Hickenlooper
kenlooper
Urges `Cutting
Nasser to Size
Secular and Social Idealism Seen As Solution to Assimilation Threat
KIAMESHA LAKE, N.Y. (JTA)
—"Hundreds of thousands of
American Jews' who are not syna-
gogue worshipers, and many who
are, have come . to the realization
that the only way
w
to stem the
tide of intermarriage and assimi-
lation and survive as Jews in the
United States is by strengthening
secular Jewish cultural and social
idealism," Judge Jacob T. Zuker-
man, president of the Workmen's
Circle, largest Jewish labor fra-
ternal order, said at the opening
session of the five-day quadrennial
convention of the organization. The
convention was attended by more
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WASHINGTON—Senator Bourke
Hickenlooper, ranking Republican
on the Senate foreign relations
committee, at a
committee meet-
i n g Wednesday,
called on the
United States to
"cut Nasser down
to size," stating
that the Egyptian
president "has
violated every
agreement."
The senator
said Nasser
"keeps calling us
names," y e t the
Hickenlooper United States
continues aiding Egypt.
Senator Wayne Morse, Oregon
Democrat, expressed concern about
U.S. arms shipments to the Mid-
dle East.
The witness appearing Wednes-
day before the committee, Secre-
tary of Defense Robert McNamara,
said that U.S. munitions shipments
to the area were limited, designed
to maintain a balance of power,
and in some cases conditioned on
limits in the arms spending of the
recipient nations.
McNamara defended the aid giv-
en - Nasser and insisted that the
Egyptian leader was not a member
of the - Communist bloc and that on
occasion he had been helpful to
this country.
Pins XII and Third Reich
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anti-religious policies, the Pope's
pro-Germanism and his fear that
German Catholics might turn away
from Rome, the Bolshevik threats,
the Jewish appeals, including those
of Chief Rabbi Herzog.
New light is shed on the deport-
ations of Jews from Italy and Hun-
gary, and on Hitler-Mussolini re-
lations as well as other interna-
tional occurences during the Nazi
era.
The differences between Pius XI
and Pius XII are indicated, the for-
mer being described as "much
more impulsive." And there is
proof of the former's actions and
of the latter's interference, while
he was Secretary of State, in direct
intercessions. -
Even in the
involving the
deportation of the Jews frorn Rome
there was no action and on Oct. 28,
1943, State Secretary Ernst von
State Dept. Expected to Clarify Status
of U.S. Jews Serving in Arab Countries
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to The Jewish News) -
WASHINGTON — Following , a.
Meeting with top . offibialS of the.
American Jewish Congress, - the
State Department has agreed to
prepare a new statement of policy
clarifying its previous declaration
on assignment of Jewish diplo-
inatic personnel to Pasts in _Arab
countries.
Dr. Joachim Prinz, past presi-
dent of the Congress, and Phil
Baum, director of the organiza-
tion's Commission on International
'Affairs, met here with William J.
Crockett, Deputy Undersecretary
of State for Administration to dis-
miss charges brought by the Con-
gress last March that American
Jews were being excluded from
service in Arab countries.
The congress had cited a letter
written by Assistant Secretary of
State Douglas MacArthur II in
which the State Department offi-
eial conceded that religious factors
were taken into account in the
assignment of U.S. Foreign Serv-
ice personnel overseas. In a second
letter, MacArthur modified his
earlier view, denying "prejudice
Dr. Goldstein Arrives
in U.S.; Visited Brazil
for Keren Hayesod
NEW YORK (JTA) — Dr. Is-
rael Goldstein of Jerusalem, mem-
ber of the executive of the Jewish
Agency and world chairman of
the Keren Hayesod, arrived here
from Brazil to address the 140th
anniversary dinner of Cong.
Bnai Jeshurun, of which he has
been rabbi emeritus since 1961.
Dr. Goldstein was in Brazil in the
interests of the Keren Hayesod.
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than 1,000 delegates from all parts
of the country, representing 60,000
Jewish families.
"The growing loss of Jewish
identity in the United States is now
meeting the test of reversal be-
cause leading Jewish organizations
and communal groups have come
to realize that, in order to prevent
intermarriage and assimilation,
the Workmen's Circle philosophy
of secular Judaism alone can stem
the tide," Judge Zukerman said.
"There are hundreds of thousands
of American Jews who do not go
to temple and who, yet, want to
retain the traditions and heritage
and discrimination" but reassert-
ing that to "maximize the ef-
fectiveness" of U.S. diplomats
abroad, it: was necessary to send
only "acceptable" representatives
to foreign countries.
The meeting here was - held at
the request of the American Jewish
Congress,- which sought an "un-
equivocal commitment" by the
State- • Department that religious
factors in themselves would "not
determine eligibility of Americans
to serve their country abroad."
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Jordan sAttack
D isrupts Peace
Weizsaecker reported to his gov-
ernment in Berlin: "By all ac-
counts, the Pope, although harassed
from various quarters, has not al-
lowed himself to be stampeded in-
to making any demonstrative pro-
nouncement against the removal of
the Jews from Rome."
The mass deportations of Jews
from Hungary, the Catholic pro-
nouncements, the intercession of
Chief Rabbis Isaac Herzog and Ben-
Zion Meir Uziel, the proposals
made for relief of the hordes who
were doomed by Nazi decrees—
these are appendixes to the trag-
edy. "Judging from the documents
shown to us," Friedlaender asserts,
"the Holy See does not seem to
have paid any heed to the concrete
proposals put forward by the Chief
Rabbi of Palestine." They were
proposals made by Herzog
and his -son, Rabbi Jacob D., con-
ferred with the Pope's representa-
tive, Msgr. Hughes.
The question undoubtedly will
be posed: why bring these things
up now? But this is the period of
ecumenism, this is the era of pro-
tection against a recurring Nazism.
It is in such a time that we recall
the events that had taken place two
and three decades ago. It some-
times takes a century for his-
torical facts fully to be revealed to
generations who follow certain de-
velopments among mankind. Per-
haps only three decades are need-
ed to expose the Hitler terror in its
entirety and to bring to light the
Vatican-Nazi events. Saul Fried-
laender makes an important con-
tribution towards such revelations.
*
*
Failure by Pape Pius XII to
speak out against Nazi atrocities
is outlined in an article, "Did Pius
XII Know?", in the current issue
of Minority of One, by Carlo Fal-
coni, religious affairs editor of
Espresso of Rome.
Falconi exposes Pius XII's
silence not only in relation to the
Jews but especially in indicating
his failure to act in behalf of the
Poles and the Croatians, millions
of whom, like the six million Jews,
went to their doom under Hitler-
ism.
of Jewishness. They are using Yid-
dish and English to capture the
literary qualities of Jewish secu-
larism.
"We do not oppose those who
think that religion holds most of
the answers," he said, "but we
do not agree that the answers
to Jewish survival lie in syna-
gogue-going alone. There must
be social idealism and Jewish
humanism. This can be found
only in Jewish secularism, which
we represent and reflect. The
Workmen's Circle has been a
trail-blazer in social idealism,
and a torchbearer of progressive
and social improvement.
"Other Jewish organizations
have attempted to decorate their
activities by cloaking themselves
in a religious aura. From time to
time, they have been forced to
assume almost exclusive secular
postures on civil rights or matters
of foreign policy. We offer no
shams to the American , Jewish
community. We are, we believe,
following the best traditions and
the deepest heritages of the Jewish
people by opposing the conserva-
tive and reactionary elements
within our own Jewish community
and by representing the hundreds
of thousands of American Jews
who are proud bearers of tradition
as it is reflected in the Yiddish
language, in literature, in music,
in the dramatic forms, in the arts
and in progressive social improve-
ment. The fact that Jewish com-
munity centers and Y's from coast
to coast have shown an acute
interest in our program is demon-
stration enough that our secu-
larism is the current taste of the
American Jewish Community,"
Judge Zukerman stressed.
Benjamin A. Gebiner, execu-
tive secretary of the Workmen's
Circle, urged the Soviet Union to
"open its doors and permit
American-Jewish cultural ex-
change." He said that "the So-
viet Union should invite the Yid-
dish drama group, Folksbiene,
Workmen's Circle orchestra and
chorus, and prominent Jewish
artists who can sing in both
Yiddish and Russian so that the
Jews of the Soviet Union can
have true contact with their
Jewish cultural heritage." He
also said that Red China and
Russia were in a joint anti-
Jewish campaign aimed at
Israel.
Gebiner said that, while the
Workmen's Circle "has been the
target of vindictive and vicious
attacks by the Communists over
the years, we nonetheless fell obli-
gated to make contact with our
fellow Jews of the Soviet Union,
not in the language of politics but
through the language of their
Jewish cultural heritage."
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