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VOLUME XXXIV—No. 12 ioR n igioPsi%p 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE 8-9364—Detroit 35, November 21, 1958 $5 Per Year; Single Copy 15c
Limelight Focused on Anti-Semitic Exploitations:
FBI, Attorney General Study
'Hate Mail' Problems; Jewish
enders Differ on Incidents
JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News
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NEW YORK, (JTA)—Community tensions arising out of synagogue. bombings
and other anti-Jewish outbreaks in the South have not changed the "fundamental
good relations" between Southern Jews and their neighbors, the president of
Bnai Brith said on Sunday. "There is no real rupture in the religious harmony
and interaction of the Southern community that have made it comfortable for
Jews to live there," Philip M. Klutznick reported to the 115th annual meeting
of Bnai Brith.
He warned, however, that "the Southern atmosphere will be clouded with
anti-Semitic tensions so long as organized Jew-baiting movements are free to
exploit the South's dilemma over desegr egation." "The anti-Semite and the 'hate
mail' publisher fish in troubled waters," Klutznick added. "The special upheaval
that has been sweeping across the South is tailored to the disruptive patterns of
the professional bigot." He said that mu ch of the hate literature now being dis-
tributed throughout the South is ".carpetbagging stuff — Northern in origin and
trying to disguise itself with a Southern accent."
On another platform here at the same time, Jewish organizations which
seek to frighten American Jewry with "revival of organized anti-Semitism" in
this country, following the recent bombings of synagogues in a number of cities,
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Israel Offers to Compensate Arab.
nefugees; Eban Presents Terms to UN
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (JTA)—Israel told the United Nations it is willing to pay
compensation to the Arab refugees if the Arab states agree to integrate those refugees in
Arab lands, and if the Big Powers help Israel to assume the financial burden.
This formula was laid officially before the United Nations by Israel's delegation chair-
Man, Abba Eban, in the General Assembly's Special Political Committee which has been
debating the Arab refugee issue for the last ten days.
Eban's formulation was as follows: "The b asic solution of the refugee question lies in
the integration of the refugees in the countries where they have been for the past decade,
and where they live among their own kinsmen. •
"If such a solution by integration were actually carried out and, if the international
assistance offered in 1955 were available, Israel would be prepared to pay compensation
even before the achievement of a final peace settlement, or the solution of other outstanding
problems."
Eban's mention of the 1955 offer of assis tance referred to a major policy address made
in August of that year by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who at that time declared
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Southern Jewry Resents 'Meddling' by New York Senators
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright, 1958, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
WASHINGTON — Jewish Southerners are re-
belling against the army of New York politicians
When two Republican Senators flew South to
look into synagogue bombings, their 48-hour junket
was in fulfillment of a New York election promise.
(Editor's Note: The two New Yorkers who went. on
a two-day Southern investigation to fulfill campaign
pledges were Senator-elect Kenneth Keating and Senator
Jacob Javitz.)
Southern Jews were reassured and pleased
when Southern Governors denounced anti Semitism.
But the temperature of their Southern blood rose
when Northern leaders of national Jewish organ-
izations condemned the very same governors for
creating a climate conducive to anti-Semitic terror-
ism by defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Southerners felt that to accuse these governors of
promoting anti-Semitism was a case of "guilt by
association" and poor community relations.
Many Jews felt their "plight" worsened
when a New York City daily tabloid carried a
series on the plight of Southern Jewry. Sensa-
tionalistic exaggeration was used. The series
condemned important Southern police officials
-
as anti-Semites. The charges were vague, in-
eluding . rumors along with fact.
Atlanta Jews were embarrassed when two air-
one of
borne New York Republican politici ans, al
ews
idst.
had been eceiving
excellent support from the
r
Democratic Mayor of Atlanta and full cooperation
from the city's distinguished police chief. Neither
Jews nor non-Jews desired two New Yorkers, lead-
ing civil rights advocates, to "meddle."
Georgia's Senators Talmadge and Russell
advised the two New Yorkers to explore violence
in New York City's public schools before probing
a situation in another area of the country. Many
who did not share the civil rights opposition of
.
the Georgia Senators agreed with them.
In every Jewish community south of the Mason-
Dixon line there was one topic of conversation. It
was the rise of anti-Semitism, bombings, and
threats. More than anything else, Southern Jews
wanted the good relations with the people among
whom they lived. They especially wanted rapport
.
and friendship with their local officials.
Requests were repeatedly made by Southern
members of national Jewish groups for local clear-
ance of 'statements on issues involving Jewish resi- .
dents of a locality. If their governor was moving
against anti-Semitism, Jewish residents felt it catas-
trophic for him to be condemned in New York by
their national group.
Sou thern Jew s conceded that the created
Ne gr o
of l and ri ghts
an atmosphere for general bigotry. But they felt
it tactfully unsound and simply untrue to brand
all on the other side of the school controversy
as "anti-Semites."
To Southern Jewry, the situation was personal .
and immediate. It demanded pinpoint accuracy and
careful diplomacy.
President Eisenhower went out of his way
during the election campaign to deplore the bomb-
ing of schools and synagogues. He made known
that he was "studying" a suggestion that he call a
national emergency conference under White House
auspices to rally public opinion against religious
and racial bigotry. But the day after the election,
Mr. Eisenhower expressed opposition to such a
conference.
This helped convince Jewish residents of the
South they should not go "out on a limb" in the
school controversy at a time when national leader-
ship by the Federal Government seemed lacking.
Such were the views conveyed to this reporter
by the South's Jewish leaders.