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The Past And The Future
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Southern Israelite
Friday, September 25, 1936
The Red Myth
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Letts—10.6 per cent..
Poles—6.3 per cent.
Jews—2.6 per cent. . , . ,,
In short, the Jews have played only a minor part in the
Communist movement. In America, outside of a dozen l&rge
cities the Jews are absent from the rolls and activities of the
Communist Party. There are no Jewish leaders; people like
Earl Browder, Clarence Hathaway, William Z. Foster and
Mother Ella Reeve Bloor are distinctly non-Jewish.
It is important that every Jewish person become acquaint
ed with these facts in order that measures may be taken to
combat the Red Myth. The propaganda being prepared now
by the Third Reich is diabolic and persuasive. There is only
one weapon that can be used against it;
TRUTH!
Quickly and .sadly the scene
changed, and by December and
January Polish Jewry, still the
world’s second largest, had come
under the pall of bitterest attack
from two quarters. These were the
Emdeks, Nazi Germany’s Polish al
lies, and the university student
groups, who, alas, are the ring
leaders of every reactionary move
ment.
Things swiftly worsened, and in
the spring months pogroms took
place, notably in Przytyk, which, if
not State-sanctioned, were State-
condoned. More than State-con
doned, for in a so-called court of
law, the pogromists were all but
exonerated, and Jewish defenders
were condemned to severe punish
ment. The lot of Polish Jewry must
be seen to be believed. Polish Jow-
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Happy New Year
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ry may somehow politically sur
vive; economically, it is being
crushed, humanly exterminated.
One of the few glimpses of light
on the Polish scene appeared in the
manful declaration of the Polish
delegates to the World Jewish Con
gress. Whatever may have been
done for Polish Jewry since the
war, the Jewish world must fix its
attention upon the Jewish status in
Poland. Let there be an end forth
with of idle talk by Jews or non-
Jews with respect to superfluous
Jews in Poland. The three million
Polish Jews are no more superflu
ous than any other element of the
population, whatever its faith or
race. Or is civilized mankind to
assent to the werdict of “Superflu
ous” with respect to a segment of
the population which through eco
nomic discrimination and disabili
ties has been ground to the dust?
The task of saving Polish Jewry
from extinction—not merely of
bringing relief to it—becomes one
of the main items of the Jewish
agenda. Polish Jewry may not be
permitted to perish. If it perish,
Israel will be widowed indeed. Re
covery there could hardly be from
the loss of the second of the great
Jewries of history.
The German Jewish tragedy
moves on to its fateful end. What
horror of injustice is to be an
nounced and perhaps enacted at
this year’s Parteitag will shortly
be seen. As the civilized peoples
face the dastardly part played by
Nazism in the Spanish uprising,
they begin to see that they are
three years too late in meeting the
Hitler challenge to civilization, it
may forever be too late! Never to
be forgotten was the valedictory to
his task by the High Commissioner,
James G. McDonald, which consti
tutes the greatest indictment yet
framed because of the very moder
ation of its tone and the nobleness
of its appeal to mankind. A gleam
of comfort became visible in the
founding of the Council for Ger
man Jewry with three distinguish
ed English Jews taking the lead,
Sir Herbert Samuel, Lord Bearsted
and Simon Marks, an undertaking
unmarred by the threatened estab
lishment of a Bank, which would
have destroyed the anti-Nazi boy
cott and have become instrumental
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in conserving German Jewish for
tunes rather than saving German
Jewry.
Many Jews may expect the
writer to lapse into threnody over
happenings in Palestine through
out the past four months. Lament
able in truth what the Arabs have
done or sought to do! Still more
lamentable what British and Pales
tine governments have suffered
them to do! But beyond all praise
has been the bearing and conduct
of the Jewish population of Pales
tine. Never was provocation more
loftily met! It is as though the
Yishub had resolved that the more
ignoble the challenge, the nobler
should be the response! Never
more let it be said that Jews have
regained their ancient patrimony
without paying the price! For no
price is harder to pay than that of
perfect self-discipline and self-re
straint under ceaseless and savage
attack. That lesson, hardest of all,
Jews have learned, and we, their
fellow-Jews, have been placed un
der still deeper obligation by our,
for the most part, younger broth
ers and sisters in Palestine. For
these have shown the world that
Nationalism may be kept free from
the strain of violence and the
shame of bloody reprisal. At one
and the same time, the Yishub has
lifted $he unsullied banner of na
tionalist re-awakening and the
standard of peace through justice
rather than the savagery of repri
sal under direct provocation.
But our solemn pride in Jewish
achievement does not lessen the
guilt of Arab attackers and slay
ers, nor the guilt of the Palestine
Government. The latter is not the
guilt of assent to Arab violence
nor yet of complicity in Arab
crime. But the guilt of failure with
merciful promptness to suppress
Arab revolt and the guilt of fail
ure to defend Jews in the only way
in which Jews can accept defense,
by permitting their youth to de
fend themselves, all they hold dear,
all they have toiled and sacrificed
to upbuild. If it not too late, may
one not express the hope that Brit
ain will not again lightly surrender i
pride and precious prestige? Eng
land’s honorable failure in Ethio
pia is no reason for inviting moral
disaster in Palestine. Perhaps it
must be said for the thousandth
time, that any curtailment or re
duction of Jewish immigration in
to Palestine before or during or
after the Royal Commission’s in
quiry will and must be viewed by I
Arab, Jew, and all the world as a |
bonus awarded to the doers of vio
lence, as a penalty for those who
refuse to meet wrong with wrong
and answer hurt with hurt. Should
there be any suspicion, it will be
the duty of men and nations to
rise up into protest as the world
protested against Britain’s ignomi-
nous surrender in the form of the
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Surely, Britain will not thus re
compense violence and penalize
loyalty and self-restraint! We can
not believe that the Mandatory
Power will thus stoop to conciliate
terrorism through surrender of the
unterrorized!
Surely, the chiefest distinction of
the Jewish year came through the
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Patrons
May the New Year brine much happi
ness and prosperity, and the ceasing
of all persecution throughout the world.
CLARENCE WELCH
SIGNS
rise of a Jew to the Premiership
of France! If rumor be correct,
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CASTINGS
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147 Marietta, N. W.
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353 Boulevard, N. E.
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PRINTERS—STAMP MANUFACTURERS
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WHOLESALE SHOES
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