THE JEWISH NEWS
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Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951
Member American Association of English—Jewish Newspaper, Michigan Press Association, National Edi-
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Entered as second class matter Aug. 6, 1942 at Post Office, Detroit, Mich. under act of Congress of March
8, 1879.
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher
ELECTION TIME IN ISRAEL
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City Editor
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
OUT
This Sabbath ; the seventh day of Elul, 5721, the following Scriptural selections will be read in
synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Shofetim, Deut. 16:18-21:9. Prophetical portion, Isaiah 51:12-52:12.
Licht Benshen, Friday, Aug. 18, 7:10 p.m.
VOL. XXXIX. No. 25
Page Four
August 18, 1961
Birch Society Shows Its True Colors
If there was any doubt about the
destructive character of the John Birch
Society, it was dispelled when its founder
and leader, Robert H. W. Welch, Jr., an-
nounced a prize essay contest, to be open
to all college students - in the country, on
the subject of providina "grounds for the
impeachment" of Chief b Justice Earl War-
ren of the United States Supreme Court.
Welch would not say outright that
Chief Justice Warren was a Communist,
but he reiterated his accusation that while
only three per cent of Americans are
Communists, there has 'been a 50 to 70
per cent Communist infiltration into gov-
ernment and business posts and that "the
Supreme Court as a whole in the last few
years has been engaged in destroyina the
Constitution of the United States, which
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they have been sworn to uphold."
If this were true, then we would have
to believe that traitors have infiltrated
into our government and that we are in
danger of being destroyed by internal
sabotage at a time when we are struggling
to uphold the democratic way of life
against the influences of communism.
The accusations, so evidently mislead-
ing, therefore expose the Birch society
as being one of the most menacing factors
in American life today. It is a divisive
force that is out to create panic, to inspire
distrust in our government, to infuse
suspicions against the judiciary of our
country.
The American Bar Association, at its
convention in St. Louis last week, treated
the Birch attack on the Chief Justice as
it deserved—by branding it as an act of
disrespect for our American institutions
by the ignorant. It is heartening to know
that the lawyers of this country are not
being misled by bigots and are staunchly
defending "liberty under law" and the
status of our courts.
By seeking to arouse mistrust in
American officials, in churchmen and
government leaders, the Birch society is
introducing a revived form of reactionary
tendencies that may lead to menacing
results unless its leaders and their pur-
poses are thoroughly condemned.
President Eisenhower was on this
society's -blacklist and the late John Fos-
ter Dulles was called a Communist. By
impugning the patriotism and the honesty
of heads of our government, the Birch
society leaders revealed their true colors
as a poisonous element in American life.
President Kennedy is on the list of the
Birch society's victims, having been called
"Jumping Jack" Kennedy and having
been branded as the "Kennedy brat" for
having had "the courage to join the jack-
als picking at the corpse of McCarthy."
United Nations agencies are included
in the list of groups subjected to attack
by the Birch group which now counts
some of the vilest anti-Semites among
its supporters.
It is most regrettable that the Ken-
nedy administration, like the Eisenhower
administration previously, looks upon the
Birch group with indifference. Anything
as vile and threatening as the Birch pro-
gram should be condemned and exposed
in its true colors as a menace to a free
society.
Apply for Absentee Voter's Ballot NOW
One of the blessings of our American
way of life is that it takes into consider-
ation the religious , sentiments of all
citizens.
This is in evidence now, as it was on
similar previous occasions, when Jewish
voters are given an opportunity to resort
to the absentee voter's ballot on the occa-
sion of the occurrence of an election day
on a Jewish holy day.
The next primary election, at which
the voters will make their choices of Con-
stitutional Convention delegates and will
nominate candidates for Mayor and the
City Council, as well as other County of-
ficers, will take place on the second day
of Rosh Hashanah. Jewish voters must
apply for their absentee voters' ballots no
later than Sept. 3.
'Key to Jigsaw Puzzle'
Professor of Arabic Advises
Mediation with Israel
Dr. Francesco Gabrieli, professor of Arabic language and
literature at Rome University, provides an interesting historical
analysis of the rise and development of the Arab states in the new
Random House book, "The Arab Revival." The book is hailed on
the cover as "a provocative key to the jigsaw puzzle of insoluble
rivalry which constitutes the modern Arab world."
Prof. Gabrieli reviews the Zionist historical aspects as they
relate to the Arab crises and he expresses pessimism over the future
by stating: "The Palestine problem seems destined to be one that
our generation will never see solved."
He comes to this conclusion after reviewing the. events that
led to Israel's triumph over the Arab armies, in 1948 and in 1956.
While his viewpoints are partially biased in favor of .the Arabs,
with whom, and in whose behalf, he had labored as a student of
their history and language, he nevertheless advocates an Arab-
Israeli agreement, stating:
"The young Jewish state, which celebrated its tenth anni-
It is important that such applications versary in an atmosphere of faith and hard-working enthusiasm,
should be applied for immediately, both is a perpetual source of irritation to the Arab world, which,
from the Wayne and Oakland counties however, seems determined against a compromise solution. At
base of this attitude is a feeling of bitterness for an injury
where there are so many tens of thou- the
suffered, and there are valid historical and social reasons to
sands of Jewish voters.
justify it. But today, since it is obvious that Israel can neither be
As an expression of recognition of the ignored nor annihilated, except by some apocalyptic world con-
rights thus accorded to Jewish voters, it vulsion, wisdom and common sense should counsel the Arabs to
the fait accompli and obtain from a policy of cooperation
is of the utmost importance that the ab- accept
and gOod neighborliness what hatred has been powerless to
sentee voters' privileges should be util- obtain.
This truth is very probably privately realized by more than
ized to the fullest, and even Reform Jews, one Arab, but no Arab politician has had the courage to defy
who observe only one day of Rosh Ha- unpopularity and expose himself to the reprisals of terrorism by
shanah, would do well, as a mark of soli- pronouncing it. An agreement with Israel could be the surest
darity, also to resort to the absentee indication of the ascendancy of new forces of good sense and
voter's ballot as a religious right.
goodwill in the Arab world which seems today to be entirely in
the grip of irrationality and passion."
There should be no delay in applying
Prof. Gabrieli describes how the Arabs organized a vast empire
for the absentee voters' ballots. We urge
all our. Jewish fellow-citizens to do it in the seventh and eighth centuries, how they declined thereafter,
to emerge again as a great power in recent years.
NOW.
Israel Should Not Be Penalized for Progress
For the first time in a decade—so the
State Department informed Congress—
Israel will not be included in the Ameri-
can grant-in-aid program. The reason
given is Israel's "impressive economic
development."
Israel and her friends must retain the
hope that the progress registered by the
young state will not be utilized to penal-
ize the youngster among the democratic
nations of the world.
The attainments registered by Israel
have been shared with other nations.
Israeli contributions have aided under-
developed African nations, and a typical
example of Israel's willingness to share
her scientific findings with others was
the readiness shown by Israel to provide
even Nasser's United Arab Republic with
the process for desalting sea water that
ANYTIME IN ARAB LANDS
was developed by Dr. Alexander Zarchin,
Israeli scientist. Although the UAR has
denied having asked for the process, the
Fairbanks Whitney Corporation, which
has sales rights for the Zarchin discovery
in the western hemisphere, has confirmed
that UAR representatives have requested
it.
In recognition of such a cooperative
spirit on the part of Israel, the Jewish
state should not be denied the aid that
is given to other nations. It is to be
hoped that the "impressive economic
development" of Israel will not be used
as reasons for other grants to Israel, and
those who assist Israel financially in its
program of aid to the tens of thousands
who seek homes there certainly should
repudiate such an attitude and should,
instead, intensify efforts to assure Israel's
favorable economic status.
"The Arabs, like all the peoples of the East, received the idea
of nationality in the modern sense from Europe, and with it the
connected ideas of liberty and independence," he states. The first
symptoms of their reawakening came in the early years of this
century.
His description of the Zionist developments is fair, but it would
have been more just had he indicated—in its fullest truth—that
land was acquired by Jews in Palestine -at exorbitant prices—not
from the poor fedayeen—the impoverished farmers—but from the
rich effendis who were oppressing the fedayeen.
There is an interesting statement by the noted professor, also
indicating his sense of fairness, in which he states:
"Admittedly, the crimes of race-extermination and militarism
of which the Nazis had been guilty even before the war should
have alienated everybody who valued human dignity and decency
in international affairs, even among the Arabs; but in the East
also the process of disillusion . . . made the idea of totalitarianism
less repugnant than it would have been a couple of generations
before, and it even seemed to a few extreme nationalists that
it was worth supporting the Axis cause if it meant hastening their
own liberation . ."
Except for a few minor discrepancies, "The Arab Revival" is
a fairly objective book. Its advice to the Arabs to mediate with
Israel and to come to an agreement with the Jewish state is an
important factor in Prof. Gabrieli's approach to the issue. It is to
be hoped that his advice—coming from a source so friendly to the
Arabs—will not fall on deaf ears.