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Adolph Rosenberg, Editor and Publisher
Gustav Oppenheimer, Sylvia Kletzky,
Kathleen Nease, Jeanne Loeb, Ruth Kahn
JOURNALISTIC AFFILIATIONS
AMWICAN JfWISH PRtSS ASSN
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SEVEN ARTS FEATURES
GEORGIA PRESS ASSOCIATION
Topic of the Day
By DAVID BENARONE
“The Forgotten Ally”
This writer has just completed a re-reading of Pierre Van
Paassen’s “The Forgotten Ally” and he would strongly advise
the reader to do the same at a leisure moment during this
solemn High Holy Day Season.
This significant Dial Press volume is as timely and signifi
cant for the world today as it was when it first appeared in
1943.
It is the cry of an honest Christian against the inequities
of a Christian civilization vis-a-vis the People of the Book.
“As one who is aware and who feels with a sense of per
sonal involvement Christianity’s guilt in the Jewish people’s
woes and the constant deepening of their anguish,” Van
Paassen declared in his Preface, “I could no longer be silent.”
As if inspired by the Divine and like a prophet of old, Van
Paassen daringly proceeded to indict our civilization. “Even
today the German people, our fellow-Christians in the Reich
have not heard a word of warning from our churches,” Israel’s
champion charged in 1943, “The governments of the U.S.A. and
Great Britain have weakly protested, it is true, but not to
Germany. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill have told the Jews
everything will come out alright. In the meantime Hitler keeps
murdering Jews, thousands each day, without relenting . . .”
But Pierre Van Paassen was a “voice in the wilderness.”
Few heeded or took note. Everything was too late and too
little, “everything” did not come out right, as Roosevelt and
Churchill predicted. -
This writer salutes Pierre Van Paassen who dared speak
out the truth at the most critical moment in mankind’s history.
Read “The Forgotten Ally.”
For Democracy’s Survival
By AMI RECCA
The Kremlin Bombshell
Nikita Khrushchev’s startling announcement last week
that the U.S.S.R. has decided to resume “experimental explo
sions of nuclear weapons” and that any war will certainly
involve the use of same has stultified all world capitals and
injected a spirit of deadly frigidity within the United Nations.
The Moscow move, undoubtedly, has come as a direct
reply to the new military set-up in Berlin and therefore as a
threat to the West but more so West Germany, the free states
as well as the neutrals now meeting in Belgrade.
Thus, as this writer has previously indicated in this col
umn, the contending ranks are closing in and the issue now
truly is one of war or peace. We are living in dangerous times.
Even nuclear testing without war creates a fall-out which may
contaminate the whole planet
This is a time which calls for sober thinking and President
Kennedy must find a new dynamic diplomatic procedure in
order to counteract this latest Kremlin “bomb.”
Family Awarded
$8j$98£44 For
Seized Property
LONDON, (JTA)—The British
Foreign Compensation Commis
sion, after a five-day hearing,
awarded 3,106,010 pounds ($8,-
098,244) this week to the Smouha
family for the holdings estab
lished by the family in Egypt
which was expropriated by Nas
ser during the 1956 Suez crisis.
The family had filed a claim
for 12,000,000 pounds ($33,600,-
000) for the property, known as
Smouha Island, comprising one-
sixth of Alexandria. The district
had been built up by Joseph
Smouha, a Manchester business
man, who went to Egypt on a
mission for the British Govern
ment and remained to create a
fortune on land reclaimed by
draining two lakes.
Ellis Smouha filed the claim
for himself and 13 relatives but
about 50 members of the family
will benefit from the award. It
was brought out at the hearing
that the late King Fuad had
given the title of “Smouha City”
to the property, which includes
a racing course, a village, dwell
ings, offices and motion picture
theaters.
When Nasser “nationalized”
the area, his government offered
only 1,000,000 pounds compensa
tion, contending that the area
was only agricultural land. The
funds for the award to the Smou
ha family came from an agree
ment under which the Nasser
regime agreed to pay 27,500,000
pounds ($75,600,000) for nation
alized British property.
Nazi Chief Of Staff
Off Pension Roll
H A N N O VER, (JTA) — The
former staff chief of the Nazi
storm troops, Willhelm Schep-
mann, has been ordered dropped
from the pension rolls in a de
cision here by the Lower Sax
ony Administrative Court.
Schepmann recently resigned as
Deputy Mayor of Gifhom, a
Lower Saxony town, after Social
Democrats had protested against
his holding that office, establish
ing that he had become the chief
of staff of the S.A., the Hitler
storm troops, in 1943. Now the
court has ruled that, although
he had “not committed acts
against humanity” while serving
in the Hitler forces, he was,
nevertheless, guilty of “violating
the principles of the legal state”
and was therefore ineligible to
pension benefits.
Judge Denies Ex-Nazi
American Citizenship
NEW YORK, (WUP)—Federal
Judge Lloyd F. MacMahon this
week turned down the applica
tion for citizenship presented to
him by ex-Nazi Dr. Edward
Vieth Sitter. Sitter renounced
his American citizenship during
World War II and joined the
Nazis as a broadcaster of Nazi
propaganda. Sitter is 45 and the
father of eight children.
North African Jews
New Year Messages
Our Responsibilies
By IRVING L. GREENBERG, M.D.
President, Atlanta Jewish Community Council
As we usher in Rosh Hashonah, the New Year of 5722, it is my
privilege and pleasure, as President of the Atlanta Jewish Community
Council, to wish all members of the Jewish community a healthy,
happy and abundant New Year.
Merely expressing a wish will not automatically bring about the
fulfillment of our hopes and desires. We must continue to practice
cooperation and to work together in all our organizational and com
munal endeavors. As members of a dynamic Jewish community it is
incumbent upon each of us to assume our proper share of responsi
bility in the furtherance and support of our communal institutions.
Each of us must take full advantage of the opportunities we are
offered in the community of becoming better informed of our Jewish
traditions and history and the moral and ethical teachings of our
prophets and sages, which are such an essential part of our Jewish
cultural heritage. To accomplish this we must have a sense of history
as well as a sense of community. Jewish education is, therefore, an
essential part of our individual as well as community obligation.
It is fortunate that our children have a better opportunity to
obtain this knowledge and broad education than most of us adults
did in the past.
However, adult Jewish education must continue to be an im
portant part of our community’s efforts. %
May we, in the coming year, intensify and strengthen our ef
forts in being a part of the active life of our Jewish and general
community and thereby make a maximum contribution to the growth
and development of a healthy, happy, and wholesome community.
L’SHONA TOVA.
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from the neutralist conference at
Belgrade, he would investigate
the charges and that the whole
matter would be forgotten if Mr.
Amar’s contention of absence
from the Geneva parley was
verified.
The A1 Alam denunciation was
an unexpected blow since there
had been reports recently that
the Government had decided to
implement the policy of liberaliz
ing the official attitude toward
Morocco’s Jews promulgated by
the late King Mohammed V
shortly before his death.
In nearby Algeria the uneasi
ness of the Jewish community
grew as more Jews fell victims
to terrorist outrages. A grenade
was thrown into the Bagatelle
Cafe in Setiff, wounding a num
ber of persons. A plastic bomb
was thrown into an apartment in
the Bel-el-Oued quarter Of Al
giers, wounding Prosper Atlan, a
Jewish property owner. Another
Algiers Jewish merchant was
fatally shot. Late last week a gre
nade was tossed into a cafe in the
Bab-el-Oued quarter. Two Jews
were hurt.
Record of Achievement
BEN J. MASSELL, ABE GOLDSTEIN,
HONORARY PRESIDENT PRESIDENT
MILTON WEINSTEIN,
GENERAL CHAIRMAN. 1961 CAMPAIGN
ATLANTA JEWISH WELFARE FUND, INC.
On behalf of the officers, Board, and the 1961 Campaign leader
ship, of the Atlanta Jewish Welfare Fund, we want to extend to
the entire Jewish community our best wishes for a joyous, pros
perous, and happy New Year. „
May we continue to enjoy, in the coming year, the blessings of
peace, security and freedom .
Once again Atlanta Jewry has responded generously to the call
of our fellow Jews the world over for assistance.
In 1961, as in past years, the Atlanta Jewish community has
demonstrated that it cares what happens to Jews in other lands as
well as in our own United States.
The tensions and conflicts throughout the world place Jews in
many parts of the globe in jeopardy.
Israel continues to keep its gates open to all Jews who need
a place where they can make a home and start life anew in security
and in freedom.
The increased immigration to Israel requires increased sums of
assistance to the new immigrants for absorption and settlement in
Israel where they may become productive citizens of an open and
free society.
We have a deep concern for the welfare of the Jews of Israel
and elsewhere. All of us pray for the success of Israel.
We feel certain that the Jews of Atlanta will continue to main
tain the high record of achievement which has characterized their
participation in the Welfare Fund over these many years.
May the new year bring peace and contentment to every Jew
ish citizen of our great community.
Community Needs
By ABE SCHWARTZ,
President, Jewish Social Service Federation
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
I know I voice the sentiments of all our officers and Board of
the Federation when I express to all the Jews of Atlanta a warm
and sincere L’SHONA TOVA.
May the New Year bring to each of you good health, a minimum
of problems and a maximum of good cheer.
The Federation is in its 56th year of service to this community
It has seen the community grow in numbers and in prosperity, and
to develop into a great metropolitan area.
With this growth and development have come many problems
of individual and family adjustment. Very often these are by-pro
ducts of the complications of modem urban living. Our children and
young people required facilities and programs to meet their recrea
tional and educational needs for the normal growth and develop
ment of their personalities
Our "golden agers” or senior citizens can no longer be neglected
or their needs overlooked.
All these were problems for solution by the Federation and its
agencies. Through the various services provided by the agencies in
cluded in the Federation it has been possible to fulfill, in large
measure, the needs of the different segments of our community.
Much remains to be done.
The Federation is a charter member of the Community Chest,
now a part of the United Appeal. At this time of the year the United
Appeal is engaged In its annual fund raising campaign. I would urge
every Jewish citizen to participate and to support this overall com
munity effort.
Jewish tradition tells us that to save one life is as if you have
saved the whole world. On this New Year let us continue our tradi
tion of “Tzadakah” and compassion.