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VOLUME XII—NO. 46
IN OUR TWELFTH YEAR
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1958 12 Pages — 15c Per Copy
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Remember The Day
And “Crystal Night”
Nobody believed the little man with the mustache.
He had been wielding paint brushes prior to his graduation to
corporal in the Wehrmacht. Now he was looked upon as a God of
Germany's destiny. Jews were his fuel to inflame the minds of Ger-
mans who were depressed over the realty, commercial and trade losses
sustained in World War I.
It was a simple trick to use the Jews. To football them around
the national field of Anschlusa, to whip up Hate in the hearts and
minds of ordinary people. “Hate the Jews, they are your enemies,”
screamed the stormtroopers.
And soon the ordinary people took up the scream . . .
And the cry of Hate was crooned to new born babies as a new
lullabye . . .
And the Hate cascaded and it was used by the propaganda experts
as a tool. Stir up the emotions, use Hate as a common denominator.
Fill the peiople with lies. Multiply the lies. Soon you, the people of
Germany, will have a whole country heiling the lies of a madman.
And all the every-day ordinary people have to do is start hating the
world. Despise the world. Condemn everyone that isn’t pure German.
Now, the average German has a reason. He has hate as a weapon
and with a gun in his hand he can conquer the world and cascade his
hate into a river of military success.
Does this seem strange to read?
It happened.
It was the trick that ignited World War II,. though the reasons for
fighting were hatched long1 before the fire started and startled the
world.
Remember the day?
It was November 7, 1938.
Twenty years ago.
Hitlerian Hate was already on its campaign to conquer and kill.
The Panzers and Luftwaffe were invincible.
Countries were falling by the wayside with their precious cultures
drowning in rivers of blood.
Herschel Grynszpan, a Polish-Jewish youth walked the streets of
Paris and was in dispair He was depressed. He saw all his identities of
love, freedom, democracy being tortured out of existence. He had
remembered the daily pogroms in Germany. The laws against Jews.
He remembered how Germany marched its Jewish World War I her-
oes out into the streets and ordered them to clean the manure.
And Herschel] also remembered the desecration of graves, the
burning of synagogues in Germany. Where was the world going?
How does one stamp out this reign of hate?
His mind was crazed. In a frenzy, single-handed, and crying out
against barbarism against his fellow Jews, he shot and killed Ernst
von Rath, third secretary of the German Embassy in Paris.
Now the Nazis had a reason for a real killing . . .
Within 48 hours on November 9, 1938, this is what happened:
Pre-organized Nazi units, headed by Elite Guards and Hitler Youth
wrecked havoc in every Jewish Community in Germany, Austria and
f^udetenland. Within twelve hours more than 600 Jewish synagogues
were burned, desecrated or destroyed. Cemeteries were uprooted.
Jewish businesses were burned, looted or thoroughly demolished.
Hundreds were killed outright. The notorious concentration camps
were filled with over 60,000 new Jewish inmates. Buchenwald, Sach-
senhausen, Orienburg and infamous Dachau were readying for their
special tortures ... \
And this was not all.
After the looting was over the pragmatic campaign began. Jews
were to pay a fine of over $400,000,000 within twenty-four
hours or suffer the consequences.
Remember “Crystal Night”.....?
It all happened and is part of history.
It started with a few fires, desecration against churches in the mid-
dle of the night.
The tide of Hate swelled. It grew into a wave of hate. Soon there
were no more Jews in Germany to hate so the Germans picked on the
Poles, the French, the English, the Russians.
See JESS JAWIN—Page 12
Tyler Community
Awaits Briscoe
B’nai B’rith Dinnei
Mmes. A. Golenternek, I. Rudman
To Receive Awards
The City of Roses will have to
hunt up a wagonload of sham-
rocks, or spray their Tyler special-
ties green next Tuesday when
Robert Briscoe, first Jewish Lord
Mayor of Ireland, stops for East
Texas identification and makes a
major speech at a dinner in his
honor at the Carlton Hotel.
Edward Lasker Lodge of B‘nai
B’rith is sponsoring the dinner
through the efforts of its Israel
Committee which is headed by
Lodge president Phil Hurwitz and
includes Louis Glaser, first vice-
president; Herbert Bhody, second
v'c e-president; Leo Golenternek,
secretary-treasurer, A. S. Gene-
cov, Isadore Roosth and Israel
Smith.
Featured on the program will be
the presentation of a plaque to
Mrs. I. Rudman on behalf of the
Robert Briscoe
Government of Israel for her do-
nation of an ambulance to the
Red Mogen David, Israel’s equivs»
lent of the American Red Cross.
Mrs. A. Golenternek will come in
for her share of accolades on be-
half of the State k>f Israel Bond
Organization when she receives
a Scroll for her great efforts in
cooperating with the Bond organi-
zation to promote investment in
Israel through the purchase of
Bonds.
Two non- Jewish business lead-
ers will appear on the program.
E. B. Germany, president of Lone
Star Steel Company and C. E.
Owen, a former officer of the
company will speak.
See BRISCOE—Page 12
Meir Warns Of Danger
Of Nasser’s Hate Scheme
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The recently renewed campaign of hostile
anti-Israeli propaganda by the United Arab Republic “cannot be con-
sidered harmless, since it is backed by great military forces and by the
violent ambitions of a dictator who is out to make the Middle East
hi^ Iback yard, and strangle Israel in the process,” Foreign Minister
Golda Meir warned here last night.
(The Cairo Radio, according to dispatches from L,ondon, has begun
broadcasting a serialization of the so-called “Protocols of the Elders
iof Zion,” the notorious anti-Jewish fbrgery. The broadcasts are being
beamed specifically to Arabic listeners in the refugee camps. On the
broadcasts, the refugees are being told that the Jews consider them-
selves a superior race, fit to rule the world under regulations laid
down by “the elders of Zion.”)
Addressing the 100-member United Jewish Appeal mission from
the United States, Mrs. Meir declared that the situation makes it
mandatory for Israel to “reinforce its defensive capacity.”
Israelis Weigh Arrest Of Official
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The Israel Attorney General will decide with-
in the' next 24 to 48 hours whether he has enough evidence to pro-
cefedl with an indictment of Aharon Cohen, 50, Mapam leader and
resident of kibbutz Shaar Haamakim, on alleged crimes against the
State, a security official reported here Sunday. He confirmed that an
investigation ihacf been initiated of Cohen, a member of the Mapam
Central Committee and a specialist on Arab affairs who has publish-
ed a number of books on the Middle East and the Arabs.
In a startling and unprecedented development today, Premier
David Ben Gurion issued an appeal to the public not to judge the man
involve^ in the case (he did not name Mr. Cohen) and that a court
was the [only competent body to decide the matter. He also asked that
no group be condemned for the alleged crime of one of its members.
The revelation that Mr. Cohen was involved and Mr. Ben Gurion’s
plea added fuel to a situation in which the public followed avidly
every- published hint or statement on the case.
Political activity reached a new fever peak this week-end following
the break-up of a meeting of representatives of the Mapai, Mapam
and Achdut Avodah, called on the initiative of the last named, to dis-
cuss the possibilities of a combined slate for the forthcoming Knesset
{elections. It took the position that if the three parties could achieve
a basis for agreement in governing the country, they ought to be able
to reach agreement on a combined Knesset slate.
Javits, Keating See Pattern In Bombings
BIRMINGHAM, Alia (JTA)—New York Senator Jacob K. Javits
and Senator-elect Kenneth Keating1, completing a three-day visit to
southern cities where synagogues or schools had been bombed, said
this week-end that there appeared to be a definite pattern to the
dynamitings. They visited Jacksonville, Fla., Atlanta,Ga., and Birm-
ingham in fulfillment of a campaign promise by Mr. Keating.
A suggestion by Messrs. Javits a,nd Keating for Federal legislation
aimed specifically at hate bombings was received cooly and Southern
newspapers and politicians viewed the visits as “politics.” Mr. Javits
had stated earlier that they hioped to obtain information on this trip
which would aid in drafting their legislation against bombings and
the dissemination of hate literature.
KASPER, ANTI-SEMITIC SEGREGATIONIST,
CONVICTED OF RIOT INCITEMENT
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (JTA)—John Kasper, notorious segregation-
ist and avowed anti-Semite was convicted her© last week of inciting
a. riot in this city last year in the eburse of his attempts to prevent
integration of the public schools in line with decisions of the United
States. Supreme Court. He was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment
and fined $500.
Hails ‘Reawakening* Of Jewish Communal Life
BONN (JTA)—Chancellor Konrad Adenauer welcomed this week-
end the “reawakened life” of Jewish communities in Germany as evi-
dence of the success of the West German restitution program.
In a letter tio the Central Council of Jews in Germany, the Chan-
cellor wrote on the 20th anniversary of “crystal night,” the night of
Nov. 9-10, 1938 when Nazi gangs roamed Germany blurning Jewish
synagogues and destroying Jewish communal and privately-owned
property, that nothing ebuld cancel out the suffering caused the Jews
by the Nazi regime. “But because of this, it was and is a special de-
sire of the Federal Government to compensate at least for material
losses as far as possible,” Dr. Adenauer added.
Jews in Germany and throughout the world today marked the an-
niversary of “crystal night.”
CAPITAL SPOTLIGHT - - By Milton Friedman . . . Seymour Halpern, New Jewish Congressman
WASHINGTON —,
Seymour Halpern of New York
City, newest U.S. Congressman
of Jewish faith, claims the dis-
tinction of having been the young-
est man ever elected to the New
York State Senate.
The personable bachelor, now
in his early 40's, was elected to
the State Senate at 26. He receiv-
ed his political indoctrination
when only 22 as assistant to New-
bold Morris, then president of the
New York City Council.
Halpern, a liberal Republican,
joins Sen. Jacob K. Javits as the
second nernber of Congress of
the Jewish faith owing allegiance
to the G.O.P. All of the other
ten Jews in the Senate and House
are Democrats. Halpern will be
the first Jewish Republican to
hold a House seat since Senator
Javits served in that body.
Halpern represents a mixed
constituency, Jews and non-Jews,
in Queens County.
Although he is not a lawyer,
Halpern introduced a huge a-
mount of state legislation, In
fact, 2'79 bills introduced by him
were adopted. Much of this legis-
lation pertained to civil service,
labor, veterans benefits, narcotics
control, school improvement, and
highway safety.
Halpern’s efforts t o reduce
death tolls on New York’s high-
ways won recognition from Presi-
dent Truman. The former Presi-
dent made Halpern a delegate to
a White House highway safety
conference.
While loyal to the Republican
Party, Halpern holds two ap-
pointive city positions and one
honorary post, all non-salaried,
under a Democratic Administra-
tion. He is chairman of the board
of Riverside Hospital, the munici-
pal institution for ‘teen-age nar-
cotics addicts. In 1956 Mayor
Wagner appointed Halpern t o
membership of the Mayor’s Com-
mittee on the Courts. He is also
an honorary member of the May-
or’s Committee on Intergroup Re-
lations.
Halpern is employed by the
moving and storage industry of
New York as “impartial chair-
man.” In this capacity he is en-
trusted to rule on controversies
regarding rates and similar ques-
tions requiring impartiality. He is
in the insurance business and is
chairman of the board of Insurist
Corporation of America.
A director of the Queens Men-
tal Health Society, Halpern has
exhibited considerable interest in
aiding the underprivileged. He
is on the advisory board of the
National Association for the Pre-
vention of Juvenile Delinquency.
He supports a variety of Jewish
undertakings and is vice-chair-
man of the Queens permanent
division, Federation of Jewish
Philanthropies. His activities in
the humanitarian field were such
that in 1953 Mayor Wagner a-
warded him a plaque as “The
Outstanding Native-born New
Yorker of the i ear.”
Last September a Seymour
Halpern Scholarship Fund was es- j
tabiished at Yeshiva University
as “a tribute to his distinguished
public and comrrjunity service.”
The Queens chapter of the New
York University Law Scho'ol
Alumni Association has cited Hial-
pern for his contributions to bet-
ter legislation and public service.
He was made the chapter’s only
honorary member.
Halpern is considered a vote
getter. First elected in 1940, he
defeated the incumbent, Joseph D. 1
Nunan, Jr., later U.S. Commis-
sioner of Internal Revenue, by
3,600 votes. He was elected for
seven terms with steadily mount-
ing pluralities. He reached hiis
peak in 1952 by defeating Law-
rence G. Gresser, Assistant Dis-
trict Attorney by 86,000 votes.
In 1954 Halpern sought election
in the usually Democratic Sixth
Congressional District bu(c wa|s
beaten by Lester Hoitzman who
is still among the Democrats of
Jewish faith in Congretes. This
year Halpern decided to seek elec-
tion in his “home area,” the
Queens district he represented
for 14 years in the Senate.
It was obviously a wise decision.
Halpern has attained recogni-
tion as an amateur portrait paint-
er and has exhibited at various
galleries. He has frequently do-
nated oil and pastel paintings for
religious and charitable fund-rais-
ing causes.
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