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The old Czecho-Slovakia was one of the few countries east of the Rhine with no anti-Semitism to speak of.
Particularly in the Czech districts all attempts to create anti-Semitle movements ended in complete failure. When Czecho-Slovakia was forced Into the German orbit by the Munich agreement one of the first_alms_of the Nazis was to make her an anti- Semitic State. The weak Czech Government was forced to announce publicly plans for the "solution" of
SENTRY: Advance, friend, and give the password.
1940: Victorv.
मनन
Pharaoh
Didn't Go
"Many are the virtues which the nation asks from its people
but war...
In
time of
chief virtue is VALOUR
the
SO LET'S END THIS FARCE OF—
UNKNOWN
LIVING
WARRIORS
TH
by
Wood admitted (I thought I detected a blush) in the House of Commons last week that if an officer' pilot and a non-commis- sioned pilot Hew to attack a Ger- man battleship and each showed Now, if there is any truth in would be entitled to the Dis
equsi valour and skill, the officer
G. Garro Jones, M.P.
Half Far Enough..
Y
rOU have read the story of the atrocious treat- ment which the Nazis give to the victims of their concentration camps.
Do you recall this paragraph? "The Jews were sneeringly told by their guards that they were only experiencing the same treatment as their forefathers in Egypt, and that Pharuch had noi gone half
for enough."
This is how far Pharnoh went. 'It' is Exodus, Chapter Five:-
And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord God of israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, And they said, The God of the
neither will I let Israel po.
Hebrews hath-mét with us:"let ̃us 10, we pray thee, three days' Journey Into the desert,
and sacrifice unto the Lord our God; lest he fall upon us with pes- tilence, or with the sword,
HE staffs of the Bri- tish fighting services this reason, it must apply with tinguished Flying Cross and the And the king of Egypt said unto are mounting a strict cal force against giving any N. C. O. only to the Medal. the Jewish question, but apart from guard over the names of not only the medals of the fight Chivalry in 19391
decorations at all, and then, alas! the dismissal of a few Jewish civil their fighting officers and
servants nothing much was done.
The heart of the Czech people and
the Czech Government was not in the task and nothing of real importance happened until the Germans occupied Prague in March, 1039.
The Government of the so-called "protectorate" was then compelled to establish an anti-Jewish law, Three drafts were prepared and submitted
men.
lar, have just forbidden war The Air Ministry, in particu.
names." correspondents to "mention any There are to be no Roll of Honour-of the living, public heroes, no air "aces," no at any rate.
All our warriors are to be in Baron von Neurath, the German nameless except those few
"They were all rejected selected for decoration and be as too mlid, and finally, at the end lated mention in despatches." of June, 1939, without so much as
"Protector."
Such
are. the Rules of.
them, Wherefore do ye. Moses and Aaron, let the people from thetr works? get unto your burdens,
of the land now are many, and ye make them reat from their burdens.
And Pharaolt commanded the samo day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying. ...
ing soldier, but the sumptuous decorations which adorn the hats So also in the Army. A pri-And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people into store till this public hysteria and the tunics of our staff vate soldier cannot win the officers and generals will be put Military Cross or the D. S. O.
Nor under this intolerable subsides!
system is there any hard and fast line to govern the kind of MANY are the virtues service for which any decoration Ye shall no more give the people
which the nation asks can be awarded. In the case of from its people in time of war- nearly all decorations (with the wisdom from our
statesmen; exception of the Victoria Cross) efficiency from our administra- there is a proviso which enables tors; sustained effort from our awards to be made "for meri- workers; and in the breast of torious service." those whose task is only to wait,
And so to-day, when we gaze
straw to make brick, as hereto- fore: let them go and gather-straw for themselves.
And the tale of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall fay upon them; ye shall not diminishs ought thereof; for they be idle: therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.
the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
And he askmaster of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying." Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.-
consulting the Czech Government, he This policy has become in Issued an anil-Jewish decree of his every service department a piece with anxious hearts, we tenderly own. Jews were forbidden to buy of pedantry, which it is in the insist on fortitude of a noble upon ribboned tunics, we are Let there more work be laid upon. real estate, to take part in commercial exact province of the Minister order. enterprises, to acquire shares or
But in war, the chief seldom able to tell from the equal bonds, or to float new business ven- to dislodge, for it is contrary to virtue is VALOUR.
colour of the ribbons which of tures. All their present holdings had common sense and contrary to to be declared to the German, not the the nation's desire.
their wearers have fought and The nation which fails in that which have only helped with the Czech, authorities. Meanwhile, they
stern test is conquered. Here plans. must not dispose of any property without German permission.
then is the very spearpoint of THE departments offer The Idea of this decree
We mast, of course, pay sub- our national thrust. We must stantial respect to the brains of "Aryanise" Jewish busincas in favour of fighting men should be with burnish it till it glitters, and the administrative staffs and Go ve, get you straw where ye can
two reasons why names was to of the Germans, not the Czechs. By held from the official communi- the acid test, the nation with especially in the Royal Air Force, when it is proved to have passed recognise that many of them, a second decree a few weeks later a maximum number for Jews was in- troduced at Czech schools and a num-
They say first that we must it the hallmark of recognition. yond all dispute; but there is grateful hand must imprint upon have proved their gallantry be- her of Jewish organisations were dis- not give information to the solved.
The Gestapo were by this time enemy. That hoary excuse is glory in heroic deeds, or that decorations which are unsupport- It is false to say there is no many a tunic bearing dazzling established in all Bohemian and doing, regular duty still as a glory is not a powerful incentive ed, in fact, by any heroic effort, Moravian towns and were given shield of error in Government to bravery. To tell the deeds except perhaps in Savile-row! free hand. They compelled local departments. At question time of brave men, and promptly at- administrations to Issue
All this ought to be changed
ques.
THERE is a final argu- ment against anony-
ordering a social boycott of Jews and
by-laws it is put up by embarrassed tych names to them, would be to in favour of publishing names barring them from parks and swim- Ministers as a last defence-al blaze tracks of light across our in official reports. ming pools. They encouraged keepers to display the sign "Aryan unconvincing.
ways unanswerable, generally darkened skies. The fighting business" but they could not compel
men would be encouraged; the It would only hold water in publie would be inspired; and the the Czech people to accept these measures. On the contrary, the this instance if it were desired world of neutrals, of allies and of mity. What of him who does a Czechs continued to show sympathy to publish also the names of enemies could look once more at gallant deed, who then faces units and their station, but in the unconquerable spirit of the danger later on, and who does The difference between the per- the great majority of military British fighter. secution of the Jews in the Reich and reports the publication of indi
not return?
What will be his guerdon? TN the last war we were
"His name," we shall say, told a hundred times that "liveth for evermore."
The British people would pre-
towards the Jews.
in the "protectoruta" les mainly in this, that in the Reich the persecution vidunt names would not help was usually based on laws or decrees, the enemy. whereas in the "protectorate only
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And it; yet not ought of your work. shall be diminished.
So the people were scattered abroad.
throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw.
And the taskmasters harted then,
saving. Fuifit your works, your daily tasks, as when there was
straw.
And the officers of the children of Israci, which Pharaoh's task. masters that set over them, were beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your task in. making brick both yesterday and to-day as heretofore?
Then the officers of the children of
Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealent
unto thou thus toith thy servants? · There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thing own people.
Israel came and cried
three decrees of "Importance were the departments is of even less tions would do all required, and a for to place a laurel upon the But he said, Ye are idie, vede idler
The other reason offered by the occasional award of decora- passed, while everything else was done by administrative measures by substance. "Give the public hundred times the claim was living. brow of each of their little of the measures adopted has "and, the public will lionise' the decorations is still unmodernised. namo promptly imprinted on the 'Go, therefore now, and work; for
Tame." It is argued, refuted, but the old system of brave men, They want the hitherto been known to the outside hero, to his moral downfall."
For example, Sir Kingsley: deed.
the Gestapo. The consequence is that the
world.
therefore ve say, Let us go and do; sacrifice to the Lord,
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