B. G. R. Says
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Chicago Tribune Adopts Roy M. Cohn
It is one of the frustrations of
Jewry that it should be praised
for what is least praiseworthy.
While the Central Conference of
American Rabbis in assembly at
Lake Tarelton, N.H., following
the lead of other Jeviish central
bodies, has denounced Senator
McCarthy—this time by name—
and the methods of investigation
for which he stands, Colonel
Robert McCormick's Chicago Tri-
bune, outstanding organ of the
twin cults of political reaction
and McCarthyism, has taken the
Junior Senator's chief counsel,
Roy M. Cohn, to its heart.
The paradox of it is that the
Tribune's long and friendly arti-
cle on the young attorney, pub-
lished on June 13, has been made
the means of revealing to the
public how Cohn's work in ex-
posing subversives and others ac-
cused of disloyalty has turned a
number of anti-Semites into re-
pentant admirers of the Jewish
people; this startling fact is
shown in a huge stack of letters
or "fan" mail received by Mr.
Cohn. The article on, or extens-
ive interview with the phenome-
nal counsel of the Senate investi-
gating subcommittee was called
`;13rash Young Man Grows Up:
Story of Cohn." The writer, Wil-
lard Edwards, introduces his sub-
ject in these words:
"Cohn was 26 in January, 1953
when he was asked by McCarthy
to take over the direction of the
senate permanent investigations
subcommittee of which McCar-
thy had just become chairman.
He is now 27 but he had ad-
vanced a decade in a year and
a half.
"Since he testified for seven
days before a television audience
of millions, Cohn has received
more than 7,000 telegrams and
letters. These communications
have been extraordinary because
they w e r e not the customary
congratulations or criticisms. A
unique feature of many missives
was their confession that Cohn's
words and appearance had help-
ed to destroy racial and religious
prejudice in the senders."
There follows an amazing ser-
ies of quotations from penitant
and recanting anti-Semites. Do
these addicts of racial hatred,
with confused and perverted
ideas—now retreating from their
folly — characterize part of the
McCarthy following? It is part
of the riddle.
Anyway, here is one of the let-
ters: "I am the mother of a son
who married a Jewish girl. As a
Catholic, I refused them to cross
my doorstep. Now I have heard
Roy Cohn and softened. Tonight
my son and his wife cross *my
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Side for many years, and later
associated with a bank Uptown
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ism and every other outstanding
Jewish cause, and through his
friendship with the late Joseph
Barondess and Rubin Brainin,
the Hebrew writer and editor,
gave considerable help to a He-
brew daily newspaper, which like
a number of other experiments
of this kind, struggled for a time
and then succumbed.
Describing his intellectual ca-
pacities and his early, r a ther
premature development, Mr. Ed-
wards tells the readers how the
father, Judge Cohn, warned his
son against too rapid advance-
ment,
The writer extols Mrs. Cohn's
devotion to her brilliant son, and
here, too, he might have added
a dramatic touch if he knew
what has so far escaped all no-
tice, that Mrs. Cohn recently re-
signed from a leading Conserva-
tive synagogue because in a dis-
cussion forum at the institution
some disparaging remarks were
made about her son.
While the article from the
Chicago Tribune was traveling
to New York, Dr. Samuel Mar-
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Day discussed the attitude of an
eccentric Jew by the name of
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tinued defense of Senator Mc-
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view e d McCarthy's activities,
claiming; at the same time, that
no one in Europe knew David
Schine or Roy Cohn to be Jewish.
Recognizing the circumstance
that McCarthy himself did not
seem anti-Semitic Dr. Margoshes
concluded that his association
with all reactionary forces in
America tended to encourage and
support all types of racial hatred.
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center of controversy, become
something of a problem child of
American Jewry. His ultimate
course naturally depends upon
the solution of the problem of
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