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THE DETROIT JEWIS H NEWS — Friday, June 17, 19 60 —
Nixon Scores Arab Boycott, Says
Purely Commentary U. S. Must Press for Effective
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
General Josef Haller: Bloodiest of Anti-Semites
When Gen. Josef Haller, who was then a minister without
portfolio of the Polish government in exile in France, came to
Detroit in February of 1940, he admitted, in an interview he then
gave to the late Philip Adler, that "Polish troops had been
raised on the anti-Semitic traditions of the czar." He added:
"There were excesses. I do not condone them." He was referring
to some of • the worst pogroms in history for which his troops
were responsible.
While he was apologetic in that interview, it is a matter of
record that the Polish general, who died in London on June 5, at
the age of 87, was responsible for many of the outrages. During
the Haller era, Jewish homes in Poland were plundered, Jewish
women were violated, the beards of pious Jews were cut with
swords of Polish soldiers, Jews were hurled to their death from
fast-moving trains by anti-Semites who refused to permit them
to use the railways.
It was no wonder that there were protests against Haller
calling himself the Polish "goodwill ambassador" when he came
here. His name has gone down on record among the bloodiest
and cruelest anti-Semites.
Action for Free Passage in Suez
Although use of the airbase race or religion are entirely in-
CHICAGO — Vice President
Nixon, in a letter to Bnai Brith leased from Saudi Arabia is consistent with the fundamental
outlining his views on several "vital from the standpoint of principles upon which our na-
Middle East issues, declared our national security," Nixon tion was founded, and which
that the United States, while acknowledged "a serious draw- represent in essence the great-
seeking to promote a "mutually back in the arrangements" in ness of America."
(Abdel Kader Hatem, United
acceptable" Arab - Israel settle- that American troops assigned
ment, must continue to press for to Dhahran require visas which Arab Republic official, in a
effective action that will open Saudi Arabia denies to Jewish statement in Cairo, accused
Vice President Nixon of playing
the Suez Canal servicemen.
Nixon also stressed his "firm for Jewish votes with his state-
to Israel ship-
ping and pro- conviction that any discrimina- ment favoring free passage for
tect American tory practices on the grounds of Israeli ships in the Suez Canal.)
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Arab boycott
and blacklist-
Boris Smolar's
ing.
Nixon stress-
ed the need to
try "with dili-
gence and pa-
Top Rating for Jan de Hartog's 'The Inspector'
tience" to cor-
(Copyright, 1960,
rect the condi-
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
Jan de Hartog, a native of Haarlem, Holland, son of a
tions by which
theologian, was a run-away-to-the-sea on the Zuider Zee at the
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Saudi Arabia
age of 10. He knows maritime conditions, understands sailing
Nixon
American Jewish organizations are watching with interest
excludes American servicemen the results of Senatorial primary elections now being held in
and his writings reflect his early experiences.
Between sailing and life on the seas, he has written some of the Jewish faith from the some states as indicating to a certain degree the strength of
masterful works. His novel, "Holland's Glory," written at the age U. S. military installation at racial and religious bias in the respective states . . . Thus,
Dhahran Airfield.
in the Alabama primary Admiral John G. Crommelin (Ret.), an
of 26 in Holland, was an instantaneous success.
The
Vice
President's
'750-word
avowed racist and anti-Semite, came in second on a three-man
When the Nazis occupied Holland, he escaped to England
and served in the anti-Nazi army. He has written several highly- statement, dated June '7, was slate, garnering 51,591 votes which is about 13 percent of all
acclaimed books, and he is the author of two very popular plays, addressed to Label A. Katz, of the votes cast . .. In 1956, when he ran as candidate for Senate,
New Orleans, president of Bnai he received 112,000 votes, which was about 32 percent of the
"Skipper Next to God" and "The Fourposter,"
Hi-, newest novel, "The Inspector," just issued by Atheneum Brith, who made public its con- total . . . At that time he clearly identified himself as an anti-
Publishers (162 E. 38th, N. Y. 16), matches his most impressive tents Sunday in a speech before Semite through his speeches and through scurrilous "campaign
works with its power, its smooth-running story, his splendid nar- the annual convention of Bnai literature" which he distributed . . In the framework of his
ration and his deep understanding of the problem involved in it. Brith District 2 region of the recurrent theme—"The Hidden Force"—Crommelin has attacked
Jewish service organization.
"the Jews;" warned against "Zionist" individuals and distorted
It is a story about a Jewish girl, Anna Held, who, just
The Bnai Brith leader said the sacred Hebrew "Kol Nidase" prayer into an allegedly diaboli-
freed from a Nazi concentration camp, where she was cruelly
Nixon's letter was in response cal conspiratorial device . . . Although he did not win the Sena-
used for medical experiments, became the victim of a white
torial seat now—the winner was Senator John J. Sparkman—he
slavers' ring and was about to be taken to a Latin American to one he had sent the Vice
meeting
made
a striking improvement in voter support in Montgomery
a
President
following
country after paying for what she thought would be help to
County over an earlier campaign by winning 28 percent of the
get to post-war, pre-Israel Palestine. But middle-aged Peter he and Maurice Bisgyer of
Washington, executive v i c e County total • . . The major Jewish organizations are also watch-
Jongman, inspector of the Dutch Criminal Investigation Divi- president of Bnai Brith, had ing closely the Ku Klux Klan activity in the southern states
sion, discovered the plot, and fdlowed the white slaver and
Anna to England. Failing to secure the arrest of the member with Nixon several months ago. . . . They find that this activity is on the increase, even though
and sub-
of the white slave gang, Peter, in a moment of sentimental The two Jewish leaders met the hooded fraternities are still split into vying groups
again last week with the Vice groups . . . In Alabama, Florida, Georgia and South Carolina
weakness, undertook to take Anna to Palestine.
more than 100 crosses were lit in a well-planned "show of
President.
That's when • all the difficulties started—with Peter's wife,
strength" by the Ku Klux Klan .. . In some towns Jews found
In
his
letter,
Nixon
reiterated
who alerted the British and tried to stop him; with the British,
KKK signs posted on their doors with "invitations" to leave
U.
S.
policy,
which,
he
said,
rec-
who haunted his every step to prevent the infiltration of another
ognizes "that the independence town . . . The desecrations of synagogues is also attributed in
Jew into Palestine, then still under British rule.
some towns to KKK activities.
He took Anna back to Holland, had her meet his wife, and integrity of Israel and the
Protestant Views
countries
of
the
area
are
Arab
encountered an outburst of venom, nevertheless made contacts
Recently I brought out the sentiments of the Catholic
_ with seamen and reached Tangier. It was from there that he of vital concern to the United Church in this country toward Israel . . . I now have before me
States."
Palestine,
with
the
aid
of
a
Jewish
under-
Anna
to
was to take
Church in America, con-
Asserting that the Govern- a study on Israel by the Protestant
ground organization.
by the National Council of the Churches of Christ . . •
ducted
ment
has
"unequivocably
af-
But when Anna was examined, by the Jewish representative,
It was several months in the making and contains vital material
he was horrified to find in what a tragic state the Nazis had left firmed * * publicly and re- for American non-Jews . . • It gives a' full and favorable picture
her. The Jewish doctor demanded that she go to the United peatedly" its support of free- of the rights enjoyed by Christian communities in Israel .
States instead. "She must be photographed," he said, "a clinical dom of Suez Canal transit for Also of the protection which the Israel government provides
report must be made by an international committee of doctors all nations, including Israel, for Christian Holy Places in the country . . It estimates that
and the material must be sent to Nuremberg at once. Anyone Nixon added:
Christian churches and chapels in Israel
"We must continue to press there are about 160
seeing those photographs will hate and despise the Germans
Christians, mainly Arabs . . . The number of
about
47,000
and
for the effective implementa-
as long as he lives."
adherents to the Moslem faith is given as about 152,500 who
Anna consents to go to the U. S. But Peter's conscience tion of the principle of free-
hold regular service in about 100 mosques . . . The survey estab-
rom
of
the
seas
and
free
disturbs him, and he induces her to proceed to Palestine. It is
that the Israel government gives many forms of assistance
at this point that he makes a contact with the man who operates access to international water- lishes
to all religions, including repair of buildings of religious institu
the illegal vessels and he is assigned the task of taking a barge, ways, and the protection of tions . . . It deals with the status of Arabs in Israel . . . It
in which arms later are packed for the Palestinian Jewish under- the interests of American sea- emphasizes that about 80 percent of Arab farmers own their
ground, and only he, Anna and an Arab captain of a filthy men and shipping now being
own land and are steadily increasing their output with more
trawler make the long and perilous journey on the Mediter- discriminated against by the and more modern methods . . . It brings out the fact that the
ranean. They reach Palestine, only after Anna's life is sustained Arab boycott and blacklisting
Arab workers are protected by Israel's social and labor legisla-
with pills and drugs, and Peter wades back to the barge for a
policy."
tion . . . Also, that Arab members in Israel Parliament speak in
return journey and for fulfillment of a contract for the favor of
The United States, Mr. Nixon Arabic and addresses in Hebrew are translated for them . . .
having been enabled to take the Jewish girl to Palestine.
continued, "neither recognizes It explains why military government exists in Israel's troubled
In this powerful novel, de Hartog puts to good use his
nor condones the Arab boycott." border zones, where many Arabs live, and makes clear that the
knowledge of the seas. He also incorporates in his story a deep Consistent with this policy, he rules of this government are applicable to both Jews and Arabs
understanding of the Zionist idea and of the urge for a Jewish
said, "we must, by every avail- in these areas . . . The study also emphasizes that Arabs living
, State that sustained the survivors from Nazism. In "The In-
able and effective instrument, in Haifa, Jaffa, Jerusalem and other areas are not affected by
spector," the Jewish girl explains to the male hero, Inspector continue to pursue every means military government . .. It goes into all phases of Israel's life,
Jongman, when they first meet, after he had succeeded in to restore and protect complete- including the country's democratic form of government, Israel's
rescuing her from a cruel fate: "I don't think a Christian can ly private American interests in economy, the kibbutzim and Israel's aid to Afro-Asian underde-
realize what Israel means to us. In the camps, we talked about international commerce."
veloped countries.
nothing else. The camps were terrible, but, on the other hand,
The Vice President described Meet Your Leader
it was a sort of revelation. I had never lived exclusively among the Dhahran Airfield issue as
Adolph Held, president of the Jewish Labor Committee—
Jews: I found out that all sorts of characteristics I thought to
"an unsatisfactory state of af- the national Jewish organization which has a tremendous influ-
be personal were not personal at all, but . . . Only among
fairs — one which we cannot
Jews can I be myself. Myself, I, and not a generalization: a merely accept as unavoidable, ence on organized American labor when it comes to matters
of Jewish interest—has now reached the age of 75 . . . The
Jewess among the goyim . . ."
and one which we shall con- ever-active and ever-young Mr. Held enters the '76th year of
Peter, who has a daughter Anna's age-21—is deeply moved. tinue, with diligence and pa- his life as actively engaged in work of public interest as ever
He proceeds on his voyage of mercy. He loves his wife who does tience, to try to correct."
. . Not only is he the top leader of the Jewish Labor Com-
not understand him, he loves his daughter, but he can not turn
mittee, which speaks on behalf of several hundred thousand
back from his mission. He encounters soul-stirring experiences—
with loneliness . . . she will Jews affiliated with labor groups, but he is also the vice,-
the Bible-reading captain's inspiration, the Arab captain Ayoob's
chairman of the World ORT Federation . . . He is active on
assurance, when they get near the shores of Palestine, that Anna meet Him on the beach . . ." the presidium of the Conference of Jewish Material Claims
Meanwhile
Anna
hovers
be-
will overcome her illness, that she will survive her perilous trip,
Against Germany and plays a leading role in Hias . . . On top
that she and other refugees will get to the shore of the Holy tween life and death, but the of all this, he has recently become the president of an organiza-
Arab's
faith
materializes.
Land to be rescued because the Jews' "God is not among the
Jan de Hartog made a great tion actively interested in securing maximum government aid
stars, He is on the beach, waiting for them."
story
of the survival of a victim for elderly people . . . A meeting of this organization, held this
It is the same Captain Ayoob who, upon witnessing Peter
of
the
Nazi beasts and the ful- month at the huge Madison Square Garden in New York under
Jongman's horror when he learns that the trawler on which only
fillment
of her dream to be in Mr. Held's chairmanship, attracted many thousands of people
three of them are traveling to Palestine previously had sailed
Palestine.
Brilliant story-telling, . . . Mr. Held also is president of the association which pub-
on several trips with as many as 500 Jews packed in, all standing,
Jewish Daily Forward . . . He is the director of the
splendid writing, a thorough lishes the
at one time, in the stench-filled boat, in search for haven in the understanding
and
welfare section of the International Ladies Garment
health
of the Jewish
Jewish homeland, gives the Dutchman the assurance:
Workers Union . . . Previously he had served as president of
national
dream
helped
de
Har-
"Do not pity them . . . when they come to that land, they
the Amalgamated Bank in New York, a post he held for 20
are like waves of the sea ... when they have washed past, you tog produce a very great novel. years . . . A devoted friend of Israel, he is deeply interested in
Inspector"
deserves
His
"The
are left with envy. They possess nothing at all. But they have
top rank among our best novels. .various projects for Israel in this country.
God waiting for them. They are consumed with longing, we
.
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