IIINT's Number One Trouble-Shooter
at •Suez Is South African Jew

By DAVID HOROWITZ
UNITED NATION (AJP)—
Significantly, whenever some-
thing goes wrong with the in-
tricate administrative global UN
machinery, Dag Hammarskjold
immediately summons to his
38th story suite one man who
-is almOst certain to come for-
ward with some remedy.
That man -is a Jew of South
African nationality — the dy-
namic Col. Alfred G. Katzin
who was the brains behind all
the inter-office activity when
the Secretary General began to
"Streamline" the secretariat af-
ter he took office in 1952.
Last week hen something
went wrong with Hamm 'ar-
skjold's Suez ,-.1 earance program
—.thanks to Nasser's unpredict-
able behavior—Col. Kaczin was
again summoned, and both he
and administrative assistant An-
drew Cordier were quickly sent
off to Egypt to help Maj. E.L.M.
Burns and Lt. Gen. Raymond
A. Wheeler remove the latest
Egytian stumbling blocks.
How the vindictive Egyptians
viewed Katzin, a Jew, is diffi-
cult to tell. It is easy to guess,
however—and here may be the
reason why Cordier went along.
At any rate, it is Col. Katzin
who has been designated "Dep-
uty-Under-Sceretary-in-Charge-
of - Headquarters - Planning - for -
Suez-Canal-Clearance"—possibly
the longest title ever conferred
upon a UN official.
Col. Katzin was born in 1906
in Cape Town and educated in
the Diecesan College, Rinde-
bosch. As a colonel, he. served
on active duty in East Africa,

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Egypt, the Middle East, North
Africa, Italy and the Balkans
from 1940 to 1954. In 1945, he
was chief economic adviser and
chief civilian supplies .planning
'at the Balkans military head-
quarters.
Later in 1945 he became Dep-
uty Director General for finance
and administration, European
region, of the United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Ad-
ministration (UNRRA), and
from 1946 to 1947 he was Dep-
uty Director General and Chief
Executive Officer of UNRRA in
Washington.
In 1948 Colonel Katzin'joined
the staff of the UN; serving as a
special consultant to the Secre-
tary General and subsequently
as his personal representative
in Korea. In recent times, he
has been director of the im-
portant Bureau of Personnel
and Deputy Under Secretary in
the Department of Public In-
formation.

Center and Midrasha Book Review Seminar to Renew Sessions

The Book Review Seminar,
co-sponsored by the Jewish
Community Center and the Mid-
rasha of the United Hebrew
Schools, will open its 1957 sea-
son, Wednesday, with a review
by Mrs. Nathan Spevakow of
Michael Blankfort's "The Jug-
gler." The group will meet at
the Berman branch of the
United HebreW Schools, 18977
Schaefer, 1-3 p.m.
On Jan. 23, Mrs. Carl Schiller
will review "Middle East Oil
and the Great Powers" by Ben-
j amin Shwadran.
Dr. Maurice M. Shudofsky, of
the Midrasha United Hebrew
School, will continue as its
leader and consultant. Mrs. Carl

John Wise Files
for Circuit Judge

John M. Wise, who for the .
past 12 years has sat on the
bench as a
referee in
Traffic CO urt
and has heard
sever al hun-
dred thousand
cases, has filed
as a candidate
for the Circuit
Court. His peti-
tions c a r ried
more than
15,000 names. John Wise
Born in Peekskill, N. Y., in
1908, Wise moved With his fam-
ily to Great Falls, Mon., in 1913,
and has lived in Detroit since
1920. He is a graduate of Wayne
University LaW School and
practiced law since 1930.
A member of many leading
civic and professional organiza-
tions, Wise is active in Bnai .
Brith, Temple Beth El, Jewish
Community Council, Allied
Jewish Campaign and many
other movements. His articles
have appeared in the Wayne
Law Journal and he has lec-
tured. to State Commanding Po-
lice Officers at Michigan. State
University.
Other Candidates
Others who filed for . judge-
ships include:
Judge Victor J. Baum, Gov-
ernor Williams' appointee who
was sworn into office as Circuit
Judge Thursday; Ira G. Kauf-
man, former president of Adas
Shalom; Allen Blondy, former
State Senator; Charles Kauf-
man, 20466 Lauder; Norman M.
Robbins, 18930 Littlefield.

Edward Geller, Free
Press Ad Man, Dies

Edward Geller, of 2636 Wood-
stock, well known Detroit Free
Press advertising man, died of
a heart attack Tuesday at the
age of 62:
A World War I veteran, he
was affiliated with the Jewish
War Veterans, VFW, Bnai Brith
and Shaarey Zedek.
He was the creator of the
Free Press cartoon page • "The
Story of an Ambitious -Man"
which won a medal of . honor in
195.1 from the Freedoms Foun-
dation.
Surviving him are his wife,
Irene; a daughter, Mrs. Harold
Katz; five sisters and six bro-
thers, Max, Byron, Jay D., Wil-
liam, Maurice, Milton, Frances,
Donna, Dorothy, Mrs. Marton
Cowans and Mrs. Helen. Alder-
son.

Hold Memorial Meeting Honoring Dr. Leo Baeck

ki-tA•KFURT - (JTA) — Dr.
Walter Leiske, mayor of Frank-
furt, was one of the principal
speakers at a memorial meeting
here for the late Dr. Leo Baeck,
former chief rabbi of Berlin and
chairman of the Union of Jews
in Germany during the Hitler
period.
Dr. Baeck, leader of the
World Union fo Progressive
Judaism, died last month in

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NEW YORK — Samuel Zim-
balist, brother of concert violin-
ist -Efram Zimbalist, died at
Nyack, N. Y. on Dec. 26. Mr.
Zimbalist, a composer and viol-
ist, had played with many prin-
cipal orchestras. He was associ-
ated with the late George. Gersh-
win in writing "Porgy and
Bess,"

London.
West German President Theo.!,
dor Heuss sent a personal mes-
sage to the meeting, which was
arranged by the Central Coun-
cil of Jews in Germany. In his
message, read by Prof. Hue-
binger, a high government of-
ficial in Bonn, the President
recalled Rabbi Baeck's deporta-
tion to the TereSinstadt concen-
tration camp and his "magni-
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Reprinted from Jewish News
Dec. 28, 1956

JNF -Donor Drive
to Close with Tea

the urgency of
Emphasizing
dges to this year's
increased p le
Mrs Sidney
donor campaign, .
Ravin, president of the Ladies
Auxiliary of the Na-
tional Fund, called attention to
the goal of $75,000.
26th annual donor cam-
The
paign, currently in progress,
seeks to establish a hain of de-
fen.se •settlerne-nts in the upper
Galilee area near Safed.
a
The drive will close with at
tea at 12:30 p.m., San. 23,
Temple Israel. All donors will
be able to attend.
Guest speaker at the cam-
paig-n closing program will be
former
Rabbi Isaac L. Swift,
chief rabbi of Australia. A can-
"Israel Reborn," written
tata,
and. directed by Dan Frohmanic
will be presented.. by the Mus
Study Club choral group.

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Zimbalist's Brother Dies

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Babitch is the representative to
the -Seminar from the adult
service department of the • Cen-
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of the Seminar's planning com-
mittee include Mesdames Lewis
Cohen, Harry L. Jackson, Ralph
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