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Tidbits from Everywhere ' ' By PHINEAS J. BIRON
WAR ECHOES
Private letters from England reveal that any number of the dud Nazi bombs opened by special British squads under the most elaborate precautions are found to contain no explosives, but only notes from Czech munition workers with assurances of their sympathy for the British cause. . . . Dr. Chaim Weizmann, by the v/ay, is firmly convinced that if Winston Churchill remains in command of Britain's war aims, Palestine will become a Jewish Commonwealth. . . . From occupied France comes the story that when the college authorities of the Paris Ecole Superieure Normale Issued instructions for all non-Aryan students to report for a special registration, the entire student body turned out in protest, and insisted on registering in a body. . . . Credited to attorney Louis Nizer is the epigram that "Germany is not a country which has an army—it is an army which has a country" . . . The Nazi wolves have taken to sheep's clothing with a vengeance. . . . One branch of the Fifth Column in Switzerland calls itself the Democratic Authoritarian Movement. . . . A diligent traveler in the neighborhood of the Panama Canal is said to be Dr. Hans Wesemann, the German editor who is credited vnth the kidnapping, some years ago, of the anti-Nazi leader Berthold Jakob of Switzerland, whom the Nazis brought into Germany, but finally were compelled to set free. . . . Winchell, who keeps track of these things, points out that Yugoslavia was the 13th country on Hitler's list for conquest. . . . From this point of view great interest attaches to the fact that Adolf's next birthday, on the 20th of this month, will be his 52nd—and that means he'll be four times 13 years old. . . . Here's hoping that the jinx holds. . . .
REFUGEE REPORT
Those of you who think back nostalgically to the good old days when you could make an occasional trip to Europe, no doubt remember those delicious paper-thin wafers known as Cai:lsbader Oblaten. ... So you'll be glad to know that a refugee by the name of Tolczyner is now producing this confection in America, according to the'genuine'an*id'original recipe. For Tolczyner's Transatlantic Biscuit Company, however, these Oblaten are only a side-line, its main and most profitable product being a special kind of wafer used as, of all things, fish food. . . . Due in this country soon is Sacha Guitry, the French actor and pla3rwright who has long been known to be of partly Jewish ancestry. . . . When non-Aryans were barred from the French stage, it seems, Guitry protested that he didn't fall into this category, and even wrote a play attempting to prove that his disputed grandfather was an Aryan. . . . But the authorities closed the play—and, as we mentioned, Guitry is now looking forward to rebuilding his career in America. . . .
SNIPSHOTS
From the new Scripta Mathemat-ica, Yeshiva College's mathematical journal for the layman, we glean the information that the modem Hebrew literature includes at least one book containing a collection of so-called "recreational" mathematical problems. . . . And that Henry Poincare's fundamental work on "Science and Hypothesis" has been translated into the Biblical tongue. . . . Miami reports a Passover "exodus" to Florida this year. . . . Andron's Alamac Hotel will have guests from 23 states tor its Seder. . . . From the Chicago Tribune we learn that a Pittsburgh, Texas, clergyman, the Reverend B. Cannon, almost succeeded in building a working airplane before the Wright brothers made theirs. . . . Mr. Cannon followed the directions given in the Biblical Book of Ezekiel, and called his company the Ezekiel Airship Manufacturing Company. . . . Unfortunately, however, the company lacked the financial resources needed to develop the proper engine, and had to discontinue its efforts about two years before the Wright brothers reached their first success. , . . All of which reminds us that what the Prophet Ezekiel's airplane was to be used for was nothing less than an air raid. "Fill thine hand with coals of fire ... and scatter them over the city," vsrere the directions given for punishing Israel and Judah for their iniquities . . . LITERARY NOTES
Louis Fischer's "Men and Politics," a somewhat autobiographical history of Europe since 1921, is due May 9— unless, of course, the Book-of-the-Month selects it, in which case publication would have to be deferred
for a few months.....Louis tells us
that while looking through the material he has accumulated in the last
twenty years he discovered that in 1925 Adolf Hitler sent a letter to the editor of The Nation correcting certain statements Fischer had made about him in an article on Germany. ... A new type of journalistic service has been inaugurated by Meir Grossman, formerly of London, now in this country. ... It is a privately circulated v.'eekly news bulletin called "Trend of Events," dealing with Jewish matters. . . . The highest price ever paid by Hollywood for an incompletely published novel has been collected by Edna Ferber, for her current serial "Saratoga Trunk" . . . We hope you didn't miss Demaree Bess' article on "Poland in Chains" in last week's Saturday Evening Post—for the things it doesn't say.
ABOUT PEOPLE
You've heard of William Rhodes Davis, the oil tycoon who's trjring to be the American Thyssen. . . . That 1°, the Thyssen of the 1920's who gave Hitler his first real start in Germany. . . . Davis hopes to avoid the present fate of Fritz Thyssen, who now is an inmate of a Nazi concentration camp. ... Anyway, it seems that years ago, as plain* Billy Davis, he was a vaudeville actor—and he's credited with the invention of the comedy waiter routine. . . . Congratulations to composer Marc Blitz-si ein on his second Guggenheim Fellowship. . . . Theatrical lighting expert Abe Peder has a new job— arranging the light effects for a Hollywood doughnut shop. . . After that's finished he's doubling back to Washington, where he will install special lights designed to attract feminine clientele, in the bowling alleys which band leader Meyer Davis finds such a lucrative side-line. . . . Movie mogul Sam Goldwyn has an innovation up his sleeve—a regular biographical film on Hans Christian Anderson, combined with a Walt Disney cartoon film of a number of Anderson fairy tales. . . . Hollywood, incidentally, is becoming more and more impressed with the artistry of Alia Nazimova, whom it took the movies long enough to discover. . . . From the film capital, also, we hear that Mrs. J. Walter Ruben is preparing a bassinet. ... In case you didn't know it, Mrs. Ruben is the lady you've admired all these years as Virginia Bruce. ...
WEiEKLY GIGGE
This week's laugh concerns the German Jew who,-after languishing in a concentration camp for months,
PASSOVERiN HISTORY
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spirit. Before it was too late, they* taught all that could be reached that Judaism might exist even in exile, and that the precepts of Judaism'^ were abstract excellence not requiring a single place of residence. Rabbi Johannan ben Zaccai and his colleagues asserted that the exile was only a temporary affliction, to be overcome by repentance.
The wavering Jews were kept within the fold. They carried on commerce with the world, but maintained a spiritual isolation, even through the sad events of the Bar Cochba period. The Talmud was the result of this self study. With it and the Torah the people remained strong, invincible.
Every agency of Jewish life must bear again to our consciousness the memorial of the departure from Egypt. Then there was an exodus toward the promised land; in these days the leavetakings are forced and murderously cruel. But the attitudes of the people are always the same. "What do I care?" and "What's the use?" still rise from the lips of too many of those who cannot recognize the worth of a Moses come to deliver them. Strangely enough the assimilatory attitude persists even in the face of Hitler's refusal to recognize religious apostacy as; equivalent to full Aryanization.
The Zionist movement has bee: able to stem some of the assimilato; tide. Men who rebelled in their you are making partial amends to thei people by helping build up the land; culture, and language of Israel. Ther are other educational and communa movements that serve a similar pur pose.
Herein lies the might of the Pasi over story. We must perenially lear: from ancient error that loyalty t Jewish tradition ,to honest guidanc ship, to the spirit as opposed to th fleshpot, is the only assurance even problematic persistence in hostile world. There is a promise land of the spirit to which Moses anj his Law would still guide us. Th: realm is annually unfolded to o minds at the Passover Seder table.
was finally told that his executio| had been decided upon, and that could have one last wish grante ; . . "Make me a member of the Je\ ish spy branch of the Gestapo," pleaded. . . . "Then, when you ki| me, there'll be one rat less in world." . . .
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