Thursday, January 26, 1950 DETROIT JEWISH CHRONICLE Page 3 STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL Anti-Communists Play Into Anti-Semites • Hand By PIIINEAS J. BIRON THE AMERICAN JEWISH LEAGUE Against Corn- 1 . munism Inc., of which ex-Rabbi Benjamin Schultz is the executive director, is now accusing the Hillel Foundations of the Bnai Brith of harboring pro- Communists and fellow travellers in key positions. Schultz's latest target is Rabbi Herman I. Pollack, director of the Hillel men in the country. " According to Schultz, the Hillel Foundation of Brooklyn College was suspended last summer by action Of the Faculty Student Committee on Student Activities. 3 Hillel and 10 other groups (au- cording to Schultz) sponsored a Biron 4111 Blass stoppage in protest of the college administra- tion's objection to the appearance on the campus of one of the eleven Cometubists on trial at Foley Square• Well, what got Mr. Schultz is the fact that shortly after this inc:dent Rabbi Pollack was invited to speak at Brandeis University at the National Con- ference of Hillel Foundations, And to make matters worse for harassed Mr. Schultz, he (that is Schultz) just discovered, to his horror, that Rabbi Arthur Lelyveld, national director of Hillel Foundations, "never hid his personal parti- ality for Henry Wallace in the 1948 presidential campaign." The director of the Jewish League Against Com- munism finds "these alarming facts sufficient basis for a thorough investigation of the entire situation by Bnai Brith." • • • The December 1949 issue of the Railway Labor Journal, official organ of the Brotherhood of Main- tenance of Way Employes, the second largest railroad union (an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor) published a very strange editorial. Under the title of "Nero Fiddled while Rome Burned" the editorial, among other things, says: "The names Greenberg, Ragenstrick, Stachel and Wagenknect have a familiar ring and we would not be amiss in pointing to their fatherland. Only more stringent immigration laws can close the gates to the undesirable whose ancestry has withstood the melting pot of democracy. The Red tide must be turned away. from our shores." This quotation should please Mr. Schultz. It might remind him that the most potent anti-Semitic formula of today is to blend anti-Jewish poison with anti- Communist slogans. OFF THE RECORD Page the American Jewish Committee. Lammot duPont, one—if not the top man of the duPont financial interests—is officially soliciting funds for an anii-Semitic outfit. This is the hotest anti- Semitic news since Henry Ford sponsored the publi- cation of "The Elders of Zions." Under date of Nov. 25, 1949, Lammot duPont on his own stationery, which under his name specifies "DuPont Building, Washington 98, Del.," pleads with his "dear fellow Americans" in the following words; "Last December, believing the National Economic Council was doing outstanding work toward stemming the tide of Communism and Socialism in this country, I wrote to many Americans, urging them to contribute to the Council. "Now I have just read Council Letter No. 226 'There is no Peace.' I am sure that you will conclude the Council is doing a good job. Will you stretch a point and make a contribution or make a larger contribution and promptly?" In case you don't know who the National Economic Council is get the information from the American Jewish Committee or the ADL. The head of this Council is Merwin K. Hart, the virulent anti-Semite who in one of his news letters suggested that good Christians should arm them- selves with guns to stop the Jewish danger. 'Out. Scoundrel' ,elvish War Bride Gets Rough Deal front U. S. By NATHAN ZIPRIN (Guest Columnist, Estelle Brand) PREAD SYMPATHY is in evidence here for Mrs. Ellen WIDESPREAD WIDES A special subcommittee ap- pointed by Harry Yudkoff, chair- man of the Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Com- munity Council, has reviewed the available material regarding the riot in Chicago in November. The subcommittee consisted of Harry Nathan, Mrs. Jacob Souls and David Rosin. The committee adopted•re•om- mendations for application to the Detroit situation. One conclusion was that the mayor's interracial committee must be given full co- operation. The committee put much of the blame for the Chicago disorders on inept police handling and con- trasted it with the police provi- sions for handling similar situa- tions in Detroit. German-Jewish war bride of an American veteran, who has been barred from the United States without so much as a hearing. Not only was Mrs. Knauff excluded but she was , confined on Ellis Island for six weeks without access to counsel and for eight months was re- fused release on hail. Knauff fled from Germany to Czechoslovakia during the Hitler regime. Later, as a refugee in England, she served "efficient- ly and honorably" in the Royal Air-Force. When the war ended she returned to Germany and worked as a civilian employe of The American Military Govern- ment. Her record was excellent. She was married to Kurt W. Knauff, a U.S. soldier, in Frank- furt in 1948. Knauff's service record was unblemished. How- ever, when he tried to bring his bride to the United States under the War Brides Act, she was ar- bitrarily excluded on the ground that her admission would be "prejudicial to the interests of the United States," There was talk in government circles that Mrs. Knauff served as an em- ploye of the Czech Government —but before Czechoslovakia fell under Communist domination. • • • S THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT refused to tell either Mr. or 'Ars. Knauff the reason for the ex- clusion. The Attorney General denied her a hearing because, in his judgement. the disclosure of information on which the ex- clusion was based would itself endanger public security. The r' 1. of the Attorney Gen- eral to bar Mrs. Knauff was up- held by a 4 to 3 decision of the Supreme Court. Dissenting, Jus- tices Jackson, Black, and Frank- furter did not like the smell of the case. They called the result "abrupt and brutal." A majority of the court reach- ed the decision because aliens have no absolute r: to be ad- mitted to the United States. They come in only under a privi- lege granted for the period of the emergency connected with World War II. Congress and the Presi- dent authorized the Attorney General to exclude aliens with- out granting them a hearing—if the charges against them involve security secrets which should not be disclosed in the public in- terest. Because t h e national emergency has never been offi- cially terminated, this arrange- ment is still in force. • • ALTHOUGH MRS. KNAUFF was cleared a number of times by U.S. Military Intelligence in Europe, the law was the law and the Justice Department's action was upheld. Justice Jackson had some interesting reflections on the case. Said Jackson: "Now this American citizen is told he cannot bring his wife to the United States, but he will not be told why. He must abandon his bride •to live in his own country or forsake his country to live with his bride. "So he went to court and sought a writ of habeas corpus, which we never tire of citing to Europe as the unanswerable evi- dence that our free country per- mits no arbitrary official deten- tion. And the government tells the court that not even a court can find out why the girl is ex- cluded. But it says even if we cannot get any reasons for it we must say it is legal: security requires it. "Security is like liberty in that many are the crimes committed in its name. The menace to the security of this country, be it great as it may, from this girl's admission is as nothing com- pared to the menace to the free institution inherent in procedures of this pattern. In the name of security the police state justifies its arbitrary oppressions on evi- dence that is secret, because security might be prejudiced if it were brought to light in hear- ings. "The plea that evidence of guilt must be secret is abhorrent to free men, because it provides a cloak for the malevolent, the misinformed, the meddlesome, and the corrupt to play the role of informers undetected and un- corrected.". Chicago Riots Evaluated by Council Group HOLLAND RECOGNIZES ISRAEL June Kahn takes the broom to Bernard Cassels at a rehearsal for the old fashion Mela Drama which will be presented by the Ivan S. Bloch Lodge, Bnai Brith, at their fund-raising event. The affair will be held at 8:30 p.m. Saturday at Mayfair Catering, Tickets can be purchased at the door. Jerusalem Plan 'Dangerous,' Christian Fact-Finders Say NEW YORK — (Special) — A fact-finding group of six Chris- tian leaders, just returned from Jerusalem, announced its con- viction that it considered inter- nationalization of Jerusalem as "dangerous and unnecessary." Instead, the group recommend- ed the establishment of a UN Commission ''with no territorial sovereignty" to assure the "free accessibility of the Christian world of the holy places of Jeru- salem." The group was constituted under the auspices of the Amer- ican Christian Palestine Commit- tee. We Arc Pleased To Announce That MR. RAYMOND K. RUBINER Has Become Associated With Us And Will Head The Investment Property Division SCHOSTAK BROTHERS AND COMPANY THIRTY-FOURTH FLOOR - CADILLAC TOWER WOodward 3-8632 In its report the group said that guarantees should be given by both Jordan and Israel assur- ing the freedom of the sacred places within their territories. TEL AVIV—(1S1)—The Neth- erlands granted de jure (full) recognition to Israel, and Israel has agreed to exchange ministers with the Hague. The deadline of the Jewish Chronicle is noon on Mondays. 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