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THE JEWISH NEWS
Strictly
Confidential
Have a Betel Nut ?
By REX STOUT
Author of Nero Wolfe Stories
No, thank you, I don't care for them. Anybody who would - chew betel
nuts ought to be shot.
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
(Copyrigh•, 1944, by Seven Arts
Feature Syndicate)
BEHIND THE NEWS
.1,1er
Here's something that has come to our
attention concerning police officer James
Drew of New York City,. who recently
was exonerated of charges of subversive
anti-Semitic activities . His wife,
we're told, was the organizational secre-
tary of America's "little fuehrer" Joe
McWilliams in Brooklyn . . Drew's
house was filled with anti-Semitic books
from cellar to attic . . . Drew, moreover,
had a very odd hobby . . To amuse
himself he spent hours mimeographing
anti-Semitic hate songs for mass distri-
bution . . • But none of this interfered
•with his being whitewashed of all
charges.
* * *
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE
The Hunter College (New York) biol-
ogy department is treasuring a series of
85 unusually fine slides of malaria para-
sites sent to it as a gift from a former
instructor, Louis Levinson, now a lieu- •
tenant with our forces in the Southwest
Pacific area, who collected the animal-
cules in New Guinea.
Abrasha Brainin, grandson of the late
Reuben Brainin and former scholastic
swimming champion of Montreal, is now
in England with the Canadian invasion
troops.
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WITH THE THEOLOGIANS
Dr. Alexander Marks, librarian of . the
Jewish Theological Seminary, has 225,
000 volumes under his care there . •
And when he gets home at night he
relaxes •by taking a look at some of the
books in his private library, a modest
little collection of about 13,000 tomes.
Don't miss Rabbi Abraham' H. Israel:
itan's book "Israel Speaks for Democra-
cy" . . . It's as natural as a textbook in
Jewish religious schools of all wings.
* * *
ABOUT PEOPLE
Congratulations to octogenarian Mor- .
itz Rosenthal, the piano Virttios6, on his
acquisition of American citizenship.
In this country for a brief visit is Na-
talia Aszkenazy, pretty young attache at
the Polish Foreign Office in London . . .
She has the distinction of being the only
Polish woman holding an official post
in the governrnent-in-ekile diplomatic
service.
Prevent Germany
Trying It Again!
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° Germany Will Try It Again', Title
of Book by Former Tribune
Reporter in Berlin
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"Germany Will Try It Again" by
Sigrid Schultz, published by Reynal &
Hitchcock, 386 Fourth Ave., New York,
is one of the most effective, most con-
vincing and most illuminating works
ever published in America with respect
to Nazi plans for world domination.
Miss Schultz was for more than 20
years the representative in Berlin of
The Chicago Tribune. She carefully
noted the many deceptions of Nazi
leaders and the military clique which
were carried on from the day of the
signing of the Versailles Treaty. By
reason of her proximity to Nazi leaders,
she was able to make accurate mental
notes of the type of thinking which
marked the German mind.
Her revelations, candidly set forth,
are most striking in their significance.
Every reader of this book, whether
Jewish or non-Jewish, will be more in-
telligently aware of the Nazi- v , Reist
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menace more th an ,.,(11' ._
Almost any man or woman might say a thing like that, because it's
human, all too human. If there is anything about a man that makes him
different, that sets him apart from us, he irritates us and we don't like him.
As long as it goes no further than irritation, maybe we cant' help it,
and maybe it doesn't matter so much. But if we aren't careful it will get
much worse than irritation. It got so bad with the Germans that they went
completely crazy with the idea that everybody who isn't just like them—
everybody who isn't a German—is not even human, and all he's good for is
either to be a slave or get killed.
Nothing would please the Germans more than for us to feel that way
about people who somehow, in a little thing or a big thing, are different
from us—Catholics, Jews, Negroes—no matter who, because the Germans
still think they're going to take over this country someday. They think if
they don't manage it this time they will next time with World War III.
If they do take it over, they'll need a couple of million Americans to help
them with the chores such as secret police, and they're counting on the
hate-carriers among us to do those little jobs. So any American who is
looking forward to a glorious future as an errand boy for the Germans
shouldn't hide his hate under a bushel. Of course, as long as we keep our
country a democracy, such an American hasn't got much of a future of any
kind to look forward to.
Purely
Commentary
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
THE WISE PALESTINE COLONY
Plans for the establishment of the
colony in Palestine in honor of Dr. Ste-
phen S. Wise brings to mind recollec-
tions of a proposal your Commentator
Made, six years ago, that colonies be
formed in Eretz Israel in tribute to
Rabbi Wise and Josiah Wedgwood.
. At that time, . Dr. Wise heartily en-
dorsed the proposal that Lord Wedg-
wood be accorded the suggested honor.
He modestly remained silent over the
suggestion of his own name for such
honors.
But Wedgwood — who passed away
several months ago—then had an inter-
esting comment to make on our proposal.
He expressed the belief that his own
government would not countenance such
a • move since he was persona non grata
with the Colonial Office.
Fortunately, there is no one to veto
the plan to honor Dr. Wise, and what-
ever honors are to be accorded him
should also be considered honors for the
entire American Jewish community.
It is proper to renew the proposal to
honor the late Lord Wedgwood, one of
the sincerest friends Israel ever had.
How about establishing a colony in Pal-
estine in his honor, ladies and gentlemen
• of the Jewish National Fund and the
entire Zionist movement?
* * *
TO THE CHIEF RABBI:.
Chief Rabbi Joseph H. Hertz of Eng-
land, speaking at a pro-Palestine meet-
ing in London, criticized "some Zionists
in the United States" who are attacking
Britain. .He said: "I regret the note of
wholesale condemnation recently in-
dulged. in by some Zionists in the United
States toward the Mandatory Power."
Well, now, the same criticisms have
been heard in England. Furthermore,
they were directed not against Great
Britain, but against those members of
the British government, of the British
Colonial Office, who have been breaking
pledges made to the Jewish people.
There is not a reputable Zionist who
does not retain gratitude for England
for the great part she shared in the
building of the Jewish National Home.
But does that mean that we can not
complain and petition for better treat-
ment when promises are shattered?
Chief Rabbi Hertz's brother, the late
Emanuel Hertz of New York, was
outstanding authority on Lino ,'
we quote an importap 4 -
Lincoln apropos this— .
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Heard in
The Lobbies
By ARNOLD LEVIN
(Copyright, 1944, Independent Jewish
Press Service, Inc.)
RE: UNDERGROUND
The Jewish Labor. Committee has
launched a campaign for $250,000 to aid
the ghettos' Underground. In view of
the extremely cordial relations between
the Committee and some Poles, we won-
der whether a portion of the money
will be donated to the Polish under-
ground. You have been told that the
Polish underground *gave the maximum
assistance to the rebels of the ghettos
and supplied them with weapons to re-
sist the Nazis. That is but half-true.
Most of the weapons were supplied by
the Polish underground, but at a steep
price. The Jews paid fabulous sums,
C. O. D., for each gun received, and the
ghettos that couldn't come across with
the money remained unarmed. Incident-
ally, from early reports released by the
Jewish Labor Committee, it had appear-
ed that the ghetto revolts were the work
of non-nationalist Jewish laborites of
Poland. It has been ascertained, since,
that all sections of Polish Jewry par-
ticipated in the revolts and that leader-
ship was mainly in the hands of Labor
Zionist youth. Honor to the heroes, they
died for Jewry and not for a section of it.
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CAPITAL RUMORS
At this writing (although time may
make us a liar) we are told by those-
in-the-know that, contrary to rumors
and expectations, there will be no state-
ment from the British regarding Pales-
tine before April 1. Zionists in London
are being told to have patience and that
when the war is over everything will be
squared. Well, perhaps not squared, but
partitioned. A new Palestine partition,
proposed unofficially by British top men
to Zionist top men, is said to have 1 ,-/
among the reasons for David
Gurion's resignation from the ch.'
ship of the Jewish Agency
and for the emergency_ -
Zionist leaders convey/
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Between
You and Me
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright, 1944, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
TIME ELEMENT
It can now be told that had Rabbi
Stephen S. Wise not left in a hurry for
Los Angeles during the first week of
February, there might not have been
any testimony by Gen. Marshall against
the Palestine resolution . • . Rabbi Wise
had asked President Roosevelt for an
appointment for himself and Dr. Abba
Hillel Silver in the middle of January
• . The President agreed to see them
on February 2 . . . On February 1 Rabbi
Wise left for Los Angeles and, without
notifying Dr. Silver, asked the Presi-
dent to set another date for the ap-
pointment . . . On February 7 War Sec-
retary Stimson wrote his letter to the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
which was later supported by Gen.
Marshall . . . Had the appointment with
the President been kept five days before,
as originally scheduled, Secretary Stim-
son would have, no doubt, thought twice
before writing his letter which led to the
shelving of the Palestine resolution . . .
This is obvious from the statement
which President Roosevelt authorized
Rabbi Wise and Dr. Silver to make . . .
The credit for the meeting of the Zionist
leaders with the President goes to Sen.
Wagner of New York . . . It was he who
induced the President to receive Dr.
Wise and Dr. Silver after two earlier
appointments hvae been cancelled not
on Roosevelt's initiative.
* * *
RESCUE ECHOES
You may not know it, but Marshal
Tito, leader of the partisans in Yugo-
slavia, has helped far more Jews to
escape from Nazi lands to Palestine than
any Jewish organization.
Believe it or not, but relief organiza-
tions operating in Lisbon find it diffi-
cult now to induce refugees there to
take their American visas . . . This is
because the refugees believe that Europe
will soon be liberated and they might
have a • chance to return home quicker
if they remain in Portugal than if they
cro to the United States.
We hear that John W. Pehle, execu-
tive director of the War Refugee Board,
is still undecided as to whether the
Board should apply to ongress for an
appropriation to facilitate its work . .
We understand that the War Ref - dOe
Board should apply to Congress fr :
Committee whether it would not E ,
the transfer of 5,000 Jewish
from the Balkan countries to
. . The J.D.C. answered in-
tive . . . The negotiations
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