Mythical 'Cohen' Name Injected in Civil Rights Issue

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By MILTON FRIEDMAN

fused to reveal the origin of the iously to see what Rep. Aber-
"Israel Cohen" material. It ap- nethy will dO.
parently came to him from an
individual or so-called "White
John Adams was the first
Citizens' Council" whose ident- U. S. Ambassador to England.
ity he protects.
However, Rep. Abernethy did
indicate that he would look into
the matter and consider the
possibility of making the Con-
gressional R e c o r d deletion.
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Those concerned with keeping
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Israel

JERUSALEM — A bill enabling the Israel government to
finance immigrant housing with a 50,000,000 pound loan for which
bond purchasers will receive a choice of interest rates and tax
obligations was presented to Parliament by Finance Minister
Levi Eshokl . . . Moscow Radio has increased anti-Israel attacks
in Arab-language broadcasts . . . Israel has been invited to par-
ticipate in German trade fairs, Minister of Commerce Pinchas
Saphir informed Parliament . . . For the first time Israel will be
represented in Frankfurt's Book Fair, annuaul October meeting of
German publishers, book dealers and book lovers . . . The Israel
Students Union declared it will not send a delegation to the
Moscow summer international youth festival unless _it is
i per-
mitted to • make arrangements independent of other groups, such
as the Communist Israel Festival Committee . . . A group of
young men from the U.S. have been approved as religious edu-
cators by Israel's Chief Rabbinate after completing a religious
studies course given here by the Jewish Agency A delegation
of five German industrialists are here to study the possibilities
of German investments in Israel.
TEL AVIV — An Israel Government-Jewish Agency effort
to Obtain $100,000,000 in loans for constructing immigrant hous-
ing units was announced here by Dr. Dov Joseph, Jewish Agency
treasurer and head of its absorption department . . . A $1,000,000
mortgage bank which will extend loans for Israeli housing has
been founded in South America by 100 Jewish financiers and
businessmen . Premier David Ben Gurion intervened in an
attempt to settle a month-old strike against the Ata textile
manufacturing company in Haifa . . . At the world convention
of Beta•, Revisionist youth movement, Menahem Beigin, Israel's
Herut Party leader; demanded an Israel government "headed by
Jabotinsky's pupiIs" and reiterated absorption of Jordan terri-
tory Into a "whole Israel" .

Europe

BONN—The last three German war criminials in British
Custody will be set free within the next two weeks, it was
reported here. There are 24 in American - custody and three in
French hands . . ..A West German court at Bochum sentenced
Paul Werner Hoppe, former Nazi camp commander who aided in
the murder of thousands of Jews, to nine years' hard labor . .
GENEVA—A. Becker, Histadrut official and Israel delegate
to the International • Labor Organization parley here,' noted that
his country spends much of its resources on "internal security
needs"_ although the funds would be of greater benefit for use
towards peaceful cooperation against poVerty and ignorance.

United States

NEW YORK—Having passed the first two economic stages of
importation of consumer goods and emphasis on capital goods,
Israel, which now emphasizes raw materials and semi-manufac-
tured goods, will make intensive efforts -to increase . exporte, to
the U., S. Michael TsOur,• director: of Israel's Foreign Trade De-
partiriefit told a IunChion of the Ameikan-Israel ttlainber . of
Commerce here „ , The 35th anniversary of Hacloar, only. Heb
rew language weekly in the U. S., was celebrated at a dinner at
the Hotel :New Yorker here . . A new Jewish Family Bible,
Most complete edition of the Scriptures ever assembled, with 188
color reproductions of, Jacob- Barosin's original and an intro-
duction by Rabbi_ Abba Hillel Silver, was introduced here . . .
CINCINNATI—Following a protest by the Jewish Commun-
ity Relations Committee here, the Board of Elections shifted
the date of citywide voters' registration originally scheduled for
Rosh Hashonah eve.

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Massachusetts Officials Open New
Fight to Take Hildy from Ellises

MIAMI BEACH (JTA) — A Mises should not be permitted
Florida state official disclosed to adopt six-year-old Hildy, who
that Massachusetts has opened - was born out of wedlock to a
a new effort to stop Mr. and Roman Catholic mother.
Mrs. Melvin B. Ellis from adopt
Miss Davis said the letter
ing Catholic-born Hildy McCoy. would be given "due considera-
Miss Frances Davis, director tion" along with all other find-
of Child Welfare for the Florida ings in the internationally-cele-
Public Welfare Department, said orated case. The letter presum-
she had received a letter from ably was sent after May 23
Patrick A. Tompkins, Massachu- when Gov. Leroy Collins re-
setts Public Welfare Commis- fused to return the Ellises to
sioner, listing reasons why the Massachusetts - on a warrant
charging them with "kidnap-
ping" Hildy.
• The Ellises fled from their
Brookline, Mass. home and
business with Hildy after losing
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blue eyed blond child. They
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early this year and arrested.
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makes
Collins' extradition hearing de-
cision, the Ellises filed a peti-
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tion for adoption under Florida
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law. Hildy's natural mother,
-who signed the infant over to
the Ellises for adoption when
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German Workers Protest
!other mixt ,Try it and see!,
Desecration of Cemetery
BONN, (JTA)—Two thousand
German trade unionists marched
to a. Jewish cemetery at Salzgit-
ter to express their horror at
the desecration of 80 graves by
a gang of vandals recently.
The demonstrators laid a
reend Cake • Chocolate Pound Cake • Cingetbrowd wreath on a grave where the
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the Iron Curtain, it may be
necessary for a "Radio Free
Mississippi" to beam educa-
tional programs behind the
"Magnolia Curtain."
The Congressman who re-
placed Rep. John Rankin,
Mississippi's notorious anti-
Semite, has brought Mississippi
back into the news. He is Rep.
Thomas G. Abernethy who
avowed religious tolerance and
defeated Rankin. His Congres-
sional career has been free of
the sort of religious bigotry that
marked his predecessor.
But Rep. Abernethy this
month decided to give Congress
the benefit of various "intel-
lectual" arguments against civil
rights. He told the House "this
civil rights businees is all ac-
cording to a studied and well-
defined plan . . The course
of the advocates of this legisla-
tion was carefully planned and
outlined more than 45 years
ago. Israel Cohen, a leading
Communist in England, in his
`A Radical Program for the 20th
Century,' wrote, in 1912, the
following: 'we must realize that
our party's most . powerful
weapon is racial tension., "
The Mississippi Congressman
quoted Israel Cohen as saying:
"By propounding into the con-
sciousness of the dark races that
for centuries they have been
oppressed by the whites, we can
mould them to the program of
the Communist Party. In
America we Will aim for subtle
victory. While inflaming the
Negro minority against the
whites, we will endeavor to in-
still in the whites a guilt com,
plex for their exploitation of
the Negroes. We will aid the
Negroes to rise in prominence
in every walk of life, in the pro-
fessions and in the world of
sports and entertainment. With
this prestige, the NegrO will be
able to intermarry with the
whites and begin a process
which will deliver America to
our cause." •

Rep. Abernethy warned
that in. America today Corn- .
monists' and their dupes were
"helping to - carry out the
Communist plan laid down by
their faithful thinker, Israel
Cohen." This was an alarming
thesis. But an examination of
the facts showed there was no
"Israel Cohen."
- The quotation, the book,
and the alleged author were
all fabrications. No such book
is known to the Library of
Congress or the British Mu-
seum. Nor is it liSted by the
National - Union Catalogue
which has a record of every
book in 800 American librar-
ies. Federal and Congressional
agencies combatting . Com-
munism maintain biographic
lists of Communist personages
of all Countries. They have no
record of an Israel Cohen.
Rep._ Abernethy quoted
"Cohen" as referring in 1912
to the CommuniSt Party.
Actually, , t h e Communist
Party was not organized until
several years later.

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Herman Edelsberg, Washing-
ton representative of the Anti-
Defamation League, wrote to
Rep. Abernethy: Edelsberg told
him that he must have been
"victimized by a vicious fabri-
cation and hoax, the plain pur
pose of which is to exploit the
tense civil rights situation in
order to promote prejudice and
hostility against Southern Jews
by their Christian friends."
Mr. Edelsberg was not sure
all the harm "of the insertion
could be undone. Some hate
groups, he thought, would sure-
ly quote the provocative ma-
terial. He asked Rep. Abernethy
to arrange its deletion from the
permanent bound edition of the
Congressional Record. Such
deletion, Mr. Edelsberg suggest-
ed, should be accompanied by
an appropriate statement.
Rep. Abernethy was em-

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