Detroiters Meet with Congressmen
At Emergency Session on Israel

Conscience-Stricken German, Eric Lueth,
Clarifies 'Peace with Israel' Movement

By FRANK SIMONS

Some of the members of the Detroit delegation to last
week's Emergency Conference on America's Stake in the
Middle East meet with Michigan Congressmen who were
special guests at one of the sessions. Shown, left to right, at
the Washington conference, are MORRIS L. SCHAVER, Cong.
JOHN LESINSKI, Cong. JOHN D. DINGEL, Rabbi ISAAC
STOLLMAN, Dr. LEON FRAM, Cong. THADDEUS M. MACH-
ROWICZ, Cong. GERALD R. FORD, Jr., Cong. AUGUST E.
JOHANSEN and HYMAN C. BYLAN, of Grand Rapids. Sen.
Patrick V. McNamara, not pictured, was seated on the dais.
There were 18 Jewish representatives from Michigan at the
conference.

Hammarskjold Strives for Abatement
Of Tensions; Meets Israel Leaders

Direct JTA Teletype Wire
To The Jewish News

United Na-
JERUSALEM
tions Secretary General Dr.
Dag Hammarskjold conferred
for 90 minutes here Tuesday
with Premier David Ben-Gurion
and Israel Foreign Minister
Moshe Sharett. Dr. Hammar-
skjold came alone to the meet-
ing with Israel's two top lead-
ers, after calling on President
Itzhak Ben-Zvi and touring
both New Jerusalem and the
Old City of Jerusalem.
Addressing a press conference
later, Dr. Hammarskjold de-
clared that at his meeting with
Egyptian Premier Col. Gamal
Abdel Nasser last week end,
the Egyptian Premier had
agreed to Hammarskjold's plan
for abatement of tension in the
demilitarized zone of the Nitza-
na-El Auja area. He said that
Maj. Gen. E.L.M. Burns would
shortly issue a statement , on
Col. Nasser's agreement to the
plan. Asked whether as ,a re-
sult of his seeing Col. Nasser
he would say that his mission
of rapproachment was a success,
he asserted that no one in his
right senses would "so rashly
reply to such a difficult ques-
tion."

Correspondents asked him to
explain the cancellation of the
reception in his honor which
was to be held at the residence
of Mr. Sharett here Tuesday.
He was also asked to explain
his sudden decision to visit the
Old City which was seen here
as attempt to "balance" his visit
to Jewish Jerusalem. He re-
plied that he felt that a recep-
tion might "lead to unfavorable
interpretations and unjustified
suspicions." His visit to the Old
City, he said, was to see the
Holy Places there, since he felt
it his duty to visit the Shrines
as long as he was so near them.

Before the press conference,
Daniel Auster, president of the
Israel Association for the
United Nations, presented him
with a silver-bound copy of the
Bible. Dr. Hammarskjold ex-
pressed regret that he was un-
able to attend the reception
planned for him in Tel Aviv
by the UN Association because
of lack of time. He expressed
satisfaction at being in Israel
and seeing the great social and
cultural strides taken by the
Jewish State and called its de-
velopment program "unprece-
dented" in scale.

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Detroit Jewish News

Friday, January 27, 1.956

For over 30 years a fighter
against totalitarianism a n d
anti-Semitism, Lueth vainly
fought Hitler'S rise • by or-
ganizing the Radical Demo-
cratic Party prior to 1933.
As a result, shortly after Hit-
ler's advent to power, Lueth
was ousted from his post as
correspondent for the Ham- .
burger Anzeiger.

Drafted into the Wermacht
in 1943 when he was 41, Lueth
protested the showing of the
film "Jud Suess" to Nazi troops,
and was sent to the front for
his actions. Captured by the
Allies, he became editor of
Lagerpost, the firs t German
daily to appear after VE day.
The thoughts of the war and

Annual JAVF Meeting
To Vote on Change
In Board Membership

A proposed amendment to the
by-laws of the Jewish Welfare
Federation will be considered
at Federation's annual meeting
at 8 p.m., Feb. 7, at the Esther
Berman Branch of the United
Hebrew Schools, 18977 Schaefer.
Concerning membership on
Federation's board of governors,
the proposed amendment is to
Section two of Article three of
the by-laws. Under the provi-
sions of the by-laws, the board
now includes 27 members elec-
ted at large; a representative
of each of the 14 local member
agencies; 18 representatives' of
East." Chairman Walter F. the Detroit Service Group, Wo-
George of the Senate Foreign
men's Division and Junior Divi-
Relations Committe, who also
sion; and a representative of
attended the emergency con-
each of five organizational
ference, endorsed Sen. Mans- councils.
field's proposal for a review.
The three sections of the prO-
State Department sources said
that word was received here posed amendment provide that
through official channels that the retiring president of Feder-
a large percentage of Commu- ation and the present immedi-
nist arms contracted by Egypt ate paSt president of Federation
has arrived. Government offi- serve on the board for three
cials also revealed that infor- years following their term of
mation has been received in office and that chairmen of the
Washington that more than 150 Allied Jewish Campaign serve
Soviet bloc military technicians while in office and for three
are now in Egypt. The main years following.
mission of these experts is to
Nominated to fill at-large po-
assemble arms arriving from sitions for a three year term
Czechoslovakia. A considerable are the following nine candi-
number are aircraft mechanics dates: Irving W. Blumberg, vice-
specializing on jet planes. Pre- president of Federation; Jacob
mier Nasser of Egypt had in- A. Citrin, chairman of Federa-
formed U. S. Ambassador Henry tion's community relations bud-
A. Byroade that he decided to get a n d planning division;
admit 34 technicians.
Samuel Frankel, vice-president
Senator Paul M. Douglas, of of the Jewish Community Cen-
Illinois, suggested that the forth- ter; Mrs. Harry L. Jones, Wo-
men's Division 1956 Allied
coming Eisenhower-Eden con-
Jewish Cam p a i g n chairman;
ference on Middle East prob- Judge Theodore Levin, presi-
lems should include advisors dent of Federation; Nathan
who are "not merely staff mem- Silverman, chairman of the Ta-
bers who attend to emphasize marack Hills Authority; Abra-
Arab interest," but also advisors ham Srere, president of the
familiar with the Israel situa- United Jewish Charities; Mrs.
tion. He named as desirable Leonard H. Weiner, past presi-
participants James G. McDon- dent of the Women's Division;
ald, former U. S. Ambassador and Max J. Zivian, chairman of
to Israel, and Edward Lawson, Federation's committee on capi-
present Ambassador,
tal needs.

Indicate Congressional Review
Of U. S. Policy in the Middle East

WASHINGTON — (JTA) —
Chairman James P. Richards
of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, who was present at
the dinner meeting of the Wash-
ington Emergency Conference
last week, asked Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles not
to approve Israel's pending
arms list.
He met with Mr. Dulles and
discussed a number of foreign
issues, including the Middle
Eastern situation. Congressional
sources said Rep. Richards told
Secretary Dulles that "Zionist
pressure" to secure action on
the Israel application should be
overlooked in the final deter-
mination of policy. He sought to
counter requests from other
Congressmen that the State De-
partment approve the sale of
arms to Israel. Questioned per-
sonally, Congressman Richards
avoided discussion of the matter.
Indications came that the Sen-
ate will review American diplo-
macy in the Middle East. Seri.
Mike Mansfield, of Oklahoma,
a member of the Foreign Re-
lations Committee, called for a
Congressional review of what
he called Secretary Dulles'
"diplomacy of the brink." He
said the Soviet diplomatic of-
fensive "has jumped the wall
of containment in the Middle

Eric Lueth, statesman, poet,
philosopher and journalist, but
recently known for a new
movement he started in Ger-
many, was in Detroit this week
to address several groups on
behalf of the American Chris-
tian Palestine Committee.
A citizen of Hamburg, Ger-
many, Lueth spoke Sunday be-
fore Cong. Gemiluth Chassodim
and Monday before a gathering,
of the May-flower Congrega-
tional Church.
Wherever he goes, Lueth has
but one thought in mind—cre-
ating good will towards the
Jews in Christians and asking
the Jews to forgive the German
people .for the mad actions
which marked the Hitler era.
But more than asking for-
giveness from the Jews,. Lueth
is actively working to restore
the trust of the Jewish people
in a Germany that wiped out
6,000,000 Jews.

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the dreadful fate of Europe's
Jews has plagued Lueth since
the end of the war, and it was
in 1951 that he realized what
he could do to salve his Con-
science, as a German.
Following a statement by
Israel's *Premier David Ben-
Gurion that there was no end
to the state of war between
Germany and the Jewish peo-
ple, Lueth organized his "Peace
vvith Israel" movement.
He has dedicated hi ms e f
since that time to trying to re-
build friendship between Ger-
many and her former citizens
now in Israel and many other
parts of the world.
His first step was to work
for a change in the attitude of
the German people regarding
their responsibility for the
deaths of its Jewish citizens.
When Viet Harlan, the pro-
ducer of "Jud Suess" tried to
make his comeback in the mo-
tion picture industry, Lueth
tried to organize a boycott. He
backed the Israel reparations in
its early stages, and charged
the Adenauer government with
"doing nothing" to bring about
the reparations.
Without vanity, Lueth said
that the hundreds of thousands
of supporters he was able to
muster on behalf of the moral
obligation of Germany to repay
the Jews for their losses con-
tributed to the final agreement
of Germany to paying these
claims. •
He attacked the present lag
in individual indemnification,
and said he abhorred the situa-
tion today, in which many hun-

dreds of Jews died before the
settlement of their claims.
While many Germans still
don't sleep well at night
thinking of the horrible de-
struction of the Jews, too
many Germans feel compla-
cent. This, he blamed in part,
on aid which was forthcom-.
ing so quic k ly , from the
United States Government.
He maintained that were the
German people not fed so
quickly but permitted to go
hungry for a little while; were
their industries not rebuilt so
soon, there would have been
more of the air of rightful guilt
and less of the dispensation to
forget.
Lueth, while deploring neo-
Nazism, said that it has not ,
gained much of an inroad in
German, life or politics. While
the- Hitler youth have been
given up as a lost geenratioh,
the youth of today are being
brought up along democratic
lines, he said.
As a representative of Peace
with Israel, Lueth was the first
German citizen to be a guest of
the Israel government. On his
first trip he went incognito,
while on his second trip he
was allowed complete identity.
Such has been the work of
the. Peace with Israel move-
ment that it has .created good
feelings among Jews who can
see that there are some Ger-
mans, like Lueth, who have a
deep moral sense of respons-
ibility.
The question still remains to
be answered: "Does the Lueth
movement speak for the new
Germany?"

Sen. McNamara, Paul Martin to Speak
At Croll Testimonial Dinner Feb. 19

The Corporation of the City
of Windsor and the David A.
Croll Chapter of Bnai Brith
Young Adults of Windsor have
combined to honor David A.
Croll, on the occasion of his
appointment to the Senate of
Canada, at a testimonial dinner,
Sunday, Feb. 19, at Windsor's
Prince Edward Hotel.

U. S. Senator Pat McNamara,
of Michigan, and the Hon. Paul
Martin, Minister of Health and
Welfare and Canadian delegate
to the United Nations, will ad-
dress the dinner.
Reservations for the dinner
are being taken by M. M.
Sumner, at Clearwater 4-8678,
Windsor.

Between You and Me

By BORIS SMOLAR

(Copyright, 1956, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

Washington Moods

Never before since the establishment of Israel has the
anti-Israel mood in the State Department been as strong as it
is today . . . One does not have to be long in Washington to
become aware of this regrettable fact . . . This was best illus-
trated by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles . . . There
is a good deal of criticism among Senators of Mr. Dulles' sum-
moning only U.S. Ambassador Byroade from Egypt—known for
his anti-Israel views—to the important Washington consultations
on the Middle East situation . . . The question is asked: Why
did he not also summon the U.S. Ambassador from Israel,
Edward Lawson; who has a friendly attitude toward the Jewish
State? . . . And. many people also question the wisdom of
Mr. Dulles' receiving a delegation from the American Council
for Judaism on the very day that 17 other more representative
Jewish organizations were meeting in Washington on the Middle
East situation . . . Was this move timed by Mr. Dulles to
deliberately insult the great majority of American Jewry
pleading for U.S. security for Israel?

Eyes on Israel

Oil developments in Israel are being carefully observed in
Washington . . . U.S. oil experts, evaluating Israel's oil poten-
tial, are of the opinion that each of Israel's geological provinces
have oil possibilities, but they differ in character and degree . .
The oil possibilities of two provinces are obscure, two are fair
to good, and four are considered good . . The Council of
Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds, which also made an
analysis of Israel's oil possibilities, came to the conclusion that
there is no reason to assume that' the oil strike in Heletz will
affect' directly to any major degree the financing programs of
the Jewish Agency and of any other welfare agencies supported
by contributions from American Jewry . . . This is because
the quantity of oil discovered up till now does not constitute
a revolutionary gain in the direction of self-support . .. It is,
however, in the opinion of the CJFWF, a significant step
forward in the gradual emancipation of Israel from dependence
on outside aid ... Next to the exports of citrus, Israel's premiere
foreign currency earner, it may make the largest single con-
tribution toward reducing Israel's foreign currency deficit, the
CJFWF believes . Experts estimate that the Heletz oil field
can eventually support between 30 and 50 wells, supplying up
to 50 percent of Israel's oil requirements . . And this would
result in a net foreign currency saving of $15,000,000.