THE JEWISH NEWS

Incorporating the Detroit • Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951

Member American Association of English-Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Association,, National Editorial
Association.
Published every Friday by The Jewish News Publishing Co., 17100 West Seven Mile Road, Detroit 35, Mich,,
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Entered as second class matter Aug.. 6, 1952 at Post Office, Detroit, Mich„ under Act Of March 3, 1879

PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Editor and Publisher

SIDNEY SHMARAK

Advertising Manager

CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ

Circulation Manager

FRANK SIMONS

City Editor

Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the twenty-fourth day of Iy-ar, 5717, the following Scriptural selections will
be read in out synagogues:
Peptateuchal portion, Bamidbar, Num, 1:1-4:20. Prophetical portion, Hosea 2:1-22.

.Licht Benshen, Friday, May '24, 7:35 p.m.

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VOL. XXXI. No. 12

May 24, 1957

Mid-East Situation Must Be Clarified

Much hope is entertained for the de-
velopment of an amicable relationship
between United Nations Secretary Gen-
eral Dag Hammarskjold and Israel's Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion, as a result
of their recent two full days of non-stop
talks in Jerusalem.
An unusual lack of friendship had de-
veloped between the two men, and it af-
fected the discussions for the establish-
ment of peace in the Middle East.
The two statesmen, in their communi-
que, "reaffirmed their determination to
spare no effort to advance the cause of
peace in this area in pursuance of the
objectives of the United Nations Charter."
This was an encouraging statement, au-
gufmg better • attitudes 'In facing the
crucial isues of the Middle East.
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Meanwhile, however, the issues re-
quire additional clarification in Washing-
Rich-
ton. Special Ambassador James
ards has returned from his Middle Eastern
mission without offering specific ideas of
the results of his efforts. The rulers of
Saudi Arabia and Iraq appear to have
strengthened their relationship and are
backing up the sovereignty of Hussein of
Jordan. But they are not challenging the
position of Nasser in Egypt or of the pro-
Communist government in Syria, and by
ignoring Lebanon have encouraged anti-
West and pro-Communist demonstrations
in Beirut.
The confusion that continues to mar
better relations in the Middle East was
outlined in comments by Reporter Maga-
zine on the muddled condition relative
to "who and what had intervened in -Jor-
dan." Quoting Lincoln White, State De-
partment spokesman, that "there has
indeed been foreign intervention . .
mainly, the intervention of international
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Joseph Alsop, writing from Amman, had
a radically different version: The develop-
ments in the Middle East, he wrote, 'are
by-products of an American guaranty to
Jordan against Israeli intervention . . . They
are in fact primarily directed against the
Israelis.'

"The gentleman who should know best
was remarkably fuzzy about the whole mat-
ter. King Hussein . began by denouncing his
`brothers in Egypt' as the source of the 'con-
spiracy' against him, but in the same breath
he went out of his way to profess his de-
votion to Arab solidarity. Then, as if re-
calling an important cue, he denounced .
Communists and fellow travelers. Unlike the
State Department, he located their fountain-
head in Tel Aviv, "the center of Communism
in the Middle East."
"To a careless reader, this might suggest
that Mr. Alsop was right after all, and that
Israel, the State Department's views to the
contrary notwithstanding, is the real target
of the Eisenhower Doctrine. But in that
event, surely Egypt and Syria and Jordan
would have welcomed Mr. Richards with
open arms—which they conspicuously failed
to do.
"Jordan was particularly inhospitable to
him. We have been told that the Jordan
crisis has proved how the _ Doctrine can
work. Indeed, it works so well, that King
Hussein doesn't even want to have it ex-
plained to him. He likes American dollars
and has welcomed the $10 .million our gov-
ernment sent him—but he refuses to accept
one penny from the Doctrine's $200-million
kitty.
"The reader may feel confused at this
point. So do we. If only Ambassador Rich-
ards could make it clear!"

Israel's endorsement of Ambassador
Richards' mission, its acclamation of the
principles inherent in the Eisenhower
Doctrine, its deep sense of appreciation
for the economic aid given to Israel by the
United States, reaffirm the strong friend-
ship that exists between the two countries.
More than that, it - reaffirms Israel's
faith in a peaceful Middle East and it
repudiates all charges that are being
leveled at the Israelis under the , false
definitions that are being given by Arab
politicians of the term Zionism. Israel's
mission was and is peace, and the state-
ment adopted by Israel's Cabinet on the
.Eisenhower Doctrine proves it.
Now we must pray and hope for ad-
herence to the ideals incorporated in
Israel's declaration by all the nations
hitherto involved. in the Middle East con-
troversies.

The long-Defunct Plutocratic Assimilationism'

The self-hating, destructive anti-Israel
and anti-Zionist Council for Judaism re-
ceived its due reward from Jacob Pat,
executive secretary of the Jewish Labor
Committee, who, addressing the JLC an-
nual convention, took exception to the
Council's use of the term "Hebrew re-
ligion" and stated:

"The Council for Judaism professes to
recognize only the 'Hebrew Religion'—a term
. wrapped in confusion and referring to a faith
that its own members do not follow.
"It recognizes the Jewish religion—so it
claims—which for generations has been the
instrument insuring the preservation of the
Jews; but it refuses to recognize the Jewish
people as such.
"The Council acknowledges the religion
of the Jews, but does not recognize the
people which has preserved that religion for
thousands of years.
"This 'philosophy' is nothing more or less
than a remouthing of a long-defunct Ger-
man-Jewish plutocratic assimilationism."
It is doubtful whether such frank

speaking will accomplish any good in
_dealing with people whose tactics and
declarations have played right into the
hands of Arab agitators and anti-Semites,
who seek the destruction of Israel.
We doubt whether anyone ever has
succeeded, even with the aid of psychi-
atry, to cure the ills of people who have
become so self-hating that they are ready
to destroy the freedoms, nay, the very
lives, of their kinsmen.
What amazes us especially is that the
former president of the Council for Juda-
ism, Lessing Rosenwald, has - not repudi-

ated any of the Council's recent poisonous
statements. Having visited Israel, and
having met with the State's leaders, he
must have recognized the need for en-
couraging the embattled people in its
fight for life. Instead, his organization
continues to. undermine that existence.

Memorial Day

On Memorial Day, we call back our
yesterdays. We revive our thoughts for
the honored dead who gave their lives in
defense of our land and for the protection
of our liberties.
The roster of those who have made
the supreme sacrifice is' a long one. On
this day, we pay honor to hundreds of
young men from our own.community who
were taken from us in the last two wars.
But their names will live in our history,
as long as those who follow them will
never concede to tyranny.
The Jewish War Veterans of Michigan
and the Gold Star Parents' Association
accorded them proper marks of honor by
incorporating the names of 300 of the
Jewish boys who gave their lives for our
country in the JWV Golden Memorial
Book. We join in paying honor to the war
dead by listing their names on the first
page of this issue.
Indeed, an oft-quoted Biblical saying
continues to summarize our thoughts for
those we honor on Decoration Day: "The
memory of -the righteous shall be a
blessing. ' (Prov. 10:7).

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`Whip of Fear Over Russian Jews'

Teller Exposes the Kremlin
Terror in the Middle East

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Judd L. Teller, one_of the best known American Jewish
writers, has removed the veil from the mysterious series of
campaigns conducted by Communism against the Jewish people,
and in his startling book, "The Kremlin, The Jews, and the
Middle East," gives a hair - raising account of Soviet anti-
Semitism.
The Communists are exposed as following the same lines
that were pursued by Czarist Russian officials in Teller's expose
of the Kremlin's tactics in the Middle East.
This new volume (published by Thomas Yose-
loff, 11 E. 36th, N.Y. 16) reveals how Com-
munist Russia collaborated with the Mufti of
Jerusalem to foment strife in Palestine, to in-
stigate Arabs against Jews in pre-Israel days.,
It presents the facts to prove that the Com-
munists endorsed the pogroms by Arabs on
Dr. Teller
Jews in Palestine in 1929 and condoned the
frightful Hebron massacre of defenseless talmudical students.
Evidence offered by Dr. Teller of the discrimination now
practiced against, Jews in Russia, of the - lessening of oppor-
tunities for young Jews; of the 'witch-hunts that have been
instituted, under the guise of fighting "Zionism," reveal the -
position of Russian Jewry as being most precarious.
* * *
In his expose of Communist anti-Semitism, Dr. Teller shows
that "the dissolution of Jewish cultural institutions, the effort
to force , Jewish assimilation, the ruthless drive on so-called
Jewish parochialism derives their essential rationale from Karl
Marx' reference to the Jews As a 'chimerical nationality,' Lenin's
description of, them as 'a caste,' and Stalin's mock definition of
them as 'a nation on paper only'."
Stalinist opposition to Jews was especially in evidence when
discrimination was practiced in the Russian army. Jews distin-
guished themselVes as war heroes, but Jewish officers were dis-
missed and abused.
Dr. Teller likens the Stalin policies to those of Von Plehve
under the Czars. He states that among those whO "qualify as
serious contenders for Beria's role in the evolution of Soviet
anti-Semitism . are the late Andrei Zhdanov and also Giorgi
Malenkov, Nikita khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin." Bulganin
is referred to as a "political general," "a Politruk, the most
violent anti-Semitic element in the Red Army."
* * *
A deeply moving account of conditions in Russia, writ-
ten from 1952 to 1955 by an aging Soviet Jew, smuggled into
Israel, and made available to Dr. Teller by Davar, the Israel
Labor daily, provides shocking information about actual con-
ditions in Russia where there is "the whip of fear over the
head of every Jew."
"We, the captives of the Soviet exile, are of heavy heart,"
this Soviet Jew wrote. He described in detail the events that
marked the accusations against Jewish_ doctors, the infamous
"blood libels" which later were repudiated. He refers to the
Jews of the Yevsektzia who directed the anti-Semitic campaigns
against Yiddish, Hebrew and Jewish culture as marranos, and
he reveals that there are quotas against Jews in academic insti-
tutions, in schools, in medicine and in science.
* * *
It was Karl Radek, we are told, who started the drive
in 1924 to make the Palestine Communist Party Judenrein
and who advocated the Arabization programs.
Dr. Teller describes the work of Communist Jewish agents-
provocateurs who sought to undermine the Jewish position in
Palestine, and he has written a most revealing chapter about
the. Communist Party in Israel. He concludes with the warning
that dawn in Russia "might be a still darker night, red with
the blood of Jewish martyrdom."
His "Kremlin, Jews and Middle East" is. a document of .a
great worth at this time, when it is so essential that the world
should know the culprits who stand in the way of peace in
that area...