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Soviet, afro Charges
Age inst Israel Branded
aseless' by Ben Gurion
No Cratvlin,g in America
Men of Couvage Rebuff
Nazi-Type Jew-Baiting
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright, 1958, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
WASHINGTON — Attempts to Americanize the old Euro-
pean sport of Jew-baiting are being rebuffed by spirited Ameri-
can Jews.
Jews are meeting dynamite and taunts with courage and
growing solidarity.
In one small city, outside the South, Jews were gathered
for a fund-raising dinner. The telephone rang. An anonymous
voice rasped out a warning that the building would be blown
up in a few minutes.
A few people tended to panic. But one of the honor guests,
the city's Mayor, seized the microphone. He was an Irish Catho-
lic who was attending in tribute to Robert Briscoe, former
Lord Mayor of Dublin, Ireland. The American Mayor told those
assembled to remain calm. He said the call was a cheap hoax
and that if the Jews ran out of the building the anti-Semitic
pranksters would have a good laugh.
The Mayor said he intended to remain exactly where he
was. He explained that he would give no anti-Semite the satis-
faction of a laugh at his expense. He instilled courage into the
crowd. Calm returned and the event went on to a successful
conclusion.
In another city, in the Deep South, an Israel Bond dinner
was scheduled. Spiteful pranksters, again anonymous, made
their threats to "blow up . the Jews." The threats came in
advance of the day of the dinner. The word got out. A few
people cancelled reservations.
But many persons who had never bought a bond decided
to attend. They did not like the idea of an anonymous anti-
Semite dictating when and where Jews must cancel meetings.
This is America, not Nazi Germany, and the Jews did not intend
to crawl.
The dinner brought over 300 guests. They purchased many
more thousands of dollars in bonds than the Bond Organization
had anticipated. Instead of producing terror, the anti-Semites
had inspired solidarity. So the Jews sang a rousing "Hatikvah"
and the American anthem. Police officers in plain clothes pa-
trolled the grounds. If anti-Semites lurked in the dark beyond,
they got little pleasure from the fervent singing. Nor would
they have enjoyed hearing the announced total of bonds sold.
In another Southern city an Israel Bond meeting in a
private home drew nine times the attendance anticipated.
A testimonial dinner for Mayor William B. Hartsfield will
be held this Sunday by the Jewish community of Atlanta on
behalf of Israel Bonds. A notorious bombing took place in
Atlanta after the dinner was announced. But at this writing,
despite attempts to further intimidate Atlantans, more reserva-
tions have been received than for any previous similar event in
the history of Atlanta Jewry.
Negro and white high school and college youths marched
together down Washington's Constitution Avenue recently in a
mass demonstration for integrated schools. From one group of
marchers came a familiar Israeli song. It was the "March of the
Palmach," sung by a group representing Habonim, Labor Zion-
ist youth. As the Zionist boys and girls marched by, Negroes
applauded. They did not understand the words. But there was
something forceful and moving that the song conveyed, even
in Hebrew, to people marching toward freedom.
Jew-Baiter Sues Bnai Brit&
for Label of `Anti-Seinite'
ARLINGTON, Va., (JTA)—George L. Rockwell, a former
Naval commander who publishes anti-Jewish propaganda in
the basement of his home here, has filed a $50,000 libel suit
against the Arlington Bnai Brith Lodge.
He claimed in the suit that he was damaged by statements
which the lodge had caused to be published and which, he
said, characterized him as an "anti-Semite." Actually, said.
Rockwell in the suit, Semites are "mostly Arabs for whom
the plaintiff has great sympathy as victims of Jewish
aggression."
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—David Ben - Gurion, Premier of Israel, told his Parlia-
ment that it is "inconceivable" that the Soviet government could be unaware
that there is no foundation for the "hostile and baseless slanders that appear
regularly in the Soviet press."
Even as he spoke, reports reached here of new Radio Moscow broadcasts
charging that Israel was making "war-like preparations against Jordan." These
Arabic-language programs beamed to the Middle East have kept up an incessant
parrot-like chatter of the "massing of Israeli troops" in readiness for a walk into
Jordan after the British troops pull out.
The Soviet Union, like other countries which keep missions in Israel, has
the "fullest facilities" for obtaining accurate information on Israeli developments,
the Premier pointed out. He expressed the opinion that the world does not place
reliance on "foolish falsehoods no matter who disseminates them."
Turning to Cairo, which has been broadcasting anti-Israel material in tandem
with Moscow, Ben-Gurion said it may be assumed that the Egyptians who in-
directly possess information about Israel publish lies and slanders out of "dema-
gogic and political motives." He added that the "military junta apparently believes
that the campaign of falsehood against Israel will further the subversive cam-
paign which it is conducting in all Arab countries in violation of Egypt's express
undertaking at the General Assembly.
"It may be," the Premier continued, "that it wishes also that its propaganda
campaign will compel Israel to announce its plans in the event of the disintegra-
tion of Jordan. Apparently, it cannot conceive that a responsible and democratic
government like Israel has not acted and will not act in accord with verbal
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Almond Warns Anti-Semites: Virginia
Will Not -Tolerate Violence, Bombings
RICHMOND, Va., (JTA)—Elements seeking to promote anti-Semitism in Southern States
"are not friends of the South" and are harming the cause of states' rights, Governor J.
Lindsay Almond, Jr:, said in an exclusive interview here with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency.
The Governor declared that Virginia will tolerate no threats or violence against public
buildings, "religious or otherwise," and those guilty "will come to know that the state
government is arrayed against them without any compromise."
Gov. Almond invited Milton Friedman, JTA Washington correspondent, to Richmond
for an interview because of the Governor's concern over the injection of religious prejudice
into the current school integration crisis.
Gov. Almond served notice that "if some misguided fool" attempts bombings, "I am
going to throw . every resource of this state into tracking down the offender who will be
tried and punished according to law.
He revealed that he is looking into existing legal statutes to determine their adequacy
to inhibit and punish terrorism. If necessary, said the Governor, "I will ask advice from
the Attorney General of Virginia on adoption of broader criminal statutes."
- He said Jewish citizens of Virginia may rest aSsured that their government in Richmond
will tolerate no anti-Semitic fanaticism. He recalled "the profound contributions of citizens
of the Jewish faith in this state to our common society in the areas of charity, civic better-
ment, culture, business and industry."
According to Gov. Almond, the use of the name "Confederate Underground" by anti-
Semites is "a desecration of the Confederacy and could only emanate from a polluted mind."
He said that "no philosophy of the true South could support" anti-Semitism or "such conduct
as bombing houses of religious worship." He added that nothing in the history of the Con-
federacy, in which Southerners of the Jewish faith participated, "could ever lend encourage-
ment to acts or even thoughts" along lines demonstrated by attackers of synagogues.
• Gov. Almond expressed gratification that bombings have not taken place in Virginia.
The Governor considered anti-Semitic violence so alien to Southern tradition that he specu-
lated as to whether it was to some extent being brought into the South by totalitarian
fanatics from other parts of the country in an attempt to exploit present tensions by in-
flaming religious strife.
"I can think of no Virginia citizen of sanity and influence who, officially or unofficially,
would not be revolted" by anti-Semitic terrorism, said the Governor.
Gov. Almond called attention to section 16 of Virginia's Bill of Rights, a part of the
State Constitution. This section states "that religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator,
and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force
or violence, and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion,
according to the dictates of conscience; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice
Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other."
The Governor said the word "Jewish" could be used as well as the word "Christian"
in the Bill of Rights description of the qualities of forbearance, love and charity.
Gov. Almond also cited section 15 of the Bill of Rights as timely and vital in defining
the qualities necessary for preservation of free government. He read aloud its provision "that
no free government, or the blessings of liberty can be preserved to any people, but by a
firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality and virtue, and by frequent
recurrence to fundamental principles."
(President Eisenhower on Wednesday rejected requests by religious organizations that
he summon a White House conference against religious and racial bigotry and .bombings of
religious centers. Detailed story on Page 3).