Page Two
Purely
Commentary
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
(Copyright, 1943, Independent
Jewish Press Service)
JACOB BILLIKOPF
THE JEWISH NEWS
Quotation of the Week
"Never would Hitler have dared to select one people for annihila-
tion had not the road been prepared for him by all kinds and de-
grees of anti-Semites. A person's constitutional rights are secure only
when his social standing in a community is secure. If a people is singl-
ed out for hatred, as a group, if the fact of just belonging to this group
is considered enough to count as a crime, that people loses, in the
eyes of its persecutors, the dignity and mysticism of a human being.
Then justice is warped and animal instincts are brought forth.
"It is a fact that all who have prepared this ground of hatred
toward the Jews and other races are exactly as responsible for the
bestial slaughter of the Jews in Poland, and others, as Hitler and his
clique. Even if today they are frightened by the results of their hatr-
ed, they are as guilty as the Nazis. Hitler only gathers the fruit of
their well planted seed."
Friday, February 26, 1943
Heard in
the Lobbies
By DAVID DEUTSCH
(Copyright, 1943, Independent
Jewish Press Service)
FUTURE HEADLINES
Dr. Jacob Billikopf, veteran social
Henry Monsky, Rabbi James G. Heller,
worker, igi- oudly refers to himself as
Robert P. Goldman, Judge Irving Leh-
FFV. It always ,stood for First Families
man, Joseph M. Proskauer and Louis
of Vilno, whence he hails. Today, the
Lipsky have been holding constant con-
V can be interchanged for Virginia, as
ferences in New York to exchange points
a result of the honor accorded to "Billie"
of view on the American Jewish As-
on his selection for the Virginia Honor
sembly initiated by Bnai Brith.
Roll by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
Rabbi Maurice N. Eisendrath of Toron-
The influence of Vilno made itself felt
to is following in the footsteps of his
—Sholem Aseh, Noted Jewish Author. '
in Billikopf's case in 1899, while he was a
predecessors at Holy Blossom Temple by
student at Richmond College. He wrote
returning to the United States. Rumor
an article at that time which attracted
has it that he will be the executive dir-
wide attention and drew him into the
ector of the Union of American Hebrew
field of social work. He entered Jewish
Congregations, a post held briefly by the
activities and was the director of the
late Rabbi Edward Israel. Rabbi Eisen-
Jewish war. relief campaign for $25,000,-
drath is sympathetic to Labor Palestine.
000 during the last war.
Now the director of labor relations for-
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
The Board of Governors of the Hebrew
By BORIS SMOLAR
Philadelphia stores, Billikopf has made
University in Jerusalem will meet soon
(Copyright, 1943, Seven Arts Feature
quite a record for himself. He knows
(Copyright, 1943, Jewish Telegraphic
to consider the case of Dr. Judah L.
Syndicate)
mcre of the "great" and "near great"
Agency, Inc.)
Magnes.
than most Jewish leaders. He carries on WEEKLY GIGGLE
POLITICAL POINTS
an extensive correspondence with the im-
A renewal of the agreement between
Leonard Lyons told us this story of the
portant men in all fields of endeavor.
The
statement
of
the
Zionist
Emerg-
the
American Jewish Committee and the
And—he is fearless, as is illustrated by Nazi Gauleiter who was explaining to ency Committee which slams the door Anti-Defamation League for joint fund-
the mayor of a Norwegian town what
the following incident.
on further negotiations between the Am- raising under discussion, despite efforts
In 1933 he appeared at a meeting with his duties would be under the New Or- erican Jewish Committee and the Zion- to unify all four defense agencies
on a
der
.
.
.
"The
first
thing
you
must
do,"
Wilbur K. Thomas, director of the Carl
ists on Palestine is considered by many common functioning and financing pro-
Schurz Foundation. The latter made the said the Gauleiter, "is to tell your people people to be poor tactics . . . It puts on gram.
remark that "we should not view occur- that the Nuremburg laws shall be ap- the record the fact that the non-Zionists
You'll get some fascinating inside
rences in Germany with our emotions." plied throughout Normay" . . . The were willing to continue the negotiations,
Thereupon Billikopf recited a long list Mayor, however, shook his head, saying: but the Zionists refused the hand that stories on that miracle man Meyer Weis-
"That won't be necessary here" . . .
of Nazi atrocities against Jews in Ger-
was stretched out to them . . . This "sev- gal in scene designer Lee Simonson's forth-
many and challenged his confrere: "And "Why not? Are all your people 100 per erance of diplomatic relations" may af- coming biography, "Part of a Lifetime."
Dr. Thomas has the effrontery to stand cent Aryans?" asked the Nazi .. . "No," fect the existence of the Jewish Agency THEY HAVE THEM IN ERIE TOO
before me and• tell me not to view these replied the Mayor, "but in this country in which the non-Zionists have a nominal
we have no reason to feel inferior to the fifty percent representation .. .
In case you think that Jews who die
occurrences with my emotions!"
non-Aryans."
every time they see their shadow are
Many a fellow in important positions
The Jewish Agency is, after all, the restricted to the United States, take a
in Jewish life may well copy such pro- QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
only internationally recognized body for
cedure from Jacob Billikopf, F. F. V.
Was it the Bnai Brith itself or some Palestine . . . A break-up of the Jewish look at Ireland. It seems, according to
private individual or agency who was Agency would certainly not be helpful the London Jewish Chronicle, that the
UNPUBLIHED BOOKS
sponsoring those diaries for soldiers that to the Zionist cause, neither in America Jewish Representative Council of Erie
Many an author weeps for the dead
were being peddled to Bnai Brith mem- nor at the peace conference . . . Few "forbade the observance of December
and laments the length of the present
13th as a day of fasting and prayer for
bers
until military authorities made it know that on the same day that the
war because his brain work remains un-
the Jews in Poland out of fear that they
published. It is one of the fees being clear that the keeping of diaries by sold- Zionist Emergency Committee issued its might offend the Irish on the grounds of
iers was undesirable?
statement against the American Jewish Eire's neutraltiy in the war." This amaz-
paid for this world conflict—that many
That New York Times advertisement Committee, Dr. Weizmann conferred with ing action inspired these indignant lines
a book remains in the author's desk,
without chance of seeing the printer's published last week by the Committee Judge Proskauer, president of the Am- from the famous literary critic and es-
for a Jewish Army, about the alleged erican Jewish Committee, and with Dr. sayist, Dr. A. J. Leventhal of Trinity
shop.
Philip M. Raskin is an especially un- Rumanian offer to "sell" 70,000 Jews at Stephen Wise, president of the American College, Dublin:
happy man. He has three excellent $50 a head for transportation to Pales- Jewish Congress, on the question of res-
"Who are these men? What Golus-addled caste
books of poems in his desk in the Jewish tine, was not only in bad taste, but mis- cuing Jews from Nazi Europe . . . Prac- with craven cries of neutral policy deny to Eire's
Jews
the right to fast and pray while millions
leading.
To
the
casual
reader
tical
decisions,
I
understand,
were
made
it gave
National Fund office in New York. When
of their tortured kin expire in Poland! Since
he has a free moment he laments over the impression that the committee was at this conference without any difficulty the Captivity Israel has never lived so dark an
The miseries of Shebat or Ab or Tammuz
the lack of appreciation of poetry. This in a position to do something about sav- whatsoever . . . Which only goes to prove hour.
or Esther 's Fast when that and prayer pre-
that the Zionists cannot afford to under- vailed
fine poet is fearful lest the results of his ing those 70,000 Jews.
and sent the Hitler Haman to. the gal-
Clipped from somewhere is this bit of take to do anything of importance for lows, are stabs of petty spite—primordial sin—
efforts of the last few years should fail
beside
the calculated butchery of an ancient
advice
to
Hitler,
who
had
been
said
to
the
Jews
in
Europe
without
gaining
the
to see the light of day.
race by Nietzsche's 'blinded beast.'
Talk to publishers and they will tell be doubtful as to whether or not he cooperation of the non-Zionists in Am-
"Not fast in Ireland, where the Gaelic bard,
you that they reject manuscripts, some should return to the Russian front: "Sit erica . . .The Weizmann-Proskauer-Wise affronted
in the cause of poesy, lay at the royal
of them of an excellent nature, because tight, Adolph—your Eastern Front is conference, I can predict, will have very gate, untouched the feast of friends, no drink-,
prepared
to
starve to death until the king with-
headed
your
way."
important
consequences
.
.
.
All
the
more
they do not comply with the demands of
drew the wounding word. Not fast in Ireland
reason
for
the
Zionist
Emergency
Com-
the hour.
where
the
patriot
Mayor MacSwiney trebled
`WORLD WITHOUT END'
his sunless Ramadan and died. The world stood
But there are some good names which
Gilbert • Frankau's new novel, "World mittee not to have rushed into print with still. Its breathless prayer saved this old nation
always command an audience. Sholem Without End," will be published soon, its statement against the American Jew- and will save an older one."
Asch's new book will soon be off the
through no fault of Goering's . . • For ish Committee . . . One of the important
press. Dr. Solomon Goldman is complet-
somehow the Nazi Luftwaffe, on one of questions people ask is what stand has
ing a work which is hailed as a classic.
its raids on England, managed to hit the the Hadassah taken . . . On one hand the
The Jewish Publication Society is never
house where the only manuscript of the Hadassah is affiliated with the American
By LOWS K. ANSPACHER
short of titles.
book was lying—and it took some fancy Jewish Committee and on the other hand
(These
lines, written 25 years ago, are
it is affiliated with the Zionist Emergency
EXPOSE OF CAROL
• digging to rescue it intact.
reprinted from Bulletins From Britain.
Committee
.
.
.
Did
Mrs.
Tamar
de
Sola
The
question
is asked: has the situa-
Important writing need not be incorp-
Isaac Carmel, secretary of the com-
tion altered since the poem was first
orated in books, however. The most ef- mittee in charge of the publication of the Pool of the Zionist Emergency Com-
written?)
fective writing has been done in pamph- Max Nordau biography by the great mittee vote against Mrs. Tamar de Sola
let form. Take Samuel H. Abramson's Zionist leader's widow and daughter,' , as- Pool, the member of the executive Board They have invoked the sword, so by the
sword
brochure exposing Ex-King Carol's Free sures us that the book is now on the press of the American Jewish Committee? .. .
Rumanian Movement. He sub-titles it . . . It will be a volume of more than Can the Hadassah now remain affiliated Let them abide.
"The Strange Case of Carol Moraru, 400 pages, and the,illustrations will in- with two organizations opposing each They have appealed to might, and so by
might
Fischer & Co." and tells an interesting clude some heretofore unpublished por- other?
Let them be tried.
story of intrigue, in which Jews have un- traits of Dr. Nordau.
HERE AND THERE
They have forsworn all peace, so ta?k of
fortunately figured to their discredit. It
Anyone Who bets that the American
The other day we bumped into another
peace
is a masterful piece which should be in- author, Lewis Browne, who has just hung Jewish Committee will not join the Am:
corporated in the records of the battle up a record by giving 60 lectures in Army erican Assembly will probably win . . . Be now denied.
being conducted to eradicate reactionary camps within a single month.
This despite private talks between Henry After the use they've made
movements with tendencies to play into
The author of "This Believing World" Monsky, "the father of the Assembly" Of every ruse,
the hands of the Nazis.
is finishing a novel dealing with Fascist and Judge Proskauer, the president of And every vow betrayed
rackets in California . . . The main char- the committee • . . Meanwhile, we hear Into abuse:
acter is a press agent . . . In his research that the newly opened headquarters of Behind a flag of truce
work for this bOok Browne came on this the American Jewish Assembly are Let them not hide!
oddity: Bundists are now spreading the ready for business . . . The headquarters
By MARTIN PANZER
false rumor that Fritz Kuhn, who's in are now under the supervision of a trio We see the ambuscade:
jail for seditious activities, is a member composed of Maurice Bisgyer, executive Old weapons fail;
(Copyright, 1943, Independent
of that Kuhn family whose name appears secretary of the Bnai Brith; Lillie Traps of fair words are laid;
Jewish Press Service)
in the title of the Jewish banking firm Schultz, executive secretary of the Am- Appeasers quail,
SAYS RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IS of Kuhn and Loeb . . . Browne also in- erican Jewish Congress, and Meyer Dupes are dismayed:
"RULE RATHER THAN EXCEPTION." formed us, with considerable pride, that Weisgal, right-hand man of Dr. Weiz- Coward hearts wail,
—Headline. Mis-rule, not Golden Rule. his illustrated "Graphic Bible" is being mann.
And pity is Prayed.
OWI PAMPHLET TELLS TRUTH used in quite a number of Sunday
Is
it
true
that
Polish
relief
officials
in
ABOUT NAZIS—Headline. When the Schools.
Persia have distributed to Poles only the Let us beware the snare:
Nazis read it they'll say OWI! OWI OWI!
ABOUT PEOPLE
clothing sent from Palestine for Polish- Fight to the end!
First Class Machinist's Mate Henry
Rabbi Ezekiel Taub, the famous Yab- Jewish refugees? . . . On good authority Let us not cease to fight!
Kirschbaum has received a citation from loner Rebbe who, as we told you a few I learn that while Jewish: refugee child- There is no peace in sight,
the Navy Department for capturing 11 columns ago, had been working as a ren from Poland in
the camps in Persia Until. they bend
prisoners and delivering them to Army
.
riveter in a San Francisco shipyard, has are practically. naked, Polish children Into the dust!
authorities. Tsk! Tsk! Was that nice,
advanced to the status of designing walk around in clothing contributed by Upon the other side,
Henry? The Army must have ordered engineer, and is
Of the Rhine we'll sign .
now hard at work in Jews in Palestine, bearing Hebrew in-
a dozen.
Peace
when they must.
itials.
another shipyard, at Los Angeles . . .
After the wrong they've done
.The Nazis announce- that the diamond The Rebbe solves the problem of observ-
All in the name of the Hun—
industry in Belgium and Holland is now ing the Sabbath without losing working
ago, vowing that the Nazis would never Murdered and lied!
"Judenrein." Customers had better hours by working overtime
on week let him escape their wrath, is turning the They don't belong among
watch out for "rein" stones from now on. days.
tables on Gabby ... Feldman is in the Those whom we trust.
JEWS RESPONSIBLE FOR RUSSIAN
Maurice Feldman, the former Viennese U. S. Army now, and hopes to have the Let us disarm the foe:
VICTORIES, HUNGARIAN PRESS newspaperman whom Goebbels singled
pleasure of dealing with Goebbels per- That is the debt we owe
CHARGES—Headline. Flatterers!
out for a vicious verbal attack five years sonally before long.
Those who haVe died.
Strictly
Confidential
Between
You and Me
The Last Weapon
Tickling the News
•