November 5, 1943

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absence of vengeance, and makes the
proper distinction between the people and
the criminal rulers who victimized them.
It must be clear by now to the most
embittered that the way to the creation
of a more decent world is through good
will, understanding, tolerance and for-
giveness. A good beginning has been made
by the Foreign Secretaries' Conference.
Let us hope it will be carried through.

Forthright Leon Henderson

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Plain Falk...

by

AI Segal

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FACES

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Orthodox synagogue on tinctly a Jewish face, in accord-
AN
Yom Kippur my mind should ance with the Jewish "type" of
Leon Henderson, former head of the 1 been altogether on . the choly tradition.
.
"Do you see even one so-called
Office of Price Administration, still speaks have
tioynssinosf otfheeaoaci.caai issisoino.a aear(-1 j e
trnaiiiaililycam
it inquired.
w i s h face?"
with the same courage and earnestness
are not so few that I "That is, a face of which it may
that characterized him when he tried to
on that day, afford to let be said that it is exclusively a
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post- handle the price problem of the country. coul d,
wander far from its Jewish face?"
mind
Detroit,
Mich.,
under
the
Act
of
March
3,
1879•
I had to confess that it seemed
office at
t y I
Mr. Henderson spoke at Carnegie Hall By Yom
k
lsi. listing of my there were all kinds of faces
r
Denma
i
gave
here
herele
at
a
"Salute
to
Sweden
and
enmar"
"
ong Jews. Tre was some-
Sabbath Readings of the Law
rally sponsored by the Emergency Corn- sinning, I should not only ens- am
here countenance
Pentateuchal portion—Genesis 12:1 - 17:27.
barrass myself among the read- ing Mongolian in t
nuttee to save the Jewish People of ers, sonic of whom, in correspon- of the gentleman who had just
Prophetical portion—Isaiah 40:27 - 41:16.
ave set me among the taken eahesee katboonnesthe Talltear. faTialitci,ssc;
Europe.
deuce,
di'.
(Yet
others have ascrib- h
He said many sharp things about the
CHESHVAN 7. 5704
to me the characteristics of trace of a slant in his eyes.
NOVEMBER 5. 1943
auts
policy of the government of the United es the
my mind
"Slav influence,"
serpent; that serpent which
Nations in its treatment of the Jews of enelpGteadrdeEnveof t o d he ent).. downfall in guessed, and pointed to another
man who was entirely wrapped
Europe. He declared that Sweden and
My poor mind did stray, nev- in his talith. He stood on the
Denmark have proved "the tragedy of tth
ertheless, on that holy day in altar and his face was exposed to
The Foreign Secretaries'
at Allied judgment,
Moscowachieved
a greater Conference
success than
r nd went on to say that the synagogue and before I could our gaze. "What might he be if
the matter of the Jews is not a postwar bring it back to the sacred things we didn't see him here in the full
the most optimistic had hoped for, seems problem and no matter to wait for the it had gone far on anthropologi- igmogn aopel?y, of the talith in the syna-

The Moscow Conference

the consensus of opinion of official Wash- peace table, that this war issue has been cal researches.
hill a n
been stthudyeinag whWoellalzsi, aI u,srtell ttod know
ington.
a like him .
submerged, postponed, played down and h e had, of members
-
Inasmuch as we do not know what they resisted with all forms of political force t
l e
,t,re'galtioens with a (4ecial eeye o on The same massive build, the sam
expected, we must assume that the state available to powerful governments and, the anthropology of Jews. It had heavy, round face. He was a Ger-
troubled as to whether we man priest, a Franciscan. Sure,
of affairs prior to the conference must finally, he declared that the United Na-
dle,erlai niel sct.ahiel talith looks I
ha(i (oi: Ttct,lh, thliki
or
are
a
have been rather doleful,
tions should tell satellite countries like though racereligion
i t
t ha. n
cs. m
fi a
'
Be that as it may, the documents re- Bulgaria and Rumania, and neutrals like
we are a race and had remember, served a good winta% s He
leased do contain many hopeful prospects Turkey and Spain, that it wants to help p said
offered to the world a facial type wore the brown habit of his
monastic order with the collar
of cooperation and collaboration for the Jews to be saved and, above all, that the and said: " This is a Jew•"
hro,ant(. 1 N H I removed
loose at the otbe
war and peace, and the implementation United Nations speed their own self- Here
his brow n e
we Jews, mostly
surrounded
.ou
I
I
.
aait
E
of these agreements should go a long redemption by bold action through a
of
ir maan's faith , or viice
by birtii, it seemed in. the other
European
way toward achieving an enduring, chari- recognized, formal organization so that to my mind was the place to study versa, who could guess who's who
—who the pious Jew and who the
table and reasonable world peace. all the world, enemy, neutral and friendly, the matter. perverse
priest'.
r mnal p
er saem
w a yi n d ilg German
The hopes of the Nazis and the German may know their clear intent . He also sug-
returning to
returnin
was
sta?
selfriew
with
I myself
u i ng
for mry
runn
he'
nm
for(g9w
General Staff for a break among the gested that the United Nations make p
secular thoughts in the holy the sacred things of the service,
but my runaway mind kept drag-
United Nations have now been dashed. visions for temporary asylum and tern- hour).
the point that if Jews ging me away on further re-
Playing Russia' against Britain and the porary visas so that agonized Jews may are It a made
race there should be in searches. . . . "Racially," it went
United States for a separate peace must help themselves.
them facial characteristics corn- on to say, "we seem to be all
now be abandoned by the Nazis.
This hard hitting, straight from the mon to all of them. There should kinds. Look at that boy in the
The declaration states that it was recog- shoulder speech was made by Mr. Hen- be what is called a type that can bright, new talith. His name, as
at once as Jewish. I happen to know, is Kantrowitz,
nized bythe three governments that it derson because of the action of Sweden be . identified
type, if there i is one, should but, to judge by his looks, he
i
s
Th
was essential in their own national inter- and Denmark k ih
the matter of saving the be all around us in this syna- might be Blair or Hollingsworth,
ests and in the interests of all peace-loving J f e ews
enmark who had been marked goge.
of Denmark
u Let us, then, look about Dinwiddie or Montgomery. He is
ws or
any American boy."
i
nations to cont nue the close collaboration or destruction and deportation by the us,, my vagrant mind urged.
1 f 1
It directed my attention to the
and cooperation in the conduct of the war Gestapo. The Swedes offered asylum to
passing us pthis way
who sat beside me. Vf
into the period following the end of hos- all the Jews of Denmark, while the Danes gentleman
erpetual
ENha
t t in t he
were
He was at the moment deep in M and
tilities, and that only in this way could refused to treat the Jews of their coun- his machzir; his head was cov- motion that is of synagogues on
cuff
the talith; yet there was Yom Kippur and we looked at
peace be maintained and the political, eco- t try differently
from the Danes. These ered by of
his face visible to afford every face. It might have been
nomic and social welfare of their peoples brave and decent people have won the a enough
study of its main characteristics. a procession of men of all breeds.
be fully promoted.
admiration of the world for their courage "Just look at his stubby nose This little fellow was a replica
Official Britain and United States are and humanity.
and the long underlip, the florid of a man I know: he looked so
Suppose we removed the much like Ledyard Jones who
obviously no longer frightened by the
There is no . good reason why we can- face.
talith from his head and took his spits tobacco so accurately.
bogey of Bolshevism. They apparently nonot
act
s
did
the
Swedes
and
Danes,
ac a
person from the surroundings of And that flat nose—why, it was
longer consider the Soviets a threat and a and it is late but y et not too late to do this synagogue. Then to what like Barbour's nose; the same
menace to their own institutions. Collab- somet h. mg to save the starved and de- group might you say he belonged?" Barbour who is prominent among
oration and cooperation for the achieve- spoiled remnants of European Jewry. We Well, I replied, I might say he the Baptists. That long, sharp
Irish. (Certainly, this man nose that was almost covered by
ment of peade are not probable if there have created numberless organizations for . was
not the type that the race- the talith; I had seen its like
• on t h e war. Why can we not, as was
is distrust, suspicion and fear. All this is carrying
conscious Nazis picture as Jew- somewhere before. To be sure it
definitely to the good, and if negotiations Mr. Henderson suggests, create a special ish and that we ourselves asso- looked like a brother of the long
sharp nose of Willoughby, who
are carried on in the same friendly cli- organization with wide powers to deal ciate with Jewish identity.
"He might, in fact, be Riley, was so prominent in the evange-
mate that prevailed in Moscow, it should with Bulgaria Rumania, Turkey and that
policeman at Sixth and Vine," listic campaign in our town.
' • of those Jews who my errant
• for
f t the
do much to settle many of the difficult s pain
"Not a typed Jew in the whole
e saving
mind continued with
at all to the holy synagogue," my mind observed.
problems with which the world has can still be saved? And why can we not no a
But look at that one, I re-
of the Yom Kippur rit-
wrestled for the last thirty years.
temporarily modify our immigration laws matters
ual. "You could say he's a dead marked. He was coming up the
The declaration on Italy is a pattern so that the Jews from those lands be ringer for Riley.".
isle. He was short and squat
for the treatment of all satellite and en - permitted to enter here?
and his nose was of the type as-
1 f f
emy nations. The declaration calls for the
We belive that if we had the same nEsPITE its vagrant ways my sociated with being Jewish. Here
democratization of the Italian government determination and will as the Swedes and LY mind is not of the kind that was one, all right.
is content to make a case out of
My inquiring and insistent mind
by including the representatives of those the Danes that we could save large num- one
.exhibit. It looked around the argued the matter: "Yes, he's one,
sections of the Italian people who have bers of desperate and hopeless Jews of spacious
auditorium with the pur-
always opposed Fascism. Freedom of Europe.
pose of discovering one face of but consider him: He might be
speech, press, religious worship, assembly
which it could be said it was dis-
See SEGAL—Page 9
and political belief are restored to the
Casablanca Disturbances
Italian people, with the right to form anti-
It is reported from Algiers that Arab
Fascist political groups. And it further
PONDS OVER AMERICA *
hoodlums
have been terrorizing the Jews
provides that Fascist chiefs and army gen-
Casablanca and other North African
erals known or suspected to be war trim- of
cities
because of the re-incorporation of
inals shall be arrested and handed over
At Green Bay, oldest
pirit of Northwest
settlement in Wiscon-
to justice. All anti-Fascist political pris- the Cremieux Decree restoring the Jews
oners shall be released and accorded full of North Africa to full French citizenship.
sin, there is a heroic
statue depicting an In-
amnesty. There are Arab hoodlums as there are
dian, a missionary and
everywhere.
These
anti-social
.
an explorer. Nicolet,
This forthright and clear declaration hoodlums
Perrot, Marquette, Jo-
on Italy should have profound repercus- elements can be and are used by those
liet and Black Bird, a
sions in Nazi Germany and among the with ulterior motives, and we know there
Sauk Chief, are all re-
satellite nations. They now know that their are pro-Nazi Arabs who would create dis-
membered.
liberties will be restored and only the war turbances in order to embarrass the
criminals will be turned over to the peo- French
and
Allied
We do
not
want authorities.
to magnify the seri-
pies they have ravaged and murdered.
The declaration means that the peoples ousness of these outbreaks, but we point
of the occupied countries shall have the to them for the purpose of showing that
right to determine for themselves what it is not always a simple matter to take
kind of a government they want, and bold and strong action when you do not
Many people from dis-
tant lands live at peace
should the peoples decide to join a Feder- know the strength and determination of
here in America making
ation of States, there is nothing to pre- those who were formerly associated with
it a better place to live.
Read for yourself what
vent them from so doing. the Nazis.
Keep
Oa
The authorities in North Africa will no
Naziism has meant for
The importance of the Italian dec-
Norway, Denmark, Hol-
Saddam
the
Attack
laration cannot be too strongly 'stressed. doubt be able to handle the situation, and
land, Greece.
With War Beads
It shows the friendly attitude of the Brit- we should expect to hear of fewer dis-
ish, American and Soviet governments to- turbances as the pro-Nazi Arabs realize
ward an erstwhile enemy. It shows an that their opposition is futile.

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