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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

September 17, 1943

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

who were instructed to shoot to kill if
the
Duce attempted to escape. That did
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
not
daunt the Goebbels men, for they
1 ublished Weekly by
Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.
knew
that there was nothing impossible
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
Pres.-Gen. Mgr.
to
the
intrepid and resourceful para-
JACOB MARGOLIS
Editor
troopers of the Third Reich. The para-
Seneral Offices and Publication 814, 515 Woodward Ave troopers were told where the Duce was
Telephone: CAdillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle
' hiding, and they were ordered to bring
iuoscription in Advance
$3.00 Per Yea r him back alive.

Plain Talk...

by Al Segal

•

Buried Again

io Insult) publication, all correspondence and news matter
muss reach this office by Tuesday evening of each
week.
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of
paper only.

With daring and skill they descended
upon the prison and, before the surprised
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- and confused guards could act they res-
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon- cued the hero f th
EAR Mr. Segal: Recently y
of e farce comedy—Benito
sibility for en endorsement of views expressed by its writers Mussolini.
printed your obituary ou could bravely assert the cultuci:Ittl:
religious and nationalistic distinc-
•
which, it seemed to use , y o u ti in
t- tions that make them differ
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
tempted to suggest that kind o
Every
detail
of
the
great
rescue
spec- Jewish life that, in your opinion f He knew that only through it
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, I87;.
tacle was duly broadcast all ov er the is
worth being lived. From it , Jewish nation in a Jewish state
could a courageous assertion t,:•
Reich. This marvelous radio drama should gathered that you are an assimi- y I the
Jewish identity be possibI
Sabbath Readings of the Law
t
.
make the German people forget their state
and regard that sorr He was a Jew unafraid.
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 26:1-28:8.
bombed cities, their slaughtered so n s and at e of being Jewish as the idea 1. Such is the life I should filo
When I read your obituary
husbands, their mounting shortage
Prophetical portion—Isaiah 60:1-22.
5, and was very sad for you. I asked I to write about in your obituary,
the increasing danger of actual in vasion myself to what purpose has Sega but, alas, yours was an empty
SEPTEMBER 17, 1943
Jewish life. I can scarcely call it
ELUL 17, 5703 of the Reich. Thus the desperate
lived as a Jew? As you reportec 1
I a Jewish life. It has gone to
propa- your
life
you
might
have
been
a
gandist must have reasoned, for oth erwise
member of any of the °the ir va- Join those other sorry Jews wh o
why should such a preposterous to le be rieties
The Zionist Convention
of Jewish life that try to never understood what being
told.
be kind and are full of good will. Jewish meant. Poor, wandering
who are never quite sure of
The ever-recurrent theme of the Zionist
In what respect was your life Jews
their address.
Certainly
the
Nazi
psychologists
particularly
Jewish?
convention held in Columbus, 0., was "No
know
What could a conscientious
I said to myself this was a
that the German people are not cone
rabbi say about you at your
half measures, no palliatives, no piece- about the fate of the inept and ridic erned wasted Jew. He may as well not funeral?
In charity he had better
have been born at all for all the
meal solutions of the Jewish problem ; Mussolini. But they may be intrigue 1.110US Jewishness
leave
it
unsaid.
Were I the rabbi
that was in him. I did
d and
the establishment of a Jewish Common- c beguiled for a while by this am atzhienigr
not think of you reproachfully I would say how can I bury Segal
•
Jewishly since he so little under-
but charitably.
wealth in Palestine; the repudiation of omit opera stunt and may forget
In charity, I thought I should stood what being a Jew is.
own
miseries
for
a
while.
But, I suppose, in my charit-
the White Paper, and the insistence upon

D

like to write for you an obituary

able way I would finally consent

more becoming to you as a Jew.
free immigration into Palestine under the d Some of our own people, however , are This
is to say, to write an obit- to bury you. One must. be kind
isturbed by the report that the res cued uary of the kind of Jewish life and, as I spoke the final words,
control of the Jewish-Agency."
Duce has been proclaimed the lead
I should have liked to see you I would ask God to forgive me
It is understandable that the convention t he Italians by the Nazis. On that er of live. Jewish life that was really for the sake of kindness. May I
suggest that, since you are really
Score Jewish.
speakers and those who greeted the con- g heir fears, from our point of ,jew, I would, of course, give you still alive, it is not too late to
your ways in order that you
vention should speak so forthrightly and i roundless. Mussolini is dead and noth- credit for being the decent man mend
may ultimately get a sendoff
you
seem
to
be.
To
be
decent
and
ng
can
be
done
to
revive
him.
equivocally about these matters so vital w
He compassionate and to yearn for worthy of a life that has beer
to world Jewry. a as effective only as a conqu eror brotherhood are qualities that are Jewishly lived. Then I shall 1) ,
proud to attend your funeral
or mong those who followed him ei they Jewish but they are also the quail- which
shall be a tribute to a Jew
The Zionist program received the al- o om motives of self-interest or from lack ties of good Christians.
has worthily lived his Jewish
On the basis of your merits as who
f
understanding.
As
a
puppet
of
1
most unanimous approval of American N
ife . . . F. T. Cincinnati.
azis he is not even a sawdust Ca the given in your obituary you might
Jewry when the American Jewish Confer- a nd all the psychologists and scientist esar just as well have been buried
I
from a Christian church and in-
ence passed its already historic resolution th e Reich cannot resurrect him.
AM sorry that at this stage
terred in a Christian cemetery.
demanding a Jewish Commonwealth in
What particularly entitled you c of my life it is too late to
The
Nazi
propagandists
are
surel
to
a place in a portion of the F hange its ways; so I fear that
Palestine. With this support the Zionist re
y a earth
. T. will not find it possible
sacred to Jews?
sourceful
lot,
This
latest
stunt
of
r at- . I like
onscientiously to attend my fu-
leaders can go before the representatives te
you
and,
therefore,
in
u
w mpting to revive the dead shows
m Y obituary I would prefer to c eral.
of the United Nations with the knowledge t o hat lengths they will go in their•feff0 to de
scribe a life that would entitle p Yet, perhaps, I can fix a cons-
that a united people is behind them, and di build up the morale of their hopel ess, you to a place in the congrega- m assionate rabbi to speak up for
tion of Israel on High—a life i s e: "This man was no national-
in their name can make demands which spirited, defeat-drunken people.
that our saints and sages would t. Segal couldn't approve of a
they may hesitate to make if they spoke lin Perhaps from now on the propaganda know was Jewish and had done i n ew nationalism coming into be-
part toward the fulfillment of u g in an hour when mankind had
but for a fraction of American Jewry.
e will be more and better farce co me_ its
st come through a bitter tray-
the destiny of Israel.
die
al ! of too much nationalism.
s.
Who
knows
what
the
Nazi
bra
f 1
The responsible leaders of world Zion- tru st will decide upon next? We conf in-
"He believed that the Jew, as
you had I lived
couldan ideal
not
ess
I
man of the world, should be the
F
ish
life
ism know that the problem is enormously las hing shall surprise us. Not after t
say of you: l aa st
to isolate himself within na-
his Segal
Segal was faithful to the an
t performance.
t ti onal borders, away from his
complicated by the intransi ean of the
dream of the Jewish nation re- fu
leaders of the Arab world. This opposition
stored. He was a valiant chant- in nction and duty as a brother
pion among those who fight for w h the family of man. In an hour
of the Arabs must be met and overcome.
the dignity of Israel in a Jewish wa en mankind was looking up :
Some mode of living together in amity
nation in a Jewish commonwealth. h i. rd toward the glimmering 01
Judge William Friedman
He believed in the fulfillment a otherhood, it seemed to segal
and cooperatively with the Arabs must
of Israel's mission not in vague sia falsification of the Jew's Mes-
William
Friedman
was
appointed
be found.
expressions of good will and s h nic role to separate himself and
fill the vacancy caused by the death to brotherly
ut himself up in boundary lines.
love but in a concrete
A formula will have to be worked out the
, noted and beloved jurist Harry of embodiment of Jewish life in a me 'He believed in the develop-
B. Jewish nation under a Jewish tho nt of a bright new.world and
that will meet with the approval of the A ei dan.
state. He knew that through the hi m ught that for the Jew to set
United Nations, for they, in the last analy-
instrument of a nation and state ti e self apart as a separate nu-
G
n in a separate state was to
sis, will have to decide the question. We
overnor Harry P. Kelly's appointme Israel could best express itself run
away from his part in the
IA and its noble ideals.
know that the leaders of the United Na-
tions are sympathetic and understanding Det Judge Friedman has been hailed by o f He
was no timid Jew, afraid It s king of the new fellowship.
a courageous
wasn't courageous.
roit Jewry as a wise one.
oura geous affirmation of
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and they can be counted upon to approve
Jewish living, not one of those w it Many of us could not go along
a formula that will be just and equitable wh udge Friedman is a native Detroit Jews who seek to conceal them-
h Segal in this but let us not
o
thin of him being less Jewish
to all concerned.
has watched the city grow from er a selves in the ,protective color- beca k use
our ideas of being Jew-
ation of hazy ideals of brother- ish
sma
were not like his. His Jewish
The 46th Zionist Convention will no He 11 community to a metropolitan are a. hood.
He
yearned
for
brotherhood
thin
but
avoided the concept of broth- brot king was an aspiration toward
doubt be remembered as the convention
has not only watched it grow, but ha s
erhood
that is no more than as- thin herhood and that's the main
in which a united Jewry expressed con-
g of being Jewish, anyway. i
icipated in the many and varied activ similationism.
fidently and unequivocally what was pre- ties so that he brings to the bench firs 1- He believed in a brotherhood have wrestled with my conscience
,
viously only on its mind.
and I have come to the •onclit-
hand knowledge of all groups, segment in which the Jews, like all other sion
that I can commend him to
s members of the human family, th
e mercy of the Most
and activities of this thriving bustling
High."
metropolis. ,
Comedian Goebbels
He
The antics of the propaganda ministry dal , is equipped to deal with the finan
of Joseph Goebbels are really comical tion industrial, labor and social litiga-
"If they mean to have
and amusing at times, but the affair of the that flows in a constant stream in
war, let it begin here,"
Benito Mussolini tops all previous funny reaso Circuit Court of Wayne County. By
Capt. John Parker call-
boned his 60 Minute-
stuff of the exhausted and bewildered
n
of
his
wide
experience
in
chari-
Nazi poison spreaders.
men on Lexington
table
Green, just before they
, communal and social activities, he
fired "the shot heard
Goebbels must have called upon all has a sympathetic understanding of the
round the world."
many
his psychologic experts in an attempt to ]agedd
problems that beset the underprivi-
take the minds of Germans off the stagger-
ing defeats in Rusiia and the unexpected count in the community, and he can be
surrender of the Italians.
ed upon to mete out justice without
harsh ness or sentimentality.
Something unusual and extraordinary
had to be done if they were to counter- live Jud
u ge Friedman knows that he must
act the ever-worsening morale of the bat-
p to the standards of a noble and
great
tered masses. The masses have had a too —
judge in his predecessor, Judge
Czechs, Dutchmen.
concentrated diet of tragedy, so they de- Harry B. Keidan.
Danes, Frenchmen,
cided upon farce comedy in the best Bal-
Norsemen, now living
Det
kan and Italian musical comedy style.
under the Nazi heel,
roit Jewry congratulates Judge
Friedm
remember their free-
dom and cherish their
The propaganda experts discovered gratul an upon his appointment and con-
lost
memorials now re-
Benito in a hideout, surrounded by guards, his exc ates Governor Harry B. Kelly upon
placed by the black
ellent choice.
swastika.

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