A Counter-Revolution That Failed

Second in a series of articles from Mr. Waldman's Boolc
"Nor by Power"

Warburg Calls WA Judge Simon Sobeloff to Be Named
Parley Dec. 11-1 3 Solicitor General by Eisenhower,

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JERUSALEM— Edward M. M. Chief Judge Simon Sobeloff of by Governor Theodore R. Me-
By MORRIS D. WALDMAN
of this truly Christian gentle-
Warburg, general chairman of the Maryland Court of Appeal:, Keldin of Maryland, with whom
George Messersmith's rest- man-
the United Jewish Appeal, an- brother of Isidore Sobeloff, ex- the future Solicitor General trav-
To return
Messersmith
deuce in Germany as Consul, Vienna
Just to before
I left for in
nounced• before his return home
eled to Israel last year. When
Vienna.
• later Consul General, for 13
McKeldin was Mayor of Balti-
, Poland he told me he had heard that the UJA would hold its

in
years gave him an extraordinary that counter-revolutionary • el?- annual national conference. and
. opportunity to ob s e r v e the merits in Germany, compOsed of New York on Dec. 11, 12
13 and that, in the light of the
growth of the Nazi Party and t" industrialists, Junkers and high-
est
.
officers
of
the
Reichswehr
extraordinary
discus- '
appraise the dangerous charac- were likely soon to strike and sions held here economic
between leaders
ter of its doctrine. The brutal'
Of the Israel
and
and arrogant gangster behavior take over the government • by • American
and government
overseas Jewry,
of the Nazis became increasing- force. They had • succeeded, ac= this would be one of the most
: ly odious to him. He 'was prob- cording to the information given
UJA meetings ever_
'• ably the first to warn our gov- to him, in enlisting Hermann held."
,
Goering
on
their
side;
he
was
• ernment of the menace - inherent
Mr. Warburg emphasized that
not
only
to
be
the
"Judas"
to
• in the Nazi movement to the
three-day
con
ideals we and other democratic betray his master but he was t I the
ference,
to be annual
held at. UJA
the Wal-
replace him
as the
the control
"messiah,"
peoples cherish-
'en messiah
under
how- a dorf Astoria Hotel, would afford
• ed. If a record
ever, of a group of industrial ; the leaders of the Jewish corn-
could be made
leaders, the military and the ar- I munities of the United. States
of the help and
istocratic landowners. Naturally ! their first opportunity to hear
protection tie
I was tremendously . interested, and assess reports on the week-
gave to many
Six or seven hours after my ar- long meeting which the Israel
Jews in Ger-
rival in, Berlin (by way of Poland Government sponsored here last
many during
where I had spent a week) early week to acquaint representatives
the first year of
Saturday morning, June 30, 1934, of world Jewry with the new
the Nazi regime
a few short paragraphs in the aft- i State's beleaguered economic I
SIMON SOBELOFF
before his de-
ernoon papers I picked up to read' position, •
parture from
man
General
Chair
ecutive
director of the Jewish
at a terrace cafe on the Ku'- The
that country • it
Welfare
Federation of Detroit,
fuerstendamm
startingly
recall-
urged
maximum
attendance
at
would not onl .
is • scheduled to be •named Solici-
evoke the ever- M. D. Waldman ed to me what our Minister to . the parley in. New York th hear tor
General of the United States
•
had told me a fortnight these reports, and to consider
lasting gratitude of Jews every- Austria
ct by President Eisenhower.
earlier. Raymond Geist, our in detail the urgent 1954 bud-
where but would add to the pres-
getary needs of th e
cons 1- As • Solicitor General, Judge
tige the U. S. A. earned in vari- acting Consul General in Ber- tuent agencies, the United
Is- Sobeloff will be the Govern -
, ous humane efforts on behalf of lin, had apparently not yet rael Appeal, Joint Distribution
merit's lawyer, representing the

more he named Sobeloff as his
City Solicitor.
Upon their return from Israel
in April of 1952, McKeldin and
Sobeloif visited in Paris with: -
President Eisenhower, who then.,
had not yet announced his
candidacy...
Recently, McKeldin and So-
beloff conferred with the Presi -
,dent at the White House on

matters pertaining to Israel._
Son of immigrants from- Rus7

Sia, born in this country, March
3, 4393, Judge Sobeloff was
graduated from • the Maryland
Law School in 1914. President
Hoover named him United
States Attorney for Maryland in
1931. He left a lucrative prac-
tice to accept the Maryland
poSt. He will succeed Philip B.
Perlman, also from Baltimore, in

his new post.

Up Gos `Mazel No..1'

JERUSALEM, (JTA)--Drill-
ing began for Israel's first oil
well, named "Mazel No. /.'
The rig is set up near Sdom
on land under joint oil lease
to the Lapidoth Oil Company
and the Jordan Exploration
Company, both Israeli firms.

the persecuted in the benighted heard of anything unusual hap- ,
: pening; he had said nothing to' Committee and United Service Government in cases to be heard
countries of the world.
for New Americans. by the Supreme Court in which
His promotion to the post of me a few hours earlier when I

the Federal Government is a

paid Eight
him a brief visit at his o f-
American Minister to Austria fice.
days after this, on `Council of Friends
only served to deepen his con-
my arrival in Paris, I sent Sol
cern over the terrifying develoo- Stro
.ock, Chairman
the
Ex- Of Israel' Planned
inents. He welcomed the inter- ecutive
committe of
e, a
recit-
By Agency in the U.S.
est and activity Of the American
- JeWish COmmittee and other re- al of my never to be forgotten
visit to
Germany
during
the
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
sponsible private organizations, three
days
of the Nazi
"Purge,"
to The Jewish News)
especially _the, Joint Distribution
JERUSALEM
— Dr. Nahum
as
histrionically
tragic
an
epi-
Committee, who were making
Jewish Agency co-
the
ancient
h*
Goldmann,
efforts to counteract the dan-
chairman, reported Tuesday to
gers, relieve the victims and • tory of Greece, or Rome,
a meeting of the Agency execu-
facilitate their escape to other I The years 1931 and 1932 were live
on the problems to be sur-
i ng
countries.. He extended a cordial marked by u ea
Hitler and the govern- I mounted in enlarging the Agen-
reception -to me when I called between
In the glee-1 cy by inclusion of non-Zionist
at the Legation early in June, ment authorities.
on
1934, and in a number of con- tions the . Nazi party outnumber- 1 leaders. He also reported
m
versations during which he ed every other party. Ergo, Hit- I plans for the establishent in
showed increasing confidence in ler demanded control of the gov- ' the United States of a "Council
our sincerity and discretion, he ernment even though the Nazis ; of the Friends of Israel."
manifested eargerness to col- had polled only one-third of the ! In addition, Dr. Goldrnann re-
laborate with us. I frankly dis- total votes, far short of the more ; viewed a number of problems
closed to him what we were at- than fifty percent legally re- which will be discussed at a
tempting to do in Europe. Mes- quired to • take over the regime. i meeting of the Zionist Actions
Committee at the end of this
sersinitli• expressed satiSfaction The government authorities who Year,
including methods of con-
stymied
in'
were
continuously
i
over our activities. The effective
service Messersmith rendered their efforts to obtain legis_ ducting elections and deciding
later as an assistant Secretary iative support for their pOli • On representation to the next
of State and following that as cies , and were able to function World Zionist Congress and on
Ambassador to Cuba, Argentina, only on the basis of emergency Territorial unity of Zionist
Von groups. He discussed the status
and Mexico reveals him as adis- decrees issued by President
d to
t ha of
en urg, pre f erre
ve the Jewish Agency in Israel
creet and constructive diplorn.atHindb
His keen disaernment of the evil the Nazi Party join heir, as yet, and
an s steps
eps taken to '"normalize"
implications of the Nazi move - inadequately numerical coalition relations between the two.
ment even at the time when and thereby insure for the gov-
some sentimental liberals hi ernment a majority in the Reich- U.S. Exports to Israel
Western democracies regarded stag. They were confident they $363,000,000 in 4 Years
the movement as a "noble na- would be able to control Hitler
0
NEW YORK, (JTA)—American
tional resurgence" in justifiable inside the government.
Against this background of exports to Israel totalled $363,-
resentment against the injustices
of the Versailles Diktat no doubt shifting and mistrusting negoti- 1 000,000 during the past four
helped to orient the State De- ations the differences between • years, while. American imports
partment and the White House Hitler and Roehm are 'seen in I from Israel amounted, to $38,=
accurately with regard to the sharp focus. The latter had 000,000 in the same period, it
dangerous nature of the political consistently a n d persistently • was reported by Nathan Straus
developments in Germany. It pressed the Fuehrer to take over III, president of the American-
will be recalled that Dr. Charles the government by a coup d'- Israel Chamber of Commerce
S. McFarland, the Secretary of etat. This pressure Hitler had and Industry, addressing the
the Federal Council of the doggedly resisted, believing the first members' luncheon meet-
Churches of Christ in America, wiser policy to be one of "legal- ing of the Chamber at Hotel
I Roosevelt.
on his return from a short visit ity."
He announced that the or-
to that country wrote a book in
The circumstances sur-
which he enthusiastically en- rounding the so-called Roehrn ganization was preparing a pro-
dorsed this "noble resurgence." Purge have never been gram calling for $250,000,000 in
Even Everett Clinchy, then brought to ligh t. There - !American purchases front Israel
Secretary, later President, of fore nobody is in the position over the next 10 years."
the National Conference of to prove that a Roehm con •
Christians and Jews, prepared spiracy had ever been hatched June, and contrariwise, the al-
an article for Harper's Maga- or that Goering, on the other legation of the Roehm conspir-
.
zine following a brief visit to hand, had not played a role in acy a concoction.
Central Europe in the summer a counter - revolutionary plot Whatever the facts may be, if
of 1933 in which he, though de- sponsored by the conservatives the story conveyed to me in.
ploring Nazi anti-Semitic ex- It is known that Goering and enna was correct, the purge
cesses, spoke • indulgently of Himmler, head of the S.S. (nom- which was intended to clear. the
this "national resurgence." inally part of, and subordinate way for the conservative coun-
Fortunately my relations with to, the S. A.) though detesting ter-revolution actually served
Clinchy were so friendly that each other had repeatedly urged only to crystallize Hitler's abso-
he had the impulse to send Roehm's elimination. • Whether lute power. His formal accession
a draft of his article to me, be- Goering had been flirting with to the PresidencY, 'an office
fore mailing it to the period- a trio of industrialisth, Junkers merged with the Chancellorship,
ical with a retriest for my opin- ' and Arthy Officers and at the at HindenbUrg's .death a month
ion. The following' morning, eleventh hour diverted the • fire later, was an unimportant for-
with some Misgiving, I tele- from Hitler to Roehm will prob- mality. His remaining. enemies
phoned him asking that he ably forever be shrouded In and other malcontents, includ-
drop in tosee me. I handed him darkness. Intrigue and double•z ing the Army offiCers, now
waS fawned upon him and gladly
•
hismanuscript, parts of it. crossing Within the Party
so blue-penciled as to be hard- common throughout its history: Suffered. any and every humili-
ly legible. Supporting my stem- That Goering was ambitious and talon' to do his bidding.
The Way was now clear for
tures with indubitable facts unscrupulous enough to •betray

party. The post pays $17,500 a
year. It is regarded by lawyers
as the most important legal
position in the Government.
24—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Mr. Sobeloff was named Judge
Friday, November 6, 1953

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MADE EASY

Hebrew As It Is Spoken in Israel Today

By SHUSHANNAH SPECTOR and Rabbi -JOSEPH ZEITLIN -
Editor's Note: This special American Jewish Press feature is
another in a series of easy lessons for self-study of Hebrew.
The Sefardic pronunciation is used in these lessons. The complete
book, "Hebrew Made Easy," is available from Miss Shushannah
Spector, 904 S. Miami Ave., Miami, Fla.,- at $1.50 a copy.

'Ei - foh

On the first floor

Bak-to-malt ha-ri'-sho-nah •

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One mare question and that
will be all'

'Od she'e-lah la-bat
. va-ha-sal
• .. ,
IS It possible here to send Halm 'e&sliar
le va nim lids v,i soh?
: • • clothes to the laundry?' '

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Surely and cheap too

Be-vad-dal.ye-gam'be-Zol .

How long are you staying
here?

Le-chain mall ze-nun nish-
ar 'ado-ni poll? • -

Till next iireeic.

'Ad ha-sha-vu'a ha-be

Ne:tt Sunday. I am leaving
for Jerusalem

Ba-yom ha-ri-shon 'a-ni •

Is everything O.K.?

Ha' im ha-kol be-se-der?

Yes, Sir, everything is O.K.
:
. • .
- . Everything was fine•

yo-ze'

.i7p; 55z3

Ken, 'ado-ni, ha-kol

'25;:s

Be-vak-fp-shah, ten li 'a
ha-hesh-bon -
Please-forward all my letters • Be-vak-ka-shah, lish,lo-ah 'et
• to this -addreSs
mich-ta-vai 'al pi ke-to-
vet .
I am leaving in an hour
be'od sha'ah

Q.K. I ,ll send the porter to _ Toy 'a-ni 'esh-lah 'et ha-sab-
your room •
bal 'el ha-he-der

Please, porter,

Be-vak-ka,-shah, sab-bat,

Take the trunk

Katt

ha'arpz •

Take the valise

Kah

harn-miz-va-dala

And the camera

ye-'et ha-Zak-ma-ray:lib

Yes, Sir, I am ready

Ken, 'acl-Mxj,

mu - - chars
cha

ume - turn - man

!Ha-kol be-skier?

So long. Sir, (Clerk), Fa be
seeing you next week

'ado-ni
1e-hit-ra.'-ot ba sha vu=
ha-ba' .
Ve'ach-shav, sab-sal; ne-lech
'el ha-ta-ha-nah

1

go

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st74g

not

EVerything is in order?

And now, porier, let us

,p

. be-se-der
ha-yalt toss

Please give•me the bill .

to the station
and authoritative analyses and ' his chief cannot be doubted. De- , the conquest of Europe and for
appraisals I had no trouble in spite the lack of evidence. it is ; the torture and extermination tit Gladly, Sir
persuading Clinchy to accept within the - range of possibility' the. Jews and other liberal and I

my suggested changes with that the real conspiracy was the democratic elements of the pop-
brewing I 'hadluIation.s of that unhappy conti
siorteerity, 'humility and intel- plot • of whose
,
lectual honesty characteristic been told in Vienna early in nent.

ba - dar ha--'o chef?

Where is the dining room?

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.vn? 1?-40 'it

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' . Be-chol- hak-ka-voil,

May you !gave in peace, and - Ze't-cha le-sha-lom u vOli-
: may you return. in peace •
cha le-sha=lom

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