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1943
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ECENTLY a picture called the intruder, who was comfort-
this, be the e
110w, that Nazi Germany
woul
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week. by
"The Strange Death of Adolf -ably . disposed on my sofa, and
n
the
war
and,
know
i
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only. loser
Hider" has been on the screens. said to him -quite calmly: "Good
certainly
not
want
to
antagonize
us
too
Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub-
I haven't seen this picture but •I evening, I thought you were
The
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon- much.
make free to take its title for dead."
That
endorsement of views expressed by its writers
We have felt for some time past that the purpose of relating what I He was unmisakable!
sibility for an
I had always
know
about
the
approaching
comical
mustache
if the Congress of the United States would
picture.
laughed at in
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
death of Adolf Hitler.
How it came to me is of small unpleasant voice that had always
at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. seriously consider the problem that
office
plan could be devised that would aid in importance to the readers who irritated me ever since I first
have conic to accept the author- heard it from the Sportspalast on
the
rescue work.
of columnists without ques- the radio. That short, comical
Sabbath Readings of the Lad
The introduction of the joint resolution ity
tion and to know that if it ap- figure that had never looked he-
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 23:1-25: 18.
does not necessarily mean its passage. It pears in a column it's so.
roic to me.
said, "I
Prophetical portion—Kings 1:1-31.
can be buried in committee. We must Yet there was a long time in "Yes, Hitler," I dead
100
'fe I was not a col- thought you were
exert all the pressure we can upon the
111Y
umnist
and
in
that
period
I
ac-
years."
It couldn't be otherwise than
CHESHVAN 21, 5704 Congress to the end that the bill will be quired a certain humbleness of
NOVEMBER 19. 1943
passed, and when passed be immediately the spirit that somehow remains that he was dead. I had seen the ,
So that pictures!
.. At the Palace Theater,
put into action.
with me even unto now.
while
I
have
been
invested
with
with
as
I
well
remembered! The pie-
Write to your Congressman and Sena-
to
Anti-Semitism in Boston
- ; tur showed Hitler being A led
the
authority
of
a
columnist
in
tor and ask him to vote for this bill. If humility occasionally arises to the wall in the jail yard. squad
John F. Stokes, Public Safety Commis- you do this at once you may do something speak softly: "After all, you're of German soldiers. Yes, the Ge•-
mans themselves had done it. A
sioner of Boston, in a report to Governor to help rescue somebody from Nazi terror. mill only Segal."
This is such an occasion. sharp, rough' command of tit
Saltonstall of Massachusetts, declared that
Though the authoritative colum- German lieutenant in charge. We
the recent anti-Semitic outbreaks would
nisi in me would truculently dis- heard the volley. They spared our
Secretary Hull Reports
ith all explanations of sensibilities the sight of Hitler
not have been possible if the police exer-
w
I t r
the
story of the strange falling dead, but a m
cised its duties more conscientiously.
;how of Adolf
Secretary of State Cordell Hull returned death
Hitler came to me, a crumpled body lay by the wall.
During the recent shameful race riots in
Detroit, similar charges were made from Moscow with the news that no secret the innate humbleness of m y "Hitler, you're dead," I said.
tells me I owe it to the "I saw you die."
against the police. What is wrong with agreements were entered into at the con- spirit
people to tell how the story of They had shown us his nub
the police? Do they not realize that they ference. There are many unsettled ques- the strange death of Adolf Hitler g rave 'afterward. A heap of dirt
Somebody had thrown a ragweed
are public servants and must maintain tions, but these will be examined by the came to me.
on top. His grave was in a bleak
order? Are men for the police forces advisory committee which is yet to be set
:
recent
drizzly
Octo-
field
far from the habitations of
NIva(soa
chosen with less care than formerly? up and which will meet in Moscow, Lon- ber
So evening,
too inclement even men
"Hitler," I said, "I saw you
Do they receive the proper instruction don and Washington.
for a dog to be out, that I sat
iesd.agi saw' you buried 100
y
:
rl
elg
e
arr
b:u
According
to
Mr.
Hull,
the
Soviets
have
),
in the big, fat chair
as to their duties, obligations and func-
tabye el every
i
ittsomm
c
unisf
.
is
my
.
m
.
As
rooh
tions? We think these questions are prop- agreed to allow the peoples of occupied
ad a nft oo t l;It e l
H e l a t i g h heed . He I hw
s t
saide
er and pertinent, because we live in a countries to choose their own govern- _ s p u ac ny e uvfen m mvg, pi I pewaI
capac- everybody,
enl v ne.
The ' whole s world
land where civil authority is supreme in ments. This may be news to some but it ious pipe with mystical properties.
Its fumes circle around my thought he was dead and buried.
times of war as in peace. It will be a sad is not news to those who have followed
head and like soft fingers shut Ho! Ho! It was a good joke on
ay for America if civil authority s i Bolshevik foreign policy since the days my eyes and carry me off to the whole world. His laughter
d superseded
by police rule. We have but of Lenin. It must be borne in mind that strange places and scenes and was mirthless, jagged like the
a times and introduce me to strange creaking of rusty hinges.
a' was
ussian E m. pire
o . Russian
to think of the German Gestapo and the the e name e of
o the e old
I 1 1
Fascist Ovra to get a picture of what changed to the Union of Socialist Soviet people. So it inking that evening.
WAS alive, he said, had
at
LIE
had
been
thinktng
of
this
and
I
can happen to a country where the civil Republics. This means and has meant, .
as alive
. . . of our lack of points 11 never (lied. He was
great-great
least theoretically, that the Soviet Union that
ofef
authority is no longer supreme.
to
buy
a
good
steak
.
.
.
of
my
• that have vol-
'
solders
is made up of republics
According
grandchildren and the way Ellen
According to Commissioner Stokes, the is
ho
had
shothim.
He
repeated
puts
a
jigsaw
puzzle
together
as
the
g w r
evidence gathered in 30 cases of assault, untarily joined the Union and still retain
. of what kind of a it: He was as alive as the hearts
insult and damage to property shows no a degree of autonomy in their own affairs. already . . anted
after this war of the great-great grandchildren
To carry out its theory of incorporating world d I l tth w a at
of the men who had shot him. I
organized anti-Semitic origin, but he finds
_
.
o want to voluntarily join . .
If fellow hgaudesas he must
sonic dozen puffs knew
that there was a widespread dissemina- only
taken
hied
on l y th o se wh
1
way
ilt.1
when,
as
is
the
th
the
Soviet
Union,
the
Bolsheviks
claimed
r
a
e
l
of my pipe
tion of anti-Semitic literature in Boston,
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•
' Latvian, Lithuanian
it mean something subtly occult by
•
and of the incense-like smoke i;le-
and he recommended that it be dealt with that the Finnish,
my eyes to close and I his reference to being as alive
Estonian peoples were dissatisfied with caused
became
aware
that in I the
was same
in the as the hearts of the great-great
were still
living
immedately.
.
a d req u u nile : Ii7i grandchildren of the men who
The law enforcement agencies can deal
ear
y cong
had shot him. But I kept arguing
come
autonomous
states and
affiliated
the
with the problem by prosecuting the dis- their
then
governments
wanted with
to be-
seeie
r u 2o0u4s3.. I I tlooked
•
seminators for libel and disturbing the Soviet Union.
Hadn't I seen him being taken
with the same furni-
How many of the present sovereign apartment
march-
m a
peace, but there is much of the literature
li ? n The i, u
ture,
though
my
wife
had
always
the
matter:
i n s tsle e l a etm
ghi
w carefully
. under the been saying that we should move.
step!
y ope, that are now
that is not defamatory or libellous, and
they examined their rifles to
the authors
disseminators
cannot
be Nazi
states heel,
of Europe,
uted. and
In these
latter cases
it is up
will join the Soviet Union is It was impossible that she would to
sure every bullet was in
a matter of speculation, and one guess have tolerated our staying here make
place. I had seen every rifle
prosec
100 years.
.
the rifle
to our Christian neighbors to counteract is as good as another. Should all the
pointing at his heart.
1 I I
barrels
could
have been extended
the effects of such literature. The wiping ereign states decide to become republics WY POOR confused mind was
a
out of anti-Semitism is the responsibility affiliated with the Soviet Union, the prob- Mat a loss to make head or they would all have come to
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out of the situation when I point together at his he
of Christians as much, if not more so, lem of a Federated Europe would be on tail
And it was certainly you who
was startled half out of my al- "purl
than that of the Jews. If the lay and its way toward solution.
standing at that wall. The
ready helpless wits by a sudden
We realize that many who still suspect
H err same mustache, the same figure.
clerical Christian leaders of our commu-
voice . . . "Good evening, Herr
nity would recognize this responsibility the Bolsheviks and distrust them must Segal" . . . You know how it is It was you. I saw your body ly-
there afterward."
as theirs and would carry on an educa- view this prospect with unfeigned alarm. to be suddenly assailed by a ing Everything
possible was done
we
are
not
frightened
by
such
strange
voice
in
your
own
living
tional campaign to eradicate the disgrace-
Frankly,
to make a complete death of it.
ful evil of anti-Semitism, they could do an eventuality because we are persuaded TOM.
They were witnesses standing
Yet even in most frightening
much to put an end to it. that the military police states that came
• . . "A doctor ap -
There are hosts of Christians who hon- to the fore before World War II because moments I remain the courteous 'round about
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estly deplore the existence of anti-Semi- of overemphasized nationalism would be man of aplomb. I looked up at
more
than
deplore
transformed
into
civil
states
with
all
the
tism, but they must do m. i
—they must do something about it. freedoms that are implicit in a civil re-
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gime.
The Soviet military police state that
insisted that it was compelled to build
Act on This
up its military establishment because of
This cupola - capped
Cornhusker's Pride
A joint resolution setting up a commis- the ever-present danger of attack by its
tower on the state cap-
itol at Lincoln looks
sion of diplomatic, economic and military neighbors could no longer have the same
o . ut upon one of our
experts to effectuate a plan of immediate reason to use its raw materials and man-
important grain and
action designed to save the Jews of Eu- power to war ends, and would in all prob-
livestock states. Its
founders came from the
rope was introduced in the House and ability use its raw materials and man-
corners of the world
Senate by a group of 10 Senators and power to produce consumer, capital and
and built a great com-
t t' es
durable goods for peacetime needs.
monwealth.
two k ep x
"Save the Jews of Europe" has a fami-
The greatest beneficiary of a F ederated
liar sound, but little has been done about
it. There are always reasons for inaction Europe would be the Jews of that un-
and most of us are ready to accept the happy continent. They have
more
b suffered
the Jews have from the nationalist amitions
Of the En-
friends are ropean powers than has any other people,
friends
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and these
in
Congress
friends ready
given.
and s willg
to speak at Jew- Perhaps the sovereign states of Europe
AlkijakTial In Europe too, Poland,
Wilton
o deplore the cruel will have learned a lesson after 30 years
always
Czechoslovakia, Belgi-
alw
ir yes
um, Holland, France,
the y wil l t urn
ish gatherings and
e
war. Prhaps
Norway and other
and sad plight of the Jews of Europe. of
ard, for if they do the y thweill efind
countries were striving
This does not mean that they are not westw
for better, more peace-
genuinely interested in the fat e of the the United States of America where there
ful
H and then Aus-
interest is not suffi- has been no war among the sovereiym
Keep America Safe;
tria spawned Adolf
Jews of Europe, but
cient. Some plan of action is needed, and states for almost done,
80 years.
Buy War Bonds
. I iii , d
d the y cars dwoilla
What we have st
of
the
tortured
re
me
good
an
urgently needed, if so
ligent self-intere
remnants of Israel are to be rescued.
The plan proposed by the resolution needed.
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