Friday, October 12, 1945 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle Page Four 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 SUBSCRIPTION: $3.00 PER YEAR, SINGLE COPIES, 10c; FOREIGN, $5.00 PER YEAR 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. (Continued on page 9) 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- (Continued on page 9) COMPANY'S COMING!