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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, Jan. 26, 1968
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Navy Reverses
Bias Order
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
United States Navy yielded to a
storm of protests and reversed an
order that the names of officers
and crewmen of ships visiting
New Orleans in February be made
available to organizations plan
ning segregated Mardi Gras
parties.
The protests developed when it
was learned that the Navy had
issued a memorandum describing
discrimination against Jews, Ital
ians and Negroes in New Orleans
as ‘‘the way things are” and de
claring that “we have lo go along
with it.” The reversal was dis
closed in a letter from Navy Sec
retary Paul R. Ignatius to Rep.
Jonathan B. Bingham, Bronx, De
mocrat, one of those who had se-
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verely criticized the original Navy
memorandum.
Protests also had been made by
the American Jewish Congress,
the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
the Anti-Defamation League of
B’nai B’rith. the American Ital
ian Committee Against Discrim
ination, Rep. William F. Ryan,
Manhattan Democrat and the
American Jewish Committee and
the Jewish Labor Committee.
Secretary Ignatius wrote to
Rep. Bingham: “There is no excuse
for discrimination. In the past,
the Navy 'has provided private
organizations lists of officers and
men who might be invited to pri
vate events. These lists were pro
vided without regard to race or
origin. The commandant of the
Eighth Naval District, which in
cludes New Orleans, has been di
rected to ensure that his com
mand does not provide prospec
tive guest lists to organizations
which practice racial or national-
origin discrimination in the issu
ance of invitations.”
Sources said it had long been
both Navy and defense Depart
ment policy not to sanction offic
ial participation of units or in
dividuals in segregated events.
The De.ense Department permits
military personnel to attend seg
regated events as private individ
uals, if they so choose. Mr. Ig
natius also wrote Rep. Bingham
that it was “unfortunate” that the
officer who drew up the memor
andum—who was not identified—
had said that segregation was a
fact “and we have to go along
with it.” The Navy Secretary de
clared: “He was wrong. No Navy
man has to go along with it.”
The American Jewish Congress
issued a statement saying it was
“gratified” by the Secretary’s ac
tion and urging that all branches
of the military service and all
branches of government “take si
milar positive and public action,
so that the shopworn excuse of
compliance with local custom
may no longer serve as a cover
for official discrimination. 1 ’ The
American Jewish Committee sim
ilarly expressed satisfaction over
the reversal of Navy policy.
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Scorns U. S. Jewry
LONDON (JTA) — The Mos
cow-published Yiddish monthly,
“Sovietisch Heimland” has la
beled American Jewry’s con
cern with the conditions of Jews
in other lands as an “attempt to
divert the attenion of he Jewish
public from the ills of Ameri
can society and its treatment of
the Jews.” This interpretation
was contained in an editorial in
the December, 1967 edition of the
magazine, copies of which
reached here this week.
The reference was made in a
comment on the 41st annual
conference of Yivo Institute for
Jewish Research in New York,
where a paper on “The Struggle
of American Jews for the Rights
of Other Jews” was presented.
“This was an historical survey,
but such a title gives the im
pression that there is a need to
fight for the right of Jews every
where except in the United
States,” the magazine said. The
balance of the issue was devoted
to a series of articles on the 50th
anniversary of the death of
Mendele Mocher Sforim, the
Russian-born author and essayist
who is regarded as the father
of modern Hebrew and Yiddish
literature.
Added To UN
UNITED NATIONS, (WUP)
— Two Moslem States, Algeria
and Pakistan, assumed their
duties this month as members
of the Security Council for a
two-year term thus enforcing
the anti-Israel bloc in the UN’s
security body.
The three other States elected
as non-permanent members are
Hungary, Paraguay and Senegal.
The give have replaced Argen
tina, Bulgaria, Japan, Mali and
Nigeria. •
The other non-permanent
members whose two-year terms
have not yet run out are Brazil,
Canada, Denmark, Ethiopia and
India.
Significantly, 33 of the Coun
cil’s 46 meetings: in 1967 were
1 devoted to the Israel-Arab dis
pute.
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