(Continued from Pag:-! 1)
talk to the newspapers. He
licly the question which would told the Washington News: "I
disconcert the ignorant masses had no idea the article was
— . The death of Lincoln was going to get into the hands of
resolved upon. Nothing is easier the general public. It was
than to find a fanatic to strike meant to go only to a sup-
. . . The Jews will not hesitate posedly friendly group that is
to plunge the whole of Christen- interested in anything con-
dom into wars and chaos, in cerning Mr. Lincoln and his
order that the 'earth should be- Administration. There was no
come the inheritance of Israel.' " intention of an attack on any
The quotation is an obvious race or faith."
forgery. It also appears in a
When Grant was asked to
1915 pamphlet printed in Wash- comment on the alleged Bis
ington by one Conrad Siem, who marck quotation that "the Jews
claims that when he was in his will not hesitate to plunge the
teens Bismarck had confided in whole of Christendom into wars
him the truths that he did not . . . " he explained, "It never
dare to express to his contem- occurred to me that anybody
poraries. These "truths" Siem would take that part seriously."
carried in his head for more Finally, on July 15, Grant did
than 40 years before he set reply to ADL. His letter defend-
them down in a pamphlet de- ed the article as "correct in its
signed to promote a socalistic essential facts." He said that
system of land tenure.
the anonymous author of the
Both the Bismarck and Dis- article "does not even identify
raeli quotations also appear the Rothschilds, Disraeli, Judah
in a lengthy pamphlet called, P. Benjamin and John Wilkes
"The Secret World Govern- Booth (sic) as Jews. It is only
ment of the Hidden Hand," in the Bismarck quotation and
written by Maj. Gen. Count in your first paragraph that
Cherep-Spirodovich, one of they are so identified . . . Man-
the aliases used by H. Victor ifestly it is YOU who have given
Broenstrup, who was indicted the a r t i c le the anti-Jewish
by the U.S. government in the twist."
1942 aborted mass sedition
The General blandly con-
cases. Most recently the arti- fessed that only the first inno-
cle has appeared in Russell cent sentence of the Disraeli
Maguire's anti-Semitic Ameri- quotation appears in the book
can Mercury.
cited, that the rest—the crucial
One of the outraged — and part—does not. "Therefore," he
Christian—recipients of General grandly conceded, "as to this
Grant's mailing of "Lincoln and quotation, you are half right."
Rothschilds" brought it to the
General Grant has many Jew-
attention of the Anti-Defama- ish acquaintances, among them
tion League and the Washington officers of the Jewish War Vet-
Post. The Post resisted the erans. JWV undertook getting
temptation to publish the story a repudiation of the article from
of a colossal boner on the part General Grant. Late in July, the
of a high government official. organization informed ADL that
Instead it took a more consider- it had persuaded the General to
ate approach. It notified the issue a public retraction=in ex-
General that his article had change for a letter from ADL
been exposed as a fake and absolving him of anti-Semitic
undertook to get a repudiation intent. (In' fact, . the ADL' had
to straighten out the incident. never charged. the General with
The Post underestimated the such intent—only with ignor-
General's attachment to his ance of the facts.)
article. It found him evasive
But, when read, the General's
and uncooperative; he would retraction turned out to be
not say who had given it to him. something else: a combination
The ADL was concerned. of evasion and self-justification.
Until now the hoax had been Its firstparagraph merely said
circulated only in the anti- that he had discovered that the
Semitic underworld. Now for article had been "contradicted."
the first time, a respectable
Washington leaders of the
name was attached to it, giving Jewish War Veterans were ap-
it :greater currency and cred- parently satisfied to accept
ibility. ADL turned to the ex- this as a retraction. But the
ecutive director of the Civil ADL was not. Nor for that
W a r Centennial Commission, matter were some JWV posts
Karl Betts. The article was not around the country. Many of
only bigoted; it was historically these called for Grant's resig-
insane. Wasn't Mr. Betts em- nation or other action.
harassed by it? Mr. Betts shrug-
Nevertheless, on September 7,
ged the whole thing off. He said JWV leaders in Washington
he didn't see why his Commis- publicized a new "retraction"
sion was involved since it had from the General. They hailed
not published the article (al- his "courage," stated their "high
though it had gone to people on regard" for him and urged that
the Commission's mailing list.) the incident be closed. But all
Besides, he said, he didn't think that the new "courageous re-
the article was anti-Semitic; "It traction" contained was the same
merely shows foreign interfer- feeble explanation. It conceded
ence in the Civil War. Every- that the article "contains sev-
body knows there was foreign eral allegations and implications
interference — and all good that are unsupported by sound
Americans are against that, historical authorities and so are
aren't they?"
probably false." The General
The story about the article— added that he would not have
and about Grant's attitude—had, distributed copies of the article
by now, appeared in the Wash- to his membership if he had
ington press. The newspapers supected this, and that he would
said much about the content of read the letter to his convention
the article but little about its in October.
lies. Accordingly, ADL set down
This is a retraction of sorts.
the story of the fabrications in But hardly a "courageous" one;
a letter to Grant.
it doesn't begin to be a repudi-
Grant did not respond for ation of the falsehoods concern-
almost a month. But he did ing Jews; it in no way discour-
ages professional anti-Semites
from reprinting the piece. The
IF YOU TURN THE
anti-Semitic press continues to
VOCI•ri
use the article on the authority
•
of Grant's name. The anti-Sem-
UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T
itic "student" of Jewish affairs,
FIND A FINER WINE THAN
Philip M. Alien, continues as
editor of the general's Loyal
Legion Bulletin.
And, that, tragically, is where
the story of General Grant and
Milan Wineries, Detroit, Mich.
the vicious hoax stands to date.

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Seek Permanent Body to Discuss European Needs

GENEVA, (JTA)
A per-
manent organization of Euro-
pean Jewish community leaders
for regular consultations on
Jewish education, health and
welfare problems was proposed
at the final session of the 14th
annual overseas conference of
the Joint Distribution Commit-
tee.
The proposal was made by
Charles H. Jordan, JDC over-
seas director general, who was
chairman at the session which
was devoted to consideration of
future needs and policies of
European Jewish communities.
Henry S. Villard. United
States Consul General in Geneva
and resident delegate of the
European office of the United
Nations, told a dinner session
that a government by itself
cannot adequately meet the in-
finite variety of human needs
without the efforts of voluntary
ageraies in the fields of relief.
rehatilitation, education and
social welfare.

Yeshiva U. to Launch
$30 Million Expansion

NEW YORK, (JTA) — Dr.
Samuel Belkin,_ president of the
Yeshiva University, announced
a ten-year $30,000,000 building
program to develop two campus
areas of the university in New
York City. He said he expected
the program to be launched
within a year with both phases
under way by 1962.
The major project will be
construction of a mid-town cen-
ter on Manhattan's West Side
as part of the Riverside-Amster-
dam Title I project which has
been approved by the New York
City Committee on Slum Clear-
ance. The other project will be
the addition of facilities at the
University's Main Center in
upper Manhattan.
Dr. Belkin said that a trustee
development committee headed
by Louis J. Glickman, New York
realtor, was finishing plans for
the building program and for
a major fund-raising effort to
be undertaken as part of the
university's 75th anniversary in
1961.
•

Presenting greetings to the
conference on behalf of the
United States Government, Vil-
lard said the governments and
pr iv at e organizations have
complementary roles in the task
of helping the less fortunate.
Joseph- J. Linton, Israel Am-
bassador to Switzerland, paid
tribute to the work of the JDC.
He said that one of the facts
which has kept the Jewish
people in existence is their
readiness to help fellow Jews
in need or in peril. The envoy
expressed his appreciation of
such specific JDC projects in
Israel as Malben, the program
for the aged, ill and handi-
capped and extended to the
JDC his wish for "every success
in its great-hearted efforts."
Dr. William Haber, Univer-
sity of Michigan economist and
president of the World ORT
Union, credited the reconstruc-
tion of Jewish communal life
in Europe to the joint efforts

of American Jewry and the JDC,
working in partnership with
the newly-emerging European
Jewish leadership. He said that
the partnership has made pos-
sible achievements in 15 years
which otherwise might have
required generations of effort.
He called the new European
Jewish leadership "a small but
fittingly effective group of men
of the highest calibre."

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