The

THE JEWISH NEWS is pleased to announce that the Jewish Com-

Federations and Councils in Detroit, Pontiac and Windsor, The

munity Council of Flint, Mich., has entered into an agreement

Jewish

Jewish News becomes the only English-Jewish periodical in the

for total circulation of Federation issues into every Jewish home

world that will reach into every Jewish home in four communi-
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in Flint. With similar agreements already in effect with the Jewish

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British-Jewish Strife Must End!

Anglo-U.S. Leaders,
Press Join in Appeal
To Avoid War in Zion

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Bnai Brith District Conclave
To Be Held in Detroit July 7-10
Charge UNRRA Officials Hold
Jewish DPs as 'Inferior Class'

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The Common Defense

Time to Think About America

By the ,BEV. WILLIAM C. KERNAN

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Executive Director, Institute for American Democracy

T IS Independence Day again. It is time again for
Americans to remember that America belongs to us all—
native-born and foreign-born, white men and colored men,
Catholics, Protestants and Jews.

Time to remember again that some people and some
resurgent groups like the Ku Klux Klan—all enemies of
the Republic—seek to take this America away from us,
and to. make it a country for a particular class, or race, or
religion.
Time to remember that they can't do it if we all stand
together—that they have a good chance of doing it, how-
ever, if we permit them to divide us—Gentiles against
Jews, Whites against Negroes, native-born against foreign-
born, capital against labor. Together we can overcome
them. But no one group is strong enough to win against
them.
Time to remember that American independence was
not won by dividing Americans—but by uniting them!

Who fought in the Revolutionary War anyway?
Washington—an Englishman, leader in the struggle and
first among Americans.
Lafayette—a Frenchman, who brought assistance and
encouragement from France.
Kosciuszko—a Pole, who fought in the Continental Army.

Haym Solomon—a Jew, who, with Robert Morris, helped
finance the Revolution—and died in poverty.
Von Steuben—a German, drillmaster of the American
forces.
Crispus Attuks—a Negro, who died in the Battle of
Bunker Hill.

They were united in the fight for freedom. Should
they have called off the Revolution because they were
different in race, nationality, and religion? The thought
never entered their heads.

It is time again to raise our standard high and to move
Forward toward the achievement of that better American
society in which men of every race and religion will be
secure in their rights, their homes, and their persons.
It is Independence Day again—and time to remember
that inscribed on the Liberty . Bell are the words from
Leviticus, (25.10):

"Proclaim liberty throughout the land, unto ALL the in-
habitants thereof!"

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MRS. FRUCHTER

MARIETTE EMIL FRUCHTER

Reunited . After Eight Years:

SEYMOUR

A Detroit

family,

broken up in Europe when the Nazis began their drive of desolation and
pillage, was partially reunited last week when Mariette Fruchter, 13, re-
joined her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Fruchter, 2715 Rochester, after eight
years' separation, and saw for the first time her 4-year-old Detroit-born
brother, Seymour. Another daughter, Helene, going on 9, still is in Brussels,
Belgium, • with her maternal grandmother. In 1944 the Nazis seized Mrs.
Fruchter's father and all efforts of the family to find him have failed.
The Fruchters, natives of the Carpathian Mountains in Transylvania, were
married in Antwerp, where Emil was a diamond cutter and merchant. When
the Nazis started their putsch, Emil escaped to this country, arriving in New
York in January, 1939.
His wife followed a few months later, leaving Mariette with her parents
in Ostend, and Helene with her husband's parents in Antwerp. The latter
family fled to France, but finding the Germans there, returned to Antwerp.
At the time of the Dunkirk evacuation Mariette was put on an invasion boat,
leaving her uncle, Louis Klein, on the dock. Screaming "father", she drew the

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