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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

Propaganda Shift

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

According to a recent report from Ber-
li n, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goeb-
bets called upon the German people to
fight for themselves and not for the
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Sabbath Readings of the Law

Pentateuchal portion—Numbers 19:1-22:1.
Prophetical portion—Judges 11:1-33.

JULY 9. 1943

TAMMUZ 6, 5703

Making Amends

The Protestant, a non-denominational
publication, announces that more than
1,000 ministers, bishops and presidents
of theological seminaries have pledged
themselves to eliminate all anti-Semitic
passages from text books.

Many Jews in America and elsewhere
will be appaled to learn that extremists
in Ramath-Gan, near Tel Aviv, are being
held responsible for an explosion that
damaged the printing plant of the Yid-
dish newspaper Naje Welt.

A! Segal

How To Be Young

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It certainly does mean that the morale
of the people is low and that the propa-
ganda agencies must resort to appeals
that are in fundamental opposition to the
whole Nazi credo.

The Nazis, more than any other despotic
group, insisted that the individual existed
only for the state, and every activity and
loyalty was for the State as represented
by Adolf Hitler. As long as success fol-
lowed upon success, the masses of the
The Protestant clergymen signed the German people no doubt were willing to
carry out the mandates and edicts of the
following statement: "We will undo party, and the dissidents were compelled
through our preaching and teaching the to do so by the "gentle" Gestapo.
ill effects of previous false teachings.
Now that defeat and frightful devasta-
Whatever deflects from our own con-
sciences the penetrating glance of God by tion are the lot of the people, the old
making a scapegoat of the Jews or any dogmas and slogans do not work. Even
other race, must be stricken from our the Fuehrer is not heard any more. The
raucous, bellicose voice of Adolf is not
teaching and from our texts."
permitted to irritate and infuriate the
Similar action should be taken by the duped Germans who can probably now
Catholic Church, and we trust that it will envisage nothing but humiliating defeat
be taken in the very near future.
and degradation.
The action of the Protestant clergy is
We do not believe that the Nazi lead-
more than a gesture of good will. It is a ers have abandoned the philosophy that
genuine effort to eliminate the disgrace- the individual exists for the state, but the
ful fact of anti-Semitism. The elimination conditions are now so critical that they are
of all anti-Semitic reference from text compelled to appeal to the normal reac-
books means that impressionable children tions of the majority of the people, who
will 110 longer get a prejudiced and dis- have no doubt always questioned the the-
torted view of historical facts, which ory for the subordination and elimination
have done incalculable damage.
of the individual.
Many decent, reasonable Christian men
We should not be surprised should the
and women received their first introduc- Nazis begin to advocate freedom—an-
tion to the Jew through these anti-Semitic other of the "decadent" and "degenerate"
texts, and despite their honest efforts were theories of the democracies.
unable to rid themselves of these child-
hood impressions.
To save their wretched hides they will
go to unimaginable lengths, for the psy-
Educators are agreed that false and chopathic of Nazidom have never been
pernicious indoctrination of the young can concerned about the fate of anybody but
do great harm.
themselves,

Indefensible

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19 43

This is a significant shift in the propa-
the magical
longer can
-
create the necessary enthusiasm to keep TT WAS some years ago that I Ler of boring old faddy-Audtlies
last mentioned the
h of your of
the German workers at their burdensome
of his acquaintance
nce who
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just that NV ay.
tasks. It can also mean that the Nazis
feel il obllia
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are now hoping that the people will give d miatthe again,
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the last ounce of energy to prevent the to him a jas
frightening mile- took tophsinlotispopohuitcaol f sittpTs heuti t
unconditional surrender that is demanded stone.
eas
In deference to his vanity it just no living with him in that
by the United Nations.
is enough for me to say it was mood.

insane publication, all correspondence and news matter ganda line. It can mean that
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only. ' Dowers of the Fuehrer no

flit, Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub-
'acts of interest to the Jes
wi peope,
h
l but disclaims respon.
ability for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers

July 9 .

and The Legal Chronicle

The morale front of Germany must be
penetrable and it would be folly not to
attack with every psychological weapon.

The appeal made to them by their
propagandists to fight for themselves must
be answered by an assurance from us
that surrender will save them from the
horrors and degradation they have been
assured would be their lot, should they
The Jewish National Council of Pal- lose.
estine and the Histadruth, and the Jewish
Labor Federation of Poland have issued
statements condemning the perpetrators
Giraud Here
of the explosion and denounced the ex-
General Henri Giraud has arrived in
tremists for their methods in furthering
the campaign to eliminate all save Hebrew the United States for conferences with the
military chiefs and the State Department.
language publications.
While here the matter of the Cremieux
What sort of fanatics are these who at Decree will no doubt be discussed.
a time like this can resort to such methods
According to authoritative information,
as these?
the State Department had approved the
This kind of action is pure Nazism. abrogation of the Cremieux Decree, but
Even in Czarist Russia a measure of cul- now that conditions in North Africa have
tural autonomy was allowed.
changed for the better, the Department
What must be the reaction of the lead- now favors the re-enactment of the decree
ers of the United Nations to such an in- and the restoration of rights of citizenship
defensible act? Certain it will give aid to Algerian Jewry.
and comfort to our reactionaries who
We have felt that military necessity
would put a stop to all foreign language was responsible for the action. It would
newspapers, and our native anti-Semites have been bad policy to have incensed
will be gleeful.
the Arab population at a time when their
Every responsible Zionist organization support vas needed. Now that the Arabs
are friendly, justice can be done to the
must condemn these fanatics.
Jews of Algeria.
Every responsible Zionist organization
should issue an unequivocal statement set-
It must be remembered that Frenchmen
ting forth its position on the questions are believers in freedom and equality.
of cultural autonomy in Palestine. To do They are probably as free from race
less than this will create a most unfor- prejudice as any nation in the world and
tunate impression throughout the world consequently any seeming racial discrim-
that favors cultural autonomy for all peo- ination must be charged to extraordinary
ples everywhere.
conditions and circumstances.

a large, round number of years.
Segal, I said, be your age. con-
Mr. Segal looked at it and by sides that you stand on an end-
arithmetical calculation in which nence of years and you should
the figures seemed fairly to t•em- behave in a way becoming to a
ble, he observed that he was so man of your dignified elevation,
and so many years from 70, after At your age you should have ar-
which in no time he would be 80. rived at least at a minimum of
I can not say that Mr. Segal good sense. Here you are behav-
was feeling any too happy when ing like a man who hadn't
his family sang him happy birth- learned anything.
day. I should say he is a vain
Looking backward doesn't get
poWnjay who likes to sport the you anywhere except back to the
gay plumage of youth and re- years of your dead youth which
cently has bought a rather loud stand like rows of tmabstones,
sport coat by which he meant It doesn't make sense to prowl
to kid himself.
in a graveyard on your birthday.
Now he could fool himself no
Besides, Segal, you can look
longer. Here were those many backward only with repentance.
years of his life, and what could You are of the awful world your
Mr. Segal do about them? He generation made. It's nothing to
couldn't hide them under his be proud of and to look back at.
sport coat and anyway, the insur- Your generation made this wreck.
ance man knew how old he was. Back in the twenties you were
The insurance people keep that measuring success by ticker-tape,
vital statistic in their files.
You yourself dreamed of a world
The insurance man, Mr. Leh- made good by Maxwell Motors
man, has seemed somewhat aplo- going' to 100.
getic when he came around to
In the early thirties your folly
congratulate Mr. Segal, as he comforted you with the hope that
always does on those occasions. everything would be all right
It was as if he weren't quite sure again when the ticker tape start-
Mr. Segal cared to have the mat- ed rolling as it used to. To look
ter mentioned at all.
back is only to blush.
"Are you to be congratulated?"
The world your generation
he asked.
made is (lead, Segal, and there's
Mr. Segal himself discovered no use your looking back regret-
signs of approaching senility. He fully except with the regret that's
found himself falling into an of contrition. The way to keep on
autobiographical mood. He was being young is not by the pretense
going backward into his years of your tan sport coat but by
and picking up the more luminous marching bravely along with the
highspots of his remote youth. young. They are marching to in-
That's a sure sign, he thought. herit the earth and make it god,
When men get old they write unless the inept hands of your
autobiographies.
generation grab hold of it again.
He remembered the time he
I f I
could run a mile around the track.
OT THAT you deserve to
The time he could stay up all
inherit with them the bright,
night and feel bright and fresh new world that's in the making.
the next morning.. The times he Your generation made the awful
was falling in love. The time he mess of the old world and you
could eat a beefsteak at mid- don't deserve to see the new one.
night. If God were less merciful Ile
These recollections were all out would annihilate the whole breed
of his vanity which did its best of your generation, in order that
to comfort his senectitude. When the young might have a chance
he remembered the times he was to start fresh and new. But God
falling in love, his vanity had is good and has allowed you to
consolations: ''Yes, Segal, you live even to now, and the best
were a gay fellow." When he re- you can do is to make amends—
called beefsteaks at midnight, he you and all the others of your
felt cheered up: "Yes, Segal, you age bracket. Some of you even
were a man who could take it."
now are saying they want the
f f f
same world all over again, the
VET THESE stimuli didn't last same world they made.
long and he lapsed into de- If you can't go along at least
pression at the thought that it's don't stand in the way of e;iger
the habit of old men to get rem- young feet that march toward a
iniscent. He could think of a nuns-
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