ADL Placed on Congress "Blacklist"
6—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 28, 1954
As 'Subversive Influence' on Children
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright, 1954, JTA, Inc.'
WASHINGTON — T h e Anti-
Defamation League • of Bnai
Brith has been named among
groups accused by a Congres-
sional Committee of promoting
s u b v e r s i v e indoctrination of
school children.
Norman Dodd is staff research
director of the House of Repre-
sentatives Special Committee to
Investigate Tax-Exempt Foun-
dations. In a published Com-
mittee report, Dodd alleged that
the ADL is a part of a small
group attempting to control
education throughout the na-
tion.
It was charged that the ADL,
along with the Progressive Edu-
cation Association, the Ameri-
can Historical Association, the
League for Industrial Democra-
cy, and the John Dewey Society
appeared to have managed the
promotion of "an educational
curriculum designed to indoc-
trinate the American student
from matriculation to the con-
summation of his education."
This "indoctrination," said the
Committee report, "contrasts
sharply with the freedom of the
Individual as the cornerstone of
our social structure!'
Started by Rep. Cox
Rep. Adam C. Powell, Jr., New
York Democrat, warned that the
Committee would be empowered
to probe such organizations as
the Bnai Brith, National Asso-
ciation for the Advancement of
Colored People, World Council
of Churches, and other groups
which work for human rights ,.
The resolution establishing the
Committee was submitted by the
late Rep. E. Eugene Cox of
Georgia. Associated with Cox in
the campaign to create the Com-
mittee was John Rankin, then
a member of Congress repre-
senting Mississippi. Opponents
of the measure vainly protested
that adequate investigative
bodies already existed. But the
Cox resolution was passed by a
vote of 193 to 158.
Cox named the "suspect or-
ganizations" to include the Ro-
senwald, Guggenheim, Rockefel-
ler, Sloan, and Carnegie Foun-
dations. Powell asked for 'assur-
ances that "the minorities will
not be trampled upon" and
whether the probe would be used
to smear Jewish organizations
including the Bnai Brith.
T h e Committee functioned
originally under the chairman-
ship of Cox. After Cox's death
and the Republican electoral
victory of 1952, Rep. B. Carroll
Reece, a Tennessee Republican, .
emerged as chairman. Under
Reece's direction, Cox's plans
N:ere implemented.
insist on uniformity or strict
conformity, but rather as a tra-
dition of political unity which
allows for individual and group
indifferences." McCarthy said he
found it "frightening to con-
side: the realities of a pOlitical)
authority setting the pattern
and limit of intellectual and
moral development of its peo-
ple. Yet this is exactly what
the totalitarian state attempts."1
Chair for Hebrew of
Buenos Aires University
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA) The
formal inauguration of the
Chair for Hebrew Language and
Literature at Buenos Aires took
place at ceremonies at the Uni-
versity. A huge crowd witnessed
Chief Rabbi Amram Blum in-
stalled as the first Professor of
the chair.
—
AMSTERDAM, (JTA` — The
Netherlands government will
contribute t h e equivalent of
$112,000 and the city of Amster-
dam about $32,000 toward the
cost of rehabilitating the famed i
Sephardic Synagogue here.
The building, which wa7, con-
secrated in 1675 and is believed
to be the oldest synagogue still
standing in West Europe, is clas-
sified as a Netherlands national
monument.
.Dr. Henry Green, of 19717 Ros-
lyn, has been named president-
elect of the Detroit District Den-
tal Society, according to an an-
nouncement received this week
from the Society.
Dr. Green, a past president of
the Eastern (Detroit) Dental So-
ciety, is only the third Jewish
antist in 80 years to achieve
this distinction. His predecessors
were Dr. David Seligsohn and
the late Dr. Louis Braun.
A past president of Alpha
' Omega professional fraternity,
Dr. Green has served the Dis-
trict Society in numerous ca-
pacities during the past 20 years,
as treasurer, councilman and
chairman for several events.
Earlier this month, Mrs. Green
was elected president of the
Women's Auxiliary to the Mich-
igan State Dental Association.
Dr. Green will assume office in
April next year, while Mrs. Green
takes over the reins in May, 1955.
STATE OF MICHIGAN
Execnii•e Office 0 Lansing
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Opposition on Severil Fronts ,.,
One of those whO spoke out
against the creation of the Com-
mittee was Rep. Carl Elliott, of
Alabama. Elliott said that phi-
lanthropy and charity were sy-
nonymous "and with these two
terms there arises the concept .
of man's religion." Elliott was
troubled about the prospect that
the Committee would investigate
religious organizations and rule
on whether the expenditure "of
their resources are or are not in
the interest of the United
States."
Rep. -Leroy Johnson, of Cali-
fornia, said the Committee might
go considerably further than in-
vestigating "subversive activi-
ties" because it was also author-
ized to determine which things
were not in keeping with "tra-
dition." He asked: "Who is there
that by investigation can de-
velop the mold to which all of
us must conform to be in har-
mony with American traditions?"
A Minnesota Democrat, Rep.
Eugene McCarthy, said he un-
derstood the American "tradi-
tion" as one "which does not
Rehabilitate Famed Synagogue
Elect Dr. Henry Green To Head Dental Group
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