D. C. Jewish Council Calls Incidents TViiggerated,' Declares Culprits 'Have No Substantial Following' WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The Washington Jew- ish Community Council states it had been in con- stant communication with law enforcement agencies to the anti-Semitic propaganda activities of George Lincoln Rockwell and his "American Nazi Party" and had found the District of Columbia authorities "deeply concerned." The Council said that both the District and Fed- eral authorities "have the situation under active investigation." It pointed out that distribution of leaflets by Rockwell's group did not violate any law, nor did his solicitation of funds since the local ordinance applied only to "charitable" not "polit- ical" solicitations. The statement characterized -published reports of the Rockwell group's activities as "gross exaggera- tions." It asserted that Rockwell "has no substan- tial following or any financial resources to speak of." Washington Jewish leaders, it said, continue Nasser Betrays Hammarskjold 1960 Challenge to U. S. Jewry Israeli Arab's Plea for Amity Editorials Page 4 alert to Rockwell's activities but "the Jewish com- munity as a whole has had little or no occasion to feel disturbed or alarmed. Rockwell is avid for publicity. It would be ill-advised and a disservice to the Jewish community to take any steps that would afford him such publicity or the public plat- form he so desperately seeks." The Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith earlier had voiced concern at the Navy's attitude in retaining Rockwell as a full-fledged reserve of- ficer after knowledge of his Nazi activities - Navy indicated that Rockwell, as a reserv; mitted "free speech" on "political" - the issue has been described by tho r mental stability and reckless fa • Herman Edelsberg, Was e.\.1 had described the leaflet,- c. :V„ insulting seen in mar The material o white fears of Negro strict of (.) Columbia. Alleging a growing Negro majority, hand- bills said: "White Man Are You Going to Be Run Out of Your Nation's Capital Without A Fight?" But it was stressed that the real enemy was the Jew who was accused of responsibility for Negro integration efforts. The Rockwell propaganda included the defiant advocacy of Nazism augmented by the assertion that "we will shortly give you Jew traitors the gas chamber, like the Rosenbergs." A charge was made that the Negro organization, the NAACP, was run by Jews and that its president was "as ugly and repulsive looking a little New York Kike as you ever saw." It was alleged that `the Jews agitate and goad" the Negroes to ..olence." But "this does not mean we should hate or injure the Negro. The Negro, like us, is the in- nocent, ignorant victim of the Jew-Communist plot to disorganize and mongrelize all of us so we can be easily communized and conquered." THE JEWASIINEWS W eekly Review of Jesvis' h Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle VOLUME XXXVI—No. 19 100% 1nU nionn Shop17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE 8-9364—Detroit 35, January 8, 1960 Nazi Mimics in Nation's Capitol C Tributes to Justice Cheshire and Hamburger Commentary Page 2 $5.00 Per Year; Single Copy 15c `One Hand' Believed Coordinating Worldwide Anti-Semitic Holocaust Anti-Semitic cells that were viewed as microscopic both in Germany and throughout the world suddenly developed into a mon- strous recrudescence of bigotry that has encircled the globe. While the manifestations of hatred are being described as the works of "vandals," and as the "sickness" of psychopaths," the manner in which the acts . of destruction, vandalism and threats have spread everywhere almost immediately after the daubing of a swastika on the - Cologne synagogue in Germany has shocked world public opinion. Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chief spokesman for world Jewry, who is readying to go to Germany to confer with Chancellor Konrad Adenauer on education efforts to eradicate anti-Semitism among German youth, stated in Jerusalem, where he is attending World Zionist Actions Committee meetings, that the simultaneous outbreaks of anti-Semitic incidents in various countries point to the existence of a hidden Nazi underground organization. He said there is "one hand" co-ordinating these anti-Semitic activities. Dr. Goldmann said that for a long time there have been sus- picions that fleeing Nazis had smuggled out of Germany large sums of money that are now being used to finance neo-Nazi anti-Semitic activities. He expressed the hopes that the new anti-Semitic outbreaks will dramatize for Germany the need for closer attention to the dangers. He said that while the outbreaks ahculd not be exaggerated, their importance should not be minimized. He added that West German Jews are presently too weak to elect even a single member of Parliament, but that West European anti-Semites are even weaker. He concurred with the views of many leaders that there is cause for _ concern in the fact that youngsters who purportedly _had not_ree6Ved the Nazi anti-Semitic "education" were responsible for 'the vandalism, and he added that the problem of German anti-Semitism would become particularly grave if West Germany became a strong military power. The anti-Semitic pattern was copied almost over-night in com- munities throughout the world, including the United States. Notting Hill Synagogue, Woburn House where the Board of Deputies of British Jews has its headquarters, Wildenstein's Art Gallery and the offices of the Jewish Chronicle, all in London, were defaced with swastikas. Garnett Hill Synagogue in Glasgow and the house of its caretaker, a Methodist, were marked with signs "Jews Go Home." Continued on Pages 3, 24 and 30 Editorial Firm Steps Against Nazism on All Fronts—in U.S. and Abroad _Desecrated Cologne Syna,sogne Spectators are shown standing in front of the synagogue in Cologne, Germany, which was defaced by vandals with .a swastika and the words "Juden raus" ("out with the Jews") daubed on it. This desecration was the first of an avalanche of anti-Semitic de- secrations by Nazi gangsters in communities throughout the world, including the United States. Callousness, indifference, complacency and policies of appeasement are responsible for the re-emergence of Nazism in Germany, and the attendant spread of anti-Semitism else- where. . • It is sheer nonsense to try to pin responsibility for the Nazi acts in European' countries on "a - Communist plot." The new campaign against Jewry is sheer anti-Semitism. It has been encouraged by„Many weaknesses — by the too-ready accept- ance of the view that the young Germans have not been in- doctrinated by Nazism, by the steed with which the world has forgotten the murder of millions of people by the Nazis, and by the failure of the kinsmen of the Martyrs, including the Jews, to continue the fight against Nazism in spite of the indifferences towards re-emerging bigotries that is evident in the ranks of the statesmen who control the fate of the world. A swastika painted on a synagogue in Cologne encourages similar acts in London and New York and Melbourne and Vienna. By striking at the root of the problem in Germany we would be demolishing anti-Semitism. Failure to effectively repudiate neo-Nazism in Bonn may result in renewed anti- Semitic arrogance in Washington. - The lesson is a costly one. Once again we are in the lime- light. Now there is need for action. The repudiation of all evidences of anti-Semitism must be firm and uncompromising. Proof should be provided quickly that a conscience-stricken world — a victor not so long ago over Nazism but now its victim — will declare itself against the new outbursts of bigotry; and that Jewish leadership will face the issues real- istically, firmly and by united action.