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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspa per for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
VOL. XXXI ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 20, 1956 NO. 28
Student Confesses Burning Civil Liberties Union Scores U.S.
Of Crosses in Washington
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — A
24-year-old University of Virgin
ia student confessed today to par
ticipating in the planting and
burning of crosses in front of
the residences of Supreme Court
Justices Earl Warren, Felix
Frankfurter, Sen. Herbert H.
Lehman, Solicitor General Simon
E. Sobeloff and an official of the
National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People.
The student, Ronald E. Rowley,
who refused to name his accom
plices, admitted planting the
crosses last night to express in
dignation of the Supreme Court’s
decision ordering the desegrega
tion of public schools in the
south. Signs left beside the burn
ing crosses indicated this senti
ment, but one left before Mr.
Sobeloff’s home read “Sobeloff
. • . Jew” — the remainder of
the sign was burned.
Rowley forfeited $20 in bonds
rather than stand trial for mis
demeanors — the ‘‘kindling of
bonfires.” He was traced through
the license plates of his car. The
FBI was called into the case by
Attorney General Herbert Brow-
ell, who reported to the Presi
dent on his disposition of the
matter. Presidential press secre
tary James Hagerty said that the
President approved the decision
to call in the FBI.
AJP NEWS PICTURE
Bias Revival
"Ugly intimations of anti-Se
mitism, tolerated if not encourag
ed by the Communist regimes in
power, are again appearing in
Eastern Europe,” reports C. L.
Sulzberger from London. "There
are hints,” he says, “that Marx
ists leaders, bewildered by the
great post-Stalin debate, are
either permitting or encouraging
a new search for racial scape
goats to avoid blame for past or
present ideological confusion.
And, according to available evi
dence, Khrushchev is personally
connected with this unpleasant
recurrence of racial prejudice.”
This view was confirmed by the
Paris office of the American Jew
ish Committee which reported
“an alarming wave of anti-Se
mitism spreading through Po
land in recent months: There
have been organized attacks
against synagogues, discrimina
tion against Jewish children in
schools, desecration of Jewish
cemeteries, and wide-spread agi
tation against Jews among va
rious elements of the population,
including Communist Party mem-
' bership.”
And in the face of all these
unhappy omens in the “proletar
ian world” born out of the as-
sination of the monarchistic fam
ily of the Czars, the most anti
monarchist state in the world
gave a royal welcome to Shan
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi of Iran
and his Queen Soraya. One West
ern reporter wrote. “It was the
first time in history that a ruling
monarch appeared before the
Supreme Soviet, and the deputies
temporarily put aside their Marx
ists views of royalty to help their
leaders woo the crowned heads
of neighboring Iran.”
And from Berlin comes another
strange story. Timesman Harry
Gilroy, who had spent a number
of years covering Israel, noted an
unusual German reaction to the
play "Babucco,” the Verdi por
trayal of the Babylonian captivity
of the Jews 2,500 years ago. He
says this opera “seems to grip
audiences in West Berlin more
than any other work in the re
pertoire.” Gilroy reports that “the
fifth scene of the opera is the
one that draws storms of ap
plause. It is laid on the banks of
the Euphrates River. Filling the
stage are a hundred draby robed
Hebrew prisoners. Most of them
have their heads bent to the
ground in object misery. The
scene recalls one of those pic
tures of Nazi concentration camps.
Foreign observers feel that there
is a psychological explanation for
the extraordinary effect that this
scene has on the emotions of the
Berlin audiences. These Ber
liners,” Gilroy adds, “lived as
adults through the Nazi period.
Many of them must have had
by David Horowitz
Jewish friends before the Hitler
time, quite a few go to the opera
past the ruin of a great stone
synagogue that stands only 200
yards away. Perhaps, some for
eign observers think, it is for
many operagoers an act of expia
tion to lose themselves in the
tragedy of the Jews under the
cruel Nebuchadnezzar. It is in
teresting that the royal trappings
of the Babylonians are splashed
with the red and black of thd
Nazi standards. There seems a
symbolism, too, in the great fig
ure of Baal, the Babylonian god,
which appears on the backdrop
above the throne, somethink like
the great posters of Hitler or the
vast swastikas displayed at Nazi
gatherings."
On Tuesday, July 17, many Is
raelis as well as Jews through
out the world paused and reflect
ed on one of the saddest days
in Jewish history — Tisha B’av,
the 9th day of the Hebrew month
Av (July-August) which saw the
destruction of the first and, in
another later period, the second
Temples. The period also marks
the outbreak of World War I and
World War II. Israelis took cour
age in the fact that the prophetic
Third Hebrew Commonwealth is
an accomplished fact.
An 8-year-old Jewish girl of
Queens, N. Y., has received a
personal letter from Premier Nas
ser acknowledging receipt of two
dollars which she had sent him
to give to Arab children. In her
letter to Nasser, Deborah Rabin-
owitz wrote: “I saw on TV how
poor the Arab children were, so
I am sending you $2. of my Pass-
over money that I had saved to
buy my little sister a Passover
present. Please buy some clothes
for the Arab children. Please
don’t have a war with Israel be
cause the children might get
hurt.” Nasser replied: “This is
to acknowledge with the utmost
gratitude the receipt of your two
dollars donation to refugee chil
dren dissipated by Israel and to
commend your really noble feel
ing. I should like you to believe
that Egypt has no aggressive in
tentions whatsoever. Our mission
is one of peace and participation
in any effort devoted to the good
of humanity and the peace of the
entire world.”
Teachers Protest Bar
Of Jews on Tour
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
Jewish Teachers Association pro
tested this week to the National
Education Association the latter’s
organization of four world tours
for teachers from which Jews are
barred because of the objections
of Arab governments through
whose territories the tourists
would travel.
Submission to Arab Boycott of Jews
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
U. S. Government agreement with
Saudi Arabia under which Ameri
can citizens of the Jewish faith
are not being assigned to mili
tary service or employed in de
fense installations in that coun
try was criticized today by the
American Civil Liberties Union.
Patrick Murphy Malin, ACLU
executive director, released a let
ter sent to Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles scoring the practice
as a violation of the American
principle of freedom of religion
and urging that it be ended in
the new agreement now being
negotiated with Saudi Arabia.
“The Union recognizes,” Mr.
Malin said, “the legal right of the
Saudi Arabian Government to
control the entrance to that coun
try of private persons. But it is
a far different thing for our
government to enter into an agree
ment with a foreign government
to exclude not an objectionable
person, but a whole class of
people participating in official
American enterprises paid for by
the money of all sorts of Ameri
can taxpayers. This is true es
pecially when the prohibition is
contrary to a basic American
principle that all our citizens are
to be accorded equal treatment
regardless of race, religion, color
or national origin."
The arrangement which pre
vents Jews from being hired on
government defense contracts in
Saudi Arabia “has special signif
icance,” the ACLU said, “for this
Administration 1 is pledged to a
policy of eliminating discrimina
tion in government contracts. The
Executive Order creating the
President’s Committee on Gov
ernment Contracts directs it ‘to
make recommendations to the
contracting agencies for improv
ing and making more effective
the non-discrimination provisions
of government contracts.’ The
President’s Committee is em
powered to insure compliance
with the non-discriminatory pro
visions, and has indeed succeed
ed In several cases.
‘‘If the new agreement with
Saudi Arabia continues to con
done r e 1 i g io u s discrimination
against American citizens, it will
conflict directly with the policy
of this government to insure non
discrimination in government
contracts, a policy which supports
the great national effort to erase
discrimination from all segments
of American life,” the ACLU
pointed out.
Arabs Push Boycott of British
Firms Dealing
LONDON, (JTA) — The Arab
states are intensifying their boy
cott campaign against British
firms which deal with Israel or
have Jewish employees in senior
positions, it was revealed here to
day in a survey of Arab anti-
Jewish activities. The Board of
Deputies of British Jews, dis
cussed the extent of injury done
by the Arab boycott and black
mail. -
It was learned that the Arab
countries have been taking turns
applying pressure on various
British firms. The strategy ap
parently has been to have one
With Israel
country’s embassy write various
British corporations threatening a
boycott if they do not cease trad
ing with Israel. The next month
this embassy remains quiet while
the next Arab mission writes to
different companies threatening
boycott because: “We understand
that you have an agent in Is
rael” or “You have a Jewish di
rector.”
One company which has openly
resisted this type of pressure is
Pilot Radio, an Anglo-American
enterprise which has refused to
knuckle under to boycott threats
and close up a subsidiary it re
cently opened in Israel. The Ley-
land Motor Corporation, which
sells buses to Israel, has been
threatened with boycott unless it
withdraws from the Anglo-Israel
Chamber of Commerce.
A number of well known firms,
with heavy commitments in Arab
trade, have surrendered to the
boycott. The British Overseas
Airways Corporation and Scan
dinavian Airlines have refused to
accept Jews as passengers in
planes stopping in Arab countries,
while BOAC discontinued service
to Lydda, Israel’s major airport,
on the excuse that there are in
sufficient planes available for the
run. At the same time, BOAC has
increased its service to Lebanon.
After 30 years of doing business
in Israel, the British-American
Tobacco Company has disposed
of its plant in Tel Aviv.
“Dreams Come True”—Pre-Previewers
Of New Community Center Say
Open House Tours Start July 29
For more than a solid year
Atlanta Jewry has watched brick,
mortar, and steel convert a dream
into a reality as the new Com
munity Center gradually rose at
1745 Peachtree Street.
This past week, a few members
of the community took a peek
at the interior that’s even more
exciting than the grand exterior.
“Beyond my fondest hopes!” ex
claimed one young mother as she
examined the nursery school.
Her own mother marveled at the
stainless steel kitchen, with its
tremendous wall ovens and huge
refrigerators.
But the facilities which attract
ed the male gender were ath
letic in character. Three young
gentlemen hurriedly searched for
a basketball and tried a few
practice shots in the new gym,
pulled the telescopic bleachers in
and out. They were even more
enthusiastic, as were their small
sons and brothers, over the AAU
regulation swimming pool.
Particularly attractive to the
older generation were the Pelzig
mosaics in the lobby floor. Made
from stones imported from Is
rael, they represent Biblical
fruits . . . pomegranates, figs,
dates, olives, and wheat.
The entire Atlanta Jewish com-
MRS. SADIE SAKS, NURSERY
SCHOOL DIRECTOR of the new
Center, shows four already-en
rolled nursery students how to
operate the miniature hand-basins
installed in their school. The
toddlers include: Cathy Rossing-
er, Gary Bernes, Murray Novak
and Diane Rauzin. The nursery
school — for 3- and 4-year-olds,
is on the ground level, and is
designed to incorporate the in
side teaching rooms with the out
side play areas.
munity can see these wonders on
any one of the prospective “Come
and See” open house tours which
are scheduled for July 29, Aug. 1,
Aug. 5, and Aug. 7. “Everyone
is invited, everyone is expected,
and everyone will be delighted,”
commented Jack Chilnik, execu
tive director of the Center.