THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 1 T L'
8—Friday, March 3, 1967
Communists to Discuss Bias at Conclave
NEW YORK (JTA) — The Com- the party on the question of Soviet
munist Party of the United States anti-Semitism, plans for the con-
announced here Tuesday that a ference had been canceled. Tues-
national conference on the party's day, the Worker, official organ of
work "among the Jewish people" the CPUSA, announced that the
at the request of his parents.
which is to include a debate on conference will take place.
Chaplain Feinsod saw Levy at anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union,
The Worker revealed at the
the mental ward where he is
same time that very sharp dif-
will definitely be held "in the next
confined and sought "to estab- few months."
ferences on the issue of Soviet
lish the facts." The army public
anti-Semitism had developed in-
A resolution calling for the con-
information officer for For t
vening, of such a special meeting side the party during the behind-
Lewis stated that the chaplain
on the national level was adopted the-scenes debate on whether
agreed with him that Levy was
or not to hold the special con-
at the 18th convention of the
"unfair to bring religion into it." American Communist Party last
ference.
The newspaper, regretting these
An army spokesman for Madi- summer. Later, there were reports
gan General Hospital said that no that, due to disagreements inside divisions, reported that some "corn_
court martial charges have yet
been filed against Levy because
he is being held under mental ob- Montreal Police Find Nazi-Type Gang
servation. The spokesman said
judge ordered them held without
MONTREAL (JTA) — Montreal
that the army regarded adherence police reported Monday an inten-
bail for preliminary hearing.
to Judaism as consistent with mili- sive search for a man they de-
The charges_ stemmed from an
tary duty and considered use of Scribed as the leader of a gang incident at a Montreal sports - cen-
the Jewish religion as justification of young toughs who have chosen ter Jan. 24. A youth threw a crude
for refusing service to be a symp- Nazi symbols as their emblem incendiary bomb into the hall dur-
tom of derangement. Levy will be after five alleged members were ing a teen-age dance. Police dis-
confined indefinitely in the mental arrested.
counted reports that the gang
ward on these grounds, the spolces-
might have as many as 100 mem-
Detectives
of
the
criminal
in-
man said.
bers, but estimated that there
Army authorities said that Levy, vestigation bureau made lightning were only about a dozen members.
as a mental patient committed by raids on the homes of members
order of the commanding officer, and found in one of them a desk
would be forcibly fed. Army of- with a large swastika painted on
ficials in Washington pointed out it. In the desk, they said, they
that Levy voluntarily joined the I found a copy of Hitler's "Mein
army 18 months ago and served Kampf," crudely-made swastika
in the medical corps. He had just armbands and similar material.
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Two of the five suspects were
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In a statement released by a
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to death rather than serve the
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Orthodox Soldier Refuses to Serve
in Vietnam; Taken to Mental Ward
WASHINGTON (JTA)—A U.S.
Army private who embarked on
a - "death fast" because he claimed
his religious conviction as an
Orthodox Jew prevented him from
serving "an army practicing vio-
lence" in Vietnam has been taken
into custody and confined in a
mental ward at Madigan General
Hospital, Tacoma, military authori-
ties- revealed Tuesday.
The soldier, Pvt. Robert Levy,
22; of Kansas City, Mo., started
a hunger strike two weeks ago at
Fort Lewis, Wash, For 14 days
he ate only milk and honey. Tues-
day, he stopped eating altogether,
stating that "as an expression of
my religious conviction as an
Orthodox Jew, I break the law of
the United States and refuse to
remain a soldier."
Defense Department officials
disclosed that the army is trying
to get rabbis to convince Levy
that the war is righteous and his
fast unjustified.
A Jewish chaplain, Martin
Feinsod, met Tuesday with Levy
rades" called those who wanted
the Soviet-Jewish issue to come
to the surface such names as
"bourgeois nationalists," "national
chauvinists" and "anti-Soviet."
Those thus accused retorted with
such labels as "national nihilists,"
"sectarian" and "irresponsible."
The "most serious" develop-
ment, however, according to the
Worker. is the fact that some
party members, busy throwing
rocks at one another, have over-
looked the "alarming growth of
anti-Semitism in the United States"
and have failed to combat the cold
war propaganda regarding "al-
leged Soviet anti-Semitism" which
the newspaper attributed to "the.
State Department and right-wing
reaction."
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NY Senate Adopts
Anti-Defamation Bill
ALBANY (JTA)—A bill making
it a crime to defame religious or
ethnic groups in New York State
has been approved by the state
senate and sent to the assembly
for action.
The bill, approved 39 to 10, bans
the "uttering," "publishing" or
"encouraging" of "false and de-
famatory matter, portraying any
depravity, criminality or unchas-
tity. of any race, color, creed or
religion" with the intent to hold Harvard Law School
such groups up to "contempt, de- .
risioh, obloquy." The measure also Rejects Bias in Job
bars defamation "productive of a
breach of peace or riots." A similar Placement of Students
measure was approved by the State
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (JTA) —
Senate last year but was defeated Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the
in the assembly. Harvard Law School declared in a
r'Sen. Jeremiah B. Bloom, Brook- statement issued here that the law
lin Democrat, said the measure school had always opposed discrim-
v.Os introduced at the urging of ination in placement of its stu-
the - Jewish War Veterans to pre- dents. He also announced the ap-
itent riots incited by bigots speak- pointment of a faculty committee
mg in public.
in the school's placement office "to
. 7 The New York Civil Liberties see that the school's policy of non-
s ‘tnion submitted a memorandum discrimination is maintained.
opposing the measure on grounds
The university said that the state-
it would "violate the First ment had been recommended by
';Amendment guarantees of free- a joint faculty-student committee
:rdom of speech and the press as on the law school which "has had
well as the due process guaran- the matter of discrimination under
- tee of the 14th Amendment."
consideration for several weeks."
The bill would provide maximum The statement made no direct ref-
ppnalties of a $1,000 fine, one year I erence to a disclosure last Feb. 1
iii jail or both. Sen. Bloom de- that the State Commission Against
nounced the Civil Liberties memo- Discrimination was investigating
randum.
reports that Jewish students of the
law school might have faced dis-
Brazil Warned of Danger
crimination for job placement.
In his statement, Dean Griswold
in Revival of Banned Party declared
that the Harvard Law
RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA)—Re- School "is committed to insuring
surrection of a once-dangerous equal opportunities for all its stu- -
Fascist party, Acao Integralista, dents and graduates seeking em-
now banned, was revealed by the ployment."
newspaper Jornal Do Brasil here.
Dean Griswold announced that
During World War II, the party Prof. Lewis Loss would head the
collaborated with the Nazi espion- faculty committee in the placement
age apparatus and the party leader, office and that the committee . "will
Plinio Salgado, was compelled to be responsible for matters Of - policy
flee from the country.
with respect to the placement of-
The executive committee of the fice and will take steps, if they
party, among whose members is are needed, to see that the school's
an army general, has distributed policy of nondiscrimination in em-
a letter to all former members of ployment is maintained."
the group, calling them "back into
(In New York, the American
the ranks." Brazil forbids political Jewish Committee issued a state-
organizations. except the official ment lauding Dean Griswold's an-
government party and an opposi- •nouncement. Dr. John Slawson,
tion.
AJComrnittee executive vice presi-
dent, called the dean's statement
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