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September 04, 1959 - Image 9

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1959-09-04

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Anti-Semites Spread Ridiculous Rumor
That Khrushchev is Jewish; Eisenhower
Attacked in Propaganda Issued by Bigots

Strictly Confidential

by PHINEAS oJ. BIRON
The Israeli election campaign issue within the Mapai party
for a new Knesset is now in full . . . . It can no longer be denied
BY MILTON FRIEDMAN
felt . . . could be detrimental. swing . . . The big shots have
(Copyright, 1939, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
to the peace, good order and returned from their vacations that two main currents divide
WASHINGTON—As the visit
In 1958 NSRP voted to draft dignity of the city." Griffin was and have pitched into battle .. . the Mapai party . . . It can
of the Soviet Premier ap- Rear Admiral John G. Crom later indicted in connection
The political parties have drawn be described - as follows: One
proaches, professional ant i- melin, USN, Ret., as its candi- with the bombing of the Atlanta
up their platforms . . . Leftwing group claims that the best de-
Semites are spreading ridicu- date for President of the United Jewish Temple.
labor, the General Zionists and fense against the growing Nas-
lous rumors that N i k it a States. The Admiral shocked
Edward Fields, NSRP leader, Herut are straining every effort
Khrushchev is Jewish.
Navy colleagues when he voiced is listed by the ADL as a head to stop Mapai from gaining ser danger is an emphasis on
anti-J
e
w
i
s
h
sentiments
over
This line was "supported" by
of the "Christian Anti-Jewish enough votes to become again Israel's military strength . . . If
an allegation that Khrushchev, television.
Party" that picketed the White the dominant political party in need be, say these proponents,
when a youth, boarded in a
NSRP membership includes House in 1954. The NSRP pub- Israel . . . The difference among
Jewish home in Mariupol, mainly "White Citizens Council" lication is "The Thunderbolt," the parties in regard to domes- we will have to indulge, once
Ukraine, and "even learned to elements from 18 states. John a periodical that displays an tic affairs—while quite marked more, in a military excursion
against Nasser's legions so as to
speak and read Yiddish."
Kasper was the principal con- emblem reminiscent of the Nazi —will not play a big role in the
buy another few years of secur-
Other "evidence" was a re- vention speaker at Louisville, SS insignia.
elections . .. Israel, because of ity . . . Sinai proves our case,
port that Khrushchev in 1913 Ky., last year. Kasper is now
Law enforcement officials its vulenable geographical po- maintain the advOcates of this
sided with Mariupol Jews in a confined in a Federal peniten- planning protection of Presi- sition, is one of the countries
street fight against the "Black tiary as a result of rabble- dent Eisenhower and Khrush- in which foreign policy shapes policy ... The other opinion is
held by Mapai leaders who in-
Hundred" anti-Semites. It is rousing activities.
chev are aware that trouble the political strength of the
sist that the Arab dilemma .can
also alleged that Khrushchev's
could
come
from
the
under-
parties.
The Anti-Defamation League
only be solved by negotiation'
wife is Jewish.
Here's a rather strange para-
of Bnai Brith quoted Kasper world of professional bigots.
Such are the charges pub- as telling the NSRP he once The bigots scream their hatred, dox . . . while leftwing labor . . . These believers in negotia-
tions admit that Nasser or for
lished by the organ of the
thought "all problems would be basking in the knowledge that and the General Zionists op- that matter any other Arab
"National .Stats Rights Party."
solved if every 'Nigger' would this is free America where they pose Ben-Gurion's foreign pol- neighbor does stand firm against
The NSRP alleged that Ameri- kill a like' ... But he said he can speak their sick minds.
icy on the grounds that it is negotiations with Israel . . .
can Jews welcomed Khrush- had overestimated 'the Nigger Police sources gave reassur-
too aggressive and smacks of
chev's visit because "interna- mind'."
ances that immediate arrests the brink-of-war variety, Herut But, they say, even if Egypt re-
fuses, Israel must insist, clamor,
tional Jewry controls Ike, the
will be made in event of ac-
Kenneth C. Griffin, head of tions in violation of the law. attacks Ben-Gurion because his make it clear to the world that
State Department, the Red FBI,
policy is too weak- and appeas- Israel is pursuing peaceful Ways
the two old parties and NSRP in Georgia, was arrested
The FBI, Secret Service, po- ing.
to reach a settlement with the
Khrushchev. They are having in Atlanta when he and others lice and other protective instru-
Yet, a foreign policy is an aggressors who surround her.
their two stooges, Ike and sought to picket newspaper of- mentalities are on the job. They
Khrushchev, exchange - visits." fices. Police said "each of the are determined that the Khrush-
Newspaper reports from Is-
Dismissing the facts of Soviet arrested persons was carrying chev visit receive every chance
rael have given the impression
a
sign
that
was
very
derogatory
anti-Semitism, NSRP employed
to provide the results President
that Moshe Dayan, the former
Hitler's tactic of the "big life." to the Jewish people and we Eisenhower hopes to achieve.
commander in chief of the
Material circulated by an-
Israeli Army and now a Mapai
other group, "the National
candidate, represents the ele-
Renaissance Party," took a
ments who want to buy security
similar approach. It proclaimed
In the opening paragraph of by military force . .. And that
that "the enemy capital for
his new book, "T h i s Is My Abba Eban, former Ambassador
many years has been New York,
to Washington and Israel's chief
not Moscow . . . The most
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The ope, the cry immediately went God," to be published by
vicious atrocities against man- Jewish Agency for Israel pro- UP that the newcomers were Doubleday next week, Herman spokesman at the UN leads the
forces that base their appeal
kind have been committed by duced facts and figures to dis- being given preference over the Wouk states:
Jews." Accordingly, the real
"A Jewish friend of mine, a on negotiations . . . As to Ben-
North African Jews.
Gurion's stand? . . . It is some-
enemy is "the Jewish con- prove allegations that Jewish
As an example of the com- skeptic far removed from prac-
spiracy, which many people still immigrants from North Africa parative difficulties in absorb- tice of Judaism or belief in it what in between . . . He is un-
naively believe is Russian are subjected to offiCial dis- ing European and North Afri- — I must add, an admirable predictable, it is alleged, and
neutral as it were between the
`Communism'." criminatlon in housing and can immigrants. Joseph man with a keen mind one two groups . . . This interpreta-
NSRP urges its fellowers to
chill
evening
in
November
said
pointed out that 82 per cent
settlement.
tion is wrong . . . Eban made
demonstrate and picket. It used
of_the breadwinners in the Eur- to me rather shyly and casu- it quite clear that he believes
Charges that such disci-mina--
-.-the headlines: "Only Traitors
ally, 'This may surprise you,
Welcome the Jew, Khrushchev;" tion existed and was a root opean immigrant families had but can you recommend to me in negotiations from a position
and told members: "When that cause of recent disturbances by some profession or trade. any good reading matter on of strength . . . He recognizes
sadistic Jew, Khrushchev, comes North African immigrants in Among the North Africans, Hanukah? I think my son should the absolute necessity of main-
to your town or to a nearby Haifa and other centers, had however, only four percent had know a bit more about his taining a powerful army on the
city, go down and personally been aired following the dis- such qualifications.
Jewish background than he alert, ready to support diplom-
In a further refutation of bias does.' With a sidelong glance acy with guns if circumstances
tell him to get out of Christian orders.
America."
Dov Joseph, treasurer of the charges, Joseph declared that of wry humor he a d d e d, demand it . . . Dayan does
The FBI is believed to have Jewish Agency, told the press 70 per cent of all the chil- `Purely for culture, you under- represent a point of view which
comes quite close to the Herut
established surveillance over that while immigrants from dren who had been cared for stand, not for religion!' "
the NSRP and similar ex- North Africa constituted 21 per- in institutions of the Youth
It is in answer to such an policy but with one important
tremists. The NSRP went so far cent of the total immigration, Aliyah homes, he said, 90 per offhand and casual .r e quest difference . .. He does not be-
as to openly report its mem- they were 25 per cent of those cent were of Oriental Jewish that the author of "The Caine lieve in the expansion of Israel
bers were "arming" to make settled on the land—the more parentage.
Mutiny" and "Marjorie Morn- territory . . . If Israel has to
"arrests of treasonous public expensive form of absorption
ingstar" has written an expla- invade Egypt, the occupation
officials who entertain • bloody and resettlement. But while, German War Veterans nation of his faith.
must be only temporary, he
Khrushchev."
on the average, 31 per cent of Challenge Reparations
"Over the years," says Wouk, says . . . But even if Dayan and
The national organizer of the immigrants abandoned the
Eban one of whom must be
BONN, (JTA)—A widely cir- "a large number of people regarded as Ben-Gurion's even-
NSRP, Mat Koehl, actually ac- agricultural settlements for one
have
asked
me
about
my
view-
cused Gerald L. K. Smith, an- reason or another, the percent- culated German war veterans
point on Judaism. The implica- tual successor, place Mapai's
nother notorious bigot, of trying age of North Africans quitting magazine challenged payment
unity above everything else in
by Germany of reparations to tion has always been that there this election, the issue is being
to "whitewash" the FBI. In the the land was 34 per cent.
is
something
strange
in
the
ad-
the State of Israel for injuries
words of Koehl, the FBI is "a
The Jewish Agency official inflicted on the Jewish people herence of a modern writer to discussed in the rank and file
Jew-controlled. Red, race-mixing
a classic religion. I thought I of Mapai . . . It is unconceiv-
charged that a large number during the Nazi regime.
outfit."
might perform a service in able that Mapai voters will cross
of
the
North
African
immi-
FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover
The magazine, D eutsche writing out a fairly short and over to Mapam or to any other
grants
now
living
under
slum
was condemned by NSRP for
Soldatenzeitung, attacked al-
part because of this difference
his acceptance of a Bnai Brith conditions in Haifa had given leged "corruption" in the in- clear account of the Jewish . . . If the election were fought
faith f r o m a personal view-
interfaith award and his up homes in agricultural de- demnification pr o g r a m and point."
out on a personality basis and
velopment settlements or had denied that there was any real
"Negroidal nose."
not on proportionate represen-
To
be
published
Sept.
16
by
refused
to
occupy
new
housing
NSRP bragged, "we will re-
or legal basis for the payment
veal the Red record of the developments because they ob- of reparations to the State of Doubleday, "This Is My God" tation one would be able to
is Wouk's first work of non- gage the respective strength of
jected
to
their
location.
FBI" while the FBI studied
Israel. It argued this on the fiction.
these two currents . . In this
NSRP's own record. The nature He noted that when these grounds that I s r a el had not
"I have had the book in my election in which the party is
of the NSRP is revealed easily houses, which the North Afri- even been in existence as a
mind for about ten year s," the vote getter or vote loser,
to Jews by its mailing of stuff cans had rejected and which state at the time the Nazi says Wouk. "The writing and
like "The International Jew" had remained vacant, were as- crimes were perpetrated against revision took about a year and the big difference may however
prevent Mapai from increasing
and "Our Nordic Race." signed to immigrants from Eur- the Jews.
a half."
its strength.

Jewish Agency Denies Bias
Against North African Immigrants

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