The Canadian English -Jewish Weekly
VOLZLn
GARDENVALE. QUEBEC, MARCH 11. 1960
No. 24
W. German White Paper Denies Majority Of Germans Are Anti-Jewish
The West German Government inued a White Paper that asserted "there is no evidence that large parts of the population harbor anti-Semitic feelings/' This was a major conclusion of an investigation conducted by the Ministry of the Interior on the year-end outbreak of anti-Semitic vandalism in West Germany, says the New York Times. The reaction to the outbreak showed that the ' "overwhelming majority of the German people condemn anti-Semitism and are ready to take defensive action," the White Paper said.
It reported that 685 incidents took place between Christmas Day, when the Cologne synagogue was desecrated with slogans and swastikas, and January 28. Of these 215 were listed as "minor infantile smearings" and did not figure in the Ministry's analysis.
In all, 234 persons were arrested and the analysis attributed political motives to almost one-third of them. Twenty-four per cent of those arrested and investigated acted out of "subconscious Naei motives," according to the report, and eight per cent were said to have been inspired by extreme Right or Left-wing beliefs.
In a joint statement after publication of the White Paper the Social Democratic party and the Trade Union Federation said: "The danger in West Germany today lies not so much in forces that are aggressively disposed toward democracy but more in the fact that too many people have too few deep-rooted feelings for democracy."
The statement added that Germans must oppose the tendency "to cover the norrors of the past - wife a cloak of silence/' and must do eWjUUng potaible to inform youth about the Nati period. The White paper said no evidence had been uncovered to show that the outbreak in West Germany was organized or centrally directed, says the New York Times. However, both the Communists and the extreme Right-wing German Reich's pjtrty were implicated.
The ideology of the German Reich's party probably contributed to some of the acts, the report said, and the question of Communist direction "can only be appropriately handled against the FederaJ Republic."
Once the incidents began, the Communists exerted "active in-
fluence" for the purpose of propaganda exploitation, the White Paper said. The high number of cases � 123 � in West Berlin, "despite the widely known anti-Nazi attitude of the people" of the city, was cited as one indication of the Communists' involvement.
Besides, the White Paper said, members of the Communist youth organization were caught smearing swastikas and pasting up anti-Semitic posters and agents .of the East German secret police were discovered in West Berlin and West German Right-wing political organizations.
Of the two-thirds of the incidents without political meaning the investigation found that 48 per cent were the work of hooligans or intoxicated persons; 15 per cent of children under 14; and 5 per cent of persons mentally ill, says the New York Times. Sentences so far imposed by the courts ranged from fines and special education measures for young people to twenty-two months' imprisonment for one man.
In New York Dr. Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress, said that "international direction" lies behind the recent outbreak of anti-Semitic vandalism in Europe and in the United States and he named Malmo, Sweden, and Cairo as two head-ouarters that are in contact with each other.
Dr. Prinz, rabbi of Temple Bnai Abraham, Newark, N. /., made his statement at the conference of the Brooklyn Council of Pioneer Women, the Women's Labor Zionist organization, in the Astor Hotel. More than 1,000 members heard Dr. Prinz, who was a German rabbi until he was expelled by tbt ItafUJn 1987.
Question** by the New York Herald Tribune after his speech, Dr. Prinz said that his information about the international character of the anti-Semitic gatherings in Malmo and Cairo had originally come from the German-language newspaper "Aufbau" (Reconstruction), published in New York.
Dr. Prinz recently returned from Germany, where he was received by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. He told his audience that "much of the anti-Semitic literature" in the Federal Germany Republic comes from the United
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Professors Urge Funds For Human Relations Research
Two Boys,-Girl, Among 55,000, Rank Highest In N.Y. State Regents Scholarship Tests
A group of social scientists from Harvard, Columbia, and Cornell Universities called on the U.S. Government to "earmark large-scale funds" for basic research in human relations. The plea, citing
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The need for such a plan was pointed up by the results of a case study by three physicians at Mount Sinai, says the New York Times. It was reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The doctors wrote of an eight-month-old boy who was admitted to the hospital last year. He suffered from malnutrition, the inability to keep food down, and a two-and-a-quarter-pound loss of weight in two months prior to admission. �
Attempts to discover some physiological cause for the infants' condition failed, the doctors wrote. The baby continued to lose weight, and it was decided to obtain a psychiatric diagnosis of his trouble. A tentative study showed that
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Their views were expressed at a press conference in New York at the. American Jewish Committee V new Institute of Human Relations, 165 East Fifty-sixth Street. The committee held seminars on prejudice, says the New York Times. At the same time, Dr. John Siawson, executive vice president of the committee, noted the importance of coordinating the efforts of private agencies, secular and religious groups, and educators and scientists to broaden '"the frontiers of human relations."
Dr. Siawson, suggested that large foundations allocate greater portions of their "vast funds for intergroup-relations research." Although Dr. Allport supported the idea of Government aid for human-
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anxiety neurosis and depression and reacted to this by "voluntarily regurgitating food, the physicians wrote.
Psychiatric examination of the mother revealed the cause of the infant's depression. She had become depressed over her third, spending large sums on research and unwanted, pregnancy to the in the natural sciences, but he era-point where she was psychologic- phasized that the problem of ally unable to show the affection human relations "both at home that the infant needed, the phyai- .and abroad requires immediate clans found, lnj%|rf of hotding^fi�*�<uia*nt attention." Dr. Wil-her fefcy-dote and caressing tiro, Imraj called f or *>d*ral, *Ut�, she would simply prop him-up in and city support to cope with the bed, preoccupied witn her own problems of prejudice, depression.
The Mount Sinai physicians tried to help the infant oy having pediatric nurses give him more attention. A woman volunteer was enlisted to spend a few hours daily with the infant. Still, the child declined. It was not until a full-time special nurse was engaged to spend eight hours daily with the infant that he began to respond, the physicians reported.
During his recovery, his mother was given psychiatric care, and she gradually learned how to assume her properly affectionate role with the infant. This was found to improve her condition as well, according to the report.
Dr. Robert Shaw, who is in charge of the child psychiatric ward of the psychiatric service at Mount Sinai, is working to establish the "mother bank." He said that both the infant and his mother were now doing nicely, an example of what such a program could achieve. He said the idea for the "mother bank" at Mount Sinai Hospital was that of Dr. Abram Blau, who is in charge of the
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Dr. Siawson held that private agencies and universities ''should be doing more than they are now in dealing with the problems of human relations." He cited as an example his agency's five-volume "Studies in Prejudice," a work
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The highest score among. the approximately 55,000 candidates in 1,200 secondary schools of New York State, in the Regents Scholarship tests, was 279 out of a possible 300. This was achieved by two students: Stephen R. Chinn, aged seventeen years, who attends Middletown High' School and resides at 4 Wilkm Avenue in Middletown; and Norman J. Levitt, sixteen, who attends the Bronx High School of Science and resides at 1176 Walton Avenue in the Bronx. . � '.:
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The highest score among the girl candidates was 271 and was achieved by Naomi P"uchs, aged fifteen, who attends Yeshiya University High School for Girls and resides at 66 South Ninth Street in Brooklyn. In many ways she is like the two boys, says the New York Times. She is Jewish, is an only child, comes from a middle-income home, reads widely, and takes part in school sports and other extra-curricular activities. Her first academic interests are in mathematics and technology. But in one respect she differs sharply from the bojr*. While they are cool to religion, sfee is devoted.
Mathematics and technology, the twin horses of scientific progress, have laid first claim to the affections of these two of the brightest boys hi the state of New York. Their preferred leisure-time activity is listening to classical music. Both read widely but in no remarkable quantity. They participate moderately in sports and are leaders in extra-curricular activities at school.
Although both professed an interest in abstract ideas, only Norman Levitt seemed inclined to sustain more than a momentary 4iaflUMion o| tittm. J> *�� interviewed fa to IfvfogH^Mi *rth his mother, Molly, and his father, Saul F. Levitt.
Norman is heading for a lifetime of teaching and research in "math or physics." The words came fast They sounded a bit like "metaphysics." "Unh, unh. Not these days," he said. "-It's obsolescent now." He has lately been reading Sigmund Freud's "Gen-
eral Introduction to Psychoanalysis," "The Autobiography of Ben-venuto Cellini," and an "Introduction to Symbolic Logic and its Applications" by Rudolf Carnap.
"Norman is a writer/' his mother offered. "He won the poetry contest." "He was valedictorian of his junior high school class," Mr. Levitt said. "Please don't kibbitz," Norman suggested. He found his poetry in a file folder. His mother named her favorite. "It's pure clicheV' the author said with a wave of the hand.
Norman acknowledged that he was a semi-finalist in half dpsen scholarship competitions, a finalist in two, and president or chair* man of five or six junior erudite societies. He is editor of The Math Bulletin, a scholarly annual published at school, and captain of the math team, which plays in the wholly cerebral Interscholastic Mathematics League.
He plays basketball, tennis, and stickball ("If you live in the Bronx you play ^stickball"), stands in line for rush seats at the opera; and likes to see the basketball and hockey games at Madison Square Garden improved .by fights, says the New York Times. Norman does not lead a rigidly disciplined academic life, often pushes his homework off to a late hour and then does it with both hi-fi and the television blaring.
Unlike Norman, Stephen Chinn has known the pang tnat attends scoring less than 90 per cent in an academic subject. He took a summer course at Cornell University last summer and scored an 89 in chemistry. Otherwise he hits in the 90's in golf and schoolwork.
Stephen also likes tennis and swimming, chess, bridge, and science fiction. He has read through the f ifty-voliroe � teJene* ffetie* shelf at the Thrtll Lftrory. Be plays the piano. His immediate goal is to study electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Iiutttate of Technology, then go on to graduate work and perhaps to research in solid state electronics.
Stephen's father, George, de-^cribes him as "introspective." The
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