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CLIFTON AVENUE - CINCINNATI 20, 01110

Friday January 18, 1946

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Book Review

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Banks In France
To charge Fee
For Box Opening

In France they obtained complete emancipation from the Consti-
tutional Assembly through the initiative of Abbe Gregoire, Mirabeau,
and Robespiere and only events like the appearance of Drummont of
the L'Action Francaise, the Decree of Cremieux, the Jewish Prime
PARIS (JTA) -.- During the
Minister, in 1870 naturalizing (imprudently, accordng to the author) German occupation, all French
25,000 Algerian Jews, and the Dreyfus affair, enhanced the latent banks were forced to open safe
anti-Jewish feelings.
deposit boxes belonging to their
Jewish customers who had left
The author relates that in the first world tvar, the Jews of every the country. Upon their return
country fought and died on the side of the allies, but that instead of home, these refugees were not a
recognition, the Jews reaped economic anti-Semitism. He then de- little surprised to receive letters
votes much space to Hitler's campaign against Jews, and discusses from the banks, billing them for
briefly the effect of this on Italy and Hungary. Zionism is described 450 francs for the expense involv-
ed in breaking open their boxes.
and discussed concisely but exhaustively.

Page Thirteen

Chronicle Correspondent
Reports The Crimes Trials

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wind kind of gets under your skin.
54, as "bucket job." It was a plain, It blows and blows and makes
completely unfurnished plane, used everything rattle and shake. We
for troop transport during the were taken to the billet office in
war. The seats were canvas af- a bus and arrived at 3:30 p.m.,
fairs strung along the plane on Azores time. Again we were told
both sides. The baggage was tied we would be staying the night.
Our billets were with the of-
clown in a great pile in the center
of the plane. The pilot and crew ficers and ATC pilots rooms. We
were ATC civilians, very capable, had double-decker army cots with
efficient and friendly. The only loads of blankets — and that
regular army man on the plane constant blowing.
was the Flight Clerk, a corporal.
We were awakened at 8 a.m.,
One could not expect any article of 32 pages of the size of a page
There were 15 passengers aboard, told that our plane would leave
of the Encyclopedia Britannica to give a more complete description
eleven girls bound for Frankfurt at 9 a.m.. Off we were on our last
and account of a nation which has existed so long. In his conclusion,
and Berlin, Germany, as clerks, hop by ATC to Paris by 10 a.m.
Mr. De Beauplan differentiates between a Jewish problem and the
stenographers and typists and four
Again we had lunch on board
men. One of them was an em- the plane, and by this time we
problem of the Jews. He claims that there is nothing in common
ployee
of
Pan-American
Airways
were experienced air travelers. I
between the Jews of France, England and America and the Jews of
hound for the Azores.
found out that air sickness is a
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the Balkans. Anti-Semitism is expanded only by propaganda of racism.
We sat down at will and fum- matter of mind over matter. If you
Jewish emigration is a necessity, for "it is impossible that one-half of
of the Queens Christian Front, bled with our safety belts. Finally make up your mind you won't get
the Jews be clustered in central Europe, and as soon as they will be testified that he had planned the everything was set. All was ac- sick and don't think about it, you
redistributed their fate will * improve. Anti-Semitism in the countries meeting along with the other two counted for and the motors start- don't get air sick.
To while away the time, I play-
with no legal restrictions is caused by their concentrating in the and that he had received two let- ed with a roar. We taxied out on
the field for our take-off. Nobody
cities. While they owe their success to their abilitie' only, the ma- ters from Maertz confirming his spoke. Everybody was busy with ed a game. I would look down at
the blue-green ocean and watch
attendance. He was unable to pro-
jority does not like their competition."
duce these letters to the court. his own thoughts and everybody the breakers and try to figure out
was
scared
to
death,
yet
afraid
He acknowledges the great contribution of the Jews to the culture However, Mr. Shapiro brought
the shapes the white foam would
take. I saw clowns, and dragons,
of the world, and, finally, he warns the world that by persecuting the forth a photostatic copy of a let- to admit it even to themselves.
The motors were finally warmed and fish and birds. The hours
ter from Maertz which said in
Jews and depriving them of their rights in society the majority may part:
up and we were given the signal went by. with some of us playing
endanger its own future. The article is cool, objective and informa-
"I shall definitely be at your to take off. The plane roared cards, some of us sleeping, some
tive and in that lies it quality and value.
meeting, you can expect good down the runway and after what just talking and others looking at
work from me. The Jews might seemed ages, actually 12 seconds, the water.
Suddenly, someone spotted what
we were in the air, circling the
not like it. Ha, ha."
field. Every neck was craned to looked like land. Sure enough, it
Kurts said that he could not re-
the windows for a last look at was the coast of France.
6
member receiving this letter, but Washington from the air.
We flew over France at 1500
the signature of Maertz was not
By PHINEAS K. BIRON
Up we went to about 9,000 feet feet. It was just getting dusk. The
contested.
land looked very fertile and very
into the clouds.
Joseph A. G. Kellman identified
well kept. There were green patch-
ACTION PLEASE! ...
Our
route
had
been
changed.
the anti-Semitic material which
es and brown patches, all evenly
Attention Mr. Hannegan, Postmaster General, Washington . . A was passed out at the October ses- We were going by way of New- laid out. The newly tilled soil
foundland,
Stephensville,
Harmon
"Patriotic Mother's" outfit is openly mailing out thousands of printed sion, while Lt. Col. William Ber-
looked as if a giant hand had
folders--the worst anti-Semitic stuff yet produced by any anti-Jewish man, National Executive Secretary Field (named after Tommy Har- smoothed out the rough spots.
organization . . . The folder is signed "Central Conference of Rabbis" of the JWV, testified as to the dis- mon, the football player), then Most of the land was used—there
Washington, D. C. and features the slogan "Back the Attack with War tribution of this literature. Several Santa Maria, Azores, then Paris, was very little forest land.
Bondg"... Although the piece is dated January 1944, it is being mailed other witnesses stated that Maertz France, and on to Frankfurt, Ger-
It grew dark all too quickly.
now . . . The main section reads as follows: "We, the Jewish Nation had brought along a grip and suit- many.
Then it got rough. We were
trust you have had a Happy Holiday. If your dear ones were not with , case full of anti-Semitic matter,
Once the plane levelled off, we bounced around quite a bit and
you, be consoled and happy in the knowledge that they were doing and that Elmhurst and Mertig began to relax. Riding in an air- finally after 21/2 hours over
their duty to save God's Chosen People, and by their sacrifice they had helped him pass them out to plane, at 9,000 or 10,000 feet, will France, we saw the lights of
have made it possible to keep Jewish boys and girls busy at home street hawkers, for sale to the always be an exciting experience Paris. We circled Paris twice.
making uniforms for Christians on the fighting front and the wheels
for me.
The streets looked like tiny strings
of industry turning. Should they never return, take pride in the fact United Jewish War Veterans of the
We began chatting and talking of pearls, all entangled. The Eiffel
THEY DIED TO SAVE THE JEW. Fathers and mothers of our
d. States is one of the fore- about what we were about to ex- Tower was the easiest landmark
fighting boys do your part as you did this past Christmas in furthering most militant organizations In the perience. Some of us played gin to find, just like the Empire State
our financial empire. BUY MORE UNITED STATES WAR BONDS combatting of undemocratic forc- rummy, others stretched out on Building.
AND KEEP OUR COUNTRY FREE." .. .
es, groups and individuals in Am- blankets and rested or slept on
We landed at Orly Field, Paris,
erica.
the floor of the plane. Others just at 5:30 p.m., Paris time. All to-
CORRESPONDENCE,.
Its membership, consisting of sat looking out at the snowy gether we had lost 6 hours, chang-
Robert Davidson of Pittsburgh writes: "In your column of the
white clouds that resembled thou- ed our watches ahead 3 times.
14th you take the Anti-Defamation League to task for its approval of over 400 posts, throughout the na-
of snowy white balls of cot-
The last lap of our air trip with
Ford's ads: I am not a Ben Brith at present, but in justice to the tion, is composed solely of men sands
t „ n all bunched together.
the ATC was over. From Paris to
' A.D.L. I wish to say that a new item in the press last week stated and women who served in the —
After seven hours of flying, we Frankfurt we would go either by
in effect that Ford is not only trying to stop that insidious propaganda fighting forces of the country.
a rrived at Harmon Field at 5:30 EATS (European Air Transport
in Latin America, but has also invoked the aid of the State Depart-
p.m., Newfoundland time. Ste- Service) or by train.
ment in Washington to assist him in putting a stop to it" ... Sorry to
phensville is a bleak, cold, snowy
We checked our baggage at Or-
disagree . . . but the anti-Semitic literature under Ford's name still
place. The airfield is tremendous. ly Field and took a funny French
circulates in Latin America. . .
The army buildings are new and bus to Paris. The bus was com-
SALUTE TO EDDIE . .
freshly painted. We got off the pletely blacked out. The driver
plane and went Into the office. We sat up front, with a partition sep-
We are indebted to Walter Winched for this wonderful story on
were told the weather was bad arating him from the passengers.
Eddie Cantor's love for people. Eddie Cantor was in Boston supervis-
and that we would stay there that The scats were arranged so that
ing "Nellie Bly," a new show. Having a few hours to spare he phoned
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night.
nearby Chelsea Naval Hospital and volunteered to give the boys an
you sat four in a booth — two on
We had a delicious warm din- each side facing each other. There
impromptu song-and-dance . . . The hospital was tickled--so many of ated by the British, he declared.
the invalids were well enough to visit their kin or friends—that the He criticized the British colonial ner, for 40c, and were taken to was a conductor on the back
ones who stayed behind were lonely and depressed . . . Cantor brought policy as based on the principle our billets, the women at the platform. The bus ran at about
along Thelma Carpenter, Leonard Sues and Bea Walker . . . After of "divide and rule," and charged nurses' quarters and the men to 10 miles an hour from the airport
entertaining the vets they went to the mental ward . . . There one the British administration with the "DeGinque" Hotel. All hotels to Place Vendome, our destination
weary soldier called to Eddie, "You're swell, Al!" The star realized the using the ex-Mufti of Jerusalem on army bases for transients are in Paris. I recognized in the dimly
ill veteran thought Cantor was Jolson. Eddie did n& correct him to foment trouble. As a former called the "DeGinque" Hotel.
lit streets' as we passed the Arch
Our quarters were very nice. de Triomphe, the Tuillerles Gar-
even when the had requested, "April Showers, Al" . . . Cantor rendered admirer of the British, he had
"April Showers," Jolson's theme song and the Jolson fan was the last come to his present convictions Clean rooms, warm and comfort- dens, the Seine and the Louvre. I
to stop applauding .. .
only after inner struggle, he tes- able with fresh linen on soft beds. recognized such names as Houbi-
tified.
We were all invited to the Officers gunt, Hudnut, Mark Cross, and
ABOUT PEOPLE . .
Schlaparelli on the shop windows.
Queried by Dr. Frank Aydelot- Club.
Dean Dixon, negro conductor of the American Youth Orchestra is te, one of the American members
The Officers Club was very nice . At No. 7 Place Vendome, ATC
doing more for democracy in action than many an organization . . . of the committee, as to what he It was a long building with tables, headquarters in Paris, we were
The American Youth Orchestra is a Musical League of Nations, White, would do if Arabs resisted the a dance floor, and bar. If I didn't put into those funny little French
negro, Jewish Italian and virtually every nationality are represented in immigration of Jews from Eu- kn ow we were way up in New-
taxis with peculiarly sounding
this unique musical organization . . . Lew Brice, Fannie's brother is rope into Palestine, Prof. Ein- f o undland, I would have thought horns. Our driver drove like mad,
opening a night club in New York, in case you're interested . . . Ben stein replied that "this will not
was in one of the better New through dimly lit streets, narrowly
Cohen played a rather important part in the recent Moscow confer- be the case if they
Yo rk night clubs.
missing pedestrians and bicyclists
are not in-
ence . . . There is an Edward G. Robinson museum in Texas . . . All
A t 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning, us if by magic.
cited," Questioned by Dr. Aydelotte
the deadly instruments used by him in movies . . . Friedman Yellin, concerning political versus cul- We were again alerted and boarded
My billet in Paris was the Cali-
the leader of the Palestine Terrorist "Stern Gang" belongs to the tural Zionism, he stated, "I was OU r plans for the next hop to San- fornia Hotel, a very luxurious
family of the late scholar David 'Yellin ... Marc Chagall's daughter is never for
to
Muria,
Azores.
Some
of
Ow
place with a "lift" that carried 3
a political state,"
now in Europe locating his paintings which the Nazis confiscated . . .
pus stingers had partied too well,
Judge Joseph
Hutcheson, an d we were a pretty worn-out people and went up through Iron
Major Henry Doubilet, surgeon, university professor and one of
grating beautifully ornate just
\America's keenest research minds is back in civilian life . . Hunry, American cliai rum n of the inquiry gro up that boarded the plum..
like you see In the movies,
Incidentally, is the son-in-law of Paul Baerwald, father, nurse and coilimission, then asked Prof. Ein-
A t 6 a.m , we took off once more
My billet was a beautiful suite
stidn whether the Palestine probe for the Azores. It was pitch black
mid-wife of the Joint Distribution Committee ..
km could be handled other than out side. At about 7 a.m., the sun which had it foyer, bedroom , bath-
room and balcony. The furniture
on u political basis. Jt war to this
an to rase. From 10,000 feet war ornate, the rugs luxurious,
question that the Jewish scientist
in the air, u sunrise Is just betiu• the fixtures beautiful and the bed
replied that he was against * tlfu
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Jewish State, but not fur the 1/11/11e
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reasons as Rosenwald.
Is nixed with blue sky and finally
Asked by Judge Hutcheson why II ed ball of fire hits this sky and of those European plionve.
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it wits to liritaink interest to for all Is lit up. The clouds beeinn, ,
to dinner. The food was excellent
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