THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Zionist Parley Sunday in NY
NEW YORK — The first
American Assembly for
Zionism and Israel will be
held Sunday at •the New
York Hilton and Lincoln
Center.
The assembly will be a
day-long event featuring
the participation of Leon
Dulzin, chairman of the
World Zionist Organiza-
tion; Carl Gershman, coun-
sel to the U.S. Representa-
tive to the United Nations;
Senator Edward M. Ken-
nedy (D-Mass.) and Lane
Kirkland, president of the
AFL-CIO.
Boris' Smolar's
`Between You
.. ,and Me'
Editor-in-Chief
Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 1981, JTA, Inc.)
AJC STOCK TAKING: The American Jewish
Committee, now observing its Diamond Jubilee thoughout
the country, is taking stock of its past and is also looking
with awareness into the future.
The past 75 years of the AJCommittee's existence re-
presents a record of glorious achievements of historic im-
portance. In mapping plans now for the future, the
AJC leadership takes into consideration the Reagan Revo-
lution and the priorities which the American Jewish com-
munity will have to face in connection with the domestic
policies of the Reagan Administratidn and the American
policy visa-vis Israel and the influence of the Arab oil-rich
countries on the policy.
It was the American Jewish- Committee that forced
Henry Ford to give up wholly his vicious anti-Jewish prop-
aganda in this country, to discontinue the publication of his
rabidly anti-Jewish magazine "Dearborn Independent," to
stop his dissemination — for the first time in American
history — of the notorious forgery "The Protocols of the
Elders of Zion," and to publicly apologize to Jewry by ad-
dressing a letter to this effect, for, publication, to Louis
Marshall, then AJCommittee president.
It was also due to Marshall's prompt action that the
attempt to stir up a blood libel in the United States — the
first and only blood libel attempt — was nipped in the bud.
The attempt followed the disappearance of a four-year-old
Christian girl in the small town of Massena, N.Y. in 1928
just before Yom Kippur.
MILESTONES IN HISTORY: One of the most im-
portant achievements of the American Jewish Committee
— most important in Jewish history — was its sending an
investigator to Poland, shortly before the outbreak of
World War II, to collect documentary material on the in-
citement against Jews in the Catholic churches conducted
by priests in their sermons.
The material was submitted to the Vatican and fol-
lowed up after the war by quiet discussions between Ameri-
can Jewish Committee representatives and the Vatican.
Leaders of the AJCommittee were on several occasions
received by the Pope.
Eventually the AJCommittee secretly sent to Rome
the noted American Jewish theologian Prof. Abraham Hes-
chel to hold -the theological dialogues with Cardinals in the
Vatican which paved the way for the issuance by the Vati-
can Ecumenical Council in 1965 the historic declaration
exonerating the Jewish people from the guilt of killing
Jesus, condemning anti-Semitism and ordering the elimi-
nation from Catholic religious teachings all passages offen-
sive to Jews.
Another incident little known by the public — but not
forgotten by the Israel governinent — is that Judge Joseph
Proskauer was greatly helpful to the Jewish Agency dele-
gation at the United Nations in securing a critical vote on
the Partition Resolution which brought about the estab-
lishment of the state of Israel.
On the human rights frOnt, the two former presidents
of the AJCommitte — Judge Proskauer and Jacob Blaus-
tein — waged a battle at the founding conference of the
United Nations in San Francisco, in 1945, against an at-
tempt by the State Department to water down the strong
clauses on human rights projected for inclusion into the UN
Charter.
Secretary of State Edward Stettinius did not favor such
strong clauses. He feared that they might open the door to
the United Nations for submitting complaints by
minorities in this country against the U.S. government.
_ I witnessed a scene in the lobby of the San Francisco
Conference where Judge Proskauer literally buttonholed
Secretary Stettinius and, mincing no words, told him
if the U.S. will not lend full support to the insertion of
strong clauses for human rights in the UN Charter, he will
consider it his duty to travel from city to city around the city
to tell the public how the U.S. failed to fulfill its obligations
to the American people.
The AJCommittee also emphasized its strong interest
in safeguarding human rights by establishing the Jacob
Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights,
including the rights of all people to leave their native lands
and to return there if they wished.
Friday, May 22, 1981 25
Timerman a Silent Witness at Lefever Senate Hearings
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The ordeal of Jacobo
Timerman was an eloquent
if silent witness this week at
the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee's hearings
on President Reagan's con-
troversial nomination of
Ernest Lefever to be assis-
tant secretary of state for
human rights and
hunianitarian affairs.
Timerman, former editor
and publisher of the Argen-
tine daily La Opinion, was
imprisoned for 30 months
without charges by the mili-
tary authorities who govern
Argentina. By his own ac-
count, he was subjected to
harsher treatment than
thousands of other political diplomacy is silence," he "a serious error" and urged
prisoners in Argentina be- told reporters. "Quiet dip- his rejection.
cause he is Jewish.
lornacy is surrender."
Lefever, an arch-
Meanwhile, the Ameri-
conservative, is a vociferous can Jewish Congress, in tes-
critic of the stress placed on timony submitted to the
Selectri Tl s s
human rights by the Carter Foreign Relations Commit-
F ull
Administration in its tee, said the confirmation of
dealings with authoritarian Lefever to the sensitive
VarrantY
regimes friendly to the human rights post would be
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United, States. He says he
subscribes to the view that
"quiet diplomacy" is more
effective than public criti-
cism in ameliorating
human rights violations,
except in the case of the
Soviet and other marxist
governments.
Timerman, who now lives
FINE PEARLS & PERSONAL ATTENTION
in Israel, was a spectator at
the hearings where strong
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was cited by several foes of
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(D-RI) if he- had read it.
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Lefever replied he had read
1-2:30 p.m. June 18 over the
reviews but not the book
facilities of the Public
and refused to be drawn into
Broadcasting Service. In
a discussion of Argentina.
Detroit, WTVS-TV (Ch. 56)
When Foreign Relations
will carry the broadcast.
Committee Chairman
The live transmission is
Charles Percy (R-Ill.) saw
the first ever from the
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Timerman in the spectators'
Western-Wall in Jerusalem.
Sklell'eS 'and Braciwts.
gallery and asked him' to
Boves for
Premier Menahem Begin
stand, the former Argentine
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will deliver an address to
tilt
CLIStOiii
journalist received a rous-
the 7,000 people from 22
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ing ovation. Later, he told
countries who will be con-
reporters that the Carter
in LUXURIOUS LUCITE
cluding their gathering.
Administration's human
Many of them willbe joined rights policy had helped
by their children and "thousands" or Argenti-
grandchildren in Israel on
nians faced with repression.
that day.
He said the U.S. helped by
Daily highlights of the
providing information and
World Gathering on June legal advice to those in dis-.
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