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THE OLDEST AND MOST WIDELY CIRCULATED JEWISH PUBLIC ATION IN THIS TERRITORY
frol. 17 No. 24
1 Week In Review
■ By MILTON MOWN. J.T.A.
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SOCIAL JUSTICE
I There was some good news this
■week with reference to another
■publication. The Postmaster Gen
tteral has revoked the second-class
■mailing rights of Social Justice.
■The final decision on permanently
■barring the paper from the mails
■will not be made until the end of
■April.
D But Social Justice apparently
■anticipated the move and in let
iters to supporters hints that it
■will distribute the magazine
■through other channels than the
■mails. It will continue to hawk
■the paper in front of the Catholic
■churches in the country. As the
■ worshippers come from Mass,
■ where they have prayed for for-
Igiveness for their sins, they may
■continue to buy it.
We are a democratic country,
■ standing for everything that So-
Icial Justice opposes and we are a
■ bit leery of suppressing a sheet
■ even like Social Justice. The New
■ York Times, in an editorial, bids
lus to remember, “That the Ameri-
Ican people in the past have had a
Iway of answering lies with truth,
■hate with tolerance, incitements to
■civil strife by a united front to
■the enemy of mankind. In these
we ‘must ask our-
Iselves how far we can go in the
■direction of suppression of opin
ion, even opinion as filthy as that
Expressed in Social Justice.”
I As to the Times’ argument, we
Ban only recall what Abraham
yßincoln did in the case of Valland
Bigham and others like him during
rHie Civil War. He suppressed
tHiem. And Lincoln explained that
Hie mothers of deserted soldiers
Sentenced to be shot were always
Homing to him to plead for mercy
H>r. their sons and he was unable
B) grant their pleas. How, he
Hsked, could he see a young man
Biot for desertion while those who
Bse up on soap boxes to urge this
Besertion are allowed full free
dom ? ,
WEIZMANN ARRIVES
I Dr. Weizmann has arrived in
Ibis country. He says his mission
Bere is in connection with the
Bewish army plan. Palestine
■teems to be booming with war in
dustry. For the next year, the
British government has doubled
■the orders for supplies to be pro-
Iduced in Palestine from four mil
|llion pounds to eight million
■pounds. For a small country like
■Palestine, that means a great deal.
■ In term of economics, this has
la bright prospect, but Palestine is
■in a hazardous position otherwise
land the reports this week reveal
■that Moshe Shertok of the Jewish
■Agency has been conferring with
lthe British military leaders in
■Cairo about this situation. Axis
■agents have been doing muctfi plot
ting and the Arab element is not
■&n unfertile ground in which to
■operate. It is not love for Britain
Bhat keeps the Arabs relatively
fcuiet. Let them think that the
Blazis have a chance to win and
Bhey will quickly turn to them.
I The whole Zionist situation at
Bhe present stage of the war, as
B> r - Weizmann arrives here, is, to
Bay the least, clouded. In the last
■ ar , there were a few Jews who
Blayed highly significant parts.
Where was Sir John Monash who
Wd the Australian troops and
Whom Lloyd George regarded as
Bje best of Allied strategists.
Where was Lord Reading, who was
ft special envoy of England to
Bierica. The Italians had the
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Accepting the commission of a Lieutenant Colonel in the Fiscal
Division of the United States Army, Morris C. Troper (left), has
resigned as Chairman of the European Executive Coimcil of the
Joint Distribution Committee. Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz (right),
who has been serving as European Vice-Chairman, succeeds him.
Dr. Schwartz is now stationed in Lisbon. •
SENATOR JOHNSON, OTHER
LEADERS, BACK JEWISH ARMY
Washington (JPS) —Again the
cry for a Jewish Army in Pales
tine is making itself heard
throughout the nation. Senator
Edwin C. Johnson of Colorado,
Pierre van Passen and Rabbi Bar
nett R. Brickner of Cleveland
have again stressed the import
ance of the formation of a Jewish
Army in the Holy Land.
In an address in the United
States Senate, Senator Johnson
declared the British leaders should
act before it is too late, in appeal
ing to them to create a Jewish
Army in the Middle East. “Pal
estine,” he said, “stands at the
very edge of the Suez, a vital focal
point of the lifeline of the United
Nations. Suez must be held . . .
100,000 Jews in Palestine are de-
Deny Plan To
Halt Foreign
. Language Press
Washington (JPS) —Both Attor
ney General Biddle and Lowell
Mellet, Administrative Assistant
to President Roosevelt, have reit
erated their belief that the for
eign-language press is of “great
worth” to the cause of America
and that the Federal Government
does not intend to stop completely
the publication of foreign-language
newspapers, as has been urged in
some quarters.
Attorney General Biddle, busy
with the problem of how to handle
Social Justice and other seditious
papers, said: “I can assure you
that we will take effective meas
ures to prevent the publication
and distribution of any seditious
publications.” H e emphasized,
however, that efforts must be
made to avoid discrimination a
gainst loyal foreign-language
papers, since they are of great
worth in expressing to their*
readers the aims of the IT. S. Gov
ernment.
famous Jew, Sonino. Dr. Weiz
mann himself shone with more
glory because of his scientific dis
coveries which were used by the
Allied forces. But today, there
are no Jews who stand out, ex
cept in Soviet Russia and there
Jewish consciousness is very dim.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA. FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 1942
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manding now, as I speak, the op
portunity and the right to fight
on the side of the defenders of
Suez ... I can think of no reason
for the British Government’s hes
itation-'to create a J?wisK“Army
in the Middle East now ... I
plead with the leaders of Britain
to act before the hour grows
later.”
Sweeney Calls
Decision Blow At
Anti-Semitism
W ashington (JPS) Declaring
that the Supreme Court decision
which asserted that it is libelous
to charge a public official with
anti-Semitism is “a blow at anti-
Semitism in this country and will
cause columnists and newspapers
to be careful in the future in writ
ing and publishing false stat-e
ments concerning members of
Congress and others in public
life,” Representative Martin L.
Sweeney applauded the Supreme
Court verdict and reiterated his
friendship for the Jewish people.
Mocks Race Theories, Says
Jews Could Improve Germans
Cambridge, Mass. (JPS) —Not
only are Nazi race theories “a
myth,” but “in a marriage be
tween German and Jew, the Ger
man would get by far the better
of the bargain,” Dr. M. P. Ashley-
Montague, Philadelphia anthropol
ogist, told the American Associa
tion of Physical Anthropologists
at Harvard.
Pointing out that one of Hitler’s
“reasons” for persecuting the
Jews is that the so-called "Ary
ans” would be tainted if they
were to intermarry with Jews, Dr. i
Ashley-Montague declared: “As 1
for the Nazi assault on Jews in 1
this respect, it should be pointed
out that the Jews are not a single
race, but a number of races, and J
that they exhibit in perhaps pre- ■
eminent degree the biologocally 1
good effects of race mixture.
“Thus,” he asserted, “in a mar- i
riage between German and Jew, i
the German would get by far the 1
better of the bargain.” • *
Evacuation of Jews From
France Considered by Nazi
LONDON (JTA) —Evacuation of
all Jews from the occupied por
tion of France to the unoccupied
“Heil Hitler” Gets
30-Day Jail Term
New York (JPS) —For demon
strating his Hitlerite inclinations
by shouting “Heil Hitler” and
giving the Nazi salute on the
Bowery in this city, German-born
Ernest Kuske was sentenced to a
30-day workhouse term.
Kuske has been grabbed by two
peddlers after he had made a
nuisance of himself by giving the
Hitlerite cry and screaming “Down
with Roosevelt.” Following an
FBI investigation, Magistrate
Thomas A. Aurelio gave him a 30-
day term and said: “I’ve got to
punish you as a deterrent to other
aliens of your feelings.”
Typhoid Rages
Among Refugees
In Shanghai
Geneva (JPS) —Disease has
struck against Jewish refugees in
Jap-held Shanghai, according to a
report reaching this city from
International Red Cross circles.
The report states tljat the Jewish
hospital in Shanghai is jammed
and that the rate of mortality is
exceptionally hight because of
lack of medicaments. The reason
for this shortage is that the Nip
ponese Government has seized all
drugs for army use.
U. S. No. 1 Fascist
Rejected By Army
Washington (JPS) —Lawrence
Dennis, sometimes called Ameri
ca’s “No. 1 Fascist” because of
his outspoken advocacy, in lecture
and writing, of “intellectual Fas
cism,” has been refused a com
mission in the United States
Army’s special police force, it was
revealed by the War* Department.
The noted scientist said that the
Nazis had given “vicious en
thronement as a political doctrine”
to a widely held but mistaken be
lief that crossing of different rac
ial groups results in defects and
finally in sterility.
ONCE TRUSTED AGENT,
NOW A PRISONER
Cairo (JPS) —Once Ali Maher
Pasha made protests to the Brit
ish Government about its handling
of the Arab-Jewish issue in Pal
estine, but today the three-time
Premier of Egypt is in prison' on
the ground of serving the Axis
powers. Ali Maher’s views on
Palestine received high regard at
the Colonial Office in London,
particularly in connection with
the' negotiations leading up to the
issuance of the; MacDonald White
Paper, which froze Jewish devel
opment in Palestine.
section is under consideration fol
lowing recent conferences between
Otto Abetz, Hitler’s emissary in
Paris, and Pierre Laval, new
chief of government in Vichy, it is
reported here this week by Allied
diplomatic circles.
New and! more severe anti Jew
ish measures are expected in
France very shortly as part of the
sweeping purge which Laval is
undertaking in an attempt to rid
the country of all persons resist
ing his rule and all potential ob
jectors. The Allied spokesman
ventured the opinion that Xavier
Vallat, present Commissar for
Jewish Affairs, will be removed
by Laval, since it is common
knowledge that the Germans are
openly critical of his “mild and
insufficient measures.”
Nazis Demand
Stoppage Os
Jewish Births
LONDON (JTA) —Nazi author
ities in Poland are insisting that
the number of Jewish births in
the Warsaw ghetto, which is very
small as compared with pre-war
times, must be further reduced,
Polish circles here learned this
week.
A neutral observer who recently
visited Warsaw and reached Lon
don this week reported that the
Nazi administration in the ghetto
is checking every Jewish birth
there. In issuing ration cards,
they emphasize that the food sit
uation requires that there be no
Jewish births at all.
Despite the Nazi threats to im
prison or even execute Poles who
are smuggling food for the Jews
into the ghettos, Polish peasants
are still continuing to illegally
provide foodstuff to Jewish
friends, the observer said. His
report was substantiated by in
formation reaching the Polish
government here from Sosnoviec
that Israel Sternfeld, a former
Jewish businessman there, was ex
ecuted by the Nazis for “prohib
ited” dealings with the Poles. The
same information reveals that in
Warsaw four Poles werfe sentenced
to prison for supplying food to
Jews in the ghetto, and that one of
them is a peasant from a neigh
boring village who was convicted
for the second time, of the “crime”
of selling potatoes to Jews.
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