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OUR ONLY SALVATION -A Clarion Call for World Jewish. Unity By Emil Ludwig The famous Ger- man-Jewish biog rapher .now in this country, warns in this resounding call, presented by special permission from the New York Daily Mir ror, that the solu tion of the Jewish problem can be found only in the union of all Jews as a single nation. EMIL LUDWIG Only in union can any solution be reached. |F the Jews of Germany and the world * ilti not learn of their own faults trough this bloody catastrophe of the •I tier terror, then they are not worth any ■n„re than the Germans themselves who «rre also negligent in profiting by their *n defeat. I he one outstanding mistake the Jews - jdr in Germany w as a tactless blunder permitting the shameless forgery of German accusations, at the time of ir publication of the famous “The Wise Men of Zion,” to go unchallenged. In •ais fabrication the Jews of Germany, tou will recall, were accused of plotting 'ii rapture the money markets of the 'rid. Subsequently, of course, this 'hole story was proved a gigantic for- £fr\. but it failed to put the Jews on their guard. Suddenly, with horror and despair, he Jews saw a land of culture rise up gainst them and tear away from them those hard-fought rights which took them j t whole century of strife to achieve. It «a* as though the American Negro «<rt suddenly to be confronted with an Jirt from Washington depriving him t his liberty once again, shattering the nmurtal figure of Lincoln (the most Monumental spirit in all American his- or\ who burned the essence and sub- 'tame of human equality into the Ameri- an Constitution with a brand of fire and blood. It was as though the un- 'ijchable holiness and singleness of Meaning in that great document’s pur- 'r were suddenly to be blotted out. j E'er since the dawn of constitutional government, of the reflective impulse of and order in civilized society, the ! vil rights of good citizens were never I >fo e so cruelly threatened and ignobly !l) rn away as the Hitler atrocities have ■>ndoned. Therefore, I cannot under ran i how German Jews still remain >'* Germans. Many of the refugees I 1 'P ke with personally told me that they I iot relish the notion of being classed I *• a ‘‘minority” element (being Jewish), "ot ather that they preferred still to Armans in the nationalistic sense, even though they were slaughtered, driven, plagued and insulted. This seeming lack of self-respect on the part of the subjects of the Hitler Hymn of Hate and banishment only serves to make the Nazi the more trium phant. Today, when minorities are de fended by the world and will soon re ceive the full status of respectable strength, banishing even the term ‘‘Mi nority” from the language of inter national council ultimately, the Jews in Germany should fight for their rights of representation at Geneva as a minority group and nation. Lake the Switzerland of today, in many ways the model for the new Europe. Here minorities as such are unknown, in spite of the fact, for example, that one-third of thr country (Tessin) speak* Italian, even though Italians constitute not even five per cent of the total popu lation. Yet there are EQUAL RIGHTS for ALL Swiss! As the country’s guest for over 25 years (and a thankful and hopefully gratefully one, too) I was per fectly welcome and enjoyed the coun try’s hospitality with full freedom. A nation which violates the spirit of liberty and right in its citizenry and even in its guest-citizenry (if you will) also violates the moral basis of every religious precept as well as all funda mentals of humanity. It was a gross mistake for some of the German Jews to buy their freedom by exporting German goods to Palestine and thus being permitted to keep part of their money. This means that if I wished to avoid my torturer* and at tempted to leave Germany I must buy my freedotn in terms of cooking-pots, piano* or automobiles! Such a situation cannot last. And only in the union of all Jews all over the world in a national unit capable of re presenting Jewry and sitting at Geneva along with the fifty-two nations—as the fifty-third nation, in fact—can any solu tion be reached. THIS MUST AND WILL BE DONE. Then and then only will the Jews find it unnecessary to re sort to begging as it did at the League meeting when the Minister of Holland spoke for them, as a human necessity. When the Jews have thus united as a nation, then only can they stand up with respect as one among the nations of the world, along with other minorities and smaller nationals. For the Jews, with their sixteen million people, would thus bear more weight in the council of the smaller nations and in the world than their present scattered strength permits. Next year the World Congress of Jewry will stabilize and unify the pitiably scattered vitality of 2,000 years of divided forces. AIKEN MILLS, INC. Langley Plant Karded Broadcloths, Print Cloths and Pongees AIKEN MILLS, INC Bath Plant Cotton and Rayon Marquisettes THE SEMINOLE MILLS Combed Broadcloths Selling Agents Cohn Hall Marx Co —Seneca Textile Corp 93 Franklin Street, New York, N. Y. T IE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE® [15]