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AN INDEPENDENT WEEKLY SERVING AMERICAN CITIZENS OF JEWISH FAITH
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VOL 29 NO. 34
PLAIN TALK
B7 Alfred Segal
THOSE ANTI-SEMITES
Mr. Henry Hurwitz of New
York brings to my mind the
whole matter of fighting anti-
Semites, and is it being done the
right way and is it worth while
to keep on spending all that
money on it?
Mr. Hurwitz is the editor of the
Menorah Journal of which he
sends me the latest issue, devoted
entirely to the subject of what
we are doing about anti-Semitism
and how good is it? In particular
it has to do with the report of
Professor Maclver who, after
thorough investigation, found that
the organizations appointed to
defend us from anti-Semites over
lap and duplicate each other’s
jobs, waste our substance and are
inept in their activities.
Our three defenders are the
B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation
League, the American Jewish
Committee and the American
Jewish Congress. They look like
three armies fighting in the
same cause in different direction,
under a variety of competing gen
erals who have little or no com
munication with each other.
We the dues-payers to welfare
agencies are the ones who pay
the upkeep of these horsemen
galloping in their diverse direc
tions.
And, Mr. Hurwitz tells us. only
recently the Anti-Defamation
League at considerable expense
published a book called "The
Troublemakers" in which "it
rakes ap gluttonously all the filth
of the bigots." That is to say. we.
the contributors, pay for reprint
ing the vile outgivings of psycho
pathic anti-Semites fit only for
the sewers.
Long before Professor Mac-
Iver’s report, I myself came to
the idea that it’s no good for any
group—to say nothing of three
groups—making a vested interest
of fighting anti-Semitism.
It's no good when the handling
of anti-Semitism gets to be a big
business of professionals. To hold
their jobs professionals have con
stantly to go smelling for anti-
Semitism in order to keep us
dues-payers frightened and alert.
Mr. Hurwitz quotes Professor
Maclver: "Anti-Semitism is so
eternally in the thoughts of those
who work professionally for its
elimination, that they are apt to
exaggerate the importance of in
cidents, that they tend to give
them undue public attention and
sometimes take a public stand
that has a boomerang effect.
“There is sometimes too great
a readiness to impute guilt by
association. They sometimes act
as though all people who enter
tain current misconceptions about
Jews are evil-minded and intrin
sically hostile and then are likely
to denounce them instead of seek
ing to enlighten. On more than
one occasion a certain agency has
published charges of anti-Semitic
behavior against some individual
and then had to withdraw the
charges."
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ADL Neel
Slated
•
Arnold Forster, author of the
best-seller, “The Troublemakers,”
and Chief Counsel for the Anti-
Defamation League of B’nai
B’rith, will be the featured speak
er at the opening session of
ADL’s sth annual Southern Re
gional Board meeting, to be held
in Atlanta on September 13 and
14, it was announced today by
William P. Bloom of Tuscaloosa,
Ala., Chairman of the Board.
Delegates from 11 southern
states will attend the Atlanta
meeting, which will deliberate on
policy and programs for the
southern office of ADL for the
coming year.
BARRY GRAY CHARGES
ATTACKERS WERE NAZIS
NEW YORK, (JTA) Radio
commentator Barry Gray, victim
last week of a pre-dawn street
slugging, charged that his assail
ants were apparently Nazis and
that the slugging was in retalia
tion for his attacks on resurgent
Nazism in Yorkville, New York’s
German district and one-time
stronghold of the Nazi Bund.
Gray was set upon by two armed
thugs, one of whom applied anti-
Semitic epithets to a friend who
sought to come to Gray’s aid.
Radio Station WMCA offered a
$2,500 reward for the arrest of
Gray’s assailants.
Stevenson, Eisenhower Urge Racial
and Religious Cooperation
NEW YORK, (JTA) Both major Presidential candidates called
for understanding and cooperation among all racial and religious
groups in this country in statements made public here by the
National Conference of Christians and Jews, which had solicited
the statements.
“Without tolerance, without
understanding of each other or
without a spirit of brotherhood,
we would soon cease to exist as
a great nation,” General Dwight
D. Eisenhower said. He called on
ISRAEL TO DISPERSE
NEWCOMERS
JERUSALEM—(ISI)—New im
migrants under 35 years of age
will henceforth be provided with
permanent housing only in agri
cultural or underdeveloped areas,
according to a new housing policy
announced by the Jew is h
Agency’s Absorption Department
this week. Housing near the
towns and larger centers will be
provided only for families whose
breadwinner is over 35. The
reasons for this step are being
explained to all present residents
of magbarot (transitional work
centers).
The decision is in line with
the national development plan
which calls for the dispersal of
the population away from the
present congested areas to build
up a more balanced economy.
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1952
WIIItR TO HMD OJA’S
$35,000,000 CASH DRIVE
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The launching of an intensive nation
wide drive by the United Jewish
Appeal to raise $35,000,000 in cash by
the end of 1952 to meet the worsening
financial crisis in Israel was announced
in Jerusalem this week by Jack D.
Weiler, member of the UJA’s National
Campaign Cabinet and a General Chair
man of the UJA of Greater N. Y., fol
lowing conferences in Israel with
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and
other top government leaders. Mr.
Weiler, who will serve as National
Chairman for the UJA $35,000,000 Cash
Campaign, said that first results of the
special drive will be assessed at a
national conference to be held in
Washington, D. C., during the October
18-19 week-end. Mr. Weiler warned that
“Israel’s lack of hard currency has jeop
ardized its progress.’” The UJA nation
wide campaign supports the programs
of the United Israel Appeal, Joint
Distribution Committee and United
Service for New Americans.
every American to pledge that in
political affairs “no taint of re
ligious or racial animosity shall
trouble our national % unity.”
Gov. Adlai Stevenson urged the
removal of “fear and prejudice”
and the destruction of “the myths
that gnaw at our vitals.” He in
sisted that “we can ill afford to
exhibit to the world either incom
petence or injustice in dealing
with the relations of racial or re
ligious groups.”
ISRAELI SCHOOLS OPEN
WITH RECORD PUPIL
ENROLLMENT
TEL AVIV, (JTA) A record
350,000 pupils of kindergarten
and elementary school age re
turned to school throughout the
country this week to find the
school week reduced by two to
four hours. ,
The reduction in the school
week, along with the request to
teachers to work two additional
hours per week without overtime
pay, are designed to cope with
overcrowded conditions and the
lack of qualified teachers.
AJC, ADL Threaten Walk-Oul If
NCRAC Totes Reorganization
ATLANTIC CITY. (JTA) The American Jewish Committee
and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith served notice that
they would walk out of the National Community Relations Advisory
Council if the tenth annual conference now in session here voted
acceptance of pending proposals for reorganization of community
relations work and allocation of functions among the six participat-
ing national organizations.
Spokesmen for the two organi
zations submitted an alternative
plan for reorganization of the
work. Jacob Blaustein, president
of the American Jewish Commit
tee, asserted this plan “repre
sents the farthest we cftn go.” He
appealed to the conference to
take no action to precipitate the
“totally avoidable tragedy” of a
walk-out by the two organiza
tions.
Frank Goldman, president of
B'nai B'rith, told the conference
that its acceptance of the pro
posals by its special Evaluative
Committee would compel the
ADL and the AJC to leave the
NCRAC. He rejected suggestions
by Irving Kane, NCRAC chair
man, that the two organizations
could remain within the NCRAC
even though they dissented from
the reorganization plan. He said
LOHBECK VOICES
ANTI-SEMITIC TIRADE AT
MACARTHUR RALLY
DENVER, (JTA) A “Mac-
Arthur for President” rally here
sponsored b y Gerald L. K.
Smith’s “Christian Nationalist
Party” was converted into an
anti-Semitic demonstration when
Don Lohbeck, one of Smith’s key
aides and principal speaker at the
meeting, launched into an attack
on the “intemationalist-Zionist-
Jewish combine” and bitterly as
sailed the Jews.
Lohbeck, who distributed peti
tions to get the names of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur for president
and Jack Tenney of Los Angeles
on the Colorado ballot, said he
was confident that MacArthur
would accept the nomination by
the party’s national convention.
He deplored the fact that his vice
presidential candidate, Tenney,
appeared on petitions of the Con
stitution Party as presidential
candidate.
According to the Intermountain
Jewish News, 93 people attended
the rally at a local hotel.
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ISRAEL APPROVAL OF
REPARATIONS PACT WILL
AWAIT GERMAN ACTION
JERUSALEM, (JTA) The Is
rael Cabinet will not approve the
Israel-West German reparations
agreement until after the Borin
Cabinet has done so, a govern
ment spokesman announced here
after the Cabinet met for a second
time in less than » week to dis
cuss the agreement. The German
Cabinet is scheduled to act on the
pact this week.
After the pact is approved here,
Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett
will fly to Luxemburg to sign it.
The ceremony is now expected to
take place before Wednesday of
this week.
the joint proposals "contained the
maximum to which at this time
we can go and retain our mem
bership in this organization."
The joint proposals called for
establishment of “joint operating
committees” in each of the six
fields of community relations
work. These committees would be
composed of representatives of
agencies with a “record of activ
ity” in the specific fields, organ
ized on the following basis:
1. Veterans Affairs Committee,
in which the American Jewish
Committee, ADL and Jewish War
Veterans would have equal repre
sentation with the JWV repre
sentative as permanent chairman.
2. Intercultural Education
Committee, with equal represen
tation for the American Jewish
Committee and ADL, “the only
two now operating in this area,”
with the possibility of inclusion
of the National Conference of
Christian and Jews which is not
a member of NCRAC.
3. Interreligious Activities
Committee, with three represen
tatives each for the American
Jewish Committee and ADL and
six for the Synagogue Council of
America which is not now a
member of NCRAC.
4. Labor Committee, repre
senting the Jewish Labor Com
mittee, American Jewish Com
mittee and ADL.
5. Civil Rights Committee, with
equal representation for the
American Jewish Committee and
ADL. Sponsors of the plan said it
has not been possible to achieve
collaboration with the American
Jewish Congress but called for
"practical steps" to enlarge the
committee to include this agency.
6. A committee “to extend and
increase coordination” between
the American Jewish Committee
and the ADL in the field of in
vestigation of anti-Semitism.
The joint proposals also would
give representation in the Joint
Defense Appeal to the Council of
Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds.
Division of Functions Proposed
By Evaluative Studies
Committee
The fireworks in the year-long
battle was centered around the
two proposals for division of
functions among the national or
ganisations in the community re
lations field with the NCRAC in
the role of coordinator and policy
agency, and for a national budget
review commission which would
appraise the requirements for the
entire community relations field
and for the individual organisa
tions and make recommendations
to the organizations and to the
welfare funds.
The American Jewish Commit
tee and the Anti-Defamation
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