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August 11

Plain Talk...

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE

1944

by Al Segal

Ghetto-Builders

A

T TIMES your correspond-
ent feels awfully distressed
on account of Jews among whom
are some of his best friends, as
the saying is. In those moments
of being distressed and even ir-
ritable, he should like to take
some Jews over his knee for a
spanking.
He is in such a mood at this
moment and should like nothing
better than to lay over his knee
some of the Jews in his own
town. But he must be content
to let his emotions out by pound-
ing the matter on his typewriter,
"Aryanrein"
as he is now doing.
The Spirit Saves
What, he asks, can these Jews
be thinking of? Making new
Adolf Hitler set out to make the Third
Reports from Hungary, Romania and ghettos for themselves: Building
Reich "Judenrein" and if his last speech
new walls of separation! Setting
was correctly reported he plans now to Bulgaria indicate that the satellites are themselves apart from the com-
making efforts to please the United Na- mon life and thus doing to them-
make the Third Reich "Aryanrein."
what the anti-Semites
tions. Their attitude toward the Jews in selves do
to them!
In a speech before the Nazi party their embattled and unhappy countries would
Your correspondent wouldn't
higher cadres, he told them that he alone has certainly changed for the better. bother you who live in other
towns with the odd doings of this
was the man to carry on a no surrender
group of Jews in our town but
They
even
had
the
temerity
to
refuse
to
war. We are not often in agreement with
for the fact that they are not
Per Fuehrer, but we do agree that he is sever diplomatic relations with Turkey unique. Everywhere there are
the man to carry on a no surrender war, despite the request of Adolf Hitler that groups of Jews who, impelled by
tragic events, would isolate Jew-
for he is so obcessed with the idea that they do so.
ish life behind ghetto walls of
he must win in his ("Kampf") struggle
their own building.
What
advantage
can
the
Jews
of
the
that he is willing to sacrifice every Aryan
These meditations derive from
man, woman and child in order to accom- satellite countries take from these hap- something startling your corres-
pondent has just read in the local
plish his mad purpose. penings?
daily press. The news item re-
ported that a group of Jews have
The struggle is not the struggle of the
Some of the refugees can be sent to organized
for the purpose of es-
German nation or people, it has- been Fort Oswego and Libya and now some tablishing- a Jewish parochial
"Mein Kampf," my struggle, not "Unser may be sent to Mexico, where it was an- school.
Kampf," our struggle. The ,people are nounced that the "free port" idea has This is to say they plan a sep-
.school for Jewish children
mere pawns or instruments to be used as been accepted. These refuges and havens arate
where they shall be taught read-
he sees fit, and if he decides to lead the can and should be used, but one is com- ing, writing and arithmetic as
whole nation to its destruction he will pelled to ask the question, "Why send well as Hebrew subjects. These
will be taken out of the
not hesitate for a single minute to do so. the refugees thousands of miles overseas children
schools and in the shelter
He asks for blind confidence and unques- when they can be sent through Turkey public
of the Jewish parochial school
tioned obedience from his fellow crim- to Palestine?
they will be brought up quaran-
tined from contact with the com-
inals, and those who are not ready to
The
only
barrier
now
is
the
Chinese
mon life.
follow will be compelled by the ubiquit-
wall of the White Paper. Is this barrier (Already there exist such paro-
ous Gestapo to do as he commands.
cilia' schools in several of the
impenetrable? We do not think so.
larger cities.)

In the Hitlerian logic the generals who
advised him that the war is lost are sabo-
teurs and enemies. Only those who are
ready and willing to die to the last man,
woman and child are racially fanatic
Nazis that are worthy of belonging to
the super race.
The homicidal maniac Hitler did make
the Third Reich almost "Judenrein" and
he went for toward making .it "Aryan-
rein."

,

The "open ports" idea was the weapon
used to penetrate the .immigration laws
without violating the spirit of them. What
could prevent Britain, if she really wanted
to do it, from sending the refugees from
Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania to "open
ports" in Palestine, rather than in Libya?

Is Britain more afraid of her irreconcil-
able Arab leaders than we are of our
own exclusionists?
Would these Arab leaders dare object
to such a humanitarian project when the
The Philadelphia Story
Hungarian, Bulgarian and Romanian anti-
The Philadelphia transportation strike Semites are ready and willing to allow
is over, but the causes that led up to the the unfortunate refugees to leave their
strike are still there. The use of the lands? We have very grave doubts that
military authority vested in the President the Arabs would dare to take such a
did not remove the reasons for the work stand. It is certainly worth trying. We
stoppage.
do not believe that any serious repercus-
sions
would be felt, should the Arabs
According to all reports the men went
on strike because eight negro workers raise objections to the admission of these
were promoted to jobs as operators. Cer- refugees.
tainly the promotion of eight negroes out
Perhaps Britain is planning to abrogate
of a working force of nearly 7,000 men the White Paper. The fears of Arab dis-
could hardly have been the only reason content and possible revolt that loomed so
for the strike that tied up the third larg- large six months ago should not have the
est city of the country for almost a week. same potency today. The fortunes of the
The workers in the City of Brotherly United Nations are much improved, while
Love have their share of race hatred, bias those of the Reich have worsened very
and prejudice, just as do the workers in much. The argument of expediency is no
longer valid. Inasmuch as the reason of
other cities.
expediency is no longer valid, the whole
Not all labor union workers are ready matter of the abrogation of the White
to accord equal rights to negro workers. Paper should now be explored with the
There are many unions, unfortunately too view of doing the just and reasonable
many, that still exclude negroes from thing.
membership.
In any event Britain should not have it
Bias, prejudice, exclusion from mem- upon her conscience that she was in a posi-
bership—all these do not explain the tion to rescue the refugees and failed to
Philadelphia Story.
do so, because there were not enough
The story can be explained only in Palestine visas left to save them all.
terms of fundamental causes. The Phil- Britain followed the spirit rather than
adelphia strikers can and do foresee the the letter of the White Paper when she
end of the war. They do not want to face ruled that the unused visas could be used
possible unemployment and they fear the after the White Paper went into effect.
want that follows unemployment. The
promotion of competent negro workers is She can again carry out the spirit of
a threat to their job security. This they the law by declaring Palestine an "open
fear and they know only one way of port."

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them
they must separate themselves
from the traffic by wearing yel-

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70 YOUR correspondent this
news seemed almost unbeliev-
able when he read it. Goodness
gracious, he thought, isn't this ex-
actly what Hitler did to Jewish
children in Germany when he
started out? Jewish children, he
said, may not associate with Ary-
an children in the schools. The
Jews must have separate schools,
just as they must have separate
restaurants and must sit on separ-
ate benches in the parks and sit
apart in the street cars. Jewish
children roust have no contact
with Aryan life.
To enforce the separation he
ordered g h e t t o e s established.
Jews might not live as neighbors

low Stars of David on their

sielt
We
eves '

felt horribly humiliated
when Hitler did these things to

Jews, and so it was mine incred-
ible to your correspondent to
read that Jews themselves were
taking steps to put their children
in an educational ghetto.
Yet he really shouldn't have
felt as shocked as he did. Ile had
been observing for some time a
separatistic tendency among Jews
—an acquiescence to the segre-
gation that anti-Semites would
impose upon them: Yes, if they
don't want us we'll just crawl
into our hole and pull the hole
in after us.
The leading non-Jewish spokes-
man for the separatists recently
has published a hook in which '
he makes light of the idea that
Jews have a right to live and
work and grow up and prosper
anywhere. He likens the Jew
to the cuckoo that lays its eggs
in other birds' nests. Jews, he
believes, should build their own
special nest to lay their eggs in.
He is a man most friendly to the

Jews. among groups of
Jews there is an aspiration
toward a special, exclusive place
for Jews to live in—somewhere
far off from the main lines of
the traffic of the world.

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OUR correspondent is not A
fellow who gets angry at the
ghetto-builders. He is much more
sad than angry. He spanks them
only softly. He understands men
seeking escape from a tragic
hour; they may even, n i their
haste, seek the very kind of
refuge their enemies would build
for them!
He himself is not running
along, though. lie knows that
ghetto-building is but a manifes-
tation of the moment's fears. Hi'
intends to keep his faith in a
world made good by justice; a
world from which no man 9r
group of men need run away in
fear.
a mem-
He believes that he,
ber of the brotherhood, may noi
separate himself from it; he must
go along. Stones may he thrown
at him and his head may be
bleeding but he is going along
with all men of good will, of
whatever race or faith, to do
something about the common
world to, make it good.
He is not going to retreat to
a corner of the earth. lie is not
going to build a ghetto around

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of the United States, learns about the miracles of modern
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limbs on inspection tour of San Diego (California) Naval
Captain Harold D. Kirkham, M.C., in charge of plastic surgery 111 the
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hospital, tells Commander Greenberg, a disabled veteran of the fi r'
World War, that the use ofprosthetics has greatly aided the morale
of wounded service men. (I. to r.) Harry Apelman, Commande.i ,
Diego Post, J.W.V.; Chaplain Emanuel Lifechitz, Assists: : District
Chaplain, Eleventh Naval District; Commander Greenberg and Copy"
Kirkham, who is shown holding an artificial hand mau.t. by patient '
at the hospital.