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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, August 15, 1958
The Southern Israelite
Published Weekly by Southern Newspaper Enterprises, 390 Court-
land St., N.E., Atlanta 3, Georgia, TR. 6-8249, TR. 6-8240. Entered
as second class matter at the post office, Atlanta, Georgia under the
Act of March 3, 1879. Yearly subscription five dollars. The Southern
Israelite invites literary contributions and correspondence but is not
to be considered as sharing the views expressed by writers. DEAD
LINE is 12:30 P.M., TUESDAY, but material received earlier will
have a much better chance of publication.
RATIONAL editorial
AS^OCh^TgN
Member
American Association
of English-Jewish
Newspapers
Adolph Rosenberg, Editor and Publisher
Gustav Oppenheimer, Margaret Merryman, Sylvia Kletzky
Karen Hurtig, Kathleen Nease
fcniiiinumisng
Do You Worry About Goldfine?
(GUEST EDITORIAL)
Whenever a Jewish person gets involved in some local or
national scandal, there tends to be a good deal of hand-wring
ing.
“This is grist for the anti-Semitic mill,” the hand-wring
ers say. Perhaps their concerns are misdirected.
Those who are addicted to the “mass production” ap
proach to people, aren’t going to pay serious atention to in
dividual cases, one way or another. Conversely, anyone who’s
commited to an “individual” approach in human relations
isn’t going to mis-label a group because there are some “bad
examples” among the members of that group. He’s going to
take people as they come, which is as good a definition of
r ~~’aniflil as any.
^Ja^»ccause the evidence is so clear on this point that
Community Relations Council in the San Fran-
; *• anc * ^e nat ional agencies, have long since aban-
JP^Blefense” or “apologetics” for a more positive approach,
they’re not unduly disturbed, from a community relations
point of view, when someone who happens to be Jewish is
caught with his hand in the cookie jar. If there are enough
people who have grasped the democratic concept of the “in
dividual approach” this will create no problem; if there
aren’t enough such people, we’re going to be in trouble soon
er or later anyway.
—EARL RAAB From San Franciso’s Jewish Community Bulletin
WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING
An AJP Digest of Contemporary Opinion
GRISIS IN LEBANON:
1—LEBANON—SPAIN OF THIS GENERATION?
Lebanon may prove to be the Spain of this generation. Twenty
years ago, with fascism riding high in Europe, its leaders made
Sjpain the testing ground of the strength of the Fascist idea and
Fascist arms. The free world failed to meet the challenge, and the
test civil war led to a world war. Today Nasserism is riding high
in the Middle East, and its leader is turning Lebanon into a battle
field where brother kills brother. Where Franco got help from
Mussolini and Hitler, Nasser looks to help from the Russians. Again
the free world is faced with the choice of action or inaction. This
time, however, the choice is even darker than in Spain ... It is
a bitter thing to look back at American mistakes in Middle East
policy and point out how the tragedy of the present is the heritage
of the blunders of the past. When President Eisenhower and Secre
tary Dulles picked Nasser up out of the mud of the Nile, during
the Suez war, and brushed him off and gave him back his power
and prestige, they invited everything that has happened since . . .
MAX LERNER, The New York Post
College Youth
Invited to Parley
On Middle East
College youth in Atlanta are
invited to a college conference
on the Middle East to be held at
10 a.m. Sunday, August 31, at
the lake home of the Benamy
family of Atlanta.
Keynote speakers will be Mr.
Vernon, political science profes
sor at the University of Alabama,
and Robert Travis, Atlanta, presi
dent of the Zionist Council of
Atlanta.
Sponsored by the Atlanta
Zionist District, the conference
is open to teenagers, whether
presently in college or planning
to attend. Interested persons will
meet at 10 a.m. at the Atlanta
Jewish Community Center.
Further information and reser
vations can be made by contact
ing Bobby Kahn, TR. 2-7327 or
Phyllis Alterman, TR. 2-7426.
Shearith Israel
Couples Plan Post
Yom Kip pur Dance
Shearith Israel’s Couples Club
is making plans for their annual
“break-the-fast” dance on Sep
tember 26 in the social hall of
their new Synagogue.
Planning committee for this
initial affair includes Cookie and
Abe Levetan, chairmen: Rae
and Ed Steinberg; Trudi and
Jimmie Stern; Elaine and Sher
man Sokel; Barbara and Alvin
Tencnbaum, Elaine and Melvin
Bogeslav, and Trudy and Morris
Janko.
Pox Luncheon For
Mizrachi Women
On Wednesday, August 20, at
12:30 p.m. at the home of Mrs.
Louis Taffel, 1656 Merton Road,
N.E., Mizrachi Women’s Organ
ization, will hold a “Summer So
cial” in the form of a box lunch
eon.
Highlight of the afternoon will
be a report by Mrs. Sophie Wol-
son on her recent trip to Israel.
Mrs. Wolson will present
“through the eyes of a Mizrachi
woman,” a detailed description
of Israel and her tour.
Mrs. Phillip Rosenblatt, pro
gram chainnan will introduce
Mrs. Wolson, who has served as
P resident of the Atlanta Chapter.
Ians for the forthcoming year
will be revealed by Mrs. Ben
Auerbach, president.
Refreshment chairman for the
luncheon is Mrs. Ida Goncher,
who will also accept advance
reservations by telephone, TR. 4-
2432. The charge for the lunch
will be $1.00 per person.
2—IS IT MUNICH IN BEIRUT?
Nothing quite like the Anglo-American performance in the
Lebanon has been seen on the world stage since Chamberlain and
Daladier made their exists . . . The similarities of the Lebanese
crisis to the Munich crisis are in fact rather numerous. Britain and
France guaranteed the independence of Czechoslovakia, because
they knew that a successful attack on Czechoslovakia would make
Hitler the master of all Europe. In the same fashion, the United
States and Britain promised to protect the independence of the
Lebanon, because they knew that a successful attack on Lebanon
would make Egypt’s Gamal Abdul Nasser the master of all the
Arab lands of the Middle East. In both cases, friendship had its
role in the guarantees that were given . . . Yet in both cases, these
same nations began to wriggle and writhe and delay in doing what
they had promised to do, just as soon as the real crunch began . . .
The chief responsibility for all this wriggling and writhing rests
on the America government . . .
JOSEPH ALSOP, N.Y. Herald Tribune
NO TRUE HERO’S IMAGE
It’s somewhat sad that Bernard Goldfine did not achieve his
recent notoriety in more positive fashion. By “positive,” I mean in
a way which would redound to the great glory of his faith. Just as
we claimed Maxwell Raab, erstwhile secretary of President Eisen
hower's cabinet, to be our own, so we might have claimed Goldfine.
Although philanthropy has never been anathema, these days the
Boston industrialist is; so, too, is the coin of his philanthropy. Thus,
unfortunately, have we lost a golden opportunity to witness a scion
of our elders, who rose to challenging heights, and in the splendor
of whose conquest we might have basked. In a very real sense,
Goldfine was after all a kind of financial secretary—and, no less,
to the President, himself. For common Capitol Hill gossip has it
that Sherman Adams long ago took on the tasks of Chief Execu
tive . . . We might have had a field day with Goldfine. But he is
no true hero’s image—and therefore no figure with which we may
intelligently identify . . .
LEO MINDLIN, THE JEWISH FLORIDIAN
ON THE AMERICAN-JEWISH SCENE
The American Jewish scene is now confronted with a number
of controversial issues: In New York State the legislature failed to
{ >ass a home rule bill which would permit the NYC Council to pass
egislation sanctioning “Sunday business” for Sabbath observers. In
the South there have been six bombings of synagogues in several
cities. In Manhattan’s commercial employment agencies, orders are
being accepted for “white Protestants” in contravention of the State
anti-discrimination laws. The U.S. Congress passed the poage Bill
on “Humane Slaughter" and the matter is under consideration by
the Senate’s Agriculture Committee. Intermarriage between Jews
and Gentiles keeps growing. 12 per cent of Washington’s and 10
per cent of New Orleans’ Jewish homes are conprised of such mixed
marriages ....
ABRAHAM GOLDSTEIN, YOUNG ISRAEL VIEWPOINT
“Irv” Shaw to Attend
State Mutual Parley
Irving H. Shaw of Atlanta has
qualfied to attend the national
sales conference to be held in
Manchester, Vt., by the State
Mutual Life Assurance Company
of America, according to Charles
G. Bethea, general agent for
Georgia.
Mr. Shaw has been associated
with the Bethea Agency for al
most eighteen months. He is a
member of the Leaders Round
Table and the Atlanta Associa
tion of Life Underwriters. A past
president of the Temple Couples
Club, he is now Junior Vice-
Commander of Atlanta Post No.
112, Jewish War Veterans.
Mr. Shaw and his wife .the
former Frieda Scheer of Eaton-
ton) reside with their sons, Rich
ard and Jonathan, at 735 Willi-
vee Dr., Decatur. The Shaws will
leave for New York City on
August 29. After spending a few
days, they will drive up to Wor
cester, Mass., where they will
inspect State Mutual’s new
multi-million dollar Home Of
fice Building. They will attend
the conference to be held at the
Equinox House in the Green
Mountains of Vermont, Septem
ber 3-7, and then return home
September 8.
Jewish Calendar
•ROSH HASHONAH
Monday, Sept. 15 (First Day)
*YOM KIPPUR
Wednesday .September 24
•SUKKOT
Monday, September 29
•HANUKAH
Sunday, December 7
WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING
An AJP Digest of Contemporary Opinion
On The Mideast Crisis
“Our Levantine Follies”
The only steady aspect of our Middle Eastern policy is confus
ion. During a decade that saw creation of Israel, Nasser’s rise, the
Suez war and a drumfire of coups and assasinations, the U.S. never
managed to define its own fundamental attitudes . . . Our Levantine
follies have been gloriously bi-partisan. Three dilemmas perplexed
Washington from the start. We couldn’t resolve our determination
to sponsor Israel with our craving for Arab friendship. Therefore
we wallowed in a trough of indecision. We found ourselves unable
to reconcile prejudices against “colonialism" with a need to support
our strongest ally, Britain. And we muddled our analysis of Arab
nationalism by always regarding its development in rigid anti-Com-
munist terms ... If our policy was correct in 1956 when we backed
Cairo against Paris and London, it is incorrect today .
8 C. L. SULZBERGER. THE NEW YORK TIMES
Worst Crisis Since Korea
. . . The fast-moving events of the past week have shocked
many Americans into realizing the true nature of Nasserism. They
have seen what they did not want to see—another Hitler-like grab
of territory, another Austria, another attempt at Quisling subjuga
tion from within. They have seen an ogre once again bring America
to the brink of war. And in the middle of all sits Israel, plagued for
a decade by Arabs of both camps ... As Americans and as Jews,
we feel deep concern . . . we must stand behind the administration
in the worst crisis since Korea.
THFDOR I. SANDLER, THE JEWISH RECORD
Nasser’s Price—Destruction of Israel
. . . Nasser does not want to come to terms with the West ex
cept at his price—a price the West cannot pay. Nasser wants the
destruction of Israel, which we cannot permit ... If we are to
rescue what can still be saved of our vital interests in the Middle
East, the Eisenhower Administration must make it unmistakably
clear that we will fight, if necessary . . . „„„„
WILLIAM V. SHANNON, THE NEW YORK POST
U.S. and U.K. Did Right
I think both the U.S. and the United Kingdom did the only
thing that was possible. They moved in quickly to prevent the over
throw of other existing governments by force and subversion ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, IN HER “MY DAY” COLUMN
Mideast Hinge of Fate for World and Era
... the Middle East may be the hinge of fate for our world and
our era. To think of a limited war in a case where the face and
prestige and power of the major camps are involved is to let hope
govern logic. If war comes in the Middle East it will not remain
a limited war, but will become a nuclear war ... In the Iraqi epi
sode President Eisenhower and Dulles have laid an egg in their
effort to get UN support. That is why there is no alternative to
the summit conference ... MAX LERNEK, N.T. POST
JEWISH SURVIVAL AND DEMOCRACY
From its inception forty years ago, the American Jewish Con-
f ress has dedicated itself to two propositions: The survival of the
ewish people, here and abroad, and the strengthening and building
of a fully funcUoning democracy. The thinking that motivated the
founders of the Congress, and has dominated the movement ever
since, was that Jewish survival in the fullest sense is only
possible if freedom and equality of rights are granted to all people.
The truth of this statement seems so self-evident that we have given
little thought to a more thorough investigation. The fact of the mat
ter is that, in terms of Jewish historic experience, this generally
accepted premise is a fallacy. Nowhere in Jewish history is there
aroof that Jewish survival has the greatest chance in a democracy,
the negative fact that totalitarian systems have led to the destruc
tion of our people must by no means be translated into meaning
that democracy as such guarantees our cultural, spiritual or even
physical survival. Gas chambers are not the only means of under-
nining the existence of a people. The fact must be faced that the
iroblem of Jewish disintegration in all its forms began with the
Emanicipation of the Jew. This then is our dilemma ...
RABBI JOACHIM PRINZ, The Day-Jewish Journal
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