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JEWISH   WESTERN BULLBTIR
Thursday, June 30> 1938
The Jewish Western Bolletin
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VANCOUVER, B.C., THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1938
THE SPIGOT
By SIMON A. FEATE
Proof, if proof were needed, that anti-Jewish persecution in Germany is not a popular movement rooted in the people but simply a political weapon to be wielded ruthelessly on appropriate occasions and then drawn back when it has served its purpose, came from the Nazi authorities themselves last week. The sudden und seemingly planless wholesale arrests of Jews and the wild outburst of Jew-bai^fng in, Berliu to the accompaniment of organized daubing* of Jewish; slibps wi^h boycott signs and slogans now stand revealed for thb whdle world to see as a deliberate manoeuvre by the Nazi regiine. Whether it was intended to deflect public attention from. re:armament or to make the German people forget their own troubles does not nliatter. The fact remains that quite as suddenly as the reiiewed Jewish drive began just so quickly were its violent aspects ended.
No official ■s^tement announcing the beginning of the onslaught or heiuldirig its end was made but the Nazi authorities and the police let it become known that the blame rested not with the govemineni but with "radical young Nazis" and with "elements hostile to both tlie Jews and the government." If it were ii'6t"so tragic it wipluld for a government in modem
times to offerVsucn'an e:?:cu^^ for organized violence. The Nazis boast that the German peoplie do nothing and say nothing that is not in harmony ,v^th the policy of the rulers of the Third Reich. Control over every aspect of life in Germany is ironclad. Under the circumstances it is strange that the government should claim that elements it couldn't control were responsible. The fact is ^the Nazi regime turned on the Jew-baiting spigot and then, when it had accomplished what it was intended to, namely, to speed up Jewish emigration and to strip the Jews of what little property remains to them, it was turned off.
But in domg this the Nazis afforded the rank and file of the German people: a j^r<^,opppi:tunity to show what they really think
of anti-Semitism. AU foreign correspondents reported that many Aryan Gerni^nt^,ha4,iProtested to them against the Jew-baiting. 3M[any forei^jue^^ repprted that Germans had voiced to them their Jshame M iheinot) actions. And not a few German Christians risked their own lives to protect Jewish neighbors... These incidents are representative of the real Germany. The time will come when the real Germany will express itself more forcibly. And then even the convenient spigot of Jew-baiting will not suffice to preserve the Nazi regime.-,..
EYES ON EVIAN
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AT TffiE BII^SIDE ^" •The Ger^ians were ther in full force at the toiiis-Sciimeling fight. . , They felt sure that their Max would win. ... Had not th? Fuehrer sent a telegram to Schnrelirig addressing him SIS the new world's chaihjpipn? . i ^Adolf surely knew what he was doing, . . . Next to us sat a group of Nazis who Jhad Hothe from Germany €specially for tii^^ fight. . . . When Schmeling hit liouis^the only blow Jie landed, a;:! jstraight. right to the jaw— they jump^la up and applauded. , . . "We must help our man," they said in German, "and give him our support". ... We'll iiever forget the "jsc^ne when Schmeling' was declared ibeaten. . , . Tliere was a Nazi girl in the group , . . She stared through her field glasses at the motionless body of her Max, aiid the expression on her face bespoke a hopeless hope that it was just a horrible night-iiiare. ... Her companion was a husky, confident,  typically German executive. . . ." Before the fight he had been loudly talking about "die Juden lind dio Niggers." . . . Afterwards he sat like a man who has suddenly been electrocuted. ... It couldn't have happened. . . Schmeling was an Aryan, and Louis only a ""dumb nigger." . . . And then, as it dawned upon these Nazis that it was true, that it actually had happened here—when they heard the shrieks of joy from the liOiiis supporters all aroimd them—then all of the Nazis collapsed on their seats. . . . And these proud Nordics suddenly were transformed into lamenting mortals, and in unison they cried out: "Unser Max!  Unser Max! Die Juden haben ihn   vergiftet   (the  Jews poisoned him)!"
NAZI NOTES
Keep your eyes peeled for some explosive revelations Unking a number of Americans to the Nazi spy ring. . . It's more than a coincidence that every Nazi camp and every branch of the German-American Bund are located uncomfortably near a United States army base, flying field, aviation factory or navy yard. . . Did you see where the Jersey Journal, pub-
lished in Hague's Jersey City, branded Uncle yarn's charges against the Nazi spies as something that "sounds fantastic'* and sought to pooh-pooh
the whole business? ... If you read a report that a New York lawyer by the name of Cohen acted as counsel for the German-American League, a Nazi outfit, you ought to know, that Cohen is employed by the law firm of Reeves, Todd, Gilley and Beatty, which has been coimsel to the League since before it fell under Nazi sway. . . Did you get excited over the ad in the public notices column of the New York Times reading "0,K. Hitler"? ... It was put in by agents of the Department of Justice in connection with a routine extortion case.
. The Congressional committee probing un-American activities was voted only $25,000 for a nationwide investigation, but the McNaboe Committee investigating the same activities only in New York State has $40,-000. . . . How came that one of the incorporators of the New Jersey Unit of the Protestant War Veterans of the United States is Adam Kunze of New Milford, in whose parlor Nazi meetings have been held? . . . Another incorporator is Edward J. Smythe, who is said to have Fascist connections. . . . Winchell reveals that a former German police official, a non-Jew who is now in this country, has proof that Nazi Propaganda Minister Goebbels is part Jewish. . . That kind of gossip is stupid, and originates with Nazis, who are always on the look-out for new ways of hiuniliating Jews.
WE'RE TELLING YOU
We hear that some of the communities that co-operated in bringing about the Pittsburgh unity meeting have pledged substantial sums toward the proposed united agency for the defense of Jewish rights. . . This is the third time Pittsburgh played host to a historic Jewish gathering, the first having been a century ago, when the so-called Pittsburgh platform of the Reform rabbinate was drafted, and the second the famous Pittsburgh Zionist convention during the world war, at which a democratic constitution was adopted by the Z.O. A. . . . That new picture magazine
By EGBERT SIMON
The eyes of a harried world will, turn next week to the French town of Evians-Ies-Bains where the international refugee conference called by President Roosevelt will convene. What can the refugees, Jew and Christian, hope from this assembly? What is its raison d'etre? What prompted the United States to initiate it? These are some of the questions answered in this article which reviews the noble record of America in interceding tor persecuted minoritic|s abroad.
—THE BDITOB.
Room for the Jew! Shelter for the Christian! A haven of refuge for the thousands upon thousands of unfortunate humans thrust out of their native land by ruthless dictators! All over Eiu-ope this plea of the homeless and underprivileged rises above the rattling sabres and^ the drone of tOr talitarian propaganda machines. And the answer to this pitiful cry for help has come from across the sea. A country built largely by refugees from political and religious persecution has again taken the initiative, setting in motion a program to alleviate the indescribable sufferings of the refugees. By the crystal-clear waters of the Lakes of Geneva, at Evian-les-Bains, Prance, an international conference, summoned by President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull of the United States, will meet on the 6th of July, in an attempt to bring some order out of the refugee chaos. As an international diplomatic event, Jt ranks with any of the great conferences since the debacle of Versailles. And to hundreds of thousands of victims of Nazism it has brought trie only ray of hope into ah ever darkening existence. i What can this conference accomplish? How much can it really do to alleviate the sufferings of those who have been forced to fiee their native lands? And even more importanjt, what can it do to bring relief ^ those who still remain in their fd-therlands? ' |. /
At first glance. President Roo^d-velt's proposal itself does not offir much encoiA'agemeht to^ th^. b^|§f
by the Nazis as revolutionaries, as communists, and as enemies of civilization. In the United States, in England, in France, in every country where free speech prevails, the Nazis have striven to arouse popular opinion against the admission of refugees from Germany.
Thus the obstacles lying before the forthcoming refugee conference seem to.be unsurmountable. Yet, if only this conference can succeed in stirring the conscience of the world, if only.it can bring home the conviction to the democratic peoples that civilization cannot tolerate the ruth-lessness that has become the chief political instrument of dictatorship, perhaps something will have been accomplished.
At this time it is most important to understand that in spite of five years of anti-Semitic propaganda in the United States, the American tradition of asylum is still firmly fixed in the hearts of the people; that nothing that has happened upon the European scene has in any way changed the attitude of Americans
CALLS OONFEBENCE!
that there can really be any greit relief for the refugees.   After ail, the President made it perfectly cleir that there is no intention on the part of the United States to relax aiiy of its immigration restrictions. The full quota for Germany and Austria combined is only some 28,000.  And this quota has been more than half filled quota were to be exhausted, only 13,-in the past few years.  Even if the 000 refugees will be able to enter this country yearly in addition to thb;^e who would normally have been admitted. I And just as the United States could not because of its own internal situation let down its immigration bars, so the other nations participating in this conference, too, are committed to the maintenance of their immigra,-tion restrictions.   Besides, Germany itself may prove the greatest bar to any possible progress.   In spite of the Nazi determination to rid the country of Jews, the Nazis have been making emigration from Germany increasingly difficult.   They have refused to permit  emigrants to take with them any of  their property. More than that, the Nazi propaganda machine has been flooding the coim-tries of possible immigration with a vicious stream of anti-Jewish propaganda.   Those who would emigrate from Germany have been branded
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whose first issue is devoted to the Jewish question was suppressed in a North New Jersey city because some Jews regarded it as anti-Semitic. . . . Clap hands for Young's Gap Hotel in the Catskills which is making room far beyond its needs for German refugees on its staff. .; . A lady who was one of the ruling powers of the Anti-Nazi League is now on the outsidie looking in. . . . Is it true that thie new directors of the League voted down a proposal to put Samuel Un-termyer's name on the stationery as founder? . . . Have you noticed how quiet things are on the Jersey City front? . . . Both sides in the Centre-Synagogue squabble have reached a tacit agreement to lay off on the publicity. ... In case you should he asked what the word ORT means we're telUng you it's a combination of the initial letters of the Russian words Obsheestivo Remeslenago Tru-da. . . Which explains why they call it ORT, . . And which means Society for the Promotion of Ttrades and Agriculture. . . Half the forthcoming aiuiual report of the Joint Distribution Committee will be devoted to a tribute to the late  Felix M. Warburg, in the form of a history of the JX).C.
towards the victims of tyranny..
For the United States has always been in the forefront in the fight for the protection of human rights wherever they have been attacked. In the days when the nation was still yoimg and its influence upon the international scene still negligible, American statesmen never hesitated to raise their voice in defense of the oppressed of the world. And it was the United States which occupied perhaps the most important place in the long and bitter stniggle to win for the Jews of the world political equality, religious liberty and freedom from oppression.
Perhaps the most brilliant chapter in this phase of American history was the fight waged by American statesmen in behalf of the Jews in Rumania. It was a fight which began with Lincoln's Secretary of State, William H. Seward, and was carried on for nearly a half centiuy, until the final anti-Jewish disabilities in Riunania were removed just before the outbreak of the World War in 1914. The United States in the course of the past century has never been too busy to take up the fight for freedom. Even while the Civil War was raging in our own land. President Lincoln considered it important to issue instructions to the American minister in Switzerland to continue the fight for the equal rights of Jews in that country. Nor did the United States always count the cost of this struggle as was proven by the abrogation of the American commercial treaty with Russia in the second decade of the present century.
The most striking incident in the story of American sympathy for the
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oppressed was the government's aid to Louis Kossuth, the Himgarian revolutionist. President Taylor had sent Dudley A. Mann as a secret agent to Hungary soon after the revolution of 1848. Mann was to advise our government concerning our recognition of Hungary's independence, if events justified it. But with the assistance of Russia, Austria was able to put down the revolution and Kossuth and his patriots were compelled to flee the country. The message that President Taylor sent to Congress on this subject is one of the most eloquent in our history. "I thought it my duty," stated the President, "in accordance with the general sentiment of the American people, to stand priepared to be the first to welcome Hunga,ry into the family of nations." When Hungary's most noted refugee finally came to the United States he was welcomed as a hero. A resolution of welcome was adopted by Congress. He was received by the President and throughout the country dinners were given in his honor. But American action in the Kossuth case was not limited merely to the granting of shelter to a political refugee. It also involved a long-drawn out diplomatic contra-versy with Austria and later with Turkey. And in spite of pressiu-e by many other foreign coimtries the United States refused to back down.
Nor did the United States back down a quarter of a century later when the persecution of Armenians in Turkey aroused public indignation throughout Europe and the United States. Here, too, the government continued its fight in behalf of that oppressed minority until the outbreak of the World War. And. during the war, millions of dollars of American money were poured into the Near East to alleviate the sufferings of the victims of.Turkish tyranny.
The history of American diplomacy is replete with evidence of the readiness of our leading statesmen to take up the fight of the underprivileged. In the coiu-se of years the unfortunates of the whole world had comie to look to this country for help in time of need.
The prdbieih, theretorO; that "arose with the accession of Adolf Hitler to power was not a new one. No new precedent for American intervention in behalf of victims of Nazism was needed upon which to base American action. But while the problem itself wats not new, the circumstances were unlike any in history. The same methods that could have been effective under old established forms of international usage, were ineffective here. The official protest that hi former years might have brought relief to a suffering minority group resulted only in bitter retaliation by the Nazis. The public indignation meetings which brought about the abrogation of the treaty with Russia in 1912 only brought added sufferings to Jews and Christians in Germany. And the American government, realizing that the usual diplomatic methods are ineffective in the present case, was compelled to wait for the moment when it could do something more than protest.
The Roosevelt refugee proposal, therefore, marks the close of one phase of the struggle against Nazism. The phase that was marked by protest meetings, parades and public denunciations is at an end. It has now been amply proven that far from achieving the desired effect, such action only adds to the suffering of the victims. They were words, soimd and fiuy unfortimately signifying nothing. Today, the liberty-loing nations of the wolrd, with our country at the head, are ready to sulwtitute deed for word. At Evian-les-Bains, with the quiet towering Alps on every side, the fate of hundreds of thousands of Jews will be decided. But, in the larger sense, their futmre alone is not hanging in the balance. Rather, the very fate of all civilization will in the long run be affected by what the democratic nations do at Evian.
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Nazis to Push "Legal" W; on Jews Instead
BERLIN (WNS) —An immedia end of violence against Jews in campaign to speed up the Arani" tion of Jewish business and thus f u ther   stimulate   Jewish emlgratio was ordered by high Nazi author ties, according to information obtai ed from from reliable sources, order has gone out that the boycio't ing of Jewish shops and the label* of Jewish establishments must bet ried out within "orderly and leg channels." Nazi party spokesmen mitted that the violence had gott out of hand but denied that any di ciplinary action was planned agaiii those responsible "because of t" dlfHculty of establishing who co mitted the acts."- At the same ti the highest Nazi party quarters let! become known that the steady ell ination of Jews from business a the roundup of Jews would contin: As the paint-slinging campaig^i p ered out it was replaced by the pic eting of'Jewish shops as men in ci ilian clothes posted themselves front of Jewish establishments warn customers away. Meanw" the Nazi press broke its silence the  disturbances,   the Voelkisch' Beebachter defending them as "act of self-defense by the peo" against Jews who are swamping : lln, especially from Austria.