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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Book Review

STRICT ICON IIDENTIATo

LaKritz to Be Soloist

Where the "master race" of Ger-
many
We present to
displayed their evil passion!
you this week
as o u r guest Entire families were doomed
columnist, AI -
to shameful degradation.
bert David But- They Raped, they Flogged, thy
I e r . . . NV,
Maimed, they Killed;
feel that his
Age had no consideration!
poem is morc
timely than
They were Worked to Death and
eve- . . Now
Starved to Death,
Nurem-
and killed by Suffocation!
l••- Trials ap-
They were Shot, and Gassed, and
proach their final
:Ilse.
Burnt alive
to speed Extermination!
IN MEMORIAM
Dedicated to the Judges of the
They slaughtered Infants, Moth-
Nuremburg Trials
ers, Fathers,
By Albert David Butler
at a terrific pace . . .
There's a Monument :n Germany
To make room for exalted rulers
surpassing all the rest
of the "master race" .. . !
For its horrible significance
Which left the world aghast!
There's a Monument in Germany
Like a great and towering moun-
the Germans can't erase,
ROSINA BETMAN LaKRITZ
For they're Crimes against Hu-
tain,
manity
Rosina Betman LaKritz, well
reaching high into the sky,
known Detroit soprano,' will be
committed by that race!
Made with Souls of all the millions
the soloist for the evening when
who were sentenced there to die!
This immense and gruesome edi- Eve Meister, teacher of dramatic
Like a huge 'immortal Monument
art, presents her pupils in a Dra-
fice,
matic Art Recital on Wednesday.
marking every little grave
built by Nazi Bloody' hands,
May 29, at 8:30 at the Detroit
Filled with broken, twisted bodies Will forever cast a Shadow
Institute of Arts.
Of Humanity — betrayed!
over the entire Land!
Other soloists will be Barbara
There were Gentiles and Jews
Renton, ballet dancer, and eight-
This visionary Monument
for whom Naiis had no use;
year-old Phyllis Pullberg who will
will be, till Judgment Day,
do song and dance routines. Dotd
Undesirable -- because of
A Shrine for all the Lives
Bregman will be the accompanist.
different views .. . .
the Nazis took away.
Tickets will be on sale at the
Or because of their Religion,
These Souls now sit in Judgment door.
or • because of different Race,
unto Eternity . . .
In the new and mighty "order" And Judge the deeds of infamy,
Australia expects $14,800,000 of
this "rabble" had no place!
which bears a frightful Penalty! German property as reparations.
It's a visionary Monument
which the world will always see
As a Symybol to man's Vanity
and stupid Bigotry . . . .

By Phineas J. Biron

By LEON SAUNDERS

Arc De Trlump!) .

By ERIC REMARQUE
The Arc of Triumph has no connection with Eric Maria Remar
que's popular novel, "Arc De Triumph," recently published, except
that it is in Paris, which is also the locale of the story.
The book is a typical Remarque work. The central figure is the
same type of a frustrated man, who finds himself out of place in his
surroundings.
In "All Quiet on the Western Front," in "The Road Back" and in
"Three Comrades," the hero is spiritually, morally and intellectually
far above his milieu, his associations and his work. As in the Greek
tragedy he is Prometheus bound by forces he cannot overcome.
The hero of the novel is a Dr. Ravic, assumed name of a famous
German surgeon who escaped from a concentration camp.
He earns his living by performing operations for French wirgeors
who exploit his skill and take advantage of his illegal status in Paris.
The novel touches very little on anything but the life and do-
ings of Dr: Ravic. It gives glimpses of Jewish refugees, a rich, ex-
patriate American woman, a Russian general who serves as a door-
man in a cabaret. Everything else is I)r. Ravic. I)r. Ravic performs
no heroic deeds. lie does not fight the Gestapo. Ile does not help
refugees escape from France. Ile is just trying to survive and, if
possible, he wants to survive the Germans in Paris. After he has
been deported to Switzerland for 3 months, he returns to Paris.
Only one thing he does in an heroic and popular novel way. He
kills the Gestapo agent who tortured him and his fiancee in Ger-
many.
The rest of the whole novel, which holds your interest to the end
in spite of Urn lack of action and heroic deeds, is devoted to Ravic's
goings and comings and his stormy relations with a woman he helped
in adversity. This woman, a cabaret singer, whom the author definite.
ly marks as not pretty, attaches herself to Ravic and then turns beau-
tiful.
The cause of the turmoil and struggle between them is not only
that Ravic does not love her as she loves him, but that this "femme
fatale" type of woman, this kind of a Dostoyevskian "integral" Nas-
tasya Philipovna, does not think that living with another man ha:,
anything to do with her loving Ravic, and should not affect him. And
although Ravic is a man without prejudices or inhibitions, he still
not broadminded enough to condone that.
Ravic, the central figure of the novel is portrayed as a strong
man, a man of Indomitable will, unshaken convictions and thoroughly
disillusioned in the world. But being also decent and civilized, he
continues to help more unfortunate people than himself. These ac-
tions of his, the naturalness of his conduct and of his views make him
appear a real man and not a stilted hero.
Only in his relations with the woman, Joan, he appears to be un-
certain of his own mind and his attitude towards a situation like that.
The relationship between Ravic and Joan is brought on by tht ■
feeling of loneliness, suffering and need to help. She repeats continually
that without him she is lost, which does not prevent her from get-
ting on splendidly during his absence. She is not pictured as a co-
quette; she just does not understand the requirements of society, and
she meets a tragic end.
We don't believe that the author intended to create a Childe Har-
old in Ravic. He just picked a man around whom he has woven r
canvai of life in Paris under the French government before the last
war. An aura of despair and futility always pervades Remarque's
novels,. despair over the futility of it all. People suffering in hospitals
and enjoying themselves in cabarets; love flourishing and dying; in a
free country, people hiding in cellars because they have no passports.
A porter, a former Russian general, when he heard a Jewish child
ask, "Mother, why are we Jewish?" exclaims, "Too much is too much.
I, a former anti-Semite am saying it."
The title, "Arc of Triumph," was taken as a symbol of contra-
diction, This. symbol of triumph, of victories, this arc is under a threat
of invasion bji evil forces which will make a mockery out of all the
triumphs this arc has witnessed.
"Arc of Triumph" is not a gay book to read, but being a well writ-
ten book, It forces one to think and to feel more deeply.

GfER0

Friday, May 17, 1946

ABRAHAM LUDWIG

To a godless generation
of a modern civilization
Whose exaggerated passion
was for Weld domination.

They were arrogant and boastful,
Unscrupulous and Cruel;
They reasoned that the weak alone
lived by the Golden Rule.

They "scrapped" the Ten Com-
mandments;
lost all human Decency.
The "new order" had no use
For Justice, Love, or Sympathy.

"We're the master race!" they
shouted,
"Pure" and "Noble braves!"
"We" were born to be the Rulers
All the rest were "slaves!"

There's a Monument in Germany
that's fearful to behold
For the countless deeds of infamy
that records do unfold.

Box

All the weaker conquered nations
Dear Editor:
soon Were doomed to subjuga-
We fought a war to give peace to our brethren. What can that
tion,
peace be without food, clothing, medical supplies, a home and other While entire populations
necessities that make life worth living? Why did we liberate them, if
suffered wholesale deportation.
we are to forget them?
We, of America, can only express of ourselves with food, clothing
and medical supplies to be shipped to them for present emergency Nazi Concentration Camps
were filled from every Nation
relief. The Women of Bnai Brith in Detroit have pledged themselves
that no brother in Europe will be hungry, cold or sick because of the
inability to secure the proper relief.
Wd appeal to the wholesale and retail grocers to donate food, the
wholesale and retail drug firms, for vitamins, and to all the lodges to
run food showers and gather old clothing. Bring all donations to tho
SOS clothing station at Dexter and Burlingame or call Mrs. Shulman,
HO. 9419, chairman, Greater Detroit Women's Council of Bnai Brin
in conjunction with the SOS Drive.
100 TABLETS 354
We are also desperately in need of more helpers and appeal tc
persons to aid in our cause by coming in to wrap packages.
WORLD'S LARGEST SELLER AT 104
MRS. NETTIE SHULMAN

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egos

Yes, your tuition up to $500 per ordi-
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of college, business or trade school.
You also receive $65 per month
living allowance—$90 if you have
dependents. This is the opportunity
open, upon their discharge, to men
over 18 (17 with parents' consent)
who enlist in the new Regular
Army before October 6, 1946, for 3
years. Get all the facts at your U.S.
Army Recruiting Station.

2985 E. JEFFERSON ST., DETROIT

Hundreds Turned Away from Center
As 800 Teen-Agers Hold Rally

Over 800 teen-agers attended a
rally at the Jewish Community
Center on May 13 sponsored by
the Intercultural Youth Comrfrit-
tee of Detroit to honor Frank
Sinatra for his outstanding leader.
ship in promoting better inter-
racial understanding.
Hundreds of boys and girls
were turned away as the Center
auditorium facilities became inad-
equate to house those who came.
Youth speakers representing
Negro, Catholic, Protestant, Jew-
ish and Nisei youth groups urged
the teen.agers to throw their full
support behind the committee in
Its permanent fight against ra-
cial and religious discrimination.
"Nothing is more vital for us
today, -, said Harry Minis of the
Jewish Community Center, "than
to get to- know and understand
each other better, Negro and
white, Jew and Gentile, Catholic
and Protestant, united against our
common enemies." Other youth
speakers reiterated the same
theme of common understanding
and cooperation among all races
and religions.

An exciting rendition of "Bal-
lad for Americans" and group
singing of "The House I Live In"
were highlights of the program.
Twenty-three youth organiza-
tions participated in the organiza-
tion of the rally.

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HENRI GOLDBERG, Director

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