New 'Man on Horseback' Battle Between General, ADL BY MILTON FRIEDMAN WASHINGTON-A leading American military personality has emerged as the newest dar ling of the lunatic fringe. He is Lt. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer who served with distinction in World War II and Korea. A battle between the General and the Bnai Brith Anti-Defama- tion League has erupted publicly. The ADL is asking if Strate- meyer will be the kind of "man on horseback" that the bigots of the 19.30's envisaged in another retired General, George V a n Horn Moseley. In 1954 Stratemeyer made headlines when he became chair- man of a pro-McCarthy group, the "Committee of Ten Million." Shortly thereafter he became preoccupied with a book by a Texas professor, John Beaty, en- titled "Iron Curtain Over Amer- ica." The ADL described the Beaty book as "A compilation of anti- Jewish lies and distortions which have caused it to be- come a kind of primer for 'lu- natic fringe groups throughout the nation." But to Gerald L. K. Smith-it is "The greatest of its kind ever to appear in print." Beaty characterized American Jews as a minority "obsessed with its own objectives, which are not those of Western civiliza- tion." He said "the secret and overseas" plots of Soviet Russia "have been entrusted principally to Jews" and that the Jews were responsible for World War II. The lengthy book was described by one reviewer as the most ex- tensive single compilation of anti- Semitic propaganda to appear in the world since the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945. But Stratemeyer was so moved by the book he wrote a fan let- ter to the author. Stratemeyer told Beaty, in part: "I congratu- late you on your book and the service you have performed for our country. If my health would permit it I would go on a con- tinuous lecture tour gratis and preach your book and recom- mendations." • This autumn the Gerald L. K. Smith hate organization began distributing quantities of a flyer bearing the General's endorse- ment of "Iron Curtain Over America." The printed matter said the book exposed Jewish "control of our political parties and many of our cultural and educational organizations - even churches." The new hate material came to the ADL's attention. Did Stratemeyer know his name was being used by professional anti - Semites? A D L national chairman Henry' . E. Schultz wrote Stratemeyer to find out. 7 Replying to the ADL, Strate- meyer asked: "Who are you and your organization to tell me what I should read and what I should recommend other loyal American citizens to read? . . . Not until I read John Beaty's book 'Iron Cur- tain Over America' did I learn what was going on back in the United States of America while I was overseas fighting for my country . . Your letter is the most outrageous communication I have ever received in my life . . . " Schultz answered Stratemeyer, defending the ADL position, and expressing hope that the General would soon "realize that your years of service to this nation are too precious to be sullied by any aid or comfort given, albeit -un- wittingly, to our enemies-those who seek to divide us and to set man against his neighbor." The ADL feels the General must now decide whether he be- longs with George Van Horn Prepare Israel Liner Mosely, the retired General who For Initial Voyage disappeared to oblivion through Israel's newest trans-Atlantic association with anti-Semitic extremists or with such military passenger liner, the SS Zion, will officers as President Eisenhower, make her initial voyage in Feb- . General Bradley, and General ruary from Le Havre, Southamp- ton and Naples to Haifa. Marshall. Announcement was made this week by the American-Israeli Modern Dam Builders Shipping Co., Inc., 19 Rector St., Surpass the Pyramids New York, the U.S. representa- Egypt's projected Aswan High tives of the Zim Israel Naviga- Dam, writes Gamil El Sabban, tion Co. The Zion is a sister ship of well-known agricultural engi- the new SS Israel, and is de- neer, secretary general of the In- signed for year-round passenger dustrial Council of the Egyptian service between Haifa and New Federation of Industry, in an York. Calls will be made at article in the forthcoming issue Naples, and occasionally at Hall- of Middle Eastern Affairs, will fax and Gibraltar, westbound. Accommodations are available have a volume of "24 million cu- for 3030 first and tourist classes, bic meters, or more than 30 all in outside staterooms, most times the volume of the Great with private or semi-private baths. Pyramid." Mr. El Sabban estimates that The . Zion Will start service "the Darn will be the most gi- from Haifa to New York on gantic in the Middle East, and March 8, and her maid-en voyage the largest in the world next to from New York to Haifa will Fort Peck in America." The As- begin on March 30. A 19-knot wan High Dam project will per- turbine-driven liner, she will, mit Egypt to draw maximum make the 5,000-mil trip in 13 1/2 benefit from the Nile waters in days. terms of electrification, irriga tion, flood control, fertilizers and 12-DETROIT JEWISH NEWS increased agricultural acreage. 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