The Bulletin’s Day Book

Race is race, and business is business.

Nazi persecution of the Jews, it appears, stops at the point where it is in conflict with the “fundamentals” of National Socialism.

The racial theory of Aryan purity is, of course, all important, but…there is no rule without an exception, and if a Jew proves useful to the Hitlerite movement, his “non-Aryanism” may be overlooked.

For instance-No less a star in the Nazi galaxy than Herr Goebbels has his own private “home Jew”-one Jacob Trachtenberg, a Russian emigrant naturalized in Germany.

Last year Goebbels’ ministry financed Trachtenberg’s book directed against “the tales of horror.” And now in the list of recommended (or is it required?) reading, just issued by leaders of the New Germany, among such immortal men of letters as Hitler, Goering, von Papen and other major and minor gods of Nazidom, there is listed that distinguished author, Jacob Trachtenberg, with his latest opus, entitled “Against the Brown Book.”

“In Trachtenberg’s volume,” according’ to the April issue of the official organ of the Stuttgart German Institute for Foreign Affairs, “are depicted the international aspirations of the Communist International, spreading in all countries, to provoke disorders with the aid of terroristic attempts.”

The Nazi reviewer goes on to say that the author calls particular attention to “the widespread efforts of Communists to escape legal responsibilities by simulating insanity. Trachtenberg’s book will be read, not without benefit, abroad.”

Without discussing the merits of Trachtenberg’s characterization of Communist ambitions, it is noteworthy that in the New Germany, where as a matter of principle nothing emanating from a Jew is officially acceptable (except perhaps taxes), it was found possible to eulogize and even ardently recommend the work of a Jewish author.

Race is race, and business is business.