April 7, 1944
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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in Czechoslovakia became an un- prejudices. Minorities and small vakia would often say: 'Yours is tive
effort to tradicate the evil
bridled source of irritation. Hit- nations may choose to luxuriate a great country, you have built
religious and other hatreds.
ler found ready aim among the in proud isolation, but they can a true democracy with freedom of "I
am confident," concluded •
landed oligarchy whose power extirpate bigotry, intolerance and for all—and you averted anti-
That distinguished member of
Dr. Masaryk, "that the forces
the
government
dared
to
curb
like
hatreds
only
through
na-
Semitism.'
A
high
compliment
the faculty of the German Uni-
and curtail. The rest is tragic tional and international collabo- indeed! That this is deeply em- of good are gaining the upper-
versity in Prague said to me: 'I history: of timidities, vacillations ration."
hand in the world. Unitedly they
bedded in the consciousness of can erect a lasting edifice built
will never forget that your So- and myopia. Spurious issues
To be sure, there is a singular Czechoslovak Jews is evident in of the bricks and mortar con-
kols, your own Czechoslovak na- arose to becloud the thinking and thrill
in the nationalism of the many ways. Witness the fact that
tional army, were ready to pro- to lull into a false sense of se- true patriot but, Masaryk opines, former Jewish members of our tributed by the cultural and
tect us, the Germans of Prague, curity most of the natural allies this nationalism—so valuable dur- Sokols and military legions now spiritual heritages of all peoples.
during your national revolution of small and helpless nations. ing times of stress—needs espy- serve in Czechoslovak armies in A serious attempt at total self-
against any attack which might But the Soviet Union, herself, cially in peace the binding ce- England and Russia. They are preservation, devoid of selfish-
have come from the Czech na- constantly jeopardized in the wel- ment of kindred nationalisms, in among our most loyal and valor- ness, will see the world trans-
formed into a Homeland of Man
tionalists. But you Czechs were ter of European power politics, which humanity is so rich. ous soldiers."
in which there shall be no Leb-
so overcome with joy over your was fully aware of the magni-
Jan Masaryk believes that the
It was evident from his mood ensraum for anti-Semitism or
liberation that you completely tude of the Nazi menace, kept concept of cooperation among
disregarded the sins of your ty- her powder dry, and has proved European countries inherent in ti nt Jan Masaryk would have other blighting inhumanities."
relished
to expatiate
rants of yesterday and showed to be an astonishingly effective the United Nations pattern must point,
but other
demands on
on this
his
ally of the United Nations in the in the long run bring about
them mercy.'"
were obviously pressing. Yet
Unfortunately, with the emer- war against Nazi aggression. It is closer world collaboration, more he
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e would
not refuse
a final
gence in the late 1920s of racial in recognition of this that Dr. enduring economic, social and re- lion:
How does
he view
the ques-
Jew-
Benes, writing recently in an ligious security. "But," he in- ish question per se?
propaganda in all its emotional American
journal, said:
sists, "our first concern is to
trappings, the German minority
"For me," he said with great
"The world must appraise the check German aggression, which
true nature of the Soviet Union implies mutual aid against any earnestness, "there exists no
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and of the potentialities of the sort of aggression. The lowest separate Jewish problem. It is in-
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Jan Masaryk envisions the cre- result a practical pattern, an in- world at large, is the wish to
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ation of a formula by the United strument for the effective cons- help world Jewry. Whatever
bating
of
anti-Semitism.
When
the
steps
we
of
Czechoslovakia
and
Nations that will ultimately
achieve the mitigation and out- day of retribution arrives in the others have taken to promote fu-
lawry of anti-Semitism wherever not distant future, those that ture peace is but a reflection of
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