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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspa per for Southern Jewry — Established 1<v '5 ^
VOL. XXXI
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1956
White Citizens Council Sheet
Attacks “Hadassah Newsletter”
BIRMINGHAM, (JTA) — A
split between two branches of
the pro-segregation White Citi
zens Councils here, in which anti-
Semitism figures, had been widen
ed. Each of the groups announced
separate mass meetings to be held
here. The latest developments in
the internal breach were charac
terized by charges — and denials
—of anti-Semitism.
State Senator Sam Englehardt,
head of the Association of Citi
zens Councils of Alabama, said
“we can’t fight everybody,” and
added his group is “not Interested
in religious bias or prejudice, but
is concerned only in maintaining
segregation.” He also expressed
the fear that injection of this is
sue might result in a situation
where “we won’t have anybody
left to help us.”
Meanwhile, Ace Carter, head of
the North Alabama White Citizens
Council, which bars Jews from
membership, charged that the in
jection of the anti-Semitic issue
was a strategem used by “anti-
Christ, atheistic elements with
Communist ideologies who are
using the Negroes as a tool.” He
said it was ‘‘demagogic” to accuse
his group of anti-Semitism. His
group’s publication, “The South
erner,” is currently attacking the
Hadassah Newsletter” for pictur
ing a white and Negro child to
gether.
AJP ROUND-UP
The News Picture
Jewish families in every nook
and corner of the globe will unite
this Monday night, March 26 —
the 14th day of Nissan — for the
traditional first seder and the dra
matic Hagaddah, adding courage
and strength to Israel, will re
mind them that the battle is only
half-won and that final victory
must still be obtained from the
uncompromising descendents of
the same oppressing Egyptians.
Pesach this year, therefore, wili
have special meaning to modern
Israel. In a Passover message is
sued this week, Philip K. Klutz-
nick, world President of B’nal
B’rith, declared that the depart
ure of the Jewish people from
Egypt established for all time in
Jewish tradition the concept that
freedom and the survival of the
group were indissoluble. But the
ability of the Jewish people to
give effect to that historic decision
and to make its contribution as a
group to humanity requires con
stant vigilance and sustained ef
fort, he went on. “The right of
my people or individual to live
in freedom is not cheaply won,”
he said. “It requires constant vig
ilance and the utilization of all
the Instruments such as the Uni
ted Nations that will serve that
purpose.” Mr. Klutznick added:
“At this Passover season B’nai
B’rith renews its pledge to combat
all forms of tyranny over the in
dividual and the group.”
Jewish military personnel with
the U. S. Armed forces on five
continents and in 63 overseas
countries will participate in Pass-
over seders and holiday services
to be organized for the 39th year
by the National Jewish Welfare
Board — the government-auth
orized agency serving the religious
and morale needs of the Ameri
can Jewish servicemen and hos
pitalized veterans. The U. S Air
Force will fly a rabbi from the
states to a GI seder in Iceland,
and will transport a Jewish chap
lain from McGuire Air Force
Base, N. J., to services in Ber
muda and the Azores in the Mid-
Atlantic.
Rabbi Irving Miller, in his
Passover statement, declared that
“our hearts go out this Passover
to our brothers and sister in Is
rael who are. bravely celebrating
the great Festival of Liberation
in city, countryside and border
settlement under conditions of
growing stress and strain. They
face the same enemy that our fore
fathers faced over 3000 years
ago — with the same will to re
sist. But there is this great dif
ference: then the Jewish people
stood alone in a hostile world of
lawless, Godless tyrants. Today,
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by Adolph Rosenberg
An Israeli bared his heart to American Jewry in Atlanta
Sunday and this is what he said:
“You are our backbone. We are your tower of strength.”
“Sometimes there is as much fire in insulted Jewish blood
as in Arab oil ” .
“We shall sing, if need be,” in the hour of dire trouble,
“but your voices are needed in the chorus.”
In this moment of travail, “we have only you to help us.
You cannot buy arms for us, but we can . . . Every dollar you
give to us can release a similar amount from our budget to
be used in our defense ...”
“Let there be no fear in your hearts over the outcome.
Only fear that the price be not so terrible.”
“The price may be reduced to a minimum if you dedicate
only a few hours within the next few weeks.”
Zvi Kolitz, Israel author and producer of “Hill 24 Does
Not Answer,” was speaking to about a hundred leaders as
sembled for the Emergency an idea which seemed to permeate
By David Horowitz
it has friends and allies wherever
men and women are free.
Rabbi Chaim U. Lipschitz and
Mendel Feldman of the Rabbinic
al Alliance of America, declaring
that Israel was destined to be
come “a kingdom of priests and
a holy people,” released this Pass-
over statement: “Our brethren in
the Holy Land are now confront
ed with their most severe crisis
since the establishment of the
State. We pray that, as in the
days gone by, the dedication of
our people to the perpetuation of
oiu- sacred heritage will merit
thlm Providential grace so that
they will be preserved and
strengthened conquering all ene
mies of democracy and Torah.”
MID EAST CRISIS
Robert G. Spyvack’s question
during Eisenhower’s press confer
ence last week, namely: “Last
week, Mr. President, you said
there was no point in supplying
arms to Israel because she is out
numbered by the Arabs. I would
like to ask if we haven’t followed
the policy of helping smaller na
tions, such as the Chinese regime
in Formosa, when they were
threatened by much larger na
tions?—finally brought out the
long-awaited reply from the Pres
ident himself: “we have foreclosed
on nothing—and I didn’t, I never
said, and I am sure that the Sec
retary of State has never said,
that we would not furnish arms
to Israel.” But, said Ike, “We
were hoping for a better solution.”
Eisenhower’s further statement
that the U.S. is drawing up pro
posals for a new approach by the
UN to the problems of preventing
war in the Middle East and bring
ing about a lasting settlement
there has led to a great deal of
speculation. Some hold that a new
UN Commission will be created
to deal with the problem.
“Israel Is Here To Stay,” LIFE
Magazine finally concurs in its
leading editorial this week. “Un
less the Arabs accept this, there
can be no peace,” LIFE editors
subtitle their editorial. Directly
to the point, the historic LIFE
declaration warns: “The time has
come for friends of the Arabs to
tell them, with the bluntness of
genuine friendship, something
they seem unable to understand.
That something is this: “Israel
is here to stay. It is going to stay.
The American people, who help
ed create Israel, who were the
first to recognize her, and who
hold warm feelings of friendship
for her, are going to see to it that
she stays. Until you, the Arabs,
accept, deep in your hearts, the
fact that Israel is here to stay,
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Georgia U.J.A. Conference.
Not an eye in the audience was
dry when he finished. The men
and women limp from the impas
sioned speech stood in a prolong
ed ovation. The writer’s talk was
declared by several as the most
moving they had ever heard in
the long succession of interpre
tations of the Israeli message to
Jewry in this country.
Mr. Kolitz began by discussing
the Egyptian policy four thousand
years ago toward the Jewish
slaves of that time and which ap
pears the theme of the Arabs to
day.
This theme, he said, is “Let’s
outsmart them.”
When the Arabs failed to push
Israel into the sea in the battle
for liberation, they tried to out
smart us economically. This was
evident in their boycott, in their
Atlanta Welfare Fund Activities
Scrap Metal Dinner
The Scrap Metal Industry, un
der the leadership of M. William
Breman, Bernard W. Cohen, Sam
uel L. Eplan, David Koplin, Max
London and Max Rittenbaum, held
an enthusiastic dinner meeting in
behalf of the Welfare Fund at
the Mayfair Club, Monday, March
19.
Guest-of-honor of the evening
was Nahum Astar, Consul for Is
rael in the Southeast. As in ali
other divisions to date, the re
sponse of the Scrap Metal group
was not only encouraging, but
showed a large increase.
Rabbis Asked To Feature
Drive At Passover Service
A request from General Cam
paign Chairman Stanford Mako-
ver, A. J. Weinberg and Morton
L. Weiss has gone out to all rabbis
to make the eve of Passover or
the first day of Passover an oc
casion to present to their congre
gations the message of the Wel
fare Fund. It was pointed out
that now, as in the days of anc
ient Egypt, there are grave emer
gencies facing Jews in foreign
lands, with the situation being
most serious in Israel and North
Africa.
Israel Consul, Wife Guest at
Women’s Advance Gifts Group
Mr. and Mrs. Nahum Astar
were guests of honor at a lunch
eon of the Advance Gifts group
of the Women’s Division at the
Progressive Club, Wednesday,
March 21. Under the leadership
of Mrs. M. William Breman, Mrs.
Philip Schwartz, Mrs. Simon Se-
lig, Jr., Mrs. S. J. Steinbach and
Mrs. Harry K. Stern, the group
held a large, enthusiastic and
well-attended meeting. The re
sponse of those in attendance
showed that the women were well
aware of the emergency situation
and responded with generous in
creases in giving.
Men*8 Advance Gifts,
Group 1, To Hear
Ira Hirschmann
A special planning meeting of
members of Advance Gifts I of
the men’s division was held
Thursday, March 22, for the pur
pose of rounding out plans for
the groups annual dinner to be
held Sunday night, April 8th at
the Standard Club, with Ira
Hirschmann as guest of honor.
Mr. Hirschmann is a world trav
eler, author and civic leader. He
has occupied high posts with both
Bloomingdale’s and Saks Fifth
Avenue, leading New York de-
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efforts to thwart our dedication
to bring new immigrants to our
shores.
By stiffling us economically,
they sought to piake American
Jewry grow tired of giving as
sistance, and America of grants
in aid.
The Suez Canal, the Akiba Sea
were closed to us in the process.
Only the Mediterranean Sea is
left open to us. Then they sought
internal strangulation on the Sea
of Galilee, within our own bord
ers. There several thousand per
sons had found a new livelihood
through development of a fish
ing industry. By placing sea guns
to fire on Israeli fishing vessels,
the Syrians continued to draw
tight the noose, Mr. Kolitz con
tinued.
Then it was that we had to
make a decision which Is so dif
ficult for a small struggling na
tion—to take the choice between
an action for security and world
public opinion. The choice, he re
called, brought censure for the
Jewish state.
Unlike Korea, Israel cannot re
treat if attacked and call for help
from the nations of the world.
Korea is a larger country. She
was able to retreat and wait for
help. There is no place to with
draw in Israel, he repeated. Re
member that in some places the
territory can be crossed by tanks
in fifteen minutes.
Israel would be decimated with
in the matter of minutes. And
where would we find a place to
call for help, if we had to rely
solely on the United Nations.
We are faced, he declared, with
hostile Arabs. We are faced with
the same hostile forces which
touched off World War II for the
Arabs are being trained by Com
munist officers and Nazi officers.
There is nothing so vicious as
a defeated Nazi, he asserted. They
are known to have said that “We
will finish the job here that Hit
ler began.” If you do not know
they have said this, we do.
Arab fanaticism, Nazi bitter
ness are combining with Com
munist tanks. . .
It is not easy to tell the Israelis
they will have to fight as they
did in 1948 with Molotov cock
tails. Do you know what a Mol
otov cocktail is? He illustrated...
Three tanks were approaching an
Israeli town, so three men tied
gas vials to themselves and threw
themselves onto the tanks. After
the explosion occured, the men
were dead, but the tanks were in
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Ben Gurion and Array Chiefs
Start Defense Building Drive
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — In a
dramatic move to spur the defense
of Israel Prime Minister David
Ben Gurion, together with his
Army Chief of Staff and top
military leaders, set an example
in establishing protection for bor
der settlements threatened by
Arab attack. At the same time,
describing the program initiated
by Mr. Ben Gurion, a military
spokesman declared that Israel
has come to regard the danger
of war as highly concrete.
Mr. Ben Gurion, in his capacity
as Defense Minister, was teamed
up with an army private and a
settler in erecting a barbed wire
fence around the settlement peri
meter. Nearby, Maj. Gen. Moshe
Dayan, Army Chief of Staff, was
teamed with a private and settler
in digging trenches. In similar
teams all of the top officers of
Israel’s Army of Defense helped
construct defensive trenches, rifle
pits and machine-gun nests.
Other ministers went to different
areas to help spark the conversion
of Israel’s border settlements in
to defensive outposts.
Recognition of the dangerous
situation following the upsetting
of the military power balance in
favor of the Arab states has ob
liged Israel to strengthen itself
from within through the utiliza
tion of all resources, the Army
spokesman said. He said that in
line with this policy Israel would
try to convert every settlement
into a defensive position, a con
cept that had proved valuable in
the War of Liberation.