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To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:
The old double-cross is with us again.
After the startling revelations concerning France in the recent massacres in Algeria, the French government halts the renewal of visas held by innocent refugees from the regime of hate and terror of Adolf Hitler.
Whether this is a move to force these Jews in France “on sufferance” to migrate to Syria and do the dirty work for the French in opposing the British upbuilding of Palestine may be a debatable question, but one and one almost always make two.
Of a surety the refugees will not return to Hitler’s Reich, and other European countries will not permit them to enter their domains. The British in Palestine will not let them in. And the French have just announced that 10,000 European Jews can settle in Syria.
Clever people, these Gauls.
Joseph Epstein.
Jamaica, L. I.,
Dec. 28, 1934.
TAKES ISSUE WITH LEWISOHN
To the Editor, Jewish Daily Bulletin:
Permit me, through your paper, to express an opinion concerning Mr. Lewisohn’s recent article warning young Jews to “beware Communism.”
Mr. Lewisohn, from the shelter of a well-fed body, can well afford to give Jewish youth such advice, but what of the youth itself?
It should be remembered that Communism is the last resort when a decaying capitalist system cannot supply bodily and mental nourishment to its people. Although I will not enter into the merits and demerits of Communism and capitalism, I wish to say this:
What would Mr. Lewisohn, who already has made his mark through brilliance as a writer, offer to these young Jews, sorely beset on every side, religious, racial and economic? A petty nationalism when the world is so big? Or would he, instead, offer them full rights as befits a citizen of the world?
These thousands of unemployed of our race, seeing the solution to their problem in a general levelling of the masses, take the course best open to them. Are they to be censured for their outlook?
Remember, not every Jew is a Zionist, and those who do not see in Palestine a Homeland for themselves have all the right in the world to pursue a course which in their opinion would better their condition in the great nations of the world.
David Gellman.
Brooklyn, N. Y.,
Dec. 26, 1934.
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