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Items Are Seized in Alleged Assassination Plot - Paris Marriages Show Integration
of North African and French Jews

Integration of more than 200,000
immigrant North African Jews into
French life is being substantially
furthered by their increasing inter-
marriage with native-born French
Jews and French Jews of Eastern
European origin, according to an
American Jewish Committee sur-
vey.
Examination of Jewish marriages
in Paris from 1955, when the North
African Jewish movement to
France began in large numbers,
through June, 1962, shoWs that in
1955 only 3 per cent of native-born
French Jews wed those of North
African origin but this proportion
had risen to 42 per cent by 1962.
Further, only 5 per cent of Jews of
Eastern European origin had mar-
ried a spouse from Morocco, Tuni-
sia, or Algeria in 1955, but this fig-
ure had reached 32 per cent by
1962.

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A round of raids in .Corpus Christi. Tex., on a
tip that there was a conspiracy to assassinate Presi-
dent Johnson produced this array of weapons and
Nazi paraphernalia. Federal authorities have op-
ended an investigation of two men after they were
arrested on suspicion of the assassination plot, but
officials said they thought the pair innocent of any
actual plan to kill the President. The investigation

disclosed that one of the pair. Julius Schmidt, 29,
had stored in his home a quantity of arms, Nazi
flags, World War II German Army helmets. a Ger-
man medal, Nazi uniform. photographs of Adolf
Hitler and other Nazis. Hitler's anti-Semitic writ-
ings and pictures of concentration camps where
Jews were annihilated. Also taken into custody was
Jerry Hoefer, 27.

BY DAVID SCHWARTZ

(Copyright, 1964, JTA, Inc.)

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"Mr. Secretary," Eilath repled,
"there was an American who
said, 'Give me liberty or give me
death.' That's the way we feel
about it."

It's pleasent to relate that on a
later occasion, after Israel had tri-
umphed on the battlefield, proving
that size and the census don't tell
the whole story, Marshall said to

Eilath, "You know I have often
thought of what you said.'2.
McDonald was not the typical

ambassador in long coat tails who
confines himself to a. few official
calls on the foreign office inter-
spersed by numerous cocktail par-

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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
36—Friday, October 23, 1964

This survey is one in a series of

11 sociological studies in various
parts of Europe on key aspects of
post-war Jewish life, sponsored by
the Community Service, an organi- I
zation founded in 1958 by the
American ewish Committee's for-
eign affairs department, the Alli-
ance Israelite Universalle of
France, and the Anglo-Jewish
Association of Great Britain.

Like Lafayette

Israel has lost a great friend —
Dr. James G. McDonald. He was
the first ambassador appointed by
any country to Israel. Later he
took an active and even a strenu-
ous part in the Israel Bond Cam-
paign. I imagine there is hardly a
town in the country he did not
Speak to the Jewish community. I
have seen him at such meetings
and it seemed to me that Jews
looked upon him with something
of the same feeling that Americans
must have looked at LaFayette
back in the days of 1776.
As High Commissioner of Ref-
ugees he helped pave the way by
his support, for the establishment
of the state of Israel and when
Truman decided to accord recog-
nition to the Jewish state: he im-
mediately named McDonald as the
first ambassador to the court of the
new David Ben-Gurion.
McDonald in his book "My Mis-
sion to Israel" tells how the British
persisted in refusing to accord any
recognition. All communications by
the British were addressed: "To
the authorities in Tel Aviv" and
were therefore always returned un-
opened by the Israeli Government.
Actually it was not too much
better in America. The recognition
of Israel had been decided upon
by Truman against the opposition
of what Truman called "the striped
pants boys of the State Depart-
ment." Even the liberal Secretary
of State Marshall looked with mis-
givings on it. E i 1 a t h, Israel's
first ambassador to America, has
told how when he presented his
credentials, Marshall took down a
map of the Middle East and point-
ing to all the Arab countries sur-
rounding Israel, drew the inference
that Israel could not expect to sur-
vive.

Where more than four - fifths of
North African immigrants were
marrying among themselves in
1955, by 1962 this figure had
dorpped to 56 per cent. At the
start of the period studied, more-
over, members of only well-estab-
lished and economically well-off
North African families were
found to be marrying into other
groups, but by 1962 the process
included lower-income and new-
ly arrived North Africans as well.

study reported that 100,000 Jews

came to France in the few months
following the independance of Al-

geria.

Mainly Ashkenazi in composition
and temperament a decade ago,
French Jewry today is equally
split between those of Ashkenazic

and Sephardic origin. This is re-
flected in the marriage figures. In

1950, native-born and Eastern Eur-
opean Jews comprised 85 per cent
of those wed, those of North Afri-
can origin less than 10 per cent,

and other Sephardi 5 per cent
more. In 1960, Nor t h Africans

made up 49 per cent of all those
wed.
The records of more than 2,500
marriages performed under the
auspices of the Consistory of Paris,
major Jewish religious body in the
city, from 1955 through June, 1962,
were examined by sociologists E.
Freschoff and A. Hattab, who con-
ducted the survey for Community
Service. Also studied, as a refer-
ence year for comparison, was
1950, when 260 • marriages took
place.
The average age of the men at
the time of marriage varied from
a few months under 28 to a few •
months over 29, that of the women
from 23 years and 5 months to 25,
the study revealed.

Neo-Peronists Decry
Anti-Jewish Activities

BUENOS AIRES (JTA)—The Ar-
gentine "Justicialist" (neo-Peron-
ist) movement categorically re-
pudiated recent attempts to foment
anti-Semitism in Argentina.
A delegation of "Justicialist"

leaders called on the leaders of the
DAIA, representative organization

of Argentine Jewry, and expressed

In announcing the findings, 'Mor- their conviction of the necessity to
ris B. Abram, President of the extirpate prejudice and discrimi-

American Jewish Committee, said
that "this reported integration is
extremely important for the future
of French Jewry, now half a mil-
lion strong and on of the largest
Jewish communities in the world."
A previous Community Service

nation from Argentine life. During
the meeting, ideas were exchanged
on the means to deal with attempts
to create artificially an anti-Jewish
atmosphere in the country.

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Julius Schmidt, 29, is led from the U.S. commissioner's office in
Corpus Christi, Tex.. charged with violation of the federal firearms
act. Also under arrest is Jerry Joe Hoefer, 27, close behind Schmidt.
An "arsenal" found in Schmidt's living quarters included machine
guns. hand grenades. rocket launcher and Nazi paraphenalia.

ties. He took a paternal interest in
Israel. He and B.G. developed a
real intimacy. He describes in his
book Ben-Gurion coming down the
steps - looking like Santa' Claus."
Another time he is upstairs in the
bedroom of Ben-Gurion because
B.G. is trying to keep warm under
the blankets while working. It can
be cold in Jerusalem and the Prime
Minister didn't have too many corn-
; forts. McDonald tells of hard work-
ing Paula Ben-Gurion complaining
about her maid leaving in a huff,
saying, "Mrs. B e n-G urion, you
should be the last person to exploit
your help."
One of McDonald's best stories
is of B.G. briefing the sentry
guarding the American Embassy.
"Don't argue with Americans.
"They like to say everything about
America is bigger and better. Even
if they tell you that America is
larger than Israel, don't argue with
them." McDonald once humorously
remarked that as ambassador he did
not keep a kosher kitchen in Jeru-
salem, because then Jews would
call on him. American Jews visited
him with the feeling that he was
not only the American ambassador,
but a son of their own in his sym-
pathies for the success of Israel.
James G. McDonald will have an
enduring place in Israel's history.

One should never trust a woman
who tells one her real age. A
woman who would tell that would

tell anything. —Oscar Wilde

Academicians Pay Honor
to Historian Salo Baron

Dr. Salo W. Baron, who retired
last June as professor of Jewish
history, literature and institutions
at Columbia University after 34
years of service, was honored Sun-
day at a special convocation of the
Theodor Herzl Institute, New York.
Tribute was paid to the noted his-
torian by Dr. Emanuel Neumann,
chairman of the Herzl Foundation,
and a group of fellow academici-
ans.
Dr. Neumann and the other
speakers expressed gratification at
the opportunity to honor the dis-
tinguished scholar who is now de-
voting full time to the completion
of his monumental "Social and Re-
ligious History of the Jews,' eight
volumes of which have already
been published, bringing the his-
tory up to the Middle Ages.

Miserable is the life of him who
must rely on his friend's table. —
Deuteronomy 15.

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