B. C. R. Says:
Sholem Asch Campaign In Full Force
The campaign of Sholem Asch
to rehabilitate himself within the
Jewish community is now on in
full force. It began about two
years ago with his settlement in
England where he thought the
Jewish press and Jewish society
was more tolerant to him and it
continued with a trip to Israel
and an extended stay in the
Homeland within the past year.
Mr. Asch, now back in England
and writing his impressions of
Israel for the London Jewish
Chronicle, speaks proudly of
"scores of enthusiastic receptions
that were held for me all over
the country." But all of these re-
ceptions somehow failed to bring
him peace of the soul and he
vehemently cries out against the
`lies and calumny directed
against me." Most ironic of all
is the high price which he claims
to have paid for his new career
as a writer of Christological
books. He says:
"I have made it my duty—
heedless of the price I would
have to pay for it, and fully
aware from the start what it
would bring down upon me—to
proclaim the message of broth-
erly love to Jew and Christian
alike, through the medium of
my profession as--a writer, to
devote to it my mental and
physical powers, and I thank
God that he has privileged me
to see the fruit of my labour,
both among Christians and
Jews, in my o w n lifetime,
through daily evidence."
. The excessive tolerance of a
„number of writers and scholars
in England — so different from
the attitude to the author in the
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United States and other coun-
tries—is bound to remain a puzzle
for some time to come. Equally
enigmatic is the cordial attitude
of the Jewish Chronicle, long an
organ of traditional Judaism.
Most incomprehensible of all is
the willingness of this journal to
print such a wretched, rambling
and almost incoherent piece of
writing by Mr. Asch, which ap-
pears in its issue of June 3. The
article is called "T h e Feeling
That Took Me To Israel", but
it is never quite clear what the
feeling was, but that the article
is charged with much intense
feeling is quite evident. Alto-
gether, it is an excited outpour-
ing of pride, defiance, wrath and
chagrin. To be sure, Mr. Asch
professes his deep devotion to
Zion, the Jewish people and their
future, and consolation in a time
of trial should not be begrudged
to anyone. Some of t h e state-
ments throw into frightful relief
his own literary dereliction from
the part of Jewish duty and dig-
nity, It will be more than enough
to quote the following:
"The Jewish name had been
trampled to the ground. Jewish
life was of no account. Year
after year the Gentiles had
seen how Hitler murdered Jews
by the million, scooped them
up like rats, to be destroyed in
the gas ovens and the crema-
toria. And there was no one
to gainsay him, no voice lifted
on their behalf, no word of pro-
test, no outcry from the world.
The Jew had been removed
from the category of human
beings, and had been reduced
to the state of vermin. The
Gentiles thought we would re-
main like that, even after Hit-
ler's overthrow."
In the humble opinion of the
present writer, the confusion, un-
certainty and indifference which
prevails with regard to Mr. Asch's
place in Jewish life is due to a
general decline of moral stand-
ards and the loss of the ancient
adherence to a sense of genuine
dignity.
—Bernard G. Richards
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Receives UN Commission
Peter Grippe, lecturer in the
Fine Arts at Brandeis University,
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be placed in front of the United
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Kastner Defends
Role in Hungary
Under the Nazis .
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Dr. Israel
Kastner, former head of the Hun-
garian Jewish Rescue Committee
who has been accused of collab-
orating with the Nazis during the
war—and whose case precipitat-
ed the dropping of the General
Zionists from the Israel Cabinet
—made a lengthy report on his
role in Hungary during the Nazi
occupation. He said that he hopes
to clear his name when he ap-
pears in court on July 31 to testi-
fy on a complaint against him.
"It was not I who collaborat-
ed with the Germans, but some
Germans, particularly the Nazi
leader Col. Kurt Becher, who
collaborated with me," he stat-
ed. He insisted that not only
had he and his colleagues "done
nothing against Jewish inter-
ests, but (we) wrote an heroic
chapter of devotion and sacri-
fice, which deserves great ap-
preciation."
Loving Cup For 1000th Couple DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
He declared he was raising
only the "simple question":
"Could not the Germans exter-
minate all the Jews they could
grab?" The Jews who remained
alive at the end of the war
in such camps as Belsen, Tere-
zin and others, he said, had
survived because Col. Becher,
Himmler's deputy, was a "real-
ist" who foresaw Hitler's col-
lapse and therefore intervened
because he Wahte44 . 'an: . alibi.
Nevertheless, Dr. Kastner cred-
ited Col. Becher with having
saved many thousands of Jews.
Dr. Kastner said that he had
had "great ambitions to save the
Jews," therefore he had joined
the rescue underground as early
as 1941. This underground, he
noted, had helped Jews in all
parts of Europe to find shelter
Somewhere. Many thousands of
Polish, Slovakian " and Czech
Jews had been saved by this
movement; he-added.-It was "nat-
ural" that when the Germans oc-
cupied Hungary that he—a mem-
ber of the Mapai Party—should
be added to the rescue committee
which represented most of the
Zionist parties. .
This committee, Dr. Kastner
said, decided to negotiate with
the Germans on the basis of trad-
ing Jewish lives for money. This
approach permitted the commit-
tee to gain, time for its other ac-
tivities, such as forging docu-
ments and providing funds for
rettigees from other countries.
The situation under the Nazis
hi Hungary differed from that in
Poland or Russia, Dr. Kastner in-
sisted. The Hungarians in the rur-
al areas were hostile to Jews and
waited for the moment when
they could loot the Jews' proper-
ty. In addition, there was no un-
derground with which contact
could be maintained.
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rescue committee's activities —
specifically the negotiations with
Becher and Himmler — were re-
sponsible. for the saving of 15,000
Jews through their transfer to
Vienna, the saving of 80,000 of
Budapest's 170,000 Jews through
forged documents and shelter in
friendly homes, and the saving
of 1,600 more on a train heading
for the Belsen camp and the sav-
ing of many thousands in various
camps.
Anti-Discrimination Oath
Required By Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — All
applicants for employment " or
promotion working for the city
will be required to sign an anti-
discrimination oath in the future,
it was announced here., This is
the result of a regulation unani-
mously adopted by the city's civil
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Cemeteries Desecrated In
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Nothing that some newspapers about $1,000.
—chiefly the organs of the Map-
The cemeteries, both in the
am and Communist Parties—had Glendale section of Queens, are
demanded he be tried as a Nazi operated by two different syna-
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planned to write a book on the Sholom and Temple Emanu-El.
Jewish tragedy. in Hungary but
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although his role in Hungary was
the essence of the case — had
proved that the time was not yet
ripe for such a book, he said.
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