Eisenhower Acclaims Jewish Publishers as
Zealous Guards of Civil, Political Rights'
AT THE WHITE HOUSE PRESENTATION: Left to right: Seated: SAMUEL NEUSNER, Mr. and
Mrs. PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Governor SHERMAN ADAMS (holding the Bible presented to President
Eisenhower), J. I. FISHBEIN, FRED SHOCHET, HELMUT LORSCH, Mrs. ELIAS R. JACOBS; stand-
ing: DAVID HOROWITZ, BERT KLINE, Mr. and Mrs. M. MILTON SINGER, SAMUEL SCHMIDT,
ABRAHAM SLABOT, Mrs. FISHBEIN, ELIAS JACOBS, MELVIN FRIEDMAN, ADOLPH ROSEN-
BERG, MORRIS JANOFF, Mrs. ALBERT GOLOMB, Miss BARBARA SCHWARTZ, JULES MILLER,
ALBERT GOLOMB.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Mem-
bers of the American Association
of English-Jewish Newspapers
were cited at the association's
annual convention here by
President Eisenhower as mem-
bers of a group which "zealously
guards the civil, political and re-
ligious rights of our people."
This followed the adoption of
resolutions and action by the
association making known that
the Jewish publishers are back-
ing efforts to oppose political
extremists who are attacking
President Eisenhower and other
members of the Executive De-
partment in an effort to inject
anti-Semitism into national is-
sues.
Fred Shochet, publisher of
the Jewish Floridian, Miami,
elected president of the asso-
ciation. He succeeds Philip
Slomovitz, editor of the Jewish
News, Detroit, who has served
since the association's found-
ing, 11 years ago, but who de-
clined when an attempt was
made to nominate him this
year.
Others elected include Jack
Fishbein, Chicago, Leo H. Frisch,
Minneapolis, and Albert W. Go-
lomb, Pittsburgh, vice-presidents;
A. Slabot, New Orleans, treas-
urer; Adolph Rosenberg, Atlan-
ta, and Mrs. M. Milton Singer,
Atlantic City, secretaries.
The association expanded
plans for an improved AJP press
service and announced the em-
ployment of David Horowitz,
New York, UN correspondent. A
letter discussing questions in-
volving Jewish weeklies from a
viewpoint of editorial and c6m-
munity service was addressed to
the convention by Bnai Brith
President Philip Klutznick.
. A resolution adopted by the
association expressed a "sense
of appreciation for the work
of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency and for the vast im-
provements shown in the JTA
service in the past year."
A delegation representing the
association was received at the
White House by Presidential As-
sistant Sherman Adams who ac-
cepted on behalf of President
Eisenhower the presentation of
an inscribed Bible. The delega-
tion was led by the association's
retiring president, Philip Slomo-
vitz, and Mrs. Slomovitz; Mr.
and Mrs. Golomb; Jules D. Mil-
ler, Philadelphia; Mr. and Mrs.
Eli R. Jacobs, Buffalo; Samuel
Neusner and Melvin Friedman,
Hartford; Samuel M. Schmidt,
Cintinnati; A. Slabot; Bert F.
Kline, Baltimore; Morris J. Jan-
off, Jersey City; Adolph Rosen-
berg; Fred Shochet; Mr. and
Mrs. Fishbein, Barbara Schwartz,
and Helmut Lorsch; Chicago;
Mr. and Mrs. Milton M. Singer,
and David Horowitz.
A highlight of the conven-
tion was an address by Max-
well D. Rabb, President Eisen-
hower's Cabinet Operation Of-
ficer. Rabb traced the back-
ground of behind the scenes
developments in the field of
civil rights, American-Israel
relations and related matters.
Other speakers included Y.
Harry Levin, Counsellor of the
Embassy of Israel, Congress-
man Sidney Yates, of Chicago,
and I. L. Kenen, Washington
representative of the Ameri-
can Zionist Committee for
Public Affairs.
Wide public attention was at-
tracted by a resolution adopted
by the convention calling on
Congress to revoke second class
mailing privileges from those
who use the mails to distribute
anti-Semitic literature. It was
noted that legislation is now be-
fore Congress to bar subversive
propaganda but that the pro-
posed law would only affect
Communist matter. Other reso-
lutions adopted pertained to the
question of American arms
grants to Iraq and the reaffir-
mation of Jewish links with Is-
rael.
Those who met with the asso-
ciation included Simon Sobeloff,
Solicitor General of the United
States; Dr. Arthur Burns, chair-
man of the President's Council
of Economic Advisers; Maxwell
M. Rabb, Cabinet Operations Of-
fice and Associate Counsel to the
President; Charles M. Metzner,
executive assistant to the Attor-
ney General; I. Jack Martin, ad-
ministrative assistant to the
President; Rep. Jacob K. Javits;
S. Rothman, solicitor to the
Labor Department; Samuel
Golan, International Boundaries
Coinmission; Julius N. Cahn,
counsel of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee; Bernard
Katzen, consultant to the Re-
publican National Committee;
Beinish Epstein, Republican Na-
tional Committee publicity staff,
and Maurice Friedman, a mem-
ber of the Republican National
Committee.
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The text of the resolution on
religious bias and irresponsible
allegations against President
Eisenhower reads:
Whereas, the American Association of
English-Jewish Newspapers, representing
publications serving more than 5,000,000
Americans of the Jewish faith, is con-
cerned with maintaining the traditional
freedoms of America from subversive
attacks by left-wing and right-wing ex-
tremists; and
Whereas, the Congress of the United
States has recently begun action on
legislation to revoke second-class mailing
privileges from those who exploit such
privileges by disseminating subversive
Communist literature which seeks to
divide and destroy the American people;
and
Whereas little has been done about the
alarming increase in extreme right-wing
subversive literature which not only seeks
to divide the American people through
totalitarian appeals to religious and racial
bigotry but which actually aims at the
overthrow of our cherished form of
Government; and
Whereas, this extreme right-wing prop-
aganda cunningly and insidiously mas-
querades in a guise of anti-Communism
to hurl baseless accusations of "treason"
against responsible officials, thus divid-
ing and weakening the United States; and
Whereas it is alien to American tradi-
tion to inject religious prejudice into
political controversy and since dema-
gogues have shown an inclination to
appeal to prejudice rather than reason
in an effort to distort issues while cloak-
ing themselves in the camouflage of
patriotism when making irresponsible
allegations of subversion against even
President Eisenhower, the U.S. Army,
and those national leaders who have
done so much to defend this nation
from totalitarianism; and
Whereas information from Congress
indicates that in the last two weeks in-
coming mail has shown an increase in
anti-Semitic printed tracts and propa-
ganda pamphlets attacking the Executive
Branch of the Government in an attempt
to confuse current controversies by ap-
peals to religious prejudice which range
from extreme subtlety to extrme crudity;
and
Whereas such a striking similarity
exists between subversives of the right
and left with both elements seeking to
appeal to prejudice and the very basest
instincts in mankind; therefore be it
RESOLVED, that we call on the Con-
gress to carefully preserve freedom of
speech and of the press but act to
prevent the destruction of these and
other freedoms by the right-wing ex-
tremeists who are exploiting the second-
class mailing privileges along with their
Communist counterparts in an organized
and treacherous campaign to effect the
sort of division of America about which
President Eisenhower expressed concern
to our fellow publishers.
RESOLVED, that while our Association
and its member newspapers inform pub-
lic opinion of the Communist menace,
an undertaking which is so essential for
the defense of freedom, that we also
pay close attention to other conspiracies
which so deceitfully disguise themselves
behind the mask of patriotism and which
have not yet been adequately exposed to
public scrutiny.
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In behalf of the delegation
which met at the White House
Friday afternoon with Governor
Sherman Adams, Mr. Slomovitz
presented a specially-bound
Jewish Publication Society Bible
to President Eisenhower through
Mr. Adams.
Mr. Slomovitz asked Governor
Adams to convey to the Presi-
dent the publishers' concern
that American-Israel friendship
should be strengthened and ex-
pressed the hope that the Presi-
dent will be successful in efforts
to secure a peaceful solution of
the Middle East problem.
The greeting inscribed in the
Bible with the names of the
delegation that accompanied Mr.
Slomovitz to the White House
reads:
"To our President whom we
humbly greet on the occasion
of the eleventh national con-
vention of the American Asso-
ciation of English - Jewish
Newspapers in our nation's
capital. We pray that your
hands be upheld in your quest
for peace. In your selection of
good men with whom you
share the tasks of carrying out
your high ideals, your prayers
and our prayers are justly em-
bodied in the 6th verse of the
101st Psalm and in the 21st
verse of the Book of Exodus.
We greet you with the Hebrew
salutation, 'shalom' (peace)."
The cited passages are: Exo-
dus 18:21 "Thou shalt provide
out of all the people able men,
such as fear God, men of
truth, hating unjust gain . . ."
Psalm 101:6 "Mine eyes are
upon the faithful of the land,
that they shall dwell withAne;
He that walketh in a way of
integrity, he shall minister
unto me."
Governor Adams presented to
the delegations the following
message from the President:
TO REPRESENTATIVES OF
THE AMERICAN ASSOCIA-
TION OF ENGLISH-JEWISH
NEWSPAPERS:
To each of you go my cordial
greetings, with the confidence
that together you will continue
dedication to the cause of lib-
erty and justice; and to the
advancement of public en-
lightenment by accurate and
objective presentation of the
news.
Bond Organization Completes
Arrangements for Eban Dinner
Phillip Stollman, chairman of
the Detroit Israel Bond Commit-
tee, announced this week that
arrangements have been com-
pleted for the dinner in celebra-
tion of Israel's sixth anniversary,
to be. held June 2, at Hotel Stat-
ler, with Israel Ambassador Abba
Eban as guest speaker.
This Founders' Dinner for
Guardians of Israel also will
mark the official launching in ,
Detroit of the second Israel bond'
drive—for the sale of the Devel-
opment Issue.
Ambassador Eban, who serves
as his country's permanent rep-
resentative to the United Na-
tions, was educated in England
and was graduated from Cam-
bridge with high honors. He
was appointed to Pembroke Col-
lege as a lecturer in Arabic, Per-
sian and Hebrew literature, and
later went to Palestine as liaison
between Allied Headquarters and
the Jewish community. After a
brief assignment in Jerusalem
as Chief Instructor of the Mid-
dle East Center of Arabic Studies.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann invited
him to join the Jewish Agency
for Palestine, where he worked
in the field of Arab-Jewish re-
lations.
HON. ABBA EBAN
Admission to the dinner, the
purchase of a $1,000 Develop-
ment Bond, will provide auto-
matic admission to the organiza-
tion known as the "Guardians
cat Israel," a name derived from
the Hebraic "Shomrim" (Guardi-
ans), the corps of men who pro-
tected the first settlements dur-
ing Palestine's reconstruction.
Carlson Speaks in Behalf
Of Bonds at Parlor Meeting
At a parlor meeting at the
home of Mr .and Mrs. Samuel
Feldstein on Northlawn. Ave.,
Tuesday night,
John Roy Carl-
son, eminent
author, exposer
of Nazis-Fascist
activities and of
Arab machina-
tions, made a
strong plea for
the Israel bond
drive. He urged
the strengthen-
ing of Israel as
means of assur-
ing the security
of Israel as the
Carlson
only real democracy in that
area. At that meeting, $22,000
worth of Israel Development
Bonds were sold in amounts of
$1,000 . to $10,000.
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Drives in 90 Cities
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Leaders
of 90 major communities in the
United States were linked by
telephone conference May 16
with headquarters of the Israel
Bond Organization where they
were addressed by Henry Mor-
genthau, chairman of the Inter-
national Committee for Israel
Bonds., Joseph Saphir, Israel
Minister of Communications,
and Henry Montor, executive
officer of the bond organization.
The telephone conference
marked official inauguration of
the bond drive and celebrated
the sixth anniversary of Israel's
independence.
Israeli Parliament Official to Speak
At Bond Women's Luncheon
George Flesch, member of the
Foreign Affairs Committee of
the Israel Knesset, who was one
of the leaders in Israel's War of
Liberation, will speak at a
luncheon honoring National
Sponsors of the new Israel De-
velopment Bond Issue, May 26,
at Knollwood Country Club, it
was announced this week by De-
troit Women's Division leaders.
The luncheon, being given by
Mrs. Theodore Bargman, chair-
man of the Women's Division
I am deeply conscious of
your vital role in our Republic,
so magnificently expressed by
Thomas Jefferson's remark,
"When the press is free and
every man able to read, all is
safe." To you—able and earn-
est participants in a profes-
sion which zealously guards
the civil, political and religious
rights of our people—go my
personal compliments, my good
wishes and my deep respect. I
wish I could have/stated these
sentiments to you in person
during your Washington stay.
DWIGHT EISENHOWER.
The convention sessions, held
at the Willard Hotel, concluded
with a banquet Saturday night.
Mr. Levin speaking for the Is-
rael Embassy, reiterated the
hopes of Israelis that American-
Israel friendship will be
strengthened and continued.
Congressman Yates told of the
efforts that continue to be made
to prevent the arming of Arab
states at Israel's expense.
Mr. Kenen outlined the efforts
that are being made by the new
Zionist Committee on Public Re-
lations to keep Americans in-
formed on true conditions in Is-
rael and to help retain U. S.
friendship for Israel.
Mr. Slomovitz, who was toast-
master, turned over the presi-
dency to Mr. Shochet at the
convention banquet.
24—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 21, 1954
will serve to in-
; augurate t h e
Development Is-
I sue to Detroit
women.
A native of
Hungary and
educated in Vi-
enna, Mr. Flesch
in 1946-47 was a
member of the
Jewish National
Assembly, which
elected members George Flesch
to the Vaad Leumi, forerunner
of the Knesset. With the crea-
tion of the State of .Israel, he
renewed his political activity. He
was elected to the Knesset in
1951.
One of the world's foremost
water polo champions, Mr.
Flesch competed in Olympic
swimming meets- and was cap-
tain of Israeli _water polo teams
in world competition from 1933-
50. He is also a member of the
Olympic Committee and organ-
izer of the World Maccabi
Games.
The purchase of a $1,000 Israel
Development Bond entitles any
woman to membership in the
National Sponsors. Each spon-
sor will be honored by Ambas-
sador Abba Eban with the pres-
entation of the National Spon-
sors Pin during the Founders
Dinner in commemoration of
Israel's sixth anniversary at
the Statler Hotel, June 2.
Women Spur Bond Drive
The Women's Division of the
Israel Bond Drive in Detroit is
making rapid progress in efforts
to spur the bond
sales. Assisting
Mrs. T h eodore
Bargman as
chairman of the
Women's Divi-
sion are her co-
chairmen, Mes-
dames Joseph
Katchke, Harry
Kay and Milton
Mrs. Katchke