Nazis Would Have Killed Any Relatives of Senator Imbalances Are Noted in Platform Adopted by Republican Convention BY MILTON FRIEDMAN (Copyright, 1964, JTA, Inc.) WASHINGTON — The Republi- can platform brought disappoint- ment to many Americans of Jew- ish faith. A conservative conven- tion in San Francisco rejected not only an up-to-date pro-Israel plan, but also effective civil rights, immigration reform, Genocide pact ratification, the church-state sep- aration ruling, and moves to re- pudiate such extremist groups as the John Birch Society and the Ku Klux Klan. The platform committee did re- tain an abbreviated version of a plank denouncing Soviet anti-Sem- itism. It said: "We condemn the persecution of minorities, such as the Jews, within Communist bor- ders." The major fight of Jewish inter- est was on the Israel plank. Rep. Seymour Halpern, of New York, testified before the Platform Com- mittee with the backing of 23 other Republican members of the House. He urged a plank identical. to the one advocated before the same committee by Senators Jacob K. Javits and Kenneth B. Keating, of New York, and six other Repub- lican senators. But the platform committee was not interested in involvement with Israel's problems. The trend was obvious. For the first time since 1944 the Republican Party omitted direct reference to either Israel or Jewish aspirations for statehood. An excuse given by one platform committeeman was that the plat- form was not the appropriate in- strument for involvement with the Israel issue. However, the same platform was very much concerned about Germany's needs, and went to some length in specific support of German aspirations. The 1964 "Israel" plank, as adopted, said only that "respect- ing the Middle East, and in ad- dition to our reaffirmed pledges of 1960 concerning this area, we will so direct our economic and military assistance as to help maintain stability in this region and prevent an imbalance of arms." State Department sources found this so vague that it might be ap- plied to an imbalance of arms as between Jordan and Syria or be- tween Greece and Turkey. The De- partment saw it, unofficially of course, as "meaningless rhetoric and certainly not a clearly-defined new Republican policy statement." The condemnation of Soviet an- * * * * Goldwater Booed by Rockwellites Upon his arrival in Washing- ton Monday afternoon, Sen. Barry Goldwater was booed by a picket- ing group of followers of George Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party. In Damascus, Syria, Althawra, the semi-official daily, branded Goldwater a "racist adventurer." Another Damascus paper, Albaath, carried a cartoon of the Repub- lican nominee for the presidency accompanied by a curse. The right- wing paper Alsafa predicted Amer- ican Jews are out for Goldwater "full force." Thus, Arab papers are making political capital out of the nomination. Senators Javits and Keating, New York Republicans, stated on Tuesday they could not support 'their party's candidate for the Presidency on the platform that was adopted at last week's con- vention. (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) LONDON—A check of available records in Konin, the Polish an- cestral home of Barry Goldwater's family indicates that any relatives of the senator's family probably were slaughtered by the Nazis, it was reported here Tuesday from Warsaw. The senator's nomination spurred interest in those records in the Polish river town, a hamlet 115 miles west of Warsaw. The grandfather of the nominee was a Jewish peddler named Michel Goldwasser who emigrated to the United States in 1849 when Konin was under Russian rule. Mayor Zdzislaw Szklarkowski of Konin said that if any of the 3,000 Jews of the hamlet before the war were Goidwassers they were dead. now. He said the Nazis had or- ganized a concentration camp in Konin and that there were no ti-Semitism was consistent with other militant anti-Kremlin stands. It was backed not only by Jewish spokesmen but also by such per- sonalities as national commander Daniel Foley, of the American Le- gion, who said that one situation requiring American action was the struggle against Soviet anti-Semit- ism. He voiced concern over the plight of Russia's 3,000,000 Jews. The platform committee elected to avoid detailed comment on the Russian Jewish situation. It was covered by one terse sentence. Convention controversies involv- ing civil rights and right-wing ex- tremist groups proved to be of broad national interest which tran- scended the traditional Jewish con- cern with such matters. The only two Jewish Republi- cans in Congress, Sen. Javitz and . Rep. Halpern, fought vigorously but unsuccessfully for a stronger civil rights commitment and for the repudiation of elements like the John Birch Society and the KKK. The convention turned a deaf ear to pleas of church groups and liberal organizations for liberaliza- tion of immigration laws and re- pudiation of the racist national or- igins quota system. The platform agreed only to reunite some fam- ilies and continue the so-called "fair share" refugee program. Instead of supporting the Su- prime Court's historic school pray- er decision, the platform sought to appease those who would negate this decision. Requests for Republican support of ratification by the Senate of the United Nations Genocide and hu- man rights pacts were ignored. Dan Koblin, well - known grandfather was quoted "For the ultimate in great ad- vertising, call Murry Koblin." UN 1-5600, 18039 Wyoming. IF YOU DON'T BUY FROM JOHNNY LEBOW YOU PAY TOO MUCH! Prove It To Yourself — Come In! KELLY CHEVROLET 18045 LIVERNOIS Barry Goldwater was, photo to the contrary, a little fashion plate as a boy, a Detroit woman recalls. This fetching outfit was worn on a fishing trip. * * * Detroiter Recalls Pint-Sized Charmer From West; Name: Barry Goldwater BY CHARLOTTE HYAMS Can it be Barry Goldwater was grooming for the presidency when he was still wearing knee pants? Detroiter Mrs. Selma Rosen- blatt, 11537 Hamilton, remembers Barry as a "handsome little fash- ion plate" when, at age 5, he was introduced to her as a neighbor's nephew. She was in her early 20s at the time ("oh, around 50 years ago"), living at W. 141st St., New York City. Barry's grandmother and two aunts lived two floors above. "Barry, I'd like you to meet my good friend Selma," Etta Gold- water said. "Selma, this is my nephew Barry. He's come all the way from Arizona to visit his grandma." Selma held out her hand. But little Barry reached up and gave Selma a resounding kiss on the cheek. "If you're Aunt Etta's friend," he declared with a big, a polit- ical smile, "you're my friend." It was a nice neighoorhood over on W. 141st St. Today it's in the heart of Harlem; "then, we were paying $1.25 a month rent." The tenants were mostly Jewish, Mrs. Rosenblatt said, and Barry's grandmother, Mrs. Michael Gold- water, was "a fine, well-educated Orthodox woman." Why "Big Mike's" widow left her home out west to live in New York is unknown to Mrs. Rosen- blatt. Etta had mentioned that her brother Baron was doing very well as a store owner in Arizona but that his marriage to a non- Jewish girl had hurt his mother deeply. Whatever Mrs. Goldwater may have felt about her son's inter- marriage was forgotten when her grandson put his arms around her, Goldwassers among the few sur- vivors. He said also that the Nazis had destroyed all Jewish records and that an examination of Konin archives had not produced any traces of a Goldwasser family, which the mayor said he under- stood had been a large one. Mrs. Rosenblatt recalled. "Such a nice boy." "I don't think Baron ever really embraced the Episcopalian reli- gion," she added. "But he let his wife (the former Josephine Wil- liams) raise the boy according to her faith." Mrs. Mike had shown many times she could "take it." When her husband and his brother Jo- seph left Poland to seek their fortune in California, she waited in London, finally coming to this country by way of Nicara- gua. From California, the roots were transplanted and sunk, deep, in the soil of Arizona. Etta and her older sister did not follow the Orthodox ways of their mother, the former Sarah Nathan. But they shared her good looks, according to Mrs. Rosen- blatt. There were eight children, and "all the Goldwaters were very attractive." Mrs. Rosenblatt was a secretary at the time she was living in New York. Texas-born (her father, Paul Levyson, fought for the Con- federacy in the Civil War), she attended school in San Antonio and came up to Detroit to live with a sister, the late Mrs. Jo- seph Beisman, whose husband was a prominent obstetrician here. The New York stay was short. Two years later she was back in Detroit, where she would marry Samuel Rosenblatt, cousin of the world-famous cantor Yosele Rosen- blatt. But the brief sojourn in the East was memorable. It was there she was kissed by a future candidate for president of the United States. THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, July 24, 1964 5 UN 3-7000 CUSTOM MADE CARPETS YOU CAN AFFORD! YOU CAN HAVE A CUSTOM MADE CARPET FOR YOUR HOME FOR AS LITTLE AS $10.95 A SQUARE YARD! Just think! You can select any color, texture, size or pattern you want and have real individuality underfoot. Custom carpets in Nylon or Wool . . . Priced from $10.95 per square yard. 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