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Detroit 26, Michigan
FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1945 (NISSAN 2, 5705)
Aid the Red Cross
Vol. 47, No. I I
on to his final rest.
One would think that with the appal-
It behooves every Jew to support the ling decimation of the Jewish people the
Red Cross and to contribute in the drive
for funds now going on. The Red Cross,
as we all know, performs invaluable serv-
ices for our fighting men. The War De-
partment and the Navy have recognized
the value of the Red Cross as a morale
•
builder.
Besides its work for servicemen and
women, the Red Cross is the only agency
that can help prisoners of war. It is the
only agency that is able to get aid to our
men who are captives in enemy coun-
tries. The Red Cross has also rendered
invaluable aid to refugees, to war suf-
ferers. It has helped many a Jewish
refugee and has saved many a Jewish
life.
The Red Cross is non-sectarian. Jew
and Gentile, Catholic and Protestant, it
helps all who come to it for aid or for
advice.
Justice Over Law
It is most unfortunate that some plan
or formula could not have been found
that would have induced the sponsors
of the San Francisco conference to invite
a Jewish committee to participate in its
deliberations.
Something is wrong somewhere when
nations and peoples which were practi-
cally untouched by the war are invited
because they possess that form of organi-
zation called a state, while that people
which suffered, endured and contributed
more in proportion to their numbers, re-
. sources and strength than any people in
the world is excluded because it does not
meet an arbitrary, organizational require-
ment.
Somewhere along the line we, too, have
blundered and been at fault. We have
failed to achieve such unity among Pal-
estinian, British, American and other Jew-
ries so that we could present a case for
inclusion that would have convinced the
sponsors of the conference that we are
entitled to a seat in a body that may
vitally affect our future.
psychotic Fuehrer would be persuaded
that this people is no longer a potent
force in the ring of destruction now dev-
astating the Third Reich. But the psy-
chotic persist in their fixations and com-
pulsions despite their assumptions and
false theories. So on the 10th anniversary
of conscription of the Army Hitler calls
upon the people of Germany to die to
the last man, while he places the blame
for the unhappy fate of his land and his
countrymen upon the Jews, who united
the Bolsheviks and plutocrats against
sacred Nazism.
We shall have to suffer Hitler and
Goebbels for a little while longer. In
fact, we may hear them more often as
the conditions become grimmer and more
desperate in the fast shrinking Reich
controlled by the Gestapo and the S.S.
formations. Realizing that their days are
becoming fewer, these architects of the
greatest catastrophe in the history of civ-
ilization may plague the world with their
speeches, knowing that their power to
destroy and befoul will end ingloriously
and ignominiously.
,
A Lesson in Democracy
The Jewish Community Council's An-
nual Institute last Sunday was Democracy
personified. It was fitting that the Insti-
tute concerned itself with the theme: "Is
Democracy Possible in the Community
Council Structure?"
Whatever the results of the 10-hour
discussions (and they were fruitful) the
fact that 300 delegates and members of
about 200 Jewish organizations gathered
and talked over the problems of the
Detroit Jewish community—that in itself
was an accomplishment.
Chaplain Edward T. Sandrow inspects a JWB Passover food
package at the New York Port of Embarkation,
orior to shipment overseas.
Strictly Confidential
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
WORLD WAR III THREAT:
In possession of the Allies
are secret plans of the German
General Staff, blueprinting pro-
posed actions to bring about a
German victory in World War
III . . . Among the three most
important items on the agenda
is anti-Semitism propaganda in
the United States of America .
According to the German docu-
ments, what happened this time
was that the anti-Semitic cam-
paign in he USA was badly
muffed . . . The Nazi masterminds
acknowledge that they failed in
their aim, the aim of inextricably
involving one of America's ma-
jor political parties . . . "That
error dare not be repeated the
next time," is the admonition
of the Nazi General Staff writer
. . . Two days before the open-
ing of the San Francisco Confer-
ence of the United Nations will
be the publication date of a book
that will create a stir in politi-
cal circles . . . Its title: "The
Plot Against the Peace" . . . The
authors are Michael Sayers and
Albert E. Kahn.
PALESTINE NEWS:
The Yishuv in Palestine is very
calm, but determined, we're told
by one who just returned from
Palestine . . . If Britain fails to
rescind the White Paper the Jew-
ish community of Palestine will
be heard from in no uncertain
terms . . . Some time between
the 18th and the 22nd of this
month you will read about an
inspiring action with reference to
American support of Jewish as-
pirations in Eretz Israel . . .
Rabbi James G. Heller's state-
ment to the contrary notwith-
standing, Dr. Chaim Weizmann's
visit to America next month will
be primarily political, and not
for the purpose of "fund-rais-
ing".
JEWISH PANORAMA:
The American Birobidjan Com-
mittee last month shipped to
Jewish orphans in Birobidjan
4,500 pounds of powdered milk,
4,697 pairs of shoes and 4,500
sets of underwear, not to men-
tion 51 sewing machnies for the
use of those in charge of the
youngsters. Bravo ! . . . That's
constructive work . . . Theodore
Gaster, who succeeds Israel
Schapiro as head of the Semitic
Department of the Library of
Congress at Washington, prob-
ably ranks as the most brilliant
student of Arabic lore now living
. . . That article in the Con-
gress Weekly by Dr. Guiseppe
Bertel, on Rabbi Zolli, is a sad
apologia for a still sadder deed
. . . Is it possible that Dr.
Bertel missed the JTA dispatch
which revealed that in the dark
clays of Mussolini, Zolli had
joined the Fascist Party in
Padua?
LITERATI:
Leo C. Rosten, famous for his
"Hyman Kaplan" stories, will be
one of the heads of a new pub-
lishing house that will cater to
the younger generation . . . He
will share authority with Reeves
Lewenthal, of the Associated
American Artists, and Dr. Mar-
garet Mead, the anthropologist.
and tells us that they expect to
revolutionize the children's book
It was not so many years ago that
such a gathering would have been im-
possible. Getting Orthodox and Reform,
assimilated and immigrant, labor and busi-
ness to meet together was almost like
getting the lamb to lie down with the
lion. Twenty or 30 years ago these ele-
See STRICTLY PaCONF1DENTIAL
ments would not have understood one
another. Even if they had consented to
In a world such as ours, strict legalism meet they would have mistrusted each
of the past should not be the sole guide other, ridiculed each group's pretensions
and would have descended to recrimina-
and test.
tion and name calling.
By AL SEGAL
When it comes to discriminating against
Last
Sunday
all
the
groups
that
mirror
us, insulting us, despoiling us, and
Y CATHOLIC friend, 11Ir. ness that's extant in the world,
Sweeney, asked what I all this hate and bigotry, all these
slaughtering us,, we are a nation, a race, the variegated Jewish scene in Detroit,
of Israel Zolli, chief vicious little haters and back-
a people. What other group has been that represent the 80,000 Jews in this thought
rabbi of Rome, being converted biters. Certainly, there seems n
area,
came
together
and
peacefully,
and
singled out for special cruel and brutal
to Catholicism. Mr. Sweeney scarcity of Christians in a s o-
treatment? None. So why should we not on the whole, harmoniously discussed the seemed to expect that I would called Christian world."
Mr. Sweeney quite agreed with
be permitted to be heard in our own problems that confront our Jewish com- be in a begrudging mood in the me.
He himself has been feeling
matter of Rabbi Zolli, that I
munity.
Yiddish
speaking
delegates
held
behalf? Certainly we have friends among
might dispute the moral right of troubled on account of ChrL-
long
discussions
with
the
groups
who
are
the nations that will assemble in San
the Catholic Church to take him tianity, as he looks at the cur-
Francisco. They may act as our advocate, thoroughly assimilated in everything but from us, that I would turn with rent world in which his own boy
suffers a precarious ex
and yet they may not. They may be so their essential , Jewishness. Orthodox bitter reproaches against Rabbi tonight
istence on some battlefield
rabbis
and
Reformists
got
along
amiably.
Zolli
himself.
much concerned about their own affairs
I replied that I hoped Rabbi Europe. He wonders at this b
that they will not have the time to con- Everyone realized that he was a Jew, Zolli
would turn out really to ing so 2,000 years after Christi
thoroughly
interested
in
the
Jewish
scene,
cern themselves about us.
be a most exemplary Christian.
OT that Mr. Sweeney felt any
and willing to listen to the other fellow's "You, know, Sweeney, there
less Christian when his hea t
There are times when form is of less opinion.
aren't too many good Christians ached on account of his son g
, -
around and I should be happy ing through another crucifixion
importance than content and substance.
Judging
from
the
Institute,
Detroit
if
the
conversion
of
Rabbi
Zolli
This is one of those times. Formalistic-
2,000 years after the first one,
adds one authentic Christian to
ally the Jews may not be a nation, but Jewry is united on all essentials. They the population. You must agree 2,000 years after the Sermon on
united in fighting anti-Semitism. They
the Mount. He didn't blame
in fact and substance the Jewish people are
genuine Christians are rath- Christianity. Yes, he said.
are
united in seeking to educate every that
er scarce, if you consider the Christianity is all right; it's that
are a nation that should have, been in- Jewish
child in the traditions of Juda- awful condition of mankind in
vited to the Conference.
people who call themselves Chri , -
ism. They are united in seeking to in- these times and how long ago tian haven't really accepted
In justice to the people that have suf- culcate into Jewish youth pride in the Jesus died for mankind's salva- Christianity.
according to your Gospels.
fered and endured above all others, this accomplishments of the Jew. They are tion,
"Yes," I went on, "I hope thut
"Moreover, my dear Sweeney,
oversight, this failure to invite, should
consider the enormous number of Rabbi Zolli will be a grand Chri-
united in seeking to help the afflicted, the churches and the budgets tian gentleman and increase by
be corrected.
the meager number of Chrh
the aged, the downtrodden. They are that have been expended on one
Christianity these 2000 years. tian gentlemen in this world.
united in raising funds for the wretched Considering all that, you can't Who am I to say no when Chri , --
Deliverance Not Far Away
has a chance to acquire!:
remnant of Jewry in Europe and for the say there are anywhere nearly tianity
I
When that filthy, obscene little man,
enough Christians at work in the one more practicing Christian?
I sketched briefly the quality
Adolf Hitler, breathes his last, he will upbuilding of a Jewish Commonwealth world.
damn
the
Jews
before
he
passes
in
Palestine.
probably
"All this double-distilled mean-
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