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THE JEWISH NEWS
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Back Stairs to Nowhere
Friday, April 6, 1945
habit. And for two large a num- rect propagation of Zionism
ber of Jews it is still ingrained. among the people of Great Bri-
Herzl's Radical Step
tain, Germany and France, and
An Examination of Zionist Policy
When Herzl, at the close of a direct approach through the
the past century, dreamed of a people to their parliaments, was
BY MARVIN LOWENTHAL
Jewish state, he acted in the an impossibility in Herzl's life-
(All Rights Reserved by the Author)
traditional manner of all Jews time. We can never know, for
who get an idea which they
The time has come—and nearly gone—for statesmanship think is good for their people. it was never tried.
Personal Diplomacy
instead of politics. We must consider measures rather than He acted, that is, like a Stadion.
Such approach to peoples and Son of a Jewish Immigran+;
men. For months conscientious Zionists have directed or He went to the counting rooms
pursued lines of conduct which reflect little but bewilder- of the richest Jews extant, Baron parliaments was assuredly possi-
He Served in N. Africa,
during the first World War.
ment and confusion. They have advanced and retreated, de Hirsch and Baron de Roths- ble
Yet the grant of the Balfour De-
France and Belgium
tacked and veered, advocated resolutions in Congress and child, thinking to induce them claration
and the British man-
to put up the money with which
countermanded them, less as
date
for
Palestine
remained
the
he would go to the Sultan and
WASHINGTON, D. C. — Maj.
result of a calculated policy than
of inability to understand where through the personal interces- buy a charter for the Jews to work of personal diplomacy. Gen. Maurice Rose whose arra-
they are at and how to get to sion of what we would now call set up a state in Palestine. When Three men—Balfour, Lloyd ored division led an epic drive .
where they want to go next. "representative" Jews. These these wealthy Jews refused the George, and Wilson—gave the into Germany last week, has
Division of opinion and interest were self-appointed leader s, money, Herzl took the most rad- Jewish people whatever political been killed, it was announced by
has split their leadership and, whose leadership was accepted ical step in modern Jewish his- status they possess in Palestine. the War Department.
tory. Ignoring any individual These three men were won to
if not overcome, will demoralize
Gen. Rose was the son of a
their ranks. Moreover the sands by general and grateful consent, Jew, rich or poor, he turned to the gift by a handful of devoted Jewish immigrant who settled in
Jewish
leaders,
backed
by
a
of opportunity are running low. and who, as men of character, the Jewish people as a whole
Denver.
Few and brief chances for effec- influence, or wealth, dealt with and created the first democratic hard-fighting Zionist organiza-
Commander of the noted Third
tion.
To
put
it
crudely
and
sim-
movement in Jewish life. From
tive action remain to them be-
Armored Division, a unit of Lt.
the moment he had the Zionist ply, two Englishmen and one Gen. Courtney Hodges'
fore a peace conference or other
First
Organization behind him, a body American were "sold" on the Army, Gen. Rose died "while
decision puts a term to Zionist
merits
of
Zionism.
But
neither
constitutionally open to every
political achievement for long
leading his division in spear-
years to come.
Jew and based on one vote to the British parliament nor the heading the advance of U. S.
American
Congress,
still
less
the
each member, he was no longer
The Arabs know what they
troops in Germany."
a stadlon but a democratically mass of British and Americans,
want and how to use the means
His division had led the way
elected leader. It was a big step, were won or pledged to its pro-
they possess to get it. The Brit-
gram.
into
the heart of the Nazi realm
but
it
took
Herzl
only
halfway
ish Colonial Office and our op-
The grant of the Balfour De- with a drive of nearly 100 miles
towards a completely democratic,
ponents in the U. S. Department
claration was unquestionably the between dawn and dusk.
procedure.
of State know what they are aft-
Gen. Rose was awarded the
For even with the Zionist Or- greatest achievement of personal
er and presumably, on the rec-
ganization at his back Herzl con- diplomacy in Jewish history. It Distinguished Service Medal re-
ord, how to attain it. We too
tinued the age-old policy of per- demonstrated once again that cently for leadership of the di-
know what we want; but either
sonal diplomacy. He addressed the personal approach plays and vision through France and Bel-
we do not recognize the means
himself to the Grand Duke of will always play one of the de- gium into Germany. Earlier, he
we command to secure it—or,
Baden, to the Kaiser, to the Sul- cisive roles in international poli- served with distinction in North
recognizing the means. we floun-
tan, to "Joe" Chamberlain, to the tics. Nothing, indeed, can be Africa.
der in their application because
Pope—to say nothing of the gained in wisdom or practice by
they are frighteningly unfam-
A native of Middletown, Conn.,
King of Bulgaria, Von Plehve, deriding or neglecting personal his wife lives in Denver. He is
iliar and hence baffling to us.
and anyone else who would lis- character, power, and contacts.
the eleventh American general
The Wrong Emphasis
ten. He, addressed himself to
But the fate of the Balfour to die in action in this war.
The means for action at Zion-
everyone concerned, except the Declaration proves what can be
ist disposal are in fact largely
parliaments of the great powers lost by relying on personal di-
unfamiliar. Some of them we
MARVIN LOWENTHAL
of Western Europe or the poli- plomacy alone. Within four JWV Ladies to Hold
Jews have never employed be-
tical
the
ruling
powers
of
the
Church
parties that dominated years the three givers of the Luncheon Wednesday;
fore. Yet because they are es-
sential we must master them, and State in behalf of the Jew- them or the publics they repre- Declaration disappeared from
and quickly, or else resign our- ish community. Such leaders sented. He was forever appear- power, and immediately the sub- Mrs. Kraditor Guest
selves to the defeat of our politi- came to be known as stadlonim ing at Zionist Congresses, and stance of the Declaration began
Mrs. Henrietta L. KraditOr,
or "spokesmen," and their poli- in whispers telling his intimate to be whittled away. Through
cal program.
The usual explanations of the tical methods were known as supporters to wait a little while the White Paper of 1939 its sub- past national president of the
present crisis in the Zionist stadlonut. In fact as well as longer and something magnifi- stance vanished. It should be Ladies' Auxiliaries of the Jewish
Emergency Council wrongly em- romance these methods inevit- cent would transpire. This be- apparent to every thoughtful War Veterans of the U. S., wilt
phasizes personal animosities, ably—given the circumstances of havior cannot be turned into a man—and it should be compul- be guest speaker at the donor
prides, and ambitions. This is, the age—meant climbing the weapon of criticism against Her- sory knowledge for every Zion- luncheon of the JWV Depart-
I believe, mistaken, because back stairs to the archbishop's z', an incomparable optimist and ist leader—that the enemies of ment of Michigan Ladies' Auxil-
every vital movement is beset study or the grand-duke's privy self-sacrificing servant. It prov- a Jewish Palestine succeeded in iary, at Latin Quarters, next
and sometimes bedevilled with chamber, there to bargain or es, however, the power of habit their work of destruction be- Wednesday.
Mrs. Kraditor will discuss
private interests. Even if Zion- -beg as best the spokesman could. —the strength of the ingrained cause, with the exit of merely
ist leadership were at one in its In essence, stadlonut boils down Jewish tradition of personal di- three men, there was left no postwar veterans' activities.
immediate program it would to going to the kitchen door for plomacy. Herzl, like his succes- power that could defend the
Other guests will include rep-
still, like any leadership, provide a hand-out. But until the sors, was at heart a democrat, Jewish right to a homeland. resentatives of Allied Veterans'
French
Revolution
and
the
rise
yet he could not conceive of us- Neither the British parliament groups, and all branches of the
an arena for conflicting per-
of modern democracy no other ing the processes of democracy nor the American Congress service will be represented.
sonalities.
method for securing even the when it came to obtaining from came to the defense of the Man-
Like Landlubbers at Sea
Reservations may be made by
most elemental rights was avail-
The root of the tragic dissen- able to the Jews. By this time, the non-Jewish world the grant date, for it was not they who calling Mrs. Bertha Schaape, TR.
of
a
Jewish
state.
Such
use
was
had
been
persuaded
of
its
justice
sion goes far deeper than indi- after centuries of use, the meth-
1-5892; Mrs. Marie Hyman, HO.
and necessity.
vidual rivalries and jealousies. od became an ingrained Jewish too unfamiliar.
0345, or Mrs. Ida Schultz, TO.
It may be argued that a di-
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It springs and takes its strength
8-0394.
from a basic incomprehension.
Zionists strike wildly at one an-
other, they give personal rancour
the rein to destroy not only their
colleagues but the movement—
and this at the most critical mo-
ment in its career—because at
bottom they do not comprehend
what they are about. And they
do not - comprehend for the suf-
ficient reason that during the
—and the pleasure doesn't end with the baking. Your real reward comes at the
past two years they have under-
taken a line of action completely
table when your family or guests discover how delicious your baked things really argil
foreign to Jewish history and
therefore unfamiliar to the point
If you are a busy woman, our April demonstrations at the Home Service Galen
of driving them to distraction.
wilt be of particular interest to you. The Advisors will demonstrate
They rock the boat because they
are like landlubbers at sea. Their
on Thursday and Friday afternoons how you can easily
feet are in a strange path and
consequently they are losing
bake coffee cakes, peanut butter bread, muffins and
their heads.
biscuits from dough prepared the same day.
Let us examine this path. Let
us understand how and why it
Drop in at your nearest Home Service Center at any
is strange to most of us.
When, considerably more than
time on Thursday or Friday afternoon.
a year ago, the Zionist leader-
ship, as united in the Emer-
gency Council, undertook to se-
cure the passage by Congress of
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the Palestine resolutions, they
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embarked on a course that was
new to Jewish experience. Never
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before had Jews attempted to
convert to Zionism (or anything
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else) the public opinion of a
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democracy, and register that
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public opinion, as part of the
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democratic process, through an
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act of its legislative body.
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Background of Stadlonim
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CO.
We can appreciate the startl-
ing novelty of this course only
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by reviewing an important as-
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pect of modern Jewish history.
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It is an historical commonplace
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to say that Zionism provided the
first democratic movement in
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Jewry since its dispersion. But
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like most commonplaces it dis-
torts or fails to tell the whole
truth.
Up until the 19th century Jew-
ry con ?meted its negotiations
with
the non-Jewish world
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General Rose
Killed Pacing
Drive in Reich
etift
a 640‘ef