THE DETROIT JEWIS H NEWS — Friday, Octo ber 24, 19 58-2

Purely Commentary

Leaders of Major Communal Movements
to Pay Honor to Harry Cohen Tuesday

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Several hundred Detroit a wide desire to honor Mr. gratitude to Mr. Cohen for his
community leaders, represent- Cohen for his many services to more than 30 years' efforts in
their behalf. Mrs. Joseph H.
ing all walks of Jewish life, the Jewish community.
It's amazing how history repeats itself. It was not so long are expected at the kosher tes-
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, Ehrlich will be one of the
ago that some of our people were frightened by the rantings of timonial dinner to be given
outstanding world Zionist community representatives who
Father Coughlin, by the demagoguery of Gerald L. K. Smith, next Tuesday evening, at Hotel
leader and one of the archi- will honor him at the dinner,
by the avalanche of anti-Semitic literature that invaded the Statler, in honor of the 75th
tects of the Jewish State the. late Mr. Ehrlich and Mr.
sanctity of Federal and State legislators.
when the partition proposal Cohen having been associated
birthday of Harry Cohen.
The American way of fair play always forged to the front
was before the United Na- in many of Detroit's Jewish
John E. Lurie will be the
to repudiate the lunatic fringe. U. S. Senators and members of dinner chairman.
tions, will be the principal
Zionist and other activities.
Congress, State Senators and Legislators, in the main ignored
Greetings in behalf of the
Abe Kasle, chairman of the speaker at the dinner.
the foolishness of the lunatics.
Congregation Shaarey Zedek, Jewish Welfare Federation and
Detroit Israel Bond Committee,
From time to time, however, the crazed people become which is sponsoring the dinner, the Zionist Organization of De- the Allied Jewish Campaign,
violent. The insane were in the uniforms of the SS under Hitler. reported this week that the re- troit and the United Hebrew in behalf of which Mr. Cohen
There were blue and brown shirt squads in this country. Now sponse indicated community- Schools will be represented on had labored for many years,
we have terrorist dynamiters who, like the Nazis and the drunken wide interest in the affair and the program, and will express will be extended by the Feder-
pogromists in Czarist Russia before them, do not even respect
ation's president, Judge Theo-
the sanctity of houses of worship.
dore Levin.
Other participants in the
The extent to which insanity will driVe irrational people is
program will be Mr. Kasle,
being demonstrated by the flood of threats that are being
Robert Marwil, Rabbis Morris
leveled to synagogues and Jewish community buildings in several
Adler, Jacob E. Segal and Ben-
states, especially in the East—even more so than in the South.
jamin H. Gorrelick. Mrs. Jo-
It is a serious business, and it requires drastic action by
seph Markle will lead in the
our Government. The FBI should have acted earlier. There was
Lord Balfour, who, as Foreign National Sponsors, introduced singing of the national anth-
talk of the possibility of growing dangers to religious com-
munities. Some time back, Detroit's Congresswoman Martha Secretary of Britain's First Lady Fergusson at Wednesday ems, accompanied by Mrs. Nor-
man Allan.
Griffiths had introduced a bill in Congress to make the bombing World War Cabinet, issued the afternoon's gathering here.
of a religious institution a Federal offense. It took tragedies to historic B a 1 f our Declaration
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compel serious attention to the growing need for vigilance. pledging the establishment of
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Now, we may, at last, see real action.
Boris Smolar's
In full confidence in the American way of life, in Americans Palestine, always had faith that
and in American institutions, we believe that these are passing there would one day emerge a
phases in our life. We expect the bigotries to vanish—but they Jewish State in the Holy Land.
This was the assertion of the
won't vanish without firm and determined action against them.
Our national organizations, whose bombastic efforts of the past great - niece of the eminent
were subject to some challenges, are truly being put to the test. statesman, Lady Fergusson of
(Copyright, 1958,
K ilk err a n, who was here
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
Wednesday to address the Na-
'Guinea Pigs': Reminders of Nazi Gangsterism
tional Sponsors of the Detroit Atlanta Echoes
Jewish community leaders in Atlanta, substantial
Why do we forget atrocities so quickly? Why doesn't history Israel Bond Organization, at the
teach us our lessons properly and on time? Must we learn the home of Mrs. Jack Gorelick, contributors to national Jewish organizations engaged
hard way?
19444 Stratford Rd.
in combatting anti-Semitism, are highly critical of the
Lady Fergusson told The Jew- action of some of these organizations . . . They object to
"It was only the other day," an eminent writer reminded us,
that several million people were exterminated because they were ish News reporter of the family the fact that these organizations rushed into print with
gatherings at the Balfour home statements on the bombing of the Atlanta synagogue at
different. Yet, we forget!
We return to a painful subject—the Nazi terror—to remind and of her great-uncle's sincere a time when such statements might have done more harm
our people of what had happened, so that they should be on belief that Prophecy would be
fulfilled and that Jewish nation- than good to Atlanta Jewry . . . They accuse the New
guard against its repetition.
York organizations of attempting "to cash in" on the
It is not that we harbor grudges and think of nothing else, hood would be received.
She told of her initial inter- Atlanta case merely for the sake of publicity . . They
but because there are so many occurrences to remind us of the
est in Youth Aliyah work that expected these organizations at the very least to consult
period of mass murders by German Nazis.
Only a few days ago, we were told, in dispatches from was inaugurated by Hadassah. leading figures in Atlanta Jewry before giving their state-
Berlin, that, at this time, only 13 years after Hitler's Reich had She said that her cousin, the ments to the press . . . In fact, the Atlanta community
lost the war against humanity, Nazi criminals continue to hold present Lord Balfour, turned leaders themselves prepared a statement expressing
positions of importance even in the West German government over the major portion of his thanks to the non-Jewish population for the blunt con-
which is governed by anti-Nazis like Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. large estate for the training demnation of the outrage as a disgrace to all the resi-
It is necessary constantly to remind the world of what had of Youth Aliyah children prior dents of the city . . . However, after some of the national
happened only a brief few years ago in order that those who are to their settlement in Israel
Jewish organizations blanketed the press with statements
determined that Nazism should be completely uprooted should and-she spoke with pride of her
visit, with Lord Fergusson, in of a different nature, the Jewish leaders in Atlanta saw
be encouraged in their efforts.
In Munich, for example, the Institute for Current History, Kibutz Lavee where many of no point in being the last, instead of the first, to react
which is supported by the German Federal Government and all these children later settled, and with a statement on the synagogue blast . . . Thus, they
claim that the publicity-sick national Jewish organizations
the West German states, is gathering facts about the Nazi regime are now residing.
More recently, Lady Fergus- actually prevented the affected Jewish community from
and reportedly is waging war on a tendency in evidence among
some Germans to smooth over the faults of the Third Reich and son said, she began to realize voicing its sentiments . . . To the credit of organizations
that a struggling State like like the American Jewish Committee and the National
to make a Napoleon out of Hitler.
The director of the Munich institute, Dr. Helmut Krausnick, Israel cannot exist without Community Relations Advisory Council—they refrained
said that when he encounters Germans who exalt Hitler and economic security, and she from issuing press statements . . . This does not mean
excuse him, he replies: "You mean he was a great statesman therefore consented to devote that they were indifferent to the Atlanta case . . . On the
herself to appeals in behalf of
although a gangster."
contrary, they were quite active behind the scenes in
A perfect reminder of the horrors that were imposed upon the Israel Bond drive.
"I am proud to be a con- Atlanta and in Washington . . . However, they adopted
innocent victims of Nazism was the recent gathering at a banquet
in Warsaw of 54 women who were "guinea pigs" of the Nazi tinuing element in our family the attitude that if any public statements were to be
—the third generation of Bal- made, it was the communities affected which should first
criminals. No one would have guessed that these women had
fours and Dugdales—engaged make these statements . . . Especially, after President
undergone great tortures, judging by their chatter and laughter
at that banquet. But their tragedy was revealed in this story in the great humanitarian ef- Eisenhower, without loss of time, himself condemned the
fort in support of Israel," Atlanta terrorists and told the FBI it was high time its
from Warsaw in the New York Times:
Lady Fergusson told The Jew- agents take a hand in tracing the anti-Semitic attackers
"An outsider could never have known that these were the ish News representative.
surviving guinea pigs of Ravensbrueck, the German concentra-
Lady Fergusson comes to the of synagogues, and not to leave this work to the local
tion camp where experimentation in sterilizing, amputations, Zionist fold naturally—not only police alone.
bone grafting, forced infections and other grisly operations were because Lord Balfour was her
carried out on prisoners.
great-uncle but because she is Human Rights
"An outsider could never have known, unless he caught a the daughter of the late Lady
The question of hilman rights has always been of utmost
sight of some of the jagged scars on the women's legs, or seen Dugdale who, like her uncle ; importance to Jewish leaders .... It is a wider request advanced
them limp, or heard some of the brief flashes of hysteria when was deeply devoted to the cause by JewiSh leaders than the national minority rights which were
some of the women talked of what they had gone through.
of a redeemed Zion. Lady Fer- advocated by the defunct League of Nations . At the birth of
"The women, all of them former members of the Polish un- gusson first went to Israel in the United Nations in San Francisco I witnessed the fight be-
derground, had come to Warsaw to hear a New York physician 1950 and on her second trip, in hind the scenes by • Judge Joseph M. Proskauer and Jacob Blau-
tell them that there was a group of Americans who wanted to do 1958, with a group of six that stein for the inclusion of human rights guarantees in the UN
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something to show that the Ravensbrueck guinea pigs had not included her brother, Michael Charter . . . These two leaders of the American Jewish Corn
been forgotten.
Dugdale, Lady Violet Bonham rnittee had many obstacles to overcome at San Francisco, since
"Dr. William Hitzig, police surgeon of the New York City Carter and Lord Boothby, she neither . of the Big PoWers was anxious to submit to their de-
Police Department and a prominent specialist in internal medi- attended the unveiling of a mands .- . The United States was not then enthusiastic about
cine, came to Poland a few days ago. He was sent by an American memorial to her mother in the human rights iguarariteeS becoming part and parcel of the UN
program, because there was fear of the Negro issue . . . Soviet
committee that had flown some of the victims of the Hiroshima Balfour Forest.
atomic explosion to New York for treatment.
Lady Fergusson was married Russia was opposed to the inclusion of. the rights in the UN pro-
"There is no definite commitment at the moment as to what in 1930, the year of her great- gram, because it feared complaints of slave laborers. and of- op-
can or will be done for the Ravensbrueck women. Some may uncle's death. Her mother pressed national minorities . . Nor were, England and France
need medical treatment unobtainable here, but there are not passed away a day after the keen on including the human rights question, because of colonial
expected to be many such cases. There is a thought that other establishment of the State or considerations . Despite this tremendous oppOsition—,which
women may benefit by a trip abroad, or simply by the realization Israel—in the knowledge that did not,. however, come to the forefront, but was a matter of
that interest in them exists abroad.
the dream she shared with the behind-the-scenes manipulation — the American . Jewish leaders
won their fight . This year marks the tenth anniversary of the
"Polish officials and doctors have been cooperating with Dr. Jewish people was fulfilled.
The spirit of the Israelis, proclamation by the United 'Nations General Assembly of the
Hitzig. All the women have had new physical examinations. Dr.
Hitzig will report to the American committee, which is headed their unselfish devotion to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . In this connection I
advancement of their people's wish to draw attention to an excellent book "Human Rights and
by Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review."
Not all Germans are criminals. The Munich Institute proves needs, and the marked progress World Order" just published .. . Its author, Moses Moskowitz,
it. Dr. Adenauer often proves it. But the German people at in the years between her first is one of the top experts today on the subject of human rights
large, the world at large, even Jewry at large, must be reminded and second visits, were highly . . . He represents the Consultative Council of Jewish Organiza-
about the events of the past. Else, a Hitler may again be glorified acclaimed by Lady Fergusson. tions at the United Nations, and is active in UN circles advocat-
Mrs. Max Stollman, chairman ing regional implementation of universal human rights instru-
as a Napoleon. Let us beware of the dangers of the past by
of the Detroit Israel Bonds ments.
being on the alert. •

The Crackpots at Work

Balfour's Confidence in Emergence
of Jewish State Told to Women's
Bond Rally by Statesman's Niece

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