Detroit Attorney Samuel W. Leib
Heads Bnai Brith Grand Lodge Six
THE JEWISH NEWS-5
Friday, July 22, 1949
Jewish Reds . Stir Up
Trouble in Argentina
SAMUEL W. LEIB (left) , Detroit attorney, is congratu-
lated by FRANK GOLDMAN, national president of Bnai Brith,
on the former's election as president of Bnai.. Brith District
Grand Lodge No. Six. Looking on is 13R. IRWIN A. EPSTEIN
of St. Paul, retiring district president.
• Detroit attorney Samuel W.
Leib was elected District Six
President of Bnai Brith at the
region's annual meeting in Win-
nipeg, Canada.
Other officers named include
Bernard D. Roman of Chicago,
vice president; Gottfried D.
Bernstein, treasurer, and Ben Z.
Glass, executive secretary.
Highlights of the convention,
the district lodge's 81st, were the
keynote address by Frank Gold-
man, national Bnai Brith pres-
ident, and talks by Benjamin
Samuels of Chicago, national
vice president and chairman of
the Bnai Brith Henry Monsky
Foundation; Phillip M. Klutz-
nick of Chicago, national vice
president, and Maurice, Bisgyer
of Washington, D. C., national
secretary.
Dr. Irwin A. Epstein of St.
Paul, retiring president, report-
ed on the area's work in the
several Bnai Brith projects.
More than 1500 delegates and
friends, representing 50,000
members in eight midwestern
states and four Canadian pro-
vinces were present at the -par-
ley.
Hitler's Paris Envoy, Otto Abet;
Indicted in Major War Crimes Trial
Knochen, supported h i s ex-
chief's defense of Abetz. During
the course of Col. Knochen's
testimony, the defendant broke
in to remark -that a statement
related by the witness about
threats to execute people had
been made "jokingly." Abetz was
immediately reproved by t h e
presiding trial judge who said,
"Jokes about shooting people
may b-ecome dangerous."
Col. Knochen also revealed
that - all orders dealing with
anti-Jewish actions came di-
rectly from Berlin and that Nazi
authorities- had sent a Capt.
Dancker to Paris- to • eliminate
Jews from French government
service. Col Knochen also spoke
of bombing of synagogues dur-
ing which some German soldiers
OTTO ABETZ
were killed, but disclaimed per-
000 Jews from France to the sonal knowledge - of • these acts
Oswiecim extermination camp when he was accused of having
in Poland and with responsibility organized them.
for looting Jewish property in
Paris during the Nazi occupa- Jewish Anti-Red Group
tion of France.
The trial, which is considered Accuses Paul Robeson
one of the major "war crime
trials," is expected to last about
two weeks. The charges against
Abetz include the looting of
Jewish art collections and fuT-
niture; which resulted in the
stealing of 22,000 works of art
from 203 Jewish collections;
advocating the mass arrests and
deportation of Jews from
France; suggesting that Leon
Blum and Georges Mandel, two
leading French Jewish states-
men, be shot.
Three former French premiers
—Edouard Daladier, Paul Rey-
—International Photo
naud and Pierre - Flandin-\---are
expected to testify at the trial. RABBI BENJAMIN SCHULTZ,
Six French Army officers were director of the American Jew-
chosen as jurors, while six oth- ish League Against Commu-
nism, Inc., charges singer. Paul
ers were appointed alternates.
Meanwhile the trial of 39 for- Robeson with deliberate .Com-
mer officials of the Vichy Com- munist conspiracy, claiming
missariat of Jewish Affairs, Robeson tries to p r o v o k e
which opened last week, con- American Negroes in favor of
tinued with the beginning of Russia. Rabbi Schultz is shown
direct testimony.
making his accusations before
SS General Karl Albrecht the House un-American activi-
Oberg who, during his reign ties committee h e a ring in
over Paris, earned the appella- Washington. He told the com-
tion "Butcher of Paris"' sought
to clear Abetz of all responsi- mittee that Soviet leaders are
bility. The general already has now arousing anti-Semitism in
been sentenced to death by a Russia in order to transfer the
British military court for war hatred of the Russian people
crimes. Former Nazi police from the Soviet regime to the
chief in Paris, Col. Helmuth Jews.
PARIS (JTA) — TI•xe trial of
Otto Abetz, Hitler's ambassador
to Paris, started here in a
heavily-guarded military court
with two officers reading an 84-
page indictment charging him,
among. other things, with com-
plicity in the deportation of 40,-
BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — As-
sertions in the Argentine Yid-
dish Communist daily, "Haint,"
that the Israeli Government is
"torturing Arabs" and "beating
up hungry Jewish immigrants"
were condemned in a statement
issued by the central committee
for the United Israeli Campaign
and Ayuda.
Simon Mirelman, UIC presi-
dent, told a press conference
that leaders of the campaign
reached the conclusion that
"there *is no possibility of co-
aperatiat with the Jewish Com-
munists, because "they are only
nterested in obstructing a n y
work in behalf of Israel."
Mordecai K o'i f m a n, Labor
Zionist leader in this country,
said "an impossible situaton"
has arisen in which the Jewish
Communists slander Israel and
the Jewsh people, and sabotage
the United Israeli Campaign,
while at the same time they
pretend to be engaged in Jewish
communal activities. "The Jew-
ish. State," organ of the Gen-
eral Zionist party here, in its
current issue Carries an edtoral
calling for the expulsion of Corn-
munists from Jewish institu-
tions.
Professors to Air
Youth Problems
For State Zionists
ist Organization of America,
can be purchased at the'Zionist
office, 1031 Penobscot Bldg., and
at South Haven resorts.
Prof. Samuel M. Levin of
Wayne University and Prof.
Julius Stulberg, director of the
department of music at Western
Michigan College, Kalamazoo,
will participate in the symposi-
um on Jewish youth problems,
which will conclude the week-
end conference of the Michigan
Zionist Region in South Haven,
July- 29-31.
The symposium will be includ-
ed in the youth festival to be
held outdoors Sunday, July 31,
in Oakland Park. It will include
a chorus- of 10 singers and
dancers from Camp Sharon,
Buchanan i • Mich., directed by
Julius Schwart-stein.
Chapter One choral group of
the Zionist Organization of De-
troit will also participate in the
youth festival. It will be pre-
ceded by discussions in the
morning at the First Hebrew
Congregation of South Haven,
where members of the Michigan
Zionist Region Districts will
make plans for coming events.
Tickets for the opening rally
on Saturday night, featuring a
performance by - Celia Adler, and
an address by Dr. Sidney Marks,
executive director of the Zion-
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