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Sabbath Readings of The Law
Pentateuchal Portion—Gen. 12:1-17:27.
Prophetical Portion—Is. 40:27-41:16.
OCTOBER 27. 1944
CHESHVAN 10, 5705
The Wrong Approach
help them solve that problem, but only
if the Europeans are really committed to
a solution of the problem. If they still
persist in the erroneous belief that bal-
ances of power, long time occupation,
cordon sanitaires, leagues and other weii
meaning but artificial devices can pre-
vent war, they shall be far from a solu-
tion of the problem.
The leaders of Europe at the present
writing are thinking in terms of unlimited
sovereignty. The people of Europe have
not been heard from. They may compel
the leaders to change their minds or they
may change the leaders, if the now 1 -ad-
ers are incapable of changing their minds.
We can see the solution of the problem
of preventing war in Europe only if the
political basis of Europe is raised to a
higher level. The European states must
relinquish part of their sovereignty to a
Federal central government, just as we
have done here in the United States, and
as the German and Italian states did in
their unification.
There may be wars between continents
even after all the continents are feder-
atd. That may be a problem of the distant
future. We are interested in preventing
war in our time, and removing the causes
of conflict, so that a just, decent and
enduring peace may be enjoyed by our
children and grandchildren.
We do not believe that the Dumbarton
Oaks Conference found the formula or
devised the plan that will prevent wars.
(
Friday, October 27,
Plain Talk.
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by Al Segal
I!
Of' Mice and Men
OUR correspondent has been
Y frequently
approached on the
matter of Mr. Hillman in the
current national political cam-
paign. Some of his friends are
bitterly resentful against Mr. Hill-
man—not because of the side
of politics ho is on but because
as a Jew he let himself get so
prominently mixed up in it.
Hillman, they say, should have
kept out. What business has he,
a Jew, to put himself on the spot
the way he has? Jews, they say,
should be careful—for the sake
of all of us—in these times.
Others feel, resentfully, that
Mr. Hillman has done the Jewish
people no good by taking up a
cause so unpopular in prominent
circles. Why didn't he let Mr.
Murray (CIO president) take the
rap, or any of the other labor
leaders? they ask. These people
don't like Mr. Hillman's political
ideas, anyway, and don't intend
to vote with him.
Your correspondent goes into
this matter with no partisan
bias; he knows that in a column
like this he should walk in strict-
est rectitude, not leaning either
to one side or the other in an
issue of politics. He should just
as vigorously defend Mr. Hill-
man's moral and civil right and
duty to do what he is doing if
he were active on the other side
of the political fence.
What hurts him much more
than Mr. Hillman's activities in
politics is the mouse-like timidity
of many Jews who, in this hour
would have all Jews scurry out
of public life. They would do
to themselves what Hitler did to
Jews in Germany when he ex-
punged them from every public
activity. Self-abasement is more
humiliating than to be abased by
some one else.
As a citizen of the I .
States Mr. Hillman has esp,
certain political principle
he would be faithless to
.1
icon citizenship if, in timid
ence to his being Jewi- !.
failed to speak up for his
faith. It is to his great
as an American citizen ti ;ir
hasn't let the flood of vital
tion drown bins; he keeps
head up and says what
I
I •
-
lieves.
If he thinks of himself .b-,v-
ishly at all, it must be v‘i;: a
proud scorn for anti-Seinite:, and
to hell with them. Who are these
twisted individuals to frighten a
self-respecting American away
from his duty as an American,
whether he is Democrat or Re-
publican? A man debases his
manhood when he runs front gut-
President Roosevelt in his speech on
Saturday night, Oct. 21, at the Waldorf
Astoria Hotel in New York City, before
the Foreign Policy Association, spoke at
considerable length on the Dumbarton
Oaks Conference.
He urged that the American represen-
ter Is t's about time to snap out of
tative on the Council should be given
the fright that holds many of us
in the inhibition that Jews must
power by the Congress of the United
neither be seen nor heard in
States to take action against any aggressor
public life. Otherwise we are re-
without being compelled to come to the
duced to the second-rate citizen-
Congress to get his authority for such
ship to which anti-Semites would
condemn us-.
action. He drew an anology between the
Wonders Never Cease
Citizenship is more than the
representative of the Council being com-
right to vote; it calls for cour-
Chaplain
Morris
A.
Frank
of
General
pelled to come to the Congress for auth-
ageous leadership in those who
are aisle to lead; for brave speak-
ority with the case of a police officer who Hodges' First Army will conduct services
Aachen, Germany, on Sunday, Oct.
ing in those who can speak well
would have to come to a town meeting from
29.
in public affairs. To accept les,;
to get authority to apprehend a felon who
than that is to accept inferiority
The
program
is
being
sponsored
by
the
was seen breaking into a home. The
among Americans.
Your correspondent has a for-
answer is obvious and the question was American Jewish Committee and will be
mula attitude in the face of a
rhetorical. It would be the heighth of broadcast over the National Broadcasting
hostile world: Yes, Pm a Jew
Company over Station WWJ at 11:15
something or other to expect a police p.
and what of it? I'm a Jew as
m.
officer to seek authority to arrest a felon
other men are Protestants and
Aachen is an ancient city that has been
Catholics or have come from the
caught in the act of housebreaking.
Swedes or the Italians. No more
We grant that the representative in the scene of much pomp and circumstance
than Protestants and Catholics,
the Council should have the same right as well as grim and sordid struggle for
Or people of Swedish or Italian
and freedom of action as does the police power.
descent, am I alien to the com-
Jews have lived there since the eighth
mon life and I intend to do my
officer. Granting this, we do not believe
I
part in it.
that with such power and authority con- century and were expelled by other
OUR correspondent doesn't
I will not be pushed aside. I'm
ferred upon our representative and the tyrants before Hitler's day.
consider Mr. Hillman in his not afraid of my duty. I'm not
We
do
not
know
how
many
of
the
Jew-
Jewish
identity.
He
is
a
citizen
of
representatives of the other nations ad-
afraid of people who, because I
United States, though it is am a Jew, would set use apart.
hering to the United Nations Organiza- ish Community survived. That there are the
being
said
against
him
that
he
They are the aliens in America--
tion that we are any nearer to an endur- Jewish survivors we learned obliquely, was born in Lithuania—an offense alien
to all that is American.
from
a
report
that
the
Aachen
Jews
were
ing peace.
that has been winked at all these
I I I
We did not have much faith in the surprised that they were treated by the years by the Liberty Lady who KNOW that my destiny as a
stands so magnificently in New
American
occupation
force
just
as
were
Jew is involved in the destiny
Dumbarton Oaks Conference as the in-
York bay welcoming the wayfar- of all Americans. My happiness
strumentality for preventing war. • We the other residents of Aachen.
ers from Lithuania and other
Who could have dared to predict in places abroad.
believe now as we believed then, that the
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approach to the problem of prevention of 1940 that in less than five years an Amer-
war is not through force or the threat of ican Jewish chaplain would hold religious
force against an aggressor, but is rather services on German soil, and that these
in the creation of organization in which services would be broadcast. It would
have been safe to predict that Germany
peace is almost implicit.
By CHARLES BENSON
not as strong a factor now as
We do not believe that as long as the would be so yudenrein that not a single
they were then."
Jew
would
ever
venture
to
again
put
foot
Events of the last few weeks
theory and practice of unlimited sover-
"Political considerations now
on
the
"sacred
soil"
of
the
Nazi
"Para-
have
insured
the
issue
of
Pales-
outweigh the military," Stimson
eignty obtains in Europe that war can be
tine a place on the agenda of said, "arid the issue should he
prevented by security organizations and dise."
any future international organiza- determined upon the p( lineal
leagues.
tion—with the United States us- rather than the military bask"
The War Fund
The old League of Nations had teeth,
Then Rep. Sol Bloom indicated
ing its influence to further the
he had received a State De-
maybe not as strong and sharp as the
The War Fund Drive is not for war esablishment of a national home- that
partment go-ahead. He sched-
teeth of the organization envisaged by services alone. Because of the emphasis land for the Jews.
uled a meeting of his Foreign
the men at Dumbarton Oaks, and yet the put on the war and recreational activities,
Congressional circles a s s e r t Affairs Committee for the day
that,
when
Congress
reconvenes
League of Nations did not prevent war. our readers may think that there will be
after Congress reconvenes when
next month, it will be just a the Palestine resolution will he
Strength and sharpness of teeth are not another drive for local, European and matter
of going through the mo- given immediate consideration. He
war preventatives. They can only bring Palestine needs. Such is not the case. tions before the resolutions fav- said that Ise had no doubt that
greater force to bear upon an aggressor, This one fund will cover all needs—and oring unrestricted immigration of the resolution would be favorably
Jews into Palestine and the ulti- reported by his committee—and
and yet the aggressor may be strong the quota for Detroit is $8,250,000.
mate establishment of a Jewish
usually knows what the score
enough to oppose the new League, and
Out of this fund the Detroit Federation Commonwealth are passed in he
is.
may be able to carry on a long, –hitter and Welfare Funds will receive its share both Houses.
In addition, pledges by both
Even after Palestine planks the Democratic and Republican
and costly war.
to carry on the educational, cultural, rec- were
adopted
by
the
two
major
What is the organization in which reational and health services. These serv- parties, the chances of our acting candidates for President, made
peace is almost implicit? When and ices are more urgently needed today than to abrogate the White Paper of almost simultaneously with the
reawakening. were
where has such an organization func- they are during normal times when family 1939 seemed distant in view of Congressional
of sueh a nature that the issue
tioned? These are proper questions and and social life is not subjected to the jars the opposition of the War and will not be closed by a Congres-
State Departments to any imme- sional expression of "sympathy"
a satisfactory answer may furnish us with and dislocations caused by separations, diate
action. When Turkey broke with the cause. President Rooso-
the proper approach to the vexing prob- man power shortages and uncertainties.
off diplomatic and economic rela- velt has promised that "efferts
lem of war prevention.
What more can be said about the tragic tions with Germany, Zionists will be made to find appropeiao:
Such an organization exists wherever lot of the Jews in the liberated countries perked up. It was even consid- ways and means of effectuating'
possible that Congress would as soon a s practicable the estab-
states, provinces and countries have sur- and the refugees who know not where ered
pass the resolutions before it re- lishment of Palestine as a 11 , ''
rendered part of their sovereignty. There their home will be?
cessed for election campaigns. In and democratic Jewish Comm. , -
have been no wars among the States mak-
When you give to the War Chest you the hurried, pre-election sessions wealt h. Republican Candi,l, , ' t
ing up. the Reich since 1870, and there give of your surplus, to those who have during September, no move was Dewey said that as President
to accomplish this.
would use his "best offices !')
have been no wars in Italy since the uni- been beggared, despoiled and ravaged made
For months, it seemed as if the have our Government working
fication of that country. We have had by those dark and sinister forces that question of U.S. intervention to gether with Great Britain
no war among the states of the United have made a charnel house of a whole open Palestine to the Jews had achieve this great objectivo.
never been raised.
States since 1865. There have been no continent.
Whether the mandate
Then early, this month, the fire- will be replaced by a system
wars among the Soviet Union, and for a
Remember that when a solicitor calls ,works started. Co-sponsor Sen-
under which sev,1
long time before 1914 the Czar's domain upon you that he or she is not being paid ator Taft released a letter from trusteeships
nations would share the respoi:.:i-
was not troubled by wars among the for the work he or she is doing. They Secretary of War Henry L. Stint- is still a matter of speculati , n.
The War Department de- bility for the dependent nat, , ,1
states that made up that vast empire.
are giving of their time as well as their son.
ferred to the State Department
The problem of war prevention in Eur- funds and the least you can do is to on the matter. Stimson said that But there can be little doubt tl
ope is essentially a European problem. speed them on their way with as large the military considerations which the United States will have a ,-;,y
led to his previous opposition to in the future of this particu;ar
We can certainly use our moral force to a contribution as you can make.
passage of the resolution "are
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mandate.