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Fictitious 'Protocols' Spread by
Nasser; Vicious Attacks on Israel
Renewed by A rab States and Russia

LONDON (WJA) "I do not know whether or not you have seen a book
called 'The Protocols of the Elders of Z ion,' " President Nasser asked the editor
of an Indian magazine in the course of an interview last week. "I consider it
to be an important book. I will give you a copy of it in English. What is published
in it will show clearly to you that the fate of the European continent is in the
hands of 300 Zionists, each of whom knows all the others, and that they choose
their allies from their followers."
(The forged and fictitious "Proto cols" were exposed as an anti-Semitic
canard in the New York World by Herbert Bayard Swope. Simultaneously, the
forgeries were revealed to be the work of the anti-Semitic Black Hundreds of
Russia in the London Times. The anti-Semitic attacks on world Jewry by Henry
Ford were based on these forgeries. Ford later abandoned his anti-Semitic
campaign and apoligized to the Jewish people in a letter to Louis Marshall, after
losing a libel suit against him by Aaron Sapiro in Detroit. The anti-SeMitic cru-
sade of Father Charles E. Coughlin also had its roots in credence given by the
Catholic priest, in his magazine Social Justice, to the fictitious "Protocols.")
President Nasser, according to the World Jewish Congress Information
Department, made this statement in the course of an interview with M. Karanja,
editor of the English-language Bombay weekly Blitz. The full text of the inter-
view was broadcast twice in the Cairo home service and in a transmission of
the . Voice of the Arabs. •
The Indian journalist, in receiving the copy, declared, according to the
Cairo broadcast. "These are very impo rtant matters, Mr. President. I accept

—

German Embassy Suspends
N. 17. Consullate Employee
for Anti-Seinitic Remark

WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The Embassy of West Germany
made known here that an employee of the German Consulate
General in New York City has been suspended because of a
"strong indication" that the employee voiced anti-Semitic
statements. (A consulate spokesman in New York said that the
suspended official, Dr. Hans von Saucken, has been summoned
to Bonn.)
Press attache Robert Borchardt or the German Embassy
said "the principle of racial and religious tolerance is set down
rigidly in the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Ger-
many. The policy of strict compliance with this fundamental
principle has been stressed to all civil servants.
"When it was recently brought to the attention of the
Government that an employee of the German Consulate General
in New York had made an allegedly anti-Semitic remark the
government felt obliged to send a member of the legal division
of the Foreign Office to conduct an on-the-spot investigation.
"The Foreign Office ordered the immediate suspension of
the employee in order to maintain the standards of the Foreign
Service and to prevent any misunderstanding of the govern-
ment's policy and position in this respect."
The incident developed when von Saucken allegedly called
Max Beer, a United Nations correspondent for Swiss and Ger-
man newspapers. "a dirty Jew." The remark was made to
several reporters, but not in the presence of Beer.
Beer, an American citizen, a former president of the United
Nations Correspondents Association and a veteran of 49 years
in the newspaper field, cabled a protest to Bonn President
Theodor Heuss and Ambassador Georg von. Brioch-Oppert, one-
time German observer at the UN and currently head of the
personnel bureau of the Bonn Foreign Office. Beer lost many
relatives in the Nazi Auschwitz concentration camp.
After receiving no reply for five days from von Brioch-
Oppert, von Saucken's superior, Beer returned a decoration
received last year from the German envoy for his UN report-
age. Beer is equally prominent in this country and throughout
Europe. Last week, the German government sent Dr. Meyer
Lindenberg, an official of the legal department of the Foreign
Office, to investigate. The von_ Saucken recall followed:

Nasser's Viet;

Maurice Cohen-
Hemsi, 46-year-old businessman who left Egypt, along
with his family, after a friend had warned him to flee,
is welcomed to Denver, by J. Leonard Berman, president
of the Allied Jewish Community Council, a cooperating
agency of United Hias Service, which brought the Hem-
sis to the United States. Hemsi's wife, Alba, 42, is at
right, and his daughter, Becky, 16, and son, Claude, 18,
are in back in the doorway of the railroad car which
brought them to Denver from New York.

(Continued on Page 5)

Non-Jews Rally in Defense of Alexandria
Rabbi's Sermon Attacking Seg•egation

ALEXANDRIA, Va., (JTA) — The executive board of Temple Beth El cancelled plans
for a meeting to discuss an anti-segregation Yom Kippur sermon by Rabbi Emmet A. Frank
as important non-Jewish elements rallied to defend the Rabbi. Virginia's most powerful segre-
gationist organization had voiced a virtual ultimatum to Northern Virginia Jewry to "move
quickly to refute and condemn Rabbi Frank."
Mayor Leroy Bendheim of Alexandria is president of Temple Beth El's board of trustees.
The Mayor had 'previously indicated that a special meeting was being called to discuss the
sermon. As the situation developed, however, the board cancelled plans for such a meeting
and said "no meeting for the purpose of discussing the rabbi's sermon is contemplated."
Mayor Bendheim said: "The executive boar d of the Temple is an administrative body. Any
religious or spiritual matters are solely the province of the Rabbi." Frank said he was pleased
by the board's decision. He served notice that "I intend to continue my sermons on this issue
of equality for all people."
Informed sources reported that while displeasure still exists among elements on the
Temple's board, a firm determination developed to avoid any action against the Rabbi that
might give an impression of capitulation to the segregationist attack on the Jewish commun-
ity. The segregationists turned on the Rabbi after he told his congregation that Sen. Byrd, Gov.
Almond of Virginia, and Gov. Faubus of Arkansas have wrought more distmity•to the nation in
the last few years than Communists have done in years of organized effort.
Infuriated by the sermon, Virginia's largest segregationist group "The Defenders of State
Sovereignty" demanded that Virginia Jews "move quickly to refute and condemn Rabbi
Frank:" They said that if he had purposely co ntrived to destroy relations between Christians
and Jews "he could not have been more effective." Ex-Mayor. Beverly, a candidate for the
state Senate and a cousin of Sen. Byrd, accused Rabbi Frank of being a "100 percent integra-
tionist," of making "an untrue statement" an d of violating American tradition separating
church from state.
Replying to the attack by the ex-Mayor, Rabbi Frank said: "I have no desire to enter the
political arena, but since when is any arena divorced from Divine Guidance? Where there is no
leadership, the people stumble; where there is improper leadership, they fall. I am afraid it is
Mr. Beverly who stepped outside of God's arena, not I who stepped into the political arena."
The Washington Post devoted a special editorial to support the Rabbi whom it described as
a "courageous clergyman." The Post said that "as part of the community conscience members
of the clergy ought to feel free to discusss segregation and other public issues . . many
Virginia ministers have defied ostracism to do what they felt was their duty. Most members
of Rabbi Frank's congregation must find satisfaction, whether or not they agree with him, in
this indication that their rabbi is as courageous as he is conscious of his obligations as a good
citizen."
Eleven Alexandria Protestant ministers and a Fairfax County Unitarian minister rose
to the defense of Rabbi Frank. They said th ey were not concerned with what he said but
with his right to say it. They voiced "strong disagreement" with the attack on the rabbi
and said "church and temple, minister and rabbi, must endeavor to speak to the deepest
need of people." The Rev. E. H. Sommenfeld of Mt. Vernon Unitarian Church said segre-
gationists "held the big stick of anti-Semitism over the rabbi."
In a series or front page articles in t he New York Herald Tribune, Paul Tobenkin
reveals that the country is being flooded with anti-Semitic literature as a result of the plight
of Southern Jewry in the present conflict over integration.

