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The Southern Israelite
January 14, 1938
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Phineat Biron ’»
THE LID IS OFF
A Portrait Of Goga—
Magda’s Birth—Swing
In Yorkville—Mad
Indian Chiefs
NOW THAT ROUMANIA has
gone gaga—pardon us, Gogu—you
might like to Know that Premier
Octavian Goga was once a friend of
the Jews. Even now he is a mem
ber of the board of several Jewish
enterprises. He is said to have a
weakness for Jewish money, and
privately laughs at prejudice. Once
he was accused in parliament of
being the moral instigator of the
Iron Guard’s assassination of Pre
mier Duca in 1933, Yet after that
murder King Carol tried to get
him into the cabinet. The merger
of the Goga and Cuza parties was
effected in 1935 through the efforts
of Friedrich Weber, Bucharest cor
respondent of Hitler’s Voelkischer
Beobuchter, for which little job he
was booted out of the country.
Cuza, who was a propagandist be
fore Hitler was born, has been ar-
DR. DODD BOWS OUT
The home-coming of Dr. William E. Dodd, retiring Am
bassador of the United States in Germany, is deeply moving.
Once before a fine, sensitive man, in whom the spirit of
goodwill and peace burned hotly, turned away from the gar
ish picture of Germany, shook his head sadly, and took his
leave. He was James G. McDonald, former High Commis
sioner of the League of Nations for German Refugees whose
farewell words were touched with the same hoplessness as
those uttered by Dr. Dodd.
Both Dr. Dodd and Mr. McDonald served with distinc
tion and fidelity. Schooled in the fine art of diplomacy, they
sat among the bigwigs of the Third Reich, listened to speeches
which fell harshly upon their Democracy-attuned ears, and
carried on their work. Often they bit their tongues to keep
from crying out. It was a fool’s comedy and no one knew I rested shorten 5 for* inciting that “he
it better than those two men who walked with solemn, drawn knows the inside of most of Rou-
faces through the hypocrisy and irony of their assignments.
Ambassador Dodd, however, could not always silence his
tongue with a well-directed bite. Often his tooth missed
their mark and words of protest against the endless perse
cution practiced by Germany came from his throat.
Thus, he became a thorn in the side of the Third Reich—
a thorn which could not be removed and which went deeper
each time Ambassador Dodd failed to bite his tongue. The
bigwigs of Berlin, particularly the power-intoxicated dictator,
grew hot under their collars. What manner of diplomat was
this, they asked in conference? What can be done to silence
him?
Out of the bag labeled “official strategy” they pulled out
several lively Aryan rabbits, but not a single measure could
tempt the United States official to resign his post or force
him to curb his criticism. The thorn continued to go deeper
and deeper into the side of Germany, until Dr. Dodd became
the symbol of an outraged world—a stern, grim-lipped
“American bogeyman” who haunted official parleys, troubled
the sleep of even the Fuehrer himself.
Then suddenly, without pressure, the thorn was out and
Germany breathed a deep sigh of relief. Ambassador Dodd
had resigned. For all the maneouvering of Germany to be
rid of him, the thing which had finally forced his resignation
was the spectacle of Germany herself.
Today Dr. Dodd is home again, his lungs free of the
poisonous air of Ilitlerland. To the reporters who crowded
about him as he landed on American shores, he declared that
no American who really believes in Democracy can success
fully represent the United States as ambassador in Berlin
at the present time.
It is all very unfortunate and it is easy to understand
Dr. Dodd’s dilemma in Germany and the reasons for his resig
nation. He is not the only liberal who has been unable to
“stick it out,” nor will he be the last liberal to match the
small candlelight of his liberalism against Fascism’s bonfires.
Yet Dr. Dodd has not failed. As a man who freely spoke
his mind, he successfully carried on the fight of Democracy.
Each time his scorn caused German officials to reach for
headache powders, he was performing a great service in the
name of humanity.
It is a pity that Dr. Dodd saw only a hopeless future
stretched ahead for him as he surrendered the ribbon of Am
bassadorship. He proved that there is glory and heroism in
being a thorn in the side of a nation.
SOUTHERN OBSERVATIONS
mania’s" prisons very intimately.
Don’t pay any attention to that
hooey about Roumanians hating
Lupescu because she’s a Jewess.
The truth is that she is the daugh
ter of a Jassy chemist who became
a Catholic in order to obtain a
license. Her mother was born a
Catholic, and Magda was baptized
|in that faith. She didn’t know
she had Jewish blood until she was
fully grown—and then she reveng
ed herself by turning anti-Semite.
Virtually every important “hater”
in Roumania comes to her for ad
vice nowadays, and Goga got the
premiership on her recommenda
tion. Equally cockeyed is the re
port that two of Bucharest’s lead
ing liberal dailies, Dimineata and
Adverul, were suppressed by Goga
because they are Jewish-owned.
Both papers were sold by their
Jewish publishers a year ago, to
avoid trouble.
pmvrirn Descendants of many
piiMnv of the South’s pioneer
FAMILY j ew j s h families have
gone the way of most men who
can not live up to the glory of their
fathers, have vanished from the
Jewish scene through inter-mar
riage and assimilation.
Different was Solomon G. Ros
enbaum who died this month in
New York at the age of 69. The
descendant on his mother’s side
of one of the most illustrious fami
lies in the South, and on his fath
er’s side of one of the earliest set
tlers in California, he kept the
name he bore on the honor roll
of Jewry. From 1923 to 1933 he
was the president of the Baron de
Hirsch Fund, also served as one
of the trustees. He succeeded Ja
cob H. Schiff as president of Mo-
ntefiore Hospital, was one of the
founders of the Federation for the
Support of Jewish Philanthropic
Societies of New York.
A native of Raleigh, N. C., scion
“Sol” Rosenbaum received his |
that the liberal viewpoint vital to
a Democracy can be achieved only
through education.
This summer, white-haired, dig
nified Dr. Marcuson visited the
Scandinavian countries while
abroad, observed there the results
of adult education. Happy Scan
dinavians have the right attitude
toward learning, enroll for courses
which they take after working
hours. Pedantic ambitions of Scan
dinavians do not stop with them
selves, extend to the children.
VISAS TO KENYA
IN GREAT DEMAND
Warsaw (WNS)—A movement
for Jewish colonization in Kenya,
British colony in Airica, is spread
ing rapidly in Poland. In the last
few days the British consulate
here has been swamped with pleas
for visas from Jews, although ad
mission to Kenya is open only to
immigrants with at least $250.
schooling in that city, entered busi- | I I I I 1 I I I I I IT
ness as one of the founders of the
National Cloak and Suit Company,
later settled in New York City.
During his lifetime, the late
Jewish leader furnished an ideal
story for Ripley. When his fath
er’s firm went bankrupt in Raleigh
in 1873, Rosenbaum and his bro
thers spent 40 years seeking the
creditors, paid them off dollar for
dollar with full interest.
ABC’S FOR
ADULTS
Democracy can
thrive only where
there is a broad,
liberal viewpoint, it was pointed
out to John W. Burke School
parents and teachers in Macon,
Ga. last week by scholarly Rabbi
Isaac E. Marcuson.
Taking as his subject “The Fami
ly’s Share in the School Program,"
Dr. Marcuson declared that the
education of adults should be con
tinued long after they leave school,
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Duke Not Intolerant, Says Guedalla
(Continued from Page 1)
His present plans include a jour
ney by boat to California, where
he will give a two month’s lecture
course at the California Institute
of Technology, and then, after a
series of talks throughout the
United States, he will return to
England. His next volume, which
he will write as soon as he has
finished his study and research,
will be an American history. “Of
which,” he smiled, “Englishmen
know all too little."
Although he is a former presi
dent of the Zionist organization
in England, Mr. Guedalla feels
that, for the moment, the spot
light has shifted from Palestine
to the fight against Nazism. He
would, however, very much like
to see a “life-sized Palestine” in
stead of a partitioned one, and is
of the opinion that if England is
handled tactfully, Palestine will
be granted her full stature. “Per
haps,” he added ruefully, “if ar
ticulate Zionism had been more
vociferous in expressing to Eng
land its recurrent gratitude rather
than its recurrent complaints, this
sorry state of affairs might have
been avoided.”
Since the proportion of Jews in
England is relatively smaller and
not so centered as it is in Ameri
ca, and since America is at a so
much safer distance from the tur
moil in Europe, it is, according
to Mr. Guedalla, easier for us to
take firm stand on the Jewish
question. In the matter of Eng
land’s attitude toward acceding to
Germany’s demands about re
gaining her colonies, for example,
the United States could bolster up
English Jewry and materially in
fluence English policy, by contin
ued forceful expression in Ameri
can newspapers, of our opposi
tion to such a plan. American
public opinion bears great weight
in England.
With a vehement, “It’s too ut
terly silly,” Mr. Guedalla made
short shrift of the rumor that
Prince Albert, Queen Victoria’s
NEW YORKS SWANKY Fifth
Avenue shopping district will soon
have a store fitted out as a chamber
of horrors depicting the Nazi ter
ror. And plans are already under
way to set it up as a counter-at
traction to Germany’s exhibit at
the 1939 World’s Fair. That great
“patriot" William Dudley Pelley is
defending Japanese aggression
against China and attributing anti-
Nippon sentiment in this country
to “Jewish poison.” The Indians
of Raton, New Mexico, are mad as
blazes at Hitler for making the
swastika the symbol of race hatred
They have a hotel Swastika there
—and tourists shun it like the
plague, though the swastika has
been the symbol of the Indians for
countless generations. Funniest
sight in New York these days is to
see brawny storm troopers doing
the big apple to the tune of “Bei
Mir Bist Du Schon" played by Ar
yan orchestras in Yorkville’s bier-
stuben. Get ready for a cycle of
anti-Fascist films by Hollywood.
The pictures will take shots at
Americans who finance nativist
Fascist outfits. The Mexican gov
ernment is cooperating with our
G-men in checking up on Nazi
agents operating on the Pacific
Coast. ’Tis said that Nazi officers
have trained an army of 50,000 men
in Guatemala in preparation for a
Fascist coup in Mexico. Captain
Fritz Wiedmann, Hitler’s personal
adjutant, didn’t visit Los Angeles
and San Francisco merely to make
arrangements for Germany’s par- j
ticipation in the San Francisco
World’s Fair. His real mission was
to confer with Nazi propagandists,
for he’s the only one now entrust
ed with carrying secret messages
between Berlin and America.
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Veterans To Install
Wengrow 7 As Commander
Harry M. Wengrow will be in
stalled as the new' commander of
the Atlanta Post. No. 112, Jewish
War Veterans t.t a banquet of the
organization to be held on Jan
uary 24. Other officers to be in
stalled are A. B. Reisman, senior
consort, was half-Jewish. Then, he I viee-commander; Robert Spector,
mused for a while on our question ! junior viee-commander; Benjamin
about the position of Jews in Brodie, judge advocate; Dr. Mar-
w’orld history. "A long time ago,” ; eus Klausman, surgeon, and Louis
he said, “w'e introduced the w’orld Vrono, trustee,
to a system of morals. That con- i The new commander was recent-
tribution has been renewed from ly elected viee-commander-in-
time to time, but, in the main, the chief of the national organization,
achievements of great Jews must He will leave on January 15 to
be regarded as individual rather install officers at Richmond, Nor-
than as racial.” 1 folk, Washington and Baltimore.
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