18—Friday, June 18, 1971 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Kenen Urges Vigilance in Getting Continued U. S. support for Israel Jewish Editor Dropped From David Frost Show After James Baldwin Refuses to Debate Him NEW YORK (JTA) — Shlomo Katz, editor of Midstream, the "monthly Jewish review" . pub- lished here by the Theodor Herzl Foundation, charged that the "Da- vid Frost Show" had - submitted" to the "dictation" of black writer James Baldwin in dropping him from a taping of the syndicated television talk show. He had been invited, Katz told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, to participate with Baldwin and an- thropologist Dr. Margaret Mead in a discussion of "A Rap on Race," a new book consisting of a tran- script of a conversation-debate be- tween Baldwin and Dr. Mead. Two minutes before the taping, Katz said, he was informed by a production aide that "Mr. Bald- win says 'I will not discuss this subject with him.' " The 62-year-old Katz, editor of Midstream since 1955, charged that the Frost show staff had been "dictated to" by Baldwin. The development, said Katz, represented "gagging of a panelist by James Baldwin and submission by the 'David Frost Show.' " Katz, who said he would file a formal complaint with the pro- ducers of the program, added: "It was not a proud moment. I was humiliated." Katz attributed Baldwin's seem- ing reluctance to appear with him, to a recent public debate between the two on Jewish commitment to the cause of black militancy. In an article in the New York Review of Books addressed to "my sister, Angela Davis," the black militant and Marxist charged with complicity in a multiple murder in California, Baldwin told her: "You are as alone as the Jewish house- wife in a boxcar headed for Dachau." In the April issue of Mid- stream, Katz challenged Bald- win's comparison of the Jewish -, fate in the Nazi Holocaust with the situation of Miss Davis and . other American black militants. Katz's "open letter" was in turn reprinted in the New York Re- view (reprinted in Purely Com- mentary May 7), and Baldwin's rebuttal to it will appear in the next issue of Midstream. "You have got to remember," the American expatriate writer continued, "however bitter this may sound, no matter how bitter I may sound, that I have been, in America, the Arab at the hands of the Jews." Dr. Mead replied: "Oh, fiddle- sticks! Just fiddlesticks! You are now making a totally racist com- ment just because there have been a number of Jewish shopkeepers in Harlem." Katz noted that in "A Rap on Race," Baldwin said that "the creation of the state of Israel was one of the most cynical achieve- ments — really murderous, merci- less, ugliest and cynical achieve- ments on the part of the Western nation," who he said took it on A spokesman for Peter Baker, themselves to give Jews that part producer of the Frost series, said of Palestine now called Israel. Katz had been invited several days ago to debate Baldwin in the "later Hospitalization Rate High stages" of the discussion. As a courtesy to Baldwin, the Among Poor Children spokesman continued, he was called in West. Jerusalem Area to be informed of Katz's booking, but could not be reached until half JERUSALEM (JTA)—A medical an hour before the June 8 taping. research team has found that 18 Baldwin, according to the produc- per cent of children born in the tion spokesman, said he had not West Jerusalem area are hospi- been given enough time to prepare talized at least once during their for a televised dialogue with Katz, first year of life, a rate seven times and the editor was thus advised higher than in areas of the United that he would not be on the show. States and England where similar Another executive at the Frost studies have been made. show said Baldwin's comment was The findings stated that of 40,000 not hostile, and that in fact he infants examined, 7.4 per cent were indicated a willingness to debate born with a defect, half of them Katz on another day. The execu- serious, affecting the brain or tive called the entire matter "an spinal cord. The researchers found unfortunate mistake." that the serious defects were con-1 The taped Frost episode will be centrated in the Arab quarters of telecast July 1. In the half-hour Bcit Safafa and Abu Gosh and exchange between Baldwin and among Jewish immigrants from Dr. Mead. producer Baker's aide Asian countries. said, • there was no mention of The team found that over-all black-Jewish relations. hospitalization rates for infants one year of age or under was influ- enced by social factors. In the poor neighborhoods of Katamon and Musrara the rate was 35 per cent, compared with only 0.15 per cent SACRAMENTO (JTA) — Polish in Rehavia, a middle class section. Jews are being subjected to emi- More than 40 per cent of infants gration restrictions, and Romanian whose mothers never attended Jews are being threatened by a school were hospitalized but only shortage of religious leaders, the 8 per cent of children Whose moth- Sacramento Jewish Federation re- ers had post-primary education ports in the June issue of its Jew-, required hospitalization. ish Federation Bulletin. There were an estimated 7,000--, ;:i. Jews in Poland in January, around 1,090 having emigrated last year, the Bulletin says, adding that more (From the files of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency) would have left but for "visa re- 40 Years Ago This Week: 1931 fusals, on grounds of 'state in- Anti-Semitic Riga students burned the university's only Yiddish terest.' " ook. Of the 7,000 total, it is said, "per- The Zionist Revisionists' Palestine newspaper, Haam, was banned haps 2,000" are "of emigrable age" by Britain for publishing a poem critical of the Wailing Wall Corn- —though not all may want to leave inission for declaring the wall Moslem property. —and the other 5,000 are over 60 The head of the (Protestant) German Evangelical Church stated: years old, "mostly poor, sick or "While other political movements declare themselves openly against handicaped" and "in continuous Christianity or are indifferent to it, National Socialism takes its stand need of assistance." on the basis of positive Christianity (and) stands passionately for Those 5,000, the Bulletin said, justice and fraternity . . . (We) must therefore welcome (it) . . . " will probably stay in Poland, "bar- ., The Central Conference of American Rabbis deleted the words ring new political upheavals and to "Kol Nidre" from its Union Hymnal because it was "unable to another resurgence of 'anti-Zionist' find a suitable version." But it rejected a move to expunge "Hatikvah" propaganda." on grounds of "Zionist propaganda." (According to encyclopedias, Prof. Oscar Minkowski, developer of the insulin treatment of there were nearly 3,000,000 Jews :diabetes, died in Berlin at age 73. in Poland in 1929. In 1958 there . In the first desecration of a French Jewish cemetery, 20 tomb- were an estimated 30,000). stones were vandalized at historic Rosenwiller, Alsace. In Romania, the Federation Bul- A Canadian Jewish law student who needed a hat to recite a letin continues, Chief Rabbi Moses court oath, borrowed one from the first passerby—a girl. "Red with Rosen "has been increasingly con- embarrassment but loyal to Jewish tradition," JTA reported, "the cerned for some time about the . young man, arrayed in the flimsy sunshade, stood before the clerk diminishing number of trained per- and solemnly took the oath." sonnel, especially shohetim and the A Jew, Robert Kronfeld, became the first to guide a glider across Hebrew teachers needed for the the English Channel and back. children's programs." 10 Years Ago This Week: 1961 The "missing generation" that Pravda threatened to "reconsider" its "substantial" aid to Egypt was eradicated by the Nazis if that government continued its anti-Soviet, pro-"Western imperialist" "makes itself felt ever more pain- agitation. fully," the report says, since "not The Arab League decided to "use force to prevent Israel's only were a whole generation's exploitation of the Jordan River for irrigation of the Negev Desert." functionaries wiped out but also The first Soviet artists in Israel—two pianists and a violinist— the Jewish institutions which filled Tel Aviv's 3,000-seat Mann Auditorium for a concert with the The Bulletin notes that fewer Israel Philharmonic, than half of the 900,000 prewar Adolf Eichmann, defending himself in Jerusalem, said he had been Jewish population survived the only a small cog who had to obey unpleasant orders to expel Jews Holocaust and that three-quarters from Germany. He claimed his activities in fact aided Zionism. of those moved to Israel. "Thus," The Supreme Court unanimously struck down a Maryland law it concludes, "the remnant of Ro- requiring office-holders to declare "belief in God." manian Jewry never had a chance Ogden R. Reid, ex-ambassador to Israel, was named to the New to replenish its leaders and func- York State Commission Against Discrimination. tionaries, especially with well over Sir Barnett Janner, Labor MP and Zionist leader, was re-elected half of those remaining now elderly president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews. and often ailing." There is an urgent need to keep members of Congress alerted to Israel's need for uninterrupted American support and for con- tinued supplies of arms to face the dangers that stem from the massive support Egypt receives from the Soviet Union. So said I. L. 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