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1,000Jewish Leaders at
Interfaith Rights Rally
WASHINGTON (JTA)— A Jewish
roM&am leader urged at an un
precedented interreiigious convoca
tion here last week that Americans
should look on the teghtodve effort
for civil rights as a reflection of
“our moral development" More
than 5,000 Protestant, Catholic and
Jewhfc leaden attended the meet
ing at Georgetown University to
dramatize tfaetr united backing for
the Botnrganad civil ri&tx bill
now bogged down in a Senate fill
buster. They included more than
1,000 Jewiah leadens.
Rabbi Url Miller, president of the
Synagogue Council of America, to-
hat the Americas people
tolerate Intolerance either
morally or practlcaUy" and that
the (tailed legWrttoa had to be ap
proved aa "bartc la the moral prta
h
The rally launched an
effort by major American reUgtoue
groups bath to pu*h tor pa—ge of
the hpiufatifln and to develop a
sharper aw—a among
and synagogue membere
tor individual com'*'
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The Southern Isr.
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry - Established 1925
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Vol. XXXIX
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1964
NO. 19
Nazi Gets 22 Life Terms
For Murders of Jews
BOCHUM (JTA) — The heaviest
penalty yet imposed on Nazi war
criminals—22 terms of life in prison
—was fixed this week tor Hermann
Biache, 63-year-old former Gestapo
chief of a Polish gietto. He was
convicted of shooting down 22 Jews
in the Taroow £»etto
The bfe terms, one for each mur
der, run concurrently. Biache was
given an additional six year term
for complicity in the massacre of
an additional 4,000 Tarnow Jews.
Another unique aspect of the tried
was a statement by Presiding Judge
Wilhelm Airfderheide to the effect
that before the three-week tried
began he was one of the many
Germans who wished to forget the
Nazi past but after studying the
document; and history of the trial he
had changed his mind. He now felt
such trials were “vitally necessary.”
He also rebuked Germans “who
complain that only German war
crimes and not the crimes of other
people are called to account. Jus
tice is not a business and cannot be
burdened by such claims. A nation
concerned with justice cannot allow
such crimes to go unpunished on
this account
Die life sentence was one of the
few for former Nans imposed by
German courts. Blache had denied
aH charges but the witnesses test
ified he had trampled children to
death, used Jews for target prac
tice and burned one old woman
alive. He was also stripped of his
limits as a German citizen.
Germans Reveal Nassers Plan
For Nuclear War Against Israel
At Hearing
Bishop Favors Prayers,
Protestants Oppose
WASHINGTON, (JTA)-Die Rev.
Fulton Sheen, Auxiliary Catholic
bishop of New York, told the House
Judiciary Committee this week that
he was not supporting any specific
amendment to the Constitution on
the issue of permitting prayers and
Bible-readuig in the public schools.
But, he said, he was interested in
obtaining “an" amendment.
He was one of several religious
spokesmen testifying before the
Committee which has before it a
number of constitutional amendment
proposals to void the U.S. Supreme
Court ban on such religious prac
tices. Bishop Sheen said at one point,
under questioning, that he was not
sure a Constitutional amendment
was really needed. After the hear
ing, he told reporters that it might
be adequate If Congress simply
passed a law permitting school
prayers. He also conceded a specific
amendment introduced in the House
might be a violation of the Firft.
Amendment.
Leo Pfeffer, American Jewish
Congress general counsel, told the
committee that many of the argu
ments for an amendment were using
“myths" and “fictions.” One such
fiction, he said, was that such re
ligious practices have been going on
for 150 years without objection.
Others, he said, were that there is
only one Bible and that all prayers
are addressed to the same God; that
if a Child can be excused, there can
be no valid objection to such prac
tices; that only “atheists” and “sec
ularists” oppose the proposed Con
stitutional amendment, and that the
Stgmeme Court had forbidden the
mention of God, the Bible and re
ligion in the public schools. All of
these, he declared, “are untrue."
Dr. Edwin Tuller, general secre
tary of the American Baptist Con
vention, appeared as a representa
tive of his church and on behalf of
the National Council of Churches, an
organization of 31 denominations
with 40,000,000 members.
LONDON (JTA)— Egypt’s Presi
dent Gamal Abdel Nasser is prepar
ing, with the help of 500 German
scientists and electronics experts, a
“deadly” set of plans to use atomic
warfare against Israel and, unless
the Soviet Union and the United
States give joint guarantees against
aggression to Egypt and Israel,
the “new kind of arms race
in the Middle East will menace the
people of the entire world,” the
Guardian of Manchester warned
Tuesday.
Die newspaper revealed Nasser’s
entire “atomic program in a special
article from Frankfurt, Germany,
reporting that “thanks to the help of
German scientists, there are indi
cations that Nasser has already
achieved a breakthrough “toward
making Egypt a "minor nuclear
power." The information, said the
newspaper, came from persons who
have been connected with the work
in Egypt. “They have convinced me
of the authenticity of their informa
tion," the Frankfurt correspondent
stressed.
Knowledge of Nasser’s nuclear
program has been top secret, res
tricted to a handful of German sci
entists and Nasser’s personal ad
visors, the correspondent declared,
but Israel has now been informed
of the details of the Nasser pro
gram, while the Goverranents of
Britain, France and the United
States “are aware at least of the
general outlines of the program.
Nasser’s nuclear program aimed
at Israel consists of three main
features, all designed to annihilate
Israel, the report stated. Die first
feature is “Operation Cleopatra,"
which involves production of nu
clear bombs of the type used by
the United States in its atomic at
tack on Hiroshima in 1945. While the
Hiroshima bomb is now considered
“out of date" by big power stand
ards, it was pointed out that such a
tomb is sufficient for the destruc
tion of Israel’s highly-concentrated
centers of population.
This project has been delayed
somewhat by the inability of the
German scientists, thus far, to make
an easily transportable bomb or
nuclear war head, light enough to
be fitted onto a rocket. But the
project, according to the report, has
probably not been abandoned. One
of Nasser’s {dans, discussed with
his closest advisers, said the report,
was to try to obtain some of the
Hiroshima-type A-bombs by bribing
Royal Air Force officers to bring
three or four of them to Egypt
healthily. The bribes would have
amounted to $8,000,000 per bomb.
Die second feature of the Nasser
program is called “Operation Ibis,”
and involves the making of small
missiles with “limited radioactive
fallout." These could be used as
bombs dropped by planes, or as
warheads for rockets, or as shells
fired by artillery. The German in
formants told the Guardian cor
respondent they believed that this
type of missile has already been
produced by the German scientists
in Egypt, aid is being stockpiled
in Egypt.
Die third phase of the Nasser pro
gram is called “Operation Stronti-
um-90,” has been reportedly given
serious consideration by Noasor tor
causing heavy civilian losses among
the Israelis when small packages
of Strontium-90 are dropped over
Israel. The key figure in “Opera-
tioo Strontium*)” was reporiedy
Prof. Wolfgang von Ptttx, a German
rocket specialist. Later, the report
stated, some electronic experts, also
Germans, were brought into this
project, and some Egyptian scien
tists and nuclear experts were add
ed.
The report said that there has
been a definite breakthrougi by
Egypt in "the field of Mght and
easily transportable missiles, con
taining limited quantiles of radio
active material. The exploding of
such missies would not produoe the
heat or blast effects of a hydrogen
bomb, but their secondary rerthrtloo
effects woidd cause counttees deaths
through radioactive fallout,” tbs re
port stated.
Washington Parley Ask U. S.
Assure Israel of Defense Arms
Find Animosity
Prom inen t Educa tors Discuss
Negro-Jewish Relations
NEW YORK (JTA)—A group of
prominent educators and writers
taking pert in a conference on
Negro-Jewish relations agreed here
that animosity exists between Jews
and Negroes but disagreed on mo
tivations behind Negro Anti-Semi
tism.
Die conference, which was *»n-
aored by the Conference on Jewish
Social Studies, dealt with the ques
tion of whether Jews were occasion
ally barraaaed by Negroes because
they were white or because they
were Jews and with the role of the
Jews in the Negroes’ struggle for
civil rights.
Referring to the recent attack
on children at a Brooklyn yeshiva
by a group of SO Ne&ues, Professor
Horace Mann Bond, a distinguished
Negro educator and dean of the
School of Education at Atlanta Uni
versity, said that the Jew«h chil
dren were attacked because they
were white and that the incident
lacked "the classic elements of anti-
Semitism.”
Professor Abraham G. Duker of
Yeshiva University, contended, on
the other hand that the attack was
due to basic anti-Semftian. “Anti-
Semitism among Negroes," he said,
“stems from the same source as
white anti-Semitism, namely, Chris
tian teaching."
Ieo SroJe, professor of sociology
in pyschiatry at the Downrtate Med
ical College of New York State
University, said that Negroes find
Jews “available objects for the hos
tility they bear to the white com
munity.” Howard M. Broti of Ikrrth
College, urged that more Negroes
study and emulate the self-help proj
ects of the Negro Jews of Harlem,
which, he said, has achieved an ad
mirable record in controlling crime
and improving housing conditions
among members of the group.
Bayard Rustin, Negro leader who
helped direct the March on Wash
ington last August, said that the
Brooklyn incident merely expressed
the frustrations of Negroes who
were renty to “adopt a slogan of
‘to hell with everybotfy, regardless
of color, race or creed’.” Harold
Kinlow. Jewish author, said Negro
authors like James Baldwin have
been more effective than Jewish
writers as spokesmen for their com
munities. Jews, he said, do not ac
cept Jewish writers until their works
are acclaimed by non-Jews
WASHINGTON (JTA)-A bi-part
isan call to the Administration to
consider the possibility of assuring
Israel of arms to defend herself
against Arab aggression was voiced
here Monday at the closing session
of the American Israel Pitibc Af
fairs Committee’s two-day confer
ence.
Die conference adopted a rtate-
ment of policy which appealed to
President Johnson “for a review of
American policy in the Near East
—to meet the growing danger which
not only threatens a war of ex
termination against Israel, but also
weakens the United States and
undermines the security and peace
of the free world ’’
Congressman Thomas Morgan,
chairman of the House Foreign Af
fairs Committee, reviewed the role
Congress has played in supporting
the establishment and economic de-
velopement of Israel, noting that
very often Oonpessional thinking
was ahead of that of the profes
sional diplomats. Rep. Morgan re
jected the theory professed by many
Government officials in connection
with American aid to Nasser that
economic aid and surplus food does
not contribute to the arms race.
“There is no real difference be
tween economic and military aid,”
he said. "It is lew than frank to
pretend that our economic aid does
not bolster the military prowess of
(he recipient country. Acoontingly,
we have dome misgivings about
economic aid to a nation which
shops in Moscow for arma" Noting
that aid to Israel has been declining
as a result of her economic prog
ress, Ooogreaaman Morgan declared ;
“Nor will we out aid to Israel if
it endangers her exntence or en
courages those who threaten her.”
Since Israel must divert much
of her resources for security be
cause of the concentration of Soviet
weapons in the hands of bar threat
ening neighbors, there are two al
ternatives, he said either to halt the
arms race or “act firmly to prevent
an arms imbalance. He pointed oft
that Congress last year approved
an amencknent barring American as
sistance to any country engaging in
or preparing for aggression against
another recipient of American aid.
“That was alternative one. If that
alternative cannot be carried out
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Announce Route
Of Eshkol's Visit
To United States
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Die final
itinerary wee announced ham for
the forthcoming visit to Washington
of Prime Minister Levi Eahknl.
Mr. Bshknl wfil remain Id the
United States far 12 cfayi, the fint
three of which will be devoted to
tans in wasnmgtop. During on stay
in Washington, the Israeli Premier
will be given a dinner by President
Johnson at the White House and will
be boat to Mr. Johaaon at a dinar
m a Washington hotel.
From Wtohfagfaa, Mr. EMM
wfll proceed to Nan Ytafc for a
four-day vtoit during which ha wffl
be the gueat of Mayor Whgner at
a reception and of United Nation
Secretary General U Thant at a
luncheon at United Nation head
quarters.
The Israeli Premier wffl then vtoit
Fort Btiee where toraeti ndfitary
personnel are being trained It the
use of American Hawk nUha and
wfil then prooeed to Lae Angeles for
a twcKfcy visit. On Me return trip
Aram the Watt Chart, Mr. Eahhol
will virtt Chicago. , ' . v.
Mr. MU wifi ha
by a number a t Ugh !
on bis trip to the
During his ririt la varioaa coun
tries, ha wffl mart nffh jm
leader* than and oofiM to
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