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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

August 27, 1943

accept your policy and program.

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Frankly, it would be much more worth
while to have American and British lead-
ers accept a modest policy and program
by AI Segal
than to have them reject a most ambitious
program and policy. which may have had
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Y friend is a refugee from America and you, a Jew,
s of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon- his eloquence, acumen and skill.
Pet
were
Germany. A very fine gentle- made to leave your native land
ability for en endorsement of views expressed by its writers
American Jewry speaks with more au- man who has been making a brave
struggle here. He hasn't as yet and the land of your fathers. You
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post- . thority than does any other Jewish group been able, though, to bring to- went for refuge to
South Amer-
1879.
office at Detroit, Mich., under the lief of March 3,
in the world today. American Jewry is gether all the tattered ends of ica.
the trustee for world Jewry today and, his torn life but he manages.
"well, what would you think of
He is deeply grateful even for
. Sabbath Readings of the Law
as trustee, must exercise sound judgment
h vestiges of existence that were America? You would keep in your
the
and discretion if it is to discharge its
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 11:26-16:17.
left over to him and has been heart the America you loved—the
trusteeship
satisfactoril y•
trying very hard to make a full America in which you had a
Prophetical portion—Isaiah 54:11-55:5.
life out of them. Once he had a good life. You wtruld never forget
We hope that the men and women of very
good life, indeed.
that America and love it. It would
AUGUST 27, 1943
AB 26, 5703 the American Jewish Conference will act
It was good not only in ma- be to you like a parent from
courageously, forthrightly and as states- tarsal things. Even more, he was whom you were for the moment
se mrate
d by evil circumstances.
s
men.
To do less would be most unforta- a respected man in his comma- Your
Refugees to Russia?
ur faith in its ultimategood-
nity.
In
the
affairs
of
the
com-
nate at such a critical time as this.
munity he was one of the leaders, ness would be complete, You and
The Foreign Policy Association believes
an important man in his syna- your people had seen the great
that . many Jewish refugees will be ad-
gogue, a member of the Hills- goodness of America and you
Hitler
Is
Desperate
verein.
He was a good German, would think of the Hitler as only
mitted to Soviet Russia after the war,
too, one of the Social Democrats a trespasser on the decent way of
American life.
We are not informed whether they have
The many planned detachings of the and active in the party.
"I believe your great hope
any definite data to support the belief, German armed forces from the Russians, He lived in a good house. It would
be to get back home some
had
come
to
him
from
his
father.
day—to
an America that again
at
Orel,
Belgorod,
Kharkov,
and
from
the
or whether the belief is based upon the American -
It was an ancestral possession. would be the country you loved.
Canadian-British forces in Sic- His
grandfather had built it. His That's so, isn't it? that would
fact that after the war Russia will need ily are beginning to affect the morale of people
"
had been in Germany two
I replied,
many skilled workers, and consequently the German people. The people know centuries and the old house was my "Yes,"
be
hope."
deeprooted things of
will open their borders and admit refu- now that the invincible Wehrmacht is be- is
"Well," he went on, "that's my
hone of
life 'the
in Germany.
case, too. I still lo ve the Germany
gee Jews,
ing defeated, and is retreating on all
had cherished this that was the good home of my
fronts, and no stultifying phrases of My friend
had improved it from
hattheis mtahne y yertn
arasn begiiir;
Based upon past action, it seems inbred- "planned aetachment" and "elastic de- house,
time to time, had kept it new. He Hitler. y
ible that the Soviets would permit free tense " can longer conceal the bitter truth had just had it decorated inside remains in my heart. It is the
of impending doom from the weary , dis- in November, 1938, when the po. Germany to which I hope to re-
trapped German people.
Nazis took vengeance on all the old house some day. The news is
for the shooting of the em- so good.
enthusiastic foreign workers, the land of
Adolf Hitler knows that there are ,deep Jews
bass y secretary in Paris.)
"But," I asked him, "how will
cracks in the home line of defense and
Yes, he had decorated it hope- you get the house back? There's
the Soviets were practically hermetically to make sure that the cracks do not spread fully.
He still had faith in Ger- a new owner."
sealed to immigrants.
so as to cause the whole home structure many. He believed even then that
/ f f
Should the report turn out to be correct t to collapse, he appoints his ace sadist, Hitler was a temporary rash on TH AT brought up a matter
the German body and shortly
it may mean that Russia has become ton- Heinrich Himmler, to the post of Minister would disappear. He would live in . . that
was
prime
on his
i am
not
speaking
for mind.
my-
erant to differing religious, political and of the Interior. Now Himmler and his this house for many years to self alone," he said. "Much more
economic beliefs. One could hardly expect Gestapo are in complete control of the come, and in full assurance of I speak for the thousand , : of the
he could decorate it.
Jewish refugees to migrate to a land that German people. He will not hesitate to that
The land on which it stood was dispossessed
of Germany.
There
must be reparation.
Of course,
did not permit of a measure of religious use terror to achieve his ends. In fact, not merely a piece of real estate. there
will be retribution for the
andpolitical freedom. After the tragic his appointment is an assurance that the It was something sanctified by his Nazis but there must be reliant-
and their pious living. my .tion also for the Jews and non-
experience in Germany with its one- p art y t most ruthless methods will be em to e 1 people
I n the time of the poi
Jews who were robbed in Ger-
o
keep
the
masses
of
the
people
in
line.
system and its denial of political and eco- The Gestapo knows
friend wa
u
was summoned
late one t many and in the occupied coun-
nomic rights to differing racial minors-
no other
night.
He
must
come
along
to
the
tries.
and
the distinction
between
Ar
police station, and after that he
Aryans
ter, one could hardly expect Jewish refu-
Aryans was
validlong
He recalled that after the last
ys
and
non-
v
had a period in a concentration war . Germany was made to., pay
only as
gees to go to a country where there was
. as the r- camp.
They told the
him,
finally,
that reparations for the e damage to
camp
provided
supported the brutal regime of the he could
a possibility of discrimination such as vans
leave
N az i
Fiance—for the cities destroyed,
Nazi
they have had to endure.
s. The all-important fact to Himmler he left Germany at once—he and for
the homes wrecked. It wasn't
and Hitler is to maintain -arbitrary power his family,
all paid but the principle was es-
Can it be that Russia envisages a post- and authority.
In less than a week he was out tablished that the wanton destroy-
of the house of his fathers and er must make good for his de-
war Europe in which she is not threat-
r
t
ay toleStrit z erland. A few
German dissidents s have not forgotten
'I days strucstio
ened? If she does envisage such a post- how they were treated
by the Gestapo
13e ide a s. that it always has been
f r o m ri end
war Europe, then the need for a militar y
house
' : "Th`` the mo
se 71 has been taken n f
r
moral
law that the robber
in
the
early
days
of
Nazi
rule
when
police state becomes of much less im- had not
en Hitler
must pay back if the stolen prop-
yet achieved the comp ete con- mY fri end I saa: ‘i hope to get erty was available. It was a debt.
portance. Then she can build a sound solid
in ib back
ta gaitno that house and live Yes, he said, the Nazis must be
ation
of his and
totart
civil state where all the inhabitants may former dissidents
i tahrian state. .These
thinking of returning made to pay back. Where the
enjoy the civil rights that have obtained
dents "'re
propetIty. still could be found in
You
will
now
be
shown
by
t
.-1
1
ehe
new
in all civil states of the western world,
Gestapo
po that to uermany 9" . . . . He thought
he , its original form there must be
the cruelties and bestialities of pre-war heard something reproachful in iestitution. Where the property
has been liquidated there must be
Then, too, the Russians may have come Germany were mere child's play. The my voice. "Please don't think ill com
' pensat
of
i on.
" he said.
to the realization that individual initia- ruthlessness will, in all probability , be
in
Of
cour se, those who preferred
He
me,
asked
me
to put myself in
tive, religious and political freedom are direct proportion to the danger to the his place . . ." Let
tu
Germany could not
us say your not to returnto
sound bases for the development of her regime .
people had lived in America 200 expect restoration of then prop
economy.
ears and America had done well
but exiles who resumed their
The workers of German y, both native Years
f or you, as America has. You had – lives in Germany should be paid
One would do well not to speculate to and foreign, can, however, destroy the served America well and Amer- to full for that of which they
Nazi regime
despite of the Gestapo h t terror. ica had served you well. Your
much upon this report. It may be but a Tbere
are methods
life and the life of America were "M 'ey l'ofbrb ie e ( n L thought hat this ,
sabotage t that the like
cert
one.
In
st
v
i
g
il
ant
Foreign Policy Association.
t Gestapo agent cannot de- "Then,
let us say, the impossi_ agenda of the American Jewish
tect, and we may be reasonably certain ble happened. A Hitler took over
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See SEGAL—Page 9
that once the workers decide to end the —
Nazi rule that they will be able to under-
The Conference
mine and destroy it. Men who have lived
PONDS OVER AMERICA * * *
under tyrannical rule for a long time
The American Jewish Conference will become
wise in the ways of
sab tage and
get under way on Aug. 29, and will carry evasion.
In San Antonio,
on until Sept. 2.
The a ppointment of Himmle is a deft-
Texas, stands a
Alamo Chapel
mission fort of
The Conference can become an organi- nice indication that Hitler is becoming
which is written:
zation that will really speak with author- desperate. Up till now he depended upon
"Thermopylae
had h er messe nger
ity for American Jewry, inasmuch as the sinister, persuasive distorter of facts,
of defeat, the Al a-
practically every y Jewish group is repre- Joseph Goebbels.
mo had none." 182
rented, or it can be just another Confer-
President Roosevelt and W i n s t o n
men gave their
ence that passes pious resolutions and then Churchill have called upon the Axis pep-
lives here in 1856.
adjourns, or it can be the forum for the pie to revolt. This call over the heads of
expression of the point of view of one the Axis governments may stiffen the re-
segment or fraction of American Jewry sistance of the people against the Ges-
and merely duplicate the work of already tapo, but widespread revolt can only
existing organizations. Should it do the be expected if and when the armed forces
latter it can hardly hope to continue to join with the people against the Nazis.
H ow many relics, dea r
function as a different and all-inclusive
We rather look forward in the imme-
to the h earts of mil-
American Jewish organization,
diate future to a steady, insidious spread
lions of Europeans,
of disconte and sab otag e which
Hitler has wantonly
will
It should be borne in mind that it is eventually nt
destroyed? Thou-
Be
re sult in the br eakdow n of
one
of shrines link-
one thing to control an organization and the Reich economy and its cap
ing the present with
acity to
Ever Alert
have your particular policy or program
produce
the
needed
past
glory
have been
adopted, and yet another thi
war materials.
thing to have
Buy
War
Bonds
smashed to rubble.
It
seems
to
us
that
Nazism
is
on
its
those who cutrol the fate of peoples way out.

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