THE JEWISH NEWS

Apra 17, 1942

Hush-Up or Fight Which ?
"PM" and "Nation" in Debate

Page Seventeen

Pioneer Women to Hold Eighth
National Conclave in Detroit

SILVER

(Continued from Page 3)

his observations while in Europe,
The question. on which Jews have been most sharply on
and gave a birdseye view of the sit-
divided is the one affecting action against our adversaries uation
in London as well as in Expect Delegates From 225 Clubs in U. S. and Can-
in time of crisis.
Lisbon.
ada at Sessions to Be Held at Book
There are Jews who have been labeled "hush-hush"
Dr. Silver's address was the first
or "sha-sha" people. Others have favored unqualified out- report on the European situation
Cadillac Hotel June 10-14
to be given before an American
spokenness in dealing with anti-Semites.
The eighth national convention of usual this time. The urgent need of
audience. He lauded the
The discussions that arose over the articles written Jewish
generosity and courage of the Jews the Pioneer Women's Organization its sister organization in Palestine,
recently in the Saturday Evening Post, especially the last of England and told of the work
the Working Women's Council, for
one written by Milton Mayer, revived the issue. The fight- of the Joint Distribution Commit- will be held from June 10 through a larger budget to cover its expand-
June V_ at the Book-Cadillac Hotel, ing program on behalf of women's
ing newspaper PM went full length in condemning the tee in Lisbon.
Post as being anti-Semitic. The Nation, one of our leading MAINTAIN COMMUNAL LIFE Detroit; according to an announce- training and children's services, has
ment issued by the National Exec- increased the ever growing respcn-
liberal magazines, took a stand against the PM policy and
In the course of his address Dr. utive Committee through the na- sibilities of the Pioneer Women's
even called the PM editorial "ill-timed and exaggerated." Silver
said:
tional secretariat, Miss Sara Feder Organization which' provides the
PM's editors replied, and the two articles form one
basic funds for the Council's insti-
"I found the Jews of Great Brit- and Miss Dvcra Rothbard.
of the best presentations of the case of the "hush-hush" ain alert, well-organized and fully
Due to the war it was decided to tutions and communal activities.
Delegates from over 225 clubs
men as contrasted with the action group's attitude. We responsive not only to their obli- call the convention earlier than
throughout the United States and
present these views for the consideration of our readers:

THE VIEWPOINT OF
"THE SATURDAY EVENING
POST," "THE NATION"—AND "THE NATION"
-70ULD BE
IF 1%NY:111NQ
PM—An Editorial by the -
MORE ILL-TIMED and exagger-
Editors of PM

pied France with its 20,000 interned
Jews, and for many thousands more
who are in need of help in Switzer-
land, Spain, Casablanca, Turkey.
Tangier and Algeria.
"I arrived in England during one
of the darkest moments in the long
history of that great people. The
bitter experiences of two and a half
years of war and more especially
the recent disasters in the Far East
have hardened and toughened the
English people. The mood which I
I found in England was one of great
I soul-searching, self-criticism, impa-
tience with the incompetence and
tardiness of their leaders, but one
also of unshaken determination to
see the war through to victory."

ated than 'Milton slayer's article,
The Case Against the Jew, in the
Saturday Evening Po:• it was
Ralph Ingersoll's attack on Miltcn
Mayer in PM. Mayer could not
have chosen a worse moment to
vent his spleen on the sort of Jew
he doesn't like—who is, examined
closely, merely the sort of person
he doesn't like. He believes, it
would seem, that only when the
Jew beccmes a perfect human be-
ing, free fro' the greed and envy
and desire for accepts nce common
to all ordinary people, will he be
relieved of the fears that now pur-
DR. ABBA HILLEL SILVER
sue him. This doctrine, it seems
to us, applies with equal effort to gations as British subjecls, but also
tbe rest of the human race. Mr. as loyal members of the Household
Mayer's rather muddled views, ex- of Israel. They are rendering hero-
pressed in violent languege and ic service to their country. Their
published in a mass-circulation devotion and patriotism are e.-x-
magazine which until yesterday was emplary. Jewish soldiers in large
bitterly isolationist, can only help numbers have won distinction in
to sprc..d cr intensify anti-Semitic every branch of the military serv-
feeling at a time when such feeli
ices, and others, as civilians, are
is peculially dangerous. Eut when found in every department of civil-
I.alph Ingersoll indulges in an ian defense.
equally vitriolic attact on Mayer, "The Jews of England are main-
distorting his opinions on the Jew- taming their religious and corn-
ish question and linking them with munal life at a high point of ef--
opposition to the war, he does the ficiency in this period of crisis. They
tolerance no good
cause of racial - have been most generous in sup-
either. He nct only called wide- port of all Jewish causes in spite
spread attention 'a the article, but of the heavy drain w hich the war
may even have created a reaction has made upon them. The interest
in Mayer's favor. It is an unhappy in Palestine is keen and widespread
commentary on America's war-time among them. They realize the im-
journalism that a sensational ar- I portance of Palestine today not
title like Mayer's should become a ; merely as a vital - sector in the
car - c:debre while a sober analy- ! wide front of the United Nations
so of the same subject by Waldo
- --- i against th2 Axis, but also as the
Frank ' ..he preceding issue of the / only
. place for large scale Jewish I
Post went all but unnoticed, immigration after the war. On this
ilast point there seems to be almost
the editors of PM the forces that _Iunanimous agreement. They have
are aligned against us at home. as i been very generous in response to
well as abroad. To array white the appeals for Palestine funds. For
man against black, Jew against the Palestine Foundation Fund
was:
Gentile, Catholic against Prot-es- (The Keren Hayesod) the Jews of
A case against the Jews.
The less said about it—by any- tent, Communist against Church- England are raising this year over
man, Occidental against Asiatic— $500,000. and a larger sum is be-
body but Hitler—the better. .
That was when Hitler was forg- these are military objectives to our (Jig raised for the Jewish National
ing anti-Semitism into the weapon enemies. And who would deny that Fund. This is highly commendable
which aided him in so many mili- they have the raw materials of su- in view of the fact that the total
perstition and prejudice with which Jewish population of Great. Britain
tary victories in Europe.
The propaganda factories in to work here in America? Should is less than the Jewish population
which Goebbels forged this vicious we bandage our eyes because of of the City of Chicago.
tool were never bombed by his ene- that fact? Should we still our
FACE POST-WAR ISSUES
mies. He welded his filthy lies into voice? Should we tie our hands,
"The Jews cf England are giving
a lethal weapon, undisturbed—be- lest the act of- defending ourselves
cause there were always hesitant be falsely labeled "aggression"? serious thought to post-war recon-
men and women in Germany who Should we let lies go unlabeled struction problems facing world
silenced his enemies lest their at- and giVe to our enemies the front Jewry. The Board of Deputies is
tack be "ill tiened." When the covers of magazines with mass cir- in close touch with the govern-
whole lie was finished, it was too culation, lest to expose the lie and ment touching these problems. It
late. The panzer divisions were to strike back at the attacker "call would be highly desirable that clos-
rolling then. The men who want- widespread attention" to the at- er contact be established and the
ed to call a spade a spade and tack? On another continent that's pooling of 'thought and deliberation
Goebbels a damned liar were joined how a man named Chamberlain between the two great Jewish com-
in the concentration camps by the chose to handle certain business at munities of England. and the Unit-
Munich.
ed States.
timid ones who had said so long:
"No, no, not yet. It will pass. It
"While in Lisbon, I had the op-
We think there is an appeaser in
always has."
The Nation as surely as appease- portunity to observe the work of the
Pew journalists know better than ment is afoot in the nation.
Joint Distribution committee. I met
Dr. Schwarz, head of the JDC work
• • •
Europe, and Mr. Rosen. They
The two viewpoints are clearly defined here. It is in
are doing a perfectly magnificent
clear that PM has the edge on-the Nation, and it is rather job in caring for the refugees, in
surprising that the latter, which usually champions the leaking after them during their stay
causes of the oppressed, should -have taken the stand it in Portugal, and in arranging for
their transportation to other coun-
had in the case of the Staurday Evening Post.
There are occasions when it becomes necessary not to tries. The JDC Still hai a very im-
job to do in Europe. There
be too aggressive and to try to reason with the unreason- portant
are hundred of refugees at the pres-
able. But such a policy has not helped with Coughlin. It. ent time who hold visas to the
has not helped with Pelley. It would not help with the United States, Cuba and Mexico for
Saturday Evening Post. A magazine that refuses to accept whom transportation arrangement
answers to vilifying articles against the Jews from men is now being made. Visas to the
like Pierre Van Paasen, Wendell Wilikie and others in above mentioned countries are still
their class deserves nothing better than the firm .rebuke being issued with the authorization
of the respective governments. As
given it ay Ralph Ingersoll, the fighting PM editor.
these visas are issued, it is
Our readers have a good opportunity to study the long.as
of course necessary to make every
.facts by reading the Nation and PM editorials. Somehovf, eoffrt to bring these people out.
we feel that they will endorse the stand we take—that ac- The JDC is still maintaining a full
tion is more often correct than a policy of "hush-hush"
PrcgraP1, 14. !s0. 4 1111 F_ 134 JFKICCu"

From an unsigned editbrial in
The Nation for Saturday. April 4:
"If anyt.'a'eg cculd be more ill
timed and exaggere than Milton
Mayer's article The Case Against
the Jeva in The Saturday Evening
Post, it was Ralph Ingersoll's at-
tack on Milton Mayer in PM. . ."
The Nation is a magazine for
which we have considerable re-
spect. It is a journal of opinion
and its opinions are often good. We
do not question its right to an
opinion on Ralph Ingersoll's edi-
torial on The Saturday Evening
Post—or on anything else.
The Nation's opinion of PM's
editorial, however, is based on the
fact that this paper "called wide-
spread attention" to the Goebbels
line in the Post. On that _issue,
.we beg to differ With our elderly
contemporary.
On that issue, silence alone would
seem to us unpatriotic. However
inadequately or well Ingersoll called
the attention of PM's readers to
Mayer's false assumption that all
that was good and democratic in
America is lost, to have failed to
accept the challenge would have
been — what other word
there
appeasement? :It does not seem to
us that an editorial politer is con-
sistent that would attack appease-
a t the t
ment in foreign policyT
nis
eerso
d n
same time swallow appeasement at
hcme, for fear of creating "a re-
re-
action." -
, but
It was not Ralph
Adolf Hitler who "linked the Jew-
ish question" with opposition to
the destruction of the Third Reich.
It was not The Nation nor Milton
Mayer but Adolf Hitler who first
gave the advice to the democra-
cies to lay off criticism of anti-
Semitism on the ground that there

I

Canada will consider possibilities
for increasing the funds on behalf
of the Working Women's Council,
as well as various other Palestine
funds, the expansion of organiza-
tional and cultural activities and
simultaneous large-scale participa-
tion in the war effort.

KALVARIER AID SOCIETY

The sum of $100 was sent by the
Kalvaricr Aid Society from its Sarah
Freedman Mo'os Chitim Fund by
Rose Lewis, treasurer, to the Joint
Distribution Committee, for aid to
the Lithuanian Jews now in Russia.
In February $25 was given to the
Red Cross and $25 to Yeshivath Beth

Yehudah.

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