Page Two. •
Heard in
The Lobbies
By DAVID DEUTSCH
(Copyright, 1943, Independent
Jewish Press Service)
ALWAYS A NAZI
THE JEWISH NEWS
Quotation of the, Week.
"To establish religious freedom everywhere in, the world, man-
kind has a long, hard course to pursue. Protestants, Catholics, Jews
and members of every other religion, have a' common stake in this
enterprise. Any religion, anywhere in the world, is secure in the
maintenance of the rights which it enjoys only when these rights are
accorded to every religion everywhere in the world."
—REV. EVERETT It. CLINCHY, President of .
Friday, July 2, 1943
Between
You and Me
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright, 1943, Jewish Telegraphic
. Agency, Inc.)
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PALESTINE ECHOES
One of the voices heard in the recent
* National Conference of Christians and Jews.
President .RoOsevelt... and Winston
splendid radio programs sponsored by
Churchill may personally look into the
the United Jewish Appeal on . national
question of Arab-Jewish relations . . : It
hookups •is that of • a ..man who plays.
is understood that they consider the Pal-
Nazis like nobody else in radio business,
estine 'situation part and parcel of the
even though he has as much reason to
international- problems which must be
avoid resemblance to Nazis as anybody
solved before the post-war world achieves
in America. He is Stefan Schnabel, son
stabilization s
of the great pianist, Artur Schnabel,
It seems that Churchill does riot agree
both of them exiles from Germany be-
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ •
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
with the views of his-.foreign secretary,
cause of their Jewishness.
Anthony Eden, on Palestine . . . And
(Copyright, 1943, Seven Arts Feature
A PLAN FOR LASTING PEACE
Schnabel, who started his English stage
Syndicate)
Eden's views are not encouraging for
A novel program is being advocated by
work in London when he was only 20
JeWs.
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back in 1932, came to the United States Isaac Rosengarten, editor of the Jewish FROM THE RUSSIAN FRONT
Dr. Weizmann is contemplating leaving
•
in 1937. He hoped to play in Shakes- Forum. "Forward to Zion," is the call
Prof. Solomon Michaels; member of for London at the end of this Month,
pearean roles only to discover that the made by Mr. Rosengarten. In it he advo- the Jewish delegation from the Soviet even if this necessitates his returning to
Bard is dusted off only for intermittent cates that "when, war is over, peace.shall Union, in his first radio speech in this the United States a few weeks later .
revivals and that's no way to keep body be proclaimed from Mt. Sinai," and "all country • addresSed his Jewish audience There was a good deal of commotion this
and soul together.. Finally he got himself . nations, including the Axis, should:Send as "brothers and - sisters of a people that week in Palestine caused by cables Which
representatives" on a given day, to the Hitler is determined to convert into com-
a spot in radio because his voice im-
the Mizrachi of America sent to their
pressed one of the directors as being a spot where God 'revealed the Ten Com- mercial soap" • . . He referred to that adherents in Jerusalem charging Dr.
perfect reproduction of what is supposed mand.ments.
manifestation . of Nazi thriftinesS which Weizmann with being cool towards the
to be a Nazi sneer and leer . . . About
The plan sounds good. Proclaimed from has made Hitler's boys use the bodies of Biltmore Declaration . . These cables
every second Nazi you hear on the air Zion; there is reason for entertaining the murdered Jews as raw material in the played into the hands of some groups
these days is probably Jewish Stefan hope that the peace will be a lasting one manufacture of soap . . . And don't let in the Yishuv .
which were interested in
Schnabel, praying that the day will come and that the Jewish•problem will "be re- anybody tell you that Soviet -Jews aren't spreading a rumor that Dr. Weizinann• is
when he can get the hero's rather than solved justly and thoroughly."
sentimental . of the first things "reluctant". to • come 'to Palestine . . .
the villain's role.
Will the nations of the world react Michaels and his colleague,. Major Feffer, The result was that somebody in Jeru-
He was extremely proud, by the way, favorably to such a plan? What about all did in this country was to make -a pil- salem got the "brilliant" idea of having
•that on one of those United JeWish •Ap- the talk about Washington or London be- 'grimage to a Brooklyn cemetery . . . four members of the executive of the
peal broadcasts he was able to play a ing the centers of discussion Of peace There the official delegates from the Jewish Agency proceed to the United
Soviet Union,l deposited a wreath and States in order "to compel Dr. Weizmann
Palestine chalutz. He did swell, too. You plans?
Furthermore, do the promoters of this dropped a few tears on the grave of. to submit to the majority."
could see that he welcomed the chance
to hit back at the role he has to play peace plan recall that after the last war Sholein Aleichem.
It seems that this idea was born in the
Dr. Nahum Sokolow, the. great Zionist
to make a living.
Jews now make up the third largest minds of people who apparently do not
leader, spoke of Zion as the center out of national' group - in the Soviet Union . .
realize that the Jewish Agency would
which peace will be proclaimed to the Ahead of them are only the Great Rus- never get a priority on four plane seats
world?
sions, with 100,000,004, and about 30,000,- . .. And this at a time when Rabbi Meyer
Dr. Sokolow lived long enough to see 000 Ukrainians . . . Their number is esti- Berlin, president of the World Mizrachi,
h4s dream shattered.' Palestine became mated at 5,600.000.
has been stuck in New York for months
the scene of bloodshed, occasioned by
Most - popular Jewish hero in the Soviet waiting for a priority to return to Pales-
Arab vandalism. The world at large saw Union is the late Major Caesar Kunikov, tine.
the scrapping of all pledges to the Jews— who was a commander -of Soviet para-
By the way, what has happened to the
By BORIS SMOLAR
in Palestine and in the Diaspora.
troopers . . 'Russian newspapers still
Dare we hope that World War II holds carry exciting stories concerning Kuni, two American Zionist leaders -who were
(Copyright. 1943. Jewish
in store for us a greater share of idealism kov's 200 parachutists . . . Kunikov fell chosen some months ago to fly to Pal-
Telegraphic Agency)
estine as a delegation representing Am-
than the last war?
during the battle behind the Nazi lines.
erican Jews? Are they still waiting for
Jews and non-Jews alike would do well
Based on past experiences, the new
priorities?
YOU .SHOULD KNOW
to read the biography of Dr. Max Nordau peace plans are idle hopes.
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is
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—written jointly by his wife, Anna, and
A most disgraceful attack on European
WATCHING
DEVELOPMENTS
daughter, Maxa.
, f refugees appeared in the Brooklyn Tab-
ROSENWALD'S ANTI-ZIONISM
Jewish groups in America are watch-
Life Magazine introduced an injustice let several weeks ago .. The article
Many of his prophetic sayings can serve
ing the investigation of the race riots
charged
the
refugees
with
.
cOntaminating
to
Jews
with
its
article
by
Ibn
Saud.
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It
as a guide to those interested in the post-
in D_etroit with close interest . . . And
war Jewish position in the world. Take, corrected the wrong in small measure by the American way of life and -with bring- the Central Conference of American
ing
to
this
country
the
social
ills
that
publishing a reply by Dr. Stephen S.
for instance, his pronouncement 36 years
Wise. It then added to the injury by were responsible for the disintegration of Rabbis was not the only Jewish organ-
ago at the 8th World Zionist Congress.
ization to deplore the developments in
He said: "As long as a Jewish question publishing the article by Lessing J. Europe . . . Liberal Catholic leaders Detroit.
should
disavow
this
foul
sheet.
exists, as long as justice is denied to Rosenwald, "Reply to Zionism," and by
National Director of the Friends of
Jews, civilization is written down .a lie, announcing that the Rosenwald article - By- way of bribing Dutch children to
completes "the discussion of the Jewish betray the hiding-places of Jewish fami- Democracy L. 'M. Birkhead has just re-
and every diplomatic conference for the
lies, the Nazi authOrities in Holland have turned from a trip through the Middle
codification of the laws of comity and problem in Palestine."
humanity is a farce."
The latter injustice lies in the fact that issued special candy ration Cards directly West, and reports that . anti-Semitism
the RosenWald article does not complete to youngsters up to fourteen years of age -there is gaining ground among all kinds
How timely these words are today, the discussion on' the Palestinian prob- . . . P. S. The plan hasn't worked.
of people . .. Vicious anti-Semitic senti-
when all kinds of diplomatic conferences lem-
ments, he says, are expressed not only
, but introduces another issue—that of WEEKLY GIGGLE
are in the making for the sake of a better
among the crackpot . organizations—Silver
Jewish attitudes in the Diaspora. To
Winchell vows this story, coming out Shirts,. followers of Rev. Gerald L. K.
world. One of the most colorful, fascin- speak of "many Americans of the Jewish
of
the
recent
campaign
in
'Tunisia,
is
an
ating and revolutionary writers of his
faith who are opposed to the establish- actual fact .. It -seems that one of the Smith, Gerald - B. Winrod, Mrs. Elizabeth
time, Dr. Nordau f6resaw the moral chaos
ment of a Jewish State in Palestine" and American boys talked with a captured Dilling—but in the so-called best circles
into which Europe was gradually retro-
to give the • misleading impression that Italian soldier who in, pre-war days had . . . In the best clubs, the talk actually
gressing and warned against many dan-
2ionists seek a haven for Jews in Pales- been a frequent visitor to our shores ... reflects the Hitler - political line, so that
gerous developments which the world is
tine
to the exclusion of all other places of The American. thinking to comfort the there is an indication that anti-Semitism
facing today.
refuge is an unfair evaluation of the prisoner, told him: "You're in good hands- may become -a powerful political weapon
against the traditionally liberal American
Zionist position. ' . •
TURNED TO ZIONISM -- •
nOw . . . Nobckly'll hurt you" . . . And
Furthermore, by suggesting that the the Italian smiled knowingly . . . "You're methods . . . People who never before
Long prominent in the non-Jewish establishment of a Jewish Commonwealth
had an ' opinion one way • or the other
world because of his brilliant books in Palestine will prejudice the Jewish telling me?" . '.:: he said .. . "You don't about . Jews as a group, now parrot the
"From the Kremlin to the Alhambra," position _elsewhere, Mr. Rosenwald intro- have to feel sorry for me . . . I'm going anti-Semitic "line."
"The Conventional Lies of Our Civiliza- duces a destructive note in the discussion. to America—and you'll have to go ;to'
Italy."
tion," his philosophical "Paradoxes," he
Jews are in need of many havens of
turned to Zionism after realizing that rescue, and if Palestine should remain ABOUT PEOPLE •
•: .•
anti-Semitism was making greater prog
A 12-minute sound-movie featuring the
the only spot on the globe capable of
ress in Europe than even the most edu- absorbing hundreds of thousands of our late Sergeant Meyer Levin will. be• in-.
cated Jews realized.. He was especially unfortunate . kinsmen,. then it should be corporated in :the- U. S. Army. Newsreel
impressed by the Kishinev- pogroth of given a place of priority in the discussion . . •It was made while the heroic born-.
1882 which was followed by a train of . of the Jewish problem by common con- bardier was at -Midway Island.
—Confucius
anti-Semitic excesses all over Europe. He sent.
Mexico's greatest painter, Diego Rivera,
realized the significant fact that what was
By DR. NOAH E. ARONSTAM
Lessing J. Rosenwald's article in Life has long been interested in political ques-
happening was not accidental.
Magazine does not complete the discus- tions, and now : is hoping to be elected a Creeping shadows, silhouetted against
A direct moral shock, several years sion. On the contrary, it revives the member of his country's Chamber of
the light,
Deputies.
later, hastened his awakening . . . That issues and aggravates it.
With tentacles that grope into futurity,
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was in 1893, at the seaside resort of
With antennae that reach into eternity,
Borkum, in Germany, when he received CUMULATIVE VOTING
Then, the electorate selected two out of Engulf me.
an annonymous note at his dinner table
A Cincinnatian, acting in good faith, the four surviving candidates.
My life's sun is darkening.
reading: "We do not wish to see Jews proposed the plan of cumulative voting
It is clear that in a community. like My vision faileth me.-
here." He found these notes later in his for the American Jewish Conference. Detroit, where there were 54 candidates The horizon is blurred and hazy
room every day in verse and in prose Those who are quick to seize upon any- and where "plumping" was resorted to And the shore is shrouded
. . . Then came the Dreyfuss Affair in thing to prove that there is a conflict indiscriminately, the cumulative voting In a misty miasmatic mantle.
France . . • All of which convinced . Nordau between the "little" man and the man plan proved a disService. The gloaters, How impenetrable is thy veil, blind
that Jews must find a place for them-
"in power," have gloated over some especially those in a certain group in
Destiny,
selves where they can live and develop
community results, without indicating New York who crave for revolution That Makes harlequins of us
unmolested . ... It was, then that he de-
to the public at large that the cumulative without recognizing ethical values in ef- In the puppetry of Existence
cided to place himself at the service of voting plan has not worked anywhere, forts to proteCt the Jewish position in Ah, creeping shadows with tentacles of ice
his people.
outside of Cincinnati where it had ori- the world, would do well to, -nake a study Encompass me,
. This book, written by his wife and ginated and where they knew the pur- of the ballotS..- Had they! known that Grappling with my very heart strings,
pose of "plumping,'x its limitations and some of the defeated candidates received Silencing the dulcet call of hope, -
daughter, tells most eloquently. how he when it should` be shunned.
more individual ballots than some of So faint and low and sweet
aid it. It is the first full-blooded biog - .
(Incidentally, "plump" is the ..word, and those elected, would they stop. gloating? That I' sCarcely 'can 'diScern it.
raphy of Dr., Nordau as a philosopher, not "plunk.")
Your Commentator- doubts it, because it Be gone you visions of 'despair,
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In Cincinnati, the entire slate of cand- is too evident. that we are still a few . You phantoms of dread hopelessness!
physician, dramatist, essayist, novelist
oth a .corriplete desire for Life is 'still With me; PulSating.within me,
and Zionist leader. It is a volume which idates for the Conference delegates steps removed ;fr
dwindled to five. There was a "primary" total unity for: action in defense of Jew- Striving; soaring upwards to the light.
is certainly a "must" for any intelligent , vote for the elimination of the candidate ish rights which must include all
ele- Despair, thou canst not thwart me,
Jewish reader
.
drawing the lowest _ number of votes.. ments .in American• Jewry.
-Be gone- thou -gatimt, grim monster:
Purely
Commentary
Strictly
Confidential
Dr. Max Nordau:
Zionist Prophet
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'Creeping Shadows
And Then the Light`