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B’nai B’rith To Open
Lodge in Frankfurt
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—B’nai
B’rith announced this week it
had chartered ita second postwar
lodge in West Germany, to be
opened in March in Frankfurt,
following several visits by Mau
rice B i s g y e r, executive vice
president of .the organization.
B’nai B’rith is also considering
activating lodges in Munich,
Stuttgart and Hamburg. '
‘Tliis is in accordance with
B’nai B’rith traditional policy of
organizing abroad as a part of
the indigenous Jewish communal
structure,” Mr. ijisgyer said. In
1937 the Nazis outlawed B’nai
B’rith in Germany. Lodges had
existed there since the 1880’s.
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Van Paassen Hails
Brandeis As Prophet
NEW YORK, (WUP) — The
scene was City Hall. Present
were the Mayor himself, Robert
Wagner, and an assembly of
leading citizens. The voice was
that of one of Jewry’s greatest
champions, that of author and
minister Pierre van Paassen. The
subject — the late Justice D.
Brandeis. Susan his sister was
also present as these words rang
through the coveted chamber:
“President Roosevelt had a
habit of referring to Mr. Brandeis
as Isaiah . . Brandeis not merely
talked justice. He was a fighter
for justice. He was a battler for
righteousness . . Brandeis espou
sal of the cause of Zionism was
the most startling development
in the evolution of that move
ment in this country. That a se
cularist of his standing should at
a critical moment step forward to
- speak for the righting Of an an
cient wrong, the ending of the
Jewish tragedy of 2000 years of
martyrdom and homelessness,
was an event of surpassing signi-
cance in that it gave new impetus
and incentive to that movement
which finally came to triumph
and fruition in 1948.”
The prophetic voice of van
Paassen continued to ring: “But
given Brandeis prophetic charac
ter it could scarcely have been
otherwise. For he saw the aim
of Zionism not merely as the
setting up of one more national
state by the side of half a dozen
Levantine republics and king
doms in the Mideast. His dream
of Zion restored was a vision of
deep human, universal and mes
sianic content. He became an ad
vocate of the Hebraic renais
sance. He wanted to see the
Lamos rekindled on Zion’s hill,
those lights which so often in
the past shed light on the whole
world of man.”
Thus a fitting tribute to one of
America’s greatest sons was
made as the Jewish Forum Asso
ciation presented the 1961 Jus
tice Louis D. Brandeis Awards
for Service to Humanity to five
outstanding Americans, Benja
min Abrams, Artfrur A. Hough
ton, Jr., Jakob Michael; B. David
Schwartz; Ed Sullivan. Dr. Isaac
Rosengarten, Editor of The Jew
ish Forum, was specially honor
ed for his life-long service and
dedication to Jewry and humani
ty.
Dr. Harry Cohen, noted sur
geon, was chairman of the uni
que event, and Dc. David S.
Andron acted as MC. Among the
notables present were the Hon.
Charles H. Silver; Hon. Jacob L.
Haltzman; Prof. Abram I. Katsh;
Harry Hirshfield; Justice George
J. Beldock, the Rev. Karl Baehr,
Rabbi Dr. Joel H. Laks, and Mrs.
Gustave Hartman.
Jews in So. Africa
To Fight Bias Bill
In University
JOHANNESBURG, (JTA) —
Steps taken by the South Afri
can Jewish Board of Deputies
to defend the “conscience clause”
in the statute of the Orange Free
State University, which univer
sity officials are seeking to have
eliminated in part, were report
ed at the monthly meeting of
the Board this week. ,
The conscience clause is a pro
vision in South African univer
sity legislation which bans reli
gious discrimination in staff ap
pointments or student admis
sions. The Orange Free State
University seeks to have the por
tion relating to staff appoint
ments nullified.
Arthur Suzman, chairman of
the Board’s public relations com
mittee, reported that the uni
versity had tried at its incep
tion to omit the conscience
clause but the South African
Parliament had insisted on in
clusion of the clause in the uni
versity’s enabling act. The uni
versity introduced a - bill at the
current session of Parliament to
obtain the partial nullification.
The Board of Deputies sent all
MP’s a detailed memorandum on
the issue which stressed the case
for retention of the full clause,
Mr. Suzman nijted. He told the
Board that no^^pecial position
was being claimed for the Jews
because non-Protestant Chris
tians would be equally affected.
He said that the Board’s stand
was based on the principle of
maintaining South Africa’s tra
dition of religious non-discrimin
ation. He added that the bill
was not a Government measure
and each deputy was free to
vote his convictions, and that
he hoped the principle would
prevail. Members of the Board
unanimously endorsed this stand
of the Board’s executive.
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BY HENRY LEONARD
“Look, Noah, you save ’em in your way and I'll
save ’em in mine.”
, Cm* 1t*0. Day***
Action Against Aramco
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ALABANY, (JTA)—The New
York State Commission Against
Discriminations was ordered this
week by the New York Court
of Appeals to either review the
anti-Jewish hiring policies of
the Arabian-American Oil Com
pany or to act to stop them.
The state’s highest court af
firmed in a six to one decision
an order of the Appellate Divi
sion issued last April which
ordered SCAD to abandon its
“arbitrary and capricious” re
fusal to act on ARAMCO’s hiring
policies.
The ARAMCO appeal had been
opposed by the American Jewish
Congress which originally laun
ched the legal fight against the
hiring policies of the company
which operates extensive oil ex
tractions in Saudi Arabia. The
Congress charged that the oil
company was in effect “the tool
and agent of Saudi Arabia in
barring Jews from employment
both there and in the United
States.”
The company has defended its
policy of asking job applicants
if they were Jewish as essential
to compliance with the ban on
entrance of Jews into Saudi Ara
bia. The company also has arg
ued that American foreign policy
interests in the Middle East jus
tified an exemption for it from
the State Fair Employment Prac
tice Law.
The question of United States
foreign policy ig6ue was brought
up in the lengthy dissent of
Associate Judge Van Voorhis
who said the American Jewish
Congress was “plainly seeking
to put ARAMCO out of business
in SanHi Arahia ” He declared
that about two-thirds of the cur
rently known oil deposits in the
world were , contained in the
Middle East.
“The importance of these oil
reserves to the United States, as
well as to the other nations of
Europe, Asia and Africa, has
been emphasized by the State
Department,” Judge Voorhis
wrote. He added that the State
Department had not changed its
“essential position” since the
issue first came before SCAD in
1950.
SCAD at that time and later
accepted a view of the State De
partment that a ruling forcing
ARAMCO to hire Jews for jobs
in Saudi Arabia would “prejud
ice” the firm’s Arabian opera
tions.
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