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Arabs Hinder Israel Bonn Pact;
Peace Talks Declared Speculative
, New York Times correspondent Jack Raymond reported from Bonn, Germany, this -
week that - Arab protests are proving a hindrance to the reparations agreement between'
Israel. and Germany, the bone of contention being the provision for immediate corn- .
mencement of payments - on the $822,000,000 sum agreed upon in goods and services.
The Times correspondent states that 28 deputies in Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's
l3undestag have filed 'a request to discuss the restitution agreement and that efforts are
being made in the meantime to modify Arab antipathy.
A report from London that an Egyptian leader said place is in the offing between
Israel and Egypt has been declared to be highly speculative.
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Who'll Rule Under GOP?
Michigan's Clare E. Hoffman
Would be a Dominant Figure
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
Copyright, 1952, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.
A Republican victory in November would bring:about changes
'in the chairmanship of Congressional committees, changes which
may prove of tremendous interest to Jewish voters.
Rep. Clare E. Hoffman, of Michigan, is listed by the Bnai
• Brith Anti-Defamation League as hostile "to the Jewish people.'
Should the Republicans win a majority, Hoffman is slated to
. become chairman of the important House Committee on expen-
ditures in Executive Departments. This would put him in a
- position where he could wield considerably more influence than
in the past. Hoffman is described by the ADL as a defender of
- American anti-Semites tried for pro-Nazi sedition during World
- War • II; • as an admirer of Rep. John Rankin; as a promoter
of anti-Semitic literature through the Congressional Record,
and as a Congressman often selected for quotation by such
; professional hate-mongers as Gerald L. K. Smith and Gerald
Winrod.
Hoffman, in May, 1949, told a House subcommittee his views
on a proposed Fair Employment Practices bill. According to an
ADL report, he said: "There is no such thing as discrimination.
against the Jews. In this country; if I understand the situation
,elearly, the Jews have the world by the tail. They are on top."
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An apologist for Hitler during World War II, Hoffman
emerged as an enthusiastic proponent of the MCCarran-Walter
Omnibus Immigration Bill. He said of Jewish_immigrants that
...Many of them pay a pretty good fee to smart lawyers in this
community, in New York, and elsewhere to get in, many of then).
do - that, you know, and just as soon as they get here they say
our government is:no good, our way of life-is no good, and' they
want to change it, just like Anna Rosenberg, Assistant Secretary
of Defense, who wants to take all the boys and girls and put them
into the armed services." .
._ Rep. Leo Allen, of Illinois, would replace the venerable Adolph
Sabath as chairrrian of the Rules Conimittee. This committee is
in charge of deciding which bills - reach the floor, and whether
debate will be limited or open, amendments allowed or not.
Allen indicated his views during committee consideration, of civil
rights. Pointing out that there were about 400 Jews in his- con-
stituency of 307,611 persons, Allen described how "some Jewish
gentlemen from Milwaukee and Chicago came in" and sponstMed
a candidate of the Jewish faith to run-against hini. He told the
committee: "Maybe you could say these people are diScriminating
against me." ' . _
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A GOP victory would bring a nevi House majority leader in
the person of Rep. Charles A. Halleck of Indiana,. Halleck was
- present when the Thichanan Lobby Investigating Committee was
probing Merwin K. Hart's -National Economic Council, which
has been charvd with high-level anti-Semitism. The Council
warns of Communistic trends and "alien-minded persons." Among
the latter- category it included Henry Morgenthau, Jr., Albert
Einstein, David Lilienthal, - Felix Frankfurter, Rep. Sabath, and
ether distinguished Jews.
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Sen. Robert A, Taft would become majority policy chairman
'of the Senate. While Taft has aided - Israel and at times re-
ceived support from Jewish leaders as Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver,
. his views on the rights of Nazi war criminals were controversial.
Atitrian Reparations to Israel Called Inevitable
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
LONDON—The signing of the Luxemburg reparations agreements between West-
Germany and the state of Israel and the Conferene on Jewish Material Claims against
Germany has made "inevitable" the settlement of the same problem in Austria, Dr. M.
L. Perzweig, World Jewish Congress leader, told WJC luncheon meeting here/ Tuesday.
He stressed that the effect of the German settlement on AUstrian public 'opinion had
been 'considerable."
Dr. Perlzweig reported that he had recently gone to Vienna to discuss restitution
matters chiefly because representatives of the Austrian government had urged him to
do so. He said his reception had been "very cordial and friendly.
He pointed out that he had been received by Chancellor Leopold Figl and Foreign
Minister Karl Gruber as a representative of the only organization through which the
Jewish people as a whole could speak to a government. "They knew exactly whom I rep- .
resented and they knew there were organizations in the United States and elsewhere
which I did not represent," Dr. Perlweig declared. He disclosed - that Chancellor Figl
had said he was willing to discuss matters with repreSentatives of world Jewry, "but I
must have one partner with. whom to do it," •
Referring to the German government view that Austria as one of the successor-
states of- the Hitler Reich must pay its own restitution claims and to the Austrian view .
that the Germans should pay restitution claims preserved by the Jews, Dr. Perlzweig
insisted this Was a matter to be settled between Germans and Austrians: He warn-
ed that Jews must not permit themselves to be trapped in the middle of such a dispute.-
Rabbi Miller. A s ks Israel's Cooperation with Zion'
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
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. TEL AVIV—Jews outside Israel are unable to give up their right • to state their at-
titude on developments in Israel or to give up their right to persuasion by Democratic
means because decisions taken in Israel affect their liveS, Rabbi Irving Miller,- president
of the Zionist Organization of America; said here Tuesday.
•The New Yorker made his first public a ppearance here at a meeting at Zionist House
and discussed questions of the relationship between the state of Israel and the Zionist
movement. He reviewed the Zionist role in the establishment of the state.
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Detroit Bond Sales
Exceed $.4,300,000
The sale of $400,000 of Israel bonds
at the dinner which opened the fall
campaign, Monday evening, at the
Sheraton-Cadillac, boosted the total
sale of bonds in Detroit, since May 1,
1951, to more than $4,300,000. The
total sales in the country are reported
to be nearing the $150,000,000 mark.
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(Detailed story on Page 20)
He said that the state might prefer that out-
side Jews bd indifferent to events in the ztate and
giv help only. This, he said, is not only impos-
sible logically but was not in accordance with the
interests of the state. Israel, he declared, belongs
not - only to Israelis but to. all Jewry.
: It was true, he said, that the Israelis had the
right to decide their lives, but each decision \ had
its positive or negative implication on the Jews
of the Diaspora and therefore they were not able
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Taft's assault on the Morgenthau plan to effectively prevent
any resurgance of German militaristic nationalism has allo
:been questioned. At the Chicago convention this year, Taft
.went on record in opposition to the United Nations conventions
on genocide arid human rights.-
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The chairmanship of the Senate Government Operations
Committee is . slated to go to Sen.. Joseph R. McCarthy if the
Republicans win. Sen: McCarthy on at least One occasion inserted
anti-Semitic Material in the Congressional Record. He obstructed
the trial of Nazi• S.S. troops guilty- of the Malmedy massacre of
AineriCan prisoners. He made irresponsible Charges that the Nazi
criminals were '"mistreated" by the 'American. Army.
When asked if he would repudiate the Support of Gerald L. K
Smith; McCarthy said he • would . - not 'pass. judgment upon any
man no- matter what his reputation is.- McCarthY's reluctance
to label people has -not been noted in Many other cases. ,
' Sen. Styles Bridges, as a member of the Senate Appropria-
tions Committee, attempted to pressure the Federal -Communica-
tions 'Commission into dropping its case against the late G. A.
Richards, radio station Owner who was accused of injecting anti-
Seinitisrxi into, his " newscasts._ Bridges would take over chair,
man ship of the Appropriations Committee- in case of- a Iteraib:-
hear' *victory.
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Oscar R. Ewing
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The Republicans have charged :that the Demoerats can lay
- claim to Democratic Senator Pat . 111cCarran, author of dis-
criminatory immigration regulations and a champion of the
McCarthy ideas. McCarran is chairman of the Senate Judi-
;ciary Committee and would retain that chairmanship in the
-event or a Democratic majority. President Truman has fought
McCarran to the extent of appointing a• commission headed
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Ex-Solicitor General Philip Perlman to hold- hearings on
:IVIcCarran's racist theories and other aspects- of the McCarrOn
.Immigration Act.
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The major. Jewish organizations support - neither . Democrats
nor RepUblicans. They advise - each voter to vote to satisfy his
donseience, Nothing could be fairer. ;
Leo M. Cherne
PRESIDENT HARRY S. TRUMAN will. ad-
dress Friday's luncheon session of National Jew-
ish -Welfare Board's 2nd annual' National Leader-
ship Mobilization for GI and Community Service,
at Hotel Statler, Washington, D.C. Mr. Truman
is shown here reviewing prograni and services
of JWB with Irving Edison, JWB president, at
White House meeting following 1951 Leadership
Mobilization. Other scheduled speakers at 1952
event, which will run from Oct. t7 through 19,
are Secretary of- the Army Frank Pace, Jr.; Fed-
eral Security Administrator Oscar R. Ewing;
Chaplain (Maj. Gen.) Charles I. Carpenter,
chairman Armed Services Chaplains Board, and
Leo M. Cherne, director Research Institute of
America. Joseph S. Lerner, Kansas City, Mo., is
chairman of Leadership Mobilization. -
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Chaplain Carpenter