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By GRACE JAFFE
(in the absence abroa'ci of Phineas J. Biron)
CHARLES TAUB, Advertising Mgr.
head.
Britain can not stall much longer. All
the • British political parties are in favor
of justice for the Jews. The Big 3 con-
ference in Potsdam, undoubtedly has dis-
cussed the Jewish situation, for one can
not solve either the problems of Europe
or the Near East without considering the
Jewish problem.
Aid Fight on Prejudice
All those who have not as yet con-
tributed to the civic-protective fund
should mail in their contributions to the
Detroit Jewish Welfare Federation. The
cause is one of momentous importance,
almost of life and death for American
Jewry. The so-called Nationalistic move-
ments are rising.
Joe McWilliams, nationally known
A Timely Warning
anti-Semitic
rabble-rouser and a group of
In well spoken words, addressing an I
money
raisers
have moved into Chicago
Independence Day gathering in Holly-
to
promote
Ex-Sen.
Robert Reynolds'
wood, Supreme Court Justice Murphy
warned against "the Nazi disease" here. American Nationalist Party. Gerald L. K.
In Germany, "the Nazi disease" is un- Smith is still active. He seems to have re-
der control. In none of the zones occupied ceived a setback in Los Angeles where
by the Allied armies in Germany will we he sought to tie himself up with the Ham
for a long time see any of the Nazi poison and Egg movement but he has not given
spread—but there are carriers of the Nazi up. He still retains offices in Detroit.
We must fight prejudice not only for
disease elsewhere. Even as Justice Murphy j
spoke there was a report from Havana . to 1 our sake but for the sake of the entire
the effect that a group of Germans, re- j nation, for anti-Semitism is only a front
cently released from internment in Cuba, which the enemies of Democracy use to
have launched a good imitation of Goeb split a people. Therefore, we should all
bels' propaganda program in the Cuban contribute to the civic-protective fund
capital. We may expect that disgruntled which still lacks a considerable sum to
Germans in other parts of the world will reach • its goal. •
1945
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Strictly Confidential
Ave., Detroit 26, Mich., Tel. CAdillac 1040
JOSEPH J. CUMMINS, President and Editor
Vol. 47, No. 30
FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1945 (Ab 17, 5705)
Detroit 26, Michigan
not fail to attempt to infect the new com-
Changing Names
munities in which they may be, or to
Recently Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt ad- which they may immigrate, and in which
vocated the Americanization of foreign they are not subject to Allied control.
names. This is a course which many have
These Nazis, who are free to spread
followed long since. Names which were
their poison, will unquestionably make
outlandish, hard to pronounce, or had op-
make the most of their opportunity. The
probious connotations have been changed
famous Norwegian woman writer, Miss
as rapidly as the immigrant became con-
Undsett, some time ago remarked that the
scious that these names proved a handi-
German atrocities against the Jews had
cap. Often while the first generation kept
been so ghastly, that to justify themselves
the Old World name, the second genera-
in their souls, they would, after the war,
tion changed it to its Anglo-Saxon equiv-
even intensify the propaganda against the
alent, to some name that was more eu-
Jews. We are unquestionably faced by a
phonious, or to a name that had . won dis- grave danger, in which simple liberal
tinction in American life.
tolerance will not do. We must take very
Recently, in Philadelphia, a Jewish positive steps whenever we see the first
bartender named Abraham Bitle, who signs of Nazi infection. Justice Murphy's
long had called himself Biddle, sought in warning is timely.
court to make the change legal. The Bid-
dies are the aristocrats of the Quaker
Returning to the Fold
Gity They, too, however, according to
One
of the most important men in
Time magazine, are descendants of an
immigrant, one William Biddle, a shoe- English political life is Professor Harold
maker, who served in Oliver Cromwell's Laski, one of the top leaders of the Bri-
army, and was in jail for his Quaker tish Labor Party, and the man who voices
preachings. He came to the New World its political philosophy. Prof. Laski is
probably the greatest living political phi-
in 1681.
losopher and one of the world's most
One of the descendants of this immi-
trenchant thinkers. His views, therefore,
grant Biddle, a cousin of the recently re-
are doubly significant. Here is what he
tired Attorney General Biddle, protested
said
recently obout Zionism:
the change. He said: "There would ap-
"While until the outbreak of the war
pear to be no good reason why Mr. Bid-
I
had
been an advocate of assimilation,
dle should be permitted to . . . give the
who
thought
the best service to civiliza-
impression he was of English origin."
However, Bitle's attorney pointed out tion the Jews could render was to lose
that the state law' says one can take any their identity, I am now firmly and ut-
name as long as one is "not trying to terly convinced of the need for the re-
cheat anybody" . . . An Italian-born birth of the Jewish nation in Palestine.
judge, Judge Eugene Alessandroni, grant- The need of the Jews could only find
completion in a territory of their own
ed the petition.
and no other country but Palestine could
have a meaning for them."
Momentous Convention
His views not only reflect the opinions
The World Zionist Congress is on the
of
the
British Labor party, but indicate
eve of convening in London, its first con-
the
drift
of leftist thinkers to the realiza-
vention in six years. This should be one of
tion
that
assimilation has failed — that
the most important sessions in the history
of Zionism. Backed by the overwhelming internationalism may be fine in theory,
majority of Jews throughout the world, but that, first, each people should have a
haunted by the memory of the 5,000,000 home of its own. It will be a great gain
Jewish martyrs, who perished, because for Jewry if we can win back the loyalties
they had no land of •their own, the Zion- of those who have been lured away by
ist convention should bring things to a radical movements.
Friday, July
Congrats to Dinah Shore, of
the Shore-nuff beautiful voice, on
her rating in the second annual
poll by Billboard magazine on
what the boys in the U.S.A.
camps want in musical person-
alities. . . . Dinah came out tops
in the feminine vocal division—
and you can be sure the boys
overseas agree with their buddies
here . . . . Back in civilian life
is Sgt. Dave Rose, on a medical
discharge . . . . Dave, you re-
member, is one of those fortun-
ate few whose career wasn't in-
terrupted by his military service,
for his Uncle Sam found his mu-
sical gift extremely useful . . .
His discharge follows several
months' confinement in a hospi-
tal . . . .
MUSICAL NOTES . . .
Did you know that the Sta-
dium Concerts, those popular-
priced open-air offerings of good
music given every summer at the
Lewisohn Stadium of New York's
City College, originated 28 years
ago as a two-week concert series
for servicemen 9
Then, as
now, Mrs. Charles S. Guggen-
heimer, chairman of the Con-
certs, ran the show . . . . More
than 50,000 servicemen are ex-
pected to attend this season's 54
concerts (on week-end nights
men in uniform are admitted
free) . . . An up-and-coming
young violinist is Paul Wolfe,
who combines study at Queens
College with serious symphony
orchestra work . . .
He's the
son of composer-pianist Jacques
Wolfe, and his ambition is to be-
come the concertmaster or con-
ductor of a symphony orchestra
. . The Metropolitan Opera's
"Italian tenor," Jan Peace,
feels flattered when people call
him the second Caruso, but in-
sists that really he is the first
Peerce . . . . And he's not kid-
ding there, for he actually is the
first one to bear the name Peerce
. . . . The name was created for
him by the late Roxy, who "dis-
covered" his singing gift, and
who thought that the name Jacob
Pinks Perelmut was a little un-
wieldly for a tenor . . . . Right
in the groove dug by the Gersh-
win film biography, "Rhapsody in
Blue," are two new Victor Red
Seal albums of Gershwin mas-
terpieces . . . . One brings you
the famed Rhapsody, and the
other is an orchestral arrange-
ment of the only Gershwin ope-
ra, "Porgy and Bess" . .
STEIN SONG .. .
One of the cutest of the mul-
titudinous Gerturde Stein stories
is the one concerning a royalty
check sent her by her publisher,
Bennett Cerf . . . . Feeling that
Gertie would appreciate a little
Steinese, Cerf made out the
check for "two thousand thou-
sand dollars dollars" .... Where-
upon Miss Stein lapsed into ordi-
nary English just long enough to
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Our Capital Letter
By CHARLES BENSON
Your columnist sits bent over
the typewriter, straining for an
idea. Up and down the hall,
across the street, and even in the
shadow of the capital dome, for-
tunate ones have packed, pulled
the covers over their machines,
or the blinds in their offices, and
departed for vacation. Some to
think about their gardens, others
about the shortage of tennis and
golf balls, but all united on one
idea. That during these golden
weeks of leave they will unfet-
ter themselves from Washington
routine.
The Supreme Court has closed
down for the summer. Congress
would very much like to go and
do likewise. There is little likeli-
hood of that at the moment,
with their calendar occupied by
the United Nations Charter, the
Bretton Woods agreement, anti-
cipation of a report by the Pres-
ident after his return from the
Big Three Conference, wage and
tax legislation, poll tax repeal.
Congress would like to be in
the position of the young navy
wife. According to her usual
routine,
One morning recently she got
Out of bed,
Slipped into her slippers,
Got into her robe,
Raised the shade,
Uncovered the parvot,
Put on the coffee pot,
Answered the phone,
"Hello, honey —just got off the
ship
I'm coming right over!"
So, the young wife unlocked the
door,
Took off the pot,
Covered the parrot,
Pulled down the shade,
Stepped out of her robe,
Took off her slippers,
Slipped into bed,
And heard the parrot mumble:
"Judas Priest! What a short day
that was!"
It was interminable hours that
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