4 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 The Armies of Liberation were met by oenarai .mites and Publication Bldg?, 525 Woodward Ave. Telephone: CAdillac 1040 Cable Address: Chronicle a deliriously happy Roman populace. The Subscription in Advance $3.00 Per Year mailed fist of the Nazis struck with the To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter same savagery against the former Axis must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week. peoples as it did against the conquered, ---..J 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 1 1 c 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 1 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 • 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 - 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. • GRAIN OF WHEAT S From U. S. TreaSgri