An Editorial Ap eal forCommunal Unity

It is not the public hearing that will be
held today in the court room of Circuit Court
Judge Thomas J. Murphy that matters. Nor is
it even the major issue involving the Sabbath
that is at stake at the moment.
Our community should be concerned at

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ers are unwilling to come to terms through
mediation, by way of reasonable compromise.
If it should develop that the controversy
over the opening of the Jewish Center's
facilities on Saturday afternoons will split

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Simon's
Historical
Analysis of
'The Balfour
Declaration'

Commentary
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this time about .the threat to its. nnitri the
danger that lurks that a sound and a solid
kehillah, the well organiz,ed social organign,_
known as Detroit Jewry, may 'be disrupted' as
a result of an inner conflict out of which
have arisen two warring factions whose lead-

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When a Nazi
Gets a Platform
With Aid of
U. S. Liberal

Protest Against
USSR
Anti-Semitism

Editorials
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Nazis Planned Extermination
of 1 000 000, Court Is Told

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

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Adolf Eichmann is shown in his bullet-proof glass dock facing three judges during
the closing hours of the cross-examination by Attorney General. Gideon Hausner.

U.S. Nazi Action Revives
Question Whether 'Silent
Treatinents' Are Feasible

By ' a Special Correspondent of The Jewish News

WASHINGTON, D.C.—In November of 1938,
a nine-year-old Jewish boy had ,a swastika carved
into his arm by two non-Jewish youngsters of 15,
in IrVington, N. J. They 1ATere arrested and pun-
ished, but the incident remains on the record as
proof that Nazi tactics were not limited to Ger-
many, and the Hitler spirit had invaded certain
American quarters.
Last week, in Arlington, Va., a short distance
from the -nation's capital, three boys were seized
and molested by two of George Lincoln Rockwell's
accomplices. One of the lads, 13-year-old Ricky
Farber, was handcuffed, threatened with an iron
pipe and otherwise molested. His parents now are
receiving threatening letters with the word
"Juden" scribbled in German.
There were numerous such threats to Jews
during the Nazi regime, even while this country
already was engaged in war with Nazi Germany.
Yet, 16 years later, also only last week, a group of
12 youths was apprehended in San Francisco for
molesting a Jewish couple for 15 months. The boys
,said they were getting a "kick" out of their actions
which included the smashing of windows in the
home of the couple, Mr. and Mrs.,Frank Bowman,
refugees from the Nazi holocaust.
In spite of these occurrences and the upending .

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JERUSALEM—The Nazi "final solution" for the
"Jewish problem" worked out at the notorious Wansee
conference in 1942 called for the murder of 11,000,000
Jews—the entire Jewish population of Europe, from
England to Russia, from Portugal to Romania—Adolf
Eichmann admitted Tuesday at the 100th session of his
trial.
The eighth day of cross-examination found the . 55-
year-old former Gestapo colonel as vigilant and as fresh
as when the grilling began. He maintained his constant
defense that he was not implicated in the initial actions
against the Jews and that he merely carried out orders.
He said the liquidation of Polish Jewry was known
as "Operation Reinhard," named after SS leader Rein-
hard Heydrich, who convened the Wansee conference
in a Berlin suburb. Asked what he knew about this
phase of the Nazi slaughter of 6,000,000 European Jews,
Eichmann said neither he nor his department had any-
thing to do with the operation, not even providing
transport.
The prosecution tried to prove that one of Eich-
inann's deputies attended a meetina in Berlin at which
the participants worked out the b fine points of the
transport of Jews to' the Polish death camps. - The
reference to an Eichmann deputy was contained in an
extract from a police report held as a prosecution docu-
ment. Eichmann, however, cited the expression in the
extract that attendance of his deputy at the conference
was technically possible but that he was not sure that
his deputy could have attended.

Charge U.S. Bows
to Arab Boycotts

NEW YORK, (JTA) — The American
Jewish Committee asserted, in a lengthy
document submitted to Secretary of State
Dean Rusk, that the United States Gov-
ernment is suffering "a loss of integrity
and prestige" by "accommodating" to
discrimination against American citizens
by nations affiliated with the Arab
League. In a comprehensive fact sheet
backing up its, the AJC noted
that the Arab L eague countries, through
activities directed out of offices in Syria
and Kuwait:
"1. Blacklist many American companies
having Americans of the Jewish faith
among their officers, owners, directors, or
even personnel.
"2. Refuse visas to American citizens
of the Jewish faith and forbid them to
disembark in some Arab League countries.
"3. Prevent American servicemen and
civilian employees -of the Jewish faith
from serving at an American airbase built
in an Arab country with American funds,
and maintained by the United States."
The document, entitled "Invasion of
American Rights on the Part of Arab
League Nations," made these specific
charges:
The Department of Defense has "de-
ferred to Saudi Arabia's exclusion of
American Jews" at the Dhahran Air Base.
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Warn Kennedy of Action
Against Arab Boycotts by
Seamen in 71 Countries

NEW YORK, (JTA) — The possibility of a
world-wide seamen's boycott of the Suez Canal
and Arab shipping was raised by an- American
spokesman for the 6,500,000 members in 71 coun-
tries of the International Transport Workers
Federation.
The threat was contained in a telegram to
President Kennedy from Joseph Curran, president
of the National Maritime Union, who is a member
of the executive council of the ITWF. In the
telegram, Curran reported on an hour-long visit
with Dr. Ralph Bunche, Under-Secretary for the
United. Nations. The maritime union leader said
he met with the UN official to protest Arab
violations of the principle of freedom of the seas
in regard to Israeli ships and ships under different
flags trading with Israel.
The threat of a boycott recalled the four
weeks of picketing in the spring of 1960 in New
York of the S.S. Cleopatra, an Egyptian passenger-
cargo • vessel, by members of the Seafarers Inter-
national Union. The picketing ended under a
formula worked out in talks between C. Douglas
Dillon, then acting Secretary of State; Labor Secre-
tary James P. Mitchell; and Arthur J. Goldberg,
then AFL-CIO general counsel and now Secretary
of Labor.
The formula included a formal reaffirmation

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