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Senator Barry Goldwater's Statement
The Arizona Senator has given a good account of himself in his
declaration on the immigration problem and on the issues that plague
Israel in the Middle East As in his statement to the convention of the
Zionist Organization of America, Senator Goldwater is consistent in
his opposition to aggression and to imbalance of military power, and
if elected President he unquestionably would pursue a policy consistent
with the principles of American-Israeli friendship traditions of the
past 16 years. .
He does. however, qualify his stand in favor of the revision of the
notoriously bad McCarron-Walter Act when he cautiously speaks about
"new problems" that may arise in five or ten years. We would have
preferred to read that he definitely condemns an unjust law. That's
what President Johnson and his running mate Senator Humphrey say
now. Johnson voted for the McCarran Bill in 1952 and has since altered
his view. Humphrey has consistently opposed the vicious provisions of
the McCarran-Walter Act which has placed our country in a very bad
light among the nations of the world.
Speaking in East Chicago, Ind., last week, the President called
for the revision of the existing immigration laws because they
"discriminate on the basis of national origin." He declared there
is no limit to what "America can be if only we remain true" to
our ideals, and "that is why we must do something about the
immigration laws. "Two-thirds of the national immigration quota
goes by the (present) law to people who never use all their quota,"
he stated, proposing gradual elimination of quotas and an increase
of 2,000 in the total immigration limit, stressing that it would
amount to an eighth of one per cent of the American work force.
Perhaps the latter remark was a direct reply to the Republican
vice-presidential candldate, William E. Miller, who has charged that
the proposals for the Fevision of immigration laws would "open the
floodgates" and threaten the jobs of Americans.
Unlike Senator Humphrey. Senator Goldwater's running mate,
Rep. William E. Miller, has gone round the country warning against
the menace of an increased immigration as if that were a danger
at a time when additional skilled help always is of value to us. If we
were to leave it to Rep. Miller we might never. have had Albert.
Einstein as a fellow citizen of the Unitet States and the best brains
who developed atomic power might have remained in Germany and
elsewhere or they might have perished in the Nazi gas ovens.
We do not doubt Senator Goldwater's earnestness. He is, as we
indicated last week, a likable man and personally friendly and im-
pressive. But he 'does have the backing of the right wingers and,
whether he admits it or not. has accepted their support and their
views; he does have as running mate a man who shouts epithets un-
necessarily and creates fear in the hearts of men — whether it is when
he pouts against immigrants or on other issues. Therefore the Repub-
lican candidate has the odds against him. He and Rep. Miller are
merely whistling in thexlark when they deride columnists and pollsters:
the people on whose votes they count appear certain to endorse the
columnists.
It has been a common impression through the years that when a
candidate is opposed by the press the people will interpret it as
pressure from the wealthy and domineering and will vote for the
underdog. as was the case with Harry S. Truman in 1948. This can
not be the case today. For the first time in many years. the over-
whelming majority of American newspapers is backing President
Johnson. It is not out of love for the Democrats but rather out of
fear for extremism. This fear is Goldwater's doom.
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The Fulbright Puzzle . ..
Goldwater's Statements
and Political Realities

By Philip

Slomovitz

been a meeting place for the Jewish thinkers of the last generation.
Louis Lipsky was their guide and the center of attraction, but all of
them — and among them often were the best brains in Jewry — used
the restaurant for free discussion Of major events. Over the coffee or
tea and sandwich or cake, they had forgotten the hours of the morning
and indulged in debates about Zionism, American politics. the theater
(Lipsky was an outstanding authority on the stage and its players).
Tip-Toe Inn's transformation into a salesroom for food and kitchen
articles spells the end of a vital meeting place, the termination of a
famous forum — indeed, the end of an era in American Jewish life.
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Liberals Support
Israel Auainst
Threats by Arabs

MILAN (JTA)—Delegates rep-
resenting Liberal parties in 10
European countries. Canada and
Israel concluded their Internation-
al Liberal Congress in Stresa near
here, with the adoption of resolu-
tions voicing concern at the "open
threat expressed at the summit
conference of Arab leaders to an-
nihilate Israel, and in the military
build-up directed towards this
end." The resolutions also con-
demned the work of %Vest German
scientists working on Egyptian
arms development.
The delegates also called for
direct negotiations between Israel
and the Arab states as the "proper
way to settle their differences and
to bring the state of war to an
end." They urged the governments
of the United States. Britain and
France to reaffirm their tripartite
guarantee and to "make it clear
beyond doubt that they will effec-
tively oppose any attempt to
change the order in this region by
any acts of violence against Israel."
Earlier in the conference, Moshe
Kol, Israeli Liberal Party member
of Parliament, who was elected
vice president of the Congress,
called on the delegates to warn
the Arabs against any aggression.
He appealed to the West German
Government to do its utmost to
bring back the German scientists
from Egypt.

Theresienstadt Evidence: Children's Poems and Drawings
Come to Life in New Volume to Expose the Holocaust
One of the most deeply moving portions of the Yom Kippur liturgy
is the recitation. read silently by the congregation. of the story of
"The Ten Martyrs." The "Eileh es'krah v'hafshi alai eshpekha" acrostic
deals with the tragic martyrdom imposed upon ten saintly teachers by
the Roman Emperor Hadrian (117-138) for having founded schools for
the study of the Torah in defiance of imperial edicts forbidding Jewish
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studies.
Very few liturgical selections are as soul-stirring as the one about
"The Ten Martyrs". (Especially valuable for an understanding of this
selection are the annotations in the Sephardic High Holyday Prayer
Book' for Yom Kippur translated' by Dr. Philip Birnbaum. issued by
Hebrew Publishing Co.).
This recitation comes to mind immediately upon reading " . . . 1
Never Saw Another Butterfly . . . the collection of children's draw-
ings and poems from Theresienstadt Concentration Camp, 1942-1944, -
published by McGraw - Hill Book Co. (330 W. 42nd, NY 36).
The pictures by the children who were doomed to die in Auschwitz
and for whom Theresienstadt was a temporary station preceding their
being sent to the death camps; their verses in which are expressed
their feelings about their status and their reactions to their tragedies,
will break the hearts of those who already know something about the
holocaust. One wonders how it will react upon the unknowing. upon the
young who are pot of the generation that knew Hitler.
The title for the book was selected from a poem that was written
June 4, 1942, by Pavel Friedmann. The catalogue on the poems ap-
pended to the book states that Pavel, born Jan. 7, 1921, in Prague.
was deported to Terezin April 26, 1942, and died in Oswiecim Sept. 29.
1944. The note on "Butterflies" states: "Although in years he belonged
among the. adult poets, his work does not differ much in style or
subject matter from the' work of younger poets."
Here is a selection from his poem which concludes' with the lint-s
"Butterflies don't live in here, in the ghetto":
"For seven weeks I've lived in here,
CASABLANCA (..1TAI— Victor
Penned up inside this ghetto
Malka, editor of The Voice of the
But I have found my people here.
Communities, organ of the Coun-
The dandelions call to me
cil of Moroccan Jewish Communi-
And the white chestnut candles in the court.
ties, and Moroccan correspondent
Only I never saw another butterfly."
for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
Some of the poets and artists represented in this book are listed
announced"-, he will bring suit
as anonymous. One, Marion Mayer, who drew a figure of a girl, on page
10 in the book, was 9. A number of the children were 10, 11 and 12. against Akhbar Dounia, a news-
paper financed, by Egypt and
and some, like Pavel, were older.
notorious for its anti-Jewish atti-
So many of the poems speak of "food is such a luxury here" or
tude, for defamation in connec-
"I'd like to live and go back home again . . .
There's the series of verses by an anonymous little writer entitled tion with an article charging that
"Homesick" which reads like a supplement to the Anne Frank story, Malka was associated with Israel's
Senator Fulbriyht's Puzzling Attitudes
affirming "no one must give up!" and asserting: "we all hope the time Kol Israel broadcasting network.
The article published by the Egyp-
Senator Fulbright continues to puzzle his associates and the will come when we'll go home again."
Jewish community.
What better weapon can conceivably be forged against repetitive tian-backed paper said that Kol
While there is constant warning against the threats of communism, Nazi-Fascist schemes than a collection like " . . I Never Saw Another Israel was daily calling on Moroc-
the Senator from Arkansas.saw fit to oppose reference to anti-Semitism Butterfly . . . and how much more effective can evidence emerge can Jews to leave the country.
Malka charged that an employe
in Russia. He exerted himself to force the elimination of the section against the mass murderers?
condemning the prejudice against Jew ess in the Soviet Union from the
This volume, printed in Czechoslovakia, contains catalogues on Iof the Moroccan post office had
illegally
brought to the attention
foreign aid bill. He was alone among his fellow-Senators in taking this the drawings and poems, describing the authors and artists, giving their
position. although 82 members of the Senate had supported the ame'nd- origin and ages and some available facts about them. The book con- of Akhbar ed Dounia the contents
-ment that was introduced by Senator Ribicoff.
cludes with an epilogue, "A Few Words About This Book," by Liri of a cable dispatch he had sent
While Congressman Multer. a Jewish member of the House of Weil, which is an historical review of the occurrences in Terezin, to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency,
Representatives, went along with him. the stand taken by Fulbright the "place of famine and fear," some 60 kilometers from Prague. reporting that the Casablanca
on Jewish matters continues to create concern and to perplex and to Founded 200 years ago by Emperor Joseph II of Austria and named Municipal Council would furnish
bewilder many of us who otherwise have so much respect for his after his mother, Maria Teresa, it was selected by the cruel men in material aid to three Jewish insti-
ability.
Berlin as one of the stopping places before sending those selected for tutions. The Arab paper subse-
quently protested t h e munici-
The concern over the attitude of the Arkansas Senator grows with extermination to their doom in Auschwitz.
the spread of the rumor that he may be our next Secretary of State
Theresienstadt was a model camp. Foreigners were taken there pality's decision.
in the event of what is considered the inevitable re-election of Presi- to be shown how well Germans treated those who were placed in
dent Johnson. If he is to receive that important appointment, will it concentration camps. But those who were sent there already had been
create new problems for Israel in the Middle East? Will his apparent doomed to die It the gas chambers. Jiri Weil writes in his epilogue:
antagonism to Jews and to Israel lead to new troubles and to aggravated
"Everything in this small town was false, invented; every one
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issues that may affect international relations?
of its inhabitants was condemned in advance to die. It was only a
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The so-
Senator Fulbright himself undoubtedly will concede that we are
funnel without an outlet. Those who contrived this trap and put it
justified. under the circumstances of accumulated evidence of what
on their map, with its fixed timetable of life and death, knew all called "Rooney amendment," con-
could be interpreted as an avowed unfriendliness on his part, in enter-
about it. They knew its future as well. Those who were brought ceived as an answer to aspects of
taining anxiety over his attitude on issues affecting Jews in many world
here ill, crowded railroad coaches and stockcars after days and the Arab boycott and blockade af-
areas.
days of cruelty, of humiliation, of offense, of beatings and of thefts, fecting Americans, was included
The Republican presidential candidate, Senator Barry. Gold-
knew very little about it. Some of them believed the murderer's in the final version of the foreign
water, speaking in Philadelphia last week, made some capital of
falsehoods, that they could sit out the war here in quiet safety. assistance appropriations act,
this issue by condemning Senator Fulbright's actions which` struck
. . . All were finally deceived and the same fate awaited all of which has been transmitted to the
White House for signature of the
out all reference to Russian anti-Semitism from the foreign aid bill.
them.
Goldwater asked: "What the devil is the point of the whole thing
"But the children who were brought here knew nothing. They President,. it developed here.
if you don't mention the culprit?", and he added: "When we have
Inserted in the past by Rep.
came from places where they had already known humiliation; they
reached the point that the spokesman for the Administration, Sena-
had been expelled from the schools. They had sewn stars on their John J. Rooney, New York Demo-
tor Fulbright, has to try to disgrace the whole American Senate
hearts. on their jackets and blouses, and were only allowed to crat, and retained in the new bill,
and the American people by trying to appease the Russians (this
is the following provision: "It Is
play in the cemeteries .. ."
reference is to the issue of anti-Semitism), then I think we have
And so the children played, from the age of 14 they worked like the sense of Congress that any at-
come to a point where we can say, with assurance, we are being adults, they even presented operas, —a scheme resorted to to convince tempt by foreign nations to create
-soft on communism."
a Red Cross commission that the Germans were a noble folk treating distinctions because of their race
This makes capital of an issue that fits right into the current po- their "prisoners" well. The children secretly studied and drew pictures, or religion among American citi-
litical crnpaign. Senator Goldwater may not have proven his point of Some survived three months, some as long as two years, and then zens in the granting of personal
.our treiaig "soft on communism," but he certainly was right in chastising "all headed east into nothingness." "From these 15,000 children which or commercial access or any other
his fellow-Senator from Arkansas for having defied the entire Senate for a time played and drew pictures and studied, only 100 came back." rights otherwise available to
on the Russian anti-Semitic issue.
Their drawings with• their signatures and their poems survived United States citizens generally is
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them.•The selections in the new McGraw-Hill book were selected from repugnant to our principles; and
Tip - Toe Inn and the Louis Lipsky Tradition
4,000 in the archives of the State Jewish Museum in Prague.
in all negotiations between the
The editors of this volume have done nobly. They have gathered United States and any foreign
Tip-Toe Inn on 86th Street and Broadway in New York is no longer
a restaurant. It has' been turned into a supermarket. It is no longer the proof of the Theresienstadt tragedy and have helped perpetuate the state, arising as a result of funds
gathering place for the literati, for the Jewish leaders, for statesmen evidence against the. Nazi inhumanities penned and drawn by children. appropriated under this title, these
who were' in the habit for many years to meet with the late Louis Deep are the wounds opened up by the stories and pictures in " . . . I principles shall be applied as the
Never Saw Another Butterfly . . . " The knowledge of it is such a President may determine."
Lipsky almost nightly, past midnight, to discuss vital issues.
Like the salons over which distinguished Jewish women presided valuable weapon against all who may again attempt to harm human
in European circles a cehtury ago; like the beth hamedrash where men beings and to torture and starve children while condemning them to 2—Friday, October 16, 1964
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
of learning assembled to debate over world problems, Tip-Toe Inn had death.

Morocco JTA Man
to Sue Arab Paper
for 'Defamation'

New Foreign Aid
Bill Raps Boycott

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