The Repeal of Cremieux - French Reaction HitsJewstoFight Free Republic
MAYNARD, JOHN A. F.
The Repeal of Cremieux — French Reaction HitsJewstoFight Free Republic By JOHN A. F. MAYNARD French Protestant Minister in Sorth Africa for a decade, now rw this country. IT IS a well-known...
...But they have all become so since that date...
...We could lick any one...
...During the first World War, they formed a large proportion of the crack regiments of Zouaves...
...Very briefly, it comprises the following: children's allowances...
...Many of those young men had been devoted patriots within'the rather restricted limits of their own views of the Good Life...
...The success of such policies , must depend upon the maintenance of full production and a high national income...
...the other a scheme of national health insurance...
...I refer of course to the honorable statesmen and diplomats of our enemies, the Axis people...
...The budget (to make them in their chronological order) served to confirm the view that a general election is fairly imminent The Minister of Finance introduced no startling changes/, the budget is merely an extension of previous policy.' Pay-as-you-go income taxation, partially in effect last year, has now been fully developed...
...France, resisting the enemy, will not condemn the government of the National Defense of 1870, whose records stand out as a shame to those who cspstairtsd in 1940, and almost killed the soul of Prance in dishonor...
...Some provisional figures far 1942 indicate that 525,000 is a reasonable estimate for that year...
...But he has learned "better...
...In other words the company—actually dominated by the American Aluminum trust—will ia a few years own one of the largest power plants in the world—with tbe government's compliments and at the people's expense...
...Much has been handed to the American press recently about anti-Jewish sentiment among the Arabs and Berbers of North Africa, and especially about a rebellion in 1871, which, it is said was "caused by the Cremieux decree...
...Quebec has its own procedures which savor strongly of corporatism...
...They have sold jot, so what...
...There is no reference to them in the popular Berber songs of the day...
...and in the end, curiously enough, those Prophets of Doom were listened to and the wrong was undone to the extent that any wrong in this world can ever be nndohff • <h This is said by someone wliQ-jivas brought up in the best traditions of twisting the British lion's tail and who even now ia sometimes tempted to indulge in that popular ancestral pastime...
...had acquired this gigantic utility first broke in the American press...
...UfHAT of the immediate future...
...I have been enjoy-jj* a few weeks of enforced rest and I have * Ume to catch up with a little thinking...
...But he is artless—he is without guile—and fate has thrown him into an arena filled with the worlcj's foulest collection of sharp-minded hyenas an\i panthers...
...to write off within . a comparatively short time as a special depreciation $154,500,000...
...ff^VERSHADOWING most other issues in Parliament during March were the budget and social security...
...sickness benefits...
...They speak French withthe Algerian accent...
...But I could devote some of with '.sure moments (twenty-four hours a day " «me out for unrefreshing cat-naps) to the le<n that seems to agitate most of the a, "~ wft0 realize that we have by no means th- Won this war, which (should it turn out wrong way) would destroy our liberty for, ^"es to -come, the puzzle of the mightiest ^« earth, which at the present moment it ha * Dattle«hip without a rudder because m ^definite foreign policy...
...liberalized old age pensions for those at present receiving them on a non-contributory basis...
...There are at least two conclusions that may now be drawn from this...
...The story of how Aluminum Ltd...
...T^HE Shipshaw power project has now * acquired all the earmarks of a first-rate political scandal...
...There are not many Frenchmen of French ancestry in some parts of Algeria...
...I don't envy him...
...Before the fall of the Second French Empire in 1870, the granting of civic rights to Algerian Jews was just a matter of a few years...
...free medical care for all citizens...
...m does, I want to live long enough to read it...
...They also have a second language which is Arabic, but many non-Jewish Frenchmen speak Arabic as well...
...problems of inheritance and questions of real-estate had become difficult with the development of the colony...
...The Venerable Bede who is at the head of that branch of our government is a gentleman of integrity and charm and he bears an aura of decency and goodness which greatly endears him to the hearts of his"fellow-countrymen...
...since nobody would know my better...
...In the meantime it is one of tbe clearest dtjtias of lovers of freedom to protest, as they $d in the Dreyfus case...
...Investment income above $3,000 during 1942 remains fully taxable...
...It is now or never...
...These neo-Frenchmen are now the third generation bom as French citizens...
...There is no mention of the Jews in the manifestoes of the son of Abd-«1-Kader...
...There is a bare chance that the republican majority of 1936 will become a minority, as some inspired propaganda has already claimed in dispatches from North Africa...
...It is just political pretence to claim that the case of the Jew and the Moslem is similar...
...The Repeal of Cremieux — French Reaction HitsJewstoFight Free Republic By JOHN A. F. MAYNARD French Protestant Minister in Sorth Africa for a decade, now rw this country...
...Although the federal' government could pass national legislation for the duration of the war at least, it has consistently refused to do so...
...IT IS a well-known fact that whenever the* enemies of democracy want to strike a blow, they pick on the Jews first When these enemies of democracy retreat, they strike at the .lew last That is what happened in North Africa when the citizenship of Algerian Jews, abrogated by the Vichy government in one of its first decrees, was abrogated again by General Giraud just before he officially renounced Vichy in full...
...General Lallemand who knew Algeria better than any one else at that time declares that the Cremieux decree had nothing to do with the state of affairs...
...French magistrates had to administer law according to a most complex system...
...Report From Canada — 'Beveridge' Plan Tabled, Monopolies Grab Gov't Plants By A. R. ANDRAS OTTAWA.—Headlining Canadian newspapers for several days were two important social security reports that were tabled in the House of Commons...
...Income tax for 1943 will now be paid wholly in 1943 out of 1943 income...
...Among the French it is found among enemies of a democratic regime, whose power, fortunately, is waning fast, as the State prisons release one by one the true anti-fascists and efliSa...
...The increased income tax payments may have an adverse effect on voluntary purchases of war savings bonds and certificates...
...increased unemployment insurance benefit...
...The prefect of Coh-stantine examined all the prisoners and witnesses at the long trial of the rebels...
...ept away from any contemplations upon such Itwli"7 "^i**18 "s Ham Fish or John Lewis...
...The Department of Labor has at long -teat issued figures on trade union membership for 1941...
...contributory old age pension payments up to age 55...
...foe gentleman is considerably more photogenic rtin most of his colleagues, and now that our inning Chinese guest is leaving us, we need U0...
...And he has come to the one Wintry in the world which as a whole is totally ignorant of.the changes which have come over ti* worli-at large...
...The government will try to borrow as much as possible'from the public...
...This is the real reason why the Algerian Jew, often more French than his enemies, is now deprived of the vote...
...But their parting shot abrogating the Cremieux decree is a absurd as it is unjust...
...The immediate causes of the 1871 rebellion were the bankruptcy of the bachaga Mokrani, the return of the son of Abd-el-Kader, the replacement of the military by civil government in North Algeria, the dissatisfaction of feudal Arab Chiefs who now feared for their privileges maintained by the French Imperial regime, and mostly the defeat of the French armies, in the war against Germany...
...The second is that the government has yielded all the way to the company's pressure in this respect and has placed future industrial developments in this regicn at the mercy of this octopus corporation...
...In the debate on the budget, the C.C.F...
...It presents the jurists of the North African government with the toughest legal problems they nave to handle...
...And there you have the nigger in our diplomatic wood-pile—our hopeless sens.e of naivite...
...One ether cause was the application of the jury system to Algeria...
...And when people ask me to weep with them about their ablted Gandhi, I say: "A raw carrot for that selfish old man...
...Anthony Eden has arrived in this • country, and I will grant that he has added enside^b'v to the make-up of our front pages...
...The Nazis are much better off in that respect than the Allies...
...And they had taken their training...
...So arrogant in their loudly professed humility, go shamefully cruel towards Aeir less...
...The word naive, so Brother Webster informs me, means that some one is "philosophically and intellectually uninstructed — unsophisticated — characterized by unconventional simplicity or artlessness...
...but similar proposals (sponsored by the C.C.F...
...It is a pity that she is going, for I could -t imagine a more agreeable evening than -e spent listening to a debate between His Majesty's Secretary of Foreign Affairs and the „jfe of China's Commander-in-Chief...
...But they suffered from that general affliction which has so often undone the best of our intentions in our dealings with foreign problems and foreign nations...
...Thousands died on the field of battle...
...The Algerian Jews, even when religiously minded, were eager to accept civil assimilation to other Frenchmen...
...The Marsh report cn social security is a comprehensive scheme which, if enacted, would provide Canadians with basic protection against dire want...
...They had never rebelled against it...
...They were happy under French rule...
...I may be wropg but I submit the idea for what it is worth...
...They unanimously declared that the Cremieux decree had nothing to do with the rebellion...
...Why accept tovserjje in the French army as Frenchmen and eat pen, and impure meat slaughtered without the name of Allah...
...They had learned their craft according to all the best available text-books...
...The report points cut very rightly that social insurance involves a more equitable.' distribution of the national income rather than an added cost to the community...
...T'HE Algerian JewB would have voted with the * rest of France for the Emperor if they had been naturalized by him, as was expected...
...The principal difficulty which stands in the way of organization is the lack of adequate federal legislation...
...I lived in a little community where oat of forty voters, only one was of pure French parentage...
...disability pensions for unemployables...
...No one would have thought that the Algerian Jews, when given the status of Frenchmen under civil law, by abandonment of the rabbinical perscnal status, should be denied civic equality...
...I do not know whether they will bumble themselves ana beg for what is theirs by right...
...for he surely has chosen him-•df some job...
...However, I was talking about Anthony Eden wd not "about the great Maharma, and so here »« eonthrae'with His Majesty's First Secretary (y«, I trunk that is correct) of Foreign Affairs...
...Anti-Jewish agitation among the Moslems has today by and large the same German source...
...I ™^e come?to feel a profound gratitude towards *>« poor kids who are losing life and limb in a ¦°»t sublime and casual way because the stage « their, activities had not been prepared in right psychological way before they were *nt out to storm the shores of the African rjfcnent and were obliged to wade through J*ln pf such hell-holes as New Guinea those boys made it possible for me to go ""ugh this illness with that feeling of per¦u safety now no longer shared by any other »™BP of people in any ether part of the world...
...But" when the Devil is on the point of taking over the business of running the world (if only pro tern...
...Wealthy landowners and industrialists ha Algeria are antidemocratic...
...Accepting that law is to them a sacrilege, and it is also a foolish act...
...They had been far less addicted to snobbishness than the Big Shots who had become"- Excellencies by-reason of the fifty or hundred thousand dollars with which they had fortified the treasuries of either the Republican or Demccratk parties...
...Thousands were decorated for valor...
...I am under tketmpression that if any prospective Ph.D...
...As a matter of fact, they hate the Christians far more than they dislike the Jews...
...These figures may Seem picayune to Americans but they must be pet alongside of a total wage-earning class of about 3,000,000, including civil servants, teachers, etc...
...What it cannot get from the public it will have to borrow from the banks—definitely inflationary...
...As long as they win, they don't care what anybody says of their cause or of the means they are eaploying td achieve their ends...
...For they must fight the good fight with-0nt exactly knowing what the good fight is...
...The rebellion of 1871 began as early as September, 1870...
...Cremieux, who was Minister of Justice in 1848, would not consider the naturalization of Algerian Jews, because "they were not ready for that step,:' signed with Gambetta on October 24, 1870, a decree granting this nationality...
...The proportion of organized to unorganised is still pitifully small, but at any rate the gap has diminished somewhat...
...this would at the same time reduce consumer spending and stave off inflation...
...The Moslems da not care to become French, because they do not want to come under the French civil law...
...Eden keeps a diary...
...preferred shares are st a premium...
...Its causes were the same as all Arab rebellions before, and since, namely the desire of revenge of the vanquished, and more especially the Moslem point of view that the European is "an ungodly miscreant" whose place should be not as a ruler, but as a despised subject of the believers...
...This propaganda material is worthless and untrue...
...I think that therein lies the loudly bewailed weakness of our foreign policies and our Department of State...
...These tissn, 'descendants of Spanish refugees escaped Wf"* the Inquisition, are proud men...
...The anti-democrats want that chance...
...This, however, was formally denied by the Minister of Munitions and Supply in the House of Commons in a statement on the subject...
...Italian or Algerian Jewish ancestry...
...This was the opinion of the French electorate in general, since it elected Cremieux as deputy of Algiers in 1871...
...The latter dwelt mostly in cities...
...Now the majority of voters there will probably be fascist...
...I can't love any group of people wio are o.uite so hopelessly self-satisfied with their owavfatjaty...
...Indeed, I wonder whether any of them has ever very seriously read that clever Florentine statesman, who gained his sad renown because he said in public what everybody knew in private—that diplomacy as it used to be practiced was as nasty a business as the world had ever seen and that there was only-one way in which to get the better of one's opponent—by being twice as crafty and cunning as the other fellow, who would eat you unless you ate him first...
...The report estimates that this would require an annual expenditure of one billion dollars...
...Chiang Debate rpBE Hon...
...The worst feature about the budget is the fact that nearly half of the more than four billion dollars required will have to be borrowed...
...We might—for the moment at least—go to the Police Department and ask that useful institution to teach us a few things...
...It also recommends that during the first year after the war an additional one biliion dollars be spent on public works, to fill in the almost inevitable gap between cessation of war production and resumption of peacetime goods production...
...maternity benefits for employed women...
...Should the Devil' come out on top, then'aas for a change would be God, and though thkt would make black white and white Hack, what of it...
...ever should decide to devote his thesis to this subject, he would come to the conclusion that a majority of all Americans, and ever since the beginning of our independent history, have felt the same way about our foreign service...
...French democracy, when it speaks again on French soil, unhampered by the loud propaganda of the fifteen thousand noisy anti-Semites of Algeria, will abrogate Giraud's abrogation of the Cremieux-Gambetta decree...
...Naive Michiavellians ITHINK that more by luck than by wisdom I have hit the hammer on the nail...
...The Algerian Jews wanted it far almost a century, and have bad it for seventy years...
...They knew rt but they don?t give a damn...
...Show me one untouchable he las ever touched and I will go on a week's linger strike (itWould be good for my figure, anyway...
...In many cases the Jewish Vole would save democratic institutions...
...or 60 per cent ef the total outlay...
...I TSING the term anti-Semite is rather absurd ^ since there are many Arabs in Algeria, and they, of course, are Semites par excellence...
...jtle had apparently come to talk «w thei "situation of the future," to bestow a ptessanfiname upon what is really the after-toe-war-meas...
...I would ,lio love to see the way^ in which that nimble-yigtd lady would dispose of some of "the arguments with which His Majesty's Secretary of Foreign Affairs would be obliged to bolster up tbe Allied plans for the spirit of that brave world which is to be distilled out of essence of Atlantic Charter and balsam of Four Free-ioms...
...They had come up because they were even quicker witted and less scrupulous than the rest of the wclf-pack which had just succeeded in devouring the more respectable remnants of their own diplomatic services of the days when a foreign minister might be a gentleman sent abroad to lie for his country but who, even at his most mendacious, would obserte the rules of the game, as our better-class gangsters used 'to do during the heyday of their glory and opulence...
...hewed consistently to its line of an all-out war effort through equality of sacrifice and conscription of wealth...
...A new Victory Loan will be floated shortly which will prove, or disprove this supposition...
...The fact is, however, that there was a considerable degree of boni redemption after previous loans...
...Keeping the Algerian Jews disfranchised is the last hope of the fascist die-hards...
...No work fit for a real he-man who might be running a factory or shape the destinies of an up-and-coming stock exchange...
...Today tbe question of the citizenship of Algerian Jews has become the realistic test of the survival of French democratic ideals expressed by the French Revolution in the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789, and the logical consequences of the principles of equality of political rights granted to French Jews by the "Assemble* Constituante" in 1791...
...And he has even come to the conclusion that of the two great Nations, England, by and large, has tbe better1 record for saying: "Sorry, but we are afraid that we made a mistake and now let us tee what we can do to straighten this matter out"1' * * * k lew Carrot for Gandhi I REALIZE that this confession will be fol• towed.by a howl of derision from those who krtre their little Hindus...
...The Arab and the Berber do not care for French citizenship...
...It is their privilege to declare that justification of oppression is rather rather s sorry role...
...France, healed from the fascist alflKpe, will take back to her heart all the groups matted by the collaborationists...
...A government of Naticnal Defense was formed...
...Well, I don't love my little Hindus...
...And as a result, that kind of work had been left to perfectly nice young men who for one reason or another had not fitted into the accepted pattern of our domestic existence...
...The only anti-Jewish items are found in circulars issued by German agents who tried to arouse the tribes against France...
...They may have made mistakes in 'the past—dreadful mistakes—but there was always some one among them who would get up and tell them so...
...The judges were often embarassed: they wanted a more homogeneous- legislation...
...We have got to save as many of those boys at the front and cn the high seas as we can...
...It is a well-known fact that they are as good as the others...
...In a public statement on the report...
...This is the main reason why French reactionaries have chosen them as objects of their special hatred...
...The "Nice Men" of Diplomacy Mr/f that we have ever paid very much attention to our foreign policy...
...The others were of Quanta!, Maltese...
...They are very much likej&>u?hern Frenchmen...
...But the Allies, though they are no saints, now know better...
...They had often given up a pleasant and comfortable career at home for the discomfort of several far-famed capitals which I shall be too polite to mention...
...survivors' pensions for widows...
...The "Code Napoleon" ruled die French, the Malekite legislation ruled the Mohammedans, the rabbinical law was for the Jews...
...There is nothing deep or mysterious about our State Department...
...And so on...
...It was a legal and not a political problem...
...Tbe anti-Jewish statements mode to the press have been too often insincere...
...It would be another Lincoln-Douglas debate, and I am afraid that I would not put ay money on His Majesty's Secretary of foreign Affairs...
...At the end of 1941 total membership stood at over 461,000, an increase over 1940 of over 96,000...
...Unless this " decree of Giraud is abrogated, tbe Algerian Jews will find it very difficult and costly to be made citizens again, individually...
...The people of recent Italian and Spanish ancestry have naturally been subjected to fascist propaganda from the oW country...
...ul take a stronger heart than mine happens •* just now before I can let myself go upon J* object of those enemies of the Republic s 0 are directly responsible for the calamities be* befallen many of the youngsters I oj,i •and ,oved...
...Instead, the Canadian government had allowed Aluminum Ltd...
...or in the letters of Mokrani...
...labor legislation is a provincial right...
...The collapse of the French Empire on September^, 1870, brought about a hurried decision in the, case of the Algerian Jews...
...There is nothing Machiavellian about our diplomats...
...These cannot be considered intelligently apart from the general ¦ economic and social structure...
...Eden at all, for he ,eems s bright fellow and an honest man, and these are days that must try the souls of honest Ben...
...unemployment assistance to uninsured persons...
...Our naivite as a national characteristic is un« doubtedly one of the virtues which will endear us most cf all in the eyes of Almighty God...
...Military discipline was undemocratic and we should not waste any of our valuable time training a lot of professional military snobs who were no better than the strategic geniuses who would arise from nowhere in particular the moment they were needed...
...and funeral benefits...
...r I would like to see whether his conclusions wuwkie with some of urine...
...It seemed at first that the project had been financed .by the American government...
...Obviously, this result can, not be attained by leaving basic industries and financial institutions at the mercy of so-called private initiative...
...Why should they give up their privileges as males...
...They are higher than for any previous year on record...
...fortunate brethren as your nastily pinning Hindus of the Gandhi class...
...They have kept aloof from the "fringe" movements in Algeria, which organized "anti-Semites" at the end of the nineteenth century, "cagoulards" a few years ago, and followers of a so-called National Revolution in the evil days of collaboration...
...British Columbia has just amended Its legislation to strengthen the position of bona fide unions...
...an be guilty of such an absurdity as warning »e people of the United States against the wramon perils of Socialism and Fascism, it Wves that she just has not the faintest notion "what has happened to the world Idon't know whether Mr...
...It seemed un-American to do so...
...Unpaid 1942 taxes have been forgiven by the amount of 50 per cent on earned income...
...They were hopelessly naive...
...There has never been any accusation of "cowardice" levelled at them as a group by anyone...
...They showed the same spirit of gratefulness by voting for the Republic ever since...
...The Moslems of Algeria, whether Arab or Berbers, do not love the Jews, but unless aroused by agitators they do not hate them...
...We were the biggest, goddamnedest -country in the world...
...These had come up the hard way...
...They associated it with all they most deeply-disliked, both in the lives of foreign nations and in the life of the Republic...
...High pressure salesmanship simply boomer-anged...
...And all during that half a century there was a popular agitation against West Point which, if it had been successful, would have made the Civil War last twelve years instead of four...
...CCF leader M. J. Coldwell stated: "The report deals only with social security proposals...
...No doubt in 1870 a large number of Algerian Jews were not quite French in their outlook...
...They are fighting the bad fight...
...This is one indication of the good thing being made out of the war by Alcoa's Canadian subsidiary...
...Said M. Vuillermoz, the late mayor and deputy of Algiers, before the parliamentary commission of the French Chamber of Deputies years afterwards investigating the question: "The decree of naturalization would not Jiave bern so criticized if the Jews had been, willing to vote on the side of the adversaries of Republican institutions...
...We could do perfectly well without a military academy...
...It is their jpy to break t)a*#*n of politics and racial discrimination and wa)sjpffM friends whose hope has been deferami, "TaattSas prejudice has been labelled res)ism "Van Loon's Diary" By HENDRIK WILLEM VAN LOON A. fdeo-Mme...
...We felt about it the way the People of the thirties and forties of ."the hist century felt about our military academy...
...One is that the company has taken advantage of the war to further its already extensive monopoly control over power in large areas of central Canada...
...then the saint has little chance to survive...
...The cause of the spread of the rebellion was the blundering of a certain French general...
...By the way, oughtn't it to be "First Secretary" ? I have an idea that it ought to be, but they won't let me get up for a few weeks yet, and so I apologize if it is wrong...
...But one thing I know...
...It had to do with people endowed with fanciful names and preposterous titles and absurd uniforms and with wives who sported diamond dog-collars and with bright young men, who served delicate little sandwiches at strange social ^rituals conducted in outlandish languages...
...One was the Canadian equivalent of the Beveridge Report—the Marsh report...
...No, I irould not envy Mr...
...When an otherwise bright girl like Clare Luce (but lay., ajf--the wise-cracks, my dear Representative, for whosoever in public life shall avail •"¦•elf of the wise-crack will perish by it...
...And when the Police Department goes after a group of gangsters, it avails itself of hard-boiled, crafty yeggmen who will out-smart any crook at any kind of dirty business that may be necessary to rid the community of the public danger which happens to threaten its safety...
...but don't disturb my now reasonably pet heart by bringing him up...
...The company's shares, by the way, are booming on the market...
...The qet result is that, without raising the tax rate, tax payers' obligations during 1943 have been raised by about per cent...
...Ontario is at present examining the question of a collective bargaining act of its own...
...Recent events illustrate what this means...
...seriously...
...went down to defeat in Manitoba...
...They do not claim to be better than other Frenchmen...
...It can be attained only through our willingness to plan our economic life to satisfy human need instead of the accumulation of wealth by privileged persons or coi porations...
...Among its leaders were Gambetta and Isaac Cremieux...
Vol. 26 • April 1943 • No. 14
