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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, August 7, 1942
The Southern Itraelite
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BETWEEN YOU AND ME
PIECES OF HATE
By RICHARD E. GUTSTADT
National Director of the Anti-Defamation
League of B’nai B'rith
Jews. In fact, until the Home Of
fice suppressed the paper, General
Fuller’s military experting column
new book “The Coming Battle of appeared in Mosley’s Action,
Germany” have to refer to General alongside the anti-Jewish diatri-
J. F. C. Fuller as “a great En- bes which were the highest ex-
glishman?”
General Fuller is, no doubt, as
Ziff says,
authorities
By VICTOR M- BIEN8TOCK
“Does anybody know there’s a
war on?”
I used to hear that chanted in
cessantly in London in the first
year of the war—right up to Nar-
i vik, and Dunkirk. Nobody had to
ask the question after that Satur
day afternoon late in the summer
I of 1940 when Goering’s bombers
launched their blitz on London
with a merciless pulverizing of the
Jewish quarter in Whitechapel.
I wonder when and under what
circumstances it will become no 11° yield to none of his colleagues instead of a great mechanical gen
pression of Fascist literary thought.
Years ago, when I knew Bill
one of the world s zitt, he was an ardent Jewish na-
on mechanized war- tionalist and he later wrote a bit-
fare, but I think most Englishmen ^ attack against the British be-
are right in considering him, as cause 0 f their policy in Palestine.
Ziff complains a crackpot. In doesn’t seem right for a man of
case Mr. Ziff doesn’t know the th ose views to label an anti-Sem-
facts. General Fuller was a lead- .. „ . „ . „ ...
v . , , ite a great Englishman. It s like
ing member of Oswald Mosley s
British Union of Fascists and had ca ^> n 8 Henry Ford a statesman
become outlawed and the
minority theRULING CLASS.
Relentless government inquiry
into the activities of the Little
Fuehrers—those who would in
troduce Axis ideologies into this
country—has led to the expected
indictment of 28 persons whose
fulminations assumed a treason
able tone, once our nation was at
war. These sowers of racial and
religious hates met their Waterloo
when they endeavored to promote
disaffection in the armed forces
of the United States.
Gratifying as these indictments
must be to all decent Americans,
there yet remain in the country
numerous persons and agencies
which would assume the meretric
ious role of Jew-baiting and carry
on the efforts of the 28 indicted to
spread hate and suspicion in the
nation. For example, in Boston a a number of books including "The
new eight-page tabloid has just Octopus,” scurrilous book which
Since you have become the Chief longer necessary to ask that ques- in expressions of dislike for the ius.
Executive of the Nation, the rights tion here? Does anybody know
of the majority (Christians) have there’s a war on? Does anybody
JEW know that we’re fighting and why?
A friend of mine in the borough
Smythe’s tirade indicates the : Q ueens tells me that the favor-
fervor with which he has em- £ a 8 ®round there is: ‘Are you
braced Nazi racial tenets. He made a Gentile or an air-raid warden?”
futile attempts to awaken national ^here used to be a similar gag go-
interest in his so-called veterans' rounds in London until
association and, significantly, pub- J ew > s b wardens and fire-fighters
Capitol Spotlight
lished this notice:
“We are asking all SOCIAL
JUSTICE DISTRIBUTORS to get
in touch with us relative to the
distribution of “OUR COMMON
CAUSE."
• • a
Another indicted “paper patriot"
is Charles B. Hudson of Omaha,
distributor of a so-called news
letter “AMERICA IN DANGER"
what the shape of the rubber
stamp on their passports. As vis
itors, their visas have been regu
larly renewed. In many cases, the
renewals have almost been auto
matic- Holders of temporary visas
are subject to severe limitations on
their way of life. For instance,
they cannot seek without special
, . , . ..permission of the Justice Depart-
duals; if we cannot make special . . ...
- .. ...„ . . ... merit-Although this permission too
,, arrangements, how can we be fair, , ,
effort of British Jews. Well— * , . . ^ ’ has been freely granted, many em-
lmpartial, and most important, 1
safe, under the circumstance that
there are more than a million en-
thrilled the city with the acts of
heroism. I don’t think you hear
any of that in London now.
Oswald Mosley and his British
Union of Fascists did what they
could to ridicule and demean the
war
Mosely is vegetating in Brixton
Jail; the British government does
not trust him at large. His former
chief lieutenant, William Joyce, is
By CARL HARTMAN
Attorney General Francis Biddle
warmed the hearts of thousands of
refugees when he wrote in a re
cent magazine article: “The simple
fact of a man’s birthplace gives no
clue to his mind and heart ... If
we cannot get down to cases and
cull the loyal and disloyal indivi-
whose July release offered for sale ^oadcasting from Barlin daily, in
made its appearance, implying that
it is the successor to Coughlin’s
•’Social Justice”. The publication
intends to “expose” a worthy pro-
democratic organization known as
the American Irish Defense Asso
ciation, obviously because of the
efforts of the latter group to nulli
fy the efforts of the spreaders of
hate. The AIDA had encouraged
the study of vicious rumors which
impede our national war effort,
and is In the forefront of organiza
tions seeking exposure of the forces
promoting defeatism and suspic
ion of our allies.
• * •
An organization known as “Pa
triots of the Republic” continues
to meet in New York City, and to
indulge in such fantastic state
ments as the recent one asserting
that the eight notorious Nazi sabo
teurs had been “railroaded" by
the FBI, and that the arrested
Nazis were not spies (despite the
fact that the men have confessed).
One member boldly asserted
that Hitler is winning “because he
is right!” The chairman of the
meeting attacked Japan repeated
ly, but significantly failed to iden
tify Nazi Germany as America’s
foe, though the casual listener
ployers are reluctant to hire them
—the President’s proclamation to
.... ... ...; the contrary notwithstanding,
cmy ahens In Urn country today? Thflr anomalous , ta(u , tends lo
This may seem a strange time to wreck the mora le of many already
the pay of Goebbels, under the s P e ®h °f liberalizing our immigra- tried by their own experiences in
name of Lord Haw Haw. *' on and naturalization laws. Few- Europe and by worry over the fate
noanii. Here at home, Pelley, Winrod er tfian 5 ^ 000 immigrants were „f friends and relatives still there.
and the B’nai B’rith, which the and a s ‘ ore of others of that P re ‘ Jewer^hTn'Tl^^^MO^In^e deportation ‘ even after
cious crew made a lucrative rack- fewer than 71 > 000 m 1940. In the the war, to an improverished conti-
ly Hudson in Elaboration with et out of reviling the Jews. Well- ^ W ^ioTj^ish tZ'JZ n * nt "Wdi *heyand all their
Mrc irn-ynhoiv, rhiraan there was an indicement handed only about 30,000 Jewish refugees associations have been tom, and
agitator who down * n Washington a few days rea ched the United States. \et, as which they know will be none too
ted on three a8 °’ ch »rging the whole bunch Middle said, ‘ A determining dif- anxious to receive them. The pos-
ference between the enemy aliens j glbility of an internment camp
in this war and in the last is one even in this country ls a i ways
, of ideology rather than national- present in their minds. They dread
ity.” And thousands still suffer the the rou tine checkups that precede
In the early days of the war, it Injustice of the “enemy alien’ la- each renewal of their permission
became necessary for British Jew- b** while other thousands, actually f 0 u Ve i n peace,
ry and fair-minded people to draw disloyal, hide behind their citizen-
attention to the Jewish war con- ! sd *P papers. Perhaps revision is
notorious woman
likewise was indicted on three
counts. The government charges | with nothin * less than sedition
that the pair used the name of a
non-existent clergyman, “Rev.
Their anti-Jewish activities were
described in the indictment as a
Frank Woodruff Johnson," to mask ™ ans L of "eating disaffection
their identities as the actual
authors of this piece.
An anonymous, mineographed tributions to refute the slanders worth considering
Many, of course, have applied
for permission to remain perma
nently and become citizens. To get
handout, ‘The Jew Makes a Sac- that the Jews were shirking and With these facts in view. Rep. this right, they must have their
rifice,’ has made its appearance avoiding military service. It’s not Samuel Dickstein (D„ N. Y.) al- cases passed on by an Interde
in New York, Baltimore and Chi- neccs sary in England today, but most two months ago asked power partmental Review Committee, on
cago. In the vicious article, the ^ se ems to be necessary here. of the House of Representatives to
Jew is termed an oriental, hy- Some day, maybe, we will get have his Committee on Imrrugra-
phenated American propagandist ^ ourselves in this country and tion go into the whole enemy alien
for bloody Joe (Stalin) and the ^ knaves and fools who repeat question. The House voted to re-
British (Jewish) empire. This tbe wisecracks about Jewish air-| fuse the power, but Dickstein re- v , m v ....
anonymous piece of scurrility, in ra j d wardens and draft-dodgers cently denounced the vote as based fully and slowly sifts the refugee’s
common with the material issued wd j discover that they are doing on “prejudice, hate and intoler- history, background and associa-
by those now indicted, seeks to Hitler’s job just as much as if they ance" and indicated that he might tions. It considers whether he has
which sit representatives of the
State. War, Navy, and Justice De
partments, and the F. B. I. The
committee, which began to operate
formally after Pearl Harbor, care-
were saboteurs landed on
arouse racial and religious ani
mosities which would be reflected shor „ f rom U-boats,
in a lower morale of civilians on
the home front. Democracy is vili
fied, and the sheet continues:
Incidentally, I
James Waterman
our try again. If he can get Biddles ipff behind him close relatives or
support, ho may have bettor lurk friends on whom the enemy could
One problem he might well take hr : ng pressure to force him into its
wonder why up is that of the thousands of
Wise had to aliens here on temporary or visi
escionage or sabotage activities.
[According to the State Depart-
or slithers around within ‘demo
cracy’ part of his technique is to
might very well think that Great stress the need for tolerance; par-
Britain was our most formidable ticularly so if—as in Germany—
enemy, and that Germany was our he is caught at his unclean work,
ally, so warped is this group on
the subject of the war.
Ashe (the Jew) lays concealed S p 0 ji an otherwise interesting tri- tors’ visas, who cannot now re- ment, this consideration alone
bute to the role of the Jews in this turn to their countries of origin, does not bar him from a change
war as opponents of Hitlerism, and who would like nothing better •'f status—but it is a consideration.
The first consideration, of course,
Edward James Smythe, head of
the so-called Protestant War Vet-
paid in the course of his Station than to become American citizens.
WEVD University of the Air Many of them came to study, visit,
broadcast, by a gratuitous refer- tour, or take care of business in-
ence to those he described as ren- terests. Many asked for temporary
Could anything be more calcu
lated to lend encouragement to e g ade Jews in the employ of the visas because
the immigration
Hitler A Co., and especially to that Gestap0(
posing as refugees. In quotas were full and they had to
small but menacing fringe of SO n*e seven years in many coun- leave Germany, Rumania, Poland
Americans who are contemptuous tries of Europe which were nests or Hungary in some way*. They did
era ns’ Association, which in reality Q f democracy, who might not even of Nazi intrigue and espionage, I not know what would happen to
is an anti-Semitic group disavow
ed by reputable veterans’ agencies,
was deservedly Indicted by the
must be the safety of the United
P’-'te* Since we are at war, the
sifting is necessarily painstaking.
The policy towards these changes
of status has not changed, but its
apolication has become more care
ful.
However, when the loyalty of an
enemy alien” is proven beyond
be averse to pogroms in the U S. came across authenticated infor- them after the temporary visas
_ . tw A. if they could force an Axis- mation establishing only two such .expired, but they knew only too doubt / it v . ould am that ' th Vtim~
was deservedly indicted by the ' cases. One of these. I was familiar well what would happen to them h d ended for harrvimr him Yet
federal grand jury for his efforts dominated peace and bring about with persona n- and was able to if they did not get out. No doubt a v ,„ e
to create dissension and hatred. A
recent issue of his organ. "Our
Common Cause," bears the sub
title: “ALL THE NEWS THAT
THE JEW-CONTROLLED PRESS
with personally and was able to if they did not get out. No doubt a
an end to the American democratic agree with the Scotland Yard in- few who swore they intended to
system?
spector that the man was a harm-
Of such stuff is propaganda of less fool.
I stay here only six months had
signed pledges never to return to
the cruder sort made. The mouth-
ings and writings of virtually all
when a refugee has been granted
the privilege of remaining here he
cannot simply remain—if it was
a temporary visa he arrived on.
Of all the commentators, Mr. their own countries. Probably they Under the immigration laws> he
Wise ought to know best that the had to in order to obtain exit per- m t -r^ent^r*’ if Sp
DARE NOT PRINT!" In a letter ,,l * s “ ,,Q wriMn * s Ul Gestapo agents among the refugees mits. No doubt, either, that some from Poland hv'mivnf I i<5-
to President Roosevelt, published °* those persons now indicted are not j ews bu t Gestapo men consular officials who granted the bon or Germany by way of Siber-
posing as Jews. If he has any temporary visas knew their hold-
doubts about that, he could check ers had no intention of returning,
with the JDC and the NRS on Both the consuls and the refugees
their experiences and with the can be pardoned without squand-
FBI on the number of Jews intern- dering mercy,
ed as enemy aliens.
in this scurrilous sheet, Smythe
stated:
"We know that the doors of the
White House are always open to
JEWS, COMMUNISTS. PINKS
WIDE-EYED RADICALS, So-
CAJLLED LIBERALS and OUT
CAST PARASITE REFUGEES . . .
equal this for scurrility and ven
om. Quite apart from their anti-
Jewish content, this poisoned mat
ter is a direct blow at the morale
! of our armed forces and, as such,
1 renders Its creators subject to ap
propriate penalties.
ia, he must gather his small re
sources, pay his way to Canada or
Mexico, and "reenter.” How that
makes him more fit to be a citizen
no one can explain, but unless and
Whatever their intentions, “en-
And while In a captious mood, emy aliens" certainly cannot re- until the law is changed, that is
why does William B. Ziff, In his twn to Europe now, no matter what he must do.