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Detroit Jewish Chronicle

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And the LEGAL CHRONICLE

Dear Editor:

Dear Editor:

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Vol. 48, No. 40

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1946 (Tishri 9, 5707)

Let the World Atone, Too

A Jewish Bloc Defended

Zionists have been accused of attempt-
ing to establish a political bloc in the
United States. The proposal to use Jewish
political prestige to compel one of the
major parties to live up to its pledges on
Palestine has been assailed as foreign to
the American system of government.

The persons who make these charges
do not know their American history or
the practice of American government.

Blocs have throughout American his-
tory fostered legislation and exerted
pressure for their private interests.

Anglophiles have constantly promoted
better relations with Britain; Negroes
have demanded and won certain rights
for their race; farmers have pushed laws
that put more money in their pockets; the
Americap Legion has maintained a pow-
erful lobby in Washington to promote its
interests and so have manufacturers and
union8 and religious groups and educa-
tional societies.
They have all exercised their rights as
Americans to demand privileges and pro-
, mote legislation for their own minority
groups.
Why, then, is it wrong or unpatriotic
for Zionists to exert pressure as a group
in favor of a measure that all presidents
since Woodrow Wilson, the Congress of
the United States and both major polit-
ical parties have officially declared to be
a principle of American foreign policy;
namely, that Palestine shall be estab-
lished as a Jewish National Home?

Detroit 26, Michigan

In a certain sense, it is ironic that the
Jew must atone this Yom Kippur day.

Whatever the enormity of our personal
transgressions in the past year, the an-
guish we have had to suffer and the dis-
illusionment we have undergone because
the world has been so cruel and pitiless
ought to be sufficient atonement.

It is not we who should proclaim
"Ushamnu"—we have sinned. That should
be the world's cry of repentance.

Not Israel, but the world, should be
crowding the houses of worship to make
amends. And the world's day of atone-
ment should, in justice, stretch through
the centuries and eons before the world
can fully atone for what it has done to
Israel.

Go North, Young Man

It seems to us as we note the continu-
ing shifts to the Northwest area, that the
section bounded by Six and Seven Mile
roads and Livernois avenue and Meyers
road is destined to be one of the largest
and most important Jewish communities
in the city in a very short time.

Divided Allegiance

On behalf of the Zionist Organ'.
zation of Detroit, I wish to take
this opportunity to thank you for
the very fine editorial which ap-
peered in the Rosh Hashonah is-
sue of the Detroit Jewish Chron.
fele in connection with the Zionist
Fund Campaign.
It shows a fine understanding
of the problems which face the
Zionist Organization in its purpose
SUPPORT PRAISED
to arouse public opinion on be-
half of a free Jewish Palestine,
Dear Editor:
I want to express my gratitude and we are indeed grateful for
to you for the excellent support your cooperation.
and cooperation the Jewish Chron-
MORRIS M. JACOBS,
icle rendered in publicizing the
President
progress and activities of the
Northwest Hebrew Congregation.
In order for our children to be- COOPERATION APPRECIATED
come interested in Judaism, the Dear Editor:
home must provide them in early
Thank you very much for the
life with a good foundation in
Jewish customs and traditions. publicity given to the work of
This should be followed by a the Detroit Round Table in your
Hebrew education to enable them special issue of Sept. 27. We ap.
to participate in the religious preciate your sincere interest and
activities of a house of worship. very generous cooperation.
JOSEPH Q. MAYNE,
Our synagogue will now be able
Executive Secretary
to provide this source of spiritual
need, because of the continued ef-
forts of such men as Ira G. Kauf-
THANKS FROM WINDSOR
man, Max H. Goldsmith, J. Maur-
ice Karo, Charles Charlip, William Dear Editor:
I have observed that you have
Shulman, Hy Storchan, as well as
the Sisterhood, and Men's Club, regularly devoted space in the
who have given unselfishly of their Chronicle to activities of the
Windsor Jewish community.
time for its fulfillment.
Permit me to express our sin-
So long as we also have the
support of newspapers such as cere thanks to you for your kind.
yours, Judaism will never be ex- ness in thus publicizing our ac-
tivities.
tinguished.

I would like to comment on the
improvement of the Chronicle
since the recent change in editor-
ship.
The paper seems more alive and
more interesting and it is a pleas-
ure to read it now.
FREDA SCHIFFMAN
2441 W. Grand Ave.

ALFRED A. HELFGOTT,
Dedication Chairman

Jews who are Americans are Ameri-
cans as of right. When they take the oath
of citizenship or are natural-born citizens,
only an irrational mind would challenge
their citizenship or imply that, it is only
half-hearted when Jews, heartsick at the
agony of their brothers in other lands,
ask that a haven be set aside for them
where they can lift up their heads as free
men in a free state?
It is an evil thing when the hate-
mongers impute to Jews divided loyalty
to the United States as part of their pro-
gram of malice.
It is doubly evil that Jews, petty and
smug and calloused, should utter similar
insinuations.

Ilk

LOUIS LIEBLICH,
Executive Director

Groups Seeking Flattery Condemned
by Segal as Unfair to the President

/ (Continued from page 3)
big ideas. He's going to bring
down the blessing of the White
House on Anshe Geborim which
has always before depended just
on God.
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ciously signed was written by
none other than the manager of
the Anshe Geborim drive for a
million. Ile spent hours on it,
weighing every word and com-
ma to make sure that there was
nothing in it at which the presl.
dential signature could gag.
The President, the letter said,
was happy to speak up for Anshe
Geborim; he had always been in
favor of religion and philanthropy
and hoped for the success of Anshe
Geborim's campaign.
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ing list.
Some of the more naive citizens
may be deeply impressed: Yugo-
slovia and Trieste are pressing
heavily on the President's mind.
Then there are China and Greece,
and what to do about Germany
and should Russia be appeased any
farther? But, with all this terrible
burden, the President found time
to write these warm praises of
Anshe Geborim!
It hurts me to the heart to have
to tell citizens that it was all
done by mirrors, in a figurative
way of speaking; it's done that
way also for all other Jewish in-
stitutions that like to sail in the
wind of presidential indorsement.
The letter the President gra-

GEBORIM's campaign
A NSHE
manager then had gone to

We suggest to Jewish young men who
are planning to open their own business
to give closer consideration to that sec-
tion.
FOR EVERYTHING
We know of a two-mile stretch of TIME
ND, SURE ENOUGH, in a few
Seven Mile road, for example, where there A weeks he is proud to present
is but one drug store. Horeover, nowhere to the trustees of Anshe Geborim.
along Seven Mile is there a Jewish gro- on White House stationary, the
letter of indorsement.
cery and meat market. The first such shop President's
Shortly it goes flying out in all
that will be opened there is going to be directions of the country to what-
a very popular spot indeed.
ever Jewish home is on the mail- TIIE PRESIDENT OBLIGES

In a letter to the New York Times,
reprinted in a propaganda leaflet of the
American Council for Judaism, Inc., the
The advice we have to offer, then to
correspondent writes from a Maine re- the young man looking around for a like-
sort: "There are countless Jews who do ly business spot is, Go north young man,
not wish to see a Jewish state, who feel go north.
that it would greatly influence the posi-
tion of American Jews to seem to have
a divided allegiance .
"We hold that the Jewish religion is a
Twelve for Ten Million
fine faith, worthy of pride and devotion.
But that does not mean that we wish to
Twelve Nazi butchers will hang for driv-
see rise in the Orient a state which is to
be a nation, supposedly the land to which ing 10 million souls, six million of them
Jews, to the slaughter house. That is
all Jews owe fealty."
called justice.
The correspondent's statement is merely
Most of the Nuernherg judges, it seems,
a paraphrase of a specious argument that
the small, disruptive, wealthy group of were more anxious to discover precedents
chauvinists who chiefly make up the and to disport in the intricacies of judicial
American Council for Judaism,,Inc. have casuistry to recognize that they were
' been expounding in their bitter fight on there to deal out punishment, not mercy,
to a gang for whose bestialities the fu-
Zionism.
ture can never make proper amends.

Why should anyone imagine that
American Jews would "owe fealty" to
a Palestine state any more than Irish-
Americans owe fealty to Ireland be-
cause they support the De Valera re-
public or that Chinese Americans "owe
fealty" to the Chiang regime because
they approve of it and contribute to
its progress?

LOX

FINE EDITORIAL

THANK YOU

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Friday, October 4, 1946

Washington and had managed to
get the letter to the White House
secretariat. One day one of the
secretaries brought it to the at-
tention of the President.
'Well, the President never had
heard of Anshe Geborim but the
secretary, by investigation, had
found its cause was all right. Who
could refuse to indorse religion
and philanthropy; it was just like
being strongly in favor of spring-
time and sunlight.
Besides, the English of the letter
was in good form. Sure! The
President could sign it. It received
the presidential indorsement.

THE FIRST LESSON

A few leaders will hang. The gibbet
will be too good for them. But other lead-
ers, equally culpable, will spend a few
years in prison and still others will be set
free. That is called justice.

And the little fellows, the thousands
of petty killers, the Nazi Party mem-
bers, the unspeakable SS and the Storm
Troopers, for them the judges could not
find a precedent. Their bloody hands
will ever remain stained because a law
is a law is a law and justice is mockery
and sightless.

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The history books will tell that only
a few leaders among the brutes and the
murderers were punished. Ten or 20 years
hence, when a new Haman appears on
the scene, the little folk, the miserable,
bloodthirsty little folk who follow despite
morality and religion, Christianity and
God, will be at Haman's right hand again,
secure in the knowledge that only the
leaders are punished and that a law is
a law is a law.

Courtesy Appreciate America, Inc.

