Friday, August 30, 1963 — THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — 6
US. Crisis Is
Milder Foreign Aid Clause May Affect Aid to Egypt
One of Injustice, WASHINGTON (JTA) — The ing it was opposed by Zionist Before agreeing to withdraw blemakers around the world.
House of Representatives ap- spokesmen, reportedly because his stronger amendment, which Cutting foreign aid to Egypt
AJC's Ross Says proved
a sharply cut Foreign it was considered contrary to seemed to have a good chance would be in the interest of peace
In a statement issued by the
American Jewish Committee,
its vice-president, Joseph Ross,
president of Davidson Brothers
of Detroit, declared that "the
crisis of the New Frontier is a
crisis of economic injustice,
rather than economic disaster,"
that: "We have everything that
makes for a healthy economy—
except that one segment of our
society does not share in it."
His statement, in which he
evaluates the widespread racial
tensions in this country, con-
tinues:
"If the conditions under
which the Negro lives his life
today were to permeate the en-
tire fabric of our American
society so that all the people of
the land were affected, we
would again have economic dis-
aster. Unlike a disaster, which
welds people of many different
viewpoints into a common ef-
fort, an injustice splits people
apart. It produces conflict be-
tween those who must bear re-
sponsibility for the injustice
and those who are the victims
of it. Thus, the mood of Amer-
ica today, in contrast to the
1930s, is a divisive mood. Its
by-product is weakness and dis-
sension and fragmentation, rath-
er than strength and unity. This
is the mortal danger of our
times.
"Even though the Negro has
gained much in the past 30
years, today he is politically
isolated. He is politically iso-
lated because the white liberal-
Negro coalition of the New
Deal, if it is still alive, can
hardly be described as vital.
The Negro rejects the tempo of
change which the white liberal
has set for him.
"It is that the young Negro
militant has departed from the
classic liberal tactic of fighting
one civil rights battle at a time,
instead adopting the strategy of
direct non-violent action — sit-
ins, stand-ins, kneel-ins, boy-
cotts, freedom rides, civil dis-
obedience, and as yet unheard
of techniques.
"What we are witnessing is
a revolution. The Negro will
win his revolution because he is
a citizen of this country as
much as we are; because it is
the soul of America which is at
stake; because there is some-
thing in America which, in the
words of Thomas Wolfe, is
`More kind than home, more
large than earth—whereon the
pillars of this earth are found-
ed, towards which the consci-
ence of the world is tending—a
wind is rising, and the rivers
flow.' "
Build Largest
Church in Nazareth
With substantial funds being
donated from the United States,
the largest church in the Middle
East is under construction at
Nazareth, Israel.
The new Church of the An-
nunciation will be almost 220
feet tall. A concrete cupola for
this structure alone will weigh
10,000 tons. This undertaking
by the Franciscan Order will
faithfully preserve the remains'
of five previous religious edi-
fices on the site, dating from
the period of the early Chris-
tians to that of the Crusaders.
Archaeological finds uncover-
ed at the site during construc-
tion, dating back to the Early
Bronze Period, will be collected
and displayed, according to
authorities.
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Aid bill containing a provision
which would sever aid to any
country engaging in aggression,
if the President made such a
determination. Approval fol-
lowed withdrawal of a proposed
clause which would have banned
aid to Egypt without specific
prior approval for such aid by
the President.
Rep. Seymour Halpern, New
York Republican, and one of
the most vigorous critics of aid
to Egypt, withdrew the stronger
amendment, r.thich had been
drafted with bi-partisan sup-
port. Prior to passage, Chair-
man Thomas E. Morgan, of the
House Foreign Affairs Commit-
tee, defined the milder provision
as applying to Egypt. Rep. Hal-
pern extracted that definition
from the Congressman who man-
aged the bill in the House for
the Administration.
Rep. Halpern withdrew his
stronger amendment after learn-
Israel's interests. Another re-
ported reason was that the with-
drawn amendment might have
aroused opposition from Chair-
man J. W. Fulbright of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee which recently investi-
gated lobbying activities. Sen.
Fulbright has strongly opposed
such restrictive amendments to
United States foreign aid pro-
grams.
Rep. Halpern was co-sponsor
of the Keating-Halpern amend-
ment in the 1962 act, providing
for severance of U.S. aid to
Egypt because of that country's
acquisition of Soviet arms. He
insisted, in House debate, that
the Nasser regime's "aggressive
preparations and offenses" were
already such that Egypt should
not receive additional aid. He
charged that the State Depart-
ment had ignored previous meas-
ures making cutting off of aid
subject to Presidential discre-
tion.
Many Confusions in Campus Novel
An explanatory note on the
jacket of "The Asphalt Campus"
the novel by Geoffrey Wagner,
published by Macmillan, states
that it is "a wrathful dissection,
a witty explosion of the morals,
art and so-called education on
a municipal so-called campus."
The terms "so-called" will
relieve the tension that the
novel will create among many
who will question the reality
of a campus on which the lan-
guage used by the students and
f a c u 1 t y is so crude and so
piggish that it will irritate many
readers.
Commencing with an episode
in which a professor, Orrin
Bunch, is forcibly removed from
a classroom and discharged on
orders of a community com-
mittee, the plot develops as
sort of a probe into the justice
of the charges.
Because Dr. Bunch is Jewish,
the question that is raised is
whether it was an anti-Semitic
act, but an explanation is
offered that the council that
was responsible for the pro-
fessor's ousting was half Jewish
in its membership, and a pro-
fessor who was called in to
join in the investigation added:
"Actually Ashkenazim. Not that
that means anything, as I'm sure
you're aware."
Indeed, what does that mean?
And what meaning do the sev-
eral references to Israel, to
bureaucracy in Israel, mean?
These injected complexities
are confusing rather than ex-
planatory of a cause which
ends in Dr. Bunch's reinstate-
ment.
In the course of the narra-
tive, there also is discussion
of a Biblical theme, and the
question raised also is about
Cain's "chick,"—"how come he
finds a wife? There weren't
any other human beings
created, right?"
puree of the creation. And
Rabbinical injunctions concern
ing the inviolacy of the text
suited every one of them fine.
None felt a particularly press-
ing temptation to tamper with
G-d's Holy Word."
Note that the reference to
the Almighty is, in u 1 t r a-
Orthodox fashion, hyphenated,
as in an essay by one of the
students on "Why I Do Not
Go to My Synagogue," stating:
"I do not go to my local Syna-
gogue to worship G-d because
its Sabbath laws are outmoded
in this present-day. The laws say
that a Jew is not allowed on the
sabbath to: turn on lights, cook
with a fire, carry . . ."
Wagner concludes with a quo-
tation from Rickover's impas-
sioned appeal for an education
of merit. Perhaps that's the
author's way of excoriating aca-
demic inadequacies.
The lingo resorted to, the con-
fusion, the spellings, the incon-
sistencies in his campus would
hardly serve to enlighten. In-
deed, much of this novel, ac-
claimed as being in the John
O'Hara style, is vastly confusing.
—P. S.
Sea of Galilee Swim
More than 2,000 persons are
expected to cross the Sea of
Galilee, from Haon to Degania,
in a non-competitive swim, Oct.
5-10. On Oct. 8 the Seventh Com-
petitive Swim will be held with
entry open to athletes from
abroad. This event will be for
a stretch of approximately eight
miles, from Ein Gev to Tiberias
on the Galilee.
Lake Superior is the largest
fresh water lake in the world.
There is no explanation of-
fered—such as provided by the
late Dr. Joseph H. Hertz in his
commentaries, that there were
other Adam and Eve children
— apparently daughters — who
are not mentioned in the Bible,
but the novelist states in refer-
ence to his discussion:
"Though pan-Jewish, not one
of the debaters chewing the
rag in the frat room now had
the faintest idea of what was
in the Bible. The New York
City high schools, scared stiff
of being in any way denomina-
tional, sent them onwards and
upwards with a vague DeMille
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of adoption prior to the opposi-
tion of the Zionist spokesmen, in the Middle East."
Rep. Halpern obtained from the
Administration the agreement
to name Egypt orally as the
subject of the milder .clause.
As the House prepared to send
its approved version to the Sen-
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ate for action, Sen. Hugh Scott,
Pennsylvania Republican, served UNDERSELLS
notice that he favored cutting
off aid to Egypt when the bill GREAT LAKES
comes before the Senate. He
said he did not think the United
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