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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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Federation Now

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

August 13, Vy43

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Plain

Talk...

The rumor from Madrid that a military
dictatorship has been established in the
by Al Segal
Third Reich with Reichsmarshal Hermann'
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Wilhelm Goering as chief of state, and
beneral Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave.
Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel as chief
Telephone: CAdillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle
A Jew Is DeaCI:
cuoscription in Advance
$3.00 Per Year of the High Command, and Grand Ad-
v.() Inure publication, all correspondence and news matter miral Karl Doenitz as .Chief of the Navy
A Christian Speaks
must touch this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
has
stirred
the
nation
and
has
given
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only.
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- rise to all sorts of speculation as to the
7 FIND something about a cer- by their persecutors.
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon . significance of the change, if true.
is taro Jew who has died, in a
But when a Christian spea
sibility for en endorsement of views expressed by its writers
in which the Forward we know by his voice that t 6e
Whether Hitler has been deposed at pamphlet
Whether
Movement of
the
Episcopal crucified Teacher is not dead.
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
office et Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. this time or not there is practical unani- Church prints a daily thought for From the good will he speaks
Chr(s.
istians to take into their we know that the dream of
mity among students of the war and of the minds,
brotherhood has not
. n•i ,
Sabbath Readings of the Law
Third Reich that a military dictatorship For the daily thought of Sat- though it is trampled among the
urday,
July
17,
there
was
the
dead
on
the
battlefields
and
will t a ke e the place of the Nazi party, if matter of this Jew who has gone. though it is buried with the
Pentateuchal portion—Dent. 3:23-7:11.
Prophetical portion—Isaiah 40 :1-26.
and when the military leaders realize "A Jew is dead," the page for heaped-up dead in the long
July
said. "His name was graves.
that defeat is inevitable. In fact, practi- Meyer 17
Levin, the bombardier in
AUGUST 13, 1943
We must make much of eVery
AB 12, 5703
cally all the men and women who have Colin Kelly's plane. Some months Christian voice. In the darkness
Kelly's heroic death, Levin of these times every Christian
seen Nazism in action in the Third Reich after
has followed him to the grave. voice is like the light that was
Arab-Jewish Relations
now believe that the curse of Germany Twenty-four years old and from the years the pagans had it. By
Brooklyn, New York. A Jew is this light the holy lamps were
Attention has been focused upon Pal- is the militar y caste and that it used the dead.
left over in our temple during
It is not fitting that we should the years the pagans had it. By
estine by the articles of Cyrus L. Sulz- Nazis to further its ambitions and de-
make too much of his death, for this light the holy lamps were
berger, New York Times correspondent. signs and would use any other political he is only one among thousands kindled again in the good hour
in which he charges that the Jews of party or group, no matter what its of Americans who have died. He when the desecrated temple was
is, likewise, only one among restored.
Palestine are arming themselves for a ideology.
tens of thousands of his own peo-
The good time is coming again
pie who have died striking at when the pagans shall be out of
struggle with the Arabs when the war
The militarists are concerned only about fascism.
But still, although we the temple. Then by the light of
is over.
the perpetration, power and prestige of must not make too much of it, all men of good will the lamps
his life was important to him, the shall be kindled. The light
of
Rabbi Stephen S. Wise denies that the its own group and if it can remain intact only one he had. Meyer Levin is Christian men, the light of Jews.
after
the
war
it
will
have
achieved
a
dead.
Jews of Palestine have any such inten- victory.
The light of our prophets and
"But, in another way, it is fit- the light of theirs. Their Ser-
tions and points to the patriotic and
ting that this death of a well- mon on the Mount and our Com-
How can Prussian militarism be de- known flier should be noted. All mend ments. By these lights w
e
heroic record of Palestine Jewry in the stroyed? That is the question that must people who have slurred his peo- shall find
the brotherhood. Thanks
war.
should notice it. He is a sym- to every Christian and to every
now concern all of us, for if any vestige pie
bo l o
f houands
t
s
of
people Jew whose heart guards the light
We do not know whether Mr. Sulzber- of the military caste should be permitted who will di e fightin g for his America
in the immense darkness.
ger is overemphasizing the strained re- to survive this war, then we may have and, being a Jew in this world,
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lations between Jews and Arabs, but again lost the peace. One would do well Meyer-Levin could have told us 7 CAN GOB along with the For-
what
he
was
fighting
for.
He
1
ward
Movement
of the Epis-
from all reports coming from the Arab to remember that not all of the United
knew, and his people knew, long copal Church, as can all men
world one would indeed be an incurable Nations see eye to eye on this question of before most of us had awakened of good will of all faiths who
optimist if he believed that all is serene. the complete liquidation of Prussian mili- from sleep. And now he is dead. know that their lights are not
tarism.
But his people, his parents, exclusive.
It is reported in London from Alexan-
his relatives remain with us, and
"The tragedy of our time is
Those nations that still believe in the they have given with many of that men forget what they have
dria, Egypt, that Nuri Pasha, former Pre-
t
us
what
hey
loved
to
America.
in
common and see only what
mier of Iraq, after a week-end meeting balance of power policy, and buffer state Remember
Mey
er
Levin
and
speak
divides
them," says the Forward
with the Egyptian Premier, declared that protection do not believe that German y sharply to any man who tries Nlovement
on the July 15 page
to tell you that America should of its pamphlet. "W"c forget to
the Jewish problem in Palestine was the should be made too weak militarily .
not stand for 'liberty and justice. say, '11e is a human being, loved
major obstacle to the plan of forming a
And if recent and present trends are for all.—
by God; therefore, we are joined
confederation of Arab states.
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any criterion, the balance of power and
Instead we say, 'Ile is
The matter of Arab-Jewish relations buffer state advocates hold the center WELL, a Christian has spoken together.'
a Jew, a Negro, a white man, a
will be one of the chief topics for discus- of the stage. We know too well that v v 'here. I don't know his name, capitalist, a member of the work-
sion on the agenda of the American should the peace be based upon balance yet I do know inn). I know him as i„g. class.'
I know what his Master said ...
"We must return to the fact
Jewish Conference. There„ are certain of power, buffer states, cordon sanitaires The
Beatitudes and the Golden o f our common humanity; eke
minimum demands which American and and steel rings, that conditions may
Rule, good will unto men and we stagger in the night of hate
arise the
p arable o f the
n. and bitterness. What have we in
world Jewry have a right to insist upon. that will necessitate the arming of Ger-
He has
as spoke n wit h Sher he
ritaart common?
These minimum demands mast be predi- many in order to maintain the balance.
of his Master and by that 1
"(1) Science agrees with the
cated upon the realities that obtain in
know him. Yes, this is the voice Bible that we are all descended
Palestine, and one of those stubborn reali-
There is considerable talk about Ian- of a Christian.
from one common stock.
ties is the Arab world.
guage and ethnic confederation of the na- There are those who may say "(2) We are all made in the
it
is
not
seemly
for
us
to
make
image
of God, and each soul is
tions of Europe. Those who favor this
No amount of wishful thinking and type of balance of power advocate a much of one voice speaking kind- of supreme value. Each of is
lv of Jews; it is like a beaten is a coin in God's mint, equal
enthusiasm can conjure it out of existence. Latin, Slavic and Germanic grouping dog
licking a friendly hand. in His treasury.
It is there and will have to be met. based upon language and ethnic origins. But in another way it is fitting
"(3) We are all loved by God,
that we should make much of
This would mean three distinct sovereigns what
a Christian says. The voice and He wills that each of us
instead of the 20 odd that divided Europe of a Christian must be multiplied should fulfill his life. We have
Italian Jewry Breathes Easier . before the war. We can envisage the that it may be heard above the the same Father; we are all
same power politics played by the three shrieking of hate and malice. am brothers.
The 40,000 Jews of Italy are no longer, federations as were played by the 20 odd. above the voices of the guns.
"(4) If all of us could have
subject to the racial laws passed by the Economic insufficiency would still ob-
Christ has been crucified again travelled around the world with
Fascist Party. Of all the ridiculous laws rain and consequently military establish- on the battlefields and in the Mr. Willkie, we too might have
enacted by Benito Mussolini to please his ments would be created to take from the hateful hearts of men and in seen the truth of Christian
teach-
Axis partner, none was more ridiculous neighboring confederations that which
the chancellories of lust and ar- ing and have returned thinking
it
than the discriminatory anti-Semitic legis- could not or did not care to make.
rogance. Brotherhood lies tram- in terms of the equality of All
lation that affected but one-tenth of one
pled in fields sodden with the mankind.
per cent of the population of Italy.
If we honestly want to end militarism blood of the children; it is buried "Teach us,
0 God, that all our
in Germany, and if we honestly want to
Despite its absurdity it still affected the reduce the possibility of war to an irre- in the long, communal graves i n differences are transcended in
which the dead have been cast
lives of many Italian Jews who were in ducible
See SEGAL—Page 9
minimum
in
Europe,
then
we
the civil service and the professions. Now must remove the causes of European wars
that the laws have been repealed, the and German militarism.
Jews of Italy can once more suffer and
PONDS OVER AMERICA * * *
endure
endure equally with the rest of the Italian
We in America did the job of elimi-
and, from all reports coming from nating conflicts among ourselves by form-
Italy, their sufferings are as much as ing a United States of America.
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rib ca l . 0 ur ra-
Since 1865 Ameri-
beings can endure without the cial, linguistic, geographic pro ems could
Entrance—Union Stockyards, Chicago
can stockraisers
added burden of discrimination.
be made as difficult, if i not more difficult,
have been taking
than those of Europe, but we were deter-
their animals to
Mussolini made one colossal blunder mined to have a Federal Union and so
the Union Stock-
after another, but the prize blunder was we have it. Europe can have a Federal
yards at Chicago,
maintaining an in-
the aping of the Nuremberg laws of the Union of all the states on that continent
stitution that
Nazis. Italy needed no scapegoat. The if those who control the destinies of that
helped to make
Italian Jews had nothing to do with continent
America great.
find it in their interest to bring
Italy's failure to get what she wanted at about the change.
the Versailles Peace Conference. Italian
If
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Jewry could not be charged with respon-
a federation of Europe is not
sibility for bad economic conditions, nor b brought into being at the end of this war,
could they by any stretch of the imagina- then we may be sure that militarism will
In Hitler's Europe
tion be charged with internationalism, continue to flourish—and not necessarily
the farmers are pro-
Bolshevism or pacifism as they were in German; it may be Russian or French,
ducing too, but their.
Naziland. , -
or both, who knows. The end of Hitlerism
product goes to Naz i
Germany to feed the
in Germany or even of Prussian militarism
Keep
soldiers who are
We may now hope, with some reason. does not necessarily mean an euring
shooting thousands
that the hateful Nuremberg laws will peace. Somebody else may break thend
Our Traditions
of prisoners who ob-
soon be but a nightmarish memory in all as
peace
to this form of
long as there are 20 odd ambitious,
Buy
More
War
Bonds
Tyranny
of Europe. jealous, touchy sovereignties.

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JACOB H. SCHAKNE
Pres.-Gen. Mgr.
JACOB M. \ RGOL 1 S
Editor

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