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No. 38
A strident summons for Amer
icans to be alert to the dangers
threatening democracy from
within and without was sounded
by National J.W.V. Commander
Paul Ginsberg, above, at the re
cent convention of the Georgia
Department, Jewish War Veter
ans, held in Atlanta. Mr. Gins
berg, above, is shoum congratu
lating newly-elected Georgia J.
W. V. Commander J. Mao: Cooper
of Savannah. Looking on are
Meyer Rhode, formerly of Val
dosta, now of Atlanta, immediate
past state commander and Con
vention Chairman Coleman Me-
dintz, commander of Atlanta
Post 112, host chapter to the con
vention. Mr. Ginsburg reported,
on his tri.p around the Globe at
a convention dinner in his honor.
Top slate of officers of the
Georgia Department, J.W.V., in
cludes (r. to l.) Maurice Kravtin,
Columbus, junior vice command
er; Commander J. Max Cooper,
Savannah, and Arthur Weiss, At-
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licity chairmen too ivill be wise to keep material brief and to
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together. —THE EDITOR
General Zionists May
Enter Coalition Cabinet
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The pos
sibility that the General Zionist
Party, second largest in Israel,
will join the government coali
tion in the immediate future ap
peared stronger this week fol
lowing weekend developments,
NCRAC to Continue Work;
Door Open tor AJC, ADL
lanta, senior vice commander.
Not in the picture are Dr. Robin
son, Savannah, surgeon; Buddy
Esserman, Valdosta, judge advo
cate, and Meyer Rhode, immedi
ate past commander, trustee.
NEW YORK (JTA)—In with
drawing from the National Com
munity Relations Advisory Coun
cil, •: lie American Jewish Com
mittee and the Anti-Defamation
League of B*nai B’rith reject
“any cooperative process” and
"repudiate the basic aims and
objectives of NCRAC in whose
formulation they participated,
Irving Kane, NCRAC chairman,
declared this week.
He asserted ithat by their res
ignation,” the two organizations
have done a serious disservice to
their constituencies and have
deeply prejudiced the realization
of the ideals for which both or
ganizations have labored for
many years.” He said that many
had hoped that “a sense of com
mon accountability in a common
cause would have brought about
a decision on the part of the
American Jewish Committee and
the B’nai B’rith to remain in the
NCRAC.”
Mr. Kane announced that the
NCRAC would continue its work
despite the withdrawal of th6
two agencies. He said that “the
NCRAC would continue to dis
charge the responsibility placed
upon it by the Jewish communi
ties of America. Its doors will
always be open to 'those who wish
to join in meeting this respon
sibility and wbo, in the discharge
of their accountability to the
whole Jewsh community, are pre
pared to participate in the joint
process of planning and coordi
nation which, is the NCRAC.”
He voiced belief that time
would persuade the two agencies
that their decision “was detri
mental to the very causes to
which the organizations are ded
icated” and said thait if and
when this happened, “1 aim sure
the two agencies will be welcom
ed back into the family of organ
izations which, through the
NCRAC seeks ito create an inte
grated program of community re
lations to serve all the Jews of
the United States.”
Atlanta AJC Board Approves
“Walk-Out" From N.C.R.A.C.
The executive committee of
the Atlanta Chapter haw approv
ed the “walk-out” of the Amer
ican Jewish Committee at the
recent plenum of the National
Community Relations Advisory
Council.
A single di&senting vote was
registered at the board meeting
which also urged the national
body to “make further efforts
towards resolving the differen
ces that now exist between the
American Jewish Committee and
the N.C.R.A.C.”
chairman of the Atlanta A.J.C.
Chapter, stated “The American
Louis Regenstein Jr., past
Jewish Committee sincerely
wanted to achieve agreement at
the Plenum. Our delegates along
with those of the Anti-Defama
tion League wefe compelled to
recommend the withdrawal from
a new kind of N.C.R.A.C. which
is based upon principles incom
patible wiith American Jewish
Committee’s views of Jewish life,
or effective Communal Jewish
relations and its own (relation
ships to Its memberships.”
The Atlanta resolution ex
plained :
“That effective community re
lations action is the common goal
to which we all subscribe,” and
“that within the N.C.R.A.C.
there are agencies, not only with
diverse goals but with diverse
viewpoints as to how to achieve
common goals, and further that
these are voluntary agencies,
each with its own constituency
to whom they have a primary (re
sponsibility and whose autonomy
must therefore be fully respected
and maintained.”
Claims Conference Ratifies
German Reparations Pact
than at any time since the last
national elections when the cen
trists displaced the Mapam Party
as runnerup to the Mapai,
A meeting betweenMapai lead
er Premier David Ben Gurion
(Continued on page 8)
NEW YORK (JTA)—The pol
icy committee of 'the Conference
on Jewish Material Claims
Against Germany, representing
23 major Jewish organizations
throughout the world, this week
ratified agreements by the Con
ference with the West German
Federal Republic and with the
State of Israel under which it is
to receive $107,000,000 in settle
ment of material claims against
Germany and under which West
Germany agreed to improve its
restitution and indemnification
legislation.
The conference also voted to
incorporate itself in order to en
able it to discharge its 'respon
sibilities under the agreements.
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chair
man of the Conference, who
signed the agreement with Ger
man Chancellor Konrad Adenau
er at Luxemburg, told ithe con
ference that “we are all agreed,
and the majority of Jewish pub
lic opinion supports our view,
that the negotiations have ended
successfully for Israel and the
Conference although we did not
obtain all we wanted.” Hhe said
that.“we have achieved great im
provements in restitution and in
demnification for hundreds of
thousands of Jewish victims of
Nazi persecution, even though we
could not obtain German accep
tance of our demands concerning
Jews from Austria and a number
of similar issues.”
Dr. Goldman disclosed that
during the negotiations the Ger
mans strenuously opposed global
payment to the Conference,
maintaining that material set
tlement should be with Israel
alone and Conference negotia
tions should be restricted to
questions of legislation. He
pointed out that the concept of a
globul payment to a non-govern
mental ad hoc body possessing
no juridical status in interna
tional law was admittedly un
precedented, and the achieve
ment of securing German agree
ment was not only important be
cause it enabled additional aid
to Jewish victims of Nazis, but
also because it established a prec
edent of major significance.
Speaking of the moral impli
cations of the agreement, Dr.
Goldman recalled the controver
sy over acceptance of the Ger
man bid to negotiate and said
that “we would have commtited
a moral injustice, a sin of omis
sion, had we refused to nego
tiate, however delicate and dif
ficult it all seemed in its initiul
steps. Even if these negotiations
had not involved material bene
fits to Israel and the Jewish vic
tims of Naziism, our generation
still would have been morally
hound to make every possible ef
fort to obtain recognition of the
moral principle that a nation
which has committed crimes
against our people, must make
amends. The fact that a power
ful and sovereign state has done
so establishes a historic prece
dent of importance to all peo
ple.”
Truman Will Dedicate
Synagogue in Capital
WASHINGTON, D. C. (JTA)
—President Truman accepted an
invitation this week io lay the
cornerstone for the new temple
of the Washington Hebrew Con
gregation, a Reform group,
which is now celebrating its
100th anniversary.
Mr. Truman told a delegation
of Washingtonians who called at
the White House that he would
be happy to participate in the
ceremony scheduled ^or sometime
in November. Rabbi Norman
Gerstenfeld said the temple’s or
iginal cornerstone was laid by
President McKinley and that
Vice-President Adlai Stevenson,
grandfather of the Democratic
presidential nominee, attended
the ceremony at the temple.
The president will also address
the national leadership mobiliza
tion of the Jewish Welfare
Board,, which opens here Octo
ber 17, Secretary of the Army
Frank Pace, Jr., and Federal Se
curity Administrator Oscar R.
Ewing are among those who will
address the three-day parley
which 300 are expected to at
tend.
HARTFORD, Conn., (JTA) --
Navy Chaplain Hiilel E. Silver-
man, Jewish chaplain at the Ma
rine Corps Recruit Depot at Par
ris Island, S. C., officiated recent
ly at a service believed unique
in military history when he cele
brated the bar mitzvah of two
Marine “boots.”