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 Subscription in Advance $3.00 Per Year to insure publication, all correspondence and news matter 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.