JEWISH NEW-S. The Nazi Terror and the Nasser A Weekly Review Bluffs Editorials Page 4 of Jewish Events Pasternak: Self-Hatred Inspired by Soviet Anti-Semitism Commentary Page 2 Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle VOLUME XXXIV—No. 1 0 10igntgioPS1-%13 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE. 8-9364—Detroit 35, November 7, 1958 $5 Pp,- Year; Single Copy 15c 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 (Continued on Page 3) 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).