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Friday, September 27, 1946

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

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DR. WISE REVIEWS A 'LAMENTABLE YEAR'

It might have been thought that
the climax of sorrow had been
reached and passed during the war
years. It is barely disputable that
the yeir which followed the war
years has in some respects been
even more dismal than the unutter-
able years that went before. After
the triumph of the Allied nations
and their war forces, there seemed
reason to expect that there would
come to pass an almost immediate
amelioration of the unbearable
Jewish lot.
For one thing it had been justi-
fiably assumed that when the civil-
ized nations began to understand
how terrible had been the hurt,
how vast the losses, suffered by the
Jewish people, they, the Great
Powers, would without delay act
perhaps together in order to bring
some measure of healing if not re-
dress to the terribly depleted ranks
of the Jewish people in European
lands.
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WAR ON CIVILIZATION
Moreover, it was felt by the not
unreasoning among us that the al-
lied nations representing Christen-
dom, free from the forces of sav-
agery incarnate in the Axis nations,
would recognize that Hitler's as-
sault upon mankind and freedom
had been much more than an anti-
Jewish outburst, that the Nazi war
was waged against the foundations
and development of the Hebraeo-
Christian way of life with its ideal-
isation of human freedom, of hu-
man justice, of human faith, of
human charity.
It had been imagined, too, that
the great and victorious Powers,
even though ultimate reparation
might be delayed, would at once
undertake to bring about such res-
titution to the bereft and impov-
erished Jews of European lands as
would make their life in some de-
gree livable once again.
Other reasons there were which
touched the seared heart of Jewry
to hope, including the feeling that
our own country, America, would
take an almost aggressive lead in
seeking to repair some of the im-
measurable damage which had
been inflicted upon Jewish life,
Jewish status, Jewish possessions.
The fact is that while the new
President of our country within a
few months after his inauguration
made a notable, though thus far
completely frustrated, proposal to
the British Government, our coun-
try, alas! has taken little account
of the woe of the Jewish people the
world over save for the Jewish resi-
dents of our own country and the
English-speaking lands.
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the only mercy vouchsafed these
unhappy beings. It must in fairness
be added that General Clark in Au.
stria and the Czechoslovakian Gov-
ernment did what could be done by
an Army of Occupation in a foreign
land, and by a neighboring govern.
ment, to make place and give hos-
pitality to the most wretched of
peoples in flight. The writer has
recently seen the Displaced Persons
in one of the best of their camp ,
These do not really complain, th °
is,othese have not yet entered upo;
the stage of revolt. But certain it is
that Jewish Displaced Persons
could hardly be unhappier than
they are, and if their slight hope
become hopelessness, their despera-
tion may move them to abandon
the hope of Palestine for some
measure of toleration in any coun-
try to which they repair.
The third and greatest Jewish
sorrow of the year has been bound
up as is known everywhere with
the British Government and Pale.

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One Cardinal has spoken out in ONLY ACTS OF MERCY
terms which are a subtle incite-
Verily the friendliness shown the
ment to the continuance of blood- Jewish Displaced Persons in the
letting; another Cardinal has chos- American military zone was almost
en to be utterly silent at a time
when the Jews in Poland, 3,300,000
in 1939, find themselves tragically
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reduced to numbers which will end
in a Jewish population of one per
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cent of that of 1939. It had even
been dreamed that the head of the
Roman Catholic Church would, in
the spirit of his predecessor and in-
deed of Christianity at its highest
and truest, speak the word which
might spell the end of such attacks
upon Jews as have put them to
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their final flight from the land of
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Poland in which they have lived
for a thousand years. Up to this
h hour the word has not been spoken

spects our hopes have been denied.
And, what is even graver, elemen-
tary justice has been denied to the
Jewish people, who have not mere-
ly suffered greatly during the war
years but in numbers, in measure
and in spirit have endured more
than any other people.
We speak first of the Displaced
Persons' Camps which the writer
of this editorial has recently visited.
What could be more mournful than
the lot of those Jews who after
having undergone the horror over
a period of years of the Concentra-
tion Camps have, since the day of
European victory, one and a half
years ago, continued to live within
camps wherein they exist not as
prisoners of brutality but as almost
hopeless and despondent dwellers.
Not only do they live in the Dis-
placed Persons' Camps who sur- 0
vived the Concentration Camps, but
to their numbers have been added
a stream of Jews whose flight has
been chiefly from Poland, become
for them a land of measureless
wrong and blood-letting.

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well with, of course, some excep-
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sympathetic officers and handsfull
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dents are Jewish refugees. Thee school is once of many industrial ident's earnest and repeated re-
and agricultural training projects conducted by ORT for refugees quest, dating back a full year, that
and other war victims throughout the world. Training and other one hundred thousand displaced
services equip needy Jews with trades that they can use to earn a persons be permitted to enter into
living wherever they settle eventually. Many ORT graduates are in Palestine.
Palestine.
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appointments of the Jewish people
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been bound up with the failure
Little will be gained by drawing
up a general indictment of the of the dominant Church of Poland
to avert pogroms and slaughter.
world after the horrors of the war,
not because indictment would in f
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a wearisome occupation for the GREETINGS TO ALL
tribe of human perfectionists. And
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LEO GROSSMAN

and terror continues to haunt the
minds and to dog the steps of
Jews, who after the uttermost of
suffering and sorrow must now
cross the inhospitable frontiers of
Poland's neighboring countries.

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