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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

Friday, June 22, 1945

Plain Talk

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
'ublit.tad Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., 525 Woodward Ave., Detroit 26, Mich., Tel. CAdillac 1040

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In my home-town, which is Cin-
cinnati, there has long stood the
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Enterod as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post office at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879 firm of Seinsheimer. It deals in
paper. It is 85 years since Abra-
PAUL MASSERMAN, Managing Editor ham Seinsheimer founded it.
JOSEPH J. CUMMINS, President and Editor
The name Seinsheimer came to
CHARLES TAUB, Advertising Mgr.
be part of the business tradition
Vol. 47, No. 25 of our town. It is one of the local
FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1945 (TAMMUZ 4, 5705)
Detroit 26, Michigan
business names that stand re-
spected in the large area where
Seinsheimer salesmen travel.
Yanks Want Unity
Fighting Prejudice
It has to do with probity and
America was thrilled last Monday by fair-dealing,
The drive for $250,000 being conducted
Now this isn't being written as
by the Jewish Welfare Federation to fi- the arrival home of General "Ike" Eisen- an advertising plug for the Sein-
hower.
More
particularly
were
we
all
en-
nance civic-protective activities for the
sheimer people who don't need it,
next two years requires the aid of every thralled by his great address to Congress. anyway, considering their decent
Speaking of the American fighting man, reputation. There's more to the
Detroit Jew and of every liberal.
story and my theme concerns the
Gen.
Eisenhower stated:
This fund will finance defense activi-
fact that a Jewish name on a
"He passionately believes that,
ties against those groups and individuals
business, even in evil, hateful
with
the
same
determination,
the
who, for selfish motives, are seeking to
times like these, can be an asset
same optimistic resolution and the
which it is deemed desirable
fan the fires of racial and religious hatred
preciously to save.
same mutual consideration among
in this land and in this community.
The time came in the affairs of
Allies that marshalled in Europe
It has long been known that the Nazis
the Seinsheimer Paper Co. when
forces capable of crushing what
spent tens of millions in the United States
the company expanded into manu-
had been the greatest war machine
to infect the people with anti-Semitism.
facturing. (The Clopay Corpora-
of history, the problems of peace
tion.) The Seinsheimer Co. had
The anti-Semitic campaign has not ended
been in the business of distrib-
can and must be met."
with our victory over Nazidom. There are
uting paper. Now the paper dis-
"He sees the United Nations
powerful forces which are seeking to split
tribution pant was separated from
strong but considerate; humane
the nation, to divide us so that the United
the manufacturing-. The Sein-
and understanding leaders in the
States may more easily fall a prey to
sheimer Paper Co., wholesale dis-
world to preserve the peace he is
tributor, was taken over by a
fascist tendencies.
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group of the older employes. They
winning."
non-Jews.
There can be no doubt that General were
Some so-called "nationalistic" organi-
This was in 1939. It was the
"Ike"
voiced
the
opinions,
hopes
and
as-
zations are aiming to spread race hatred
time when the wicked ideology of

among our returning veterans. They libel pirations of every American fighting for
Jewish individuals and the Jewish people. our America in this our nation's greatest
They even stoop so low as to use the grief test. Yes indeed, the Yanks want unity ;
over loss of loved ones in combat to the same unity with our allied nations
which brought victory in Europe, and the
spread vicious lies.
These dark forces, which seem to have same unity which will bring us victory
intensified their activity in the last few in the Pacific.
And the Yanks want unity in peace;
weeks, especially since the sedition trial
ended in a fiasco, are backed by plenty unity, which is translated into only one
of money. Who finances them is still un- thought: peace. That unity cannot be as-
sured, nor can that peace be achieved
revealed.
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while we leave on the face of the earth
When we fight bias and prejudice we those cancerous corners of fascism.
are not only helping ourselves — we are
aiding our country, for anti-Semitism is a
Gerald L. K. Smith Moving
wedge by which sinister forces gain their
There is a report that Gerald L. K.
ends. The end results of anti-Semitism
can be seen in the Nazi death camps, in Smith is moving his headquarters from
the ruins of an entire continent, in a holo- Detroit to Los Angeles. Perhaps Smith is
caust which has taken a toll of 40 million finding that the climate here is not quite
healthy. Gerald L. K. Smith is said to
lives.
Part of the fund raised here will go to have gained the support of the Ham and
national defense organizations, for bias Eggs pension movement in California and
and prejudice can only be fought on a to be reorganizing the America First
group on the West Coast.
national scale.

Fascism Kaput

The European war in Europe is over.
Germany is set back a hundred years if
outside capital isn't employed to rebuild
her. Fascism in Europe, we are told, is
kaput.
As we see the European picture from
here, fascism in Europe is far from de-
stroyed. Victor Emanuel, the little nin-
cumpoop who supported Mussolini, is still
on the throne of Italy, and his play-boy
son, Humberto, is stronger WITH THE
UNITED NATIONS than his father ever
was. And what about our notorious Fran-
cisco Franco! The Spanish butcher, with
the aid of American oil and British fin-
ance, is still holding the Spanish nation
in subjugation.
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That Spanish dictator who brought in
German and Italian dive bombers to ma-
chine gun and bomb his own people; who
imported Moroccan gangsters to slit the
throats of his own people is still personna
grata with our State Department. And all
this while our boys are shedding blood to
make the world free of fascism.
• What the people would like to know,
and should be told, is who is behind the
protection of the fascists in Spain, Italy
and Argentina. What men, or group of
men, are so powerful and influential in
world affairs as to give dignity and re-
spectability to the Francos, the Victor
Emanuels, the Perrons — the very men
against whom we have mustered the
greatest fighting force on land, on sea,
and in the air in the world's history.
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Yes, we are told that fascism is kaput.
But we cannot close our eyes to the fact
that the worst kind of fascism is still all-
powerful in Argentina and Spain and that
not a word of protest conies from our
L American press against this anomaly.
Lincoln proclaimed that the world can-
not live half free and half slave. Our State
Department in concert with No. 10 Down-
ing Street is trying to prove that Lincoln
was wrong.

Divided Loyalties

Rabbi Elmer Berger, executive director
of the American Council for Judaism, in
his tour in behalf of the Council stopped
off recently in Seattle. As is customary, he
issued a statement of "principles" to the
local morning paper, which immediately
I roused a storm of protest, and evoked a
verbal spanking from Seattle's Bnai Brith.
The lodge demanded immediate action on
the part of the Anti-Defamation League,
to "protect" the Jews of Seattle from "im-
plications and inferences regarding the
Americanism of Jews."
I If Rabbi Elmer Berger believes that a
Zionist cannot be a good American, he has
a perfect right to express himself along
that line of thought. If he represents a
small group of wealthy and influential
American citizens "of Jewish persuasion,"
he has a perfect right to speak in their be-
half. But Rabbi Berger has no right to in-
timate that he speaks for American Jew-
ry, an overwhelming number of whom are
either Zionists or in sympathy with the
Zionist movement.
We not only resent his implication that
he or the Council represents American
Jewry, we are much more incensed at his
use of words that tend to endorse the
views of a Goebbels.
To say that "In America . . . we feel a
Jew should be an American first, and a
Jew afterwards—just as another is an
American first and a Protestant after-
wards" can be judged only as a direct
slap at the Americanism of Zionists or
those who favor the Zionist ideals.
It is hardly necessary for .Zionists to
protest their loyalty to our country. No
Zionist has yet refused to fight for Ameri-
ca because he was a Zionist.
No Zionist has yet refused to buy a
bond, or to give his blood to the blood
banks, or serve his country in whatever
capacity he was called upon because he
was a Jew "first" or a Zionist "first."
There is no "first or last" in American
Jewry—Americanism and good Judaism
are co-extensive.

in the world. Decent business me n
Hitler had started getting (round
of Jewish names had come to the
tragic pass where honorable names
were no longer held in esteem as
hallmarks of commercial probity.
Hitler-infected people were sa y -
ing, with disparagment, "This is
a Jewish name, this is a Jewish
house."

Hoodlum Mind

It had come to pass that even
in these United States it was as
in Berlin where Nazi hoodlums
were writing "Jude" on the win-
dows of Jewish places. Only here
the hoodlum mind wasn't writing
on the windows; it expressed it-
self by hostility to the Jewish
name on the sign and to the Jew-
ish business which was indicated.
Even in our town this was so.
In our town Jewish names had
long been held in honor. For many
years Jewish names had been
distinguished in the public affairs:
in philanthropy, in education, in
cultural enterprise.
Jewish names had been prom-
inent on the political tickets and
few of the citizens had thought of
them as Jewish names. They
were respected on account of the
exemplary characters of their
owners; in accordance with the
American tradition and practice.
There had been a mayor who
was Jewish, a president of the

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Strictly Confidential

iy PHINEAS J.IRON

OVERSEAS:
The first Jewish service held in
liberated Amsterdam took place
in the la'rge synagogue in Jonas
Daniel Meier Square, in the heart
of the city . . To everybody's
amazement the synagogue was
overcrowded. . . No one could fig-
ure out now so many Jews had so
quickly returned from exile. .
The truth is that 80 per cent of
the congregation was non - Jewish.
. . The guests of honor were
three Amsterdam police officers
who had distinguished themselves
throughout the Nazi occupation.
. . . They had constantly risked
their lives by warning Jews
against Nazi manhunts. . . The
Rev. Cornelius van Paassen of
Zutphen, Holland, spent a year
in a Gestapo prison. . . He had
been convicted of hiding two Jew-
ish friends in his home. . . He is
an uncle of Pierre van Paassen,
the author and champion of Jew-
ish rights. . . It can be told now
that the Greek EAM, which Prime
Minister Churchil called a bunch
of gangsters and bandits, saved
many scores of Jews from the
Gestapo. . .
LISTEN HERE:
From the Washington Star of
May 31: "In recognition of the
close ties that have existed be-
tween Iraq and the Society of
Jesus for the past 14 years,
Prince Abdul Ilah, regent and heir

apparent to the throne of Iraq,
was awarded an honorary doctor
of laws degree from Georgetown
University by the Very Rev. Law-
rence C. Gorman, S.J., president"
. . P. S. Iraq is the most in-
tolerant of the Arabian countries,
. . Some years ago Assyrians
were massacred there. . . Jewish
refugee children en route to Pal-
t'ne were forbidden transit
through Iraq. . . It is the most
ruthles and adamant opponent of
a ,Jewish homeland. . . And early
in the European war it sided with
the Nazis and had to be crushed
militarily by a British expedition-
ary force. . . The story that the
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem is I).'ng
pampered in a luxurious vila is
southern France is not true, . .
But it is true that he will m t
have to stand trial for treason...
THIS AND THAT:
Hats off to Leslie Rober to,
cha'rman of the Interracial Com-
mittee for Democratic Action tf
Montreal. . . In a statement
furiously blasting the Jewish and
non-Jewish hush-hush policy, he
called by its right name—Fas;.;-::
—the recent descration of .
graves in the cemetery at Back
River, in the Province of Quebec.
. . . Senator T. D. Bouchard of
St. Hyacinthe folowed suit, warn-
ing French Canadians against
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