JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Eichmann, Nazi "Jewish ex-
Israel Supreme Court posthu- pert."
mously cleared Dr. Israel Kast-
The appeal against the deci-
ner of collaboration with the sion was carried by the govern-
Nazis in his negotiations to save ment which had prosecuted
Jews in German-occupied Him- Gruenberg on the grounds that
gary during the last World War. he maligned an official of the
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The government. Dr. Kastner, assas-
four to one vote of the Court sinated last March by terrorists
also found 75-year-old Malkiel who reportedly feared he would
Gruenwald guilty of having be cleared by the Supreme
libelled the former leader of the Court, had the official status
of a witness in the original trial.
Hungarian Jewish community.
However, in his 300-page ver-
The court gave Gruenwald a dict the district judge repeat-
sentence of one year and sus- edly castigated Dr. Kastner, as-
pended it on account of his age, serting he had "sold his soul
placed him on probation for to the devil."
three years during which he
Granting that Dr. Kastner's
was forbidden to write further negotiations with Eichmann for
on the Kastner case, and order- the release of 100,000 Hungar-
ed him to pay 500 pounds in ian Jews against the payment
court costs.
of $2,000,000 was "patently im-
The majority opinion, which moral," Justice Agranat held
was read out in court, took three that it was "unreasonable to
days to read to completion, adopt a technical attitude
after which the minority report toward such an act when so
was heard. -
much was at stake."
The 200-page decision, writ-
He said the lower court had
ten and read by Justice Simon the advantage of hindsight in-
Agranat, formerly - a Kentucky formation which Dr. Kastner,
attorney, reversed a two-year- under the existing circum-
old decision of Jerusalem Dis- stances and in the atmosphere
trict Judge Benjamin Halevy, of hopelessness of Hungarian
who in a libel case brought Jewry, could not have known.
against pamphleteer Malkiel
• The Supreme Court held that
Gruenberg, held that the latter collaboration required intent
had substantiated charges of and that an analysis of the
collaboration against Dr. Kast- Gruenwald trial record did not
ner.
support the contention that Dr.
Dr. Halevy assessed a one Kastner's acts were part of a
pound fine against Gruenberg deliberate plot. It called Judge
on the ground that he had writ- - Halevy's reasoning and conclu-
ten but not proved that Dr. sions "unfounded."
K a s t n e r personally profited
from his dealings with Adolf Sigal Heads Warsaw
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Ghetto Observance;
March 30 Date Set
The 15th annual commemora-
tion of the Warsaw Ghetto Up-
rising will be held Sunday eve-
ning, March 30.
Samuel Sigal, chairman of
the D e t r o i t commemoration
cornainittee, urges individuals
and organizations to reserve the
date in order to have commu-
nity-wide participation in the
anniversary of this tragic-heroic
event.
Sigal's appointment as chair-
man of the Warsaw Ghetto Up-
rising Commemoration was an-
nounced this week by Council
President Samuel J. Rhodes and
Dr. Leonard Sidlow, chairman
of the Council's culture com-
mission.
To Honor Lurie
at Dinner Sunday
HARRY HERSHFIELD (left)
and IGOR GORIN will be the
guest artists at the testimonial
dinner being given this Sun-
day, at the Sheraton-Cadillac
Hotel, in honor of Detroit civic
and communal leader, John E.
Lurie. Sponsored by Yeshiva
University and its Einstein Col-
lege of Medicine, the event will
inaugurate the John E. Lurie
Scholarship at the New York
School. Dr. Samuel Belkin,
Yeshiva U. president, will be
here as guest speaker.
Brevities
"Tex" Ragsdale, instructor in
public speaking at Leadership
Training Inc. and president of
the General 1VIotors Speakers
Club, will address the CARO
PARENTS ASSOCIATION at 8
p.m., today, in room 810 of the
Veterans Memorial Bldg. His
topic will be "Leadership, Per-
sonal Responsibility and Indi-
vidual Initiative." A social hour
will follow.
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DETROIT PTA COUNCIL
will hold its 40th annual Found-
ers' Day Banquet at 6:30 p.m.,
Feb. 4, in the Masonic Temple's
Foundation Room. Maurice B.
Mitchell, of Encyclopedia Bri-
tannica Films, Inc., will speak
on "Sights, Sounds and Satel-
lites." The banquet traditionally
honors Mesdames Alice McLel-
lan Birney and Phoebe Apper-
son Hearst, founders of the
PTA predecessor organization,
the National Congress of Moth-
ers. About 1,000 teachers and
parents will attend.
Adenauer Pledges
Implementation of
German Restitution
Bnai Brith 'Star Night' for Bonds
Thursday; M. Samuel to Speak
The Greater Detroit Bnai
Brith Council this week sent out
a call to each of its lodges and
chapters to actively participate
in its campaign to build a vil-
lage in Israel, through the sale
of State of Israel Development
Bonds.
The rallying point for this
drive is a "Star Night for Is-
rael," Thursday, Jan. 30, 8 p.m.,
at Congregation Beth Abraham,
8100 W. 7-Mile Road.
According to the Bnai Brith
Council president, Harry N.
Katz, an Israel Bond committee
has been formed, including
Chairman Ernest Curtis, Phil-
more A. Leemon, Elias Gold-
berg and Max Schulzinger, to
work closely with each lodge
and chapter Israel Bond chair-
man to secure maximum sales
for the "Star Night" affair.
CHARLES ROSENGARTEN
of Waterbury, Connecticut was
named chairman of the provi-
sional committee of the World
Council of Synagogues, organ-
ized last November at the bi-
ennial convention of the United
Synagogue.
Maurice Samuel, noted au-
thor, will speak at this affair.
A special 10th anniversary
certificate will be awarded from
the Israel Bond organization to
each lodge or chapter selling
$3,000 in Bonds. This amount is
required to build one housing
unit in the young democracy.
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Israel Court Grants Posthumous
Acquittal to Dr. Israel Kastner