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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
dom but which never fooled most of
the thoughtful Italians in and out of Italy.
Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
Pres.-Gen. Mgr.
JACOB MARGOLIS
Editor
July 30, 1943
( Plain Talk...
Military states must of necessity glorify
war and armies. Mussolini never failed
by Al Segal
Sows! Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave. to impress upon the Italian people and
the world at large his contempt for peace-
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$3.00 Per Year ful activities, and never failed to g o into
ro Insure publication, all correspondence and news matter ecstasies about the military exploits that
were to be performed by the 8,00 0,000
It Seems to Me
must (each this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only. gleaming bayonets in the hands of sis
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- mighty warriors. The Fascists pu t on
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon- grandiose military spectacles tha
t as- X/f AY
I point the way to pea ce rael, if gentlemen bring Zionism
sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers tounded the superficial observer, bu
in the American Jewish Con - into the agenda, if there is :s
in
t be- Terence
which is scheduled to be proposal for a declaration in
hind the facade of apparent power there held in New
fa-
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
York sometime i n vor of a Jewish Commonwealth.
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. was nothing sound, solid and substa ntial. September? Who am I to tak e
1 1 f
Competent observers always knew the this upon myself?
T IS
my purpose to say
I have no credentials, have n ?. anything NOT
military strength of Fascism was
Sabbath Readings of the Law
against a Jewish Core-
offici
al
place
in
the
councils
o
gible and that it could not stan d up Israel. I am one of the littl r monwealth, though everybody who
Pentateuchal portiOn—Numbers 30:2-36:13.
e reads this column knows what
against any modern industrial power
people who has an advantag
I
Prophetical portion—Jeremiah 2:4-28:3, 4.
c I think about it. But the issue
over the other little people in of Zionism is one of the deep,
Fascism could and did carry on a sue- that
once a week he is allowe(
JULY 30. 1943
and unbridgeable divisions
TAMMUZ 27, 5703 cessful war against the Ethiopians.
to have his say in the Jewish wide
The press.
in Jewish life and on that issue
Fascists held demonstrations in R ome
there can be no compromise that
Like most of the other little intellectual integrity can prove.
where hot-headed, irresponsible y 0111h people,
Negroes Blamed for Riots
I am seldom at the meet-
shouted "Tunis, Jibuti, Corsica and N i ce," ings. Like them, I don't like An honest Zionist can no more
his ideal than an anti-Zion-
Prosecutor William E. Dowling puts but the actual conquering of these pl aces meetings which leave me horribly yield
ist can abate from his opposition.
confused.
I'd
rather be quiet at
the blame for the disgraceful riots upon was far beyond the military power of the
is as unthinkable as Republi-
home than get mixed up in con- It unnsdan
aniedntDaela
Negroes and charges Louis Martin 'of the „ hird-rate military establishment of Fas- tentious
yielding their
affairs. We little people
ism.
and lying
ying down to-
Michigan Chronicle with being the prin-
don't want to be big and would
rather win a game at rummy gether in a national convention.
cipal instigator of dissension in this area,
(A harmony convention be-
No
modern
nation
can
successfully
pl ay at home than be elected to some-
and accused the National Association of t he role of conqueror unless it has
tween Republicans and Demo-
,
or
would
rather
consort
the thing
Colored People, saying: "They have been i ndustrial and technological means cult
crats would dissolve the first
with a fine spirit in a book.
day.)
fomenting trouble with their crusades t he basic resources for such a diffi
have just finished the auto-
auto-
It is good that men stick to
biography of Stefan Zweig which
in the Negro neighborhoods from the a dventure, Italy lacked everything.
which they essentially be-
But gives a little man a feeling of that
start. If you want to do something con- t
lieve, but to bring conflicting
being awfully inadequate.)
he
Sawdust
Caesar,
and
it
is
really
structive in the situation you might try a ppropriate name for the deposed Ben an Sometime, though, when he ob- faiths into a convention called
to control the Negro press." And again t hought
serves the way the big men do, for the purpose of establishing
that sound and fury could m it°,
unity and peace is no way either
ke a little man should like to get to
referring to the National Association for u p for the technical and material d a efi.
unity or peace.
big
for
a
moment,
to
walk
into
the Advancement of Colored People, the ci encies. He thought the gods had bles , the big meeting and in a mirac- The result of bringing Zionism
prosecutor said : "That organization is h is ambitions to be a conqueror w se d ulous access of eloquence speak into the Conference would be
one of the factors that contributed in- F ranee fell, but in this, too, he was hen up: "Ah, gentlemen, much more forthwith to shatter even the
important than the pride of your semblance of unity. The anti-
directly to the riot by constantly empha- to ken, and his dream of empire, eve mis individual
is the peace Zionist would at once feel like
n
sizing racial inequality and advising its li mited Mediterranean one, fell about .a and dignity opinions
of Israel. I have come a Protestant in a meeting at
hi s to ask you to desist from your which he was being urged to ac-
members to take militant action." ea rs and finally destroyed him.
r
-
contentions which have brought cept the literal interpretation of
The Prosecutor charged that the Negro
nowhere, and find a •iy by the Eucharist as the veritable
According to latest reports, all o U1- us
which Israel may walk in the
press "has deliberately stirred up dis- w and signs and trappings of Fascis mo
of men who know that they body and blood of Jesus . . .
sension for the sole purpose of selling ha ve disappeared. If Marshal Badog i: „ unity
will be respected in proportion "Well," the Protestant would say,
their yellow papers."
ca n organize a stable government we m "‘-' as they are united. I think I "I seem to be in the wrong
speak for all the little people church."
ex pect that all the discriminatory deer e ay
If the Negro did not suffer from racial of
es who are quite sick and tired of
If a resolution for Zionism
the
Fascist
regime
will
be
repeal
inequality, then there would be some point wi
eel being in a rough-house."
arried, anti-Zionists would feel
In
such
a
mood
of
pretending
th
the
same
speed
as
they
were
in
t
to the charge that the National Associa- t er
t
he
be big for a moment I take hat this Conference was none
tion for the Advancement of Colored Peo- ar ritories.occupied by the United Natio 11a to
it
upon
myself
to
point
the
way
°
f their persuasion, and where
mies.
pie contributed to the dissension; and the
to peace in the American Jewish are peace and unity 'ff a consid-
Michigan Chronicle could be condemned
Conference.
For all practical purposes, Italy is o
erable and influential number
for stirring up dissension. But as long as of the war. The actual armistice will on U1 It seems to me the Conference Jews can not march along? of
racial inequality is a fact, we may hardly eff ectuate the unwillingness of the Itali 137 will break up in another rough- If a resolution for Zionism
expect the National Association or the Pe ople to continue in a conflict for whi an house if gentlemen insist on fails, then Zionists can feel that
Negro press to meekly accept the in- the y never had any heart or stomach. ch pressing their Jewish ideologies. an ideal most precious to their
equality and say and do nothing about it.
Let us be very frank with eacli hearts has been repudiated, and
The end of Fascismo does not necessa
Before we accept the statement th at ily mean that Nazism will fall with t h r- e other and come at once to the where are peace and unity if
large number of men feel
the Negro press "has deliberately stirr ed sam e ease and suddeness as did Fascism point: No peace will come out of a denied?
0. the Conference, which is dedi-
up dissension for the sole purpose of se 11
See SEGAL—Page 9
ing their yellow papers," we would ha ve - m oo T he Nazi military police state is a gen U- cated to peace and unity in Is-
military police state and not a coun-
to have definite, clear and unassailab
evidence, and the mere declaration le terf eit as was the Fascist. The Nazi mili-
by tar y state had the technological and in-
the Prosecutor is not sufficient.
d us trial basis plus the resources needed
The over simplification of the causes of for the building, development and reali-
the riots will satisfy few people. The o Id zati on of such a state.
cry of agitation that has been the favori to
T
standby in labor disputes does not e
he conqueror Nazi state had the will
x-
and
plain the fundamental cause of the ra
the power to achieve the conquest
riots in Detroit and elsewhere. The agit ce of much that belonged to others, but in
tion carried on by the American Associ a- due time the Nazi aggressors will col-
laps e, because the opposition has such
tion for the Advancement of Colored Pe a-
0 - sup
erior technology, industry and re-
pie and Louis Martin of the Michiga
Chronicle may have created some dissati n sour ces that the Nazis will have to crack
faction among Negroes, but to maintai s- and crumble.
that this agitation caused the riots is t 0
ignore many factors that do contribut
A Heartening Message
and have contributed to racial dispute
and discrimination.
The President, in a message which war
The National Association for the Ad sent to the Emergency Conference To
vancement of Colored People and th - Rescue the Jews of Europe, heartened the
Negro press will no doubt continue t e gathering when he declared "Our endeav-
emphasize racial inequality and, until the Y o orss will not cease until the Nazis are
" .
both offend against the law, the proba
-
bilities are that they will continue t
It is perhaps graceless to complain, but
"stir up dissension". Should they desis 0 when conditions of the Jews in all Europe
from these activities they would have n t are so acute, we feel impelled to ask,
0
reason for existence.
"What can be done today to rescue these
people from the foul clutches of the
We are hopeful that a sociologic and Nazis?"
psychologic study will be made that may
Cannot something be done for those
help us to understand why the riots oc refugees in the satellite countries who
curred in our city.
were to be released if and when the nec-
essary arrangements were made for their
emigration?
It seems to us that Hungary, Roumania
Fascism Collapse.;
and Bulgaria would be rather anxious to
After twenty years Fascismo has come do everything within their power to curry
to an inglorious end with the deposing of favor with the United Nations, now that
Benito Mussolini as the Duce and the they see what is happening to the Axis.
head of the Italian State.
Why cannot this situation in the satellite
The 4th
modern
Pitcher
Fascismo was a bog
us military p olice countries be exploited to the utmost; to L _ gust
when Molly
brigades
of will greet you throughout the nation on
MONVS Will tag every buyer
state that held the Italian people in thrall- the end that the thousands in those coun-
of War Bonds
and Stamps.
They
will carry on the tradition of the Revolutionary
War
heroine
who has
gone
tries may find a safe refuge?
Molly Pitcher Tag Day, Aug. 4,
the battle of
down in history because she aided her fighters at
Monmouth In
1770.