Page Twelve THE JEWISH NEWS . 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- (Continued on Page 13) 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 DEARBORN OFFICE the Palestine resolutions, they 22010 Michigan Avenue near Monroe embarked on a course that was new to Jewish experience. Never GENERAL MOTORS OFFICE First Floor, General Motors Building before had Jews attempted to convert to Zionism (or anything GRAND RIVER OFFICE else) the public opinion of a 9836 Grand River Avenue near Iliventois democracy, and register that TUE public opinion, as part of the GRATIOT OFFICE democratic process, through an 9980 Gratiot Avenue at Harper DETROIT act of its legislative body. EDISON HIGHLAND PARK OFFICE Background of Stadlonim 13953 Woodward Avenue near Ford CO. We can appreciate the startl- ing novelty of this course only JEFFERSON OFFICE by reviewing an important as- 13314 E. Jefferson Avenue near Coplin pect of modern Jewish history. REDFORD OFFICE It is an historical commonplace 21600 Grand River Avenue at Burgess to say that Zionism provided the first democratic movement in ROYAL OAK OFFICE Jewry since its dispersion. But 321 Williams near Fourth 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 Te'd General Rose Killed Pacing Drive in Reich etift a 640‘ef