Purely Commentary,

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Thomas Sugrue: In Memoriam

Thomas Sugrue was a Catholic who viewed world 'conditions
and the need for interfaith cooperation with an objectivity that
caused him to emerge as a liberal with courage, as a. clear thinker
whose comments were marked by great dignity.
He was stricken with a disease that crippled him in 1937.
It was an obscure illness which resembled spinal meningitis,
infantile paralysis and arthritis, but from his sick bed and wheel
chair he wrote a dozen important books. His articles defended
the rights of religions other than his own. His latest work, pub-
lished in 1952, "A Catholic Speaks His Mind," caused a commo-
tion in Catholic ranks because of his advocacy of Catholic leader-
ship in a unified religious movement. Protestants and Jews, who
came in for some criticism, also took exception to some of his
views, but he spoke his mind honestly.
As a leader in the Christaln pro-Israel movement, he earned
Jewry's gratitute. He defended the Zionist cause against attacks
by Christians, including some Catholics. He spoke his mind in
tribute to Israel in a very fine book, "Watch for the Morning,'
published in 1950. He had gathered material for this book on
a visit in Israel in his wheel chair.
Thomas Sugrue deserves to be classed among the "hassidei
umoth haolom"—the saints among the nations of the world.
Blessed be his memory. *

Communists: Rosenberg Case, Prague Outrage, German Bigotry

There are many links in the Communist chain which appear
completely removed from the whole connection. Yet they can be
easily recognized as related to each other. We have typical ex-
amples in the Prague trial, the most recent East German attacks
on Zionism and alleged Zionists and the Rosenberg case in this
country.
It is unfortunate that an American court ease should be
merged with Communist ideology. We have, on several occasions,
expressed ourselves in favor of clemency for the Rosenbergs on
the ground of opposition to capital punishment. There are un-
doubtedly other arguments--=and they have been expressed by
noted people, clergymen and others. It is painful, however, to
be witness to a linking of the Rosenbergs with elements who are
responsible for the outrages in Prague, the dictation to East
Germans from Moscow against Zionism, the endorsement of
the anti-Zionist-indistinguishable from the anti-Jewish-policies
now being propagated by Soviet countries and agents. It is even
more painful to witness the linking of these occurrences as
causes celebre by Jews.
A pro-Communist "Jewish" periodical in New York goes so
far as to give a clean bill of health to the Soviet-dominated
rulers of Czechoslovakia for the outrageous state lynchings of .
a number of Jews on the charge of Zionism. The fact is an
established one: the executed Jews were as much Zionist as the
exiled-Mufti of Jerusalem with whom they collaborated during
the 1929 and 1936 Palestine riots. Yet, people posing as Jews dare
give credence to the Prague trials as legally justified.
Yet, the Communists make accusations against our govern-.
ment in the Rosenberg case! The victims in the Prague trial,
against whom the "Zionist" charge was concocted by the manu-
facturers of a Soviet revived anti-Semitism (call it anti-Jewish-
ness, a dominant reason for the Communists' action being pro-
Arabism), were executed on the morrow after their trial. But
the Rosenberg case opened a long time ago. The couple was
convicted on April 5, 1951, and as late as Jan. 5, 1953, Judge
Kaufman granted- their attorneys a stay of execution pending
an appeal to the President. We are inclined to agree with Tully
Nettleton, Christian Science Monitor editorial writer, who in an
article on the Rosenberg case, expressed this view:
"Whatever the validity of the case for some clemency,
as by commuting the sentence to life imprisonment, there
is value in remembering and pointing out that American
justice as already exemplified in the Rosenberg case stands
vastly superior in leniency, thoroughness, and fairness to the
so-called justice of Communist purge trials."
We have not reached the end of the Communist farce, as
was indicated last week by the new outbursts of -bigotry from
East Germany. If we had to fight the Communists alone, it would
not be so difficult. We are compelled, in addition, to be on guard
against Jewish Communists who are holier than Stalin, as in-
dicated by the acceptance of the Prague purge trial results, by
the group that publishes a magazine it dares to call Jewish. We
are being dragged through the mud, and editorial writers, whom
we can not, as we should not, call biased frequently make refer-
ence to the Jewish issues in the various Communist-inspired cases,
as our readers will note in the following editorial, which appeared
under the heading "Pauker, Slansky, Eisler—" in the Christian
Science Monitor:
"Other publicity men before Gerhart Eisler have been
up against the task of trying to sell an inferior product.
"It would take more than a mere word wizard to explain
why even food is scarce in East Germany, once the German
granary, while West Germany under free capitalistic rede-
velopment is enjoying a productive boom.
"But Eisler's choice of a client was open-eyed. He tried
to sell communism in America's motion picture colony till
obliged to jump bail to escape investigation. He invented the
ludicrous anti-American 'potato bug' story to try to explain
away neglected crops in the German Soviet zone. In short,
he helped to build . the despotism which now threatens his

"Yet even he was not sufficiently Stalinist for the
Stalinists—nor perhaps could any member of the Jewish
race placate the anti-Semitism which now displaces com-
munism's onetime claim to racial tolerance. 'Had I but 'served
my God. with half the zeal I served my king—'he might
lament,as did Shakespeare's Cardinal Wolsey; but, of course,
a Communist has denied deity and chosen dictatorship."
The mess created for us by pro-Soviet partisans causes us
an untold amount of harm. In spite of it, distinguished Jews,
among them some leading Zionists (Dr. Abba Hillel Silver and
others) , have not hesitated to plead for clemency for the Rosen-
bergs. This view, held in adherence to an attitude that even state
murders are to be classed as wrong, must not blind us to the
reality of a painful situation: that Jewry today is the target of
the Soviets and that some misled Jews—fortunately they are very
few in number—go along with such a destructive attitude. And
so we are today compelled to fight a new type of anti-Semitism:—
in lands whose official records make a crime of anti-Semitism
and whose officials cloak their anti-Jewishness in anti-Zionism.
To those who accept kinship with our people by avowing that
they are JeWs and who condone the Communist crimes against
JeWry, there is an admonition in a famous saying by Ben Jonson:
"He acts the third crime who defends the first." By the standards
they accept from Moscow, the pro-Communist, no matter what
his faith, is, in the long analysis, the worst criminal of all.

7—THE JFWtSH

NEWS

Detroit Chapter of ILIA Formed
To Cooperate with Israel Doctors_

Friday, January 16, 1953

Rs to Publish
11 Books in 1953

The Jewish Publication Society
of America, which will celebrate
its 65th anniversary during 1953,
will publish 11 volumes during
the year, ac-orTling to an an-
nouncement by Judge Louis E.
Levinthal, president of the so-
ciety.
A new venture for the society
will combine the fields of Bible
and Art through the publication
of "The Book of Jonah," which
will include illuftrations by
Jacob Steinhardt; director of the
Bezalel Institute of Jerusalem.
Also in the field of religion will
be - a reprint of an allegorical
novel by Martin Buber titled
"For the Sake of Heaven," and
"The Life and Thought of Franz
Rosenzweig" by Nahum N. Glata
zer to be co-published with
Schocken Books, Inc.
Historical fiction for adults
will be ;represented by a novel
titled "The Well of Gerar" by
Ruben Rothgiesser. Historical
fiction for a younger age will
include "Joel" by Nora Benjamin
Kubie, a co-publication with
Harper and Brothers.
In the field of history, the
society will publish a two-volume
work compiled by Franz Kobler
titled "A Trea sury of Jewish Let-
ters," co-pul 'led with the East
and West L..3.- nary. Also, the list
will include "Personalities and
Events in Jewish History" by the
noted Jewish historian, Cecil
Roth.
A volume portraying the fun-
damental sociological problem
facing Israel will be titled "Israel
BetWeen East • and West," by
Raphael Patai.
To carry on a series which be-
gan in 1899, the Society and the
American Jewish Committee will
publish the 55th volume of "The
American Jewish Year Book,
which will include extensive in-
formation on Jewish life the
world over during the year 1953.
The society also will publish
a bibliography of its publica -
tions from its beginning to 1952.

Taking an active part in the formation of the Detroit Chapter
of the Israeli Medical Association at a meeting in the Sheraton
Cadillac Hotel were: Drs. I. Jerome Sobel, national board member
from Passaic, N.J.; Joseph E. Waddington, honorary member from
Detroit; Bernard Weston, Detroit chairman; Noah E. Aronstam,
honorary member; Bernard Lieberman, Detroit co-chairman; and
, Manuel M. Glazier, national secretary from Boston, Mass. Twenty-
two new members were admitted at the meeting, which sought to
establish a strong group here to assist physicians in Israel.

Technion President
Arrives in the U.S.

General Yaacov Dori, hero of
Israel's War of Liberation, first
Chief of Staff of its Defense

Rabbi Irving Miller Calls Upon Local
Zionists to Revitalize the Movement

Rabbi Irving Miller, president
of the Zionist Organization of
America, in a stirring address
Monday evening, at Temple Is-
rael, told members of the Zion-
ist Organization of Detroit that
"Zionism is the will to live, the
continuity of Jewish existence,
the highest form of Jewish
unity."
Pleading for a strong partner-
ship between Israel and Ameri-
can Jewry, the ZOA president
declared:
"Israel needs us desperately
today—politically, economically,
culturally; and we need Israel
because I cannot conceive a cre-
ative American Jewry without
Israel."
Cautioning the audience that
Jews have fore t.'- ;.n many stock
words such as "protests"-be-
cause with• tile esLabl;siiiient of
Israel it has become less neces-
sary to protest in an atmosphere
of • creative reconstruction ef-
forts—Rabbi Miller •said: "Now,
ins :earl of visa s we have the
`law of return,' instead of the
Golah we have Eretz, instead of
dispersion we have concentra-
tion." •
"Without Israel," he said, "we

still would have to protest and
to carry on a fight against a
mandatory power. Above all,
without Israel we could not have
released our creative efforts."
He urged that Zionism should
again be turned into a revolu-
tionary movement. "Zionism,"
he added, "is not a charity, or
a big brother of fair weather
frien-ls for Israel. It is a chal-
lenge to indifference, smugness
an con -- ---ancy."
At a dinner meeting preced-
ing the Temple Israel rally, at
Mayfair, Rabbi Miller, to in-
dicate that Israel also will
need American Jewry's cultiir-.
al aid, reported that Prime
Minister Ben-. Gurion told him:
"We will even need from you•
Hebrew teachers."
Rabbi Moses Lehrman, chair
man of the ZOD program coma
mittee, presided at the meeting.

Dr. Goldmann in Havana
,HAVANA, (JTA)—Dr. Nahum
Goldmann, chairman of the
Jewish Agency executive, has
arrived here in connection with
the proclamation of the United
Israel Campaign for 1953.

Between You and Me

By BORIS SMOLAR

(Copyright, 1952, Jewish Telegraphic AgenCY, Inc.)

Washington Notes:

There is much talk in Washington about the intention of the

U. S. Government to conclude an arms agreement with Egypt

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GEN. YAACOV DORI

Forces and now president of. the
Technion, ' Israel's Institute of
Technology, arrived in the
United States on Jan. 14 for a
three-month visit, Col. J. R, El-
yachar, president of the Ameri-
can Technion SOciet y, an-
nounced.
The 53-year-old Israeli soldier
and engineer, known as the
"Eisenhower of Israel," w ill
confer with U. S. education and
scientific leaders and tour the
country under the auspices of
the American Technion Society,
which supports the 40-year-old
Haifa university. lie is expected
to address large audiences in key
centers on behalf of the $20,-
000,000 drive being conducted
here and in Israel to rebuild the
Technion on a new campus site.
The new facilities will enable
the Institute to graduate an-
nually a• minimum of 600 engi 7
neers and architects who are
needed for the country's indus-
trial and agricultural expan-
sion.

Some people are under the impression that the agreement would
have been concluded already if not for the timely protests from
Israel . .. It is obvious that Israel will have to be 'Constantly on
the alert in Washington, especially since Premier *Naguib, Egypt's
"strong man," is hankering for an invitation to visit Washington
. .. The key to the situation will probably be in the hands of
President Eisenhower when he enters the White House on Jan.
20 . . . Those who oppose the idea of America's supplying heavy
arms and aircraft to Egypt point out that, for purposes of internal
security, Egypt has in the past several years obtained arms from
different sources, including the United States ... It - has also
established some armament plants of its own, purchased mainly
from Germany . . . It is now receiving jet planes from Britain
. . . They argue that the delivery of heavy arms to Egypt by the
United States would be interpreted as strengthening Egypt against
. And they stress the fact that last February Israel
ISrael
applied to the U. S. Government for military aid grant, but that
these Americans are not satisfied with merely criticizing Israel
feeling that prevailed in Washington in the early days of Gen.
Naguib's regime that his regime might refrain from hostility to-
wards Israel, has dissipated . . . Evidence to the _contrary is no
noticed by American observers of the Middle East situation .
The lead which Egypt is taking in demanding that the Bonn
goVernment should not honor its reparations agreement with
Israel is considered conclusive proof that the new Egyptian
regime has no intention. of accepting the offer of peace and
friendship extended by Israel's Premier David Ben-Gurion.

The Domestic Scene

•

The American Jewish Committee and the American Zionist
Council are cooperating in an attempt to limit . the possibilities of
anti-Semitic propaganda related to Israel conducted in the United
States by Americans returning from Arab countries . .. Some of
these Americans are not satisfied with merely cri•izing Israel
when addressing audiences in this country; but are making state-
ments injurious to the reputation of American Jewry . Espe-
cial conspicuous in this field is Dr. Howard Thomas Wood of
Meinphis, Tenn., a minister who has great influence among 1,800
congregations of the Church of God .. . It has also bean estab-
lished that a number of professors at Yale University are publicly
sponsoring the Arab point of view on Israel affairs .... Jewish
leaders have been. alerted to the fact that anti-Israel sentiment
has been developing in Connecticut communities as a result of
the drive for clothing by Middle East relief groups and the Council
of ChurcheS.

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