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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
Friday, February 2, 1945
•* •STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL • • •
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., 525 Woodward Ave., Detroit 26, Mich., Tel. CAdillac 1040
by Phineas J. Biron
EDITORIALETTE:
New York have been trying in
Statistics proving that anti- vain to open an office for Zion-
Semitic charges are lies cut from isti action . . . There's absolute-
the whole cloth proved of no ly no office space to he gotten.
JACOB MARGOLIS, Editor
JACOB H. SCHAKNE, Pres.-Gen. Mgr.
avail against the Hitlerite propa- THIS AND THAT:
CHARLES TAUB, Advertising Mgr.
ganda in Germany . . . Yet Jus-
Some years before the war
tice National
Frank Murphy,
chairman
of Paul
Pa Claude] was the French Am-
Am-
the
Committee
against
FRIDAY,
FEBRUARY
2,
1945
(SHEBAT
19,
5705)
Vol.
47,
No.
5
Detroit 26, Michigan
bassador to Washington . • .
the Persecution of Jews, in a One of France's most distill-
produced the best in Jewish choral music. recent article calls for the cis- guished Catholic laymen, lw
of "sober hate-quench- wrote vigorous essays against
Many a contemporary Jewish composer culation
ing facts in every Amerian anti-Semitism . . . But during
For the Jews of Europe Jan. 30 is a would not have been presented and many ',wine, farm, factory, union shop the
Nazi occupation of Paris his
clay of mourning. On that day 12 years a beautiful Jewish composition would not and school, in the press and on play "Soulier de Satin" (The
ago Adolf Hitler became the Reich's have been heard in Detroit were it not the air" . . . But defensive argu- Satin Slipper) was the rage of
ments merely produce argumen- the theatrical season, with Ges-
Chancellor of Germany. He boasted, in for Halevy.
. . . What hi needed is an tapo dignitaries filling the loges
his own inimitable fashion, that National
Halevy has preserved the beautiful tation
offensive against the anti-Semitic nightly . . . How conic? . . .
Socialism would rule the world for 1,000 melodies and carried on the musical tra- underminers of democracy.
Orson Welles, in his brand-new
years. The world, however, has had ditions of our people. It has also given YOU SHOULD KNOW:
syndicated column, "Orson Wel-
something to say about it, and from pres- a chance to many young men and women One of America's best-known les' Almanac," tells us that it
Cecil B. DeMille, the Holly-
ent indications it is doubtful whether it with fine voices who loved Jewish music labor leaders will soon be pro- was
wood director, who invented the
ceeding
to
England
to
commit
will last even part of .another year. It and wanted the chance to get together British labor to an aggressive Fascist salute . . . In his silent
is safe to say that nobobdy but the Nazis and sing it for their enjoyment and the policy against the growth of anti- film "The Eternal City," he in-
will mourn the day when the last vestige enjoyment of the entire community.
Semitism . . . A court martial troduced that stiff-armed gesture
to Caesar . . The House Mis-
of Nazism has been removed from a °' We believe that the Jewish community of a naval medical officer will sion
Council of North America
make
the
headlines
in
the
near
owes a debt to Halevy. The concert this future . . . It will open up a reports, in its monthly, Christian
war-torn world.
Why has National Socialism failed? Sunday evening at the Masonic Temple number of suppressed cases of Approach, that there are 100,000
Why has this movement which was to should be a fitting celebration of 20 years anti-Semitism in naval and civil- Jews who have entered the
ian medical circles . . . Charles Christian church . . . It is almost
regenerate the German people ended in of Jewish music in Detroit.
Van Devander and William 0. impossible for any foster parents,
such tragic disaster?
Player, Jr., whose "Washington no matter how desirable, to adopt
It has failed because it was based upon
Memo" is read in many cities, a Jewish child these days . . .
the dogma of inequality, implicit in the
report that inside the lobby of It seems that scores of wealthy
the Claypool Hotel, the hostelry childless couples are awaiting
Master Race theory, and because of the
According to advices from Cairo the that houses the committee head- their turn for such a chance.
use of terror as an instrument for con- two young Palestinian Jews, Ephraim Ben- quarters of the Indiana Repub- WE'RE TELLING YOUR
quering not only the German dissidents Zuri and Eliahu Khakim, who were sen- lican Party, a liquor store flaunts Dr. and Mrs. Stephen S. Wise
but the whole world.
tented to death for the slaying of Lord the following red, white and blue have both been instructed by
Of all the victims of Nazism, the Jew Moyne, have petitioned King George VI sign: "This establishment is 100 their physicians to take it easy
per cent American—Buy Amer- —but they're burning the mir-
has been the greatest sufferer. This was and Winston Churchill for clemency.
ican—Talk American—Act Amer- night oil, refusing to relinquish
to be expected, for according to the Mas-
any of their multiple communal
Despite the strong rebuke given re- ica"."
ter Race dogma the Jew was the very cently by Prime Minister Churchill to Pal- ZIONIST
NEWS:
activities . . . Chicago's Rabbi
incarnation of all the vices, defects and estinian Jewry in the matter of terrorism, Sir Clifford Heathcote-Smith, Solomon Goldman, who has been
weaknesses that were responsible for we still believe that he understands and touring Jewish refugee camps in a sick man for ninny months, is
fully recovered and busy
German decadence and degeneration. appreciates the nature of the offense for Italy, promises these homeless now
writing a major work on relig-
people
refuge
in
practically
any
The Jews were marked for nothing short which these two youths have been given country—except Palestine .
ion . . . Four young rabbis are
of extermination. The Master Race dog- the death penalty.
Viscount Gort and Sir Edward helping him with his research
work . . . Watch out for a novel
ma did not end here, however. There
Mr. Churchill knows that they have Grigg, two gentlemen who advo-
film called "New Ameri-
were other races equally degenerate and been under "the -emotional influence of cate the maintenance of the short
White Paper, recently lunched cans" . . . Among its featured
decadent that had to be conquered, if not the Jewish problem" and that the slay- with
Dr. Weizmann in his Reho- actors is none other than Pro-
exterminated. The Slavic race was con- ing was not for personal gain, or out of voth home .. . Did they discuss fessor Albert Einstein . . . Judge
sequently marked for slavery by the Nazi hatred and rancor against Lord Moyne. the limitation of Jewish immigra- Jonah J. Goldstein, who presides
tion into Palestine to 1,500 a over a special court dealing with
race theorists.
Mr. Churchill knows that Britain has month? . . . This limitation means juvenile offenders, had a distin-
To accomplish the extermination and for centuries offered asylum to political that
the White Paper, far from guished visitor in his court the
conquest of the inferior slave races the offenders and has made a distinction be- being
suspended for the dura- other day . . . She was Mrs.
Nazis decided upon terror as the only tween those who violated the criminal tion, is very much in force .. . F.D.R.—and after watching the
Rabbi A. Lelyvelt and the Rev. Judge in action she, praised his
method that would get speedy results.
laws for sordid reasons, and those who Richard Evans are touring Cali- methods very highly.
,-Tite—,k1azi propagandists played upon are mistreated by idealistic compulsions. fornia
as an interfaith pro-Zion-
the fears,. suspicions and greed of the
We cannot and do not condone terror ist speaking team . . . Rabbi See STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
other natiOns with the idea of neutraliz- no matter by whom committed, yet we .bba H. Silver's supporters in
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A Nightmare Will Soon End
Justice Would Be Served
ing them if they could not get their active believe that the ends of justice will be
support for their scheme of extermination, served, and others would be deterred
enslavement and conquest. The interna- if the two Palestinian youths were sen-
tional Jew and the Bolshevist menace tenced to imprisonment for life.
were pictured as the terror dangers that
By CHARLES BENSON
Czechoslovakia. They, too, were
threatened all of Europe, if not the whole
WASHINGTON — The United to go forward when arrange-
world.
The Capture of Warsaw
Nations Relief and Rehabil- rents had been completed, ar-
V V
The other peoples of the world were
rangements for transport — and
The Russians have driven the Germans Rations Administration is about f or transit visas.
not fooled for long by the insidious and
to embark on its first major op-
Neither the Soviet Govern-
subtle propaganda of the Nazis. In the out of Warsaw. The first of the European eration, testing whether that or- tent
nor UNRRA has brought
end all were united against those who capitals captured by Hitler a little over ganization or any organization up the matter of those transit
believed they would rule the world for five years ago is now retaken. Most of so conceived and so dedicated visas in the jubilation over the
the city itself has been destroyed. Be- can do a job. There have been granting of transportation facili-
1.000 years.
many complications to prevent ies for the supplies.
The worst nightmare of civilization will fore the war, Warsaw had a population the success of "one of the great-
soon come to an end with the destruction of about a million and a quarter. About est humanitarian efforts the world No Supervisory Staff
of the Nazi hordes. one-third of these were Jews. Almost all has ever undertaken." Not all As affairs stand at present, it
is pointed out, UNRRA medical
of the Jews were killed and, it is esti• of them have evaporated.
supplies,
g et and
t ndf000t(1 and czectio
clotiilng:
At
last—and
it
is
presumed
mated, about 50 per cent of the Warsaw the recent clearance of the Dar- will
Poland and
Settling Zionist Differences
non-Jews.
denelles and the completion of slovakia. But there will he no
Warsaw is little more than a heap of Soviet political arrangements UNRRA personnel on the scene
The Mizrachi Organization asks that
pteor v the (Ii
ecte 0 ot i n supervise
i i N
s t rRi
Dr. Chaim Weizmann settle the differ- ashes today, yet we are glad to possess with the Lublin government have lion. direct
According
UNRRA
been related to the move—
e
ences that have arisen 'in the Zionist even these ashes, for we know that now the Soviet Government has clear- agreement, the "local authority"
Organization of America because of the we have reached virtually the end of ed the way for the first relief can do the distributing — but
ouster of Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver as co- Allied ashes. If there is to be more ashes shipments into Poland and Czech- UNRRA must be on hand to make
t uore on
(thatthete:
isi iodisociriinnoisititti
i
basis
oslovakia. The Soviet has in- sure
chairman of the Zionist Emergency Coun- from now on. it will largely be Axis formed
o f religion
UNRRA that the port re-
cil. ashes.
ception facilities on the Black ical affiliation, etc. The fear, of
The Russian forces are leaping ahead. Sea, and inland transportation course, was the UNRRA food
We have every confidence in the fair-
would be used as a political
ness, statesmanship and ability of Dr. They are now in Upper Silesia, and have are now available. -
Weizmann. but we feel that the dispute periled its coal mines on which Germany This is considered the "first weapon.
oAnttretah le, UNa RRA
behci on itil f-tehreeriscet
break-through in the line of diffi-
in the Zionist Organization can and will depends for the continuance of her war culties shutting UNRRA out of Montreal,
behind-the-scene
industry.
The
Germans
could
not
afford
fight is said to have gone on
central Europe."
in clue time, be settled by the members
between the Russian and Polish
Of that organization. These members to give these up. This is tantamount to Shipping Space
delegations over how relief sup-
have sufficient intelligence and fairness giving up the war.
'When Director General Her- Plies were to be distributed. The
To
us
Jews
the
liberation
of
Warsaw
to iron out their differences without call-
best H. Lehman returned from Russian delegation is said to have
ing upon anybody outside their own has other than military significance. Once a trip to England and France a opposed any plan which would
a city teeming with Jewish life, activities month or so ago, he told report- bring outsiders into Poland bear-
ranks.
ers that the Combined Shipping i ng gifts.
Let us practice a little democracy. We and culture, Warsaw today is a city with- Board had finally granted UNRRA
However. up until now, many
certainly talk enough about it. out Jews. We should like to rejoice in a limited amount of shipping
ppa
this hour of victory. We should like to space. But it depended upon s- believed tile Soviet would not
permit her ports and transpot
find consolation in the knowledge that surances that the supplies "would ton
facilities to be used by the
accepted in the ports of the
the martyrs who perished in the battle be
Twenty Years of Haley!'
Soviet Union and given internal international organization. That
of the Warsaw Ghetto have been avenged. transport by Soviet facilities. hurdle has been cleared. There
The Halevy Singing Society is celebrat- We should like to find solace in the Lehman said then he hoped those is reason to hope that personnel
ing 20 years of musical activity in Detroit. realization that the forces of barbarism assurances would be forthcoming as well as material will be given
passage through Russia. The
During these 20 years Halevy has played and inhumanity in Europe are rapidly roll- shortly. They were.
But Lehman also indicated Soviet has indicated a willingness
a vital role in the cultural life of the ing to their inevitable doom. But how that personnel had been recruit- to cooperate. And it very often
Detroit Jewish community. It has brought can ft nation of mourners either rejoice ed for delegations of technical takes our own State Department
enjoyment to tens of thousands. It has or console itself?
equally as long—and longer io
CAPITOL LETTER
experts to be sent to Poland and grant visas.
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