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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

World's Guilt Exposed Again
in Druks' Failure to Rescue'

By ALLEN A. WARSEN
"If all the heavens were
parchment and the oceans
ink and all mankind were
scribes, not in a thousand
years could the story of the
crimes committed against
the Jewish people during
the Holocaust be told."
The above quotation is
from "The Failure to Re-
scue" by Dr. Herbert Druks,
published by Robert Speller
and Sons.
Dr. Druks' penetrating
study fills an important gap
in the history of the
Holocaust. Drawing his in-
formation from original
sources, he commences the
study by scrutinizing the at-
titudes of President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
Secretary of State Cordell
Hull and their advisers to-
ward the plight of European
Jewry under the Nazis.
He assesses their un-
yielding opposition to
admitting German
Jewish refugees to the
U.S., and reveals their de-
termined resistance to
revising the immigration
quotas on the pretext that
spies and saboteurs
might "flood" the coun-
try.
Some of these officials,
the author asserts, even de-
nied the severity of the per-
secutions, and called Lord
Rothschild of England who
then visited the U.S. a prop-
agandist for describing the
conditions in the concentra-
tion camps "based on first-
hand accounts of persons
who had escaped to Eng-
land" and for his warning
"that all Jews in Germany
would be dead within two
years."
Ironically, Samuel I.
Rosenman, then Roosevelt's
counselor, supported these
officials. Also Lawrence
Steinhardt, the American
ambassador to Moscow, a
Jew, sided with them. In his
memoranda, among the
many scandalous slanders,
he wrote that he was "firmly
convinced that the admis-
sion of at least some of them
is definitely not in the in-
terest of the United States.
"I am convinced that
there are some among them
who will engage in ac-
tivities in the United States
inimical to our institutions
and that willingly or unwil-
lingly some of them will
serve the interests of
foreign powers after their
arrival in the United States.
"I feel strongly that
under these cir-
cumstances, our present
policy of admitting so-
called refugees on a very
large scale (?) is unsound
and that before the war
comes to an end we may
have occasion to regret
this so-called
humanitarianism."
In contrast to these offi-
cials, Secretary of Labor Fr-
ances Perkins favored eas-
ing the immigration restric-
tions.
One of the most stirring
accounts of human suffer-
ing described by Dr. Druks
is the saga of the "St. Louis"

and its 943 passengers.
the facts and permit the ex-
The American govern- termination to continue."
ment refused to intervene
BIG SELECTION!
when the Cuban govern-
ment demanded a ransom
for the "St. Louis" and the
Waallaa—Paty—Sar
ship was forced to return to
Germany.
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Thorough also is the de-
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scription of the British con-
duct towards the Nazi vic-
tims. They were less con-
cerned about the extermi-
nation of Jews than about
Jewish "extrusion" (Jews
"flooding" the world). An-
thony Eden expressed this
view unashamedly, as fol-
lows: "I would not know
what to do with all the Jews
if the Germans let them go."
Insensitive too to the
plight of Hitler's victims
was Pope Pius XII. He
and his secretary of state
(the present day Pope
Paul, whose Vatican
newspaper, "Observa-
tore Romano," recently
criticized Italian sur-
vivors of Nazi brutalities
"above all members of
the Jewish community"
for refusing to forgive the
Nazi murderer, Herbert
Kappler) refused to pro-
test the mass deportation
of Italian Jews to the Nazi
death camps.
The Pope even declared
that Nazi atrocities were
"greatly exaggerated for
propaganda purposes."
There were, however,
churchmen who did help re-
scue Jews. Foremost, was
Angelo Rocalli, the Vatican
apostolic delegate to Tur-
key. He saved thousands of
Jews by providing them
with baptismal certificates
and by helping some to go to
Palestine.
Perceptive are the au-
thor's summarizing re-
marks: "On May 8, 1945,
Germany surrendered and
the remnant of European
Jewry was liberated. Some
six million Jews were mur-
dered by the German Nazis
and their collaborators.
There had been many pos-
sibilities of saving those six
million from 1933 through
1945, but no free nation
wanted them and so they
were not saved. It appears
that the so-called 'free
world' preferred to cover

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TEL AVIV (ZINS) — A
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would win an unpre-
cedented 63 seats if Knesset
elections were held now.
Labor would win 24 seats,
down from the 32 it won last
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WASHINGTON (ZINS)
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Israel Foreign Minister
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years of aid to Ethiopia.
However, Israeli advisers
are still exerting heavy in-
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