Hungarian Court Sentences Seven
For Their Aid in Israel Migration

BUDAPEST, (JTA)—Six Zion-
ist leaders • and one non-Jew
were convicted of organizing
and promoting the illegal mass
emigration of Israel-bound Hun_
garian Jews and were sentenced
by a Hungarian court to vary-
ing sentences ranging from six
months to three years. The oth-
er defendants were acquitted
and the tenth was not tried at
the same time because he was
Orthodox and preferred not ap-
pearing in court on the Sab-
bath.
During the 15-hour trial the
largest' court room in Budapest
was jammed with Jews who
followed the proceedings atten-
tively. No witnesses, other than
the defendants, were heard.
Three of the nine withdrew ear-
lier confessions made to the po-
lice and two of the men who
withdrew their confessions were
acquitted. The other defendants
pleaded guilty, either fully or
partially.

CHIEF DEFENDANTS

The chief defendants, Dr.
Bela Denes, former vice presi-
dent of the dissolved Zionist
Federation and a Mapai leader,
and Sandor Kertesz, M a p a m
leader, were sentenced to three-
year terms. Magda Weiss, 19
year old Zionist youth leader,
received a two-year-and-two-
month sentence; Menyner Ferd,
two years and six months; San-

Pioneer Women Plan
Construction of Youth
Village, Training Farm

PHILADELPHIA — (JTA) — A
two-year quota of $2,000,000 to
aid women and children immi-
grants reaching Israel was
adopted at the 11th annual con-
vention of the Pioneer Women.
Mrs. Sara Kahn, one o4. the
leaders of the organization, re-
ported that to date the Pioner
Women maintain in Israel 20
children's homes serving as
nurseries and kindergartens for
the children of working mothers
while an additional eight homes
are in the process of construc-
tion.
Mrs. Kahn also announced
that. the Pioneer Women will
undertake to erect during the
coming year a youth village ac-
commodating 300 boys and girls
to be located near Jerusalem. as
well as a huge agricultural
training farm which will be the
biggest of its kind yet organized.
A fund of $500,000 to purchase
land near Natanya, where a
colony bearing the Hebrew name
of Pioneer Women will be estab-
lished, was voted by the con-
vention.
Judge Morris Rothenberg,
president of the Jewish Nation-
al Fund and co-chairman of the
UJA, presented to Mrs. Clara
Leff, national chairman of the
JIM Committee of Pioneer
Women, a deed to a tract of
2,000 dunams 'of land at Zaviya
in the Huleh region, which has
been redeemed by Pioneer Wom-
en at a cost of $280,000.
A resolution criticizing the
"demand that Israel resettle the
Arab refugees" and urging that
responsibility for resettlement of
the"homeless Arabs be placed
not on the Jewish people but on
the Arab countries" was adopt-
ed at the closing session.
The resolution expressed sup-
port of the Israeli Governments'
stand to "compensate Arabs for
all property formerly theirs and
now being used by Jews." It
cited the fact that tlier "Jewish
people alone is being responsi-
bility for resettlement of Jewish
refugees." No indemnities • or
compensation - have as yet been
received either from Germany
or any world agency, the reso-
lution added.
Delegates decided to set aside
one-fourth of all membership
dues to encourage American
Jewish youth to settle. in Israel
and to expand the Jewish edu-
cational movement in the U. S.
in order to "deep-en the Jewish
and Israeli consciousness among
our people in this country." Mrs.
Bert Goldstein was re-elected
national president of the organ-
ization. Mrs. Michael Michlin of
Detroit was re-elected to -the

board.

dor Dienes, the non-Jew, and
Miklos Frankfurter, two years
and eight months each; and,
Aladar Felkai, two years and
six months. Sandor Fleischmann
and Dr. Bela Schwartz were ac-
quitted. Jenoe Fraenkl, a Miz_
rachi leader, was the defendant
who was not 'tried with the
others.
The prosecution, ' headed by
Gyula . Alapy, chief of the Buda-
pest office of the Attorney Gen-
eral, charged that the defend-
ants had violated a law passed
in 1948 which was aimed at pro-
tecting the Hungarian people
from "Anglo-Saxon propagan-
da." Alapy also declared that
the defendants were "tools in
the hands of the imperialists."

CHARGE AGAINST ZIONISTS

The prosecution pointed out
that the Zionists had been in
contact with "foreign emis-
saries," which he said was a
serious situation because it gave
the foreigners an "easy" source
of information, but, pointed out
that Zionism was not the issue
of the trial.
Under the lead of the leftistS
among t h e m, the defendants
pointed out that they wished to
go to Israel to build socialism
in the Jewish state and that
the migration movement was or-
ganized for this reason. They
denied being "tools of imperi-
alism."
Dr. Denes, yho was specifi-
cally charged with aiding the
illegal flight of over 100 per-
sons of military age, pleaded
partially guilty to aiding illegal
migration. He denied that any
Joint Distribution . Committee
funds had been used to organ-
ize the youth movement, -as had
been alleged.
K e r t e s z, a survivor of the
Mauthausen death c a m p, de-
declared in his defense that the
Jewish youth could not be -re-
strained, "so we endeavored to
act as traffic police by organiz-
ing the groups and giving them
advice."

THE JEWISH NEWS-3

Friday, June 24, 1949

New Israel Harbor
Opens at Mishmoret

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A new
harbor was opened in the
fishing village of Mishmoret,
north of Nathanya. Trawlers
from Mishmoret were used to
bring escaped deportees from
the British Cyprus detention
camps to Israel,

First Israel Freighter
Docks in Montreal

MONTREAL, (JTA)—The first
Israeli cargo vessel to reach
Canada's shores h a s docked
here. The 10,000-ton S. S. Haifa
brought a cargo of jams and
chocolate from Israel and will
return with 1,000 tons of grain
and other supplies.
Thousands of Jews from Mon-
treal and the surrounding area
flocked to the harbor to wel-
come the vessel. A special affair
for the Israeli crew was ar-
ranged by local Zionist groups.

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UN Urged to Establish
Human Rights Courts

LAKE SUCCESS, (JTA)—A
memorandum calling for the es-
tablishment of special domestic
and international human rights
courts to handle complaints con-
cerning violation of human
rights, was submitted by the
World. Jewish Congress to the
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DRAMATIC ZIONIST SPEECH

Both Dr. Denes and Kertesz
insisted that they were unaware
that they were committing an
offense because of the tacit tol-
eration" of the authorities for
.several weeks after the volun-
tary dissolution of the Zionist
Federation. They also pointed
out . that they understood that
a list of some 800 Zionist func-
tionaries who had been promised
visas to leave the country had
been drawn up. The discussion
of this list was alleged by the
court to be another illegal act.
Miss Weiss pleaded guilty, in
one of the most dramatic
speeches heard during the
lengthy trial day. She told the
court of her arrest by the Nazis,
at the age of 13, and of her
loss of bOth parents in concen-
tration camps. She also dis-
closed that she had been im-
prisoned in the same camp as
Chana Szenes, the Jewish hero-
ine executed by the Nazis dur-
ing the war. Pleading guilty only
in the sense of having violated
the Hungarian law, Miss Weiss
asserted that her future lay in
Israel alone.

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TEL AVIV (JTA) — The com-
munity of Druses in I s r a e 1,
numbering about 20,000 men,
women and children, has asked
the Israeli Ministry of Religion
to accord it an independent re-
ligious status.
The Druses are a Moslem sect
whose tenets and practices dif-
fer in many ways from the pre-
dominant Moslem teachings.
They migrated from the south-
ern. Caucausas about a half cen-
tury ago, and a large number of
them settled in Lebanon and in
northern Palestine, where they
have established many villages
around Haifa, Acre and Safad.
For the first time since their
migration to the Levant, they
have been permitted to hold
their religious services by the
state of Israel. In asking an in-
dependent status now, the
Druses a r e aparently seeking
legal separation from the Mos-
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