THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
8—Friday, August 19, 1966
Birch Society Founder Revilo Oliver, Arch Anti-Semite, Quits Organization
over his anti-Semitic views and to president of the society.
Prof. Oliver was the principal
his dissatisfaction over the com-
BELMONT, Mass.—The resigna- plete authority over affairs of the
speaker at the July 2 New Eng-
tion from the John Birch Society Birch Society held by Robert W.
land Rally for God, Family and
of Prof. Revilo P. Oliver, known Welch, Jr., principal founder and
Country in Boston. In a speech
for his outspoken views against the
Jews, was confirmed here Tuesday
to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
by the headquarters of the society
here.
However, no comment could be
serves as executive secretary of the
By ROBERT SEGAL
obtained on whether Oliver's res-
(A Seven Arts Feature)
summer fiesta made it clear at the
ignation had anything to do with
The July-August issue of "Amer- onset that "God was chairman of
his anti-Jewish views, which he ex-
the rally"; but she is so busy run-
pressed at a rally last month in ican Opinion," the John Birch So- ning the Yahoo circus that it seems
Boston. The rally on July 2 evoked ciety gospel tract, has arrived with hard to imagine her with any left-
strong criticisms against him and the dismaying news that whereas over time to put up jams and jel-
in 1958, the United States was
against the John Birch Society.
only 20 to 40 per cent under Com- lies. And yet as the acknowledged
Prof. Oliver, a teacher of Greek munist influence and/or Commu- leader of a John Birch Society
and Latin at the University of Il- nist control, it is now running a chapter, this same matron shelters
linois, is a founder of the society. red fever to 60 to 80 per cent.
in her Dedham home the "Let
He was one of the 11 men who at-
Freedom Ring" service which is
When we visited the Birch sum- currently trying to undermine the
tended the society's initial organi-
zation meeting at a motel in In- mer fair at the fourth annual citizenry's confidence in the League
dianapolis in 1958. He was a mem- Boston rally for God, Family, and of Women Voters.
ber of the organization's 15-mem- Country a few days ago, we didn't
Technically, then, the John Birch
ber ruling council and associate see any of the agenda-decorated Society is not listed as the spon-
editor of American Opinion, the water glasses on display; but we sor of this three-day, midsummer
society's official organ. His resig- were struck by the sharp use of madness. But Birchers are all over
nation was attributed to a dispute many methods of communication the lot. Bob Welch himself was
by the hawkers of hysteria, innu- in and out of the booths like a full_
endo and quarter-truths. You could time shopper and at the rally's
press a button at the "Let Free- $15-a-plate banquet introduced the
dom Ring" booth and immediately guest of honor, Thomas J. Ander-
be informed by a voice that would son, a member of the John Birch
prefer to remain anonymous that National Council. The rally key-
the good ladies of the League of
BRUSSELS (JTA) — There are Women Voters are busy trading noter was Dr. Revilo P. Oliver, con-
6,000 Jews in Rhodesia, and about with the enemy and scrapping our tributing editor of "American
800 in Zambia, it was learned from Constitution for a Communist- Opinion" and also a member of
a report about the Jews in that dominated world government, the National Council. (See story)
part of the world given to the Jew- "while their sons and husbands Former Notre Dame Law' School
ish Telegraphic Agency by Mau- are dying in Viet Nam." You could Dean Clarence Manion, still an-
rice Wagner, who serves as gen- sit in a darkened room and learn other member of the Birch board
eral 'Secretary of the Central how to teach pOlitical science to of elder statesmen, was cheered
African Jewish Board of Deputies. a high school class by means of lustily as was every mention of the
He was attending the current ses- slick film slides painfully over- name of the society.
Beneath the bubbles and the
sion of the World Jewish Congress simplifying the threat of domestic
plenary assembly which closed Communism while conveniently baubles of the summer fair there
last night.
forgetting about another tyrannical exist a dead seriousness and a nag-
ging danger. Mons. S. J. Adamo,
The recent political develop- evil, Fascism. You could carry off writing recently in the Catholic
ments, both in Rhodesia and Zam- a handsomely printed, gorgeously Star Herald (New Jersey), articu-
bia, have not affected the Jewish colored pamphlet urging you to lated the need to face up to that
populations in those regions, Wag- be loyal "to Jesus Christ Saviour, hazard in these perceptive words:
ner said. The Jewish communi- Founder of America" embracing "The (John Birch) Society breeds
ties, he added, are not partidular- this sweet ecumenical message: "It an atmosphere of distrust, antago-
ly worried about the future of was Satan who crucified Christ, nism and hatred. This atmosphere
their fate. He reported that, in using the Jewish, blood-thirsty thickens at times to a consistency
Rhodesia, a Rhodesian Jew, Dr. rabbi's of the synagogues and where-it is an eyelash away from
Ahron Palley, is a member of the Jewish intellectuals, lawyers, violence."
Parliament, elected from a consti- rulers and the Pharisees of the in-
tuency which is predominantly famous Sanhedrin." (There was no
African and non-white. Another extra charge for the apostrophe in
WHEN YOU.,,Pic A COCKTAIL
Jew involved in Rhodesian poli- "rabbi's.")
tics, he said, is not a native
The folks who run the God, Fam-
Rhodesian, like ,Dr. Palley, but of ily and Country Rally in Boston
British origin. He is Leo Baron, each July deny energetically that
UNITED BRANDS • DETROIT, U. S. A. • 42 PROOF
a brother of Dr. Jacob Bronowski, the show is a John Birch Society
festival. The Dedham matron who
the famous scientist.
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
Israel's Cabinet
Members Asked
to Reduce Trips
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime
Minister Levi Eshkol took his
campaign for austerity as part of
Israel's new economic policy into
the highest echelons of his gov-
ernment. He requested that the
Knesset and his own cabinet min-
isters join the economy drive.
The premier asked Speaker of
the Knesset Kadish Luz to reduce
the number of members to be sent
as Israel's delegates to an inter-
parliamentary conference to be
held at Teheran next month. He
also asked every Minister to re-
duce trips abroad by members of
their departments, or even by
themselves, unless such travel is
absolutely necessary.
The Knesset took a number of
11th hour actions prior to adjourn-
ing for the rest of the summer.
When the house reconvenes, it
will meet in its new, handsome
parliament building, on a hill over-
looking the Judean valleys.
1,000 Employes Fired
From Israeli Firms
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel's
Treasury announced here Aug. 11
that, as part of the government's
drive for economy, more than
1,000 employes in 12 large, govern-
ment-owned companies have been
dismissed from their jobs in the
last 15 months.
The number of dismissals, said
the Treasury Department's spokes-
man, affected 5 per cent of the
labor force in those firms owned
by the government. In spite of
these dismissals, the spokesman
added, production by the firms has
increased during the period cov-
ered by the report.
A series of meetings was un-
der way in the continuing efforts
to hammer out a new economic
policy for Israel. There were still
serious differences between the
alignment partners—Mapai and
Ahdut Avodah — as well as be-
tween the entire alignment on
the one side, and its coalition
partners in the Cabinet on the
other. One of the major unre-
solved conflicts is between the
alignment and Mapam.
The secretariat of M a p a m,
which has been offered some con-
cessions in the efforts by Prime
Minister Levi Eshkol to win Ma-
pam backing for the economic
policy, met but failed to reach a
decision. A number of Mapam
leaders are opposed to the portions
of the economic plan outlined by
Finance Minister Pinhas Sapir.
Inside. Mapai itself, there are
serious rifts. A meeting of Mapai's
ideological circle disclosed that
economists on the Hebrew Univer-
sity faculty opposed the Sapir pro-
gram as one that, they said, fails
to meet Israel's needs.
ight Wingers Exposed
Jews in Rhodesia,
Zambia Feel Safe
lasting more than an hour, he
attacked what he called the
"conspiracy of the Jews" and as-
serted that the "conspiracy" an-
tedated "the conspiracy of the
Illuminati and the Communists"
and had helped produce "the
evils of today." lie asserted that
one of the reasons for many of
the protests on American college
campuses was the spread of
drugs, particularly LSD,• which
he said was "imported from Is-
rael."
He was also reported as
at the rally that "It is a lie th
Nazis killed 6,000,000 Jews." He
also told the rally hypothetically
that "H only by some miracle all
the Bolsheviks, or all the Illumi-
nati, or all Jews were vaporized
tomorrow, we should have nothing
more to worry about. The trouble
with that beatific vision, of course,
is that.every educated man knows
it just can't be so." •
The New York Times reported
Tuesday that Prof. Oliver declined
to discuss his differences with the
Birch Society and denied that anti-
Semitism had been an issue in his
resignation. .
Later, it was announced that a
second Birch Society official had
resigned. He predicted more resig-
nations would follow.
Dr. Slobadan Draskovich of Chi-
cago said many society members
have become disenchanted with
Welch, who has "become a dic-
tator, going off on tangents, mak-
ing irresponsible statements." Dras-
kovich . stressed he is still a right-
wing conservative.
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