• , ----,11.14111111111 ■ 1=0..... .6. ,.. 1-7, 17, 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." W • • • 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. • • • 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. • • • • 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. • • 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 • • • 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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