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Friday, January 6, 1939
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elevation of conduct as is not to be found in any other mass of people?
But in the recent months I have found myself frowning darkly on the occasional Je-sv whose misdeeds get into the newspapers. I have wished excommunication for a Jew who was too loud in the bus, for a Jew who, I heard, had practiced rather sharply in a real estate deal, for Mrs. Yiff-niff who, it seemed to me, carried too much of cosmetics on her face.
(Though I wasn't in the least disturbed on account of Mrs. Jones, if that was her name, who carried an equal amount of cosmetics on her face; though I didn't mind the assorted non-Jewish rapscallions who were in the newspapers on the same day the Jew's misdeeds were reported; though on the same bus there was a loud drunken non-Jew making a nuisance of himself; though, as I had heard, the real estate deals of all non-Jews are not always above reproach.)
I can no longer be tolerant with an offending Jew. I should have liked to take the loud one on the bus by the throat . . . "Pipe down, please, sir, You are a Jew and your conduct is made to reflect on all of us. Is there not enough rishus without your making more?"
I should like to hang the Jew who is in jail on account of bad checks. Before I sprang the trap I would say to him: "Your crime for which you are being hanged is not the bad checks. I am hanging you for the shame you have brought upon your people by your offense with the checks. You have grievously injured your people in the minds of all the unjust who are so many."
I should drive the unscrupulous real estate dealer into the river: "Go! Float away from the ken of Israel whose good name you have traduced. The one with whom you dealt sharply in the deal will hold your trickery against all Jews. He will say that all Jews are sharpsters because of what you did to him. Go!"
I should approach Mrs. Yififniff with soap and water: "My dear Mrs. Yiffniff, permit we to remove the hideous mask you have put upon your countenance. Mrs. Jones may wear her face as she pleases, but of your face the unjust (who are so luany) say, This is the face of the Jew—so brazen, so vulgar."
But I refrain from doing these things because I haven't an-ogance enough and because I am somewhat inhibited by a sense of justice which keeps saying, "Segal, are oiTending Jews the only obnoxious people in the world?"
I am privileged only to mind the conduct of one Segal whom I have always kept in check not only because it is right to be decent but also because Segal is a Jew who is responsible to his people. I have taught Segal to know that he is a Jew not only on Yom Kippur; he tries to be a Jew in all the walks of his life.
JSe knows, in the first place, Tnni he has a great and good name to uphold; this is to say, the great and good name of his people. In this he has no vulgar racial pride; the great and good name of his people has to do with a lot of spiritual values they have given, such as the Testament and the prophets, such as dreamers
free city of danzig institutes pogroms
GENEVA (WNS) — The government of the Free City of Danzig was accused by the executive committee cf the World Jewish Congress of organizing a pogrom to drive Jews out of the Nazified city. The accusation was made in a telegram to the Foreign Ministers of Britain, France and Sweden and members of the League of Nations committee on Danzig affairs. "The government of the Free City of Danzig has organized a pogrom," the telegram read, "and has introduced racial legislation, obliging the whole Jewish population to leave in short time, without the League's having taken any action up to now." (Under terms of the Treaty of Versailles, the former German city of Danzig was established as a Free City under protection of the League of Nations.)
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and saints.
Segal has been taught to be very humble about this with a humility that says, "You yourself are neither a prophet nor a saint but at least you should never do ans^thing that would dishonor your prophetic and saintly kinsmen. At least, Segal, your meager height should try to reach to the hem of their garments."
I have taught SegaF that he owes it not only to himself to be a decent person but also to his people. He knows very well that any offense he, a Jew, may commit is double: It is a sin agains his character and against the Jews.
He doesn't like the injustice that visits his sins on his people, but he has learned to say, Well, if my people are going to be held responsible for my misdeeds I am under a double responsibility to observe the straightest rectitude of personal conduct. Nothing that I do must reflect on them and everything I do or say must redound to their good name.
I have trained Segal so that if he were in business he would rather be himself cheated than even to be suspected that any deal of his was in the least dishonorable.
If he were an employer he would so conduct his relations with his workers that on account of him they would have only respect for Jews. He would say: "What if some Gentiles are labor-crushing employers? I owe it to myself, to my teaching and to my people to set the loftiest of exemplars."
If he went to Miami he would go his quiet way as one who must carry not only his own dignity but the dignity of a people as well.
Not that this Segal believes that by proper social conduct he himself can make an end of anti-Semitism. He is satisfied that by his own proper social conduct he himself, at least, is not hurting his people. He feels that here and there he may touch a mind that through him will derive a good opmlotv of Jews, In any event, it ought to be of some good to Segal's character to be under this strict discipline of obligation to his! people. It may make a man of him, I ought to. say that these praises of Segal do not mean that he is without fault. He has his faults but he is trying his best.)
WASHINGTON (WNS)—According to word received here Bolivia has taken action that might open her vast empty spaces to thousands of refugees from Germany. South America's greatest producer of tin has opened her land to anyone sound of mind and body who wants to work the rich lands which are granted to them free.
It is understood that the Bolivian government will give Jewish homesteaders 125 acres of farming land, free passage from the Bolivian frontier for immigrants and their families and free entry for their household belongings and agricultural tools. This information came unofficially from Jorge Gonsalvez, Consul-General of Bolivia, who revealed that a wealthy Jewish mine operator may have a decisive influence on the plans. Although no official information was forthcoming, Jewish relief organizations saw in the offer a partial solution to the refugee problem. According to a spokesman for the New York Section of the Council of Jewish Women, only Cuba, is available to refugees as a stopping place for immigration to the United States. The Bolivian olfer, if well-founded, will give transmigrants temporary if not permanent haven to refugees.
nobel prize winner heartens jews
NEW YORK (WNS)—A scathing denunciation of anti-Jewish persecution in (Germany has been written by Remain RoUand, famous French novelist and 1915 Nobel Prize winner. The novelist urges Jews to emulate their forefathers in ^'keeping their courage and faith in the future."
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american boycott puts liner bremen out of commission
LONDON (WNS)—The effect of the American boycott of Nazi goods and services has resulted in the decision of the North German Lloyd line to withdraw the Bremen from transatlantic service immediately, according to a News Chronicle report which said that the liner had carried 36 passengers on its last trip.
famous lecturer says democracy must stay
TROCHU, Alberta (WNS)—At a meeting, sponsored by district branches of the Canadian Legion, it was disclosed that Nazi agents are organizing German clubs and arrangements are being made to send Canadian-bom children of German origin to Germany to be educated. A resolution was adopted protesting agains Nazi activity and declaring a determination to uphold the principles of democra;cy.
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threats by nazis against actors
NEW YORK (WNS)—Threatening letters have been received by Raymond Massey, Walter Huston, Dorothy Thompson and the Theater Arts Committee from unknown Nazi sjrm-pathizers who deprecated efforts to aid refugees from Germany. Miss Thompson sent the letters she received to the District Attorney's office for investigation. Massey and Huston ignored the letters.
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MONTREAL (WNS) — Declaring that the Fascist countries now "regard civilization as an artichoke to be devoured leaf by leaf until at last the heart is reached and destroyed. Professor Harold J. Laski, English writer and lecturer, speaking before a meeting of the Canadian Club, told his audience that the "abdication of Munich" was not an isolated case^ but merely a "stage in a long series of retreats."
"It is time," declared Mr. Laski, 'to turn from the path we have fol-lo-wed since ISSl and fono-w thti Toad made through the sacrifices of 1914:-1918. We are the trustees of democracy. We must maintain it, by argument if possible, by challenge if we must."
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BERLIN (WNS) — Violent criticism from within Nazi party ranks coupled with world-wide indignation at the wave of anti-Jewish violencfe that broke out November 10 has resulted in a tempering of action against German Jews. Jewish quarters estimated that about 7,000 Jews have been freed from Nazi concentration camps during the past two weeks although many of them had been hard hit by the extremely low temperatures and others still suffered from injuries. Detention of Jewish war veterans with favorable military records was strongly criticized find though no mention has been made publicly Jews have been returning to their homes at the ratfe of several hundred daily. Those who had been promised visas were given preference in granting amnesty to prisoners.
VIENNA (WNS)—Release of 900 Jews from the concentration camp at Dachau was effected after they had signed a declaration to leave Germany within eight weeks.
BERLIN (WNS)—Efforts to release 200 Jewish youths of thousands still being held in concentration camps have failed because they have no funds. Under existing conditions they have no chance to emigrate unless some nation will accept thdm as transmigrants to be trained for te-emigration.
$30,000 raiseo by memorial concert
NEW YORK (WNS)—HuldaLash-anska, noted soprano, was principal-Iv responsible for arranging the Felix M. Warburg Memorial Concert given at Carnegie Hall before a capacity audience who paid more than $30,000 for seats. Mme. Lashanska, Mischa Elman, violinist, Emanuel Feuermann, cellist, and Rudolf Ser-kin, pianist, donated their services to the benefit concert for German and Austrian refugees irrespective cf creed. Governor Lehman delivered a short talk preceding the intermission.
hitler angry at united states
Nazi policy in the current German-American diplomatic crisis was being personally directed by Chancellor Adolf Hitler who, according to reports, is described as deeply angered by the position taken by the State Department in Washington toward the Third Reich and the blunt rejection of the German protest against the Cleveland speech of Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes. Realizing the possible unfortunate consequences of precipitate action, Hitler, it is understood, will do nothing until he can make a thorough study of the issues involved.
It is certain that the Nazi government will reply in some definite manner and the return to Washington of Dr. Hans Dieckhoff, German Ambassador, has been postponed indefinitely. It is equally certain that no reply will be forthcoming until after the first of the year and one report has it that Hitler may not make any decision until after learning what President Roosevelt has to say in his message to the opening session of Congress.
LONDON (WNS)—More than 5,-000,000 Jews in Central and Eastern Europe are threatened with loss of homes and means of livelihood, with the most urgent phase of the problem presented in Germany. Anti-Semitism is becoming acute in Poland where millions of Jews face mass expulsion. Under new anti-Jewish laws being prepared in Hungary 500,000 Jews will suffer loss of citizenship and limitation in the economic life of Hungary. Similar measures are expected in Rumania. All of Danzig's Jews have been ordered to leave the city and in Memel thousands of Jews are fleeing for fear that Germany will soon absorb the territory. An extremely cold holiday season found thousands of unwanted Jews on frontier "no-man's land," and other thousands in isolation and concentration camps. Many Jews are quartered in open fields and ditches at twelve or more points along the German, Slovakian, Hungarian, Polish and other frontiers. A harrowing picture of the plight of these Jewish outcasts was made public here by the European ofB.ce of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and other relief organizations. Held between frontiers, Jews were living near the border towns of Szbonszyn, Poland, and on the Reich, Czecho, Slovak-Hungarian, Czech-Polish and German-Lithuanian borders. The refugees are ill clad, poorly fed and hemmed in with barbed wire.
In Italy, Jews find themselves for the first time under a racist creed, ostracized as an inferior race, not allowed to intermarry, forbidden to hold positions in the state services, their children barred from "aryan" schools, and in many other ways restricted in the economic and social life of Italy. Fascist decrees have ordered them to leave before March 12, but few of them have funds or friends to help them escape. The Jews have survived two thousand years of ups and downs in Rome. Many believe the new discriminations will not survive and the Jews, thrown back on themselves, will cling closer to religion, drawing what comfort they can from adversity.
The hopes of German Jews rest largely on George Rublee, chairman of the Intergovernmental Commission on Refugees. Rublee will go to Berlin early in January to negotiate with the Nazi government on plans to allow departing Jews to take with them enough of their capital to make them acceptable immigrants in coim-tries of refuge. If Germany does so, homes for thousands of German Jews may be found in British, French and Netherlands colonies, South America and the United States.
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NEW YORK (WNS)—Emil Leng-yel, author and lecturer, asserted that the people of CJermany secretly hoped their country would be defeated in the event of another war, because they are suffering under Hitler's rule. Langyel declared this to be a fact from conversations he had with many persons, mostly Catholics and Protestants, on a recent trip through Germany. When Hitler is ready for war, said Lang-yel, he will strike witout warning.
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JERUSALEM (WNS) — World Jewry was reminded that certain sections of Jewry had Ignored Palestine until too late in an address delivered by Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog in accepting a certificate of inscription in the Golden Boole of the Jewish National Fund. "The tribulations that are now being experienced by Jewry are Messianic pains. They are the penalty for the neglect of the land of redemption and reconstruction by a large section of the people," the Chief Rabbi said to the dfelegation from the directorate of the Jewish National B'urid which handed him the certificates.
nazis demand jews get permits to pray
BERLIN (WNS)—Special permits, which are renewed for every service, must be obtained by Jews desiring to pray in the few remaining syna-gogrues in Germany, according to a recent decree issued by the Reich.
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NEW YORK (WNS) — Presidei^t Roosevelt was awarded the 1938 American Hebrew medal for outstanding service in promoting better understanding between Christians and Jews. The Citation said in part that President Roosevelt "took the initiative at every crisis in Jewish affairs and did everything in his power to bring about a humane solution, and was responsible for the -Evian Commission for aiding'refugees of - Central Europe."