THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS—Friday, November 7, 1958-8
JWV Urges Marking
Israel Planning Atlanta Saga
of Nazi Synagogue
Top-Level Probe Georgia Jewish History Belies Temple Boinbing
Destruction Date
Lee would have approved of the younger sister was born in Ful-
By DAVID SCHWARTZ
of Arab Massacre (Copyright,
Rabbis in synagogues through-
1958, JTA, Inc.)
bombing. I don't think Alex ton county—Atlanta, to be spe-
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
Israel Cabinet took steps to
trace to the very top of the
country's army command the
responsibility for the events at
Kafr Kassem two years ago,
when 43 Arab men, women and
children were killed by border
policemen.
A three-member committee
was formed by the Cabinet to
probe into the exact orders
issued prior to the 1956 Sinai
campaign. The committee con-
sists of Minister of Justice Pin-
has Rosen, Minister of Develop-
ment Mordechai Bentov, and
Peretz Naftali, Minister without
Portfolio.
Accusations in connection
with the shooting of the Arabs
have advanced beyond the im-
mediate officers in charge of
the border unit, to their com-
mander, Col. Issachar Shadmi.
The chief attorney for Is-
rael's army presented formal
charges against Col. Shadmi,
accusing him of issuing the
general curfew orders in the
Kafr Kassem region.
However, the Cabinet com-
mittee is looking into the
orders given Col. Shadmi by
the colonel's commander, Briga-
dier Zvi Tsur, who was in
charge of the central com-
mand, which included the area
assigned to Shadmi's respon-
sibility. Beyond Brig. Tsur, the
question will arise as to the
order emanating from the
Army's topmost echelons.
The eight men and officers
of Col. Shadmi's former com-
mand, found guilty of the Kafr
Kassem atrocity and sentenced
to long terms of imprisonment,
have filed appeals from the
convictions by the military
tribunal that tried them.
Bonn Govt. May Again
Consider Diplomatic
Relations with Israel
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to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM. — Bonn may
tackle the problem of diplo-
matic relations with Israel as a
consequence of Bonn's taking a
"new look" at its relations with
Eastern European countries and
with East Germany, Prof. Franz
Boehm, head of the West Ger-
man delegation which worked
out the terms of the German
Israel reparations pact, said
here Tuesday.
Prof. Boehm, addressing a
Foreign Press Correspondents
luncheon, noted that under its
present policy Bonn breaks off
relations with a n y country
which recognizes East Germany.
Therefore, he said, Bonn was
cautious about exchanging en-
voys with Israel lest the Arab
States, in retaliation, recognize
the Berlin Communist regime
and thereby force Bonn to sever
relations with them.
However, Prof. Boehm im-
plied that Bonn was undergoing
a change of heart with respect
to East Germany, and, in the
event of a new line in this di-
rection, might be more willing
to recognize Israel. The logic of
this position, according to Dr.
Boehm, appears to be that if
the Arabs were to retaliate by
recognizing East Germany, Bonn
would not be in a position
where it would be forced to cut
loose from the Arabs.
Commenting on the question
of individual restitution for
Nazi victims, Prof. Boehm ex-
pressed confidence that all valid
claims would be paid by March
1962. He estimated that the to-
tal to be paid out in this type
of indemnification would reach
the equivalent of $4,500,000,000.
The bombing of the Temple
in Atlanta seems particularly
reprehensible in the context of
the special history that attaches
to the Jews of Georgia. The
State of Georgia is the only one
of the 13 original states in
which Jewish settlement dates
from the very start. Jews came
to Georgia when James Ogle-
thorpe founded it. The first
white male child born in Geor-
gia was a Jew, Philip Minis.
John Wesley, the founder of
the Methodist Church, visited
the colony during Oglethorpe's
day and paid the Jewish settlers
a high compliment. He said he
found in many of them more
of what he called "the Chris-
tian spirit" than in many of
those professing to be Chris-
tians.
The Governor of Georgia,
immediately after the Ameri-
can Revolution, was a Jew,
David Emanuel, from whose
descent have come the Twiggs
family, _famous in the Con-
federate army and in the
public life of Georgia.
One of the cowardly "bom-
bers" telephoning an Atlanta
newspaper said they represent-
ed the "Confederate Under-
ground." I don't think Robert
E. Lee would have liked to be
associated with them, however.
One time, a Jewish soldier in
the Confederate army applied
for a furlough to attend Jew-
ish religious services in Rich-
mond. His superior officer
marked the application as fol-
lows:
"Denied. If such applications
were to be approved, the en-
tire army would turn into Jews
or shaking Quakers."
But Gen. Lee happened to
see the paper and he added
a second notation:
"Application of soldier ap-
proved with the recommenda-
tion to the officer that he
respect the religious views
of others."
No, I don't think Robert E.
Stephens and John" B. Gordon
would have approved of it, and
certainly not Jefferson Davis,
who made a Jew a member of
his cabinet—or Mrs. Jefferson
Davis who, in her autobio-
graphy, blessed an obscure Jew
for coming out to give them
money and food when they
were fleeing after the down-
fall of the Confederacy—and
there was no one to help them.
This unsung Jew then came to
their aid.
You see, I happen to know
something about Georgia. I was
born there—in Glynn county.
A brother was born around the
area the Georgia poet, Sidney
Lanier, who wrote:
"Down through the hills of
Habersharn,
Down through the valleys of
Hall,
I hurry again to reach the
plain—
Run the rapid and leap the
fall."
I used to hear him recite that
poem so often. I remember it
(though it has been over 40
years since I left Georgia). A
cific—on a street named after
a Yank who was not very pop-
ular in the South, Gen. Ben
Butler. They said this Yank
was addicted to stealing silver
spoons.
When I went to the Boys
High School in Atlanta, I was
one of those chosen to declaim
before the Confederate Soldiers
Home, and I remember how I
recited one of Henry Grady's
speeches about the new South,
telling how a poor Confederate
soldier lay wounded on the bat-
tlefield as the surgeon passed
around looking to see who
might be expected to live and
who not to. I don't know if I
moved any of the old Confeder-
ate vets, but I—or the speech
—certainly moved me.
So you see, I have many fond
recollections of Georgia and its
people, and so I know that the
good people there must lament
such deeds as I do. To be sure,
there is riff-raff, "white trash,"
there also, but these poor saps
—for actually they are just a
dumb lot—we have also in the
North.
out the country are urged to.
observe the 20th anniversary of
the destruction of synagogues
in Austria and Germany. Since
the Nov. 10 date falls on a
Monday this year, observances
will be held on Saturday and
Sunday, Nov. 8 and 9.
A resolution urging the ob-
servance of this tragic date
which foreshadowed the death
of 6,000,000 European Jews, is
urged by a resolution passed by
the Jewish War Veterans.
Bonn Increases Pensions
of Some Nazi Victims
BONN (JTA)—After a long
delay, the Bundesrat, upper
house of the West German
Parliament, has passed a bill
which provides increases in the
pensions given to some persons
who suffered persecution under
the Nazi regime.
The upper house, however,
turned down a government
request to include among the
pensioners given higher rates
those whose occupational ad-
vancement was hindered by
Nazi persecutions.
Report Khrushchev
to Visit in Egypt;
Furnish More Arms
LONDON (JTA) — Soviet
Premier Nikita Krushchev will
proceed soon to Egypt at the
invitation of Col. Nasser, presi-
dent of the United Arab
Republic.
The Cairo report says that
the Soviet government has also
promised to supply the United
Arab Republic with late model
jet bombers and other modern
weapons, in addition to the
arms already supplied under
previous arrangements. ,
According to the Cairo re-
port, the United Arab Republic
will not begin repaying the
Soviet loan until the first
stage of the work on the
Aswan Dam is completed,
which means a period of four
to five years' time. The pay-
ments will be made over a
period of 12 years at two and
one-half per cent interest.
The dam is a $1,300,000,000
project that will take 20 years,
but it is estimated here that
only $400,000,000 in foreign
loans is needed because Egypt
can furnish the bulk of the
labor and materials.
Hamburg Votes to Replace
Destroyed Jewish Hospital
HAMBURG (JTA)—The City
Senate voted to build a new
Jewish hospital in Hamburg as
restitution for the Israelitische
Krankenhaus which the Nazis
closed down during the Hitler
If poetry comes not as nat- regime. The entire cost, esti-
urally as leaves to a tree, it mated at about 3,900,000
had better not come at all."— deutschemarks, will be paid by
the city.
John Keats.
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