THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, December 16, 1977 41
Mendelssohn Still Outlawed in China
LONDON—THE Jew-
ishness of the composer Fe-
lix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
has become a source of em-
barassment for Chinese dip-
lomats, as they are being
repeatedly asked by West-
em diplomats in Peking
whether Mendelssohn's
compositions are still
banned in China because of
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his Jewish origin.
This inquiry is the direct
result of the fact that the
ban hitherto imposed on the
music of Beethoven, Bach
and Chopin has, been lifted
in China. Their composi-
tions have been recently
performed in Peking and
other Chinese cities.
By contrast, the ban on
Mendelssohn was endorsed
on the highest ideological
level. An article in the
People's Daily, the main
mouthpiece of the Chinese
Communist Party, claimed
that Lenin had allegedly dis-
missed Mendelssohn as a
"bourgeois composer."
No such statement was
ever made by Lenin, since
Lenin never made a dis-
tinction between "bourgeois
music" and "Communist
The reasons for the con-
tinuing ban on Men-
delssohn's music in China
remain a mystery.
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New York Public TV Station
Shows Program on Klan, Nazis
NEW YORK (JTA)—
WNET (Channel 13), the
major public TV station in
the NEW York metropolitan
area, telecasted Wednesday
a 60-minute program it pro-
duced on "The Extremists:
American Nazis and the Ku
Klux Klan."
The program included ex-
cerpts from a controversial
segment from one of the
Public Broadcasting Service
(PBS) series, "Black Per-
spective on the News, -
which featured interviews
with David Duke, "Imperial
Wizard" of the KKK, and
Frank Collin, head of the
American Nazi Party.
The disputed program
was taped for PBS by sta-
tion WHYY-TV (Channel 12)
of Philadelphia. In response
to sharp criticism from
Jewish sources, WHYY
added a 30-minute segment
to include comments and
questions by a panel.
Later, in response to con-
tinuing protests from Jew-
ish organizations, WHYY
added another 30-minute
segment which presented
Bertram Gold, executive
vice president of the Ameri-
can Jewish Committee; Ted
Mann, chairman of the Na-
tional Jewish Community
Relations Advisory Council;
and Herman Floyd, area di-
rector of the Pennsylvania
State Human Relations
Commission, a Black.
PBS stations in Dallas,
Miami, Detroit (WTVS-CH.
56), St. Louis and Boston
decided not to show the pro-
gram, according to - a
spokeswoman for WNET.
In announcing plans for
the program treating the
Nazis and the KKK as ex-
tremists, WNET said one of
the issues the program
would examine would be
whether the media had be-
haved "responsibly" toward
such groups.
WNET also announced
that PBS would distribute
the WNET program nation-
ally to its member stations
for showing on Jan. 15.
Israel Notably
Absent From L.A.
Mideast Parley
Children's children are
the crown of old men; and
fathers are the pride of
their children.
—Book of Proverbs, 17:6
LOS ANGELES (JTA)—
' The Los Angeles•County Bar
Association (International
Law Section) was sharply
criticized by the Anti-Defa-
mation League of Bnai
Brith for having excluded
Israel from its conference,
"The Middle East: Legal
and Business Aspects," it
was announced by Joshua
Kheel, president of ADL's
Pacific Southwest Regional
Board.
The conference was held
in cooperation with the For-
eign Trade Association, the
Los Angeles Area Chamber
of Commerce's Inter-
national Commerce Com-
mittee, the University of
Southern California Gradu-
ate School of Business Ad-
ministration and the USC
Law Center.
The ADL has been con-
cerned for some time about
the proliferation of confer-
ences around the country
which focus on "doing busi-
ness in the Middle East"
but which systematically
exclude any references to
doing business with Israel,
the only democracy in that
part of the world, Kheel
said.
In a letter to Samuel Wil-
liams, president of the Los
Angeles County Bar Associ-
ation, dated Nov. 18 to
which the ADL here said
there has been no response,
ADL's western states coun-
sel, David A. Lehrer, ob-
served that "the deliberate
exclusion of Israel from
these programs makes
these symposia not very
subtle vehicles for further-
ing the goals of the Arab
boycott by conveying the
notion that a firm can deal
either with the Arab world
or with Israel, but not with
both."
Developing Nations Send 14 Scientists
HAIFA—Fourteen engi-
neers involved in water
management in Ecuador, El
Salvador, Burma, Cyprus,
Thailand, Nepal, Mexico,
Barbados, and the Domin-
ican Republic, have arrived
at Technion — Israel In-
stitute of Technology to take
part in a course aimed at
helping developing coun-
tries to better utilize their
water resources.
The one year program
will lead to a Master of
Science degree in water re-
sources engineering and
___ management.
Meanwhile, Prof. Philip
Handler, president of the
U.S. National Academy of
Sciences, delivered this
year's Joseph W. Wunsch
Lecture at the Technion. He
discussed - Science and
Technology—A Time of
Trial".
Egypt Gets Wheat
WASHINGTON—The Ag-
riculture Department has
announced an agreement
giving Egypt $170 million
worth of U.S. wheat under
the long-term, low-interest
credit terms of the Food for
Peace program.
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