Herta, Mapan, Communists Protest Negotiations
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of March 12 and Nov. 30, 1951 which, it said, were endorsed by the en-
tire Jewish people as represented by the Conference on Jewish Material
Claims Against Germany. "The Israel delegation," it added, "enters these
negotiations in the earnest expectation that they will result in full, early
*ettlement of this claim."
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Moses A. Leavitt, vice-chairman of the American Joint Distribution
Conunittee, who heads the delegation representing the Conference on
Jewish Material Claims, told the GeFman delegates at the opening of the
negotiations that it was their responsibility to implement in practical
and concrete terms the declaration made by West German Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer before the Bonn Parliament.
Mr. Leavitt pointed out that while the Conference delegates are pre-
pared to negotiate on Jewish material claims, it must be clear from the
very beginning that there cannot be any negotiations on moral claims. It
is for posterity to judge whether such amends could be made, he stated.
He stressed the fact that the Conference wants the German Government
to assume full responsibility for the disindemnification and restitution
laws for the whole of Germany.
The German delegation to the reparations negotiations here in-
tends to contest the Israeli claim that over 450,004:r Jewish victims of
Nazi persecution have been given refuge in the Jewish State, it was in-
dicated by a member of the German delegation.
He revealed that the German delegation will claim that not all of the
450,000 were victims of German persecution, but that many of them en-
tered German DP camps at the end of the war, having fled from the East
to escape Communism. For this reason, he indicated, the Germans will
claim that the figure of 450,000 as set forth by the Israelis in their note
of March 12, 1951 to the Big Four Powers, is not valid as far as the Ger-
mans are concerned.
It was learned that the talks on Friday opened in a cold and formai
atmosphere. When the Israeli delegates entered the conference room to
find the Germans already present, there was no handshaking or any
other form of greeting. The Israeli delegation head introduced each
member of his group by naming him and, at the same time, pointing to
him. Then the Israeli delegation head handed the Germans his creden-
tials.
The Israelis' opening statement was made in English and at the end
of it a copy in German was handed across the table. The German opening
statement was made in German with the Israelis receiving an English
translation. When the statements were completed the Israelis remained
behind for several minutes while the Germans left. The atmosphere was
"very tense and uncomfortable as far as we were concerned." an Israeli
spokesman pointed out.
Practically the same procedure was followed by the delegation of the
Conference on Jewish Material Claims Friday afternoon, except that the
tension of the mornincr session was not present in the afternoon. The
Israelis are staying atWaasenaar,
t'
while the Germans are at a hotel is
the Hague and there is no contact between them when the conference is
not in session.
Mapam-Communist Committee Asks Halt of Talks
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The Mapam-Communist "Peace Committee"
called on the Israel government to cease all contact with the German ►
"who have inherited the Nazi ideals." The government should be con-
vinced, the committee asserted, that the "nation is against negotiat'Cons"
as shown by 400,000 signatures to a peace petition.
Crippled and blinded veterans of the war and Jews maimed by the
Nazis, participated in a Mapam demonstration against the Israel govern-
ment's participation in the reparations negotiations.
London Telegraph Backs Israel's Claims
LONDON, (JTA)—The London Daily Telegraph said in an editorial
that The Hague reparations talks between West Germany and the State
of Israel do not imply recognition by Israel of the West German Govern-
ment. It pointed to the "paradoxical background" of the talks, comment-
ing that "it was the debtor Germany which proposed the meeting while
the government of Israel, desperate as is that counti*A need, was au-
thorized only by a narrow and hotly contested Parliamentary vote to have
any dealing at all with the 'heirs of the Nazis.' "
The editorial added that the "claim is unexceptionable in princi ,
and said that since the total figure had been accepted by the Geri
government as a basis for negotiations, there appeared to be the prospi_
of a successful conclusion.
10,000 Participate in Demonstration of Herut
Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News
TEL AVIV--Well over 10,000 participated Tuesday afternoon in the Herut
demonstration against negotiations with the Germans. Second of November
Square, nearby streets, roofs and windows were filled to capacity. Dr. Jacob
Rubin. general secretary of Herut, stressed that Herut wishes to save the .Israelis
honor. He demanded the recall of the Israeli delegation.
Peter Beigin stated that over 550 years ago Jews promised never to touch
again Spanish soil post-deportation Jews and now post-extermination Jewry are
sitting and negotiating with Germany.
Peter Beigin called upon Ben-Gurion to 'recall the delegation" in honor of
our brothers and parents who were killed." He added that American and Argen-
tine Jewries are opposed to negotiations while only assimilated Jewish organiza-
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tions agreed to negotiations.
Peter Beigin called upon the gathering to raise their hands in approval
responded
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of the demand to recall the Israeli delegation. The entire audience
A procession of several hundred black clothed women headed the procession
which together with the demonstrants reached 20,000 in number. The demon -
stration ended toward evening. without needing intervention from special police
who were present to prevent violence.
Junior Campaigners Set for Opening Dinner on Sunday
Gloria Mathias and Stephen Me-
dow, and a program committee
comprised of Lois Feldstein,
Rena Katz and Phyllis Liptzen.
Teen-Age workers have been
working at the Junior Division
office helping to prepa-.re the
workers' kits for Junior Division
"All-out day," Sunday, April 6,
when more than 5.000 prospects
in general solicitation will be
called on to make their gifts to
the 1952 Allied Jewish Campaign_
Hellman, Col. Forrester to Speak
At Double-Header Kickoff Event
Yehuda Heilman, noted Israel
foreign correspondent, will be
guest of the Junior Division Sun-
day, when the young adult group
holdS its Allied Jewish Campaign
kick-off, beginning with the ad-
vance gifts luncheon for work-
ers at 12 noon, at Mayfair Cater-
ers and following up with the.
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special gifts din-
ner at 6:30 p.m.,
sit the Beicrest.
Part of the
double - bill
scheduled to ad-
dress the Junior
meetings with
Col. Thomas
re 1 i x. Forrester,
Hellman is t h e
former head of
the United
nations Jew i s h
telegraphic
Hellman
kge n c y bureau
in Paris and for several years
served as correspondent in Arab
countries for the Palestine Post.
Special gifts dinner will climax
weeks of work by members of
the special gifts board. who are
hoping to top the $16.000 raised
at last year's dinner by a wide
margin of Plus giving. Avern
Cohn, chairman, reminded mem-
bers of the young adult commun-
ity attending the dinner that
they will begin celebrating their
opening of the campaign with
cocktails at 5:30 o'clock.
During the past week Area
Chairman Milldred Fox, Harriett
Ruth Migdol and Michael Stacey
have been urging their section
chairmen, captains and workers
to make their reservations for
the advance gifts luncheon,
which last year brought out 400
Junior Division campaigners.
Mrs. Milton Lucow is chairman
of the luncheon. which marks
the final meeting for workers
before they begin their solicita-
tion activities on all-out day,
Sunday, April 6.
Hellman's message will aug-
ment Col. Forrester's report on
Israel with particular emphasis
on the situation in the entire
North African-Near East area.
In Bartley Crum's "Behind the
Silken Curtain", an entire chap-
ter is devoted to Hellman and an
incident which made interna-
tional headlines some time ago—
when he was accompanying the
Anglo-American Committee of
Inquiry through the Middle East,
he was arrested by the Arabs
who wanted to prevent his pro-
Zionist dispatches from reaching
the world.
Hellman studied at the Hebrew
University in Jerusalem and re-
ceived his degree in political sci-
ence at the American University
of Beirut.
Working at a stepped-up tem-
po, the Junior's organizations
division is rapidly completing
Spearheading the Junior Division's role in the 1952 Allied Jew-
ish Campaign, the Division's executive committee at its last meet-
ing pledged a total of $2,227—representing 11 percent in PLUS giv-
ing for the group. Among the 36-man executive Committee are
(left to right) Vernon Leopold, publicity chairman; Roslyn Clay-
man, chairman of religious and Sunday schools section; Mrs. Mil-
ton Lucow, head of the advance gifts luncheon; and Norman
Katz, organizations division chairman.
`Make your own pledge first" are the by-words of these Junior
Division special gifts workers, who are busy filling out their own
pledge slips, before urging their prospects to attend the special
gifts dinner on Sunday, at the Beicrest. Seated are (left to right)
Robert Feinberg, Hugh Greenberg and Herbert Aronsson; stand-
Latvvers Mobilize
For Allied Drive
ing are Max Lapides and Stanley Caplan.
groundwork in the campaign, r
Norman Katz. chairman, report-
ed this week. Norm has his
division broken down into three
sections—religious and Sunday
schools, treasury gifts and teen-
age—with Roslyn Clayman, Har-
riett Nochma.n and Michael Gale
as Detroit chairmen.
Roslyn has recruited all of her
workers, and has arranged for
each of the 22 religious and Sun-
day schools in the community to
sponsor an educational program
on the campaign. In connection
with the school's programs. her
group takes charge of booking
films. arranging for speakers
with the help of Milton Lucow.
speakers bureau chairman, and
distributing the necessary
amounts of Campaign literature
to the various schools.
Serving a double function, the
treasury gifts section not only
recruits workers from the many
young adult organizations, but
also solicits for treasury gifts.
Cooperation between the Junior
Division and the Jewish Young
Adult Council of the Jewish
Community Center haS been rid-
ing. high in the Campaign. Mem-
ber groups of the Young Adult
Council that have contributed
workers to the Junior Division
include Holiday Hop Committee
of the Center, Iota Alpha Pi.
IZFA, Junior Hadassah, Mu Beta
Chi, Sigma Theta Delta, Con-
gregation Shaarey Zedek's Young
People's Society, Sigma Theta
Delta Alumnae, Habonim and
Hillel Foundation.
Other unaffiliated groups in-
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Friday, March 26, 1952
elude Sigma Alpha Mu. Louis
Marshall Chapter of Bnai Brith
Young Women. Gilda Partrite
Chapter of BBYW. New World
Chapter of Bnai Brith Young
Men and the Mandy Yuster
Chapter of BBYM. Deserving of
particular mention are Habonim,
which staffed four complete
teams with seven workers each,
and Sigma Theta Delta Sorority,
which volunteered two complete
teams captained by Margaret
Shames and Shirley Sirota and
in addition has nine other
members-working.
April 1 has been set as the
official opening of the teen-age
section's participation in the
campaign. Gale reported this
week. New appointments made
at the Teen-Age executive com-
mittee include a finance com-
mittee. comprised of Rhoda Gale,
Following up the launching
of the Allied Jewish Campaign
for the professional division,
members of the attorneys' sec-
tion are working toward their
special gifts function, tentatively
scheduled for early April. Section
leaders include (left to right)
JOSEPH SELTZER. ABE SAT-
OVSKY, SIDNEY J. KARBEL,
and, not in picture, Mark Birn-
krant and Julius Kabatsky,
Special Gifts board members, hoping to top last year's $16,006
by a wide margin of PLUS giving to the 1952 Allied Jewish Cam-
paign, address personal letters to friends inviting them to attend
the Special Gifts Dinner. Seated, left to right, are Charles Levin,
Alma Fox, Mrs. Graham Landau, (standing) Seymour Lichter and
Jack Fromm.