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Friday, September 19, 1986 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Henry Ford I
Continued from Page 2
Ford car from the auto man-
ufacturer is related by Lacey
as follows:
Henry Ford's anti-
Semitism was never the
vindictive anti-Semitism of
some racists, who seek
power for the sake of the
pain they can conflict.
Without excusing Henry
from the consequences of
his actions, he can be ab-
solved from that particular
sin of intent. There was
always an oddly detached,
impersonal character to
his pogrom. He was
amazed when, soon after
the anti-Semitic articles
started appearing in the
Dearborn Independent, Rabbi
Leo Franklin, a friend and
neighbor from the Fords' Edi-
son Avenue days, returned
the Model T which Henry
sent him as an annual pre-
sent.
Dr.
wrong,
"What's
Franklin?" he asked. "Has
anything come between us?"
Henry stayed on the best of
terms with the architect Al-
bert Kahn, who, himself, re-
mained proud of the friend-
ship.
The activities and the
influence of Henry Ford II
are fully accounted for by
Lacey. Therefore the Iacocca
drama is an intriguing part
of it.
Henry Ford II is the
playboy whose antiques are
described in this new Ford
book. That a man with many
repulsive habits should have
consistently supported Israel
and his having been among
the most courageous in battl-
ing against the Arab boycott
of Israel is a commendable
act on his record.
He worked and continues
to work closely with Max
Fisher and Al Taubman in
his advancement of
downtown Detroit needs. His
very close friendship with
Max Fisher and their joint ef-
forts for Israel and the
Jewish state's economic needs
are especially noteworthy.
Here is how Lacey records
them:
When Max Fisher first
met Henry Ford II, he was
already a name to reckon
with in Detroit, and he be-
came truly high-profile in
1962 when he and his
partners purchased the
soaring, twenty-eight story,
gothic office block built on
West Grand Boulevard for
the Fisher brothers (of
"Body by Fisher"). The
Fisher Building was,
arguably, the most
prestigious edifice in all
Detroit — and when Max
Fisher made it his own
headquarters in 1962, he
saved himself the expense
of putting a new namep-
late on the door.
Max Fisher has got
closer to Henry Ford II
than have many men, and
he is generous in praise of
his best friend's strengths
Henry Ford II
— which he has seen as
few others have.
"Henry," he says, "hon-
estly does things from his
heart. There's a lot of feel-
ing deep down inside of
him."
Fisher is also quite can-
did, within the bounds of
loyalty, about other as-
pects of the Ford char-
acter.
"He finds it very hard,
quite often, to express his
emotions. I say, 'Come on,
Henry, why don't you let it
go?' But really, he finds
that side of things pretty
difficult."
When Max Fisher came
to Detroit in 1930, a bright
but impoverished student
from Ohio State Univer-
sity, the name, Ford was,
for him, synonymous with
prejudice. He found none
of it in Henry Ford II.
"I've organized a couple
of trips for him to Israel,"
he says, "taking him
around to meet all the
right people" — by which
Max Fisher, North Ameri-
ca's leading fund-raiser for
the State of Israel, means
the likes of Golda Meir,
Moshe Dayan, the Shimon
Peres. "But it wasn't a
question of converting
him. I've always found
Henry an open, liberal-
minded sort of guy."
In 1966 the Arab League
responded to Ford plans to
let a Jewish entrepreneur
assemble Ford trucks and
tractors in Israel by
threatening a boycott, and
Henry Ford II went ahead
with the plan. "Nobody's
gonna tell me what to do,"
he told Max Fisher — and
as a result of his defiance,
all Ford cars and Ford
trucks were banned from
the Arab market for nearly
twenty years.
"It was just a pragmatic
business procedure" is
Henry II's comment on the
subject, trying to
downplay the principles at
stake — and sidestepping
the fact that the Ford
Motor Company has, in the
last twenty years, lost far
more in sales to Arab
,