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 Sir Leon 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 Continued on Page 8 HE JEWISH NE Simon's Historical Analysis of 'The Balfour Declaration' Commentary Page 2 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- r=, -r MIC HIGAN A Weekly Review f Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Vol. XXXIX, No. 21 Printed in a 100% Union Shop 1 7 100 w. 7 Mile Rd. When a Nazi Gets a Platform With Aid of U. S. Liberal Protest Against USSR Anti-Semitism Editorials Page 4 VE 8-9364 — Detroit 35, July 21, 1961 — $5.00 Per Year- Single Copy 15c Nazis Planned Extermination of 1 000 000, Court Is Told Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News • 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 . ContinueiLoil. Page 7 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. Continued on Page 5 Continued on Page 12 . 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 Continued on Page 3