American apish periodical Cotter

CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, OHIO

October 1, 1943

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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report continues "if th ey can ev
succeed in persuading the peop et Concession on the part o f non- world, "You cannot make our peo
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of the United Nations that Bri le Zionists. Or would he driv e them ple feel at home. We are a home - first place as homeless, and then,
greater rote in offering a haven of am is responsible for the plig t- away now as political e
- even if they are homeless to sa
mphasis less people. We ate a nation unto
refuge for the oppressed, and th at of the Jews, it will be a gre ht has demonstrably irritat
they have no desire to go else-
a t British government? We ed the ourselves." And it may very well where
than to Palestine.
without the insistence upon su 0.1 victory indeed for the Germs
ns every ally for the immediat need be that in answer to these asser-
This
then is the logic which
Statehood. Palestine would tod ay on the psychological front."
to be done in the first da e work tions, the nations of the world
be harboring more i .iifug , es f”o m
history
may well take. We shall
ys
be-
wilr'say,
"Very
well,
if
you
feel
One need not attempt to iusti fy yond enemy defeat in ever y pies- like that, then there is nothing have forced this logic by our sup-
the Nazi terror.", We are, aft
ently occupied country. It
er
all
of
British
foreign
policy
a small people. No matt
or intrusion of the nationalis is the we can do for you. We might try port of or our default and silence
how stentorianly we make d er Arab nationalism, to understa nd litical demands for a quest ts' po- to reconstitute ourselves to try before a program fraught with
!minds of the world, our final r e- this statement. One need only a sk ideology that is providing ionable to apply the democratic principles dangers for Jews everywhere and
course must be to a sense of ju. e- are Jews today interested in sa v- ritant not alone in Palestin the ir- to Jews. But we cannot exorcise not the least, in Palestine itself.
e, but from Jewish hearts a mystical Then, should the logic of history
rice. It cannot he to tamp'• an ing Jewish lives or are they in - elsewhere in the world.
.
homelessnes
and we cannot exor- lead to such a situation; should
force. We must rely upon the go , ‘,1 d torested in the speculative. thew 'y
All Jews are opposed
will, the sense of fairness of th of reconstituting Israel as a n a- White Paper and they are to the else from Arab hearts a resist- the nations of the world take the
joined ance to your nationhood in Pal- Jewish nationalists seriously and
picate!. powers of the wort( 0 tion. Dr. Silver would answer th at by many non-Jews.
Only it ought estine. As a• nation therefore, you the silence of non-nationalists as
These have not always sustainer I the two are inseparable. He ha
s to be asked who and under
must be prepared to assume the agreement—then we may heat our
oq. They have not always sus 1 no proof for this in history. Th e circumstances the White 1.;:,11
responsibilities of nationhood and breasts . and mutter, "We have
tained other people either. Th .lewish nation was destroyed tw o came about. Is it th respo tisi L: ):.t.
,t. take your chances among the sinned." But it will be too late.
world is not a perfect world. W e thousand years ago. But Jew
Jews ity of the non-nationalist, w
' states of the world." Dr. Silver The die will have been cast. The
!oust work with what is availabl have lived. The 330,000 Jews who political ambitions for a J ithout
pattern will have been set. Hitler
asked for this very answer front
1111(1 strive mightily. to increase th e have entered Palestine since 1933
m
the states of the world in this will have had his way with at
strength Of the force s of good. e came there without a Jewish na- state? Obviously, that is a 0
possibility. In 1939 there w
same address to which such !cast one element of his fiendish
But the incessant, political de tion. They came under the British expressed, non-Zionist opinion as Thneo same
frequent reference is here made Program, though his tyranny will:
wands Of the various nationalisti - Mandate. Dr. Silver says that White Paper was a result o
because it was a decisive address have gone down to defeat. Europe
groups have not made allies of th c agreement among Jews about the
by one of the world's most distin- will be .Judenrein. It will be free
very people to whom Israel mus e success of this migration and the riots from 1936-'39. Those fritohtse
guished Zionists at a Conference of the plaguing Jewish problem
were born of the conflict bet
look now and tomorrow fot. help t right of Jews to migrate to Pal- two
ween which supposedly formulated a Ind that problem will be inten-
nationalisms
contending
.
estine
in
the
future
representsa
A recent release from an Mobil
concession on the part of th the same piece of territory.- for democratically considered program sified in the Near East and per-
British agency to Briti
offi- non-nationalists. He is wrong. As e is not to pass judgment This for post-war Jewry. In this Magna haps in Russia and America.
cials 'mule this observation: "De-
One simple, elementary morality
either nationalism. It is mere upon Charta for this year of Zionism,
spite the fact that the British are chairman of the United Palestine note a fact of history. In ly to Dr. Silver said, "There is but one s involved NOW. That is the
r
t he only people who have actually Appeal he knows that the sinews war,
perhaps the White P that solution for national homelesness. fight of men who believe that this
devoted government revenues to of the colonization and immigra- was an expediency. Perhaps it apex That is a national home! Not new 'ill be the logic of the course Nye
tion
have
conic
front
funds
sup-
support refugees from Axis-rid-
was
opportunities to other f a re pursuing to say no. The basic,
t immigration
den countries, Britain is being plied willingly and generously by appeasement. That was the
countries
for
fleeing refugees, for s undamental morality of free
tern in which the free states
made the scapegoat. in some guar- non-Zionists as well as Zionists. fighting
the war which had we're new colonization schemes in other b peech is involved. And it might
He
also
knows
something
of
the
ters, for the difficulties of the
al- parts of the world ..." That is a e well to quote Dr. Silver on this
refugee problem. The attacks rising resentment against the use ready begun. Political is sues presumption of which not even o p oint. "We are asked," he said,
brought
it
about.
Right
or
wt
'ong, Dr. Silver- should be guilty; to ti not to relinquish our convic-
made on the British policy sug- of such funds for Zionist, politi-
gest that, in some instances, they cal agitation when the money was this is the truth that canno t be pre-judge the life of these now
ons but at the same time, not to
are motivated as much by po- given in good faith to succor blinked. And with such as s tate muted Jews in Europe in the
as
Palestine,
it
would
be
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Jews,
not
Jewish
nationalism.
It
ever
litical ends as by concern for the
plight of Jews and others suffer- is unworthy of him to say there- thus. For it would never be g teat
ing under Axis domination." The fore that agreement about mi- enough to carve its own desti nies
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among the nations of the w o
gration to Palestine represents
It would forever be the tale ' on
someone's kite. It would fore ver
be subject to the interests of
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greater powers.
The point is this: since 1939 , in
places where there were no po-
itical considerations intruded by
QUALITY KOSHER MEAT and POULTRY
Jews, significant numbers of re Yu-
gees have been admitted. M ore
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han 100.000 entered the Uni
S totes. About 15,000 have ente ted
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red
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South American nations. Th ese
fi gures, from only the West
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ern
Hemisphere, indicate that th ere
as no prejudice against assi st-
ng Jewish refugees among the
tee nations of the world. It
BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW
n of true, as blatant newspa is
YEAR
a dvertising has so often said, t per
hat
he world did less for the Je ws
BEST WISHES FOR A HAPPY NEW YEAR
han for other people. Yet, at the
S ame tithe, Palestine adm o
itted my
ome 20,000 Jews. (These figut •es
a re round figures based on
t
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la st available reports, throu he
CHINESE and AMERICA RESTAURANT
gh
NO. taken from the last volu ,
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0
UN. 2-6793
f the American Jewish Yea me
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b o
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ok, vol. 44). Why was it th at
a British Empire where a bene
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ce nt program toward refugees h fi-
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pr evailed in the United Kingdo as
its elf, should appear to discrim m
na to against Jews in Palestine f-
The contrast does not mak
HEART1ES7' GREETINGS F01? ROSH HASHONAH
Sc nse. The Zionist chafges tha e
t
th e reverse ought to be true.
NEW YEAR GREETINGS
in d should be inhospitable to Eng
re
fu gees in her own island an
we 'come the chance to divert then d
els ewhere, if the Zionist cynicis
abo ut Europe has any basis it m
fac t. The key to the seeming par
ado x is to be found in the simpl
fac t that because of Jewish na e
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tion alist pressures, refuge in Pal-
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esti ne has been inextricably bound
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up with Jewish statehood. And
Pal estine is sorely beset by po-
litic al problems that have rami-
flea dons reaching throughout the
— enti re Moslem world, as far away
• as India. Dr. Silver underscores
HEAleTIEST GREE'T1NGS Pole
ROSH HASHONAH
the political nature of Jewish mi-
gnat ion to Palestine. Very well,
then he must expect to deal with
it u pon the basis of politics. With-
out such political connotations,
The 'Clothier
Jewi sh immigration has been pos-
sible elsewhere. The most elemen-
Wishes You All a Happy New Year!
tary logic reveals the reason for
the difference in attitude on the
part of the same nations, toward
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Jewi sh entrance to Palestine as
comp ared with permission for
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them to enter other ports of
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refuge C. In the one there has been
intru tied the irritant of uncom-
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prom ising demands for a Jewish
state . In other places, Jews have
enter ed seeking no special status.
In th e long sweeps of history, the
SEASON'S
mora lities involved in situations
will p revail and while Mr. Nahum
GREETINGS!
Goldn Ian }nay make it appear that
it is a little thing to apply the
princi pies of democracy to Jews
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF THE STATE
and b elieve that no post-war pro.
OF MICHIGAN AND HIS STAFF
gram without specific Jewish de-
mantis is adequate, that which he
so cav alierly dismisses has worked
Greet the Jewish people on the New Year of
for th e alleviation of Jewish suf-
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feting , while his specific Jewish
and wish for them deliverance from their cruel
cu re has suddenly come face to
oppres •
face with an impasse for which
sots.
Jews, united or divided, are no
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match . And this impasse in Pal-
estine may produce similar im-
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passes elsewhere in the world. For
/1
throug h the Jewish nationalists
VICTORY
we ha ve, in effect said to the

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