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...faculty for 34 years, had charged that the University was being taken over by what he called "powerful, non-Christian Clements in our population." In a pamphlet entitled "How to Capture a University," Beaty had asked, "Are the minds of our students to be guided by B'nai B'rith. . . or by Soviet Moscow. . . or by asserted devotees of the little world lower which usurps the name of 'Israel...
...nai Brith Hillel Society and a Boston Student Israeli group last night protested that the United Nations delegate from Syria had dictated undemocratic and unalterable terms to the United Nations Council while the Council was attempting to plan a balanced conference on the "Arab-Israeli Conflict...
...certain powerful, non-Christian element in our population" was trying to "dominate Southern Methodist University." For one thing, the university's own Southwest Review seemed to be highly susceptible not only to anti-McCarthy authors (e.g., President Henry Wriston of Brown University) but also to B'nai B'rith, which, according to Beaty, "is sometimes referred to as the 'Jewish Gestapo...
...whole university was also suspect for cooperating with the National Conference of Christians and Jews on a summer workshop in human relations, and so was the university bookstore for displaying books by Friedrich Engels. "Are the minds of our students," cried Beaty, "to be guided by B'nai B'rith ... or by Soviet Moscow ... or by assorted devotees of the little world power which usurps the name of 'Israel?' How did non-Christian power come to wield so great an influence in S.M.U...
...Jewish groups soon replied. Said Leon Gellman, of the World Mizrachi Executive: "An example of clerical anti-Semitism." Added B'nai B'rith President Philip M. Klutznick: "A disservice to the cause of democracy." In London, the archbishop's chaplain explained that the statement was "purely political." The archbishop is regarded as the Church of England's political spokesman...