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Leader of Berlin Jewry Warns
USA, Britain on Hate Exports
D U S S ELDORF, (JTA) A
warning to the United States
and Britain to halt the sending
of Nazi literature from other
countries into West Germany
was issued here Monday by
Heinz Galinski, chairman of the
Jewish community in West Ber
lin, where anti Jewish posters
were found tacked on the walls
of the city’s Jewish Community
Center last week. In a lead arti
cle in the AUgemeine Wochenzel-
tung dei Juden, German-langu
age weekly organ of the West
German Jewish community. Mr.
Galinski warned that a revival
of anti Jewish activity not only
threatens Jews, but also poses
a danger to world peace.
Mr Galinski referred parti
cularly to the Nazi groups which
have developed in Britain, where
a spokesman for the British Na
tional Socialist movement boast
ed that his group had sent more
than 10,000 pamphlets to West
German business firms and an
nounced that "further shipments
are being prepared by the United
States headquarters of the inter
national Nazi movement.”
The posters appearing in West
Berlin last week bore pictures of
Hitler and such English slogans
as “Despite Jewish lies, Hitler
was right,” and "Hitler is dead,
but National Socialism lives on.”
Similar posters, all printed in
Britain, have been distributed
recently in Frankfurt, Munich
and other German cities.
Mr Galinski warned that
"Western politicians must real
ize in time that effective action
must be taken against the new
threat.” While West Germany
has already asked Britain
halt the sending of le**'
noted, the British Na
man had belittled sue
by pointing out that K
was legal in Britain. The
Parliament and the Unitea
Congress should be made ,
of this situation, Mr, GaV.iski
declared
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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
/o! XXXVIII ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1963
UN Assembly Agenda Ineludes March on Washington Hears Two Rabbis
IVo Items Touching Israel
As Thousands of Jews Take Part
WASHINGTON (JTA)
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(JTA)—Israel is affected directly
in two items on the agenda for
the forthcoming session of the
General Assembly, to convene
here Sept. 17, according to the
Assembly’s provisional agenda
circulated to delegations here
today. A number of items touch
Israeli interests less directly,
while other issues up for debate
on the heavy, 77-point agenda
will be of concern to Jews gen
erally, throughout the world.
The matters of direct concern
to Israel deal with (a) the
United Nations Emergency Force,
stationed on Israel’s Gaza Strip
border and along the Gull of
Akaba; and (b) the United Na
tions Relief and Works Agency
for Palestine Refugees, the large
UN- apparatus charged with aid
ing the Arab refugees, most of
whom are in camps in Gaza, Leb
anon, Jordan and Syria. The
items will deal with reports from
the heads of these two UN or
ganizations, with plans for the
next fiscal year, and with financ
ing of UNEF and UNRWA.
One item on the agenda deals
with a proposal by four South
America countries for denuclear
ization. However, both the
leading nuclear powers, the
United States and the Soviet
Union, are cool to the South
American plan.
Several of the agenda items af
fect various aspects of the overall
problem of human rights, thus
being of interest to Jews all over
the world. A committee of the
Assembly is to continue lengthy
debates, begun in 1954, on two
proposed international covenants
on human rights. One of these
covenants deals with economic,
social and cultural rights; the
other civil and political rights.
There were hopes here today that
these debates might at last be
concluded this year, leading to
possible adoption of the two pro
posed covenants.
Aditionally, the Assembly will
have before it a number of res
olutions previously adopted by
the Economic and Social Council
in the field of human rights.
Among the ECOSOC proposals is
a draft declaration calling for the
elimination of all forms of religi
ous intolerance; another banning
all forms of racial discrimination;
and one that would outlaw all
forms of racial prejudice and na
tional and religious intolerance.
One agenda item will deal witli
the work of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees,
an official whose work embraces
aid to all refugees except the
Arab refugees on Israel’s borders.
There are very few Jews left now
under the High Commissioner's
jurisdiction. He does try to aid
refugees from Algeria, but the
Jewish refugees from Algeria,
most of whom fled to France, are
not affected by his program.
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Is
rael Government is about to send
its reply to the Communist Chi
nese letter received here four
weeks ago, it was learned here.
The letter advocated nuclear dis
armament for the Middle East.
Although details of Israel's reply
have not been released, it is
understood that Israel will re
ject the Chinese proposal on the
grounds that Israel favors global
disarmament in general, and
complete disarmament in the
Middle East in particular.
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Is
raeli Cabinet decided at its week
ly meeting here to intensify ef
forts to thwart the work of Ger
man scientists in the employ of
Egyptian President Gamal Abdel
Nasser. This decision came after
a report from the Ministerial
Committee for Security which
said, “the Government finds it
necessary to continue with greater
energy its activity against the
work of German scientists in
Egypt.” At the same time, the
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UNITED NATIONS — Russia
Tuesday vetoed Western resolu
tion condemning the “wanton
murder” of two Israeli farmers
by Syrians two weeks ago.
The 101st Soviet veto cast in
the Security Council was the
third time that Moscow has
blocked an Arab-opposed reso-
1 lit ion.
Morocco and Syria hailed the
action of the Soviets.
Israel’s Michael S. Comay told
the Council that regardless of
the outcome, he regrets Syria
as “morally condemned.” He
said no veto would “wipe out
the damning facts” reported by
UN investigations of the killing
of the farmers near the Almagor
settlement.
The Soviet move was deplored
also by Charles W. Yost of the
United States
Predictions had been made
freely that the Moroccan amend
ments would not he accepted.
The United States and Britain
stand fast by their original draft.
The Soviet Union indicated
clearly here last weekend that
it would veto the draft co
sponsored by the U.S.A. and
Britain. Since seven or eight of
the 11 Council members are ex
extraordinary mass turnout of
more than 200,000 persons, gath
ered here August 28 for the cause
of full rights for American
Negroes, heard appeals by two
rabbis to the American people to
support that struggle as a matter
of basic moral right.
The tremendous throng exhib
ited a discipline that caused pol
ice officials to marvel. There
were only two arrests, one of
them an adherent of the Amer
ican Nazi party, who was seized
when he defied police orders
against making a speech at the
Washington Monument to foment
disorder.
An unexpectedly large number
of rabbis, Jewish leaders and or
ganizational representatives from
throughout the country appeared
for the March for Jobs and Free
dom. What struck many observ
ers, however, was the very large
sprinkling throughout Negro
groups of Jewish young men and
women. Many of the Jewish
young people carried placards
bearing sayings from the Old
Testament in both Hebrew and
English lettering.
While the vastness of the as-
pected to favor the Western
draft, its adoption would have
the moral force of an implied
rebuke to Syria, and an endorse
ment of the Israel position on
this issue.
The Council session for con
sideration of this latest Syrian
Israeli dispute has been under
way, with many delays, since
August 24, in spite of the fact
that Israel had labeled its call
for a Security Council meeting
as “urgent.” The delays have
been due mainly to filibustering
by the Soviet Union in response
not only to Morocco -the only
Arab state currently on the
Council but also to concerted
pressures employed by all the
members of the Arab bloc here.
Iraq joined tIn* pressure efforts
formally this weekend, by send
mg a letter to the president of
the Security Council, calling in
effect for condemnation of Is
rael instead of censure of Syria
However, both the United
States and Britain have insisted
that the implied rebuke to Syria
must go through. Their firmness
on this point has been called
very encouraging by many di
plomatic friends of Israel here
who have pointed out that this
semblage made exact estimates
impossible, some observers said
they believed that between 10,000
and 15,000 Jews took part in the
march. Some of the youths sang
Israeli folk songs and were join
ed by non-Jewish marchers.
Jewish leaders interviewed at
the Lincoln Memorial described
the event and the Jewish par
ticipation as successful beyond
expectation. It was apparent that
many Jewish participants came
as individuals, while most of the
organizational representa t i v e s
consisted of lay leaders, Jewish
organizational processionals and
rabbis.
Rabbi Joachim Prtnx, president
of the American Jewish Congress,
told the marchers that It was not
“merely sympathy and compas
sion for the Negroes of America”
that had motivated Jews to sup
port the Negro fight for equality
but even more “a sense of Iden
tification and of solidarity born
of our own painful historic ex
perience.” Rabbi Prtnx, one of
the ten chairmen of the March,
also told the gathering that when
he was living under the Nasi reg
ime as a rabbi In Germany, he
learned that, in the face of danger
is the first occasion in eight or
nine years that the Washington
and London administrations
showed themselves willing to
censure an Arab state.
Tuesday’s meeting of the Se
curity Council had a new presi
dent. Jacinto Castel Borja, of
the Philippine Islands. He took
his seat as head of the Council
in accordance with the tradition
al, rotating sytem under which
a different member heads the
Council each month. During the
debate of the current Israeli-
Syrian issue until now, the
Council president has been Si-
vert A. Nielsen, of Norway.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Both
Israel and Jordan were censured
last weekend by the Israel-
Jordan Mixed Armistice Com
mission for last week’s shootings
along the armistice lines here in
this city.
The United Nations chairman
of the commision cast his de
cisive vote in support of both
the Israel and Jordan resolu
tions, each of which condemned
the other for violating the truce.
Although the chairman said it
was impossible to ascertain
which side fired first, he voted
in favor of the Israel draft
which said Jordanian positions
had opened fire at 12:15 a.m.
Sunday. The chairman called
upon both sides to meet “at the
earliest opportunity” to consider
ways of maintaining peace and
quiet in Jerusalem.
to freedom, “the moat urgent, the
most disgraceful problem Is si
lence. A gTeat people had become
a nation of silent onlookers. They
remained silent In the face of
hatred, brutality and murder.”
He warned that the American
people “must not become a nation
of onlooker?. It must not be silent,
not merely black America, but
all America. It must speak up
and act, from the President down
to the humblest of us, and not for
the sake of the Negro but for the
sake of America.”
Rabbi Urt Miller, president of
the Synagogue Council of Amer
ica, delivered a prayer in which
he called on the assemblage to
make sure It was not voicing
empty words “nor even sincere
Ideals projected Into some Mes
sianic future, but actualities ex
pressed tn our society in osnerete
and tangible fana ■*" KsbM
Miller voiced hope 3*1 the de
mons traUsa would “senrifkw *11
Americans and —peris lly those in
positions of power and authority
to this concept of equality.”
The rabbi prayed that there be
understanding, that “when we de
prive our fellowman of bread and
dignity, we negate the Tselem
Elokim — the Image of God In
man — and delay the fulfillment
of His Kingdom.”
Police arrested Karl Allen,
deputy commander of the Amer
ican Nazi Party, when he sought
to make a speech on the Wash
ington Monument grounds design
ed to agitate against the march.
The Nazi was taken into cus
tody after police had warned the
Nazis that they could neither dis
play insignia nor placards, nor
speak In a manner that might
foment violence. They were
screened off by more than 100
police officers and military pol
icemen from the Civil Rights
marchers. After the arrest of Al
len, the Rockwell group — esti
mated at 100—left, threatening to
continue demonstrations later.
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LEXINGTON, Mass. (JTA) —
Temple Emunah, here, will ded
icate Ita new building In three
days of ceremonies next month.
A unique architectural feature of
the structure, which has a max
imum aeating capacity of |1,H4
in its sanctuary, la the continu
ous band of windows traversing
its roof and casting diffused light
on the Holy Ark below.
Among those to participate in
the ceremonies will be Dr. Abram
Sachar, president of Brandeis Uni
versity and Prof. Nahum Glatzer,
chairman of the university’s de
partment of Judaic Studies. Rabbi
Judah Stampfer, the temple’s
spiritual leader, will officiate.
LONG BEACH, Cal If. (JTA)—
Beth El Synagogue of Long
Beach held a mortgage burning
ceremony during a special cere
mony.
The building on which the
mortgage was paid up is the third
structure in which the 14-year-
old congregation has worshipped.
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