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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co, Inc.
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
Pres.-Gen. Mgr.
JACOB MARGOLIS
Editor
CHARLES TAUB
Advertising Mgr.
up the situation when she is alleged to
have said, when asked about Mr. Chur-
chill's bouquet-throwing at Franco, "He
has been that way for 60 years".
June 9, 1944
Plain Talk...
by Al Segal
Liberating Europe
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When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only. and consequently the joy of the liberated
UMMER is about here and Oh, was that a time! Then one
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub-
Romans
was
understandable.
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon-
your Mr. Segal was feeling could feel rich, what with all
The Armies of Liberation have now set himself to be a tired man, what the heaped-up things to eat,
sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers.
out upon the grim business of liberating with the tumult in Israel that
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had been enough to shatter the Q0 THE KORBS—thei e were
the conquered peoples. The struggle will strongest
nerves through the U four of them in the family—
be bitter and bloody, but eventually the winter months.
came to another happy Passover.
Sabbath Readings of the Law
military yoke will be removed from the He thought of getting away There were sweet things and
Pentateuchal portion—Num. 8:1-13:16.
subjugated populations of France, Bel- from it all the other day and his spiced things-and all nice things.
Prophetical portion—Zech. 2:14-4:7.
took him to a high hill in It was, indeed, only a few hours
gium, Holland, Norway, and Denmark. a escape
park in his home town; below before Seder-time and the table
This, however, will not be the end of flowed the great river in ins- already gleamed; the little house
the adventure of liberation. In fact, it memorial serenity. His happy soul was redolent with the fragrance
will only be the beginning of the libera- splashed around in the perfect of fish just cooked.
of the scene until a rude
It was at this climactic mo-
tion process. The peoples will have to be peace
hand intruded upon his medita- ment that poignant tragedy struck
Prime Minister Winston Churchill has liberated from despair, hunger, hatreds tions with a slap on the shoulder at Mother Korb's pious heart.
caused no little furore by his throwing and
i
d confusions.
How well this will be done and a voice bellowed: "Well, well, Nowadays it would mean some-
is just the place for a nice, thing only to the fewest hearts
bouquets at the Fascist dictator of Spain, will in great measure be determined by this
long talk."
find a grain of wheat among
Francisco Franco. the policies we have formulated - for the It was another one of the the to
Passover viands a short time
, treatment of the liberated peoples. What Zilches. Mr. Segal knew what before the Seder. Yes, she had
This polite gesture on the part ot those policies are we know in a general was in this Zilch's mind. He found a grain of wheat among
Mr. Churchill does not make him a sort of a way, but there is still so much would give a long talk on the the things to eat for Passover
Fascist, nor even a friend of Fascists. indecision and misunderstanding that at controversial matters of being and that might mean the Seder
It leaves him exactly where he has always this very time, when the armies are push- Jewish. He hunts Segal out to meal was ritually unfit to eat,
him long talks. for Passover. To find a grain of
been, a British conservative, who is pri- ing on, we do not know whether General give
"What a happy coincidence wheat was like finding a crumb
manly interested in the preservation of De Gaulle is to have broad or circum- that I should meet you here!" of bread among the matzos!
he exclaimed.
It might mean that all this
the British Empire. scribed political authority.
S egal saw there was no escape work of her hands was in vain
It is not too long ago for those with The peoples of Western Europe will be even in this quiet spot where and that there would be nothing
fairly recent memories to recall that Mr. as deliriously happy on the day they are God sits in the cool of the eve- in the house for the children to
Churchill stated his position unequivocally freed from the Nazi incubus as were the tong and knows His work is eat in the holy hour of Seder.
To find out her duty in the mat-
when he said:
Romans and the Neapolitans. But the good.
No, Segal at once said, no ter was a sacred religious obli-
speeches,
no
arguments here. This gation and not to be compro-
"I have not become the King's first
holiday mood will be followed by the
f or that sort of thing . raised.
minister to preside at the liquidation
work-a-day mood, and then the problems L- is tnous place
rath er
e
"
quiet and takHurry
to the rabbi's house,"
of the British Empire." will be there. We trust that there will be this peace into be
our souls. It will she wept, "and ask him to give
Not only did he not become the King's sufficient good-will, intelligence, patience be like a cool hand on our nerves. judgment on this. If he says No,
Zilch, Jews need nothing so much it will be no and we will have
first minister to preside at the liquidation and wisdom shown by the liberating as
inward peace. Try saying nothing to eat for Seder."
forces so that the liberated people _ will nothing
of the British Empire, but he became the orces
just for five minutes!
Mr. Korb remembers running
King's first minister for the purpose of indeed feel that they are once again free
Zilch felt spanked by Segal's all the way to the rabbi's house.
strengthening and consolidating the Brit- men and women who shall have the right rebuke and fell into a silence He was a small boy . . . "Rabbi,
unusual to him. When he my mother found a grain of
ish Empire, and we may be sure that to determine their own policies and decide most
str
had said nothing for five min- wheat among our Pesach things
anything that, in his opinion, will - n their ow n fate.
utes, Segal commended his self- and may we eat them?"
Should we successfully jump these hur- restraint . . . "You see, Zilch, The rabbi, dressed in his best
strengthen, consolidate and preserve the
dies, we and they shall still be faced with how pleasing it is for two Jews coat, was ready to leave for the
Empire will be done.
the
of the liberation
mental , economic,
so- to sit together and say nothing, Passover service in the syna-
Mr. Churchill has espoused the cause cial problem
andpolitical
of th
to forget their ideological guar- gogue; but he was a patient man,
p
of King Peter of Yugoslavia and of King tinent. Shall Eurothee C s- w ith j&std, to osuit mhiethet commuzitn
He turned to his books: W hat
Europe return to the status i
ttls e v e n tmotnetd a u tor Vies
George of Greece. Nobody would dare
we
are
y
the
4oPle
quo ante bellum? Shall the peoples of all,
saLso dieg
sr- did to sayy read he
a schash
o.olk like
crats. In fact, they are probably more n•
though in the recent years we've head sadly. Then he arose and
the
constant
fear
that
another
global
con-
-
Fascist, particularly King George of
pretty well dropped Him from paced the floor from one room
flict may break out in the next 20 or 30 our Jewish activities to take up to the next and back again.
Greece, than is Franco.
years? Shall they be harried by the prob- politics."
Young Korb's anxiety was agony.
We do not know the present attitude of lem of economic insecurity, unemploy- Segal remarked that, anyway, What
would the rabbi's verdict
tshoe lacking be? If he said No, there would
the British people on the question of merit, inflation and- all the ills that fol- rineasosinleableeneststTatis
aetetfotrhing
Sedern—o
dealing with Fascists. There have been lowed World War I? If the liberators in Jews is when they talk. Speak- w b noe nsoetdheirng no se sweet
no general elections since the war began, and the liberated do nothing to help solve ing of sweet reasonableness re- spiced things. They had exhaled
,
but if we may hazard a guess we would these multiple problems, then indeed is minded him of a story e h had their fragance al
l ove r the
say that the Conservative Party and no liberation but the prelude to more despair, heard from his friends, Mr. Korb house. Thee way the rabbi shook
of Chicago . . . "Let me tell you his head so sadly!
inconsiderable section of the Labor and hatred, confusion and bitterness.
that story, Zilch. It is a true ex-
He followed the rabbi about
Liberal Parties would approve Mr.
Unfortunately but perhaps unavoidably, perience of Mr. Korb in his re- his house, as he walk ed
a nd
Churchill's imperial policy, and would not we do not h have a clear picture of the mote childhood."
fro . . . " Rabbi , p lease tell mea e. " l
Mr. Korb's childhood was in
f
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too strongly disapprove of his friendli- aims, purposes and policies of the Tiber- the village of Plunjan in Lithu- rrHE RABI, 1 deep
in thought,
ness with Franco, King Peter and King sting leaders. The liberated have h had no a ani
n i a.
a The Korbs of Plunjan were .1.gave no sign of noticing him
George.
people
p means
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opportunity to state their aims, purposes w no most modest
even. His head was deeply bowed
faomthineershnof t thleunnjiatnw. aLsni et under
The disappointment expressed by so and policies, and consequently we cannot were
the weight of his medita-
was ar
many people stems from a misconception know what they are.
a feast either except at Passover dons; his hands were folded on
concerning Churchillian ideology. It is
his back . . . "Rabbi, please ...!"
We hope that the liberated peoples will time. '
true that in the early days of the war, not be too broken, disappointed and hope- The Korb children looked for- It was a half-hour before the
there was considerable talk about ideolo- less after this cruel war is ended, for if ward all year to the Passover.
See SEGAL—Page 13
gies, but it was not Churchill who did the they are then they may allow themselves
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talking. Anthony Eden, Sir Stafford to be used and exploited by new dema-
Cripps (now never mentioned), Bevan, gogues who would put new chains on
Food for the Big Guns
Morrison and Lord Halifax had much to them
say about ideologies, but they were not
The road to liberation is hard and
the head of the government and conse- rocky. We believe the peoples of Europe,
quently whatever they may have said however, will traverse it and come at last
could not bind Mr. Churchill if he chose into the sunshine of a decent life for
not to be bound by their ideological pro- everybody.
nouncements.
Mr. Churchill is the Prime Minister of
Laval Runs True to Form
Britain and may continue to be after the Pierre Laval must be convinced that the
war is over and the people of Britain have days of Nazidom are numbered. Accord-
expressed themselves at the polls. And, ing to a report from Madrid, Laval tried
then again, the Conservative Party of to transfer $50,000 to Argentine. He at-
which he is the head may be defeated, tempted to put over this transaction
which will mean a new party in power. through a third person, but was unable
The new party in power may or may not to do so and had to reveal his identity.
be committed to the preservation of the This bit of business will be repeated many
British Empire as of paramount import-
i
times from now until the end of war.
ance. The new party may, however, be-
The Lavals, Deats, Doriots will all be
lieve that the best interests of Britain can looking for safe places to send whatever
be served by the destruction of all Fascist loot their Nazi masters permitted them to
forces and ideologies and by the forma- accumulate and secrete. It should not be
tion of a Federated Europe. We shall long now before we learn that this gang
'ae
have to be patient and wait, for only has escaped to Spain and is on its way
Army Signal Corps Photo
time will tell whether the Churchillian to a prepared haven in Argentine.
You must have ammunition when the big day comes. This is
policy, of antagonizing nobody who can
These men played an ignoble and des-
be won over to his position, will be put- picable roll and shall continue to do so view of a small part of an American Army ammunition dump some-
where in England. Note the camouflage. Back our invasion forces
sued or abandoned.
just as long as there is a land that will by buying War Bonds.
We think Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt sized give them asylum.
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