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Persecution

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-Semitic movements ended in complete failure. When Czecho-Slovakin was forced into the German orbit by the Munich agreement one of the first aims of the Nazis wos to make her an anti- The weak Czech Semitic State.

Government was forced to announce publicly plans for the "solution" of

SENTRY: Advance, friend, and give the password. 1940: Victory.

"Many are the virtues

which

the nation asks from its people

in time of

war

•

•

but the

༡

chief virtue is VALOUR

SO LET'S END THIS FARCE OF—

UNKNOWN

LIVING

WARRIORS

by-

Wood admitted. (I thought I detected a blush) in the House of Commons last week that if an

'Pharaoh

Didn't Go

Half Far Enough..

Y

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 as their forefathers in Egypt, and that Phurnoh had not Kone halt for enough."

This is how far Pharaoh went. It

Exodus, Chupter Five:-

And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord God of lsrael, Let my people go, that they may hold o feast unto me in the wilderness. And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the Lord, neither will I let Israel go.

"Hebrews ̄nath" met with ̄unglet ̄ur (70, wo pray thee, three days

sacrifice unto the Lord our God; lest he fall upon us with pes- tilence, or with 'the sword.

Journey Into the desert, and

officer pilot-and-a-non-commis- And they said, The God of the 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- 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

G. Garro Jones, M.P.

Ttish

decorations at all, and then, ales!

Such

are the Rules of

the Jewish question, but apart from guard over the names of not only the medals of the fight- Chivalry in 1939! the dismissal of a few Jewish civil their fighting officers and ing soldier, but the sumptuous

servants nothing much was done,

The heart of the Czech people and

men.

subsides!

•

them, Wherefore do ye, Moxer and Aaron, let the people from their works? get unto your burdens,

of the land now are many, and ye nake them rest from their burdens.

And Pharaoh commanded the same day the taskmasters of the people, and their officers, saying....

decorations which adorn the hats So also in the Army. A pri-And Pharaoh said, Behold, the people The Air Ministry, in particu- 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

ollicers and generals will be put Military Cross or the D. S.0.

Nor under this intolerable task and nothing of real importance correspondents to "mention any

system is there any hard and happened unill the Germans occupied names." There are to be no

fast line to govern the kind of Prague in March, 1939:

public heroes, no air "aces," no

MANY are the virtues service for which any decoration Ye shall no more give the people Roll of Honour of the living,

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) few efficiency from our adininistru there is a proviso which enables to Baron von Neurath, the German nameless-except those "Protector." They were all rejected selected for decoration and be tors; sustained effort from our awards to be made "for meri- us too mild, and finally, at the end lated mention in despatches." workers; and in the breast of torious service."

The Government of the so-called "protectorate" was then compelled to establish an anti-Jewish law. Three drafts were prepared and submitted

consulting the Czech Government, he

bonds, or to float new business vento dislodge, for it is contrary to tures. All their present holdings had common sense and contrary to to be declared to the German, not the the nation's desire. Czech, authorities. Meanwhile, they must not dispose of any property without German permission.

The idea of this decree was to

THE departments offer two reasons why names "Aryanise Jewish business in favour of fighting men should be with- of the Germans, not the Czechs. By held from the official communi- a second decree a few weeks later aques. maximum number for Jews was in- troduced at Czech schools and a num-

And so to-day, when we gaze

straw to make brick, as horeto- fore: let them go and gather straw- for themselves,

And the tale of the bricks, which

they did make heretofore, we shall: lay upon them; ye shall not diminish ought thereof; for they be idlo: therefore they cry, saying. Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

Let there more work be laid upon.

the men, that they may labour therein; and let them not regards vain words.

And the taskmatter of the people

went out, and their officers, and, they spake to the people, saying.. Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give: you straw,

of June, 1030, without so much us 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 real estate, to take part in commercial exact province of the Minister order. But in war, the chief seldom able to tell from the equal colour of the ribbons which of enterprises, to acquire shares or

their wearers have fought and virtue is VALOUR.

The nation which fails in that which have only helped with the stern test is conquered. Here plans. then is the very spearpoint of We must, of course, pay sub- | our national thrust. We must stantial respect to the brains of burnish it till it glitters, and the administrative staffs and Go ve, get you straw where we can when it is proved to have passed recognise that many of them, find it yet not ought of your work the acid test, the nation with especially in the Royal Air Force, grateful hand must imprint upon have proved their gallantry be- They say first that we must it the hallmark of recognition, yond all dispute; but there is ber of Jewish organisations were dis not give information to the It is false to say there is no many a tunic bearing dazzling And the taskmasters hosted them, solved.

The Gestapo were by this time enemy. That hoary excuse is glory in heroic deeds, or that decorations which are unsupport- 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 a 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 bravo men, and promptly at- All this ought to be changed

Israel, to issue by-laws it in put up by embarrassed tach names to them, would be to in favour of publishing names ordering a social boycott of Jews and Ministers as a last defence-al- blaze tracks of light across our in official reports. barring them from parks and swim- ming pools. They encouraged shop-ways unanswerable, generally darkened skies. The fighting keepers to display the sign "Aryan unconvincing.

men would be encouraged; the

administrations

towards the Jews.

THERE is a final argu- business" but they could not compel It would only hold water in public would be inspired; and the

ment against anony- the Czech people to accept these this instance if it were desired world of neutrals, of aliles and of mity. What of him who does a 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 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.

not return? secution of the Jews in the Relch and reports the publication of indi-

What will be his guerdon? in the "protectorate" les mainly in

the last war we were "His name," we shall say, this, that in the Reich the persecution vidual names would not help was usually based on laws or decrees, the enemy.

told a hundred times that "liveth for evermore." whereas in

shall be diminished.

So the people were scattered abroad. throughout all the land of Egypt to gailier stubble instead-of straw.

saying, Fuifi your works, your daily tasks, as when there stray.

WHE

And the officers of the children of

which Pharaoh's task-. masters had 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

israel cama and cried unton Pharaoh, saying, Wherefore dealist thos Thus with thy servants? ( Thera is no strato given unto thy......

servants, and they say to us, Make- brick and behold, thy servante- ara beaten; but the fault is in thine-

therefore ve soy, Let us go and do sacrifice to the Lord.

"prolectorate? only The other reason offered by the occasional award of decora The British people would pre-own people. three decrees of Importance wire the departments is of oven less tions would do all required, and a fer to place a laurel upon the But he sold, Ye are idle, va ore idio: passed, while everything else was 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

1 It is argued, rafuted, but the old system of brave mon. They want the little of the measures adopted has "and the public will 'iloniso the decorations is still unmodernised, name promptly imprinted on the hitherto been known to the outside hero, to his moral downfall." For exampl Sir Kingaloy deed. world.

name,"

Go therefore now, and works for

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