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THE JEWISH NEWS
Between
You and Me
Quotation of the Week
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright, 1943, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)
WASHINGTON NOTES
All kinds of discussions are now taking
place in Washington as to how to imple-
ment the joint statement of the Allied
Nations regarding the Nazi mass-killing
of Jews . . . Some circles suggest a simple
solution . . . They urge that America, Eng-
land and Russia jointly inform Hitler,
through neutral countries, that the Allies
would be willing to "relieve" him of all
the JeWs providing he permits them to
leave Nazi-held territories . . . This is not
as fantastic as it sounds, since Hitler has
on more than one occasion ridiculed the
democratic countries for denouncing his
anti-Jewish policy at the same time that
they refused to admit Jews from the ter-
ritories which he holds . . . If Hitler re-
jects the Allied suggestion that he permit
the Jews to emigrate, then the democra-
cies will have a clear conscience, since
they will have tried at least to save the
Jews from extermination . . . If Hitler
accepts the proposal, then the democratic
world will have to be ready - to carry it
out . . . The several million Jews in Nazi-
held Europe could easily be absorbed in
Russia, Palestine, and a number of British
colonies . . . No shipping facilities would
be required for their transportation, since
they could reach their destinations by
land, • by merely crossing Sweden or
Turkey . . . The Allied Nations could
guarantee the neutral governments that
the Jews would not remain in their coun-
tries for permanent settlement and that
they would be taken care of while en
route to their new homes . . . Those who
advocate this plan are of the opinion that
if the bulk of the Jews from Nazi coun-
tries were admitted to Palestine, they
would not become a burden on anybody,
since they could be supported by relatives
in America until they become self-sup-
porting.
DIPLOMATIC NOTES
The Queen of Egypt may soon address
an appeal to the Iraquian Government
asking that the several hundred Jewish
refugee children from Poland who are
now stranded in Persia be permitted to
pass through Iraq en route to Palestine
The Iraq Government, for some mys-
terious reason, has stubbornly refused to
grant transit visas to the children despite
energetic intelei- ention on the -part of the
State Department and the British authori-
ties . . . Mrs. Roosevelt decided to .talce
the matter into her own hands and see
what she could do about breaking down
the objections of the Iraquians . . . She
invited the Iraquian Minis; er in Washing-
ton to lunch and indicated to him that if
Iraq continues to refuse transit passage
to the Jewish children, for whom entrance
visas for Pa:estin.3 have long since been
secured, she would get in touch with the
Queen of Egypt and ask her to use her
influence with the Iraquian. authorities.
Arab etiquette being what it is, it will
be difficult for the Iraquian Government
to give a negative answer to the Queen of
one of the leading Arab countries, lest
they embal ass her . . . Mrs. Roosevelt,
deeply , touclIed by the latest reports on
the Nazi extermination of Jews in Eurone,
may undertake certain action in an effort
to have the Jewish children at least saved
from the Nazis . . . The first move in this
direction was a message which she sent
on the subject to Lcndon several days ago.
Unnamed Ally of
United Nations
By LOUIS LIPSKY
(From The Free World)
The Jewish people are entitled to a
place in the world order now, as a mat-
ter of justice and fair play. There can be
no interregnum in an obvious case of jus-
tice so far as the United Nations are con-
cerned. The Jewish people are entitled to
be heard now. Not as fragments, not as
individuals, but as a people. They have a
stake as interested parties in the world's
unfinished business. The points of order
that are raised stem from practices which
the new world is called upon to do away
with for all time. Hesitation or equivoca-
tion will contribute to the impairment of
the morale of the democratic forces. It is
a flagrant violation of right that in the
concert of nations now rallying to reas-
sert the authority of justice in the modern
world, the Jewish people—the carriers of
the Hebraic conception of justice and
righteousness — should be shoved back
into what is tantamount to their medieval
status, as if they were a horde of hapless
refugees entitled to the charity of the
world, but not to their inalienable rights.
Least of all is it becoming for the smaller
peoples now suffering oppression and
exile to refuse to make room in their
councils for the national representatives
of the classic exiles of the world. Be-
tween these small peoples and the Jewish
peoples, there is one distinction: the Jews
have suffered more and for a longer time.
They should cease to be the unnamed ally
of the democratic nations.
"We think of him (Louis D. Brandeis) as a great American be-
cause of his abiding faith in the principles of liberty, justice and
equality of opportunity which were proclaimed by those charac-
teristically American documents, the first Virginia Bill of Rights,
the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. His Ameri-
canism contemplated a society in which our continued adherence to
those principles of government should, in all the vicissitudes of our
history, bring to every man the opportunity to live the go.od and
efficient life .. ."
Friday, January 8, 1943
Heard in
the Lobbies
By. DAVID DEUTSCH
(Copyright, 1943, Independent
Jewish Press Service)
MARSHALL WILDERNESS
Why has so little been written about
one of the greatest—if not the greatest—
monuments ever erected to an American
Jew? It's the Robert Marshall wilderness
area, comprising 900,000 acres of land in
Montana on the edge of the Continental
Divide. It was the idea of Vice President
Wallace and Secretary of Agriculture
Wickard to pay this tribute to the late,
—Chief Justice Stone.
great Marshall, who died at 38 in 1939
as a $7,500 a year Forester in the Office
of Indian Affairs. Young Marshall, son.
of Louis Marshall, made a great contri-
bution to Americans by projecting the
idea of preserving intact as wilderness
areas many of the choicest spots in the
forests of the West. His idea is being
carried through in many national parks,
largely with money from the $1,500,000
trust fund he left behind. He hoped that
some day the Government would organ-
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
ize trips for Eastern big city folks to
spend a few weeks camping in the West-
(Copyright, 1943, Independent
(Copyright, 1943, Seven Arts Feature
ern forests to see the real greatness of
Jewish Press Service)
Syndicate)
their country.
NEWS FRONT
THIS NEW YEAR
THE ANTI-ZIONIST "COUNCIL"
Are compliments for tact and good
History repeats itself. Anti-Zionism is
Germany, contends bridge expert Ely taste due to Rabbi Abraham Shusterman
not a new phenomenon. The difference Culbertson, will surrender before New and Rabbi A. D. Shaw for withdrawing
in the opposition to the Jewish national Year's Day, 1945, and perhaps even before from the American Council for Judasim,
movement today from the antagonists of this year is over .. . While anther com- thereby reducing the Baltimore conting-
a generation ago stands out in name mentator, learning that in Japan 1943 is ent of the Zionist-wrecking agency? Re-
only.
known as the Year of the Goat, expresses ports have it that the details of the en-
the pious hope that this will be the year
revealed by the Independent
Today, it is the Council for American when Hirohito will learn that Hitler made terprise
Press Service. created such a
Judaism. In the early days of the Zionist him the goat when he persuaded the Japs Jewish
that other original supporters
movement, the -portest-rabbiner" who to make their snake-in-the-grass Pearl kickback
are hurrying to step out of the mess .. .
objected to the convening of the World Harbor attack in 1941 (which, it seems,
The American Jewish Committee in-
Zionist Congress in Munich used the was known as the Year of the Snake) . . . ternal controversy has been partially
same arguments but spoke as "Germans Then there's Harry Hershfield, who re- resolved by the decision to issue a state-
of the Mosaic persuasion." Their argu- ports that one of his radio colleagues in- ment in a few days expressing support
ments have not changed by an iota. Their sists that the Russians can't stop the Ger- of the -Jewish homeland but not in a
sentiments must have, since the German mans any more—now that the Nazis are joint statement which the group had
rabbis have seen Palestine as a haven for advancing on Berlin.
been working on with the Zionists for
tens of thousands of their fellow-nationals
almost two years. Somebody has the
RUMANIAN
RUMBLINGS
of "Mosaic persuasion."
cockeyed notion that simultaneously the
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Rumanian ex-King Carol's night club Zionists will issue a parallel statement
APPROPRIATE ZANGWILL STORY
life in Mexico is only an elaborate screen in which "people" and "nation" as ap-
behind which is being conducted a most plied to Jews will be so defined that
The fear that has suddenly struck the diligent attempt to capture public sup- American Jews will dissociate them-
hearts of American Zionists lest the port for his private Free Rumanian move- selves from Jews in the rest of the
new "Council" should prove harmful to ment . . . Rumanian Jewish organizations, world.
the cause of Palestine's redemption is which during Carol's reign had great FACTS AND FANCIES
reminiscent of experiences during the difficulty in obtaining a hearing for their
Louis Lipsky, greatest of the Zionist
last war. It is said that the American pleas, are now being wooed most assid-
anti-Zionists are influential with the uously by the ex-King's political emmis- writers, will be hopping the ocean before
U. S. State Department. The same claim saries in this country and in Canada . . . many weeks to help English Jewry start
another campaign for Palestine. Despite
was made after the issuance of the Bal- In the United States there are quite a 25
years of visits to England, he's never
four Declaration, when anti-Zionist Rab- few Rumanian Jews who have endorsed spoken
there in public, spending most
bis appeared at hearings of the Con- Carol's Free Rumanian movement .. . In of his London nights seeing the newest
gressional committee to oppose the adop- Canada, however, Jews are determined to plays, which he used to review for a New
tion of the Joint Resolution giving the halt the spread of Carol's brand of York Daily . . .
sanction of our Government for the estab- freedom.
Jews will have a chance to prove
lishment of the Jewish National Home in
whether they are interested in great
PHILOLOGICAL NOTES
Palestine. They failed in their efforts.
Jewish books when Knopf, in a few
Did you know that the term "people of months, publishes "The World of Sholom
There were English Jews who followed
the same pattern of anti-Zionist action. the Book" was originally used by Mo- Aleichem" by Maurice Samuel.
Referring to these anti-nationalist Jews, hammed, and designated both Christians
the late Israel Zangwill, speaking at an and Jews—because both have a Bible
important meeting in London during the which they use to teach their religious
doctrines? . . . We got this information
last war, told a story which is applicable from
another book, the newly published
to the situation today. He told about an Volume
Eight of the Universal Jewish
escaped German officer who established Encyclopedia, from which we also learn
residence in a London hotel, wore the that a good many phrases we had never
By DR. JAN-ALBERT GORIS
best English clothes, spoke faultless Eng- thought of as Biblical do come from • the
Formerly Professor at the Catholic
lish and gave a London address. But he Book . . . "A drop in the bucket," for
University of Louvain
made a slight mistake. Instead of giving example, which is found in the Book of
his address for example as "55, Uni- Isaiah . . . Or that line about the leopard
(Copyright, 1943, Independent
versity Lane," he wrote "University changing his spots, which originated in
Jewish Press Service)
Lane 55." That exposed him.
Jeremiah . . . Then there's the Book of
Job, responsible for such nifties as
Anti-Semites never existed in Belgium
The point Zangwill made in relating "escaped by the skin of my teeth" and
for a few scores of ruffians who
this story was that there are English- "man is born to trouble as the sparks except
staged from time to time anti-Semitic
born Jews who receive their education fly upward" . . . Verily, the Preacher demonstrations. There is, therefore, no
in the best English schools and univer- so concisely put it, there is nothing new necessity to state that after the, war all
sities, who hold positions with the gov- under the sun . . . From the Encyclo- the German anti-Semitic regulations will
ernment or have other high ranks in pedia's listing of popular phrases we also be immediately abolished. However, the
civil and public life, whose social stand- learn that the Yiddish word gallach- Belgian Prime Minister, Hubert Pierlot,
ings are perfect, in marriage as well as priest—comes from a Hebrew word mean- made the following statement recently in
in general acceptance by the elite. In ing "shaven" and referring to the tonsure London:
only one way, said Zangwill, were these . . . That the common expression "son-of-
"The Constitution of Belgium guaran-
men betrayed as un-English: in their a-gun" is merely an abbreviation of "son- tees freedom of opinion and belief.
opposition to a Jewish State in Pale- of-a-ganef" . . . That the word shlemiehl,
"Furthermore, the laws and customs of
stine—an ideal with which every true which we had always thought to be de- our country have never allowed any dis-
Englishman sympathizes.
rived from the fictional character, Peter tinction between its citizens, according to
Schlemiehl, the man without a shadow, the race to which they belong or in which
Apply this story to the opposition in actually stems from, the Bible, in which they claim a place. All Belgians are equal
this country, and you have similarity. one Schlemiehl is described as very un- before the law.
The vast majority of members of both lucky . . . And that the Yiddish interjec-
"It is well known that the Belgian Gov-
Houses of our Congress, the leading tion "nobbiah" actually means "may it ernment, unanimously supported by pub-
Christian clergymen, men of letters and not happen to you," while "oser," used to lic opinion, did all in its power, in the
leaders in all fields of public service, indicate an emphatic negative, literally years immediately preceding the war, to
favor the solution of the problem of means "forbidden."
alleviate the great distress into which
Nazi persecution had plunged the Jews.
Jewish homelessness by the establish-
THIS
AND
THAT
"Only the victory of the Allies will put
ment of a Jewish National Home in
an end to the injustice of which they are
Palestine. Only the "protest-Council," a
A reliable source informs us that a the victims."
revival of the "protest-rabbiner" of 40 movement is under way in the Reform
The Belgians still remember the great
years ago, stands in opposition.
rabbinate to bring about a state of peace honor Pope Pius XI rendered to a group
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between the Protestrabbiner and the rest of Belgian pilgrims in September, 1938,
WHAT A PITY!
of the Central Conference of American when he confided to them his sorrow
Rabbis.
about the flood of anti-Semitism let loose
What a pity that this should be the
Hotel men, who can tell by the amount upon the world by the Axis powers. He
case!
of wear and tear undergone by their told them:
"Anti-Semitism is incompatible with
But Zionists should learn to be less Gideon Bibles, are unanimous in report-
panicky. If history repeats itself in the ing that reading of Holy Scripture by the thought and sublime reality expressed
rise of an opposition, it also repeats itself their guests has increased greatly since in the Bible. It is an antipathetic move-
ment. We Christians can have nothing to
America entered the war.
in the triumph of the just cause.
do with it.
It
was
by
special
request,
coming
from
The opposition should be, as it is being
"Through Christ and in Christ we are
an
American
soldier
overseas,
that
the
met by proper weapons, in the form of
of Abraham's spiritual descent. No! It
Office
of
War
Information
recently
short-
is impossible for Christians to take part
reason and the presentation of truth.
waved to England a musical novelty to in anti-Semitism. True, we recognize
end
all
musical
novelties—a
violin
duet
But why become unduly frightened,
man's right to defend himself, to take
in view of past experiences which have by Jack Benny and Jascha.Heifetz.
whatever measures may be necessary
made the builders of Palestine the vic-
A new-fledged Major in Army Intelli- against any menace- to his legitimate in-
t eve - - the disseminators of unfair gence is Stanley Kahn, former publisher terests. But anti-Semitism is intolerable.
propaganda?
of the New York Morning Telegraph.
Spiritually we are Semites."
Purely
Strictly
Commentary Confidential
`Spirits ally
ViTe Are Semites'