4 January 21, DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Detroit Jewish Chronicle and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE -uWished Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. JACOB H. SCHAKNE JACOB MARGOLIS CHARLES- TAUB Pres.-Gen. Mgr. Editor Advertising Mgr. General Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave. Telephone: CAdillec 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle subscription in Advance $3.00 Per Year To insure publication, all correspondence and news mattes must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week. When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only. the Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- !ects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon- sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post- office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879. 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. f 1 f 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. ! f W 1 5 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 HAT See SEGAL—Page 9 In o decade MAS-ICA helped and guided 250,000 refugees leeing from persecution enroute to newhavens of freedom f itt 41-) Each Symbol , 25000 refugees 47723persons received financial aid for transportation. ( ) 444'4 ) Each Symbol • 5000 persons