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Friday, June 7, 1957

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Mrs. Esther Broner, mother
of three young children, was a
double winner in the Tompkins
competition in creative writing
at Wayne State University.
Mrs. Broner, of 3008 Monte-
rey, went back to school in
January for her Master's degree,
seven years after her gradu-
ation from Wayne. She is the
wife of Robert Broner, Detroit
Times artist,
and the daugh-
ter of Paul
Mass e r man,
Times make-up
editor.
Broner re-
cently staged
one-man shows
of his paintings
and prints in
New York,
Phila d elphia
and Detroit.
The Broners
.
Mrs. Broner have a •daugh-
ter, 5, who entered kindergarten
the same time that her mother
enrolled at Wayne, and twin
sons, 4.
Mrs. Broner won the top $50
prize for her short story, "The
Enemies," dealing with tensions
in Detroit, and $25 for "The
Prince and Other Poems," in the
poetry classification. •-:
A second $50 award went to
Donald Rosenberg, of 4785 Ful-
lerton for his verse-drama, "A
Legend of the G-olem."
Tompkins awards . are pre-
sented annually to students who
submit the best original unpub-
lished story, play, verse or es-
say. The 70 works submitted
this year were judged by a,five-
member faculty committee.
The prize works will appear
in "Wayne Writers," , a new
campus literary magazine.

Canadians in Trade, Industry
Shows Decline in 30 Years

MONTREAL (JTA)—The per-
centage of Canadian Jews en-
gaged in trade has declined
from 3:8 per cent 30 years ago
to 32, and the proportion in
manufacturing industries has
declined from 30 to 28 per cent,
according to a Canadian Jewish
Conference study made.
But. the percentage in clerical
occupations .has risen from 9
to 13 per cent, and the profes-
sions has risen from 4 to 9 per
cent. Jews constitute 9 per cent
of all Canadians engaged in
trade, but are not more num-
erous in the professions than
their proportion in the total
population. Of the professionals
the largest numbers are (in that
order) doctors, teachers, law-
yers, engineers and dentists.

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Reitlinger Exposes the SS Terror

The Nazis' SA—the Sturmabteilungen—the Assault Section—
started functioning in 1921. It was an early beginning for the
Hitlerites after the German defeat in World War I.
The SS — Schutzstaffeln — the Protection Squads — began
in 1922 as the "Adolf Hitler Shock Troops," with a, small group
of men, "grown together round the persons of Hitler's profession-
al strong men, Maurice, Schreck, and Erhard Heiden, who some-
times also drove his car for him when he could afford to have
one."
All the horrors of this 'shock troop's atrocities, and the
stories of the men involved in their activities, are recounted in
"The SS — Alibi of a Nation — 1922-1945," by Gerald Reit-
linger, published by Viking Press (625 Madison, N.Y. 22).
The author, who wrote "The Final Solution," published in
1553, in which he told the story of Hitler's program to extermin-
ate the Jews, gives a full account in his new book of the butch-
eries of the Nazis, of their heartlessness and their terrorism.
Hitler himself is quoted as saying, about the origin of the
shock troops, that "it was with (Heinrich) Himmler that the
SS became an extraordinary body of men, devoted to -an ideal,
loyal to death."
What, they did, of course, was to spread terror and death.
out of his SS leadership grew Himmler's friendship with Hitler
and the fuehrer's devotion to his shock troops protector.
Reitlinger draws a lot upon the memoirs of Felix Kersten,
Himmler's personal manual therapist, which were reviewed in
our columns on May 17. There are several references to Himm-
ler's meetings with Count Bernadotte, but little more than
already has been exposed by Kersten in his memoirs, published
by Macmillan, is added in this volume.
But the Reitlinger book is of great value for its overall
coverage of the Nazi terror and his expose of the work of the
worst element in the Hitler movement. Once again, the eminent
British writer describes the terror of the Hitler program_ to
exterminate the Jews.
One of the tragic stories related by Reitlinger reveals, With
reference to SS activities in Poland:
"A sergeant-major in the military police, assisted by a
gunner from the only SS artillery regiment which served in
Poland, had collected fifty Jews in a synagogue and then shot
them for no other reason than the fact that, having worked them
all day repairing a bridge, he did not know what to do with them.
After a lot of references to and fro, the two men were entirely
acquitted under the terms of a general amnesty. But, before
this was even published,'Brauchitsch (Field Marshal Walter von)
had _personally set aside a very light court-martial sentence of
impris onment."
This was the pattern! And such are the tales in this book
that might have been called a mystery murder story, except
that it is fact not mystery and is full of murder!
Reitlinger makes frequent references to the relief activi-
ties that were conducted by the Joint Distribution Committee
and the World Jewish Congress; to the efforts in these spheres
by Joel Brand, Norbert Masur, the W'allenbergs and others.
Reference is made to the activities, in the summer of 1943,
when the banker Jacob Wallenberg "was to forward peace pro-
posals through the King of Sweden and Dr. Chaim Weizmann,
the Zionist leader. But Himmler would not release Goerdeler
(Kark, ReiCh price commissioner in Hitler's first government)
in order to make the journey himself . . ."
This interesting comment is made, in a footnote, to Dr.
Kastner, who was involved in a sensation libel suit in Israel
and recently was assassinated:
"It must be stressed that the papers of the late Saly Meyer
(JDC relief worker in Switzerland) have not been published
and that the history of the conferences which he held with Col.
Kurt Becher (Himmler's negotiator for lives of Jews) in
Switzerland reposes entirely on the typescript narrative of
Reszoe Kastner. The latter has since become a center of contro-
versy. He was a Jewish lawyer from Koloszvar or Cluj who
accompanied Kurt Becher on his missions as a kind of hostage
for Becher's safety and a guarantee of his credentials. In 1954
Kastner lost an important libel suit in Israel and was de-
nounced by the court as a, collaborator — very largely for his
consent in dealing with Himmler's agent, Kurt Becher. The
trial became a political ,issue and, since the verdict is still
subject to an appeal judgment, I prefer to keep an open mind
on the lengths to which Kastner was prepared to go in order
to save a number of Jewish lives. It is not clear whether he
was present when Becher made this promise, but I see no
reason to doubt Kastner's account. His narrative is muddled
but singularly free from personal prejudices and, until the
Joint Distribution Committee chooses to publish the files of
these negotiations, it must remain the only evidence."
Perhaps Kastner's death will speed the release of documents
that will throw light on the sensational Israeli case.
This is one of very many 'incidents of great historical im-
portance that are covered in Reitlinger's "The SS." It is a volume
of great historical value and will remain among the most impor-
tant documents treating with the terrifying story of Nazism and
its murderous gangs.

Israel Competing for World Trade

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

LONDON—Israel has become
a "serious competitor" for world
trade, especially in Africa and
the Orient, according to a report
from its Jerusalem correspon-
dent, George Evans, in Tues-
day's London Daily Telegraph.
Israel has sent trade missions,
Evans reports, to British East
Africa as well as to Ghana,
Nigeria, Et hiopi a, Belgian
Congo, Liberia, Ceylon and
Burma.
A wide range of goods has
been sold in these markets by
Israel, including automobiles,
radios, refrigerators, textiles,
chemicals and razor blades. -
Incidentally, Evans reports,
one firm is selling roof-tops
for jeeps in the United States.
Many of Israel's missions have
returned in recent months from
the African hinterland with
substantial trial orders, accord-
ing to Evans. Kenya and
Uganda are considered especially
promising for Israel exports.
Kenya is reportedly interested
in buying from Israel assembled
jeeps and station wagons for
which it is willing to trade

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New York Democrat, described
the U.S. agreement with King
Saud to bar Jews as "deplor-
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California Democrat, told the
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Congressmen Hit Ban on Jews in Saudi Arabia

WASHINGTON, ( J T A ) —
Three members of Congress
criticized the U. S. Government
from the floor of the House for
accepting the ban imposed by
Saudi Arabia on American Jew-
ish servicemen at the Dharhan
airbase in -Saudi Arabia. The
criticism was voiced during the
debate of an appropriation bill
covering expenditures for the
base as Dharhan.
Rep. Sidney R. Yates, Illinois
Democrat, declared: "I could not
in good conscience permit this
bill to leave the House without
making protest against the fla-
grant discrimination toward
military personnel of Jewish
faith — American citizens mind
you—which exists today in the
Middle East."
Responding to Rep. Yates re-

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