May 12, 1938 THE SENTINEL 33 VATICAN ATTACKS NAZI THEORY Chalutzim Defend Hanuta, Outpost Denounces Hitler Racial Doctrines Of Jewish Homeland, against Arabs As Menace to Humanity and Religion By ROMAN SLOBODIN terroristic, was to be expected. The Paris, May 9 (Havas)-An impor- Rome, May 9 (WNS)-The appear- (J.T.A. Staff Correspondent) Zionist leadership therefore moved tant document vigorously attacking a ance of the swastika flag in Rome dur- with great caution. number of outstanding racial theories ing Hitler's visit was publicly deplored Jerusalem, May 9 (JTA) - On a The area was purchased by the Jew- has been drafted by the Vatican and by Pope Pius in an address to 500 new- steep rocky Palestinian hillside near ish National Fund from owners resi- will be issued shortly, Georges Goyau, ly married couples at Castle Gandolfo, the Lebanese frontier, a few miles ding in Syria. The purchase was made of the French Academy, revealed in an where he had gone to avoid any meet- inland. from Ras el Nakura, seaside with money raised abroad, largely in article in the conservative newspaper ing with the Nazi fuehrer. In language frontier post, stand a collection of huts the United States,' in the "Galilee Le Figaro. that left no doubt as to the Pontiff's and tents and a wooden water tower, drive" for funds to buy land. Settlers The Vatican statement has been attitude regarding the Nazi emblem, surrounded by a barbed-wire fence. were picked from among all the Zionist drawn up by the Congregation of Sem- the Pope said: This is the typical first stage of a new parties,' organizations and communal inaries and Universities and is princi- Pope Flays Nazi Flag Display in groups (kibbutzim), by a special com- to call the attention of Jewish settlement in the Holy Land pally designed "With your faithfulness to Christian post in the mittee. For weeks, preparations were to racial Hanuta, perilous pioneer Catholic university rectors and with your prayers we may terror-infested re- made for taking possession of the "absurd and perni- life midst of the most theories considered hope for everything from divine good- gion in Palestine. ground. cious" by the Holy See, it was said. things are happening, sad a caravan of Decisive ness; for sad Though it resembles other young On March 21, at dawn, In his article, entitled "A both far and near. Yes, their belongings, building by the Pope," things, indeed, Jewish settlements in many respects, settlers, Move Against Racism sad things. Among these sad some ways unique. For materials and implements loaded on in this doc- very Hanuta is in Goyau declared the Papacy things is certainly the fact that it has strategic reasons, its founding, instead camels and donkeys, arrived at their ument "emphasizes in no uncertain both out of place With not been considered of being hailed with world-wide pub- new home in the wilderness. language the divergencies existing be- to hoist in Rome, in volunteers from and untimely licity, was veiled in secrecy by the them caine about 200 tween Catholicism and German racial on the day of the sacred the Emek Israel, Emek Zebuluh Rome and Jewish Agency. theories." cross, the emblem of a cross that is Its inhabitants, for the time being, and Naharia. On the spot their The Vatican document, signed by we double- not the cross of Christ. And when are almost all young men picked to first task was to erect a Mgr. Ernesto Ruffini, secretary of the how of military de- have said this, we have told you face danger and hardship. A large barbed-wire barricade Congregation, assertedly is designed to and pray tower, which had been, necessary it is to pray, pray proportion of them are supernumerary sign, the water. defend the truth against the "march of may manifest brought along in sections, and which that the mercy of God policemen (ghaffirs), authorized by the error" and new and "profoundly ab- itself in all its amplitude. My God, Government to carry arms. Hanuta also served as a watch-tower, and surd" dogmas. "Mgr. Ruffini stresses tents. we are the first to need Your mercy, today is a semi-military encampment, the despondency which ,comes ov6r from the first to from Jewish settlements in which was extended the settlers, under strict discipline, do- Groups Pope Pius XI when he is confronted persons who crucified our Palestine visited the new col- the very ing their work of erecting shelters and northern by these 'impudent' and 'extremely Christ.. Let us pray that ony during the first day to cheer it on. Lord, Jesus building roads with rifles near at hand. pernicious' calumnies which, falsely mercy may descend in its infinite Among them was a delegation of -or- of science, this The land on which the settlement camouflaged in the name upon all poor souls that need thod'ox Jews from Galilee, led by a everywhere in an scope stands is an unpromising-looking patch are disseminated it to save themselves and thus to save white-haired patriarch, who brought as human spirit and of 3,992 dunams (about 1,000 acres), effort to pervert the the price of divine redemption." roughly oblong in outline, extending a gift a copy of the sacred Scroll of uproot the true religion," the article from the Palestine-Lebanese frontier the Law. said. This utterance came a few days af- four kilometers southward. The The document reputedly outlines ter the Osservatore Romano, official about Though the entire enterprise had criti- encampment itself is near the southern speed the Vatican's opposition to racial con- Vatican organ, had vigorously been carried out with the utmost Taking edge of the area. The value of. the site be cepts as follows: cized German racial theories. and secrecy, it could not, of course, of ex- is largely political and strategic. . Its Arab bands roam- 1 The Congregation. of Seminaries as its text its own publication .oncealed from the which location is such that in the event of ing the vicinity. On its first night of refuses to recognize the racist tracts from Nazi racial studies in races partition of Palestine into Jewish and dxistence, Hanuta was heavily at- doctrine that uncivilized human the achievements of the Nordic Arab States, boundaries, in order to beings are closer to the animal were extolled over those of the Medi- tacked. Judah Brenner, 22, a super- re- include Hanuta in the Jewish territory, numerary policeman, was killed, and world than their civilized terranean, the Vatican mouthpiece could not exclude sections which, it wounded in the brothers. buked the Nazis for likening the Medi- Jacob Berger, 26, was races, had been rumored, might be awarded knee. The settlers drove off the attack, 2-It places its veto on the racist terranean peoples to the Negroid to the Arabs. killing one of the raiders and wound- theory of blood and on concepts and denounced the Nazi race theory as ing others. which mould an entire juridical "anti-scientific" and "unsupportable Until the settlement was established, and reality." The wholly Arab. Except system on the interests and in- in relation to history the region was According to official Jewish sources, Romano also said that when British troops occupied the bor- stincts of a race and foster mate- Osservatore it is planned, despite the inauspicious "racism,- as its masters with the con- der lands, which they could noLdo con- rialist ideologies. appearance -of the countryside, to set- cept of a superior race understand it, Arab guerrilla bands roamed 3-It protests the subordination of tinually, tle eighty families at Hanuta eventu- results, if not in scorning 'other races, the countryside almostunimpeded, and the religious idea to the law of ally, with the expectation of bringing at least in considering them as infer- smugglers favoured it for their *opera- 2,000, dunams under cultivation. For race, a law born of racist peda- gogy which designates the culti- ior. This contains the evident germ of tions. two years, however, the colony will be the division and rivalries of domina- maintained by the Jewish Foundation vation of the racist spirit as the Under the circumstances, opposition- ting expansionism, which are the nega- to the settlement, both political and- Fund (Keren Hayesod). dominating motif of education. 4-In conclusion it denounces the tion of understanding, equilibrium and abolition of human personality peace between nations." Canadian Bishop Hits. Croat Leader Attacks by doctrines which stem from a National Fascist Party Anti-Semitic Policy "men eistonl oby thetate an kParis,AuMay a9 (JTA)a-dThe wel for the State." professor, Dr. Ude, has published in Montreal, May 9 (WNS)-Canada's Belgrade, May 9 (JTA) - Anti- the Grazer Volksblatt a sensational Fascist organization - the National Semitism was denounced by Dr. Vlad- protest against the treatment of the Social Christian Party - and anti- imir Macek, leader of the Croatian Austrian Jews, according to reports Semitism, its major plank, were de- Peasant Party and head of the United from Vienna. nounced by Bishop 'John C. Farthing Opposition, in an interview. "We "We not only do not benefit the at the opening session of the Anglican Croats;" Dr. Macek is quoted as say- Germani people, but load 'ourselves with Diocesan Synod of Montreal. Declar- ing, "do not hate Jews; neither is Jew- Toronto, May 9 (JTA) - Between heavy guilt if we remain silent in the ing that the party's anti-Jewish plank hatred known in democracies through- October, 1940, and May, 1941, Cana- face 'of such unjust action, taken here is "neither Christian nor British" and out the world. Anti-Semitism is char- d4's Fascists will "either be shot or and there against the Jews, or even asserting that "it strikes at the very acteristic .of the morals of certain cir- be in power," Adrien Arcand, Quebec's approve it with heartless laughter," root of our liberties," Bishop Farthing cles which are today leading the world. "Fuehrer," told an organization meet- Professor Ude was quoted as stating. warned that while the party aimed first Jews are made the scapegoats of any ing in the East End of Toronto. "We Germans must be mindful of at oppressing the Jews, it would extend failure. We Croats will not follow that Jews, he said, were stirring up racial the sentence, 'Do not to others what its persecution, when it had the power, example." problems. "Jews have come and you would not have done to your- to labor organizations, youth groups Regent Prince Paul expressed sym- grabbed the country, and we have de- selves.' Precisely in these days we and the Christian church. He pleaded pathy for the Jewish people and Pal- cided in Quebec that a nation must must urge the strictest justice; those for Canadians to awake and face the estine upbuilding during an audience be created to take back that stolen acting otherwise dishonor the German facts. granted to Dr. David Albala. country," he declared. name and harm the people."