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January 21,
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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Sabbath Readings of the Law
Pentateuchal portion—Ex. 6:2 - 9:35.
Prophetical portion—Ezek. 28:25 - 29:21.
JANUARY 21, 1944
TEBETH 25, 5704
Commissioner Valentine Acts
Police Commissioner Louis J. Valentine
of New York issued an order forbidding
members of the police to associate with
fomenters of race and faith hatreds.
The order was believed to have been
the result of the aroused public opinion
against exoneration by the New York
Police Department of Patrolman James
L. Drew who was charged with associat-
ing with persons engaged in subversive
and anti-Semitic activities.
It is unfortunate that such an order had
to be issued by the Police Commissioner of
the most cosmopolitan city in America.
We have not been surprised when Klan
and subversive sentiments were found in
small and backward communities, but in
a city like New York with its countless
national and racial groups, where every
opportunity is present for mutual under-
standing and tolerance, it does come as
a surprise to learn that such an order was
deemed necessary.
It would be interesting to know what
percentage of the members of the New
York police force was affiliated with sub-
versive and anti-Semitic organizations.
No matter what the number may be,
more than an order is needed to root out
the evil, for we know from the bitter
experiences of the Nazi-occupied coun-
tries of Europe that many of the members
of the police forces of those countries
were active Nazis and were the first to
join with the Nazi conquerors in the ne-
farious work of suppression and co-
ordination.
A police officer is a citizen with the
same rights, privileges, duties and obliga-
tions as any other citizen, but being a
police officer does not give him greater
immunities than any other citizen. If he
belongs to an anti- Semitic organization
the probabilities are that the organization
is subversive. We have found organized
anti-Semitism to be closely linked with
subversive activities. Pro-Nazism and anti-
Semitism go hand in hand. This has been
revealed in practically every case of those
tried and convicted by Attorney General
Francis Biddle for subversive activity.
The campaign to eradicate anti-Semi-
tism by means of education must be car-
ried on among all our citizens and par-
ticularly those who are charged with the
preservation of order.
Let us hope that the order of Commis-
sioner Valentine will put an end to active
participation by the New York police in
anti-Semitic and subversive organizations.
An Inopportune Time
We do not believe that this was the
opportune time to attempt to settle the
Soviet-Polish border question.
In the first place, most of the disputed
territory is still held by the German
army, and it seems to us to be rather
futile to dispute over something which
neither nation possesses.
In the second place, the Soviets had
made it abundantly clear that they were
in no mood to discuss the Polish, Baltic
and Finnish border questions with anyone.
We do not mean that the Polish Gov-
ernment-in-Exile is not entitled to con-
sideration of its claims, or that Britain
and the United States should not lend
their services and good offices to the
settlement of any and all differences that
may arise among the members of the
United Nations, but there is a proper and
an improper time, and we believe that
border disputes should be taken up for
consideration after the war is won.
All of the United Nations have ap-
proved the proposition that the peoples
shall decide upon their own form of gov-
.ernment and decide to what country they
want to adhere. It is obvious that the
Polish people cannot make any decisions
or choices at this time.
The ill-timed dscussion has aroused no
end of bad feeling. It has furnished the
Goebbels propaganda machine something
to talk about, and perhaps will enable
the Nazis for a time to take the minds
of their disspirited, hopeless people off
the reverses they are suffering and the
bombing they are enduring.
Perhaps the Polish people and the
other peoples of Europe may decide not
to have any national borders at all, and
decide that the time is ripe for the crea-
tion of a Federation of European States
patterned after our United States of
America. It should never be forgotten
that the, frame of reference of war is
vastly different from the frame of refer-
ence of peace. The problems of peace
times are essentially different from those
of war times. There can and may be such
a shift of emphasis that the so-called
Soviet-Polish border question may be of
little significance when peace returns to
the world.
In the meantime, however, it would
be better for all concerned that the whole
matter be held in abeyance and await a
more appropriate time for discussion and
negotiation.
AJC Memorandum on White Paper
The American Jewish Committee sub-
mitted a memorandum on the 1939 White
Paper on Palestine to Viscount Halifax,
Ambassador of Great Britain to this
country.
The memorandum asks for the abroga-
tion of the White Paper because "For
Great Britain, in 1943, the tensions that
made her deem the 1939 White Paper
necessary are no longer compelling" and
"In view of all existing conditions—po-
litical and humane—the American Jewish
Committee urges that His Majesty's Gov-
ernment should abrogate the 1939 White
Paper."
The memorandum gives an historical
survey of the Balfour Declaration and
Arab-Jewish relations, and specifically
emphasizes the opposition of Prime Min-
ister Winston Churchill to the White Pa-
per in the debate preceding its adoption
by a very narrow majority. At that time
the Prime Minister said : "The provision
that Jewish immigration can be stopped
in five years time by the decision of an
Arab majority . . . is a plain breach of
a solemn obligation. The pledge of a
home of refuge, of an asylum, was not
made to the Jews in Palestine but to the
Jews outside Palestine, to that vast, un-
happy mass of scattered, persecuted,
wandering Jews whose intense, unchang-
ing, unconquerable desire has been for a
National Home."
The memorandum points out that the
mandate makes it obligatory upon Great
Britain "to facilitate Jewish immigration"
and to encourage close settlement by
Jews on the land. The White Paper can-
cels these obligations and is consequently
unreasonably discriminatory against tht
Jewish people.
The memorandum of the American
Jewish Committee is welcome to all Jews.
However, we cannot but feel that instead
of memoranda from individual organiza-
tions, it would have been better had the
memorandum been sent by an organiza-
tion representing all of American Jewry.
If first things had been agreed upon first
at the American Jewish Conference, that
body could have presented the memoran-
dum for a united Jewry to the British
AMbassador. We are confident that the
American Jewish Committee will receive
the serious consideration that it deserves,
but it still would have been better had
the memorandum come from all the
American Jewish organizations that are
deeply concerned about the abrogation
of the unjust, undemocratic and unrea-
sonable White Paper.
Plain Talk...
1944
by Al Segal
I
ALL ABOUT A CARD
they thought of that
M showed me the Mrs. best Jackson,
of all
cards sort of thing. They planned a
Y
that Christmas was the time to
show what
FRIEND,
the collection of Christmas
she received in the recent sea-
son. I hope it isn't an anachron-
ism for me to speak of a Christ-
mas card a month later. To be
sure, I know as well as anyone
that the good will of Christmas
has been buried till next Decem-
ber, but it should be all right
to speak of a Christians card in
a memorable way.
Mrs. Jackson has all kinds:
Christmas cards with wintry
scenes and cards with churchly
embellishment such as stained
glass windows, cards on which
people have their own pictures
printed, rather vulgarly, I think.
"And this one," Mrs. Jackson
beamed. Her fingers touched the
card preciously. Mrs. Jackson is
a Christian lady who thinks its
about time something were being
done to convert many of the
Gentiles to Christian behavior.
I don't know that Mrs. Jackson
belongs to any church or has
signed up for any creed, but I
certainly should call her Chris-
tian. Anyway, her pleasure on
account of this Christmas card
suggested what a Christian lady
she is.
"This card," she said, "is from
Mr. and Mrs. Litchel of St.
Louis."
As she looked at this card
Mrs. Jackson could recognize
the Litchels as close kinsmen in
Christmas feeling. The Litchels
are Christian in the same way
that Mrs. Jackson applies her-
self to Christian conduct.
It seems the Litchels had not
been content to buy ready-made
Christmas cards. Certainly, their
card was not the ordinary Christ-
mas card of commerce. The
Christmas card manufacturers
like to stick to the time-tried
ways of expressing good will, and
a Christmas card like the Litch-
els' was something almost revo-
lutionary, you might say, as a
good will expression. It had to
do with Jews.
Litchels, it appears, had mile
to the idea that it was a Christ-
mas time in which to suggest
that good will was not just a
handshake to pass around among
the Gentiles. The Gentiles had
been behaving rather badly in
the matter Of Jews and it was
about time to remind them that
there were obligations of good
will toward Jews, too. In fact,
you might think that sonic of
the Gentiles had had no benefits
of Christian education.
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IT WAS not alone what Hitler
had been doing to Jews. No
respectable Gentile would have
any association with Hitler, any-
way. It was the dirty little
cracks heard against Jews even
a in o n g respectable Gentiles;
small, filthy suspicions; vile little
morsels of falsehood against
Jews picked up from gutters
and chewed and passed on for
someone else to chew all over
again.
Evidently the Yitchels thought
Christmas card and this was it.
There lay t he Christ-child ;is
His crib as on all other Christ-
mas cards that commemorated
the sacred crib. The crib stood
just inside the door of the man-
ger. But the manger was differ-
ent from all the pictures of ma 1:-
gers that had ever been seen on
Christmas cards before.
The Litchel manger was in
the form of it large Star of
David I the Mogen David) ; a
Star of David built of wood. The
Christ-child nestled underneath.
"I should say," Mrs. Jackson
remarked, "there is nothing finer
among the several billion card;
that were printed and mailed
around."
Mrs. Jackson's eyes kept on
glowing at the sight of it. Being
the Christian lady she is, she
had been carrying the implica-
tions of the card in her own
mind right along. The Litchel
card as much as said: "Look
This Child we celebrate today-
was of the Jews—a Jew! A
child of the people whom some
of us wrap all together in one
bundle of our malice and hate.
Perhaps we should remember
this."
Mrs. Jackson could guess that
the Litchels must have had some-
thing like a twinkle of divine
comedy in their eyes as the:y
sent out their cards. She thought
at first it would have been per-
fectly grand if they could havo
had one of their Christmas cards
in every mail box in the country
the day before Christmas. She
liked to think of startled citizens
reaching into their mail boxez
and coining upon the Christ
child asleep under the Star of
David and the Litchels as much
as saying to one and all, "Merry
Christians and good will and
peace in memory of this Jewish
child.'
In a single day the good will
of the Ladle's would have got
around to all the mail boxes and
everywhere people would hay.
thanked God for the Litchels who
know what good will really is.
But after Mrs. Jackson had le
her mind gratefully dwell awhile
upon a result so happy she be
gan to think well, maybe ne.
Maybe it wouldn't have been
such a good idea for tho Litchels
to have it get around to every
mail box that Christ was a Jew-
ish child with this Jewish star
on Him.
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would the widely-
known Mr. Zilch have said?
Ziich might have had said to his
wife look what I found in the
mail box and what do you know
about that? Just look tit this.
It turns out it was a Jewish
manger and me always believing
that Christ was a Christian like
us. Those Jews certainly are
slickers. They sure had are fooled
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