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?VOLUME 14—NO. 4

THE JEWISH

A Weekly Review

Personality

Sketch of

Moshe Shertok

of Jewish Events

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Israel's Positio at UN Brightens
As Attitude Is Modified by U. S.

PARIS (JTA).—Israel's position in the counsels of
the United Nations assumed a brighter aspect upon the
conclusion of the Rosh Hashanah Holy Day when the
Jewish Foreign Minister, Moshe Shertok, meeting on
Tuesday with U. S. Secretary of State George C.
Marshall, was informed that American spokesmen will
refrain from referring to the Bernadotte report as "a
sacred testament" and that they will insist only that
it serve as a basis for discussion. While still urging
acceptance of its broad-outlines, the U. S. delegation is
understood to be prepared to discuss modifications, the
most important of which is the southward revision of
the Jewish State's geographical position in the Negev.
Mr. Shertok emphasized the Jewish viewpoint on
the necessity of Israel's retaining the Negev. He is
expected to confer with all Big Four delegation chiefs
shortly. •The French are insistent upon the internation-
alization of Jerusalem, preferably along lines, of the
draft of the trusteeship statute, but are reported flexible
on other Bernadotte proposals.
Symptomatic confusion and alarm is reported in
the ranks of the Arab delegation and it is said that the
Iraqi have received instructions not to make public
statements on the Bernadotte report. This is said to
reflect the delicacy of the position of the Arabs who are
torn between the Abdullah movement within the Arab
League and links between the two Arab royal families.

Shofar Calls for Defense of Israel

Maimed Israelis in U. S.:

Three
maimed Israeli- war heroes, all handless and one sightless as
well, Were received in.-_New York, having been brought from the
Jewish State by Hadassah, the American Women's Zionist Organi-
zation, for treatment. .HEL'A WOLFF, 19, lights a cigarette for
NATHAN KLENBERGER, 19, her sweetheart.•In the rear are
RAYMOND LEIZER and AMON WIGOLIK. The Israeli veterans
were accompanied by Miss Wolff, who has herself served with
The Pa!mach; Mrs. Esther Epstein, Wigolik's sister, and her 12-year-
old daughter, Niza. Mrs. Elsa Wimmer, the nurse who attended
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, President of Israel, when he was in this coun-
fry, is taking care of the patients at their hotel.

Probe Nazi s Release:

Commutation of
The sentence of use Koch, widow of the commandant of the terror-
ridden Nazi Buchenwald prison camp, from life to four years is being
probed by the Ferguson Senate Investigating Committee. Shown
after a closed session of the committee in Washington are, from
The left: SENATOR HOMER FERGUSON of Michigan, WILLIAM
e, ROGERS, committee counsel, SENATOR HERBERT O'CONOR
Of Maryland and Secretary of the Army KENNETH ROYALL.

TEL AVIV (JTA).—Men in khaki filled Tel Aviv's
-synagogues to capacity. This city presented a unique
sight with a large proportion of those praying being
in uniform as special arrangements were made by the
armed forces to grant New Year leave to all soldiers
except those engagethiw essential duties.
The Chief Rabbi of the community, addressing an
overcrowded huge hall, after stressing how different
this New•Year is from previous ones, recalled that the
sounding of the Shofar now only calls on all Jews not
only to recall their sins but also has symbolic military
significanc.e. As in the past, the Shofar calls the faith-
ful to arms, which also are necessary today with the in-
vaders still on Israeli soil: He concluded by praying for
peace and victory.
Dr. Chaim Weizmann, Israel's President, prayed in
the main synagogue in Rehoboth where the local Chief

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General Dwight D. Eisenhower
(right), president of Columbia Uni.
versify; receives the degree of
Doctor of -Humane Letters from
Dr. Louis Finkelstein at the Jew,
ish Theological Seminary of Amer.-
ica in New York. In his acceptance
speech, Gen. Eisenhower affirmed
his belief that, in the future, Amer.
icans would not be described by
any "qualitative adjective" of
race or creed.

U. S. Senate Investigators to Check Record of
use Koch and Thirty Buchenwald Defendants

WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The Senate Investigation Sub-Committee will look into
the records of the trial proceedings for some 30 defendants at the Buchenwald camp
trial as it gathers information for the projected investigation into the commutation of
the sentence of use Koch, widow of the former commandant of the camp charged with
having made lampshades, gloves, and book covers of the skin of camp victims.
If there seem to have been irregularities in the trials or commutation of sentence of
the 30 other defendants they will be studied too, a committee aide said. Before any
phase of the investigation can proceed, however, committee members have to.read
through the 9,000-page trial report, he said. He added that 'Sen. Homer Ferguson of
Michigan, chairman of the committee, had given aides explicit instructions to make
a thorough check of all the facts before he left for Michigan.
The committee opened its investigation of the Koch case with a closed hearing at
which Secretary of the Army Kenneth C. Royall and William D. Denson, chief prose-
cutor at the Buchenwald trials, appeared as witnesses. Royall told reporters on leav-
ing that he had asked General Lucius D. Clay, European theater commander, to see
if other charges could be found on which to try Frau Koch.
Denson said, on leaving the hearing, that he thought the original sentence was
justified. He said he did not think the review board had any right under the judicial
process to question the credibility of trial witnesses. This, he said, was a function
that should rightfully be reserved for the trial board itself.
After the first hearing Sen. Ferguson said that more hearings would be held on the
Koch case. Although the session was secret open hearings have been promised.
"The Committee feels that Congress and the people are entitled to an explanation,
if there is a satisfactory explanation to be made," Ferguson said. He added that he
thought it "shocking" that there was a commutation in a case involving "atrocities and.
a vicious sadist who has killed many prisoners and used human skin to make gloves
and lampshades and other things." Sen. Herbert R. O'Connor of Maryland, a member
of the Committee, concurred with Ferguson that the situation "requires a searching in-
vestigation."
Lt. Col. Cleo E. Straight, former Deputy Judge Advocate for war crimes in the Euro-
pean Theater, who is now in Washington on another assignment, took personal respon-
sibility for the steps which resulted in the reduction of the life sentence to four years.
Secretary Royall, in a letter to Rep Arthur G. Klein of New York, promised to have
the Koch case reviewed again if new evidence could be found to justify further charges
against her.

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