12—Friday, May 24, 1968
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Un-American Activities Committee
Raises Specter of Concentration Camp
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But the real solution to the
crisis was seen in "detention
centers." HUAC concluded that
"the McCarran Act provides for
various detention centers to be
operated throughout the country
and these might well be uilized
for the temporary imprisonment
of warring guerrillas."
HUAC's review of guerrilla
movements in recent history re-
ferred negatively to Tito's anti-
Nazi struggle in Yugoslavia, to
Americans who fought with the
Loyalists in Spain against Facism,
and to current underground activi-
ties in the Union of South Africa.
HUAC appeared for more con-
cerned about Communism than the
right-wing oppression that gener-
ates radical responses.
Although HUAC noted, in pass-
ing, Naser's training of Algerian
terrorists, the many pages of
fine print included nothing about
the ..Communist - backed . drive
against Isreal, involving the El
Fatah and "Arab liberation"
guerrillas.
Anti-Isreal guerrillas were ap-
parently of no interest to the com-
mittee. It was the anti-apartheid,
anti-Franco, and anti-Nazi leftists
who concerned the experts on un-
Americanism. Endorsement of the
HUAC report came from the rem-
nants of the late George Rock-
well's Nazi party. They offered to
provide stormtroopers and guns to
shot the "Black rabble" in the na-
tion's streets.
Negro fears of "genocide" ap-
peared justified to some who saw
in the HUAC report the extremes
reached by white racism and the
anti-Negro backlash. The U.S. De-
partment of Justice rejected
H U A C's recommendations for
establishment of "detention cen-
ters" for "guerrillas." Attorney
General Ramsey Clark commented
that "there are no plans to pre-
pare any concentration camps in
this country. No concentration
camps are needed in this country.
We have not had a situation in all
the difficulties that we have faced
through these last years . . . From
the standpoint of riots and dis-
turbances . . . which has indicated
a need for any mass detention
facilities for American citizens. I
see no such need now."
The Attorney General added
that "people who spread false
rumors about concentration
camps are either ignorant of the
facts or have a motive in divid-
ing this country."
Comment also came from the
Assistant Attorney General, J.
Walter Yeagley. He said there
was "no support" in American
internal security laws for HUAC
suggestions. The Justice Depart-
ment made it plain that the mass
detention idea was inflammatory
and a disservice to hopes for
racial harmony.
Rep. John Culver, Iowa Demo-
crat, is a member of HUAC who
has become its most effective
Congressional critic. He said that
such reckless recommendations
"only serve to provide fuel for
those trying in inflame further the
emotions of our already highly-
charged communities." The Con-
gressman said the report served
to "again stimulate baseless and
highly misleading rumors about
detention camps as a solution to
uprisings."
According to the Justice De-
partment's interpretation of the
McCarran Act, emergency deten-
tion camps are contemplated only
in the event of a declared war or
an insurrcetion "in the aid of a
goreign enemy."
An Israeli who survived a Nazi
concentration camp visited Wash-
ington during the disorders and
subsequent HUAC suggestions. If
concentration camps are opened
for Negroes, he said, Jews can
prepare themselves as the next
inmates. He thought that Jews re-
sponded in a "paranoid" manner to
the relatively few Negro extrem-
ists and found the recommenda-
tions of an authoriezd Congres-
sional committee far more dis-
tressing.
LBJ, 'Politically Freer' to Deal With M.E., May Press Israel, Says Magazine
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to the Jewish News
NEW YORK—President John-
son's decision not to run for re-
election has given him a freer
hand to deal with the Middle East
conflict without too much concern
for domestic political considera-
tions, and he may be prepared to
exert some pressure on Israel pro-
vided the Arab states show signs
that they are ready to compromise,
Business Week magazine reported.
According to the magazine, if
United Nations envoy Gunnar V.
Jarring turns up some basis for a
Middle East agreement in his talks
with Arabs and Israelis in New
York, "The U.S. is prepared to
push Israel to accept it."
The Christian Science Monitor's
correspondent, David K. Willis,
'in a dispatch from Washington
Wednesday, quoted the editors-in-
chief of the semi-official Cairo
newspaper Al Ahram, Muhammed
Hassan Heygal, as having said
that the U.S. is urging quick ac-
tion by the Arab states to reach
a settlement with Israel. He said
that Washington has warned Egypt
that it should hurry to make peace
because Saudi Arabia, Libya and
Kuwait will continue their subsidy
of Egypt's war-battered economy
for only a year. Heykal noted, ac-
cording to the Willis story, that
"The United States is directed by
a President who is not running for
re-election and who therefore does-
not care about the Jewish vote."
"But Washington says it is doing
nothing but urging President John-
son's five principles for peace, laid
out last June 19," Willis reported.
They are: "Recognized right to
national life, justice for refugees,
innocent maritime passage, limits
on the area arms race and politi-
cal independence for all," the
Monitor correspondent wrote. He
added that "President Johnson still
has the Democratic Party to think
about, if not himself."
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles,
campaigning for the Democratic
Presidential nomination, called
for a United States Soviet agree-
ment to end arms shipments to
the Middle East and to defuse
tensions between the Arab states
and Israel.
Kennedy said that the kind of
Big Power agreement he advo-
cated was "the mark of, a respon-
sible, great power." He added that
it was "also the best way of di-
verting the hopes of aggressors
from the illusion of a final tri-
umph . . . It would be a small but
important step towards peace in
the world." "In the long run,"
have lived under war for two
arms race helps no one—least of
READY-MIX
CONCRETE
all the people of that region, who
Kennedy said, "the Middle East
decades."
Kennedy said that a Middle East
settlement must be negotiated di-
rectly between Israel and its neigh-
bors. He proposed that such a set-
tlement must be reinforced by in-
ternational guarantees, such as
land and sea patrols by an interna-
tional force which cannot be re-
moved at the whim of an ag-
gressor.
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Endorses Anti-Hate Bill
TORONTO (JTA)—The Canadian
Jewish Congress ended its five-
day national assembly here with
the election of Monroe Abbey, a
63-year-old Montreal lawyer, as
its president and endorsement of
the group libel bill now before the
Canadian Parliment.
The election, hotly contested by
Lavy Becker, of Montreal, was
the cloest in the CJ Congress' 50
year history. Endorsement of the
anti-hate bill also involved a close
vote and came about through a
compromise with delegates who
feared that the legislation contains
too many loopholes as it now
stands.
There was a new element of
Canadian Jewry present—French-
speaking Jews from North Africa
and the Middle East who, for the
first time, participated as a body
in the deliberations. A resolution
called for the establishment of
human rights commissions in the
Canadian provinces. 'Rabbi Gun-
ther Plaut, of Toronto, urged Cana-
dian Zionists to take a more ag-
gressive stand ,and demand that
candidates for public office de-
clare their position on Israel.
Meanwhile, the authors of:
a column widely syndicated in
the Canadian press have taken
issue with the Toronto police for
protecting a local Nazi agitator in
a public park here. The columnists,
Douglas Fisher and Harry Crowe,
observed that the protection given
the Nazi, John -Beatie, by some
200 Toronto police officers, was
tantamount to a "subsidy" for
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