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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Detroit Jewish Chronicle

and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., 525 Woodward Ave., Detroit 16, Mich., Tel. CAdillac 1040

1945

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By PHINEAS J. BIRON

Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879

JOSEPH J. CUMMINS, President and Editor

CHARLES TAUB, Advertising Mgr.

FROM ABROAD . ..

over, but
Vol. 47, No. 34
FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1945 (ELLUL 15, 5705)
Detroit 26, Michigan
strange scenes may yet be seen in
the Jewish quarter of Paris . . .
churches, the libraries, the schools, to ci• Jewish refugees, former residents
of France, can be seen picketing
vic, soc4.I and cultural organizations.
President Truman's revelation that he
their own business establishments,
Ever; Jew should contribute towards sold in their • absence to French
'asked Britain to allow as many Jewish im-
collaborationists by the Nazis . .
'migrants "as possible" to enter Palestine the publication of the Black Book. Send Now these new French owners re-
your
contribution
to
the
American
Com-
fuse to vacate their illegally ac-
is the most heartening news the Zionists
quired stores or factories ... And
'have heard in many a year. Coming on mittee of Jewish Writers, Artists and Sci- so the refugees march up and
top of the Labor party victory in Britain, entists, 119 West 57th Street, New York, down the sidewalks, telling their
stories on posters . . . An-
this should presage the early lifting of 19, N. Y. The American and the World sad
other strange public reaction re-
Jewish
Congress
are
aiding
in
financing
the "White Paper" ban on immigration
ported from Paris: Whenever
Leon Blum appears on a news-
this historical document.
'into Palestine.
reel he gets booed, while Petain
has been greeted with cheers . .
The fact that the Potsdam Conference
Perhaps Petain's conviction of
discussed the creation of a Jewish na-
treason will change this . . . Did
tional state in Palestine is a good omen.
know that the Russians have
For the past few weeks Senator Bilbo you
special identification cards
We may see, sooner than we had a right of Mississippi has been indulging in a issued
to the Jews and half-Jews of
earlier to expect, a Jewish state in the campaign of vilification against America's Berlin? . . . Each card carries
the bearer's photograph, declares
Yishuv. The influential London Times racial and religious minorities.
that he is a victim of Nazi Fas-
which has hitherto often spoken for the
cism and asks that he be given
We
have
hitherto
ignored
the
rantings
special consideration .. In other
British foreign office, now advocates par-
the Jews have been segre-
tition of Palestine into Jewish and Arab of this arch bigot because we felt that he words,
gated for special and better treat-
was
of
the
type
who
bask
in
publicity,
ment . . .
states. The majority of Zionists will re-

The war may be

Zionists Near Goal

1 land's largest newspaper publish-
ers . . . The prediction that
Harold J. Laski will be the suc-
cessor of Lord Halifax a; Itri-
tain's ambassador to Washington
has no foundation ... Laski, how-
ever, may come to America for a
short series of public lecture;
Don't forget to read Laski's arti-
cle on the British elections in the
current issue of This Month . • .

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That Man Bilbo

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ject this compromise. Palestine is small
enough for the needs of Jewry without
partitioning it.
The Arab League is raving now. It is
trying to put words into our late Presi-
dent Roosevelt's mouth that he certainly
never uttered. It published the lie that
Roosevelt on his way home from Yalta
told' the Arabs that he would not back
Jewish immigration into Palestine. The
League's threats that oppose Jewish im-
migration into Palestine by force, are
vain and empty mouthings.
President Truman, as Dr. Stephen S.
Wise, forecast, is proving a true friend
of Jewry. Once he is convinced of the
justice of a cause he will back it to the
limit. He is convinced of the justice of
Jewry's claims to Palestine.

The Black Book

The Black Book of Nazi Crimes
Against the Jewish People is being rushed
to completion. The book will be an un- ,
paraled indictment of a nation. Excerpts
show that the book will be one of the
most powerful documents ever penned by
man. It will be an indictment of a civiliza-
tion that allowed such atrocities.
The Black Book will not be easy read-
ing. Its record of how 5,000,000 innocent
men, women and children were fiendish-
ly, cruelly wiped out makes one despair
of our western civilization. Every page of
the book, every sentence, in fact, tells of
cruelties which are so revolting that they I
are unbelievable. Yet every paragraph is
documented. Every word is fact.
The Black Book describes "the entire
process by which the beast systematically
took away from Man all that which for
centuries had symbolized Man," says "Re-
port from Treblinka." "First they took his
liberty, then his home and country — and
he was carted away to a nameless waste-
land. On the station platform, they strip-
ped him of his belongings, letters, photo-
graphs of his dear ones; and then inside
of the camp fence, they took away his
mother, wife, child. Then they wrested
from the naked Man his documents and
tossed them into the fire. Thus even Man's
name was destroyed. He was driven into
a corridor with a low ceiling—he was de-
prived of the sky, the stars, the wind, the
sun."
The Black Book will be published in
every major language. In America it will
be distributed in every one of the 48
states. It will be brought into the

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even when it is adverse publicity. More-
over, we felt that it would be futile to
argue with a person whose only forte is
vilification and mud slinging.
The dangerous character of Bilbo's ut-
terances can be gleaned from his recent
rejection of an invitation to attend an
inter-faith and anti-discrimination rally
at the Newman Memorial Church in
Brooklyn, New York. In a telegram to the
sponsors of the meeting, the Senator had
the unmitigated impudence to call the
church a "a mongrel congregation."

But the real cue to the danger he con-
stitutes to the internal peace and well-
being of our country can be found in that
portion of his telegram—whose bill, inci-
dentally, was paid by Uncle Sam—in
which he threatened that "if the minori-
ties with un-American and alien ideologies
renew their efforts to pass crackpot and
un-American legislation in the Congress, 1
will make my statements stronger next
time, because these attempts to violate the
Constitution of the United States and to
wreck our American form of government
and American way of life will no doubt
require drastic treatment."
We, unlike the Mississippi Senator,
cherish the American principle of freedom
of word and religion. But we, like all good
Americans, realize that freedom of ex-
pression was never meant to be used as a
weapon of war and vilification against
any segment in American life. Certainly
a Senator who took the solemn oath of
office to obey the Constitution should not
be permitted to violate the spirit of the
Constitution.
It is high time that the Senate, of which
Bilbo is a member, took him to task for
disgracing that August body.

Prejudice on the Campus

Dartmouth College's admission that it
has an unofficial quota on Jewish students
has created a stir in certain quarters.
Dartmouth college is by no means isolated
in restricting entrance of Jewish students.
It differs from a number of other colleges
in that the president came out openly and
admitted that Dartmouth restricts entry
of Jews as Jews.
There are quite a number of colleges,
some very well known, who are engaged
in this discriminatory practice. Especially
is this true of medical colleges. Jewish stu-
dents aspiring to be doctors find insuper-
able barriers. Even those with the high-
est scholastic standing, find it impossible
to get into medical college.

THE BRITISH SCENE .. .
Leslie Hore-Belisha, once Bri-
tain's minister of war, but since
the last elections no longer an
M.P., will become one of Eng-

PALESTINE DEPT. . .

The fund for pro-Arab and an-
ti-Zionist propaganda in the
United States is much larger than
has been announced in the public
prints . . We're told that some
of the big American oil companies

have kicked in many millions .
America's Foreign Policy Associ-
ation, in its July, 1945, Report,
discusses "Palestine and Ameri-

ca's Role in the Middle East" . •
The author of the report, Grant S.
McClellan concludes: "If condi-
tions of economic and political
stabilization in Palestine can be
assured by international agree-
ment, continued Jewish immigra-
tion and further Zionist develop.
ment may also then prove pos-
sible" . . . In other words, the
report rejects the Jewish Com-
monwealth idea and states that
the most that may be expected is
further immigration and the es-
tablishment of more Zionist insti-
tutions . .
(Continued on Page 9)

Our Capital Letter

By CHARLES BENSON

WASHINGTON — It takes a
farseeing person to look beyond
a week that featured the atomic
bomb, the Soviet declaration of 1
war against Japan, and the Jap-
anese peace proposal, to home-
town affairs like municipal elec-
tions. But they are coming up.
Through the swirl of neutrons and
the clank of swords being beaten
into plowshares, it is well to re-
member the issues that need to
be fought out on domestic fronts.
The Detroit mayoralty and
council election in November may
prove an early testing-ground. It
was Detroit that, during the
height of the war, unleashed one
of the worst race riots ever
known in this country.
Leadership of the American
people, says the program of the
NCAP (National Citizens Politi-
cal Action Committee), "Must
dedicate itself to the complete
elimination of discrimination
against all racial and minority
groups and every other attempt
to restrict the opportunity of any

citizen. We have witnessed the
holocaust which Hitler's racial
and religious persecution fomen-
ted. We cannot afford to have one
standard for one group of our
citizens, and another for other
groups. Therefore, we oppose
every economic, civil, and politi-
cal discrimination against any
segment of the American peo-
ple."

Impeach Bilbo

In line with this positive policy,
Senator Wagner recently received
a recommendation from the Na-
tional Maritime Union that he
start impeachment proceedings
against Senator Bilbo for con-
ducting "one of the most vile and
vicious attacks on all racial
minorities in the U. S. in the his-
tory of the country."
Whenever newsmen gather in
Washington, Bilbo's name crops
up. Foreign correspondents find
it incomprehensible that the Sen-
ate permit a member to continue
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