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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

And the LEGAL CHRONICLE

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

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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

Vol. 48, No. 35

Publisher, CY AARON

Man. Ed. NATHAN J. KAUFMAN

FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1946 (Elul 3, 5706)

Detroit 26, Michigan

Adler on Palestine

The Truth Is Out

At a time when so many front pages
scream out their hysterical headlines on
the Palestine crisis and editorials dodge
or pervert the issue either because of
misinformation or Anglophile bias, it is
heartening to read as complete and lucid
.a series as that of Philip A. Adler in the
Detroit News.
Adler is Detroit's best informed re-
porter on the problems of European peo-
ples and his series last spring on Poland
and Czechoslovakia was an enviable piece
of reporting.
His articles in the News in the past
two weeks on the Palestine problem re-
veal that he has a comprehensive under-
standing of the background of the issues
and' of the interplay of petty Colonial Of-
fice intrigues that have caused so much
damage to the Jewish cause.
Adler realizes that the Palestine situ-
ation is only a small part of the great
world conflict that is slowly shaping up
between the East and the West and rec-
ognizes the part that the race for oil and
military bases is playing in the matter.
In addition to repeating some of the
tragic story only too well etched in Jew-
ish memories, such as the British bar-
barism of the Patria and Sturma incidents,
he has presented many new facts that
lie garnered on his trip to Europe in the
spring.
If all reporters stuck to the truth as
Adler does, there would be much more
sympathy to Jewish aspirations and the
newspapers would acknowledge that the
Jewish patriots in Eretz Israel no more
deserve the labels of "terrorist" and
"gangster" than did the Maquis in
France.

The British government in its recent
statement justifying its brutal conduct in
Palestine has attempted to buttress its
claim to world sympathy by protestations
of friendship for Jews generally and foi
Jewish refugees in particular. But the
hypocrisy of the statement is evident on
its surface. No self-respecting power
would publicly lay claim to prior acts of
generosity—even if the claim were an
honest one--as a justification for subse-
quent acts of depravity. But what are the
facts?
Was it an act of humanitarianism to
issue the Palestine White Paper of 1939,
when it was apparent, even to the least
politically mature, that Hitlerite Germany
was on the eve of embarking on a wai
that would claim Europe's Jewry as its
first victim? Was it an act of generosity
to abide by the criminal provisions of the
black power even while hundreds of
thousands of Jews were perishing in the
flames? By what standards of morality
can Britain justify its flagrant disregard
of promises and commitments? What
ethical reasons can there be behind the
policy of shutting Palestine's gates to the
most pitiful survivors of Hitlerism—the
stateless and the homeless? By what
measure of Chritian piety can a Christian
nation justify a policy of callousness to
..sne suffering of hundreds of thousands?
By what principals of decency can Britain
justify shooting and incarcerating Jewish
men and women in Palestine while at
the same time admitting that it had armed
those men and women in the struggle
against the very fascism which was so
wide-spread in the Arab world? By what
sophistry can Britain • justify a course of
aiding with the Arabs, who were actual
if not overt foes in the war, while op-
posing the Jews who bled alongside Brit-
ish tommies in the struggle to halt Hitler
from engulfing the Middle East?
There is a cardinal principle in law
which says that he who seeks equity
must show equity, that he who seeks
equity must come to court with clean
hands. Is Britain coming before the court
o f world public opinion with clean hands?
But this is not the end of the story.
Additional light on British "morality"
was cast this week . by seized records. of
the Abwehr, Germany's counter-intelli-
gence service, showing that the ex-Mufti
of Jerusalem had been an intimate col-
laborator in planning anti-Allied dyna-
miting and revolts in Arab lands and that
the Mufti's activities were known to the
British government before the notorious
Arab leader made his mysterious escape
from France. The Mufti is now in Egypt,
and is one of the important cogs in plan-
ning Arab strategy against the Jews.
Why, in the light of the Abwehr revela-
tion, and the previously known facts, has
he not been placed on the international
war criminals list? Is a war criminal no
war criminal because he might be utilized
in further acts of criminality against
Jews?
But if that were not enough to show
up the hypocrisy of the British statement,
further evidence was provided by Britain
herself in calling in Arab legionnaires
from Transjordan to quell the unrest in
Palestine. Is the British government plan-
ning a blood-bath on the Jewish com-
munity in Palestine and laying the
groundwork for an excuse by calling in
"uncivilized" Arabs?

More Dismissals Needed

The dismissal of Sir Frederick Morgan
as chief of UNRRA displaced persons
operations in Germany will cause no tear
shedding, except perhaps in the circles
which. came to his staunch defense when
he made his notorious assertion that
"rosy-cheecked" Jews from Poland were
fleeing to Germany with "pockets-full"
of money.
Fiorello H. LaGuardia, the dauntless
director-General of UNRRA, was reported
to have denied that Morgan's statement
about the Jews was a factor in his dis-
missal. But then again, Mr. LaGuardia
also was reticent when asked to comment
on a report that Morgan had been re-
lieved of his post because he accused
Russia of using UNRRA as an umbrella
for spy activities. Whatever the case,
Morgan's exodus from UNRRA eliminates
an official who had little understanding
of his task and even less sympathy for
the victims whose plight he was to alle-
viate.
However, the Morgan incident serves to
call attention to a situation that demands
immediate mending. While it is true that
UNRRA has on the whole clone a credit-
able job, there is no denying the fact
that many of its personnel were woefully
lacking in the qualifications required in
the handling of such a humanitarian task
as rehabilitating broken lives. There have
been too many instances of middle-level
UNRRA officials displaying either total
callousness to the traady of the homeless
and destitute Jews or open hostility to
the survivors of Hitlerism. But with the
imminent dissolution of UNRRA, the
Hank Is Through
homeless Jews face even a worse situ-
ation. The interim period between the
When the Detroit Tigers take the field
dissolution of UNRRA and the establish- in their opening game next spring, a new
ment of a substitute body may prove an figure will be coverting around first base.
unduly hard one Tor the Jewish survivors,
Big Hank Greenberg, the greatest of all
particularly if the relief activities during Jewish baseball players, has decided to
that period are to be handled by the hang up his spikes.
Army. It would be well therefore if our
Hank will be missed by faithful Bengal
Army officials re-examined their files with ; fans. His lusty drives high into the left
a view to weeding out the unqualified, the I field stands will no longer ring in spacious I
hostile and the indifferent. t Briggs Stadium.

Friday, August 30, 1946

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FROM ONE PHILOSOPHER TO ANOTHER
Dear Editor:
In regard to your letter submitted by the Philosopher I would
merely like to snake this comment.
The writer, I gather Is not married and therefore doesn't realize
the depth and understanding it takes to make marriage a success.
rhere are so many trials and tribulations in a marriage when the
religion is the same--that why get married with two strikes against
you. This so called business of love really levels down to one thing
and that is complete respect.
Not being of a religious background that inheritance of being
born a Jew must conic to the surface at one time or another. Oh yes
it can be done—inter-marriage, providing there are no children
involved. They have just finished a war of intolerance, but inter-
marriage will never stop intolerance. Running away from something
has never solved any problems. Does the writer realize that this
love or respect must come from not only the two involved but from
both families? They can not toss aside certain connections unless
we move far from civilization in our own remote world. But can
we completely denounce our religion and have happiness inside?
I would advise Philosopher to read the book called "Wasteland"
and he will find his true mate in the character called "Jake."
ANOTHER PHILOSOPHER

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Book Review

By LEON SAUNDERS

The Fifth Column

Under this title Book Review, Alexandre Koyre writes an ex-
haustive article on the subject of fifth columnists. The above ap
peared in the quarterly review which appeared under the headinF.
"Renaissance," and was issued by the Free School of Higher studies
in New York. The language is French. While the issue appeared in
1945 and the author talks of the peace in the future, the subject
nevertheless is still alive.
"One does not talk about the fifth column anymore," the writer
starts his subject. One can also repeat that people do not talk about
the subversive forces which undermine democracy, and these forces
are very much alive. We will refer to them as the fifth columns,
for the name of such activity is not important. It is, of course, well
known how the name came about. When the Fascists were advancing
on Madrid, Franco said, "The four columns which are approaching
Madrid will be aided by the fifth which is there already." The ex-
pressien gripped the imagination of the world and a meaning was
born: The fifth columnist—the friend of the enemy.
While the word is new the Idea is old like the expression, "Out
friends the enemies." And while the idea Is old, history does not
record any event of such magnitude when parts of nations would
lictlaw their own country to the enemy. The Spanish revolution and
Hitler's conquests brought the idea to the fdre. Every army in the
A'01•:(1 was instructed about the two kinds of enemies, the exteriot
and the interior, differentiating with each country. In Russia the
interior enemy was invariably, the socialist or the patriot. In Austria.
it was the Slav who demanded autonomy. Irredentism everywhere
was always considered by the state as the interior enemy.
Thcn there is the question of the solidarity and the position of
the working class in relation to national solidarity. The fifth column
Is a social phenomenon. It is opposed to the state or to the com-
munity. It may consist of a class fighting against the ruling class,
or a part of the population against another part, or a minority na
tionnhty against the ruling nationality.
The most irritating phase of the ideological war is the constant
reference to it as a war for ideas, a war against tyranny or against
fasc:sm. Actually democracies defended themselves against Invasion
and enslavement, and the fight took place because the enemy used
arms. Against ideologies endangering the democracies, nobody thought
of putting up a fight for nobody wars on ideologies. The only excep
tion perhaps was the war Wilson and Churchill organized against
the Russian revolution, for the new Ideology was endangering their
class privileges. The Frenchmen did not fight for the republic but for
the French Republic as the English did for the British Common.
wealth, and it was necessary to invoke the slogan "Country." Russia
had to instill courage in the hearts of the Russian soldiers, for com-
munism or Marxism did not have the force to make them resist
heroically at Stalingrad. Saint Russia, Russian Empire and Land of
Soviets are names and slogans better adapted to fight for the abstract
ideas of Marxism.
His thesis maintains that the fifth is organized and functions
under the direction of and for the benefit of the oligarchic cliques.
They have to defend their possessions and they stop at nothing tc
do that. M. E. Mireau, the editor of the Parisian paper, Le Temps
and a member of the first Vichy cabinet, stated quite frankly:
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