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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

September 24,

1943

If one were to pay too much attention
to some of the omniscient commentators,
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Oublished Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. one would not hope for much. These gen-
try try to create the impression that the
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
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Editor
differences are so great that they cannot
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Soviet Union as Communist, and Br itain
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and America as nations committed to the
Jews in Washington
to i•suie publication, all correspondence and news matter perpetuation of capitalism. Even a s uper-
musi eauch this office by Tuesday evening of each week. ficial examination of the facts will s
how
Wien mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper
only. that . the Bolsheviks have so modified
their
the Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- original doctrines that the present i
deo
have been in Washington t
jects of interest to.the Jewish people, but disclaims respon-
ogy has little resemblance to the Commt I-
past month and have h he on Broadway in New York I have
sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers
nist program of Lenin.
some opportunity to examine o ad had such an awareness of Jews

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

Plain Talk

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Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Pest-
office at Detroit, Mich, under the Act of March 3, 1873.

Sabbath Readings of the Law

Pentateuchul portion—Deut. 29:9-31:30.
Prophetical portion—Isaiah 61:10-63:9.

of the myths that have been an ne as one might feel on the main

An equally cursory examination of th Semitically circulated in the r ti- street of Tel Aviv; but I have no
e- such feeling of Jews in Washing-
American and British economic and polit e cent years: That the Governme at
in Washington is full of Jew ton where, as I had almost been
cal systems will show vast changes in th I-
e and something ought to be don 's led to believe, Jews were all over
individualistic, private enterprise ideolog Y about them in the same wa Y e the Government.
Not that I am a fellow who
that characterized them as late as 1930 Hitler did to Jews who were i

• the government of Republica n goes about searching for Jewish

a resemblance in faces, any more
Germany.
The Soviet Union has been going to
th e The story has been of the sam than I search for Scandinavian
SEPTEMBER 24, 1943
ELLUL 24, 5703 right, while American and Britain h
ave pattern as the one that Hitle e or Italian or Russian resemblan-
been going to the left. And perhaps th e gave
to the Germans in the year r ces. It's an awful pain to have
Bolsheviks
may
be
more
to
the
right
t
before
he came to the ill-fate s racial consciousness and I avoid
hall
Carey—Anti-Semite
Americans and Britain when the war is position of fuehrer of the This d ti. But a passing Jew does cas-
Reich.
eich. His line was that the gov d ually impinge upon my mind as
The forthcoming election in Detroit has over. Who knows? There may be m ore ernment
of the German Republi - a kinsman might and I know him
opportunities
for
private
enterprises
c at once as some one who, in a
produced the rash of anti-Semitism that r
and was largely . Jewish
egged individualists in Russia than h ere Some of my best friends amon way of speaking, is somehow re-
seems to have become part of the pattern a nd in Britain.
g
the Gentiles had mentioned hu - listed to me.
My mind has failed to rec og-
of the political life of the city.
morously the report that tin
Washington Government was over nize many of these kin in th e
Will the leaders of the United Nati
enormous Washington establish-
One of the most vicious and mendacious b e able to work out a plan that will m Oils flowing with Jewish inhabitants . ment.
a Even in their well-meaning wise-
attacks upon Jews has been made by one bw ars impossible in Europe? Will th ke
ey cracks there was a suggestion Of course, this is not to say
that Jews are lacking in Wash-
Edward A. Carey who is a candidate for t e able to persuade the nations of Euro pe that
I they half-believed the story. ington,
nor is this a piece meant
must
confess
that
I
myself
o
surrender
some
of
their
sovereig
mayor. There is nothing new in the scurri- s
my
to
be
a
pussilanimous
effort to
came
to
Washington
believing
with out that there are a very large num- push. Jews into the shadows.
lous outburst, but it serves to remind us n o as to achieve a United Europe with
ational frontiers, currencies and armies.
where they may be less visible to
ber of Jews in Washington.
that we are not menaced nearly so much W ill these matters be on the agenda
I have been getting around in hostile eyes, as if to say: "Oh,
0 r Washington—past the inevitable no, goodness no! We are really
by foreign-born Nazis as we are by the ill they concern themselves only with
receptionists in all the Govern- just meaningless nobodies in
native disseminators of hate and prejudice. the borders of Russia and the sphere of ment
past the armed Washington." I am not that kind
influence of Britain in the continent? guard buildings,
almost
at
every
Govern- of a Jew.
Mr. Carey no doubt believes that the so- There are. important matters for the sur- ment doorway (the number
(I still feel is pain from re-
of
called Southern voter can be corraled by vivors of the holocaust, and for the Jew- armed guards should make a corn- membering that prominent but
bat regiment), past the host of mouse-like Jews who came to
an appeal to those who have come from ish survivors who have suffered more secretaries,
and have had no feet- Washington to urge the President
those sections of the country where the than all other, it is a matter of supreme ing at all of being Jewishly as- not to appoint Felix Frankfurter
with these throngs of to the Supreme Court for fear
Klan and similar organizations have flour- importance, for only in a United Europe sociated
of anti-Semitic reaction.)
of which they are citizens can they hope Federal workers.
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ished in the past. If he would have but for a durable peace, and for the assur-
i have been on the streets
around the big Government estab- M Y OBSERVATION is that
examined the record of ignominous de- ance that they will not be made the scape- lishments
Jews are in the national
when the thousands of
feats of anti-Semitic candidates in the goat when some madman, in his chauvinist Federal help poured out at quit- Government in rightful propor-
ting time, and have seen few tion to their number in the popu r i
past he would have realized that such a delirium, wants to conquer the world.
faces that might be described as lation. I shouldn't like it if Jew's
platform will never elect him, but will
Jewish. Yes, a Jewish-looking face were more numerous than their
here and there, almost conspicu- proportion in the population justi-
earn for him the scorn and contempt of
"Badoglio Bribed!"
ous in the multitude of other fied, just as I would be resentful
if there were in the Government
kinds of faces.
all men, of all creeds and faiths. But the
a disproportionate number of any
According
to
a
broadcast
over
Nazi-
I
have
been
in
the
cocktail
Careys are not reasoning men. They are co
ntrolled Rome radio, the Jews of Amer- bars where people of the higher group—Catholic, Holy Roller or
creatures of resentment and bitterness, ica paid Gen. Pietro Badoglio $10,000,000 I brackets in the Government serv- Mohammedan. The special favor-
ce relax after office hours, and ing of any group is not democ-
who may have an ill-founded grievance, tD°w surrender unconditionally to Gen. Jews
racy.
among them are
t
more
t han could be found in : no
ight Eisenhower.
and believe that they can satisfy their
similar a When the anti-Semitic mind
•esorts in any other American peaks of "too-many" Jews in the
grudge by arousing the basest passions
Government, it is not giving out
It must be apparent by now that no ommunity.
of the electorate. ma tter what misfortune befalls the Nazis,
democratic protest. By "too
I had occasion to look over the
the Jews will be blamed, even though p ayroll of the Treasury Depart- a nany" Jews it means that even
few Jews in the Government
n lent—in connection with payroll
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle is strictly the
y could not by any possible chance ond-buying among employes of a are too many. It wants no Jews
non-partisan in politics. We do not endorse ha ve had anything to do with the
t all. Primarily it abhors the
he Treasury—and my curs
p
any particular candidate or party, but we ula r happening.
glance brought up only two names • a d emocratte system by which men
that looked Jewish — Joseph s f whatever creed or race may
are definitely opposed to any man who
Greenberg
and Bernard Paskin. erve the Republic, anti-Semitism
The Nazis are obsessed with the idea
would sow racial discord and promote dis- of Jewish machinations and responsibility, There may be and doubtless there s repudiation of democracy.
more Jews in the Treasury t If I were to regard Jewishly
unity in our community.
to the point that logic and reason are are
but the fact that there two name's G he matter of Jews being in the
wh oily excluded from their pronounce- stuck up prominently out of the b overnment, my pride would not
Any man who would raise the banner me nts.
payroll suggests that here weren't b e in the fact that they are Jews
many. (Both Mr. Greenberg and ut in that they are serving the
of anti-Semitism at this time is doing the j
Mr. Paskin were, by the way, G overnment most creditably.
cause of America a disservice. He should dou oseph Goebbels and his crew are no putting
more than one-fourth of g I prefer to look at Mr. Mor-
be, and we are confident he will be, repu- the bt persuaded that they have convinced their monthly salaries into war „ enthau as one American looking
bonds on the payroll allotment f a t another and respecting him
diated by all recent Christians as well as itY German people of Jewish responsibil- plan.)
✓ magnificent service to the na-
for Germany's defeat in World War I;
ti on; yet I can't help looking at
by all the political parties. for the inflation that ruined millions; for
f I f
O DEFEND my competence in him Jewishly as well and saying
the
discovering Jews in Washing- with considerable pride: "In the
If by any chance some organizations to p depression that preceded Hitler's rise
rectitude of his public service
have endorsed his candidacy, without hav- fron ower; for the defeats on the eastern ton I might say that from long this man fulfills the ethical im-
t,
and
for
America's
entry
into
the
experience of being Jewish I am perative that goes with being a
ing been apprised of his anti-Semitic war.
rather sensitive to the presence Jew, and that's the main end of
stand, they owe it to themselves as well Si
of Jews in public places. At time;
nce the Jews have done all this, then
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as to all the people of our community, sure ly
the Italian people will now believe
Christian as well as Jew, to withdraw the the fantastic tale that the Jews of Amer-
endorsement. ica have succeeded in bribing Gen. Bado-
BONDS OVER AMERICA *
T, reasons Joseph Goebbels.
The whole business is shocking and dis- glio
Deep within San Fran-
tasteful, but as long as the botched and soni here is just one error in all this rea-
ci:co's Chinatown lies
Chinatown
St. Mary's Park, a
bungled believe that they can profit by anti- ng. The Italian people have never been
mere speck on the city
Semitic
and
at
no
time
have
they
playing on the weaknesses and prejudices reall
map, but it is here that
y believed that Italy has suffered be-
a new landmark greets
of the ill-informed, they will resort to any- caus e of Jewish influence or activity. This
the eye of the visitor.
thing to gain their ends. fact of difference in attitude on the part
It is an heroic statue
of t he Italian people toward the Jews
of Dr. Sun-Yat-Sen,
first president of China.
mak es no difference to Nazi propagan-
Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin To Meet dists . They never recognize difference of
attit
At long last we have definite assurances othe udes or point of view on the part of
that President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Prop r people. Because of this failure, their
aganda has been so inept and inef-
Churchill and Marshall Stalin will meet fecti ye when beamed to other peoples.
to discuss the war and postwar problems.
W e know that Nazi'
Years ago the French
in A merica have fallen o aganda efforts
The military discussions will be kept and
erected a statue to Dr.
arren soil;
Benjamin Franklin,
secret, but the world will expect to hear
from all repdrts the failute has been
economist, scientist,
equa
humanitarian. One of
what postwar decisions will be made. We Euro lly pronounced in all countries of
Buy an
the first acts of the
This will not stop the Nazis from
are specially concerned about the kind tryin pe.
Nazi conquerors of
of a Europe that will emerge after the stori g, so we may expect to read such
Extra $100 Bond
France was to remove
peace has been achieved. Nazi es as the Badoglio tale until the last
memorial to this
in the 3rd War Loan this
propagandist is silenced.
American statesman

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