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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal
Friday, November 23, 1945.
Chronicle
AIN TA
Detroit Jewish Chronicle
By AL SEGAL
and THE LEGAL CHRONICLE
I have a letter from .Daniel. By the light of this flame he
may become a social worker who
Kenneth Greene who is with the
thinks that if people could be
Marines and is a Los Angeles boy
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made more comfortable they might
who
used
to
be
president
of
the
intered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Postoffice at Detroit, Mich., under the Act of March 3, 1879
become more just in their judg-
Managing Editor, NATHAN J. KAUFMAN Hillel Council in Los Angeles City ments of their neiighbors. Or he
Publisher, CY AARON
Editor-in-Chief, LOUIS W. ENFIELD
College.
It seems he has been thinking becomes a Reform rabbi who takes
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FRIDAY,
NOVEMBER
23,
1945
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a great deal about the matter of upon himself a mission for brother-
Detroit 26, Michigan
being a Jew in a world that's so hood.
Or he is a citizen who, in the
unfair in its judgments.
Attlee
and
Weizmann
Something Phoney
off-hours
from his business, i s an
"As a service man I can see
eager
man
in liberal groups that
Two men are in America to plead for what 'Jew' means from my con-
There is something about the Arab
are
out
to
do
something for justice
American help — Prime Minister Clem- tacts with other service men all
Jewish conflict that smells bad. Judging ent Attlee of Great Britain and Dr. Chaim over the country. What I have be- to the Negro who is another guy
by the reports in the press of this coun- Weizmann representing the Jews of the lieved all along is true: It is what who has a hard time of it in an
unfriendly world.
a man is and does that counts."
try, the Arabs are determined that no world.
Or, if he is a rich man, he de-
Yes, that's the way it is except
votes
some of his wealth to causes
more Jews should be permitted in Pales-
Mr. Attlee, it was announced, has come when a man happens to be a Jew, that have
to do with making a bet-
tine and those who are there should be to America to discuss the atomic bomb as Pharmacist's Mate Daniel Ken- ter world out of this; or, if his
neth
Greene,
has
found.
relegated to a definite minority group with President Truman, but the address "If a man is no good and he is wealth is nothing more tangible
of Mr. Attlee before Congress shows that Jewish, we really hear about it," than ideals, he belongs to friendly
status.
the real reason for his coming was to he says. "Because a man's name relations committees.
But why? Since the Jews came, the obtain the grant of a loan of five billion
If he is a columnist he is al-
is Goldstein instead of O'Brien
standard of living of the average Arab dollars from the United States for the and they both do something wrong, ways writing about brotherhood
the Jew always hears about it . . which is his favorite word.
has been raised tremendously. Infant English government.
And if he is Daniel Kenneth
As far as I can see it is a matter
mortality has decreased. Wages have
Mr. Attlee comes, as it were, as the of ignorance and jealousy on the Greene he looks up to the stars
gone up. Arab unions are strong. There head of the United English Appeal while part of some Gentiles. Other Gen- hopefully toward a dawning new
are hospitals, well equipped and excel- Dr. Weizmann comes representing the tiles hear the rot and believe it day. (In my own town there are any
and pass it on."
lently staffed. There are libraries. There United Palestine Appeal.
Being so young, Dan Greene is number of Jews who carry the
Mr. Attlee has come to beg this favor just
are modern cities with beautiful build-
finding out something that messianic mission in the hours
ings and smooth running transportation. of the United States after having turned we old-timers in the world have when they aren't busy with their
work of making a living. They
Since the coming of the Jews, Palestine down Dr. Weizmann's appeal and after known and suffered over so long. take time out to attend meetings
having
turned
down
President
Truman's
It's what every Jew learns if he
has been changed from a hell hole of request for the admission of 100,000 lives long enough. After that he of people who are striving toward
desert and swamp to a Garden of Eden.
continuously burns against the in- the mountain-top.)
What I am trying to say rather
There are new industries. There is ade- Jewish refugees into Palestine.
justice of the human race and gets
proudly
is that the injustice of
Mr.
Attlee
declares
it
Would
be
dan-
quate housing. The very air is clean and
to feel messianic as he ponders
anti-Semitism has made decent hu-
gerous
to
admit
these
100,000
Jewish
upon
ways
by
which
the
human
healthful.
(Continued on Page 13)
race might be improved.
refugees into Palestine.
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And does the Arab object to this?
There are those in Congress, and out,
Does he object to his wife and children
living where before they died? Will he who say it will be dangerous to grant the
refuse the comforts of good living where five billion loan to England. England, it
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
before he had only misery? And having is pointed out, will use the money to buy
goods
in
America
and,
since
America
is
seen what the Jews can do for him, does
Elmer Berger of Philadelphia (ex-
he object to having more? It just doesn't not yet fully reconverted for civilian pro- ANTI-SEMITIC FRONT .. •
duction, the buying of five billion dollars Attention Defense organizations ecutive director of the American
make sense.
for Judaism) is experienc-
worth of goods in the United States will . . It is relatively unimportant Council
ing considerable persecution from
The truth of the matter is that the lead to inflation. Mr. Bernard Baruch . whether
Father Coughlin is
whole thing has been trumped up. There argues that this danger of inflation is by through or merely biding his time Zionist Jews. Rabbi Berger seems
be an American Firster . . .
is no Arab-Jewish conflict. At least there no means an imaginary one. It is already . . . The Christian Front is very to
Jews would do well to accept sonic
is none between the ordinary Arab and difficult to buy in America many articles much alive . . . It is no longer practical advice from the Rabbi."
his Jewish neighbor. There is something of merchandise. Five billion dollars a strictly Catholic led organiza- ABOUT PERSONS .. .
else, something the whole .world ought worth of merchandise taken out of the tion .. Among its leaders as well Pierre van Paassen whose 50th
as its rank and file are many
to be aware of.
American market now may lead to such Protestants . . . The Christian anniversary was celebrated as a
Before the coming of the Jew, the an inflation as will necessarily bring on Front is preparing to enter the major event in Melbourne, Aus-
status of the Arab was virtually that of another depression and such a depres- political arena ... It feels that it tralia will present the Reuben
Brainin People's Library of Mon-
a slave. The rulers of the Arabs were the sion, argues Mr. Baruch, will drag the no longer needs to hide behind treal
with the orginal manuscript
"respectable" political fronts . .
lords and masters. Their wealth and whole world down.
That is why Christian Front meet- of his The Forgotten Ally" at a
power was dependent entirely on the
We submit that it must be apparent to ings are being prepared in every special function on November 25th
slave status of their subjects. With the any Congressman that it is the United major city of the Union . . . The Is it true that Senator David I.
presence of the Jew, there came a sug- British Appeal, represented by Mr. Attlee "new" organizational genius who Walsh, Chairman of the Senate
gestion of democracy, a threat that the and Mr. Sevin, which should be turned is promoting Christian Front po- Affairs Committee, is holding con-
Arabs might take a hand in their own down — not that of the United Palestine litical gatherings on a national ferences to re-open the air waves
Father Coughlin? . . Rabbi
government, might even depose their des- Appeal represented by Dr. Weizmann. scale is none other than Ainslee E. for
Herschel Lymon travelled all the
Horney,
veteran
anti-Semite
whose
potic rulers. This was the underlying
from Oklahoma to Okinawa
Britain needs the five billion dollars record is well known to our De- way
cause of the fear of the Jew.
to officiate at the wedding of Capt.
partment
of
Justice
.
.
.
Gerald
L.
to help her get food. If she will allow
It was for this reason that the rulers the Jewish refugees to enter Palestine, K. Smith in his publication "The Gretchen Ruth Boody to Capt. Ed-
of the Arabs have been fighting Jewish she will help in the production of more Cross and the Flag" dispenses ad- ward Siegel last month .....,e11-
Stillwell gave the bride
immigration. They have obscured the real food. She will stave off to some degree vice to the Jews of America in the eral (Continued
on Page 13)
following
paragraph
.
.
.
"Rabbi
issue and raised phoney issues to bam-
the
dreaded
inflation.
boozle their own people and the rest of
Certainly, now is the time when Pres-
THE $64 QUESTION
the world. They introduce the religious
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conflict where none exists. They rely on ident Truman need not continue to ask
world promises which were never made. favors of England. If England denies his
They threaten economic wars they could request for the admission of 100,000 Jew-
ish refugees, the President can well say,
never wage.
we'll keep that five billion here. The
The ugly specter of Fascism rears its President has the trump card.
CAN'T YOU
THE ATOMIC BOMB
head in many places and in many forms.
TRUST ME ?
• • e
IS A SACRED TRUST
It was beaten down in Germany, at least
/
°
in a military fashion. But wherever one
•
Samuel
Mogill
Passes
/
group depends for its power, prestige,
wealth or position on the slavery or op-
Detroit Jewry mourns the passing of
pression of another group, there you have Samuel Mogill who died last Sunday.
Fascism. It is a world problem and, as Many thousands knew Mr. Mogill and
such, must be fought by the whole world, enjoyed the freshness of his personality
whether it appears in this country, in as well as the excellence of his singing.
South America, in Europe, Asia or Af-
Mr. Mogill was president of the Jew-
rica.
ish Ministers Cantors Association and
It is a curious fact that wherever you served for 26 years in many congrega-
find Fascism, you almost invariably find tions in Detroit.
anti-Semitism. The picture was clear in
But to the many hundreds of boys
Germany where anti-Semitism brought whom he taught Hebrew in his early
in its wake the smashing of labor unions, manhood twenty-five years ago, his death
ainon of re ligious groups, the brings a touch of nostalgia. Many of the
the dissoluti
attack against other minorities.
staff of the Chronicle sat at his feet in
Let the world recognize Arab-Jewish those days and they recall well his salty
conflict for what it really is, not the deep wit and humor as well as his essential
seated hatred between two races who kindliness and his human understanding.
cannot cooperate with each other, but a
Time goes on and the older generation
trumped up phoney difficulty which when has to depart. There is left only the need
seen clearly is one phase of the world- to pause for a moment to regret the pass-
wide battle between the forces of dem- ing of a fine man and the memories and
ocracy and fascism, between the power love that he left behind him in the minds
(1 ■ 101. lord Sore
of special interests and the rights of the and hearts of his family and friends.
common man.
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