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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

Friday, August 23, 1946

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And the LEGAL CHRONICLE

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Published Weekly by Jewish Chronicle Publishing Co., Inc., 525 Woodward Ave., Detroit 26, Mich., CA 1040

SUBSCRIPTION: $3.00 Per Year, Single Copies, 10c; Foreign, $5.00 Per Year
Entered as Second-class matter March 3, 1916, at the Post office at Detroit, Mich.,
under the Act of March 3, 1879
Adv Mgr—A. W. SHAFER
Publisher, CY AARON
Man. Ed. NATHAN J. KAUFMAN
Vol. 48, No. 34
FRIDAY,
AUGUST
23,
1946
(Av
26,
5706)
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Detroit 21, Michigan

"Divide and Conquer "

The India Office and the Colonial Of-
fice underlings in London must be rub-
bing their hands in glee these days.

Every American Jew Should
Ponder This

The Post would be inclined to side
with Bob Gamzey, of the Intermountain
"4,000 Perish in India Rioting," the Jewish News in his exchange with S. C.
headlines read, and none is the victor but Kohs, Director of the Bureau of War
British imperialism.
Records of the National Jewish Welfare
Board. Gamzey was irked when on top
But the headlines, only days before, of all the other information the JWB
warned that the India Moslem League had the local Jewish communities gather,
"Direct Action Day" would bring out- it asked for statistics on what specific
breaks and internecine clashes.
branches of service the men had served
in. Gamzey went on to point out that the
Why, then, did not the British troop statistics weren't going to serve any pur-
phalanxes, buttressed by their armored pose because our friends don't need them,
cars, their tanks and their Bren gun car
and the 'anti-Semites will proceed with
riers, either avert the carnage, in the first their lies whatever the figures show.
place, or halt the rioting before it became
Koh's reply to this last point is inter-
a tide of civil warfare and destruction?
esting.
it
Why? Because it was not to Britain's
• • • I do not believe any statistics
interest that the Moslem-Hindu fighting
of any kind whatsoever can cure anti-
be prevented.

It was not to Britain's interest that the
lies of 4,000 simple, deluded Indians be
spared.

It was not to Britain's interest that Jews
and Arabs live peacefully and in brother-
hood in Eretz Israel.

"Divide and conquer," that has been
the keynote of British imperialism for
centuries.

And so, just when independence for
India seemed closer than ever, the battle
between Hindus and Moslems could not
be averted.

When peace may have brought a rap-
prochement between Jews and Arabs,
Britain's colonial officials started to tight-
en the vise.

Such is the policy of "Divide and
Conquer."

America Can Help

During the past year, following the ces-
sation of hostilities, each nation has begun
the work of reconstruction—rebuilding
homes, healing of wounds, reestablishing
security on firmer ground. How different
is the situation of the Jew. He cannot re-
turn to a country where he has been
ruined economically and stripped of moral
and spiritual energy, nor to a continent
soaked with Jewish blood and tears. Mi-
grate to Palestine, the promised land?
He may not. Its gates are closed while
Great Britain fights to maintain control
over that strategic area. The Jew, as al-
ways, is still. the human football, punted
and kicked about on the gridiron of
Europe.

Out of the turmoil of the desperate
Jewish present appears one ray of im-
mediate hope—America. Yet its portals
too are barred, barred by restrictive im-
migration quotas.

Fiorello H. LaGuardia, director general
of UNRRA, recently declared that it was
the humanitarian duty of the U. S. to as-
sume the lead in solving the displaced
persons problem in Europe and that he
would urge Congress when it reconvenes
to pass an emergency act permitting the
entrance of 100,000 displaced persons in-
to the United States over and above the
current United States immigration
schedule.

At the same time, it is believed, in his
counter proposal to Great Britain Presi-
dent Truman suggested the establishment
of a special U. S. immigration quota for
approximately 50,000 displaced Jews.
America has always been the haven
for the oppressed peoples of the world.
It was to this land that the tortured of
generations past came to start life anew.
America, with its vast uninhabited areas,
can still offer solace and the hope of a
bright future to the persecuted peoples
of our own day.

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Semites. We have not done this work
because we are under any illusions
that we can convince the Hitters, the
Pelleys, the Coughlins, or the other'
Jew-baiters of this world. We are gath-
ering these statistics primarily, for
ourselves, for our own information, for
our own self-respect and collective dig-
nity; and secondarily, for those decent
Christians who are interested, in a very
friendly and co-operative way, in us
and in our problems.

"The Bureau of War Records has
been anxious to have answers to all se-
rious, not ridiculous questions, about
what Jews did in this war, for the Jew-
ish children, and the grandchildren of
the editorial writer of the Intermoun-
tain Jewish News — and for the chil-
dren and the grandchildren of all other
parents, both Jewish and non-Jewish,
for generations to come."
Mr. Kohs made a point which, be-

cause it unfortunately is accurate, should
cause every American Jew to pause. Mr.
Kohs says we are gathering the statistics
to prove primarily to us Jews that Jews
were patriotic. It is a gigantic indictment
of the el low state of Jewish morale.
If Jews of today were normal, the
number of Jews who served and the ex-
ploits of a few of the heroes would be in-
formation that should be collected for
historical and other purposes, and that is
all. The very fact of gathering statistics
does incomparable harm to Jewish mo-
rale.

(National Jewish Post, Indianapolis)

Battle Is Not Won

Don't be misled by the favorable turn
in crop prospects for wheat and corn
into relaxing your efforts to save scarce
cereals. World supplies will continue cri
tically short at least until after next year's
harvest, in spite of all the grain that the
United States and Canada can supply.
Need to hold down consumption of
grains both for food and for livestock
urgent, although the larger crop now in-
dicated should make it easier for us to
do our share in the fight against famine
if we use our grain harvest wisely.
Remember, the battle against famine
is not yet won — there's still more hun-
ger in the world than at any time in his-
tory. Individual consumers can help them-
selves and help win the fight against
famine by continuing to eat less scarce
foods, such as cereals and fats, and meats,
by wasting nothing, and by eating more
plentiful foods such as potatoes and sea-
sonally abundant fresh fruits and vegeta-
bles. Use of plentiful foods is always
thrifty. Now it's doubly so as a way of
saving your money and scarce foods —
and thereby help to hold the price line
on scarce foods.

NOT BEFITTING THE TIMES
Dear Sir:
Very recently, I had occasion to attend a large and lavish wed.
ding reception given in a public hall. Several hours before I arrived
at the scene of the festivities, I heard a news broadcast. A number
of refugees In the harbor of Haifa had been placed on a ship in
transit to Cyprus and deportation. In desperation, they attempted
to destroy both their ship and themselves. Surely, human despair
could not sink to any lower depth.
Yet, several hours later, I was attending an ornate dinner, with
most luxurious appointments, the choicest of delicacies, the most
glittering of ornaments and dress. I could not drive the thought from
my mind, how incongruous all of this was, how unreal and un-
wholesome. But for the grace of Providence might we all have been
in the harbor of Haifa, even then.
No one could seriously deny that such an ostentatious display
would have been in very bad taste during the late war. But is it
not true that our people are still at war? Are we not even now
locked in a very life and death battle in Palestine? Then I submit
that such spectacles as I describe are entirely uncalled-for and un.
necessary today. Would it not have been better if the nuptials had
been celebrated by a reception at home and the considerable sum
of money which would have been saved, turned over to a relief or-
ganization? Perhaps a card of explanation could have been sent with
the announcement and told why no ornate affair was being given.
In my humble opinion, at a time when we should be in mourning,
but also imbued with the desire to fight to the end of survival, we
cannot dissipate our time and money in such idle activities. It is
economically wasteful and Morally reprehensible.

A READER.

FAVORS INTERMARRIAGE

Dear Editor:
I read with great interest your inquiring reporter column last
week on intermarriage between Jews and non-Jews. As a Jew, I
have often discussed this matter with others of my race and, of
course, never succeeded in fully driving my viewpoint across.
I'm all In favor of intermarriage. Perhaps that is true because
I live in a modern world far removed from the older Jewish tradi-
tion. Nevertheless, I feel that by intermingling arid intermarrying
with Gentiles, the feeling or the barrier between the two groups will
eventually be eliminated.
During my three years in the service, I have come to know many
fine
Gentile men. During my stops in various USOs throughout the
country, I was received in the best of Gentile graciousness. It would
be hypocritical of me to discriminate when it comes to marriage
(that is, if I were in love with a non-Jewish girl) on grounds of
tradition which dates back in history.
I am not a religious fanatic. If
the problem of religion for my
children arose, I would let them decide which they preferred. They
should choose any of them—Catholic, Protestant or Jewish — or none
at all if they so desired — and I wouldn't object. They all have their
good points.

I'm sure many will not agree with me, and that's alright, too.
PHILOSOPHER.

AHEM!!!
Dear Editor:
Having been a faithful reader of your paper for
some time, I
feel I would like to make some comments pro and con about tht
paper. On the whole, I think the Chronicle an excellent paper and
it certainly covers the Jewish news. But there's one thing that really
irks me, and that is that a paper of such high standards could pos.
sibly allow the infinite
rambling on of your writer Sally Fields? Is
it simply publicity or gross ignorance on the part of the Editor
Personally, I don't think that kind of publicity does any paper any
amount of good. All that space wasted on trash.
When you read articles such as those written by Alfred Segal .
Phinias K. Biron, Frank Beckman and a few others, and then come
across "Hitting the Hi Spots" you, sometimes wonder how an editor
can go from one extreme to another. Why not give those writers I
have hitherto mentioned more space? The Chronicle loses more read-
ers by her trash than they gain. Come on, Mr. Editor, let's clean the
article up and watch the papers sell. A SUBSCRIBER.

Dear Editor:

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IT'S A SAD WORLD

Hardly a week goes by without some mention of the atomic bomb
in your editorials. Haven't we got enough troubles without con.
stantly having to be reminded of that?
The world today is indeed a sad one.
DEJECTED.

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