Heads of National Jewish Organizations
Expose Facts Regarding British American
Tobacco Co.'s Refusal to Sell to Israel

Viceroy, Kool, Raleigh Among
Cigarettes Involved in Arabs'
Middle East Boycott Program,

NEW YORK (JTA) — The
Conference of Presidents of 17
major American Jewish or-
ganizations issued a statement
of facts on the Brown and Wil-
liamson Tobacco Corporation
which has been involved in a
controversy over American
firms that have yielded to the
Arab boycott. The statement
was issued after a meeting
between representatives of the
Conference and representatives
of the British American To-
bacco Co., Ltd., and its wholly-
owned subsidiary, Brown &
Williamson Tobacco Corpora-
tion.
At the suggestion of the
spokesmen for these compa-
nies, the representatives of the
17 major Jewish organizations
reviewed the facts • regarding
the refusal of their corpora-
tions to sell certain of their
brands to Israel. The facts, the
statement says, are as follows:
"1. Brown & Williamson is a
of
wholly-owned - subsidiary
British American Tobacco and
manufactures and sells in this
country Viceroy, Kools, Ral-
eigh and other brands of .cig-
arettes.
"2. British American Tabac-
00 owns the right to sell out-
side the United States of Amer-
ica cigarettes bearing the brand
names of Lucky Strike and
Pall Mall. These two brands
are manufactured for it by
Brown & Williamson.
"3. The American Tobacco
Company which manufactures
and sells Lucky Strike and
Pall Mall cigarettes in the
United States has no connec-
tion with either Brown &
Williamson or British Ameri-
can Tobacco and is in no way
involved in the Arab boycott
program.
"4 British American Tobac-
co admits that it has refused
and still refuses to sell its
Lucky Strike and Pall Mall
brands to Israel. Brown & Wil-
liamson has publicly admitted
that the boycott was imposed
because of pressures from
Arab countries and that they
yielded because of fears that
capital investments and mar-
kets in those countries would
otherwise be jeopardized.
"5. Brown & Williamson,
wholly-owned by British Ameri-
can Tobacco, is inextricably as-
sociated with the decisions of

its parent company and there-
fore shares responsibility for
the boycott.
"The Arab boycott of Amer-
icans is international intimi-
dation; it thriveS on appease-
ment and capitulation. We are
confident that Americans de-
plore the Arab boycott and
will want to resist this impair-
ment of the rights and privi-
leges of American citizenship,"
the statement of the Jewish
organizations concluded.
(In view of the position of
Brown & Williamson Co., The
Jewish News felt impelled,
in the past eight months to
turn down advertising .con-
tracts for Viceroy cigarettes).

Zind in Cairo;
Fled Conviction

BONN (JTA)—Ludwig Zind,
suspended German high school
teacher who jumped bail when
the Supreme Court turned
down his appeal against con-
viction for publicly making
anti-Semitic statements and de-
faming the murdered victims
of Nazism, has arrived in Cairo,
the German Press Agency re-
ported.
Zind registered under the
name of Helmut Volimer in
one of Cairo's main hotels,
the report said. It added that
the same ship which brought
Zind to Alexandria carried the
wife of Hans Eisele, Nazi con-
centration camp doctor who
also fled to Egypt when he
faced prosecution for 'war
crimes.
Addressing - the parliament
of B a den-Wuerttemburg, Jus-
tice Minister Wolfgang Hauss-
man declared that West Ger-
many must respect •the right
of the individual, even if it
leads to such incidents as the
escape of Zind. Dr. Haussman
assured the provincial Parlia-
ment that everything had been
done and would be done to
bring Zind to justice.
The provincial Minister of
Culture, Dr. H. Storz, publicly
warned that he would not tol-
erate the slightest trace of
anti-Semitism in schools under
his jurisdiction, nor would he
condone attempts to gloss over
the Hitler horrors. Zind was a
high school teacher in Offen-
burg.

Judcre Simon Sobeloff Cautions Against
Folly of Isolationism in J ewish Affairs

BALTIMORE, Md.—In a ma-
jor address in which he evalu-
ated American Jewry's position
today, Judge Simon E. Sobeloff
of the U.S. Circuit Court of Ap-
peals declared here Sunday eve-
ning that "there can be no
isolationism in Jewish affairs"
and that Jews are free in the
richness and fullness of their
Americanism when "they under-
stand themselves."
Commenting on good-will ef-
forts in this country, Judge
Sobeloff said that "mutual un-
derstanding begins with a
healthy and informed under-
standing of our own role in
the evolution of civilization."
His address was delivered
at the annual Hanukah dinner
of the Chizuk Amuno Congre-
gation, held in the syna-
gogue's new educational cen-
ter in Pikesville, Md., in honor
of the tenth anniversary of
Dr. Israel M. Goldman as
rabbi of the congregation.
In the course of his remarks,
in which he paid honor to Rabbi
Goldman for his dedicated serv-
ices to American Jewry, Judge
Sobeloff said:
"The world is learning a bit-
ter lesson from the war and its
tragic aftermath; namely, the
falseness and folly of isolation-
ism. Slowly the nations have be-
gun to understand that the hap-
piness of humanity cannot be
achieved if mankind remains
divided in separate segments,
each living for itself and un-
concerned for the welfare of
others, and that the security,
prosperity and progress of each
depend in some measure on the
fate of the others. We Jews,
particularly, should realize that
there can be no isolationism in
our affairs. The persecution of
Jews in other lands, their strug-
gles to escape, their cries for
help, their efforts at redemption
and rehabilitation in the ancient
and newly restored land of Is-
rael — these things cannot be
matters of indifference to us.
"Anyone who thinks that oc-
cupying ourselves with these
concerns involves a disharmony
with our duty to America puts
a mean interpretation upon
American freedom.
"There are free Jews in this
country. There are some who
are not so free, despite what
the Constitution and laws say
and even when their neighbors
do nothing to impair that free-

Israel Liberalizes Foreign Exchange Restrictions;
Importing of Cars Made Easier But Costlier

Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News

JERUSALEM — The Israel
government, continuing its lib-
eralization of foreign currency
controls, announced Tuesday an
easing of restrictions on im-
portation of passenger automo-
biles.
The liberalization began Sun-
day with the announcement that
Israel travelers will be permit-
ted to purchase freely from
banks $100 each at practically
a free rate of around two and
half pounds per dollar.
The relaxation on importa-
tion of cars provides that both
new and used foreign made
automobiles will require only a

formal permit for importation.
However, such imports will be
liable to heavier import duties
than in the past.
Under the new regulations,
anyone in Israel wishing to im-
port a car will be able to obtain
the necessary foreign currency
at the official rate of 1.8
pounds per dollar. On entry of
the car, however, the buyer will
have to pay duty of up to 11
Israel pounds per kilo of the
weight of the car.
Under this arrangement a
1958 car from the lowest priced
standard American makes would
cost upwards of 14,000 pounds
which is $7,700 at the official

dom. They are not free because
they fail to understand the full-
ness and richness of American-
ism and because they misunder-
stand themselves.
"These s m a 11 segments of
Jewry have an affiliation which
is as barren and negative as it
is unwanted, for they divorce
themselves from Jewish learn-
ing and Jewish pride and par-
ticipation in the great recon-
structive efforts of our people
in the lands of oppression and
in Israel. They fear that these
interests might be regarded as
too Jewish.
"They are not only remiss in
their Jewish obligations but
they slander American freedom
by attributing to it a meaning
narrower than it really pos-
sesses.
"I have perhaps attended as

many good will meetings as the
next man, and I do not decry
such activities. But I think that
our people will be wise to recog-
nize that fundamentally anti-
Semitism is not combatted by
good will meetings. The most
effective answer to our enemies
and detractors is to act nobly
our part as Jews. Mutual under-
standing begins with a healthy
and informed understanding of
our own role, past, present and
future, in the evolution of civil-
ization.
"The pertinence to- this oc-
casion of all that I have been
saying must be obvious, because
it relates to the moral impera-
tives of our faith and the es-
sence of all ethical religion.
Unless we bear and respond,
our professions are a hollow
mockery of true religion."

Around the Trorld...

A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from
Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other
News-Gathering Media.

United States

PHILADELPHIA—The Jewish Community Relations Coun-
cil has made known specific complaints lodged by Jewish in :
habitants of Philadelphia and its suburbs against owners, builders
and their rental agents that they refuse to sell new homes to
Jews.
NEW YORK—Two Hebrew day schools were among the
schools ordered closed in a sweeping investigation of fire hazards
in school buildings, as a result of the tragic fire in a Chicago
parochial school which- took the lives of 90 children .. . Meyer
Weisgal reported at the Weizmann Institute dinner that Herman
P. Taubman, of Tulsa, Okla., contributed $150,000 to the Weiz-
manrn Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel . .. Mr. and Mrs.
Moshe Sharett were honored at a farewell gathering arranged
by the Israel Bond Organization prior to their return to Israel.

Canada

. MONTREAL—A Canadian Jewish Congress study shows
that since World War II 44,578 Jews came into Canada, which
had a pre-war Jewish population of 175,000.

Europe

LONDON—The Agudath Israel world executive lodged a com-
plaint with the Austrian government against the ban on Jewish
ritual slaughter by the regional governor in Upper Austria . . .
The Anglo-Jewish Association announced that it will continue its
educational work among the Jews in Aden . . . The international
police organization Interpol is reported to have circulated to
all European police forces a description of Ludwig Zind, who
fled from West Germany after his conviction on anti-Semitic
charges which resulted in his being sentenced to a year's im-
prisonment, his extradition being sought by the West German
authorities.
ROME—The Italian Senate, after a short debate and over
the objections of the government and of several Communist
deputies, adopted a law to outlaw genocide which would allow
the authorities to grant the extradition of persons accused in
another country of genocide.
STUTTGART—Stuttgart authorities have failed to prosecute
a confessed Nazi murderer, it was charged by Walter Huber,
one of a group of officials to whom Anton Dehm, Gestapo guard
in Stuttgart, confessed the murder of a Jewish woman during
the Nazi regime.
AMSTERDAM—The ancient Jewish quarter of this city will
shortly be destroyed and vanish to make way for a new tunnel
under a nearby lake and a new highway link between the city
proper and its newer northern suburb.
PARIS—Stateless Jews and Jews of foreign nationality now
living in Egypt are finding it increasingly difficult to obtain
exit visas to quit that country, it was reported here from Cairo.
BONN—Witnesses from Israel and the 'United States who
returned to Germany to testify at the trial of Gustav Sorge and
Wilhelm Schubert, SS guards at the Sachsenhausen concentra.
tion camp, told the court of the inhuman brutality with which
Sorge and Schubert, beat, kicked, drowned and burned to death
hundreds of Jewish prisoners in the death camp.

rate and 5,600 dollars at the
free rate.
Another easing of currency
controls was indicated in ruling
that the free purchase of $100
by travelers 'will be available
also for certain payments by
Israel citizens for obligations
abroad, including the support of
aged parents, insurance pre-
miums and certain imports.
Because Israel received per-
mission from the International
Monetary Fund for the new ar-
rangements, it was widely pre-
Latin America
dicted that the free two and
RIO DE JANEIRO—Israel and Brazil concluded an extra-
half pound rate would become dition treaty which is expected to be ratified within three months,
the new official rate of exchange Dr. Joseph Kokiya ; director general of the Israel Ministry of
after the '59 national elections. Justice, having witnessed the signing * ceremony.

