July, 1937
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T H E K I N G ' S B U S I N E S S
The Old Serpent Crawls On
By LOUIS S. BAUM AN * Long Beach, California
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I N that long ago, the Master sat upon the Mount of Olives. His disciples came to Him and said: “Tell us . . . what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world?” (Matt. 24:3). And to them, the sons of Jacob, He gave numerous signs that would herald His return to earth. Among those signs was this: “Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake” (Matt. 24:9). Perhaps never since Gentile dominion has been divided among the nations, has the Jew been so universally hated—“hated of all nations”—as he is today. T he V iper of A nti -S emitism C rawls U nmolested in G ermany That anti-Semitism has been given the status of a political religion by the German government, and that this spirit has im pregnated all central Europe until the sor rows of Israel have become a tragedy of first magnitude, is a matter of common knowledge. Relentless persecution of all in whose veins flows the blood of Jacob, is the order of the day. Economic ruin now is being expedited through a denial of supplies to retailers. In one Bavarian town, according to a very reliable report given to The American Jewish Committee of New York: “Local Jews receive no attention whatever from laborers or trades men. No meat, bread, vegetables, or milk is supplied them, not even for children. A merchant who had been doing business with a Jewish neighbor was branded as ‘a Jewish slave’ in a handbill entitled ‘To the Pillory,’ which warned the public against him.” S omething upon W hich A mericans S hould T hink Lately, a far-reaching change has taken place in the administration of justice in Germany. The Supreme Court of the Reich, the last stronghold for fair play in G er many, has succumbed to the edict of GenT eral Goering, who declares that justice itself must be guided solely by the interests of the State. All of this is" merely the echo of the declaration of Krylenko, Soviet Com missar for Justice: “Every judge must re member that his decisions are intended to promote nothing but the prevailing policy of the State." Under this doctrine, the Supreme Court of the Reich is merely an adjunct to the political party, and its justice is no longer justice, but judgments dictated wholly by political motives. So biased are its decisions that the Jews realize that there is no legal protection whatever for them *Pastor, First Brethren Church.
at best, holds a rather tottery position. They have reason to believe that nothing but this temporal protection keeps them from being rounded up and plunged for an indefinite time into the dungeonlike prisons of France. No wonder their hearts are filled with torturous fears! “E valuation ” “Evacuation” is the name for the only political policy touching the Jews that most of these nations know. It is rife especially in Poland and Germany. But where are these unwanted legions of Jews to go if they “evacuate” ? The Western world has practically closed its doors to these multi tudes. They look to Palestine as their only hope. But on January 12 of this year, the Mufti of Jerusalem, together with Jamal Bey Husseini (his kinsman), and Auni Bey Abdul Hadi (envoy of the Higher Arab Council to Baghdad and Riyadh), went before the Royal Commission from England, and demanded the abrogation of the Man date, and a treaty withf Great Britain whereby full national independence shall be granted to Palestine, similar to that ob tained by Iraq and Syria. If their demand should be granted, of the 410,000 Jews now in Palestine, those not of Palestinian origin would be deported back to the lands of their origin. All Jewish immigration would be stopped, and the sale of all land to Jews would be prohibited. And nothing but the arm of the Briton stands in the way of this Arab program. Should that arm give way, “the time of Jacob’s trouble” (Jer. 30:7) will surely have come. What would result can best be understood when we know that recently, about one hundred Jews returning to Germany after an unsuccessful attempt to settle in other lands, were put into con centration camps! T he T rail of the S lime E nters “T he L and of the F ree ” Not long ago, a confidential report was sent out by one of the great business sur vey agencies in Washington. It was filled with anti-Semitism, and gave confidential information of an anti-Semitic campaign in the United States. This spirit already has begun to show itself. While the writer was holding a Bible conference several weeks ago in a city in Pennsylvania, a great parade of anti-Semitic “Shirts and Sheets” drew a vast throng of people, and the threat to American Jewry was unmistakable. From the magazine, The Chosen People, we read:
in Germany. America at this moment needs to meditate deeply upon this deplorable perversion of justice. T he A nti -S emitic V iper S limes I ts W ay T hrough P oland The largest population of Jews in any country in the world, outside the United States, is in Poland. Three million of the sons and daughters of Jacob live there, fully one-third of whom anti-Semitism has deprived of any visible means of sub sistence. A Jew in Poland can hardly open his lips without being attacked for “insult ing thé Polish" nation.” A program of pogroms is under way there, in which Jews are wounded, beaten, killed, and their shops and homes are wrecked and burned. Jews frequently are ejected forcefully from cafes and restaurants. They are entirely driven out of certain towns and villages. For political reasons, Premier Felicien Slawoj-Skladkowski, in a speech before the Sejm, publicly deprecated these excesses; but the hearts of the Jews were not quieted by his apologies, when he, in official capac ity before the Sejm, said: "The economic struggle against the Jews is O. K.— but no violence!” The Jews say: “If a Polish Hitler should arise, there will be little work left for him to do.” T he O verflow of H itlerism into O ther C ountries Whither may the Jew flee? The same cruel hatred that makes his life in Ger many and Poland unbearable is manifest ing itself in other lands. In Spain, a second expulsion of Jews has been promised by the Spanish Fascists, if their war on the Popu lar Front Government succeeds. Spanish Fascists forced the Jewish community of Tetuan, Morocco, to pay them $50,000. Well-to-do Jews were forced to pawn their property to meet the demand. The sudden emergence of anti-Semitism in Portugal has created an agonizing sur prise. Leaders of Portuguese Jewry re cently presented to Dr. Oliveira Salazar, the Premier, a solemn protest against the defamation of the Jews in the Portuguese press. There are 25,000 German Jew refugees in France. Of these, 800 were formerly professors in German universities; 4,000 were former lawyers and judges in the courts of Germany; 8,000 of them were qualified physicians in Germany. They are not allowed to engage in any gainful occu pation in France. They are doomed to wander about hopelessly with a despair that almost beggars description. They know that they are living illegally in Paris, and are only tolerated because of the sympathy of the Jewish Premier, Leon Blum, who,
“Terror strikes at the heart when one reads in the newspapers that the Black Legion of Detroit, mem bers of which have been on trial for criminal charges these past few months, and recently convicted, had
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