National Bond Leaders Join Mrs. FDR
in Launching New Bond Drive June 21
National Israel Bond leaders, including Abraham Feinberg, and
federal, state and city officials will join next Thursday evening in
honoring Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at the dinner in Cobo Hall. The
event will launch the "Decade of the Negev" Israel Bond drives in
Michigan. Max M. Fisher will introduce Mrs. Roosevelt.
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Israel Textiles Endangered
by U.S. Ban; Senate Demands
Vigilant Action on Arab Bias
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
Milan's Council Backs Jewry
Against Anti-Semites' Invasion
Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News
MILAN—The Milan City Council, in a resolution endorsing the "indig-
nation" among the people of Milan over "the recent heinous incursions"
by right-wing election campaigners into the Jewish section of Rome, ex-
pressed its solidarity Tuesday with the Jewish CommUnity of Rome.
Campaigners of the Movimento Sociale Italiano drove their cars
into the Jewish section, shouting anti-Semitic epithets and throwing
stones at the section's main synagogue. Angry Jews mauled the cam-
paigners and injured several of them.
The Milan Council resolution affirmed a pledge of continued sup-
port "for civilized and democratic principles and against the abominable
return of racism." The resolution was proposed by - the radical, demo-
Christian, Social Democratic and Socialist Parties. The rightist parties
and the liberals voted against it.
Rome Police Guard Jewish Section of City
ROME, (JTA)—Strong police units guarded this week all approaches
to the midtown district of the former Jewish ghetto in Rome as an after-
math to two days of violent clashes between neo-Fascists and Jews in
which two Jews and seven Rightists were wounded.
Four Jews were arrested in the first clashes and one was still under
arrest. None of the members of the Movimento Sociale Italiano were ar-
rested. The disorders erupted when Rightist campaigners in Rome's
hard-fought election campaign came into the Jewish area. Jewish com-
munity leaders said that the neo-Fascist propaganda in the ghetto section
was clearly provocatory.
JERUSALEM—Israeli cotton yarn mills may be forced to cut produc-
tion, with the result that many workers would be laid off -, due to the
United States ban on cotton yarn exports from Israel, the textile depart-
ment of the Israel Manufacturers Association warned Tuesday. Mill owners
requested the government to find ways to aid the industry which is threat-
ened as a result of the new American ruling.
According to the latest figures, Israel expected to export $7,000,000
worth of cotton yarn to the United States this year. The industry had
planned on shipping 40 per cent of its output to the U.S.A. in 1962.
Editorials in Tuesday's Israeli new s papers expressed the hope that
Washington would reconsider its ban and continue the policy of encourag-
ing traditional free world trade.
The export of Israeli cotton yarn to the United States, which reached
some 250 tons during the last year, has been stopped by an order of the
U.S. Government as an indirect result of the attempt to slow down the
influx of cheap cotton goods to the United States from the Far East.
The United States has announced - it will freeze import of cotton goods
at the 1960-61 level. Since Israel did not export any cotton to the United
States in that period, the effect is to give no quota to Israel at all. thereby
cutting the export of Israeli cotton yarn to the United States to zero. Ship-
ments of Israeli cotton yarn to the U.S. constituted about 50 per cent of
the entire yarn exports.
The United States order is a severe blow to Israel's cotton spinning
industry, which was already reeling. along with other industries in the
Montreal Radio Announcer Fired
for Insults to Jewish Participants
MONTREAL, (JTA)—A Montreal radio announcer fired by station CKGNI
for allegedly insulting statements directed at Jews in connection with a program
dealing with the execution of Adolf Eichmann said he was filing a suit for $125,000
for "unjustified dismissal and character defamation."
The announcement was made on behalf of Herbert Manning by his attorney
who said that the announcer's condemnation of capital punishment was in the
public interest. The attorney said that the dismissed announcer had "previously
condemned the persecution of the Jews in Soviet Russia and the rise of Nazism
in Canada."
It was also announced that the dismissal would be investigated by the board
of governors of Radio Broadcasting in Ottawa. Manning was ousted by Geoff
Stirling, president of the radio station, for alleged insults to Jewish participants
on his "Open Mind" program when a heated discussion developed on the Nazi's
execution.
In announcing the ouster. the president of the radio station asked: "How
would any Canadian react to the extermination of a third of the Canadian popula-
tion, to the massacre of all men, women and children of Montreal, Toronto. Winni-
peg, Ottawa and Edmonton?"
Stirling also sent a letter of apology to the Canadian Jewish Congress and
Bnai Brith in which he said that he "deeply. " regretted the fact that on the nights
of May 21 and June 1 Manning "allowed personal feelings on capifal punishment
to mar the objectivity of the discussion."
He added that he felt "an apology is owed to the entire Montreal Jewish
community who have contributed so much to this city as well as to any Jewish
listeners who phoned the program and were not given a complete opportunity
of self-expression." He added that an apology also was due to the Jewish partici-
pants on the program, Leon Grestohl and Stanley Shenkman."
In reaffirming the ouster, the station president cited a broadcast conversation
with a woman caller on the telephone:
Woman: "After all, the Nazis murdered 5,000,000 Jews!'
Manning: "Were you there, lady?"
Woman: "No, but my brother who was in the war was."
Manning: "Were you there?"
Woman: "No, but . . ."
Manning: "Were you there? Madam, you are lying."
In his letter to the Jewish groups, Stirling said that station officials had
evaluated six hours of tapes on the two programs "and we have asked for the
resignation of Herbert Manning not only on the Open Mind show but on all other
programs that he is connected with on CKGM."
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State Dept, Confirms Sen. Javits'
Data on Anti-Semitism in U.S.S.R.
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—A highly publicized open letter last months denying
the existence of anti-Semitism in Soviet Russia. and allegedlne4 by five
prominent Soviet Jews. has been refuted by the Department df State. Senator
Jacob Javits of New York told the Senate.
The- New York lawmaker. who made public an exchange cif' letters on the
subject between himself and the Department. said that the Depart,,rnent has raised
three "imperative points" in knocking down the Soviet claim. -1e said the De-
partment feels:
1. That there "is clear evidence of the resort by the (Soviet) regime to dis-
criminatory- measures against Jews in access to higher education."
2. That "the desecration of cemeteries. closing of synagogues, dispersing of
prayer meetings, arrests of lay leaders. prohibitions of certain Jewish religious
practices have been well established.
3. That the Soviet dissemination of the letter "is a sign of increased sensitivity
to charges of anti-Semitism and is no doubt calculated to counter recent foreign
publicity of deliberate anti-Semitic actions by the Soviet regime."
Senator Javits. who was specifically named in the Soviet letter as one who
made charges of anti-Semitism in Russia. told the Senate that he too believes the
letter "to be an official Soviet reaction: and. rather than answering my original
charges, it confirms and substantiates them."
The State Department letter labeled as "misleading" some of the figures used
in the open letter of last month. citing as an example the Yiddish language publi-
cation, Sovietish Heimland, which the Soviet government boasts is evidence of the
absence of official anti-Jewish feeling. The State Department pointed out that,
in 1935, there were far more books and periodicals in Yiddish than those pub-
lished today, and that their combined circulation far exceeded the circulation of
the lone Yiddish publication currently being published.
Trade Union Leaders Condemn Soviet Anti-Jewish Action
UNITY HOUSE, Pa., (JTA)—Forty American and Canadian trade union
leaders meeting here adopted a resolution sharply condemning the Soviet Union
for its anti-Jewish discriminations. The session was a conference of the executive
committee of the Jewish Labor Committee's Trade Union Council for Human
Rights.
The resolution stated: "The wave of arrests, and meting out of death sentences
for so-called economic crimes, and the second-class treatment accorded Soviet Jews
in every facet of Soviet life, prove conclusively that the Soviets are catering to the
lowest form of chauvinist and anti-Semitic sentiments among the population."