THE JEWISH NEWS PWE A Weekly Review UNITED FOUNDATION Give Liberally To Torch Drive of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle VOLUME 24—No. 3 eklEE* 7 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE. 8-9364—Detroit 35, Mich., September 25, 1953 $4.00 Per Year: Single Copy, 15c Huge Purge of Jewish Officials eported from Eastern Germany 'Another Threat to Israel's Position Anti-Israelis in U. S. 'Believed Plotting to Divert Funds to Iran By MILTON FRIEDMAN (Copyright, 1953, Jewish Telegraphic Agency) WASHINGTON—Ambassador Loy Henderson, in rec- ommendations from Iran to the State Department that economic aid be rushed to the new anti-Communist gov- ernment of Premier Zahedi, has pointed out that a portion of Mutual Security funds voted by Congress for Israel might serve American interests better if diverted to Iran. Mr. Henderson was the architect of the anti-Israel Plan to scrap partition in 1948. He supported the Arab League and collaborated in efforts to keep favorable men- tion of Zionist aspirations out of the Republican Platform. An estimated $15,000,000 has already been diverted to Iran from MSA allocations voted Israel for the fiscal year of 1954. Matters are further complicated by anti- Israel potentialities latent in the make-up of the Zahedi government which has been greeted • with so much plea- sure by Mr. Henderson. Premier Zahedi was interned by the British during World War U because he plotted to aid a German attempt against the Persian oil fields and worked closely with the Nazi high command in the Caucasus. An outstanding supporter of the new Premier, Moslem extremist Ayatullah Kashani was the only im- portant Iranian leader to demand that his country join the Arab states in fighting Israel. Mr. Kashani has taken a leading role in inciting violent anti-Jewish passions among the Iranian people. President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles Continued on Page 2 NEW YORK, (JTA)—The Communists in East Germany have secretly renewed their anti-Semitic campaign, purging the last handful of government officials of Jewish origin, disolving the operations of Jewish community organizations and jailing hundreds of others, the American Jewish Committee charges. The AJC report declares that the Jewish population of East Germany has dwin- dled to a few hundred from a high of about 5,000 as most of the Jewish leaders have been purged, have fled or have been sent to Soviet slave labor camps. `The Jewish communities have been broken up to a point where they have ceased functioning," the report asserts. "Vicious public diatribes against 'Zionism' and 'cosmo- politanism' are the order of the day. All Jews and half-Jews are registered in special police rosters, barred from most jobs and many of them already have been sent to So- viet slave labor camps." Among those reported purged by the East German Communist government are: Alexander Aubsch, executive secretary of the Cultural League; Herbert Grunstein, Dep- uty Inspector-General of the People's Police; Peter Florin, chief of the People's Democra- cies Desk in the Foreign Ministry; Albert Hirsch, the government's advisor on Jewish affairs; George Honigmann, editor of "BZ Am Abend," largest afternoon newspaper; Ernest Ichenhauser, editor of the official educational magazine, "Die Neue Schule." Also, Hans Jakobus, editor of "Deutsches Sportecho," largest sports magazine; Max Kahane, managing editor of ADN, East German news agency; Grete Keilson, head of the International Relations Department of the Communist Party; Max Keilson, chief of the Soviet desk in the Foreign Ministry; Hans Mark, executive secretary of the So- ciety for German-Soviet Friendship; Dr. Leo Mendel, division chief in the Ministry of' Health; Albert Norden, top aide in the Office of Information. Also, Bruno Wolf, head of the Education and Religious Affairs Department of the Communist Party, Rudolph Herrnstadt, editor-in-chief of "Neues Deutschland," of.. ficial organ of the Communist Party in East Germany; Herman Axen, Central Commit- teeman of the Party Secretariat; Bernd Weinberger, Minister for Production; Dr. Bruno Raphael, chief of the European Desk, Foreign Ministry. The report contains a complete list of Jewish community leaders who fled westward during the last eight months, including six of the seven heads of -the provincial communities. These include: Julius Meyer, president of the Association of Jewish communities in the "German Democratic Republic;" Dr. Fritz Grunsfeld, vice-president; --Leo Eisenstaedt, secretary general; Dr. Hans Freund, Hermann Hirschberg and Heinz Cols, leader of the East Berlin Jewish Com- munity. 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