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EW YORK — Brooklyn and
other communities in the New
York metropolitan area are being m
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flooded with scurrilous hate sheets
and pamphlets, many of them corn-
ing from the National States Rights
Party in Birmingham, Ala., Abra-
ham Lindenbaum, president of the
Brooklyn Jewish Community Coun-
cil, reported to the council's board
of directors Wednesday.
Lindenbaum said that the
council "will seek to have the
postal laws tightened so that such
scurrilous material can be barred
from the mails."
He also announced the appoint-
ment of a committee of attorneys
to study the postal mailing laws
with the view of seeking the prep-
aration of legislation aimed at com-
bating hate publications. They are
Howard J. Fisch, Harold Kalb,
Solomon Hanft and Moses Hoenig.
Warning that the chief tenet of
the professional hate monger was
"anti-Semitism designed to sow
seeds of hate and distrust among
races and religions," Lindenbaum
said that the hate propaganda also
speaks of "white supremacy" and
attacks civil rights leaders as seek-
ing to "mongrelize America."
He said that the council will co-
ordinate its campaign against hate
publications with other groups
such as the Brooklyn division of
the Protestant Council. He said
postal officials admit that they
are helpless to bar this type of
mailing under present law.
Neo-Nazi Groups Seen
as 'Threat to Peace' by
California Investigator
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LOS ANGELES (JTA) — The
California State Senate Judiciary
Committee opened hearings today
on a bill to ban paramilitary or-
ganizations after receiving a report
urging such action against the
American Nazi Party and other
similar groups in the state.
The report was made by the
State Attorney General Thomas C.
Lynch, who declared that "private
army" groups representing them-
selves as patriotic organizations
were a threat to the peace and
security of our state." In addition
to the American Nazi group, he
listed also the Minutemen, the
Black Muslims, the National States
Rights party and the California
Rangers. His report was based on
four years of undercover probes . of
the activities of such groups.
Declaring that the private army
groups were "tiny" in member-
ship and influence, and com-
posed largely of anti-Semetic
and anti-Negro extremists, the
report noted that the Nazi move-
ment in Germany had also start-
ed on a similar scale.
The report stated that members
of the groups "embrace violent
racial and political doctrines." It
estimated that the American Nazi
Party would have difficulties in
mobilizing as many as 150 "storm
troopers" on a national scale.
Meanwhile, the Jewish War Vet-
erans of California urged Gov. Ed-
mund G. Brown to name a state
committee of leading citizens to in-
vestigate the activities of extremist
groups, including the John Birch
Society.
WSU Press Issues
Two New Volumes
Imo
"The Origin of Modern Con-
sciousness," edited by John Weiss
and with an introduction by him,
has been published as a Wayne
State University original paper-
back.
It contains essays by Alfred Wil-
liam Levi, B e n j a m i n Nelson,
George Gamow, John Hihham, Eu-
gen Weber, Roger Shattuck and
Gerhard Masur. Their essays re-
view man's response in the past
to impacts of science and tech-
nology.
Among the newer works publish-
ed by WSU Press is M. Seara Vaz-
quez's "Cosmic International Law."
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Freedom House Record of Battles Against
Nazism, Race Hate Reviewed Historically
In 1940, when the Hitler menace
threatened the freedom of man-
kind, a group of America's distin-
guished leaders organized Free-
dom House. It was a reply and a
challange to the Nazi Brown House
whence came the danger to human-
ity.
On the 25th anniversary of the
establishment of Freedom House,
Viking Press has issued a commem-
orative volume, "Freedom's Ad-
vocate — A 25-Year Chronicle,"
written by Aaron Levenstein in col-
laboration with William Agar.
It is a most important work and
its well compiled historic facts
emerge as a history of the period
during which Freedom House lead-
ers labored for the defense of dem-
ocracy and for the education of
Americans to understand what was
implicit in the Nazi terror.
"Freedom's Advocate" exposes
the prejudices that were ram-
• ant — anti-Semitism, race
hatred, the dificulties encounter-
ed by the Negroes.
Wendell Winkle was among the
movement's leading figures and
there is deserved tribute to his
memory in this volume.
Harry Gideonse, who was chair-
man of the board of 1942, helped
"counteract the activities of the
Christian Front followers of Fath-
er Coughlin, an anti-Semitic and
isolationist group . . . A scholar
by training and an activist by temp-
erament, Gideonse over the years
became a principal figure in the
formulation of Freedom House pol-
icies."
It didn't have an easy time. Lev-
enstein points out among other
threats to peace, democracy and
Freedom House principles: "When
a Notre Dame professor was ousted
for attacking Franco as a Fascist,
a defense of academic freedom
was issued by Harry Gideonse, Rex
Stout and Herbert Bayard Swope.
For such activities, and for its in-
sistence on preparing for postwar
unity, Freedom House was even
denounced as 'Treason House' by
the prewar isolationists."
Among the revelations, showing
the effects of bigotry at the end
of the war, Levenstein relates the
following:
"The underground hate move-
ment felt free at long last to
come to the surface. Libels that
flowed through the sewers • of
rumor during the war now bub-
bled up into the reactionary
press. Thus, when a field general
was disciplined for having
slapped a wounded soldier, a
featured columnist in the New
York Daily News wrote: 'Be-
hind the successful drive to dis-
grace and remove Gen. George
S. Patton from his Army com-
mands in occupied Germany is
the secret and astoundingly ef-
fective might of this republic's
foreign-born political leaders—
such as Justice of the Supreme
Court Felix Frankfurter, of Vien-
na, White House administrative
assistant Dave (Devious Dave)
Niles alias Neyhus and the Lat-
vian ex-rabbinical student now
known as Sidney Hillman.' The
reason they wanted to `get' the
general, add the columnist, was
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 16, 1965-15
that the soldier he had slapped
"was of Jewish descent.' When
such organizations as Freedom
House pursued the matter and
proved that the soldier was not
Jewish and that the officials
named had nothing to do with
the Army's decision, the news-
paper was forced to publish a
retraction. That 'did not deter it
from continuing to run such
items as the following: 'The Naz-
is did a lot of good things . . .
certain elements needed clean-
ing up in Germany . . "
"Freedom's Advocate" is severely
critical of the early activities of
the House Un-American Activities
Committee, then known as the Dies
Committee, charging that it "soft-
pedaled any inquiries into the sub-
versive activities of Fascist groups
such as the German-American
Fund, the Christian Front and sim-
ilar pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic out-
fits."
The book mentions the yeoman
w o r k of the Anti-Defamation
League, touches upon the David
E. Lilienthal case, commends the
efforts of the late Senator Arthur
H. Vandenburg who carried on the
programmatic work of the late
Wendell Willkie.
There is much praise for Her-
bard Bayard Swope, one of the
founders of Freedom House.
"Swope," Levenstein writes, "is
remembered, above all, as a titan
among New York's great editors.
His expose of the Klu Klux Klan in
the 1920s was a crippling blow that
reduced it to the furtive shadow
it is today. For that campaign he
won the Pulitzer Prize."
Freedom House activities
against persecutions in Russia
as well as in Germany are re-
viewed by Levenstein and there
is equal emphasis on the struggle
for civil rights. •
The difficulties• that were en-
countered by Israel, Freedom
House leaders' defense of the Jew-
ish position, the condemnation of
Bevin by Gideonse, are among the
significant historic events delin-
eated. The most recent evidences
of Russian anti-Semitism are al-
luded to.
On April 13, at the Waldorf As-
toria in New York, Freedom House
marked its 25th anniversary and
the 20th anniversary of President
Truman's first full day in the
White House.
Levenstein's "Freedom Advo-
cate" concludes with the following
paragraph:
"Those who choose to act build
for themselves a house of freedom.
Being mortal men, they may not be
wise enough or strong enough to
avert ultimate disaster, but they
will at least have earned for them-
selves the epitaph Thusy did es
wrote for his Athenians: 'Having
done what men could, they suffer-
ed what men must.' "
World Failed to React
to Arab Threats---Eihkol
BONN, (JTA) — Israel Prime
Minister Levi Eshkol declared here
in a taped television interview
Monday that "the world has not
fulfilled its commitments with re-
gard to Arab proclamatiOns to des-
troy Israel." He charged all those
who helped the Arab aggreSsor
with grave responsibility. He noted
that the constant threats against
Israel emanated initially from
Cairo.
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