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VOL. 33 No. 18
Hatemongers Make Major Shift in Tactics
Straight firm
Miami Beach
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BY HAL BERGIDA
For the second lime in several
months a Miami Jewish organiza
tion has withdrawn its invitation
for Ellis Rubin to speak before its
members. Rubin. Republican can
didate for Stale's Attorney and
best known for controversial anti
communist activity, was to have
spoken before members’ of the
Junior Mazrachi Women's Club.
Last October a similar cancella
tion was made after Rubin was
invited to speak before the Miami
Beach Masada Club, a branch of
the Zionist Organization of Amer
ica. Rubin charged that "Zionist
groups are gelling orders" not to
let him speak before clubs. His
subject was "America, the Land
of the Free."
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The 1958 convention of the Wo
men’s League of the United Syna
gogues of America will be held in
Miami Beach November 9 through
11 with convention headquarters
at Waldman’s Crown Hotel.
Meanwhile, Sam Waldman.
managing director of the Crown,
announced that the 250-room
hotel which operates primarily on
an American plan during the
winter season, will remain open
during the summer mainly follow
ing the European plan. The dining
room, which observes dietary
regulations, also will remain open.
Abe Kurman has been elected
to a fifth term as president of the
Jewish Home for the Aged in Mi
ami. Miami Beach attorney Irving
Cypen was re-elected as chairman
of the Board. Kurman was lauded
for his administration and for re
ducing the indebtedness on the
million dollar plant to $60,000.
Meyer L. Brown, national presi
dent of the Labor Zionist Order,
spoke in Miami Beach this past
weekend in connection with the
Greater Miami celebration of Is
rael's Bth anniversary.
Miami Beach attorney and civic
leader George J. Talianoff has
been elected president of the
Florida Federation of B’nai B’rith
Lodges. Talianoff succeeds Dave
Wolper of St. Petersburg.
Michael H. Salmon. Miami
Beach attorney, has been appoint
ed special assistant attorney-gen
eral for South Florida by Florida's
Attorney General Richard Ervin.
A former New Yorker, Salmon
has been a resident of South Flor
ida since 1940.
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WRIGHT IS WRONG ABOUT ISRAEL
BY MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright, 1956, Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Inc.)
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to the Bible in his search for
anti-Zionist arguments.
Speaking in the State Department’s own build
ing to a group of the American Association of Uni
versity Women, Wright said the Arabs feel 1948
was only the latest time the Jdw infringed on their
territory. He hinted that the Arabs would “recon
quer” the land now occupied by Israel. He referred
to Biblical precedents purporting to illustrate ag
gressions by Jews. Abraham, he alleged, came
from the “outside” into Palestine, attacked the
local people, and drove them out of their own
country.
Wright’s blend of half-truths and propagand
istic distortions are presented in a pseudo-academic
context. Employing a guise j>f scholarly objectivity,
he is a clever and forceful speaker.
He plants the germ of an idea that the Arabs
were wronged by the Jews. His next step is to
stress the importance to the United States of Arab
JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, MAY 18, 1956
—WASHINGTON
Will the U. N. Security Coun
cil investigate the Patriarch
Abraham? 'A State Department
official has charged Abraham
with aggression.
The official is Edwin M.
Wright, adviser to Secretary
Dulles and assistant director of
the U. S. Foreign Service Insti
tute. For many years Wright’s
objectivity toward Israel has
been questioned. Early this
AJC Warns Change Could Have Sharp
Political Repercussions
CLEVELAND A major shift in tactics of organized hate
mongers—which could have sharp political repercussions in the
forthcoming presidential election campaign—was reported this week
to the American Jewish Committee (AJC), which opened a three
day meeting here (Hotel Siatler) of its national Executive Board,
with Ralph E. Samuel of New York, presiding.
The report, released by Irving
M. Engel of New York, AJC presi
dent, and based on data gathered
by AJC’s 14 area offices through
out the United States during the
past six months, identified the
major shift as the concentration
now by bigots on political griev
ances of sincere, ultra-conserva
tives. This change in emphasis,
says the report, follows unsuccess
ful attempts by bigots to infiltrate
the Republican or Democratic
party. The AJC evaluated this
shift as evidence that while the
fight against bigotry is progress
ing there can be no cause for com
placency.
The AJC survey said lhal al
though the average American citi
zen "has built up strong anti
bodies against intolerance," ef
forts to inject bigotry into the
forthcoming campaign are appear
ing with alarming frequency now,
almost six months before election
day.
REPORT ON HATEMONGERS
According to the report submit
ted to AJC’s 200-member policy
oil and Arab friendship. He intimates that U. S.
support of Israel may have undermined American
security interests in the Near East.
In a recent address at George Washington Uni
versity, Wright said that oil being pumped by
Israel in the Negev might be coming from deposits
running under nearby Egyptian territory. He sug
gested such oil rightfully belonged to the Arabs.
Wright has been in difficulties with his super
iors a number of times for publicly voicing his pri
vate views on Israel. But the State Department has
not indicated displeasure with his ideas as such.
Officials feel that he is undiplomatic in voicing
thoughts that do not coincide with official expres
sions of impartiality.
In November, 1950, Wright told an hudience at
the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis that Israelis
murdered Arabs. He made similar remarks before
the Army War College in Washington in 1951. He
responded eagerly to invitations to the University
of Indiana, the University of Maryland, the YWCA
of the District of Columbia, and other places where
thousands got the “unofficial” facts on Israel.
Finally, on February 28, 1952, Wright stood on
the platform of the State Department auditorium.
This time he had the official assignment of his
superiors to brief a group of American editors who
were preparing to leave for a visit to Israel and
elsewhere. This time he spoke inside the very
building of the State Department as an official
representative of the U. S. Government.
According to the United Press, “he said that the
U. S. had to give financial aid to Israel when the
United Jewish Appeal fell short in its quest for
funds but, he contended, as long as America!* aid
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making body, the bigots see their
greatest political opportunity this
year in the growing desire of the
ultra-conservatives to form a
third party, or failing that, to
force a realignment in the Demo
cratic and Republican parties.
In an effort to thwart what it
calls "the danger from a possible
coalition of bigoted agitators with
political., dissidents., among the
ultra-conservatives," the AJC
urged a three-fold defense on na
tional and local levels, including
voluntary citizens committees to
monitor political campaigns
against bigotry. The AJC stressed
that it was not calling for censor
ship, but rather was alerting
American voters to a potential
danger.
“Nothing is healthier for self
government than outspoken poli
tical discussion,” the AJC stated.
“On the other hand, nothing is
more harmful to self-governing
people than confusion of the issue
by base appeal to racial and re
ligious bigotry.”
In the subversion of the sincere
ultra-conservative by the profes
sional bigot, the AJC staled, "lies
the real danger because it would
give the bigot a respectable front
which could fool lens of thou
sands of unsuspecting Ameri
cans." »
“Because the hatemonger has
suffered defeat at the hands of
average American citizens—most
of whom vigorously reject and
condemn bigotry in any form—
the bigoted agitator has been com- «
pelled to change his tactics and
attempt to recruit as fronts sin
cere ultra-conservatiye elements
by exploiting the latter’s political
grievances.
"The hatemonger desires the
formation of an ultra-conservative
political force because he believes
he could infiltrate its ranks and
thereby achieve a political poten
cy he could not otherwise attain."
The AJC expressed the hope
that “sincere ultra-conservatives”
will disassociate themselves from
racial and religious bigots in any
attempt to mobilize “grass roots”
support for a possible third party
in American politics. At the same
time it called upon the Demo
cratic and Republican leaders to
prevent bigots from utilizing •
national and state conventions as
“arenas for spreading doctrines of
hate.”
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