14—THE JEWISH NEWS

Israel to Start Collection
Of Reparations In April

AIC Women's G-Day Planners

Friday, March 27; 1953

assistant whose resignation and
public blast against German of-
ficials who were blocking the
COLOGNE, --.(JTA) — The Is- who helped Jews during the agreeinent helped loosen a dip-
raeli purchasing mission, which Nazi regime was sufficiently lomatic log jam.
Will place orders in Germany for large to deny the thesis of col-
Israel Ratifies Agreement
goods . and services for Israel lective guilt, 'it has also been top
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The Is-
under the terms of the German- small to establish the thesis of
Israel reparations part ratified collective innocence. He empha- rael Cabinet approVed the West
by the Bundestag, will begin to sized that it was for the-honor German reparations agreement
operate at full speed by the of Gerinany that the Bundestag under which Germany will pay
the Jewish State some $822,000,-
middle of next month, it was should approve the pact.
indicated at headquarters of
Dr. Walter Hasernann, leader 000 over a period of 12 years.
The Knesset Foreign Affairs
the mission.
of the Free Democratic Party,
Committee , voted eight to five,
So far the skeleton staff of which is included in Adenauer's with one abstention, to ratify
the mission has been working governmental coalition, also the pact.
on the • groundwork of its task. spoke in favor of ratification.
The vote surprised Mapai ob-
However, it already has a de- However, many members of his servers, since two of the votes
tailed purchasing program party walked out in protest against ratification and the
drawn up and ready to put into while he was speaking. Even at lone abstention were those of
effect. Its chief, Dr. F. Shirmar, that, his appeal was extremely General Zionist deputies, mem-
went „back to Israel for last- weak-kneed. He even combined bers of the government coali-
minute instructions and is ex- his speech with a plea for tion.
pected back here with the re- changing existing restitution
After the initial payments on
maining members of the mis- legislation in favor of Germans reparations are made during the
sion sometime during the first who "aryanized" Jewish proper- two fiscal years ending March,
ty during the Nazi regime. Many 1954, the Germans are obligat-
half of April.
The treaty provides that some affirmative votes, he said, would ed under the treaty to make ten
$48,000,000 be made available to be cast "hestitatingly" but annual payments of $74,000,000
Israel by March 31, 1.953, and should nevertheless be cast.
in goods. However, in the event
Dr. Hans Joachim von Mer- that Bonn finds that these pay-
that a similar sum be paid by
katZ,
speaking
for
the
German
ments strain the German econ-
March, 1954. However, half n of
the 1954 sum will become avail- - Party, said that part of his dele omy, it may reduce the annual
gation
would
vote
in
favor,
of
payment to $60,000,000 and
able within a matter of weeks,
giving the Araeli mission $72,- ratification and part would vote spread it over 12 years.
against it. He, too, spoke against
Under the terms of the agree-
000,000 to spend almost immedi- the
"new injustice" created by ment, West Germany will pay
ately. It is understood that more
Israel 3,000,000,000 deutsche-
than $14,000,000 of thus sum will the restitution legislatidn.
Adolf von Thadden, speaking marks --(-$715,000,000), and an
be applied to oil products de-
for
the
Germ_an
Rightist
Party,
additional 450,000 detuschemarks
livered to Israel by British corn-
panies and for which Germany delivered a violent neo-Nazi ($107,000,000) which Israel will
paid from her surplus sterling speech against the agreement transmit to world Jewish or-
and said that "only 1,000,000" ganizations to reimburse them
balances.
European Jews were annihilated for expenses incurred in aiding
during the Nazi regime. Oscar Jewish victims of the Hitler ter-
Satisfied with Ratification
• LONDON, (JTA)—Dr. Nahum Mueller, speaking for the Corn- ror.
munist deputies, also opposed
Goldmann, president of the ratification, as did Dr. Becker,
Austria to Start Talks
Conference on Jewish Material spokesman of the Bavarian Par-
LONDON, (JTA)—Negotiations
Claims Against Germany, ex- ty.--
between Jewish organizations
pressed satisfaction with the
and the Austrian government
Bonn Parliament's ratifiction
Vote Is 238 to 34
for the payment of reparations
of the West German reparations
BONN, March 18, - (JTA)—The to JeWs for damages suffered
pact with Israel and the Jewish
reparations pact was passed by during the Nazi _regime are "ex-
organizations for $822,000,000.
the Bundestag, Lower House of pected to commence shortly,"
West German Parliament, by a Agudas Israel leaders reported,
German Views on Israel
vote of 238 to 34, and was re- revealing that the Agudah has
Pact Revealed in Debate
been asked to join the Jewish
BONN, (JTA) — Dr. F critz turned . to the Upper House committee which will negotiate
which
last
month
approved
the
Schaeffer, Minister of Finance
There were 86 ab- with Austria.
. in the West German Cabinet, agreement.
stentions.
was among the members of the
Viscount Samuel Sick
Carlo Schmid, speaking on be-
Bundestag who abstained dur-
LONDON, (JTA) — Viscount
ing the vote on the ratification half of the Social Democrats, Samuel, first British High Com-
of the German-Israel agreement. voiced the expectation of his missioner of Mandated Pales-
This •caused amazement, in party that the West German tine and a prominent Anglo-
view of the fact' that Dr. Schaef- Government will, through an Jewish leader, is ill with an at-
fer is a leading members of the economic agreement, improve
of bronchitis and a fever.
Christian Social Union, which is Germany's - traditional f r i e n d- tack
His , doctors stated that there
allied with Chancellor Aden- ship toward the Arabs. The So- was no reason for concern. He
auer's Christian Democratic cial Democratic Party, he said, is 82 years old.
Union. Most of the deputies of hopes that the world will recog-
Dr. Schaeffer's group voted fof nize the German repaicp.tions as
Fear ye not, neither be afraid:
a token compensation to the
ratification.
Jews for the "appalling barbar- . . . Is there a God beside me?
Among the abstainees were ism," of the Nazi regime. He —Is. 44:8.
. also Dr. von Merkatz, who, un- urged the Germans "to await
til recently, was State Secretary patiently the hand of free con-
Introductory
in the Adenauer Cabinet, and ciliation from the children and '1-
Franz Joseph Strauss, leader of the comrades of the victims of
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On the other hand, it was Bundestag's Ratification of Pact •F_
Also Specials on
COLOGNE, ( J T A ) — Dr. F. =
noted that Count von Streti, an-
Permanents by Experts
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Shinnar,
chief
of
the
Israel
pur-
other leader of the Christian
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Social Union, was the govern- chasing mission in Germany E--
ment's official spokesman in the highest ranking Israeli official 7E7
Salon
Bundestag who opened the de- in the country at present, hail-
8415 PURITAN
bate on ratification and called ed the German Parliament's
for its approval. He .recounted ratification of the reparations
UN. 1-5692 •
the history, .of the agreement treaty with Israel as an "histor-
ical
act
without
precedent"
and
and drew the attention of the
members of the Bundestag, the predicted that not only Jewish
Lower House of the German Par- opinion but all world opinion
liament, to the shock - experi- would be "grOfied" by it.
German reparations deliveries
enced by the German deputies
when members- of the Israel will make up about 20 percent
Parliament refused to sit with of Israel's current imports, Dr.
them at the same table in 1950 Shinnar reported. They will
or at a meeting of the Interpar- help in the constructive inter
liamentary - Unibn in Istanbul. gration of thousands of refugees
Count von Streti recalled the who came to Israel as victims
role of intermediary played by of the Nazi terror, he empha-
Jacob Altmeier, Jewish member sized.
Dr. Shinnar :singled out Dr.
of the Bundestag, in the initial
stages of the negotiations be- Nahum Goldmann, president of
tween German and Israeli reif- the Conference on Jewish Ma-
resentatives which led to the terial Claims Against Germany,
drafting of the agreement sign- for praise in bringing the pact
ed at Luxemburg. He appealed to fruition.
The Israeli official also paid
to the Bundestag members to
ratify the agreement in order to tribute to the efforts of some
establish "a bridge" for an un- German "men of goodwill.
derstanding between Israel and Chief among these he named
Germ any.
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer;
Prof. Hallstein, German State
Cite Germany's Collective Guilt Secretary; Erich Lueth, initiator
For Nazi Murder of Jews
of the "peace with Israel" 'cam-
Dr. Eugen Gerstenmaier, paign; Rev. Hermann Maas,
speaking on behalf of Dr. Ade- Protestant Archdeacon of Hei-.
nauee,s Christian Democratic delberg; Prof. Franz Boehm,
Union, pointed out that al- chief German negotiator of the
though the number of Germans pact; and Di. Otto 4uester, his

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chairman of program; Mrs. MARSHALL M. MILLER, chairman of

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