Friday, November 30, 1945
DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronic!e
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Page Eighteen
there should be a concentration,
majority in Palestine and to cre- he espouses, should sit down not only of all our reverence
with folded arms and wait for but of our own deepest under-
ate the Jewish State — imme-
3r,
without
delay,
with
iron
a
full discussion of all the angles standing, imagination and en-
diatel
determination, t h r o u g h every involved. A prophet's hands must
unt thusiasm. In such instances we
not be made heavy by the p
must rise above our ordinary
decreed by the urgent not
derous weight of procedure. feelings and conceptions and
needs, by the tragedy of our
There are times and emergen-
homeless people, the most of- cies when great personalities, surrender ourselves completely
fended and degraded of all the real tribunes of their people, to the rare gifts that are reveal-
ed before us. "Melech Poretz
nations of the world.
blessed with the gift of vision Geder." Royalty is permitted to
The spirit of the lamented Ja-
and with a deep sense of his- break down fences, says an old
botinsky conjures up in me the
toric responsibility resting upon
macabre parade of the shadows
Hebrew proverb.
them, cannot wait; when they
of hundreds of thousands, nay,
I will never forget the flam-
must act with firm determina-
millions of martyred victims of
ing criticism and admonitions
tion
in
order
to
take
advantage
Maidenek, Treblinka, Dachau
which Jabotinsky delivered at
and Oswiech. I see them raise of opportunity which may not the last Zionist World Congress
return.
In
the
case
of
such
per-
their heads feebly and mutter
in which he participated. His
sonalities, technicalities pale in-
something about their abysmal
words ring in my ears to this
to insignificance in the face of
desolation, and it seems to me the compelling urgencies. Such day. Assuming that there was
they are saying something about
some truth in the estimates of
Jabotinsky — his yearnings and leaders surely do have concep- those who thought that Jabo-
tions
of
unity,
cooperation,
dem-
his hopes. If Fate had willed it
ocracy, which are not below our tinsky was not a "practical lead-
otherwise, if the millions of
nderstanding. But the cir- er," I still cling to the belief
charred, gassed and mutilated own u
cumstances in which great occa- that he, of all our contemporary
bodies had the breath of life in
representatives and spokesmen,
them again, they would turn sions may place them, gives them most fully epitomized and most
a
clearer
perspective
of
the
rela-
away from the s oft-speaking, the tionship between deliberation clearly articulated the quintes-
gentle pleadings of some of our
sence of our ideas and ideals.
leaders and would follow Jabo- and action.
and gave the most vivid and
It was therefore shortsighted,
tinsky's voice and his words of
lasting form to our sacred devo-
redemption. For his was the I believe, to ci—rge Jabotinsky tion and unyielding will to re-
voice of determination, of the with violating discipline; to raise alize the fullness of our striv-
u n y i el din g, u ncompromising an alarm and to stir up an issue ings.
struggle which alone could have over the determined action of a
It is as such an exponent and
ended the hopelessness of the God-chosen patriot when he act- leader that I visualize Jabotin-
Jewish people, removed the ed as he did to meet the need sky. I believe that we still have
sources of our tragedy and saved of the moment and in keeping much to learn from his teach-
the lives of millions of our peo- with his own great sense of re- ings, and more to gain from his
ple. And his spirit alone can sponsibility. Would there be any example for the Zionisthe strug-
help us today to overcome the sense in charging a Garibaldi or gle of our own days, t days
blind wall we are confronted a Mazzini with the breaking of of our most fateful battle for
discipline, in cases of momen- the rebuilding of our own land.
with.
Jabotinsky passed from among tous and emergency actions.
"There was a man who passed
us when many winds of evil be- without the sanction of a meet-
away
gan to blow, and with whatever ing or decision? It seems to me
And he went before his time."
strength and voice was left him, that we have to become accus-
he warned us of the impending tomed to look somewhat differ-
doom. Other Zionist leaders, out ently upon rare and extraordi-
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Jabotinsky foresaw the cata- our attitude should be when a
clsym. He wanted the tempo of spokesman appears who is bless-
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more!
I know that there was criti-
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