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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
Concerning Jews
Jewish positions. Regarding Pal-
estine, the author has this to
say:
In the case of Palestine, the
desire to find common ground
with the Arabs of today must
not be allowed to prejudice the
prospects of a just and lasting
solution of the future. From
the viewpoint of an uncom-
self-determination it is quite
promising demand for national
understandable that in the
movement for Arab unity anti-
Zionism would take the place
occupied by anti-imperialism
in the struggle for Arab inde-
pendence, as the rallying-point
of Arab nationalism. A change
in the negative Arab attitude
may be a pre-condition for the
ultimate success of the Jewish
survival. But the abandonment
by the Jews of their only hope
for a self-determined national
existence cannot convincingly
be called a pre-requisite of an
Arab renaissance. In Palestine
more is at stake for the Jews
than for the Arabs. It is to be
feared that any settlment
which would allow the Jewish
to die would effectively turn
the Palestine issue into a can-
cer endangering the whole re-
gion.
In this country, the relations
between the races seems to have
improved a bit, according to Ed-
win R. Embree ("Balance Sheet
in Race Relations," Atlantic
Monthly, May). It is true that the
Negroes' position is still unsatis-
factory in many respects—a little
colored girl, asked how Hitler
should be punished, replied:
"Make him black and make him
live in America"—and that even
minority groups, including Jews,
are not guiltless, since they dis-
criminate against other minority
organizations, helped eliminate
Army, the Church, and various
groups. On the other hand, the
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By ALFRED WERNER
This review is intended to
keep our readers informed of
the most significant comments
on subjects of Jewish interest
that appear in current non-
Jewish magazines of nation-
wide circulation.
"Should Jews Return to Ger-
many?" is the question raised by
Paul W. Massing, a German refu-
gee, and Maxwel Miller, a Bos-
tonian (The Atlantic Monthly,
July). It may seem strange that
any Jews should wish to return
to the land where they had been
tortured and humiliated, but
there are many reasons why this
question is not an academic one.
In addition to psychological rea-
sons there- are others impelling
the German-Jewish refugees to
return to Germany. Regrettably,
it seems as if sonic countries may
even force German Jews to re-
turn to their native country.
Would it be wise to send Jews
back to Germany, even under Al-
lied protection?
Any group of refugees to go
back to Germany under the ae-
gis is the Allied armies, to a
Germany whose present rulers
are defeated militarily but not
ideologically a n d politically,
would be placed in the cate-
gory of collaborators with the
enemy, traitors, in fact—unless
there are strong political forces
engaged in the fight against
Nazi survival and rebirth with
which they can join ranks.
The authors of the article are
pessimistic as to the future of the
Fourth Reich. They advise the
Jews not to return, unless the fol-
1 o w i n g minimum requirements
will be fulfilled:
1. There must be complete
eradication of Nazism from
within Germany, by the Ger-
man people. The victorious Al-
lies will not and cannot impose
such a purification, which will
be nothing short of a social
revolution. Acting with wisdom
and boldness, they could help
to bring it about.
2. The Jews must be invited
to return by the German peo-
ple. This would be evidence of
the accomplishment of the first
condition, and the act would of
itself provide a spiritual stimu-
lus to the German people.
3. Jews should return to Ger-
many as German citizens, ac-
cepting the principle of equal
treatment to be accorded all
refugees from the Nazi terror,
and demonstrating their return
as actuated by a desire to as-
sist in the rebuilding of their
country.
According to Richard Arvay,
now living at the Refugee Shelter
at Oswego, the Italians were in-
finitely more humane than the
Germans ("Where Justice Is
Due," The Commonweal, June 8).
He tells how the Italians saved
40,000 Jews from deportation by
the Germans and how the two
words "Siamo ebrei" did the
trick, wherever Italian, not Ger-
man officials were involved. He
closes his article with a glowing
description of the service, held
in Rome's largest synagogue after
the city's liberation by Allied
troops:
It was a ceremony of joy.
The place of honor was oc-
cupied by a Capuchin monk,
Pater Benedetto, the leader
of the underground commit-
tee. And when the Rabbi, a
member of the English army
and in uniform, deeply moved,
thanked the Catholic Church
for all she had done in the
deepest fulfillment of the com-
mand "Love Thy Neighbor,"
and when he, while saying this,
pointed to Pater Benedetto,
the silence of the House of
God was broken by a storm
of applause which threatened
never to cease. And perhaps
for the first time since the
creation of the world it hap-
ened that the walls of a Jew-
ish house of prayer trembled
with applause to honor a
Catholic priest.
It is bewildering to read the
anti-Semitic sheet, People's Post,
now issued in England by the
notorious Fascist, the Duke of
Bedford. After the release from
prison of most of its members, the
British People's Party, a Fascist
outfit (not identical with Mos-
ley's group), is permitted to car-
ry on again. The paper's issue
of April 20 carries an editorial:
"Justice for the Jew." It con-
tains such camouflaged attacks as,
"There are no statistics available
as to the number of Jews en-
gaged in anti-social and unpleas-
ant occupations"; or "We stand
for the abolition of usury and
against the creation of credit or
cheque money in a manner which
subordinates the interests of the
ordinary citizen to those of the
moneylender"—read: the Jew.
ROSH HASHONAH
How can the British permit this
propaganda a la Streicher to go
GREETINGS
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There are people in Britain
who are not satisfied with the
country's present policies, both
at home and abroad. One of them
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is U. P. Mayer, author of "Bri-
tain and the Arab World" (Con-
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June). He points at the British
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reported they found the names of
relatives whom they had given up
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and friends of Europe's missing In Jewish relief and rescue work In
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The names were obtained during countries it has established three
the past few months while relief orphanages to reclaim for Judaism
teams operating from Switzerland the many Jewish children who arcs
under the direction of Isaac Stern- being returned by Christian sym•
bucb, the Vaad Hatzala's European pathlzers who had hidden them
directtr. were distributing more during the Nazi period of occupa-
than $900,000 worth of food and tion. To meet the spiritual as well
medical supplies to the freed in- as the physical needs of the thou-
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Allendorf and Bergen-Belsen con- large in the liberated areas, the
centration camps. Most of the sur- Vaad has purchased and has placed
vivors are from Germany, Hungary, in operation through the Rabbinical
the Netherlands and France.
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