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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The 1.49,31 Chroniclo
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
P ublished Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., 525 Woodward Ave., Detroit 26, Mich., Tel. CAdillac 1040
Friday, April 13, 1945
Strictly Confidential
ly PHINEAS J. BIRON
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Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879
THINGS TO WATCH:
Women's Voice, the official or-
gan of We, the Mothers, with a
JACOB H. SCHAKNE, Pres.-Gen. Mgr.
PAUL MASSERMAN, Managing Editor circulation of approximately 20,-
000, is still carrying on an in-
JACOB MARGOLIS, Editorial Director
CHARLES TAUB, Advertising Mgr.
tensive anti-Semitic propaganda
Detroit 26, Michigan
FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1945 (NISSAN 30, 5705)
Vol. 47, No. 15 campagn against Secretary of
the Treasury Henry Morgenthau
. . . Believe-It-Or-Not Dept.:
completely the hazards that the enlisted The Ridgewood, N. J. Board of
Toward World Peace
men under his command must undergo. Realtors has an agreement which
The approval of the Dumbarton Oaks This is the tradition in which the Amer- can be checked by its 1943 min-
agreement which would
security pact by the United States Sen- ican officers have gloried. Our Grants utes—an
make Mr. Hitler very happy . . .
ate is practically certain because it is and our Robert E. Lees have, seemingly, The agreement states that any
backed by so many influential senators. been proud of nothing so much as in their real estate agent accused of a
Many of the propagandists of the stories of eating the same "hard tack" sale to a Jew will be tried by
a jury of the board membership
League of Nations insist that our failure and sleeping on the same hard and cold and,
if convicted, will be asked
to adhere to the League was responsible ground as their men.
to resign from the board and/or
for World War II. We have never sub-
With General Rose, it was not so much pay a fine amounting to twice
scribed to this view and do not now.
sentiment. He felt that it was only when the commission involved . . . In
The League of Nations was an ambi- out in front that he could direct the the agreement the word "unde-
sirable" is substituted for the
tious project for preserving world peace, maneuvers of his tank army. It was Gen- word
"Jew."
but it did not provide for a surrender of eral Rose out in front who led the tanks
Recently, through some fluke,
sovereignty on the part of any of the spearheading the advance in Cologne and a Jew purchased a home in
Ridgewood, and the agent who
member nations, nor did it make it im- many other zones in Germany.
it to him pleaded for mercy
possible for any nation to withdraw from
We mourn his passing, and yet some sold
the grounds that he had not
it when the nation decided to do so.
of the circumstances of his passing must on
known that the buyer was Jew-
During the life of the League all of give us comfort. The good pious Jew ish . . . And now listen to this!
the European nations belonged to it, and believes that death in the month of Pass- . . . The Jewish "gentleman"
yet the Second World War broke out in over has even a little sweetness. Perhaps who had bought this home in
made the following
Europe. Obviously the League could not most of us have outgrown this traditional Ridgewood
statement: "In a real sense the
alter the political and economic strains whimsy, but certainly the passing of Board of Realtors is right . . .
and stresses of the continent that result- General Rose during the Passover week A town can be killed by the
ed in conflict. It can be argued until the must have served to draw especial em- wrong kind of people, regardless
end of time that, had the United States phasis to his Jewishness and the part of their creed or color" . . .
this Jew pleaded exonerat-
been a member of the League, that the that Jews are playing in the giving of Then
ing circumstances — because he
Second World War would not have brok- the knockout blow to Germany. The had not been in synagogue all
en out. We cannot see at this late date event has some of the same poetic im- his life except for weddings and
that our membership in the League would pact as the heroism of Meyer Levin in funerals . . . This happened in
1945 in the United States of
have changed the economic and political being the first bombardier to sink a Jap America,
sons are dying
picture that attained in Europe at the ship. The "timing," as it were, gives a to free the whose
world from Fascism.
time the Nazis decided to invade Poland special significance to their heroism.
PALESTINE NOTES.
The American Jewish Confer-
and thus hurled the whole world in the
Another factor is brought to focus by
abyss of a total war.
the death of General Rose. The Amer- ence request to the U.S. State
Department for representation at
Now let us take a look at the Dum- ican general was shot by the Germans the
San Francisco Conference
barton Oaks pact. Are the member na- after he had been captured. This is a made a deep impression on Pres-
tions required to surrender any part of gross violation of all canons of war and ident Roosevelt, we're informed
their sovereignty to a world organiza- helps make manifest glaringly again the . . . There are hundreds of Arabs
the war prisoner camp at
tion? Are the members compelled to manner in which the Germans have, and in
Opelika, Ala. . . . These Arabs
are,
prosecuting
the
war.
The
murder
remain with the organization without the
were captured as members of the
right to withdraw from it? To put it of General Rose after he had been cap- late Marshal Rommel's famous
concretely, will the United States Senate tured has been so conspicuously shown Afrika Korps . . . In Los An-
agree to a diminution of our sovereignty that it will not be easily forgotten when geles last week William Ziff, the
and author, delivered
and will it agree that we shall be corn- the time comes for the Nazi leaders to publisher
an address on Zionist policy, and
pelled to remain in the organization if render an account before the tribunal of is said to have succeeded in
we find it distasteful and contrary to
our best interests?
We believe the answer to both these
questions is NO! Dumbarton Oaks means
that we and other nations would pool
our military power to prevent an aggres-
sor from breaking the peace of the world.
It would not prevent war, nor would it
necessarily mean that the aggressor could
be defeated by the nations that adhered
to the pact. It is conceivable that some
aggressor nation could become so power-
ful that it could pit its strength success-
fully against the non-aggressor nations.
We are in favor of world security and
are, in fact, in favor of a United States
of the World. We believe that the peo-
ples of Europe are prepared for such an
organization on that war-torn continent.
Such an organization means the sur-
render of part of their sovereignty to a
central government, and it means that no
member nation can withdraw from the
confederation. It means the European-
ization of Europe. It means the end of
national rivalries, boundaries, currencies,
armies. The economic and political prob-
lems would be continental and not na-
tional. We Americans can understand
that.
The problems of Europe arise from po-
litical and economic conditions. These
problems can be solved, if they can be
solved at all, only if the political and
economic levels are changed. Europe can-
not function satisfactorily on the basis
of national sovereignty. It can only func-
tion satisfactorily on a Federal basis, and
neither the League of Nations nor the
Dumbarton Oaks pact envisage such a
Federal plan.
the United Nations.
Patton's Tribute to Jewish Soldier
One cannot but be stirred by the trib-
ute paid by General Patton to the Jewish
soldier, Pvt. Seymour Schwartz of Brook-
lyn, who was killed while trying to
rescue another American soldier. The
hard-boiled commander, in a letter to the
parents of the Jewish soldier, wrote : "In
the Bible it says, 'Greater love than this
no man hath that he laid down his life
for his friends'."
The grief of the parents is undoubtedly
softened by the letter of General Patton.
It is not often that the commander of
any army of the rank of General Patton
takes time off to write to the parents of
a soldier. General Patton must have been
deeply moved to have written this letter.
All this, we say, must ease the grief
of the parents, yet there is something
else now disclosed by the death of Pri-
vate Schwartz, which mingles our sorrow
with grief of another kind.
It appears that, before the war, this
Jewish soldier, although then going to
school and holding a very high scholar-
ship rank, sought to enter a medical col-
lege, but that one university after an-
other rejected him allegedly because he
was a Jew. This was in America.
As Ben Hecht points out in his book,
"Bedevilled," this also happened in the
case of the American hero, Meyer Levin.
Before the war, Meyer Levin had sought
to get work in an aeroplane factory.
From childhood, he had been making
little airplanes and he wanted to cast
his future with the aeroplane industry,
Major General Rose
but it was only in the army, that he was
The old cynicism that "generals die in allowed to have anything to do with
bed" has been completely refuted in this aeroplanes. The aeroplane factories dis-
criminated against him because he was
war, where many generals have paid the a Jew.
It appears that we still have some
supreme sacrifice. Certainly the son of
the Denver rabbi, Major Gen. Maurice fighting to do for democracy right here
Rose, was the type of officer who shared in America.
swaying the Zionist rank and file
away from the leadership of
either Rabbi Goldstein or Rabbi
Silver.
MAGAZINE DIGEST:
The Priest, a monthly pub-
lished in Huntington, Ind., de-
fends the conversion of former
Chief Rabbi Zolli of Rome to
Catholicism by citing the case
of Franz Werfel . . . The priest
laments that Werfel, whom it
regards as a believer in Jesus
as the Messiah and in Catholic
Christianity, has "not the forti-
tude or the grace to brace the
slings and arrows of Jewry, as
(lid Rabbi Zolli, by taking the
logical step to the baptismal
font."
The Magazine, The Answer, is
publishing a special San Fran-
cisco edition in which problems
affecting the Jewish people will
be treated by noted authors . •
The special edition will be made
available to the delegates at-
tending the Conference . . New
Currents, the Anglo-Jewish mon-
thly of the American Committee
of Jewish Writers, Artists and
Scientists, will become a quar•
terly publication.
ABOUT PEOPLE:
Joe Rosenthal, the photograph-
er whose shot of the marines
raising the flag on Mt. Suribachi
is being hailed as the greatest
picture of the war, was classi-
fied 4-F in the draft because of
defective vision . . . Sure, Joe
wears glasses—but did that stop
him from accompanying the mar-
ines on their invasion of Iwo
Jima, and seeing all the heroic
scenes he photographed while
dodging Jap shrapnel?
We're glad to know that Pro-
fesso• Albert Einstein, who has
been ailing for some time, feels
much better now . . • But that
widely read columnist who re-
cently wrote that Einstein had
"turned down an offer to head
the new educational system in
Germany under Big Four super-
vision" is all wet . . . The offer
was never made . . . Although
Stanley Isaacs has the backing
of liberal businessmen, he has
no chance of being nominated
for the mayoralty of New York
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Plain Talk
By AL SEGAL
Where Are We Going?
THIRKETTLE, a Jewish
I" gentleman, brought me a
pamphlet containing a speech by
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., on the
future of the Christian church.
His name isn't really Thirkettle,
but Thirkettle has a rippling,
almost musical sound and the
name seemed in tune with his
simple, old-fashioned Jewish se-
renity. That's why I call him
Thirkettle.
Mr. Thirkettle thought there
was much in Mr. Rockefeller's
speech that Jews, too, could take
to their hearts; considering the
way the Jews are groping around
in an awful confusion.
Yes, being a Jew has been
made a terribly complicated mat-
ter lately. Mr. Thirkettle said
that the state of being a Jew
has become a frenzy of contin-
uous political campaigning and
the sweet savor of being a Jew
has been all but forgotten.
The various contestants for
honor and prestige in Israel pull
him this way and that. He is
harrassed by the conflicting
claims of Jewish ideologies, each
of which attempts to sell him a
different idea of what being a
Jew really is. His poor head
swims in a chaos of question
marks.
His feet could feel solid again
when he read Mr. Rockefeller's
speech. Of course, it was all
about Christianity but its re-
ligious wisdom could be taken
by all men of whatever affilia-
tion. Mr. Thirkettl e felt he could
be a Jew on the same moral and
spiritual basis on which Mr.
Rockefeller stands as a Chris-
tian.
th, freedom and joy, so sympa-
thetically and distinctly manifest
as to attract and win into fel-
lowship all those who are striv-
ing to live useful and worthy
lives."
He regarded "ordinance, ritual,
creed all non-essential for ad-
mission to the Kingdom of God.
A life, not a creed, would be
the test . . . Applied religion,
not theoretical religion."
His religion would be at work
in the lives of men "seven days
a week, 52 weeks a year . . •
Its ministers would be trained
not only in the seminaries but
in some form of work-a-day life,
so that they might acquire a
personal knowledge of practical
problems. Thus they would live
in closer touch with humanity,
would better understand and sym-
pathize with human difficulties
and would exert their influence
as much in living as in preach-
ing."
All this felt like old, familiar
ground to Mr. Thirkettle. It
was much like the Judaism he
learned from his parents when
he was young. This was long
before Judaism became a politi-
cal battleground and before rab-
bis turned into statesmen. Being
a Jew was not the puzzling prob -
lem by which our leaders mix
up men's minds, so that many
of them would get away from it
all for the sake of peace.
His parents taught Mr. Thir-
kettle the simple way of being
Jewish. It had to do with love
of God and God was all the
good in the world. He was love
and compassion and justice and
righteous dealing. He was the
Quotes Rockefeller
lilac bush in the Thirkettle yard
11f r. Rockefeller said that his when it bloomed in the spring-
idea of religion was the religion time. He was the sunset, the
of a Living God . . . "Its at- stars and the rain.
mosphere would be one of warm-
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