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XXXIV
The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1951
Slow-Starting Campaign For
Knesset Reaches Climax
(Copyright, 1959, Jewish Tele
graphic Agency, Inc.)
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
election campaign for the fourth
Knesset, Israel’s Parliament,
which began slowly, steamed
toward a vigorous climax in the
final weekend before the ballot
ing on Tuesday.
Thousands of final meetings
were held in the hunt for votes
among Israel’s variegated groups
with hardly a hall or empty lot
unused.
Prime Minister David Ben
Gurion, who continued to be the
biggest attraction for Israel audi
ences, topped the campaign with
a sharp attack on the Soviet
press for its denunciations of the
Israel Government and of him
personally and for calling him
a “warmonger.”
He told a large electibn meet
ing audience that he was con
vinced the Soviet attacks had
been motivated by his determi
nation to assure that “Israel
forces are equipped so that they
can stand up to our enemies.
He then bluntly declared:
“We will not accept the Czar-
ist slogan ‘Kromie Yevreyev’ —
except Jews—even from His Ex
cellency Soviet Premier Khrush
chev. Why is it permissable for
Mr. Khrushchev to equip the
Soviet army, Nasser’s army and
Mapai Reported
Ahead in Voting
JERUSALEM — With com
plete records not yet available
Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion’s Mapai party appar
ently is forging ahead in Is
raeli Tuesday elections.
Early indications placed his
group ahead of the 1955 vot
ing when Mapai cornered 33.2
percent of the results. The
right-wing Herat (freedom)
Party was second with 12.38
percent and the National Re
ligious Front third with 10.5.
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Kassem’s army, while we must
not arm ourselves?” Mr. Ben
Gurion concluded with an offer
extending the hand of peace to
all nations.
Two persons were arrested at
an election campaign meeting in
Kiryat Gat, in the Lachish area,
for obstructing Moshe Dayan,
former Israel Chief of Staff, the
principal speaker. The meeting
was arranged by the Mapai
Party and police were called to
maintain order because four
earlier Mapai meetings in Kiryat
Gat had been broken up by
groups favoring other parties.
Five Sentenced in Germany
l or Attacking Cafe Owner
FRANKFURT, (JTA)—Five of
11 defendants accused of haras
sing Kurt Sumpf, a Jewish cafe
owner in nearby Koeppern, and
his family, were convicted last
week of breaking the peace, as
sorted misdemeanors and public
ant-Semitic libel. Six others
were acquitted for lack of evi
dence.
The defendants, ranging in age
from 21 to 53 years, had pleaded
innocent to charges of having
attacked, injured and threatened
the plaintiff, his wife and his
eight-year-old son on various
occasions last year.
Heinrich Weidmann, a truck
ADL Film For
Schools Banned
In Mississippi
JACKSON, Miss' (JTA) —An
anti-bias film produced by the
B’nai B’rith Anti-Defa m a ti o n
League, circulated in this state’s
school for six years, has been
banned by the State Department
of Education after protests by
the Mississippi Association of
Citizens Councils, an all-white
o r g a n i zation advocating com
plete Negro segregation.
State Senator George Yar
brough, and other segregation
ists, have protested the show
ing of the film in the state’s
schools, and the movie was with
drawn temporarily until the en
tire three-man state Board of
Education could view the pic
ture. This week-end, after a
screening, the ban was made
permanent.
The film, entitled "The High
Fall,” was made by the ADL
with the help of the Illinois De
partment of Education. It drama
tizes the story of a group of
Americans of Polish origin suf
fering from prejudices in a com
munity composed largely of
Anglo-Saxon Americans.
One of the three members of
the State Education Board, Su
perintendent of Education J. M.
Tubb, said after the screening
that he could see “nothing
wrong” in continuing to show
the film in the State’s schools.
However, Attorney General Joe
Patterson and Secretary of State
Heber Ladner, the two other
members of the board, voted for
the permanent ban. The majority
opinion declared the film would
be banned because "it has be
come controversial.”
driver who was held to be the
leader in the attacks, sentenced
to four months in jail, and fined
400 marks. Helmut Hartmann, a
soldier in the West German
Army, was turned over to mili
tary authorities. Three other
defendants were fined 30 to 150
marks.
Sumpf, q German-born Israel
citizen, returned with his family
to Germany in 1956 and leased
a cafe in Koeppern. AftCr the
abuse of himself and his family,
and a boycott of his cafe, he was
forced to sell his business and
move to Frankfurt.
A. Kuegler, the jury court
prosecutor; Schmidt Leichner,
the defense attorney, and the
plaintiff’s attorney, A. Besser,
sa^d after the verdicts that they
were agreed the case was not
one of organized anti-Semitism
but rather one involving individ
ual acts developing out of a
small-town reaction to a strang-
HOUSTON, Texas. A Jew could
be elected President of the
United States in this generation,
31 eminent leaders of the Re
publican and Democratic Parties
believe.
Their views are expressed in
replies to a symposium publish
ed in the November issue of The
Jewish Digest, monthly pocket-
size journal, published in Hous
ton, Texas.
President Eisenhower, Vice
President Nixon, Adlai E. Steven
son, Alfred M. Landon, most of
the leading 1960 Presidential
contenders, prominent members
of the Senate and House, key
governers, and the chairmen of
the Republican and Democratic
National Committees are among
those who answered the Jewish
Digest question:
“Now that most Americans
seem agreed that a Catholic
could be nominated and elected
President by either of the two
major political parties, we would
be grateful for your opinion on
whether you believe that in our
generation a Jew could also be
nominated and elected to the
highest office in the land.”
Fifty-eight per cent of those
who replied, out of 47 who were
queried, said they definitely be
lieved a Jew could be elected
President in this generation.
The other 42 per cent said, in
one way or another, that they
hoped that before too long the
electorate would do away with
the tacit religious test tradi
tionally barring all but white
Protestants from the Presidency
and the Vice Presidency.
Of those who replied to The
Jewish Digest inquiry, 20 are
Protestants, 7 are Catholics and
4 are Jews. Eight of them are
potential nominees for the Presi
dency in 1960. Three of the re
spondents raised some question
as to the accuracy of the Jewish
Digest’s premise that the voters
are agree that a Catholic could
win the Presidency.
The Jewish Digest’s question
did not call for an appraisal of
the presidential chances of any
individual Jew, but a number of
those who replied mentioned
Governor Abraham Ribicoff of
Connecticut as a possible presi
dential candidate.
This is the first time this
question has been publicly put
to and answered by so disting
uished an arrary of national
political figures.
The results of the Jewish
Digest poll jibe with those ob
tained by the American Institute
of Public Opinion a year ago.
At that time the Institute asked
its nationwide sampling of the
civilian population this question:
“If your party nominated a
generally well-qualified person
for President ana he happened to
be a Jew, would you vote for
him?” Sixty-two per cent of
those sampled answered yes.
22nd Annual Zionist
Parley Set For Savannah
Harry Jaffe, of Birmingham,
president of the Southeast Re
gion of the Zionist Organization
of America, has announced that
the 22nd Annual Conference
will take place in Savannah,
November 13-15, at the DeSoto
Hotel.
Mr. Jaffe has also announced
the appointment of Harry Ehren
reich, veteran Savannah Zionist
leader, as Chairman of the Con
ference. Mr. Ehrenreich, who is
a native of Savannah, is a grad
uate of the College of the City
of New York. He did post-grad
uate work at Columbia Univer
sity. He has traveled extensive
ly in the United States and in
Europe. He visited Israel in 1949
and returned to Israel this past
summer on a special study tour.
Mr. Ehrenreich resided in Miami
Beach for several years and took
some post graduate work at the
University of Miami. He is a past
president of the Savannah Zion
ist District and a past chairman
of the American Zionist Coun
cil, of the Savannah Lodge of
B’nai B’rith and of the Educa
tional Committee of the Jewish
Educational Alliance.
Named as co-chairmen of the
Conference are Michael Adil-
man, Isaac Meddin and Jack
Levy of Savannah. Sidney
Rosenzweig is the treasurer.
The Conference, which will in
clude delegates from each of the
forty-two Zionist Districts in the
seven Southeastern states, will
start with special Friday eve
ning services on Nov. 13th at
B. B. Jacob Congregation and
will end with the grand installa
tion banquet on Sunday eve
ning, November 15th, at the
Jewish Educational Alliance.
Leading the Atlanta delegation
will be Dr. Edward R. Reisman,
president of the Atlanta District,
and Herman Popkin, regional
vice president in charge of
Georgia.
J. G. Mac Donald to Address ZOA
Rally for Israel Bonds Monday
James G. MacDonald, one of
America’s noted public figures
and this country’s first Ambas
sador to Israel, will speak at a
community Rally sponsored by
the Atlanta District of the Zion
ist Organization of America on
Monday evening, November 9th,
at 8:00 p.m., at the Atlanta Jew
ish Community Center Auditori
um in behalf of the State of Is
rael Development Bond Issue.
James G. MacDonald has been
for many years an outstanding
authority on international affairs.
He is one of the founders of the
Foreign Policy Association, an
organization which has since
1919 worked for the furtherance
of studies in international rela-
National Hadassah President to Spark Atlanta
Dinner, Brunch Youth Project Fund Raisers '
Youth - both in Israel and in
America - will be the benefac
tors at the annual Donor Dinner
and Brunch to be held November
8 and 9 by the Atlanta Hadassah
Chapter when Dr. Miriam
Freund, of New York City, re
cently elected to her third term
as national president of Hadas
sah, will be the guest speaker.
Announcement of plans for the
two events was made by Mrs.
Dave Alterman, Chapter presi
dent; Mrs. Henry Caplan, chap
ter fund raising vice president;
and Mrs. David Eisenberg, chap
ter brunch chairman. The Sun
day, Nov. 8, dinner will be held
at 7 p.m. at the Progressive Club
and in addition to attendance by
the daytime Hadassah croups
Tel Chai, Herzlia, Kadiman, ana
Szold,' the event will be attend
ed by the B. and P. and Anne
Frank Jr. Hadassah groups. The
co-chairmen also pointed out that
the minimum contribution for
the dinner is $25, and husbands
are included as guests.
The brunch, to be held at noon
on Monday, Nov. 9, will also take
DR. MIRIAM FREUND
place at the Progressive Club
with Dr. Freund as guest speak
er. The minimum contribution
for the brunch will be $12.50.
Funds raised by the two social
events of the Hadassah season go
for lladassah’s vocational educa
tional program in Israel and for
its youth activities, mainly
Young Judaea and Senior Juda
ea, in the United States.
Proceeding the dinner the Ha
dassah group will be entertained
at a party given by Mrs. Frank
Garson. Mrs. Pincus Koplin and
Mrs. Sam Sugarman will act as
hostesses. Guests for the event
will be angels and sponsors, an
angel having contributed $100
or more and a sponsor having
contributed $50.
In explaining Hadassah’s voca
tional education program in Is
rael, the chairmen pointed out
that as far back as 1942 the or
ganization recognized the fact
that Israel’s future must be built
on the self-reliance and skill of
its youth. “We began, therefore,”
they continued, “to transfer
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JAMES G. MacDONALD
tions. He served as Chairman of
the Board of the Foreign Policy
Association from its inception un
til 1933, when he was appointed
League of Nations High Com
missioner for German Refugees.
As League Commissioner until
1936, Mr. MacDonald was one of
the first to recognize the impend
ing threat to world peace im
plicit in Nazi persecution of the
Jews.
On his return to America, Mr.
MacDonald was, successively, an
editorial writer for the New
York Times and President of the
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and
Sciences.
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