Howard , Fast Attacks Ehrenburg
British Object to NATO Post for Nazi Gen. Speidel
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zation (NATO). He objected to the Germans had done, Shin-
To The Jewish News)
as Soviet-Styled "Honorary Aryan '
having British troops placed well declared, he was not.
LONDON — A former British under command of an ex-Nazi.
NEW YORK, (JTA) — How- Asserting that the Soviet sy- war
minister voiced sharp pro-
Emanuel Shinwell, War ,.Min-
ard Fast, the latest Jewish sup- stem is "socialism without mo-
porter of Soviet Communism to rality," the novelist accuses Ni-
break with the Communist par- kita Khrushchev, Soviet party
ty, says Jewish-born Ilya Eh- boss, of outright anti-Semitism
renburg, lead-
and implies that such a bias is
ing Soviet pro- basic to the Soviet system.
pagandist and
In a reply to Fast in the same
apologist, is a
issue, the editors indicate sym-
Soviet v a r i a -
pathy with some of the nove-
ton of Hitler's
4 list's views and in an obvious
"honorary ary-
I reference to. Khrushchev, they
denounce "anti-Semitism in the
Fast made
form of anecdotes about Jews."
the charge in
The editors indicate they dif-
an indictment
fer with Fast in the possibilities
of the Soviet
of reform in the Soviet Union
system appear- Ehrenhurg
and that they do not believe the
ing in the current issue of crimes against humanity corn-
"-`Mainstream," a left-wing lit- mitted in the Red empire are
erary periodical which has been inevitable under Communist
close to the Communist party. rule.
test in the British House . of
Commons Tuesday against . the
designation of Lt. Gen. Hans
Speidel, Hitler's wartime chief
of staff in France,. as comman-
der of the ground fo
rces of the
North Atlantic Treaty Organi 7
Chile's Benjamin Cohen
to Head UN Federation
UNITED NATIONS, N.. Y.,
(JTA)—Benjamin A. Cohen of
4Chile an-
nounced his
.resignation this
:week as Under
S e cretary o f
:the United Na-
4ions for Trus-
;teeship Affairs
to become ex-
:ecutive secr e-
t ar y of the
World Federa
tion of United
group which will remain in
Nations Associ-
Israel for a week.
ations.
Cohen
Dr. Cohen's
The German politicians had
originally been scheduled to UN post paid $18,000 a year
make Israel the last stop of their tax-free. In his new position,
Asian tour last year. While that Dr. Cohen will pay income taxes
tour was in the planning stage, on $12,000 a year.
011enhauer rejected suggestions
from the Bonn Foreign Office
that he should demonstrate his
party's impartiality by includ-
ing in his itinerary one Arab
League country.
Adenauer's Most Likely Successor,
Erich 011enhauer, to Visit in Israel
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News.)
BONN — Erich 011enhauer,
chairman of the Social Demo-
cratic Party of West Germany,
will fly to Israel Monday at
the invitation of Mapai — the
first such invitation issued to
the West German Party by an
Israeli political group.
011enhauer will be accom-
panied by Heinz Putzrath, head
of the foreign affairs - section
of the Social Democratic Party
Interest in his visit to Israel
executive which accepted the
invitation last week. 011enhauer Kill be heightened by the pos-
is a member of the visiting sibility that 011enhauer may
succeed Konrad Adenaur as
.West German Chancellor after
the Bundestag elections in Sep-
tember.
Putzrath was an active mem-
ber of the German-Jewish youth
movement until he was arrested
by the Nazis soon after Hitler
came to power. Leaving Ger-
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News.)
many, he was employed as a
JERUSALEM — The Israel welder in a British aircraft fac-
Government-Jewish Agency co- tory during World War II, and
ordinating committee Monday has been in charge of foreign
approved a "rescue immigra- liaison for the Social Democratic
tion" quota of 100,000 for the Party since 1949. -
current year.
011enhauer, who won a po-
The committee meeting, at litical libel suit some years ago
which Premier David Ben- against a neo-Nazi agitator who
Gurion presided, also decided said he was of Jewish stock,
that because of the developing was in exile during the Nazi
immigration from Egypt and regime.
Hungary a minimum additional
budget of 75,000,000 pounds was
King David Reopens
needed to build 25,000 housing
The King David Hotel, in
units in• addition to the 11,000
Jerusalem, which closed in
units nearing completion.
November when tourist traf-
The government share of the
fic to the Middle East was
increased budget will be 50 per
interrupted, • will reopen on
cent to be provided from the
March 20.
1957-58 budget, while the
Israel entertained 42,560
Agency portion will need an
touists in 1956. It was a de-
increase in Jewish contributions
crease of only 11.7 per cent
from appeals throughout the
over 1955, but marked an
world.
increase of 10 per cent over
S. Z. Shraga i told the meet-
the number of tourists who
ing that of the 45,000 Egyptian
visited Israel in 1954. There
Jews, 13,000 have been expelled.
were 38,661 tourists in Israel
Of these, half have arrived in
in 1954, and 48,212 in 195'5.
Israel. He said the rest are ex-
Over 115,000 visitors came
pected to arrive in Israel soon.
to the Israel booth at the
N.Y. Coliseum Travelrama
Show. The visitors expressed
great interest in traveling to
Israel.
ister in the Labor Government,
told the House that there was
no doubt at all that until 1944,
when he was assertedly in-
volved in the plot against Hitler,
Gen. Speidel had been an ar-
dent supporter of the Nazi
creed.
In 1941, when he was asso-
ciated with the German occu-
pation forces in Paris, Shinwell
charged, Gen. Speidel had some
part in an order given for the
execution of 1,000 alleged Com-
munists and Jewish refugees.
Shinwell expressed surprise
that Her Majesty's government
had supported the appointment
of Gen. Speidel to the NATO
post. Ire said he objected to any
German general of any sort or
character or quality being in
command of British troops.
If some members of the House
were inclined to forget what
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