Ferguson Joins

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U.S. Senat • Leads Protest
Against USSR Persecution

(Copyright 1953, JTA, Inc.)

Throughout the free world
last week, governments and men
raised powerful voices against
the anti-Semitic campaign un-
leashed b y t h e Communist
rulers in the Soviet Empire be-
hind the Iron Curtain.
T h e United States Senate
adopted a resolution condemn-
ing the "vicious and inhuman
campaigns" conducted by the
Soviet government and its pup-
pet regimes in satellite states
against racial and religious mi-
norities. The resolution noted
"the increasing persecution of
the people of the Jewish faith."
The resolution, which calls
for United Nations action, was
amended on motion of Sen.
Irving Ives of New York, to call
on the United Nations to adopt
a resolution specifically con-
demning the Soviet actions.
Sen. Alexander Wiley, chair-
man of the Senate Foreign Re-
lations Committee, who brought
the resolution to the Senate
floor after it had been unani-
mously approved by his com-
mittee, briefly reviewed the
transformation of the resolu-
tion from what had orginally
been a condemnation of Com-
munist anti-Semitism into a
condemnation of Soviet persecu-
tion of all minorities. He refer-
red to the Prague trials, the
Moscow attack on Jewish doc-
4ors and the events culminating
in the Soviet rupture of diplo-
matic relations with Israel.

The Soviet attack on the
Jews, he said, was part of a
policy of persecution of all
minorities, Sen. Wiley said.
These persecutions, he charg-
ed, were aimed at all peoples
who stood for human rights.
"No religion is safe when
one is in danger," he declared.
"A despotism that will attack
one group today will attack
another group tomorrow." He
described the Soviet campaign
against minorities as "geno-
cide."
In discussing the Soviet-
Israeli break, Sen. Wiley said
it was not beyond belief that
the bombing of the Soviet Le-
gation in Tel Aviv—the imme-
diate pretext for the Soviet
break—was the work of Com-
wurusts.
In one of the speeches de-

lacks a belief in the spiritual
values, a belief in human
progress, in freedom and in
the dignity of the human be-
ing. The Soviets believe that
the state is supreme, and that
the human being amounts to
nothing at all. In other words,
he is to be dealt with by the
state as the state deems best.
"We must remember the di-
vine rights of the people—not
the divine right of the king,
who represents the state; not
the divine( right of the Soviet
Union. If the peoples of the
world will recognize the divine
rights of the people, then
there will be safeguarded the
spiritual values which are the
basis of human progress and
human freedom."

The United Nations General
Assembly was given a foretaste
of what to expect when Com-
munist treatment of the Jews
come up for discussion in its
a g e n d a. Ambassador Henry
Cabot Lodge Jr., making his
initial speech to the Assembly
as head of the American delega-
tion, minced no words in his
comment on Communist racial
and religious persecution.

(See Editorial, Page Four)

The upper house of the Colo-
rado Legislature unanimously
adopted a 'resolution calling on
President Eisenhower, Congress
and the State Department to
"condemn publicly the persecu-
tion and brutal treatment of
Jews living behind the Iron
Curtain."

Last week, Israel Ambassa-
dor Abba Eban addressed both
houses of the Colorado Legis-
lature. His address was greet-
ed with tremendous ovation.

In Istanbul, political aides saw
the Soviet anti-Israel campaign
as a move to attract the Arab
states into the Communist camp
and to prevent creation of a
Middle East command. These
circles, however, are confident
that the USSR will fail in this
maneuver.
Turkish government circles
are sympathetic to Israel in the
current situation, and feel that
Turkey and Israel are united in
a common cause in that both
are concerned about Soviet de-
signs in the Middle East. The
Turks also feel that - Moscow's
campaign should convince all
livered during the debate in Middle East countries including
support of the resolution, Sena- the Arab states, of the necessity
tor Homer Ferguson of Michigan for immediate organization of a
declared:
Middle East defense set-up.
"The Soviet Communists are
The Voice of America reported
not only against minorities; mass meetings protesting the
they are even against the ma- Communist drive and the pic-
jority of the people of Russia. keting of Soviet offices in New
When we see that people are York. These demonstrations are
compelled to flee Soviet ill not "mere negative protests
treatment, persecutions, and against Stalin's copying of Hit-
even death, we realize that we ler," the broadcasts said. "They
must condemn such actions in are also proof that Americans
no uncertain words.
believe in the essential dignity
"1 am particularly glad that of the individual, and in the
certain language has been in- right of every human being to
serted in the resolution which live in a society free of fear and
goes to the crux of the situa- oppression."

tion, and should receive major
consideration. The resolution
says that the persecutions
`deserve the strongest con-
demnation by all peoples who
believe that spiritual values
are the bases of human prog-
ress and freedom.'
"That is the thing which
the Soviet philosophy lacks. It

In Chicago, Adlai Stevenson
told the Decalogue Society
that th _ e Soviet Union's anti-
Jewish policy does not arise
from feelings of insecurity but
from its interest in the old
lands of the Arab states of the
Middle East.

mnation. of Anti-Semitism

the Jews, one sour . note was
struck in the Western World
when a member of the Bevanite,
leftwing faction of the British
Labor Party sought to spike a
resolution pending in the House
of Commons condemning anti-
Semitism behind the Iron Cur-
tain.
S. 0. Davies introduced an
amendment to the resolution
which would place the House on
record as deploring the "un-
founded charges" against the
Soviet Union and the "people's
democracies" and asserting that
such charges had been "em-
phatically repudiated" by rep-
resentative Jews in the USSR,
including the Chief Rabbi of
Moscow."
New Soviet anti-Jewish
charges included some originat-
ing with Izvestia, accusing Hen-
ry Morgenthau, Jr., Rep. Eman-.
uel Celler and Rep. Jacob Javits
of having conspired to work out
plans to make Israel the major
anti-Communist stronghold of
the United States in the Middle
East.
An indication of the strategy
to be pursued by Israel in deal-1
ing with the Communist anti-1
Semitism issue in the United
Nations was given when Am-
bassador Eban unex p e c t e d l y
voted with the Soviet bloc to
place a Polish proposal on
"measures to implement peace"
third on the Political Commit-
tee agenda. The motion failed.
Speaking in New York, Harry
Zinder, members of the Israel
delegation, said that Israel
would present its case against
anti-Semitism in Soviet Russia
and its satellite nations before
the General Assembly the "sec-
ond week in March."

Even the anti-Zionist Amer-
ican Council for Judaism has
been stirred to make a formal
statement. Its president, Les-
sing Rosenwald, stated in New
York that the Soviet cam-
paign, although labeled "anti-
Zionist,!' can have serious
anti-Semitic repercussions in
Eastern Europe because of the
historic, latent anti-Semitism
in that part of the world.

A dispatch from Munich re-
ported in the London Observer
indicates that Jews in the Sov-
iet Union have been considered
a "security risk" by the Krem-
lin since 1950, and measures to
remove them from strategic in-
dustrial centers have been car-
ried out in quiet since that time.
Based on testimony of refu-
gees who escaped from the Iron
Curtain, the report collated by
Radio Free Europe—says that
tens of thousands of surviving
Jews in Communist countries
"are threatened by a policy of
deportation."
It is estimated that about
30,000 Jews were deported to the
Biro-Bidjan region in 1950-51,
including many from former
Polish territory, Bessarabia and
the Baltic countries. They are
not treated as prisoners, but are
forbidden to leave the area.

Meanwhile, it was reported
from New York, a group of
leaders from 38 countries rep-
resenting 7,500,000 Jews, will
participate in a three-day
Jewish EMergency Confer-
ence, called by the Jewish
Agency for • Tuesday, at Zu-
rich, Switzerland.

Measures will be planned to
alleviate the plight of Jews
trapped in countries behind the
As Moscow continued to Iron Curtain. Invitations to the
broadcast attacks on Israel and conference have been accepted
from the following countries:
Algeria, Argentina, Austria,
Brazil, Canada, Columbia, Cuba,
France, Great Britain, Holland,
Italy, Luxemburg, Morocco, Nor-
way, Portugal, Rhodesia, Switz-
erland, Tunisia, United States
and Yugoslavia..

Arrange Sunday's Carnival-Dance

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The Jewish Center post-Purim carnival and da ' ace, sponsored
by the Teen-Age Council of the Dexter-Davison Center, will be
held 3;30 to 8 p.m. Sunday. On the committee, left to right:
ELAINE WEINER, tickets; ESTELLE EPSTEIN, supervisor, teen
activities; BETSY WILSON, publicity; SHIRLEY KATZ and DAVID 20—THE JEWISH NEWS

RUBEN, decorations,

Friday, March 6, 1953

Shaarey Zedek to Break Ground
Sunday for New School Branch

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Shaarey Zedek New School Branch

Charles Rubiner, president of
Congregation Shaarey Zedek,
announces the groundbreaking
for its new branch school will
take place Sunday at 2:30 p.m.,
at Lesure, two blocks west of
Schaefer, and Seven Mile Road.
Contracts have been awarded to
the Shefman Construction Co.,
for architectural work; Thermal
Engineering for heating and
v e n t i l a t i n g; Phillip Goren,
plumbing; G & R Electric Co.,
electrical work. Alex Kohner is
the architect.
Construction will commence
immediately, and the school will
be ready for use with the open-
ing of the fall season in Sep-
tember. The school will consist
of five . classrooms, two nursery
rooms, offices and an arts and

crafts room. It will be used
primarily for the younger child-
. ren in • the afternoon Hebrew
department of its religious edu-
cational system.
I The building committee con-
sists of Hyman Safran, chair-
', man; Arthur Fleischman, Hy-
' man A. Keidan, Daniel Mendel-
; sohn, Abraham Satovsky, Dr.
Leonard Sidlow, Bert Smokier
! and Samuel B. Solomon. Mr.
Mendelsohn headed the sub -
c ommit t e e on construction
planning.
Members and friends are ins
vited to the brief ceremony of
groundbreaking on Sunday. Dr.
' A. M. Hershman is rabbi emeri-
tus of the congregation, and
Rabbi Morris Adler is its spirit-
' ual leader.

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Change in Election Laws Asked for
Absentee Balloting During Passover

The Jewish Community Coun-
cil has requested a change in
the state election laws to permit
absentee voting on the basis of
religious observance.
This most recent action by the
Council follows similar action
which was taken in 1950 when
the date of a primary election
coincided with Rosh Hashana.
At that time an amendment to
the state election laws was se-
cured which permitted the use
of the absentee ballot for per-
sons who were unable to vote
because of their religious con-
victions. The amendment to the
law in 1950 was made valid only
for that calendar year.
There had been no conflict

with the Jewish religious calen-
dar since that time and until
this year when the city election
date of April 6 coincides with
the seventh day of Passover
The Council has asked for the
removal of the limiting_ phrase
"for the calendar year 1950'
from the present state law
which defines reasons for ab-
sentee balloting.
The Council request following
consideration of the problem by
its internal and community re-
lations committees and its ex-
ecutive 'committee, was directed
to the majoefty and minority
leaders of the le g islature be-
cause of th non-partisan char-
acter of the appeal.

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Chance to Reply to Anti-Jewish
Talk Demanded of EConomic Club

Continued from Page 1

He proceeded to say that of the $145,000,000 asked of
American Jewry by the UJA this year, $130,000,000 is to
go to Israel, and while he added that "drives for Israel are
not so successful," he left the impression that the $145,-
000,000 is in the bag—as a weapon against the Arabs.
An additional shock came when, while referring to the
rich harvests of American Jewry's drives for Israel, Mr.
Weller made a comparison, incitable prejudice, by stat-
ing that while the UJA is campaigning for $145,000,000,
less than this amount is requested by the combined $92,-
000,000 Red Cross and $41,000,000 March of Dimes cam-
paign.
To top it off, Mr. Weller made the charge that the
Export and Import Bank, in extending a loan to Israel,
whose "imports exceed exports by a ratio of nine to one,"
is unbusinesslike. He called the Export-Import bank's
friendship for Israel "looseness," and accused its man-
agers of being "in politics rather than acting as a hard-
boiled business" organization. He admitted that Israel
WAS repaying the $135,000,000 loan granted the Jewish
state by the Export-Import Bank.
He repeatedly referred to the "destitute" Arabs, and
made one gratuitous reference by paying "honor to the
Israelis who try to take care of Jewish immigrants."
His explanations of Russia's anti-Semitism sounded
shallow after his own anti-Jewish outbursts. Even in this
area, he made it a point to refer, time and again, to "Jew-
ish Communists," never failing to indicate which Commu-
nist leader is Jewish, without indicating that he had the
slightest knoWledge that the Jewish Communists were
themselves purged and that they were themselves among
the leaders against Zionism and Jewish cultural aspirations.
Allen B. Crow, president of the Economic Club, is
being bombarded with demands that he provide an op-
portunity for a Jewish spokesman to reply to Mr. Weller
and to present the true facts to an unsuspecting audi-
ence that has been misled by misrepresentations.
Leaders in the Detroit Round. Table, who were asked
to recommend a group of Jews 'to sit at the speaker's table
at Mr. Weller's address, were apologetic and expressed re-
gret that they should have been misled into cooperating
with the venture at which outrageous attacks were made
on American Jews.

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