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THE JEWISH NEWS
March 27, 1942
give him the money so he could
get out.
Well, we are out, and we have
money. All of us have a great,
great deal of money. All of us are
incredibly rich. All of us drink
coffee for breakfast, eat meat
every day of our lives, and vege-
tables, and sweets, and butter and
cream. All of us have salt and
pepper and mustard and paprika
to make things taste good. All of
us have clean clothes to wear, and
shoes with soles, and soap to wash
By DOROTHY THOMPSON
ourselves with, and coats when it
I repeat what I said in 1933: namely that the assault on the Jews is cold, and coal, and oil and gas
was only the first step in an assault on the human race; and that the to heat our rooms, and electric fans
to cool them. All of us can move—
sufferage of the Jews of whom there are only 15 million in this world
from one part of this town to an-
would be multiplied by the sufferings of hundreds of millions of oth
other in some kind of a vehicle,
people. But the world was deaf and it refused to listen.
and from New York to the country
There is no such thing possible as are no more Jews to loot, there are and even from New York across
the destruction of the personal, hu- always Poles, when there are no the Continent—and that is what
man, civil and property rights of more Poles, there are Czechs, when being rich is in the world today.
one branch of the human race there are no more Czechs, there For hundreds of millions of civil-
alone. The abrogation of law with are Dutchmen, and Frenchmen, ized Europeans, just this consti-
respect to one section of the popu- and Belgians, and Englishmen. And tutes paradise on earth.
Now the extent to which you
lation involves the abrogation of after that there are Latin Ameri- 1
give to your co-religionists or to
the law altogether. It establishes cans and North Americans.
The Diaspora of the Twentieth any other- people in this world will
a principle, namely, the principle
of the right to torture, exile, loot, Century is universal. If the Ger - depend wholly upon how much
and expropriate whomever you mans win this war. there will be imagination you have. If you are
don't like. It makes a pecuniary more English exiles than there are trying to save money, you are mak-
ing a terrible mistake. Give it
asset out of prejudice. When there Jews in the world .
away. If you think you cannot
Personally I have always regretted that the Christian world, whose give any more than you have, you
religion is perhaps more peculiarly and more viciously assaulted than are wrong. You can. You can spoil
that of the Jews, did not undertake the relief of the Jews, leaving the your children less than you do, and
relief of the Christians to the Jews. But that may be because I am a it will be very good for them.
There is Palestine to be defended.
Christian and I think we would have fared better under that arrange-
I regret the policy of appeasement
ment. Besides it would have required a greater imagination than the
with terrorists that has left it so
human race seems capable of. However, one constructive thing may
should
undefended. The British
c_asualities
are
the
people
come out of this horrible war—this war whose
have known that no good would
who wander the earth homeless—people of all races, all creeds, people come of that. But no good will
who are yellow, and black, and white. We may have at long last realized
come of its fall either. So let us not
through the intimate community of our common suffering that there is criticize the past. We cannot undo
just one body and just one soul in homenity- that all men and women the past, we can only try and in-
have eyes and ears, noses and stomachs; that if you prick them they fluence the future.
There are Jewish refugees who
bleed; if you tickle them they laugh; that deprived of food for a certain
must be established, who must be
number of days, they die; that they respond to love with love, to loy-
distributed, jobs must be found for
alty with loyalty, to hate with hate. If people would learn, as a result them in those vocations and trades
confidence
and
the
friendship
of all this, that a crust of bread, and the
where they will encounter the least
of one's fellowmen is better than palaces and millions, and fear of one's resistance. They must not become
fellowmen, then this agony would not have been wasted. I doubt that public charges or public nuisances
the human race will learn this, but some of us will. By and large in this because if they do all of you will
suffer. Loans roust be made to
world, nobody is sorry for anybody else.
competent businessmen with which
EXCLUSIVE
DOROTHY THOMPSON
urges that we
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quitted!'"
He said, "It's the jury. Your
case is won or lost when you pick
the jury."
And I said. "How do you pick a
jury, Clarence?" and he said,
"Never pick a rich man. Never
pick a Presbyterian — they think
everything is pre-ordained. Meth-
odists are good, they are simple
souls. Catholics are good — they
know all men are sinners. Jews
are good—all of them have suf-
fered, if not physically then men-
tally." And then he said what I
just said before I began this story.
`Always remember that nobody is
sorry for anybody else, they are al-
ways sorry for themselves. The
guy that will acquit the defendant
is the one who can imagine himself
In the position?'
I beg you. to imagine yourselves
in the position of • the Jews today.
There are 15,000,000 Jews in the
world. Six and a half million of
them are in North America and
the British Empire, and the other
8,500,000 are in the most desperate
circumstances. The evil genius of
Hitler degrades them even below
the rank of the other victims
whom he has degraded, and the
humiliated try to find some sop for
pride in the power he gives them
to humiliate Jews in their turn.
were from Molyneux and mine
were from Best's. and we ate food
prepared by a famous chef. And
today she is carrying a coal scuttle
into the street, to scoop up horse
droppings with which to fertilize a
bit of land, in which to plant pota-
toes with her own hand, so that
she does not starve. She does not
happen to be Jewish either. That
can happen to any of us in the
world as it is at present But there
is something wonderful about my
friend. Everybody in the village
they can become employers, creat-
ing work, as well as taking it
And above an, we must draw to-
gether to defend and to rebuild
this democracy. It is very, very
late.
Let us tell each other the truth:
we are being defeated Our world
is being defeated. There are two
ways to face this reality. One is
to retreat backward over the abyss;
the other is to retreat forward. We
had better retreat forward in a big
way and along all fronts. We
really have nothing left to lose
except our lives.
Ladies Auxiliary of the
Mower Untgegeurd Vereia
The Ladies Auxiliary of the
Mawer Umgegend Verein will have
a bridge and mah-jongg luncheon
on Wednesday, April 15, at 12:30.
at Fyfe's Auditorium, proceeds go-
where she is is terribly poor—al- ing to the Red Cross. Mrs. Joe
though all of them were well off Kasmer is chairman of the affair.
only yesterday. A hundred dollars
of American currency is an incred-
ible windfall. And she gathered
together the people in this village
when my money came to share it
with them, and one of them had a
visa for America, but he had no
money with which to get to the
nearest point of embarkation for
America, and so they decided to
they are desperate. I ask you to
encompass that possibility for my-
Now it seems as though
money, social position all those
things in which people falsely put
their trust would always save us.
But if there is anything we have
learned, it is that only the sym
pathy of others will save us if the
worst comes to the worst And so
we better :ay up an enormous trust
fund of sympathy that we have
given to others, in the hope that if
necessary we may be able to draw
self.
a little interest on
it for ourselves.
The other day I sent s little money
—as much as I was allowed to send
. Philip SlomoT itz
Editor, The jes-ish Pees
2114 Penobscot Building
ran
Detroit,
Dear
Slor.csitz:
It gives me pleasure to greet The Jewish
::ens, particularly since, as your pros-
pectus states, it aims •to hold high the
banner of democracy, religious freedom
and rood will a--,ong all faiths; to fight
a,,,,eirst fraud, deceit and ads -representa-
tion". These objectives are essential
to the defense of Our country in this
emergency •
Kindly accept 117 best wishes for success
in this excellent program for the bene-
fit of your readers and of the nation.
Sincerely yours,
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MICHIGAN
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March 21. 1942
"We Have Nothing Left to Lose Except Our Lives"
I recall a conversation I had --to a friend of mine in France in
order that she might buy a little
years ago with Clarence Darrow.
horse meat to eat, or go to a res-
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