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LOUIS GOLDING Tells Why He Believes

THE JEW WILL SURVIVE

H

one

ERR GOERING has hang heavily over us, flattening

carried

stage like lead-coloured clouds our further the Nazi world's brilliant diversity. plan for the destruction of All The Same German Jewry. He has

many

We listen to the same music

or Hottentots.

as

U80

In that same way we humans Plenso understand I survived

the phrases like diamond and radio- against mammoths and the brontosaurs active not as expressions of because of a combination of merit but as a physicist might happy glands.

use them, to express by analogy natural characteristics.

What is this Jewish vitality? declared that Jews in Ger- on the air, whether we are I don't think it's a matter of Hitler cannot get rid of us by

must register all Eskimos

being unkind to us, any more. Wo quality but of quantity.

than Queen Victoria could got property over £400-with read the same syndicated arti-

WE ARE WHATEVER WE ARE rid of us by being kind to us. of cles in the chain-newspapers.

WITH MORE INTENSITY THAN the obvious intention

Giant liners and aircraft

But we cannot get rid of our- making it subject to con-

OTHER PEOPLES. IF WE ARE selves. Wo assimilate, we inter- PLEASANT WE CAN BE EN- fiscation by the Nazi State. obliterate all our frontiers.

We must hang on to what CHANTING, IF WE ARE UN- Hitlers arise we hurry back into marry, but as Boon 2.9 tho I am not going to discuss here the searchlight that such a pro- separates us, our traditions, our PLEASANT WE CAN BE RE- the fold.

folk-song and dance, lest we bore VOLTING. WE THRIVE ON PER- posal throws on the present con- each other and ourselves to ex- SECUTION AND dition of the Nazi regime.

I am concerned--and 80 18 Herr Goering-with a more fundamental matter.

tinction.

\ANCE,

For God's sake, as D. H. Law-

*INTOLER-

What is this thing that sur- vives, who are we people that survive? We are a race, says. rence once cried out to me, let Even if Hitler were to cut the Herr Hitler. But we are not a The Nazi state is determined us hang on to the Sacred Differ- throats of the half-million Jews race, scientifically speaking. (I now in Germany the stimulus ho bid you consult any non-Nazi to extinguish the Jews. They ences I

There is a third reason why has given to Judaism has made ethnologist.) feel they are not doing it swiftly

we should survive. It is less conscious thing than it was be- What Are We?,

it a far more powerful and self-

will

idea magnanimous

We are triumph? Will the Jews sur- others I have brought forward. fore his advent to power.

not a religion, for Our greatest enemy is not in- some of the most fervent Jews. Hongkong Hotel vive the Nazi terror, as they it is this. It is merely a mat

but tolerance. survived the destruction of Jeru- ter of the devil in us, or the small tolerance

If are among the least religious. Hitler had wanted to got rid of salem, the expulsion from boy in us.

We are not a nation, in any If it wanted any arguing, his Jews really efficiently he political sense, though some Spain?

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We have survived Titus and these are the arguments why we should have given his Jews the Jews have political aspirations. We should survive. But the fact is, free-run of all the wine-cellars in the direction of a renewed Torquemada, gentlemen! shall survive Hitler!

whether wo should or shouldn't, and musical comedy choruses in nationhood. whether we want to or don't the country.

Our Heritage

Hongkong Telegraph. cer

TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1938.

But before I declare my proud certainty that the Jews will ask a moral survive, let me question: Should the Jews sur- vive?

And for

They should, I say. these rensonA.

First, because of our heritage, We have given to the world the

God. concepts of moral law and of

We gave world its supreme Book.

the one

want to, we shall survive. We Inter-Marriage

can't help it. Persistence

Whatever *our friends enemies do to us, whatever we do to ourselves, we just go on. Why we go on with this grim, imperishable persistence God only knows.

of kindred tribes.

kindness.

on, gentlemen!

We arc not 11 moral Or messianic impulse.

What are we? Each of us is It is a fact that during the an amalgam of all these elements nges of enlightenment, as they in varying degrees. are sometimes called, we lose or

But there is something more through assimilation and inter- than that, something it is hard marriage some of our best sons to give a name to. It is a sense and daughters to the Gentiles of decency, a sense of loyalty, a PRICE OF PROGRESS

quality which the English are around us.

I think there is some justice better fitted to understand than Every now and then there

It may be that we are a in that we receive and we give. most other peoples.

When I meet another Jew we occurs one of these dreadful air

the Chosen People, but that's

an But however much we give, or disasters which makes men feel

idea I personally prefer to drop. however much is taken from us salute in each other, though we' that perhaps they are paying too

That was while we were still What with the Chosen People by forced conversion to the glory do not do it consciously, the con- a nation. When we ceased to called Japanese and the Chosen of God or mass massacre to the queror of Titus and Torquemada, great price for progress.

Germans, there glory of the Devil, the core of in centuries long gone by, the be a nation in the sense of hav- People called

conqueror of Hitler and his Every time a great passenger-ing one land to be our hearth- are too many competitors in the us remains.

It is a core which is irrefrag-

black-shirted paladins, whether carrying plane crashes to swift stone and one language to give field!

dreams, we

our victory will come five years, ' No, I don't

think we

like were able. death one realises with a shock expression to our

diamond. Nothing more than the can break it, not even the soft or five hundred years, from now. the tragic truth; that men must still continued to create and to chosen, any

Chaldeans or the Idumacans or drip, drip, drip of the waters of five hundred that Jew knows Whether it be five years or interpret. die that humanity shall con-

I believe that there is a great the Jebusites.

he will need my help and I shall tinue to grapple successfully to deal of fine literature and art We started off as a handful of It is a radio-active core, which need his. We know we shall not

which cohered gives off countless particles of fail each other. improve its science and muster and music for us to create, fine nomad families

philosophy for us to expound, into a tribe. The tribe swore energy yet remains unexhausted

We shall go the vital problem of swift and which would never be created or blood-brothership with a group and inexhaustible.

We shall go on! safe transport. There must be expounded if we allowed our many, whose friends and rela-selves to be absorbed among the tives have sacrificed themselves peoples where we live. one way or another, even to Stronger giving their lives, who hold such success ng has been won in the field of aviation too costly al years that it is a stronger thing mingle with those tribes which,

to have no armies and navica in combination with them, pro-horse put its heat in a hole, and I together. But it is safe to say than

armies and duced a certain strength, a cer- fell. I was sitting by the roadside a wound, and that treatment over, tore my thigh on a jagged stone as I It is effective, however, in closing to possess that the victims themselves, navies.

tain vitality, which has been holding an ineffectual handkerchief the gauchos invited me to camp with

them. We knowing the risks

individual and is inextinguishable.

to my wound when the cowboys BI«. had they ran,

They took the saddles from rived,

the horses and one man removed a would have been the stoutest individual generals of

soldiers of great gallantry and Mixture

First of all came the cattle. Three huge quarter of beef from a sack. great

hundred head, beasts of all breeds, This was the remains of a beast they defenders of their and their wisdom. But they have func-

It is a favourite theory they came lowing and bellowing had lulled two days before, and they comrades mission.

or Aus- mine that the two predominant along the red earth track. I seram- proceeded to roast it in the "chur For they tioned as Americans

This consists of clemonts in the Jewish mixture bled up a bank of stony earth to wait rasco" are necessarily men who count

tralians, not as Jews.

till the animals

,

passed.

Behind the suspending the beef over a huge fre If the utmost that some Jews were Semitic and Hellenic.

cattle zame four cowboys. Two of twisting it about until it is pro- their own lives of little value hope from Zionism is achieved,

Brad them were typical Rio Grande perly cooked. I must admit the unless they can point to some even a Jewish National Home ceived the integrity and strength gauchos with baggy trousers and smell of such cooling is very appetis-

of the desert, the backbone wide-brimmed hais.

ing out in the open aft. accomplishment; and it is not which is completely autonomous,

The first looked keenly at me and When the beef was ready ench saw that I was hurt. the wish of any of them that tanks and fieldguns.

it will not be a road lined with which made us survive.

From the Philistines, whom mounted and asked what had hop-boot and cut off a great piece

All four dis- gaucho removed his knife from his the world should mourn

we overcame and with whom we accident occurred I showed them the knife and with the aid of fingers and pened. Having explained how the roast. With the beef held on the Assyria, Egypt, Imperial inter-married bountifully, we re-celd them. They would prefer mere-Rome had great armies. They ceived the Mediterranean liveli- gauchos produced the cowboy's in-a gaucho can eat. I caught gilmpses

tear on

One of the teeth, it is amazing how much beef ly a tribute to their enterprise are dead, and we live.

ness and sense of beauty which fallible remedy for cuts and wounds of strong white teeth flashing through Nazi Germany is building a made us worth surviving.

stick of nitrate of silver. They thick black beards as the men tore We shall outlive Nazi Germany. a fortuitous combination of for- stone after it had been rubbed on the ing about two pounds and no one greater army than any of theirs. We Jews survived because of call it "pedra infernal" in Portu- the meat to pieces.

guese. I agreed it was an internal I was given a piece of beef weigh- So much then for our heri- tunate elements.

raw flesh of my leg. I cannot Im-seemed to think it was too much for

for

We should survive because we have shown for two thousand

have

and skill and daring which would take the form of faith in the future of the science they have helped to advance so far, and intage. so short a time. Before the war should survive precisely for the Secondly, I believe the Jew

a man would have been thought same reason that I want the Red mad, or very odd indeed, who Indian and the Basque to sur- had considered the feasibility vive,, the Welshman and the of a commercial air transport and the New Mexican.

Cornishman, the New Englunder

system which would span the Pacific. But because of the impetus the war gave flying, and The forces of standardisation, because there is never any lack mechanisation, mass production, of volunteers for acienco's ad-

From day to day the world tends to become more and more

and monotone

monochrome,

venture, and because men who mighty commerce depended. are prepared to risk greatly And if war helped to create an must be splendidly equipped, awful weapon, that weapon fre- aviation has progressed from a quently since has been put to business of stunts and experi-better use. And it yet may ments to a mighty, commercial servo to weld the nations of the enterprise whose leaders are world in closer amity. By the planning far into the future such time huge multi-engined and ships as eveil the Wright many-decked aircraft are wing- brothers never dreamed of and Ing around the world in regular Buch speeds and heights as commercial service, the people would have confounded McCurdy. may be ready to live peacably The war did much to speed the and to set up the machinery development of aviation; and necessary for keeping frightful was the toll among makers in check. Thon aviation! young men who flew the "crates" will come into its own, and it of those dark days, so careless will be recognised that all tho of their lives, and probably not gallont sacrifice that went into realising that on their skill the its building was not the bitter future of a great industry and a waste it sometimes seems to be.

war-

These associated tribes, which | were almost a race by this time, had double luck.

They chanced to kill off those tribes which would have swamp

chanced them. They

er

From the Hebrews we

to

of

re-

GAUCHO HOSPITALITY

my horse had not. stumbled Iagine anything more like a red hot. should probably have passed the iron scaring the flesh." gauchos on the road and never have enjoyed their hospitality.

GRIN AND BEAR IT

m3

thigh.

Dupa Tétk by Dalled Fruturs Kendicati, ins,

But my Tooth-Work

By Lichty

"How in the world do people expect us to exchange these presents

If they tear the shop-label of?”

manner.

of

mo. Unwilling to appear inferior, I did manage to eat about two-thirds of it. The remainder I managed to throw away when no one was look- Ing.

"Have A Suck?”

After the beef. come the "matte.” The gauchos produced their matte- gourds, put pinch of the dried herb inside, added a red hot cinder from the fire and shook the gourd. When the herb was properly charred they added water. The infusion is taken by sucking it through a sliver tube. I watched the gauchos cuck- ing contentedly for a bit and then one offered me his gourd

"Quer chupar? Have a suck? ho said.

I felt the natural repugnance of the city-bred man to such promis culty, but I remembered his white. teeth under the black beard and waN consoled. I took the gourd, and the silver tube was transferred from his. mouth mine,

We spent the evening round the molic and smoking. uchos

rolled their Own cigarettes, using black tobacco and

straw. Instead of paper. rice

They gladly rolled me a dozen or so, "sce

We all had a

Inft I liked them."

drink ly

from

fell

Came bottle

the same

and final

Incep round the fire,

the morning we parted, the cowboys to continue their two hun- dred mile trek and I to continue my way up country. We hoped to meet. some day in town, and wo eme; braced like brothers before

Wo parted.

KUNter Wadson.