News Brief

As has been reported in the press the Jews of Lithuania recently observed a day of fast and prayer in protest against the government order to keep all Jewish stores closed Sundays. Commenting on this the “El Diario Israelita” of Buenos Aires remarks editorially:

“We doubt if the Lithuanian priests and Catholics, who control the government, will take the prayers and fasting of the Jews seriously. They are Satans that are not frightened by the voice of God. And yet-the day of fasting and prayer was the strongest and most unique form of protest the Jews of Lithuania could possibly have chosen against the base infringment of their rights.”

PLEASED AT OUSTING OF GREENBAUM

The report which has come from Poland that Isaac Greenbaum, Jewish representative in the Polish Sejm, who recently resigned as president of the “Kolo”, the club of Jewish Sejm deputies, has now been ousted as leader of the Zionists in Poland, is greeted with satisfaction by the “Jewish Morning Journal”. Dr. Greenbaum was a separatist in his Zionist tactics, says this paper; he carried his Jewish nationalism to extreme limits, just as Zinoviev carries his communism to extreme limits.

“Dr. Greenbaum embodies a tendency which is not confined to Poland alone. In other countries, too, we have the ‘separatist’ who makes a fuss over differences, exaggerates animosities and seeks in every possible way to provoke his enemies as well as his friends, the man who stresses the conflict and sees no road to peace. It is easy to explain the presence of such people among us: they are the consequence of anti-Semitism, and they are as harmful to us as the anti-Semites themselves, if not more so.

“The ousting of Greenbaum as leader of Zionism in Poland brings the Zionist organization of Poland closer to the world Zionist organization and this in itself is a very good thing. Still more gratifying is the fact that the principle of ‘landespolitik’ will now be discarded or at least weakened considerably. It is frequently said in countries like Poland that American Jews are wrong in saying sometimes that Zionism is for the east-European Jews rather than for the Jews in the free countries. If those who make this contention are right then they should do as the western Jews and refrain from dragging Zionism into the politics of the country. In this way unity can be attained in Jewish affairs and those who hinder this should be ousted from leadership”, concludes the “Jewish Morning Journal”.

WILL ROGERS ON THE DUCHESS

Not least of the innumerable comments made on the Monday Opera Club and its reception to the Duchess Cyril, whose husband aims to become Czar of Russia, are the shrewd and witty remarks of Will Rogers in his weekly review of people and events in last Sunday’s “World”.

After making some cutting comments on the efforts of the ladies of the Monday Opera Club to ascend into the highest stratum of Social Standing through the Duchess’ presence among them, Will Rogers says:

“On the last night at a big farewell Reception, the Ladies bended the knee to Royalty, and Men kissed the hand and wished hergodspeed on her journey to the Throne. Now can you see some big Bohunk American stooping over kissing the hand of somebody who wanted to be Czar Of All The Russians? The attempted Czarina has returned to Europe with enough quiet laughs tucked away to last a Russian for a lifetime.

“Then we wonder why we are funny to Europeans. We are funny to ourselves if we just get a Mirror. One thing, the Monday Opera Club was not a hooded Organization. They allowed, even welcomed, the publication of names.”

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