Page Two 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 (Continued on Page 15) 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 in ther country? There are people in Britain who are not satisfied with the country's present policies, both at home and abroad. One of them 850 W. Lafayette Blvd. is U. P. Mayer, author of "Bri- tain and the Arab World" (Con- CHerry 9292 temporary Review, London, June). He points at the British * * intrigues in the Middle East, es- pecially Britain's assistance in Bring Our Boys Home Sooner the formation of the Arab — Buy More Bonds — League, the latter being designed to undermine the French and a DON'S AUTO SERVICE • Continental Baking Co. • - - that 7,500 new A names of concentration camp survivors had been received by the NNOUNCEMENT tors to the Vaad iiatzala'a office reported they found the names of relatives whom they had given up Vaad Hatzala Emergency Commit- long ago as dead. tee, brought throngs of relatives The Vaad Hatzala Is also engaged and friends of Europe's missing In Jewish relief and rescue work In .lewry into Its offices at 132 Nassau Russia, Switzerland, Sweden) Bel- Street. gium and France. In the latter two 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- mates of Aushwitz, Buchewald, sands of Jewish survivors still at 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. Council in England seven syna- M'ire than 15 per cent of the vie!• gogge-ambulance units. ROSH HASHONAH GREETINGS TO ALL! 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