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Persecution
The old Czecho-Slovakia was one of the fow countries east of the Rhine with no anti-Semitism to speak of.
Particularly in the Czech districts all attempts to create anti-Semitic movements ended in complete fallure. When Czecho-Slovakia“was” forced Into the Germon 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, und give the password. 1940: Victory.
"Many are the virtues which the nation asks from its people
in
time of war... but the chief virtue is VALOUR
SO LET'S END THIS FARCE OF
*9
UNKNOWN
LIVING
WARRIORS
by
G. Garro Jones, M.P.
Pharaoh Didn't Go
Half Far Enough...
-OU 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, us their forefathers In Egypt, and that Pharaoh had not gone half far enough."
This is how far Pharaoh' went. It Is Exodus, Chapter Five:
And afterward Moses and. Aaron went in, and told' Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Let ny people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord,. that I should obey his voice to let Israel yo? I know not the Lord, nellier will. I let Israel go—-- And they said, The God of the
Hebrews hath met with us; let us- uo, 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.
Wood admitted (I thought Il detected a blush) in the House of Commons-last week that if an officer pilot and a non-commis. sioned pilot flew to attack a Ger- man battleship and each showed equal valour and skill, the officer Now, if there is any truth in would be entitled to the Dis- tish fighting services this reason, it must apply with tinguished Flying Cross and the And the king of Egypt said unto
HE staffs of the Bri-
Ttish Cross an
the Jewish question, but apart from the dismissal of a few Jewish civil servants nothing much was donc,
The heart of the Czech people and
men.
decorations at all, and then, alas!
them, Wherefore do ye. Mores and Aaron, let the people from their works? get unto your burdens.
And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people of the land now are many, and yo make them rest from their burdens.
guard over the names of not only the medals of the fight- Chivalry in 1939!
Such are the. Rules of their fighting officers and ing soldier, but the sumptuous
decorations which adorn the hats So also in the Army. A pri The Air Ministry, in particu- officers and generals will be put Military Cross or the D.S. O.
and the tunics of our staff vate soldier cannot win the the Czech Government was not in the lar, have just forbidden war into store till this public hysteria Nor under this intolerable And Pharaoh commanded the same task and nothing of real importance correspondents to "mention any happened until the Germans occupied names." There are to be no Prague in March, 1939,
public heroes, no air "aces," no
The Government of the so-called "protectorato" was then compelled to establish an anti-Jewish law. Three drafts were prepared and submitted
subsides!
day the taskmasters of the people,. and their opieers, saying....
system is there any hard and fast line to govern the kind of which the nation asks can be awarded. In the case of at any rate.
from its people in time of war- nearly all decorations (with the All our warriors are to be wisdom from our statesmen; exception of the Victoria Cross) la Baron von Neural, the German nameless except those few efficiency from our administra- there is a proviso which enables "Protector." They were all rejected selected for decoration and be- tors; sustained effort from our awards to be made "for meri-
too mlid and finally, at the end Inted "mention, in despatches."
workers; and in the breast of torious service." consulting the Czech Government, he
Roll of Honour of the living, MANY are the virtues service for which any decoration Ye shall no more give the people
DS
was to
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 lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof; for they be le; therefore they cry, saying, Let u po and sacrifice to our God.
the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regard vain words.
And the taskmaster of the people went out, and their officers, and. they spake to the people, saying. Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you 'straw.
And it; yet not ought of your work: shall be diminished.
of June, 1930, without so much un This policy has become in those whose task is only to wait, issued an anti-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. But in war, the chief colour of the ribbons which of seldom able to tell from the equal enterprises, to acquire shares στ bonds, or to float new business vento dislodge, for it is contrary to virtue is VALOUR.
their wearers have fought and tures. All their present holdings had common sense and contrary to to be declared to the German, not the the nation's desire.
The nation which fails in that which have only helped with the Czech, nuthorities. Meanwhile, they
stern test is conquered. Hero plans. must not dispose of any property
then is the very spearpoint of We must, of course, pay sub- THE departments offer without German permission..
our national thrust. We must stantial respect to the brains of The idea of this decree
two reasons why names "Aryanise" Jewish business in favour of fighting men should be with- burnish it till it glitters, and the administrative staffs and Go ve, get you straw where we can 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 inter aques. maximum number for Jewa was in-
grateful hand must imprint upon have proved their gallantry be- troduced at Czech schools and a num- They say first that we must it the hallmark of re gnition. yond all disputo; but there is ber of Jewish organlations were dis- not give information to the It is falso to say there is no many a tunic bearing dazzling solved,
The Gestapo were by this time doing regular duty still as a glory is not a powerful incentive ed, in fact, by any heroic effort, enemy. That hoary excuso is glory in heroic deeds, or that decorations which are unsupport- established in all Boliemian Moravian towns and were given a shield of error in Government to bravery. To tell the deeds except perhaps in Savile-row!
They compelled local departments. At question time of brave men, and promptly at- administrations to Issue by-laws it is put up by embarrassed tach names to them, would be to in favour of publishing names All this ought to be changed ordering a sucial boycott of Jews and Ministers as a last defenco-al- blaze tracks of light across our in official reports. barring them from parks and win-ways unanswerable, generally darkened skies.
The fighting men would be encouraged; tho
free hand.
And
THERE is a final argu- ment against anony-
So the people were scattered abroad. throughout all the land of Equpt And the taskmasters hasten them, to gather stubble instead of straw..
saying, Full your works, your daily tasks, as when there teas straw.
And the officers of the children of Israel, which Pharaoh's task. masters had set over them, ware beaten, and demanded, Wherefore have ye not fulfilled your tark In: making brick both yesterday and. to-day, as horatofore? ·
ming pools. They encouraged shop- keepers to display the sign "Aryan unconvincing. business" but they could not compel the Czech people to accept these this instance if it were desired world of neutrals, of allies and of mity. What of him who docs a Then the officers of the children of
It would only hold water in public would bo inspired; and the measures. On the contrary, the Czechs continued to show sympathy to publish also the names of enemies could look once more at gallant deed, who then faces lowards the Jews.
The difference between the per- the great majority of military British fighter.
units and their station, but in the unconquerable spirit of the danger later on, and who does secution of the Jews in the Relch and reports the publication of indi-
not return? In the "protectorate". les mainly in
What will be his guerdon? IN the last war we were "His name," we shall any,
told a hundred times that "liveth for evermore."
this, that in the Relch the persecution vidual namen would not help was usually based on laws or decrees, the enemy... whereas in the "protectorate" only
Inraci came and cried tinto. Pharaolt, saying, Wherefore dealeat thou thus with thy servante?.... Thera te no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick; and, behold, thy servants- are beaten; but the fault te in Ming- own people.
But he said, Ye are idle, ye are idle,
three decrees of importance were the departments is of even less tions would do all required, and a fer to place a laurel upon the The other reason offered by the occasional award of decors The British people would pre- passed, while everything also whe done by administrative measures by substanco. "Give the public hundred times the claim was living brow of each of their the Gestapo. The consequence is that the name," it is argued, refuted, but the old system of bravo men, They want the little of the measures adopted has "and the public will "lloniso the decorations is still unmodernised. namo promptly Imprinted on the Go therefore now, and work; for hitherto been known to the outside hero, to his moral downfall.” For oxample, Sir Kingsley doed.
world.
therefore ve sau, Let us go and do sacrifice to the Lord.
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