Amerkait ( fewish Periodical Cotter
1944
Au Lot 4,
CLIFTON AVENUE • CINCINNATI 20, OHIO
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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
FOXHOLE TSHUVAH
Both Major Political Parties
Now Endorse Zionist Program
Rabbis Wise and Silver Assert Zionism Is
Declared Objective of U. S. Postwar Program
NEW YORK.—The American Zionist Emergency
Council, whose co-chairmen are Dr. Abba Hillel Silver of
Cleveland and Dr. Stephen S. Wise of New York, de-
clared that "with both major political parties giving their
unqualified endorsement to the Jewish people's efforts
to rebuild their national life in Palestine, Zionism is now
Chaplain Morris Kortzer, on leave as director of the Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation at the
University of Iowa, is shown here conducting services for Jewish GI Joe s in an abandoned wine cellar
at the Anzio Beachhead in Italy.
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'..,STRICTLYCONF IDE NT
14
by Phintas J. Biron
CANADIAN CLOUDS:
Flying to Montreal in perfect
weather . . . As we look down
from the plane window the earth
seems well ordered and system-
atically arranged . . . Well kept
farms . . . neat red and white
houses . , lazy cattle, and calm
and peace all over . . A soldier
transported overnight from the
battlefield might think these
green and brown hills and valleys
between New York and Montreal
were a new planet, the Kingdom
of God • . . But once in Mon-
treal, one is rudely reminded
that the world has not changed
much—and if at all, for the
worse.. • .
Quebec . . . L'Union Nationale
directs its appeal to the younger
generation, and is skilfully ma-
nipulating the 'anti-Semitic issue
:is a vote gathering fishing net
. • Duplessis' election campaign
is by far the most effective and
most active . . . He uses all the
paraphernalia of modern propa-
giala over the radio, and em-
ploys ninny women as campaign
workers . . •
FASCISM ON TIIE MARCH:
The Liberals, under the leader-
ship of Premier Godbout, are a
rather anemic, colorless party
trying. to follow a middle of the-
road policy . . . They enjoy the
sopport of the English section
of the Province of Quebec, and
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW: that of those French Canadians
The Canadian Province of who believe in and want tho
Quebec is one of the most beau- status quo . . . We do not be-
tiful and most backward regions lieve that Godbout will succeed
on the globe . • • Clerical Fas- in maintaining: a majority over
cism flourishes there undisturbed the Bloc Populaire and the Union
• . . Cardinal Villeneuve, the Nationale . . . He has been sup-
recognized spiritual head of the porting. the Canadian war effo•e.
French Canadians, dreams of a within certain limits, notwi
corporate state and openly ap- standing the anti-war attitude
proves ii French Canadian boy- of a majoriy of the French Can-
cott of Jewish merchants . .
adians and their church .
The Quebec provincial elections There is a strong possibility that
will be held o n Aug. 8, and the he not only will be beaten but
campaign is in full swing now ... will go down to a disastrous
Three parties are in the contest defeat . . .
for political control of this prov- GENERAL IMPRESSIONS:
ince, the population of which is
ov erwhelmingly
As you travel about the small
French
Cana-
dian . . . The three parties are towns and villages of Quebec
the Bloc Populaire, the Union Province you get the feeling that
Nationals and the Liberals, who the people are not yet infected,
are now in power . . . The Bloc but merely swayed by a con-
Populaire and the Union Nation- sistent anti-British and anti-Jew-
als are unquestionably Fasciist ish propaganda . . . In other
words, they are simple, naivo
'a their political orientation • •
people who are being. manipulat-
THE NORTII
ed by ruthless political intrig,uen,
AMERICAN ARGENTINE:
backed and, more often, prodded
The press of these two Fascist by a clerical Fascist church . . .
ially inclined (to put it mildlY) The Quebec Hierarchy could, if
Parties
is frankly pro-Franco and it wanted to, change the atmo-
oro - Sinarqui
s t • . . If you read
the Action National e of the Bloc sphere overnight . . . If the Que-
Populaire yo u are propelled back bec clergy vere to translate the
Pope's pronouncements against
the Middle Ages
1 . 'endeau, their leader A ndr, anti-Semitism into concrete ac-
, a dvo• tion, the Province of Quebec
a French and Catholie could be paradise on earth . . .
.(
41 la • . . He urges French The propaganda that is peddling
nadian women to super fecun. anti-Simitism, anti-war ideas and
dity as a means of capturing anti-British feeling mild in th.3
Canaria for the French Cana- press, but strong and Nvell-organ-
Onns . • Laurendeau maintains ized as conducted by parish work-
'ondial relations with the Polish ers by the mouth-to-mouth Meth-
eist groups in Western Can- od . . . Sinister whispering cam-
(la and in Latin America, and paigns about Jewish conspiracies
'env friendly with the Fa-
d a.,e
to control the economic life of
b . • •
Quebec Province arc rampant . .
1:ANADIAN NAZIS:
The attitude of the Jewish com-
The Union Nationale is seek- munity reminds us of the Jew-
]t ing power so aggressively that ish position in Germany in 1929
1n stoops to open anti-Simitism and 1930 . . . There is appease-
.ment on every front, and a blat-
. make political hay . • •
Its ant lack of unity . . . For in-
Irader, Maurice Duplessis, is by
r,ar the shrewdest of the French stance: In this election the Jews
he anadiao politicians .. . It was will, for the first time in '20
l etwho some months ago pro-
years, lose their own representa-
?ve ed the hoax that the Liberal tive in the Provincial Parliament
rnment
of
Quebec
was
plan-
, l
'ng to settle 100,000 Jewish of Quebec . . . In the St. Louis
etagees in the Province of district, where the Jews could
•
elect a representative, four Jew-
ish candidates are fighting one
another . . . The result will be
that the Bloc Populaire Ca ii Ij-
date will be presented with the
election on a silver platter, be-
cause of a disrupted, confused
and split Jewish vote . . . Jew-
ish leadership failed in this emer-
gency . . . The Canadian Jewish
Congress looks on with folded
arms . . . In this crisis the Jews
need their very best spokesman
in Quebec—but they will have
nobody . . . We predict that after
the elections the Bloc Populaire
and the Union Nationale will
form a coalition government . . .
That governmenv will drive ag-
gressively toward a corporate
Fascist regime . . . And the Jews
of the Province of Quebec are
in for a very tragic chapter in
the history of the Jews in the
Western Hemisphere.
SEGAL
(Continued from Page 4)
should His great mercy bother
to punish them? Even today we
see Hitler getting his neck into
the noose he wove for other peo-
ple.
'But if it ever came to a
showdo)vn I'd speak up for you.
I'd say anyway, people like Jake
should be spared. He was a man
who honored Thee, 0 God, by
fellowship with all Thy children.
I remember him taking his Kad-
dish to the Catholic church in
tile morning. People like Jake
and Father Pat should be .spared.
When Jake asked Father Pat's
permission to say Kaddish in his
church, Father Pat said, 'Thanks,
Jake, for bringing the sacrament
of brotherhood to my church.'
"You and Father Pat are broth-
ers. Jake, and deserve to he
wrapped up together in the wings
of the Shechinah when the time
comes."
I hope Father Pat won't feci
put out to see me speaking to
Jake during the service in his
church, but, then, I'm whispering
and, anyway, it all has to do with
the essence of religion.
"Jake," I say in conclusion,
"now I'll join you in saying
Kaddish. Let's stand up . . .
'Yisgadal . . "
Report London Reached
Decision on Palestine
JERUSALEM (WNS)—A deci-
sion of such import has been
reached in London on the ques-
tion of the postwar status of
Palestine that its contents are
known only to one or two .1 he
most trusted high British officials,
according to an official repert
reaching here this week.
Credence is added to the re-
port by the appointment of Vis-
count Gort as the new High
Commissioner for Palestine. Hs
designation is viewed in Jewish
circles here as evidence of a
new, but yet unstated, British
policy.
declared objective in the post-
war program of the United "With both major political
parties giving their unqualified
States."
In a formal statement issued endorsement to the Jewish peo-
here, the Council, which speaks ple's efforts to rebuild their na-
for all major Zionist bodies in tional life in Palestine, Zionism
the United States, hailed the is now a declared objective in
plank on Palestine included in the postwar program of the Unit-
the platform of the Democratic ed States. We trust that the
National Convention as "an act time of fulfillment is close at
of statesmanship which will bo hand."
hailed by friends of the Zionist
movement throughout the world."
The plank favors "the opening Hungarian Diplomats
of Palestine to unrestricted Jew-
ish immigration and cologization, Denounce Persecution
and such a policy as to result
in the establishment there of a Of Jews of Hungary
free and democratic Jewish Coln-
ROME (WNS) —A statement
monwealth."
Pointing out that this "his- denouncing "the terrible crimes
toric declaration" followed a committed against Jews and oth-
similar pronouncement by the er persons by the Hungarian
Republican National Convention, quislings and their subordinates,"
the Council said: "It is a clear- was issued here this week by
cut expression of the friendship Baron Gabriele Apor, Hungarian
which Americans have always Minister to the Holy See, in the
name of all of Hungary's Euro-
felt for Zionist aims."
'Fhe text of the Council's state- pean Ministers outside German-
occupied territory, except the
ment follows:
to Ankara.
"The plank included in the envoy
The declaration, signed by the
platform of the Democratic Na-
Hungarian Ministers to the Holy
tional Convention which favors See, Berne, Helsinki, Lisbon and
'the opening of Palestine to un- Madrid, reads:
restricted Jewish immigration and
"We solemnly declare that an
colonization, and such a policy immense majority of the Hun-
as to result. in the establishment garian people condemn with hor-
there of a free and democratic ror and disgust the terrible
Jewish Commonwealth' is an act crimes committed against Jews
of statesmanship which will be and other persons by the Hun-
hailed by friends of the Zionist garian quislings and their sub-
movement throughout the world. ordinates.
"This historic declaration,
"We declare that these crimes
which
followed
a similar
pro- are being perpetrated in flagrant
nouncement
by the
Republican
violation of true Hungarian tin-
National Convention, represents ditions inspired by the spirit of
another reaffirmation of Amer- Christian, humanitarian liberty.
lea's traditional position on the "Consequently it is out duty
Palestine question. It is a clear- seriously to warn all Hungarian
cut
expression
of the
friendship
which
Americans
have
always leaders and their subordinates
who have committed such crimes
felt for Zionist aims. The Demo- and to remind them that they
critic Party, whose leader, Presi- will have to accept full responsi-
dent Roosevelt, has declared that bility for their acts and that they
'the
American
has will not be in a position to make
never
given its Government
approval to the
n athesy upaecrtie o rr l
rs ni that
and u u s n i:ico rf t oh ri: leclai
White Paper of 1939
when future decisions are au th orit y.
reached, full justice will be done
"We exhort all Hungarians
to those who seek a Jewish Na- worthy of the name who con-
tional Home,' is no w on record demo these ignoble cruelties to
in favor of the full Zionist pro- give all the aid possible to their
gram. persecuted compatriots."
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