Shetzer 1VIemorial Project Launched;
Dr. Heller Joins National Committee

Harry Cohen, chairman of
the Shetzer Memorial Commit-
tee which is being formed to
sponsor the planting of the
Isaac and Simon Shetzer Me-
morial Forest in Israel, an-
nounced this week that Dr.

OR. JAMES -G. HELLER

Ja.thes G. Heller of Cincinnati,
orie - of the outstanding Ameri-
can' Zionist leaders, has joined
the :, national committee assist-•
ing n this project.
Other Members of the na-
tional committee include Ben-
jamin Browdy, president of the
ZioniSt Organization of Ameri-
ca; Dr. Sidney Marks, ZOA na-
tional - executive director; Dr.
Solbmon Goldman of ChicagO
and Judge Louis Levinthal • of
Philadelphia.
The Shetzer Memorial Forest
is co-:sponsored by Congregation
Shaarey Zedek, the Zionist Or-
ganization of Detroit and De-

troit Chapter of Hadassah, and
has the endorsement of the
Jewish Community Council and
the Zionist Council.
Contributions towards the
Shetzer Memorial, completion
which requires the planting
of 10,000 trees in Israel at a
cost of $15,000, should be sent
to Mr. Cohen, 7303 W. McNich-
ols, UN. 3-0412. Approximately
$3,500 already has been pledged
to the fund, including $1,500
which has been received from
Mrs. Isaac Shetzer.
Mr. Cohen urges that friends
of the two departed leaders
should plant gardens of 100
trees each.by contributing $150..
He has exPressed the hope that
the project will be completed
within a very short time.
"Isaac and Simon Shetzer
have rendered so many services
to Detroit and world Jewry ; to
the Zionist cause, to our re- ,
ligiOus institutions and to Jew 7
ish education, that an appeal in
behalf of this project should
be. unnecessary," Mr. Cohen
said. "We should honor their
memory with a prompt reply to
the 'call for the establishment
of the Shetzer Forest in Israel.'
A memorial in Israel is a proper-
tribute to these two departed .
leaders." . '
The local committee was en-
larged this week by the addi-:
tion of Bernard IsaacS, Leon
Kay, Harry Schumer, Morris
Schaver, Robert Marwil and Wil
ham B. Isenberg. The committee
still is in formation.

Israel Druse Citizens Participate
In Commanding Officer's edding

Among the thrilling experiences of Is-
rael's citizens in the re-establishment of
the Jewish state was the loyalty pledged

to the new government by the Druse
tribes.
A manifestation of loyalty was in evi-
dence when it became known that Eli, a

Jewish officer commanding Druse soldiers
at a military camp in Israel, was prepar-
ing to marry Dina.
Word of the forthcoming nuptials
leaked out to the Druse soldiers, who eag-
erly requested permission to make all the
wedding plans themselves.
On the 'big day," Eli and Dina marched
into camp, arm in arm with the Druse GIs,
who formed a cordon of -honor around
them. Under the traditional Jewish Chup-
pa,h, held by continuously firing Druse
riflemen, a. rabbi married the couple. The
rest of the afternoon was Spent in Jewish
and "Druse -danees and other festivities.
• This- Associated
1 J ems Press feature
is a photographic record of the wedding
from Eli's and Dina's album. The photo-
graphs are by Rudolph Jonas.

-Flanked by Druse soldiers,. Eli and
Dina arrive for the ceremony

Purely Commentary

By PHILIP SLOMOYITZ

- r Nazis Returning to Power?
Are Forme

JTA's able Washington correspondent, Milton Friedman, ex-
poses sad evidence of leniency towards former Nazis by American
attharities. He - calls attention to a strong protest against the
commutation of death sentences, imposed on 15 Nazi war criminals
by an American court in 1947 and 1948, by George Reuter„ vice-
president of the German Federation of Labor, who came to the
United States to attend a CIO conventibn.
Mr. Reuter lodged his protest in Washington when he learned
that . John J. McCloy, U. S. High Commissioner for Germany, plans
to grant clemency to the sentenced men in response to a demand
by the West German Parliament. His resentment, we are informed,
\ was marked by pent-up revulsion at the forgive-and-forget ap-
proach of the Bonn government and the U. S. to the punishment
of convicted war criminals. Lt. Gen. Oswald Pohl, N -azi SS man:,
who administered death camps is one of the criminals whip is in
lin? for clemency.

Left: Israeli rifles hold aloft the traditional

Chuppah as a rabbi perforrris the ceremony;
above: wedding party, dances hora.

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Charging that in one camp alone, at Flossenburg, 67,000
innocent people perished, Mr. Reuter said that he had- lost five
of his own relatives; that the innocent dead cannot speak "but --
1 cannot remain silent!" that "if the German people want their
reputation cleansed and the stain of the past removed, stern-
.
justice will have to be done."
Mr. Reuter concluded his protest with the statement: "Hu-.
manity can only apply to human beings, not to mass murderers
like these 15 men. The decision now rests with McCloy, anti it
will be a test to his'cOnscience." And Mr. Friedman comments;
'Execution of the sentences has been' postponed twice. Washing-
ton waits while McCloy wrestles with his conscience but there
is little doubt in informed quarters of what the outcome will be?'

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" Some people DO SAY, why bring this up again? Ifs we do not
remind ourselves and our neighbors of what happened, of the
murder of many millions—six millions of Jews—we shall be
parties to a forgive-and-forget program which can lead only to
a return to Nazism. Therefore,—since we can not forgive (harsh
as this may ssound to the turn-the-other-cheekl-concessionists)—
we must not let people forget.
. Thus, by -way of indicating that -the warnings against the
revival of Nazism, your Commentator desires • to call to witness
another correspondent, a writer in the New York Herald Tribune,
MOrrie Berger, in an article on "A German cabinet of Former
Nazis: A Case Study of the Failure of Denazification in Schleswig-
Holstein," presents facts that shock the imagination. He describes
the activities of pro-Nazis and former Nazis who are assuming
power in Germany and, referring to the League of Expellees and
Victims of Injustice (he calls it "a good name, since almost every
one in Germany considers himself a 'victim of injustice' "), he
states:
'Politically, the League is a threat to a - democratic Germany.
Its leaders have records as important Nazis. They speak freely of
returning to , the "old home" and they kindle hopes of re-
gaining the • "lost Eastern territories." Finally, they set the ex-
pellees against the natives and thus retard assimilation and unity.
The Schleswig-Holstein government is obviously no barrier again-
st. anti-democratic and anti-Western movements, nor is it an ef-
fective restraint upon those German groups which want to regain
the territory in the East either by war or by a compromise with
the Soviets. It is this kind of Germany whose military revival the
Fiench want to hedge about with certain safeguards." -
It should have been totally unnecessary to remind anyone
about the horrors of Nazism. On May 5, 1945, the delegation of
American editors and publishers. who toured German prison camps
at the invitation of . Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower urged the United
States to adopt a strong policy on war criminals and speedily to
empower the War Crimes Commission to put such a policy into
effect. It will be recalled that this delegation included Mr. Malcolm
W. Bingay of the Detroit Free Press. Mr. Bingay spoke bluntly
upon his return, demanding action against the war criminals and
condemning the Nazis in no uncertain terms. But now, five and a
half years later, it becomes necessary to remind Americans that
crimes were committed!
Perhaps it would be wise to reprint anew the statement of
the American editors and- pui5lishers, as a reminder of what had

Left: Eli and Dina drink frorri'the same cup of wine as the ceremony is climaxed; right: a

good soldier's wife, Dina fires Eli's pistol in regular army fashion after the ceremony. Druse
soldiers, whom Eli commands, fought side by side with Jews against the Arab invasion of
Israel in 1948 and now are citizens of Israel.

Soldier Vote Adds Zionist
To Tel Aviv City Council

TEL AVIV (JTA)—The Gen-
eral Zionists gained another
seat on the Tel Aviv municipal
council with the final count of
the soldier vote.
The absentee ballots did not
affect the standing of any . of
the other parties in the city.
Over 130,000 persons voted, the
final tallies reveal. This means
that some 81 percent of the

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Between You and Me

By BORIS SMOLAR

(Copyright, 1950, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

The American Government has become stricter in issuing
visitors' visas to Israelis suspected of anti-American feelings „,„ .
One of the members of the Jewish Agency executive Was among
the first to be refused a.U.S. visitor's visa . . . He could not, there-
fore, attend the recent plenary session of the Jewish Agency
executive in New York . . . Incidentally, many will be interested
to know that at this session the executive decided to reduce by
one-third the number of "Shelichim" from Israel to Jewish coni-a

munities abroad ..

Don't be surprised if Louis Lipsky resrunes the chairmanship
of the American Zionist Council . . . He is under pressure from

total electorate voted in the many sides to withdraw his resignation ...
In order to straighten out the internal differences prevalent
in the American Zionist movement, a mass conference of all
Zionist parties in the U.S. will be called soon ... This will be the
first all-party conference of the various Zionist groups in this
Naturalization Law
country since* the Biltmore Conference in New York in 1942 at
which the historic Biltmore Declaration was adopted .
Sets New Regulations
The
question of training Chalutzim for Israel in America will be one
of the major items on the agenda . . .
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The
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municipal balloting.

new naturalization regula-
tions issued here require that
all applicants for citizenship
under 50 years old must be
able to speak, read and write
the English language. Ear-
lier regulations only re-
quired that an applicant
speak the language and be
able to sign his name.

occurred and as a warning of what may occur again if leniency 2 — THE JEWISH NEWS
is resorted to in dealing with Nazis.
Friday, December 8, 1950

Communal Issues:.

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Now that the reconstitution of the 'United Jewish Appeal. for
1951 has been officially announced, what will happen to the re-
cently-formed "Committee of Community Leaders to Safeguard
the UJA"? . . . This question is being asked by some who were not
exactly enthusiastic about the attacks which this new comniit.,
tee made on the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds ... Some of the leaders of the American Zionist Council
definitely opposed the "washing of Jewish linen in public" and
insisted that no publicity be given to speeches against the Colin.;
cii of Jewish Federation and Welfare. Funds . ; . The Welfare
Funds are now engaged in studying a number of ways to rail)
more funds in 1951.

