Friday, October 12, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle
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Detroit Jewish Chronicle
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
Plain Talk
By AL SEGAL
Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc.. 525 Woodward Ave., Detroit 26, Mich., Tel. CAdillac 1040
A gentleman, who feels aware
of his divinity in the affairs of
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men, admonishes me to consider
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879 the atomic bomb as an instru-
ment by which a divine comedy
may be about to be effected.
Vol.
47,
No.
41
FRIDAY,
OCTOBER
12,
1945
(CHESHVAN
5,
5706)
Detroit 26, Michigan
The gentleman who has lived
50 years is quite discourag-
Jewish refugee problem. Both political only
ed with the human race and asks,
parties have officially expressed their how much more discouraged God
Bitter tears we have shed at the suffer- support of Jewish aims in Palestine. The must be who has tolerated it all
ings of the brethren through the piteous majority in Congress are in favor of un- these ages and seen it go from
years of Hitler tyranny. We and our sons limited immigration into Palestine. Public bad to worse?
and our daughters have toiled and prayed opinion in this country overwhelmingly He doesn't in the least dis-
and battled unceasingly to overcome the supports a Jewish Palestine. What is parage the divine patience. It is a
more the British Labor Party has often patience of which man has been
forces of darkness and evil.
and in a forthright manner expresses its entirely unworthy, enduring, as it
At long last the fighting is done. We opposition to the White Paper appease- has, through all the evil centuries
had hoped that peace might bring a meas- ment policy which was inherited from of man's life on the earth.
He has learned nothing from
ure of happiness to a tortured people. We Chamberlain.
the generous goodness that has
have earned a reward for our blood and
been bestowed upon him to make
sweat and tears. And the reward we ask-
his life more and more worth liv-
ed was the right to enter Palestine that
ing, and nothing from the many
we might make it fruitful with our labor,
adversities he has suffered by
that we might once more hold our heads
Charity is one of foundations of Juda- reason of violating the laws of
high as free men in a land of our own.
ism. A sinner to be forgiven must not God. He is practically hopeless.
The gentleman lately has been
Horror upon horror! Our pleas have only do penance but give charity. When
been denied. Our entreaties are in vain. we recite the Memorial prayer for our reading about one of the speci-
of the human race — the
The country that pledged its solemn word departed loved ones we pledge to give mens
Poles. When he speaks of "speci-
has basely foresworn that word. She charity in their names.
mens" he is thinking in a politi-
turns us back from the threshold and
The Detroit Metropolitan War Chest cal sense; for, besides the fact
consigns us to continued misery in lands drive for $8,490,000 is now on. The War that the Poles are kept in a sep-
that are not our own.
Chest aids local, overseas and war agen- arate box called a State, they are
essentially different from the
False England! Perfidious Albion. Was cies. The Allied Jewish Charities is a not
general species of home called
it for this that ten thousand Jews fought constituent of the War Chest. Jewish sapiens.
and bled at El Alemein and turned back agencies receive their funds from the Like all other members of the
Rommel in his conquering might? Have campaign. A substantial part of the fund human race, Poles have been giv-
you forgotten in your desire to please the will go for overseas aid to help the vic- en a fairly presentable outward
Call To Arms
Charity, Pillar of Judaism
Arab how that Arab lurked, dagger in
hand, ready to plunge his weapon into
the Allied back at the first sign of falter-
ing? Is this the reward for our glorious
bravery? Is it thus you repay our proud
loyalty?
But this is monstrous! It cannot be!
It shall not be! The blood of the slain
calls out in anguish from the grave. The
shrieks of the martyred must not ring
on deaf ears.
Jews of Detroit! The time for action
is at hand. Rise up and cry out! Write!
Wire! Phone! Protest to the president
of the United States! Protest to your con-
gressmen! Let Monday's mass meeting
sound the opening cry that will swell into
such a thunderous roar of protest that a
steer ing world must awaken.
We no longer plead. We no longer beg.
We demand! We call upon England, to
keep her solemn pledge and allow us
entry into our own land. Unless we are
heard, this war will not have been won.
Our blood will have been shed in vain.
Act now! NOW! Without delay! We
know what we want! We want what is
ours! AND WE SHALL HAVE IT!
tims of Nazism.
The need is greater than ever. Hun-
dreds of thousands of lives depend on
the success of the fund drives all over
the country. This will be the last War
Chest campaign and we should make this
the most successful. Everyone must give
without stint. We have not suffered at
all in this war compared with the suffer-
ings of the masses overseas. Let us aid
in feeding the hungry and sheltering the
homeless.
Trial of the Beast
The Beast of Belsen, Herr Kramer,
confessed that one of the main aims of
the Nazis was to wipe out the Jewish
race. This Beast was one of the creatures
entrusted with the task and he fulfilled
it to the satisfaction of his bestial su-
periors.
In one day of August 1944 the entire
Jewish population of Lodz, 80,000 men,
we men and children were burned or
gaMsed to death. This monster Kramer
and his helpers, both men and women,
probably killed 2,000,000 helpless Jews.
The most fiendish cruelty was practiced,
the most diabolical skill was used in mur-
dering an entire people.
Heartening Response
The Nazi monsters who perpetrated
The response of the Detroit Jewish
community to the Protest Rally was these crimes of whose like the earth
wholehearted and stirring. Jews by the never knew, are now on trial. The British
hundred's took part in picketing the Brit- government is giving them every oppor-
ish consulate as a gesture of condemna- tunity of defense. The British are very
tion of the British policy in Palestine. careful about giving these murderers a
More than a thousand gathered in front fair trial. They lean over backwards for
of the City Hall to protest the inhumanity the monsters who have confessed their
of the British White Paper which has cruelties. Legal niceties are observed.
shut the gates of Palestine in the faces But there can be only one verdict—death
for the Nazi monsters.
of homeless war victims.
But attending rallies is not enough.
Picketing, although a fine gesture is not
enough. Every member of the Detroit
Russia's Goal
Jewish community should take a personal
Russia's ambitions in the Mediterra-
part in this war to save our brethren, in
this effort to make Britain and the United nean areas made public by Molotov at
States realize the debt they owe to Jewry the Five-Power conference in London has
and the sacrifices which Jews have made great significance for Jewry. Palestine is
one of the key Mediterranean lands. In
in this struggle against Nazism.
Everyone should write or wire his con- Palestine, as in Russia, a new experiment
gressman, the senators from his state, the in human living is being tried and it has
White House and the British Embassy in succeeded. The same spirit that imbues
Washington. Every Jewish organization the Chalutzim, that has made possible
should join in the battle against the the reclamation of a desert into one of
White Paper. It is little enough for us the most prosperous lands, inspired the
to do. It is the least we can do to help Russians to stop the Nazi here as when
were on the verge of realizing their
the remnant of European Jewry which is they
goal
of
world conquest.
still confined in concentration camps or
walking the highways and by-ways of
Both Britain and Russia must bid for
Europe or hiding in woods and fields the friendship of the Jewish community
from the anti-Semitism which was left in Palestine, the most progressive com-
by the Nazis.
munity in Asia and the key to the Near
This is the time for action. President East. Russia's aims in the Near East
Truman has shown his great friendship should aid the Palestine Jewish commu-
for Jewry and his understanding of the
nity.
appearance. They stand erect and
have been endowed with speech
by which to communicate with
one another. They take their food
in erect position; they cry when
they are hurt and laugh when
they are pleased.
Nor are they less endowed with
any of the other gifts which have
been conferred upon man with
the idea that if he really tried
he might come to resemble the
divine Image in which he was
created. Poles have religious
teaching and, like others of the
human race, have their sacred
edifices in which, as elsewhere
throughout the world, God is kept
imprisoned.
All in all, it may be said that
the gentleman is not picking on
Poles when he makes of them an
example of his thesis; they are a
fair sample of this human race.
The recent behavior of the
Poles points up the hopelessness
of the human race and empha-
sizes the gentleman's discourage-
ment and underlines his ques-
tion: How much longer can the
patience of God endure?
What agony fell upon Poles
when in 1939 the Nazi oppressor
took them over! What hideous
death! What destruction to their
cities! From the Nazi incinera-
tors, where Poles and all other
kinds, were reduced together.
they might have learned the es-
sential unity, as ashes mingled.
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Strictly Confidential
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
FASCIST FRONT . .
The sedition trials will b: re-
opened.. . . U.S. Attorney-Gener-
al Clarke is in possession of
brand- new material from Europe
showing the tie-up between Amer-
ican and Nazi Fascists.. . Pro-
fessor Haushofer, Hitler's Geo-
Political braintruster will not be
tried for treason. . . . He was
permitted to return to his Jewish
"wife" who isn't Jewish at all....
Leni Reifenstahl, former Nazi
film star and producer, is treated
like an American glamour girl by
the American generals stationed
in Germany.
A JESSEL TRUE STORY .. .
George Jessel sure is branching
out. . . . Not content with being
an actor, author and producer,
he is now entering the business
end of the book-publishing field
as well. • . . And, incidentally,
we'd like to tell you of George's
comeback when the headwaiter
of a Manhattan night club stood
rather goggle-eyed because Jes-
sel was escorting Lena Horne, the
beautiful Negro actress. . . . "Are
you sure you have a reserva-
tion?" the waiter insisted on ask-
ing, though at other times he
had always welcomed Jesse! Nv ith
open arms. . .. George repeated
that he had made the reservation.
. . . "Who made the reservation
for you?" the waiter then inquir-
ed.. . . And Jessel replied, "Abe
Lincoln."
IN PRINT . .
We note the recent announce-
ment by Dr. Henry Noble Mac-
Cracken, president of Vassar Col-
lege, to the effect that seven hun-
dred textbooks at Harvard Uni-
versity are now being examined
with a view to purging them of
any references tending to in-
crease. . . . Which raises the
question of whether Dr. MacCrac-
ken is equally busy with giving
similar treatment to textbooks
used by teachers and students in
the college over which he pre-
sides. . . . How come that Ber-
nard Postal, in his fine article in
Liberal Judaism on the contribu-
tion of Jewish genius to the in-
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COMPANY'S COMING!