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The Souther! hr
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JlLY 1, 1960
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ADL Official Says Police
‘Misguided’ Handling Nazis
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The United States park police force and
the chief prosecutor of the District of Columbia were accused this
week of “gross injustice” by Ben Strouse, chairman of the regional
board of the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith.
Mr. Strouse pointed out that the authorities tolerated Nazi pro
vocations hut prosecuted r "" frW- rtia/m"" charged offi
cials with “misguided” interpretation of their responsibilities.
In a public statement, Mr. Strouse protested that “for six months
now, the American Nazi Party has been permitted to engage in
vile public threats and insults on the streets and parks of our
nation's capital It has been guilty of disorderly conduct It has
constituted a public nuisance.”
Mr. Strouse said that “now we have witnessed the disgraceful
spectacle of the park police arresting and the corporation counsel
prosecuting the innocent victims of the Nazi provocations . . ” He
termed the Jews arrested “people who have naturally and righte
ously reacted to these public threats and insults in a normal Ameri
can way.” The ADL chairman said “these officials, in our view,
have shown a misguided sense of their responsibility and have com
mitted a gross injustice.”
The chief prosecutor of the District of Columbia at an arraign
ment hearing ordered a Jew held for trial on Judy 12 for annoying
Nazi leader Lincoln Rockwell by “talking loud” while Rockwell
was delivering an anti-Semitic harangue at a public rally. The de
fendant, 22ryear-old Larry Selinkin, of Providence, R. I., was
criticized by the public prosecutor, Clark King, who made the de
cision to press charges.
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Frondizi Reported Unwilling to
Accept Apology as ‘Adequate’
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (,
TA)—Argentine President Arti
ro Frondizi was reported thil
week to have said at_ Brussels!
Brtgfttfflf -tffitf' be Hoes not con 1
sider an Israeli apology j—fl-'
cient “reparation” for the *tHlcit
and clandestine” fnMtffar °*
Nazi killer Adolf SMMNnB trom
Argentine ten limy Israeli
soil r,
"When the Security Council
last Thursday adopted the reso
lution proposed by Argentina,
calling for “adequate reparation”
fro—Israel, Dr. Mario Amadeo,
chairman of the Argentine dele
gation, refused to specify what
“reparation” his gove r n m e n t
would consider “adequate.” He
had been asked the question,
first by Israel Foreign Minister
Golda Meir then, forcefully, by
Arkady A. Sobolev, head of the
Soviet Union’s delegation.
On behalf pf the United States
Government, Ambassador Henry
Cabot Lodge bad told the Coun
cil that Washington would con
sider Israel’s apology, already
voiced in,the Council h* VU»-
Meir, as "adequate.” Adoption
of the resolution itself, “taken
together” with Mrs. Meir’s apol
ogy for Israel’s violation of
Argentine sovereignty in the
l abduction of Eichmann, should
(close the case, said Mr. Lodge.
Brussels statement by Mr.
andizi left doubts as to what
ier steps, if any, were con-
em plated by the Argentine
government. There was certain-
that the previously scheduled
sting in Europe, between Mr.
idizi and Israel’s Prime
i n i s t e r David Ben-Gurion,
Id not be held.
Ben-Gurion and his offi
cial party left SeMphol Airport.
Monday evening,
for t^ydda, Israel, according to a
Jewish Telegraphic Agency dls-
Rockwell, Rebuffed on Rally, Plans Test
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
struggle over a permit for an
American Nazi party July 4 rally
in New York’s Union Square
moved into the courts this past
week after Nazi George Lincoln
Rockwell’s bid was rebuffed by
Mayor Wagner.
Rockwell, who was roughed
up in a riotous scene in the ro
tunda of the New York County
Supreme Court building where
he appeared on a hearing on an
application for a permanent in
junction against the permit, was'
placed on a plane for Washing
ton by police. He was scheduled
to return to New York to start
court proceedings to set aside
Mayor Wagner’s refusal. In that
effort, Rockwell was assured of
legal help by the New York
Civil Liberties Union, which
said it despised Rockwell’s goals
but insisted on his constitution
rights. The hearing before Jus
tice Vincent Lupiano was on a
bid for a permanent injunction
sought by State Sen. Frank Pino
and Assemblyman Irwin Brown-
stein, acting as taxpayers.
Mayor Wagner announced at
City Hall that Rockwell would
not get a permit to spank in
New York City “on Jpjy 4
at any other time.” He said that
an attempt by the Nasi to speak
in New York City was “an In
vitation to riot and disorder
from a half-penny Hitler. The
invitation is declined.”
The announcement ended sev
eral days of tension which de
veloped when Parks Commis
sioner New bold Morris indicated
he felt the permit should be
issued on constitution grounds.
A roar of protest developed
from scores of organizations,
Jfewish and non-Jewish, includ
ing threats from veterans groups
thaV would picket any such
rally. \
Attendants at the New York
Supreme Court building had to
call in polite to save Rockwell
from being manhandled by a
crowd of 150 who jostled around
the Nazi screaming “Kill him”
they recognized him. A
cene developed when
Rockwell was taken outside to
By JACOB CHERNOF8KY
JTA Staff
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be put in a cab for the trip to
the airport. He was not hurt in
either encounter.
Rockwell told the court that
his “party” had only 30 members
but insisted that more were
joining “every minute.”
Sen. Pino and Assemblyman
Brownstein moved promptly af
ter the Mayor’s announcement
to institute proceedings to ban
al] activities of Rockwell and
his group in New York state.
They filed an appeal for a per
manent injunction to restrain
the Nazi group from using the
name “American Nazi Party,”
or the hmtlkf tontJlfem W flow
from any activities in the state.
The Jewish Labor Committee
meanwhile disclosed it had
challenged the federal Depart
ment of Justice on its stand that
the Subversive Activities Con
trol Act applied only to Com
munist groups and that the De
partment there could not act
against Rockwell and his group.
The JLC cited correspondence
with J. Walter Yeagely, Assist
ant U.S. Attorney General, who
said the Government could not
take tction to halt the activities
of RMfcwell and^hii
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dence jtg establish a violation of
a federal statute.” He also de
clared 'that the subversive con
trol ac| applies only to “Com
munist organizations which
come within the definition” in
that law.
Adolf Held, JLC chairman, re
plied that the act "gives latitude
and procedures against any or
ganization found to be subver
sive.” Mr. Held cited a long list
of ultra-right wing organiza
tions, such as the “so-called
American Christian Nationalist
Party,” adiich had been desgi-
nated as subversive. He said
that there were some 25 or more
organzations imitating Nazi poli
tical patterns “which were de
clared Fascist organizations by
previous attorney generals.”
The JLC leader argued that
Executive Order 10450, which
was used by former Attorney
General Herbert Brownell to list
such groups, or the subversive
control act, should be applied
to Rockwell and his group.
froas The Hague. Mr. B—-
Qnri— had spent aa extra day
at the Dnteh capital, “far pri
vate reason*.” There ware re
ports, however, Oat hie stay In
The Nether lands had bean pro
longed in the expedition that
Mr. Frondtit aright invite him
to a meeting at Bn—da.)
Dr. Amadeo had told the
Council, at one point in the de
bate on his anti-Israel resolu
tion, that his Government de
manded not only the return of
Eichmann, but also the punish
ment of those who captured the
Nazi without permission from
the Argentine Government.
However, the Buenos Aires rep
resentative did not repeat this
interpretation when challenged
for a definition of “adequate
reparation.”
Last weekend, there was a
luncheon in honor of Mrs. Meir
here, tendered by Israel’s Deputy
Permanent Representative Arieh
Eshel. Seventeen of the 20 Latin
American delegations here were
represented at the event Dr.
Amadeo was not, present
Times Scores Mayor
Wagner For Barring
Rockwell From City
NEW YORK, (WUP) — The
New York Times, in an editorial
entitled “Freedom of Speech,”
this week criticized Mayor Rob
ert Wagner for having barred
the leader of the' “American
Nazi Party,” George Lincoln
Rockwell, from speaking at a
Union Rally on July 4. The
Times felt that, by allowing the
U.S. Nazi Jew-baiter to speak,
he would not “shake the founda
tions of this Republic.”
Rockwell, who has four chil
dren, has designed a new em
blem for his party showing a
swastika on a circle of white
with a red background. The
swastika is woven into the UN
emblem. Explaining to newsmen
why he used the UN emblem
within the swastika, the Ameri
can Nazi said that by so doing
“we symbolise that the world
is with us and the Jews are on
the outstide.” r
Crusading Jewish Editor
Escapes Miami Bomb Attack
MIAMI, (JTA)—A bomb was
hurled this past week at th.-
home of Samuel Mindlin, wbjse
last name is the same as [Leo
Mindlin, executive editor of(the
Jewish Floridian. The two , re
not related.
placed the homes of both Mind-
lins under 24-hour surveillance.
Lee Mindlin gepdctari In his
column last week thafhe had
received seven threet—Cag let
ters, two of which had warned
that his home would be bombed.
Leo Mindlin, has been crusade He stated that all of the letters
ing editorially against a local ^included “crudely anti-Semitic”
radio commentator, Alan Court- remarks.
A. J. Weinberg of Atlanta, now vMUag tonal with the ffnalbiia
■egiaa Israel Bond Delegation, chota with n-trartian workers
bnihHng ho—es at a new taurignuri Tillage tte yoaag Mate of
Israel, which has taken In
twelve years, has sreeted ever
page i far sildttii—I Material on
ri on tkfc tenr stf ferael.
ney, of Station WQAM, who has
accused Israel, on the air, of
“crimes worse than Hitler’s.”
Courtney has insisted in his
broadcasts that Nazis killer
Adolf Eichmann, awaiting trial
in Israel for the mass murder of
Jews, “must be assumed inno
cent until proved guilty.”
The bomb in front of the Sam
uel Mindlin home tort a bole
three feet wide by three foot in
depth oh the lawn and sidewalk 1
facing the Samuel Mindlin prop
erty. Police and FBI are investi
gating the attack, and have
Courtney has been haranguing
on the air against Leo Mindlin
and his newspaper, accusing
them ot having-crudfled” Roy
Cohn, former counsel for the
late Senator Joseph McCarthy.
He has been accused by Ralph
Renick, vice-president in charge
of news of the local CBS-TV
affiliate, Station WTVJ, of
“arousing the worst instincts”
ot mop. Officials Of Station
WQAM have denied any respon
sibility for thn Cflltiqhia express
ed on the air by Courtney.