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Evening star., 1960-02-17
Recollection of q Nozi Small Frv

awed whisper, "the whole
world"
Tell me about it."
1T was August 2, 1886.
There were five of us from
America. There were Hitler's
staff officers all about. One
OF these stepped forward and
introduced us. He CHitler)
asked us what we thought
of Germany's holding the
Olympic games, and I told
him we had made propa-
ganda with it. I then gave
him the Golden Book and
$4,000 the Bund had COL
lected in America. 1t was in
$l00 bills and in an enve-
lope which had been sealed
at the customs when we
landed in Hamburg. He
thanked us for it and asked
a few questions. We then re-
tired. We were all impressed,
mostly by his eyes and
voice"
He paused, remembering
it. savoring the glory of that
glittering moment and
then he was back in prison
again. The light went out
of his face. His shoulders
dropped.
Once" he said, 81 thought
field marshals and premiers
were great people, someone
to look up to. But now, see
ing them here in prison,
hearing them argue about
who has the largest piece
of bread, it is disgusting.
I'm fed up to here" He drew
his hand across his throat.
The guard escorted him
out in his rumpled pris-
on suit. The hand that once
shook the hand of Hitler
would go back to peeling
potatoes. A few years later
Kuhn died. He was a four
paragraph story on the back
pages.
Evening star., 1960-02-17
Texan Seen EnguIfed in One of Greatest
Struggles of Modern Political History
WILLIAM S. WHITE

One Of the greatest strug-
giles in modern political his
tory between a man and his
circumstances now unfolds
in the spotlighted arena of
the United States Senate, for
Lyndon B. johnson of Texas.
Senator johnson, as DEM
ocratic leader, is under pres
sures and croSS-pressureS of
a force and savagery never
to beat, in this correspond
ent'S lifetime at any rate,
upon any member of the
Senate in any party for any
reason.
1t is an intense drama Of
humanity, of politics, of hope
and gain. of risk and loss,
that is for long weeks to
be played out upon the floor
of the Senate.
The task Senator johnson
has assigned himself is to
pass a civil rights bill that
will genuinely and totally
guarantee the voting right of
the Negroes in his native
South but also will not:
l. Destroy his own pros
poets as a Democratic presi-
Dental aspirant.
2. Break up beyond re-
pair in an election year the
party he must continue to
lead in the Senate, at least.
3. Mortally estrange the
Southern support without
which he would be lost from
the start at the July Demo-
cratic national convention.
4. Deny right and honor
able protection to the Negroes
on the one hand; or, alterna-
lively, hysterically treat the
South as an outlaw province.
Senator johnson promised
last year that on February
is of 1860 the Senate would
proceed to the business" of
civil rights. He has kept that
promise and won the first
round by boldly and harshly
forcing the issue up, just as
he said he would do. Now
the great box of troubles for
Evening star., 1960-02-17
EIection-Yeor Congress Held Certain
To Cut and Amend u. S. Program

branch has paid attention to
their complaints.
The Presidents attack on
congressional extravaganza
and his free use of the veto
power have for some time
constituted an open invita-
ton to congressional retalia-
ton. The Democratic Con-
gress has hesitated to do it
in the field of foreign aid
because it is originally their
program and because Demo-
Gratis have had a wholesome
fear of the Eisenhower po-
litical appeal.
But they have been notice.
ably cooling toward large for
eign aid outlayS in the old
pattern and they have &C
quired courage to rebuff the
President because he is going
out and they have high hopes
of electing their own Presi-
dent next year.
The administration could
only have countered this
mood with some kind of
nonpartisan drive engineered
from without the Govern
ment by internationalists of
great prestige in both parties.
1t has not done so and there
is nothing to indicate it
tried. Secretary of State Her.
ter will he heard politely by
his former colleagues when
he leads off hearings on the
bill but that is about all.
The President did get his
request to Congress earlier
than usual in an effort to get
it considered before adjourn
Evening star., 1960-02-17
DAVID LAWRENCE

Something new has been
started by Communist SYM
pathizers in New York City.
They have put a large adver-
tiSement in one of the big
newspapers. labelling it, "An
Appeal to the President Of
the United States" Actually,
it is an effort to put over a
piece of Soviet propaganda
in the hope of Sabotaging
Americas nucle a r-defenSe
program.
The paid advertisement
which appeared yesterday
was signed by seven foreign
language newspapers claim
ing to be published by Amer
lean citizens. Now letters have
been sent out by representa-
tives of each of the national
tiles denouncing the adver-
tiSement as a piece of Com
munist propaganda and as
not representative at all Of
the viewpoint of persons of
Eastern European descent.
The original advertisement
says that disarmament is
recognized by American pub
lie opinion as urgent. and
then asks:
why, being a world leader
in many fields, is the United
States not a leader in dis
armament? Why is it the
Soviet Union that cuts its
armed forces and not the
United States? Progress to-
wards disarmament depends
in large part upon reaching
an agreement on a nuclear
weapons test ban. But the
negotiations now going on in
Geneva are in grave jeopardy
due to the United States
abandonment of the mora
torium on tests.
"You know what the con-
tinuation of nuclear tests
would mean for mankind if
the tests carried out so far,
as leading scientists have
testified, will cause 100000
people now living to die of
leukemia or bone cancer, and
about a million people al
together to die of cancer of
all kinds"
These extreme statements
have never been corroborated
by any impartial scientists
or medical men. They have
Evening star., 1960-02-17
RALPH McGILL
Outbreaks Stir Story of Jailed Fritz Kuhn
Telling of XXX Bid for Aid in South

Reading about the failing
of the neo-Nazis in Germany,
found guilty of desecrating
synagogueS, brought back a
memory of Fritz Kuhn, and
an interview with him in a
Berlin prison in the autumn
of 1947.
He had been the Strutting,
pompous leader of the Ger
man-American Bund in the
years before the second great
world war. For a time there,
he rode high on the crest of
anti-Semitism fed by lesser
men and organizations. He
vas in the news reels, a fat,
heavy man who wore a Nazi
Stormtrooper's uniform - as
did his followers. Once he
and his crowd of uniformed
bullies had a Madison Square
Garden rally. He was being
held in 1947 as a war crimes
witness.
In 1886 the Bund sent
Fritz Kuhn and four of his
subfuehrers to a Hitler rally
Of all Nazi groups at Nurn-
berg. He and the four men
took a gift of $4,000 and
Kuhn personally presented
it to Hitler and was given a
few flattering com ments
from his god-much as a
man speaks to an obedient
dog. He was a small, would
be Hitler, tolerated for the
evil he did in America and
for the propaganda value of
having there a uniformed
Nazi group.
Kuhn was sitting at a table
when the guard escorted me
IN. He was a heavy, dull
looking man with no ap-
parent fire in him, though
later I could see there was.
a
Evening star., 1960-02-17

him has en- opened and
spilled out in the we'll Of the
Senate.
On his right flank, old
Southern friends cry that in
bluntly bypassing their de-
laying power he is lynch
ing orderly procedure" +" They
accuse HIM of going intoler-
ably far for civil rights.
On his left flank, the
liberal Democrats are as
sisted by his skillful action,
but will give him no credit
for it, now or later. They
will say at length that he
was intolerably unwilling to
go nearly far enough on
civil rights. And they will
use his talent for beating
off Southern extremism
only as a weapon to enable
them later on to try to go
much further on civil rights
than he himself will be will
ing to go. And then they
will use his refusal to go
that far to cut him down as
a presidential possibility If
they can.
He personally was the de-
cisive force in the Senate's
passage in 1857 Of the first
real civil rights bill in 80
years-though admittedly a
moderate bill it was. But
the Democratic liberals, who
would not themselves ever
have been able to get the
Senate even that far along
the road. have spent most
of their time since in boojng
him for not having gone
further.
The Republicans. natu-
rally, will hit him from the
start. For. politics is, after
all, politics.
What of Senator johnson,
himself, in the middle of
this extraordinary storm?
Tall. dark. wryly grinning, he
is perhaps the most con-
tained man now in the Sem
ate-because he knows he
must be. Any commanding
Evening star., 1960-02-17

We all sat, and Kuhn
agreed the interview was VOL
untary. I had a question I
had wanted to ask him in
the '30s.
Mr.. Kuhn" 1 said. "I
would like to ask you, be-
cause of a personal, regional
interest, if, in the years when
you and the Bund supported
Hltler's anti-Semitism and
sought to sabotage the Amer
lean preparation for war,
you ever worked with the Ku
Klux Klan in any of the
Southern States in such pro-
Hitler activities?"
Il never did," he said. II
always thought the xxx
was a contemplate organi-
zation based on masks and
cowardice of numbers. So
when they came to me and
wanted to join us in an anti
Jewish move, I refused. But
my successor did invite
them and they held confer
enceS about it. How far it
went I don't know"
Thus was confirmed one
of the ugly stories of the
period.
Kuhn had an ego which
matched Hitler'S. He was a
small fry, that coarse and
oafish man. But when he
talked of how he had met
Hitler and had presented
him the Golden Book bear
ing the names of the Amer
ican Bund members and the
$4,000, his face lighted.
There was an almost rapt
look on it. His dull eyes
Sparked.
THE whole World wrote
about it," he said, in an
Evening star., 1960-02-17
OLD-FASHIONED
HEAT-TRAP N

Stocked components-one be-
low the other-LWomid ond
multiply heot intensity. Ports,
mounted underneath, eenerote
heat which is tropped by Old
fashioned oVen-type, upside
down chassis.
The Arizona post., 1960-02-19
Saul Carson
UN Fails In Human Rights

Russian and Polish representatives, or
the three Arab League representatives
for that matter, would vote against the
resolution. The worst they would do
would be to abstain; the Halpern resolu-
ton, with it's five cosponsors, was Gin the
bag" from the beginning.
Observers here note that the situation
is not quite as hopeless as the parliament
tary rigmarole implies. The fact is that
a resolution adopted by a recognized UN
group as the Subcommission is does
have moral force. Back in 1948 the AS
sembly adopted the famous Universal
Declaration of Human Rights
That Declaration never did have the
force of laW-juridical recognition of the
Declarations moral precepts would be
given by those two draft covenants which
the Assemblys committee has been de-
batting since 1854. But the Declaration has
had an effect on human rights.
Constitutions of new countries have
embodied the principles of the Declara-
ton into basic law. Parliaments and
courts have taken cognizance of many of
the principles enunciated in the Decla-
ration. United Nations proclamation of
high-sounding aims is not altogether
futile.
The Arizona post., 1960-02-19
Boris SmoIar
Ike, Mr.. K To Discuss Israel

choice of returning to the territory which
is now Israel or being settled elsewhere
The question in Israel is whether Presi-
dent Eisenhower will oppose this solution.
Present indications are that he might
be less and less willing to do so.
Another likely Soviet recommendation
may involve reduction of Israeps terri
tory with view to cutting her down to
the 1913 partition borders. On this, Eisen-
hover may be much more willing to stand
by the status quo, but one cannot be sure.
What worries Israelis most is that, when
the time for decision arrives, President
Eisenhower may not be sufficiently aware
of the implications and details of the ma
jor decisions as they affect the smaller
nations, especially those without affili-
alton with voting block, in the United
Nations, like Israel.
In Israel it is feared that the para
mount desire for a major settlement will
override many of the smaller consider
ations including those of Importance to
Israel.
The Arizona post., 1960-02-19
Saul Carson

UNITED NATIONS, NY. = A resound-
ing resolution condemning the current re-
surgence of anti-Semitism has been laid
down before the United Nations: Score
one for human rights.
But that resolution must go through at
least five steps before it becomes UN
law Score five against human rights.
The net result: to 1 against any mean
ingful action by the United Nations in this
field
Since the formation of the United Ma
tions in 1915, nothing has shown up the
UN's helplessness in the field of human
rights as pointedly as the resolution deal
ing with anti-Semitism.
The resolution was introduced by Judge
Philip Halpern, of Buffalo, one of the IA
members of the SubcommiSSion on Pre-
vention of Discrimination and Protection
of Minorities. At the very outset, the draft
presented by Judge IIalpern had strongest
backing. Co-sponsors of his resolution
were the representatives of B rit in,
France Austria, Uruguay and Finland.
There was little doubt that the resolution
could pass in the subcommission.
Only a bare majority is needed for
adoption of a resolution by the group of
ID. 1t was inconceivable that even the
The Arizona post., 1960-02-19
Editorial Comment:

The Catholic church in a strongly
worded front-page story in ''The Arizona
Register has condemned the recent out
break of anti-Semitism.
Bishop Daniel J. Gercke of Tucson calls
for vigorous and public reputation by
all rightminded citizens of the wide
spread outbreak of religious and racial
bigotry"
The official Catholic newspaper OF the
Diocese of Tucson then continued with
a statement by Archbishop Karl ]. Alter,
chairman of the National Catholic Wei
fare Conference Administrative Board.
Here are some excerpts from Arch
bishop Alters statement: 1--WE deplore
any revival of the anti-Semitic prejudice
which in its earlier manifestation culml-
mated in such terrible disaster.
"The fact that a malevolent spirit OF
hatred has found expression not only IN
one country, but in various countries
simultaneously, would seem to Indicate an
organized plan of action or some origin.
:" It has not been confined to any
one group. Various Catholic and other
Christian churches have been desecrated
as well as Jewish temples, indicating that
religious and racial hatred are widespread
and constitute a common motivation of
the outrages. -.
1--WE call on all citizens, whether Chris
tians or Jews, and on all those who love
The Arizona post., 1960-02-19
A Catholic Paper Speaks Up

truth and justice to protest privately and
publicly against further manifestation of
bigotry in all it's aspects and in whatever
form it may be expressed"
THE POST congratulates "The Arizona
Register for it's open and fortnight
stand on this worldwide problem of re-
ligious hatred and persecution
And like the Catholic paper we call
upon national and local groups, not to
sit quietly, but to openly battle the bigots,
the hoodlums and the simple-minded who
unleashed this smear attack.
There was another time when the
world sat quietly and watched the in
nocent' smearing of swastikas turn into
a hellish holocaust in which six million
Jews were murdered and thousands of
Catholics and democratic Protestants
were swept away in concentration camps.
The anti-Semities are the anti-Catho-
lies. They are the anti-Negro and the anti
Chinese.
And whenever they raise their ugly
heads the combined forces of ALL the
minorities must stand up and fight back.
In the light of the bitter pages of re-
cent history, one sWastika marked upon
a synagogue wall must be regarded with
the greatest importance. We must be sure
that one sWastika does not again lead to
the Nazi chambers of gas and death.
The Arizona post., 1960-02-19

Premier Nikita Khrush-
chew and President Els
enhoWer will set the tone
and play the dominant
role. And t h ere is no
doubt in Israel that,
among other things, they
will discuss the Middle
East, whether they man
age to settle European
questions or not. Politi-
The Arizona post., 1960-02-19
Boris SmoIar

ISRAELI REFLECTIONS: AS the time
of the summit meeting" approaches, Is
rael is beginning to feel somewhat anx-
ious about what the results of this meet
ing NAV mean for the Jewish State.
IT is obvious that at this meeting, Soviet
The Arizona post., 1960-02-19

cal experts forecast that both Eisenhower
and Khrushchev will call halt to open
hostility in the Middle East. In this con-
nection, solutions will be sought for the
problem of the Arab refugees.
Khrushchev will no doubt press for an
arrangement to give the refugees the
The Arizona post., 1960-02-19
Some KUdos
For Abe's
Corn Doctor
BY DAVID SCHWARTZ
Copyright, 1860,
Jewish Telegraphic
Agency. Inc.)

agency, 1nC.)
There are over 5000 books
about Lincoln and they con-
tinue to come from tn e
presses. Everybody wants to
get into the act and stake a
little claim on Lincoln. Jews
talk about Abraham Jonas
who presided at one of the
Lincoln Douglas debates;
they compare Lincoln, the
rail splitter with Hillel, who
was a wood chopper in his
youth. We Jews would claim
Lincoln as a Jew maybe ex-
cept for the fact that we
know, if he had been a Jew,
his name would have been
Arnold Lincoln.
So far as l am concerned,
I take pleasure in the fact
that Lincoln's corn doctor,
DR.. Zacharie, was a Jew.
Lincoln had plenty of head
aches. There was the seces-
sion of the South, there were
the Copperheads of tn e
North; even in his own Cab
met, he did not have peace.
Didn't Secretary of State Sc
ward ell Lincoln to tu n
over the handling of tn e
country to him and didn't
Stanton, his War Secretary
call Lincoln "a gangling
ape?" With all of these head
aches, we may be grateful to
a corn doctor for relieving
his foot aches.
To be sure, it may be that
his aching corns were a sol
ace to him. Like the story of
Mr.. Katz, about whom Eddie
Cantor told the story, Mr..
Katz suffered from tight
shoes.
"Why don't you get larger
shoeS?" he was asked.
Listen" he replied, my
wife is sick, my daughter has
eloped with a bum, creditors
are bounding me in my busi-
ness. The only pleasure I get
is when I come home and
take off my shoes. And now
you want to deny me that
pleasure" -
Lincoln might have felt
that way about his corns.
Still, 1 am grateful to DR..
Zacharie for coming to the
relief of his feet.
But DIR. Zacharie was more
than a corn doctor. He was
associated with one of the
noblest impulses of the Lin
coin administration. A f ter
two years of fighting be-
tween the two sections of the
country, DR.. Zacharie had be-
come convinced that the war
could be brought to an end.
Anyway, he tn ought he
would like to go South and
look around there. Secretary
of State Seward wouldn't
have anything to do with his
project but Lincoln over
ruled Seward and DR.. Zach
arie was permitted to make
the try.
The politicians had done
nothing to stop the war.
There was some reason for
believing that they were the
real cause of the war. In
Georgia, tn e Southerner,
Alex Stephens, had plainly
said that the secession busi-
ness was cooked up by poll
ticians who had been disap-
pointed in tn cir personal
ambitions. Maybe plain or
dinary fellow, like a corn doc
tor, could help undo the work
of the politicians. ~.
AS we know, however, DR..
Zacharie did lot succeed.
Lincoln, on his return, did
get some benefit from the
Zacharie trip. He spent some
time with Zacharie and the
The Arizona post., 1960-02-19
Abe chdnIn.s
POST OFFICE

OOI OTHN6
BEFORE YOU GET too smug read what the
former editor of the English magazine, Punch has
to say about anti-Semitism.
Quote British author Malcolm Muggeridge: 1.-The
United States is in practice the most anti-Semitic
country in the world. If you join certain American
clubs, you have to provide the of your parents
and of your grandparents in order to insure that they
are non-Jewish
Though American JeWry is powerful financially
= and notably in New York State politically = it is
inconceivable that Jew should become president OF
the United States.
mo Jew may aspire to the White House. An
American DisraeG 19th century British Prime Min
lister Benjamin DisraelD is out of the question"
And that from a Britisher! But some day. we
hope, We'll prove him wrong, just as we did back in
1776.
ACTION LAUDED = When the University of
Arizona Immediately dismissed two students caught
for painting anti-Semitic signs on Kosher market,
the university took action that was lauded throughout
the world.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency picked up the
story from THE ARIZONA POST. and relayed it
throughout the world Stories told how the students
were expelled from school and jailed and fined by
Judge HoWsare.
Yes, sir, we're going to prove that Britisher is
wrong yet!
~ ~ "
THE JEWISH STUDENT = Talk about Ameri-
judaism did you know that there are 325,OO0
Jewish students in American colleges and universities
today?
JTA editor Boris Smolar reports this figure and
points out that there are 70 percent of Jewish boys
and girls of college age in school as compared with
the proportion of 27 percent of nonJews in colleges
This is a very pleasing fact, but what you do
ing to help these American-Jewish students learn
some Judaism, too?
You can count yourself among the helpful if you
contribute to the Combined Jewish Appeal which ap-
portions funds to help the University of Arizona Tle
Foundation and Hllel Foundations around the world
Hilel Houses are the Jewish beacons on our
campuses.
ARAB FRUSTRATION = We wondered what
the Egyptian dictator Nasser doing since his
Illustration the Suez reverses Now his frustra-
ton has broken into open action against Israel Be-
hind the Syrian attacks Israeli border settlements
is the constant spurring of Col Nasser who lives
the hope of removing the thorn of Israel from his
side.
Yaakov Avnon, the Israeli consul in Los Angeles,
dropped a note with some of the background
the recent fighting in Israel and we'd like to relay
some of his Welconsdered thoughts
Mr.. Avnon says that ''in the face of opposition
from Iraq Jordan and elsewhere Colonel Nasser has
stepped up his hostile actions against Israel This has
taken various FORMS Inensification of the blockade
in the SueZ Canal; increased propaganda against
Israeli strengthening of the ant-ISrael boycott and
the recent military incrusions inside Israel territory
Isn't there one plague left over for this modern
Pharaoh?
Evening star., 1960-01-31

Nixon had approved the plan be-
fore it was publicly announced.
AS for the Southern wing of the
Democratic Party, it was ready to
fight to the end against either
plan, although the appointment
Of local persons by a Federal judge
may seem less objectional than
registrars" named by the Presi-
dent. Senator Talmadge of Geor-
gia called the Rogers proposal an
exhumation of an "unspeakable"
Reconstruction Era law.
The Southern attitude presents
a terrifically difficult problem for
Senate Majority Leader Lyndon
johnson. His main support IN his
unavoWed campaign for the Dem
ocratic presidential nomination
comes from the South. Yet he has
pledged his support of a good"
civil rights bill and has expressed
a strong belief that the rights of
qualified voters must be protected
in every State.
On the House side, the Rules
Committee, which has had a mod
crate Judiciary Committee civil
rights bill bottled up since last
August, will meet tomorrow. An
indication Of how long it might
take for this measure to reach
the floor, and whether amend
ments to it will be permitted, may
be had at that time.