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DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE
Thursday. August 25, 1949
STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
Blaustein Blasts Munich Shootings With
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
E'RE'S° WELL behaved when Jews are shot dowu
by Nazi policemen in the American Zone!
The recent Munich pogroms under the very eyes
of the American authorities were the inevitable out-
come of the renazification policy formulated by our
State Department, carried out by
our military administration and un-
opposed by the adviser on Jewish
affairs to that administration.
It is also significant that the
gentlemen in the U. S. Senate, who.
according to the American Jewish
Congress, were ready to push
through a resolution, demanding a
stiffening of denazification, remained
strangely silent in the face of the
Munich pogrom.
It is true that the American Jew-
Biron
ish Committee dispatched a most
polite communication to U. S. High Commissioner for
Germany McCloy, "le-emphasizing the need for safe-
guards and controls in the implementation of our
military governor of the recently adopted occupation
policy."
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AND MR. BLAUSTEIN, the new president of the
American Jewish Committee even points out that the
publication of the inflammatory anti-Semitic docu-
ment which precipitated the Munich shooting is a
"violation of Article 5, Paragraph 2 of the basic law
adopted by the German parliamentary council."
Well, isn't that rather nasty language, Mr. Blau-
stein? ''Article 5, Paragraph 2." Really you made a
startling discovery.
The German press publishes violently anti-Semitic
statements and when the Jews protest, they are shot
at by the Munich police, firing indiscriminately into
Jewish women, men and children.
All you have to say, Mr. Blaustein, in your per-
fectly- written diplomatic note is that Article 5 has
been violated and you re-emphasize the need for
safeguards.
The chairman of the Committee of Liberated (what
irony in this word "liberated") Jews in the U. S.
Zone did not mention Article 5 or any special para-
graph. He realizes that the situation is grave and
that our American Jewish leaders can no longer be
depended upon to castigate the perpetrators of the
renazification policy.
So, Mr. Pesach Piekatsch the chairman of the "Lib-
erated Jews" addressed himself to the UN, demanding
that German anti-Semitism be finally stopped.
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AND NOW EVERYTHING is quiet again. Rabbi
Irving Miller can devote his valuable time to the
Detroit chapter of the American Jewish Congress and
Judge Proskauer and Mr. Blaustein may continue
fighting the hot weather in their summer homes. con-
fident that Mr. McCloy will study Article 5 and per-
haps find also an opportunity to read paragraph 2.
The liberated Jews in Germany are still waiting
for their liberation.
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NO MORE GENERALITIES—We'll give you a
concrete example of how the KKK operates. Not m
Alabama but in the state of New York. We discovered
the incident on the spot. The big dailies and the news
agencies did not carry this story.
In Freeport, N. Y., lives a peaceful Jewish family,
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Faber. They have been living
there for 34 yiais. They decided to sell their home
and in the true American way did not exclude from
their list anybody because of race or creed. So they
sold their home "to a lovely Negro couple" as Mrs.
Faber described the people who bought their house.
It rh u uld be mentioned that the Faber home borders
on the edge of the Negro section of Freeport and that
the house next to the Fabers was sold recently to a
Negro, who was afraid to move into his newly bought
house: he now rents it out to a white family.
In any case, the other dawn an arrow was shut
through the front screen door of the Faber residence,
bearing a two page vitriolic letter, attacking Negroes
and Jews.
Among other things the letter contained this little
poem: 'Violets are blue, roses are red. Jews are better,
when they're dead." The letter was signed KKK.
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IT MUST BE REPORTED to the credit of the
Fabers that the Jewish couple refuses to be intimi-
dated.
When Mrs. Faber called the police, she received
numerous telephone calls threatening to "fix her."
Our defense agencies are not intervening although
the Faber case is just "another" in a series of acts of
violence and vandalism against the Negro and Jewish
people in Nassau county during the past several years.
The police does not put itself out to get to the
bottom of this Outrage. it knows that the KKK is
opertaing in that county and that some prominent
residents are members of the hooded (or now un-
hooded) Klan. No arrests in anti-Jewish and anti-
Negro cases have ever been made by the local police.
Anti-Semitism does not take a holiday during the
summer but our expensive defense agencies appar-
ently do.
OFF THE RECORD
2 Major Bodies to Fight
Central Welfare Drive
SIMILAR VIEWS on the sub-
BY NATHAN ZIPRIN
TWO ARTICLES in the Yid- ject were expressed in the Jewish
dish press bear close scrut- Morning Journal by Louis Segal,
iny as indicating where the wind general secretary of the National
is blowing on the question of Workers Alliance. Segal, advo-
centralized fund raising cam- cate of a democratically con-
stituted central Jewish body in
paigns.
As long as the issue was the America, maintains that only
right of the communities to par- authorized bodies can claim the
ticipate in the distribution of right to central control of Jew-
funds,' opinion was divided on ish organizational life and fund
the extent rather than on the raising activities.
The welfare funds as presently
fact of such participation. Now
that the welfare fund leaders constituted are not representa-
are pushing the idea of amalga- tive bodies and they cannot
mation and centralization we claim the right to control of
may see some heavy fighting on Jewish life, the veteran labor
many Jewish fronts in America. Zionist maintains. Now that the
The first salvo was fired by A. issue has been joined the debate
Hamlin, national secretary of the promises to be both sharp and
Histadrut campaign. In ay acrimonious. • • •
article in the Forward, Hamlin
says in the name of his organ- 'GLOBAL VIEW'
A COLUMN AGO we pre-
ization and its affiliates as well
as in the name of the Histadrut dicted a hot development over
in Israel that "we will not sur- Paul Porter's return from Laus-
render our independence and we anne. Wcshington wires kept on
will carry on our work as hereto- insisting the return of the U. S.
member of the UN Palestine Con-
fore . . . "
citation Commission had been a
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FEARS LIQUIDATION
routine one. We knew differ-
HE ASSERTS that amalgina- 1 ently and subsequent events have
tion would mean virtual liquida- confirmed our disclosure.
tion of his organization and as
Porter's return to Lausanne is
an illustration he cites the fact a face-saving move. And it was
that merger with financially su- not to save his own face that
perior organizations has always Porter agreed to re-assume his
led to the liquidation and the mission as negotiator. It was
ultimate disappearance from the only after a half dozen men
scene of the smaller organiza- turned down the job that Por-
tion.
ter agreed to serve further.
He sees in the attempt of the
High diplomatic and military
welfare funds to "engulf" all
officials have persuaded Mr.
funds into a central campaign
Truman to take a more
an endeavor "to create a mon-
view" of the Palestine situation.
oply and a virtual dictatorship
And from now on Washiacton
over Jewish public life in
mills will be busy grinding out
America."
stories about the "wider inter-
Petrification of Jewish life in
national interests" that are to
America will be the inevitable
be considered in the Palestine
result if the funds, for whatever
settlement.
purpose, are to be concentrated
Simply speaking, Israel will be
in the hands of the few wealthy
asked to make sacrifices for
donors, he says.
Under such a setup, he argues, those "wider international in-
initiative and enterprise would terests" while the Arabs, of
become dependent "on the mercy course, wil be sitting with mean-
of a central, or a local, budget ingful sMence at the rapidly
committee" with power to decide wearing out Lausanne peace
which organization is entitled to table.
The fact is that certain high
aid and which body is to go
State Department elements are
under.
Concluding, Hamlin says who- hoping for the Lausanne con-
ever cares "to submit to such ference to end in a fiasco. Such
nionopy" is privileged to do so a contingency would enable
but that under no circumstances them to present new Palestine
will the Histadrut become a solutions when the General
Assembly meets in September.
party to such an arrangement.
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