Expose of a 'Communist Legend
Lerner Condemns Attempt to Brand
U. S. as Anti-Semitic in Rosenberg Case
20 — THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 27, 1952
9 Percent to Go
And Going Strong
Eban Opens Bond Campaign,
Explains UJA Relationship
Continued from Page 1
think the pri-
Attempts by defenders of Ju- 'Yet I do not
two. He said that the minority represented the common ma
Rosenberg to mary purpose of the meeting
and the majority sounded like a report by Harvard economists
lius and Ethel United States was to milk these people of their
He was most eloquent in his conclusion, when he recited, i
charge that the
i.s anti-Semitic and that the two greenbacks. The main purpose
Hebrew and then in English translation, the opening verse fro
who were condemned to death was to spread the Communist
Psalm I:
for espionage are innocent were legend that the American -Gov-
"And he shall be like a tree planted by streams of water.
branded as lies this week by two ernment is anti-Semitic.
That bringeth forth its fruit in its season,
"I AM FED UP WITH THAT
columnists.
And whose leaf doth not wither;
Occasion for the expose was LEGEND, AND WITH THE EF-
And in whatsoever he doeth he shall prosper."
the defense meeting held in FORTS OF THE COMMUNIST
New York last week. The Amer- clique to exploit the fears and
Louis Berry presided at both government must, he state
ican Jewish Press learns that in sensitivities of American Jews.
meetings. Participants in the strike some sort of a balan
his forthcoming column - "Off The note was struck in Rosen-
program included Rabbis Leon between imports and expor
the Record," (Seven Arts Na- berg's letter from prison. "We
"Only $75,000,000 of goods we
Frain and Jacob Segal, who gave
than Ziprin will state that the are as innocent of espionage and
the invocations: Emma Schaver, exported from the country la.
Conimittee to Secure Justice for treason," he wrote, "as were our
year,
and $300,000.000 were i
accompanied by Rebecca Froh-
Rosenberg has adopted - vicious 6,000,000 brothers and sisters
man. who led in singing the na- ported."
and brutal slogans". that, its who were put to death in the
Banking operations similar
tional anthems; Jan Bart, who
members have desecrated the gas chambers of Europe." The
sang and made the appeal for these, he pointed out, have be.
memory of the 6,000,000 victims same note was repeated in al-
bond purchases, and Sidney carried on in the Nethe•lan
of Nazism; that "it is slicer stu most every speech. It is time
Shevitz. A new Israel film, and Belgium. In the last mont
pidity to say that the sole mo- that someone called it the lfe
he said, Israel's financial stat
"2003," was shown.
tive behind the extreme penalty that it is. What has happened to
has been vastly improved by t
demanded by a Jewish prosecu- the Rosenbergs had nothing to
In his address, paying tribute President's signing of the Mutu
'We've raised 91% of last
tor and imposed by a Jewish do with their being Jewish.
ear's Allied Jewish Campaign to Israel and declaring that the Security Authorization and t
Y
- money
j udge stemmed from anti-Sem i-
- THE CLIMAX OF THE EVE A
and are still going reason for U.S. support, of Israel willingness of the German go
NING
WAS
A
SPEECH
BY
tisinS'
strong, reports NATHAN
SO - is because Congress likes people ernment to pay reparations.
"
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LITTLE ORTHODOX RABBI who
Senator
-
help
themselves,
BERMAN (seated
left) chair
Referring to tensions crea
-
• ofWill
i amsburg.
The major attack upon this Meyer Sharff,
of the paint stores and Moody predicted that President
Ifni
committee came from Dr. Max He wore a skull cap and a long suppliers section. to other real Truman will veto the McCarran by the closeness of the
Jewish Appeal and the Isr
Lerner, eminent scholar, who. in
,
black
coat
with
prayer
shawl
!black
ration bill and thereafter Bond Drive, Ambassador Eb
tate and building division i immigration
1
under it and a magnificent estate
a column in the New York Post
the members, including from the a liberal immigration measure said there was "no conflict, b
headed "Vultures and Victims" , growth of beard. He was
left, GEORGE FOX and JACK i will be adopted.
an inherent harmony" in
describes the committee's work • prize catch of the cynical men
two campaigns. "Israel nee
as ''an insult - to American who ran the meeting. He spoke MOSS.
both investment funds and
Jewry." The Rosenberg defense in Yiddish with- long Hebrew
Eban Explain Israel's
fiances to take care of im
committee is headed by Joseph quotations from the Holy Books.
Import-Export Balance
grants to survive. "He said th
Braining. ' Dr. Lerner's , article No one could accuse him, he said
Commenting on the 10 per Israel's Foreign Minister, Mos
follows: of being a Communist and the
cent forced loan the Israeli gov- Sharett, and himself had draft
"I witnessed something on crowd laughed. The reason, he
ernment is imposing on bank certain proposals for coordin
Tuesday night that stirred me explained, was that the Corn-
depositors and holders of bank ing the two efforts. "The Isr
both to anger and to compas- munists in Russia had killed his
notes. Eban said at a press con- Bond Drive is an instrument
lion. I went to Flatbush. to the 16-year-old son as the son of a
TEL AVIV, (JTA — A large ference that "the move has my government and the UJA
meeting held by the so-called bourgeois father--and no one
an instrument of American co
Committee to Secure Justice i in laughed a bit. What seemed to bomb exploded outside the been welcomed by the people .
th
the Rosenberg case. The meet- weigh in his mind was that apartment of Communications who recognized that drastic munities. It is unthinkable
ing was run and dominated by Judge Kaufman, who passed the Minister David Zvi Pinkas in the measures would be taken in the tensions should arise betw
the Communists, and my anger death sentence on the Rosen- early hours of the morning, next two years." The Israeli these two."
was at the cynicism with which bergs, was himself a Jew, and
causing considerable damage to
they exploited the emotions of inclined to lean backward. I
property but injuring no one.
good people for an evil cause. agree that the death penalty
My compassion was for the peo- was unprecedented and harsh, The police arrested two suspects
ple—who came to the meeting. but I wondered how loudly the on the scene.
The two men --Amos Kinan.
almost all of them Jewish resi- Communists would shout out
dents of Brooklyn, not knowing sometime if the judge had not 25, a member of the editorial
staff of the independent news-
that the Communist clique, who happened to be Jewish.
paper Haaretz, and 29-year-old
ran the meeting, cared no more
PARIS, (JTA) — Continued a "jester" because "it imagi
"I LOOKED AROUND THE Shaltiel Ben Yair, unemployed—
for the Rosenbergs than they ROOM, AND WHAT I SAW were
tension was reported from Tunis it can protect Tunisian Jew
had once cared for the Alters vultures and victims. The vul- were arrested by policemen pa- in the aftermath of several days Israel's views on Tunisia
and Ehrlichs who had been mur- tures were 'the half-pint corn- troling the area in a radio car. of attacks on Jews by young
condemned as the statements
dered by the Russian Commis- missars, exploiting the emotions The policemen were stationed Arab extremists. The attacks
"the cho.ien people of God, w
sa rs.
of unsuspecting Jews. The vic- there because last Friday night resulted in the death of one
"THE CASE OF THE ATOM tims were the group of lower a bomb was thrown at Minister young Jew, the wounding of were obviously chosen to d
SPIES. JULIUS AND EHEL middle class men a n d women, Pinkas' apartment, but failed to many others and some property seminate intrigue and sediti
in every place and at all time
ROSENBERG, is one of almost huddled together in anxiety. I explode. When the apartment of destruction.
unrelieved ugliness and degrad- keep thinking of the little or- Ben Yair was searched later, the
Tension in Tunis has abat
Responsibility for the dis-
ation: during the whole Flat- thodox rabbi. He seemed to me police found some ammunition
in the last few days followi
bush meeting one listened in a genuine person, with a re- and noise bombs. They also orders was attributed to extrem- Arab attacks on Jews which c
vain for a single hard fact that ligious passion and a sense of found a man there identified as ists of the Neo Destour Party. the life of one young Jew a
would cast serious doubt on kinship with his people. He William Steiner. a n d detained the Tunisian Arab nationalists, the injury of several others,
seeking to force the Jews to join
their guilt. The speakers stress- knew that the Communists hat- him for questioning.
member of
in their anti-French demonstra- G. Riegner.
ed that those on whose testi- ed and destroyed Jewish com-
World Jewish Congress ex
Police
sources
stated
that
the
tions.
The
French
Foreign
Of-
mony the Rosenberg.; 1,V , , P con- munities everywhere inside the bomb was planted by members
tive, said today on his ret
victed had betrayed the close Iron Curtain. Why did he let of a Kanaanite sect. who believe fice charged that Neo Destour from Tunis. He paid tribute
extremists were at fault but
ties of blood. It is a true fact, himself be used by them?
in Israel's return to the thought spokesmen for the party here the efficiency and composure
and a shattering one Yet it is a
think
it
was
because
he
and customs of the ancient and in Tunis condemned the the leaders of the Jewish co
"I
sword that cuts both ways. Da-
had
dwelt
so
long
over
the
dwellers
in the land of Israel. attacks. A party spokesman munity and to the fine beari
vid Grecnglass could not have
of the Jewish youth which.
un- memory of the centuries of scars Both Ben Yair and Kinan are here said that "We strongly said, had shown a spirit of
sent. his sister to her doom un-
his
people
had
suffered.
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Even
members
of
the
Kanaanite
condemn
the
incidents
which
lessshe
had
involved
him
in
a
les
)hesion and of readiness to
atom in a free America it is a hard movement. Other sources, how- have taken place in the Jewish
real conspiracy to sty
thing to erase the memory of ever, believe that the bomb was quarter of Tunis where the two fend vigorously the interests
secrets for the Russian.s.
the community.
- ALBERT KAHN MADE THE those scars. That i8 why it is so placed by opponents of Minister elements have always lived to-
Dr. Riegner said he was c
COLLECTION S P E E C H. HE unforgivable for the Communists Pinkas' order forcing all private- gether in accord." He warned
READ A MESSAGE from the to keep spreading the lie about ly-owned cars to remain idle on Tunisians of both faiths to-guard fident the authorities will ca
Rosenbergs and when he gut to the Rosenberg case. It is an in- Saturday as an oil economy against maneuvers of - provoca- duct the appropriate investi
disorders and
the payoff sentences his eyes suit to the overwhelming num- move.
teurs seeking to create a diver- tion into the
filled with tears and his words ber of American Jews, who hate
The bomb which exploded was sion which will serve the ends veal the circumstances. He st
testimony recently obtained
stuck in his throat. A heap of every form of totalitarianism, apparently attached to the han- of the enemies of the nation."
dicated that the death of t
five and ten dollar bills, and and it is a mockery of the mil- dle of the door leading into the
(The
New
York
Times
report-
hundreds of dollar bills came to lions of Jewish martyrs in Eu- Minister's apartment. The door ed from Paris that neutral ob- young Jew was due to the L
rope."
was demolished and the win- servers of the Arab-Jewish dis- lated action of one of the mei
the platform, $3,500 worth.
dows throughout the building orders in Tunis agreed that they bers of the "Service d'Ordre."
were smashed by the force of were "out of character." These
Israel Condemns Outbre
the blast. Furniture was de- observers pointed to the fact
stroyed in some of the apart- that the Bey of Tunis had re-
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A F)
ments. Mr. Pinkas, who ap- fused, during the Petain regime, eign Ministry spokesman
peared calmer than most other to enforce the Petain anti-Jew- that Israel observes "with gr
people on the scene ,told police ish laws in Tunis, and that concern" the killing and wou
that no one had knocked on the during the Palestine war, ing of Jews by Arab mobs in
door nor attempted to gain en- Tunnisia had remained free of Tunisian capital. He stre
trance to the apartment before anti-Jewish incidents such as that the attacks on Jewish 1
the bomb went off, some time had occurred elsewhere in Mos- and property are a "heavy bl
after midnight.
against the reputation and na
lem countries).
of the Tunisian national mo
Members of the Orthodox
Charges that the French ment, which describes itself
parties in Parliament have an-
government is "using" Tunis-
progressive and has asked
riounced their intention of de-
ian Jews against the Moslems,
help of world opinion and c
manding a debate on the attack
and that this caused the riot-
science."
on Mr. Pinkas, and Behor Shi-
ing in the French protector-
treet, Minister of Police, is ex-
ate, are being broadcast by
pected to report to the Knesset
Dead Sea Exploitatio
radio stations in Arab League
on developments. Mr. Pinkas is
countries. A Bagdad broadcast
a leader of the Religious Bloc
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Her
said . France has "resorted to
in the government.
Cohen, Israeli Attorney Gene
exploiting the services of Tun-
left for London with the f
isian Jews, since in Tunisia
Fathers and sons working in the Allied Jewish Campaign held
To Seek Oil in Israel
draft of an agreement betw
Jewish
minor-
large
there
is
a
Cam-
here
are
sway at a .report luncheon meeting. Pictured
ity which imperialism can the Palestine Potash Comp
MIMI (AJP)—A new company
paign Chabanan ABE KASLE (left), his son LEONARD (standing
and the Israel government,
easily instigate against Arabs
left), JOSEPH HEIDAN (seated center) with his son JACOB next headed by Samuel Friedland, of
der which the government
and Moslems."
to him, and HAROLD and LOUIS BERRY (standing right). Jacob this city, has been formed to
comes a partner in the comp
The
Arabs
said
Israel
became
seek
oil
in
Israel
Heidan presided at the meeting.
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Communications
_Minister's Home
Damaged 1)17 Blast
Tension Remains in Tunis as
Arabs Foment Disturbances
Two Generations of AJC Workers
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