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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

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who were instructed to shoot to kill if
the Duce attempted to escape. That did
not daunt the Goebbels men, for they
knew that there was nothing impossible
to the intrepid and resourceful pare-
troopers of the Third Reich. The para-
troopers were told where the Duce was
hidin g, and they were ordered to bring
him back alive.

With daring and skill they descended
upon the prison and, before the surprised
and confused guards could act, they res-
cue d the hero of the farce comedy—Benito

September 17, 1943

(

Plain Talk...

by

AI Segal

•

Buried Again

EAR

Mr. Segal: Recently you could bravely assert the cultural,
printed your obituary
in religious and nationalistic distinc-
which, it seemed to me, you at- tions that mako them different.
Entered as Second class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
Every detail of the great rescue spec- tempted to suggest that kind of He knew that only through a
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 18;.;,
life that, in your opinion, Jewish nation in a Jewish state
table was duly broadcast all over the Jewish
is worth being lived. From it I could a courageous assertion 01'
Reich. This marvelous radio drama should gathered
that you are an assimi- the Jewish identity be possible.
Sabbath Readings of the Law
make the German people forget their lationist and regard that sorry He was a Jew unafraid.
bombed cities, their slaughtered sons and state of being Jewish as the ideal.
Pentatetichal portion—Deut. 26:1-28:8.
Such is the life I should
When I read your obituary I to write about in your obituary,
husbands, their mounting shortages, and was
Prophetical portion—Isaiah 60:1-22.
very sad for you. I asked but, alas, yours was an empty
the increasing danger of actual invasion myself to what purpose has Segal Jewish life. I can scarcely call it
SEPTEMBER 17, 1543
ELUL 17, 5703 of the Reich. Thus the desperate propa- lived as a Jew? As you reported a Jewish life. It has gone to
gandist must have reasoned, for otherwise your life you might have been a join those other sorry Jews who
member of any of the other va- never understood what being
why should such a preposterous tale be rieties
The Zionist Convention
of Jewish life that try to Jewish meant. Poor, wandering
told.
be kind and are full of good will. Jews who are never quite sure of
In what respect was your life their add ress.
The ever-recurrent theme of the Zionist
Certainly the Nazipsychologists know paIrticsulli<darlyo
, could a y conscientious
convention held in Columbus, 0., was "No that the German people are not concerned
t jcMwi'ssiel l?f this Welwas not
a rablbVnat sa
about 3o
h ou
eu ha,(iit
1.
waste
'd
Jew. He 'may as
l
half measures, no palliatives, no piece- about the fate of the inept and ridiculous
funeral. In
In caduoirity
better
have
been
born
at
all
for
all
the
leave
it
unsaid.
Were
I
the
rabb;
meal solutions of the Jewish problem; Mussolini. But the y may be intrigued and Jewishness that was in lum. I did I would say how can I bury Segal
beguiled for a while by this amazi
the establishment of a Jewish Common- comi
think of you reproachfully Jewis hly since he so little under-
ng not
but charitably.
opera stunt
may forget their
stood Nv h a t being a Jew is.
wealth in Palestine; the repudiation of own c miseries
for a and
while.
In charity, I thought I should
But, I suppose, in my charit-
like
to
write
for
you
an
the White Paper, and the insistence upon
obituary able way I would finally consent
T
more e is bet cons i l i t n y g to yo
N u
ua 7 is
Some o f by
our the
own
people
you.
u p.okO e
al bc\ ' vokri ( 1 1 1 ,1 I
, h olwever, are
to
free immigration into Palestine under the disturbed
report
gilt
lite "S an obit- to bury
"% etlisnL
lin
, t he rescued uary of the kind of Jewish life I would ask God
control of the Jewish Agency."
to forgive me
Duce has been proclaimed the leader of f I . should have liked to see yoa for the sake of kindness.
May I
v e.
It is understandable that the convention the Italians by the Nazis. On that score Je w i sh A . Jewish life that was really suggest that, since you are really
e li
still alive, it is not too late to
' speakers and those who greeted the con- their fears, from our point of view, I would, of course, give you mend
your ways in order that you
gr oun dless. Mussolini is dead and
credit
for
ort
being
h ic t , i g the decent man
liai may h y ultif matellyft get a
vention should speak so forthrightly and ing
no th -
ha seil i sdotti:
can be done to revive him. H e e yo o l u ripsaee
w v isil y
ssi li onao and to yearn for je
equivocally about these matters so vital was effective only as a conqueror
i
lived.Then ' I shall ' b'
to world Jewr y .
brotherhood are qualities that are proud to attend your
funeral
among those who followed him either JeNo
v
i
sh
but
they
are
also
the
quail-
which
shall
be
a
tribute
to
a Jew
from otives
of
self-inte
rest or from lack ties ofti g lc ool Chroisftians
The Zionist program received the al- of understanding
,srtT hilylived his Jewish
11
.
r merits as life, has w
. As a puppet of the giverai in ‘yo
Cincinna 1.
uti; isobitue
b y ou migt ifc • • ' b.
•Vaary
most unanimous approval of American Nazis he is not even a sawdust
Caesar
just a s Nvel l hav
ee
n
busied
Jewry when the American Jewish Confer- and all the psychologists and scientists of from a Christian church and in- I
f 1 f
AM sorry tha t a t this stage
ence passed its already historic resolution the Reich cannot resurrect him
i
terred
in
a
Christian
cemetery.
him.
A of my life it is
i too late to
What particularly entitled you change it
demanding a Jewish Commonwealth in
s ways; so I fear that
a e te art% spalc a r c e e d itio i j aewps ortion of f the
The
Nazi
propagandists
are
surely
h e
i . e nyt;ii(1 ) I n sity lott 0 fin a t ( it eliitd p no l s ‘ ,si f t
Palestine. With this support the Zionist resourceful
lot. This latest stunt of at- I like you and, therefore in Fo.nsTe
c
leaders can go before the representatives tempting to
'•
.
e dead shows to I" obituary I would prefer to Yet,
of the United Nations with the knowledge what lengths they will go in their efforts describe
a life that would entitle i p y:i:: s i ona perhaps, I can fix a cons-
rhties rabbi i
speak
) n au nl
f
-
that a united people is behind them, and to build up the mor ale of their
th • hopeless,
wassino national-
tion
of
Israel
on
High—a
life
in their name can make demands which dispirited, defeat-drunken people.
that our saints and sages would i s t. Segal couldn't approve of a
that
i n neg w i nma i t n i oh n o a a l its, nl‘ t , hceonmii l n a g i n kii n nt(o i hbat:i -
know
Jewish and had done
they may hesitate to make if they spoke
Perhaps from now on the propaganda its part was
toward the fulfillment of
just come through a bitter tray-
line will be more and better farce come- the destiny
but for a fraction of American Jewry.
of Israel.
too much nationalism.
dies. Who knows what the Nazi brain-
t'
1
I
Ile believed that the Jew, as
The responsible leaders of world Zion- trust will decide upon next? We confess F you had lived an ideal Jew- ail " of
al life I could say of you: a man of the world, should be the
ism know that the problem is enormously nothing shall surprise us. Not after this S egal
was faithful to the ancient last to isolate himself within na-
e
g
tional borders, away from his
complicated by the intransigeance of the last performance.
d
oH f e the sJewish l il n In ation
a t t i oenh a ine l : function and duty as a brother
al
store
leaders of the Arab world. This opposition
in the family of man. In an hour
pion i among
a gmotn y those ei who
hi o fight
a Jew f so.ii. when
mankind e ve
s
up-
of the Arabs must be met and overcome.
dignity of Israel
ward toward the e
of
J Judge
u d ge Will
in
c
t
h
oe
m
nf
i
o
n
nzem
ae
l
i
t
n
hi..
Some mode of living together in amity
br
iam Fried an
m otherhood, it seemed to segal
and cooperatively with the Arabs must
of Israe l's mission not in vague t a falsification of the Jew's Mes-
sianic role to swate himself and
William Friedman was appointed to ex
pressi ons of good will
be found,
shut himself up in boundary lines.
brotherly
love
but
in
a
concrete
fill the vacancy caused by the death of
"He

-

I

A formula will have to be worked out Keidan.
the noted and beloved jurist Harry B. Jewis

nation under a Jewish thought that for the Jew to set
hHe knew that through the

and , t himself apart as a separate na-
United
Nations, for they, in the last analy-
.
instrument of a nation
Sts, wll have to decide the question. We
tion in a separate state was to
Governor Harry P. Kelly's appointment Israel could best expr ess
itself run away from his part in the
and its noble ideals.
know that the leaders of the United Na- of Judge Friedman has been hailed by
making of the new fellowship.
He was no timid Jew, afraid It wasn't courageous.
tions are sympathetic and understanding Detroit Jewry as a wise one.
of a courageous affirmation of
Many of us could not go along
and they can be counted upon to approve
Jewish living, not one of those
with S eg al in this but let us not
J
Judge
Fried
`tnan
a formula
that will be just and equitable who has watched the
city
is a
nati e Detroiter se ews
lv who seek to conceal them- think of him being less Jewish
to
all concerned.
es in the protective color- because our ideas of being Jew-
g ow from a ation
of hazy ideals of brother- ish were not like his.
His Jewish
small community to a mettan
area. hood. He yearned for brotherhood thinking was an aspiration
ro
oli
toward
The 46th Zionist Convention will no He has not only watched it gr
avoided the concept of broth- brotherhood and that's the main
doubt be remembered as the convention
w, but has but
erhood that is no more than
.
'
• Ling
of being Jewish, anyway. 1
in which a united Jewry expressed con- participated in the many and varied activi- similationism.
He
believed
in
a
brotherhood
have
wrestled
with
my
conscience
fidently and unequivocally what was pre- ties, so that he brings to the bench first-
viously only on its mind.
in which the J ews, like all other and I have come to the conclu-
hand knowledge of all groups, Segments members of the human f
sion that I can commend
-amilY, the mercy of the Most Hi gh."
him to
and activities of this thriving, bustling
metropolis.
Comedian Goebbels
BONDS OVER AMERICA * * *
He is equipped to deal with the finan-
The antics of the propaganda ministry dal ,
industrial, labor and social litiga-
"If they mean to have
of Joseph Goebbels are really comical tion that flows in a constant stream in
war, let it begin here,"
and amusing at times, but the affair of the Circuit Court of Wayne County. By
Lexington Green
Benito Mussolini tops all previous funny
Capt. John Parker cau-
tioned
his
60
Minute-
stuff of the exhausted and bewildered reason of his wide experienc e
• . . - ---...,,..
.-- ;•-- --- ,,--
men on Lexington ::..--=-%
in chari-
Nazi poison spreaders,
---.
Green, just before they - Y ----
table, communal and social activities, he
-- ...
%-'.::. ,
fired "the shot heard L
---.
'-'-':
Goebbels must have called upon all has a sympathetic understanding of the
.. .---..
..,
round the world." fr
his psychologic experts in an attempt to many problems that beset the underprivi-
take the minds of Germans off the stagger- leged i in the community, and he can be
■
77,....
ing defeats of in the
Russia
and the unexpected counted upon to mete out justice without
surrender
Italians.
harshness or sentimentality.
Something unusual and extraordinary
had to be done if they were to counter- live Judge
up Friedman knows that he must
act the ever-worsening morale of the bat-
to the standards of a noble and
tered masses. The masses have had a too great judge in his predecessor, Judge
Czechs, Dutchmen.
concentrated diet of tragedy, so they de- Harry B. Keidan,
Danes, Frenchmen.
tided upon farce comedy in the best Bal-
Norsemen, now living
kanand Italian musical comedy style.
under the Nazi heel,
remember their free-
Friedman upon his appo B.
dom and cherish their
and con-
Back
the
Att
ack,Buy
The
propaganda
ex
erts
discovered
gratulates
Governor
Harr
lost memorials now re-
Benito in a hideout,
y yt B. Kelly upon
an Extra $100 lionf. placed by the black
by guards, his excellent choice.

swastika.

