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VOLUME Xlil NO. 27__THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1959 12 PAGES — 15c PER COPY
Israel-German Arms Deal Blow s Up
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—One of the touchiest issues in Israel
life—the question of relations with Germany—flared anew last week
when an unconfirmed report was reprinted from a West German
newspaper that a sale had been made of 6,000,000 pounds in Israel-
made arms to the West German army. The right wing Herut party
promptly demanded a debate in Parliament on the reported deal.
• • • FRENCH JUSTiCE
jess jawin
From Paris we learn that Senator Ferdinand Auberger came face
to face with French justice meted out under the new French Con-
stitution last week.
The new French Constitution has a clause protecting the rights
of Jews.
Auberger was elected mayor of the small town of River-sur-Alliers
in a campaign based upon anti-semitic slogans and tirades against
his rival, Ben Hamou, who is Jewish.
Auberger won the election but the victory, founded on bigotry,
was only temporary. Last week a French court voided the election
under the terms of the new Constitution. And the Correctional
Court of Cusset fined Auberger 530,000 francs and also ordered
him to pay Hamou 290,000 in personal damages.
Not affected was his senatorial post.
The court Clermont Ferrand said that in instigating and making
attacks upon the origin, race and religion of Hamou, Auberger had
disregarded the general principles >of French law in the preamble
and articles two and four of the Constitution.
Across the Channel things were slightly different. The English
National Labor Party, which has been organized by John Bean
condemned Fascist Sir. Oswald Mosley because Bean “does not regard
his (Mosley’s) racial views as sufficiently extreme.”
Calling Mtosley “A man of the past,” Bean threatened that his
party wduld bar Negro immigration into England and “Jewish im-
migrants too.”
How did Bean feel about public opinion rrfounting against him?
Not phased at all. He said his movement was not concerned or
“troubled by thlose who compare our policies with certain aspects
of fascism. . . .Mosley was right before the war, but is a man of
the past now.”
From the greenery of Kiamesha Lake. New York, New Orleans’
Label Katz made his first official speech as the new national
president of B’nai B’rith. Speaking at District One’s convention,
Katz called for the American Jewish community to shed its “Cul-
tural Amnesia” and to energize programs of “study and creative
Jewish living.” Katz said that American Jews can find ways to
aver: cultural extinction by exploring its own “characteristics and
uniqueness.. . .and find satisfaction and fulfillment in its own Jew-
ishness”. . . .and that it was a “false notion that Jewish life in
America must revolve as a cultural satellite of Israel.” Recommended
by Isabel Katz: Widespread teaching of modern Hebrew as the
cultural language of Jews throughout the world.
Post Feature
Report From Czechoslovakia I
For the first time in 18 years
the once-proud synagogues of
Communist Czechoslovakia are
ech|bing to the ancient prayers
of a bar mitzvah service.
“All the babies were killed dur-
ing the war. Until January there
was not a Jewish boy of 13 in
the country. We have had to wait
for a second generation to grow
up.’
The words from Dr. Gustave
Sicher, 79-year-old Chief Rabbi
of Prague, summed up the para-
dox of present-day life ftor the
bare 18,000 Czech Jews who re-
main from a pre-war population
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Stan Kaufman
Heads BB District
STANLEY M. KAUFMAN, a
Dallas, Texas attorney, was elect-
ed president of B’nai B’rith Dis-
trict Seven in Hot Springs, Ar-
kansas - June 23 at the 84th
Annual Convention.
He succeeds ROBERT N.
BANKS of Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
MRS. EMANUEL GREEN-
BERG of Birmingham, Ala., was
elected district president !of the
B’nai B’rith Women at their 16th
Annual Convention.
She succeeds MRS. MILTON T.
SMITH of Austin, Texas j
Kaufman will head th,e seven-
state district for one year. He
will also be a member of the Jew-
ish service organization’s interna-
tional board of governors, top
policy making body of the 400,
000 member group.
Other district officers elected
were: HYMAN WEINSTEIN
Bessemer, Alabama, first vice pre-
sident: JACK W. KUHN, Nash-
ville, Tenn., second vice president;
LOUIS BARG, Forrest City,, Ark.,
third vice president; and LOUIS
H. BARNETT1, Fort Worth, trea-
surer-comptroller.
District B’nai B’rith Women
officers are: MRS. ARNOLD
TURNER Webb, Miss., first vice
president; MRS. ARNOLD ROY-
AL, Birmingham, Ala., second
vice president; MRS. OTTO
SCHLAME, Houston, third vice
president; and MRS. JAY TUP-
PER, Earle, Ark., treasurer-comp-
troller.
Prime Minister David B'en Gurion will appear this week before
Parliament’s Security and Foreign Affairs Committee, where he
will presumably answer questions about the reported deal. The Ctom-
mittee’s deliberations are always held behind closed doors, and it
is quite certain that Mr. Ben Gurion will be able to impose secrecy
on that hearing.
Announcement that the Premier will appear before the Committee
apparently foreclosed an expected move by Parliament’s presidium
to schedule an opposition mlove demanding a general debate in Par-
liament.
The reported arms deal has not been confirmed here, nor has
it been denied. It has drawn fire from some tof the leftist parties
m the coalition government. A spokesman for Ahdut Avodah, one
of the leftist members of the coalition, asserted that if the news is
true, his party will insist on cancellation of the deal. Members of the
General Zionist and Progressive Parties* also part of the coalition
expressed themselves as strfcngly opposed.
Mrs. Halprin Reports On Decision
To Bring Non - Zionists Into W. Z. 0.
NEW YORK, (JTA) —The major decisions adopted at the recent
session of the Zionist Actions Committee in Jerusalem were reviewed
here this week by Mrs. Rose Halprin, acting chairman of the Je-
wish Age:ncy, who stressed that the deliberations had touched upon
“important and sensitive issues.”
Referring to Dr. Nahum Goldmann’s proposal to bring various
groups into the World Zionist Organization, she said: “There were
many doubts and some differences of opinion with regard to this
pitoposal. In considering the possible consequences of this move, let
us remember thatv though not organized for Zionist purposes, these
groups have shown active interest in Israel in the past and it is
understood that they must accept the Zionist program. Thus, it is
not such much a matter of coverting non-Zionists into Zionist, btot
of creating the organizational framework for common efforts towards
a commton goal.
‘Such broadening of our organizational framework will result
in broadening the base for any effort ton behalf of Israel in the
Diaspora,” Mrs. Halprin continued. “It is for this reason that Dr.
Goldmann’s proposal was accepted by the Actions Committee. What
the influence of his move will be in terms of the Zionist organiza-
tion itself, only time can tell. I sincerely Hope that it will serve to
strengthen the movement as Dr. Goldmann believes it will.”
Panorama— NEW WAY TO CELEBRATE JULY 4TH
by DAVID SCHWARTZ
If we jtourney back in time to
the original Fourth in 1776, what
do we see?
The whole country has 13
states, and the entire population
of all the colonies is little mtore
than the present population of
Israel.
In the city of Philadelphia,
which has all of some 20,000 po-
pulation, the delegates have ga-
thered. A young fellow named
Thomas Jefferson, who is 33
years old, has spent two days
writing a little piece beginning,
“When in the course of hfuman
events,” and asserting the right
of all pefcple to “life,, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness.” He
and John Adams, who is about
10 years older than Tom Jeffer-
son, and the septuagenarian Ben-
jamin Franklin, are the leaders
of a movement tfb declare inde-
pendence.
But the delegates are by no
means agreed. There is a strong
opposition to independence. They
need very much the vote of Cae-
sar Rfodney, the odd looking dele-
gate from Delaware, who makes
a fast horseback ride of many
miles to reach Philadelphia in
time for the vote. The indepen-
dence forces win the day. The Li-
berty Bell rings out. On it is
inscribed a text from one (of the
Five Books of Moses: “Proclaim
liberty to all the land and to all
the inhabitants thereof.” Benja-
min Franklin who has been named
to a committee to prepare an of-
ficial government seal proposes
an engraving showing the Israe-
lites fleeing from Pharaoah, and
Continued To Page 4
CAPITAL SPOTLIGHT - - By Milton Friedman . . Grant’s Grandson Aids Anti - Semites
The Civil War resulted not
from slavery but because “Jew
financiers” wanted to split the
United States to exploit the two
sections, according to material be-
ing circulated by General Ulysses
S. Grant, 3rd, national chairman
of the U.S. Civil War Centennial
Commission.
Gen. Grant, 78, is a grandson
of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, the fa-
mous commander of the Northern
forces in the Civil War who was
later elected President. The Cen-
tennial Commission he heads is
financed by federal funds. It is
designated to disseminate histo-
rical facts in preparation for the
coming 100th anniversary of the
“War Between the States.”
The White House is consider-
ing the new issue because the
Commission headed by Gen. Grant
is under the honorary chairman-
ship of President Eisenhower.
Honorary Vice-Chairmen are such
personages as Vice President Nix-
on and House Speaker Sam Ray-
burn. The White House is known
to be concerned because of Gen.
Grant’s officially-designated sta-
tus as national chairman of the
distinguished group formed to
unite Americans.
As chairman of the National
Capital Park and Planning Com-
mission, and through service in
other capacities, Gen. Grant has
gained high status in Washington
circles.
The anti-Semitic material dis-
tributed and recommended by
Gen. Grant is entitled “Abraham
Lincoln and the Rothschilds.” It
purports to show that Lionel and
James Rothschild, together with
Disraeli, plotted in London to
split the United States to gain
their financial ends.
An allegation is made that
these “international bankers” se-
lected Judah P. Benjamin, Con-
federate Secretary of State, to
be their secret agent. According
to the “history” now supported
by Gen. Grant, the Jews were be-
hind the assassination of Presi-
dent Lincoln. Gen. Grant holds
that LinoyoLn was murdered by
“an actor, John Wilkes Booth,
in whose trunk was found coded
messages, the key to which was
found in Judah P. Benjamin’s pos-
session.”
A spurious quotation is attri-
buted to Bismarck, German Chan-
cellor of the 19th Century. The
material has Bismarck saying that
Lincoln “understood that the
South was not the worse foe,
but the Jew financier.”
With the assassination of Lin-
coln, states Gen. Grant’s thesis,
“Israel went anew to grab the
riches of the world. . . .Jewish
banks with their craftiness and
tortuous tricks will entirely con-
trol the exuberant riches of Ame-
rica, and use it to systematically
corrupt modern civilization. The
Jews will not hesitate to plunge
the whole of Christendom into
wars and chaos, in order that
the earth should become the in-
heritance of Israel.”
Such is the stuff which Gen.
Grant described as “an illuminat-
ing' amount of the scheming”
against Lincoln. Even today, he
said, there is a similar campaign
by a “well-financed” group, aim-
ed to destroy America from with-
in.
Gen. Grant mailed the anti-Se-
mitic document to a patriotic or-
ganization of descendants of
Union officers. He is the group’s
Commander-in-Chief. But the ma-
terial was not well received by
some of the 2.500 members of
the “Military Order of the Loyal
Legion of the U.S.” The Pennsyl-
vania Commander, H. Rounston
Saylor, 2nd, described it as vi-
cious nonsense” of the sort he
fought in World War II.
The same material appeared on
February 12, 1940, in Father
Coughlin’s hate sheet, “Social
Justice,” published at Royal Oak,
Mich. A similar theme, branding
Judah P. Benjamin as the “hid-
den hand” of an international
Jewish conspiracy, appeared in
the American Mercury last year.
The Anti-Defamation League
of B nai B’rith has gone into
action. ADL Washington director
Herman Edelsberg told Gen.
Grant: “You have lent your name
to a vile anti-Semitic canard.”
Mr. Edelsberg told the General
“the article to which you gave
your endorsement is a downright
falsehood. . . .its allegations are
untrue to history.”
According to the ADL, Gen
Grant used “the reprints furnish-
ed by Floyd Fleming, the local
agent of the infamous John Kas-
per’s Seaboard White Citizens
Council.” Gen. Grant was charg-
ed with “a gross disservice to
historical truth and to contempo-
rary goodwill among all Ameri-
cans.”
It was pointed out that Gen.
Grant held national responsibi-
lity as “the chairman of a com-
mission established to celebrate
the great ideals” for which the
Civil War was fought. Called on
from various quarters to repudi-
ate the article, Gen. Grant has
not yet seen fit to do-
The Civil War Commission head-
ed by Gen. Grant includes such
eminent scholars as Dr. Bertram
W. Korn, president of the Ame-
rican Jewish Historical Society.
Although Dr. Korn was appointed
as an adviser, presumably on Jew-
ish aspects of the Civil War, Gen.
Grant has shown himself more
responsive to advice from anti-
Jewish sources.
It is recalled here that the
General’s famed grandfather fi-
gures in an anti-Semitic Incident
so shocking that the New York
Times then called it “one of the
deepest sensations of the war.”
On December 17, 1862, Gen.
Grant signed Order No. 11 stat-
ing that “the Jews, as a class
violating every regulation. . . .
are hereby expelled 9rom Che
department.” Lincoln intervened
personally to rescind the order.
When the Grant-for-President
campaign was waged in 1868, the
issue of anti-Semitism was widely
discussed. In response to political
advice in 1870, he used his pre-
sidential authority in an attempt
to help the Jews of Rumania.
He appointed Benjamin Peixotto,
then head of the B’nai B’rith, to
be U.S. Consul General in Ruma-
nia, in the hope of mitigating
anti-Semitic persecutions then
rampant there.
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