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By AL SEGAL

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A htfl)t Ihreo filiartuto a a rentury ago,
there was only ono Je%tah cemetery in
the city of fietroit, Located on Smith

Street, near 4 11 4 e Ph I ' il mpAli, in the heart
of the business 110,(41011 of the city, that

cemetery today 0311(14 grim 40/1 neglected,
At Aro., there were three sharers in the
graveyard lots, the Silk:trey Zedek Syn-

sgogue, the grad Israel and the Kash
Moho, As tune went on, on. thirty-five

hundred (lead were laid to rest there,
ma rkers were set up,

TofhltAfItlI•A and

Visitors and mourners, canto and

went,

The gob warn Ccroctcry was It 0111'1!
That 1'0111W/1e/1 010110V/ and SOIStee,
More, time, went, on, A genera) appkar-
iillee Of Hilted begat,' to pervade the

peaceful atmosphere, Headstones fell and
were never raised again, Inclement weath-
er wore away Inscriptions which were
never replaeed, Isirkers disappeared, It, IA
new estimated that forty 1/11(1fIll, Or Ihi•
graves are unmarked and there is no way
to tell who the bodies were that lie there
in everlasting peace,
In the barbarism of Europe, through•
out the centuries, whenever there was A

massacre of Jaws, it was invariably fol.
lowed by A spoliation (A the tombstones

of the deed, The vicious savage* who
tortured the Jews sibmehow sensed the
reverence which the Jaws hold for the
place where their deed sleep, In this
cemetery, the vandals are the wind and
the rein, tho arch villien Is Time And
his chief Ally Is Neglect,
At, long boil, however, the reeling that
/41/d/ /1 condition Is it disgrace to the com-
munity is beginning to permeate In the
minds of those who make ft their duty to
see that community needs are setts/led,
Any editor of this kind must come from
public spirited eitizens beestisse the rirlY-
inal directors of the cemetery have long
111110 , passed away,
In the history of our 'lowish folk, the
need produces the roan, A group of in-
forested citizens have formed A vn-
Wiles. with Morris J, Blumberg no their
chAirmin and !lava &O ► itted that
this sore /pot 1/111111 be heeled And the
cemetery Milli once more be restored to
the hoeuty thMi le its due,
This, however, requires money, The
total i41/111 Heeded will be fro nt 1 WelltY41Ve
to forty thousand (loners, The only place

from Odell Ifik intilley

clifi ('little Is

from

the porkies of those who reel a personal
interest In fills /tine'. bet% 11Se their 11W11
deed He buried there,
In Tillinoille limes, the remelery was
always visited on fast days by pious folk
Who offered prayers 111 the grilvem or Ih. ,

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Sunday newspaper,

In his dying hour Hitler felt he

Should tell the world how he came

Are Your Dead Here?

well!. 10 110.

the saints of yore to wither

ins:4014n for IticIr own piety idol study,

Prim, time Immemitthil, the Jews illIVI'
respo , 04 , 11, alined venerated, the piney
where Ihelr deild eleep,
In an appeal to this fouling which 1►
0111 itro ► N In Jew. today, 'bat eqt ► ignIt.
ON is 1.114111V the survivors of all those

who bra buried In Ow /Bell; ()lam Cu,
meters, to tome fo ► ward with a cow
tribullim to reclaim tills last rusting
place, They are urging all these good
g of filo
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he held
comolory (association
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Seventy years is a long time, Three to his miserable end, Ile wits like
generations 1,f how's, gone but surely not, other people about to cornITIlt )4111.
tide; they write what is known In
forgotten, lie burled in this place, Is one the press am suicide notes,
of them an ancestor or yours? The rec-
Some blame It on love and
ords are gone, the markings are dim, But others en III-health; some On
surely many Jews remember of their own money and others on their wives.
Hitler blamed It all on Jews „
knowledge or have heard from the lips "World
Jewry" „ , "International
of dime relatives where their own dead Jewry" „ "Statesmen of Jewish
lie, If only half of the thirty-five hundred descent,"
who Ile buried here have descendants who
It had always before burned
4Nill pause but for 11 moment to think of me up, as they slay, whenever I
them with respect and love, the mum will read of Hitler hanging everything
on Jews, I had always led a de-
be raised In no time at all,
cent life and all my Jewish friends
So stop to think, Are you one of those are . honorable people, Most of
whose dead lie in a neglected place, bereft them have it messianic Urge to
of the reverence which is their due? Then make this world over In the Godly
Image, To have Hitler put all his
send In your contribution, If you sire in own
sins on me and on them was
doubt, send In your contribution, And if Just too much. I used to waste
you are simply a Jew who feels a sense myself In bootless wrath,
of reverence for those who have gone be-
All the viciousness that he as-
fore us, even though you yourself do not cribed to me, the Jews, was pre-
have anyone in that cemetery, send in chicly his own sin; Ills greed, his
his arrogance, his conspirt-
your contribution anyway, The cause is hate,
cies against human welfare,
indeed worthy,
But now, as I read, that he was

Cheap Politics

Former Prime Minister Winston Chur-
(41111 announces that he Is still opposed to
the White Paper which restricts Jewish
immigration Into Palestine, Ile also terms
himself a "Zionist, from the very begin-
ning,"
It is a pity that the gentleman couldn't
figure out that tie was opposed to the
White Paper when he was In a pOldt1011
to tiliroguto it, Ills present announcement
Is in direct keeping with the kind of po-
litical double talk for which 14:ngland poli-
tical liy,ures have been noted,
ferias ,s Churchill may even remember
the kind or heroic fighting done by the
Jewish brigade at MI Alamein when they
stopped Rommel on the eve Of his greatest
',tweet to the British life line, The steady
unit uninterrupted silence of the British
government, 011 the service, rendered by
Jews in this regard Wan Indeed 011e of
"the hest kept secrets or the war,"
The world will long remember Chid.-
chill for his "blood, sweat and tears"
speech, At a time when England, bruised
seem bloody, stood alone in the racp or
seemingly overwhelming Nazi might, It
needed sin heroic figure like Churchill to
rally Britain to the onslaught,
The wet' is over, Churchill's Imperial's-
tic policies halve been repudiated by the
people he led all through the gory con-
flict, Ile could have retired glory, sure
or a high place in history,
'Indeed, he Is making his bid for a re-
turn to polities and making It on the low-
est political level, that of making cepltal
out or Jewish wretchedness, Fie on you,
Mr, Churchill, You have outlived your
I me,

Tribute to Roosevelt

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blaming Jews for his suicide, I
could feel a certain sweet serenity.
IIo! Ito! Ho I had something to
do with his unhappy end! I had

brought him to this! I called to
my wife with something of gloat-
ing which Is rare in me; "Opt
this! We seem to have had some-
thing to do with Slitter's death!"

I could feel no compunctions of
my conscience, I shut my eyes
amid the pages of the Sunday pa-
per, billowing, cloud-like, around
nee, I dozed pleasantly and soon f
heard three raps of a gavel. The
coroner wits calling the court to
order for an inquest on the death
of Adolph Hitler.

The court room was jammed
with witnesses. They were all
tattered ghosts with no shoes on.
It was brought out that their
shoes had been taken from them
before they died in order to pro-
vide footwear for Germans, These
were the piles of shoes we saw In
the photographs of the German
prison camps after the liberation
last spring,

"We are here to determine the
cause,' of the suicide of Adolph
Hitler," the coroner announced,
Ile called the first witness.

The first witness was a small
girl.
"You are dead?" the coroner
asked,

"I died In the gas chambers at
Dumdum, They said take off your
shoes and they pushed me into
the mien and I died In the gam.
When I smelled it I tried not to
breathe but I died, My mother was

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By CHARLES BENSON

WASHINGTON After a weelc
of intensive daily hearings, the
Anglo-American Committee of In-
quiry on Palestine Is on its way
to London for the next stage in
Its deliberations,
It heard at eonsiderable number
of witnesses and added hundred,'
of thousands of words to the al•
ready much•investigated Palestine
record, F,ven before the final wIt•
nest' left the chair It had become
possible to see how opinion was
developing among some, at heist.,
of the committee numbers, The
Americans, particularly Judge Jo•
mph C, I fist clieson, co-clod I room,
Hartley C, Crum and James M11(. -
Inmald, who were the most artieu•
late, expressed their deep concern
for permanently answering the
need of the Jewish displaced per-
sons in Irairope, lerom the questions
which they put to witnesses, It
seemed that they believed Pitlem•
tine was the answer, Itemember•
leg Tres, Truman's original re-
quest to Prime Minister Attlee for
entrative into Palestine of 100,00o
Jewish refugees In (1111111Uly and
Austria; remembering Judge Ilut•
cheson's persistent littomplm, In Ills
Interrogation of many witnesses,

and his appeal to one particularly
Intransigent Arab witness, for a
spirit of generosity for the "pitiful
remnants" seeking security In Pal-
estine; remembering Mr, McDon-
ald's emphasis on the necessity
for speed adding up theme indi-
cations, they point in the dIrec•
lion of one recommendation. This
may propose the admission of the
100,000, and also suggest that mem-
bers of the United Nations open
their doors to the fragmentary
numbers who may not wish to go
to Palestine,
As for the establishment of it
Jewish commonwealth In Pales-
tine, that, In the opinion of 'Boit
observers, will he the well-known
horse of another color. It is almost
certain that the British members
would not concur in any such rec-
ommendation, A small minority of
the Americans may possibly pro-
pose it, but even this is problem-
atical, More likely may be the
suggestion that the whole matter
be turned over to the United Na-
tions Organization.
Judge Iiiitchoson told this vor•
respondent that he Is and always
has liven it "spiritual Zionist," Ile
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