THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Friday, October 7, 1977 13

Billy Graham 'Crusade' Behind the Iron Curtain Hit

NEW YORK (JTA)—
Evangelist Billy Graham,
reporting on his first cru-
sade in an East European
country, told a press confer-
ence that he was informed
in Budapest by Hungarian
Jewish leaders that Hun-
garian Jews had a "sub-
stantial" degree of freedom
to worship, to produce and
acquire Jewish scriptures
and prayerbooks and to go
to the synagogue.
Graham also said that, in
his meetings with Chief
Rabbi Laszlo Salgo of Hun-
gary and Rabbi Alexander
Scheiber, president of the
Jewish Theological Semi-
nary of Hungary, and other
Jewish leaders. he learned
something "most Christians
simply do not know—that
more than 400,000 Jews in
Hungary were murdered by
the Nazis."
He said it was his impres-
sion that on a per capita
basis. the Jews of Hungary
had suffered more griev-
ously than any other com-
munity in Europe during the
Nazi period.

Graham said he was told
there was no real problem
of anti-Semitism in Hun-
gary, that because of the
tremendous suffering of. the
Jews under the Nazis there
was a "genuine desire" on
the part of the government
and leadership to com-
pensate the surviving 80,000
to 100,000 Jews for their
wartime suffering.

The evangelist also said
he was told by the Hun-
garian 'Jewish leaders that
they felt comfortable and
secure in Hungary and
there was little desire to
emigrate to Israel or to
leave Hungary for any other
country.
Rabbi Marc H. Tan-
enbaum, director of inter-
,

(Editor's note: The fol-
lowing letter was sent to the
Rev. Billy Graham by Dr.
Albert Belton following Gra-
ham's recent trip to
Hungary.)

Dear Reverend Graham,
Having heard (over radio-
TV) and read in the news
media, your glowing report
on the Church situations in.
Hungary. you convinced me
that there took place a
"Conversion." but not their
to Christ, but yours to the
communist Manifesto.
You became an apologist,
an evangelist, yes a propa-
gandist for the "Holy Gos-
pel„ of the Marxist "Scrip-
tures," as interpreted by
Lenin and practiced in the
staellites.
How else could you state
that the Churches in Hun-
galy enjoy "total freedom"
and that there is complete
separation of Church and
State in Hungary.
Have you not heard that
there was a State Office for
Church Affairs exerting
closest supervision, scrutiny
and control over Church (of
any denomination) and
clergymen, also of any
denomination?
Do you know that only
those clergymen may func-
tion as such who are first
approved by the State
(Communist) Office for
Church Affairs?

religious affairs for the
American Jewish Com-
mittee. took part in the
press conference at Gra-
ham's invitation.
Graham said he had been
invited in Budapest by a
delegation of Soviet Baptist
leaders to make a similar
visit to the Soviet Union.
Graham said he told the
Soviet Christian leaders that
one of his conditions for
such a visit would be that he
would have the same
opportunity to , meet with
Jewish leaders in the Soviet
Union that he had with Hun-
garian Jewish leaders.

Tanenbaum said that
before Graham accepted
the invitation to visit Hun-
gary, he asked Tanenbaum
whether it would help or
hurt the Jews of Hungary if
he sought to meet with
them.

government in its own prop-
aganda periodicals.
Even the administrative
officers and clerks of any
denomination, must be first
approved by the State
(Party).

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and spokeSman with the
Carter Administration, to
get __them "Most Favored
Nation Status" in trade, to
have the Royal Crown of St.
Stephen returned to them,
plus other benefits.
And you have not dis-
appointed them.
Barely had you stepped
off the plane, you started
your new (marxist) Crusade
on their behalf.

They duped, deceived and
misled you, and are using
you for their own political
ends to be their supporter

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