THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS—Friday, November 7,

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Hate Mongers Capital i zing on South Segregation
Issue

Feelings run so high in much
of the South today that a speak-
er has only to "intone the word
segregation and he has capti-
vated his audience."
In these words, Nathan Perl-
mutter, former Regional Direc-
tor of the Bnai Brith Anti-
Defamation League in Michigan,
who now holds that post in
Florida, told a luncheon audi-
ence of Bnai Brith and commu-
nity leaders last Thursday that
"under the guise of segrega-
tion," professional anti-Semites
are whipping up a storm of hate
against the Jews in the South.
Perlmutter told of a meeting
of the Ku Klux Klan, attended
by a friend who is a New York
newspaperman. The meeting
was addressed by segregationist
leader John Kasper.
After failing to stir his audi-
ence with anti-Negro remarks,
Kasper switched his line, the
story goes, making a frontal at-
tack on the Jews. Only then, did
the audience begin to be moved.
Perlmutter said that Southern
Klansmen do not consider the
Negro a threat. "They can't
conceive of the impoverished
Negro—the person who `yesSirs'
him every hour of the day—
as a menace to their way of life.
"But when a John Kasper ap-
peals to Southern whites on the
basis of a Jewish threat, they
can see the tinsel of Miami

Beach and they listen to his
statement that Jews bought out
the Supreme Court when they
voted for integration.
"It is with this background
that the bombings of Jewish in-
stitutions can be understood,"
Perlmutter said. The Florida
ADL leader added that the
frightening thing about the
Klan today is that they are not
the sheet-wearing, whiskey tot-
ing images that we remember
from the '20's.. They are the
"people who border on respec-
tability."
However, with the bombings
of Jewish institutions, Perlmut-
ter said, the fanatics outstretch-
ed themselves, raising the anger
of a majority of the Southern.
ers, causing • government agen-
cies to lay down the law and
leading to the arrests in Geor-
gia, for the Atlanta bombing.
Perlumutter was asked, in a
question and answer session,
why the ADL does not stay out
of the desegregation issue.
He said the question was simi-
lar to the old one about "When
did you stop beating your moth-
er-in-law?"
"The ADL," Perlmutter said,
"is not involved, per se, in the
desegregation issue. You hear
talk that the ADL is entering
the issue, but the bombings and
the anti-Semitic literature from
the North are our concern. And
we were fighting the Gerald L.

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preme Court decision on inte-
gration."
In answer to another ques-
tion pertaining to isolated inci-
dents of anti-Semitism here,
Perlmutter said, "Since the
bombings in the South, all the
crackpots in the North have
come out of the woodwork. Of

course the crackpots are our
concern. We should be watch-
ful, but not alarmed."
The luncheon meeting was
chaired by Mrs. Samuel Aaron,
chairman of the Michigan Re-
gional Advisory Board of ADL.
Perlmutter also spoke at a pub-
lic meeting that evening, at
Cong. Bnai Moshe.

Ben-Gnrion Delivers Sharp Attack
on Nasser in Knesset Policy Debate

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Pre-
mier David Ben-Gurion de-
nounced Gamel Abdel Nasser
of Egypt in terms rarely em-
ployed by the head of a state
and said the only reason Nasser
should not be compared with
Hitler was that Israel would not
let Nasser do what Hitler had
done, although t he Egyptian

Kay Elected ZOA
Vice-President

Leon Kay was elected one of
the national vice-presidents of
the Zionist Organization of
America, at the national con-
vention held last week in Miami
Beach.

Abraham Borman, president
of the Zionist Organization of
Detroit, and Leonard Radner, a
ZOD officer, were elected mem-
bers of the national executive
council.
Gen. S. L. A. Marshall of De-
troit, noted military analyst,
one of the convention speakers,
told the delegates "the West
needs a vigorous Israel at the
center of a turbulence which,
having its own way, would
wreck every civilized hope."
Gen. Marshall recalled that
Lebanese leaders last summer
said "don't you realize we would
have already gone under if Is-
rael did not stand as a solid
rock, restraining our enemies."
And he added, "later in that
same August crisis I saw with
my own eyes that the weight of
the Israeli army was one of the
few props to any political sta-
bility in Jordan."
Speaking of Israel, Gen. Mar-
shall said "over there are people
who will still dare and risk and
plan with tremendous courage
because of a great dream. This
is the way man was meant to
be—to live life nobly, feeling
no fear of its challenge . . .
that is why in an era of world
danger we should hold high the
example of Israel.
"I have talked some 200 times
to American audiences in the
past two years about Israel's
Army and have tried by battle-
field anecdote to make others
aware of how the high action
of its soldiers reflects accu-
rately the high, warm heart of
their people. What I know of
them ever reminds me of the
words of Marcus Aurelius: 'Only
those who walk in contempt of
death are fit to live life fully.'
Israel lives life to the brim."
Gen. Marshall recalled a con-
versation with Israel Prime
Minister Ben-Gurion, recalling
that the latter said "mankind
needs 20 years of peace. Then
we will have it won. I believe
that by hard trial we can do it.
Israel is not too worried about
the Middle East. For some years
ahead, we can hold our own,
provided we are given a little
help. There will be no truly
threatening outbreak. As to
the larger prospect, it depends
above all on the United States,
whether its government a n d
people will repair to greater
strength sufficient to their task
of world leadership. Either that
will be done or no system of
alliances, no man-made miracle,
may save Israel, the United
States and the noblest of all
ideals."

dictator was equal to those
crimes.
Ben-Gurion's polemic came in
a debate on a Communist mo-
tion in the Knesset calling for a
reversal of Israel's pro-Western
policy. The opposition parties
voted solidly with the govern-
ment to reject the Communist
motion which received the vote
of only two Communist depu-
ties.
In dealing with the Commu-
nist motion, Ben-Gurion ex-
pressed Israel's sympathies with
the Arab liberation movement
but stressed that that move-
ment must not be identified
with "the oppressive imperialist
dictatorship of a soldier who
crushes his own land and people
and bankrupts them by spend-
ing the fruits of their sweat on
arms from Communist coun-
tries and wants to dominate
other peoples and the whole of
Africa."
He told the Knesset that
"Nasser's ambitious and the
aims of the Arab liberation
movement are two opposite
things." He accused Nasser of
using against Israel and the
Jewish people "the techniques
of Hitlerite propaganda" and
mentioned that Nasser had
given an Indian journalist a
copy of the notorious "Protocols
of the Elders of Zion."
Discussing Israel's arms pur-
chases from the West, Ben-Gur-
ion said: "We do not want to be
dependent on the mercy of
Egyptian, Iraqi and other dic-
tators." Egypt was obtaining
Soviet arms, he said, not to im-
prove the wretched conditions
of her peasantry but for warfare
against Israel. "We will do ev-
erything to prevent encircle-
ment by Nasser," he exclaimed.
"How we will do it, I abstain
from saying."
Ben-Gurion concluded his dia-
tribe by stating that he had not
been surprised by Communist
identification with Col. Nasser,
since in the past the Commu-
nists had allied themselves with
Hitler, too.

Algerian' Terrorists
Raid .Jewish Shops;
One Couple Killed

Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News

ALGIERS — Bombing attacks
against two Jewish-owned shops
by Algerian nationalist terror-
ists who penetrated into the
center of the city's Jewish sec-
tion, have aroused grave con-
cern among Algerian Jews, it
was reported Wednesday.
In the first attack, _Mr. and
Mrs. A. Chebat were seriously
wounded and later died after
their shop was hit by a hand
grenade. A week later, a shop
belonging to 74-year-old Moise
Zerbig was damaged in a sim-
ilar attack.
Many Jewish merchants re-
sponded to the bombings by
transferring their businesses
and offices to other parts of the
city.
Algerian Jewish leaders said
they believed the attacks were
meant to force Jewish mer-
chants to quit the area and to
force them to aid the Algerian
nationalist movement. They also
expressed fears that such at-
tacks would continue despite
police reinforcements brought
in by French authorities.

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