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One fact must be borne in mind in any
evaluation
of Russian aims, and that is
by Al Segal
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
havebelieved primarily
that
the
Soviets
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Today we are dealing with a militarily ,.._
To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter
it's Succoth, which is cord that ours was a time in
victorious
Russia that still hopes that the
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
thanksgiving holiday and I which the authority of religion
S
our been thinking of reasons to faltered and might have collapsed
0 our
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only. world will become communist. Are we have
Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub• ready to accept that fact, or will we say be thankful. In these past evil dell for the amazing way in
ch the rod of retribution sud-
of interes11 to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon. that self-determination means that the
jeers
years it's been pretty hard to
y revealed itself to strike the
sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers
determination .must be only along non- be thankful for anything.
Hitler was over the earth, transgressor down.
March 3, 1916, at the Post- Communist lines? We have already quali-
That's what has so amazingly
Entered as Second-class matter
in all directions, and
1879, fled determination of the kind of govern- marching
where was he going to be next? happened—not within the thou-
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3,
but
ments the conquered and occupied cowl- Well, one could be thankful at sand years that are as a day elncl;
least
that
he
hadn't
come
here
within
the
hours
that
the
Sabbath Choi Hamoed Succoth Readings of
bystipulating
that
it
can-
s
tries may have
the Torah
ascist. Nobody could op- yet. Thank goodness for the At- counts.
T he he el/ d I l 4 Ove. r Hie s h daysinfa g
) . not be Nazi or F
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 33:12-34;26; Num. ...
llen
b y iiti';' ,,
pose this qualification, for to do otherwise lantic Ocean; thank goodness for sword
that
much.
The
dea I
which
he
dug.
would be tantamount to an admission
17-25.
(That was the time when the the pit
he killed rise up against him,
Prophetical portion—Ezek. 38:18-39:16.
that the war was useless. Will we, how- oceans still looked wide.)
ankind to march
g
Shemini Azereth Readings of the Torah,
ever, stipulate that it must not be Bol- Yes, thanks for the ocean and summonin m
His multiple grave ,.
thanks
for
the
promise
of
heaven
upon
him.
Thursday, Oct. 21
sheviki?
where a soul would be safe for- have called all righteous men to
Pentateuch's! portions—Dent. 14:22-16-17; Nuns.
If we do this then we shall compel eve •
him He certainly destroy him.
I
f
1
Russia to maintain a huge military estab- never would go to heaven. Yet
29:35-30-1.
tell?
What
if
they
in-
HOW
AFRAID
we
were of him
Prophetical portion—I Kings 8:54-66.
lishment and compel her to continue her N I v .ehn otec dould
something like a trans- LL a little while ago! How wo
Simchas Torah Readings of the Law. Friday,
military state. And if we do this then
catapult that by radio hung on his every word! How
Oct. 22
we shall perforce be compelled to cosmic
waves could project his Wehr- we trembled at his voice whose
Pentateuchal portion—Deut. 33:1-3412; Gen.
strengthen other European states to pre- macht even to the bastions of jagged expletives seemed about
to tear the stars apart as they
.
1
29:45-30:
Num.
ven t the Soviets from conquering all heaven?
1:12-3;
Even as one attempted to bow issued into the air from th
Prophetical portion—Joshua 1.
Europe.
his head in thankfulness, such Sportspalast or the Munich bee
We blundered once because we were horrid thoughts intruded to viti- hall! To what mean dimension
TISHRI 16, 5704
OCTOBER 15. 1940
afraid of the Bolshevik bogey. Hitler's ate the true spirit of thankful- he has shrunk in the hour! A
little man on the run!
rise to poWer can be - traced to this blue- ness.
The lethal machinery he built
But
at
last
we
approach
a
der. Do we really want a Europe made
Will We Blunder Again?
which
we
can
give
out
has
hatched machines even more
Succoth
in
.. up of civil states, or do we want to per- .. thankfulness from a full heart. deadly to destroy him. He runs
The forthcoming conference of Secre-
rmf uolt. c thniton
tary of State Cordell Hull, Foreign Secre- Petuate the chauvinist military states that w rth own tNlvaanykftuhlenesnswrhaals law dios fireomh Aat nkfsrninawiai•nrcsT sfvte
have now caused two world wars? If the
than his own.
tary Anthony Eden, and Commisar for countries of Europe decide that they want being vindicated, so that people rnerous
It's the exquisite fulfillment of
can say, Yes, it's all true,
Foreign Affairs Vachslav Molotoff will be Bolshevik governments and want to join again
everything that we learned about poetic justice, of the old promise
htls.
really momentous. We use the word "mo- with Russia in forming a Federation of the transgressor
aisgtrresonreckeveisntturanlely get- owf,r0nret_st•iinbtuttio.nndfa(lilisf upon
tous
advisedly,
or
we
are
p
ersuaded
f
in
"
Soviet
Republics
of
Europe,
then
there
is
men
war really a good prospect of achieving that There were all the years when God ghas ' been at ;%ernyollndg stand
that t he status of Europe after the ement
the evil-doer was having his own right along waiting for the hour.
may well depend upon the agr
eace in Europe which we all so devoutly way and there seemed no end of and with what a blow He has e
3
reached. The ministers will not have the 1 wish would become a reality.
tem t man
n uns
his wickedness. There grew up struck. The little
. doom
p
last word, but their chiefs, President
The . United States and Britain should doubt of the verity of God in the mountain-to
=isd i; his =
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister see to it that the elections are free and whose hands, as we had learned, while the l rolls.
was
the
execution
of
the
moral
and
falls
and
Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph participated in by all the nationals of the
This Succoth I shall be thank-
law. Our Scripture was full of
I
Stalin will be guided by their findings respective countries.
that. It made no end of saying ful for all that. This is to
lass
morals
that
in
good
time
the
transgressor
am
thankful
for
the
is
and recommendations.
We .hope that the conference will lay
into his own pit or perishes being vindicated after the long
We do not believe that the conference the foundations for an enduring peace and falls
by his own sword and that evil time during which men couldn't
will deal with military matters. If the a united Europe. Thirty years of war, power falls into the dust.
feel sure of it and asked when
People thought, well, maybe is God in all this. It wasn't good
conference were for the purposes of mili- preparation • for war and rumors of war
iS's different now from what we for human character to see th u
tary discussion, the General Staffs of the is sufficient for one generation.
learned about retribution falling evil-doer getting away with mum
Army, Navy and Air Force would be
on the wrong-doer. Perhaps ma- der, rapine and robbery. Hi ,
present, and from all information avail-
chinery makes it all different. downfall is an admonition and a
True to Form
The wrong-doer is armed with reassurance and a reaffirmation of
able the military men are not scheduled
deadly machinery and by ma- the old lessons.
It
is
authoritatively
reported
that
King
to be present.
But we, as Jews, should hay.•
is able to beat the . moral
The conference should deal with the Christian of Denmark has declared that chinery
law. Maybe machinery is over-- foreseen the certain doom of
questions of Russian land claims and post• he and his family will wear the yellow, coming God.
Hitler right along. In our long
experience of life we have seen
war problems. There would be no good badge of David. He considers the badge
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reason for the meeting if these problems a mark of the highest distinction. Thus m EN ASKED where is God .in the fall of our transgressors
all this—the God we learned many times. We celebrate Pi15:,-
does one courageous, recent man answer about?
were already solved.
The One who it was said over and Purim as occasions that
Russia will no doubt claim the Baltic the unspeakable Nazis.
struck clown the transgressor and point to moral law catching an
r
ith evil-do e rs. ha
The Nazis have failed to answer the re- ; .wised
ied up the righteous? Where snvppreessnrss
States and part of Poland, and it would
tal e that i
but
be surprising if Russia did not insist upon quest of Sweden to give asylum to the 1 sHe9
The rabbis seen) to have had told, but we who had no sword
the right of the countries of Europe to Jews of Denmark. This is not surprising,
a hard time answering. The y still live as people.
decide upon their own form of govern- for the brutal Nazis do not know the gave sermons on that. They said
PIONEER WOMEN
meaning of mercy or decency. The props- ln i thousand years are as a day
melt.
,
must
si
N‘
V
t
u
NG
,
tphacenyte.s
tie
God
The latter question is the important ganda ministry, however, does not fail
A Succoth social meeting of
with
They left
to ridicule the Swedes for their offer. And be
Cub One of the Pioneer Women's
one and may cause serious difficulties.
a
thousand
Or
that perhaps in
Organization
will be held on
g
The question one feels impelled to ask in one of the most stupid attempts to idea
yea rs ever
Monday evening, Oct. 18,
is: "Are Britain and the United States belittle Swedish mercy, takes the Swedes right againything would to be us all Lachar's
Hall, 8939 12th SI.
This s wasn
. ' t satis
• f y i ng
still frightened by the bogey of Bolshe- to task for refusing to allow the Nazis tO Thi
A. Meyerowitz will be gut- .
who
live
children
of
the
earth
by '
vism?" If they are not, then there should use Swedish territory to transport arms y . the day and get no comfort from. speaker.
sere
be little difficulty, for we and Britain have and war equipment destined for Norwa y.
Refreshments
will be .ava
at distant millenia. Yes„ and
guests are cordially
l cd
promised the conquered and occupied The poor Nazi soldiers were exposed to i t has
h ard
•1 C
t i me h
h ol IIi
I • s b b een
. , a • h•
ding t o atten
t d 1 . . . .‘ we 11
ded pr •
countries that the electorate shall deter- British submarines because Sweden would on to faith, and history may re- gram is planned.
no longer permit herself to be used as a
mine the kind of government it wants.
The fear of Bolshevism after the last pawn in the Nazi military game.
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When incidents such as the treatment
war was responsible, as much as anything
IIONOS OVER AMERICA *
else, for the creation of a military state in of the Danish Jews happen, we try to
Russia. The attacks of Kolchak, Denikin, believe that perhaps the depravity of 1110
Yudenich, Petlura and other generals, Nazis has some limit, but they always
On the fringe of
Home of Alex C2mp'ocl
West Virginia's
financed by the Allies, was a grim reality prove to us that our notions of human
Bethany College is
which the Soviet leaders have never for- degradation have never been plumbed
an old white frame
gotten. From the day of the counter- until the Nazis came upon the world scene.
house, the home of
revolutions down to this day, the Soviets We do not like to believe that these psy-
Alexander Campbell
a century ago. Son
have acted on the belief that they would chopaths actually get pleasure by tortur-
of a Presbyterian,
be attacked, and consequently they had ing helpless men, women and children,
he founded the Dis-
to prepare themselves even though it and yet we know that there are sadists
ciples of Christ.
meant the severest curtailment of produc- who get genuine pleasure and gratifica-
tion of peace-time and consumer goods, tion when they see their victims writhe
and the complete regimentation of a in agony.
If and when the war is over the Nazis
whole nation.
Once again we come face to face with should be examined by competent psychi-
the Bolshevik state. It is by no means the atrists for the purpose of ascertaining
H. Trotter, chief f\Ir' - i
same state that faced us in 1917, for many what motivated these brutal, degraded
labor
recruiter in E.:1-
changes have taken place. Many of the men. We do not believe that frustration
gium has just said: The
frightening features have been removed. and hatred can cause men to act as have
church in its protest
against labor deport:'-
Russia no longer has a Comintern; the the Nazis. It must be some pathologic
tions is taking a politi
ban on religion has been removed; Rus- urge that makes them do the things
cal action which has
Back
the
Attack
sian family relationships are much the they do.
nothing in common with
Of one thing we may be sure: that
religion."
With War Bonds
same as in western countries; the past
is now part of the cultural pattern, and Hitler and his gang always run true to
men . are rewarded according to their form.

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