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Friday, June 29, 1945

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Here's the Point

By DAVID WEISSMAN

President Truman tells b o t h citizens. Will that be any different
Houses of Congress they are un- from what they're doing now un-
der "private enterprise"?
derpaid , and should ge
cen t increase. Is Rankin under-
Itibbentrop's been captured.
paid?
They finally got the drop on Rib-
We are ill accord with this bentrop.
statement from PM. The effect
(of the FBI charges against six
Egypt's playing a mighty slick
journalists) is to frighten into
game
in San Francisco doing ev-
silence officials who disagree with
erything it can to bolster Arab
the Department's (State) poli- "superiority" in the Near East.
cies, and to lay the basis for pros-
its shrewd little joker in the
ecuting newspapers and news- But
trusteeship plan, "to let the peo-
papermen who publish informa- ple in dependent countries pick
tion which provokes criticism of trustees," (a very good idea in
the Department.
some cases) was just thrown into
Yiddish as she is interpreted. the ash-can. Can you imagine what
happen to Jewish Palestine
Said II. Whitey Sall, president of would
the "people" were allowed by
the Mt. Sinai Men's Club in in- if
vote to pick their trustees? With
troducing a speaker at the last 650,000 Jews against a million and
monthly meeting. "He is a man
a half Arabs—good-bye Palestine!
full of 'mamaloshen,' good old
common sense." If only "mamalo-
It's funny how these London
shen" meant common sense, what Poles, most of whom would rather
a wonderful world this would be. cross the street than meet up with
a Red Russian, are fighting for
We like this from the Jewish recognition by the Soviet.
Independent of Cleveland: If a
distinction is not made between
Acting Sec. of State Joseph C.
license and liberty in the use of Crew, says
S. will exchange
the avenues of communication and fuel oil with U.
Argentina for their
education, racial equality and re- vegetable oil. Here we go again,
ligious freedom will vanish.
boys. Let's build up fascist Ar-
gentina with gold as we built up
We know of no better thing
Japan, when Grew was ambassa-
to foil
dor to the Nips.
Good will among nations or
men,
Sam Crowther, Hearst "politi-
Than oil.
cal" expert, (?) says Truman
should stay home. Shouldn't be
With the South, because of se- (lashing off to Europe—says Sam.
niority rulings practically control- And if we're not mistaken, it was
ling things in Congress, maybe we Sam who said Truman "should of
Northerners—we Yankees, ought stood" in Missouri at the last elec-
to start a rebellion against the tion.
South.

Is this the land of Schiller?
No, its the land of the Killer.

This propaganda stuff about
German y being the bulwark
against Bolveshism, is mostly bull.

If "socialized this" or "social-
ized that" is ever made a law, say
reactionaries, politicians will play
politics with the affairs of the

A Hearst edVortal writer says:
"The word N'al means National
Socialist . . . Hitler was a social-
ist. All the horrors perpetrated by
his order were done by the Nazi
(Socialist) party." Which is ex-
actly what Hitler had in mind
when he called his party "Social-
ist." That is, he wanted to create
a state of confusion in the minds
of his people and the world. And
if a Hearst editor can be caught
in this mental trap, we can hardly
blame the ordinary layman.

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(Continued from Page 4)
pocket but remained intact there
until recently when he tossed it
away. It had come to seem too
much like a symbol of arrogant
pride and he wanted none of that
in his character as an American
soldier and Jew.
At one of Jewish services he
had made a little prayer of his
own on the side. It had to do with
the sin of being arrogant and
would God spare him from it and
guard his heart that it might be
always just to the enemy. What
would he the gain, what the vic-
tory if he took up the ways of
Nazis?
▪
* *
"So I have gone about my nec-
esary contacts with the German
with the military aloofness that
is required of us but not inso-
lently. I have been courteous in
all my dealings with Germans.
There's something about being a
Jew. If you are a conscientious
Jew you find yourself bringing
your Jewish ethical teaching even
into a war and to your enemy in
your relations with him.
"I worked out a whimsical no-
tion. I, the Jew, would teach Na-
zis decent behavior by the exam-
ple of my own conduct. As a Jew
I was a couple of thousand years
older than any Nazi and by my
own way of life I could teach
Nazis. They might learn some-
thing from a Jew."
He couldn't hate all Germans.
Before he came to Germany he
had revolved the idea that the
way to settle the German prob-
lem was to annihilate Germany.
Other officers used to bring up the
same idea.
* *
*
After V-E Day when there was
no more wholesale dying and san-
ity had returned to its tottering
throne, he found it hard to hate
everybody in Germany and to de-
sire a total destruction of the na-
tion. He couldn't hate the little
children. There was one who look-
ed like his own and he was about
to pat her on the head when he
passed by and he would have but
for military regulations w hi c h
prohibit any s u c h affectionate
demonstrations.
He couldn't hate all the old
people whose eyes blinked incred-
ulously at a catastrophe so im-
mense falling on them in their old
age. In fact, he couldn't hate any-
body unless he knew that the per-
son was an unworthy character to
he hated and despised. How could
he lump all of a people in one
bundle of his hate and contempt?
Hate to be reasonable must par-
ticularize on individuals.
"I said to myself that to hate
totally was the way of Nazis.
That was the savagery of Nazis
—to give judgment wholesale, to
condemn an entire people. Wasn't
that one of the more hideous prod-
ucts of human behavior which we
had been fighting to put down?
Isn't that the crime of anti-Semi-
tism, of anti-Catholicism, of anti-
Negroism and of all the other ra-
cial. religious and national hates'
* *
*
"I hate Nazi criminals — Hit-
lers, Himmlers, Goebbels, Goe-
rings, Streichers — but as a civi-
lized man I can't spread my hate
over a whole people even of a na-
tion in which my own had been
cruelly persecuted."
He guesses he will be accused
as an American who is already
getting too soft toward Germans,
but what the hell? . . "I am
merely asserting my self-respect
as a human being who doesn't
want to be like the Nazis and
take over a foul evil that Hitler,
Himmler and Goebbels left behind
— something out of their ideolog-
ical garbage can."
He says that if in thinking in
his way he falls short of the ap-
proved pitch of hate, it only goes
to show what being a Jew does to
you. It's so hard to be a Jew and
to hate totally as Nazis do. Ho
may yet pat the head of the Ger-
man child surreptitiously as he
passes by.

Page Nine

Our Capital Letter

By CHARLES BENSON

WASHINGTON.
Every columnist worth his ink
and paper is entitled to gripe at
least three times between June
and September at the weather.
The first time is now, while still
gasping from the first impact of
Washington's heat 'n' humidity-
oh-oh. You may expect the second
outbreak around August 1, when
bored editors call for the yearly
egg-frying on the most sizzling
corner of Pennsylvania Ave.
And the third, as August, and
you, limp along. No fond farewell
to greening summer then antici-
pate, but rather, a longing evoca-
tion of the tangy delights of au-
tumn. Until it reaches 100, we
will pant in silence, the while our
colleague, loftily immune to heat
waves, blooms in his corner, hum-
ming lyrics to summer, beautiful
summer.
*
*
*
Not fathered by any heat
waves, but sired straight out of
Nazism, crossed with a native
brand, is the latest contender for
American fascist leadership, Rob-
ert R. Reynolds. Before forming
the American Nationalists, as he
calls his party, Reynolds was for
many years a United States Sen-
ator from North Carolina, during
part of which time he was chair-
man of the Senate Military Af-
fairs Committee.
While still a senator, Reynolds
started the American Vindicators.
an organization which, like him-
self, was avowedly anti-Semitic
and pro-Axis. When the United
States entered the war, the Vin-
dicators took to the hills, and lat-
er reappeared as the American
Nationalists, still with Reynolds
as head man, In the meantime he
had a cqui r e d ample financial
means through marriage with the
daughter of Evalyn Walsh Mc-
Lean, wealthy Washington widow.
and leader of Washington's ver-
sion of the "Cliveden Set," which
in pre-war England in Lady As-
tor's drawing room, incurbated
some of the leading old school tie
appeasers.
Launching a campaign for
more funds, Reynolds — who nev-
er noised an opportunity on the
Senate floor to attack our allies.
to create disunity at home and
abroad, and to stir up a brew of
racial discord — sent out Joseph
E. McWilliams to Cleveland to
shake down industrialists in that
area for contributions.
McWilliams, organizer of the
Christian Mobilizers, was indict-
ed for sedition in January, 1944.
He is said by Department of Jus-
tice sources to boast of the fact
that he heads the list of thirty
blatant fascists whom a District
of Columbia Federal Grand Jury
indicted at that time.
*
•
*
An enterprising reporter for
t h e Scripps-Howard "Cleveland
Press," Eugene Segal, uncovered
what he called "a fascist drive
with a Washington tie-up." as it
is functioning in Cleveland under
the Reynolds-McWilliams partner-
ship, and wrote a series of arti-
cles about it. The "Washington
Daily News," also a Scripps-How-
ard paper, thought sufficient of
the revelations to start the series
under a full-page head, "Ex-Sen
Reynolds' Outfit Tied Up with
McWilliams' Fascist Drive."
The Nazis, when they first start-
ed in Germany, used a simple sys-
tem—promise everything to every-
body. To big business — lower
taxes, controlled unions or no un-
ions at all. To labor — higher
w a g e s , employment, improved
working conditions. The American
Nationalists fit right into this pat-
tern.
Segal reports that McWilliams.
in conversation with the president-
treasurer of the Triplex Screw
Company in Cleveland, A. F. We-
ber, told Weber the Nationalists
"expected to get into office and
would help industry."
He said they would do away
with all business regulations, low-
er taxes and make the unions in-
corporate like they do in some of
the southern states. . . . He said
the Nationalists would put an end
to the Communists and the fey-
Lt. (jg) Leo Grandon, USNR, eigners in this country, would stop
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Gran- all immigration and control labor.
(Ion, has left Detroit after spend-
ing his 12-day leave with his wife,
Back up the righting Men.
the former Mildred Goldfeder. He
has spent the last 20 months in
active duty in the Pacific, and for
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As Mr. Weber told it to the
"Cleveland Press" reporter, Mc-
Williams explained that the Na-
tionalists would win office through
a coalition of "anti-New Deal
Democrats of the South with the
right kind of northern Republi-
cans."
A combination which, to an ex-
tent, has been functioning for
some time in Congress, particu-
larly on such questions as the Fair
Employment Practices Commis-
sion, the anti-poll-tax bill, recip-
rical trade agreements, Bretton
Woods, full employment, and any
other legislation proposed for the
benefit of the American people.
So far, any Nationalist approach-
es to labor have not come to light.
In the War Department's anal-
ysis of fascism, prepared in an
orientation Fact Sheet as a basis
for discussion among American
soldiers, is a warning of the meth-
ods American fascists might be
expected to use.
"Any Fascist attempt to gain
power in America would not use
the exact Hitler pattern. It would
work under the guise of super-
patriotism and super - American-
ism, Fascist leaders are neither
stupid nor naive, They know. that
they must hand out a line that
sells. Huey Long is said to have
remarked that if fascism came to
America, it would be on a pro-
gram of Americanism."
The prime tenet of Reynolds'
party is "America first." Isola-
tionist, anti-foreigner, anti-Semi-
tic — the pattern fits a brown-
shifted model. Don't let camou-
flaging of stars and stripes fool
you.

Soldier Suggests
Part of Reich
Be Given Jews

Cpl. Sidney Zubrin, a brother
of Mrs. Mildred Wiltschek, Park
Avenue Hotel, who is stationed
in Bamberg, Germany, writes that
there is too much hatred of the
Jews in Germany for them to
settle there. However, ; he says
that a small portion of territory
near the German, Austrian and
Czech border, would be ideal for
settling stateless and homeless
Jews, if the land were first
cleared of all Germans. He de-
clares that this area has fertile
soil, woodlands, minerals and a
good climate,
Cpl. Zubrin writes that the
army is strict about enforcing the
fraternizing ban, but that solders
are disregarding it even though
high fines and severe punishment
is meted out.

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