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DOCTORS BEWARE!
CALLING ALL VICTIMS
Some of our town’s doctors are being taken for a literary ride
and the sod part of the story is that they’re most ignorant of the
situation.
Doctors and dentists, too, usually subscribe to all the national
magazines for the benefit of their patients who frequent their re-
ception rooms.
In our April 14 “Philadelphia Story” we told how newsdealers
and distributors of that city have refused to handle the American
Mercury Magazine because of its vicious anti-semitism. The city
of Brotherly Love followed a lead set by New York City.
We were in the reception room of one of the city’s foremost
medical establishments the other day. High on top of a pile of
magazines was the American Mercury’s February issue. The hate-
filled pages carried the usual anti-semitic venom. One of the
stories also attacked the mental health program of the medical
profession! /
We approached the business manager with the magazine in
hand and asked him if he had read it.
Stunned by our directness he answered, “I didn’t even know
we were getting it.”
“May I suggest that you read the articles in it? Perhaps your
clinic agrees with them. If you do, you have every right to offer
it. However, if you don’t agree with the malicious slanders, a lot
of your patients may get the wrobg idea. Furthermore, patients
who come here are troubled by their own illnesses, why give them
reading matter that may disturb them even more?”
The business manager agreed to read the magazine to decide
for himself. “And when you go through it, please read the story
attacking the mental health program. That is certainly one that
attacks the medical profession!”
The apologetic manager promised to do so.
All we can add is: Doctors and dentists beware!
The World Jewish Congress has made a last-minute appeal to
victims of Hitler’s Reign of Terror and Torture to offer testimony
against Nazi concentration commandments and their staffs.
Dr. Nehemiah Robinson, Director of the World Jewish Con-
gress Institute of Jewish Affairs, said that the statute of limitations
for many crimes committed during the Nazi regime will expire by
the end of May. An attempt to extend the deadline was made by
the Social Democrats who introduced a bill in the Bundestag, but
the Ministers of Justice of the various West German states have
expressed opposition to an extension.
“The result is that any action against Nazi criminals and their
assistants must be initiated within the next few weeks,” Dr. Rob-
inson stated. Witnesses are wanted for crimes committed in con-
centration camps in Poland (including those near Cracow and in
Neu-Sandez county), Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania and in the
Soviet area, which were occupied by the Germans.
Appeals by the World Jewish Congress have resulted in res-
ponses from dozens of witnesses now living in the United States,
Canada, and other lands.
Any person with knowledge of crimes committed in concentra-
tion camps and who can name responsible camp officials should
contact Dr. Robinson at the World Jewish Congress, 15 East 84th
Street.. New York 28, N. Y.
“Service Of Psalms” At Beth - El Friday
This Friday evening, April 29,
at 8 o’oclock, Rabbi Robert J.
Schur will conduct a “Service of
Psalms” at Beth-El Congregation.
All responses and liturgical selec-
tions will be from the Book of
Psalms.
Of special musical interest will
be Psalm 98, Sing Unto the Lord
a New Song by Schalit, which has
as its underlying melody the Bibli-
cal mode for chanting the Book of
Psalms. Psalm Twenty-Three by
Herbert Fromm reflects the mood
of David, the young shepherd, as
portrayed in the Flute obligato.
The Book of Psalms has inspired
many composers of Jewish and
Christian faiths. Fourteen composi-
tions will be heard, most of them
written especially for the syna-
gogue during the last century. The
arts of sculpture and painting were
against the law in Biblical times
and in the centuries that followed,
lest the Jewish people might be
tempted to worship idols. As a
result the art sense of the Jews
expressed itself in poetry in the
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IN OUR FOURTEENTH YEAR
VOLUME XIV NO. 17_THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1960 8 PAGES—15 Cents Per Copy
Delegation To Leave
For Hadassah Regional
Mrs. Louis Aronson, 6806 Nor-
way Rd., President of the South-
west Region of Hadassah, will lead
the Dallas delegation to the Tenth
Annual Regional Conference of
Hadassah, to be held April 30
through May 2, at the Mayo Hotel,
in Tulsa, Oklahoma. 200 Delegates
representing Hadassah chapters in
State Dept. Complains On Picketing
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The United States State Depart-
ment moved against the first counter-blockade against Arab ship-
ping with a statement that picketing of the Egyptian ship, the
Cleopatra, by New York seaman was “embarrassing” the conduct
of American foreign relations. (Texas Jewish Post—April 21)
The State Department comment was one of a series of actions
and reactions involving United Nations Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold, the Seafarers International Union, the Federal Dis-
trict Court of New York, the Arab Trade Unions and the Scandi-.
navian union movement.
Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and
Kansas will participate in the stim-
ulating sessions, covering every
phase of Haddassah’s extensive
program.
Mrs. Aronson will preside at the
Conference, and additional Dallas
delegates participating are Mmes.
Bernard Siegel, Regional Program
Chairman; A. J. Lukin, Regional
Speakers Bureau Chairman; Wil-
liam Marx, Regional Tourism
Chairman; Sherman Kaplan, Pres.
Dallas Chapter; Paul Lewis, Pres.
Szold; Peter Fonberg, Pres. Bat
Ami; Alfred Salfield, Pres. B & P;
A. H. Fink, Sam Banks, Aaron
Borin, Sam Dorfman, M. Farbstein,
Marvin Gardner, Ray Kaplan, J. H.
Ray, S. R. Sherrard, Pincus Sil-
verman, and Eli Wilonsky.
The Conference program and
workshops will center around the
significant theme, MEETING THE
CHALLENGE, and Mrs. Israel Us-
dan of National Hadassah will
serve as Keynote Speaker and Con-
ference Advisor. Mrs. Usdan is
currently the National Organiza-
tion Chairman for Chapters on the
Group Plan. She has visited Israel
on several occasions and was the
leader of a tour in 1959, and will
bring to the Conference first hand
information of Hadassah’s life-giv-
ing projects in Israel and Hadas-
sah’s American Affairs and Edu-
cation program in the United
States.
Mrs. Aronson will report to the
Conference on plans for the Dedi-
cation of the new Hadassah-He-
brew University Medical Center in
Jerusalem on August 3. This great
new city of healing will maintain
Hadassah’s highest standards of
healing, teaching, and research,
not only for Israel, but for the en-
tire Middle East.
The Conference will open Satur-
day evening, April 30, with a
Havdalah Service and Supper, and
will conclude Monday, May 2, at
the Closing Luncheon at which
time the newly elected Regional
officers for 1960-61 will be in-
stalled.
The Cleopatra, a passenger-cargo vessel remained immoblized
at an East River berth in New York while the Seafarers Union and
the International Longshoremen’s Union awaited federal court ac-
tion on a bid by the Khedivial Mail Line of Alexandria, owners of
the Cleopatra, for an injunction to halt the picketing. U. S. District
Court Judge Edward Weinfeld denied the motion and the case was
moved to the court of Judge Thomas E. Murphy, who reserved de-
cision.
Attorneys for the two unions told Judge Murphy that more than
100 American ships were currently blacklisted by the UAR “and
thousands of jobs are involved for American seamen.”
Mr. Hammarskjold became involved in the dispute when reports
developed in Israel that he. had intervened with the Scandinavian
Transport Workers Federation in the lifting of the Swedish mari-
time workers of their two-week boycott of UAR shipping.
Hammarskjold angrily denied the report at a press conference,
asserting that the “very idea” of such intervention by him was
“stupid.” However, the Reuters News Agency reported from Stock-
holm that the Scandinavian Transport Workers Federation had
discussed with the Secretary General “the question of Scandinavian
ships that have been interfered with in the Suez Canal on the way
to or from Israel.”
The Israel Foreign Ministry declined comment on the reported
intervention, indicating it was awaiting an authoritative report
from the Israel Embassy in Stockholm on the ending of the Swed-
ish anti-UAR boycott.
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By Milton Friedman
• U. S. TEENAGE HISTORY TEXTBOOKS “SOFT” ON NAZIS
CAPITAL SPOTLIGHT
The mass murder of 6,000,000
Jews by Germany is a subject
“unsuitable, untimely, and too
gruesome” for America’s high
school youth. That is the view of
many educators representing
both public and Catho ? paro-
chial school systems.
Educator’s interviewed here
said they had much difficulty a
few years ago in suppressing so-
called “comic books” that por-
trayed Nazi fiends torturing vic-
tims. Such “comics” were a
“trashy fad” appealing to “sado-
masochistic pulses of teen-
agers in tbei , formative years.
A code of iecency was finally
adopted. L awed all “comics”
dealing with usric cruelty like
that ( - e (k- tapo and evneen-
trat i camp lards.
It world be “ unwholesome”
to revive this Nazi fiend fad.
Educators said there was no
healthy objective in “dwelling”
on Nazi atrocities. Some explain-
ed that today’s West Germany is
a military ally of America a-
gainst Communism. Therefore, it
is undesirable to give teen-agers
a “negative” view of a country
many are to defend as members
of the U. S. Army.
In recent months, teen-aged
neo-Nazi gangs emerged among
American high school students.
Police made arrests in Kansas
City, Jacksonville, and elsewhere.
School authorities desert ^d such
teen-agers as “above average” in
intelligence bu: psychologically
sick.” Nazism provided a thrill-
ing avenue of rebellion, vicari-
ously stimulating a youth nur-
tured on television's violent bru-
tality.
One educator thought the his-
tory of Nazi atrocities might get
the opposite of the response de-
sired by Jewish groups. Instead
of becoming pro-Jewish, some
maladjusted youths might iden-
tify with Nazi “supermen.”
Rabbi William B. Silverman,
a human relations authority of
Nashville, Tenn., said recently
that the Negro integration crisis
has unleashed “latent anti-Semi-
tism.” He said “the persecution
of the Jew is a portent of his-
torical and -aciological trends.
The attacks on the Negroes gen-
erate anti-Semitism ...”
American history books do nrt
tell ihe full story of Hitler’s
crimes. Students oft- n read thai
Hitler revived a ” >ralized na-
tion and gave Gc nans “great
pride in their cc oitry.” Text-
books display handsome pictures
of Nazis in flashy uniforms, im-
pressive mass demonstrations,
praise of German military prow-
ess, and martial glory.
All texts term Hitler a dictator.
“Your country and the world,”
a popular seventh-grade book,
accurately describes the Nazi im-
pact on education, science, and
arts. But it omits all reference
to Jews and anti-Semitism.
Another text, “Building Our
America,” devotes only two para-
graphs of its 467 pages to Nazism.
It makes no mention whatever of
3T<t Semitism.
- senior high school text, “The
Making' of Modern America,” re-
ports that the Nazi swastika
brought new pride a d efficien-
cy to Germany. Under Hitler,
“Germany was transformed into
a united energetic nation. Once
more the German people took
great pi’ide in their country. In-
dustry boomed and large public
works were undertaken.”
In “This is America’s Story,”
the student reads that “Under
Hitler, the Germans once more
had hope for the future. Once
more they became a proud peo-
ple.”
Commenting on history text-
books in this country, the Wash-
ington Post said they are “soft”
on Nazism “only to the extent
that they are soft on everything.
Among the pretty illustrations
in many of today’s bar me
textbook;, a_i adult reade. way
f id fciand, cheery approach to
hi to y — an enthusi r At the
co forting and a marK uc-
ta • it to say more thar. is iso-
J <'elv necessary j-ut the -on-
a.ration camps -ul gas * am-
bers which claimeti their tall as
late as 15 years ago.”
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