Red Agitator in
Action in Egypt

By MILTON FRIEDMAN

(Copyright. 1956, JTA)

WASHINGTON — An Egyp-
tian Embassy military attache
who was once accused by his
own government of Communist
intrigue has returned to Cairo
to help lead the new Russian-
equipped Egyptian army. He is
Lt. Col. Khalid Mohieddin.
On May 4, 1954, Egyptian
Premier Nasser's Minister of
National Guidance, publicly
linked Col. Mohieddin with a
__"conspiracy" of Egyptian offi-
cers - to overthrow the Nasser
regime and introduce Commun-
ism. It was alleged that most of
the conspirators were in the
armored cavalry corps com-
manded by Col. Mohieddin. He
was implicated, lost his com-
mand, and was dismissed as a
member of Egypt's Command
Council. As a form of polite
exile, he was sent abroad to
serve as an embassy military
attache.
The colonel was personally
recalled by Nasser who still
claims Egypt is buying arms
rather than ideas from the
Soviet bloc. Mohieddin's corps,
branded subversive by the Nas-
ser junta itself, today is re-
ceiving Stalin tanks. It is being
trained by Communist techni-
cians from Czechoslovakia and
the Soviet Union.
Col. Mohieddin's b r o the r,
Zakariya, was also a member of
'the Nasser junta. He, too, was
accused of Communism. Today
Zakariya Mohieddin is chief of
Egyptian Intelligence and Sec-
ret Police. Nasser' gave him the
post of Minister of Interior.
The Nasser junta is an odd
collection of extremists of the
right and left. Nasser himself
at one time belonged to the
Egyptian Fascist "Greenshirt"
group. This organization was
known before World War II as
.the "Young Egypt" . party. • It
was dissolved for working to
link Egypt with the Hitler-
Mussolini Axis.
Rightists and leftists of the
Egyptian junta find common
ground in hostility toward Is-
rael, extreme nationalism, and
dreams of military and politi-
cal expansion into neighboring
countries. Egypt's defeat by
Israel in 1948 is to Egyptian
propaganda what the Versailles
Treaty was to Hitler. But
Egyptian totalitarianism is
1 growing ever closer to its Soviet
counterpart.
Egypt has opened a Corn-
muniSt line of attack against
Am e r i c an Jewry. Accusing
Jews in the United States of
"McCarthyism" and defending
the Communist Party, the of-
ficial Cairo radio outshrieks
. the Moscow radio. Speaking of
the anti-Communist "fever" in
the United States, a Jan. 5
Cairo broadcast said "it was
the Zionist - controlled p . r e s s
which magnified this specter in
the imagination of the Ameri-
can people."

j

Jewish Documents
Exhibited in N.Y.

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Georgia Family's Papers Enliven
History of Southern Jewry

CINCINNATI — A large por-
tion of the papers of the Minis
family of Georgia, Jewish Col-
onial pioneers, have been made
available to the American Jew-
ish Archives on the Cincinnati
campus of Hebrew Union Col-
lege-Jewish Institute of Religion
for use by historians and other
scholars, it is announced b3 Dr.
Jacob R. Marcus, Archives di-
rector.
The collection throws new
light on the career of Judah P.
Benjamin, distinguished Con-
federate leader. A hitherto un-
known letter provides additional
information about a bitter con-
troversy that centered around
him on the eve of secession. The
letter discloses that the con-
troversy stemmed from an un-
proved allegation of theft made
against Benjamin, while he was
a student at Yale University.
The Minis family has enjoyed
a continuous history in Georgia
for 225 years. The collection,
numbering more than 1,000 let-
ters and documents, was ac-
quired from a lineal descendant,
A. Minis, Jr., of Savannah.
Abraham and Abigail Minis
were among the first Jewish
settlers who came to Savannah,
July 10, 1733, five months after
Gov. James Oglethorpe founded
the new colony. Their son, Phil-
ip, was the first white male child
born in Georgia in 1734 who
survived the perils of frontier
life.
This collection includes pa-
pers relating to Abigail Minis,
the matriarch of the American
Revolution in the South. There
are also letters dealing with
their relatives, such as the
pioneer Hendricks family who
came to New York during the
French and Indian War. The
charming courtship between
Abram Minis and his Philadel-
phia fiancee, Lavinia Florance,
is vividly described depicting
life in the ante-bellum South.
The references to the bells,
beaus, and the social life of the
South, the New Orleans Momus
Ball, the centennial exhibition
in Philadelphia, celebrating the
first century of American Inde-
pendence in 1876, provide a col-

Moroccan Jewry
Hit Economically

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Dele-
gations from Jewish villages in
serious economic difficulties in
the Atlas Mountain region of
Morocco are arriving in Casa-
blanca to seek aid from Jewish
organizations, the Jewish
Agency reports.
Information r ea chin g. the
agency spells out the near tragic
circumstances of Jews in the
smaller towns and villages of
Morocco who are the victims of
raids by Moslem neighbors in
the same towns.
Some have been beaten, some
have lost their homes and shops
in attacks by mob and fire. In
many cases where there has
been little or no open violence,
the Jews are victims of an eco-
nomic boycott by the Arabs.
From London comes a report
that the World. Agudas Israel
Organization has delegated two
American Agudist leaders to fly
to Morocco to investigate the
situation of the Jews there.
The decision to send Rabbi S.
Elberg and Michael Trees to
North Africa was taken at the
meeting of the Agudist world
executive at Zurich, Switzer-
land.
At the meeting, the Agudists
went on record as asking for
"cessation of the arms race and
for the dispatch of arms to Is-
rael to assure its defense.'

NEW YORK (JTA) — Mayor
Robert F. Wagner launched a
12-day exhibition of rare Catho-
lic, Protestant and Jewish ob-
jects and documents . from the
American Revolutionary period
at a special City Hall ceremony.
The exhibit, entitled "1776—
One Nation Under God," is
jointly sponsored by the Na-
tional Conference of Christians
and Jews and the Morris Mor-
genstern Foundation and will be
.on exhibit at the Building for
Brotherhood.
During the ceremony, the
mayor presented $10,000 in Mor-
genstern Foundation Scholar-
ships to 25 high school students
Judge Slosberg Sworn In
to enable them to attend a
WINTHROP, Me.,
(JTA
(JTA)-
camp on human relations spon- Judge Howard S. Slosberg; of
sored each summer by the New the Winthrop Municipal Court,
has beerCsivorn in for a second
York area of the NCCJ.
term, following his confirmation
26—Detroit Jewish News
in the post by Governor Muskie
Friday, January 20, 1956
and his council..

orful and intimate picture of the
time.
The Minises were closely i-
dentified with the Confederacy
during the War between the
States. At the close of the war
they remained identified with
the local Georgia military divi-
sions, the Home Guard, the
Georgia Hussars, and various
other militia companies.
One of the Minises had the
distinction of having passed the
highest examination given to a
cavalry officer in Georgia, an
extremely rigid test. They have
continued to be closely identi-
fied with the Sons and Daugh
ters of the Confederacy.
The family had a part in the
establishment, in the mid-
eighteenth century, of Mickve
Israel, the first Jewish congre-
gation in Savannah, which is
still in existence and still num-
bers a Minis among its congre-
gants.
The cholera and yellow fever
epidemics which scourged the
nation, especially after the Civil
War, are often referred to and,
in one instance, to help avoid
the dreaded plague, the rabl-ii of
Congregation Mickve Israel ad-
vised his congregants not to fast
on Yom Kippur lest they further
weaken themselves.
The Minises were devoted to
philanthropic causes. They were
commission merchants, ex-
panded the rosin industry, help-
ed promote the growing railroad
system of the South, and were
members of the Cotton Ex-
change since its inception.

Study Group Publishes `Judaism & Psychiatry'

Sixteen nationally prominent
rabbis and psychiatrists have
contributed essays to - "Juda-
ism and Psychiatry," a volume
published by the National
Academy for Adult Jewish
Studies.
Edited by Rabbi Simon No-
veck, of Park Avenue Syna-
gogue, New York, director of
the Academy, this book is the
first popular presentation of
the Jewish approach to the
.p e r son al and psychological
problems and needs of modern
man. It also discusses the coin-

patability of psychiatry and
modern religion.
Contributors include Abram
Blau, Abraham N. Franzblau,
Paul Friedman, Henry Rap nael
Gold, Henry Enoch Kagan,
David Kairys, Louis Linn, Mil-
ton Maley, Rollo May, Louis I.
Newman, Simon Noveck, Mor-
timer Ostow, Hector J. Ritey,
Edward T. Sandrow, Milton R.
Sapirstein and Alexander Alan
Steinbach.

Home is where the heart is.
Gaius Plinius Pliny

JUNE IN JANUARY

Time was when fresh fruits made their appearance
in Michigan only in the summer—when they were in
season.

But — thanks to the fast, flexible transportation
trucks provide—our eating habits have changed a
lot the past quarter of a century—and much for the
better, of course.

Now, no matter where you live in Michigan, food
stores are filled with a bountiful array of choice
things to eat in every department. Nowadays, deli-
cacies know no season.

Merchants today don't have to order in large
quantities that stay on their shelves until they lose
their crispy freshness. Truck transport has turned
miles into minutes—and your standard of living is
better because of this.

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