THE JEWISH NEWS
Niger TWP ,
Heard in
The. Lobbies
By. DAVID DEUTSCH
(Copyright, .794,3, Independent
' 'Jewish Press Serinee) -
UNBORN NEWS
Pressure- is still being applied to Post- ,
pone the American Jewish Conference,-
scheduled for Aug. 29. The excuse given
by those who favor delay is that Jews
should not discuss their ,affairs while in-
vasion of Europe is in progreis. Funny
hoW some people think John Rankin is
concerned with what Jews say before he
opens his own mouth.
Life magazine is planning a layout on
Jewish work in Palestine as big as the
one given to- many-wived Ibn Saud. - The
Life photographer spent almost two
weeks in • the . Jewish- settlements and
cities.
There is talk of a. group of Jews fornr-
ing a special committee in the district in
New York from -which Sol Bloom bas
been perenially elected to Congress in
order to give him a resounding defeat at
the next elections, despite his adVanced
age. Bloom usually tells friends that his
personal acquaintanceship with Anthony
Eden is more iinpOrtant to the Jews than
all the organized political activity they
can muster.
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Included in the list of famous last
- Words shbuld be Richards' remark "-`while
the work of _reconstruction for the ad,
vancement of one Jew" was going on.
As the mask began to settle down, the
author of KeidanSkY -Tales said: "All
this commotion and not ' a single
schnappS!" That was what he meant to
say, that is, but his voice didn't carry.
In the wee hours of the - morning, for-
mer Detroiter Saul K. Padover, Harold
Ickes' assistant, has been putting to-
gether half a million words representing •
the first omnibus of Thomas Jefferson.
"The Complete Jefferson" is its title and
five dollars will buy it some time next
fall.
PERSONALIA
Benito Mussolini
and Anti.-Sernitism
Excerpts from Article in Universal
Jewish Encyclopedia
In the early stages of his career as
Fascist leader Mussolini, had the assis-
tance of several Jews. His trusted lieu-
tenant was _Aldo Finzi, 'a ',gallant airman
who cooperated with . Gabriele d'Annun-
zio's . in conduCting the Fiume campaign
advoCated by. Mussolini. ;-Finzi, appoint-
ed assistant Minister of the interior when
Mussolini came to power, was the real
leader ofithe ministry of the interior.
Margherita
Sarfatti, a Jewess of
' Milan,.
for many years Mussolini's intimate
friend, edited the official paper .of the
FasciSt Party and wrote Mussolini's offi-
cial biography.
When Mussolini set up a commission of
leading Italian jurists to amend the con-
stitution of Italy according to the prin-
ciples of Fascism, three Jews, Gino
Arias, Barone, and Levi, were among its
selected members, and Levi was en-
trusted with a particularly delicate part
of the important task.
He received Dr. Chaim Weizmann and
encouraged Zionist organizations in Italy
in the hope that Italian Jews would pro-
mote .Italian expansion in the Mediter-
ranean basin and in North Africa. •
A RADICAL WING
In 1932, he declared to the Jewish
author Emil Ludwig: "Nothing will ever
make me believe that biologically pure
races can be shown to exist today," and
after having jeered at such apostles of
Teutonic racism as Joseph Arthur Gobi-
neau and Houston. Stewart Chamberlain,
he Continued: "No such doctrine will ever
find Wide acceptance here in Italy."
SURRENDERS TO HITLER
1936; ..:however, Mussolini surrend-
ered s to Hitler, at the same time that
German-dtaliah collaboration greiv clos-
, er. fri , repeatedly . denied • the existence
of prePonderant G
German influence, and
took pains to 'declare that his policy con-
cerning the Jews Would not change. But
he was forced to tolerate anti-Semitic
agitatibn in Italy, and in the fall of 1938
the Fascist Grand Council, dominated by
.Mussolini, inaugurated racist legislation
concerning thee Jews, ;which copied the
Nuremberg lawS.
In answer to a reproach from Pope
Pius XI on Italy's behavior, Mussolini
now announced that "also in racial ques-
tions, Fascism will „go ahead."- After the
outbreak of war . in September, •:1939,
Mussolini further denoUnced the Jews
as friends of foreign lands.
ACopyright 1943, Seven-Arts Feature Syndicatej •
uotatiou of the Week
"The schools are daily urged by every government agency to
take an adequate part in preparing the youth of the country to with-
stand, physically. and spiritually, the trials before them . . .- •
.z , 'As far as the schools are concerned, the -:usual methods of fos7
_ _tering good will and seeking to break down prejudices by developing.
`tolerance'—that much 'abused word—are not -enough:. The tines are
critical. The long-range program must be supplemented by a more
'immediate reaction to a present danger. I do not say that we must
.create artificial situations, and sud.denly . treat.our students to disser-
_ tations. -on these problems. Unfortunately, . however, the situations
create themselves. In view of this, when the occasion presents itself,
an honest. analysis of the purpose of the enemy becomes as legitimate,
as pedagogically sound, and as essential as a course in first aid or
nutrition. Once one has lifted. the subject out of the melancholy
sphere of apologetics or homiletics, and placed such phenomena as
anti-Semitic parodies in their true perspective, the boy who is going to
. an Army camp at the end of the term will have some defense against
this type of attempt to undermine his morale. The schools must assist
in providing this safeguard so that the will to victory does not sicken
at the source:"
Friday, July 23, .043
Between
You and Me
By BORIS SMOLAR •
• 1943, Jesh TelegraPhic
(Copyright,
Agency, 'Inc.)
I
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INSIDE AMERICA
. . •
Since Pearl Harbor, more than 17 syna-
gogues .., in brOoklYn alone have been
desecrated . . . The vitalized active
agents of anti-Semitism -also wrecked the
headquarters of - the United Jewish War
Effort in Brooklyn ... . In Boston youth-
ful hoodlums have started a wave of
physical violence against. Jewish youth
. . . Vandals have demolished Jewish re-
ligious property at Lake Placid and .
Saranac Lake,', in New York State . . .
Great quantities of anti-Semitic litera-
ture in the form of ' printed leafletS' are
being left with designed carelessness On
the seats of subways and street cars .in
New York.
—MARIE SYRKIN, in an article "Goebbels'
In case you did not know who caused
Favorite Weapon," in Common Ground.
the anti-Negro. riots in Detroit, read the
Congressional Record . . . You will find
Congressman John. E. Rankin stating that
these riots were provoked by none other
than "Communistic Jews and. Negroes"
... This is the same Congressman Rankin
who before Pearl Harbor spoke in Con-
gress of "Jewish bankers" who, he
roared, wanted to drag •the United States
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
•into the war . . . In case you don't i re-
member, Congressman' Edelstein . of New
(Copyright, 1943, Seven Arts Feature
A CHRISTIAN ON PALESTINE
York dropped dead from a heart attack
Syndicate)
SeVeral columns back, this Commen,
in the lobby. of the -Congress after get-
tator made references to Prof. Joseph IMPORTANT TO KNOW
. ting into an argument with • Rankin dur-
Klausner's "From Jesus to Paul," which . The formation of a United Nations 1 ing one of the lattee.s anti-Semitic out-
was translated frbm the Hebrew by. Prof. Commission to compile, sift and even- - bursts in Congress. .. . . To give due credit
W. F. Stinesuring of Duke University, tually submit to the coming Peace Con- :to Rankin,. we must say that he wasn't
DurhaM, N. C. (`Trom Jegits to Paul" ference' the record of Nazi atrocities the only member of the House who could
was : published by The Macmillan Co. against civilian populations' is virtually not depart for his sinnmer,vacation with-
early this month). • •
completed . The Commission will sit Out- inserting a smear against, the' JeWs
i head may be an Airier
in- the ' Congressional Record . . : Clare
The Commentator h _ as a communica- in London, but its'
- iceit ; . Sciviet Russia Will have a repre
Hoffman; a Michigan Congre§sthan, . saw
tion- from Stines.pring who writes:
fit to raise the "racial" issue in. Congress
"My only regret is that you laid so sentative on it
Foreign Relief Administrator Herbert when Congressman . Dickstein, as chair-
much stress upon the political Zionism.
Prof: KlauSner -does hold this point. of H. Lehman has his plans made for feed= man of the House Immigration Commit-
view, and hints of it have crept into -the ing the peoples of Europe after their lib- tee, informed : the. House that Nazi civi-
book, in spite of its pre-occupation with eration from the Nazis . The younger lians held on Ellis island are. having a
an entirely different problem. I myself generation of Lehmans, incidentally, has • good: time there . .. They live there, he
am strongly in favor of cultural and 100 per cent representation in our said, as if in a club, receiving three good
spiritual Zionism, but I question the armed - forces now, with .. the enlist- meals a day and doing nothing . .". This
value even to . the Jews themselveS of ment of Mrs. Hilda L- Lehman .Ba- includes the notorious NaZi Fritz Kuhn
.. What Dickstein wanted was that these
the extremist agitation for Jewish polit- detzky, the Colonel's daughter, in the
WAC . ; . One of her: brothers, Peter civilian Nazis, who are nothing but spies,
ical control of Palestine.
"Perhaps all of this is because I am a Lehman, is in England with the Amer- should be interned somewhere in the
teacher of religion who feels that the ican Air Force, and her other brother, United States where life would not be so
glory of Israel is in its spiritual heritage John, is in a Texas Army camp, while comfortable for them as on Ellis Island
and that a petty political state can have her husband, Boris Badetzky, is a ser- • . . Congressman. Hoffman apparently
no very great significance one way or geant in the Signal Corps and is now did not like the idea and charged Dick-
stein with introducing' the "racial issue"
the other for • this great spiritual berit- stationed in England.
into Congress too often.
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"Anyhow, there is no doubt that both SIDELIGHTS
of us are rabidly anti-Nazi, and:that we
Theodor
Herz'
8
What with Hitler having. kittens Over
can work together to rid the world Of events on the Russian and Sicilian fronts,
the curse of Hitler and all his wOrks." the U. S. Senate Restaurant cat, named
Prof. Stine§pring's views 'deserve the after the Fuehrer because of its funny-.
consideration which so serious-minded a looking little black mustache, is right on
teacher of religion has earned by hiS the beam . . For Washington's feline Stefan Zweig's Last Book Paints
works.
Hitler recently ..—L. you 'guessed it — had
An Unforgettable Portrait
kittens.
PROTECTION AND FAITH
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
Swedish ' newspapers, Leonard Lyons
No one doubts the sincerity of men
It is an unforgettable portrait of Theo-
like Prof; Stine§Pring, whether • they are tells us, reports that the concussion of. dor Herzl that Stefan Zweig paints in.
Jews or Christians. The regrettable British and American bombs striking his book The Woricl.of Yesterday "- pub,'
thing is that these people fail to under- German cities is so great that for hots lished posthumously.
Stand that 'with:out protection there dan afterwards Hitler's pictures come flying
Herzl, the man attired in the most
be no security for religion in Palestine. out of windows.
perfect French - boulevard fashion; Herzl;'
What is said to be the most.. startling the poet and fueilletonist, the man whose
The best proof of it is to be found in
the destruction of Prof. Klausner's man- expose of Nazi underground groups on writings in the Neue Freie Presse of
uscripts by Arab vandals. The eminent these shores has just been published by Vienna so charmed the aesthete-intelli-
Jewish scholar had to work for years an author who prefers 'to call himself gentsia of that city, schooled in every
to reconstruct his bciok "From Jesus• to John Roy Carlson, and who in his book, subtlety!
entitled "Undercover," calls facts and
Paul."
Zweig describes how startled was
The value of Palestine to the Jews people by their right names, which he Vienna when Herzl published "Das
and to the world lies not only in the discovered in years of patient and persis- Judenstaat." His idea was preposterous,
building of a Spiritual center, but also tent investigation.
they said. What need did they have for
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in the creation of a physically-secure
Palestine, exclaimed the Viennese Jew's.
LADIES'
CORNER
haven of refuge for millions of Jews.
Weren't they all doing very well? Wasn't
There are rumors that Dorothy Backer, Franz Joseph a good king for them as for
Such a hairen can not flourish unless
Jews are given a chance to defend them- who is the granddaughter of Jacob H. all Austrians? Wasn't it certain, they
Schiff and the owner of the New York asked; that in a few decades all types of
selves.
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Post, is trying to effect a merger between religious discrimination would become
her paper and PM, Marshall Field's tab- obsolete?
THE LESSON OF _THE RIOTS
Instigated by selfish leaders, Arabs in loid ... Experts think this would make
The admiration which had been lav-
Palestine on several occasions destroyed a powerful combination.
ished on. Herzl changed to scorn and
Not
enough
credit
is
-
being
given
to
Jewish property, murdered Jewish
mocking.
settlers, killed hundreds in, the Yeshivah Anna Center Schneiderman, the active.
Reflecting on Herzl's position at - the
and .imaginative m a-s t e .•m i n d of the time, it is indeed surprising that he
at Hebron.
Would Prof. Stinespring permit a sit- Women's Division of the American Jew- shbuld have been the fountain head of
uation which would deprive the help- ish Congress . . Mrs. Schneiderman is Modern Zionism. .
less, men .in theological schools, like probably New York's busiest communal
One would expect the doCtrine of
those at Hebron, of the right to defend worker.
Zionism
have found its progenitor in
• Recently we had the 'pleasure of Meet- some Jew to deeply
themSelves?
schooled in. the Jewish
In colonies where JeWs were in poSi- ing, Wanda Hurwitz, wife of Vladimir, . tradition, in a Jew . who had been buf-
-.
the-great
pianist,
and
daughter
of
Tos-
tion to offer resistance, Jetivish prOPerty
feted about and harassed because of his
was ,.not molested; but:in.'.ceitters •where canini. ... Wanda is beautiful and witty, Jewishn.ess—not from the literary _darling
helpless men, and women and children and possesses a trenchant humor as sharp of all Vienna. •
were•:free targets for Arabs, there were as. a .razor blade.
But Herzl was a king. The JeWs who
outrageous. mwders.
mocked at him, calling him HiS Majesty,
Jews are building Palestine with the does could recognize the truth , of this the King, were right after all. There
sweat of their brows. Should Jews plant situation.
was a king in him, there was in him, the
trees in Zion without protecting the
What our Christian friends must learn dignity and majesty of the individual at
ground and the trees and the planters? to understand is that it is not a question its highest and it was, these . kingly
To - a man of religion "political center" 'Cif our gaining "political control of Pal- qualities which _made him the vehicle for
may sound anti-spiritual. But for people estine." It is, rather, a question of de- . the expression of Zionism.
who are building homes for themselves fense for the Jewish position and the
It is a comforting thing to know that
and their children, political defense is a creation of a wholesome atmosphere in a few pages of writing - can. have so
part of their existence. Would that Prof. the Holy Land Where . Jews and Arab- much :effect.
Stinespring and those who believe as he may live in peace.
Copyright, 1943, Jewish Telegraphic. Agency, Inc.
Purely
Commentary
Strictly
Confidential
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Kingly
ly Maiesty
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