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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established
Vol. XL
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 23, 1965
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Britian Doubts Protests
Help Jews of Soviet
INO. 30
LONDON (JTA)— The British
Government has “studied with
interest and sympathy” a resolu
tion adopted last May by the
Consultative Assembly of the
Council of Europe, calling upon
the Soviet Government to halt
suppression of cultural and re
ligious rights of the Jews in the
USSR, the House of Commons
was informed officially here.
The information came from
Walter Padley, Joint Minister of
State, in a written reply to a
question previously asked by
David Webster, a Conservative
member of Parliament. Mr. Web
ster had requested the Govern
ment to report what it was doing
m regard to the May resolution.
After asserting that the Govern
ment has studied the document,
Mr. Padley added, “We do not
think, however, that official in
tervention by her Majesty’s Gov-
Vietnam Leader’s
Praise of Hiller
irks Washington
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Offic
ials were concerned over a state
ment by South Vietnamese Pre
mier Nguyen Cao Ky praising
Adolph Hitler as his personal
■hero.” One official, however,
said that while Gen. Ky may
have admired Hitler as a nation
alist leader of Geimany, this
should not be interpreted as an
endorsement of Hitler’s anti-
Jewish policies.
In his statement lauding Hit
ler. Gen. Ky said that “I admire
Hitler because he pulled his
country together when it was in
a terrible state in the early
1930’s. But the situation here is
so desperate that one man would
not be enough. We need four or
five Hitlers in Vietnam.”
A spokesman for Gen. Ky. later
said that the Premier had intend
ed only to voice admiration for
Hitler’s qualities of leadership
and that he did not intend to
praise the Nazi leader in all res
pects. The spokesman noted that
“nobody can forget the inhuman
methods he (Hitler) used during
the Second World War.”
ernment would assist achieve
ment of the objective which the
Consultative Assembly of the
Council of Europe had in mind.”
In London o;
Squads Organizv to Guard
Synagogues Against Arson
LONDON (JTA) — A sharp
protest against suppression of
Jewish culture in the Soviet
Union was delivered here to
Ekaterina Furtseva, the Soviet
Minister of Culture, who is cur
rently on a visit to London.
The protest, signed by A. G.
Brotman, secretary of the Board
of Deputies of British Jews, de
clared: “The Jews of Russia have
a proud cultural tradition going
back about 1,000 years. But no
where in Russia today are there
schools or institutions where a
Jew can study his cultural her
itage, his spiritual traditions and
his ancient history.
“The cultural situation of the
Jewish community in the USSR
must create the impression that
it is the result of administrative
measures, apparently employed
in an arbitrary way, intended to
estrange Jews from their cultural
and traditional path and to bring
about their assimilation by means
which are contrary to Soviet
practices, to the Constitution of
the USSR and to declarations of
the Communist Party on cultural
problems of minority groups.”
HATE BOOKLETS
ON SALE AT
BOSTON RALLY
BOSTON (JTA)—Anti-Jew-
ish pamphlets and exhibits by
.American Opinion, a publica
tion issued by Gerald L. K.
Smith, editor of the racist mag—
azine, The Cross and the Flag,
featured the “God and Coun
try” rally here which also fea
tured leaders and publications
of the John Birch Society, the
Jewish Advocate reports.
Among the material sold at
the rally, the English-Jewish
newspaper stated, was “a vici
ously anti-Semitic” pamphlet,
entitled “The Bigots Behind
the Swastika Spree,” written by
Joseph J. Kamp, who. accord
ing to the Jewish Advocate,
"has a record of extreme, right-
wing and anti-Semitic activity
going back to the Hitler years.”
LONDON (JTA)—Self-defense
squads were formed by young
Jews in various parts of London
Sunday, to guard synagogues
against bombings, arson and van
dalism of the type that occurred
here three times in the last
week and at least 20 times since
last November.
Name Goldberg
To UN Post
Supreme Court Justice Arthur
J. Goldberg was this week named
successor to the late Adlai E.
Stevenson as U. S. Ambassador
to the United Nations.
United Press International re
ported President Johnson as say
ing he had called upon Goldberg
to leave his lifetime post on the
nation’s highest tribunal because
there was no more important
task now before this country
than achievement of “a world
where all men may live in peace
with the hope of justice under
the rule of law.”
Goldberg, 56, w r as labor secre
tary in the Kennedy administra
tion and one-time general coun
sel for the United Steelworkers
Union.
Ku Klux Klan
States And Abroad
Calls Rise In All
NEW YORK (WUP) — A Ku
Klux Klan leader disclosed in a
radio interview that, fortified
with huge sums, his organization
has set up cells in every state of
the Union and also abroad in
cluding West Germany. The anti-
Negro, anti-Jewish bigot made it
a point to emphasize that Klan
activities in the northern states
will be heard of more and more
in the immediate future.
A recent burning of a cross on
Long Island by so-called hood
lum youths has now been attri
buted to the Klan. Moreover, the
latest setting fire to a London
synagogue, according to its Rab
bi Joseph Shaw, has also been
laid at the doorsteps of the
Klan.
Rabbis in most of the syna
gogues appealed to worshipers to
participate in the defense squads.
One squad leader declared: “We
are not taking the law into our
own hands. But we are ready to
pounce on any of these hooligans
and to hold them until the police
arrive.”
Within the last week, fire
broke out at a synagogue in Stan-
more, a London suburb, after two
incendiary bombs had been
placed on the premises. A few
days earlier, a similar incident
took place at a synagogue in
another section of the city.
In Golders Green, a section
heavily populated by Jews, a
number of Jews engaged in a
fight with men who had gathered
in the vicinity at midnight In an
apparent effort to carry out an
action against another synagogue.
In this case, the Jewish defend
ers were read'’, after an anony
mous telephone caller had tipped
off the synagogue’s caretaker.
The unidentified, would-be mo
lesters were chased from the
area before police could arrive.
A delegation representing the
Board of Deputies of British
Jews, led by Solomon Teff, pres
ident of the Board, met with
Scotland Yard’s assistant com
missioner of police, and discuss
ed means for strengthening se
curity measures around syna
gogues.
The police official stated after
the conference that Scotland
Yard regarded the recent incen
diary attacks against synagogues,
as well as other anti-Jewish in
cidents, “very seriously,” and as
serted that all possible steps were
being taken to protect Jewish
houses of worship and to appre
hend those repsonsible for the
outbreaks.
One man, arrested over a week
ago following a fire in a syna
gogue in the London suburb of
Southgate, was ordered held
without bail after his second ar
raignment, in which he was
charged specifically with “break
ing into a place of divine wor
ship and committing arson."
Previously, the charge against
the man, 39-year-old Aubrey
Desmond Cadogan, had accused
him vaguely of committing “sac
rilege.”
At the fresh arraignment, De
tective Inspector George Claiden
told the court that “there are
matters which we are investigat
ing at the moment, which will
undoubtedly result in further
charges, one of which appears to
be of a similar nature.” On the
inspector’s request, the court re
manded Cadogan for another
week without bail.
A long-pending bill outlawing
racist propaganda, incitement and
discrimination was passed on
third reading in the House of
Commons on Friday. It prohibits
“incitement to racial hatred,”
and forbids issuance or distribu
tion of “threatening, abusive or
insulting publications or speeches
with intent to stir up hatred
against any section of the public
distinguished by race, color or
ethnic or national origin.”
One of the bill’s supporters,
Quinton Hogg, a Conservative,
told Parliament: “I support this
kind of thing because there has
been a recrudescence of provoca
tive matter attacking Jewish and
colored people.”
Je wish Groups Mourn
Death of Stevenson
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(JTA)—American Jewish organ
izations joined here in the gen
eral mourning over the sudden
death of Ambassador Adlai E.
UN MOURNS
Did Stevenson Die Of A Broken Heart?
By David Horowitz
UNITED NATIONS. (WUP) — No passing of a statesman
since the assassination of President Kennedy in November of
]963 has so deeply touched this world organization than the
sudden death last iceek in a London street of Adlai Stevenson.
The shock felt at this headquarters was almost as stunning
as that of the monstrous deed in Dallas.
Strangely, despite his ideological differences with Soviet
bloc and other diplomats. Stevenson was universally liked and
respected as a person of great wit. humor and profound wis
dom. What fascinated newsmen and other observers here
throughout the various sessions was his ability to inject bits
of humor into the most serious debates with the Soviets. And
although these debates often were very bitter in the face of
USSR anti-U.S. diatribes. Stevenson, in his gentlemanly
manner, would go over to Soviet Ambassador Fedorenko, soon
after the clashes, shake hands with him and enter into a most
friendly talk as if nothing had happened.
The reason: both kneiv very well that what they had said
over the conference table was not wholly to their own liking,
that many things they had uttered had gone against their own
gram. It was not Stevenson the man or Fedorenko the indi
vidual speaking. It was Washington and Moscow whose in
structions they had to folloxv.
• Fedorenko himself had once admitted to your correspon
dent that his statements in the Security Council some time
ago over the Almargor case—Syrian murder of two innocent
Israeli farmers—had gone against his oicn feelings, that they
were "a very unpleasant thing” for him to make.
And as for Stevenson, it is now well-known that he had
not always been too happy over State Department policies on
foreign affairs nor did he fully go along with President John
son on many issues, among these were Viet Nam and the
Dominican Republic. . .
Thus, to be placed in such a precarious position as not
being able to be himself, to express his own views, to be
dwarfed in spirit—especially a man of such a noble character
as Stevenson, twice candidate for the presidency of the United
States—Adlai found himself limited almost as if his soul had
been imprisoned.
Such a predicament could in the long run break the heart
of the hardiest of men and it is entirely possible that Adlai
Stevenson died of a broken heart. His death was attributed to
heart failure.
There is an old statement to the effect that “Jerusalem
kills its prophets.” Judging by some of the tragedies here in
the world organization, one might now also say that “the UN
kills its diplomats.”
Although Stevenson's record as a supporter of the State
of Israel had fallen a bit short of that of other American
statesmen, he did view the rise of the Jewish State as one of
the great historic events of our time. During the 1964 Presi
dential campaign he declared: “My support for the restoration
of the Jews to their homeland was all the more profound be
cause of the work of Stephen S. Wise and Herbert H.
Lehman.”
A great American has left us. His replacement at the UN
poses a real problem for President Johnson.
Stevenson, chairman of the
United States delegation, who
died of a heart attack in London
at the age of 65. He was on his
way back from a meeting of the
United Nations Economic and
Social Council in Geneva where
Soviet anti-Semitism was among
topics brought to the attention
of the Council.
Mr. Stevenson had appeared
frequently as the major speaker
at events conducted by American
Jewish organizations. During his
two unsuccessful presidential
campaigns, in 1952 and 1956, he
had very broad backing from
leading Jews and from Jewish
voters in general around the
country. His role in removing
“the last vestiges of anti-Sem
itism in the commissioning of
naval officers” when he served
as special assistant to Secretary
of the Navy Frank Knox during
World War II was .recalled by
National Commander Ralph Plof-
sky of the Jewish War Veterans.
As head of the U. S. delegation
to the United Nations, Mr Stev
enson distinguished himself as a
friend of Israel at a series of Se
curity Council sessions only last
December. He had, at times, been
criticized by some Jewish leaders
as not sufficiently sympathetic to
Israel in its disputes with the
Arab states. However, all recall
ed last December’s Security
Council meetings when it was
Mr. Stevenson who saved Israel
from condemnation by the Coun
cil as a result of Syrian com
plaints charging Israel with
“overt aggression.”