Friday, October 25, 1963—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEW
Boris Smolar's
Between You
. . . and Me'
(Copyright, 1963,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
Diplomatic Moods
State Department officials in Washington are annoyed that
the movement against Soviet discrimination against its Jewish
citizens is • gaining momentum in this country. . . . They are
unhappy over the fact that members of the U.S. Congress are
interested in this question and that some of them have taken
it up directly with members of the Soviet Embassy . . . What
makes them unhappy is the fact that 60 Senators have introduced
a resolution in the Senate, denouncing the anti-Jewish discrimi-
nations in the Soviet Union . . . Officials in the State Department
are of the opinion that members of Congress should not deal
directly with the Soviet Embassy, but should voice their griev-
ances through the State Department . . . On the other hand,
when inquiries are made with the State Department on what is
being done to indicate to Moscow the sentiments of Americans
against the anti-Jewish acts, the reply is usually that this is a
matter to be dealt with through the United Nations . . . What
State Department officials overlook is that the United Nations—
under Soviet pressure—has drawn a distinct line between racial
discrimination and religious discrimination, considering them
as separate items . . • While on issues of racial discrimination,
like the South African issue, the United Nations is acting swiftly,
this far not the case with action on religious discrimination .. .
Somewhere the United Nations discussions are scheduled to be
held on how to act against religious discrimination, but it will
probably take three or four years before any formulated docu-
ment will come up before the General Assembly of the United
Nations . . . Thus, while the issue of racial discrimination has
become a major issue on which the UN is acting, the issue of
religious discrimination is still a kind of a stepchild to which
little attention is paid . . . Under such circumstances, how can
anyone in the State Department be taken seriously when he
talks of acting through the United Nations on the Soviet devel-
opinents with regard to Jews?
.
U. S. Interests
The regrettable fact about the attitude of the State Depart-
ment toward protests against religious discrimination in the
Soviet Union is that this attitude plays strongly into the hands
of Moscow . . . The Soviet bloc did not hesitate to pressure the
United Nations into separating religious discrimination from
racial discrimination, because such a move was clearly in the
interests of the Soviet Union . . . By discussing racial discrimina-
tion independently of religious discrimination, Moscow can pin-
prick the United States on the Negro issue and can pose in the
United Nations as a defender of the black nations . . . Whereas,
if racial and religious discriminations were considered as one
item—as was the case for many years in the United Nations and
earlier in the League of Nations—Soviet attacks on American
civil rights issues could immediately be counterattacked by the
United States pointing to Soviet suppression of Jewish religion
and culture . . . As the matter stands now, no room is left for
the United States during UN debates on racial discrimination to
counter-attack Russia on its policy of anti-Jewish discrimination
. . . This makes protests of members of U. S. Congress—inside
and outside of the two Houses of Congress—even more imper-
ative . . . Such protests serve the interests of the United States
no less than the interests of those groups in the U.S. who want
to •see justice done to Jews in the Soviet Union . . . They keep
the world aware of the fact that, although the Soviet Union
has no Negro issue—because it has no Negroes—it has a "Jewish
issue" which it must solve by giving Jews in Russia the right to
practice fully their religion, by restoring their liquidated culture,
and by checking anti-Semitic incitement in Soviet newspapers.
Woman Testifies Fuchs Shot Her
When She Ran to Aid of Children
She collapsed again when she
showed the judge photographs
of her murdered children. As
court aides helped her from the
witness stand, she screamed,
"Give me a gun—that murderer,
that murderer — my innocent
children."
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
HANNOVER—A woman sur:
vivor of the Nazi destruction of
the Lodz ghetto in occupied Po-
land broke down during testi-
mony in the Bradfisch - Fuchs
war crimes trial Monday scream-
ing "murder". at Gunther Fuchs,
52, a former Gestapo official.
Mrs. Ida Weynberg, 51, now a
resident of Paris, told the court
that Fuchs had shot her in the
leg when she begged permission
to go with her two children to
a Nazi death camp. Fuchs and
Otto Bradfisch, Gestapo mayor
of Lodz during the war, are on
trial on charges of helping to
murder some 86,000 Jews dur-
ing the Lodz occupation.
She testified that Gestapo
men, acting under Fuchs' or-
ders, tore her children—then
seven and three—from her arms
for transport to the Kulmhof
death camp. She said the older
child called to her from the
death camp van, "Mama, mama,
don't leave us now." Her voice
breaking, Mrs. Weynberg testi-
fied that she managed to break
through the police line and she
begged Fuchs, "Let me go to my
children—take me too." In re-
sponse, she • testified, Fuchs
drew a gun and shot her in the
leg..
Morocco -Jews Pledge
Support Against
Algeria Aggression
CASABLANCA, (JTA) — The
"unswerving attachment" of
Moroccan Jewry to King Hassan
-
in the current upsurge of border
fighting with Algeria was
pledged in a telegram to the
King from the Council of Mor-
occan • Jewish Communities:
Simultaneously, the Casa-
blanca Jewish Committee sent
a message expressing its readi-
ness, "together with our Mos-
lem compatriots" to defend
Morocco and to safeguard its
territorial integrity. Grand Rab-
bi Saul Daman also sent a tele-
gram to the King and called for
divine blessings on the sover-
eign. Prayers were recited a t
Rabat under the presidency of
the Grand Rabbinate "for the
glory of the King and people of
Morocco."
Senate Committee Drops Clause Aimed
at Curtailing UAR Path of Aggression
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The
Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee has eliminated from the
Foreign Assistance Bill a clause
designed to curtail Egyptian
aggression.
Chairman J. W. Fulbright
persuaded the committee that
the wording, inserted into the
House version of the bill by
Rep. Leonard Farbstein, New
York Democrat, was undesir-
able. The wording was similar
to last year's Keating-Halpern
amendment, to restrict the flow
Koufax Wins Earned
Run Title 2nd Time
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Sandy
Koufax, the Jewish pitching
star of the World Champion
Los Angeles Dodgers, posted
the lowest average in the Na-
tional League in 20 years in
earned runs to capture the Na-
tional League's earned run title
for the second season in a row.
An earned run average is
compiled by multiplying the
number of earned runs made
off a pitcher by nine and that
result is divided by the number
of innings pitched. The pitcher,
who endeared himself to Amer-
ican Jewry by arranging not
to pitch on the High Holy Days,
won 25 games. He pitched 11
shutouts for another big league
record. He was the first in the
National League to win two con-
secutive titles since Bucky 'Wal-
ters did it in 1939 and 1940.
of aid to nations using their
own funds to buy Soviet arms.
The committee reported out
a bill which completely elimi-
nated the stand taken by the
House which would give no aid
to the United Arab Republic
or any other country the Presi-
dent determines is "engaging
in or preparing for aggressive
military efforts" against the
United States or other recipi-
ents of American assistance.
by arguing that the definition
of - "aggressive military efforts"
was too vague. They said the
language was so general it
might be applied in the cur-
rent Morocco-Algerian dispute,
causing problems for Ameri-
can diplomacy.
Rep. Seymour Halpern, New
York Republican, who co-spon-
sored the measure passed last
year, said that if the Senate's
scrapping of this year's anti-
A bi-partisan effort led by Nasser clause is final, he would
Senators Ernest Gruening, seek similar legislation insert-
Alaska Democrat, and Jacob K. ed into the forthcoming foreign
Javits, New York Republican, aid appropriations bill. The
will be made on the Senate present bill pertains to the
floor to restore the eliminated authorization and the funds
measure. The bill is expected must be transmitted by subse-
before the Senate within a quent legislation.
week.
Objections had been made by
the State Department against
the wording which might ham-
per continued American assist-
ance to the Nasser regime. Ful-
bright and other foreign rela-
UNITED BRANDS • DETROIT. U. S A. • 42 PROOF
tions committee members car-
ried the committee's decision
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