`-7111,11111 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle April 21, 1944 Detroit Jewish Chronicle incidents. Joseph Goebbels may rant and rave and the Fuehrer may bite a rug, and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE . but at this late day nobody here pays Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc. much attention to Hitler and Goebbels, JACOB H. SCHAKNE Pres.-Gen. Mgr. JACO B MARGOLIS and we believe that the people of Ger- • • • by Sega Editor CHARLES TAUS 11 any pay even less attention to them Advertising Mgr. than we do. 0 General Offices and Publication 131d9., 525 W Woodward Ave. Teleph one: CAdillac 1040 Why did Britain take such an unprece- Cable Address: Chronicle Sub scrip ti on in Advance dented step? There have been wars since $3.00 Per Year the convention of Vienna, in 1815, that To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter adopted the policy of diplomatic immu- must reach this offic e by Tuesda of each week. nity. World War I was of immense scope When mailing notices, kindl y use y on evening " -- e side of paper onl y. The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- and yet it was never deemed advisable to X4Y FRIEND, Gabriel M. Co- has ;acts of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon- place restrictions upon the travel of en- known to starve iv'. hen, publisher of the In- death been because it l ou sibiiity for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers. voys or a censorship on their correspond- a d only id ; dianapolis Post, informs use that an d co ragteheto pub lieon•, On i; ■ , ence. It is tr inthat te ilitary situatio t his ( month there is to occs s Catered as Second-class matter March u n t i i o n in Indianapol is be of a pub- con- its f uneral tribute: T Ca t er at Detroit, Mich., under the Act 3, of 1916, at the Post- was differentue 1911-h18.m The Br itish did Ii ini t ur.-.1 eo tiii:illssk. P.11 r 1, Ma ch 3, 1879. of . the Jewish press to said, the way death gets lilt:: no have to invade France and Belgium - ---- -- -- - ------ -- form Sabbath Readings of the Law association for the good whoceriossisu'tuarilic;s7( press, They were there becaus e France and Bel: Bel- and welfare of their craft. Occasionally, Pentateuch' portion—Lev. 9: 1-20; 27. father, 1 Mr. Cohen gium had successfully resisted the Ger- thought that, by a very rich and enlighten .l ' Propi.etical portion—Amos 0:7-15 or Ezek 22:1-10 e this column, I might con- publisher, has been mans and the channel ports remained known (or 26). Nv , trib u u, t cs something o rocs o other t the survive aouh by ideal- nd fl ris open throughout the war. However, -- discuss ( .... - loos ions j asion . But then naiv e peo pl e say see hi \ - do not think that the mi 1 li 1 tary APRIL 21. 1E44 ust the ary ( iffemce ans only just another consumer ideals do triumph. But , even till I NISSAN 28. 5704 is the only ' one. of the Jewish press, not a re- press could not have lived whil- (!r otnas. iei b l m emb er o f it. On a out the generous hand of its of- It is our considered opinion that in c,s nie i loo t, r tshlye e ja(t iswh'e ek a c opy of fluT The Sedition Trial ent publisher to feed it. 1914-18 neutrals were as nearly neutral iis urests h ec oenvic(s, s. is e lives.t b i s that esis ei ) :sat iis sus lfl t ■ iii(, i ; as it was humanly possible to be, but in to my mailbox and press e s The trial of 30 charged with sedition this war neutrality is imposed by eco- ling I open up its pages and con- public. In Jat sense sucp i . h is. contained there. child of the public in whim k opened on Monday. The defendants in- nomic necessity and not from genuine suiTIlhese `What g; Il l 'ead f lis the th ue( to nurture ii; elude Miss Elizabeth Dilling of Chicago, feelings of neutrality. Then, too , in this piece ' 141./Ttsepinealknbi n yg l y mns vsoergs at ; , ,II:ir responsibility author of "The Red Network" George awisL uirtisshti,t.yers tfo death. war we have discovered that many em- author. In o f Sylvester Vierick, who has an amazing bassies and consulates are not what they N favorite author I do not in the circulation and tahepraeisks. i.' as tc:!ro lir ly : . to imply any praise of iising with which its public capacity for getting into trouble and the were prts: intended or appear to be, but are ei i.ie t h i ne• him. effrontery of an arrogant Nazi. Among centers from which propaganda was dis- vides it. The money that comes I'vail•yliveexreleiNi%eintc fellow all in from these sources pays . the the other better known defendants are seminated. my life, you might ,:ay, and cost the paper on 'which it Is William Dudley Pellet' and William With the advent of Nazism the di lo-t riaturally, after sueh a long in- punted, pays the printers' bilk, Kunze, national leader of the A meri can y, I came conscious of a pays the help, pays, or should mats of Germany and other Nazi influ certa infondness .. f or German Bond. ' pay, a decent living for the pub- As his enced countries no longer seem to have best friend I read his sins. stuff di; i- fisher. Certainl y, publishers have One of the defendants, Mrs. Lois de foreign representatives who attend to the h fre. quently, with the to live and are well entitled to callY and. s,sun sbit,icetr) sm itnhge iltiop,015 Lafayette Washburn of Chicago and Ta- diplomatic and economic affairs of their tsiotarnrol‘k;h e tn tth e yw ipt h r 0 reasonable idt us w i t hc cons- Il s l st- , coma, he( coma, added a touch of the dramatic at countries, but they have rather become ) II clench e of en old friend. news and fulfill the roll call by answering, "Here! de Laf- agents of the Nazis whose chief function i say to bins now and again, our spokesmen, their function as ayette, we are here! To defend what you is the spread of the Nazi gospels. Segal, I'm sorry to say I don't Of course, the duty to support gave us—our freedom from tyranny." The British have concluded, and we like this piece. Are you really the Jewish press devolves par- satirfied with it? Don't . you think tieularly upon us. Because it is On leaving the court the lady gave a think rightly, that anybody connected stiff-arm salute that resembled the Nazi Avail the Nazis, even though remotely, i s you could have done it a lot Jewish the resources of support be salu e. This evoked laughter, even from a part of the total war apparatus of the better if yoU had tried? for the Jewish press should h t On these occasions Segal feels largely within th e Jewish circle, d eeply hurt; for I should stay Victor Howard Broenstrupp, one of her Hitler gangsters. ay 1 1 I is a humble person with co-defendants, and the other defendants Many precedents have been shattered no stiff-necked pride in his pro- NOW are we, as Jews, sup. rorting our Jewish press in rebuked the lady for her unseemly con- in this war. Traditions are scattered in ductions., the way it deserves, if it is to be duct. broken lots all over the continent of . I mention tads only to estab- a press that serves with the dig - From a photograph of Mrs. Washburn Europe. Perh aps the precedent-breaking 'Isis 'sly status as just another nity becoming to a people of out reader of the Jewish press who status in the history of civiliza- giving her salute, we would say that she practice will continue when the war is looks at it Nv i i h an objective eye. tion and our place in the world does look a little whacky. But then, which over. Perhaps the sovereignty tradition, J h i of .,, the consumers of the _ t I ant looking ate'u' Mr. Zlitc, l,,: t r ,_we I e guess h p press n of these defendants, with the exception that has manacled Europe, will give way e wi s tha .a, fa f 00 ir to y 1 o u, ' s Zilch! my . 1 p ros' rou r merchant. of the racketeers, is not a little on the to a broader concept of European co n- tAVill iatt. lit. a Jewish press as we are willing you doing about the Jewish pre: queer side. tinentalism. to support. in your town? I haven't seen your It goes without saying that the de- While the publishers snake advertising in the Jewish press. Pendants will get a fair trial. The, court ready to meet in Indianapolis. I dislike even seemingly to dis- appointed counsel for them, and we are let us consumers get tpgether ploy this column as an agency to Hungarian Light and Shade b :re for the purpose of discus- solicit advertising, but, Mr. Zilch, confident that these lawyers will do all The Nazis are following the Nurem- sing our part in the Jewish pres.: we are discussing the existent. in their p ower to of a Jewish institution and w. acquit their unwanted burg pattern in their treatment of Hun- clients. / I f and its imPruvellient. the facts, however garian Jewry. One could have hoped that I N MY opening remarks I should Clhistitsitisteffule1(.' The Government rnm ent proposes to prove the desperation of their own position volunteer a well known fact The Jewish press is an insti- that the led the Nazi move- would have softened their attitude to- or life' namely, a press, laded- lotion of Jewish life, like other meat in America just as Oswald Moseley Mg the Jewish press, like mos. Jewish institutions thai you gen- did in Britain, Vidkun Quisling did in ward the Jews. The anti-Semitic section other human institutions, lives by erously support. The Jewish press carries on just as does the Wehrmacht money. It would be pleasant to is the medium of communication Norway and Pierre Laval did in France. or the Luftwaffe. It has a job to do and, report that a press, as a medium between us as individuals and the the spirit, Perhaps some of these defendants real- until a new order isgiven by Hitler, the only by its Jewish world. The Jewish world of ly did hope to overthrow the Government section lives ideals and its courage. Some of is as big as the earth itself. The will continue to follow its blue•• of the United States and set themselves print for the degradation and extermi- us seem to believe chat a press brethren are all around it. PI a in Ta I Al JEWISH PRESS can live by these things alone; The Jewish press is the moral up as Fuehrers, back in early 1942 when nation of any Jew who conies within at ieast, we do n't feel called upon support o f the other institutions the war began. We believe that many of their brutal control. t,, provide it wiih soy other so..t of Jewis h life; it is their voice, of the defendants have lost their enthusiasm nourishment. it brings to us the news of what It is reported that a suicide wave is for the Nazi cause after the overwhelm- But, the economic system be- they are doing for us, it is theiv mg reverses suffered by the Wehrmach sweeping over Hungarian Jewry. This Mg what it is and the publicspokesman in their hour of need. i s not surprising, for besides those who being what it and the Luftwaffe. is, many a press see SEGAL—Page 9 — Most of the motley crew are just a cannot endure the loss of position, pres- — .- - -7--- - - -- tige, property, or face arrest and de- GRANDMOTHER'S WAR BONDS FOR GRANDCHILDREN'S FUTURE lot of frustrated, and portation, there are many sensitive men bitter individuals botched, who hate bungled Jews, labor, and women who do not care to live in a and the present Administration. where imbey imbecility w orld laws as N urem- If we appear to take the defendants bum can such exist, . exist and where ' lightly it is because we believe that the ' such ''' • " 8 - - -- ' theories as Aryan superiority can be people of this country are completely im- accepted. munized against the Nazi plague. In the midst of all this terror and grief Britain Does the Unprecedented a lighter chord is struck by the designers of clothing in Hungary. According to a The British Government, after con- report in the Voelkischer Beobachter, the sultation with the United States and pro-Semitic Hungarians are attacked for Russia, has banned travel by neutral and designing such shades of yellow as to allied envoys, and now diplomatic rep- make a yellow patch almost indistinguish- resentatives cannot send messages by able from the rest of the material. This, code nor send uncensored mail in diplo- according to the Nazi journal, was de- matic pouches. signed to aid the Jews, making their yel- This action, unprecedented in interim- low stars inconspicuous. tional law, is designed to safeguard the It is this comic spirit that can and lives of Allied troops who are held in does keep people alive. This spirit of the readiness for an attack upon Europe. ridiculous and the absurd is not character- We have become so accustomed to istic of any one people, for all people "the heaviest air raid in history" and have it in some measure, but we have the "most violent and concentrated at- learned to expect it from the French tack" that few reports can really upset and the Hungarians. These people are or disturb us any longer. noted for their wit, gaiety and sense of Pro-Axis neutrals may complain and the ludicrous. They take the most sacro- do a little fretting. Pro-Allied neutrals sanct of Nazi beliefs and dogmas and will accept the ban as a slight inconveni- turn them against these stuffy supermen ence and a possible affront to their dig- and make their beliefs and dogmas and nity, but it will not cause any untoward the men ridiculous.