The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1940-08-16
BETWEEN YOU
AND Nj E
BY PAUL A. PETERS

which evoked genuine grief among
all calsses of Jewry, moved init
mates of the great RivisiOnist
leader to stress one of the out
standing anomalies of his career.
:. JabOtinsky, the mass of whose
followers were numbered among
the worlds poorest people, was an
aristOcrat to his finger tips. {.
For one thing, he was a dapper
dresser, probably one of the best
dressed men in the entire field of
Jewish leadership. For another,
he adhered meticuIOusly and with
charming indebtedness to the
social amenities. For example,
during one of the muggiest of the
heat-wave days recently he was
among a group of men and one
woman engaged in an informal
conference. When the lady sug-
gested that the men discard their
jackets in the interests of COM
fort, all adopted the suggestion
with relief and alacrity. All,
that is, except JabOtinsky. {.
Who had never violated accepted
etiquette by permitting himself,
no matter what the weather, to be
cOatless in the presence of a lady.
+. JabOtinsky's punctilliOusness
oh0uf v1oonuorc oud drocc xx,oe n
symbol of deeply inbred cOnsid-
GRAFTON for others that may have
been responsible for his early end.
/. TIE had known for several
years that he was afflicted with
angina pectOris. /. Yet he had new
er informed even his wife or his
mist intimate friends and asSO-
ciates of his ailment. When he
arrived at Camp Betar, scene of
his death, he informed the camp
doctor of his condition and eau
toned h m against accidentally
disclosing it to his friends and as
sOciates. :. A close friend, express
ing the belief that JabOtinsky may
h ave had a premOnitiOn of his
death, reveals that on the way up
to Camp Betar by car, JabOtin-
sky asked his travelling cOmpan-
ions if any of them knew the
words of KOl Nidre.
EPISODE: This is tale of the
last hours before the evacuation
of Paris. Morris c. Trooper, Eu-
ropean director of the JDC, was
directing destruction of documents
that could not be taken along.
Among the effects marked for de-
struction was a record of an adj
dress he had made. TT was one
of those tough, pliable tin discs
Trooper tried breaking it.
It just bent. TIE tried tearing
it, with equally poor results.
The problem was finally solved by
simply scratching the wax sur
face of the disc, which rendered il
useless. Of there had been g
college boy on the premises, Tro.
per probably could have gotter
rid of the disc by simply asking
the collegian to do a goldfish
swallowing act with it, -.
YORKE-VILLIAN: They're tell
ing this one about a riot h a
fIared in YOrkevilIe, Americas Su
detenIand. A Jew precipitatet
the riot by posting in the window
of his place of business SigI
reading: "1'd rather do business
with 100 Nazis than with one
JeW." His place of business
it should be explained, was a flu
neral parlOr.
MOVIE: A famous JTA dis
patch, filed by Victor M. Bernstein
from Vienna shortly after Ansch-
luss, has been immortalized ir
gelatin. The movie "The Mar
I Married." featuring Francis Led
erer, Joan Bennett and Lloyd No.
Ian, includes a scene based on the
incident involving General Emf
Sommer, Austrian Jewish war he
70, and a band of Nazi brown
shirts who had been impressing
Jews for streetwashing duties ir
Vienna. Sommer, it will be re.
called, showed up for the task ar
rayed in his full uniform and med.
ais. =. The movie version of the
incident, which was featured in
newspapers throughout the coun.