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Thursday, May 25, 1950

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`Sabotage' Author Writes Book on High Treason

By PHINEAS J. BIRON

same team wrote "The Great Con-
spiracy" which sold more than a
Jews, both partly educated
million copies in this country and
in England and
was translated into 35 languages.
Ireland, wrote a
Next week will appear "High
book which cre-
Treason, The Plot Against The
ated a tremen-
People," and its author is the
dous stir. Wal-
ter Winchell
same Albert E. Kahn who co-
praised it on the
authored the other two best sell-
ers.
air and in his
column week af-
We had occasion to look at the
ter week.
manuscript of Kahn's forth corn-
The book, nat-
ing book.
urally, became a
In his foreword Kahn writes:
best - seller and
'This book deals with treason
rightly so. Biron . against the American people.
It was "Sabotage" by Michael The crimes and conspiracies it
Sayers and Albert E. Kahn.
records do not make pleasant
A couple of years later, the reading and much of its contents

A FEW YEARS AGO, two young

Mystery Still Surrounds
ADL Bar on Official

By NATHAN ZIPRIN
STORM PRECIPITATED by the Buttenwieser incident is by
no means over.
Within 48 hours after Buttenwieser was denied the floor of the
ADL for expressing his views on our denazification program in Ger-
many he read the rejected address at a closed session of the Amer-
ical Jewish Committee's commission on Germany.
Concern for freedom of expres-
sion was not the sole factor be- judge is Quentin Reynolds'
hind the commission's decision to "Courtroom."
give Buttenwieser a platform for
Reynolds does an excellent job
delivering the controversial ad- in reviving the famous cases
dress.
which held a nation spellbound
It was at the suggestion of the at the height of Samuel S. Leibo-
commission that the ADL invited witz's career.
Buttenwieser to its Chicago par-
In a book called "The Story of
ley.
our Names" by Elsdon C. Smith,
What is baffling is that no one an attempt is made to deal with
seemed to have foreknowledge of the origin of surnames and nick-
Buttenwieser's views and no one names.
sought to ascertain them.
The author is probably an au-
Even more amazing is the fact thority on the subject of names.
that no one pointed out that the
But where did he get the trash
14-page speech does not contain
the word "Jew" or "anti-Semit- that "Jews seem to be most will-
ing to obtain what benefits they
ism."
can by change of name"?
• • •

THE

DR. LOUIS I. RABINOWITZ.

chief rabbi of the Union of South
Africa, tells the following story:
A Johannesburg! Jew had be-
come converted to Christianity.
One day Dr. Rabinowitz was
stopped by a prominent member
of a church who happened also
to be a member of parliament.
The churchman lauded the con-
vert and his avid attention to his
new faith and ritual. •
There is only one thing the
matter with our new friend, the
churchman remarked on parting,
he still hasn't overcome the habit
of reading his Pi!hyler book from
right to left.
the hold
As an illustration
Zionism has on the Jews in South
Africa, the chief rabbi tells this
anecdote:
A young and extremely ortho-
dox Jew in the employ of) the
Zionist Organization was sent on
a fund-raising mission to a small
Jewish community. '
When he got there he was
asked whether it was permissible
to elected to the leadership of
the local Zionist group a man
who was married to a Christian
woman.
The emissary was quite in• a
dilemma when he noticed the re-
action to his negative.reply.
Hesitating for a moment he
added he didn't however think it
advisable that the Zionist should
be excluded fromt the Jewish com-
munity because'of his.having mar-
riedout of the fold,
God forbid, the community
leader assured theiyYning man, we
never intended ar4thing of the
kind and in fact: we .elected him
president of mil congregation.
•
JUDGE JOSEPil _M. PROS-
KAUER'S "A Segment of My
Times" is an interesting book
because it reveals a complex per-
sonality.
First of all it is the autobiog-
raphy of a man who has played
an important role in shaping
American and Jewish life.
Secondly it is the unfolding of
a man who might have become
quite a literary figure if he hadn't
so lovingly embraced the law as
a young man.
Another book about a Jewish

Or such wisdom that "whereas

the usual foreigner attempts to
eliminate the disadvantage of
strangeness, the Jew. with one
stroke, seeks to get rid of both
foreigness and Jewishness"?

Guest Speaker

DR. A. A. NEUMAN will deliv-
er the main address at the late
Sabbath Eve service at 8:30
p.m., May 26 at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek which will hon-
or the '70th birthday of Dr. A.
M. Hershman. Dr. Neuman is
president of Dropsie College for
Hebrew and Cognate Learning.
He is also editor of the Jewish
Quarterly Review and author
of many:. books, articles and
treatises.

Israel Fights Wave
of Infantile Paralysis

TEL AVIV — (Special) — The
coastal district of Israel is fight-
ing an outbreak of infantile pa-
ralysis.
A governkient hospital report-
ed it had 34 patients from Tel
Aviv, the suburban areas and two
immigrant camps.

BAHAI LEADER'S GIFT
HAIFI — (ISI) — Shugi Effendi
Rabanni, head of the Bahai re-
ligious sect, has contributed 100
pounds to the Hebrew University
on the occasion of its 25th anni-
versary.

•
will be deeply shocking to the
average American. Yet there is
every reason why Americans
must comprehend the treasonable
devices employed against them in
the past and so gravely menac-
ing them in the future.

ALBERT KAHN, a young man
in his middle thirties, born in
England, was educated during
his formative years in this coun-
try. He studied at Dartmouth.
Although we had may talks
with Albert, we somehow never
inquired how and when he be-
came interested in his own Jew-
ishness and the position of ra-
cial and religious minorities in
America.

But when Kahn made up his
mind to become a writer he
delved into the problems of so-
cial and economic injustices, the
intricacies of civil liberty, in
other words the whole gamut of
democracy in action.
Corning from a well-to-do fam-
ily of Detroit his father was the
internationally famous architect
Albert Kahn he devoted much
of his post-college period • to
studying life at first hand and
also the American scene through
personal contacts.
It was unavoidable that before
long he became known as a radi-
cal, a fellow-traveller and event-
ually a Communist.

Browdy to Run for Presidency

NEW YORK—(WNS) —Benja-
min G. Browdy, president of the
Zionist Organization of America,
announced that he has accepted a
call addressed to him by a com-
mittee of 100 Zionist leaders from
various parts of the country to
stand for re-election to the presi-
dency of the Zionist Organization
of America at the forthcoming
annual convention of the organi-
zation to be held in Chicago,
July 1.
In his statement of acceptance,
Browdy, who was elected to the
ZOA presidency by the National
Administrative qouncil on March
19 to fill the unbcpired term of
the late president, Daniel Frisch,
declared: "I have tried to do my
very best for the ZOA. I promise,
if elected, to continue these ef-

But the smears did not really
perturb him.

► ► •

HIS FORTHCOMING book cov-
ers the last three decades.
In "High Treason" you will
discover for yourself the birth
of political anti-Semitism in
America as well as the human
and ideological material from
which the un-American Com-.
mittee sprang, the unholy alli-
ances between corrupted poli-
ticians, gangsters, strike-breakers
and religious hate-mongers.
Although "High Treason"
paints a dark picture it will not
fail to give you confidence in the
future and a deeper understand-
ing of American democracy.

„,„ .
w etzusann to Take
Rest ut Europe

forts in behalf of the Zionist Or-
ganization of America, the State
JERUSALEM—(WNS) — Pres-
of Israel, and American Jewry." ident Chaim Weizmann is ex-
Among the signers of the call pected to take a summer vacation
were Louis Lipsky and Dr. Israel
in Switzerland where he will also
Goldstein.
receive medical attention, his off-
ice announced.
Dr. Weizmann will leave when
Joseph Sprinzak, speaker of the
parliament, returns from Monte-
video, where he is to appear on
NEW YORK—(WNS) — John
behalf of the UJA drive. Sprin-
Hersey, author of the "The Wall," zak served as acting president
and Professor Guido Kisch, of the last year in the President's ab-
Hebrew Union College-Jewish In- sence.
stitute of Religion, author of "The
Jews in Medieval Germany,"
8,000 METAL WORKSHOPS
were respectively proclaimed the
TEL AVIV—(ISI)—Plans for
fiction and non-fiction winners of the establishment of a network
the annual award of the Jewish of centers for painters and sculp-
Book Council of America, spon- ters have been completed by Is-
sored by the National Jewish rael's Ministry of Education and
Welfare Board.
Culture.

Hersey's 'Wall'
Awarded Prize

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