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DETROIT JEWISH

Friday, December 8, 1944/

CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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food and fuel resources, and threatens r
that if they persist in their scorched earth
policy of destruction of natural resources
and food supplies that they will be the
sufferers.

To make the food situation even worse
for the German people, the drive of the
Russian armies through Hungary will cut
off one of the richest granaries of Europe.
All of this must make the situation in
Germany well nigh desperate, and this
is the kind of desperation that has always
been a large factor in ending wars in
the • past.

Plain Talk... by Al Segal

•

Sleeping Dog

OW that it's all over, one ing that in his youth he took up
may speak frankly about cer- rabbinical studies in his native
N
tain ugly manifestations in the Lithuania. (Retail advertising be-

recent national campaign, with- ing what it is, it was not consid-
out being accused of partisan ered discreet to put upon the
purposes. It really was hard to gentleman the stark label "Jew.")
That this worked in many
keep on walking in strict non-
partisan rectitude during that minds was vouched for by the
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post-
campaign while dirty things that malicious whispering that every-
office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879.
were being said and printed made body heard. The Jews were con-
an awful smell, like the contents spiring toward the presidency; to
Sabbath Readings of The Law
of an ancient charnel house sud- vote a certain way was to vote
as the Jews wanted you to vote;
denly
reopened.
Pentateuchal Portion—Gen. 37 :1-40 :23.-
Some citizens even now may the Jews were taking over the
Prophetical Portion—Amos 2 :6-3 :9.
say, well, it's a month since the country. (The story was all in
election, and why not let a sleep- the same words and in the same
KISLER 22, 5705
DECEMBER R. 1944
We know by now how thorough a job ing dog lie? I myself generally tune that Germans heard when
was striving for power.)
of back breaking has been done by the let sleeping (logs alone, but I Hitler I have
in mind an incident in
am worried about this particular
Gestapo and the SS formations. We know sleeping dog. I am afraid this our town, trivial in itself but hor-
by now that most Germans respond only dog may have been infected and ribly significant as a sample. A
I wonder fearfully how he will non-Jewish citizen was driving in
The latest rioting in Athens and Brus- when orders are given firmly and in a
one of the suburbs and came to
when he gets up again.
sels; the discontent of the French resist- loud voice. We know that servility and behave
Ordinarily things said in a an intersection with a stop-light.
ance groups; and the unsettled Russian obedience have become cardinal virtues political campaign are forgotten At the corner stood a crowd of
the day after the election and the boys with a banner bearing the
Polish affair are calculated to spread in the land of the Nazis. •
contending politicians buy each name of one of the presidential
gloom and pessimism.
Hunger may not speak firmly and with other drinks. But the falsehood candidates. They were offering
malice spread around in the political pamphlets to whittever
We, however, do not take these hap- a loud voice, but it can be persistent, and
recent campaign differed from autoist stopped there.
gnawing
and
compelling,
and
will
prob-
penings too seriously, nor do we believe
The citizen, who was voting for
the common varieties of political
that they portend anything that cannot ably override all Nazi orders and corn- bunk in that they were responsive the other candidate, said he didn't
to prejudices that already existed want any of the pamphlets. Ile
be settled when the time and climate are mands.
started his machine with a bar-
and were widespread.
more peaceful than they are now.
Things said and printed were rage of angry shouts pursuing
The" steel ring of the Allied armies
alarming because for the first him: "Jew Jew!"
After years of resistance by guerrilla is squeezing the peoples of the Third so
1 1 1
time in American political doings,
Reich
harder
every
day,
and
when
hun-
bands one should expect that these bands
the campaign, in one of its HE FELT distressed not be-
would give up their arms immediately ger joins in the squeeze, something will phases, attempted the easy tech- cause he was being called
nique of Hitler in his early ef- "Jew!" (he is a Christian gen-
after the country was freed from the have to break.
forts to win a following. The Hit- aleman who regards the title
Nazis. These resistance groups feel that
The German people have known cold, ler technique was based on the "Jew" as one of nobility), but
they did much to defeat the Nazi armies homelessness, fatigue, and yet have kept well-known fact that almost any- because of the hideous implica-
and that their activities added materially to their tasks in the factories and on the where you can find people who tions he found in this prejudice
like Jews. So, by smear- being spewed from the mouths of
in compelling the enemy to evacuate fronts. Many may have wanted to throw don't
ing Jews, you can always get a children. These kids were the
their land. Besides this, they do not know in the sponge, as a beaten fighter does crowd around you if you are upcoming citizens. Their minds
what authority they should recognize, in the prize ring, but the brutal, vicious thinking of being a leader. were already poisoned. Hate and
and in those cases where they do know Gestapo was there to keep them at it. The majority of the American malice are retained long after
seem to have rebuked this people have forgotten other
who is the proper authority, they have With hunger added to their list of mis- people
evil purpose to mislead them and things, like geography and geom-
no confidence in, or are bitterly opposed eries they will fall at their machines and the atmosphere appears to have etry, which they learned when
been
cleared by the explosive they were young. The genale-
b
to, that authority.
will surrender on the battle field.
force of the lection; but there is man could only wonder pessimis-
For years these lands have had no
this sleeping dog! I circle around tically at the promise of a more
the moment when he will stir just and lovely world after the
authority except that of the resistance
war was over. What grave re-
leaders. The men who formed the resist-
sponsibility the politicians took
again.
ee,
e a y l i let
ance groups faced death and the death
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luopoosne tthemselvesa g awnhdean 0 ft h m
Most Americans had forgotten that a
Of their families, because they would not sedition trial was going on in Washing- DURING the campaign he fed
2-/ from the gutters of hate and hate and prejudice!
accept the rule of the conqueror. Now
and other social mad- Yes, though the majority of
that the conqueror has been driven out, ton. They were reminded of the fact by prejudice
ness. His diet was a concoction the American people repudiated
they want to be consulted ; they want to the death of Chief Justice Edward C. of anti-foreignism and anti-Semi- this propaganda, I am worried
tism. The two ingredients were on account of the sleeping dog
be sure that the new authority will not Eicher, who died of a heart attack.
deftly mixed to make one heady that fed on it. Our politicians
deprive them of the rights anal liberties
This dismal trial had been dragging on dish. In this America, traditional should feel terribly worried, too.
for which they fought. They want to since last April. More than 3,000,000 refuge of the oppressed from all s With the most of them it was
be sure that the government that will words of testimony have been taken, And lands, it was made to appear that pn ao itghning dnolsgree—th an waaycyntiocal ecaatnelh -
a
rule them will be of their own choosing. the end is not in sight. Thirty-eight wit- there was something meretricious
zen suspect
who came
in an
from
American
a foreign
citi- votes—and anything is supposed
Until they are satisfied on all these counts nesses have been heard and there are and
c to go in American politics. Poli-
they will hesitate to disband and give up still 67 to be heard.
country; he was especially to be ticians themselves don't believe
their arms. They can be expected to
condemned if he took an active the lies they tell.
But their consciences will not
The original 30 defendants, 26 of part in American politics.
defy governments which they believe are
But
his
very
particular
offense
acquit
them when the sleeping
not representative of their wishes. They whom are still on trial, were charged was that, besides being a man of
dog
awakes
to the madness with
can be expected to oppose governments with conspiring to overthrow the govern- foreign birth, he was a Jew. Un-
which they innoculate d him.

We realize that the factors that have
in past wars determined the action of
those in control, have not done so in this
one. Yet hunger has always been a
potent force in the affairs of mankind,
and even the most thoroughly indoctrin-
ated Nazi soldier and workman cannot
carry on if he is compelled to think of
food, and nothing but food, all the time.

A TROUBLED EUROPE

SEDITION JUDGE DIES

that do not discharge from their positions
all alleged colaborationists and Nazi sym-
pathizers. The allied armies are inter-
ested in the preservation-4 peace and
order, and if the resistance \ groups get
out of hand they may be compelled to
put down riots and disturbances. This
must be very distasteful to those in
charge, but unless some semblance of nor-
mality is attained, it will mean that the
economic processes upon which all peo-
ples depend will be interrupted and dis-
located, resulting in even greater hard-
ship for the masses of the people who
have already endured enough.
These outbreaks will pass away in
most places. If, however, a government
is imposed upon the people which is defi-
nitely contrary to the wishes of the peo-
ple, then we may expect resistance and
explosions. We have every reason to be-
lieve that the latter contingency will not
arise. The United Nations have all prom-
ised that the peoples shall choose their
own governments. This promise will no
doubt be kept.

ment of the United States and set up a
Nazi state.
The trial started with a bang. The
defendants, a motley crew, made the
front pages of the newspapers by their
ridiculous answers and boisterous talk.
Judge Eicher gave them all the leeway
he possibly could without declaring the
proceedings a mistrial and sending all
the defendants and their lawyers to jail
for contempt.
This eight-months' trial must have
been a disappointment to the crackpots,
fakers, racketeers, and the few Nazi
agents who had hoped to bask in the lime-
light of publicity and pose as martyrs. 4

This has been denied them, because it
seems that the activities of this lunatic
fringe amounted to anti-Semitism, anti-
Roosevelt mouthings more than any ser-
ious conspiring on their part to overthrow
the government and substitute a Nazi
state in its place.
The case can continue with a new
Judge if the defendants consent to it,
but if they do not it will have to be tried
over again. The government has as yet
KING HUNGER
not stated whether it would try the case
Reports coming from Germany indicate over again if the defendants do not con-
that the problem of food may become sent to a new Judge. It is croubtful
acute before the winter is out. General whether the government would try all
Eisenhower warns the German people
(Continued on Page 5)
that they will have to rely upon their 'own

his carreer made a point of recit-

See SEGAL—Page 13

Bedtime Story At Oswego

At the Emergency Refugee Shelter. Oswego, N. Y., a mother adopts the
American custom of reading a bedtime story to her boy. In cooperation
with other agencies, the National Refugee Service, a beneficiary of the
United Jewish Appeal, is providing the 200 odd children attending the
public schools at Oswego with supplementary school services such as
milk, bus fare, school supplies. In addition, an orientation teacher has
been provided to assist the refugee youngsters in catching up with
their American classmates.

