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PHILIP SLOMOVIll
Editor and Publisher
Vol. XXIV, No. 18
SIDNEY SHMARAK
Advertising Manager
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FRANK SIMONS
City Editor
January 8, 1954
Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabhath, the fifth day of Shevat. 5714, the followino Scriptural selection.e mr,ill hp.read in
our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Ex. 10:1-13:16. Prophetical portion, Jer. 46:13-28.
Licht Benshen, Friday, Jan. 8, 4:45 p.m.
An injustice Toward Israel Under an - Unholy Garb
Upon his return to the Middle East, Maj.
Gen. Vagn Bennike, chief of the United Na-
tions Truce Supervision in Jerusalem, vas
asked by Israel to adjudicate a dispute over
the illegal crossing of unarmed civilians from
Jordan. Israel's contention is that this is a
breach of the armistice agreement, and the
dispute is over interpretation of the clause
in the agreement of 1949, stating that "rules
and regulations . . . which prohibit civilians
from crossing the fighting lines . . . shall re-
main in effect .. ." Jordan delegates in the
Mixed Armistice Commission hold the view
that this applies only to civilians sent across
the lines by Jordan's authorities and who
therefore infiltrate with their knowledge. But
Israel's contention is that acceptance of this
view would be tantamount to legalizing in-
dividual infiltration.
Israel's view appears logical, since it
would be impossible to determine Jordan's
responsibility in any given case of line-cross-
ing or infiltration. Israel's complaint is a
very vital one, in view of a new movement
that has been set into motion by Israel's
enemies for a mass invasion of the Jewish
state by the refugees now kept in a state of
misery and poverty by Arab countries which
have failed to provide means for self-sup-
port for these rejected kinsmen.
Some time ago we expressed grave con-
cern over the possible effects of a tour of
Israel by a trio composed of a Jew, a Protes-
tant and a Catholic—all known as rabid
anti-Zionists and as antagonists of Israel. It
is too early to know the reactions of the en-
tire group to Israel, but in one instance the
dire results of a prejudiced viewpoint al-
ready are in evidence. We refer to the report
of the Catholic member of this triumvirate.
John Cogley, executive editor of Com-
monweal, one-time liberal Catholic weekly,
writing for his periodical under the heading
"Weeping Women, Angry Men"—a title that
in itself incites to hatred—makes this state-
ment about a refugee proposal for infiltra-
tion into Israel: "There is some talk now of
gathering all the refugees, the seven or eight
hundred thousand of them, in one place and
then crossing the border, unarmed. 'But you ,
will be shot down by the thousands,' some-
one says. These desperate men answer: 'Let
them shoot us. We will die with:honor. There
is no honor in this, our disgrace.' Fhis is not
the thoughtful pacifism of Gandhi but the ill-
planned desperation of the helpless."
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When Mr. Cogley states "there is some
talk," it becomes necessary to ask where-
from it emanates. We have a suspicion that
it is foreign-manufactured, that it comes
from anti-Israel ranks at Beirut and in the Expose of Moss Murderer's Activities
United States. It is a -dastardly move to de-
stroy Israel. The entire scheme is aimed at Frischauer Believes Nazi Butcher
.ruining the young state. When some Chris- Karl Eichman Is Still At .Large;
tians condone it, we are compelled to ask
Murdered
when their hatred will end, why they do not Tells how G. Boehm
recognize that the creation of Israel was an
Willi Frischauer, in his revealing book "Himmler: The Evil
historic necessity in order that through her Genius of the Third Reich" (Beacon Press), expresses the view
a million Jewish lives could be saved.
that one of the most brutal Nazi murderers, Karl Eichmann, - is
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But there is another question that must
be posed in Mr. Cogney's report: when he
speaks of the disgrace of the refugees, why
doesn't he recognize that his disgrace is
Arab-made — that the refugees are being
denied livelihood and homes in denuded Arab
lands which are reeking with oil. The refu-
gees are kept as a pawn in the battle against
Israel by those seeking to destroy the Jew-
ish state.
It was not so long ago that Christians
looked with suspicion upon the infidel Mos-
lems. But our Catholic, friend John Cogley
now reports that "the presence of Christ
everywhere—and not least of all, I would say,
in the Arab refugees, whose camps are found
every few miles—in the land called holy." Is
this due to an old prejudice that Jews must
be doomed to eternal wandering and there-
fore can not have a home of their own? Is it
becauSe of such bias—which has been re-
pudiated by ecclesiasts—that Arabs suddenly
emerge sanctified by the presence of Christ?
And the misfortune, in this sad exper-
ience made sadder by a Christian's blindless
to reality, is that he has the blessings of an
un-American-un-Jewish Council one of whose
leaders formed the unholy trio that
sought inspiration recentlyamong the Arabs.
New Zionist Approaches: Emphasis on Education
American delegates attending the Zionist
Actions Committee meetings in Jerusalem
took the lead in advocating the placing of
greater emphasis upon education in Jewish
communal planning.
Hadassah's representative, Mrs. Judith
Epstein, went so far as to admit there is a
spread of assimilationist tendencies in Amer-
ican Jewish ranks and therefore urged great-
er attention to Jewish education.
Another Hadassah leader, Mrs. Rose Hal-
prin, taking issue with the retired Israel Pre-
mier, David Ben-Gurion, who implied in a
message of greeting that the Zionists' major
obligation is immigration to Israel, empha-
sized that American Jewish youth must first
be- made to feel Jewish and must therefore
be educated -fn Judaism and Zionism.
Opposing the broadening of the Zionist
movement, Dr. Israel Goldstein, urged ex-
tension of Jewish educational efforts and
he strengthening of Zionist ranks.
To these apeals for greater emphasis on
education was added the voice of the most
distinguished Jewish leader of our time, Dr.
Nahum. Goldmann, who, advocating volun-
tary immigration to Israel, said: "The Amer-
ican Jew is part and parcel. of the United.
States; nevertheless, we should try to get
some American JeWs to settle in Israel.' This
should not be done through negative propa-
ganda—not through propaganda of alleged
anti-Semitism or inequality—but through
education of. the yOuth."
Interestingly enough, while Zionists are
faced with the issue of creating a global or-
ganization of all . Jews interested in Israel's
upbuilding, to include non-Zionists as well as
Zionists, the movement's responsible leaders
recognize the necessity of making education
a major objective in efforts to strengthen
world Jewry's relationship to Israel.
In her address to the Zionist Actions
Committee, Mrs. Halprin, who took occasion
to condemn the Libya incident, appealed to
the Israelis that they "must become the
ethical force to which the Jewish youth in
countries outside of Israel can look for in-
spiration." This is a vital point, especially in
view of the danger of estrangement between
world Jewry and Israelis—an estrangement
that must be avoided at all costs for the sake
of the safety of Israel and the dignity of
kinship that must bind world Jewry to our
brethren in the Jewish state.
The sentiments expressed by the Zion-
ist leaders may serve to inspire more realistic
approaches to all Jewish educational needs
in the Diaspora. Our schools in all American
Jewish communities are suffering from lack
of adequate facilities and from a shortage of
teachers. Perhaps the emphasis on education
in Zionist ranks will provide the added impe-
tus to all communities to plan the broadening
of the scopes of their educational media, es-
pecially in the field of teacher training.
In the meantime, Zionist groups are un-
dergoing a transition. The Zionist organiza-
tions needs a shot in the arm to stimulate
livelier activity on the local scenes as well as
in behalf of Israel. The creation of the Jewish
state has lulled Zionism into a temporary
slumber. Zionist constituencies—in the ranks
of all parties—are lost. in the vagueness as
a result of the realization of the great ideal.
That is why the new talk of an expanded ed-
ucational movement may prove very vital
not only for Zionism but also for all aspects
of American Jewish communal activities.
still alive. Frischauer states in his book:
"Nothing has been heard of Eichmann since February, 1945,
when he was last seen in Berlin by Dieter Wisliceny, one of his
assistants. 'If the war is lost I shall commit suicide,' Eichmann
. and I shall leap to my grave laugh-
had then said cynically, `
Wisliceny, not a man of great sensitivity, was puzzled.
ing . .
'Why laughing?' he asked. 'Well,' Eichmann replied, 'because the
feeling that I have five million people on my conscience will be a
source of great satisfaction to me.' But there is reason to believe
that this man—with five million people on his conscience—was
still alive in 1952, hiding somewhere in the world under an as-
sumed name. He was his old smooth self in 1942, a tall, fair, blue-
eyed, dream-type of a German, as he has been described. Eich-
mann rarely talked about his youth, but it has since become known
that he was born in Palestine of Protestant parents and became
a student 'of . theology and an expert on Jewish affairs. His parents
lived in the German Templar Colony of Samna, near Tel Aviv,
and the little blond boy went to Jewish schools where he quickly
outstripped his fellow pupils in the knowledge of the Talmud and,
as he grew up, of Jewish history and literature. He spoke Hebrew
fluently and often surprised his victims by his profound under-
standing of Jewish affairs. One of the Jews whom he met on a
visit to Buchenwald concentration camp was Georg Boehm, the
author of an encyclopedic history of Zionism. 'I know you and
have read your book,' he said to the astonished Jewish prisoner
who stood trembling before the young man with power over life
and death. 'Very interesting,' Eichmann mused, 'very interesting!'
That same morning he signed Boehm's death sentence. 'The Jew-
ish intellectuals are the most dangerous ones . . .' he said to the
camp commandant.
"Eichmann had come to Germany at the age of twenty in
1932 and joined Streicher's Der Stuermer as a reporter. When the
Nazis came to power in 1933 Streicher recommended his young
expert to Himmler, who was impressed by his knowledge and put
him in charge of the Jewish section of the Gestapo. Jews who
met him when the Gestapo was still negotiating with representa-
tive Jewish bodies—chiefly to induce them to finance the emigra-
tion of German Jews—found Eichmann scrupulously polite, some-
times even amiable, always considerate. Many fell into his trap
and, thinking they were talking to a friend, confided in him, sup-
plied him with information which he later used against them
and their fellow Jews. Many German Jewish leaders were almost
sad when he disappeared from his office in 1936. They could not
guess that, on Himmler's orders, he had returned to Palestine to
recruit the Templar colonies for Nazism, and to establish contact
with the Arab leaders. He returned a few months later with a
secret treaty between the Nazi govrnment and the Arab terror-
ists in his pocket, and having won over the Mufti of Jerusalem as
a firm ally of Germany.
"'His reputation soared, Himmler decorated him and, when
dealing with the Jewish question, always relied on his advice. Al-
though Heydrich was the head of the organization and Gestapo-
Mueller was nominally Eichmann's departmental chief, the young
expert had the ear of the Reichsfuehrer and became the princi-
pal executor of his policy of extermination. Eichmann was clever
enough to know that, should Germany lose the war, his fate would
be sealed. He refused to put his name to any document dealing
with the extermination of the Jews lind invariably issued orders
to his large staff only verbally. Smooth and refined as he was in
personal conversation, a man who seemed to have little in corn-
mon with the violent thugs around him, he could not disguise his
deep-seated sadism when he went on tours of inspection to watch
the operation of incinerators in Buchenwald and Auschwitz, or
when he followed the conquering German armies into half a dozen
countries to supervise the registration, collection and deportation
of Jews. When, in 1941, extermination became official Reich
policy, he decided to get experience of the problem at its roots.
Eventually he left his mark on Warsaw, Oslo, Brussels, Athens,
Belgrade, Amsterdam and Vichy . . . Having observed the Jews
on their way to death, he installed himself for a few months as
commandant of Auschwitz camp to observe from close quarters
the final act of extermination."
Frischauer relates how Slovakia's Premier Tuka, while him-
self a Quisling, interceded in behalf of deportees. Eichmann, in
telephone conversations with Ttika, "pochpoohed rumors that 'all
Jews in Poland were to be exterminated.' The Slovakian Jews
would be treated most humanely, he promised. Wisliceny reported
that he, too, interceded with Eichmann to allow a Slovak delega-
tion to visit Poland. 'This request cannot be granted under any
circumstances!' Eichmann replied. `Anyway,. most of these Jews
are no longer alive!' "
This is only part of the story of Eichinarin's brutalities and
sadistic control of extermination machinery. The bloody trail he
has formed has stained the map of all of Europe.