December 31, 1943

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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precise and understandable language the
Jewish Chronicle following:
"The United Nations have no inten-
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
tion
to enslave the German people.
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Plain Talk...

Detroit

by

Al Segal

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A DAY IN 194•

is dead.
I MUST congratulate the read- Hitler
1 ers upon coining at last out of So when we come to the

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great

awful years into a clearing where day in 1944 we may well cele-
brate the victory of alms, the
it looks like dawn rising.
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims resoon•
probably make some- valor that had brought thisabou ,:t
They
will
These are conditions which will have what of a hooray of the New but we must accept the day .
sibility far an endorsement of views expressed by its writers
to be met by the German people.
Year but I suggest that they store as the end but as the begintilluz
Entered es Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post•
up their,elations unto a certain of an end. If we understand it
The
pronouncement
should
dispel
the
office et Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
day than surely coming in 1944. that way we can illuminate all
fears of the people of Germany that they
o .
y- On that day Hitler will be the ye: ,e rs atnodec tta
smen. d it will know
will
be
enslaved.
This
is
far
beyond
an
through.
Sabbath Readings of the Law
thing they had promised to the conquered t Having been a participant in that we have finished a great
Pentateuchal portion—Gen. 44 :18 - 42 :27.
recording, for the press, of war and now we must begin to
countries of Europe in the event they had the
the
earlier armistice day, my make a great peace. We must
Prophetical portion—Ezek. 37 :15 - 28.
been victorious.
fancy makes no difficulty of en- keep on marching toward the
This pronouncement will deal a death v i ii saging the great day to come great peace with the peoples with
whom we march so valarously in
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TEBETH
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the year 1944.
blow to the fear and horror propaganda
DECEMBER 31. 1943
remember
our
joyous
citizens
the war.
I
of Joseph Goebbels, who had been din- carrying
I guess it's harder to keep on
home-made caskets con-
—
ning into the ears of the masses that a taining effigies of the kaiser about marching a long time in brotherly
United Nations victory meant enslave- the streets on Nov. 11, 1918. love than to march together in
Let Us Resolve
The idea was that a lot of dread- brotherly hate of enemies. Hate
ment.
ful things of which the kaiser was is a much easier and more en-
There is quite a bit of unfinished busi-
during emotion than love, as I
We now know that neither Nazism or the symbol were dead.
ness
that
is
being
carried
over
into
the
They
thought
nationalistic
ar-
have seen it. It carries tire,'
New Year. Let us hope that when 1945 Prussian miltarism are to survive. This is
time.
rogance, imperialistic greed and people a longer
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rolls around we shall be able to say that much different from the terms of settle- war were dead. But they left the YES,
ES, if tha t day i n 1944 is to
publi
kaiser unburied on
it has been disposed of, at least in part. ment
of World
War were
I. After
that war
Prussian
militarists
permitted
to the
re_ square. Arrogance, greed and war 1 mean any good toward the
the time to come, it will call for a
Among these important pieces of un- tain their power and authority and were rose again, accompanied by
goo
g vi: l d i \ ,
ah e fo r than valo l r aionIt the tspirit e to 1 esustain ndedi-
t ei r more e terrible
orsemen,
i n n h yof
finished business are the abrogation of permitted to build up the most powerful four
a
the White Paper and the setting up of war machine in the history of Europe.
Ye s, weh shall ruses Hitl er in years. fo nwill
machinery to expedite the rescue of as This decision' of the leaders at Teheran many a casket on our streets one cation to the idea of justice in
in the coming year. The citi- the world not only for Ameri-
many of our brethren from Nazi-controlled to destroy Prussian militarism is the most day
zens will have no doubt that it is cans but for all the nations.
momentous
and
significant
that
has
yet
It will mean a brave rallying
Europe as is humanly possible.
Hitler in their caskets.
been made by any power or combination veritably
They will have painted the absurd to the brotherhood, shoulder to
Neither of these undertakings is easy of owers in the last century.
shoulder. To help support the
. little mustache on the pudgy face; brother
deal of o- 1)
who is of another nation
or simple. Much effort and a
It must be remembered that at the end on the lid they will have inscribed and
to help carry him up the
the swastika.
persuasion will be needed to overcome the
Twenty-five years ago, being mountainside takes a spirit more
opposition of Britain and the Arab world of
War I the
Kaiser was
deposed
but World
the Generals
remained.
This
was a
then. I could believe determined than to shoot him and
before
unreasonable
White
that arrogance, greed and was leave him on the barbed wire of
Paper the
is wholly
cancelled.
victory
for the militarists who had ruled so
battlefield. . .
the Kaiser, and who have ruled the Nazis. -. were ca . as I beheld our citi- a Of
course, it will mean nothing
ying
ying off the kaiser to
rr
The matter of rescue of the Jews of If and when Prussian militarism is de- his funeral. My young eyes were merely to embrace the brother
Europe is as complex a piece of business stroyed, we may look forward to a cm- bright with innocence then and and to issue declarations of our
was sure that just because peo- love for him. Brotherhood can
as has yet been faced by Jewish agencies pletely new orientation of Germany. Up I ple
said we had won not only a stand permanent only on justice
till
now
the
orientation
has
been
in
the
to
' and organizations that are accustomed
great war but also a bright new and justice has to do a
direction of the conquest of so much of
brothers to
difficult jobs.
have enough to eat and enough
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When it seemed that the Baldwin Germany the dominant power on the con- T REMEMBER telling my young to clothe their bones against
I had taken them winter's winds and a solid roof
Rogers Joint Resolution, which provided tinent. The Prussian militarists never downtown
/ children that.
to see the joyous sights over their heads and enough to
for a means of escape for some of the deviated for a moment from this line. and they asked
me what were bring up their children right.
harassed Jews of Europe, was to be en They held to it whether the political pow- all the people shouting for. I told The brothers will not follow
g
to war if they have
acted into law, along came Breckenridge er was held by the Kaiser, by the Weimar them: They were shouting be- demaogues
there
would
be
no
more
enough
to eat and enough to wear
Long of the State Department and threw Re
Republicans or by Adolf Hitler and his cause
wars and everything was going and roofs over their heads and
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ill
a monkey wrench into the whole business. Nazi
gangsters.
to be all right in the world. I hope for their children; they w
It seems to us that with the end of Fall . they would never have to be be content, and why should they
Even though all the figures produced
shoot go t o die f or demagogues . bateful
were correct, and all his figures and Prussian militarism the Germans will be- s o l diers and go to war and shoot
W
They will not turnwith
fight.
and
'
statements as to the scope of the Inter- come respectable and there will be an
boy back a env y agains t Jews, since they
idealism w as set
governmental Refugee Committee are end to the fantastic and disastrous notion bit My
id he have enough; anti-S em
w hen the oldest
c'ie)
lpn't
think
that
was
any
good.
ideology but only the a iiticisilenntisvil
sharply challenged, the fact still remains that they constitute the "Master Race". t i
o t. its
l
covet
i
nt
i
i
n
-k
uo
h
u
w
nh
r
e
i
gthhheo
n
f
o l d i e r a n d o
With the end of Prussian militarism the
be
ai fureputed
that there are many who can be saved
e a soldier
with the shipping means at the disposal idea of the "New Order in Europe" will havewaancaennotne.
said.
He
must
get
better
off.
Not
that
by
justice
all
"No! No!" I
of our and other United Nations govern- topple. When Germany becomes a respec- that out of his mind. That sort envy can be abolished, but by
table member of the family of European of thing was through. He would economic justice for many men
todtivaentoi
ments.
nations we may hope that as such a re- never have to be a soldier.
will wiiiI(1
f-S e n ivi y t i stNi‘iil
Now, in my riper years, I am reduced, ann
The tasks of American Jewry, though spectable member of the family she will a cynical
old man, if you want become no more than the social
, for a Europe of mutual
• to worx
difficult, are definite. We now know that , begin
to call me old, who when he looks prejud ice of some country clubs
the British Government must be convinced helpfulness, cooperation and good will. at Hitler in his casket, w ill say. that don't like Jews, anyway. i I
that it should admit more than the 30-odd rather than the Europe of enslavement, well , he looks like a corpse but don't quarrel with prejudices that
guess I'll wait awhile before I keep me out of a country club
thousand entitled to enter that have not domination and hatred envisaged by the I celebrate
over him. I'll wait for 1 myself make social discrimina
been able to enter Palestine for a multi - Nazis and the Prussian militarists.
ia- . ,
the peace. This is only the arm-
plicity of reasons. If at long last Europe is free from that istice.
There must be a peace
I'll know
that Hitler
is dead.
of tions
my house,
though,
of course,
arrogance
or greed
; then
that keep
some people
out
monstrous thing called Prussian militarism without
a peace with I am more adult in my personal
We now have evidence of the desire and it can begin to think in terms of a United
prejudices than country clubs
willingness on the part of many of our
There must be
in Europe.
Senators and Representatives to help
see sEGAL—Page 9
then I'll he sure that
It should become apparent to thinking justice;
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the work of rescue of unfortunate Euro-

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Germans and other Europeans that the
peen Jewry.
political problems that have arisen, on the
It is of little or no importance what level of unlimited sovereignty, cannot be I
organization does the work, or receives solved either by aggressive warfare or
the credit, for rescuing the Jews of Eu- by the continuation of the outmoded the-
rope. The important thing is to get the ory of unlimited sovereignty in the tech-
nological and industrial Europe of today.
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work done.
In place of the unlimited sovereignty
Let us in the coming year try to empha- there must be created a Federated Europe.
size our agreements. We have emphasized
our differences unduly. A change should and not a Danubian Federation, or a
Western European Federation.
do us all good.
Our interest in the solution of the prob-
lems of Europe is more than academic.
We have been dragged into two wars
because of the inability or refusal of the
The President's Peace Terms
nations of Europe to settle their problems
President Franklin D. Roosevelt told amicably.
the world in his Christmas Eve message
The fact that the states of the United
what had been agreed upon at Teheran. States, with their limited sovereignty, have
When the statement was issued imme- been able to settle their problems ami-
diately after the Teheran Conference, we cably for almost 80 years should be con-
had to interpret it for the terms were so elusive proof that the same can be done
general that interpretation of its meaning by the states of Europe if they work to
was necessary. At long last, clear and bring this about.
definite terms upon which peace can be
AT the dawn of a New Year we may
-:""
made were given to Germany.
hope that a peace for generations to come
,
The President told the Germans,in will be realized.

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freedom and liberty our
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