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The Southern Israeli*
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry —
XXXV
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1960
Nixon, Kennedy Agree Shadow of Terr
To Liberal Immigration R uss i an J<‘ws
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NO 44
Dias Hounds
French Leader
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Both
major party Presidential candi
dates—Vice President Richard
M. Nixon and Senator John F.
Kennedy—have agreed that the
United States immigration laws
should be liberalized, it was an
nounced here this week by Rep
resentative Alfred E. Santangelo,
New York Democrat.
Mr. Santangelo queried the
candidates, asking them how
they stood on the revision of im
migrant quotas which, until now,
have been based on 1920 figures;
on distribution of unused quotas
to countries whose quotas have
been fulfilled; on Government
authorization for the admission
of up to 60,000 refugees annual
ly outside the quotas; and on
steps to permit aliens now ex
cluded to join members of fami
lies already in the United States.
Mr. Nixon replied, according
to the New York Congressman,
that the annual immigration
quotas should be based on the
1960 census; that “substantial
numbers” of refugees should be
admitted outside the quotas; and
that “preferential quotas” should
be established to facilitate re
union of families.
Mr Kennedy took the same
position, and said the United
States should look “beyond the
abolition of the national origins
of quota system, and its replace
ment with a more equitable
method of regulating the inflow
of immigrants."
On the basis of the two re
plies, Mr. Santangelo declared
that “White House support for
liberalizing our antiquated im
migration laws in the next ses
sion of Congress is assured.”
Lubavitcher Hassidim
Visit White House
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Four
members of the Lubavitcher
Hassidic movement in Israel,
headed by Shlomo Madanchik,
Mayor of the Lubavitcher village
of Kfar Chabad in Israel, paid
a courtesy call on Mayor Robert
F. Wagner here last weekend,
after similar previous visits to
the White House and the State
Department in Washington.
The four, with 66 other Is
raeli Lubavitchers who are re
turning home Wednesday, have
been visiting the United States
since coming here for the High
Holy Days to pay their respects
to Rabbi Menachem Schneer-
sohn, the Lubavitcher Rebbe of
Brooklyn, head of the movement.
In addition to Mayor Madan
chik, the Israeli Hassidim who
participated in the official visits,
were Rabbi S. S. Sossenkin,
Rabbi David Chanzin and Abra
ham Paris. They Wfere accom
panied by two American rabbis,
Rabbi S. Hecht of Chicago and
Rabbi David Hollander of The
Bronx.
PARIS, (JTA)—A portrait of
the present-day position of Rus
sia’s approximate 3,000,000 Jews,
confirming all previous reports
that showed there is no central
Jewish religious organization,
no Yiddish press whatever, and
lingering fears that the anti-
Semitic terror period of 1948-53
might recur, was drawn here
Sunday by Andre Blumel, one
of the topmost leaders of French
Jewry and former president of
the French Zionist Organization.
Special significance was attri
buted to M. Blumel’s report by
the fact that he is one of the co-
chairmen of France USSR, an
organization whose aim is the
fostering of mutual understand
ing between this country and the
Soviet Union. M. Blumel is also
one of the world leaders of the
International League for Human
Rights.
Just returned from a ten-day
survey of the conditions under
which Russian Jews live now,
M. Blumel reported he found
that the period of anti-Semitic
terror under the last years of
Stalin, during the years 1948 to
1953, has left an “indelible
mark” on Soviet Jewry. Even
today, he stated, the attitudes
and reactions of Soviet Jews are
fraught with fears that a simi
lar wave qf persecutions might
return to haunt their existence.
S.E. ADL Board to Cite College
President in Birmingham
Alex Miller
To Report
BIRMINGHAM — Dr. Henry
King Stanford, President of Bir
mingham-Southern College, has
been chosen to receive the 1960
Distinguished Service Award of
the Southeastern Regional Board
of the Anti-Defamation League
of B’nai B’rith.
The award citation will be
presented at a testimonial ban
quet in Birmingham on Satur
day evening, October 29„ mark
ing the opening of the seventh
annual meeting of the South
eastern Regional Board. Dr. San
ford will deliver the principal
address.
Distinguished Service Awards
are presented to individuals and
community groups which have
contributed significantly to im
proving intergroup relations, ac
cording to Abe Goldstein, At
lanta, chairman of the Board.
The award banquet will also
feature the presentation of the
annual Humanitarian Award by
the Morris Karpeles B’nai B’rith
Lodge of Birmingham. The re
cipient to be announced at the
banquet, will be chosen from
among eleven outstanding civic
and church leaders of Birming
ham who have been nominated
for the honor by various local
civic clubs.
Dr. Stanford is being cited in
recognition of his personal ex
ample of integrity and courage
in staunchly defending academic
freedom as an integral part of
American education, and his de
votion to the Judeo-Christian
ethic of freedom of conscience
upon which our democratic tra
dition is based.
Previous award winners in
clude Mayor William B. Harts-
field and Police Chief Herbert
T Jenkins of Atlanta, Ralph
McGill, publisher of the Atlanta
Constitution, the eighty Atlanta
ministers who signed the public
school manifesto, Horace Carter,
editor of the Tabor City (N.C.)
Tribune, Willard Cole, editor of
the Whiteville (N.C.) News-Re-
poter, William H. Early, Super
intendent of the Chatham Coun
ty (Ga.) School System, and Dr.
Harvey Branscomb, Chancellor
of Vanderbilt University.
A business session on Sunday
will feature a report on Germany
by Alexander F. Miller, national
ADL community service direc
tor. Mr Miller recently returned
from Germany after participat
ing in an exchange program
sponsored by the Bonn Govern
ment to counsel on methods of
reinforcing democratic concepts
among the people of West Ger-
C.S. Court to Rule
On School Prayers
NEW YORK. (JTA)—The
United States Court of Appeals
will be asked to rule on the con
stitutional validity of a New
York State Appellate Division
decision which has upheld the
non-compulsory recitation of a
prayer in the state’s public
schools, it was announced last
week by the New York Civil
Liberties Union.
The state’s Appellate Division
unanimously rejected the CLU
suit in a decision handed down
this week. The suit, filed on be
half of five parents whose chil
dren attend school in the near
by Nassau County, had been re
jected earlier by the New York
Supreme Court. Three of the
five plaintiffs in the current suit
are Jewish
many.
The Southeastern region en
compasses the states of Alabama,
Georgia, South Carolina and
Tennessee.
Government administrators and
Russians in general, the Jewish
leader said, are still “permeat
ed” with the pre-1953 anti-Semi
tic attitude.
On the whole, M. Blumel
found, Soviet Jews enjoy a feel
ing ,of relief that the “black
purge years” are over, but the
fears are there. While Jejvs are
coming forward more and more
openly with demands for the
establishment of a central, Jew
ish religious organization and the
revival of Yiddish theater, the
Russian rabbinate “lacks cour
age,” while Yiddish-language
writers are "reluctant” to insist
upon the revival of Yiddish
literature, “due to the memory of
the 1948-53 period.”
M Blumel reported various
promises from Soviet Govern
ment officials to improve the
general situation regarding Jews.
On the other hand, he reported,
he could not during his visit ob
tain from the Government any
data showing that there are Jews
in the Soviet foreign service;
and he could not find proof that
distribution of matzch for Pass-
over had been permitted any
where except in Leningrad and
Moscow.
The Jewish leader reported
that he and his personal inter
preter, whom he brought from
France, found only 107 Jews
among the workers in one of the
largest maaufacturing plgnts
outside Moscow, where 10,000
workers are employed. But these
workers, he said, were "indig
nant” at reports their children
have been found ineligible for
admission into “the most im
portant Soviet schools, being
shunted most often into engi
neering schools and law facul
ties.
Many Russian Jews have re
ceived honors for scientific work.
M. Blumel, said, while many
others practice law. He said he
was told that about 50 percent
of the lawyers in Khrakov and
Leningrad are Jews.
The fact that Russian Jews
want avidly to show their reli
gious affiliation was illustrated
by a personal observation by M.
Blumel in Leningrad, which he
visited on Simchat Torah, the last
day of the Succot festival. He re
ported that more than 15,000
Jews milled in the streets out
side the Leningrad synagogue on
Simchat Torah, unable to enter
the house of worship which was
crowded to capacity.
In talks with officials of the
Soviet Government’s department
of religious affairs, and in con
versations with Jewish commun
ity leaders, M. Blumel reported,
he was given these promises;
The Jewish community in
Leningrad is to receved a 55-
acre grant from the municipality
for a cemetery and for the con
struction of a new synagogue;
and has received authorization to
print 5,000 prayer books. In re
sponse to protests, the Babiyah
mass-grave cemetery in Kiev,
where the remains of 10,000
Jews massacred by the Nazis
are interred, will not be turned
into a municipal park but will,
instead, be marked by a monu
ment honoring the memories of
the Jewish dead.
jaw-asnaaure-
Yiddish as a “test” that would
determine whether there is pub
lic demand for such a publication
on a regular basis.
On the whole, M. Blumel re
ports, he found the Chief Rabbi
in Moscow “not a very Courage
ous individual,” while, there is
“little inclination on the part of
Jewish leaders to stick their
necks out” for fear of a recur
rence of the terroristic period of
1948-53.
Author Carlson Talks for
Bonds on October 31
John Roy Carlson, famed in
vestigator of subversive groups
in America, dynamic author of
“The Plotters,” “Under Cover”
and “Cairo to Damascus,” and
noted lecturer and editor, will
speak to a group of Atlanta
leaders on Monday, Oct. 31, at
8:00 p.m., at the Mayfair Club.
A. J. Weinberg, honorary co-
chairman of the Atlanta Israel
Bond Committee, will be Mr.
Carlson’s host at the meeting.
Mr. Carlson recently returned
from his fourth trip to the Mid
dle East, which included a six-
week visit to Israel, and a tour
of the four Arab states that en
circle her borders, in addition
to Iraq
Deeply impressed with Israel’s
phenominal progress, Mr. Carl
son’s survey took him to all parts
of the young nation. In Beer-
sheba, he viewed a booming
metropolis that had only recent
ly been a Bedouin village. He
visited the potash works at
S’dom, on the Southern shore of
the Dead Sea, a thriving plant
working feverishly to meet ex
port demands. He went to the
Judean foothills and saw many
new homes being built to replace
makeshift, temporary housing
He traveled oh the newly con
structed railway system visiting
dozens of factory sites and
frontier settlements
JOHN ROY CARL80N
Since 1938, when Mr. Carlson
began his research on Fascist
and Communist activities in
America for "Fortune” maga
zine. he has worked with major
government agencies and non-
official groups in compiling data
on subversive organizations. He
was instrumental in breaking up
Nazi fifth column groups and
the exposure of many hate
fronts. For exposing these out
fits, which operate under the
guise of "democratic” or “patrio
tic” syndicates, Mr. Carlson gain
ed their ever-lasting enmity.
From the Council Against In
tolerance however, he received
the Thomas Jefferson award for
his contributions to the advance
ment of democracy.
During the Second World War,
Mr. Carlson lectured at Army
camps on how to recognize the
propaganda of “The Enemy
Within.” Since then, in addition
to his writing, editing and lec
turing, he has appeared on nu
merous radio and television
shows. He has also been to Rus
sia and to four other countries
behind the Iron Curtain.
Young John Roy Carlson came
to the United States with his
Armenian family in 1921, and
five years later became an
American citizen. Graduating
from New York University’s
School of Journalism in 1928, he
studied at Columbia University,
pursued a succession of repor-
torial jobs throughout the coun
try and then settled down to
magazine work. His “Fortune”
assignment in 1938 launched
him on his nfission of exposing
extremist groups which would
sabotage our way of life.
The meeting at the Mayfair
Club will be one in a series of
meetings being held in Atlanta
behalf of the I960 Israel
nd campaign to sell a mini
um of $500,000 in Israel Bonds
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