DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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August 4, 194.4

Dr. Wise said that "American
Jewry stands united in this day
as never before in its history of
three centuries.
(Continued from rage 1)
"Faction and schism have
been cancelled in the consum-
tions, advice and well-wishing
ing desire to serve our broth-
about the reconstruction of the
ers in Hungary threatened by
hurt and dawcrfiunli l eiesasnilt) fd
world after the war. The thing
"The
to be noticed, however, is that
calls
lel ss f Lore extraordinary
th e l
none of the authors has treated
meas.
the subject from the objective
leaders of the
Democracies bethink themselves
point of view; none of the auth-
anew every (lay. half a mil-
ors, or practically none, has given
lion Jews are in most terrible
the merest thought to the possi-
peril. They must not die. They
bility of all plans being upset by
must be free to live, to share
natural historic causes produced
in the building of a new and
by a war of biologic extermina-
free world. God help proud
tion as the one we are experienc-
Hungary to choose and to pur-
ing now. This merely proves that
sue the right."
the eminent authors either did not
Declaring that
great as-
grasp the full meaning of the
semblage speaks the •oul and the
present conflict, or that they are
will of America and prosecutes
afraid to face reality of life and
the suit of America in the court
war.
of the conscience of the civilized
The only one who has truly
world," Judge Proskauer pre-
grasped the march of time, who
sented a bill of indictment
has appraised the evolution of
against Hitler and the Nazi re-
history in the proper light, who
gime and declared that "we must
so prophetically perceived the
make clear to Christian and to
dream and the desire of a world
Jew the essential and ultimate
in conflict, is Henry A. Wallace,
significance of the Hitler barbar-
America's vice presidient. Stem-
ism now seeking to impose on
ming from the heart of the peo-
mankind the shame of its own
ple, endowed with a profoundly
ultimate in degradation."
religious nature with a concep-
Note of Optimism
tion of social justice flowing from
Sounding a note of optimism,
the teachings of the Hebrew
Judge Proskauer gave thanks to
prophets he dared to look history
the churchmen of the world—to
in the face and discover in the
Pope Pius, the Archbshop of Can-
present struggle the emergence
terbury, Archbishop Francis J.
of "the century of the common
Spellman, Presiding Bishop Hen-
man."
ry St. George Tucker, and Bish-
A greater and truer discovery
op Francis J. McConnell, who
could not have been made. The
"with scores of others are val-
very outbreak of the war spelled
iantly enlisting all the forces of
the doom of all movements with
programs for human deliverance,
Christianity in this holy cause
of ameliorating the plight of the
leaving the field free and clear
for the emergence of the common
sufferers from Hitlerism."
man on the arena of world his-
Monsky called for "an exten-
tory, whose ideology is freedom
sion of the achievement of the
from want, freedom from fear,
War Refugee Board, the estab-
freedom of religion and freedom
lishment of additional free ports
of conscience; whose ideology is
in America and elsewhere, the
not to kill and be killed but life
opening of the doors of Pales-
in the full meaning of the word.
tine, which stands as a beacon
The historian, writing the his-
light of hope to these thousands
tory of our century, will be
of human souls in despair and
forced to note that tha disinte-
as a haven of refuge in their
gration of all social, social-econ-
hour of tragedy.
omic and socio-political parties
"These and other like meas-
and movements of every shade
ures should be sponsored and in-
Top
left:
Harlem
Negro
Defense
Recreation
Council
pays
tribute
to
Bnai
Brith
for
having
pro-
and color began with the very
augurated by the governments of
outbreak of the First World War vided some 30 recreation facilities for Negro service men in various parts of the country as part of the United Nations, thus making
in the year 1914, the very mo- Bnai Brith's war service program. Top right: Bnai Brith volunteers on duty at time clock in Bnai possible collaboration by all of
ment these parties lined up be- Brith Hospitality House in Los Angeles where hundreds of non-Jewish service men are called every our various private agencies, and
hind the banners of their respec- week-end in time to attend early Mass. Bottom: Dedication of Sara Delano Roosevelt Interfaith offering some realistic hope for
tive governments in support of Memorial House at Hunter College, N. Y., as student interfaith center. This unique institution, rescue during the period yet re-
the war. The Second World War housed in the former town houses of President Roosevelt and his mother, was established on the maining."
merely brought complete dissolu- initiative of Bnai Brith.
Held said:
"We cannot fail to admit the
tion.
In his desire to explain the dis- of the nation are in reality ing purifies the soul like a tonic.
territory in this war is a Jew,
painful truth that not every-
solution the historian will have enemies of that very nation. He It stands to reason that he will
General Cherniakhovsky.
thing possible was (lone for
to resort to the science of psy- is gullible, the common man. He not allow himself to again be
"The Jewish people are not
the rescue of our brothers and
chology. By applying this science does not realize that the god misled into the stray paths of
alone the victims in the pres-
sisters overseas. It is our be-
he will discover for one that er shapes for his nation is not this or that party, this or that
ent war, but the Jewish people
lief that the United Nations
the very elements of which the er shapes for his natiton is not demogogue, but will insist on
have been singled out for
have not performed their duty
various social movements were the universal God of all mankind, building the postwar world ac-
man-
wholesale slaughter by a man-
and obligation to the worst
compounded consisted of roman- but one devised of fit the racial cording to the formula of the iac dictator, and the whole
victims of Hitlerisni—the Jew-
tic and never of practical fiber. mythology of the particular na- century of the common man.
world is outraged by the un-
ish people!
The moment they had to face
speakable cruelties committed
"We believe that tens and
tion
and,
like
in
ancient
Greece,
reality, confront life in all its
against them. We must do
hundreds of thousands of Jews
a
clash
between
the
gods
was
in-
brutality, the romantic structure
everything humanly possible to
are still alive. Jews are still
In the blood of the com-
snapped like cobweb. The con- evitable.
Hit-
stay the bloody hand of Hit-
to be found in Hungary, Ro-
mon
man
there
lives
a
vision
of
tinuance of these movements be-
(Continued from Page 1)
lerism in occupied Hungary,
mania, and Poland. The Nazis,
tween two wars was merely a eventual justice and equality, al-
where there are still hundreds
however, have proclaimed it
feeble parody on their former though in his zig-zag toward that
tories under their administra-
their mission to slaughter the
of thousands of Jews who can
vision he often sidetracks the rea-
tion
are
open
to
all
Jews
who
the
romantic glory.
be saved. Let the Nazis and
last remaining Jew before
The end of the First World lization of it due to his gulli-
can be rescued and the neu-
e muir
their satellites be warned that
inevitable
defeat.
W
War left the common man corn- bility and essential purity of
tral nations shall likewise de-
rescue the surviving Jews from
there will be a day of reckon-
clare that they will facilitate
pletely Having lost heart.
ing — and soon—for their
the clutches of the butchers.
Will
his
vision
be
realized
in
the
transit
of
these
people
to
faith in all political movements
The death march must be
crimes.
he no longer could orient himself this war? Perhaps. Many signs
the aforemenioned territories.
"As Governor of the Empire
halted!"
in the vast labyrinth of problems point to that realization, notwith-
7. Since starvation con-

POSTWAR

GOOD WILL IN ACTION

-MASS

State, I convey to you the sym-
created by four years of warfare. standing the remark of Prime
tinues to be one of Hitler's
pathy and support of the peo-
The Peace Treaty, instead of Minister Churchill that the pres-
most effective weapons of de-
ple of the State of New York. "
ARAB
settling matters has complicated ent war is no longer a war of
struction, all means should be Prominent Speakers
them and has planted, wittingly ideologists. The saviour of Eng-
taken by the United Nations,
Speakers included Asst. U.S.
(Continued from
or unwittingly, the seeds of a land in her most tragic hours
consistent with the war effort, Attorney General Norman M.
['age 1) The
new World War. Socially, politi- does not stem from the very
to bring food and medicaments
to the endangered Jews under Littell, Secretary of the National
cally and economically every- roots of the English common man
ria
participated
of the Interna- Committee Against Persecution
nt of Sy
the auspices
On ad.
thing, outside of Russia, remained and is therefore not the expres-
of the Jews; United States Sen-
some of the meei ings.
a
as is.On the other hand a num- sion of his soul which is the
tional Red Cross.
•
t
Pamil
bey
Mordnt,
0. Brewster of Maine;
bar of small nations, whose na- same as that of the universal
8. All
should
be Dr.
ator Gaza
Ralph
a state'
taken
by measures
the military
authori-
Takaro, for the First A 1 e x a n d r i a Conference.
tionalistic aspirations have been common man.
in which he
ties with the help of the un- Magyar Reformed Church; Henry President
What are the signs which point
subdued for many years, were
derground
forces,
to
destroy
Monsky,
president
of
the
Bnai
in
the stressed that the Palestine prob-
brought back to life and they to the ascendence on the arena
Brith and co-chairman of the In-
be given priority on the
took to aping the major nations of the common man? The fore-
the
implements,
facilities,
and terim
places
where
the
Nazis
have
Committee
of
the
American
Premier
of the
Syria,
issued eon
d a of
forthcoming
in their display of extreme na- most is the disappearance of
agen
o
Jewish Conference; former Su- ment to the press
The
romanticism
of
practically
all
ideologies
and
execu-
their
mass
carried out
ference.
lism
preme Court Justice Joseph M. lee
will
ier . ahas Pasha ,
the defunct
social movements dogmas, leaving the field to the
Egypt's Premier
tions.
president of
Proskauer,
what
e n ce, ma
freedoms
which
are
four
c onfer in
was taken over by nationalistic
Message
from from
Dewey
A message
Governor American J e w i s li Committee; convenor of the
ne
demagogues giving it a blood the common man expects as the
Adolph Held, chairman of the no mention
of in Palesti
speech
Parliament
transfusion of racial mythology outcome of this war. And it is
Labor
Committee;
Baruch
recent
Dewey
of
New
York.
Jewish
Thomas
E.
coun .
and presenting it to the common no coincidence that it fell to the
which he specified the ulati on
man as the new and only deliv- lot of Henry A. Wallace to de- Republican presidential nominee, Zuckerman of the Labe ;
for
whose
Moslem
poP
,,
Isaac Ru-
vise the simple yet equally pro- read as follows:
c oncern. len_'.
"All
Americans
join
in
ex-
Organizations;
Rabbi
erer.
pressing
horror
at
the
persecu-
binstein,
former
Chief
Rabbi
of
Egypt
has
special
er, has ?fp
ow ever,
How was the common to know found philosophy of the century
Vilna; and Rabbi Irving Miller, Egyptian press, h
le
that the dance-macabre of the of the common man. Being a
sistentl reported
reported that Falesu!
Com-
tion
of
the
Jewish
people
in
co-chairman
of
the
Rescue
various nationalisms was prepay- farmer and a product of goner-
main
que4ion
on
th
the Nazi-occupied countries of mission of the Conference and wil 11
l b
ing for him a new holocaust of ations of farmers he is the tom

mon man. In formulating his

sweat and tears?
blood, death,
was he to know that a new philosophy he gave vent to the
How
trap was being set for him out subconscious dream of the corn-

of which he could escape only mon man all over the world.
For all the books, brochures,
through the sacrificial blood of

his child? For notwithstadning articles and treatises about the

his practicality in daily life, his postwar world are after all prod-
nature is as credulous as that of ucts of ivory-tower intellectuals
sociologists and
economists,
a child; the various philosophies —economists,
professors of history whose mul-
and dogmas he could never tom professors
of plans were guided
prebend. His belief is and always
has been in God which, as the by facts and figures and not by
prophets taught, is truth and the soul of the common man.
justice and goodness and the way
The common man has suffered
to it is—the nation. And he does

not understand how people who a great deal having to fight two
patriotically speak in the name wars in one generation. Suffer-

d a.
e
Europe. The heart of all chairman of the executive corn- wl
agenda.
learne , d
s lear
America is with you in today's mittee of the American Jewish
Your correspondent ha. Paleslo' 1.
.,
demonstration against the ex-
that Arab politicians in
„f the Ale.,
termination of European Jews. Congress.
Estimating that 4,000,000 Jews -
If ever there was an example have already been exterminated
, „,1 they a'` 5.
of man's inhumanity to man, by the Nazis, Littell declared not optimistic as to a hi (,, p r ospect
11 back er.„ 5
failure
it has been furnished by the that the guilt of the Germans feel
may that
seriously
set . t el .
1 g,
Arabia'
beasts of Berlin, who set the reaches from the Junkers down andria conference
Saudi .
ackli°5'
whole world on fire, and who to the ranks and warned that their plans.
a 1 1" t %ten
ded ,'
,
are now, fortunately, on the the eyes of "outraged human- caged
the invitation e
run, thanks to the brave men ity" are upon them.
to the
conference.
and women of the United Na-
Ina vigorous declaration, Sen- her
matic
as ever,
hs
tions on the battlefields. of ator Brewster demanded that Pal•
sked
Europe.
Pen to Jewish r efu-
Let not one who i , a.
s - ' , be o
"There is symbolic justice in eti
his
pardon
withhold
it.
, _..
the fact that the first allied geeri.
Mahmagg."

general to cross into German Dr. Wise Speaks

