Purely Commentary
Continuing Need to -Educate the Masses
Immigration Liberalization
and the Masses . . . The KKK
Haters • . Graceless Bow
By Ph ilip
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VOMOVitZ
Israel Commended
for Desalination
Accomplishments
Much more emphatic is the charge in Ramparts Magazine, the
Removal from our statutes of the frightfully unjust portions of the liberal Catholic monthly, by its editor, Edward M. Keating, who
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Prof.
immigration law comes quite a bit late. The number of newcomers who declared in its current issue:
will be admitted to our shores will not be changed too drastically, and
"There is the business of the Jews. A statement was prepared Nabor Carrillo, chairman of a
while the removal of the discrimination against East Europeans is cause in the third session of the Council and unofficially promulgated to session on engineering development
for rejoicing, the fact remains that the doors to this land will never the world, but, as everyone knows, not promulgated by the Council, of the first International Sym-
be as open as they were prior to the 1920s.
a circumstance about which we can all be profoundly thankful since posium on Water Desalination,
What is not generally known is that the mail campaign against the this gives the Council at least one more opportunity to redeem itself commended Israel's "amazing ac-
recently-adopted measure ran nine-to-one in mail and telegraphic pres- in the eyes of all men. This statement is unworthy of promulgation, hievements" in desalination. He
sures upon members of both houses of Congress
as is the one prepared by a special seven-man commission appointed stressed Israel's contributions to
This means that even in a matter involving elementary justice by Pope Paul. While the original statement was a juridical act of developments in desalting techn-
the people at large were blinded by a prejudice against foreigners.
`forgiveness,' the proposed new statement is a saccharine rehash of ology, and said that he had person-
On the eve of the favorable action in the new law by the Senate, the spiritual 'bond' that exists between Old Testament Jews and New ally witnessed such work during a
the New Republic called attention to these facts regarding "new im- Testament Christians. Whereas John XXIII sought to end countless visit to Israel.
migrants":
Prof. Carrillo made the remarks
centuries of anti-Semitism, the third session of the Council, acting
Changes in the immigration law may not take the Great Society with computer-like mentality and with a political eye on the Arab in introducing one of the several
a great leap forward, but they right ancient (since 1924) wrongs, states, frustrated John's intent by absolving the Jews. From what, Israeli scientists who submitted
and give credibility to the claim that officially, at least, the U.S. one cannot say.
important research papers to the
doesn't care where a man comes from. Last week, Congress moved
"This is what it is about. We are the guilty ones, not the Jews. symposium. The Israeli delegation
toward final passage of the first major immigration bill since the Instead of 'forgiving' the Jews, Christians should turn to every Jew I is headed by Prof. I. Dostrovsky,
McCarran Act of 1952, which codified the "national origins" for- who has existed under Christian barbarism in the past, and every ' and includes Prof. Abraham Kog-
mula. Until now, 16 Englishmen have been worth one Turk, or Jew who lives today and say, finally, 'forgive us for what we have an, Prof. A. Kazir (Katchalsky),
some such equation. When the new act takes effect, immigrants will done.' This is the statement that should be promulgated, not that con- Z. Peled, and A. Peled, Israeli
be accepted on the basis of their job skills and talents rather than temptible thing concocted in the third session, not that foppish observers are I. Vilentchuk,
on their national pedigree.
statement proposed by Paul's special commission."
Nathan Arad, Chaim Forgacs, R..
More or less. Immigration from the Western Hemisphere will
Enough said. The views of honor-bound Catholics speak for Matz and Prof. Ora Kedem.
continue, as always, on a nonquota basis for three years while a themselves.
Other Israelis attending the sym-
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commission studies how best to put the whole world on an equal
posium are Hillel Aldaag, scientific
standard. Unless the commission holds otherwise, hemispheric The Rulers of Klaverns Who Do Lots of Hating
counselor of the Israel Embassy
immigration will then be set at 120,000 each year. For a long time
Congressman Charles L. Weltner promises many revelations to here; scientific attache Joseph
the State Department has been arguing against quota-ing America's emerge from his investigation of Ku Klux Klan activities. After Eyal; and Israeli engineers and
good neighbors (remember how the Japanese reacted to anti-Asian nearly a century of KKK activities—six young men formed the secret economists who are in the U.S. for
laws?) The Administration took the argument seriously, until bed-sheet organization in Pulaski, Tenn., as a lark in December 1869, studies pursued by the American-
it turned out that the new Latin America experts at State frankly and six years later it had 500,000 cross-burning members—there is a Israel Joint Desalination
Boar&
did not much care one way or the other. Still, it was felt that after continuing drive to inspired hatred.
Among the numerous papers
promising for so long not to hurt the Latins' feelings, it would be
The House Un-American Activities Committee, whose proof of either read orally or submitted for
unwise suddenly to change policies, and the compromise was KKK activities, under the chairmanship of Rep. Weltner, have just the record by Israelis were
studies
arranged, with the study commission and the three-year delay.
begun, had an interesting preview of the venom that motivates the by Israel's leading desalination
In practical terms, putting Latin America (and Canada) on Kluxers when J. Robert. Jones, Grand Dragon of the North Carolina authorities. Among the
papers
quota would not materially affect the immigrant flow. Despite the Realm of the United Klans, who rules over 50 klaverns (chapters) submitted were a study of
biological
"unlimited" status the Hemisphere has enjoyed, that immigration with a membership of 7,000, said on a nationwide television program: desalination by Prof. Kazir,
a sur-
has been fairly constant at between 110,000 and 130,000 a year.
"I don't hate Niggers, man. I don't—I don't—I don't associate vey of water desalination in Israel
What keeps the number down is "administrative discretion." The with Niggers. But on the other hand, I don't associate with white
by Dr. Vilentchuk, a report on the
rules for entry of any immigrant are extremely strict: He must trash or Jews or Catholics if I can help it."
operation of the freeze desalina-
have a skill that cannot be dRplicated on the U.S. employment
The poor guy won't be able to help it: those he hates will remain tion plant at Eilat, Israel, by
market, and he must show that he will not displace an American his fellow citizens whether he likes it or not. But one wonders whether
worker. He must have means of support and show that he will not we will ever be able to legislate against hate. How can any investiga- Abraham Peled, and studies by
Prof. Kagan, Chaim Forgacs, and
become a public charge. U.S. consuls have vast powers, which they tion force the Dragon or any one else to stop hating?
Nathan Arad.
regularly exercise, to exclude the flood of poor people who, some
Senators and Representatives fear, may suddenly descend on Allied-
can shores.
Quotas for countries outside the Western Hemisphere will be
gradually equalized over the next five years; finally, the total non-
Hemispheric immigration will be set at about 170,000 — what it
would be now if all present quotas were properly used. No one
country would be allowed to supply more than 10 percent of the
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
use against Jews, which would not ments submited by the Secretariat
total immigrants admitted in any one year. There is an additional
to The Jewish News)
ROME—In the expectation that be a novelty in the history of were distributed to the 2,200 pre-
provision for the yearly entry of about 10,000 refugees and im-
lates attending the fourth session
the Vatican statement of the Jews Christian-Jewish relations.
mediate members of families of U.S. citizens.
It was indicated also that there of the Council. While their content
Total immigration is expected to stabilize at about 300,000 a will come up for a final vote at
year, a little more than one-tenth of one percent of our total the Ecumenical Council by the was much wider understanding in was not disclosed, it was under-
end of this week, an expert of counciliary circles for the justified stood that they summed up the
population. It turns out to be more of a trickle than a flood.
Too few, pitifully, understand the basic facts and the actual harm the Secretariat of Christian Unity concern among Jews over the de- principal lines of deliberation lead-
that had been done to the American image abroad by the shocking —the Vatican body which drafted cision to drop the word "deicide" ing to the amendments and the
elements in the McCarran-Walter Act. In order that there should be the document — Wednesday gave and use "deplores" instead of "con- reasons for them.
The Il Messagero analysis con-
proper self-satisfaction in the knowledge that Americans are not an unofficial explanation as to why demns" as expressing the Catho-
betraying their heritage, there should be a continuing process of educa- the word "deicide" was dropped lic church attitude toward anti- tended that the proposed removal
of the word "deicide" from the
tion to enlighten our people about the basic American ideals. Our high from the statement and why the Semitism.
goals can be forgotten too quickly. This should be avoided.
word "condemns" was changed to
Apart from the differences in text was not adequately inst / . .
fied for the proposed amend-
"deplores" in the part of the text strength of the two words, it was
'A Bow . . . Made Graceless by Delay'
dealing with anti-Semitism.
pointed out that "condemns" re- ment. The analysis also noted
He said many of the Secre- fers clearly also to the future that the text approved last No-
In his analysis of the Vatican deliberations on religious freedom,
in Newsweek Magazine, Emmett John Hughes, himself a Catholic, made tariat members had felt it would whereas "deplores" is normally vember, at the third session,
warns Catholics agains teaching
add to the validity and the uni- applied to past events.
the brief but incisive comment about "a bow to Jewry already made
or preaching anything that could
graceless by delay."
versal acceptability of the draft
American prelates were re-
create hatred or c on tempt
declaration if it was clearly
It was a very gracious thing to say under the circumstances and
ported making a strong attempt
against Jews. The amendment
shown
that
its
principal
themes
it remains part of the liberal Catholic dismay that a gesture of good
behind the scenes to secure the
warns only against teaching or
were not necessarily incom-
will towards Jcwry should have been spoiled by dilly-dallying and
retention of the text of the draft
preaching "anything which is
by yielding to Arab pressures.
patible with the Christian Scrip-
declaration which was approved
not in agreement with the evan-
The Vatican is not alone in the yield to pressure. Our own tures even when these scriptures
by a large majority of the 2,200
gelical truth and the spirit of
make antagonistic references to
government, with all the pontifical expressions of friendship for
cardinals and bishops taking
Christ."
Israel on paper and by means of lip service, constantly yields to the Jews.
part in the Council's session.
Il Messagero reported that this
threats.
That text exonorated the Jews
The expert referred to the prin-
Failure to assign to Israel a respected place at the conference cipal themes as those of the of all times of the charge of proposed change was considered
on disalination was oppressive proof that fear dominates over the acknowledgement of the common deicide, and said that the Jews "a real breakdown" even by many
Catholics because the exhortation
State Department and that Israel remains the scapegoat.
religious origin and spiritual patri- should never be presented as a does not specify
the Jews and, as
In the instance of the Vatican, our major concern is the sad mony of Christians and Jews, the "cursed" people.
formulated, leaves full freedom for
position of Jewish representatives who, as Prof. Solomon Zeitlin desirability of a continuing dia-
As the time aproached when the
charged, "ran" to Rome to plead for forgiveness, instead of retaining, logue between two faiths and the Ecumenical Council was to take any interpretation of "evangelical
truth." The newspaper noted that
a dignified role of an abused factor in a religious history that de- repudiation of anti-Semitism of all a final vote on the
amended ver-
mands our forgiveness and their apology for generations of harm that kinds and of all periods. He said sion—which came as a concession this applied particularly "in the
has cost so many Jewish lives and that had turned Jews into the that scriptural references to the to prelates from Arab lands and delicate field of the catechesis
eternal wanderer—a role that was part of the aspiration of bigots Jews of Jesus' time rejecting the to a small hard-core conservative where Jewish experts see the
subtle forms of Catholic anti-
for Israel!
Gospels were incorporated into group in the Curia — it became Semitism."
Writing from Rome on "Religious Liberty and the Vatican," in amendments for that reason.
obvious that the changes in the
The newspaper also criticized
a recent issue of the New Republic, Enzo Forcella stated:
The expert said that the prelates text on Jews were arousing more
"In this battle—as in those over the powers of bishops, the who supported the inclusion of such emotion than any other item dis- the "unnecessary" reference to the
'sources of revelation,' the functions of the laity and the responsi- scriptural references were certain cussed by the Ecumenical Council Jews as not having "accepted the
gospel and to their having opposed
bility of the Jews for the killing of Christ we can trace the leitmotif that in a theological and pastoral during its three previous sessions.
its spreading," in one of the pro-
which has guided this Vatican Council from the beginning. On each sense they would be strengthening
Several American bishops were
occasion there has been a clash between two different ways of seeing the document by so doing and that strongly lobbying for the restora- posed amendments. The analysis
the position of the Church and of religion in the modern world. such inclusion would make the tion of the words "deicide" and also stressed the ommission of
Three years ago, the illusion could still be nourished that the gap declaration invulnerable to Chris- "condemns." If the amended text the word "condemns" with regard
could be bridged by the pressure of a deep-felt desire for renovation tian reproaches of having un- will be opposed by just over one- to anti-Semitism which was seen
which is shaking the very fouiliations of Catholicism. But experience ilaterally quoted from the Scrip- third of the 2,200 Council fathers as lacking an explanation.
The newspaper described the
has shown that the resistance, though it may not be numerous, remains tures.
in the forthcoming vote this week, work of the Christian Unity Sec-
extremely powerful. It is supported by the weight of tradition, the
The Jewish viewpoint on the ex- then the text approved last year retariat
in evaluating the 242
control. of the Roman bureaucratic machine and the hesitations of pert's comments questioned will automatically remain in force.
reservations offered by the pre-
a Pope who is very wary of taking a false step that might give the whether they would be understood
The authoritative Rome daily,
signal for a process which the central authority could no longer in that sense everywhere in the Il Messagero, presented a critical lates in the November vote, not-
ing that many of them were re-
control. It is for this reason, more than any other, that Pope Paul Catholic world. Among Jews, the review of key changes in the ori-
jected.
wishes to end the Council with the present session. 'In the Catholic fear remained that those phrases ginal draft declaration.
Church'—a Roman cardinal has said—'innovations are introduced would be singled out from the text
Observations on the text of the THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
drop by drop.' " •
of the declaration by enemies for introductory report of the amend-
Changes Made in Vatican Statement
Add to 'Acceptability,' Expert Says
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2—Friday, October 15, 1965