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The Southern Israelite
VOL. XI—NO. 38
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Reich Jewry
5697 Ushered in With Prayers
of Hope; Poland Worships
On Eve of Riot
Berlin (WNS) — Expecting, the
worst but still buoyed up by the
amazing fortitude characteristic of
t he Jewish people throughout the
ages, German Jewry jammed every
synagogue to overflowing as it
ushered in the Jewish year 5697
with hushed prayers of hope. The
liquidation of scores of smaller
communities and the emigration of
their inhabitants to Berlin, the in
ability of Jews to hire halls which
in previous years had been used as
temporary synagogues and the in
creased piety of the Jewish popula
tion were credited for the unusual
outpouring of Rosh Hashanah wor
shipers.
In front of every synagogue there
were special detachments of police
assigned to guard the Jews against
Nazi extremists who might at
tempt pogroms. These precautions
were taken by the government be
cause it feared that the violent an
ti-Semitic speeches at the Nazi par
ty congress at Nuremberg would
inspire militant Nazis to utilize the
high holidays for anti-Jewish ex
cesses. Inside the synagogues there
were special agents of the secret
police.
Warsaw (WNS)—Hunger, terror
and despair hovered over Polish
Jewry as millions thronged the
synagogues for Rosh Hashanah
services. While thousands of Jew
ish families in Warsaw, Lodz,
Lemberg and Cracow relied on
charity for their holiday food, Pol
ish Jewry as a whole celebrated the
New Year ,with a prayer on its lips
that 5697 might at least bring sur
cease from the anti-Semitic vio
lence of the past year. This prayer
was given special poignancy by the
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^ATLANTA, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1936
HAPPY
NEW YEAR
5697-1936
PRICE FIVE CENTS
England Finds
Offender Guilty
Britain Sentences Agitator to
Prison Term of Six
Months
London (WNS)—Fascist anti-
Semitic agitation in Great Britain
received its first important legal
setback when Justice Greaves-Lord
in < >ld Bailey Court sentenced Ar
nold Leese, editor of the violently
anti-Jewish publication The Fas
cist, to six months in prison after
a jury had found him guilty of
publishing libelous statements
against the Jews. Walter White-
bead. printer of The Fascist, was
also convicted, but was let off with
a tine of $100. The verdicts against
Leese and Whitehead are being
bailed throughout England as a
niajor victory against Fascist
Propaganda, since this case was re
garded as a test of the possibility
of stemming anti-Jewish agitation
: ugh legal action.
sentencing Leese Justice
''es-Lord said that the writings
01 the defendant had “prejudiced
fb* lawful and customary inter-
o e between Jews and non-Jews
f° the endangerment of peaceful
relations.” “I am satisfied,” the
Juuge declared, “that nothing can
more mischievous to the public
the circulation of statements
kind. I can appreciate that
o n d what you have done there
!' Possibly a belief amounting in
u ' intensity almost to fanaticism
egarding the truth or otherwise
jg uese statements. ^That the pub-
uc well-being can be served by the
P 1 ication of stuff of this kind—
a: I call it stuff advisedly—I can
n •
h
that
bblfLY' SENATORS URQE U. S. TO HELP
UPHOLD PALESTINE CAUSE
Lion Feuchtwanger
Academy Formed
To Help Refugees
Feuchtwanger, Zweigs, Frank,
Manns, Toller, Bartholdy
Among Founders
Paris (WNS)—To keep alive the
old and genuine German culture
many of the most celebrated think
ers and writers of Germany, all of
them refugees from Naziland, have
organized the German Academy of
Arts and Letters. The Academy in
tends to award prizes for the best
works of German prose, poetry,
sculpture, painting, music and
scholarly research produced in ex
ile, in order to encourage German
emigres. Fellowships to impover
ished German refugees will also be
awarded. Among the founders of
the Academy are Stefan and Arnold
Zweig, Felix Mendelssohn-Barthol-
dy, Bruno Frank, Lion Feuchtwan
ger, Ernst Toller and Thomas,
Heinrich and Klaus Mann.
Chicago (WNS) — Special Rosh
Hashanah services conducted in
German according to the ritual used
in German synagogues were held
in this country for the first time
under the auspices of the Men’s
Club of Temple Sinai at Sinai Cen
ter, with several hundred German
Jewish refugees living in the Chi
cago area attending. Hermann
Schaalman of Munich, now study-
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A Plague Upon Both
Their Blouses”
London (WNS)—“A plague
upon both their blouses,” Baron
Horder of Ashford, private phy
sician to King Edward VIII, told
the psychologists of the British
Association for the Advance
ment of Science in a speech in
which he branded Fascism and
Communism as quackery. Warn
ing Great Britain against the
“spurious remedies and pana
ceas” of the dictator nations,
Baron Horder said: “What mat
ters the color of men’s shirts if
they are soon to be in their
shrouds?”
France Seeks
United Poland
French Minister Reported To
Have Warned Poland to
Cease Oppression
Paris (WNS)—Although govern
ment circles have taken pains to
deny that Premier Leon Blum dis
cussed the plight of Polish Jewry
during his conference with General
Rydz-Smigly, Polish dictator, the
same sources have permitted it to
become known that Paul Bastid,
French minister of commerce, drop
ped a broad hint to the Polish lead
er that France expects its com
mercial credits to Poland to bene
fit all sections of her population.
During his visit to Warsaw to dis
cuss details of the French loan M.
Bastid is reported to have told Pol
ish government officials that only
a united Poland, including her
Jews, can be of aid in the present
European crisis. France, he said,
is interested in a strong and united
Poland, which is impossible when
one section of the population suf
fers from discrimination. It is ex
pected that this hint will have a
decidedly favorable reaction.
Geneva (WNS)—A demand that
Poland be given a place on the
Mandates Commission was voiced
by Josef Beck, Poland's foreign
minister, in an address before the
Council of the League of Nations
here. Beck urged that countries
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CRITICIZED
Sir Arthur Grenfell Wauchope,
High Commissioner of Palestine,
who is accused of indecision and
weakness by Senators Copeland,
Austin and Hastings.
Cadman Program
Plans Announced
New York (WNS)—Activities of
the National Conference of Jews
and Christians for the year 1936-37
will he built around the hopes and
aspirations of the late Dr. S.
Parkes Cadman, founder of the
committee on good will between
Jews and Christians of the Federal
Council of the Churches of Christ,
which grew into the National Con
ference of Jews and Christians, it
was announced here by the co-
chairmen of the Conference.
Plans for the coming year in
clude a project for mobilizing the
public opinion of ordained clergy
men throughout the country in the
interest of wholesome relations be
tween the racial and religious
groups making up the American
people, the annual observance of
Brotherhood Day on February 20th
and 21st, a national institute of
human relations, another good will
pilgrimage by a priest, a minister
and a rabbi, and a series of 300 lo
cal round-table discussion groups.
Agitator No. 1, Presents Daring Reporter With
Silver Shirt Emblem of Christian Party
fliagine. Nothing can be more
a rr.ful to the public weal than
BE SURE TO READ
“The Red Myth”
m Important Editorial
PAGE 6 OF THIS ISSUE
In the preceding article of his
series exposing if illiam Dudley Pel
ley and the Christian Party, Dan
Swett admitted that only the unus
ual stupidity of Pelley’s cohorts had
prevented his discovery. Gathered at
Headquarters with the leaders of
the Christian Party, he awaits Pel-
ley. Now go on with the story.
By Dan Swett
At last the Chief, William Dud
ley Pelley in person, entered the
office, accompanied by McDonald
and two plug-uglies I had not seen
before. Every one in the office rose
and greeted Pelley with a genuine
Fascist salute, which he promptly
returned. Introductions were then
in order. When he came around to
me McDonald gave me a real build
up. The Chief seemed distinctly
pleased.
“You don't know what a feeling
of confidence it gives me, he said
“to know that I have so many loyal
workers throughout the coug
spreading the gospel^of the Chris
tian Commonwealth.
Seeing that I was tongue-tied
with awe, McDonald came to the
w , “ «ivrr is an ex-ma
rine, Big^hot, and he’s going to
drill’the boys in his district as soon
as we get them organized.
Pelley beamed and extended his
ha “Ah my boy, if I had a thousand
more liE y you I’d sweep the coun
try of every Jew from Maine to
the Pacific.” (Members of the
Christian Party are all middle-
aged. I am twenty-two, and have
seen no members approximating
my age.) •
“Have you your silver shirt
yet?” Pelley asked me.
“Yes,” I replied, “but I haven’t
been able to get an L sewn on yet.”
Thereupon, from a box which Mc
Donald had in his desk, Pelley took
a regulation ninety-eight-cent sil
ver-gray shirt with a large red cot
ton L sewn over the left pocket.
This he handed to me, saying: “I
want you to accept this as a gift
from me, in token of my apprecia
tion of the patriotic work you are
doing. When the Christian Com
monwealth comes into power I will
see that you are rewarded in a
manner fitting the service you are
giving us.”
“Chief, I'll always remember you
and what I’m working for when I
wear this shirt,” I said as I accept
ed the accolade.
The Chief took a chair-and be
gan a discussion of Pelley, his div
inity—which he admits—and what
he would do when elected dictator
of the United States. I would like
to quote the conversation that fol
lowed, but it was entirely too por
nographic for print.
Once, as a child, I picked up a
dead rattlesnake. It was cold, limp
and dry. Pelley’s handshake made
me think of that snake. His hand
is cold as ice, even on a midsummer
afternoon, and as limp as a dead
jellyfish.
McDonald and the others ad
dressed him alternately as “Chief”
and “Big Shot.” Pelley himself
speaks in a clandestine, suggestive
manner, with a vocabulary of the
utmost obscenity. His followers
take this as an evidence of virility.
He dwelt at length on the won
derful reception he is given wher
ever he goes, the way audiences en
thusiastically acclaim him, and on
the hundreds of thousands (actual
ly slightly over one hundred) of
dollars he has received in dona
tions. He was particularly pleased
with the way the State of Wash
ington has “unanimously accepted
the Christian Commonwealth as
the only sane plan of government.”
“Yes,” he said, “We’ve made a
good beginning here. From now on
our slogan will be ‘From Washing
ton to Washington.' And then all
you boys will be taken care of, you
bet. I’m not one to forget my fol
lowers. The best jobs the country
can offer will be yours.
“When I'm President, I think
that I’ll incorporate the Silver
Shirts into a sort of combination
Federal army and police force. I’m
going to do away with the Depart
ment of Justice entirely. That’s too
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Declare Treaty With England
Guarantees National
Homeland
New York (WNS)—The United
States “cannot be held blameless”
for the present situation in Pales
tine “until it calls sharply to the
attention of Great Britain our feel
ing that the (Palestine) mandate
is not being administered as it
should be,” U. S. Senators Royal
S. Copeland, Daniel O. Hastings
and Warren R. Austin declared in
a joint statement issued on their
return from Palestine, where they
went as an unofficial commission
on behalf of the Hearst newspa
pers.
The text of their statement reads
partly as follows:
‘Great Britain holds the manda
tory power over Palestine. It is
charged by the world with the re
sponsibility for good government
there. The United States has a
treaty with the^ British sovereign,
a treaty which includes every word
of the original mandate designed to
guarantee a Jewish National Home
in Palestine and to give unfailing
justice to the Moslems and other
religionists in the land.
“We found the High Commission
er of Palestine to be a fine gentle
man. .In matters so fundamental,
so vital to the welfare of Great
Britain, so interlaced with the af
fairs of England in the Near East,
we cannot believe that the High
Commissioner is acting upon his
own initiative. Undoubtedly he is
an able and honest man, but open
to the accusation of‘ indecision and
weakness, because he must be loyal
to whatever is the ‘policy’ of the
British government.
“The failure to muke conciliatory
and peace-promoting moves cul
minated in the present ‘strike,'
with its horrible,record of murders
and destructive acts. Failure to
deal sternly with the lawbreakers
and to end the inexcusable acts of
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Probe Coach’s
Rally Speech
Stars Demand Resignation of
Dean Cromwell For De
faming Remarks
Los Angeles (WNS)—Dr. Rufus
von Kleinsmid, president of the
University of Southern California,
has promised an immediate investi
gation into the remarks of Dean
Cromweli, U. S. C. track coach and
one of the Olympic track coaches,
whose resignation is being de
manded because he told a cheering
crowd of 3,000 Nazis here: “Oh, if
I could only be that handsome boy
Adolf (Hitler) in New York for an
hour.” This remark was made by
Cromwell in a pro-Hitler speech at
a rally of the German-American
Alliance. The demand for Crom
well’s resignation came from the
Hollywood League Against Nazism,
many alumni of the University and
from Frederic March, Florence
Eldridge, Eddie Cantor, Gloria
Stuart and Ernst Lubitsch.
In his speech Cromwell said: “If
you've read any of the newspaper
reports on unpleasantness in Ger
many or on the reception of the
American Olympic team, don’t be
lieve them. The reports were writ
ten by boys of the wrong nation
ality. An ov&tion was rendered
Jesse Owens by the Germans. There
is no longer a single colored man
or woman in Germany. They have
all chosen to leave for some reason
or another, and I for one certainly
don't object to that. When I re
turned to New York I was greeted
by an assistant to the Mayor, who
told me that only every seventh
person of the population of New
York was born in America. Oh, if I
could only be that handsome boy
Adolf in New York for one hour;
you know, king for an hour. The
last place I ever want to visit
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