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Friday, February 7, 1958
THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Pan Three ,
Jailed “Nordic” Youths Wanted
U. S. Jews, Negroes Deported
NEW YORK (JTA) — Seven
youths, members of a group
which organized itself under the
name “United Nordic Confedera
tion” for the purpose of emulat
ing Hitler’s racial theories—and
whose leader preached the depor
tation of all American Jews to
Israel and all Negroes to Africa
—were in jail here Sunday un
able to raise bail and facing
heavy prison sentences on a vari
ety of charges. They were arrest
ed after it was established that
they planned to rob a New York
bank to raise a $40,000 treasury.
Police were hunting for “hun
dreds” of other alleged members
of the two-month old organiza
tion formed to “unite and purify
all the Nordic peoples of the
race.” George Leggett, 21-year-
old leader of the gang, boasted
that there were more members at
large and that they would carry
on. Leggett used the Prussian
alias of George von Lictor in the
organization which he command
ed.
When police rounded up the
nine gang members during the
week-end they also picked up an
arsenal of three 22 caliber rifles
and 18 knifes, bayonets and
daggers, including one official
Nazi dagger with a swastika on
the hilt. They also found a de
tailed map of the Kew Gardens
branch of the Chase National
Bank which the gang was plan
ning to hold up. The money was
to be used to open a Nazi-like
camp “upstate somewhere.”
By the time the seven older
members of the United Nordic
Confederation were arraigned
yesterday, they were facing a
variety of charges including vio
lation of the Sullivan Law for
possession of the weapons, bur
glary charges for breaking into
an apartment which they used as
a headquarters, felonious assault
of several members who broke
away from the gang and con
spiracy to rob the bank. In the
absence of $2,000 to $9,000 in
bail, the seven were sent to jail.
Two 15-year-olds will be ar
raigned in Children’s Court to
morrow. Most of the gang mem
bers were students at Forest Hills
School in Queens, N. Y.
All members of the United
Nordic Confederation were re
quired to sign an oath dedicating
their lives to racial purification
and the restoration of the “moral
strength, spiritual greatness and
physical perfection which make
up the true Nordic.” The mem
bers pledged to “be superior in
all things beginning with Chris
tianity, humanity, philo sophy
and science.” Leggett also had
stamps printed with such slogans
as “The Nordics Over All” and
“For the Cause.”
The Negro and Anti-Semitism
Negroes in both the North and
South — despite past tensions and
the threat of future ones — have
a “new, more positive apprecia
tion” of Jews in general, and par
ticularly of the role played by
American Jews in common efforts
for better human relations, two
leading Negro authorities said to
day.
James H. Robinson and Ken
neth B. Clark, writing in the De
cember issue of the ADL Bulletin,
published by the Anti-Defamation
League of B’nai B’rith, say that
South Carolina B'nai B rith
les to Meet in Beaufort
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COLUMBIA — Sunday, March
30, has been selected as date for
the annual convention of the
South Carolina Association of
B’nai B’rith Lodges in Beaufort.
Reservations can be made with
Mrs. Sol Neidich, Box 722, Beau
fort, S. C., according to Jules
Bank, Columbia, Association
president.
Simultaneously Rabbi J. S.
Fisher, Beaufort, chairman of the
S. C. Association Adult Education
Institute, announced that a week
end retreat is being planned the
Middle of May at Myrtle Beach.
Beach.
* * *
Rabbi Simon Noveck, formerly
of Atlanta, and national director
of the B”nai B’rith Education De
partment, will lead the discus
sions.
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AUGUSTA NEWS
AUGUSTA—A total of $1,652.
52 was collected in voluntary
“tolls” January 31 in a “Polio
Road Block”, conducted by the
Young Men’s Hebrew Association
of Augusta to lower the polio toll
in the nation.
Some 40 persons, under chair
man ship of Maxwell Estroff,
participated in the “road block"
at four entrances to downtown
Augusta from 7 a.m. to dusk in
two-hour shifts. Proceeds of
course will be used by the Na
tional Foundation for Infantile
Paralysis.
* * *
Coleman Medintz, Atlanta com
mander, conducted an adminis
trative meeting of the Depart
ment of Georgia and South Caro
lina, Jewish War Veterans, here
on January 26. Jake Eisenberg,
commander of Augusta Post No.
531, gave the address of wel
come.
* * *
Mrs. Rose Rosenbloom of Lau
rens spent a few days here re
cently visiting Mrs. Sara Dolin-
sky.
* * *
Rev. and Mrs. Herman Roth
are receiving congratulations on
the birth of a son on January 19.
The Briss was held January 27
at the Adas Yeshuron Education
Building.
Mrs. Hedwig Goldenberry of
Washington is visiting her chil
dren, Mr. and Mrs. Michelis Sin-
sheimer, and grandchildren.
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Southern Negroes “are not permit
ting themselves the luxury or
the diversion of anti-Semitism”
in their present struggles. Both
men agree that Southern Negroes
generally understand that the
Southern Jew, in the desegrega
tion crisis, is placed in a deli
cate position in his community
and is exposed to “subtle pres
sures and threats of the more vo
cal, aggressi ve segregation
groups.”
Dr. Clark, associate professor of
psychology at the College of the
City of New York and director
of research at the Northside Cen
ter for Child Development, finds
that Negro-Jewish relationships
are now in a stage of “positive
transition.”
“The most obvious forms of ver
bal anti-Semitism among Negroes,
common fifteen years ago, seem
to have been substantially ame
liorated. Today, there seems to be
less venom associated with such
phrases as ‘Jewish landlord,’ a
term which is almost part of the
Negro’s folk language.
“Probably the general progress
of the Negro in recent years has
reduced some of his random hos
tility which once had taken anti-
Semitism as a form of express
ion,” he adds.
Dr. Clark says that the rela
tionship between Jews and Ne
groes is “in many ways more com
plex, if not more subtle, in the
North than in the South.” Like
Dr. Robinson he notes that "Jew
ish property owners — with few
exceptions — seem no more will
ing to jeopardize their investment
or the status appeal of their prop
erties by renting to Negroes.” He
concludes that “personal status
needs and conformity pressures—
as they operate to perpetuate the
racial status quo — appears no
less imperative for Jews than for
other Americans.”
“Negroes seem to be more sen
sitive to racial insults and in
justices when the source is Jew
ish,” Dr. Clark says. “In gen
eral, they seem to expect more
from Jews than from other whites.
This in itself is evidence of the
positive change in post-war atti
tudes toward Jews.”
Jews themselves “have contrib
uted to the positive change by
the involvement of some Jewish
organizations in the struggle for
human rights for all, the contri
butions of Jewish philanthropists
to Negro organzations and causes,
and by the effectiveness of Jew9,
as individuals and in organiza
tions, in helping to educate the
Amercan public on the general
dangers inherent in racism,” Dr.
Clark finds.
Dr. Robinson, pastor of the
Church of the Master and di
rector of the Morningside Com
munity Center in Harlem, warns
that it is likely that “tensions in
race relations in America wll be
come worse before they become
better.” Nothing that Negro anti-
Semitism differs from most othei
types since it is based upon sus
picion, not hate, he says that “the
possibilities of conflict between
Negroes and Jews will become po
tentially greater as the non-white
exceeds the white population in
the urban center of the east and
north central states.
He also found “intensified feel
ing against Jews” in the North
stemming from the problem of
segregated housing, “the basic and
crucial area of all racial prob
lems.”
“There is increased feeling of
bitterness over the fact that Jews
in better neighborhoods and sub
urban areas are often as hostile
as other whites when Negroes at
tempt to move into a community.
On the other hand, this feeling
is almost always accompanied by
an expression of gratitude that
more support, however small, for
integrated housing comes from
Jews than from Gentiles,” he
said.
In his six-week tour of the
United States to determine Ne
gro attitudes toward Jews, Dr.
Robinson found that:
“Attitudes on the leadership
level were almost always more
forcefully positive than those on,
the student, white collar and la
bor level. Somewhat more nega-
tive attitudes were encountered
among workers and domestics and
among the housewives in segre
gated residential areas where
there are many small shops own
ed by Jewish merchants. How
ever, laborers who were members
of trade union had more positive
attitudes than unorganized labor
ers — an Indication that the for
mer have constructive and mutual
ly supporting contacts with Jews
in the labor movement while the
latter do not. Professionals and
white collar workers, on the
whole, voiced greater feelings of
resentment against Jews than any
other segment of the Negro pop
ulation. There are probably two
reasons for this: at this leve),
there is the greatest competition
between the two groups; and each
not only feels threatened by the
other, but Negroes believe that
•Jews, as a cohesive group, are
against them.”
Dr. Robinson concludes that
“there is ample evidence — con-'
sisting in part of the dignity, re
sourcefulness and wisdom with
which Negroes have faced ten-,
sions and violence in Little Rock,
Chicago, Levittown and elsewhere;
—that Negroes will not easily be;
swept into the vortex of hate and
prejudice against Jews.”
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