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A People Unconquered
Potsdam Conference
against the Soul in Man.
Berman Jewry, however, was fortunate
Arab Propaganda
in comparison with Polish, Lithuanian,
A report from London has it that the
Baltic and Russian Jewries. The majority
of German Jews, the first to be oppressed, Pan-Arab league has decided on an im-
managed to escape. It was still a time of mense propaganda campaign in England
peace—albeit an uneasy peace, and Hit- and the United States. The sum of $2,000,-
ler was not yet ready for the gas cham- 000 has been allocated for two offices—
bers and the furnaces and mass murder. one in London and one in Washington.
He had murdered tens of thousands of
The Arabs, a supposedly primitive peo-
innocent Jews, but hundreds of thousands ple, are showing themselves very adept in
publicity work. If anyone doubted that, he
were helped to escape.
has but to recall the recent San Francisco
It was when Hitler leaped upon Poland conference. Next to the three great pow-
that the real tragedy of Jewry began, a ers, the Arabs drew most of the news-
tragedy almost unbelievable in the dark paper space and radio comment. To be
and cruel annals of mankind; a tragedy sure, it was the exotic dress of the Arabs
which even now we cannot grasp. Six which brought them much of this, but
million Jews were gassed and burned at this was by no means the whole story.
mass murder factories built with fiendish It was generally reported then that the
skill for the sole purpose of human de- American oil companies were managing
struction. More than 3 million Polish Jews, their publicity. They could want no bet-
95 per cent of Lithuanian Jewry; more ter tutors than these big interests, to
than a million of Ukranian Jews, and hun- whom engineering "public relations" is an
dreds of thousands of Hungarian and old story.
Balkan Jews and masses of Western Eur-
The oil companies doubtless are ready
opean Jews were exterminated in horror to help further. The Jews may not have
camps like Maidanek, Oswiecin, and much money for these things, but if the
Treblinka at the rate of 20,000 a day.
$2,000,000 the pan-Arab league has allo-
We have lost the spiritual heart of cated proves insufficient, doubtless the oil
Jewry but we still survive while Hitler companies will not shrink from making
and his hosts are burried in shame and more contributions for the Arab fund. The
infamy and Germany is a nation no more. oil deposits in Saudi-Arabia are very rich.
This is opposition which will not be
We have a lot to mourn. We mourn 6
million innocent martyrs; we mourn more easy to meet. The Jews are supposedly a
than a third of our people. But we have clever people, but generally they are not
also much to thank God for. We are still very clever in their own behalf.
C
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By PHINEAS J. BIRON
ATOM SMASHERS .
While the newspapers mention
FRIDAY, AUGUST 17, 1945 (ELLUL 8, 5705)
Vol. 47, No. 33
Detroit 26, Michigan
the names of four Jewish scien-
tists—Prof. J. Robert Oppenheim-
a people. We have outlived our most er, Prof. Rudolph Peierls, Dr.
dreadful enemy. We have been the van- Franz Eugene Simon and Dr. Lise
Meitner—in connection with the
Peace has returned to a weary and guard in the war against the forces which atomic
bomb, they overlook the
blood-soaked earth. We have lived so threatened the enslavement not only of fact that Prof. Albert Einstein
was the creator of the theory
long under the heels of war or the fear Jewry, but of all mankind.
that made the discovery possible
of war, that peace seems abnormal,
. . . As a matter of fact, we hap-
Now with the war against Japan over, pen to know that Einstein was
strange. Even civilians will have a diffi-
an active consultant during the
cult time adjusting themselves to the we face a new era, shaken but unafraid. period of experimentation. . .
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have
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all
calmer routine of a peacetime existence.
ATTENTION, JUSTICE DEPT.
peacetime difficulties will seem minor,
The anti-Semitic "Protestant
This war more than any others has com-
War Veterans of the United
States, Inc.," have had their
letely filled the lives of all, soldiers and
treasury replenished from some
civilians alike. It influenced the life of
mysterious source . . Edward
everyone. No one could escape it.
James Smythe, executive chair-
The Potsdam Conference stirred the an of the group, is advertising for
To hark back to the pre-war era is like United Nations and is satisfying to the "organizers in every hamlet, town,
and state in the Union to or-
going back to ancient history. Those days conscience of mankind. It happened in the city
ganize local posts" . . . Mr.
seem so far away. So much has happened same palace where the kaiser launched Smythe announces, in a mailed
that "we will fight these
since. Our experiences have been so weird, Germany's first attempt at world domina- bulletin,
dirty, stinking' Communists—the
our emotions so stirred, that we can hard- tion and it was thus a salutory setting in American Veterans Committee, a
Jew-Communist Sidney Hillman
ly remember the pre-war years.
which to pattern the peace terms which controlled organization—in the
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mark the destruction of Germany's sec- streets if necessary" . , . Pro-
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testant clergymen should disa-
For us Jews, the war began with the ond endeavor at world domination.
vow Mr. Smythe's organization
insist that the Attorney Gen-
accession of Hitler on Jan. 30, 1933, Hit-
It now becomes apparent that the terms and
eral investigate its headquarters,
ler almost immediately began to carry shaped at Potsdam for Germany were located at 1211-A Connecticut
Avenue, Washington, D. C.
out a nationwide pogrom against all the
originally patterned at Yalta. It is now
certain, thank God! that Germany will not
We can still remember those faint, far- again be permitted to disturb the peace
off days of 1933 when we held mass meet- of mankind.
ings and sought to stir public opinion in
You remember not long ago when much
the United States to the danger of Hitler. of our press and many of our half-baked
How naive we were! We thought we leaders laughed at the Henry Morgen-
could move Hitler and his gangsters to thau, Jr. Plan which meant the reduction
mercy by mass meetings. How we groaned of the industrial and war-making poten-
when the Brownshirts burned Jewish tial of Germany. Although the Potsdam
books. How we cried aloud when the Plan is a modification of the so-called
Nazis first boycotted and then seized Jew- Morgenthau Plan, it comes as close to
ish stores, factories and apartments. We being the Morgenthau Plan as any of us
remember the wave of horror that swept dared hope it might be, and although it
over us at the inauguration of the con- cannot be said that Germany will be a
centration camps and the wholesale ar- nation of farmers it is quite certain at
rests of tens of thousands of Jews.
this writing that Germany will never
The Jews were Hitler's No. 1 enemy. again be a nation of cannon makers. If
His persecutions of Jewry never ceased. nothing more has been accomplished by
Aitler and his followers stood for every- the meeting at Potsdam it will have justi-
thing Judaism opposed. The Beast in Man fied its convocation in history.
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CHARLES TAUB, Advertising Mgr.
Jews in Germany.
August 17, 1943
FATHER RILEY'S
PAMPHLET..,
The
the weekly paper
of the Brooklyn diocese, which
made itself nationally infamous
for its defense of Father Cou gh.
lin and his Christian Frontiers,
devoted considerable space to your
columnist three weeks ago . .
It took violent exception to our
attack on Father Arthur J. Riley's
pamphlet "Anti-Semitism," which
was published in St. Paul under
the imprimatur of Arehibishop
Most Reverend Richard J. Cush-
ing.. .. We maintained that the
pamphlet is anti-Semitic. . , The
Tablet, among other things, pub-
lished a letter "by Mr. David
Goldstein of Boston" . . . Mr.
Goldstein had sent this same
letter to the editors of the "Jew-
ish weeklies," as he calls our
Anglo-Jewish press . . . The Tab-
let, strangely enough, omits to
mention that "Mr, Goldstein" is
none other than Dr. Goldstein,
employe of the "Catholic Cam-
paigners for Christ" and Ameri-
ca's most notorious convert and
missionary. . .
In his letter Goldstein advises
our editors to eliminate our
column, and contends that we have
committed a great wrong, because
Father Riley's pamphlet is 'a fair,
frank, learned, discriminating,
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WASHINGTON — It is high
justice that the atomic bomb has
been launched against Japanese
fascism with the aid of scientists
who were refugees from Nazi
racial discrimination.
On the day that the White
House issued President Truman's
statement, and that Prime Mini-
ster Attlee did the same with Mr.
Churchill's announcement, about
the development and potentiali-
ties of the bomb, the British In-
formation Services in Washington
made available very apropos in-
formation about Professor Ru-
dlph Ernest Peierls and Dr. Ot-
to Robert Frisch, both of whom,
ironically, had been forced to
leave Germany, because they hap-
pened to be Jews.
One of the foremost theoretical
physicists in England, 38-year old
Professor Peierls, born in Berlin,
has lived in England since 1933,
a refugee from Nazi racial per-
secution and discrimination. Simi-
larly, 41-year old Dr. Frisch, a
Viennese, who has been respon-
sible for outstanding research in
nuclear physics, left Germany for
England in 1933 after he was dis-
missed, on racial grounds, from
Hamburg University.
The original technical commit-
tee formed in England in 1941
at the recommendation of Chur-
chill and the British Chiefs of
Staff, included Peierls as a mem-
ber. In the years of his residence
in England he, has achieved ap-
pointment to the Chair of Applied
Mathematics in Birmingham Uni-
versity, was elected a Fellow of
the Royal Society, and has carried
on outstanding work on quantum
and nuclear theories.
Dr. Frisch, through his study of
neutrons, was one of the first to
realize the possibility of develop-
ing a bomb of unprecedented vio-
lence, and has been concentrating
on this project since early 1940.
In fact, he provided one-half of a
nephew-aunt team, when he and
his aunt, Dr. Lise Meitner, also
a refugee from the Nazis, con-
ducted valuable experiments bom-
barding uranium by neutrons in
Copenhagen at the Institute of
Professor Niels Bohr, the noted
Danish physicist.
Both Peierls and Frisch became
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