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• LONDON PROTEST MARCH
Londoners were up in arms.
They saw their city bombed as a result of Hitler’s ravings and
they were not going to let a new rash of anti-semitic incidents
allow another madman to throw the world into a holocaust that
would spell doom for mankind.
Londoners, more than 40,000 strong, marched through their city’s
streets a little over a week ago in formidable protest to the wave
of hate that blackened the peaceful skies of a world that was earnestly
searching for a positive way for the pursuit of happiness.
Barnett Janner, a reknown attorney, and president of the Board
of Deputies of British Jews, accompanied by Anthony Greenwood, a
member of the Labor Party’s “shadow cabinet;” Rev. Donald O.
Soper, former president of the Methodist Council; Dr. Merwyn Stock-
wood, Anglican Lord Bishop of Southwark; and Ashe Montagu, head
of the Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women.
The five marched through London’s busy streets and led the
protest parade to the West Germany Embassy where they delivered a
formal protest to Charge d’Affaires, Dr. Joachim von Ritter.
The biting cold and penetrating drizzle did not stop the marchers
from gathering at Marble Arch in London to proceed to the German
Embassy.
Paraders came from Glasgow and Manchester. Many brought their
children to voice one of the strongest protests heard against the new
wave of hate that has since abated.
Meanwhile governments around the world were redoubling their
efforts to try and check the recent outbreaks. Adenauer in a TV
broadcast promised full protection to Germany’s few thousand Jews and
said the majority of Germans were anti-Nazi. Britain was shaping up a
bill that would mete out prison terms for peddling religious hate. In
Belgium Education Minister Leo Collard asked all schools to organize
special courses explaining the dangers of Naziism. Netherlands Min-
istei of Justice Beerman said he was determined to use strong meas-
ures to prevent anti-semitic incidents and asked the attorney general
to report all incidents to him personally. In Italy, the Federal Council
of Evangelic Churches resolved sorrow over “the resurgence of anti-
Semitic violence throughout the world.” The Chilean Senate repudiated
racial hatred as a violation of the principles of peace and human
respect that “govern the civilized countries of the world.” The Israel
World Writers Association appealed to writers, educators and in-
tellectuals to fight'this “new epidemic” of anti-semitism. In Panama,
where a Jewish synagogue was desecrated, 50 of the main leading
businessmen closed their Colon stores in protest against what they
considered “an international mandate carried out against the Jews.”
In the United States according to Editor and Publisher, which
surveyed the field, most editors in the country do not believe the
swastika daiibings had any great significance.
In the United States, according to Editor & Publisher, which
for years glossed over the promotion of Admiral Rickover the father
of the atomic sub, has been yielding to Arab demands against Israel
and the world spins round in its orbit while Man still not knowing
how to use the precious miracle of Life, seems to care less
And the Communists and Fascists have their hey-day. They blame
each other and reap the sadistic rewards obtained by tearing people
apart and by sowing seeds of hate in man.
The Arabs must be very happy, though.
deat^m oT HM ^ tT ^aZiS Wh° have traiMd th<™ s*nce the
death (.) of Hitler. The Russians supply them money. The French
are entering into business deals with them
And in London 40,000 strong marched through cold winds and
drizzle to voice their protest ... d
Who won what war and for what was it fought?
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VOLUME XIV NO. 4
THURSDAY,JANUARY 28, 1960
8 Pages - 15 Cents Per Copy
Bond Quota Set
A quota of $75,873,550 in
State of Israel Bond sales dur-
ing 1960 was adopted last week-
end at the three-day National
Planning Conference for State
of Israel Bonds meeting in New
York.
More than 450 business and
communal leaders attending the
Conference adopted this goal in
order to bring to $500,000,000
the total of Israel Bond sales
since the drive began in 1951.
U.S. Navy
Under Fire
For Support
To Arabs
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
United States Navy was under
heavy fire this week for a practice
which for nearly two years has
resulted in unofficial but effective
United States suppprt of the anti-
Israel blockade of the Arab states.
Disclosure of the practice, which
has practically foreclosed bidding
on oil cargo shipping contracts by
owners of United States flagships
which have done business with
Israel, touched off a storm of
criticism. The practice has been
embodied in cancellation clauses
in U. S. Navy contracts for the
transport of oil cargoes.
Through such clauses, the Navy
has reserved the right to cancel
contracts for oil cargo transport
on ships refused accommodation
“in any port by the local author-
ities because of the vessel having
traded previously with Israel.”
The Military Sea Transport
Service, acting as charterer for
the Navy, has “options” to cancel
the charter of such ships, or to
require the substitution of another
vessel or to choose other ports for
ships barred by Arab authorities.
Owners of such ships would be
responsible if the Navy felt obliged
to exercise any of these options.
Sen. Jacob Javits, New York
Republican, the Jewish War Vet-
erans, the American Jewish Con-
gress and the Farband Labor
Zionist Order fired heavy salvoes
at the Navy when the arrange-
ments became known.
U.N. Wrestles With Anti - Semitism
Denouncing the manner in
which the Arab boycott is being
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applied against American business
firms, Sen. Javits cited the Navy’s
explanation that it was a matter
of “business protection.” Sen.
Javits said the U. S. “is not a busi-
ness firm.”
BY SAUL CARSON
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. —
A resounding resolution con-
demning the current resurgence of
anti-Semitism has been laid before
the United Nations: Score one for
human rights.
But that resolution must go
through at least five steps before
it becomes UN law. Score five
against human rights.
The net result: 5 to 1 against
any meaningful action by the
United Nations in this field.
Since the formation of the
United Nations in 1945, nothing
has shown up the UN’s helpless-
ness in the field of human rights
as pointedly as the resolution deal-
ing with anti-Semitism.
The resolution was introduced
by Judge Philip Halpern, of Buf-
falo, one of the 14 members of the
Subcommission on Prevention of
Discrimination and Protection of
Minorities. At the very outset, the
draft presented by Judge Halpern
had strongest backing. Co-spon-
sors of his resolution were the
representatives of Britain, France,
Austria, Uruguay and Finland.
There was little doubt that the
resolution could pass in the sub-
commission.
Only a bare majority is needed
for adoption of a resolution by the
group of 14. It was inconceivable
that even the Russian and Polish
representatives, or the three Arab
League representatives for that
matter, would vote against the
resolution. The worst they would
do would be to abstain. The Hal-
pern resolution, with its five co-
sponsors, was “in the bag”,, from
the beginning.
But—adoption of a resolution
by the sub-commission is only the
first step. The group is a unit of
the Commission on Human Rights,
and can only recommend any de-
sired action to the full Commis-
sion.
Let us say that the full Cornmis-
sion would accept the sub-corn,
mission’s recommendation. That
would be step No. 2. Then the
full Commission would send the
draft on—to the Economic and
Social Council, the UN organ that
has jurisdiction over the Commis-
sion.
The Economic and Social Coun-
cil—ECOSOC, as it is called here
—can also do no more than rec-
ommend. Its recommendation goes
to the General Assembly. When
and if that is done, step No. 3
will have been accomplished. The
General Assembly would, presum-
ably, put the resolution on its
agenda. At the next session of the
General Assembly — perhaps by
September of 1960 — the item
would be allocated to the Assem-
bly committee dealing with such
matters, the Social, Cultural and
Humanitarian C o m m it t e e. The
Comrfiittee would debate the draft
—step No. 4.
An idea of how this committee
operates may be obtained by judg-
ing the committee’s work in re-
gard to two draft convenants on
human rights, which it has been
debating since 1954. During these
six years, the committee has not
yet finished debate on the two
draft convenants.
Let us say that, sooner or
later, the committee will adopt the
resolution. That would complete
step No. 4. Then—the resolution
would go to a plenary meeting of
the General Assembly. If — and
when—the Assembly itself adopts
the resolution, step No. 5 will have
been taken. Then?
After all these steps, the reso-
lution will still be only a recom-
mendation—one which the member
Continued To Page 4
Rabbi Kahn
On National TV
Rabbi Robert I. Kahn of
Houston, national chaplain of
the American Legion, will be
interviewed by George Hicks of
CBS on the “Lamp Unto My
Feet” program Sunday. January
31. 10:00 to 10:30 A.M., EST.
This will bo in conjunction with
the annual American Legion TV
presentation, “For God and
Country,” a documentary. The
program will also be carried
over the CBS radio network.
Rabbi Kahn has been address-
ing Legion, church and civic
organizations throughout the
:ountry.
CAPITAL SPOTLIGHT - - By Milton Fried*
Should West Germany be given disseminating anti-Jewish litera-
United States atomic weapons? turc in a barracks. But the A,.my>s
Once equipped with nuclear Inspector General, Adolf Heusing-
arms, the Bonn regime could re- er’ w^o planned mititary strategy
ject American influence and em- for HitleU remained in the post,
bark on a self-centered, nationalis- The Bunderwehr’s high command
tic policy. Without the restraint includes generals who collaborated
of their aged Chancellor, Konrad in the Nazi murder of 6,000,000
Adenauer, the Germans might re- Jews* The Bundeswehr also admits
ver to form. Bonn’s ruling ele- former SS and SA men.
Jnents and army include so many a a ,
cynical opportunists that their e n a u e l o ds forth elo-
service of selfish ends is predict- “ ’ aat"Semitism. B„t
able. a °°k bis close associates is
shocking. His right hand man,
If it benefited Bonn, a new Ber- Hans Globke, wrote the official
lin-Moscow pact would be signed commentaries on the Nazi race
regardless of its effect on others, laws. Gerhard Schroeder, Aden-
Or, Bonn could seek to embroil auer’s Minister of Interior, the na-
America in a deeper crisis with the tion’s highest police official, is a
Soviet bloc to satisfy German ter- former storm strooper.
ritorial ambitions. Such eventuali- Tw ni, i j d , „T.
ties might bring „Cw peril not only • , f ° ?ber,and<‘r> Bo"" s *»<”-
to German Jews but to the esti °f RefugMB’ 8erved as an ss
mated 3,000,000 Jews trapped be- “ti J," h‘v',^ t8 ‘he ,iC‘°UsIj’
hind the Won Curtain. amijewi.h yiassov army of pro-
Nazi Ukrainians. Minister of Jus-
An analysis of the “new” Ger- tice Fritz Schaeffer has authorized
man army revealed that one en- large pensions to ex-Nazis but
listed fanatic was discharged for attacked the program for restitu-
man
tion to victims of Nazism.
Jewish groups called at the Ger-
man Embassy in Washington to
express concern over anti-Semitic
vandalism which erupted early this
month. They met with Ambassador
Wilhelm Grewe, who gave gracious
assurances of his consideration. Yet
the ambassador was himself a
Nazi. He wrote articles for Hitler’s
periodicals, among them Auswar-
tige Politik. As a member of the
university professors’ group of the
Nazi Party, he worked with the
Deu t c h e s, Auslandswissenschaft-
liches Institut.
Dr. Grewe’s reports may have
been read in Bonn by Dr. Felix
Gaerte, legation counsellor in the
West German Foreign Ministry. Dr.
Gaerte is deeply interested in
Jewish problems. He served as SS-
Untersturmfuhrer in the Reich
Security Office and also in the SS
Racial and Settlement Bureau. He
participated in the deportation of
“non-Aryans,” mostly Jews, to con-
centration camps.
What were the innermost feel-
• PURGE NAZIS IN WEST GERMANY
ings of Dr. Walter Becker, West
German Ambassador in Cairo? In
his dealings with the United Arab
Republic, Dr. Becker must occasion-’
ally recall his former service as an
SS-Oberfuhrer and special com-
missioner of the Nazi Party.
The list of rehabilitated Nazis is
long. Industrialists like Alfred
Krupp, a convicted war criminal,
dominate West German industry.
The danger is not so much that
such individuals might reinstate
Nazism; it is that they might again
unscrupulously serve their own
fortunes regardless of conse-
quences to humanity.
Germany’s lobbyists in Washing-
ton are making cynical exploita-
tion of restitution payments to
Israel. James Finucane, executive
secretary of the “Committee for
Return of Confiscated German
Property,” has bragged of German
payments to Israel. He boasted that
121 Israeli students are currently
admitted to German universities.
He also mentioned the construc-
tion of 51 new synagogues in West
Germany with Federal and Laender
assistance. But he failed to mention
that many of the new synagogues
have been painted with Swastikas.
Once West Germany holds the
trump card of nuclear armament, it
may care much less about world
public opinion. The old swagger
and arrogance might re-emerge.
That is the opinion of Washing-
elements concerned lest the United
States create a terrifying menace
in the hope of securing a powerful
ally.
Is West Germany destined to be-
come a new Frankenstein’s mon-
ster? Her friends, including Israeli
Premier Ben-Gurion, hope not.
They would like to see genuine
democracy emerge. A sure sign
of such democracy would be a
purge of Nazis in important posi-
tions. Another indication would be
a thorough overhaul of the school
system to teach the full truth
about the enromous crimes of the
Hitler era.
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