,Germany's Acting Interior Minister
Formerly Captained Storm Troops
Hope to Find Oil in Israel
BONN. (JTA)—Minister With- in general are "showing no .sense
out. Portfolio Waldemar Kraft, ; of guilt whatelier for their past
prominent leader of the B.E.H., 1 crimes," Dr. J. Maitlis , London
the Refugee Party, has been Jewish community leader, de-
named Acting Minister of the dared upon his return from a
Interior during the absence of . fact - finding mission to Ger-
the official incumbent of that many.
post. Dr. Gerhard Schroeder. ; Dr. Maitlis said he found eco-
The latter is on a vacation for nomic conditions among Ger-
a period of uncertain duration.Iman Jews strained. "There are
As Acting Minister of the In- few young people among the
terior, Kraft, former captain in German Jews," he reported.
the Nazi Storm Troops, now is , There is "a tremendous feel-
holding down the most import- ing of isolation" among German
Executives of Pan-Israel Oil Company, Inc., and Israel-Medi-
ant and powerful domestic polit s- Jews, the London Jewish leader terranean Petroleum, Inc., study areas in Israel where intensive
ical office in West Germany, and : stated. They are very anxious to drilling for oil will begin shortly. Both companies hold licenses
is guardian of the Republic's ; be in contact with Jews outside for oil exploration on 800,000 'acres in various parts of the country.
constitution. ! their country, particularly Is- First issue of 250,000 shares of each company, which are traded
\ Kraft was a captain in Himm rael," he said. The re-establish- on the American Stock Exchange, were fully subscribed, and a new
ler's black-shirted Elite Guard, ment of the German Zionist Or- issue is expected in September. Above (1. to r.) are James Buckley,
which was branded a criminal i ganization, recently reconsti- Israel B. Brodie, and Benjamin W. Heath. Palestine Economic
organization by the Internation- I tuted in that country was high- Corporation is participating in this undertaking.
al Military Tribunal at Nurem- ly welcomed as a sign that Ger-
berg. He was also a member of man Jewry is again part of the Historical Information Office
the Nazi Party. After the capit- world Jewish community, Dr.
It will be worth your while
Opened for Tercentenary
ulation of the Nazi regime in Maitlis ,asserted.
To drive an extra mile.
1945, the British authorities, who
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
were generally lenient, adjudged :-17
American Jewish Tercentennary .
For a Real Deal
Kraft so dangerous a Nazi that ! ? E xpose 'Rabbi Schultz Committee and the American
they interned him for more than I For Reactionary Tactics Jewish Historical Society have
on a '54
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two years.
jointly established an Office of
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There is documentary proof . NEW YORK, (AJP)—Informed Historical Information to facili-
that a Storm Troop captaincy circles here are aware of the fact tate research in connection with
was conferred on Kraft 10 weeks that the American Jewish League the Tercentenary observance..
See or Call
,
after the Germans overran Po- .. Against
Communism, Inc. is a Functions of the new office
land in 1939. Kraft was a rest- ' one-man organization, founded will be to: (1) provide answers
Jack
dent of Poland since 1898, andb y the discredited "Rabbi" Ben- to factual inquiries from various
a. citizen of that country.
I jamin Schultz for self-interest sources directed to it, relating
Markowitz
26 Years
Early in 1950, Kraft was "de- I and self-glory.
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nazified." He was appointed! The New York office of the (2) distribute research and edu-
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wig-Holstein. sions only by the "rabbi" and a connection with the Tercenten-
Two years ago, Kraft an- single girl Clerk. This is the ary; and (3) assist in program-
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flounced himself publicly as op- whole organization. Alfred Kohl- ming for the 1955 observance of
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posed to the reparations agree- berg, listed as the chairman of , "Jewish History Week."
ment between West Germany the League, has graciously lent ,
and Israel. The official press of his name, and so have a number I
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the opposition Social Democratic of other malcontents like George!
Party describes his elevation as E. Sokolsky.
a "blunder" and as a "psycho-
Rabbi S c h u 1 t z, dishonored
logically-mistak-en step, in view among his own people and hav-
BECAUSE: (A) WE WILL GIVE YOU A BETTER DEAL!
of the generally-heard allega- ing lost a job as a columnist for
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tions about the resurgence of an English-Jewish weekly, took !
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neo-Nazism in Germany." to sensationalism as a way out.
Like McCarthy, he, too, chose as
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McCarthy.
Recently Schultz got Kohlberg
to protest against an AJP re-
lease on "Mr. Cohn and Mr.
Schine: the Saga of Two Inquisi-
tors." The story, dealing with
Cohn's and Schine's so-called in-
vestigative trip to Europe, indi-
cated that the two McCarthy
aides of former glory "did not
know what they were to investi-
gate."
Kohlberg, defending t h e m,
tried to prove that their "in-
vestigation" only involved "the
looking over of certain books in
the Library at Frankfurt." Says
Kohlberg: "They were in Europe
not to investigate, but to check
on testimony which they had al-
ready taken in secret session
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New York, upset over Schultz'
activities, feel that the time has
come for an investigation into
the behind-the-scene workings
of the one-man League.
Poale Agudah Forms Own
Party; Bolts Agudas Israel
WON
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JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Poale Agudah, labor branch of
the Orthodox Agudas Israel
World Organization, announced
its independence by becoming a
separate party. The group elect-
ed a five-member council headed
by the famous Gerer Rebbe, and
including other world-famous
figures in Jewish Orthodox life.
(In London, the executive of
the Poale Agudah of Great
Britain approved the world Poale
Agudah decision not to partici-
pate in the recent Agudas Israel
World Congress in Jerusalem.
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proacheth his Maker. — Prov.
17: 5.
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