CBC Will Go to Germany
to Interview NPD Leader
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
TORONTO — The Canadian
Broadcasting Corp. announced
Tuesday that it had withdrawn its
sharply criticized invitation to an
officer of the extremist National
Democratic Party of West Ger-
many to come to Toronto for a
televised interview, but the net-
work said it would tape the inter-
view in West Germany. (The
Canadian Jewish Congress, which
had protested against the invita-
tion, promptly criticized the
change of plans.
Widespread protests, both Jew-
ish and non-Jewish, followed the
network's disclosure it had invited
Adolf von Thadden, NDP deputy
leader, to come to Toronto Thurs-
day for the proposed interview
with all his expenses paid by the
network. It was also reported that
the CBC planned to pay von Thad-
den a fee. The Canadian Jewish
Congress warned it would orga-
nize a massive protest in Toronto
against von Thadden. Last week,
John Diefenbaker, leader of the
opposition Conservative party and
former premier, raised the issue
in the House of Commons, as did
Robert Thompson, Social Credit
leader. Claude Jodoin, president of
the Canadian Labor Congreis, also
protested.
Responding to the new devel-
opment, Michael Garber, presi-
dent of the Canadian Jewish
Congress, declared in a state-
ment Tuesday that the with-
drawal of the invitation to von
Thadden "does not meet the
issue." He said that presenta-
tion of an interview, whether
taped in West Germany or else-
where, would still amount to
"giving a platform to a person
whose party defends policies
which the free world resisted at
great sacrifice."
Garber said he had "just re-
ceived information," which, he
added was not confirmed, that von
Thadden would be in New York
"in the next few days" to tape
the proposed CBC interview. He
said the Canadian Jewish Congress
would not object to an examina-
tion on the network of the resurg-
ence of neo-Nazism in Germany
but that it did take "serious ob-
jection" to a program built around
von Thadden's views and per-
sonality.
The Congress statement also de-
nounced remarks by the producer
of the interview program, "refer-
ring to pressures brought by a
minority group depriving Cana-
dian viewers of their rights."
Garber noted that in addition to
the Congress, objections were
made by "responsible parliamen-
tarians and labor leaders." He
added that "all of these are Cana-
dians, as are the officers of the
CBC. It is our understanding that
all Canadians are first-class citi-
zens and we reject entirely the
suggestion that an outside group is
imposing its views upon Cana-
dians."
Garber also reiterated Congress
complaints that the CBC had re-
peatedly given platforms to neo-
Nazis in the past, including Andre
Bellefeille, Adrien Arcane and
George Rockwell.
"If von Thadden came here on
his own," Garber said, "he would
be without a platform. Unfortu-
nately" the network was affording
him an audience of 2,500,000 listen-
ers, "whom he could not otherwise
reach."
Ask FCC to Reconsider
Hate Broadcast Ruling
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
American Jewish Committee, the
American Civil Liberties Union
and the United Church of Christ
have joined with the Anti-Defama-
tion League of Bnai 13rith in peti-
tions to the Federal Communica-
tions Commission to reconsider its
decision of last June renewing the
license of Radio Station KTYM of
Inglewood, Calif.
The station was accused of
broadcasting false and defamatory
material of an anti-Semitic nature.
The FCC held that the. station had
fulfilled its obligations by offering
radio time for replies to those
mentioned in its broadcasts.
In his petition Monday to the
FCC which is shortly to decide
whether to reopen the Station
KTYM case, Morris B. Abram,
president of the American Jewish
Committee, urged the commission
to "reaffirm its long-standing pol-
icy and hold that a licensee has
an affirmative duty to screen out
and withhold from the air material
promoting religious prejudice
which he knows, or on reasonable
inquiry should know, is false."
As it stands, Abram said, the
FCC ruling permits stations to
carry programs "which promote
religious prejudice as a regular
and continuous policy."
The American Civil Liberties
Union argued that the mere chance
to reply to a broadcast slander did
not necessarily meet the need for
balanced programing of contro-
versial issues.
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Manitoba Mayor
Faces Charge of
Being Anti-Semite
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
WINNIPEG—Calls for the resig-
nation of Mayor J. H. Belows, of
nearby Assiniboia, were voiced by
newspapers and political leaders
in this area who charged the
mayor with condoning anti-Semi-
tism.
Mayor Belows was chairman
last week of a meeting where a
tape-recorded message had been
played from Ron Gostick, a man
accused by the Canadian Jewish
Congress of "promoting hate
propaganda and racism." Gostick
is publisher of the Canadian In-
telligence Service.
The calls for Mayor Belows'
resignation were _voiced by Winni-
peg councillor Peter Taraska, As-
siniboia counsellor Morton Nemy,
David Levin, chairman of the Ca-
nadian Jewish Congress western
region, The Assiniboia News, The
Winnipeg Free Press, and the Is-
raelite Press.
According to the Canadian
Jewish Congress, Gostick, who
denied he is anti-Semitic, uses
"slander by innuendo" tech-
niques by stigmatizing Jews as
"warmongers, Christ -killers,
revolutionaries, Communists and
international bankers."
Mayor Belows insists that Gos-
tick is not an anti-Semite. An
editorial in the Free Press said
Mayor Belows has the choice of
resigning or recanting.
Foreign Currency Reserve
Falls by $20 Million in '66
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM — The foreign cur-
rency reserves held by the Bank of
Israel fell by $20,000,000 last year
to a total of $616,000,000, despite
an improvement in the nation's
foreign trade figures, according to
the bank's annual balance sheet
released here Tuesday.
Part of the drop in the reserve
figure is accounted for by the fact
that less capital flowed into the
country while more dollars were
paid out in servicing the growing
foreign debts. Yohanan Bader, a
Gahal member of the Israel parlia-
ment, said Monday night in an
address in Haifa that the nation's
foreign debt now totaled $1,300,-
000,000.
Bader also claimed that the na-
tion's unemployed now total 80,000.
No precise official unemployment
figures exist but government es-
timates vary from 30,000 to 65,000.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
6—Friday, January 20, 1967
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by helping the outpost community of Gonen
on the dangerous Syrian border. Attend the
Annual Donor
Event of the
Women's Auxiliary of the
Jewish National Fund
T U ES DAY, JANUARY 24, 1967
TEMPLE ISRAEL, 17400 Mande .rson
12:30 P.M.
HEAR
RABBI
ARTHUR LELYVELD
of Cleveland's - Fairmont temple
HEAR
CANTOR
HAROLD ORBACH
of Temple Israel
Perpetuate your name or that of a loved one and
place it among the names of others who have made
permanent contributions to the Jewish homeland.
will inscribe your name in the
Golden Book of those who
have helped build Gonen.
Mrs. Ben Nosan,
President — 342-4797
will provide 2 dunams to be
developed in Gonen.
will plant a grove of 1,000
trees in Gonen on the north-
ern Syrian border.
WOMEN'S AUXILIARY OF JEWISH NATIONAL FUND
18414 Wyoming — Phone UN 4-2767