Friday, rune 29, 1956—THE DETROIT • JEWISH NEWS-6
Pressure Put on Southern Jews to Join
`White Councils'; Boycotts Threatened
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"Both represent the ideal final
growth from infantile to adult."
Pointing out that. Freud "rep-
resents less of a threat to ra-
tional than to supernatural
theology," Rabbi N _ arot added:
"Rational theology, maintaining
that the mind of man is the
source of all his knowledge,
even of the transcendent, and
agreeing with Freud that our
forbears could hardly have
known all there is to know
about God, is eaeger constantly
to test its faith in the labora-
tory of human thought and ex-
perience."
Issue of Segregation
Affects Jews in South
ATLANTIC CITY, (JTA) —
The predicament in which the
Jews in the South find them-
selves as a result of the desegre-
gation controversy was dis-
cussed by Jewish leaders from
many communities assembled
here at the four-day conference
of the National Community Re-
lations Advisory Council.
The Jewish leaders, repre-
senting the American Jewish
Congress, Jewish Labor Com-
mittee, all national Jewish re-
ligious - organizations, Jewish
War Veterans and many Jewish
community councils, were told
that the Jews in the =South find
themselves in the middle of the
fight between the "White Citi-
zens Councils" and the Negroes
'with regard to implementation
of the Supreme Court decision
against segregation. Dr. Arn-
old Rose, professor of sociology
at the University of Minnesota
and an authority on minority
and civil rights problems, told
the conference:
"Jews are somewhat sus-
pected in the south of being
relatively liberal-minded in
regard to civil rights, which
they are on the average, al-
though many individual Jews
are vicious proponents and
practicers of discrimination.
In order to avert suspicion,
and, even worse, things like
boycott, some Southern Jew-
ish merchants are joining the
White Citizens' Councils, al-
though their relationship is
nominal. • Nevertheless, race
prejudice has a slippery qual-
ity, and in some Southern
communities the Citizens'
Councils are attacking Jews
as well as Negroes.
"Southern Jewish leaders can
be expected to keep quiet about
the Negro problem so as not to
draw fire on themselves. But
national Jewish leaders have the
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opportunity that other Ameri-
can leaders have of helping to
rid the United States of its
Major Archiles' heel, which has
particularly threatened the
Jews. If they do not take a
long-run and courageous view
of the current crisis, they are
playing the same role that col
laborationist Jews played in
Europe during the Nazi period.
Natiosnal Jewish leaders are not
on the personal firing line, and
they should be expected to give
at least moral support to the
battle for civil rights.
"In this situation," Prof. Rose
continued, "Southern Jews who
are also national leaders have
to make the hard choice, and
in general will have to give up
national leadership, much as
Southern Democratic Party
leaders know that they can
never hope to run for the Presi-
dency. In a minority strategy,
some may have to play the col-
laborationists' role, but they
cannot also play the leaders'
role, and their national rewards
must be surreptitious."
In a resolution on the de-
segregation issues the Na-
tional Community Relations
Advisory Council conference
emphasized that "respect for
law, orderly process, and the
institution of government is
a prerequisite to the preser-
vation of our democratic
system." The resolution said
that "it is the responsibility of
all agencies of government at
every level to demand and
obtain compliance with the
law."
The resolution also asked
Congress to enact legislation to
safeguard rights to freedom of
the franchise, freedom from per-
sonal molestation and the right
to resort to the courts for en-
f or c e m e n t of Constitutional
guarantees. It also called on the
two major political parties to
incorporate, in their platforms
pledges to support the Supreme
Court decision and to use the
full powers of all branches of
the Federal government to se-
cure implementation Of the
Court's order.
In another resolution, • the
NCRAC pledged support of
the "right of all organizations
working for full equality to
carry out their legitimate func-
tions free from interference and
arbitrary restraint." The reso-
lution specifically noted that the
National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People
has been banned in several
states and • faces similar action
in others for exercising its con-
stitutional right to "invoke ju-
dicial process in pursuit of legal
objectives."
The resolution called on the
agencies of government—Fed-
eral, state and local—to fulfill
their responsibility to the Con-
stitution by exercising their full
authority to prevent interfer-
ence with and abridgement of
Constitutional liberties and
urges upon all citizens, in recog-
nition that freedom is indivis-
ible, they protect their own
freedom by protesting any de-
nial of those freedoms to their
fellow Americans.
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The conference also called for
the enactment of state fair edu-
cational practice laws prohibit-
ing discrimination by higher
educational institutions on
grounds of race, color or re-
ligion. It urged "denial of ac-
creditation to any college, uni-
versity or professional school
which discriminates in the ad-
mission or treatment of students
on the basis of race, religion,
color or national origin."
The NCRAC conference, at
which plans for coordinating
activities to combat anti-
Semitism in this country were
mapped, also adopted a reso-
lution. strongly criticizing the
action of the United States
Government "which has ac-
quiesced in and, for all prac-
tical purposes, condoned open
and flagrant acts of discrimi-
nation by the Arab states
against American citizens on
the basis of their religious be-
liefs." The resolution said this
is "in utter violation of the
most fundamental American
resolutions." It called upon
the U.S. Government to:
• 1. "Notify all nations of the
world that our government will
not tolerate discrimination
against American citizens be-
cause of their religion; 2. In-
struct all agencies of the gov-
ernment to desist from screening
qualified American citizens for
military, diplomatic or other
service in a foreign country
solely because of objections by
that country to American citi-
zens on religious grounds; 3.
Provide expressly in all treaties
and executive agreements with
foreign countries that American
citizens shall not be denied
rights of travel, employment,
trade or any other rights under
such treaty or agreements be-
cause of the religion of individ-
ual American citizens.
The resolution also called on
the President's Committee on
Government Contracts and the
President's Committee on Em-
ployment Policy "to insure that
there shall be no yielding to
the religious prejudice of the
Arab countries in the hiring or
placement of American per-
sonnel."
Another resolution urged
"increased vigilance on the
part of our government to the
end that Arab consular and
embassy officials will not be
permitted to violate their dip
lomatic status by aiding and
abetting" anti-Jewish prac-
tices and that such Arab of-
ficial representatives desist
from engaging in activities
which are "beyond the legiti-
mate scope of their diplomatic
functions."
The resolution scored the
American Friends of the
Middle East and the Ameri-
can Council for Judaism for
accepting and using in their
propaganda some of the "most
extreme and dangerous false-
hoods and distortions put
forth by the Arab propaganda
apparatus."
In a resolution on the Jewish
situation in the Soviet Union,
the conference referred to the
Khrushchev repudiation of
Stalin and noted that there has
been "no Soviet repudiation of
the terror against Jews, the sup-
pression of Jewish culture and
Jewish institutions" or of the
"cynical Soviet machinations
through arms deals and other
collaboration with the Arabs to
destroy the delicately balanced
peace of the Middle East."
It also pledged to continue
exposure and denunciation of
every attempt by "Communists
and Communist sympathizers
Who infiltrate and subvert legiti-
mate organizations and move-
ments working for the promo-
tion of civil rights, civil liberties
and other extensions of demo-
cratic freedom."
The conference re-elected Ber-
nard H. Trager, of Bridgeport,
Conn., as chairman.
Alsop Finds Israel `Land of Miracles'
NEW YORK (JTA)—Israel is table as a political fact.
"There is no use saying about
the Israelis, 'they ought to do
differently.' They will not be-
have as many Western policy-
makers think they should be-
have, because that is not their
nature. And one must add,
they only exist today because
that is not their nature."
a land of miracles and "repre-
sents achievements which any
rational,
practical
forecaster
would have held to be utterly
impossible only 10 or 20 years
ago," Joseph Alsop, veteran
American commentator reported
in a dispatch from Jerusalem
to the New York Herald Tri-
bune and newspapers through-
out the country.
The prevalence of a mood,
"we can dare and do far be-
yond other men" makes the air
of Israel "exhilerating." Alsop
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reported. He warned however,
that it is also a hard political
fact that must be judged cold-
bloodedly, like all other hard
political facts" and declared
that this mood "makes non-
sense of the opinions now pre-
in Washington and
vailing
London."
In summing up his impres-
sions of the country, Alsop
wrote: "In short, grim courage
and ruthless self-denial make
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same courage and self-denial
also make Israel highly intrac-
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Belgian Queen Views Art
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Elizabeth of Belgium visited an
exhibition at Palais de Beaux
Arts here to view the works of
two Jewish artists, Moshe Tamir,
an Israeli, and Miss M. Noor-
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