THE JEWISH NEWS

Page Two

Strictly
Confidential

Friday, June 30, 1944

Purely
Commentary

Br. Theodor literzi in Illetrospect

Reprinted from Dr. Emaruel Neumann's "The Birth of Jewish States-
manship." in the Occasion of the 40th Anniversary of
Dr. Herzl's Death, Occurring on July 3

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

(Copyright. 1944, by Seven Arts
Feature Syndicate)

By EMANUEL NEUMANN

YOU SHOULD KNOW
Fr. Charles E. Coughlin is telling his
intimates that he expects to make an im-
portant speech on a national hook-up in
the near future.
Don't let anybody tell you that the Ku
Klux Klan is dead . . . Just check up on
"The Keystone Patriotic Society," "The
Sons of America" and "The Sons of Lib-
erty," and you will find the "retired
Klansmen.
Joseph P. Ka mp's pamphlet, "Lotions
of Love," is a p iece of smear literature
devoted in its entirety to the "destruc-
tion" of Walter Winchell . . . And after
you read Kamp' s diatribe you will say:
"More power to Walter" . . . Kamp, in-
cidentally, is being financed . by well-
known Fascist and anti-Semitic .biggies.
Senator Theodore Bilbo of Mississippi
reached the lowest depths of intolerance
in his address on the Senate floor the
other day . . His insulting remarks
against 8ecretary Morgenthau, Bernard
M. Baruch and Dr. Stephen S. Wise re-
called the heyd ay of "Social Justice"
eloquence.

Viewing the whole period in perspective from the vantage point of our
day, it may be confidently asserted that never in modern times has a prophet
arisen among his people who saw more clearly or endeavored more nobly
to 'guide his people along the road to honor and security.
It had been his task to overcome the inertia of centuries and set his
people into motion. Deliberately and with persistence, he had striven to
dispel the mood of helplessness and dull acquiescence in their fate and
breathe into them a new spirit of self-:confidence and the will to achieve.
That had been his purpose from the • first. In a remarkable passage of his
diary written at the close of the First Congress, he said: "At Basle I founded
the Jewish State. If I were to say this today, I would be met by universal
laughter. In five years, perhaps, and certainly in fifty, everyone will see it.
The State is already founded, in essence, in ,the will of the people of the
State . . . The territory is only the. concrete manifestation; and even where
it possesses a territory, the State is always something abstract.
"In Basle I created this thing which is abstract and - therefore invisible
to the great majority of people. Actually, with infinitesimal means, I grad-
ually infused into the people the mood of the State, and inspired them with
the feeling that they were the ,National Assembly."
His ideas, even phrases of his coining, have been embodied in inter-
national treaties, passing into the public law of nations. Actually within
'forty years of the First Zionist Congress the British Government announced
its intention of proclaiming a Jewish State, though in only a part of Palestine.
But the full realization of Herzl's dream is still a work for the future—
dependent less upon fluctuating external circumstances than upon the ulti-
mately decisive factor, the Jewish will. "If you will it, it is no fable."
His remains still rest in 'Vienna waiting to be reinterred in the, soil of
Palestine as provided in his will. The final epitaph is still to be written.
If it will not then proclaim the final consummation of his Idea, it will at
least record that, in his own words, he had given—
"To the young a hope, to the old a dream, to all men
something beautiful."

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LESSON IN BROTHERHOOD
When Jan Masaryk, the Czechoslova-
kian statesman, was admitted to this
country on his current visit, reports. Van
Devander, he had to go through • the
usual immigration • procedure . . . He was
handed a form which he had to fill out
with all sorts of personal information
. . . When Masaryk came to the item
"race" on the fOrm, he looked thbughtful
By BORIS SMOLAR
By ARNOLD LEVIN
for a moment, and then wrote simply:
(Copyright,
1944
Independent
Jewish
"Human" . . "But Mr. Masaryk," pro-
Conyright, 1944. Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
Press Service, Inc.)
tested - the immigration officer, "That
The question of a possible partition of
isn't what the question means . . . You DOMESTIC FRONT
Palestine is again coming to the forefront
- come from Czechoslovakia; why don't
Secretary of State A. A. Berle Jr. is . . . This time stronger than ever before
you write 'Czechoslovakian'?" . . . Where-
the authority for the following state- . . . And Zionist officialdom in New York
upon Masaryk replied: "The Czechoslo- ment: ". . . the Departinent of State does,
vakians aren't a race . . . They are just not-recognize the Hebrew Committee of is now trying to make up its mind• as to
a nationality, made up of Czechs, Slovaks National Liberation as having any. rep what the attitude of the American Zion-
and many other peoples . . . I am a resentative status." This is in 'reply to ist movement should be in case partition
is. officially broached . . Some foresee
Czechoslovakian by nationality, but I be;-
..thoSe .: who erroneously believe that- the the possibility that neither the Jews nor
long to the human race" . . . And be-
faCt that Peter H. Bergson. and his co-* the Arabs• may be consulted regarding
lieve it or not, that entry was permitted
incorporators of the Hebrew Nation have-
to stand in the records, and remains registered with the Department of Jus- the bOrders of a. partitioned Palestine .. .
This' despite the fact that President
there as ,a unique affirmation of the
tice implies official recognition.
Roosevelt in a message to the Palestine
brotherhood of man.
Rabbi Jonah B. Wise is the first target Arabs this week is reported to have as-
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of Rabbi Eliezer Silver; leader of . the sured them that the status of Palestine
DID YOU KNOW?
ultra-Orthodox Agudath Israel, n o w will be determined by the United Na-
"The "embassy" • of the Hebrew Com-
training all guns on "Reform influences" tions in consultation with Jews and
mittee of National Liberation is being on the American Jewiah scene . . . He is Arabs . . . Members of the Jewish Agency
furnished in grand style . . . An admirer reported to have - addressed' a letter to in Palestine' are determined to 'oppose
of the Committee, an interior decorator
the Joint Distribution Committee de- partition by following Ghandi's policy . of
by profession, is volunteering his services, n-landing the resignation of Rabbi Jonah non-cooperation . . Members of the
which are worth a minimum of $35,000.
B. Wise because of the latter's participa- Agency in LoridOn are for the time being
Arthur Szyk, whose anti-Faicist cari
tion in the presentation of an ancient non-commital . . . The time will soon be
catures, painted in his inimitable- style, synagogual candelabra to a church. The ripe also for the American non-Zionist
are creating a sensation, has 38 of his. candelabra was the gift of the New York members of the Jewish Agency to an-
paintings hanging in President Roose-
Times publisher.
nounce their attitude with regard to par-.
velt's Hyde Park library . . . These
tition and to the post war status of Pal-
The
,Agudath
Israel,
simultaneously
paintings are a series of miniatures de
opposing a political state and flirting estine in general . . .- A. joint • British-
picting the history of the American Re-
American statement on Palestine is ex-
volution, and were presented to FDR by with the Bergson 'Groupers, is competing pected to be issued simultaneously in
with.
the
Orthodox
Zionist
:Mizrachi
Or-
the. President of Poland in 1935.
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ganization for advertising space in . the London and in Washington not later than
Yiddish press. Mizrachi apparently, fol-- August • . . This: statement ha been
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
lowing the lead of the Zionist Organiza, ready for some time, but its issuance was
We hope you didn't miss the 64-dollar
tion, which 'hag been signing up entire postponed until • after the invasion . . .
series of questions and answers' popular
congregations for membership, hag set When Assistant Secretary of State Stet-
in the Danish schools these days, but,
out • to - 'do : the same and thus officially , tinius_ „was in London ' recently, fin al
just in case,. we'll reproduce it for you
line up organized Orthbdoxy behind its touches were made on it in the light of
. . . It' goes like• this: Q.: What is said
cause. That the average Orthodox Jew an expected successful' invasion.
when a child continually steals? A.:
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is
for Zionism is beyond. question, but
'That's a mania . . . Q.: And when an
FARMERS AND WARRIORS
Orthodoxy,
unorganized,
has
hitherto
adult continually steals? A.: Kleptoman-
failed to show its numerical strength.
The full story of the role played by
ia . . . Q.: And when an entire nation
Peace between the Zionist-Revisionists young Jewish men' and women from
continually steals? A.: That's Germania.
and the official Zionist movement should farms in every branch of the U. S. com-
be imminent; now that : the Zionist-Re:- bat forces, on "all fronts and on all the
' viaionists have been split by the Bergson seven. seas,' is yet to be 'told .. . But part
of the story is related 'in reports collect-
Groupers.
Eliyahu Mayer is 19 years of age: he
ed by .the Jewish Agricultural• Society
is a graduate of an agricultural school in
. . Here are just a few characteristic
FROM FRANCE
Palestine, and is one of the many Jewish
instances . . . Max LeOpold of Arpin,
volunteers from that country. , • .
Our armies fight on soil hallowed. ,by Wis. , has .. a son in an army air force
He has written this letter to his par-
centuries of Jewish history. Before training school, a daughter in the WAC, -
ents—refugees from,, Nazi Germany:
France: was France, Jewish merchants one son-ih-law with the-army in Italy
"Palestinian airmen of an R.A.F. unit from Rome would journey there and and another with the army in England
in the Middle East have built a syna-- :spread . Rornan eulture, teaching the, na- . . Two sons, of . Hyman Sherry. of
gogue in the desert.
i as holy , to tives Latin which evolved, eventually, Moodus, Conn.,_ are in the army. One is
It is
them as elaborately built synagogues
into. French . greatest of all a .captain,. the :other is a sergeant . . .
closer to civilization—though its
commentators on the _Bible and the' Tal- Harry Lutz,. the son of ,-a retired farmer
are made from petrol tins and the roof ,mud, has preserved in, his commentaries in Sodus,. Mich., was ,:cluring the year
is white tentage. MOat of the men have a veritable treasury of ancient French elevated to a lieutenant colonelcy . . .
come from all over Europe. Some' had wordage which might have been forgot- Stanley Pollyea of Benton .Harbor, Mich:,
to flee from Germany. Others left Po-
ten, otherwise . . . The ban on bigamy entered the army in'lanuary, 1941; and
land, Rumania and Czechoslovakia when
among SeWs was proclainied'by a great now holds 'the rank of captain . . His
persecutions began . . . The airmen hold
rabbi, Gershom, . the Light of the Dias,- brother, Merril, enlisted in; the air force
services regularly when a chapter is
pora, who made his home in France . .
in November, 1940, and received a cita-
read from the Sefer Torah—the parch-
Jewish fortunes fluctuated on 'what is tion' for bra,Very und0 fire 1. . . Another
ment scrolls of the five •booka of • prayer now French- ; In' the '6th century, brother is a cadet in the air corps and
sacred to all .hws. The Sefer Torah was Jews had already taken up residence in. Still another enlisted in the naval re-
recently presented to the station to mark
Marseilles, Orleans, Paris and- Bordeaux serve . . . David C. Besbris, whose. father
its first birthday 'as a transport unit . —practiced medicine, engaged as tax col, farms at Raynham, Mass., was among
tarrying R.A.F. equipment from the Del-
lectors, owned ; ships arid conducted big the first American flier's to 'bomb Trond-
ta, to supply centers in the' Western. 'det-
mercantile establiShments . . • Under heirn, 'Norway . . In :one of his flights
ert. Above the box 'containing the Holy
Charlemagne in 768, JewS had a great his plane was shot down over the EngL
Writ is a tiny electric light that never deal of autonomy and even a VicerOY of - lish Channel. After 13 and one-half
goes out, illuminating a board on which their own; they were welcome. in' the hoUrs in the - water he was
and
are written the Ten CommandmentS in Royal Court and some were dispatched .speAt seven.:seelcs. in. a hospital...... He
Hebrew."
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The English-Jewish press in America
is nearly a century old. For nearly 40
years, Jewish publishers in this country
have been dreaming of an idea—to form
an association for the advancenient of
Jewish journalism in this country.
This dream has finally become a •re-
ality and -the American Association of
•English-Jewisl Newspapers is now a fact.
The formation of this organization - is
of far greater importance • than it , may
seem on the surface. The English-JeWish
newspapers have hitherto: presented a
sorry appearance. In contents and in
Make-up, as well as in financial returns,
they were, in the 'main, a poor lot. The
new association, which aims to advance
the standards of these newspapers, has -
much . to offer the entire community of
American Jews.
The Credo adopted by the association's
steering committee speaks for itself. It
reads:
"The English-Jewish newspapers of
America have the common Objective of
rendering a specialized service to their
respective communities, to America
and to the wider American Jewish
community.
"These periodicals have for their
common ideal the further advancement
of Jewish journalism, the attainment
of the highest literary and profession-
al standards, and the maintenance of a
militant, fearleSs approach to all Jew-
ish problems: •
"The fulfillinent of these, ideals is
the fundamental and vital task of the
Jewish newspaper as a basis for the
growth and enrichment of Jewish life
in America."
With this as a basis, much is now to be
expected from that part of the English-
Jewish press which has until now been
either amateurish or lax in its respOnsi-
bilities. The new trends augur well for
all in: American Jewry.
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AN OLD SUBSCRIBER
SinCe we are on the subject of news-
papera, your Commentator desires to re-
late one of the best stories that Comes to
us through the Norwegian underground.
The Norwegians love to repeat this story
—abont a young- Nazi who was deeply
absorbed. reading the London Times. He
was : then on guard duty in a lonely vil-
lage in Norway.
Caught in the act of reading the for-
bidden enemy literature, the superior
officer asked for an explanation of the
act of. insubordination of rules which pro-
hibit the reading of "enemy propaganda."
The youthful Nazi soldier gulped, then,-
with a forced smile, said:
"Can . 1 help it, sir, if I happen to be
an old subscriber?" -
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ABOUT 'PICTURES:
0.. W,- HOLMES' AIDE
Let us stick for a moment to the sub-
ject . of newspapers.
Since we, among other newspapers, are
sometimes subject to criticism because- an
occasional photograph knot very, clear
when Submitted to us) does not repro-
duce. well, our readers should share our
pleasure in reading the following-story,
for which the Christian Science Monitor
is authority:
Among the diversions enjoyed by Oli-
ver Wendell Holmes was amateur pho-
tography, Working - with the crude equip-
ment to which he was limited 'in his day,
the ;1 tew. England author's efforts ' at
picture-taking often left something to 'be
desired.
Once when one of his pictures turned
out a:little better than usual, Holmes
:tendered a copy to a friend, writing on
the back of it this whimsical acknowl-
edgment. of a. silent but powerful. assis-
tant• . I`Taken by 0. W. Holmes & Sun."

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RAF .Flier Puts
Mezuzah on Plane

TEL AVIV (JPS-Palcor)—When news
reached Tel Aviv that Aaron Re/net, son.
of DaVid Remez, of the Histadruth's Ex-
ecutive COun.cil, . had gained his 'wings"
as a• flier in. the Royal Air Force, h i s
proud father went , out looking for a
suitable ;souvenir gift to send his son. A
journalist • friend happened to be in the
shop ‘4,there the - father was chooaing Ins
present, and' suggested buying him a

silver NfezUzah.
The :,rather thought this a grand idea

and has his son a small Mezuzah -
of thp:tYPe used as amUlets—to be affix-
ed to the door' of . his aircraft, thuS . taking
the religiOus symbol into . the

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fight dgainst thc arch-enemy of thankilid.