Dr. Compton Contributes $2,000 to Israel Technion
Jewish Leaders
End Hunger Strike
Against Romania-
Sham Romanian Trials Throw Fear
Into Jews Behind Iron Curtain
Two gifts of $1,000 each to Technion that will bear his
Technion, Israel Institute of name.
This will be the Karl Taylor
Technology in Haifa, were made
declaration of the Romanian
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by Dr. and Mrs. Karl T. Comp- Compton Institute of Chemical
Minister of the Interior re-
ton at a dinner meeting held at Engineering. part of the campus
TEL AV IV, (JTA)--Forty-two the MIT Faculty Club, Cam- of Greater Technion, which is
the nature of the accusations affirmed the legality of Zion-
against them or to secure their ism in Romania, stating that former Romanian Jewish leaders brid.ge,Mass.
being built as a replacement for
release, the fate of the prisoners. the Zionist movement was "a ended their hunger strike fol-
Dr. Compton, chairman of the the present, harshly overcrowd-
remained a secret until the veil legally constituted body enjoy- lowing appeals from Premier corporation of the Massachu- ed Technion.
of secrecy was first dropped in ing the same rights as all Moshe Sharett, Speaker of the setts Institute of Technology,
the autumn of 1953. A trial of other- groups."
Knesset Joseph SprinZak and : who recently returned with Mrs.
Galinski Heads Council
six leaders of the former Zionist
A mere recital of these facts other Israeli leaders and on the Compton from a two-week trip DUESSELDORF, (JTA) —Heinz
Revisionist Party in Romania
basis • of doctors' orders. They to Israel, explained that $1,000 Galinski, president of the West
was held and the sentences were exposes the hollowness of the were five • days without food.
was for "unrestricted purposes" Berlin Jewish Community, was
charges against the leaders . of
announced.
The fast was undertaken in an of the Israel Institute, and that elected chairman of the General
Romanian Jewry. There is no
A second trial was held in evidence that any of the de- attempt
pt to rivet world public the other $1,000 was to go to- Council of Jews in Germany.
November, 1953, against two fondants committed any act opi m on on the . trial and
ward the funds needed to build He succeeds Carl Katz of Bre-
prominent leaders of the Ro- hostile
hostile to Romania or in viola- ; prisonment of a large number one of the units of Greater men.
manian Section of the World tion of its laws. Conduct which I of Zionist and Jewish communal
Jewish Congress: Jean A. Litt- is legal when performed cannotIleaders in Romania on charges of
man and Mrs. Susanne Benven- become an offense by the mere engaging in Zionist activity. It
• SWIMMING . . HIKING
FISHING
isti. They were sentenced to 15 passing of time. The ex-post I is believed here that the strik-
• BOATING .
• HAYRIDES . . BONFIRES
and 20 years' imprisonment facto character of the charges ! ers achieved their purpose to a
• CHILDREN'S SUPERVISED ACTIVITIES
respectively.
against the leaders of Romanian i large extent. They were there-
• KOSHER STYLE MEALS
After a lull of a few months, Jewry is repugnant to every fore urged not to endanger their
• ON SCENIC KAISER LAKE
secret trials were started this system of law based on rational health and their lives any
• 150 MILES FROM DETROIT
March against more than 100 principles of justice. further.
Zionist leaders. The free world
The trials of leaders of Ro- ' A medical bulletin issued be-
has learned of only three. of manian Jewry thus seem a. mere fore the fast ended said that all
these trials. The first secret trial facade, designed to conceal the the strikers had shown signs of
PHONE: 27422, 29225
THREE RIVERS, MICH. •
against leaders of the Zionist I real aim of the Romanian au- hunger and their blood pres-
movement in Romania included .' thorities, which is to obliterate sures had dropped seriously. This
three defendants who were all the last vestiges of the spiritual ' was not considered strange be-
sentenced to life imprisonment. autonomy
autonomy of the Jewish corn- j cause of the advanced age of
The second trial was directed munity and to sever all con- most of the strikers. Several re-
against 22 members of Hashomer tacts between the Jews in Ro quired medical attention.
Hatzair, and the third secret mania and their fellow Jews in
At the conclusion of the fast,
trial just concluded involved 40 other parts of the world.
the 42 issued the following
Zionist leaders, among them six
The implications of the pre- statement: "We raise our voices
LAKE FRONT COTTAGES
women.
cipitous arrests, sham trials and for the release and subsequent
In addition. to these five trials • harsh sentences are such as to immigration to Israel of the ar-
SO. HAVEN, MICH.
(three of them secret) there are strike terror in the heart of the rested leaders. For that we un-
reports of sentences pronounced individual Jew in Romania and i dertook fasting as a token of our
MODERN AND UP-TO-DATE
in Bticharest on Sept. 14, 1953, to stress the sad plight of Ro- solidarity with our brethren. Let
ALL COTTAGES ARE COMPLETELY FURNISHED—
against 19 defendants from the mania.n Jewry as a spiritual en- our strike bring our deep .pains
LINENS, SILVERWARE, DISHES, ETC.
ranks of the Zionist leadership tity. If the persons convicted ; into the open and to the world
in Romania. Terms of imprison- are guilty of crimes, 'every Jew I and to anybody who still has
RENTALS—WEEKLY - MONTHLY - SEASON
ment ranged from 5 to 12 years. in Romania at any time identi- I humanity and feeling in him.
RECREATION FACILITIES FOR CHILDREN and ADULTS
For a true perspective of the fled with either the Zionist We are confident that the e-
trials, it is essential to bear in : movement, the World Jewish lease of the arrested Jewish
mind that when the defend- Congress or any other Jewish or- leaders, permitting t h e 7n to
ants were engaged in Zionist ! ga.nization abroad—and virtually go to Israel, would not be against
Phone: MR. T. FIRSHT
activities and in maintaining ! every Jew had such connections. the interests of the regime."
Residence—UN. 4-7121 or at
contacts with Jewish com- —must live in daily fear of shar
Sharett.also
expressed
the
Mr .
Dexter Auto Wash—WE. 3-8149
munities abroad, they were ing personally the fate of his hope that news of the fast had
engaged in conduct which was leaders.
reached the imprisoned leaders
unequivocally legal and had
in Romania.
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the expressed or tacit approv-
OPEN
DETROIT
JEWISH
NEWS-19
al of the Romanian govern-
Zionist Council Assails
ALL
Friday, June 4, 1954
ment. At the end of 1945 a
-- Romanian Imprisonmentes
YEAR
-• An American ZioniSt Council
resolution condemned the whole-
sale arrests and imprisonment
of Jews in Romania and called
Reduced Rates
A SMART HOTEL
upon the Romanian government
to July 11th
&
COUNTRY CLUB
to release them immediately.
PARKSVILLE 5, N. Y.
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