Purely ommentary
By Philip
New Nazi Spirit ... Vile
Book in Our Libraries . . . ,
3 lomovitz
Tributes to Great Men
50,000 Jews Live
in Casablanca; 15
in Govt. Positions
facts. And let it be an alert to all Jews that there is never an end to
In our issue of April 30 we exposed three vile books that were eternal vigilance. Zionists especially still have an important task to
CASABLANCA (JTA) — The
written as attacks on Israel but which are, in essence, anti-Jewish. perform: to clarify the issues vis-a-vis Israel and to lead the world
number
of Jews living now in Casa-
to
understand
that
there
are
basic
human
rights
that
are
for
all
men--
Two of them are by Jews. The third is by a popular novelist who has
blanca
and
its environs was esti-
and
Jews
can
not
and
must
not
be
excluded
when
the
justice
of
their
undertaken to encourage the effort to destroy Israel.
mated by Jewish leaders here as
aspirations for an end to homelessness is involved.
About the third, the article referred to had this to say:
being about 50,000, or about 75 per
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"The Road to Beersheba," a novel by Ethel Mannin, published
cent of the entire Jewish popula-
The
Nazi
Spirit
in
Evidence
Again
by Henry Regnery, Chicago, is filled with venom and misrepre-
tion of Morocco.
When, four years ago, as a Christmas gift to the German mind,
sentations. At the outset, the novelist states: "This is a story of a
This contrasts with figures pub-
small part of the exodus of a million Palestinians during the swastikas were painted on the synagogue in Cologne and on other Jewish
Arab-Israeli war of 1948 . . . Even the extremest of Israel's critics buildings and tombstones of Jews, the world became aware again of lished by the Central University of
conceded' that only 600,000 Arabs left Israel under pressure not the existence of a hatred that was not wiped out by the defeat of Science Research indicating that
Hitler's armies and by the subsequent sense of shame that enveloped 35,000 Jews reside in Casablanca
from Jews but from their leaders.
now and stating that they consti-
That the novel was motivated by prejudice is indicated in the decent people in Germany.
tute one-half of the Jewish popula-
T.pst week, the incidents were repeated—and with equal arrogance
the frontispiece inscription: "To and for the Palestinian refugees
tion in the country.
who, in all the Arab host-countries, said to me, 'Why don't you and shamelessness.
The number of Jews holding im-
write our story—the story of the other exodus—our exodus?' "
Dr. and Mrs. Michael Wachtel of Alameda, Calif., had gone to the
Which is perfectly legitimate, even if misrepresentative, except Jewish cemetery in 'Bamberg, Germany, to look for the graves of Dr. portant posts in the Moroccan civil
for the venomous descriptions of cruelty supposedly inflicted upon Wachtel's parents. They were confronted by 23-swastika-daubed tomb- service rose to about 15 with the
Arabs by Jews—cruelty that cannot be proven and that smacks, stones, by toppled markers. Another American, the German-born Mrs. appointment of Haim Benisty as
in the Mannin novel, of shocking exaggerations. The novel clearly Emil Hirsch of Hackensack, N.J., also had gone to the same cemetery director of service equipment at
appeals for the creation of a movement to end Israel's existence. to look for graves of her parents, brother and uncle. What she had the National Irrigation Office, an
It is a venomous and destructive novel.
seen caused her to assert: "I was sick to my stomach . . . My heart important post in the governmen
Other Moroccan Jews in gove
Now we learn that this vile novel has been placed in branches is breaking."
civil service are Andre Lamy
of the Detroit Public Library, and the volumes carry this inscription:
It is the Germans whose stomachs should turn, whose hearts should ment
and Gabriel Tobaly at the ministry
break—and
the
Bamberg
community
felt
the
shame.
The
clergymen
"Presented by Embassy of the State of KuWait."
of economics; Solomon Azoulay, a
Which causes us to wonder how an anti-Semitic story, frankly of the community joined in a call to the population of 73,000 to rally member of the constitutional coun-
intended to hurt Israel and to antagonize Jews everywhere should in "public atonement" over the outrages that were committed.
cil; Albert Sasson, rector of the
But the clergymen who issued the call and newspaper editors faculty of science; Solomon Bensa-
have been accepted by our libraries. If it were a factual, historical
volume, we'd have no objections. But this book is vicious, untrue, were warned that the vandalism will continue, that the Nazis will strike bat, judge of the Supreme Court;
again. The telephone callers warned: "Death to the Jews. We'll keep and Robert Asseraf, an official in
intended to instigate hatred. •
Proof of Ethel Mannin's attitude appears in the May 21 issue of fighting. We'll keep smearing."
the ministry of foreign affairs and
Among the daubed Nazi slogans was one that read: "The SS is councillor in the Moroccan Na-
the London Jewish Chronicle. Under the heading "Novelist Urges
Arabs to Attack Israel" appeared the following:
alive . . . Six million Jews were too few."
tional Juridical Assembly.
For the first time since the Arab Students' Union in London
There are only '73 Jews left in Bamberg, yet the city's Council
M. Assouline is director of gov-
- observed May 15 as the annual Palestine Day, President Nasser of Elders found it necessary to order civilian vigilante patrols to ernment planning; M. Benzimra is
has sent a personal message. -
help protect citizens, to ascertain that property is not vandalized,
a member of the cabinet in the
It was read in Arabic to the large audience at the Mayfairia to avert arson and violence. It is all due to four successive anti- agriculture ministry; Abraham Ser-
Semitic outrages committed in the Bamberg community of '73,000. faty, director in the office for
Hotel, London, with an "unofficial translation" made available
in English for the sprinkling of Britons and Afro-Asians who
And as if this were not enough, the Jewish memorial monument phosphates; M. Hamou, director at
participated in the gathering last Saturday.
in Neuss was smeared with swastikas, and the Nazi cries are the department of research; and
Abraham Zaoui, director of the
The Egyptian leader attacked the Western Powers for their reverberating again in other German cities.
attitude over the Jordan waters and the balance of power in the
The "heroes" who have inherited the Nazi spirit are able land conservation office.
Middle East.
to act only in darkness while the police were protecting Jewish
Nassar also made a veiled reference to President Bourguiba: landmarks. And the old lesson emerges anew: it is not the Jews
"If a feeble and lost voice cries out for a so-called realistic ap- alone who will suffer: first the Jews, then the Catholics, then all
proach, such a voice will be drowned in the sacred march towards liberals. For, in the third outburst of medieval bigotry the Bamberg
a brighter future through a unified, uninterrupted Arab territory neo-Nazis painted swastikas and anti-Semitic slogans on the statue
BONN—The opening of diplo-
of a Roman Catholic physician and a native of that city, Dr. Johann
cleared of Israel."
matic relations between Jerusalem
But not even Nasser received the loudest applause from the Lukas Schoenlein, whose memory was an abomination to Nazis.
It is also repetitive of old experiences that the heroic Nazis should and Bonn is being delayed by
500 Arabs assembled in the hall. This went to the English novelist,
Ethel Mannin, who recently attended a Palestine seminar in Cairo. have emerged with slogans of "Juda Verrecke," Jews must 'be' diplomatic difficulties, but Chan-
cellor Ludwig Erhard is standing
"I am getting tired of liberating Palestine in words," she destroyed, against 73 helpless individuals amidst a German com- behind his nominee for the post
said, "The only solution for Palestine is military action. I say munity's population of 73,000! That's courage—especially when all of ambassador. Career diplomat
that in the full recognition that war is a terrible thing to con- the acts of the brave Hitlerites are committed in darkness!
Dr. Rolf Pauls has been found un-
template. But when it comes to freedom and justice even war can
It still would be wrong to say that all Germans are bad. If such acceptable in Israel.
be justified."
were the case, there . would be no atonement at all.
Authoritative but unofficial Is-
The chairman, who was somewhat embarrassed, intervened
But there is enough danger from neo-Nazism to warrant warning raeli sources said Dr. Pauls is
to say: "When Mrs. Mannin talks of war every Arab feels with that the people who gave birth to Nazism and to the worst crimes unacceptable because he served as
her, but tries to suppress that feeling."
perpetrated against humanity still are viewed with suspicion.
a career officer in the German
Indeed, if the London chairman was embarrassed, what should
What has happened at Bamberg proves the wisdom of the demand army from 1933 to 1945. Mention-
the Detroit Public Library officials say about their acceptance of a _that was made in recent months that the statute of limitations on pun- ing no names, Erhard said in a
war-mongering and hate-inspiring book?
ishment of Nazis for their crimes should not be enforced. It justifies press conference: "When a Ger-
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the criticism of the new dates, which extends the prosecutions for only man man has been a soldier and
The Jewish Self Haters
five more years. There are enough former Nazis at large to cause has done his duty, that is no
The April 30 article just referred to dealt with the shocking concern. It is from them, as well as from an inherited hatred of ground for discriminating against
attacks on Israel in books by Moshe Menuhin and Alfred M. Lilienthal. Jews, that the Bamberg crime becomes a symbol of German occurrences him."
Now we have added examples of activities of other self-hating that compel us to refuse to forgive, to make certain that what had
German Foreign Ministry of-
Jews who are pursuing campaigns that overshadow in vileness the been done to us, to our people, to humanity, should never be forgotten.
ficials were said to be privately
worst attacks on Israel and Jewry by the former Mufti, by Nasser
annoyed by what some regard
and their cohorts.
Bernard Baruch,. Israel and the UN
as an attempt by Israel to ob-
Thus, in Paris, last month, a Jew, Prof. Maxime Rodinson,
Your Commentator had a delightful experience, meeting Bernard tain a "soft touch" as Bonn's
appeared at an Arab-sponsored meeting to assert that Arab nationalism Baruch at the United Nations, on the historic day when the UN voted first envoy here.
is a revolt against Western imperialism and is intrinsically good, but in favor of partition and Jewish statehood, on Nov. 29, 1947.
Bonn officials did much pre-
Jewish nationalism is bad through and through because it drives the
It was on the morning of the crucial test and the historic vote.
Arabs out of Palestine and because it serves as a stooge for Western Baruch met with a group of correspondents in the delegates' lobby. paratory work before naming
imperialists. He added: "Israel's existence is a grave danger—to He was in a good mood and his major interest that morning was his Pauls to determine that he had an
absolutely clean political record
itself and to world peace. The sooner an end is put to it, the better, planned fishing trip with Andrei Gromyko.
during the Nazi era. The officials
but without fighting. On the one hand, let Israel lay itself open to
Not a word was said about the test for the Israel-to-be on that believe that Israel objects to Pauls
the mercy of the Arabs, and on the other hand let the Arabs accept day. Baruch apparently already felt confident. He had contacted in
only because he is a career dip-
the accomplished fact of a large Jewish community in Palestine."
support of Israel several of the Latin American countries and was
Imagine Jews thus being at the mercy of Arabs who advocate helpful in the preparatory work in defense of Jewish national aspira- lomat.
their extinction !
tions.
And if a Jew can speak like that, Ethel Mannin may have a
Residences for Elderly
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Then he left. He did not remain for the vote.
defense: she has the encouragement of a self-hating Jew.
Before the vote, perhaps a couple of hours after that meeting
But even more shocking is the reappearance as an apostle of with Baruch, this Commentator was with Abba Eban, who said: "You to Go Up in New York
hatred for his own people of the almost-forgotten Benjamin H. Freed- are here on an historic day!"
NEW YORK (JTA—A new $15,-
man. It will be recalled that this Jewish Benjamin appeared before
And so, both Baruch and Eban were confident of the ultimate 000,000 residence development for
the United Nations' inquiry committee to oppose the establishment result on that historic November day.
senior citizens will be built adjoin-
of the State of Israel. He paid for and inserted full-page advertisements
Bernard Baruch had drifted from Jewish practices. But years ing the beach at Far Rockaway
in New York newspapers with his anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist appeals. back he attended West End synagogue and Temple Emanu-El syna- here by the Home of Old Israel, it
Now this Jewish hater of Jews has found a platform in the vilest of gogue in New York. His mother had a kosher kitchen. The Baruch was announced by Jacob Singer,
all anti-Semitic newspapers—Conley McGinley's "Common Sense," family background was very Jewish. While his survivors have drifted president of the Home.
published in Union City, N. J.
from the fold, Bernard Baruch himself, like his parents and their
The project, to be financed large-
Starting on the front page of the April 1 McGinley paper and antecedents, will be remembered for many good Jewish deeds.
ly by a federal government agency,
continuing on four solid pages—"to be continued"—appears the first
will include four 17-story modern
of Freedman's articles. It is entitled "Zionists Digging U. S. A. Grave—
apartment buildings with apart-
U. S. will emerge a defeated and degraded nation in a Middle East Jewry's Debt to Moses A. Leavitt
Moses A. Leavitt was one of the most distinguished men who had ment facilities for persons 62 yearS
War fighting as ally of Zionists to help thieves hold onto Palestine
and older, as well as a community
devoted themselves. to Jewish public services.
plunder."
He was undoubtedly the top Joint Distribution Committee official building to be financed by the
It is not only an anti-Zionist, anti-Israel, anti-Jewish article, it
is an attack on the United States, it is a condemnation of "four from the point of acquaintance with worldwide Jewish conditions, as home.
The Federal Housing and Home
Presidents" listed by this man as having "jeopardized the lives of one who was familiar with the needs of the time, as an able negotiator
countless Christians . . . to fight in Palestine to do the dirty work who was on friendly terms with heads of states, with spokesmen for Finance Agency has approved a
those who had to be dealt with in the rescuing of oppressed and loan of $3,199,000 for the first of
there for Zionists throughout the world . . "
the four apartment buildings. The
Those who believed for even a single moment that bigotry, self- homeless Jews.
What made him especially respected was the courteous manner Home of Old Israel intends to ap-
hatred, distortion of truth had ended will be greatly disillusioned
in which he was able to deal with those in need, with fellow-workers, ply for additional loans for the
upon reading Freedman, Lilienthal, Moshe Menuhin, Rodison.
What they say need not disturb us too much. Let it only remind with lay leaders who were inspired by him to carry on the great other three buildings in the near
us that not all human minds are geared to accept rational historic work in support of the JDC and the United Jewish Appeal and in future. It is anticipated that ren-
tals will run from $80 to $110 per
behalf of reborn Israel.
month for the apartment units.
Blessed be his memory.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
2—Friday, June 25, 1965
Kuwait Invades Our Libraries With Vile Novel
Erhard Backs Aide
as Envoy to Israel
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