October I. 1943
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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to All From Michigan Communities
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New Year's Greetings
defeated and one newcomer w
held in Bermuda instead of Ot- break of war, aliens had had to
in the Civil War, in the Spanish- tawa as originally suggested. It submit app lications to the Immi- elected in November. Daniel Ell'-
American War and, of course, in was felt that the conference gration and Naturalization Serv- son. Republican, became the fir s t
GOP representative in the Mary-
the first World War. As one Jew- would be less subject to public ic
Continued from page 6
land delegation since 1901 ah. ■
ish army chaplain phrased it, pressure in Bermuda because of job. when they wanted to take a the third Jew ever to represent
A group of 200 soldiers sta-
transportation
difficulties.
went after it to protect it.
The story of Jewish participa-
Rep. Sol Bloom, chairman of tioned in the Caribbean got their the state in Congress. There are
Cohen saw four fighters comii g Lion in this country's battles dem-
the House Foreign Relations naturalization papers through the six Jews in the House and oh , .
at his ship's waist position. Ile onstrates the interesting phenom- Committee; Senator Scott Lucas, Justice Department instead of the in the Senate.
"Expediency" in North Afriri,
called the waist gunner, but got enon that it is possible for a Illinois
Democrat,
and Harold
Willis Dodds
of Princeton
Uni- courts. It was the first time nat- dealt a hard blow to religio•L
no answer. He waited until the people to love peace
peace and to be
uralization had been administered
freedom. In November Presider
tail was clear and went to the devoted to it for centuries and versity were named to represent outside the country.
waist. There he found that the yet to rise to valiant heroism and the United States.
President Roosevelt signed bills Roosevelt requested abrogation
waist gunner's oxygen mask had supreme courage and self-sacrifice
Before the conference opened, permitting naturalized citizens liv- the laws patterned on Nazi ideol-
frozen and that the man was un- on the battlefield, when princi- it was emphasized that no exag- ing abroad to remain for as long ogy. At the end of January, Sec-
conscious. He revived him and ples or causes it considers sacred gerated hopes should be placed as necessary without losing their retary Hull had not yet received
returned to his position, his own are threatened or attacked."
on the outcome because of its citizenship. War conditions had detailed facts on the position of
hands and legs frozen numb.
"exploratory nature". During the made it impossible for the 3,000 Jews in North Africa, nor did
When he got back to the tail, he
sessions, Under-Secretary of State naturalized American Jews living the State Department know to
found five enemy fighters attack-
Sumner Welles denied accusa- in Palestine to comply with the what extent anti-Jewish laws had
ing it.
tions by labor leaders that the laws requiring periodic returns to been abolished by the new ad-
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Despite his condition, he drove
ministration.
conference was taking place "be-
four of them away and shot down the number admitted in a com- hind closed doors". CIO Presi- the Although
Then in March, Gen. Henri Gi-
United States.
the Immigration and
parable
pre-war
year.
The
Board
the fifth, just as its pilot at-
raud clarified and yet obscured
dent
Philip
Murray
said
that
in
Naturalization
Committee
of
the
tempted a suicide crash into the of Appeals on Visa Cases review response to a call from Histad- House reported favorably severai the situation. He abolished the
machinery was unduly compli-
Fortress.
ruth in Palestine, the CIO mem• bills designed to ease citizenship 62 anti-Jewish decrees of the
Captain Sylvan Feld of Lynn, cated and suggested simplifica- bership had attempted to send requirements for refugees, no Vichy regime, but this act was
Mass., was awarded the Distin- tion.
The State Department was representatives to Bermuda, but further action was taken. Rep. accompanied by the abrogation
guished Flying Cross on recom-
charged
with restricting the im- had been told that it could not. John Rankin of Mississippi was in of the Cremieux Decree of 1870
mendation of Major General Doo-
migration
of refugees to this Welles pointed out that repro favor of "closing the gates of which gave native Algerian Jews
little. He received the award for
country
to
a
far greater degree sentatives of AP, UP, INS, and immigration until the war is over French citizenship. The govern-
"extraordinary achievement in
than
authorized
by Congress. ONA had gone to Hamilton and and until our boys who are in ments of the United States and
shooting down nine enemy planes
Louis
E.
Spiegler,
Washington that various organizations had this war get back." He led the of Great Britain endorsed the
in the Northwest African area."
counsel
for
HIAS,
pointed out submitted memoranda. opposition to the bills. Rankin abrogations by Giraud. But with
In one of his two most recent
Rep. Celler summarized criti• refused to allow in the father of the realization that the restora-
that
since
1933
less
than 40 per
air actions, Captain Feld was cent of the immigrants
cism of the conference in this two boys serving in the army. tion of Jewish rights in North
entitled
flying his
fighter when
plane on
two- 14 to enter under existing quotas way. "The delegates have al- placed the responsibility of the Africa was in the hands of men
plane
mission,
he a saw
Focke-Wulfs beneath him. He had been granted visas. ready expressed themselves as Detroit riots on "Communistic like Boisson, Nogues and Peyrou •
ton, Vichyites all, the exact bene-
in March the Senate dedicated to saving only those Jews".
Earl
peeled off, dived on the extreme unanimously
adopted a resolution refugees now in neutral countries.
Two Jewish incumbents in the
See CAPITOL—Page 10
right hand side, and flew into condemning "the mass murder of These victims are already saved. Hous of Representatives were
e
them before they knew anybody Jewish men, women and chit- We are not so much interested
else was around.
dren" as a "brutal and indefen- in them; we are interested in
One enemy plane dropped out sible outrage." A few days later getting more of the helpless out
of formation, smoking heavily. the House concurred without a of Hitler's clutches. There need
Captain Feld's first bullets had dissenting voice. not be any conference to save
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The State Department issued those already saved."
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counter the next day, he shot an appeal to stop the flourishing
In May the Committee for a
down two Messerschmitts.
black market in exit permits. Jewish Army described the meet-
These, then, are a few of the Men and women, desperate to ing as a "cruel mockery" in an
representative stories of Jewish escape Hitler's terrorism, were advertisement that listed the
fighting men in this war. Brief providing the Nazis with much- names of 33 senators as support-
though it is, this hasty sampling needed foreign exchange. ing the committee's principles.
of the hundreds of similar ac-
The Anglo-American refugee Senator Lucas defended his dele-
counts now on file is typical, not conference was at first consid- gation"s accomplishments on the
only of Jewish participation in ered an attempt to solve this Senate floor and attacked as un.
this conflict, but in America's tragic problem. The conference true the advertisement's state-
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