The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1942-05-29
Heard lin The
LObbieS
COURAGE
BY DAVID DEUTSCH

whom iSOlatiOnist Senator Clark
of Missouri wants to "calI to the
bar of the Senate in connection
with charges against isoIationist
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts,
that appeared in her New York
Post. Most courageous publish
ing adventure of the year was the
Posts careful nursing of the story
alleging that Walsh visited a
"hOuse of degredatiOn'' in Brook
Ign where Axis agents are report
ed to have cOnsOrted. On the very
day that Senator Barley an
nOunced an F. b. 1. complete ex-
OneratiOn" the Post carried a
smashing headline charging "white-
wash" Watch for further kick
backs on this sensational story,
which is part of the phenomenal
success which the Post has had
since Mrs. Backer took over as
publisher from her aiIing, bril-
liant, liberal husband. Funny to
hear Jew-baiting Senator Wheeler
charge in the Senate that the Post
"stirs up religious hatred"
When a non-Jewish Congress-
man lauds the Jewish Army pro-
ject, it's very nice of him. When
a Jewish Congressman does so it's
courage these days. Arthur Klein
is the man who merits the orchid
for insisting that Pierre van
Paassen's speech at a recent din
ner in New York be inserted in
the Congressional Record. To top
is all, Klein added: "the Public
Printer advises me that this will
exceed the legal limit, but ask
that it be printed nothwithstand-
ing" Arthur is the courageous
fellow who is reputed to have
gone directly to Mrs. Roosevelt,
a resident of his district, when
rumor spread that she was going
to run for Congress. Mrs. Roose-
welt is said to have told her Con-
gresham there was nothing to
the rumOr.
CONTRASTS
What an odd combination to
find Abraham Goldberg, whom
the New York directory even lists
as a Zionist" sponsoring the
same cause as arch-anti-ZiOnist
Joseph NJ. PrOskauer. They're
both sponsors for the dinner
which the Jewish Council for Rus
sian War Relief is rendering Al
bert Einstein on June 18th. Abe
Goldberg took the Craftsmanship
of that Council when it wasn't so
kosher to do sO-but now that
Russian Relief is even more fash
iOnabIe than Chinese Relief, the
name of Goldberg doesn't seem to
appear in stories so often. Won
der why?
POPE INTERVIEWS
When the story is told of Cath
olic sympathy for Jews, a special
chapter should be devoted to the
Pope, all of whose aid to Jews
can't be detailed because OF his
geographical dilemma. But if the
Slovak Government is speeding up
it's Jewish expulsion program it's
over the vigorous protest of the
Vatican, which tried to apply
pressure on the Catholic priest
who's the head of the Slovak
State. Secretary of State Magli-
one received the Slovak Minister
in Rome and laid it down pretty
strongly that the Pope thought il
inhunan to treat the Jews on the
Hitler plan in Slovakia. But, af-
ter all, if the Axis listened to the
Pope, it probably wouldn't be the
Axis.
Catholic sentiment is also nObly
EXPRESSED in the series of letters
which the Swiss Socialist paper
LIE PeupIe, published on April IL
IT reproduced the original texts Of
the letter written on the eve OF
last Christmas to the Chief Rabbi
of France by Paul CIaudeI, famous
Catholic poet and former French
Ambassador to the U. S. A. and
bv Jules SaIiege, Archbishop OF
To,,IouSa CIaudel expressed his