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Plain Talk

By AL SEGAL

A Jewish Soldier in Germany

I have seen a letter from a
"The Is is what my straying mind
most civilized gentleman—a Jew- contemplates at our religious ser-
JOSEPH J. CUMMINS, President and Editor
ish lieutenant in the U. S. Army vices when it gets away from the
in Germany. A civilized gentle- prayer book. It considers what
FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1945 (TAMMUZ 18, 5705)
Vol. 47, No. 26 man, it seems to me, is one who God hath wrought. All this that
Detroit 26, Michigan
can be discriminating in his hates. we, the soldiers, have seen and
If he hates at all, he specializes have had to part in, looks like
in Palestine was allowed to get into the in individuals who deserve to be the
proof his His work. This is the
world charter.
hated. He is a fastidious connoi- proof of the religious teaching we
"Every German, man, woman and child
However, as Dr. Goldstein, president of seur, unlike the savage Nazis who all had: That the divine law, as
is our enemy. Especially the younger one.) the Zionist Organization of America, de- made orgies of hate.
we learned it from our Torah,
This lieutenant's life has be- must inevitably turn against the
—they are fanatics. They will stop at clared in his address here, we are back come
fairly quiet, now that there's
nothing to erase as many of us as they to the status quo ante, we are back to the no more shooting to be done. He wrong-doer.
"I get a laugh out of the (x.
can."
British liThite Paper and a Jewish Com- has had time to think and to look quisite iron of God's doing in that
This quotation is not from a Jewish edi- monwealth in Palestine is still only a around, to look at Germans and I, the Jew, and all these other
to look at himself. Now he has Jewish boys are among the con-
torial, it is not the warning of a Jewish vision.
time to go regularly to the reli- querors of these evil-doers. Yet I
orator, nor part of the sermon by a Rabbi.
Where others have gained so much, we gious service that the Jewish am not arrogantly exultant. I feel
It comes straight from the pen of a sol- have gained so little; we who have lost chaplain conducts in the German very humble in the presence of
dier, Lt. William A. McClelland, Jr., of one-third of our people, are back to the town.
this divine manifestation."
*
*
He says: "Sometime, at our
the infantry, who participated actively in situation that prevailed before the war.
Jewish religious service, I discover
He was crossing the Rhine for
the fight to put Nazism down in Germany.
What can we do? First and foremost my mind straying away from the the first time a few months ago.
In a letter this observant young American the Jewries in all the United Nations must prayer book and wondering at the He remembers giving a mighty
wrote what we would like to believe is in get together. A conference is pending in amazing fact of my being here. kick to a clod of earth on the
the hearts and minds of every American London. If we can form a united front at It's like when you are awakened Rhine's opposite bank when his
from a deep sleep and are awful- feet touched it for the first time.
soldier. It is a straightforward warning to that conference our battle will be much ly
confused, and you look around The clod of earth took vicariously
the "soft-peace" idealists — to the "short- easier. Second, we must appeal to the con- and ask, what am I doing here? the
hate and contempt he felt then
♦
•
•
term occupation" propagandists, that their science of the world. We must break this
for all Germans. It broke and fell
"It's so fantastic to be a Jew satisfactorily in many pieces. He
attitude will only lead again to another conspiracy of silence, which has hidden
in Germany, a member of a con- stooped and picked up a piece and
world holocaust.
the true plight of the wretched remnant quering Army that governs Nazis. put it in his pocket to keep as a
of European Jewry from the liberal world. Not far away is one of those symbolic r elic of the time he
"Germany," he writes, "is a na-
We must challenge the honor and sincer- murder camps where Jews were crosed the Rhine as one of the
tion of killers, of sadists, perverts
to perish by the thousands. conquerors.
ity of Britain, for the English pride them- made
and degenerates. Twenty years, 100
And here I am, a Jew, handing
It was a hard piece of German
selves on their sense of honor. We must out orders to Germans, in my ca- earth that didn't crumble in his
years will never repay the damage
strengthen our effort to enlist the aid of pacity as an American officer.
and the slaughter they have placed
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CHARLES TAUB, Advertising Mgr.

A Soldier Talks

on the world. Every German is a war
criminal; not one, not two, but all of
them collectively. . . . There is no
difference between the Nazis and the
older Germans as they would so
much have you believe. Now they tell
you they were forced into every-
thing — that's a damn lie. . . . It's
high time the people at home stopped
hiding behind our simulated ideals
and realize what a stinking mess this
thing really is. We protect the gentle
minds and stomachs of our people
too much."

the American government. As Dr. Gold-
stein pointed out, the American people
are almost unanimous in their support of
a Jewish commonwealth in Palestine.
Both parties have endorsed Zionism, a
majority of the states have gone on rec-
ord as favoring free immigration into Pal-
estine. We must see to it that the State
Department follows public opinion.
The San Francisco Conference showed
that we have a lot of friends. Almost all
the United Nations with the exception of
the five Arab powers, were friendly.
China was especially friendly and the del-
egates went out of their way to aid the
Jewish cause.

The only solution, says this soldier, to
a lasting peace is one of two things; total
annihilation of all Germans, which of
course our good citizens wouldn't stand
Poison in Our Midst
for, or longer occupation and re-education
of all Germans.
The newspaper PM reveals that an edu-
We hope that Lt. McClelland's opinions cational course, issued under the auspices
are not unique. We hope that the return- of the Army and Navy the U. S. Armed
ed GI will come back hating everything Forces Institute at the University of Wis-
Nazi, even if it is dressed up in the Amer- consin, includes some very noxious anti-
ican Flag, or the We the Mothers "milk Semitic material.
of human kindness" propaganda.
One of the articles, written by a French-
We hope that the veteran will carry man, Andre Siegfried, contains the fol-
with him the picture McClelland saw in lowing sentence:
Germany that made him boil. "The towns
"If the Stars and Stripes is waved at a
and the people," he writes, "are as well jingo demonstration in New York, you
off as Americans are. They have suffered may be sure that it is a Jew who holds
little or nothing. They are not sorry for the standard, while the 100 percent Amer-
anything they have done. They are sorry, ican whose great-grandfather was a friend
yes, because they are losing and must of Washington stands aside disgusted."
start preparing all over again."
Now this sentence besides being mali-
cious is stupid on all counts. In the first
place, why should the 100 percent Amer-
After San Francisco, What?
ican whose grandfather stood by the side
Now that the San Francisco conference of Washington be disgusted at the sight
is history and the charter has been signed of a Jew waving the flag. We should think
by 50 United Nations, the question that he should be glad to see others catching
confronts Jewry is, what will be our his patriotism.
status? Have we gained or lost?
In the second place, why should the
On the whole, Jewry has lost nothing name of 'Washington be brought into such
and gained somewhat in the new world
an assertion, when we know for a fact
charter. The Human Rights Declaration that Washington thought that America's
is all to the good. It puts the United Na-
chief claim to greatness was its broad
tions on record against racial and relig- tolerance?
ious discrimination. It sets a goal to-
Instead of using this kind of material,
wards which the world can march.
it seems to us that the War Department
Lofty though its aim, yet this declara- might
have done better and included some
tion will mean just empty rhetoric unless
it is implemented; unless the nations are of the writings of Washington. It might
wholeheartedly for human rights in spe- have included the letters which Washing-
cific instances and not in generalities; ton wrote to the Jewish congregations in
most important, the declaration will re- Providence, Newport and Savannah, in
main an empty gesture unless the Big which he condemned this very kind of
Five take it to heart and are willing to writing that is being disseminated or was
being disseminated by the War Depart-
use their prestige and influence to see ment.
that the words are made into realties.
Of course. we are glad that the War
Even more important for Jewry is the Department "got wise" and withdrew the
trusteeship commission. There was danger material—last
December.
that Jewry might lose its unique right to
But how could such material have been
Palestine which had been granted by the issued in the first place?
old League of Nations. There was danger
Our commander - in - chief, President
that the Jewish Agency might lose its Truman, owes it to the thousands of Jew-
status as a world recognized body. The ish men and women who have fallen in
Arabs tried,their best to freeze us . out. this conflict, and to the tens of thousands
However, thanks to the vigilance of the of Jews still fighting for otir country to
American delegation and our other friends ferret out the rat or rats in the Army
among the United Nations, nothing that and/or the Navy and have them court-
would impair the present Jewish position martialed for this dastardly job.

Strictly Confidential

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

Tidbits From Everywhere

FLASH TO OUR READERS .. .
The next two "Strictly Confi-
dential" columns will be written
by Pierre van Paassen . . . The
author of "Days of Our Years,"
"The Forgotten Ally," etc., has
undertaken to be the guest col-
umnist while we're away on a fly-
ing trip to Cuba and Mexico.
. . So watch out for Pierre van
Paassen's two columns, which will
be featured in your paper. . .
The first will be in the nature of
a Report to the Nation, and you'll
see it next week. . . . It'll be
followed by a Report on the Home-
land... Thanks a million, Pierre,
for writing these invaluable con-
tributions exclusively for our col-
umn. . . .
WARNINGS .. .
Warning to communal leaders:
"The United Veterans of World
War II" is an anti-Semitic group
headed by t hat arch-Jewbaiter,
Frederick E. Kister, a buddy of
Gerald K. Smith and a former as-
sociate of Scribner's Commenta-
tor. . . The other day Victor
Ries, labor columnist of the
New York Post, published a scoop
that other papers should take no-
tice of. .. . Victor revealed that
members of the Polish Govern-
ment-in-exile now in this country

have joined hands with members
of the Ku Klux Klan in an inten-
sive anti-Semitic and anti-Soviet
propaganda campaign. . . And,
what's still more interesting, Dr.
Katys Pakstas of 19 West 44th
Street, New York, participates in
this anti-Jewish, anti-United-Na-
tions-unity campaign. . . Dr,
Pakstas is the public relations
head of the United Lithuanian Re-
lief Fund of America, w h i c h
shares in the National War Fund
collections. . .. Victor Riesel dis-
covered all this in Detroit—and a
good thing he did... .

ZIONEWS .. .
David Ben Gurion, now in Am-
erica, is here on a difficult diplo-
matic mission... It is his task to
convince our friends and foes in
Washington that the Yishuv in
Palestine will not accept anything
less than a Jewish Commonwealth.
. . . It has reached the end of its
self - restraint, says Ben - Gurion.
. . . Judge Morris Rothenberg is
making a bid for the presidency
of the Zionist Organization of
America during its conventionless
term. . . . And don't, please. be
surprised if Rabbi Abba 'Billet
Silver is back at the head of the
Zionist Emergency Council even
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