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The Detroit Jewish Chronicle and the Legal Chronicle, 1944-08-25

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Friday, August 25, 1944

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc
JACOB H. SCHAKNE
Pres..Gen Mgr.
JACOB MARGOLIS
Editor
CHARLES TAUB
Advertising Mgr.

General Offices and Publication Bldg., 525 Woodward Ave.
Telephone: CAdillec 1040
Cable Address: Chronicle

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must reach this office by Tuesday evening of each week.
When mailing notices, kindly use one side of paper only.
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle invites correspondence on sub-
jects of interest to the Jewish people, but disclaims respon-
sibility for an endorsement of views expressed by its writers.

Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.

Sabbath Readings of the Law

Pentateuchal Portion—Deut. 16:18-21:9.
Prophetical Portion--Is. 51:12-52:12.

AUGUST 25. 1944

ELLUL 6, 5704

by following our successful example.
We expect the Dumbarton Oaks Con-
ference to produce a climate favorable to
peace, but- beyond this we can hardly
hope.

Plain Talk...

by Al Segal



Is Thi; an IMpasse?
The whole plan for rescuing refugees
"7 hey Call Me Joe"
in Hungary may have to be abandoned
because of the inability of the Hungarian
government to get exit visas from the
OU should hear a certain NBC being said. It was as if God had
Nazis.
program every Saturday morn- spoken with awful finality and
Is the Hungarian government so weak ing.
Its title is "They Call Me what could men say? Everybody
that it cannot carry out the Horthy agree- Joe." It's about G.I. Joe and seemed to be searching for an
ment with the International Red Cross? where he came from. He came appropriate word.
The father spoke first. Yes,
from the Irish and the Jews;
We doubt it. There must be other rea- from
the Italians and the Swedes he was the only one who seemed
sons which are not disclosed. We have and
the Slovaks; from the May- to have any right to speak. His
our suspicions and they do not reflect any flower and from the slave ships head had been bowed down deep,
too great credit upon the Hungarian auth- that brought black men over his hands folded. Suddenly he
said: "Well, we can still be
long ago.
orities.
The other Saturday I listened thankful."
The record of the Hungarian govern- to the program. This one NM The boy had been a fine son,
ment, since the Gestapo took over, is one about it G.I. Joe who came from he said. That was something to
thank God for. When a boy
of rapacity and inhumanity hardly sur- the Italians.
He reminded me of a certain has been a fine son his parents
passed by the Nazis themselves.
Joe who came from the Jews. I can't feel any blame on them-
The story of confiscation of Jewish heard about him several days be- selves. He and his wife had done
property, gold, silver and precious stones fore from a friend of mine in their best for him. They had
is the story of despoiling and robbery on Chicago. He had been to the given him a good education. He
service they had for had been through the university.
a grand scale. In the long, tortuous, Kaddish
this Joe in his father's house af- The father remembered the day
tragic history of Jewish migration, ex- ter word came that he had been of graduation. When his mother
kissed him and the boy said: "I
pulsion and deportation we always find killed in action.
friend said he was worried thank you and father for all you
greed and rapacity properly mixed with as My
to what was the right thing did for me. The credit's all
the piety and ideals of the expellers and to say
when he came into the your's."
deportees. And in the case of the Hun- house. What can one say? Pat-
garian authorities we find that they have riotic expressions seem to fall Wr HOSE were his words," the
father said. He drew a let-
lead from the mouth when
not departed from the centuries-old for- like
you attempt to use them for the ter from his pocket. It was one
mula.
consolation of the parents of a of the last letters they had from
It would not surprise us to learn that dead soldier.
the boy. He was in France.
more ransom money was wanted by the Could he say "you should be His father said it was still day-
or "your boy died for light and still plenty of time be-
Hungarian leaders as a means of persuad- proud,"
a great cause," or "he died for fore Kaddish . . . "Still time to
ing the Nazis. And then too, it may be a better world"? No! It was read his letter'. I'll read it to
one of those tricks used by a sophisticated, true that they should be proud you."
unscrupulous gang to get better terms and that their boy had died for "Dear Father and Mother:
a great cause and for a better Don't worry about me. I am do-
from the United States and Britain, now world
hop:d, hut it would ebe ing all I can to take care of
that they know that the United States Igine gso irl y e3f 1. e eli r Tyk oe sa ey eutn hte.re. myself. I've been lucky and let's
hope there will be a Friday night
and Britain are anxious to rescue the
feit words out of his mouth, when we'll all be together again.
refugees.
I keep on remembering the Fri-
All actions of those who have trafficked since he himself had no son to day nights when the whole fam-
with the Nazis must be carefully exam- givseo. he had no speech when he ily came home to you and we sat
fined. One must always be on the lookout entered the house. He shook the around after dinner and just
hand. He went to the talked and talked of the happy
for ulterior motives and sinister purposes. father's
in another room and to times we all had together when
Can it be that the Hungarian authorities mother
, i, d simply, "He was a we were small children.
hi said
he e t e . dbe
hen,
did not know that the Nazis would not
"Remembering that makes all
grant exit visas? Maybe, but we have our g
y ; a while before sun-
.vas
this easier to take. It gives some-
down; the minyan hadn't all as-
serious doubts.
thing to be hopeful about and to

Y

Dumbarton Oaks Conference
The conversations at Dumbarton Oaks
by representatives of the United States,
Great Britain and Soviet Russia are ex-
pected to bring into being an organiza-
tion that will insure a just and enduring
peace.
There is no one who hopes for a just
and enduring peace that does not wish
them success in this venture. The pessi-
mists will deprecate the whole undertak-
ingand will point to the League of
Nations as evidence of the impossibility
of achieving peace by understanding and
agreement.
The optimists will glow with enthus-
iasm and will expatiate at length upon
the dawn of a new era, just because the
powers that now have all the military
might under their controls have decided
to create an instrumentality for the main-
tenance and preservation of peace.
We are unwilling to deprecate the
efforts of the League of Nations, and yet
we cannot go along with the optimists.
The experiment of the League of Na-
tions proved that it was not the organi-
zation that could make peace permanent.
The League was something on the
credit side. We learn by experimentation
and by the process of elimination. We
sembled. There were seven men.
may be sure that the organization that
See SEGAL—Page 9
They sat around. Nothing was
A
Rift
in
the
Anti-Semitic
Front
will be offered the nations of the world
At long last there seems to be a break
will be different from the League of Na-
tions and the powers will try to delete ill the anti-Semitic Front. According to a
A Haven for the Weary in U. S.
the weaknesses and ineptitudes that made report from Ankara, the Bulgarian gov-
the League unworkable. Yet we are of ernment has announced that hereafter
the opinion that any plan that will be the Jews of that satellite country will not
worked out will not be satisfactory. We be compelled to wear the yellow Mogen
do not believe that it will achieve a just David, and will not be compelled to live
and enduring peace. In our opinion the in special areas.
We are rather inclined to believe the
nations of Europe must first organize
themselves on a Federative basis before report, inasmuch as Bulgaria is seeking
there can be any serious discussion of an to get out of the war and one of the
international organization for the main- conditions she would have to meet is
tenance and preservation of world peace. that she discontinue her anti-Semitic, dis-
We are persuaded that despite the criminatory practices.
The action of Bulgaria may serve as
best intentions of Great Britain and the
Soviet Union that eventually there may a guide and we may know, in the future,
be a clash of interests. Such a clash of that a satellite is ready to talk peace and
interests may lead to the reinstatement get out of the war when the anti-Semitic
and reestablishment of the old balance laws are repealed.
The country that should be next on the
of power arrangements, or the buffer
state, and if the differences cannot be list is Hungary. She has not repealed her
resolved then the resort to force follows. anti-Semitic laws but she has agreed with
If the Soviet Union and Great Britain the United States and Great Britain to
belonged to a Federal organization these aid in the transfer of refugees to neutral
differences could and would be resolved countries. The United States and Britain
and settled just as they are with us did not fail to inform Hungary that her
in the United States. This Federative behavior toward the Jews was reprehens-
organization is organic, simple and work- ible, but under the circumstances nothing
able. The kind of organization that is much can be done about it.
We must be and are thankful for such
contemplated by Dumbarton Oaks Con-
ference is inorganic, complex, and de- a turn of events, but the baffling problem
pends for its workability upon so many of prevention of a recurrence of anti-
unknown and intangible factors that it Semitic crusades is just as persistent as
becomes a highly complicated mechan- it ever was. All of us now know that
the scapegoat method was not invented
ism.
It must be remembered that Europe is by the Nazis, and we know that with the
today sufficiently developed industrially disappearance of the last Nazi and of
and technologically and that its communi- Nazism, that the method and practice
cation and transportation systems are in- may be used by some other group when
tegrated, that it is culturally and politic- the occasion arises.
Can the problem be solved on the pres-
ally prepared for a unification of all the
ent political, social and economic level
States into a Federated system.
We cannot be unmindful of the success that now obtains in the Western world?
(Top) For the first time in their lives these three little girls
of the Federative system in our own Can that level be raised and what must are shown
a toy—a teddy bear—by WAC Cpl. Helen Lloyd a few
country. We are a country of diverse be done to raise it? These are problems minutes after they arrived in this country to stay for the duration
that
cry
for
solution.
Can
we
solve
them?
national groups; with innumerablelan-
of the war at the Fort Ontario Emergency Refugee Shelter at
guages spoken and divided into 48 differ- The next decade should furnish the ans- Oswego, N. Y. (Below) The Rothchild family, including four-
ent sovereign States and yet for 80 years wer. Our generation was too inept or too weeks-old Gratzia in her mother's arms. as they made their way ,
the train which brought 982 refugees to the Fort Ontario Cann
we have not had to resort to force to indifferent, and those before us were even to
The National Refugee Service, a United Jewish Appeal beneficiary•
settle any of our inter-state problems. If worse. Will the new generation do a is cooperating with the camp authorities and is assisting the refugees
in numerous ways.
Europe really wants peace it can have it better job? We hope so.

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