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PERTH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 18, 1945.
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...Why Have the Jews Been Persecuted Throughout history? Aliens from the Majority in Culture and Interests Catholic States Have Always Been Best Protectors of Juda Close Association With Communism an Irritant Rv T. RYAN, S.J.
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The persecution of the Jews has brought them the sympathy of the world. Ritter charges- are made against them tut even if they were true, and eve , n if they were a hundred times more serious than those that are ac. tually made, no crimes on their part could have justified the treatment which Jews have received. This persecution has happened in Europe again and again, hack even to the days of Republican Rome before the time of luliu, Caesar, and it has broken out with terrible violence in one country or mwther iu every century. One naturally asks if there is any reason for it. There is no doubt as to the fundamental reason of the opposition to the Jews, It is their intense racialism. The strongest supporters of an extreme racial policy have been the Jews. They claim all the privileges of citizenship in every country in which they choose to live, but always they remain a nation within a nation. They habitually help their own people rather than the country that protects them„ and contribute only in a very small degree to the national 'life of the State. There are_ notable exceptions, it is true, but for the most part the Jews live as aliens from the majoritv in culture and in interests. This racial solidarity may be an admirable thing and the result of qualities that deserve our esteem, but it immediately marks out the Jews a, being in a county- but not of it. The presence in any country of an alien group, closely united and almost
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fanatically clannish, is hound to act as ;in irritant. Jews are foreign to the Christian civilisation on which Western civilisation and culture are founded. Thev are definitely marked as aliens and the responsibility for this is primarily- their own. An ineyitahle consequence of this exclusiveness is that anything which is clone by individuals of the race is attributed to them as Jews rather than as individuals. It is unjust, and quite indefensible, bat it is what has happened. We saw a parallel instance develop when the Germans imitated the Jews in their racial exclusiveness. Their intense rn-ialisnt has brought on all the hostility that was merited only - by some. In these virc•umstances it is certain that the faults of the Jews will be greatly exaggerated in the public ,rind, and that anw aceivations that can he made against individuals will be piled up against the race. There have alw•ays been throughout Europe as man• non-Jew , as Jews engaged in the business of usurious money-lending and of receiving stolen gonds, just as at the present time in the industry of pornography and the white-slave traffic, but sinre Jews have been many times found to he connected with unpleasant dealings of this kind, they
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Jews has been greatly strained, for while Catholics have been always ready to side with the Jews against those who persecuted them, the Jews— excepting always some very notable exceptions—have never helped Catholics in a similar plight. For instance, during the past 20 years Catholics in the U.S.A. have unceasingly defended the Jews against attack, denounced the injustice that inspired them; but the Jews, rw•ho control a very substantial part of the American press, have been silent when Catholics were attacked. The persecution of the Catholics in Dfexico was more violent than anything that has been done against the Jews in present memory, but the section of the press controlled by the Jews remained to Spain. When in a few weeks far more Catholics lost their lives in Spain by brutal murder than Jews in Germany from the beginning of the Nazi regime to the present day, the Jewish. controlled press not only showed no sympathy for the suffering Catholics but in many cases openly sided with those avho attacv-d them. Even some leading Jews who should have known better have used their freedom after flight from Germany to identify themselves with the attackers of Catholics. When Einstein was driven out of. Germany, the Nazis declared that the distinguished professor had not confined himself to matehmatics, but had intrigued with Red organisations. This was denied vigorously by his friends, and people in the U.S. opened their arms to the eminent exile and he was given a chair in Princeton University. There he was barely installed when he associated himself with those who supported the are readily helieved by the public to persecutors of Catholics in Spain, and be mainly responsible for them, and though a guest of the U.S. had the imso incur odium that is partly undepertinence to join in a petition. to the served. In the same way the acGovernment to permit the exportation knowlydged Jewish capacity for makof arms to the Red Government in ing mloey is probahly exaggerated; Spain. Similarly Freud, after being and the power of international Jewish allowed to live in peace in Catholic finance less sinister than it is reputed Austria, was no sooner turned out by to be; but if this is ,o, it is the Jewthe Nazis than he announced publics. ish racial exclusiveness which is ultition of a new hook, Hoses, which was mately- responsible for the exaggeradefinitely anti.Catholic. tion, To sac all this is to stake oneself It is obviously wholly unjust to atliable to the accusation of anti-Semittack a race for the faults of some of ism, for so strongly has Jewish influits members. The Catholic Church ence led the press to-day that anyone has always taken a firm stand against who does not praise the Jews without anti-Semitism, and constantly it has reservation is held to be sympathising protected the Jewish people against its with, if not actually instigating, a pogenemies. Tht leaders of anti-Semitic `rom. The parallel between this and campaigns have always been equally the tactics that make even• opponent distinguished for their anti-Catholic ncof Communism seem a Fascist is too tivities, whereas the most Catholic striking to he accidental, and it is their States have always been the hest proclose assoriation with - Communist intectors of the Jews. Poland, the most trigue at the present day that has Catholic state in Europe, is often re. made it difficult for Catholics to give presented as being anti-Jewish by traunreserved support to the Jews, while dition, vet the toleration shown the sv:npathising with them completely in Jews for many centuries is proved by the brutal persecution to which they the fact that in the last century more have been subjected in Germain• and than half the Jews in the world were tht• uniust treatment that they have living in Poland. received in other countries. it must he admitted that at times (Continued on Page 4.) the sympathy of Catholics for the
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