Friday, February 28, 1964—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS- 2

Purely Commentary

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

William G. A. Ormsby-Gore: Among Friendliest to Zionism
Dr. Chaim Weizmann regarded William G. A. Ormsby-Gore
—who acquired the family title of Lord Harlech—as one of the
friendliest of British officials in relation to Zionism. As Colonial
Secretary during the trying
days for the Jews in Pales-
tine, Ormsby-Gore was con-
sidered among the reasonable
men who treated Zionism and
Zionists with respect.
There were so few British
leaders about whom that
could have been said! There
were Wedgwood and Ken-
worthy (Lord Strabolgi);
there was Sir Wymdham
Deedes, and a handful of
members of the British Labor
Party — all of whom it was
ourprivilege to know — who
were consistent in their sup-
port of the Jewish cause.
David Ben - Gurion and
Chaim. Weizmann always list
Lord Harlech (Ormsby-Gore)
Winston Churchill among the
genuine British non-Jewish Zionists. But even Churchill had
to yield to policies of the British Foreign Office in dealing with
the Zionists. And so did Ormsby-Gore, who, nevertheless, treated
the Zionists with respect and with dignity. It is for being a
gentleman in his relationship with the people to whom was
pledged the Jewish National Home in the Balfour Declaration
and in the San Remo decision that we pay honor to the memory
of Lord Harlech.

Inhuman Magnitude: Nazis' Baby-a-Year' Plot
There are still many people who are so moved by their de-
sire to be kind and just and fair that they would end the con-
stant exposing of the Nazi crimes.
We wonder what the British women think of such extreme
humanitarianism upon reading this story that has just come
from Berlin:
Two million British women were to be chosen to help the
Nazis, in the event of Hitler's victory, to produce 24,000,000
"new Aryans" over a period of 12 years, it was claimed recently.
The women were to be taken to special S.S. camps in Ger-
many, an article in West Germany's news magazine Der Spiegel,
added.
The article, a review of Herr Joachim Fest's new book
"The Face of the Third Reich," explained:
"Certain keen Nazi propagation planners had the idea
of making use of the energetic health of the northern brother
nation of the British.
"The 2,000,000 chosen British women would have been
brought to special camps where they would each produce with
S.S. Siegfrieds one child a year over 12 years."
Herr Fest's book analyses the Nazi plans for bringing up
the German "first class" race and the duty of German women
after a victory by Hitler.
There is no end to the revelations about Nazi crimes that
continue to be made available. Many of the exposes, let it be said
to the credit of the minority in Germany that goes along with
the need of keeping the Nazi crime in the limelight, for sake of
sin-cleansing and to prevent the recurrence of the Hitler horrors,
come from West Germany. The above story emanates from Der
Spiegel, which has brought to light many of the Nazi crimes."
Let them be known: so that there may be no repetition of such
bestialities in action or in the minds of human beings.

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Non-Jewish Views on Inter-Dating, Religious Joking
A new series introduced by the Christian Science Monitor
under the title "Dialogue With Youth" presents many challenges
relating to the youth of our nation and affecting affiliates with
all faiths.
An editorial note appended to this column states:
"By 1970, a majority of the population of the.. United States,
and similar numbers elsewhere, will be under 25 years of age.
Therefore it seems important to this news-paper to maintain
active, regular contact with young people. We invite them to
send brief questions or comments to this column, which the
editor will comment upon in return."
In one of the early issues in these dialogues, which are con-
ducted by Edwin D. Canham, editor of the Monitor, the following
questions are posed and are presented here with Canham's
answers:
Question: Should boys/girls date members of religons other than
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their own?
Answer: All of us will have social contacts with members of
religions than our own. So much the better. Let us repre-
sent our religion well. There's nothing wrong and much
right, in being a good unspoken missionary. But if dating is
pointing in the direction of matrimony, other questions arise.
Some religions are tragically incompatible. Others permit
love-blessed sharing.
Question: How do you feel about religious joking? I don't mean
joking about other people's religions, but puns and wise-
cracks about one's own. They seem rather irreverent to me.
Should one laugh and join in the fun? I don't like it.
Quandary
Answer: As you suggest, jokes about other people's religions—
especially when they have a sting—are in bad taste. Indeed,
most jokes about religon itself are in bad taste. Jokes about
people-in-a-religon may be more at the expense of the people
than the religion. Frankly, I think it depends on whether the
joke is really funny, or has a point. And sometimes it is
very valuable to laugh at one's self. But. preserve us from
the jokes about the three men who arrived at Saint Peter's
gate!
Here is interesting proof that mixed dating presents itself
as a subject for discussion not only by Jews, whom inter-dating
affects in relation to mixed marriages, but to non-Jews as well.
The answer given by Canham indicates that mixed marriages
are looked upon with serious concern not only by Jews, whose

Official Ukrainian Soviet Publication
Maligns Jews, Judaism in Nazi Fashion

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

NEW YORK — A publication
bearing the official imprimatur
of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist
Republic, which attacks Jews
and the Jewish religion by us-.
ing Nazi-like caricatures and an
extensive glossary of crude anti-
Semitic diatribes, was shown to
the press here Wednesday by
Morris B. Abram, president of
the American Jewish Commit-
tee, who is the United States
member of the United Nations
Subcommission on the Preven-
tion of Discrimination and Pro-
tection of Minorities.
The 190-page paperback, en-
titled "Judaism Without Em-

bellishment," was reported by
Abram to have been published
in 12,000 copies. He said two
copies were available in the
Western world. The publication
bears the imprint of the Ukrain-
ian Academy of Sciences of the
Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Re-
public. The author of the book
is M. K. Kychko. It carries the
signature "Kiev, 1963."

Abram charged that the
book is a "hodgepodge of mis-
information, distortion, mali-
cious gossip and insulting ref-
erences to Jews and Judaism."
He said the book "venom-
ously attacks holidays and the
ethics of Judaism as well as
age-old Jewish traditions and
practices."
One cartoon caricature in the
book displays a hook-nosed
character dipping into a plate-
ful of money and is captioned,
"All sorts of swindlers and
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
cheats find refuge in the syna-
to The Jewish News)
gogue." Another cartoon shows
TEL AVIV — One Jordanian three men fighting under a
Arab infiltrator was killed and hook-nosed man licking a boot

Arab Infiltrator
Killed in Jordan
Border Incident

one Israeli border patrolman was
injured, in two incidents along
the Jordan border Tuesday night.
A group of Jordanians at-
tacked an Israeli tractor driver
at Ein Yahav, a settlement in
the Arab sector, near. the main
highway leading southward to
Eilat. In this exchange, an Is-
raeli patrol returned the fire
but not until one Israeli soldier
had been wounded. In the sec-
ond instance, in the same area,
an Israeli border patrol inter-
cepted a group of infiltrators
who had come in from the Jor-
danian side. Here, an Arab was
killed and a second captured.

Libyan Forces
Reported Ready
to Fight Israel

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

LONDON—The Libyan govern-
ment Wednesday informed
Egypt that it is ready immedi-
ately to place an army battalion
under the command of the "Gen-
eral Commander of the Unified
Arab Forces," according to a
dispatch from the Libyan capital
to the Times of London. The re-
port stated Libya said it will
provide a second battalion as
soon as it completes the neces-
sary arrangements. The "unified
Arab forces" are intended to
fight Israel.

Mexican Committee
Marks Anniversary

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

MEXICO CITY—The 25th
anniversary of the founding of
the Jewish Central Committee of
Mexico was celebrated here Sun-
day night at a gala event in the
Union Sports Center, where ad-
dresses were delivered and mes-
sages read from many Jewish
leaders around the world.
Citations were awarded at the
meeting to the Central Commit-
tee's honorary president, Dr.
Sigmund Bibring; Fregorio Sha-
piro, president; and I. Z. Bere-
bichez, general secretary.

aims for survival are especially
affected by intermarriage, but
by our non-Jewish neighbors as
well.
The comment on religious
joking also stands us in good
stead. There is often so much
mockery, occasionally resorted
to innocently and therefore ig-
norantly, about religions that
what Canham has to say here is
vital to human understanding.
The quoted editorial note also
should be read and studied with
some concern by those who are
anxious for a wholesome future
for our youth. The Christian
Science Monitor's editor offers
a wise approach in the answers
he has given to the two quoted
questions.

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embellished with the swastika
and is captioned "During the
years of Hitlerite occupation, the
Zionist leaders served the
Fascists."
The book declares that the
Talmud denigrates work, advo-
cates business, morally degrades
man. It adds that the Talmud
also scorns labor and the labor-
er, and divides people into mas-
ters and servants.
A foreword to the book, writ-
ten by a Prof. A. Vvedens, KYY,
states that the reader "will
learn a great deal of the subtle-
ties of insidious Jewish morals."
Abram, who said he will pass
on the book to the State De-
partment, declared he would also
take up the matter with Boris
Ivanov, Soviet member of the
United Nations Subcommission.
He noted that the book was ob-
tained from a traveler in the
Ukraine who brought it to the
Paris office of the American
Jewish Committee which, in
turn, passed it on to the New
York office of the AJC.

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Boris Smolar's

'Between You
... and Me'

(Copyright, 1964, Jewish
Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

Question Mark
When the Ecumenical Council resumes its session in Rome,
will it adopt its statement on Jews and against anti-Semitism on
which it did not act last year? . . . This question is now uppermost
on the minds of interested Jewish organizations. . . . They have
no doubt that the statement will be reintroduced. . . . No one knows
whether it will be submitted as presently drafted or whether the
issue will even remain under the jurisdiction of Cardinal Bea's
Secretariat for Christian Unity. Cardinal Bea was in the forefront
in urging the Ecumenical Council last year to adopt the statement.
. . . The Amerian cardinals and a large number of the other
Council Fathers favored its acceptance, but because the statement
concerning Catholic attitudes toward the Jews was linked with a
chapter on religious liberty, those opposed to either joined forces-
to table both. . . . The opponents argued that neither the statement
on the Jews nor the chapter on religious liberty belonged to the
schema on ecumenism because they do not relate to the question
of Christian unity. . . . Some of the opponents also feared that
the statement on Jews might be given pro-Zionist interpretation in
the Arab world. . . . The firmest opposition came from prelates in
the Arab countries, Spain and Italy. . . . The strongest support came
from prelates of the United States, France, Holland, Britain and
Germany . .. The commitment of the American Catholic leader-
ship to both documents is now encouraging American Jewish
groups to believe that the forthcoming session of the Ecumenical
Council, which opens in September, will adopt the proposed decree
on Jews . . . The Spanish and Italian bishops who opposed the
voting on the general acceptability of the texts on anti-Semitism
and on religious freedom indicated that they found religious lib-
erty something of .a new idea and did not want to be rushed into
discussion on it . . . However, no public explanation has ever
been issued from the Vatican as to why the Ecumenical Council
failed to vote on the two texts even as a basic for further discus-
sion .. The only statement was that by Cardinal Bea asserting
that the delay in the expected and promised voting was tem-
porary . . . The key to the entire problem is to a great extent in
the hands of Pope Paul VI who can influence the situation by in-
dicating clearly his personal attitude as did his predecessor Pope
John XXIII.
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Confidential Report
Arab rulers were told by Egyptian President Nasser, at their
recent Cairo summit meeting against Israel, that it will take at
least seven years before they will be able to make war on Israel,
it was learned from confidential reports from Cairo . . . Seven
years is a long time, but the estimate has provoked a great deal
of interest in circles where suspicion prevails that Nasser expects
more and more modern weapons from Russia and assumes that
Israel will not be able to keep up the armament race . . . Sus-
picion exists that Nasser anticipates the development during that
time by Egypt of guided missiles or some other non-conventional
weapons for use against Israel . . . Meanwhile, Israel is taking no
chances with its plan to convey water to the Negev from Lake
Tiberias . . . The Israel government has assigned special armed
guards all along the vulnerable parts of the waterline, just in
case the Arabs have a secret plan to sabotage the installations .
The plan will be put into effect about mid-summer when the first
water will be sent down into the Negev . . . All indications point
to the fact that the Arabs will not be able to carry out their
threats against Israel's putting into effect its water development
plan . . . Despite the belligerent words of the Arab rulers, Is-
raelis now view the immediate future with confidence . . . They
believe that the Arabs will not start war, nor, it is hoped, will
they create a situation in which Israel will have to resort to force
to defend its rights . . . As to the Arab threat to divert the head
waters of the Jordan River before they reach Israel, the cost of
such diversion is estimated to run as high as $200,000,000 So far
the Arab states have pledged $17,500,000 to begin this spite project
which can hardly be carried out also because of technical d'
culties . . . Thus, the water denial plan seems to be doomed
failure.

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