Judge Levittathal Calls IlIcCarran Act
Reversion to 'Medieval Idea of Exile'
Goldman, Blumberg to Head
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y. mask religious, ra-
consistently
WASHINGTON Judge Louis cial and politic2i persecutions
E. .Levinthal of Philadelphia, as criminal prosecutioas." The
Two former presidents of the the Detroit Jewish community mittee of Federation. President
former Adviser on Jewish Al-
of the Jewish Community Cen-
ttorney Genera7 said he felt Detroit Service Group, fund- sponsored by Federation.
fairs to the American MilitarY A there should be some clarifi-
ter, he formerly was president
Irving
W.
Blumberg
and
Har-
raising
arm
of
the
Jewish
Wel-
e
s-1 cation by statute of th rfebu-
Command in Europe, on ,To
vey H: Goldman, both Of whom of the Jewish Vocational Service.
fare
Federation,
have
accepted
day told the President's 'Corn- i
He has been president of the
mission on Immigration that sous middle ground between the general chairmanship of the served as associate chairmen of
cximes and political offenses." 1953 Allied Jewish Campaign, the 1952 campaign, will head Machinery 'D e a1 e r s National
the concept of deportation em-1 Louis H. Bean, 'representing primary philanthropic drive of the Spring drive, for. all divi- Association and chairman of its
bodied in our immigration laws
sions—including trade and pro- industry affairs committee. He
"is based on the medieval idea the Department of Agriculture,
fessional, women's and juniors'. is a native Detroiter and at-
testified that "the immigration
of t exile and banishment."
They succeed Abe Kasle, chair- tended Wayne University.
restrictions of the past 25 years,
Testifying on behalf of the both legal and economic, have
man for 1951 and 1952, under
major
American
Jewish in
volun-
whose leadership this communi-
tary agencies
.operating
the retarded the economic• growth of
ty raised a higher total of funds
this country."
field of immigration, Judge Lev-
than any other Jewish commun-
Secretary
of
Labor
Maurice
inthal presented an. 18-p a g e
ity with a population of under
brief outlining the views of the J. Tobin told the commission
100,000.
Ndtional Council of Jewish that national origins quota sys-
A vice-president of Federa-
Women, the Hebrew Immigrant tem and other discriminatory
tion, Blumberg was president of
aspects
of
the
Act
should
be
re-
Aid Society - and United Service vised. "It is time that we dis-
the - Detroit Service Group from
for New Americans represented
1941 to 1948, and at present
Which
--
overseas by the American, Joint carded this concept
serves as a vice-president.
never had any - scientific or
Distribution Committee.
He is a past president of
He charged that "under our other logical basis," he said.
Knollwood Country Club and a
Establishment
by
law
of
a
Na-
immigration -laws, deportation
past master of Perfection Lodge,
Immigration Policy Corn-
has been used as a form of tional
Masonic Order. ' A native of
Mission,
Which
would
control
all
punishment," and maintained
Omer, Mich., he has lived most
aspects
of
immigration
into
the
that no person admitted for
of his life in Detroit, graduat-
United
States,
was
urged
here
permanent residence should be
ing
from Detroit Central High
deported unless his entry was Tuesday by the American Jew-
School.
ish Committee • and the Anti-
.sst
Goldman is, chairman of the
based oil fraud. Defamation League of Bnai
"Dep t a t ion frequently
board of the Service Group and
Brith
in
a
presentation
before
HARVEY H. GOLDMAN
a member of the executive com-
pnnishes the innocent as well the President's CommisSion by
IRVINE W. BLUMBERG
as -the guilty," Judge Levinthal 1 Irving M. Engel, chairman of
asserted. "Members of the im- the executive committee of the
mediate family of the deportee ; American
Cdmmittee.
may even suffer greater hard-
Attacking the present immi-
'ships
than
the
deportee
, ‘„It
gration law and the new Me-
t.
self."
Carran Act effective Dec. 24 as
Attorney
General
de-
D. S.
BERLIN, (JTA) —West Ger- tions agreement, the p a c t ed from Germany sine the
mands revision in immigration /laving "a one-sided flexibility
d —in favor of exclusion," Engel man. Chancellor Konrad .Aden- should be handed over to the end of the war will be entit-
- -
law
:Attorney - General fatties P. declared that the only concern auer indirectly, rejected de- UN as a means of saving good led to benefits Ilf they can
with the Arabs. The prove they visited in Germany
McGranery, also testifying be- of the organizations he repre- mands by various G e r in a n relations
fore the President's Commission, sented in advocating a change groups that the reparations party statement said that the before May, 1945. Persecutees
demanded revision of 'a statute in immigration laws is "a desire pact with Israel be turned over UN would probably consider the who have been expelled from
in the McCarrar Act which to strengthen our democracy and to the United Nations for final reparations treaty in relation to East ,German territory since
might conceivably be used to to eliminate from our laWs and action. l the plight of the Arab refugees. 1949 are also elle' le for pay --
Addressing the Christian It added that the UN was the ment.
bar Jews convicted on trumped policies all provisions which
proper
proper body for rendering a A demand thz.t the new head
Nazi
courts.
contradict
our
democratic
prin-
by
up - charges
Democratic Union, the party
judgment" and for of the Bavarian restitution of- -
.: McGranery charged that eiples." .
which he heads, Dr. Adenauer effecting German reparations to fice resign if he is unable to .
Pointing
out
that
the
agent
"-practical difficulties of ent
the pact a ,"moral neces- Israel.
create an ',ffective basis for the
cies for which he spoke had called
fercement • result frcim this
sity" which would help restore
work of the office, was voiced
been fighting discrimination Germany's prestige abroad. He
,
proVision when it is realized
BONN, (JTA)—The West
. Ger- in Munich today• by Wolfgang
based on race, religion, ances- stated that although Germany
man Government has just' com- Hirsch, chairman of the Bavar-
national
origin
f
o
r
try
or
•
had not been indebted finan-
JDC Spends.35%
nearly 50 years, Engel said, daily to the State fIsrael, it pleted drafting quota.s for the ian League for Freedom and
Of Budget in Europe
"The whole racist tenor of Our. owed a considerable debt to various types of goods and serv- Justice, an organization of vie--
ices it will supply Israel for the tims of Nazism.
immigration laws is reflected
Jewry.
next . three years under the Hirsch also blasted the local
- At the con- in the new requirement of the world
:PARIS, (JTA)
"Since the conclusion of the terms of the German-Israel indemnification law as ineffect-
ference of the Joint Distribution McCarran Act that all pros- Luxemberg agreement with Is-
Committee called to 'consider pective immigrants must state rael last. month, we have done reparation p a c t signed six ive and expressed regret that
major problems affecting needy on their visa appliCations their all that was laid down by moral weeks ago at Luxemberg. The Dr. H. Ringelman, Bavarian
Jews. in Europe and Moslem race and ethnic classification." law," the Chancellor said. "And Germans are prepared to pay Secretary of State, who was in-
Israel 400,000,000 deutschemarks strumental in drafting that law,
countries, Moses W. Beckelman,
Quoting a number of out-, my belief is that whatever is
help-
overseas director of the JDC, standing anthropologists, Engel Wid down by moral law is at (approximately $94.000,000), in had also been- involved in
least
as
important
as
that
laid
goods
and
services
by
March,
ing
draft
the
vederal
indemnili-
revealed that 35 percent of the pointed out that the term "race"
JDC budget is being spent on cannot be defined to the satis- down by juridical law. 1954. cation legislation.
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
Bonn has stated its willing-
aid to European Jews.
faction of scientists, "let alone
"I am convinced," he added,
ness
to
continue
paying
75,-
defended
the presence of former /
The remainder has been al- for purposes of legislation and "that the agreement with Is-
Nazi
diplomats
in the West
ally
for
u
000,000 marks- ann
located to Jews•in Moslem coun- administration." He added that rael has done more than any-
tries and to Malben, the JDC similar problems arise with re- thing else to eradicate from crude oil supplies to Israel, German Foreign Office. Speak-
out of German funds of for- ing during a debate in Parlia-
program for aid to handicapped spect to ethnic clasSification.
German y the stains made by
eign currency, until March, ment, the Chancellor said that
immigrants in Israel. In. Israel
"A word can mean Many National gocialism and will
1954. At that time the Gert the only way to build up the
; alone, he said, the JDC • spent things to many people," Engel re-establish the world's •regard
mans
will re-examine their Foreign Office was to use people
$11,500,000 this year. .
stated, "and not • one word for Germany." with- experience. Former Nazis
Meanwhile, the German Par- Aosition to see • whether they
Beckelman estimated that means more things to more peo-
are able to continue making compose 66 per cent of the
there are s t ill 52,000 men, ple than does the word "Jew." ty, a rightist group,. at its an
senior officials of the depart-
_
women and children in Europe Science aside, there are many nual convention at Goslar, de- such payments. ,
A ceiling of 45,000,000 marks ment.
who are partially or wholly- de- Jews who insist that Jews are cided that while Germany's
pendent on JDC aid. He de- not an ethnic group at all but good name must be restored and worth of finished steel produCts British authorities in Germ-
clared that the need of many simply a religious denomina- that this could be done by nn- has been set for the first year's any pardoned 67-year-old ex-
Albert Von Kess-
of these Jews, particularly the tion." plementing the Israel repara- reparations.. Shipment of ,cheni_ Field Marshal
to
ical goods, agricultural prod- eking, who was sentenced -
"hard-core" cases, is : more des-
ucts, pig iron and raw steel life imprisonment on charges -
perate now than at the end of
products for the first year will of Nazi war crimes in Italy. The
the war. .
be kept to a maximum of 43,- British said that clemency was
-The American, delegation to
000,000 marks. Services and being extended the former mil-
was headed by
the conference w
other unspecified goods will to- itary leader because he was
Dr. Joseph J. SchWartz, execu-
tal 37,000,000. - suffering from cancer.
tive vice,- chairman of the
In a move to. offset Arab op-
United - Jewish Appeal,, and in-
position .to. the Qezman Israel Christians and Jews
cluded Samuel Goldsmith, ex-
reparations pact, E he B o n n
ecutive director of the Jewish
Government has offered To Meet in Washim;ton
Welfare Fund- of Chicago, and
to consider requests for econ-
Isidore • Sobeloff, executive di-
omic aid from various Arab The 24th annual meeting of
Welfare
rector of the Jewish
states. 'The 3ffes:r was made by the N a t i o n a 1 Conference of
Federation If Detroit.
State Secretary for Foreign Af- Christians and Jews will be held
fairs Prof. Walter Hallstein o Nov. 9 to 11, at Hotel .May-
London Jews Warned
members of an Arab delegation flower, Washington, D.C., an-
To Ignore Fascist Meetings
including presentatives o f nounced B e n s o n Ford, vice-
Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and Iraq. president of the Ford Motor Co.*
"LONDON, (JTA)—A plea that
Parliament will soon begin Thomas , E. Braniff, president, '
Jewish youths shun Fascist
discussion
of a draft of a, new Braniff International Airways;
meetings in Britain rather than
Federal indemnification 1 a w. and. Roger W. • Straus, board
attend them and heckle the
which provides for payments to e h a i r man, American Smelting
speakers was reiterated by Dr.
individual victims of the .Nazi and Refining Co., national co-
Abraham Cohen, ' president of
regime who were persecuted for chairmen of NCCJ.
the Board of, Deputies of British
racial, religious or political Leaders in government, indus-
Jews.
reasons. It is estimated that try, education and religion will
Dr. Cohen said that it has
total payments to be made un- join officers of the National
• been, proved time and again
der this measure, modelled on -Conference in e x p 1 o r i n g the
that • heckling "made" these
legislation now in effect in the moral andspiritual resources of
Fascist meetings. • He warned
United States zone of C•rmany, the nation for building better
that the recent mild treatment
will • amount to four billion intergroup relations.
of Jewish youths arrested on
m a r k s (approximately $940, A number of the session& at
charges - of attacking Fascists
the three-day meeting will be
Members of the Greater Detroit Bnai Brith Women's Council 00,0o0).
might be 'replaced by more se-
The law provides that claim- set aside for planning the an-
vere methods if the incident fund raising committee prepare for one of its biggest tasks-ful-
fillment of a $100,000 quota. Pictured are standing, left to right, ants must have resided in nual observance of Brotherhood
were repeated.
Mesdames ROBERT COGGAN, arbitration; HY KOENIGSBERG, West German territory or in Week, to be held Feb. 15-22,
arrangenients; KARL BERG, program; seated. Mesdames BEN West Berlin on May 23, 1949. with Roger W. Staus as general
28 THE JEWISH NEWS
Claimants who have emigrat- chairman, .
DORF, co-chairman of tickets; and PHILIP ADELHEIT, tickets.
Friday, October 31, OP!
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Adenauer Would Reject Demands to Turn
Reparations Over to UN to Appease Arabs
Plathiets Behind Bnai Brith Women's
Fund-Raising Campaign for $100 000
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