Degree t o Math Establishes
Purely Commentary Honorary
Link Between Hebrew University, WSU
By
PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Emphasis by Wayne State Uni- of oppressed peoples which has score in 1959 to more than 1,000
in 1693, and a further rise is al-
Canada has experienced a wave of anti-Semitism. Appeals to versity President Clarence B. not been solved up to now, and
hatred are being circulated in the mails, the swastika has been smeared Hilberry and Hebrew University only a Jew can grasp how seri- ready apparent. More than half
President Eliahu Elath that a ous it is. It is the problem of of them have come under the
on public buildings and there may even be threats of violence.
strong link is being established the black peoples.... I myself, auspices of our Ministry for For-
There are reports from a number of other countries where the
between the two universities having witnessed the Return of eign Affairs. The Israel Federa-
Nazi insanities have been revived. There are incidents in our own
Histadrut
has
the Jews, would like to help tion of Labor
marked the special WSU convo-
land, and we see the swastika displayed or daubed by the crazed
cation on Tuesday evening in the the Return of the Blacks as well. also made a significant contribu-
in our midst on public and private buildings.
Helen DeRoy Lecture Hall, at That is why I am working for tion in this field. In 1960, witl
What's to be done about it? Arnold Edinborough, editor of which the Israeli leader was given
the help of the AFL CIO it
the development of Africa."
Saturday Night, the monthly magazine published in Toronto, believes an honorary Doctor of Human-
This, Dr. Elath pointed out, was tablished the Afro - Asian Institute
that "something can be done," that the hate material that passes ities degree.
a way of saying that Jews, living for Labor Studies, which has just
through the mails may be forfeited legally on warrant "just as girlie
Conferring the degree, Dr. Hil- in peace and security in their own concluded its eighth course in Co-
magazines and erotic books are now forfeited." Edinborough states:
berry said that "in honoring him land, would "share their knowl- operation and Trade Unionism.
"In the five years of our co-
"Legal action may be started for criminal libel through the we honor ourselves ... by making edge and experience with others
operation with these Asian and
epithets applied to the addresses on the envelopes in which this
him a member of our academic who might seek it."
African States, more than 5,000 of
material arrives. Legally, the use of the mails for what might well
family."
The new African nations who
their students have attended dlf-
be considered seditious purposes and the overthrow of the established
Olin E. Thomas, WSU vice are seeking Israel's aid, Dr. Elath
ferent educational institutions and
government could be restricted.
president, presided at the convo- said, "turned to Israel for advice
"But the law is only as strong as the society which it governs, cation. WSU vice presidents Ran- and cooperation," "their leaders courses in Israel, and some 1,000
Israeli experts and advisers have
and there are loopholes in the law which favor the hatemonger.
dall W. Whaley and Gordon H. themselves explained to us that
It is the responsibility of everyone to write to their MP protesting
Scott assisted Dr. Hilberry in they did so because they saw in been sent abroad mostly to these
same states."
the cavalier treatment of the Queen's safety and the legal com- making the presentation.
Israel a country which, in its own
At a dinner that preceded the
plaisance of such anti-Semitic literature.
Prof. Lawrence H. Seltzer struggle to build a united nation convocation, in McKenzie Hall,
"MPs themselves should see to it that Parliament takes a strong
read the citation which enu- within the framework of a newly Dr. Elath expressed gratitude to
merated Dr. Elath's numerous created democratic State, had
stand on the effectiveness of our security measures and the viability
the Detroit Jewish community
of the law.
activities—his services for 14 found at least partial answers to for having established a Detroit
unequivocal
in
caucus,
in
some
of
their
own
burning
prob-
"The Prime Minister should be
years with the political depart-
Dormitory at the Hebrew Uni-
Parliament and in the mass media about his belief in our institu-
ment of the Jewish Agency, his lems. They hoped, too, for under-
versity with gifts that approxi-
tions, and in their ability to cope with those who would destroy them.
having been named the first standing and sympathy from a
mated $250,000.
"But above all, the moral arbiters of our society should take
Ambassador of Israel to the State almost as young as them-
He explained that of the 7,000
selves,
emerging
from
a
long
his-
their hands off sex and put them on a far more sinister expression
United States and afterward
students on the Jerusalem campuS
of lust—blood lust.
having served as Israel's envoy tory of dependence to establish a
"Whatever has been the situation in the past, and it has not to the Court of St. James; his society dedicated to the rights and more than 5,000 must work their
interests of the common man, and way through school and need the
been good, the Christian churches should unite massively and force-
scholarly works and research
assistance that is provided them in
fully in condemnation from every pulpit the violence, the hatred
in the fields of Arabism and to providing, so far as possible,
a university -sponsored dormitory,
and the venom of those who would subvert our values and tear
the life of the Bedouins, and equality of opportunity to all."
He elaborated upon the various else they would be unable to find
down our institutions."
his present role as president of
areas in which Israel has given proper housing for which they are
The issue emerges as a much more serious matter when the
the Hebrew University.
underdeveloped coun- unable to pay.
facts upon which the above urgent appeal is predicated are made
In his response, Dr. Elath said aid to the
"We look upon you as partners,"
known. Edinborough warns that violence is taking root on this conti- he took the honor as a tribute tries, including health, economic
nent and he has gathered the following facts, which we quote from not to him alone but to his uni- advancement, student scholarships; he told the more than 100 promi-
nent Detroit Jews at the dinner.
his Saturday Night article:
versity and he declared: "I look and he made this significant state-
Dr. Elath stated that the attain-
When Negro citizens of the United States have tried to be upon it as a beginning of great ment:
ment
of statehood by Israel was
citizens as well as Negroes, they have been met with fire hoses, cooperation between our two in-
"Israel has shown by her own
not an end in itself but "a means
electric prods, night sticks and trained dogs. When intelligent people stitutions."
example, and tries to pass on
in achieving higher goals," and the
have tried to reassess a changing world, they have been harassed by
In his convocation address at the idea to the young states
Senatorial investigation committees and the hideous smear techniques the conclusion of the formal cere-
in Asia and Africa, that success- highest of them all, he said, Is
education. He emphasized that Is-
of McCarthyism.
monies of the presentation of the ful economic and social plan-
rael's security involved aspirations
President Kennedy reaped that whirlwind. His death was the honorary degree, Dr. Elath spoke ning does not require a commu-
spiritually, morally and culturally
most savage, brutal warning we have had so far.
on the subject "Israel's Relation nist form of government — as
no more than physically.
In Canada we are now having our own storm warnings. Marcel with the Emerging States in in Soviet Russia or China—op-
Also utilizing the occasion to
Chaput, riding on the coat-tails of Ruby and Oswald, said if the Africa and Asia," and described erating at the expense of the
thank Detroit Jewry for the aid
Queen visited Quebec she might meet with violence.
freedom
of
the
individual
and
the manner in which his nation
being given the Hebrew Univers-
From a Scarborough (Ont.) post office box—a box which was is assisting the underdeveloped of human rights. On the con-
ity, Samuel Rothberg of Peoria,
at the time legally rented from the federal government—a great countries. Drawing up on the trary, it can better be achieved
Ill., a national vice-president of
number of letters were put into the mails by an organization which augury of Dr. Theodor Herzl in where public interest and indi-
American Friends of the Hebrew
believes "in sending all Negroes back to Africa whence they came" his novel "Altneuland," in which
vidual rights are combined in
University and a national leader
and which continues: "We demand the arrest of all Jews involved the founder of the modern po- common effort within a genu-
in UJA and Israel Bonds, who
in Communist or Zionist plots, public trials and executions. All litical Zionist movement and of inely democratic state."
introduced Dr. Elath at the din-
other Jews would' be immediately sterilized so that they could not the World Zionist Congresses en-
quoted
the
following
inter-
He
breed more Jews. This is vital because the Jews are criminals as visioned a realized Jewish State esting facts in relation to aid ner, expressed the hope that an-
other obligation in behalf of the
a race."
more than 60 years ago, Dr. Elath given by Israel to 29 African and
Hebrew University soon will be
In the face of such warnings what have the civilized, intelligent quoted the assertion by one of the ten Asian states:
assumed by the Detroit Jewish
people in this country done?
number
of
trainees
corn-
"The
heroes in "Altneuland":
The mayor of Montreal, when asked what he thought of Chaput's
"There remains one problem ing to Israel has risen from a few community.
irresponsible attitude, replied that he did not know what to say.
Dr. Hilberry spoke briefly at the
If he said the Queen would be safe, he would incur the wrath of the
dinner, welcoming Dr. Elath to the
emaciated man dying on the barbed wire of Belsen is captioned:
separatists. It he said the Queen would not be safe, he would incur
intimacy of the Wayne State Uni-
"Man-o-manoshewitz, what a win!" This is faced by the two shrunken
the wrath of those who believe in all that she stands for. So he would
academic family and ex-
versity's
heads produced at the Nuremburg trials. The caption: "Which twin
say nothing.
pressing the hope that there will
has the Toni?"
Is that all that the mayor of the largest city in Canada can say?
be many opportunities again to
But while this material has been circulating in great quantity,
That he is so afraid of a handful of extremists that he dare not
the Israeli leader to the
what have the police done? They have prosecuted The Memoirs welcome
stand on his principles and condemn them? But a mayor has to
university.
of. a Woman of Pleasure — Fanny Hill — as obscene, and seized 2,000
get elected, and he feels perhaps that the lunatic fringe has a power-
Judge Theodore Levin presided
copies of it from a Toronto bookseller.
ful, because vocal, influence on that great mass of people whose
at
the dinner. The invocation at -----
who
is
sending
of
the
person
Has there been any harassment
respect for law and order lies more in the sight of a policeman than
the convocation was given by Rabbi
out the hate literature? No.
dinner 6-,
in their own moral conviction.
Has any of this vicious propaganda which is clearly obscene Max Kapustin and at the
But the Rt. Rev. Irenee Lussier does not have to be elected to
Rabbi Leon Fram.
under
the
law
of
the
land,
been
seized
on
a
search
warrant?
No.
anything. He is already the rector of the University of Montreal and
Has the legality of Her Majesty's mails being used for this
an eminent churchman. His religion commits hini to belief in the
British Paper Pleads
been
questioned? Still no.
dignity of the "individual, self-sacrificing service to his fellow men
It's all very well for liberal intellectuals and enlightened
and an obedience to God which goes even beyond death.
for Hoess' Freedom
lawyers and police forces to stand aside on behalf of free speech.
And what did Rector Lussier say? He said that it might be
LONDON — An editorial in the
been
taken
out
of
circula-
Hill
has
speech
is
not
free—Fanny
But
dangerotis for the Queen to come in the unsettled political climate
Sunday
Express took pity on con-
still
circulate?
Anne
Fink
of
tion by law. Why then does The Diary
of this province.
Jewish lawyers, being part of a minority which has been persecuted victed Hitler deputy Rudolf Hoess,
This is disappointing from a church which already is being
for centuries, and which is still discriminated against in many subtle calling on British Prime Minister
severely criticized for its inaction during the mass terror of the
and complex social ways, have always been leaders in the fight for Sir Alec Douglas-Home to persuade
30's in Europe. It's all very well to sit doctrinally on the fence, as
civil rights. They themselves are hesitant therefore, both because Moscow to release Hoess from
Pope Pius XII did; but sitting on the fence is a curious position
of their minority position and their firm principles, to stir the Spandau Prison.
while millions of people go by in cattle trucks to gas ovens. . . .
"In the fortress of Spandau," the
authorities into action.
And what about the authorities who are supposed at least to
But it should not in any case be the responsibility of the editorial says, "an old man huddles,
enforce the law and to keep those who would destroy it in line?
leaders of the Jewish community to do this. It is the responsibility peering sightlessly at the bleak
Have we heard the Minister of Justice speak out against these
stone walls of a prison cell. He is
of all of us to do something about it.
vicious separatist threats? Has the Attorney-General of Ontario
If this sounds gruesome, let it be accepted for what it is worth. 70. He is mad. He is Rudolf Hoess.
taken positive action against the anti-Semites? Not that we have
But it should not be shelved as if it were the effects of fright forced once deputy - fuehrer to Hitler.
heard.
"The Russians insist he must
upon a panicked mind. From too many quarters there come proofs
The church, the state, and authority are strangely silent. Or of a frequently-reemerging anti-Semitism. The bigot is not dead. The serve out his life sentence. Last
when they speak, they speak in such a pusillanimous fashion that
year they even rejected a British
swastika is often on our own doors.
one wonders whether one is hearing right.
in the Latin American countries recommendation for easing his
In
view
of
what
is
taking
place
And what have the authorities—all of whom know the horrors where Arab propaganda is fanning flames of hatred against all Jews, living conditions. Plain humanity
of anti-Semitism, of racial antagonism and assassination—done about in consequence of the all-too-common expressions of suspicion and now requires that Sir Alec Doug-
the mass mailings of hate literature in Montreal, Toronto and other
hatred against us and others who happen to be numerically small in las Home should personally inter-
major cities in this country? This is printed material of the vilest
the American policy, there needs to be more thorough consideration vene.
sort, including the most sickening comic book ever produced by
"Let him use all his powers of
of the problem of race and religious hatred. What's to be done
a twisted mind.
rules barring discrim- persuasion with Moscow to get
about
it?
Shall
we
resort
to
censorships
and
to
Twelve pages of pictures have been reprinted from the atrocity
inating literature from the mails? Should we ask for legal restrictions Hoess released. Let him stir the
camps with the kind of caption one expects in Mad magazine. The on bigotry, thereby also endangering the civil rights of the rational conscience of Washington too. To
title: Diary of Anne Fink. Inside, underneath a horrific picture of man who must speak his mind but who may be stopped by a bad law? ensure that—at least for the last
two naked women running the gauntlet of brutal S.S. guards, in the
The Canadian editor believes something can be done. What is it few bewildered years of his life-
caption: "These pantyraids are getting out of hand". A hideously
that can be done? Our civic-protective agencies certainly have not this sad hulk of a man shall know
freedom again."
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS come up with the best solutions.
Canada's Anti-Semites — The Call for Legal Action
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