Jews v. Jews

Prominent in Berlin's American Chamber of Commerce are Jews. Last week they were unhappy. From all over the world irate Jews sent cables denouncing them for failing to denounce the Nazi Governor of Berlin, bullet-headed Dr. Julius Lippert, when he addressed the Chamber at luncheon thus: "Economically nothing has happened to the Jews of Germany. Not a single dispossession or destruction of a so-called Jewish enterprise has taken place. If a Jew has proved to the State that he is ready to fulfill all the duties put upon him which every other inhabitant of our Fatherland must fulfill as well, he has equal economic rights."

Suave alibi of Berlin's American Chamber: Nazi Lippert was their "guest."

Governor Lippert's speech last week was believed to have been made at the instance of German Minister of Economics Dr. Hjalmar Schacht. Appealing to what he called "America's sober business sense," Guest Lippert said that U. S. citizens who boycott German goods do so "from wholly false assumptions." Calling the boycott "contrary to all American interests," he threatened German retaliation against U. S. exports, menacingly concluded: "One can do business only with good friends; with bad friends business is always bad!"

Every Mayor of New York City is a doughty champion of Jews. Last week like a pudgy panther Fiorello ("Little Flower") LaGuardia let himself go to 2,000 members and guests of the Women's Division of the American Jewish Congress who had as guest of honor obliging Professor Albert Einstein.* "The indignation of the American people," cried Mayor LaGuardia, "cannot be traded for commerce! And therefore, Dr. Einstein, our attitude is in keeping with the best traditions of our republic. The purpose of the boycott is a protest against an arrogant, bigoted, cruel Government!"

Ever a provoking law unto himself, Genius Einstein switched over to the theme that most Jews in Germany "during the past 20 years . . . slavishly copied the still foreign-to-them modes of the life of the German people with the sole purpose of making themselves forget their Jewish origin."

Dr. Einstein described the impact of Nazidom upon self-deceiving Jews thus: "A single political upheaval was sufficient to destroy all their illusions. In a single moment they lost all those insecure possessions whose acquisition was bought at the sacrifice of their inner dignity and their traditional historical individuality.

"Learn from the destiny which has befallen the German Jews! Preserve your independence by the creation of an appropriate institution which you will need in the hour of oppression. Do not trust that this hour will never come, but keep the international community of all Jews sacred and holy!"

Rapped Genius Einstein with flashing eyes: "For most of the German Jews there existed no international Jewish community. In their own eyes they were Germans and nothing but Germans. . . . How I suffer under this lack of pride and dignity on the part of these German Jews!" (see below).

*Recently floored by a complex problem in chemistry, a witty Princeton graduate student telephoned Dr. Einstein who almost instantly solved the problem, gave the answer with a chuckle.

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