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January 28, 1966 - Image 40

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1966-01-28

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Herbert Bayard Swope Story: Kahn Biography $91,392,800 in Israel Bonds Purchased
'65; Highest Record in History
Enumerates Jewish Incidents in Colorful Career in NEW
YORK (JTA)—A record- of $41,800,000 was paid out by the

The late Jacob Laudau interested breaking total of $91,392,800 in state of Israel in the redemption
"The World of Swope" by E. J.
him in the Jewish Telegraphic State of Israel Bonds was sold dur- of matured Israel bonds. Another
Kahn, Jr., — the world here de-
Agency and assisted in gathering ing 1965 in the United States, $8,998,265 went to investors in in-
finitely being an echo of New York
prominent men to form a board Canada and other countries, it was terest payments on Israel bonds
days, the masthead of the late New
to assist the great news-gathering reported Monday by Dr. Joseph J. last year.
York daily being reproduced in the
Samuel Rothberg, national cam-
medium. This portion of the book Schwartz vice president of the Is-
title on the jacket of the book —
paign chairman of the Israel Bond
is in itself part of a valuable rael Bond Organization.
is a biography of Herbert Bayard
He emphasized that this repre- Organization announced a world-
chapter in American Jewish history
Swope. Published by Simon and
— the difficulties JTA encount- sents the largest sum ever sold in wide quota of $105,000,000 for the
Schuster, this 510-page account of
ered, the emergence of the Over- one year in the entire history of 1966 drive.
one of the most interesting char-
seas News Agency (ONA), the the drive, which began in 1951.
acters of the first part of this
Nahum Shamir, Israel's econom-
loyalty with which he backed up The 1965 total, he pointed out, ic minister to the U.S., observed
century reveals so much about our
constitutes
an
increase
of
7
per
Landau.
time, its heroes and villains, the
that the outstanding economic
cent over the previous year, when
conflicts that ensued, that it
Then began the UJA era for Israel Bond proceeds reached $85,- event in Israel during 1965 was
emerges as a very fascinating
the opening of the port of Ashdod,
Swope. He tried to get Baruch to 380,350.
on the Mediterranean south of Tel
sketch.
attend the UJA conference in
Dr. Schwartz presented his re-
In our review of Oscar Levant's
Washington in 1946, but could port on the results of the 1965 Aviv. The new port, constructed
"The Memoirs of an Amnesiac" (a
not sway him. He did get a large drive at the opening session of a with the aid of Israel Bond pro-
Putnam publication), in our issue
gift from him. When UJA tried to two-day conference of regional ceeds and other funds, may well
of Oct. 29, we quoted this sensa-
get Swope to become its chairman representatives and national ex- rival Haifa Harbor in the next
tionalism by Levant about Swope:
in 1948, he replied: "It is far better ecutives of the Israel Bond Or- decade, he said.
for me to occupy a seemingly dis- ganization, who gathered at the
"Herbert Swope, who never
interested onlooker's seat than to Roosevelt Hotel here to plan ex- Hebrew Corner
mentioned that he was a Jew,
become a public advocate for a tended economic development aid
finally did when World War II
particular need . . ."
came along, which had Mr.
HERBERT BAYARD SWOPE
for Israel this year.
Field School
Justice Felix Frankfurter to
Of the total of $91,392,800 in Is-
"The more closely identified
Many groups of young men and
connection that Kahn appends the Swope became with Jewish affairs, rael Bonds sold during 1965, Dr. women from various places in the
say that Swope was 'a foul
from Acco in the north to
following two footnotes to his refer- the more curious he became about Schwartz reported that $76,655,- country,
weather Jew'."
Beer Sheba in the south, come to the
ences to the Swopes' Jewishness:
School at Ein Gedi in the Negev.
And our comment on it was:
Judaism," Kahn reveals. He tells 500 was sold in the United States; Field
Why did they choose to establish the
"Raoul Fleischmann once re- of a set of questions that were $5,460,750 in Canada; $4,162,750 in Field School particularly at Ein Gedi?
But — wasn't our intellectual
Because
Ein Gedi is an oasis in the
Latin
America
and
$5,113,800
in
marked to George S. Kaufman, posed by him to Dr. Louis Fink-
sphere filled with that type of
heart of the Judean desert, on the
a philosophical man, 'I didn't stein of the Jewish Theological Western Europe. More than 200,- shores of the Dead Sea. In addition,
"foul weather Jew," and don't
there is a plentitude of sweet water
know I was Jewish until I was Seminary about Jewish matters. 000 individuals subscribed to Is- in
they emerge even now, when an
Ein Gedi. This combination attracted
rael bonds last year and bank pur- tropical plants and special animals
18."I didn't know I was a boy He asserts:
anti-Semite strikes?
which
are not found in any other
Kahn's biography makes very in- until I was 20,' Kaufman re-
"A swarm of Jewish organiza- chases amounted to more than place in our country. Flocks of moun-
$12,000,000,
he
said.
He
also
an-
tain
goats
clamber over the rocks
plied."
teresting observations on the at-
tions began to retain Swope for
and herds of deer come to drink the
during 1965 the sum waters
of the spring.
titude of Swope to his origin. He
various public-relations chores, nounced that *
"When someone unfamiliar
* *
The area of Ein Gedi is full of
introduces the subject, towards the with Swope's background asked
and he toiled with equanimity
archaeological remains. During the
Israel
Cabinet
Votes
days
of the Second Temple, our fore-
end of his book, as follows:
both for Zionists, non-Zionists
Woolcott one day if there was
fathers cultivated the rare persimmon
"Up to the advent of Nazism any truth to the yarn that
and anti-Zionists — quite a feat to Float $100,000,000
tree there and until today it is pos-
sible to find traces of ancient agricul-
there had seemed to be no par- Swope had a drop or two of
in the maelstrom of Jewish social
ture on the spot: water pools which
ticular reason for Swope to pay
and political action groups .. . Bond Issue; Interest Up
Jewish blood in him, Woolcott
have dried up, terraces and canals.
Thousands of excursionists come to
serious attention to his origin. replied, venomously, 'Yes, and I
He had achieved a gratifying
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel's visit
this spot every year. But in
True, others might - pay attention. hear Paul Robeson has a touch
close relationship with Dr. Chaim Cabinet voted at its regular, week- order to protect nature from the
"love"
of man, it is necessary to guard
He was in the customary awk-
Weizmann."
of the tarbrush, too.' "
ly meeting here Sunday to float a the place
permanently and also to
ward spot of Jews in America who
cake care of the plants and animals.
$100,000,000
bond
issue,
redeem-
Kahn
gives
an
account
of
Swope's
When
Robert
Moses
was
rejected
This
task
was
undertaken by the stu-
like to be thought of as nothing
brother Gerard's interest in the able after 20 years, at an interest dents of the Field
School. They con-
at all; they can rarely achieve this for membership in River Club, Technion and the $8,000,000 gift rate of 4.75 per cent. The deci- structed picnic grounds and public
and paved paths.
state of social weightlessness be- Swope resigned from that one, too. he left in his will to the Haifa sion requires approval by the services
A number of devotees ("crazy about
Kahn writes: "Swope also liked
cause, more often than not, they
it") live at the Field School perman-
Institute of Technology — the dif- Knesset.
to
describe
himself,
using
a
term
ently,
some of them as part of their
are expected by non-Jews to give
Previous Israel bond issues paid army service.
ficulties that ensued, how a con-
Others built themselves
evidence of Jewishness and by that was probably first given cur- gressional act permitted individuals 4 per cent, but the interest rate a house on the spot and volunteers
them in their difficult work.
Jews, similarly, to give evidence of rency_ (this contradicts Levant's to choose a charity to receive a was raised in line with higher in- help
Translation of Hebrew column, pub-
non-non-Jewishness. The Jew who description) by Supreme Court decedent spouse's money and he terest rates now in effect in the lished by the Brit Iv it Olamit (World
Hebrew
Union), with the Assistance
Justice
Louis
Brandeis,
as
a
'foul-
goes to work on Yom Kippur and
explains: "It was what Gerard United States. The previous issues of the Memorial Foundation for Jew-
looks blank when a fellow Jew weather Jew' — one, that was, wanted to do, and as a result were redeemable after 15 years. ish Culture.
tells him a joke with a Yiddish who, though noncommittal about most of his capital funds were The new bonds will be issued to
punch line does not always feel his background in halcyon days, transferred to a nation for whose banks only and will not be sold
sorry for himself, but he is some- felt impelled to identify himself founding fathers it would have to individuals.
T • 4.
1! 3 • T
times ruefully aware of the dif- with other Jews when the going amazed the brothers' friends, not
ficulties of getting elected to any- was rough. When Adolf Hitler too many years before, to realize
came to power, Swope donned his
thing."
either man cared a farthing."
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Kahn resorts to philosophizing foul-weather gear, like a knight
This biography tells how Israel
putting
on
armor."
about Jews, that nobody knows
Rogosin, the Jewish industralist,
what a Jew is, not even the Israel
That's how it began that had enlisted Swope's support for
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Supreme Court — here he refer- Swope commenced to enlist sup- his efforts.
red to the problem that arose in port in the war on Nazism, that
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Swope's family background, the
Israel over citizenship in 1962, and he contacted his friend Bernard
Jewish
antecedents,
their
interests
he states:
Baruch. It's an interesting ac-
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"Quite a few urbane, educated
count. It includes an interest he and activities, are enumerated.
Of major importance in the bio- r-rA
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and wealthy German Jews with
took in the United Jewish Ap-
backgrounds like Swope's sought
peal. He had been a good friend graphy, of course, is Swope's news-
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to avoid the whole bothersome
of Westbrook Pegler, but when paper career, his editorship of the
question of what they were (or
the latter showed his colors he World, his reportorial skills, the
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what other people deemed them
refused to attend a testimonial Pulitzer Prizes he won for himself
to be) by simply passing over
dinner in his honor, stating, "I and for the World. He was without
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into the non-Jewish world as
make a practice of dining with challenge one of the most interest-
soon as they were a generation
my friend s, not with my ing men of our time.
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or so detached from the family
enemies . . ."
rabbi. This sometimes meant
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keeping a relative from the old
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country under wraps, but it was
on the whole not hard to ac-
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No one has drafted -a treaty or Butz scheduled to come to the
complish, and it could lead to a
signed a convention, but there is United States for open-heart sur-
wider and freer social life."
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He adds on this score: "Swope an unwritten agreement between gery at the Mayo Clinic. At the re-
quest
of
Magen
David
Adorn,
the
Israel
and
the
United
States
that
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saw no need to take any such
American Red Cross arranged for
evasive action. He didn't care is saving lives.
St. Paul Regional Blood Center
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The agreement exists between its
whether he was known as a Jew
to provide blood—just as it did in
or a non-Jew. There was nothing the American Red Cross and its the case of another Israeli last
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in his experience to make him Israel counterpart, Magen David September.
feel Jewish. His parents had been Adorn. Blood is the principal com- Israel Magen David Ships
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relaxed about the entire matter, modity involved in the agreement, Emergency Aid to Brazil
and while his brother Gerard — and the beneficiaries are men and
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The recent storm that ravaged
who might not have got as far as women of Israel and the United Rio de Janeiro and resulted in an
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he did at General Electric if he States who, because of accident or SOS being issued by the Brazilian
had been publicly identified as a illness, urgently require blood.
Red Cross received a prompt re-
If an American visiting Israel sponse from Israel.
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Jew — occasionally dropped in at
a Chicago synagogue at the turn requires blood for an operation,
In a dispatch to American Red
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ni.tr
of the century, it was mostly be- Magen David Odom, the Israel na- Mogen Dovid in New York, Magen
cause he was fond of the music. tional ambulance and first-aid David Adorn, the Israel national
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Both brothers married Gentiles, service, makes the amount and type first-aid and ambulance service,
immediately
available.
In
the
same
reported that it had shipped 300
and both raised their children in
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an utterly nonsectarian environ- way, Magen David Adorn obtains portions of plasma and 300 trans-
ment. Herbert Swope's daughter blood t h r o u g h the offices of fusion sets to help the storm
didn't even realize she was Jew- the American Red Cross for an victims.
In another relief action, MDA
ish until she was 16." It is in this Israeli coming to the United States
r1, 1;y rr,l;
for special medical care.
dispatched 100 blankets to the
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
A case in point involves Mrs. UN High Commissioner for Refu-
ronnt::
7-Ipj
Zipporah Agmon, of an Israel kih- gees in Yugoslavia.
40—Friday, January 28, 1966

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