THE JEWISH NEWS
For Vatican's Consent
Incorporating the Detroit Jewish Chronicle commencing with issue of July 20, 1951
Member AMerican Association of English—Jewish Newspapers, Michigan Press Associations, National
Editorial Association
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PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Editor and Publisher
SIDNEY SHMARAK CARMI M. SLOMOVITZ HARVEY ZUCKERBERG
Business Manager
Advertising Manager
City Editor
Sukkot Scriptural Selections
The following Scriptural selections will be read in our synagogues during the Sukkot festival.
Pentateuchal portions, First and Second Days, Saturday and Sunday: Levit. 22:26-23:44,
Num. 2:12-16.
Prophetical portions: Saturday, Zechariah 14:1-21; Sunday, I Kings 8:2-21.
/ Licht Benshen, Friday, Oct. 12, 5.30 p.m.
VOL. XLII. NO. 7
Page Four
October 12, 1962
The Newspaper—the Community's Instrument
Using as its slogan "Newspapers make
a big difference in peoples' lives," Na-
tional Newspaper Week sponsors will,
during the coming week, seek emphasis
on the great instrument that helps keep
our democracy secure, that keeps alive
the basic principles of the American way
of life and is ever on the alert to prevent
the intrusion into our spheres of freedom
of the destructive elements which have
enslaved so many other lands.
It is the influence of our press that
keeps this country on the path of justice,
rejecting racism and striving for freedom
for all.
It is thanks to our free press that
Nazi-fascist propagandists have been and
continue to be exposed.
It is because of our untrammeled
press that people are learning to live to-
gether, to reject the injection of hatreds
on account of race, religion or color of
those with whom we might differ.
Indeed, the press teaches the people
that it is posible for them to differ, but
that they must respect the views of their
fellow men. The newspaper is the com-
munity's chief defender against those who Sara Pawlowicz's Story
might undermine justice. May it ever re-
main that instrument in defense of human
dignity and the basic rights of man.
I Will Survive': Message
Subversiveness of American Nazis
A Jewish lad had been killed and some
Rockwell followers have been beaten up,
the American Nazis have spread their
venom, calling for the extermination of
Jews, and there have been street brawls.
The domestic Nazis, who are patterning
their activities after the Hitlerites, fre-
quently demonstrate in front of the
White House and Jews and others often
challenge them and apply to them their
own medicine—occasional beatings, and
a number of law suits have followed.
How does one deal with the bigots in
our democracy? If we legislate against
them, the same regulations may affect
our own freedom of speech and assembly,
and in a free land even our enemies must
have a platform.
Yet, there should be a way of calling
attention to the menace that lurks in our
midst and to put an end to the activities
of a group that advocates the destruction
of another group.
Perhaps . Rep. Seymour Halpern, the
Queens, - N.Y., Republican, has the solu-
tion. Calling U.S. Attorney General
Robert F. Kennedy's attention to the
fact that George Lincoln Rockwell has
signed an agreement, in Cotswood,
England, for the formation of a "Nazi
Internationale," Congressman Halpern
suggested that Rockwell thereby became
a foreign agent and should be listed as
the head of a subversive movement,
requiring to register as a participant in
a foreign movement.
Congressman Halpern finds it difficult
"to understand the peculiar immunity
afforded Rockwell" and the exemption he
and "his nefarious organization" have
been given "from the requirements our
government makes of other citizens." In
his request for action addressed to Attor-
ney General Kennedy, Rep. Halpern
stated:
"Mr. Rockwell, according to reliable news
dispatches, is presently organizing American
backing for a 'Nazi World Congress' to be
held in 1963 in Portugal, Spain, or South
Africa, or any other country that would per-
mit. the Nazis and fascists of the world to
assemble.
"Mr. Attorney General, I am in full sym-
pathy with the principles of civil liberties
and free speech. However, I am dismayed
to learn that the Department of Justice
requires American representatives of foreign
governments, corporations, and other under-
takings to register as foreign agents but has
apparently exempted Mr. Rockwell from such
requirements.
"Mr. Rockwell not only besmirched the
image of America by his foreign agitation
against our nation and its principles but has
tried to undermine the friendly republic of
West Germany. West German authorities
have expressed dismay at attempts of Rock-
well to seek out and revive dormant Nazi
sympathies in West Germany and to ship
of
Hope and Indictment of Nazism
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inflammatory materials into that country,
contrary to its laws.
"The Attorney General's list of subversive
organizations does not include the American
Nazi Party although its does list various old
fascist organizations that have not operated
since 1945. The excuse has been offered
that if the American Nazi Party were listed
it might afford Mr. Rockwell a possibility of
obtaining a hearing that might afford him
some newspaper publicity. This never
stopped us from listing the Communists or
Communist-fronts. Also, Mr. Rockwell seems,
in any event, to be getting the widest inter-
national news coverage.
"Mr. Rockwell has established a small
private armed force of 'storm troopers' and
arrogated to himself such a role in racist
agitation that the State of Virginia found it
necessary to cancel a charter that recognized
the Nazis as a lawful corporation. Also, a
number of American communities have tried
and convicted members of the American Nazi
Party for various infractions and crimes.
"Nevertheless, members of Congress and
many citizens are confused by our failing to
list the Nazis as subversive and failing to
require Rockwell to register as a foreign
agent. I might add that our leniency toward
this reprehensible group has dismayed our
friends abroad and made it difficult for the
Department of State to use American influ-
ence against extremist right-wing manifesta-
tions.
"Nazism may now be negligible in size
but its very existence facilitates Communist
propaganda and counter-penetration. Tolera-
tion of Nazi excesses by the Department of
Justice will no longer serve to minimize the
American Nazi Party but only to provide it
with tacit sanction and a spurious cloak of
legality behind which to hide."
National Jewish organizations have
taken the view that Rockwell, whose
movement counts only a handful of fel-
lowers, should not be dignified with the
notoriety he seeks and that he should be
ignored. But the very notoriety he
receives when he appears on anti-Semitic
platforms in England and when he
foments trouble in front of the White
House and on public squares in Washing-
ton necessitates some action. Perhaps the
suggestion made by Congressman Halpern
would prove the most workable in dealing
with the American Nazis.
If a group were to arise in West Ger-
many today calling itself "the revived
Nazi party," Jews throughout the world,
and all others who have not forgotten the
holocaust, would surely cry out in protest
and would warn the Germans that they
are permitting a rebirth of Hitlerism and
that they are not sincere in their assur-
ances that the Nazi ideas would never
again be permitted in their land. Yet we
see Nazi activity under the shadow of
the Capitol Dome! That's in itself incon-
sistent. The Attorney General's office
does not hesitate to brand subversives as
enemies of our country. Rockwellites
"Keep up hope! Don't Lose Faith!" This was the constantly
repeated self-inspiring motto that kept Sala Pawlowicz alive during
the tragic days of Hitlerism. She saw her mother, other members
of her family and her friends murdered by the Nazi beasts, but
her mother's admonition that she will live and will survive the
horrors kept her carrying on against all the odds of the crucial
years.
Her story, written with Kevin Klose, is told in the book,
"I Will Survive," published by W. W. Norton & Co. (55 Fifth,
N.Y. 3).
The true story of a young girl's courage, her determination
to suffer all consequences in order to survive the humiliations
and beatings she had undergone, this is one of the noteworthy
accounts of the endurance of a young Jewess. .
It is the story of many people—of the victims of the Nazis
and also of the beasts who imposed upon them the cruelties that
made the Hitler regime the most brutal in history.
Revealed here are the kindnesses of some Christians but also
the anti-Semitism that was so evident in Poland, where this story
originates.
It is also the story of timely aid that was given the heroine
of this tale by a benefactor who provided her secretly with slices
of stale bread while she was in the concentration camp, and aid
that came to her and her husband and their infant child when
they came to New York after the war.
It was when they were in New York, arriving in this country
with the aid of the Joint Distribution Committee, when they did
not know the language of the land and were helpless, that a
benefactor appeared, provided them with aid and encouragement,
gave Sala's husband the job he needed to be able to care for
his family.
Sala's marriage to Joseph was the first public Jewish wedding
in Bavaria after the liberation. A rabbi came from Regensburg
to perform the ceremony. A new life'started for the Pawlowicz's.
But with the liberation came evidence that the anti-Semitic
Pole in whose home her family lived when the war broke out,
Pettowski who played the Nazi game, again was evincing hatred
for her as the Jew.
"What gas chamber let you by?" she was asked, and there
came the urge to leave that atmosphere as quickly as possible.
This is where JDC stepped in to help. It was only in America
that she finally found realization in her determination: "I Will
Survive." As the title of her book, this will to live emerges both
as a great story of human endurance and as another indictment
of Nazism.
Fantastic Primitiveness
Kahn's 'Stragglers' Dramatizes
Story of Misguided Patriots
E. J. Kahn, Jr., staff writer for the New Yorker, author of
nine books, presents an account of a most unique post-war
development in "The Stragglers", published by Random House.
It is the story of the Japanese "zanryusha," the stragglers
who, after the defeat of the Japanese in 1945, escaped into a
jungle and stubbornly waited for "the next Japanese attack."
They were the misguided patriots who believed that Japan was
invincible, that the battle for their country's triumph was con-
tinuing.
There was no convincing them that their battle was lost.
Some retained military characteristics, and many turned to
thievery and to pillaging. Some even became cannibals. There
was evidence of them most recently, and their clan retains a
code they refuse to abandon.
Kahn's is a remarkable story of this post-war primitive
should be included in that category. group and its unique philosophy.