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Jewish Group's Protest Permission
To Anti-Semite Anders to Visit U.S.

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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, October 6, 1950

City of Hope Review

NEW YORK (JTA) The
American Federation for Polish
Jews has called on President
Truman to deny an audience to
the former commander of the
Polish Second Corps, Gen. Wla-
dyslaw . Anders. It has also
asked that the President act to
revoke permission granted to
Gen. Anders to come to the
United States.
Organizations endorsing this
action include: Federation of
Ukrainian Jews, Federation of
White Russian Jews, Riga-Lat-
vian Relief, Borisover Relief So-
ciety, Progressive Workmen's
Circle Committee.
Called "Arch Enemy"
In the letter to the President,
the Federation called General
Anders "an arch enemy of the
Jewish people" and "a moving
spirit behind anti-Jewish activi-
ties in Europe and the Near
East." The letter cited a long
record of criminal activities per-
petrated by Anders' army com-
posed in part of 30,000 former
Wehrmacht men, officered by
unregenerate Nazis, some of
them former chiefs of extermi-
nation camps. (The record of
the anti-Semitic general is enu-
merated in an editorial in this
issue.)
Denouncing Gen. Anders' visit
as not only "an affront to all
American Jews," but as "an at-
tempt to extend anti-Semitic
activities to American soil," the
Federation for Polish Jews re-
quested President Truman to
deny Anders' request for an
audience and to use his influ-
ence to cancel the General's visit
as "undesirable and unwelcome."
Arrives in Country
(Gen. Anders meanwhile ar-
rived in Washington where he
conferred with American offi-

cials. He said he is here to "re-
new old acquaintances among Tours Borscht Circuit
my American comrades-in-arms
The Business Men's Group of
from the European battle-
grounds of World War II." Fol- the City of Hope (formerly 'Los
lowing objection by Jewish or- Angeles Sanatorium) will bring
ganizations to Anders' clearance, Borschtcapades to Music Hall at
the Washington Times-Herald
said of the General that "Com-
munists and their fellow trav-
elers call him a 'fascist bandit.' "
The paper headlined him as a
i"Polish hero and foe of Reds.")

Blaustein Tells Truman
Democracy Wanted

WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Presi-
dent Truman was told - by Jacob
Blaustein, president of the
American Jewish Committee,
that "the people of Israel de-
finitely want democracy and do
not want any form of totalitar-
ianism either from • within or
without." In a visit to the White
House.
Blaustein reported on his re-
cent trip to Israel, assuring the
President that Israel is "the best
friend America ever had in the
Near East."
Blaustein said that he
visited Israel President Chaim
Weizmann at Berne, Switzer-
land, and that Dr. Weizmann
asked him to convey personal
regards to Mr. Truman.

Thailand Gives de Jure
Recognition to Israel

TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Thai-
land informed Israel it has
extended it de jure recogni-
tion. Thailand is the 50th na-
tion to give full recognition
- to Israel.

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Purely Commentary:

"Congressional witch-hunters who wave the Amer-
ican flag while persecuting alien immigrants and
trampling on the rights of loyal Americans" is the
manner in which Drew Pearson described the pro-
ponents of the thought-control measure which Con-
gresS adopted over the veto of President Truman.
The President called it "the raw material of totali-
tarianism" and many Americans are upset by the new
law. They fear that it threatens all our liberties.
The mere fact, however, that there were 10 men left in
the Senate to vote in support of the President's veto
(the eleventh—Senator Langer of North Dakota—was
unable to vote, having collapsed during his five-hour
plea against the measure, and had he been present
Senator Thomas would have sided with the President)
should prove heartening. It should indicate to us that
this may be another passing phase in our history and
that, like previous sedition laws, the current measure
will be forgotten and we shall—before long—return
to a state of sanity.

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* *

The Brave Senators

Senators Lehman of New York and Langer of
North Dakota stand out among the courageous men
who consistently opposed the hysterical portions of
the objectionable secur-
ity measure. Only five
others had the courage
to oppose the portion of
the bill which provides
for the establishment of
concentration camps in
this country: Senators
Graham of North Caro-
lina, Green and Leahy
of Rhode Island, Ke-
f auver of Tennessee,
Murray of Montana and
Taylor of Idaho. Sena-
tors Chavez of New
Mexico, Douglas of Illi-
nois and Humphrey of
Sen. Lehman Minnesota, w e r e the
others who supported the President's veto. These
names will be remembered, but the one that will
stand out is that of Senator Lehman—the only man
up for re-election next month. The liberal press has
applauded his words describing the new security mea-
sure as "this tragic, this unfortunate, this ill-con-
ceived legislation." He explained that for voting
against it "my conscience will be easier, 'though I rea-
lize my political prospects may be more difficult."

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New Libertarian Chapter

A new chapter has been added to American liber-

tarian struggles in the course of the fight against this
measure. Without exception, opponents of the hyster-
ical bill are anti-Communists who are prepared to
fight to the last against the Communist menace. But
they are against using totalitarian measures to fight
totalitarianism. The Christian Science Monitor de-
scribed the issue well editorially by declaring: "We
don't like rats around the national farmstead. But
we are chary of amateur exterminators who propose
a little poison for the general water supply—especially
when even that wouldn't get many rats."
Remember: the panic-stricken element that adopt-
gd the objectionable bill was not limited to Republi-

UN Commission Issues Report Stating
Failure to Settle Arab-Israel Dispute

FLUSHING MEADOW, (JTA)
—The UN Palestine Conciliation
Commission has failed to
achieve any concrete results
from its two-year effort to re-
solve outstanding problems be-
tween the Arab states and Israel
and bring peace to Palestine.
The effort broke down over
Arab refusal to negotiate direct-
ly with Israel and to enter into
general peace discussions with
all problems considered equally.
The concession of failure and
its major cause-is revealed in a
70-page "progress" report, pre-
pared by the Cornmission for
the UN General ASsembly.
The report, the; eighth submit-
ted by the COmniiSsion since its
creation in December, 1948, cov-
ers the entire history of its con-
tinuous meetings with the Arab
and Israel governments in Swit-
zerland and the Middle East.
- Highlights of the report are:
Situation -Stalemated

I. As of now, the situation is wholly
stalemated.
2. The Commission adopted the iwo
basic proposals advanced by Israel,
namely, that the peace talks be conducted
primarily through direct Arab-Israel nego-
tiations and that no prior conditions
prejudge these negotiations. In a series
of notes to the Arab governments during
the course of this year, the Commission
pressed these proposals but met complete
Arab rejection of them. The Arab states
insisted on discussion only through the
Commission and held to the view that
until Israel accepted the principle of the
return and compensation of all refugees
no peace negotiations could be carried en.
Israel's position was that it would be
willing to give priority, but not exclusiv-
ity, to the refugee problem, and it also
expressed its willingness to share in spe-
cific measures to settle the problem, in-
eluding the immediate acceptance of
100,000 refugees.
3. On the territorial question, Israel
based itself on the existing situation and
stated its desire to negotiate over the
Gaza srip and certain northern areas,
holding that the proper territorial settle-
ment should encompass. the Egyptian and
Lebanese borders that existed under the
British mandate. The Arabs felt there
should be a reversion to the partition
borders, including Israel's cession of the
Negev and Eastern Galilee.
4. The Commission's compromise pro-

In Defense of. President Truman's Position
On Security Measures : Simple Clarification

cans and to Southern Democrats: it included panic-
stricken men like Senator Lucas of Illinois who are
up for re-election and who, unlike Senator Lehman,
feared the wrath of the voters. Some day, we believe,
the voters" wrath will be expressed against those who
have just given us -another unimaginative sedition
law.
Under different circumstances, those of us who
opposed the new bill 'and still dare speak against it,
would have stood the danger of being branded "reds."
Fortunately, we are on the side of the President.
Fortunately, great newspapers like the New York
Times, New York Herald Tribune, Christian -Science
Monitor, Chicago Sun-Times, St. Louis Post Dispatch,
Washington Post, Philadelphia Inquirer, Chattanooga
Times, and others are on our side.
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Argued in Simple Terms

Senator Lehman, when he argued in opposition to
the Congressional Conference Report on the security
bill, made this statement: "I have no illusions about
the effects of my actions in this matter on my politi-
cal fortunes: But I can assure the Senate that I have
slept easier, my mind has been freer, and my con-
science has been at rest since I cast my vote."
The proponents of the new security law claim that
there will be only minor curtailments of civil liberties,
but experience teaches us that once you curtail hu-
man rights even by an iota, you threaten them in
their entirety. The brave men who fought against
the bill struggled to keep American principles intact.
* * *

Can It Happen Here?

Why bring this matter up at all now, in view of
the fact that the security measure has become a law?
For the simple reason that the battle for justice
always must begin on the very day on which we are
threatened with injustice.
Furthermore, there is a prevailing view that with
the type of measure now in force we are-in danger of
things happening to us that occurred in Germany
and that are taking place in Russia.
On Sept. 3, the Chicago Sun-Times published the
following under the heading "It CAN Happen Here":
The Time: Sometime in the future.
The Place: A home in. the United States.
TWO MEN knock on an apartment door. A
v4nnan opens the door. The first man flashes a
badge.
No. 1 Man (gruffly) : "We're from the FBI.
You're wanted in the federal district attorney's
office. Better get your hat."
Woman: "But why? . .. I can't go . . . my chil-
dren are alone . . - my husband's overseas in the
Army . . ."
No. 2 Man (in. kindlier tones): "Look lady. We
gotta bring you in. Somebody has complained you're
an unregistered Communist . . Didn't you sign
the Stockholm Peace Petitions? . Weren't you ac-
tive in the Ladies League to Watch the Press? That
was a Communist outfit . . ."
Woman (gasping) : "It was? I mean .. . oh, no
. I'm not a Communist. This is silly. I'm a Re-
publican . .• . I'm not a member of any Communist
organization. . ."
No. 1 Man: "Look, lady. if you ain't they'll turn -
you
when you convince them of that down at

•
posal on a modus vivendi for negotiiatnpres
/
— the setting up of mixed committees to
deal with specific issues, a system pat-
terned on the UN mixed armistice com-
missions in Palestine—was turned down
by the Arab governments.

Israel For eign . Minister
M o s h e Sharett bitterly at-
tacked "appeasement" of Ger-
many as "sowing the seeds of
new aggression and horror" in
his opening address to the UN
General Assembly.
"The danger is now im-
minent that the only real ben-
eficiary of the present world
crisis will be the very country
which by brutal violence pro-
yoked the last war."
Condemns Aggressive Warfare
Declaring that "peace and
survival have become synony-
mous," Mr. Sharett appealed .to
the .59 UN delegates for "self-
restraint and mutual tolerance•'
among nations and pledged -his
own nation.to "scrupulous non-
interference in the internal life
of others." He branded aggres-
sive war "the scourge to be out-
lawyer," but stressed that "swift
reaction to aggression" was not
enough.
Calling for constructive en-
deavors as the "radical remedy,"
be told the delegates of Israel's
"ambitious phase of reconstruc-
tion and rehabilitation," and de-
clared: "What is being achieved
in the feild of development in
the narrow confines of Israel
could certainly be repeated on a
vast scale by an international
pooling of efforts
Mr. Sharett also gave full
Israel support to the Soviet
Union's call for a Big Five peace
pact; asked that "serious study"
be accorded the United States
proposal for strengthening the
General Assembly; appealed for
the seating of Communist China
in the world organization,

By Philip
Slomovitz

headquarters. If you can't you can get five years in
jail. Alt we know is we OA orders to pick you up
as a possible dangerous subversive. And ' we-
,
making the decisions here in this hallway
."
•
FRANKLY, we hardy .expect a_ scene such as we
have imagined above ever will happen. in this' land
of the free. But it COULD haPpen if the McCarran
subversive control bill, a - conglomeration of the
Mundt-Ferguson bill and other proposals, is enacted
into law. It is so vague in some of its provisions
that it could be used to harass, if not harm, indi-
viduals who merely are unpopular in the community.
Not Communists, but such 'patriotic characters as
Tom Paine,. Patrick Henry and others in our Ameri-
can history who were the servants and promoters
of our democracy.
The McCarran bill would require all Communist-
controlled organizations to register names of of fi-
cers and members. The scene that we have pic-
tured above is based partly on a provision of the
bill that would require any person who is a member
of the Communist Party, but who isn't on the list
turned in by the party, to file his name individually
with the Attorney General. Failure to register could
result in a five-year prison sentence. Presumably
the Attorney General would be charged with run- .
ning down unregistered Communists and sending
them to Jail.
Can you picture the witch hunt that could
spread if an unscrupulous attorney general went
into action?
There is great danger for democracy in any law
which causes innocent persons to live in fear of
their government. There is more danger for Ameri-
ca in such a climate than there is from the Ameri-
can Communist movement.
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Need for 'More Reasoned Reflection'

As long as there is the slightest danger of the
injection of totalitarian ideas into our way of life, as
long as our Bill of Rights is threatened, objectionable .
legislation must be fought to a finish. 'We sincerely
hope that Drew Pearson's prediction, that the bill
which President Truman considered a menace to our
freedoms will be repealed or modified by the next
Congress, comes true. It is in the interest of genuine
freedom that this column joins America's true liber-
tarians in their battle against witch-hunts.
The New York Times puts it mildly when it de- .
elates editorially: "The measure is now the law of
the land. We think that many of its deficiencies will
soon show up in the effort to enforce it. One of the
fine features .about a democracy is that error can be
rectified before it is too late. And so we may hope
that , some of the more unwise and impractical pro- ,
visions of this law will in due time be modified by
Congress in a moment of calmer thinking and more
reasoned reflection."
Unless the public is prepared for ."calmer think-
ing" and "more reasoned reflection," it may become
more difficult to rectify the errors of the new law.
It is encouraging there fore to know that Senator.,
Lehman already has discussed strategy with tbe\
President, that he will fight for modification or repeal
of the subversive control bill and that the battle for
the defense of the basic principles of the Bill of
Rights already has started. The fine features of our

democracy indeed already are in evidence.

