Friday, May 18, 1945
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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
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Strictly Confidential
ly PHINEAS J. IIRON
NOW IT CAN BE TOLD:
Notwithstanding any reports
you may read in the newspapers,
JACOB H. SCHAKNE, Pres.•Gen. Mgr.
PAUL MASSERMAN, Managing Editor Jewish or otherwise, this is the
truth about the numerous and
JACOB MARGOLIS, Editorial Director
CHARLES TAUB, Advertising Mgr.
various Jewish delegations at-
tending the San Francisco Con-
Detroit 26, Michigan
FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1945 (SIVAN 6, 5705)
Vol. 47, No. 20 ference: These delegations are
being treated politely, but they're
getting anywhere, and many
which was capped at El Alamein. The not
of the spokesmen regret having
exploits of the Jewish soldiers under
to the Golden Gate. Dr.
The ruin that was once Europe will Brigadier Kisch in that fighting will al- come
Stephen S. Wise packed his grips
be rebuilt. The job of physical recon- ways be recalled when the decisive mo- after a few days and returned
to New York. The title of "con-
struction will be undertaken and com- ments of the great war against Nazism sultant,"
bestowed so liberally
are
reviewed.
pleted within a reasonably short time.
on hundreds of non-Jewish or-
If Germany lies prostrate today, if Hit- ganizations and individuals and
The know-how, the technical skills; the
ler found no other recourse but to finally given only reluctantly to two
materials and the plans are all at hand. turn a Nazi gun on himself, Jews must be Jewish bodies, is a synonym, in
Neither Europeans nor those outside accorded their just due in bringing this diplomatic language, for "duly
acknowledged nuisance". Dr.
Europe are unhappy over the elimination great boon and deliverance to civilization. Weizmann scored the greatest
diplomatic triumph of his career
of the hovels and the slums that housed
by staying away from San Fran-
millions of Europe's poor.
cisco. He stayed away notwith-
tremendous pressure
The destructive fury of man razed
The hopes of Jewry that the San Fran- standing
some of his Zionist friends,
many structures that were monuments cisco Conference would take up the Jew- from
who urged him to attend even
of national arrogance and vainglory of ish problem have proved illusory and though uninvited.
racial hatreds and discrimination of vain. So far, the problems of Palestine LISTEN HERE:
Chaplain Daniel A. Poling, af-
greed, rapacity, superstition, obscuran-
tism, cruelty, inequality, slavery, and op- and of the stricken remnant of Jewry ter a firsthand study of Euro-
conditions, believes that
pression. If the destruction of these monu- in Europe have had no official recogni- pean
Europe's uprooted Jews will have
ments means the end of the ideas that tion. The Jews have been studiously great difficulty in getting back
they represented, then we shall have avoided.
their confiscated property. The
took this confiscated Jew-
reason to be happy that these symbols
To the Jew. the workings of the Con- Nazis
ish property and sold it to non-
are no longer there to arouse the ugliest
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Rebuilding Europe
We Get the Brushoff
passions of mankind.
Europe will be built anew. The bridges,
homes, factories, railroads, public build-
ings, will no doubt be built with the
idea of greater convenience, health and
comfort of the masses of the people.
These are all physical matters and are
of major consequence and should not be
minimized. But there are matters of
even greater consequence, and they are
the ideological, social, economic and po-
litical structures that are to arise out
of the rubble and ashes of that uphappy
continent.
Can and will Europe build a continent
based upon cooperation, good will, equal-
ity, freedom, human dignity, and feder-
That the peoples of Europe have the
ability to build such a Europe there can
be little doubt; but the question is, does
Europe have the will to do so? If those
who believe that ancient privilege, vested
interests, group prestige and power
should continue to rule the destinies of
Europe, then we may be sure that the
hope of a better Europe will not be
realized, and that the old conflicts,
stresses and strains that brought about
the last war will again endanger the
continent and threaten another war in
which we, unfortunately, may again be
involved.
We shall know soon enough whether
the people want a new Europe, built on
different political, social and economic
levels than the old levels of national
sovereignty, economic, political and social
inequality and injustice. The articulate
leaders of the peoples will find out soon
enough whether the peoples want to re-
turn to the status quo ante.
Europe has been the cock pit, the
spawning ground, of the most cataclysmic
wars in human history. Let us hope that
the builders of the new Europe will make
it a center of art, science, culture, dec-
ency, justice and humanity.
Jewish Heroism
According to the records of the Jewish
Welfare Board, more than 8,200 Ameri-
can Jewish soldiers have received decora-
tions for heroism. This does not include
citations within the last couple of months.
This list offers a clue as to the signifi-
cant contribution American Jewry has
made to the war. Our list of citations, it
is true, does not compare with that of
Russian Jewry, where the number of
Jews cited for heroism numbers around
the 50,000 mark, but it must be remem-
bered that America has not been in the
war as long as Russia.
The Palestine press estimates that at
least 1,500,000 Jews served in the mili-
tary forces of the United Nations against
Germany. Palestine itself, though one of
the wee infants of the United Nations,
made significant contribution to the win-
ning of the war in the desert fighting,
ference so far are heart-breaking. It is
certain that the end result of all the talk
about trusteeships will be that England
will retain control over Palestine, and
that its control even may be strengthened.
Hopes that there would be a multiple
trusteeship over Palestine, that the United
States would be one of the powers to
supervise Palestine, are disappearing.
Neither Russia nor the United States seem
to want to balk Britain's determination
to hold on to what she has.
What is more, the Arab lands, being
part of the. United Nations, because of
their hypocritical and last minute dec-
larations of war on the Nazis, will be in
the postwar security setup, and if there
is any trusteeship, they will be represent-
ed at least in the nominal control over
Palestine. It must be remembered that in
the old League of Nations mandate, the
Arabs were left out.
The many Jewish advisors have found
nothing to do, no one of importance want-
ing their advice. They have cooled their
heels in the lobbies while the Arab dele-
gates have sat in on the sessions behind
closed doors.
We've been getting the "brushoff", and
none too politely at that. The 10 points
offered by the Americana Jewish Confer-
ence and the Jewish Congress, the Bill
of Rights presented by the American Jew-
ish Committee, all the suggestions made
by other Jewish groups, have not even
been seriously considered by the United
Nations.
We are worse off than we were before
the war. There seems to be no one in
high places willing to champion us. Would
that Roosevelt had lived! A great many
based their hopes on Stalin, but he re-
mains silent as the proverbial Sphinx. In
fact, indications are that the Arabs are
courting Russia, and that Russia is re-
sponding.
After losing one-third of our people,
after suffering more than any other group
from the war and the bestialities of the
Nazis, we stand with empty hands, like
beggars asking for a crumb, and there is
none to aid us.
Young Israel Mews Support
The banquet held by Young Israel last
Sunday to celebrate the 22 years of its
existence in Detroit was a revelation to
those who are pessimistic about the reli-
gious upbringing of the American gen-
eration of Jews. Most of the 400 at the
banquet were young and American born.
Yet they dedicated themselves to further-
ing traditional Judaism and they seem
to have accomplished a great deal.
Young Israel now is planning to erect
a center and synagogue on Dexter near
Fullerton which is to cost $100,000 and
is to have a gymnasium, a swimming
pool, game rooms, meeting rooms and a
big auditorium and House of Worship.
Good luck to this endeavor.
Aryan nationals, who now re-
fuse to return it . . . Professor
Johann Fryginyer Auer,
just
back from a flying visit
to Hol-
land, reports that 10,000 Dutch
families hid Jews in their attics
or cellars for five years,
and
thus prevented the deportation
of more than 10,000 Dutch Jews
to Nazi extermination camps ,
Rube Goldberg's cartoon in the
Los Angeles Daily News of April
23 deserves to be immortalized
. It depicts the German peo-
ple dragged into eternity, a gi-
gantic Black Book of German
atrocities chained to its back.,,
By a strange coincidence Pierre
Laval, Vichy's most virulent Jew-
baiter, is confined in a fortress
near Barcelona called Montjuich
. . . In the Catalan language
"Montjuich" means "Jewish
mountain".
THINGS TO WATCH:
From Waltham, Mass,, scene of
recent anti-Semitic incidents, a
correspondent writes: "At a pre-
Easter showing of the movie 'The
Great Dictator,' the Nazi perse-
cution of the Jews was cheered
by anti-Semitic youths . . . Wal-
ter Winchell wants to know
what happened to the investiga-
tion of Joseph P. Kamp, head of
the "Constitutional Educational
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Plain Talk
k AL SEGAL
Is He Buried?
In the midst of all the national
rejoicing over reports that Hitler
was dead (people wondered
where Ire was buried), I came
upon startling evidence indicat-
ing that if he is dead he hasn't
been properly buried.
I found traces of him in my
own town, even on the day after
he was reported dead. I heard of
him being seen on a bus, in a
certain industry, in a cocktail bar
at 5 p. m., in one of those spe-
cializing press bureaus that
abound in Washington.
I had been feeling in a mellow
mood on account of the reported
departure of Hitler from this
earthly scene. At my time of life
a man is pretty much disappoint-
ed with the wrong way things
seem to have been going in the
world, but Hitler's death was
something like a fulfillment. It
had all come out just as it was
written in Scripture. One of our
daily papers had quoted Isaiah
(14) who could see in detail
what would happen to people like
Hitler.
A friend had called and said
the death of Hitler was some-
thing to have a drink about. He
said he felt like a convalescent
just through the crisis of a
dreadful disease. You snap out
of it and you discover how near
dying you were. He puffed out
his checks and blew out a deep
breath, as if to get some miasmic
exhalation out of his lungs.
He ordered up another drink
. . . "Here," he said, "is to no
more Hitters in the world" . . .
My friend, a Gentile, has regard-
ed Hitler as Human Enemy No,
1 and Mussolini as an excres-
cence on Hitler's countenance.
We had three drinks on ac-
count of Hitler. I hope, I said,
it's all true that he's really dead.
I had my misgivings, and my
doubts weren't made any less by
a telephone call shortly after I
returned to the office.
A gentleman had called up.
He asked: "Do you believe Hitler
is dead?"
Well, I replied, I just had
some drinks on that.
"I just saw Hitler on a bus,"
he went on.
He had heard a man behind
him saying that he hoped the
Jews would be satisfied now .
We started this war for them
and now we've won it for them.
We got to do something about
Jews now."
Ordinarily the gentleman has
made little or nothing of such
observations. He considers the
source and goes his way with a
proud head. But in the hour of
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