No. - 1111.111
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and Th. Legal Chronicle
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
Pres.-Gen. Mgr.
JACOB MARGOLIS
Editor
dom but which never fooled most of
the thoughtful Italians in and out of Italy.
July 30, 1943
Plain Talk...
Military states must of necessity glorify
war and armies. Mussolini never failed
by I egal
to impress upon the Italian people and
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the world at large his contempt for peace-
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It Seems to Me
were
to be performed by the 8,000,000
Tug/ each this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
A/hen 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 put on
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon- grandiose military spectacles that
as- M AY I point the way to pea ce rael, if gentlemen bring Zionism
sibility for en endorsement of views expressed by its writers tounded the superficial observer, but
in the American Jewish Con - into the agenda, if there is a
be- ANL
ference which is scheduled to b e proposal for a declaration in fa-
hind
the
facade
of
apparent
power
th
ere held in New York sometime i n vor of a Jewish Commonwealth.
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. was nothing sound, solid and substant ial. September? Who am I to tak
f
I
Competent observers always knew the this upon myself?
IT Is NOT my purpose to say
military strength of Fascism was ne " I have no credentials, have n 0 anything against a Jewish Corp-
Sabbath Readings of the Law
official place in the councils o
gible and that it could not stand g""
though everybody who
up Israel. I am one of the littl e f monwealth,
Pentateuchal portion—Numbers 30:2-36:13.
reads this column knows what
against
any
modern
industrial
power.
people
who
has
an
advantag
Prophetical portion—Jeremiah 2:4-28:3, 4.
•
A S S
e 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 s uc- that
once a week he is allower
JULY 30. 1943
TAMMUZ 27. 5703 cessful war against the Ethiopians. T h e to have his say in the Jewisi I wide and unbridgeable divisions
) in Jewish life and on that issue
Fascists held demonstrations in Ro me press.
there can be no compromise that
Like
most
of
the
other
little
where hot-headed, irresponsible you th people, I am seldom at the meet- intellectual integrity can prove.
Negroes Blamed for Riots
shouted "Tunis, Jibuti, Corsica and Nic e ," ings. Like them, I don't like An honest Zionist can no more
his ideal than an anti-Zion-
Prosecutor William E. Dowling puts ut the actual conquering of these pla ces 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 t h e
home than get mixed up in con- It is as unthinkable as Republi-
Negroes and charges Louis Martin 'of the „ hird-rate military establishment of F as- tentious
affairs. We little people cans and Democrats yielding their
Michigan Chronicle with being the prin- ism.
don't want to be big and would fundamentals and lying down to-
rather win a game at rummy gether in a national convention.
cipal instigator of dissension in this area,
(A harmony convention be-
av at home than be elected to some-
and accused the National Association of t No modern nation can successfully pl ,'thirl
tween Republicans and Demo-
he
role
of
conqueror
unless
it
has
t
if,
or
would
rather
consort
II
Colored People, saying: "They - have been i
crats would dissolve the first
with a fine spirit in a book.
day.)
fomenting trouble with their crusades t ndustrial and technological means a nd
(I have just finished the auto-
It is good that men stick to
It biography of Stefan Zweig which
in the Negro neighborhoods from the a he basic resources for such a difficu ut
a little man a feeling of that which they essentially be-
start. If you want to do something con- t dventure, Italy lacked everything. B gives
lieve, but to bring conflicting
being awfully inadequate.)
structive in the situation you might try a he Sawdust Caesar, and it is really a n Sometime, though, when he ob- faiths into a convention called
ppropriate
name
for
the
deposed
Benit
to control the Negro press." And again th
0, serves the way the big men do, for the purpose of establishing
unity and peace is no way either
referring to the National Association for u ought that sound and fury could mak fi e a little man should like to get to
unity or peace.
p
for
the
technical
and
material
de
_
big
for
a
moment,
to
walk
into
the Advancement of Colored People, the ci encies. He thought the gods had blesse , the big meeting and in a mirac- The result of bringing Zionism
prosecutor said: "That organization is hi s ambitions to be a conqueror whe a 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 mi n up: "Ah, gentlemen, much more forthwith to shatter even the
semblance of unity. The anti-
directly to the riot by constantly empha- to ken, and his dream of empire, even S- important than the pride of your Zionist
would at once feel like
individual opinions is the peace
a
sizing racial inequality and advising its li mited Mediterranean one, fell about hi and dignity of Israel. I have come a Protestant in a meeting at
members to take militant action." ea rs and finally destroyed him.
to ask you to desist from your which he was being urged to ac-
contentions which have brought cept the literal interpretation of
The Prosecutor charged that the Negro
According to latest reports, all out us nowhere, and find a w-ty by the Eucharist as the veritable
press "has deliberately stirred up dis- W and signs and trappings of Fascism - which Israel may walk in the body and blood of Jesus . . .
unity of men who know that they
sension for the sole purpose of selling ha ye disappeared. If Marshal Badogli O will
be respected ( In proportion "Well," the Protestant would say,
their yellow papers."
ca n organize a stable government we ma O a. they are united.
I think I "I seem to be in the wrong
y speak for all the little people church."
ex
pect that all the discriminatory decree s who are quite sick and tired
If the Negro did not suffer from racial
of
If a resolution for Zionism
inequality, then there would be some point of the Fascist regime will be repealed being in a rough-house."
Wi
th the same speed as they were in the
In such a mood of pretending t arried, anti-Zionists would feel
to the charge that the National Associa-
ter ritories,occupied by the United Nation to be big for a moment I take hat this Conference was none
tion for the Advancement of Colored Peo- ar
,S it upon myself to point the way ° f their persuasion, and where
ple contributed to the dissension; and the mies.
to peace in the American Jewisa a re peace and uhity 'If a consid-
Michigan Chronicle could be condemned
For all practical purposes, Italy is out Conference.
rabic and influential number of
for stirring up dissension. But as long as of the war. The actual armistice will only
It seems to me the Conference ews can not march along?
racial inequality is a fact, we may hardly eff ectuate the unwillingness of the Italian will break up in another rough- If a resolution for Zionism
expect the National Association or the Pe° ple to continue in a conflict for which house if gentlemen insist on f ails, then Zionists can feel that
Negro press to meekly accept the in- the y never had any heart or stomach.
pressing their Jewish ideologies. a n ideal most precious to their
equality and say and do nothing about it. T
Let us be very frank with each carts has been repudiated, and
he end of Fascismo does not necessar- other and come at once to the w h here are peace and unity if
Before we accept the statement that ily mean that Nazism will fall with the
the Negro press "has deliberately stirred sam e ease and suddeness as did Fascismo. point: No peace will come out of a large number of men feel
the Conference, which is dedi- d enied?
up dissension for the sole purpose of sell- T
cated to peace and unity in Is-
ing their yellow papers," we would have i ne he Nazi military police state is a genu-
See SEGAL—Pag e 9
to have definite, clear and unassailable t erf military police state and not a coun-
evidence, and the mere declaration by t ary eit as was the Fascist. The Nazi mili-
the Prosecutor is not sufficient. dui state had the technological and in-
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 old zati on of such a state.
cry of agitation that has been the favorite T
standby in labor disputes does not ex- and he conqueror Nazi state had the will
plain the fundamental cause of the race of the power to achieve the conquest
riots in Detroit and elsewhere. The agita- due much that belonged to others, but in
tion carried on by the American Associa- l a ps time the Nazi aggressors will col-
tion for the Advancement of Colored Peo- Ri p e e, because the opposition has such
pie and Louis Martin of the Michigan sour Hor technology, industry and re-
Chronicle may have created some dissatis- and ces that the Nazis will have to crack
crumble.
faction among Negroes, but to maintain
that this agitation caused the riots is to
ignore many factors that do contribute
A Heartening Message
and have contributed to racial disputes
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 the Rescue the Jews of Europe, heartened the
Negro press will no doubt continue to gathering when he declared "Our endeav-
emphasize racial inequality and, until they rs will not cease until the Nazis are
both offend against the law, the proba- c orushed ".
bilities are that they will continue to
It is perhaps graceless to complain, but
"stir up dissension". Should they desist when conditions of the Jews in all Europe
from these activities they would have no are so acute, we feel impelled to ask,
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?
Fascism Collapse.;
It seems to us that Hungary, Roumania
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
Molly Pitcher will greet yo throughout the nation on
Fascismo was a bogus military police countries be exploited to the utmost; to L _ - gust
when brigades
of
lIfollys trill tag every buyer of War Bonds
state that held the Italian people in thrall- t the end that the thousands in those coun- and Stamps.
They will carry on the tradition of the Revolutionary War
ries may find a safe refuge?
heroine
who
has
gone
down
in
history because she
the battle or Monmouth in
aided her fighters at
1770:
Molly Pitcher Tag Day, Aug. 4,