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Two More Synagogues
Set Afire in
LONDON (JTA)— Two more
synagogues were set afire and
badly damaged in different parts
of greater London Saturday. The
attacks were the 21st and 22nd
of this type in London since last
fall, despite the special precau
tions taken to guard Jewish com-
London
munal property.
The first of the fires hroke out
shortly after midnight at the Il
ford synagogue. Firemen found
that inflammable liquid had been
poured on the edifice. The blaze
blew out most of the synagogue’s
windows, and damaged the floor
and much of the woodwork.
Scrawled on one of the walls
were the slogans “Heil, Hitler!,’’
and "We shall free Britain from
Jewish control.”
About two hours later, fire
blazed in an entirely different
section ' of the city, in a syna
gogue on Lea Bridge Road, Clap
ton. The damage here was about
the same as in the Jewish house
of worship at,Ilford.
Scotland Yard announced sev
eral weeks ago that it was taking
special precautions to guard
Jewish houses of worship and
institutions, and the Government
had assured the House of Com
mons formally that police surveil
lance is in effect against anti-
Semitic outbreaks. The Board of
Deputies of British Jews has
been in close contact on the issue
with Scotland Yard, and had
announced also that Jewish -t’'A.O
servicemen and wome r ^ ■
alerted. In some
rabbis have appealed
young men to form ,
corps to guard the hous
ship.
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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
VoL XL ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 6, 1965 NO 32
Calm Announced as District 5
UBIO Director, Atlanta Hdqs.
LBJ’s Supreme Court Choice
To Preserve Liberal Balance
Announcement was made in
Washington this week of the ap
pointment of Ronald T. Cahn
of Indianapolis as director for
District Five of the B’nai B’rith
Youth Organization and the cre
ation of headquarters in Atlan
ta.
The new BBYO office will be
in the 805 Peachtree Street
building, is scheduled to open on
Monday, Aug. 16.
Cahn, who was named to the
post by David M. Blumberg,
Knoxville, chairman of the B’nai
B’rith Youth Commission, has
been part-time regional director
for Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio.
He has also been associated
with Jewish Community Centers
for more than a decade. More
recently, he was program direc
tor of the Indianapolis Jewish
Community Center.
He earned his Master’s Degree
in Social Work at Ohio State
University, Columbus, O. Cahn
holds a Bachelor of Science De
gree from the University of Cin
cinnati.
Cahn will assume overall res
ponsibilities for B’nai B’rith
Youth Organization activities in
Washington, D. C., Maryland,
Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia and Florida.
The Cahns have three young
daughters.
(Copyright, 1965, Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
appointment by President John
son of Abe Fortas, the prom
inent Jewish lawyer, as Associ
ate Justice of the United States
Supreme Court to fill the vacan
cy left open by the naming of
Arthur J. Goldberg as head of
the U. S. delegation to the United
Nations, was hailed" throughout
the nation as a valuable addition
to the ranks of the court.
Mr. Fortas told the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency that he
considers himself to be Jew
ish. He said this to clarify his
own conception of his religi
ous identity in view of his
lack of formal affiliation with
Jewish institutions or organi
zations.
Although he is not affiliated
formally with any Jewish group,
Mr. Fortas is known as a con
tributor to the United Jewish Ap
peal in Washington. He was born
in Memphis, Tenn., on June 19,
1910, and was sent by his Jew
ish parents to study first at
South western University and
later at Yale University.
He came to Washington to
work as an attorney in agencies
of President Roosevelt’s New
Deal Administration.
Mr. Fortas, a close personal
friend of President Johnson,
served under Presidents Roose
velt and Truman as Undersecre
tary of the Interior. He has been
interested in problems of civil
liberties and was a member of
the President’s Committee on
Equal Employment in the Arm
ed Forces. He is also a member
of the National Citizens Commit
tee for Community Relations.
He served as adviser to the
U. S. delegation to the United
Nations in 1945. He was a pro
fessor of law at Yale University
and is perhaps best known as a
member of the prominent Wash
ington law firm of Arnold, For
tas and Porter.
In announcing the appoint
ment of Mr. Fortas, the President
referred to his scholarly and hu
mane qualities, his feelings tow
ard fellow-men and his cham
pionship of individual liberties.
The President said that his own
high opinion of Mr. Fortas was
shared by leaders to the Bar and
other elements of national life.
The President said he was glad
Mr. Fortas had accepted the ap
pointment and that “the job has
sought the man.”
German Protestants Charged
Indifference to Nazi Slayings
Son of Nazi Arrested in Bamberg
As Smearer of Anti-Jewish Slogans
COLOGNE (JTA) — One of
West Germany's leading Protes
tant theologians, Prof. Helmut
Gollwitzer Sunday night sharply
attacked German Protestantism
for failing, during the Hitler era,
to oppose the “German plan to
annihilate the House of Israel
and kill its Jews.”
Addressing the Congress of
Churches being held here, with
35,000 lay and clerical delegates
representing every Protestant de
nomination and community in the
country, Prof. Gollwitzer said:
“Not only the German people,
but the churches themselves were
thoroughly at fault during the
time of the Third Reich. Neither
the Protestant churches, nor the
people, openly expressed their
solidarity with the Jewish people.
God Himself will forever be dis
gusted with the Christians, should
they tolerate another Jewish,
massacre.”
Other delegates and guest
speakers criticized German in
dustry and the German Govern
ment for not being sufficiently
interested in strengthening Is
rael’s economy. One of the guest
speakers, Dr. Ludwig Erlich, of
Switzerland, attacked German
industry for its "close contacts
with the Arab world” and called
such contacts “a sign that Ger
man industry once again wants
to enrich itself on Jewish blood.”
Dr Christoph Freiherr von
Parliament to Hear
Protest Swastika On
New British Stamp
LONDON (JTA) Three mem
bers of Parliament, two in the
House of Commons and one in
the House of Lords, announced
they will formally protest in
their respective chambers against
circulation of a new postage
stamp showing the swastika,
scheduled for release in Sep
tember. All three will demand
that the Postmaster General.
Anthony Wedgwood-Benn, have
the stamp redesigned or with
draw it from circulation.
Imhoff, a theologican from Dus-
seldorf, criticized the Govern
ment’s Middle East policy, say
ing: “We deliver arms to one
party or the other party. This is
not the way for Germany to de
velop its prestige. The real Ger
man policy should consist of ac
tively helping Israel’s economic
development."
The congress is the largest
Protestant gathering held in this
country since the war. Through
out its proceedings, begun last
week, the heavily-attended par
ley seemed to want to prove that
German Protestants and other re
ligious circles in this country are
among the staunchest friends of
Israel and of the Jewish people
in general.
BAMBERG (JTA)—A 20-year-
old unemployed dental technic
ian, whose father had served a
long sentence in a Polish prison
as a Nazi war criminal and died
a year ago. was arrested here
last weekend as the perpertator
of the series of swastika-smear-
ings and Jewish cemetery des
ecrations that have rocked West
Germany since the middle of
June and have given rise to fears
that a new underground Nazi or
ganization was again at work in
this country.
The youth, remanded for trial
in Juvenile Court here, is Rich
ard Woitzik. His father had been
a member of the SS, Hitler’s elite
guard. Various traces he had left
at the scenes of his swastika
daubings, including fingerprints
and shoeprints, led investigators
to the home of Woitzik’s mother,
where he was apprehended. The
local police chief said: “We hope
the matter is ended now.” He
added, however, there are still
suspicions that Woitzik may have
been aided by others, and the
probe of the existence of a pos
sible, broader anti-Semitic group
is still continuing.
Police said they found at
Woitzik’s home portraits of Hit
ler, clipped from a book about
Nazism slogans like “Hitler Was
Right.” which had appeared
alongside many of the swastikas,
and other pro-Nazi materials. The
Bamberg incidents touched off a
spate of similar swastika-daubings
in various parts of West Germ
any. One of the problems facing
investigators now is to determine
whether the manifestations out
side Bamberg had been stimu
lated by the acts in Bamberg, or
may have been carried out by a
group linked in some way to
Woitzik.
The swastika plague started on
the,night of June 13, when sev
eral of the smearings of the Nazi
symbol were found in Bamberg.
The next day, it was discovered
that 23 tombstones in the Jew
ish cemetery here had been en
graved with the swastika and
overturned. The incident were
considered so grave that Chanc
ellor Ludwig Erhard came here
to deliver an address denouncing
the resurgence of anti-Semitism.
A large mass meeting, addressed
by the Mavor. was held at the
Jewish cemetery, condemning
anti-Semitism. Residents of Bam
berg, where there are very few
Jews, posted a $5,000 reward for
the capture of the anti-Semites
responsible. The city has voted
to pay the cost of repairing the
Jewish cemetery, expected to
total about $5,000
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