Berlin Leader
from Prison

Discover Unclear Particles,
Enriched Oxygen Isotopes

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to The Jewish News

LONDON. — Weizmann Insti-
tute scientists have designed
and built an electronic corn-
putor which has already proved
extremely valuable in work-
ing with majcr problems in ap-
plied mathematics, it was re-
ported here Tuesday at scienti-
fic sessions • of the three-da3r
meeting of the board of gover-
nors of the Institute: Other
scientific achievements reported
Tuesday included the discovery
of a new nuclear particle and
the manufacture of enriched
oxygen isotopes at the Institute
laboratories, making Israel the
world's only producer and ex-
porter of this substance.
Representatives of the science
staff of the Institute presented
a seven-point program designed

to coordinate it more closely
with the needs of the country,
convert it into a teaching insti-
tute on a graduate level and im-
prove academic and working
conditions f o r the scientific
staff.
Only the establishment of a
general endowment fund will
give the Weizmann Institute of
Science at Rehovoth a financial
stability commensurate with its
function as the leading scienti-
fic- force in Israel, Meyer Weis-
gal, chairman of the Institute's
executive council, told the board
of governors.
Four Nobel Prize winners par-
ticipated in the sessions: Prof.
P.M.B. Blackett o f London;
Prof. Ernest B. Chain of Rome;
Dr. H. A. Krebs of Oxford, and
Sir Robert Robinson of London.

Britain Stirred by Israel's Views
on Inequity of Arms Imbalance

LONDON, (JTA)—The "bat-
tle of arguments" between Bri-
tish Foreign Secretary Selwyn
Lloyd and Israel Ambassador
Eliahu Elath over the former's
assertion that the balance. of
arms in the Middle East still fa-
vors Israel is attracting serious
attention in the British press
following a press conference by
- the Israel Ambassador at which
he outlined Israel's views on
Secretary Lloyd's statement.
The Ambassador stressed the
fact that Israel is -gravely con-
cerned over Lloyd's statement.
It sees in the statement a con-
- - firmation of the sitUati on
wherein Britain is enabled not
to carry out one of the most
important parts of the Tripartite
Declaration—that relating to the
maintenance of the balance of
armed strength.
Israel's armaments, Elath
stressed, were no secret to the
Arabs, and Lloyd's assertion
that the balance was in her fa-
vor would indicate to them that
Britain had no interest in the
safety of the Jewish State and
would encourage them to seek
more Western arms.
Ambassador Elath added that
Israel's requests for arms from
the Western Powers were, in
fact, aimed at obtaining for Is-
rael the minimum of arms sup-
plies that would enable the gov-
ernment of Israel to feel that
the absolute minimum security
needs of Israel were safeguard-
ed in the face of the rapid pro-
gress of arms supplies to Arab
countries.
Even such supplies, while re-
presenting an absolute mini-
mum from the point of view of
Israel's security, would not, in
fact, come anywhere near re-
istoring fully the balance of

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arms in the Middle East, he
pointed out.
The Ambassador indicated
that to date most of the items
in the lists submitted by Israel
to the Wesern Powers have
been refused. Britain has main-
tained her refusal to provide
Israel with even a single Cen-
turion tank to match those sent
to Egypt and has refused to
provide her with other major
items—including a small num-
ber of Canberra bombers to
match the Soviet Ilyushin
bomber s, anti-aircraft equip-
ment and even, over the past
twelve months, lightly armored
vehicles in the form of half-
tracks.
The arguments advanced by
the Israel Ambassador at his
press conference were strength-
ened by data contained in a
document issued afterwards by
the Israel Embassy here reveal-
ing that since December Israel
has been able to obtain some
light tanks from France but has
nothing to compare with the
Centurion or Stalin Tanks sup-
plied Egypt.
Compared with nearly two
hundred Russian fighters and
bombers supplied the Egyptian
air force, Israel has obtained
only 24 My s t e r e jets from
France and a small number of
British Meteors and French Ou-
ragans, the document estab-
lished.
With the exception of the My-
steres, the other jet types are
inferior to both the MIGS and
Ilyushins supplied Egypt. By
way of bomber forces, Israel
has nothing more modern than
the Mosquito fighter bomber
which the RAF has just discard-
ed as being out of date, the do-
cument showed. -
Syria also is obtaining arms
from_ Czechoslovakia which, ac-
cording to reliable information
quoted by the Embassy, in-
cludes 50 light tanks of a Ger-
man model, 50 heavy Stalin
tanks, 25 MIG fighters, 50 pieces
of heavy artillery and 100 ar-
mored vehicles.
Apart from these arms deals
between Egypt, Syria and
Czechoslovakia, shipments of
heavy arms have gone to Iraq.
from Britain under the Bagh-
dad Pack. Saudi Arabia has re-
ceived western tanks and it ap-
pears also to have received cer-.
taro equipment from Eastern
Europe through Egypt, the Is-
rael Embassy stressed.
The question of why the
British Government refuses to
sell modern arms to Israel
came up in the House of Com-
mons Monday and received an
evasive reply from Foreign
Secretary Selwyn Lloyd.
The question was raised by
Arthur Henderson, Laborite,
who also wanted to know what
was being done by the British
government to prevent incidents
on the Jordan-Israel frontier.

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3—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS—Friday, July 13, 1956

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BERLIN, (JTA) — Fritz Kat-
ten, who was vice president of
the Berlin Jewish Community
and president of the Berlin Miz-
rachi Organization when the
Communists arrested him seven
years ago on trumped up poli-
tical charges, was released from
an East German prison.
He immediately rejoined his
wife, the manager of a Jewish
old age home in Dusseldorf,
West Germany.
Katten, a 58-year-old Ortho-
dox Jew, was born in Hesse,
where his grandfather was pre-
sident of the local Jewish com-
munity. He settled in Berlin
as a young man and was unable
to emigrate when the Nazis
came to power. D aiing the war
he was drafted for forced labor.
When the deportations to
death camps in the East began,
he managed- to go into hiding
with his wife and son. As one
of about 2,000 Jews who lived
underground in Berlin, he sur-
vived until the Red Army
marched into the city in 1945.
He immediately helped set up
the Jewish community organi-
zation, whose vice president he
became. His labors on behalf of
Nazi victims came to the atten-
tion of the authorities who pre-
vailed upon him to become vice
president of the perlin police.
He was a resident of what
became the Soviet sector of the
city. In 1948, the Soviets ar-
rested him, in large measure be-
cause of charges that he had
used the authority of his office
with the police department to
facilitate Joint Distribution
Committee relief shipments to
Jewish communities.
When he was released, short-
ly thereafter, friends urged.' him
to move to West Berlin. He, re-
fused, insisting that he wanted
to clear his name first. Then, in
April, 1949, he was re-arrested
and sentenced to 25 years On
charges of "espionage."
The release of Katten brings
to mind another prominent
member of the post-war Berlin
Jewish Community, Erich Nel-
hans, who served as president
of that 'community. It has been
several years since word has
been received of his where-
abouts. .
He was charged with ,aiding
Polish Jews in the Red Army
who had approached him for
help in getting to Palestine to
fight in the Haganah. A Soviet
military tribunal sentenced him
to 15 years in jail.
Already broken in health as
a result of Nazi persecution, he
was sent to a Siberian labor
camp and it is feared he may
have perished there. He was
last seen in Vorkuta in 1952.

Jewish Agency Hears
Report on Moroccan Events
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A re-
port on the negotiations now be-
ing carried on between repre-
sentatives of Jewish organiza-
tions and Moroccan authorities
in an attempt to ease the ban
on Jewish emigration from Mo-
rocco to Israel was presented at
a plenary session of the Jewish
Agency executive by Yakov
Tzur, Israel Ambassador to
France.

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