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15. 1953
Intense Bias Revealed m i iui IVI Cl ■«. jort Survey by A.D.L
English - Jewish Press Raps
Hysterical Red Smearers
By Adolph Rosenberg
W ASHINGTON, D. C.—Representatives of more
than twenty members of the American-English-
Jewish Newspaper Association met here last week-
“Most Undemocratic Pattern”
In Entire U.S., Results Show
end, with the following highlights:
1. Reading of greetings from
President Eisenhower.
2. Passage of a resolution urg
ing Arab-Israel peace and the
preservation of civil liberties in
the United States.
3. Election of Philip Slomovitz,
publisher of The Jewish News of
Detroit, Michigan, to his tenth
term as president.
President Eisenhower’s message,
read to the association, follows:
"I am glad to send greetings on
the occasion of the annual meeting
of the American Association of
English-Jewish Newspapers.
“One of the most effective
sources of a democracy’s strength
is the accurate presentation of the
news by a free press. By your ser
vice to your readers,, you make
a lasting contribution toward the
preservation of the freedoms that
have made our nation strong.
“I hope that all who attend the
convention will return to their jobs
in a spirit of renewed dfetermina-
tion to guard with vigilance
America's boundless heritage of
freedom.”
Elected to serve with Mr. Slom
ovitz are three vice presidents:
Jack I. Fishbein of The Sentinel,
Chicago; Leo Frisch of the Ameri
can Jewish World, Minneapolis-
St Paul. Minn., and Fred Shochet,
Jewish Floridian, Miami. Bert
Kline of the Jewish Times, Balti
more, was elected recording sec
retary, and Albert W. Golomb of
the American Jewish Outlook,
Pittsburg, treasurer.
The association heard addresses
from Philip Klutzniclf, national
president of B’nai B’rith; Martin
Agronsky, radio commentator; I.
L. Kenen, Washington represen
tative of the American Zionist
Council, and Georges Wolff, diplo
matic correspondent of Agence
Presse. Members were guests of
the State Department at a press
conference held by Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles on the
occasion of his departure for the
Middle East.
The Association pledged its sup
port and offered all possible co
operation to the organization pre-
WASHINGTON (JTA)—A plea
to the great nations of the world
not to overlook Israel “where free
dom and democracy have shown
their strength” was voiced this
week by Philip Klutznick, of Chi
cago, newly elected president of
the B’nai B’rith, addressing the
concluding session of the order’s
twentieth triennial convention.
Mr. Klutznick addressed a spe
cial plea to the United States Gov
ernment to persuade the Arab
states to end their economic boy
cotts and blockades of Israel.
“To preserve and strengthen Is
rael is to sustain hope for all op
pressed people—to permit any
thing else i sto ravage a great con-
paring the celebration of the Ter
centenary of the settlement of
Jews in the United States but call
ed on the qrganization to avoid, if
possible, the necessity of a na
tional fund-raising campaign by
utilizing instead facilities of ex
isting national organizations, in
cluding English-Jewish newspa-
papers.
The editors and publishers eall-
As Atlanta's 1953 Welfare Fund
campaign hits the home stretch,
coverage and more coverage is
the slogan of the day. All along
the line, the leaders and workers
in each division of the campaign
are concentrating on bringing in
the cards that are outstanding and
completing their assignments.
Reports to date are most en
couraging, but the most important
part of the task now is to complete
the work that remains to be done
in order to bring the campaign to
a successful conclusion.
In the religious schools, the cam
paign is coming to a close with
outstanding results. As an inno
vation this year, special posters
were prepared and placed in each
class room. The posters provided
spaces where quotas were display
ed, and a thermometer-like chart
recorded the performance of the
class from week to week. Excite
ment mounted aS the “tempera
tures" rose higher and higher on
the chart and the children took
great delight in their collective
achievement of putting the cam
paign “over the top." Thanks to
the spirit displayed by the young
er generation there has been an
increase in the giving among the
children.
The Youth Division, too, is in the
midst of a mopping-up operation,
covering all the youth groups
among both the college fraternities
and independents, so as to secure
the maximum participation of all
cept and to create despair,” Mr.
Klutznick declared. He warned
that the Soviet Union sought to
take advantage of differences be
tween the Arabs and Israel and
that peace in the Middle East was
important to world peace and the
free world.
Mr. Klutznick declared that “the
threat of Communism must be met
and defeated on the domestic
scene.” He emphasized that “no
less important in the category of
inimical activity is any threat at
official or unofficial levels against
the fundamental freedoms of
America. To win a battle against
Communism and to lose the other
against our fundamental freedoms
ed upon their professional coun
terparts of all American publica
tions to oppose attacks on the free
dom of the press and to rally
against “the hysterical activities
of some who in their avowed ef
forts to oppose Communism have
made themselves no less dangerous
to democracy because of their con
tempt and disregard for our treas
ured civil liberties."
Pledging full support to the “at
tainment of a full understanding
of Israel’s crucial needs," the As
sociation resolved all possible as
sistance to the United Jewish Gov
ernment campaigns, calling upon
the "great compassionate heart of
the American Jewish Community
to respond with warm gladness,
with the fullness of spirit.”
our young people in the Welfare
Fund campaign. The enthusiasm
displayed by Peggy Lichtenstein
and her co-chairman Alvin Siegel
has permeated all their associates
in the Youth Division. They are
hard at work, as the last report
meeting has shown.
Among the Women’s Division,
the ladies in General Solicitation
are campaigning the city in a de
termined effort to completely cov
er the cards which have been as
signed to them. The same holds
true of the ladies in the Advance
and Special Gifts groups of the
Women’s Division.
In the Men’s Division, the lead
ers in charge of General Solicita
tion are working on plans for the
organization of a C-Day in an ef
fort to mobilize all of their work-
tion of “the false issues of anti-
Semitism” in the recent primary
campaign for Mayor of Los An
geles was deplored this week by
the Los Angeles Jewish Commun-.
ity Council in a statement describ
ing the charges as “appeals to
prejudice ill befitting the dignity
of the office to which the candi
dates aspire.”
The statement stressed that “by
condemning the use of charges of
will leave us a nation that is a
shell, not a reality.”
The convention adopted a reso
lution calling on the United States
Government to use its good offices
to bring about an Arab-Israel
peace and to persuade the Arab
States to end their hostile meas-
qres against the Jewish State. The
resolution also urged continuation
of financial aid to Israel.
Resolutions adopted by the con
vention in its five days of deliber
ations covered a wide range of
problems on the international, do
mestic and Jewish scenes.
The convention commended
President Eisenhower and Secre
tary of State John Foster Dulles
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Discrimination against Jews in
Florida resorts outside of the Mi
ami area, creates the most undem
ocratic pattern of resort and real
estate practices of any state in the
Union, it was revealed in Atlanta
this week in a survey made public
by Henry Edward Schultz, chair
man of the Anti-Defamation Lea
gue of B’nai B’rith.
The state-wide Florida survey
of 809 resort hotels and real es
tate agencies showed that Jewish
applicants were acceptable in only
28 percent of the cases. Non-
Jews applying for accommodations
in the same hotels showed an ac
ceptance rate of 62 percent.
ers in a one day effort in the
community which will result in a
maximum coverage of all out
standing cards.
Perhaps the most difficult part
of the campaign is the closing per
iod. Each year the campaign faces
the necessity of holding the lines
of its organization so as not to
slacken the effort of completing
the job. Experience has’ proven it
is the last part of the campaign
which is so important in securing
best results. It is a natural ten
dency to start any endeavor with
the flush of enthusiasm felt in be
ginning a worthy task—and it is
just as natural to have a tendency
to let down when the goal is in
sight. It is this latter tendency
which must be avoided If we are
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anti-Semitism as a political device,
the Los Angeles Jewish Commun
ity Council takes no position in
political campaigns.”
It added that if unfounded
charges of anti-Semitism should
again be made in the forthcoming
campaign, “we shall consider it to
be our duty to expose them and
to inform all members of the Jew
ish Community Council of the
true facts.”
Judaism Council Would
Aid Israel Peace
SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) —
American Jews free of “Israeli na
tionalism” can help resolve ten
sions and problems in the Middle
East, Lesing J. Rosenwald, presi
dent of the American Council for
Judaism, told the four-day con
vention of the organization here
this week. He made it clear that
such Jews were.to be found among
“those enrolled in the American
Council for Judaism.”
Postmaster Riegelman
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Harold
Riegelman, New York attorney,
will become acting postmaster of
New Rork, it became known fol
lowing a visit he paid recently to
President Eisenhower at the White
House. He will be sworn in next
month.
Aside from these specific figure*
revealed by the survey, investt-
gation of the policies of hotels and
real estate agencies show that
many stated baldly that they ca
tered only to Gentiles. Others used
stock euphemisms such as “re
stricted clientele” and “selected
clientele” to indicate their policy
that no Jews were wanted.
“The practice of setting up group
or religious qualifications for ad
mission to public accommoda
tions,” Mr. Schultz declared “es
tablished a social pattern directly
opposed to the democratic con
cepts on which the American way
of life is based. This undemocratic
pattern not only forces minority
groups into ‘ghettoes’ of their own,
but results in self-created ‘ghet
toes’ for the so-called dominant
elements in the population on a
purely artificial basis.”
Mr. Schultz pointed out that re
sort discrimination in time would
have an adverse effect on Flori
da’s vital tourist industry. He as
serted also that the State has a
moral obligation to see that the
situation is corrected.
“The flagrant display of dis
crimination,” he said “cannot help
but make a lasting impression on
the millions of visitors from all
parts of the nation, many of whom
come to fee I that prejudice and
bigotry are an accepted part of the
Florida scene."
Some resorts went out of their
way to add insult to injury. One
hotel wrote that it followed a re
stricted policy with regard to
“pets, children under 12 years of
age and the Hebrew Religion.”
Another advised that “We have
most denominations of churches
with the exception of Jewish Syn
agogues," while a prominent real
tor assured prospective clients that
“We do not sell property to Mi
ami Beach elements or their cou
sins from Brooklyn.” .
The survey, prepared jointly by
Alexander F. Miller, Director of
the League’s Southern Office, Gil
bert J. Balkin, Director of the
League’s Florida Regional Office,
and Louis Krapin, Director of the
National Discriminations Depart
ment showed that resort discrim
ination follows a distinct geograp
hical pattern. Almost every resort
center on Florida’s East and West
Coast has establishments which
exclude Jews while the Central
and Northern areas of the State
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Five on Red
Chess Team
NEW YORK (JTA)—Five Jew»
are included in a Soviet chess
team of ten players which is com
ing to the United States next
month to play top American chess
players, it was reported here by
the United States Chess Federa
tion.
The five include: Mikhail Bot-
winik, leader of the Soviet team
and world’s champion, Jacob Au
erbach, Isaac Boleslawsky, Yefim
Geller, and Alexander Tolush. The
New York Times said that diplo
matic observers here believe that
the inclusion of the Jews on the
Soviet team is an attempt “to dis
pel United States belief in Soviet
anti-Semitism.”
B’nai B’rith Taps Klutznick, Raps Reds,
Pats Ike, Dulles; Hears No NCRAC Peace
Welfare Fund Hits Home Stretch;
Leaders Stress Full Coyerage
Decry False Anti-Semitism
Issue in Los Angeles Election
LOS ANGELES (JTA)—Injec-