Jewish Future at Geneva

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zig-zag Jewish policy, went by unnoticed by the Russian Jewish
masses.
As late as 1951, in Kharkov, second city of the Ukraine, a
number of prominent Jewish members of the Communist Party,
including writers and editors, were accused of secret contacts
with the Israeli Legation in Moscow. Mass deportations of Jews
according to the familiar Soviet pattern began early in the sum-
mer of 1952. Many of the deportees were transported to Biro-
bidj an.
ThiS was confirmed by repatriated German Jews who cited
the presence of JewS in concentration and penal camps. Their
crime consisted in having registered for emigration to Israel. One
of the camps is the infamous installation of Vorkuta on the coast
of the Arctic Ocean.

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News leaked through the Iron Curtain that on March 5, 1953,
_more_ than 200 Jewish officers and soldiers of the Red Army were
executed in the slave labor camp known as "Amur 3" in Siberia.
The recent repatriation of German prisoners of war brought
more news. They reported 12,000 Jews in one camp alone living
in particularly wretched conditions and serving sentences of 10
to 25 years.
From such reports' it is apparent that some time before the
show trials of the "doctors - plot" a decision was reached to "wipe
out" certain Soviet areas and establishments of Jews. Later it
was decided to link Israel, Zionism and the "bourgeois Jewish
nationalists" in the USSR.
The real reason for the Soviet terror has never been clearly
established. There is good reason for believing that the Kremlin
was in the throes of internal conflict.

As a sign to the world that the Soviet Union is not anti-
Semitic but only "anti-Israel, anti-Zionist and anti-Jewish bour-
geois nationalist", the burial of Lev Mechlis, one of the very few
Jews in a prominent military Soviet post, who died on Feb. 13,
1953, was conducted with the maximum of pomp.
The trend suddenly stopped. Banner headlines throughout
the world screamed that Stalin was dead. His successor — Georgi
Malenkov.
Then, a startling disclosure,. a trickle of Jews were allowed
to leave the Soviet Union. There is no doubt that the number of
exit permits increased in the' first few months of his reign. And
it is evident that Malenkov pursued a new course in this respect
All the exit permits granted to those who arrived during the
months ending 1954 and beginning 1955 date from the Malenkov
period. It is corroborated by every single JeW who left the USSR.
The second Soviet bombshell: Nikita Khruschev, Secretary
General of the Soviet Communist Party, took over from Malenkov
in February.
Who is this man and what is his attitude towards Jews?
There have been quite a number of reports in the press indi-
'eating that Khruschev, as well as Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin,
have records showing them up as far from friendly towards Jews.
However, time has a habit of showing the true face of a leader. The
Geneva parley may reveal what Jews can expect from the new
leaders of Soviet Russia.

McGinley & Co. Active at Anti-Semitic
Polish National Home Rally- in N. J.

ELIZABETH, N. J. (JTA)—A
wide - variety of anti-Semitic
literature was distributed at a
meeting attended by about 125
persons = at the Polish National
Home here.
The meeting also heard ad-

Labor Zionists.
Name .New Board

'A new board of trustees has
been designated to head the
Labor Zionist Institute in order
to assure rapid construction of
the -organization's new building,
now being erected on Schaefer
and 7 Mile Rd.
The announcement, made by
Morris Schaver, president, stated
that the board would consist of
Norman Cottler, Philip Gold-
stein, Ben Harold, William Hor-
des, Chana Michlin,, Harry Mon-
dry, Larry Nichamin, Herbert
Pincus, Helen Posner, Oscar
Rappaport, William Schumer,
Julius M. Singer and David
Sislin.
Other _ officers who are spear-
heading the campaign to provide
full funds for the building's
completion are Benjamin Laikin,
Harry Schumer and Sidney M.
Shevitz, vice-presidents;• Morris
Lieberman, board chairman; Na-
than Linden, treasurer, and Ir-
ving Pokempner, secretary.
Four committees have also
been organized to facilitate the
progress of the building's con-
struction. They are the building,
campaign, finance and publicity
committees.
In order to assure the open-
ing of the building for classes
of the Farband Shul in the fall,
Harry Schumer, campaign chair-
man, urged members and friends
to send contributions to the
committee, Labor Zionist Or-
ganization, 3287 W. Davison.
When fully completed, the
building will provide meeting
rooms, an auditorium, workshop
areas, classrooms and other fa-
cilities for all organizations
comprising the Labor Zionist
Movement in Detroit.

24—D ETRO I T JEWISH NEWS

Friday, July 15, 1955

dresses by two nationally-known
anti-Semites, Kenneth Goff and
Conde McGinley, according to a
report in the Newark Jewish
News.

Goff, who was principal
speaker at the meeting, weight-
ed his remarks heavily in the
direction of anti-Semitism, but
primarily by inean's of implica-
tion and innuendo, rather than
by direct charges.

In general his talk tended to
"demonstrate" Jewish control of
the United States. He also said
that the alleged Communist con-
spiracy to rule the world could
be traced back to the Babylonian
Talmud.
McGinley's talk touched on his
lack of funds and on the libel
case brought against him by Rab-
bi Joachim Prinz, of Newark,
which ended in a $30,000 verdict
against McGinley.

McGinley denounced Supe-
rior Court Judge Howard
Ewart on the grounds that the
jurist gave him no opportunity
to prove his charges of Jewish
conspiracy. Subcriptions to Mc-
Ginley's publication, "Common
Sense," were sold, and funds to
aid him were raised.

The published material dis-
tributed at the meeting, accord-
ing to the newspaper account,
was more outspokenly anti-Sem-
itic than were the speeches. One
of the circulars, printed by "Com-
mon Sense," said that President
Eisenhower is "completely sub-
servient to Jewish plotters."

B. C. R. Says:

Needed: Publisher,
Not a Monument,
For Emma Lazarus

Local City of Hope Delegates
Win Citations at Convention

I am receiving some questions
about a monument which, accord-
ing to a press announcement, is
to be erected to the memory of
Emma Lazarus, by the Federation

of Jewish Women's Organizations.
It was quite natural that Jew-
ish women interested in the his-
tory and fate of their people
should take an interest in the
life of the gifted poetess, the

courageous defender of our peo-
ple and devoted friend of the
immigrants who were driven to
our shores by the oppressions of
Russian Czardom. But such in-
terest should not be so artificial
and perfunctory as to confine it-
self to outward demonstration
instead of inner study and _re-
flection.
Leaders of Jewish women's
organizations have, from time to
time, appeared at meetings with
papers which they read on the
work and achievements of Em-
ma Lazarus. It has, however,
not occurred to any of the ad-
mirers of the poetess that her
work, all her work, has been out
of print for many years and
that among other writings the
two volumes of her complete
poetry is the rarest set of books
to find anywhere. To pay trib-
ute to a writer and not to read
her work is the emptiest of all
gestures. We have talked and
praises and eulogized her now
for some • thirty years and done
nothing to put the beautiful
poetry and splendid literary es-
says of this talented woman into
circulation , again. None of our
literary groups or intellectual
circles have taken steps to re-
store to its rightful place the
work of this gifted exponent of
Jewish ideas and ideals, who,
incidentally, was also one of the
pioneer Zionists in the United
States and dreamed of a Jewish
national restoration even before
the advent of Dr. Herzl.
To talk of a monument with-.
out doing something to repub-
lish the work of Emma Lazarus,
is a preposterous idea.
In a book called "The World
of Emma Lazarus," by H. E. Ja-
cob, published by Schocken
Books in 1949, the story was
told of an attempt which the
present writer made to bring
the work of this poetess into
circulation again. That attempt
was then frustrated by circum-
stances which Mr. Jacob fully
explains, but his book should,
in itself, have 'served to call at-
tention to a shameful condition.
As a matter of fact, there is a
monument to Emma Lazarus
which lights up the great har-
bor of New York and greets
every newcomer to our land. It
is the Statue of Liberty on
which is engraved her immortal
hymn to the New World, called
"The New Colossus." These im-
mortal words will continue to
ring through the ages and will
be remembered longer than any
new memorial which may now
be planned:
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied
pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your
tired, your poor,
Your huddled' masses yearning
to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your

Detroit delegates to the City of Hope national biennial con-
vention in Los Angeles are shown with the certificates of merit
they received for "outstanding service to the National Medical
Center." Accepting . the awards from VICTOR M. CARTER, City
of Hope president, are, from the.left, Mrs. IRVING TARNOPOL,
Mr. and Mrs. Group: JOSEPH LEE, Businessmen's Group; Mrs.
STANLEY OSCHIN, Cancer Fighters; and JOHN SODOS,.Detroit
Auxiliary 15.

Nazi Exterminator Rademacher Seeks
`Safe Conduct' Return to Germany

BONN, (JTA) — Franz Rade-
macher, former Nazi diplomat
who prepared the notorious
"Madagascar Plan"- for European
Jewry and organized the anni-
hilation of. the Jews of Serbia,
has indicated to German authori-
ties that he will return from his
Syrian refuge, provided he is
granted "safe conduct" until the
opening of his second trial on
murder charges.
Rademacher, who has taken
the name of Rosello and, with
support from official Arab quar-
ters, is conducting an export-im-
port business in Damascus, was
head of the "Jewish- Section" of
the German Foreign Office from
1.940 to 1943.
He drafted the stillborn project
to evacuate the Jews of Europe
to the island of Madagascar, It
was he who visited Belgrade to

order and supervise the execu-
tion of thousands of Jews. Later,
he prepared the deportation from
Belgium.
Similar crimes in Bulgaria,
Croatia, France and Holland have
been attributed to him. -
United States war crimes au-
thorities handed him over to the
German courts at Nuremberg in
1948. The trial, which was first
delayed for four years, was not-
able for the behind-the-scenes ef-
forts by the present Bonn Foreign
Office to help and protect him.
The prosecutor asked that he
be given a life term for respon-
sibility in the killing of 4,900
Serbian Jews and for "incitement
to murder in thousands of cases,"
but the court was content to im-
pose a brief prison term, ruling
that • "no base motives"_ had
prompted his actions. Then it re-
leased him "on his honor," pend-
ing appeal. •
Rademacher promptly fled to
the Middle East. More than two
years ago the German Supreme
Court set aside the Nuremb4rg
verdict as untenably mild, and
ruled that murder rather than
manslaughter was involved, and
referred the case back to a differ-
In recognition of the outstand- ent court for retrial.
ing accomplishments of the De-
troit Committee of 300 for the ORT to Expand Facilities
American Jewish Tercentenary,
two - citations were presented For Vocational Guidance
Monday evening to the chairman
Dr. William Haber, newly-
of the local committee, Philip elected president of the World
Slomovitz.
ORT Union Central council, an-
The presentations were made nounced upon his return from
at the meeting of the board of the international ORT meeting
governors of the Jewish Welfare just concluded at Geneva, that
Federation, at the Berman Branch vocational programs linked to
of the United Hebrew Schools, by the "economic survival and
Samuel H. Rubiner, chairman of progress" of overseas Jewish
the Federation's executive com- communities will be greatly ex-
mittee.
panded.
One of the citations was issued . He warned that plans- for com-
by the National Tercentenary munal rehabilitation, particular-
Committee and was signed by the ly • in countries "just entering
national chairman, Ralp'h Samuel. the machine age," must give
The other was a medallion, greater emphasis to technical
pkesented to Mr. Slomovitz by education in industrial skills if
the Federation, in behalf of "a they are to achieve desired re-
sults. In North Africa, he de.-
grateful community."
teeming shore.
The evening served as an •oc- Glared, ORT will "not be divert-
Send these, the homeless, tern-
casion for a review by the recip- ed by the political crisis" from
pest-tost to me.
I lift my lamp beside the gold- ient of the honors of the major moving ahead with plans for
events sponsored here during -the expanding trade school and ap-
en door!"
prenticeship activities.
Tercentenary Year.
Bernard G. Richards

Tercentenary's
Chairman Gets
Two Citations

Non-Jew's Reaction to 'Merchant'

'I Left the Tent With Feeling of Being Party to Mockery' -Helleur

TORONTO, ONT. — In a front-
page story in the Toronto Tele-
gram on the Canadian production
of the "Merchant of Venice" at
Stratford,_ staff writer Stan Hel-
leur expresses disquiet at the
anti-Semitic effect of the play.
Advancing his own, non-Jew-
ish point of view, Helleur states
that he, as "a Christian—a Ro-
man Catholic, to be specific—
feels bound to say he was 'dis-
turbed by the interpretation."

"This was," he declares, "too

much of the 'prototype' — the

popular definition of a popular
prejudice. I left the tent with
the uneasy feeling of • having
been party to a mockery."

Remarking that "there was
much to be admired when con-
siderations stopped short of the
play's racial theme," Helleur im-
mediately asserts:
"But, with so strongly typed a
character as Shylock — Jewish
usurer, moneylender, _the central
figure, then a consideration on

racial grounds is, was, and un-

doubtedly always will be inevi-
table."
He adds that he was not alone
in his reaction:
"Outside, on the broad, sultry
lawns of this still amazing ven-
ture, the uneasy feeling was con-
firmed by the reaction of Jewish
people interviewed . thoughtful,
sensitive people from various
walks of life, and, I believe, un-
prejudiced."
A similar viewpoint was later
expressed in another newspaper

article

by

Rabbi' Reuben Slonim'

of Tororrto." After . presenting a
carefully balanced statement of
the arguments for and against the
"Merchant," Rabbi Slonim de-
clares:
"Let's face it—despite some of
its lovely lines and master crafts-
manship, 'The Merchant of Ven-
ice' is archaic. Let us preserve
its fine quotations as we would
a melodious aria from an other-
wise objectionable opera. But as

for the rest let us consign it to
the Limbo of forgetfulness."

(See Editorial, Page 4)

