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Friday, June 15, 1945

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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and THE LEGAL CHROI
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Strictly Confidential

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

THINGS TO WATCH:
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The unanswered $64 question:
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879
How come that the Massachu-
PAUL MASSERMAN, Managing Editor setts Committee of Catholics,
JACOB H. SCHAKNE, Pres.-Gen. Mgr.
Protestants and Jews feted Arch-
CHARLES TAUB, Advertising Mgr.
bishop Richard J. Cushing and
presented to him a citation as
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"ass illustrious exemplar of the
Detroit 26, Michigan
brotherhood of man?" . . • How
Syrian incident, we feel that he has come, we ask, can Jews partici-
Fighting on Four Fronts
opened the doors to a question that must pate in the honoring of a man
be answered by the Allied Nations, if under whose official imprimatur
The past two weeks have been dark their expressions of desired helpfulness one of the most revolting anti-
pamphlets appeared in
ones for Zionism. We find ourselves now for the smaller nations, and for Palestine, Semitic
Boston? . . . For it cannot be
fighting on four fronts instead of one. mean anything.
denied that it was under Arch-
bishop Cushing's official impri-
Hitherto the aim of Zionism was to press
matur that Father Arthur J.
Britain as the mandatory power to ease
"The question of the whole Arab world,
anti-Semitic tract advo-
restrictions and to live up to its guaran- Egypt, Iran, Palestine and others, should Riley's
cating the wearing of a "Yel-
tees. Now we find ourselves confronted by
be discussed," said De Gaulle, reply- low Badge" by Jews was pub-
other powers, by unknown and in some also
. . . In this pamphlet Fa-
ing to Great Britain's suggestion of a tri- lished
ther Riley, who is librarian of
cases strongly inimical forces.
partite discussion of the Syrian affair. St. John's Seminary, Brighton,
And he insists that the discussion should Mass., describes the Jews as ex-
The rise of the Arab League of five not be alone between Britain, France and ercising a "usurious and crip-
states is a great blow to all who desire the United States, but with the "entire pling financial control" . . . We
wonder whether ex-Senator R. R.
to see the establishment of a Jewish Big Four".
Reynolds uses the private press
Homeland in Palestine. These five Arab
in his Washington home for
nations have been throwing their weight
printing some of those anti-
Of
course,
Great
Britain
will
not
accept
around and have been active at the San this alternative willingly. There is in this unity smear-sheets that are so
Francisco Conference. The aim of the discussion of the whole Arab problem, an frequently seen in the Capital
. . . Francis E. McMahon, Catho-
Arab League is to have one of its mem-
lic columnist of the New York
bers serve on the trusteeship committee integral factor, which Britain will not Post, the other day gave a first-
discuss,
and
that
is
Palestine.
But
public
which may supervise the control of Pal- opinion may make Great Britain willing rate pen-lashing to the Brooklyn
Tablet, official organ of the
estine. We know what that would mean
to discuss the whole problem, including Brooklyn Catholic Diocese . . .
to Jewish aspirations.
McMahon labels the Tablet as a
Palestine.
Coughlinite sheet.

France's proposal that the entire Mid-
dle-East question be opened up and its
implication that if Syria and Lebanon are
recognized as independent Arab states,
then why shouldn't Britain relinquish its
mandate in the Near East (Palestine) is
also disquieting.

Russia is engaged in a tug-of-war with
Britain and is vitally interested in the
Near and Middle East for these terri-
tories are almost contiguous to her hold-
ings. She has shown some friendliness to
the Arabs.

The United States, too, for the first
time since the Balfour Declaration, has
concerned itself with the Arab problem
and has had a good word for the Arab
League. The Big Five will have the main
say in the trusteeship commission and
thus their influence will strongly affect
Palestine.

Under the old League of Nations man-
date the Jewish Agency was the official
body in Palestine and the Arabs had no
official standing. Now the situation may
become reversed, the Arabs may be on
the trusteeship committee and we outside.

We can still remember that after the
first World War and in the first flush of
triumph over the Balfour Declaration the
whole world seemed to be backing a Jew-
ish Homeland in Palestine. It was then
that Jewry had its opportunity to settle
the Yishuv. We muffed the chance be-
cause we were unable or unwilling to
make the sacrifices in money and effort.

Because of these difficulties we must
redouble our efforts. We can't abandon
the work we have begun. The Yishuv now
harbors the third largest Jewish commu-
nity in the world and it is the only hope
for 1,500,000 European Jews. A tremen-
dous campaign to arouse public opinion
must be carried on. Pressure from every
side and of every sort must be exerted on
the heads' of the governments of the
Big Five to see that we get justice.

Behind Syria Lies Oil

Behind the Syrian situation, stripped of
all political propaganda, is one all im-
portant factor—oil! And oil has a pecu-
liar habit of making the wheels of dipo-
macy turn much more smoothly than the
heart-cries of peoples. Whether Syria,
Lebanon, France or Great Britain are the
guilty party in an incident that is again
threatening to ebroil the world, is not
the moot point. We have our own ideas
of the readiness of Empires to discard
their beautiful mouthings of justice and
freedom or "self-government" for unde-
veloped peoples. And, although we can-
not go 100 per cent for De Gaulle in the

If that happens, then the world will
know just what it is that keeps England
insisting on the White Paper, and on
keeping Palestine as a colonial asset,
rather than as a mandate. The public will
no doubt find that high in the category
of factors determining the colonial policy
of Palestine, is oil ! And oil is profitable
enough to soothe even a guilty political
conscience.

Why Great Britain is leaning towards
the Arabs in this affair, is explained by
Hearst's writer Karl von Wiegand in an
unusually frank manner: "That fact (200
million Moslems in the sphere of British
influence) goes far to explain Britain's
'CAUTIOUS (our caps) attitude on the
demand of the Jews for Palestine, since
a hostile Moslem world would gravely
endanger not only British Empire com-
munications, but will put in peopardy her
main oil supplies."

Trying the War Criminals

The report of Justice Jackson, Ameri-
can representative in the prosecution of
the Nazi war criminals, will hearten all
those people who feel that the great
crimes of the Nazis must be exposed to
the light.

There have been, even among us, cer-
tain lawyers who have argued that the
sovereign of a nation cannot be brought
before a bar of justice and that those
who take orders from their sovereigns
are likewise freed from any trials, how-
ever monstrous their deeds may have
been.

The average man, of course, rebels at
this idea, but the significance of Justice
Jackson's report is that the reasoning is
carried along legal lines. Justice Jackson
takes the legal props, as it were, from be-
hind the war criminals.

At the same time. Marshal Zukov, com-
manding the Russian forces in Germany,
suggests that the trial of the war crim-
inals be an open one. Doubtless this too
is the intention of Justice Jackson.

There are values to the trials beside
the punishment of the guilty. The guilt
of the criminals must be exposed in its
thoroughness, so that all may see it—so
that henceforth the Nazis will not be able
to try to wash away their guilt, as they
doubtless will be trying very soon.

The quicker we get to the trials

better.

the

WE REPORT:
When a strongly democratic
community wills to oppose it
anti-Semitism finds it difficult to
spread its poison . • . That's
what happened in San Francisco
where Gerald L. K. Smith could:
n't find a hotel room fora !sleet-
ing . . . Smith was finally re-
duced to holding a soap-box
gathering in the open air •
We can't resist quoting from
the First Unitarian Church Bul-
letin of Miami answering Con-
gressman Clare Hoffman's anti-
Semitic diatribe to the effect that
Jews "have a disproportionate
amount of control in various
fields of activity" . . . Wrote the
Miami Church paper: "There is
some justice in the feeling that
Jews tend to monopoliz e certain
occupations . . . The Jewish Year
Book 1944-5) shows Jewish rab-
bis are exclusively Jewish . , •
There is not a single reformed
Presbyterian operating a kosher
delicatessen on Hester Street,
New York City . . . Jews have
consistently refused to become
Episcopal bishops . . . We might
pile fact on fact to show their
avoidance of typically American
endeavors such as joining the
Ku Klux Klan, the 'Christian'
Americans or the Deutsche
Bund".
ZIONIST NOTES:
The engineers wrestling with
See STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
—Page 9

Plain Talk

By AL SEGAL

Segal at 3

I hear about a gentleman of
my home town who called on his
rabbi recently on the matter of
Hebrew being taught to his child
in the temple's Sunday School.
He just couldn't see any reason
for Hebrew in the life of his
American child, he said.
The argument went this way
and that and finally drifted into
a discussion of the whole com-
plex of being Jewish.
"Now, let's get down to cases,"
the gentleman said. "Suppose if,
at the age of 3, you had been
told you could from then on
keep on being a Jew or be a
Gentile of any of the many vari-
eties, instead.
"Of course, I must also sup-
pose that at the age of 3 you
had arrived at the full under-
standing of an intelligent mind.
You knew everything that it
meant to be a Jew. You knew all
about the prejudices that would
dog you. You knew that your
life as a Jew would be a trouble-
some conflict against hostile
forces that would be handed
down to your children to suffer
also.
"Your children might discover
that they were disqualified be-
cause they were Jews when they
applied for jobs. I am not speak-
ing of social discriminations

which aren't worth talking about,
though they do hurt your pride.
"Well, now, at 3 years of age
you are told you can have your
choice: You may keep on being
Jewish or go along with the Gen-
tiles. Which way would you
choose?"

His Choice

The gentleman indicated that
he would choose to go along
with the Gentiles and try to be
a Christian. What the rabbi re-
plied I shall leave to the end of
this dissertation in which I shall
oanswer the gentleman's
q Uu'yesttiom

This is to say that at the age
of 3 this Mr. Segal is confronted
with the problem which, it has
come to pass, is brought to the
mind of every Jewish child in a
new world in which an amazing
two-a-day vitamin has provided
3-year-old children with advanced
intelligent quotients. Segal, in-
deed, has come to the age when
heemurst ntoletc.i de whether to be a
Jew o
Segal's parents began feeding
him these vitamins as soon as he
was born. They had been listen-
ing to the vitamin advertisements
on the radio . . . "Use Two-a-
Day Vitamins and have a child

See SEGAL—Page 13

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