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the use of terror. It is but a pious wish to
expect that day to dawn soon. But we
shall go on hoping and wishing just the
same.

June

Plain Talk... by Al

•

Again Freedom of Speech

73 1999

Segal

Should Gerald L. K. Smith be permit-
tad to hold meetings in the public schools
To insure publication, all correspondence and news matter -of Detroit? Certainly he should. He will
must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only. have to live up to the rules and regula-
--)
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub. tions of the School Board just as do all V OUR M r.
Segal observes the
sects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon. 0
I can't say that Rabbi Sega
-IL
l
Central
Conference
of
Amer;-
is
a
big
man
in
the
other groups and organizations that use can
sibility for an endorsement of views
1011(1 place ,
expressed by its writers.
Rabbis (Reform)
having
of
Israel.
He
is
niet:(..01.1111\
the public schools for meetings.
.,o ca.
their convention in his home- where the tumult is. lie diound

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Sabbath Readings of the Law

Pentateuchal portion—Num. 16:1-18:3 2•
Prophetical portion—I Sam. 11:14-12:22.

JUNE 23, 1944

TAMMUZ 4, 5704
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QUIET RABBI

town this week and can't resist ways absent from
the co is al-
Gerald L. K. Smith is entitled to free- putting
in a few words of his tions which in Israe
N , . ti e de-
dom of speech and assembly as is anybody ol „ d
bating contests
you, lie is not one of President of ill 'e; lin t& tl
who does not violate the laws of libel, those laymen
l e IS . a the
who, because they nor the Prime Minister of
pay.
dues
regularly,
consider
it
land
ever
has
heard
of
him
Ht ”
slander, espionage, sedition and treason.

their function to regulate the never signs manifestos or issues

Freedom of speech is not only for those t n e l l il l tt Is and lives of rabbis: To ultimata
them what to say
*what
He had never thou 1 I.
who are wise and moderate, but for the not to say in sermons; 'and.
to be self as a statesman or lasoifinha
intu--
More Nazi Terror
foolish and immoderate. It is not some critics of what their wives wear thority on foreign affairs. Ile isn't
( The idea of a rabbi's wifo _ doh] His world is
• the
i town k
thing allowed those with whom we agree, wearing
a hat like that! It must which he serves and he is hunt.
Theterrorists are on the loose again, but also with those with whom we dis- have cost her $25 if it cost her ble enough to know that he's too
This time it is the robot bomber that falls
it cent!"); to find fault if the small a man to spread himself
rabbi doesn't mix enou gh with Out all over the earth.
anywhere and spreads death, destruction agree. The Supreme Court of the United the
,
gneral community and to
States,
in
the
Baumgartner
and
Hartzel
It doesn't stir any restlessness
and desolation.
find fault if he does (He's a rab- in him to see other rabbis tak-
cases, decided recently, held that natu- bi to the goyim!").
ing in the whole world to the
We have become so accustomed to ralized citizens of German origin, as well
No! Mr. Segal lets rabbis farthermost boundaries anti shout.
alone.
He
knows
how
difficult
a
ing
speeches across oceans. He
these terror methods that it would really as citizens, can speak against the United
rabbi's life is, like the life of a knows there is so much to do at
surprise us should the Hitler gang decide States, Britain and Jews, as long as the goldfish
which has no privacy home; the c keep I o o
n r r i c sl u i o t i ) ( f the
Y at all. Mr. Segal thanks his stars
to use any other,
b
do not actually cause subversion.
for not being a rabbi. (Once he without any help from him.
t
was on he way to being one.)
It must be remembered when we are
ee Rabbi eg
Sl
an
So many are easily panicked by the As a la ym an he is allowed to oldY, ou and s,
yet rather raareh, as idea
amazed and shocked by the things they idea of permitting people to hold forth enjoy his private faults and vices of what being a rabbi is To
do, that the very cornerstone upon which
--i t pleasure not to be had by
,
he has a, peculiar notion of what
1. •
ch we do not agree. .
Nazism was built is terror. The definite on subjects with which
Judaism is. Judaism, as lie un-
'
is not go ing to mke
derstands it, is a way by which
policy, decided upon when the Storm They f
a
that if the views of those any S o he
contribution of his own to a man attain a good life and,
be-
Troopers were organized, was to use with whom we disagree are not permitted the difficulties already besetting
ing a rabbi, has to do with teach-
terror as the exclusive weapon for the to be aired, that the time may come when ras; particlay o whe
t
n th e y ing what the good life is.
ur tow n, f ar
conquest of Germany, then Europe, and our views may not be popular nor those arebbirelaxinguinrl oust
In his quiet place Rabbi Segal
from their congregations, has felt disturbed to see rabbis
then the world. They have never departed held by the majority and our views would away
thank goodness.
and their flocks going far from
from this "sacred" cardinal principle from then be suppressed.
Yet Mr. Segal doesn't thins this concept. Judaism seems to
the day they manhandled the first dissi-
it would be out of line for h im have become politics; an irriden-
Only
a many centuries of trial and to think out loud as he looks tist movement yearning fur lost
dents in their own party, down to the
Onlfter
back and consider
s that e might
h territory, a struggle for boun-
present day. It will no doubt continue error, of bitter experience and intolerable have
been a rabbi , and what sor t daries, a fierce contest of parlia-
to be their policy until the last army hardships, have we at long last learned he would have been. This is to
mentarians, a battleground of
is defeated in the field and the last sabo- that it is much better to allow the foolish say, what would his preaching Parties,
a foreign policy associa-
h
tear, within the Reich, has done his and the intemperate, the vicious and the ave been: Would he have been
another
one
of
those
rabbinical
Rabbi
Se gal, far from all this.
job of slowing up the production of war maudlin, the demagogue and the anti- statesmen who devote so much
has
been
quietly preaching that
goods.
Semite, to speak freely and openly. As of their time addressing the
the main end of being a Jew
long as those who are attacked have an White House and 10 Downing tion.
is to live in honor, to deal justly,
It was no idle boast of Joseph Goebbels, opportunity to answer, there will be little Street?
Would he have been a hot de- to be compassionate and to walk
p humbly with God. He rolls his
that when they shut the door on their danger to our lives, fortunes and liberties.
bate` in Israel, a furnace-tender, cople that the fulfillment of a
final exit from the stage, that the whole
t y h oeu a ni t eig rt httn n
sayiaNkve sure that s t h ot Jew is in living the ethical teach-
world would shake.
We may with safety follow the Su-
the ings of Torah and prophets. He
preme Court of the United States in these flames of Israel's controversies
knows that this is no longer
The philosophy of terror is an ancient matters touching the rights of freedom never die down?
fashionable preaching among the
and much used one. Tyrants have used it of speech, press and assembly. These
5' I' 1'
global sophisticates.
always. Asiatics, Europeans, South Ameri- learned and experienced men know as ViM. SEGAL makes his self
I
I
„,
11 '1 - over into the role of Rabbi
cans have employed it because they could well as do any of us the dangers that
p
Judaism
the
Segal. This is not hard to do. He
good life has le been
quite of for-
brook no opposition and were impatient face this country, and they know of the needs
but take his pipe in hand gotten in the long period in
of all dissent. sinister and mendacious activities of the (he's been smoking a corn cob which rabbis and their flocks have
and load and light it, been wandering far from thy
The Nazis have developed and refined racketeers, the frustrated demagogues, lately)
take unto himself a couple of
the technique of terror above and beyond the vicious enemies of freedom, and yet inhalations--and here he is-- home grounds. Ever since the
all others. They not only used it against they are convinced that none of these Rabbi Segal!
See SEGAL—Pag e 13
their own dissidents, but against all the should be denied the right to speak freely
V FOR 5 A1. 4.10 VICTORY
peoples who showed the slightest disa- and to assemble peaceably.
greement with them. Where they have It is not easy to be tolerant with those
not actually used it against their partners whose opinions are obnoxious to us. It is
and satellites, these partners and satel- not easy to be tolerant with those who
lites were never in doubt that they would seek to spread disunity, hatred and dis-
be the victims of the Nazi terror just as cord. Yet we must suffer these things, for
have those who dared to resist or oppose to deny them the right may cause greater
them. suffering. These are the hard and bitter
lessons of history. These lessons were
Terror is the method employed by the crystallized and at last incorporated in
infantile, the
insane,
the be
impatient,
the at the Bill of Rights. Every good and intelli-
insecure.
Results
must
achieved
once, no matter what the cost, is the gent American must uphold these rights
way the terrorists reason. They cannot for everybody; even for the foolish and
wait for the slow process of evolutionary intemperate.
change. They must hurry that process by
striking terror into the hearts and minds
of men so as to compel them to do what Postwar Poland to Welcome Jews
the terrorists want done. The victims do
Prime Minister Stanislaw Mikolojaczyk
conform in the main, because most men of the Polish Government-in-Exile, who is
and women are motivated by fear of loss now visiting in Washington, has done
of life, property and prestige. But the much to clarify the intention of his gov-
fact that they do conform does not mean ernment on its attitude toward Polish
that they are persuaded or have accepted Jewry after the war.
the ideology imposed by the terrorists.
At a press conferencee
stad tht
h
Have the French, Dutch, Belgians, postwar Poland would be a democratic
Poles, Yugoslays, Czechoslovaks, Greeks, country and that all its citizens of "every
Danes and Norwegians accepted the New religion and every race" would have full
Order of the Nazis? Emphatically no. Did civil rights. He further stated that after
terror make them agree that the Germans the war Jews returning would be wel-
were the superior race? Did terror make come.
them accept the leadership principle? In
short, have these terrorized peoples ac- Polish
n Coming from one of the heads of the
cepted any of the nonsense of these arro- 1 o 1 is n Government-in-Exile, this statement
gant, "infallible" Nazi gangsters? Cer- should do much to dissipate the fears
tainly not.
and suspicions that many of our people
have ha d that the Po
h
Not until man reaches his intellectual Jews of Poland as un le s would treat te
welcome
and
un
-
majority can we expect him to discontinue wanted strangers.

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