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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE end The Legal Chronicle

Jul y 28. 1944

false. However, we can feel a little more
assured that the protests have had some
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub- economic life of Hungary caused by the X if Y FRIEND, Mr. Burke, asked the matter
up with
n,
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon- enforcement of Nuremberg laws and by 1 •A use what a Jew thinks asked would God Ile
sibility for en endorsement of views expressed by its writers. the deportation of so many Hungarian about Germany and its future. righteous
with
the
citi.
Jewish industrialists, specialists and met.- Ile had been reading. numerous There might be 50 decent wieked9
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, et the Post-
articles on what to do with Ger- zees in the two cities.
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act
of March 3, 1879. chants had its effect upon Hungarian many after the war. Mr. Burke the 50 have to go, too?
Would
officialdom. Quislings as well as Nazi.; thought it would be exquisite Abraham, as 1
Sabbath Readings of the Law
recall,
str° iYmt--)
tHhit' 't
have been known to forego the pleasure poetic justice to consult the squarely up to Jehovah.
H,
Pentateuchal Portion—Deut. 1 :1-3 :22.
Jews
when
the
time
comes
to
asked:
"Shall
not
the
of
murdering
Jews
when
their
best
eco-
do
lie
w
ith
i
s
a
judge of
Germany.
g o afh,a
Prophetical Portion—h. 1:1-27.
all the earth do right?"
nomic interests could be better served
a n of the New
replied he would spare
Scriptural Selections for Tisha b'Ab,
by using them or by making them, "Noble Testament religion but with the the God
cities if there were 50 up-
Sunday. July 30
Old
Test
Aryans."
idea of what is right people in them. But Ab
coming to wrong-doers: "An eye bran
Pentateuchal Portion—Morning—Deut. 4:25-40;
The Jews of Hungary have played a case of seayeel,1" a beys s p it la l lsyi a Ilion,. s thaes ini couldn't feel too sure that
Afternoon—Ex. 32 :11-14 ; 34:1-10.
there were as man
many as 50 good
very important role in the commercial,
people in Sodom and Gomorrah.
I'rophetical Portion — Morning — Jer. 8 :13-9 :23;
Germans
have
industrial and financial life of that coun- s a fr Meii..e d B in' lc. kat; o'si y been.
with elaborate apolo g
Afternoon—Is. 55 :6-56 :8.
mfoor a rl o asr soef has So,
brought up the possibility y, that
try. If the Hungarians had sufficient time
might be only 45 worthy
they could organize all business and in- immense massacres of Jews by ethere
citizens in the two places.
ouh ld e
dustrial activities as did the Nazis in the incarnidined Nazis. He knew God destroy both communities
Germany. But it is doubtful whether they fe;xearcatilayo, ywliifat hehehtwidoutlhde dio)lainiba oiougt totally because there were five
Comparisons Are Useless
have had sufficient time to do the job to do. Such a mass murder, he less than 50 well-behaved people
thoroughly, and with the acute problems said, is much more than can be in them ?
This is the season for making compari- that have arisen by reason of the pre- lainished merely by picking on
meGrcoidful sIelvi(e1 n Yfeo8; the Ze ulodf 41)
:
sons and drawing parallels between the cipiate rush of the Soviet armies, it be- individual criminals. And sup-
rya h 4a om was
,s , p e r si s e n .
pose 1,000 Nazis were hanged? on ly
deserving tcitizens
Germany of 1918 and 1944. As we see comes increasingly doubtful whether the Would that settle for all the
S"‘IP.e7
guilt found, or only 30, or only 20,
it, there is little or no basis for compari- Hungarian government will be able to of a nation? he asked.
and in each instance God replied
lie would have the whole Ger- shaekewoofuhtihesP47,
son or drawing of parallels, and conse- make the drastic changes that the Nazis
otrh et
30 for the
man nation suffer, even unto
quently conclusions based on comparisons would like to have them make.
the
Germans yet unborn that they 20 even.
and parallels are of little value in helping
The protests of the outside world; the might inherit the lesson that Abraham stood there trod-
us determine when the war will be over, friendliness of the Hungarian people; the crime doesn't pay. He would ling, afraid
of the wrath of God
In 1918 President Woodrow Wilson told economic factors have 110 doubt all helped tear Germany apart and hand if he went any farther. Finally
the pieces around to contiguous he
spoke: Suppose there were
the Germans that he sought "Peace With- to make the Hungarian Nazis hesitate,0_
namornsB.
only 10 decent
out Victory"; in the year 1944 President and we hope have made them abandon
urke winked and his eye and Gomorrah. people in Sodom
God replied that
a gleam of justice sat- for the sake only of these 10 he
Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and their cruel and indefensiblepractice ot . • contained
•
!stied
in
full
.
.
.
"And thero would `p are
Premier Stalin will have nothing but "Un- deporting Hungarian Jews to Poland.
Mr the
Burkities.
c
would be a considerable piece of
Well,
conditional Surrender."
e, that's the
An aroused world must continue to pro- Germany that I would give to way I like to think about
, isle to o be a country of their many. May we say that all Ger.
In 1918 the armies of Kaiser Wilhelm test against the barbarities and inhumani- tzJ.w
Ger•
were fighting on but one front; in 1944 ties not only of the Hungarian govern-
would mans are no good. Even if we
T hen
hk
he
ased
:
"What
there are three land fronts and an air ment, but against any government that you do with them?"
said. that 20 million of them are
murderers, thieves and all man-
front facing the Nazi armies.
would take its revenge on the defenseless Well, I replied, I remember ner of beasts there would still be
somewhat a certain discussion some 50
In 1918 the acute food situation in the and helpless minorities in its midst.
million fairly decent
between God an Abraham. It Ger
Reich had reached a critical point, while
Germans left. There would still
We expect to hear of many blackmail seems that God d had
in Sodom be Beethoven and Mozart,
Goet•
in 1944 the native and impressed workers schemes emanating from Hungary. The
Gomorrah a problem similar. Ile, Lessing and Schiller, Luther
still have enough to eat, or if not enough, offer to stop deportation if the United and
to the one that the world has in and Koch (we can
speak of them
Germany: What to do about
about as living men) • r there would still
food has not become an obsession with Nations would agree to stop the bombi ng them?
They
were
awful
sinners,
n
p eo p le
them as it became with the workers of o f H
..,
• • • the offer to stop the too. God said, "Their sin is very si be ll -tho
es brave
le
spirits s that
t :hiaatnnchaonsde
the Kaiser's Reich.
deportations if the United Nations would grievous," though there is no exile from their native land
In 1918 the General Staff knew that it
record that their sinful doing was rather than to live with Hitler.
could make peace when it was defeated, send new military supplies to Germany. in the least comparable to that
f f
are but a few of the blackmail schemes. of the Nazis.
UT HAT I mean is what Ab.
and that defeat did not mean criminal There will be other equally ridiculous
1
f
1
• • raham meant: That you
trials and probably extermination, but in and infa nt
ile propositions made from y OU SEE, Mr. Burke, the e i -• may not justly condemn a whole
1944 the General Staff are prisoners of t . i m e to time.
izens
of
Sodom
and
Gomor-
n
rah had none of the instrumen- people.
own
the Nazis and this same General Staff
le i f e vi ce
io n u iii)IsdloN l t l ootl have
ti e , 1 se My
c i ewo
f nr t v et i pc b t people
It bl tha
i i e e ntn i tl the
talities of civilization for whole-
n t
criminal trials and extermination.
e to
sale murder. They knew nothing
in
In 1918 the Reich was uninvaded and
of chemistry
sti y by which the Ger-
New Polish Authority
was practically intact, but in 1944, though
mans have been enabled to dis- and It contempt.
is impossible to believe that
there has been no land invasion until now,
The National Council of Poland, the
iliev 7, all Germans are moral defect
rsleet1;31fil l 7 ec h inui lb ebres I,.: s t hoef
the invasion from the air has probably Soviet sponsored government of Poland, in
t " fives; for I remember reverently
a time thousands
of be-
years
Caused as much damage as many armies claims in a manifesto
the gentle German teachers who
fore
the
machine
gun.
i
d on July
o issued
l 22,
could have caused.
me in our public
God,
it
seem::,
had
resolved
on
instructed
Chelm, Poland, that it is the "sole
' destruction
'
–
' Sodom schools in my youth ; I roman-
In 1918 the home front was made up
utter
of
lawful source of authority in Poland." the
of Germans who had not been deprived The issuance of the manifesto synchron and Gomorrah and Abraham took .
See SEGAL—Page 9
of every last vestige of freedom of speech, ized with the taking of land which the
assemblage and organization, but in 1944 Soviets recognized as Polish, and not be-
the home front is diluted with 10 to 12 fore. This is what was expected by those
WELCOMED TO U. S. WITH BOND AND BOUQUET]
million workers from occupied and con- who have understood Soviet policy. That
quered to countries
who have
no oppor-
tunity
speak, assemble
or organize,
and policy has been definite and clear, or if
where an ubiquitous Gestapo has corn- you prefer, it has been realistic or oppor-
plete control and hold over the entire tunistic, according to one's special and
populace. personal interpretation or bias.
In the case of Poland it must be re-
In 1918 there was a government and
army in the Reich that realized that when membered that diplomatic relations have
it was defeated there was no logic or been severed for some time between the
sense in expending men uselessly, but in Soviet and the Polish Government-In-
1944 there is a government and army that Exile in London. As far as the Soviets
willing to expend every German, and were concerned there was no Polish au-
every
every other human being as long as they thorny in Occupied Poland other than the
can hold on to their filthy and obscene authority of the Nazi occupation army.
With the occupation of Polish . territory
lives.
The military, nutritional, psychologic, by the Soviet armies, all that has now
ideologic factors are essentially different been changed. The Soviets insist upon a
in 1944 from what they were in 1918. committee or a government whose corn-
Some are much more grave for the Nazis mands will be obeyed and whose author-
and some are better than they were in ity will be recognized by the people.
1918. Some authority had to be set up, and
All this does not mean that the war that authority is now the National Coun-
may not be over in 1944. Comparisons cif of Poland, or the Polish Committee
and parallels, however, will hardly aid of National Liberation,
us in understanding the present situation.
This action by the Soviet follows a
definite pattern already fashioned by the
Soviets to meet situations that arose in
Have the Protests Worked?
Italy, Yugoslavia and France.
Happy smile, gay bouquet, and United States War Bond—that's t ,"
It will be remembered that the Soviets
way Moses Scherzer, a refugee here since 1939, greeted his wiTe r
The news from Hungary is confusing
Sabina,
on her arrival recently in Philadelphia. Scherzer, who has bee ,
and contradictory. Little of it comes recognized the Badoglio regime while the
aided
by
the National Refugee Service, had no idea that his wife
directly from Hungary and therefore it United States and Britain were still un- on her way to this country until a friendly FBI agent brought him tr''
Joyful news. They are pictured outside their Brooklyn, N. V., home
is difficult to separate the true from the
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