Author Arthur Morse Hits U.S. Government
KIAMESHA LAKE, N.Y. (JTA)
—The author of a book that ac-
cused the Roosevelt administration
of "apathy and inaction" while
Hitler massacred 6,000,000 Jews in
Europe during World War II,
charged here Monday that the
U.S. government is still derelict
with respect to the plight of Jews
in Soviet Russia and Poland.
Arthur D. Morse, author of the
current best-seller, - "While Six
Million Died," declared that while
the United States had a record of
intervening on behalf of persecuted
peoples abroad—the Armenians in
Turkey, the Jews in Czarist Russia
—"this country has yet to protest
for Failing to Protest Soviet, Polish Anti-Semitism
the ongoing religious and cultural States and Canada.
Morse charged the State De-
repressions of the Jews of the
Soviet Union and the current anti- partment with "deliberate mis-
Semitic campaign in Poland against
representation" during World
so-called Zionists."
War II by concealing behind a
"facade of protocol and po-
The American people are against
litesse" the failure to rescue
these repressions, Morse said,
Jews who might have been saved.
"and the U.S. government, through
the State Department, ought to say He declared that the same situa-
tion prevails today. The State
so forthrightly."
The author spoke at a seminar Department is "still up to its
old ways" in dealing with the
session of the 39th annual con-
Middle East, Vietnam and other
vention of the National Federation
areas, he said. He voiced suspi-
of Jewish Men's Clubs, an affiliate
cion that the State Department's
of the United Synagogue of Amer-
ica. The convention was attended Middle Eastern personnel "are
still selected from Arab-oriented
by 750 delegates representing 350
sources."
synagogue clubs in the United
In another address, Rabbi Harry
Halpern, of the East Midwood
Jewish Center of Brooklyn who
is a member of the New York City
Human Rights Commission, scored
the Johnson administration's "do
nothing" response to the report of
the President's National Advisory
Committee on Civil Disorders.
None of the commission's recom-
mendations to curb urban unrest
have been the subject of suggested
legislation by the President. Rabbi
Halpern said, and so far Congress
has f ailed to act on its own
initiative.
Speaking at an earlier session of
the convention, Rabbi Joel S. Gef-
fen, adviser to the National Fed-
eration of Jewish Men's Clubs, de-
clared that it was a "misnomer" to
refer to last June's Arab-Israel
conflict as the Six-Day War. "In
reality, the Israel-Arab is 20 years
old," he said.
Traditional Betrothal
Betrothal, according to Jewish
law, is that ceremony enjoining
the woman to another man. It is
actually the first part of the mar-
riage ceremony and is distinct
from today's "engagement."
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