the famous Glubb Pasha who Arabs.
Former Detroiter Charles A. and an abandonment of the post- organized and commanded the
Israel. he said, triumphed ed that the Arabs be given
Madison, who is the chief col- war hysteria which has created Arab Legion in Jordan, is in militarily over the Arabs in more understanding in regard
lege editor of Henry Holt & Co., new fears and has aroused new this country for a lecture tour 1948 because the Western to their pride and aspirations.
New York publishers, was wide- tensions.
(Glubb Pasha delivered a
and has unveiled, in this city, powers refused to supply the
McCarthy and High Court
ly acclaimed by reviewers
Arab states with sufficient mili- similar address in Ann Arbor
His review of the era of Mc- the substance of his doctrine.
throughout the land when his
His pre,..;:hment was seen tary mater' .1. The arms em- last week.)
very informative book. "Critics Carthyism is especially valuable.
and Crusaders," appeared in He makes the interesting obser- here, on the basis of his Ameri- bargo enfc,:ced by the West in
vations that "the Senate's cen- can lecture debut, in the capit- 1948, he held, worked only
1947.
as advocacy of Western against the Arab side.
An enlarged edition of his sure of McCarthy served to slow al,
rapprochment with the Arab
The General, who was fired
b -
for
AND CLASS
well - documented studies of down
states and reversal of Anglo-
American labor leaders. social- ives." Justice Black, he writes, American friendship policies by Jordan's King Hussein, said
that Jordan's present economic
ists, militant liberals, anarchists, "was forced into the unhappy regarding Israel.
9-12:30 p.m. '-- $1.00
difficulties are largely attribut-
utopians, dissident economists role of persistent dissenter dur-
The Balfour Declaration, is- able to the fact that the little
Don and Helen Hill
and abolitionists, has just been ing the postwar decade of big- sued by Great Britain in 1917, Arab state has been cut off
13224 Dexter
issued by Frederick Ungar Pub- otry and repression," but after
favoring the establishment of a from "its natural export route"
TO 5-7660
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fishing Co. (131 E. 23rd, N. Y. the rebuke to McCarthy, "the Jewish homeland in Palestine, via Haifa.
Supreme
Court
became
even
10), with additional chapters on
is seen by Glubb Pasha as the
the New Deal, McCarthyism and more helpful in abating the root cause of all present Middle
three important figures who witch hunt. It began to exam- East difficulties. The United
c' were not dealt with in his orig- ine more closely the violations States, he holds, "fell into the
inal work — the late Senator of individual rights."
Many years of research have same trap" of offending the
George W. Norris. Supreme
Arab nationalists when it en-
Court Justice Hugo Black and gone into "Critics and Crusad- dorsed the Balfour Declaration.
ers,"
and
the
result
is
a
mag-
Wm. E. Hintz Prop.
former Vice President Henry A.
Glubb Pasha made his Ameri-
nificent contribution to liberal
Wallace.
MOVED TO
corn- thinking, to fair evaluation of can lecture debut here before
In the original text,
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facts. to a recognition of the 1,000 members and guests of
133 E. GRAND RIVER
pletely reproduced in this
the Middle East Institute and
Corner Broadway — 1 Block from old location
right to protest.
volume, Madison evaluated
the
the
English-Speaking
Un-
-All the important figures in
We make shoes, boots, arches and lasts from plaster costs.
the abolitionists, William Lloyd radical movements, the major ion.
SAME CRAFTSMEN FOR 30 YEARS
Garrison, Wendell Phillips
He
declared
that
the
Arabs
factors in labor unionism, the
Ready Hand Made Orthopedic Shoes and Cork Extension Shoes
and others; anarchists. includ- great reformers of our time, believe Britain deliberately
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ing Henry David Thoreau and
pass in review in this volume. aimed at injuring the Arabs
Emma Goldman; "dissident
when
it
"built"
a
Jewish
State.
It lends itself well as as text-
"not
economists," Henry George
book on American liberalism, as Asserting that he would
among them; "militant lib-
a guide toward an acceptance for a moment defend the ter-
erals- like John Peter Alt-
°f the highest principles of : rible muddles over these pro-
blems," he held that the Wes-
geld and Lincoln Steffens, Am e r- 1 c an democracy
•
and eminent socialists, includ-
ing Eugene V. Debs and John
'
•
Reed.
Figuring also in this inter-
esting portrayal of critics, crus-
aders, social reformers and
many types of liberals are Sam-
uel Gompers. Benjamin Tucker. ,
Thorstein Veblen, Thomas Jet-. In "Spinoza and the Rise of ' The author maintains that
Liberalism," published by Bea- "Spinoza. excommunicated by
ferson, and scores of others.
Dissenters Disdaimed
con Press (25 BeacOn St.. Bos-: the Jews. had found no spiritual
In-
Pointing in his preface to the 4 ton 8), Lewis Samuel Feuer has home among the Gentiles.
new edition that "we have been incorporated a thorough analy- deed. he remained spiritually
intolerant of dissidents and ex- sis of the excommunication -of: excommunicate a m o n g t h e
tremists" in recent years. Madi- Baruch Spinoza and the influ-; Christians . . . Spinoza made it
son writes: ence of time upon Jewishi clear that he was not among
as an ex-
"Whereas all through the 19th leaders who pronounced the de- i the Christians
century it was permissible for cree of anathema (the cherern):1 communicate
Jew who remained
.
radicals and reformers to speak upon the Jewish - philosopheri excommunicate from all organ-
their minds freely and to advo- i who left the Jewish fold. I ized religion. Spinoza's life had
cate their views openly. the em- I Feuer maintains in this work' an enforced solitariness . . . "
phasis of the present turbulent that Spinoza held that the! Feuer describes Spinoza's af-
century—the New Deal period "foundations of their religion" fection for Clara Maria van dan
excepted — has been on con- had well-nigh "emasculated" Ende and he asks whether mar-
minds of the Jews. He as riage was a possibility between
fortuity and acquiescence. With the
the beginning of the cold war . serts that "Spinoza denied out- the two. He then relates that
Communists and their sympa- right that the Jewish corn- Clara was married in the Ro-
thizers have been disdained and munity had the authority to man Catholic Church. that "her
damnified as enemies of our so- excommunicate anyone." involvement in modern - modes
ciety: reformers have been ac- ' The charge is made that of thought had not emancipated
Spinoza was tried by a court her from loyalty to her church."
tively discouraged. and those -
who persisted were harassed and in which the i n f 1 u e n c e -0 f and the author insists that:
book. there- wealthy commercial magnates "Spinoza would never have sub-
hurt. - In his new
fore. he deals generally with was paramount." To prove his mitted to the marriage ritual
trends and events "from the point. Feuer lists the judges I of a Catholic priest, let alone
point of view of representative and states that "five were convert to Cwtholicisne, as his
critics and crusaders.- among the chief shareholders of rival for Clara 's hand felt con-
to do. -
"Critics and C r u s a d e r s" the Dutch West` India Co. in strained
serve an important purpose. It 1656 and 1658."
evaluates conditions and by Amsterdam Jewry's elders Lodz Maintains Jewish
mere presentation of facts en- the author states. watch
Library With Books in
courages more tolerant attitudes Spinoza's intimacy with the un
frocked Jesuit, Van dan Ended Yiddish and Hebrew
and his comradeship with Men-
VIENNA (JTA) — The city
Painting by Israeli Artist
n o n i t e religious communists of Lodz, Poland, maintains a
Given Hartford Atheneum and republican antimonopolists Jewish library consisting of
,
A water color by the Israeli "The elders valued their hold- 15.000 books, most of them in
painter. Mordechai Avniel, was ings and influence with the Yiddish ' and Hebrew. accord-
presented to the Wadsworth trading companies," Feuer ing to a report in the Warsaw
Atheneum of Hartford, Conn., states to emphasize his point. Y i d d i s h-language newspaper.
by the America-Israel Cultural He states that if to Spinoza Folkshtimme, received here.
Foundation at a reception at the these elders seemed the pathe
The report
the
Pulitzer Galleries. The presenta- tic exponents of superstition
...the library
has 300 states
regular that
readers.
tion was made by Samuel Rubin, and reaction, they were to.
president of the America-Israel community at large the living The most popular authors
among are
the Sholem
library's
regular
Cultural Foundation. and was symbols of its unity." He adds: readers
Aleichem.
There have been worse
accepted for the museum by
Sholem Asch, I. L. Peretz. and
judges and more cruel men
You'll exclaim over the amazing vitality of
John D. Britton, vice-president
Mendele Mocher Seforim.
than those who excommuni-
this popular rew novel by the author of
of the Atheneum's board of
cated Spinoza. The real trage- Rabbi Eisendrath Leads in
" Battle Cry." Telling the story of "Kitty
trustees.
dy- was that the persecuted
The water color, presented to
Fremciht, a somewhat anti-Semitic despond-
Jews had imbibed something `Churchman of Year' Poll
the Wadsworth Atheneum, was
ent widow, and Ari Ben Canaan, whose life
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Rab-
of the intolerance of their
chosen for the Hartford museum
was devoted to enabling refuge Jews to get
bi Maurice E. Eisendrath, presi-
persecutors."
by its director, Charles Cunning-
into Palestine—the book abounds in courage,
In his analysis of the influ- dent of the Union of American
ham. from a collection of 42
idealism and action. Get your copy of this
water colors, 23 oils and 13 ence of Spinoza on liberalism, Hebrew Congregations, emerg-
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nominated
for
hon-
Pulitzer Galleries until March 7. that "the political philosophy
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Apologist
Charles Madison Issues Enlarged Israel Attacked by Glubb Pasha, Arab
"Warmer approaches" should
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Lt tern powers, in general, have
made toward the Arabs by
Edition of 'Critics and Crusaders''-- Gen. Sir John Bagot Glubb, sought to divide and exploit the be
Americans, he advised. He ask-