On the Record

By NATHAN ZIPRIN

Editor, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate

Thinking Aloud .. .

By the time this appears in print, the Governor of Virginia
will have signed a legislative bill revoking the charter of the
American Nazi Party. We hear Rockwell, the. anti-Semitic founder
of the party, is planning to file a petition for a charter under a
new name. We hope Virginia will -not let itself be outwitted by
that madman.
We have no rod by which to measure the impact of Ed
Cherry's fist against Rockwell's chin. But there can be no doubt
about the impact of his assertion that, although he believed in
freedom of speech and freedom of religion, he was not sure "that
Constitutional freedom of speech covers the preaching of hate or
the abuse of others." In case you have forgotten, Cherry is the
Jewish young man who took a punch at Rockwell when the anti-
Semite, addressing San Diego State College students, discounted
Nazi atrocities against Jews as grossly exaggerated. The Supreme
Court of the United States disagreed with young Cherry, whose
wife is Catholic, but in this corner's opinion the young man from
Brooklyn was on firmer legal ground than the august judges who
held otherwise.
The executors of Albert Einstein's will in Germany have
turned down a government request permitting issuance of an
Albert Einstein postal stamp. Chastising the executors, one
newspaper asked whether their action meant that it was no
longer permissible to call Einstein a great German. It is this
corner's opinion Einstein's answer would have been a resound.
ing no.
Fritz Kreisler was a great fiddler, so great a fiddler that he
fiddled away his Jewish heritage. We do not here quarrel with his
conversion to Catholicism, even though it was under the influence
of love for a woman. We refer to his persistent denial of parents.
Decent people of illegitimate birth search for parents in quest for
origin. Not so Kreisler. He denied his Jewish parents to his very
grave, something no sensitive artist would do, in the face of
documentary evidence that his parents were Viennese Jews who
were known by living witnesses to have gone to worship in syna-
gogues at least on holiday occasions. Yet it can be freely pre-
dicted that the condescending in our midst will list him among
Jewish musicians, where he clearly does not belong.

AJC Places Blame on Kennedy
for Genocide Convention Failure

NEW YORK (JTA)Bi-parti-
san support for American ratifi-
cation of the International Geno-
cide Convention has been "frus-
trated" by the "absence of White
House leadership" in pressing for
Senate consideration of the
treaty, the American Jewish Con-
gress charged at a meeting of
its national governing council.
The meeting was attended by
more than 70 members of the
council, which is the organiza-
tion's policy-making body.
The Genocide Convention es-
tablishes as an international
crime the mass murder of racial,
religious and ethnic groups as
such. The text of the Convention
was unanimously passed by the
General Assembly of the United
Nations in 1948, with United
States spokesmen taking the lead

in promoting its initial drafting
and formulation. Thus far, some
64 countries around the world
have ratified the treaty.
In June, 1949. President Tru-
man submitted the Genocide
Convention to the Senate, accom-
panied by an enthusiastic endorse-
ment. A special genocide sub-
committee of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee conducted
public hearings and recommend-
ed ratification of the Convention
in 1950.
Since that time, however, no
further action has been taken
and the Convention has remained
within the jurisdiction of the
Foreign Relations Committee.
The Committee has authority to
report the Convention to the
floor of the Senate for action
at any time.

Bishop Pike Charges Russia Uses
Jeivs as Scapegoats in State Drive

NEW YORK, (JTA)—One of
America's most prominent Prot-
estant clergymen, Bishop James
A. Pike. of the Episcopal Diocese
of California, accused the Soviet
Union of using Russian Jews as
"a scapegoat" in a campaign
against what the Kremlin calls
"economic parasitism."
Bishop Pike, in a letter to the
New York Times, accused the
Moscow government of "stereo-
typing and scapegoating" in anti-
Jewish convictions which he
t e r m e d "offensive, ominous,
clearly contradicting the letter
and the spirit of Soviet ideology
and law."

majority, of those given prison
terms, are Jews."
The Moscow government,
charged the Bishop, is enforcing
its laws cruelly, going "easy" on
`true" natives but singling out
Jews for severe punishment be-
cause Jews are considered by the
government "a foreign minority."
The clergyman pointed out that
the Soviet press consistently
perpetuates "the traditional, anti-
Semitic prototype, deeply rooted
in Russia, of the 'Jew whose
only god is gold." -

According to Bishop Pike, the
Soviet Union has been conduct-
ing a campaign against black
marketeers, currency speculators
and pilferers of state property.
But, he pointed out, "among the
scores tried and convicted, many
were given varying prison terms,
and 13 were sentenced to death
by shooting. At least 10 of the
13 sentenced to death, and the

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Urge U.S. to Stop Aid to Nasser Until He Backs Peace

WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Re-
publican Senator Kenneth Keat-
ing of New York urged in the
Senate that Egypt should be told
that it will receive no further
American aid until it "sits down
and negotiates its differences
with Israel" and "comes together
at the conference table instead
of spewing forth threats and
propaganda."
Senator Keating's remarks
were made in, a speech on the

Senate floor. He charged that
Egyptian efforts "to tie strings"
to American foreign aid because
of U.S. support of Israel's bid
for a link with the European
Common Market is "ridiculous,
undignified and wolly at variance
with our objectives in the Middle
East."
The Senator said that the
proper U.S. reply to Cairo's re-
ported refusal to accept eco-
nomic support from the United
States until it wi'hdraws its en-

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