Otepka Promotion Delights Nazis

New Orleans States-Item State Dept 22 April 1969 Otepka DREW PEARSON . -State Dept Otepka Otepka Promotion Delights Nazis But in that year this column WASHINGTON — Nobody in one son Eugene Debs Rost6w, Art Buchwald, the columnist, the other Walt Whitman Ros- withdrew from addressing the published the details' regard- Washington would take se- tow, in honor of the great Barristers 'Club four years ago ing the Liberty Lobby and riously the small neo-Nazi liberal American poet. when he learned they barred Carto's philosophy and as a re- Jewish members. Following sult of a suit brought before movement headed by Willis There were anti-Semitic the Court of Appeals — and Carto and his front, the Lib- overtones in Otepka's taking this, the Washington Post in classified papers to Sen. 1965 and 1966 published two won by this column — the erty Lobby, were it not for articles revealing Jews and details became familiar to the Dodd, since Rostow is Jewish. public, especially to D. C. the long list of congressmen There was another itnpor- Negroes were barred. who are in their debt, thanks teat aftermath. Rostow be- A post headline of Dec. 12, lawyers. to campaign contributions. 1966, read: "The Barristers Its doubtful President Nix- The situation might be corn- came one of the leading Club: Power and Prejudice, on knew much about the Lib- pared to that in Germany Kennedy John 245 Lawyers—All White Gen- erty Lobby's background. The hawks of the - - danger is 'he deferred to such when nobody took Adolf Hitler Many of tiles." soh administrations. On July 13, 1965, the Post potent senators as James and his Munich beer hall big Mississippi brown shirts seriously until his friends and associates are quoted Barristers Club Presi- Eastland, the convinced that this was to dent Hugh R. H. Smith as say- cotton planter who is certain Ruhr industrialists de- of the Senate Judiciary cided to back them. not pro Commu- ing "there are Jews on the man prove he was - COMmittee, and Sen. Tom Today in Washington the nist, as alleged by Otepka waiting list now." However, it Liberty Lobby, thanks to its took three years to get the Dodd, a member of the coin- and the Liberty Lobby. ' one single Jewish lawyer 'elec- ' mittee. influence in At any rate, it was Rostow Other committee members has Congress, who went to Saigon in the ted in- 1968. who will 'vote on • Robb's and been getting late summer of 1961 and rec- Ten years before, 'U.S. Judge some unpub- ommended to President Ken- Charles Fahy had resigned Otepka's confirmations are licized results. nedy that he .heavily increase from the club in protest Its most im- mem- Phil Hart, Mich., Edeirard American military involve- against its restrictive Kennedy, Mass., Birch Bayh, port a n t tri- ment. American troops in bership. He has long sat on umph is the Ind., Quentin Burdick, N.D„ South Vietnam rose from 1,000 - the Court of Appeals on which Joseph Tydings, Md., Robert promotion of to 18,000 as a result. Robb.- will also serve — if Otto Otepka, Byrd, W. Va., Sam Ervin, Later Rostow gave similar confirmed by the Senate. N.C., all Democrats, with Hi- last remnant hawkish advise to President Robb, as an inner circle of Joe McCar- ram Fong,. Hawaii, Hugh Johnson, his friends believe, member of the Barristers Scott, Pa., Charles Mathias, thy's era, Lo DREW PEARION to counteract the unfair accu- Club, Obviously was familiar a $36,000 job on the Subver- Mr.,. and Marlow Cook, Kg., sations of the Liberty Lobby with its discrimination policy. Republicans. sive Activities Control Board. and other right -wingers who He 'probably did not know Equally important was the kept up a steady barrage about the Nazi sympathies of nomination of Otepka's vigo against him because. of his Willis Carta, iourfder of the ous right-wing attorney, Ro Jewish, socialist background. - Liberty Lobby, prior to 1966. er Robb, to the U.S. Cour Another triumph for the Lib- of Appeals. erty Lobby is the appointment It was the persistent cross 'lc of Otepka's attorney, Roger . examination by Robb of States Robb, to the D. C. Court of Department officials, phis the4 Appeals, second highest court persistent campaign of the') in the United States. Liberty Lobby, plug help from .i Robb served as attorney for the John Birch Society, which the Atomic Energy Commis- led to Otepka's promotion ) sion when it purged Dr. Rob- from the $14,000 State Depart- ert' Oppenheimer during,,the ment job from which he was Joe McCarthy witch - hunting dropped to the job On the sub- days. He has represented va- , versive board at over twice rious other spectacular right- his previous salary. wing or conflict - of - interest The facts in the case are clients such as Fulton Lewis, extremely important. Otepka Sherman Adams, Bernard got into trouble with Secre- Goldfine and Air Force Sec- tary of State Dean Rusk when retary Harold Talbot. he took classified papers to Robb is an able, vigorous Sen. Tom Dodd of Connecti- lawyer. But what makes his cut, later censured by the appointment to a high court Senate when his own files signigicant at a time when were copied by his employes. the Liberty Lobby and its Neo- The classified papers Otep- Nazi leader Willis Carto are ka gave Dodd pertained to the throwing their weight around security clearance of several is the fact Robb has also been officials, the most important a power in the exclusive Bar- being Walt Whitman Rostow, risters Club, Washington's only the MIT professor who be- legal organization with a long cathe President Kennedy's record of barring Jews and national security adviser. Ros- Negroes. tow's father was a SOcialist Only one Jewish attorney, who during World War I had Allen Kay, has been admitted —AP WIREPHOTO. so admired Socialist leader in the Club's 40 years. OTTO F. OTEPKA Eueene Debs that he named This happened only after