Morse's 'While Six Mil
Indicts
American Acquiescence to Genocide by Nazis
TIE DETROIT JEWISH HEWS
6—Friday, January 19, 196$
Against Discrimination," Pfaus ad-
vised the commission, "Sabbath
observance is not a valid basis for
refusing to hire or promote, dis-
charge or otherwise discriminating
against an employe, unless the ab-
sence of the employe will result in
undue hardship to the employer."
Dr. Marvin Schick, president of
the commission, expressed grati-
tude to New Jersey on behalf of
the Orthodox Jewish community
and expressed the hope that other
states would follow suit.
Jersey to Curb Bias
It is no longer a secret, and the misrepresentation; (b) the giving government documents which were in Private Employment
Arthur D. Morse revelations al- of false and misleading explana-Idenied to the public. These official Against Sabbatarians
ready have appeared in special tions for their failure to act and, records are quoted extensively in
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articles in Look Magazine. The their attempts to prevent action; ∎ these pages. Many have never
NEW YORK — The division of
facts were known to many and and (c) the issuance of false and' been published before. Perhaps
Morses's exposes showed how the misleading statements concerning they will enable the reader to an- civil rights of the New Jersey
State Department, President the 'action' which they have taken swer still another vital question: State Department of Law and Pub-
Could anything have been done to lic Safety has adopted rules to
Franklin D. Roosevelt and others to date."
The Morse book categorically prevent the murder of six million curtail discriminatory practices in
failed to come to the aid of Jews
private employment against Sab-
who were doomed for extermina- documents these allegations in 21 men, women and children?"
chapters, going back to 1933,
tion by the Nazis.
Although Morse does not edi- bath observers, its director has
The entire Morse story is told when Hitler came to power and torialize, the 21 chapters in which informed the National Jewish Com-
in his book, "While Six Million the Jews were immediately he documents American and world mission on Law and u ic Affairs
Died — A Chronicle of American threatened, through the end of apathy can lead to only one answer here.
For Some
The commission reported Tues-
to his question, as he states in
Apathy," from which the excerpts the war in 1945.
receipt of a letter from George
of the
Drawing upon material unpub- ending the book: "The War day
were published by Look.
S. Pfaus, director of the civil rights
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This shocking indictment, the lished until now, Morse raises the Refugee Board represented a small division, which it said indicated
on new
tragic story of "acquiescence by hitherto unanswered question of gesture of atonement by a nation that New Jersey would abide by
this government in the murder of why one of our most aggressive whose apathy and inaction were the federal guidelines on Sabbath
Pontiacs
exploited
by
Adolf
Hitler.
As
Hitler
and
humanitarian
president
s,
the Jews," will be released by
issued by the Federal
Tempests
Franklin D. Roosevelt, evaded moved systematically toward the observers
Random House in two weeks.
Equal Employment Opportunity
and
The author of this volume, au- nearly all suggestions for helping total destruction of the Jews, the Commission last July. The commis-
lovernment and the people of the sion previously h a d requested
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thor of several other important the persecuted of Europe until Untited
States remained bystand-
1944. when millions had already
adoption of these guidelines by the
volumes, was until 1965 associated been
evidenc e state.
murdered. Morse presents in- Oblivious
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Now" programs and produced the Jews—including knowledge in 1942 as alarmist, cranks or Zionists.
first broadcast filmed in the Soviet of the German plan to annihilate , Many Jews were as disinterested
Union without censorship. He left the Jews of Europe: and that as their Christian countrymen. The
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effective action until January bystanders to genocide."
which is explained as follows:
of 1944, when he announced the
In January 1944, an eighteen- formation of the War Refugee
page document, titled "Report to Board.
the Secretary on the Acquies-
Morse shows that although
cence of This Government in
America initiated plans for the
the Murder of the Jews" was
Evian Conference in 1938 and the
prepared for presentation to
Bermuda Conference in 1943, the
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
Americans—with Roosevelt's ap-
at the request of Treasury Secre-
proval—went to the two confer-
tary Henry Morgenthau, Jr. The ences already committed to re-
report—prepared by three Prot-
strictive policies that were cer-
estant officials of the Treasury
lain to throttle effective rescue
Department--is given public at-
efforts.
tention for the first time in
Morse also reveals for the first
Morse's book, which contains time the intervention of the man
much other new documentation who was to become Pope John
about the failure of America to XXIII to help in the rescue of
act in saving the victims of Nazi more than 100,000 Jews in Budapest
persecution. It is one of the most and 25,000 Bulgarian Jews.
significant—and most shocking—
In his introduction. Morse writes:
historical records to be written "The Nazi destruction of 6,000,-
about World War H.
000 Jews, as chronicled to date, is
"State Department officials," essentially a history of the killers
the report began, "have not only and the killed. The rest of the
failed to use the government ma- world, with the notable exception
chinery at their disposal to rescue of Pope Pius XII, has been un-
Jews from Hitler, but have even scarred by accusation as a moun-1
gone so far as to use this govern- tain of literature rises above the
mental machinery to prevent the name graves of the six million .
Many books have examined the
rescue of the Jews.
administrative techniques and phy-
"They have not only failed to sical acts by which the Nazi ac-
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