By MILTON FRIEDMAN -

(Copyright, 1961, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)

WASHINGTON — The Senate
debate over "racism" involving
an Alabaman made a director of
the Export-Import Bank of
Washington projected more
heat than light on the new
leadership of the Bank.
Amidst the chaos of con-
troversial facts, innuendo, and
guilt-by-association surrounding
the Charles M. Meriwether ap-
-pointment, the Senate unani-
mously confirmed another nomi-
nee to a higher position in
the same agency—Harold F.
Linder, who was named by Presi-
dent Kennedy to serve as presi-
dent and chairman of the Export-

Study Shows Cancer
Differences Between
Jews and Christians

NEW YORK, (JTA)—There
are no difference's • in cancer
death rates among Protestants,
Catholics and Jews in New
York but there are significant
differences between Jews and
non-Jews in the types of 'cancer
they suffer, according to a re-
search report in the Journal of
the National Cancer Institute.
The findings were inade by
Dr. V. A. Newill, a skin spe-
cialist at the Western - Reserve
University Medical . School, who
reported that Jews have a bet-
ter chance than Catholics of
avoiding cancers of the mouth,
throat, lung, gall-bladder, pros-
tate and reproductive organs.
The exception in skin cancers
is melanoma, a particulartype
of such malignant tumors.
On the other hand, Jews
demonstrate greater suscept-
ibility than PrOtestants or
Catholics to cancers of the
large intestine, kidney, brain,
thyroid, blood (leukemia)
breast (among males) and
liver and pancreas (among
females).
Newill said his findings con-
firm earlier discoveries that
Jewish women suffer less cervi-
cal cancer than non-Jewish
women, which has been attrib-
uted to the practice of ritual
circumcision among Jews. The
findings that Jewish males suf-
fer less lung, throat and esoph-
agus cancer has been attributed
to the belief that Jews use less
alcohol and tobacco.,
The skin specialists said
medical science does not
know why Jews should suffer
more from cancers of the
large intestine, brain a n d
thyroid and less fkom skin
prostate cancer s. Newlll's
findings confirmed those of
his Harvard teacher, Prof.
Brian McMahon, who did a
similar study of cancer deaths
in New York City in 1955.
Newill also found that with-
in religious groups, there were
no differences as to incidence
of cancer between native and
foreign-born victims. He de-
clined to speculate on the mean-
ing of the differences in types
of cancers as between Jews and
non-Jews 'except to note that
the 'Jewish group "has some
homogeneity of experience that
is meaningful in terms of can-
cer mortality."

Ben-Gurion-LavOn
Controversy Is Topic
for Public Meeting

Israel Stashefsky, member of
Kibbutz Soso, Israel, who is in
Detroit as a director in the
Hashomer Hatzair Zionist youth
movement, will discuss the "Fu-
ture of Histadrut in Light of
the Ben-Gurion-Lavon Contro-
versy" at a public meeting Sat-
urday at the Hayim Greenberg
Center.
The meeting is sponsored by
Americans for • Progressive Is-
r a e 1 (Hashomer Hatzair).
movie will be shown and a
social hour will follow with re-
freshments.

Import Bank's board of direc- organization they came to know
as "Joint."
tors.
When America went to war,
The Senate paid no atten-
tion to Linder's significant Linder joined the United States
involvement with racism— as Navy, became a commander at-
one of its•most effective foes. tached to the Bureau of
Linder left his investment Ordnance and the Secretary of
banking and brokerage business the Navy's office for procure-
in 1938 to help rescue refugees ment and material.
Near the end of 1944, he ob-
from Hitlerism. The Brooklyn
native Jew, then 38, responding tained the permission of the
to a request from the 'Joint U.S. Government to return to
Distribution Committee to aid the full-time volunteer task of
potential victims of Nazism, aiding refugees: Shortly before
went to Austria shortly after Germany's defeat, he went
Nazi annexation as a volunteer London to serve as JDC's
the
teer representative
and helped Jews escape.
on and
Assisting in direction of the Reparations Corn
al Commit-
Intergovernmental Committee the Intergovern
He worked
on Refugees, in Evian, France, tee on Refug
d other groups.
he formulated plans to move as with UNRRA
icipated in the
many persecutees as possible • Linder
from the Nazi grasp. He assisted first for ous negotiations
ussians to follow
in the organization of the co- with th
ordinating foundation headed the wa Moscow arbitrarily
dema d e d the enforced
by M. Paul Zeeland.
repatr ion of thousands of
Linder, according to JDC
displa d persons of Soviet
sources, worked quietly, with
origin. Included were ma
genius and calm devotion—
re-
o had no wi
Jews
but entirely without personal
Union.
turn to
publicity. He searched the
Linder and his associates suc-
world for countries that
cessfully fought Moscow's de-
.would accept Jewish refugees.
mands.
Many barred their entrance.
Much of the work in which
Time was growing short. Con-
centration camps grew more Linder took part is described in
"The Saving Remnant" by Her-
crowded.
Linder went twice to even bert Agar, a narrative of JDC
so remote a place as the Domini- operations.
JDC depended on secrecy in
can Republic in the Caribbean.
His delegation arranged for order to effect its rescues
establishment of a refugee Linder is still reluctant to dis-
colony. The settlement is today cuss
articipa
f or
the town of Sosua.
, in the negotia ons
Linder has written
eden with the late Coun
memoirs or books about
Pe-
Folke Bernadotte in the closing
tivities. He spent much
)44/
,
anizing months of the war.
and 1939 in London,
'Hitler's
and planning. In
r Europe.
forces swarmed
In 1941, Linder came chair-
man of the vit JDC finance
ts.
ict of
committee. Dol s meant lives.
ed as
simultaneously r
g out of Eu-
Refugees tric
al Amen-
d when they president of the
rope, where
pony of New
first touch of can Investor
could, felt t
boards of direc-
kindness and elief from the York a

tors of several business con-
cerns.
He is devoted to helping,
through the facilities of the
Bank, the legitimate aspirations
of all nations. Among these peo-
ples are hungry and under-
privileged Moslems whose
friendship is sought by the free
world.
Just as he aided co-religionists
in their darkest hour, Linder
is eager to u
a-
ew
impl
objectives of building
ernational amity and coopera-
tion in Africa, Asia, Latin
Ameeca, and elsewhe
to high-
H is no s
.e ice. In
lev
g
e.
19 he
e Tru-
Admi
Assistant
to for Econo •
creta
f
ffair
e was called b
ashington by the •
ower
Administration •
5 to be
a member
e Board of Na-
tion
mates of the Central
igence Agency.
Since 1955, he devoted most
of his time to voluntary work
in the field of education and to
his own business affairs. He was
treasurer and chairman of the
finance committee of Princeton
University's Institute for Ad-
vanced Study, served as a direc-
tor of the Institute for Inter-
national Education, and as an
active member of the CoUncil
on Foreign Relations.

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9 -- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Frid ay, March 24, 1961

Harold F. Lin der, New Direc for of Export-Import Bank