Friday, February 11, 1949

DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE

Page Three

Strictly Confidential

Hits U. S. Revival of German Passion Play

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

UR MILITARY Government in Germany is working
on a big project to cost close to million dollars. It
will necessitate the evacuation of hundreds of American
officers and their families from their present quarters in
the American Zone. And one of Hitler's
favorite German actresses may come to
our shores to interest the American
people in this project.
The project is to revive the famous
Oberammergau Passion plays, The plan
calls for the resumption of the Passion
play in 1950 after a lapse of 16 years.
Now anybody who knows anything
about the growth of anti-Semitism In
Germany will tell you that the Passion
plays and particularly the Oberammer-
gau plays have contributed greatly to
P. J. Biron
the intensification of anti-Jewish sentiment in Germany
and for that matter in the whole of central Europe.

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BESIDES, THE Oberammergau players demonstrated
beyond the shadow of any doubt that they were not

Off the Record:

good Christians. Alois Lang, a prosperous woodcarver
who played Christ for many years, was accused of being
a Nazi and later acquitted, of course. More than 150 mem-
bers of the Passion play cast were members of the Nazi
party. Now, our Military Government which is supposed
to inject democratic education into the Germans, is vir-
tually sponsoring this great festival of anti-Semitism.
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WHAT DOES IT mean? Where are the advisers on
Jewish affairs to Gen. Clay Have they nothing to say
on that project? Would it not be fairer to use the money
required for the revival of the Oberammergau play to
liberate a number of Nazi victims still fenced in deten-
tion camps right near the Oberammergau village? There
is something basically wrong with our intelligence serv-
ice in Germany.
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THE OBERAMMERGAU case merely emphasises that
the denazification process in the American Zone is going
ahead in reverse. The Koch and von Papen acquittals are
not isolated incidents. They reflect a definite policy on the
part of our Military Government in Germany.
It is true that the World Jewish Congress has and is
protesting but it would seem that the Israeli government

drawn much fire, -has written a
new and revolutionary book. His
"Insight and Outlook," by MacMil-
lan, is an attempt to do for ethics,
aesthetics and creative thinking
what Einstein did for physics—the
formation of an inclusive theory
covering all fields of art and phi-
losophy. We join with the reviewer
who admitted the book was beyond
his grasp. However, where it is lu-
book. But why the author injected
cid, it makes excellent reading.
into his introduction the bit of rep-
ortage dealing with what he calls
the miracle of the merging of the
streams of both faiths, Christian
and Jewish, is something beyond
our comprehension. Certainly Asch
is familiar with the simple fact
that when two streams of unequal
"Better Schools, Better Chil-
strength merge it is the powerful dren, Better Citizens" is the cam-
one that prevails ... "Tomorrow is paign slogan
of Allan B.
Beautiful," by Lucy Robbins Lang, Schmier former assistant prose-
a MacMillan publication, is the au- outing attorney and war veteran,
tobiography of a person whose who is candidate for the Detroit
very breathing began with the board of education to fill a va-
American labor movement. It is an cancy. The primary is Feb. 21.
intriguing story of the great per-
Schmier charged that the pres-
sonalities in the American labor
ent board failed to foresee the
movement since the beginning of
growth of the city and failed to
this century. It is in a way a his-
provide schools and equipment
tory of Jewish participation in the
labor movement. From her account for the new neighborhoods. He
promised that if elected, he
of Samuel Gompers, who once
asked her hand in marriage, it ap- would visit the schools regularly
to learn at first hand their needs
pears that that Jewish labor leader
and their program.
was more "Jewish" than he cared
Schmier was first commander
to concede in public.
of the Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Post of the American Legion. He
PILGRIMS TO U. S.
is a member of the Lawrence V.
LEE M. FRIEDMAN'S "Pil- Jones Post of the Jewish War
grims in a New Land," published Veterans. Schmier is a 32nd de-
by the Jewish Publication Society, gree Mason.

Moderates Due to Win
in Squabble on Montor

I

By NATHAN ZIPRIN
F JAMES G. McDONALD, U. S.

special representative to Israel,

formally becomes a U. S. ambas-

sador to the Jewish State, he won't

have to change the license plates

on his car. The Hebrew word for
"ambassador" is identical with the

word "representative" and so the
plates now on McDonald's car
won't have to be altered For-
tner JTA correspondent Kleinlehr-
er is now employed in the Vatican.
The former Polish Jew who mar-
ried an Italian girl is giving a
course in the technique of journal-
ism . . . The current crisis in the
American Zionist movement has
reached its peak. Though the sit-
uation is still alarming this writer
hears the moderates will prevail
when the agency executive mem-
bers meet. Zionist leadership is de-
termined against having Montor
restored to his former position.
They will not compromise on that
issue.

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BLAME NEW YORKERS

BEVIN ONCE blamed "New
York Jews" as the chief impedi-
ment to the imposition of his own
Palestine solution. Well, if he cares
he might also blame them for
Britain's recognition of Israel .
An Irish friend of mine who went
to Palestine "to fight against the
British" now writes he was all
wrong about the "against" motive.
"I went to fight for the lovely Jew-
ish girls, for the Jewish refugees
who cling to the soil with a fervor
and love that is beyond descrip-
tion, for the vindication of an
ideal that at one time seemed so
remote to me and which now is
part and parcel of my very soul."
Beigel, as we called the Irishman,
may have assumed a good He-
.brew name but he still signed him-
self "Beigel" out of recognition
for his first Jewish love
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EVEN THE American Jewish Committee admits in its
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Semetic propagandists during 1948 was the identification
of Jews with Communism and Soviet Russia." And yet
the leaders of the Committee approve of the American
Jewish League Against Communism, an organization that
specializes in smearing Jewish individuals and groups as
Communists.
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Communism? Every American is entitled to oppose and
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does not agree. If some Jews feel that they have to join
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should also have something to say. The denazification of
Germany is of direct concern to world Jewry.
Our top Jewish leadership must address itself to Pres-
ident Truman requesting that he re-affirm one of our
war aims, denazifying Hitlerland. And incidentally if you
want to get an idea of the human material that makes up
certain sections of our Military Government in Germany
read Stefan Heym's "The Crusaders"...
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