B. G. R. Says ' 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 GOODMAN'S 401 North Shore Dr. South Haven, Mich. 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I wish we had a picture of his mother and fa- ther." Another correspondent, an ex- GI, who previously ha t e d and hounded Jews everywhere, now wants to devote his life to bring :- ing about better understanding and better treatment of them. The Catholic mother whose son married a Jewish girl and who asks for a picture of Cohn's mother and father, is readily obliged by the Chicago Tribune, which, in the article taking up several columns presents a pic- ture of Appellate Court Justice Albert Cohn and Mrs. Cohn, who were formerly active in public affairs in the Bronx and now reside on Park Avenue. Judge Cohn has been active in Bnai Brith and other Jewish or- ganizations, and Mr. Edwards in the article does full justice to an outstanding family. The family background would have become even more interest- ing and romantic if the Chicago reporter knew, as the present writer does, Roy Cohn's grand- father, the late John S. Marcus, a merchant on the lower East Side for many years, and later associated with a bank Uptown Marcus was interested in Zion- 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- goshes ,in his column in The Day discussed the attitude of an eccentric Jew by the name of Alfred Kohlberg and his con- tinued defense of Senator Mc- Carthy. Kohlberg's latest pro- nouncements gave some fantas- tic impressions of how Europe 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. Regardless of his distinctive talents and his legal and politi- cal achievements, Roy Cohn has by his involvement in such a center of controversy, become something of a problem child of American Jewry. His ultimate course naturally depends upon the solution of the problem of McCarthyism. —Bernard G. 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