Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1939-02-24

              llWJ/ serving .Columbus and Central Ohio Jewish Communlty\//\\^
Volume 18.   No. 10.
COIiUMBUS, OHIO, FRIDAY, FEBBUARY, 24, 1939
SCTOtod to American bud Jewish Idonls
Slrictly Confidential
Xidblts From Everywhere By PHDfEAS J. BIBON
¦OVERSEAS FliASHES
The low-down on Bela Imredy's resignation from the Hungarian prime ministry, ostensibly due to his discovery of a Jewish grandmother in his pedigree, ia this: It was opposition to the anti-Jewish measures he intro¬ duced that really was respon¬ sible for his political downfall . . . And if Imredy really be¬ lieved in everything he said about the Jews while he was Hungary's Number-One anti- Semite, he should not have re¬ signed, but should have commit¬ ted suicide . . . Don't think for a moment that the election of a hew Pope has no significance in the Nazi situation. The wrong man would tremendously stren¬ gthen Hitler's standing in Eur¬ ope and America . . . George Hublee, who worked out the "agreement" between the inter¬ governmental commission and the Reich authorities, resigned immediately after his "achieve¬ ment" because he has a suspicion that his scrap of paper will be- •come a Munich pact if attempts are made to put it into execution . . . The Reich, now that the pockets of the German Jews ¦have been emptied, is after TOoney belonging to Jews outside .of Germany . . , That's all there is. to the agreement . . . The Wrth'.ot the ex-Kaiser's first M,^.,*. -jgreatgranAson, whpse-mothor is IC, a Romanoff while his father js
a Hohenzollern is spurring fur¬ ther rumors of a coming Ger¬ man-Russian alliance . . . The infant's father, Prince Louis Ferdinand, is a Nazi, by the way . .. HERE AND XHERE
Those close to Dr. Eduard Benes, ex-President of Czecho¬ slovakia, who is now in this country, will tell you that not¬ withstanding his official denials he is very pessimistic about the future of the Jews in Czechoslo¬ vakia as long as Jlitler dominates that part of Europe ... He la re¬ ported to have advised those Jews who asked for his counsel to get their relative? out of Czechoslovakia now, without waiting for further developments . . , The face of the publisher of the Ijondon Jewish Chronicle must be red these days ... In 1938 when Jamal Husseini, cousin of the Grand Mufti, visit¬ ed England, the Chronicle hailed him as the great hope for better Arab-Jewish relations . . . Hus¬ seini was lionized and dined by the Chronicle -crowd, who even had him address Jewish audi¬ ences ... At the present Arab- Jewish-British conference in London this same Husseini is the most violent exponent of Arab-anti-Jewisl> policy . . . Tiie Vegetarian Society of New York Is pleading with newspaper edi¬ tors not to call Hitler a vegetar¬ ian .. . They say that Mr. H. eats sausages . . . They might have added that he likes Iiuman blood. HEAR YE
An aside to those whb clamor¬ ed for the continuation of Mar¬ tin Dies' special brand of in¬ vestigation of subversive activi¬ ties: America's Number-One Nazi, Fritz ICuhn, is going aroUnd I'l^ising money for the inve'stiga' tion fund ,.. ,We may seem a bit fussy, but we are fed up with those artists and performers who permit the issuing of pub¬ licity about their social intimacy with or public acclaim by Adolph
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Jewisli Ancestry Causes Hungarian 'rentier To lesign
BUDAPEST (WNS) — The possibility of Premier Bela Imredy's resignation materializ¬ ed as a result of strong parlia¬ mentary opposition to his sweep¬ ing proposals for an anti-Semitic ptogram and because it had been discovered that he was of Jewish origin. Imredy had been the author of anti-Jewish laws de¬ signed to curtail poUtical rights of Jews, bar them from certain types of work and limit their number in other occupations. In a speech before his colleagues of the « National Union Party, Imredy disclosed that one of his maternal great grandparents was a Jew. Last • month Premier Imredy said in reply to opposi¬ tions that he , came of pure Magyar and German stock, and had documentary evidence ,to prove it. He declared, however, that "everyone has the full right to be an anti-Semite, even if he
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Youlh Croup Hears Rev. Cole's Talk On Propaganda
Last Friday evening the audi¬ torium of the Bryden Rd. Temple was almost filled by young peo¬ ple of the various denominations of Columbus for the city-wide religious service sponsored by the youth group of the congre¬ gation.
The speaker on this occasion was Rev. Walton E. Cole, pastor of First Unitarian Church, To¬ ledo, who urged a defense against propaganda as one of the im¬ mediate needs of contemporary America.
"This is the most literate gen¬ eration that has ever lived," Rev, Mr. Cole said, "and yet it is harder to discover unbiased truth,now than at any previous time in history."
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Cilpei Editor To Address B'nai B'ritli
Urges Strengthening Of Boycott As Best Defense
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lONDpN (WNS)—With tho conviction that the prospects for tho emigration of oppressed G«rniau .Fows, whicii onco seemed hopeless, are now "distinctly encouraging," George Buhlee Is hand¬ ing over his post as director of the Eviaii vofugeo committoo to Sir Herbert Emerson, licague of Nations Commissioner for Bofn- gees. Referring to Sir Herbert as "an extremely able exeentivo," Mr. Rublee expressed high praise to his successor who, Mr. Rublee recalled, had had experience in directing land colonization while Governor ot Punjab in India. It is believed that the prospect would not.look so hopeful to the committee had it not been for Mr, Rnblce's siiillfnlly conducted negotiationg with tho Gorman Govornmont. Through Mr, Rnblce's tireless efforts tho ontslde world for the first time since Hitler's rise to power, has learned just how much cooperation can bo expected from the Nazis in handling tho refugee problem in tho future. '
German Proposal The German proposal which Mr. Rublee was able to report to tjie Evian Committee In London is: Of the German Jewish popula¬ tion of 600,000, the 150,000 class¬ ed as wage-earners—able-bodied men and single women between the ages of 15 and 45—would be allowed to emigrate first over a period of three to five years. After being established abroad they could then send for their families and dependents—an¬ other 250,000. Those awaiting emigration would be permitted meanwhile to take jobs and re¬ open .1 bUBinesSes.^ Emigration ,woiJldrb'e,rfihttii&ea:"^~5~trasE" fund of at least one-fourth of the existing Jewish wealth in Ger¬ many , (dne-fburth, that is, of what is left after the 1,000,000,000- rhark fine talposed upon the Jewish community in retaliation for the slaying of Vom Rath in Paris). Emigrants would be per¬ mitted to take out their remain¬ ing possessions in the form of German - manufactured ' equip¬ ment for settlement abroad.
(It might be recalled here that the Joint Boycott Council of the American Jewish Congress and tlie Jewish Labor Committee is opposed to the last stipulation of the Berlin - Intergovernmetal Refugee Committee accord, on the grounds that the exporta¬ tion of German goods by .lew¬ ish emigrants leaving Germany would drive, a wedge into the boycott bf German goods, and (Contlhucd on Vago 2>
ROBERT S, BROWN
B'nal B'rith m^bers and their friends wiil be afforded a real treat next Monday evening, Feb. 27th,-at ,the Broad St. Temple, when Robert S. Brown, editor of The Columbus Citizen, win address the group. Mr, Brown has chosen for his sub¬ ject "As An fiditor Looiis At The World Scene" and will make some interesting observa¬ tions as, they affect the Jewish people not only in Europe but in America as well. The meet¬ ing will gel under way promptly at S o'clock.
Mr. Brovvn assumed the editor¬ ship of The Citizen in May, 1937 and came here with an outstand¬ ing journaUstic record not only in Ohio but with three, yeara of distinguished service as Wash¬ ington   correspondent   for   tlie
Scripps Howard newspapeis of this state He is a graduate of Ohio State Univeisity, class of 1923. roi the past seveial yeais Mr. Brown had devoted much study to the relief situation, and a series of his articles on this subject appeared in the Citizen and other Ohio papers. His sur¬ vey of this problem was highly commended throughout the state;
The thousands of daily readers of The Columbus Citizen have learned to admire and to appre¬ ciate Mr. Brown's liberal view.s as they affect all people, irrespec¬ tive of color, creed or race. His message Monday niglit should not be missed by the Jevvish community.
A question and answer period will follow the address.
NEW YORK (WNS)'— The Joint Boycott Council ot the American Jewisli Congress and the Jewish Labor Committee an¬ nounced that it was opposed to the exportation of German goods by Jewish emigrants leaving Germany. Use of such exports to help finance the Jewish exodus from Gerniany tis jcoiitemplated iii''the'accbra recently reached lii B'erliti' betWeenfthe German gov¬ ernment and the Intergoyern- inental Refugee Committee. Tills announcement was made by Dr. Joseph Tenenbaum, chairman of the Council, at a luncheon in honor of Friedrich Stampfer, former editor of the BerUn. So¬ cialist paper "Der Vorwaerta." The council decided to be ada¬ mant in. enforcing the ¦ boycott, without making an exception for goods brought over by refugees. Dr. Tenenbaum Eaid,because its members felt that any slacken¬ ing of it would permit the Nazis to improve their economic situa¬ tion. They believe, he added, that the Nazi regime, was "on the brink of disaster atld economic breakdown" as a result' of the boycott. "We shall not have, to wait long nbw for' a change in the Nazi government," he said, '^and then.the refugee problem will not exist, at all any longer."
Dr. Tenenbaum explained that the Rublee accord provided ^the "orderly evacuation'' of Gei'mari Jews with some 15 per cent of their property in German goods, which they would necessarily try to sell on their arrival in foreign countries. These refugees ,Would thus.act as salesmen for German goods and drive a,wedge into the boycott of German exports: "We are ready to help German Jewry, but we must first fight for free¬ dom in the world and for decent conditions for German laborer.?. The boycott will not be weaken¬ ed oh,account of the refugees."
Refugee Children Are Rescued
LONDON (WNS)— Fifty-four Jewish children who had been rescued from "no man's land" on the frontier between Poland and Germany, where they had been living for three months, ar¬ rived here from Gdynia, Poland. They were the first of several hundred who will be taken into English homes and tauglit trades to fit them to emigrate to tho Dominions when they are 18.
BUND MEETING IS INVESTIGATED
NEW YORK (WNS) — Roy P. Monahan, former national com¬ mander of the Disabled Ameri¬ can Veterans of the World War, and Fred Munder, Suffolk Coun¬ ty District Attorney, prepared for action against the Nazi Gei^ man-American Bund following a rally Monday night called by the Bund in MadiSon Square Garden. Monahan and Munder won reopening of the Camp Siegfried ease, in which six Nazi leaders received jail sentences and fines totaling $13,000 as a direct counter-blast against the intensive Hitler propaganda drive which heads up in the storm troop demonstration at the Garden. The Bund rally, as expected, was predominantly anti-Semitic in tlieme. One ot the handbills widely distributed in the metropblitah area by the Build was headed by "Is America the coming Jewish Empire'?" The Bund leaders' attempted lo shield themselves by announc¬ ing that the meeting was to "celebrate George Washington's birthday,"
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