Friday, December 20, 1946.

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE and The Legal Chronicle

Strictly Confidential

Bids Hoover Expose
Hate. Breeding Group

Biron Calls 'German Communists'
in U.S. Followers of Hitler laeas

Ey PHINEAS IC. BIRON

A TTENTION, J. EDGAR HOOVER: The "German Communist

ganization" operating in the United States is a gigantic canard
blown up by notorious hate-mongers who intend to use it as the
spearhead of the "Judeo-Bolshevik Menace to the United States of
America."
You, as chief of the FBI, should make doubly certain that your
prestige is not being made a tool
of those men whom you should
expose as Enemies No. 1 of De- Eddie's pop-eyes.
«
mo c rac y. We
GARFIELD
STILL
IN RUT
mean the "gen-
OHHNY GARFIELD, who
tlemen" who es-
caped the sedi-
started his career 10 years ago
tion trials and as Julie Garfinkel of the Bronx,
who consistent- , s slated for the lead In Warner
ly violate Post Brother's "Rebel Without Cause"...
Office regula- The title is a summary of all the
tions by send- miscasting that has so completely
ing their filthy "typed" Garfield, who might be a
propaganda good actor if he could get out of
through the his rut . . .
P. R. Biron mails.
There is a tendency on the
Mr. Hoover, why don't you get part of certain groups to mini-
some of these American ideological mize the importance of Colom-
satellites of Hitler and shut them bians, Inc.... The fact is that
up once and for all? They repre- the Columbiana were In line for
sent a real danger to our country. big financial subsidies from a
Broadway Gossip says Milton group of industrialists who In-
Berle, currently brightening Nicky tend to use its anti-Negroism
Blair's after-dark spot in New and anti-Semitism In their fight
York, may cancel a $15,000 a week against organized labor's drive
Miami club date . . . A coast-to- to unionize the south . . .
Leonard Lyons, New York Post
coast hookup offered by one of
the big-four cigarct companies is columnist, reports that William
Hells, head of Greek Relief in the
the reason .. .
United States, and Dean Alfange,
Al Jolson is also considering a ex-gubernatorial candidate in New
radio show; he wants to transcribe York, will urge the Greek govern-
it, a la Crosby . . . Maybe some- ment to invite 50,000 Jewish dis-
thing in the Winchell report that placed persons to settle there and
Al has been clawed by Wall Street help rebuild the country.
bears.
Your columnist recently reported
Eddie Cantor is offering $500 for an appeal by Ellen BarzalaI, chief
a caricature of his "son," Kilroy rabbi of Athens, for "moral and
Wojewowski Cantor . . . Kilroy, material aid to assist the demo-
who sprang fully grown from his cratic peoples of Greece." Rabbi
"father's" head Is a 200 pound foot- Barzalai reminded us that Greek
ball player, and is said to have
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Capital Letter

Cabinet Committee
Renewal Is Doubted

Revival Suggested by Henry Grady,
a Member, After Visit to Truman

By CHARLOTTE WEBER

WASHINGTON—Every so often a columnist is faced simultaneously

Chanukah's Story
Repeats Itself

By RABBI LEON SPITZ

THE CHANUKAH STORY is
really more of a drama than a
story. To those of us who have
faith in the final triumph of jus-
tice and decency, this is the an-
swer ,to our present day worries.

same role which the Samaritans

had in Chanukah days. Even the
handful of Hellenizers or guts-,
lings are not lacking. And the
Jews in Palestine concentration
camps have doubled for Matha•
thins and Eleazer, the martyr.
of Chanukah.
England and Syria pursue the
selfsame rutlflessnes dictated by
imperial policy. The passing of
2.300 years has not changed the
ways of tyranny.
• • •
BRUTAL EMPIRE
NOR HAS IT changed the quest
of empires—loot and power. Like-
wise have the methods remained

with President Truman.
100,000 European refugees Into
Grady emerged from this talk Palestine in the next 18 months

f

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with his chief and told reporters but had no provision for immigra-
that the President might seek to don thereafter, said Palestine
reactivate the committee.
would be a British mandate for
Thinking this might indicate the next 15 years and provided for
that something was in the wind a 40 per cent Jewish-40 per cent
.‘ on the Palestine situation, a re- Arab-20 per cent British legisla-
porter asked Acting Secretary of tive council.
* • •
State Dean Acheson the next day
what Grady meant by the allusion WAS THIS THE PLAN?
to the Cabinet committee. Could WAS THERE MUCH a plan and
the secretary shed any light on TT was the cabinet committee
what kind of work the committee to be resurrected in the near fu-
would concern itself with? Would ture to study it?
it work again with the British
An unofficial British source
cabinet committee?
doubted that there was, as yet
• • •
a formal report along those lines,
MYSTERY TO HIM
but said he thought that Byrnes
A CHESON WAS mystified. He and Bevin had come quite a way
'c L had no information about any in finding grounds for discussion
soon-to-come melting of the Com- that would make it possible for
mittee, he said. Neither did he both the Jews and Arabs to sit
know what "sort of work" the down together at the conference

Committee would be called upon to table In January.
do If It were to be resurrected at
He said he thought the points
this time. The matter was dropped. outlined In the reportedly new
Shortly after that It was re- plan were probably in the memo-
ported out of London and out randum on which Byrnes and Be-

of Palestine that the British gov-

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Loud Lawns on Bus,
Slovenly Towns Hit

List of 'Things That Bother Me'
Names Undemocratic Civic Bodies

By DR. IV. A. GOLDBERG
THESE THINGS BOTHER ME: Jewish women, using good English
-IL or heavy accents, who broadcast their business on the bus, to the
discomfiture of their Jewish fellow-passengers and to the amusement
of the gentiles.

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Why do they build synagogues with small lawns and yards? Why
do they leave these yards and lawns full of woods, rubbish and trash?
Is there no pride in appearance
of the holy place?
rigid demands they make upon an
• •
applicant for a job. (It will be
revealing to you just what they
The readers of my column who expect one human being to do,
tell me, on the
and for how little . .. and I can
street or over
tell you from experience; it is not
t h e telephone
a local matter.)
that they agree
)r disagree
about what I
write here and
The universal cry of, unmarried
are too busy
females that every unmarried male
to send in their
has no other than dishonorable
questions. (Hint,
intentions. Who is fooling whom?
we need more
letters, m any
more!)
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•
Did you know that you can tap
Dr. Goldberg
most mink-and-ermine ladies for
The insulting "slingo" of war- not over five bucks for charity
enriched "community le a d e r s" (less than the sales tax on one of
when soliciting funds for philan- many pieces of occasional jewelry
thropy.
they wear)?

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as they were in Chanukah days—
ruthless brutality, deception ant;
incitement. And all these are col-
ored by an unblushing assumption
of an air of selfrighteousness. Be-
vin today and Antiochus 2,300 years
Who can tell me the degree of
ago regarded themselves not alone
as men of destiny but even as democracy when certain organi-
zations in the community present
gentlemen.
It took an American poet, Henry a hand-picked slate for the rub-
W. Longfellow, to write the best ber-stamp approval of the dele-
available Chanukah p la y just gates? It makes me wonder
about a hundred years ago. It was who's running what for whoso
he who foresaw, what turned out benefit!
to be in our time, the vacillating
•
attitude of the Palestinian Arab
effendis and their double-talk.
DOUBLE STANDARDS
Longfellow introduced into his THE
DIFFERENCE between the
play the Samaritans, predeces- 1
personal practices of members
sors of the Arabs, Semitic cous-
ins to the Jews of Chanukah of a Board of Directors and the

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• •

days.
"When the Jews suffer ye are
Medes and Persians,
When the Jews prosper, ye
claim kinship with them."
•
•
LIKE MACCABEANS
WE RECOGNIZE the Hellen-

izers of our own day right here
in America only too well. But
what of the Haganah and the Iry
gun, the two armies of the Pal-
estine underground?
Wherein are they so very much
different from the Maccabean
bands of old? The Maccabeans did
not have any bombs. so they used
rocks and arrows. The under-
ground of World War II has re-
placed the street barricades of the
French and Russian revolution.

The fact is that Jewish his-
tory has not to this day offi-

with a deadline and the numbing realization that he has no cially determined whether the
confidential document to "break" to the public eye, no one has whis- Maccabean struggle was a revo-
pered any state secrets to him, and he has, in fact, no hitherto un-
lution or a war against Imperial
published news of any sort with which to inform his readers.
Syria. Nomenclature is not al-
At such times one is indeed reduced to spinning tales out of thin, ways
so important.
or almost thin, air. Here follows
* • *
the chronicle of such a tale, how crnment had a new seven-point
it was built up and, subsequently, plan for settlement of the Pal- HOW LIBERTY CAME

shaken up.
estine problem which, the news
A week or so ago Henry F. Gra- stories said, would be presented
dy, who had more or less dropped at the forthcoming London con-
out of sight since the President's ference scheduled to get under-
Cabinet Committee on Palestine way again in January.
The new plan supposedly set out
had returned to Washington with
the Grady - Morrison plan, called the Negev for Jewish colonization,
at the White House for a chat allowed for the immigration of

Personal Problems

It indicates Palestine's destiny.

The Chanukah story has all
the dramatic elements—the plot,
the cast, the locale. The Yishuv's
struggle in Palestine of today
lies the same locale. The theme
is once again Jewish independ-
ence. The heroes are the flower
of our youth, the Maccabees of
our generation.
The strategy is the guerilla
technique, nowadays recognizable
under the war-time term of "um
derground." The Arabs have the

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HISTORY TELLS US of three
dominating factors which were
instrumental in Chanukah days in
achieving Jewish national freedom
in Palestine.
First, Syria became entangled
with other struggles which were
involved in empire politics, and
always are. Secondly, Judas Mac-
cabeens concluded a defensive al-
liance with a third power, Rome,
against Syria. And thirdly, the
Maccabean-led Jewish patriots car-
ried on a long and hard-fought
struggle against the empire which
sought to crush them.
The Chanukah story repeats
itself. England has India, the
Near East to muddle up. It has
Russia to dread. It has other
political entanglements. It can-
not for these reasons divert all
Its brutal strength on Palestine
Jewry to crush it completely.
The Jewish people have the
sympathy of America and the hosts
of non-Jewish friends in different
parts of the world who are pres-
sing in its support.
And lastly, the Jewish youth of
Palestine are prepared to maintain
a courageous struggle to pursue
their quest.
The Chanukah lights assure us
that the- happy ending of the Cha-
nukah story will likewise be re-
peated in the not far distant to-
morrow.

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When will the merry-go-round
stop on $50,000 weddings and $5,-
000 Bar Mitzvahs? (There are
starving children . Jewish chil-
dren . . . who could use a small
part of that to sustain life)

• • •

They tell me that hard-times
are coming soon! Does that mean
that many a Jewish girl will be
willing to accept an engagement
ring of half-carat or less?
These things bother me. What
bothers you?

Plain Talk

Cavalcade Acclaimed
as Spiritual Revival

Brings Back Old Lessons of Prophet
That We Deal Justly, Walk Humbly

By ALFRED SEGAL
IT IS BROUGHT TO ME that there Is going to be an evangelistic

movement, you might call it, to bring Jewish religion to the Jews.
Like the circuit riders of Christian tradition in the U. S., rabbis are

traveling from town to town carrying the old faith in Reform gar-
ments
It's called a cavalcade which is a fancy title for "revival," a term
much to be preferred. The Union of American Hebrew Congregations
is running it. I am told that Jews
all around the country are wel- we not all one Father, hath not
coming this revival of a Judaism one God created us?")
that has to do
So on the heavenly level there
with God and
has been no little distressful
with the way e,
puzzlement about the way the
for Jews to live
-current Jews have been going.
ina. social
They have been going far from
w orld
the spiritual concept of being
I have no con-
Jewish. Jewish religion has be-
fidential connec-
come minor among Jewish ac-
tion with the
tivities.
Divine Mind
It comes to me—though if you
but it is fair for
asked me how It comes to me I
me to guess
couldn't tell you—it comes to me
Alfred Segal that only recently there was
that God is re-
dis-
joicing, too, over this hopeful course about the whole matter on
manifestation among the children the top level of the angelic host—
of Israel.
Gabriel, Michael and Uriel. Michael
As I have reason to believe started it by asking What's a
there has been considerable dis- Jew? Gabriel repeated that the
tress up in Heaven about the way concept of what's a Jew has been
Jews have been going in many getting to be horribly confused
strange directions of being Jewish. lately.
It is recalled there that it was
"Of course," said Uriel, "I'd say
Abraham's vision that discovered that being a Jew must now and
God.
forever be the same thing it has
It was the Jews who stood at always been in times before. To
Sinai and there received the teach- be a Jew is to walk as a man
ing for personal behavior in the whose feet are on the earth and
Ten Commandments and the so- whose head is as high as God. A
cial teaching that you can find in Jew is a man who carries his
the Torah.
spiritual teaching as an everlast-
• • •
ing burden; it disciplines the way
of life."
PROPHETS' TEMAIUNGS
• • •
T WAS THE JEWISH prophets
who preached the social way to POINTS TO PRESENT
live. ("What doth the Lord thy “DREC1SELY!" MICHAEL ex-
claimed. "But, look, that
God require of thee but to deal
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justly and to walk humbly—Rave

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