Britain from the actual war theater, we advancin
• image.
g and ihe captain was
Just to cherish life wasn't
i tenolu
in aghi
the committee that the generals were were able to transport men and material waiting for the right moment to even the field mouse cherishes
his
give the order to fire.
not a bit better than was Hitler.
life.
in such quantities that we were able to "Steady! Steady!" he kept say-
We are not concerned how Hitler will overwhelm the Italians in their very ng until, finally, "Fire!"
Yes, there was somethin g else:
come to his end, but we are particularly citadels.
The clap of rifle fire would Self-respect was much more than
concerned about making peace with the
We dare say the Italians knew all this, have been unanimous but for life itself, he thought. It gave
generals.
but they believed that with France pros- Chaim Gruenbaum. At the order meaning to human life. Without
trate and Britain about to be overrun, to fire he had turned around and it a man's life was reduced to
Who are the generals and who
trate
Junkers?
that they would never be called upon to fired backwards into the woods.
See SEGAL—Page 9
The generals and the Junkers are the actually fight a modern war.
Prussian aristocrats who have held fast
Mussolini guessed wrong and the Italian
to the dogma of German supremacy for people have had to pay for his mistaken
centuries. The Junkers believe that they judgment. We believe they have paid
are God's chosen, whose mission it is to the price for all their follies and weak-
rule the German people and to hold in nesses and should be accepted as a re-
perpetuity all the land of Prussia.
spected member of the family of nations.
The generals who are of the Junker
breed believe that it is their mission to
protect their landed estates and to take
A Desperate Gesture
the lands of all their neighbors when it
suits their purpose.
The suicide of Samuel Zygelbojm
They fought for the Kaiser and now brings into bold relief the stark tragedy
they fight for the plebian upstart corporal, of Polish Jewry.
Hitler.
In a letter written by Zygelbojm and
They will again fight for anyone who made public by the Polish Telegraphic
will allow them to retain their estates, Agency, he declared: "I cannot be silent
prestige and prerogatives. They have no and I cannot live while the remnants of
scruples and will use deceit and guile just the Jewish people of whom I am a repre-
as
• readily as they will use force and sentative are perishing.
violence if only their status remains
"By my death I wish to express my
unchanged.
strongest protest against the inactivity
After the end of World War I the with which the world is looking on and
Kaiser was compelled to flee, but the permitting the exterminator of the Jew-
generals remained. They were some who ish people. I know how little life is worth,
warned against them, but the masses of especially today, but as I was unable to
the people of the Allied nations thought do anything during my lifetime, perhaps
that the abdication of the Kaiser meant by my death I shall contribute to destroy-
the end of Junkerism and militarism. In ing indifference of those who are able
this they were woefully mistaken, for the and should act in order to save now,
Kaiser was only the front for the Junkers
and the generals, as Hitler is now only maybe at the last moment, this handful
of Polish Jews who are still alive from
the front for these same gentry.
certain annihilation."
Not only must no peace be made with
we must confess that we do
the Junkers and generals, but this vicious not Regretfully
believe that even the suicide of Zygel-
caste must be extirpated. The estates of
bojm will cure the world of its indif-
the Junkers must be divided and the ference.
generals must be compelled to give up
His suicide was the desperate gesture
their calling and return to civil life. To
of
a man for whom this world was un-
do less than this is to sow the seeds for
This youngster may be separated from his Dad by countless
the flowering of another Wehrmacht and endurable.
miles but today, especially, he is close to him in spirit when he
In
happier
times
we
shall
honor
him
Luftwaffe that will again spread terror for his sensitivity.
writes: "June 20—Dear Dad: Mom and me just bought you
a bond."
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A Wartime Father's Day
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