Page Two
Purely
Commentary
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
GAMBLING WITH LIVES
Shortly before the cessation of hostili-
ties in Europe, the South African Jewish
War Appeal published an advertisement
in behalf of its drive for funds. This ad-
vertisement must be rated as a classic in
frank speaking.
The conditions in South Africa and in
this country being very nearly alike, this
advertisement has great merit in con-
nection with our own appeals for funds
for the tragically-afflicted Jews of Eu-
rope. We ask you, therefore, to share the
contents of_ this ad with us, It reads as
follows:
9 Lost The Lives of Fifty
Children At Playing Cards"
Can you imagine a Jew gambling away
the lives of 50 children in a game a
chance? He would have to be a Haman,
a Hitler, -a Monstrosity.
Yet things as bad are daily happening.
Are you wasting money on gambling,
on luxuries, while not 50, but 500,000
Jewish children are dyillag?
That dress you need not have bought
. . . That party you need not have at-
tended . . . That trinket that was never
required . . . Why did the money not
'go to the
U,J.W. SOUTH AFRICAN JEWISH
WAR APPEAL
(Women's Campaign?)
When you sit down to a - meal
Think of the Jewish War Appeal
Is it possible that any one will assume
to say that this challenge is far-fetched?
We need not interpret the term "gam-
bling" too literally to catch the spirit of
the South African message. Suffice it to
say - that if we are hard-hearted while we
live in luxury, if we are indifferent to
the needs of our people; we ARE gam-
bling with their destiny.
And if we gamble with THEIR future.
we imperil our own. .
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INFLUENCE OF BIGOTRY
We would be very blind if we failed
to recognize that the influences of bigotry
which have their roots in countries
steeped in medievalism have had their
effect upon our own lives.
Anti-Semitic movements would have
been much weaker in America and else-
where if not for the things that happened
in Nazi-dominated lands..
The unending flood of news about the
degradations of Jews, especially during
the past 12 years, has. given courage to
bigots in this country to • emulate the
examples of gangsters in Hitler garb.
Stories about Jewish sufferings have
stirred liberals everywhere to expressions
of sympathy, but they have also been re-
sponsible for assertions by bigots that "if
these things are happening to Jews
throughout Europe, there must be cause
for it," and their evil minds created evil
deeds.
While liberals limited their kind-heart-
edness to "sympathy," the bigots were at
work increasing their evils. .
If there is to be, as there MUST be, an
end to bigotry and intolerance, one of the
steps towards the restoration of decency
in the world is the complete and whole-
some rehabilitation of the victims of the
Nazis and their cohorts.
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GIVE—AND WORK!
This is a long introduction to the point
at issue—that every Jew, every one of
us, man, woman and child, . must exert
himself or herself to secure maximum
needs for the reconstruction of the lives
of impoverished Israel.
A happy Jewish people overseas will
be a contributing factor in creating
greater happiness here.. By example, a
great deal of .good can be accomplished.
And at the moment—until the Allied
Jewish Campaign becomes an independ-
ent fund-raising agency for Jewish causes
alone, the War Chest is the only means
of providing the major needs for recon-
structive and rehabilitative efforts among
European Jews.
If we do not give liberally to the War
Chest and work wholeheartedly for it, we
will be gambling not only with the
destiny of those that are to be helped
with the funds we are to contribute and
are to help raise, but we will also be
gambling with our own security.
THE JEWISH
NEWS
Behind Enemy Lines
The War Chest Provides the Necessary Funds With Which to
Rehabilitate Those Who Escaped the Nazi Terror
Only a few months before they had escaped from Nazi terror and settled
in Palestine with the aid of the United Palestine Appeal, but because they
looked like Aryans and spoke German,
they volunteered for a dangerous mission
on the North African front.
Pretending to be Germans taking pris-
oners to the divisional headquarters, they
actually penetrated enemy lines in an
effort to bring badly needed explosives to
the Allied Armies. Success almost crowned
their efforts when they were exposed by a
Nazi soldier. Knowing that their German
uniforms were a sentence of death, they
determined to take as many Nazis with
them as possible. They exploded their
bomb loads, killing themselves together
with vast numbers of German soldiers.
Many thousands of victims of Hitler-,
ism who found a new home in Palestine,
with the help of the United Palestine Ap-
peal, were enabled to make a heroic con-
tribution to Allied victory. The funds
raised through the United Jewish Appeal
will make possible the settlement in the
Jewish homeland of the great masses of
those who survived the scourge of op-
pression and war.
Young people like the one in the ac- . •
companying photograph are being rehabilitated with funds of the United
Jewish Appeal.
Continued relief and rehabilitation efforts depend upon the success of
the War Chest of Metropolitan Detroit, whose annual drive will be conducted
from Oct. 8 to 31.
Between
You and Me
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright, 1945, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)
POLITICAL NOTES
Dr. Chaim Weizmann's visit to the
United States in October will be devoted
to important negotiations in this country
on Palestine's future . . He will try to
get the backing of important non-Zionists
.. Meanwhile, the tug of war between
the American Zionist Emergency Council
and the Jewish Agency about who should
be the "boss" of Zionist activities in
Washington is still going On . . The
Council notified the Agency that it must
drop its plan to establish a separate press
office in Washington . . It also cabled
the Agency that political representations
vis-a-vis the State Department will have
to be conducted by American Zionists ex-
clusively . . . On the other hand, the
Council agrees that the Agency should
conduct activities in Washington in con-
nection with Zionist work in Latin Amer-
ican countries and rescue work in
Europe . . . Also with regard to counter-
acting Arab propaganda in the capital.
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DOMESTIC NOTES
We are reliably informed that Dr.
Stephen S. Wise wrote Senator Brien Mc-
Mahon of Connecticut, asking Senate
censure of Bilbo .. . McMahon showed
it to Jewish friends • and also his reply
pointing out to Wise how dangerous such
a procedure might be, inasmuch as the
foes of Jews might one day turn the
tables and ask censure of Senators who
had been espousing the Jewish cause.
The anti-Semitic press is now publish-
ing protests against the deportation of
Nazi agents from the United States . . .
Naturally, these protests are full of at-
tacks against Jews . . The so-called
Citizens' Protective League went so far
as to send a petition to , President Truman
blaming the Jews for the internment in
the United States of a number of Nazi
Germans, and protesting against their de-
portation . . . Which shows how strong an
interest anti-Semitic . groups in this coun-
try still have in Nazi stooges . The
"Broom," California's anti-Semitic news- -
paper, goes out of its way to list the
JeWish scientists who played. a leading
role in the discovery of the atomic bomb
. . Naturally, not as a compliment to
Jews ... The anti-Semitic "Gentile News"
in Chicago claims that the Anti-De-
famation League has 26 lawyers on its
New York staff and 32 on its Chicago
staff, all engaged in fighting anti-Semi-
tism . . . The same paper, which is now
publishing the notorious forgery known
as the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion,"
also devotes a full page to listing Jewish
publications in this country and their al-
leged circulation.
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LITERARY SIDELIGHTS
Prof. J. Salwyn Schapiro, one of Amer-
ica's outstanding historians, reveals that
Thomas Carlyle was an anti-Semite and a
prophet of Fascism, in an article pub-
lished in Journal of Modern History . .
Carlyle rarely mentioned the Jews, but
whenever he did so it was always in vin-
dictively derogatory terms, says the pro-
fessor . . . "Happy Jews" was a typical
Carlylan expression of hostility . . . He
upheld the savage persecution of Jews
during • the Middle Ages Like the
Heard in
The Lobbies
By ARNOLD LEVIN
(Copyright, 1945. Independent Jewish
Press Service, Inc.)
TIP-OFF
American sleuths, sifting records. in
Germany for evidence establishing direct
contacts between the sedition defendants
in this country and the Reich, should not
lose sight of the Steuben Society of
America whose president, Theodore H.
Hoffman, was palsy-walsy with the Aus-
lands Institut of Stuttgart,. Germany,
fountain-head of Nazi propaganda abroad.
Is it true what they say about a famous
news commentator's Radio City offices
(not listed in the phone book, that's how
funny the gentleman is!) that they have
become the blind for Arab propaganda
in the United States?
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QUESTION?
What is the status, in the eyes of the
Palestine government, of American Ha-
lutzim who lived in Palestine, enlisted
with the British forces as soon as the war
broke out, had themselves transferred to
the American forces when this country
entered the war? Will they be permitted
to return to Palestine? We have heard
this asked by those now oq furlough in
this country. They will certainly demand
to be readmitted, but then British policy
being what it is .. .
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NEW YORK CITY ELECTION NOTE
Don't get upset by the possible turn of
New York City's elections. All candidates
promise not to raise the racial issue, but
then, somehow, it slips in—via ward-
heelers. Don't blame the candidates. It is
just the way of politics.
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INTERESTING
This from the pen of Cornelius Van-
derbilt, who has very good reportorial
pipelines, should make the nation's ears
and hair stand up: "A certain high State
Department official is blocking the pub-
lication of Hitler's private papers, notes,
items, memoranda, because of mention
therein of Nazi transactions with certain
powerful American industrialists . ."
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RED LIGHT
Shouldn't Zionists parse and sift the
dispatches by Reuter's. British news
agency which is concentrating, of late, on
Palestine news? The Jewish press, prom-
inently featuring this news, should bear
in mind that news dispatches frequently
have aims other than informing the
public.
Nazis of today, Carlyle was convinced
that the Jews were uncreative exploiters,
incapable of any heroism .. . Whenever
Carlyle saw a Jewish head appear on the
literary or political horizon, he promptly
smote it . . . He denounced Heinrich
Heine as a "slimy and greasy Jew" . .
He detested Disraeli, the only man of
whom, he said, he had "never spoken ex-
cept with contempt" . > . He ridiculed him
as "a cursed Jew not worth his weight in
bacon" . . . His anti-Semitism extended
even to religion . On the other hand he
did much to spread admiration for Ger-
mans among the English . . This explains
Carlyle's popularity in Nazi Germany .
Some of his books were made compulsory
reading in Nazi schools.
. Friday, September 28, 1945
Strictly
Confidential
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
Copyright, 1945, Seven Arts
Features Syndicate, Inc.
ANTI-SEMITIC FRONT
The Hollywood Council for Civic Unity
has a swell blue print for action . . . We
hope it will not countenance appease-
ment and expose anti-Semitism,,now ram-
pant in Hollywood . . . The council would
do well to put a stop—if possible—to the
regular meetings addressed by G. Allison
Phelps and Lowell . . . Both are enthusi-
astic followers of Gerald L. K. Smith.
That proposed debate between Senator
Bilbo and James Waterman Wise on
"Does America Want Racial Equality"' is
a ridiculous idea .. .
Victor Riesel reports that aging, grey-
ing Father Coughlin is eager to broad-
cast again and awaits the results of a
new petition drive, directed by Gerald
L. K. Smith.
Why did the New York press ignore
the vandalism committed in the store of
Sidney Ross . . . Sid's store windows and
door were smeared with the Star of David
and anti-Semitic slogans.
"A World Charter for Human Rights"
is the name of a new pamphlet issued by
the American Jewish Committee . . . The
booklet hails the inclusion of human
rights provisions in the charter of the
new World Organization as a great
achievement.
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ABOUT PERSONS
Eddie Sullivan reminds the Bilboites
that Jewish heroes won 31 D.S.C.'s and
thousands of other U. S. decorations . .
We also lost six Jewish chaplains.
Jascha Heifetz cancelled more than
$100,000 worth of concerts to entertain
GIs in France and Germany.
Arthur Rubinstein, the pianist, asked
and got $85,000 for recording the piano
music in the forthcoming film "Concerto".
William Paley, president of Columbia
Broadcasting, is back from Europe where
he performed one of the most successful
war jobs as head of the Psychological
Warfare Division.
Now, reliable information reaches us
that former Governor Lehman will be
drafted to run for the Senate in 1946.
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YOU SHOULD KNOW
Liberal Judaism scored a real scoop
when it published in its current issue the
article about Eddie Jacobson's friendship
with President Truman . . . The article
gives a very human portrait of the
President . . . Truman was terribly
pleased and wrote accordingly to Editor
Rittenberg.
Henry Morgenthau's book on how to
cure Germany of Nazism will be pub-
lished next month and is enjoying a ter-
rific advance sale.
Judge Sam Rosenman may—after all—
stay in Washington as Truman's No. 1
adviser on foreign relief, all loans, and
credit to foreign governments.
Your favorite Hollywood columnist,
Sidney Skolsky, will become a movie pro-
ducer for Columbia pictures.
Is it true that a certain high State De-
partment official is blocking the publica-
tion of Hitler's private papers, notes, and
memoranda because of mention therein
of Nazi transactions with certain powerful
American industrialists?
Eddie Bernays, public relations counsel,
has made so much money that he will de-
vote himself to peace propaganda for the
rest of his life.
The Page 1 Photo
This week's front page photograph,
which The Jewish News uses in the
interests of the War Chest campaign,
through the courtesy of the United
Jewish Appeal for Refugees, Over-
seas Needs and Palestine, was
taken in Italy by Sgt. Maurice Man-
son. It was passed for our use by
the Field Press Censor. Taken in
Italy, the photographer appended to
it a note that the Italians who had
seen it remarked that, although it
represents the homelessness of Jew-
ish children in Europe, they can also
say of it: "La Nostra Povera Italia"—
"Our Poor Italy." The original pic-
ture was enlarged and retouched for
use in The Jewish News by Paul
Broner, able Detroit photographer.
We are reproducing it in the fullest
confidence that it will inspire great
effort in behalf of the humanitarian
causes of the War Chest, whose goal
includes the 55 overseas, national and
local causes of • the Allied Jewish
Campaign of the*. Jewish Welfare
Federation.