Two Leaders Chosen for
Allied Jewish Campaign
German Court
to Review Case
on Hate Leaflet
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
Irwin I. Cohn, 959 Allied Jewish Campaign chair-
man, center, announces that Leonard N. Simons, right,
will be campaign co-chairman and Paul Zuckerman will
be pre-campaign chairman.
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Yugoslavia to Press Fight
for Artukovies Extradition
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
JTA Washington Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON, — The gov-
ernment of Yugoslavia will ex-
plore all legal channels to re-
new its seven-year fight to gain
extradition of Andrija Artuko-
vic, a Croatian Hitler collabora-
tor charged with the murder of
thousands of Jews and others
during World War II.
U. S. Commissioner Theodore
Hocke ruled in Los Angeles that
the charges brought -by Yugo-
slavia were political in nature.
It was held therefore, that Ar-
tukovic was not subject to extra-
.)
dition.
Commenting on the decision,
a spokesman for the Yugoslav
Embassy said that Artukovic
was a common - criminal as well
as a political and war criminal.
Therefore, Yugoslavia will mus-
ter all its legal resources to
bring Artukovic to justice.
Commissioner Hocke h e 1 d
there was "no reasonable cause
bo believe Artukovic guilty of
the crimes charged." The 58-
year-old Croat who served as
Interior Minister and police
head of the pro-Nazi puppet re-
gime. was described as "jubi-
lant" when the decision was
announced.
The World Jewish Congress
and Yugoslav Jews now residing
in Israel took great interest in
Balfour Workers'
Victory Dinner
Set Wednesday
Rabbi Morris Adler, of Cong.
Shaarey Zedek, will address the
third annual Balfour Workers'
Victory Dinner, to be held by
the Zionist Organization of De-
troit at 6:30
p.m., Wednes-
.4' day at Rain-
' bow Terrace.
Honors will
be accorded to
several of the
leading mem-
bers and work-
ers of Z 0 D.
The list is
headed by
Sherman Sha-
Borman
piro, 1958 Balfour Cone e r t
chairman; Abraham Borman,
ZOD president; and Harry Co-
hen. honorary life chairman.
Rabbi M. Robert Syme, of
Temple Israel, will be master
of ceremonies at the dinner,
and entertainment will be pro-
vided by Shimon and Elaine
Gewirtz, p o p u l a r folk song
artists.
Dr. Bernard Weston is chair-
man of the dinner committee,
and is assisted by Mesdames
I. Walter Silver and Irving Sni-
derman. All workers and con-
tributors can make reservations
for the dinner by contacting
Zionist House, 10424 W. Mc-
Nichols. DI 1-8540.
,
the Artukovic case. They charg-
ed that he was among the most
extreme Nazi collaborators and
personally active in the perSe-
cution and murder of Yugoslav
Jews. Anti - Semitic statements
by Artukovic and orders signed
by him for persecution of Jews
are a matter of record.
The Roman Catholic Church
supported Artukovic in the long
legal fight. Spokesmen for the
church testified in his behalf,
certifying his character as excel-
lent, and holding that he was
an "enemy of Communism" who
should not be deported to Com-
munist Yugoslavia.
KARLSUHE — The Supreme
Court of West Germany will
review a pamphlet written by
Fredrich Nieland and pub-
lished by Adolf Heimberg, of
Hamburg, to determine
whether it violates federal law
and shall be confiscated as
anti-Semitic propaganda, it was
announced here Tuesday by
Dr. W. Guede, federal Attor-
ney General, after a conference
with Hamburg authorities.
The refusal of the Hamburg
Supreme Court to permit pro-
secution of the author and the
printer on the grounds that the
pamphlet did not violate Bonn
legislation against dissemina-
tion of material inciting to
race hatred has aroused storm
of protest in Hamburg and
throughout the rest of Ger-
many.
However, acquittal in - the
Hamburg city court bars fur-
ther prosecution for Nieland
and Heinberg.
The main point to be pre-
sented to the Federal Supreme
Court here will be the passage
in the Nieland pamphlet stat-
ing: "No Jew must sit in any
important position, be it in the
government, a political party,
banking or elsewhere." The
court will be asked to rule
whether the passage constitutes
violation of the constitutional
guarantee of equal rights for
all.
Music Study Club Co-Sponsors
Concert; Feature `Electronic' Music
"Electronic" music, a device
new to Detroit, will be heard
here for the first time at a con-
cert of classical and contempo-
rary music arranged by the
Music Study Club for 8:30 p.m.,
Wednesday, at the International
Institute.
Mrs. Marguerite K o z e nn
Chajes is chairman of the pro-
gram and annotator. Her co-
7N chairman is
„..,Mrs. Sylvia
Scherr.
The new fea-
ture, electron-
ic music, is
written espe-
cially for new-
, ly - invented
musical
sounds, which
, a r e produced
with specially
devised instru-
ments and mi-
crophones.
Mrs. Chajes
The evening will include also
the first Detroit performance of
a sonata for two violins and
double bass, written by Leopold
Mozart, father of the famous
composer, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart.
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More Rains May
Prevent Israel
Water Rationing
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
TEL AVIV—A heavy down-
pour, m i n g 1 e d with hail,
brought continued relief Tues-
day from the worst drought to
hit Israel in decades.
Though the rains will not
save a good portion of the
crop, it will—if it continues—
remove the threat of water
famine and possible rationing
of water.
North of Beersheba the new
rains brought • hope of saving
some crops while in Galilee the
rains have assured the crops. '
Damage to citrus groves from
the hail was minimal.
Other compositions will be a
sonata for violin and piano by
Dutch composer Leon Orthel
and Spanish songs to the text of
F. Garcia Lorca, all heard for
the first time locally. Works by
Ravel and Paul Paray will round
out the concert.
Participating artists are Reva
Reatha Jackson, harp; Lawrence
LaGore, piano; Alexander Suc-
zek, troubador; Harvey Seigel
and Emily Adams, violin; Emile
Simonel, viola; Edward Korki-
gian, cello; and Frank Sinco,
double bass.
Co - sponsoring the concert
with the Music Study Club are
the Music Performance Trust
Funds of the Recording Indus,
tries as administered by the De-
troit Federation of Musicians;
t h e Netherlands Information
Service, Wayne State University
music and music education de-
partments a n d International
Institute.
Mikoyan's Intervention
Sought for Youngster
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
United Hias Service has fol-
lowed up a promise by Soviet
Deputy Premier Anastas I.
Mikoyan to Philipp Heller, a
Czechoslovakian refugee, that
he would "look into the case"
of Heller's 14-year-old daughter
whom he left behind in Prague
when he fled to the West in
1948. Heller accosted Mikoyan
in San Francisco during the
Soviet leader's visit there and
appealed to him, in the spirit .
of Mr. Mikoyan's goodwill mis-
sion ,to help obtain an exit
visa for the girl.
Subsequently, Heller inform-
ed United Hias Service of Mik-
oyan's pledge. James P. Rice,
executive director, wired Mik-
oyan that his agency "stands
ready to take responsibility for
all transportation arrangements
provided your kind interven-
tion with the Czechoslovakian
authorities would make pos-
sible the issuance of an exit
permit."
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No Jewish Problem in USSR,
Says Mikoyan; Denies Plan
to Send Jews to Birobidjan
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.,
(JTA) — Anastas I. Mikoyan,
First Deputy Premier of the
Soviet Union, asserted that
"there is no Jewish problem in
the Soviet Union at all. This
problem is created by those
who wish to impede good rela-
tions."
The Soviet leader's remarks
were made to a crowded press
conference at the United Na-
tions Thursday in answer to a
question posed to him by the
correspondent of the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency.
Later, at a private luncheon
Soviet Ambassador M i k hail
Menshikov tendered to four
leaders of the American Jew-
ish Committee, Mikoyan des-
cribed as unfounded reports
that the Soviet authorities in-
tended to transfer the Jewish
population of the Soviet Union
to the Birobidjan region of
Siberia.
Former Senator Herbert H.
Lehman, honorary vice presi-
dent of the AJC, made a public
statement he was authorized
to issue on behalf of Mikoyan.
It read:
"The reported plans for
the re-creation of a Jewish
state in Birobidjan and the
transfer of the Jewish popu-
lation in Russia to that area
is without foundation."
Senator Lehman, who said he
was "gratified" by the state-
ment, indicated that other as-
pects of Jewish life in the
Soviet Union had been touched
upon during the luncheon, held
in the Soviet Ambassador's
suite in a New York hotel.
Irving M. Engel, president
of the AJC, who attended the
function, agreed with the Sen-
ator that "we are gratified,"
but commented that "the ans-
wer does not necessarily satisfy
us; there is a difference be-
tween being satisfied and grati-
fied."
Jacob Blaustein,
honorary
president of the AJC, and
Ralph Friedman, chairman of
its foreign affairs committee,
were also guests at the lunch-
eon.
The JTA correspond-
ent raised the question of the
treatment of the Jews in the
Soviet Union almost as soon
as Mikoyan's press conference
opened.
"Mr. Mikoyan," he said, "dur-
ing your current trip in the
United States, you have dis-
associated yourself from the
late Mr. (Lavrenti) Beria
(chief of the Soviet secret po-
lice). I would like to direct
this question to you sir: Mr.
Beria was apparently largely
responsible for the liquidation
of Jewish culture, particularly
Yiddish culture, in the Soviet
Union. As a member of .the
Government, do you contem-
plate: any steps in the near
future to reinstitute the free
exercise of the Yiddish theater,
press and other Jewish cul-
tural activities in the Soviet
Union?"
Mikoyan replied to this ques-
tion with a long statement on ,
the general status of the Jews
in the Soviet Union, declaring:
"In my country all peoples
enjoy .freedom, and freedom
for the development of their
culture. They can have their
theaters, their literature, and
that includes the Jews. How-
ever, the Jewish population
has emerged with the Rus-
sians in Russian culture so
fully that Jews participate in
general culture and litera-
ture, on the Russian stage
and in Russian literature.
"There are many Jewish
writers who consider them-
selves Russian and prefer to
write Russian. We cannot in-
terfere in that matter. This
is a matter of the Jewish in-
telligentsia.
"We do create all condi-
tions in which Jewish and
Russian literatures and the
literatures of all other Sov-
iet peoples should have full
opportunities for their devel-
opment, writing and creation.
"There is no Jewish prob-
lem in the Soviet Union at
all. This problem is created
by those who wish to im-
pede good relations."
Shortly after this response,
Mr. Mikoyan was reminded by
another journalist that the
Jewish Labor Committee had
left a memorandum for him
at the headquarters of the
USSR delegation to the United
Nations, referring specifically
to the liquidation of Jewish
writers. Mikoyan's reply was:
"I am not acquainted with
these persons and I cannot
comment on the authors of
this memorandum. You call
them a labor committee; I do
not hear anything that smacks
of labor in what they have
to say. In my country all
peoples enjoy freedom and the
development of culture and
that includes the Jews. I have
many friends who are Jews.
Many of our most prominent
leaders, in fact, have married
Jewish girls and they have
excellent relations. I would
say, let others have relations
that are as good."
In response to the question
about Russia's attitude toward
Arab nationalism, the Soviet
leader reiterated the well
known Soviet attitude on that
score, declaring: "We regard
Arab nationalism as a pro-
gressive force designed to
emancipate the Arabs from the
colonial yoke which enslaved
them, and to achieve independ-
ence, and bring about the flow-
ering of Arab culture. The
unity of the Arab peoples is a
progressive phenomenon."
`Slow Strangulation' of
Judaism in Soviet Union
Reported by Rabbi
LOS ANGELES, (JTA) — A
Los Angeles rabbi, returned
from an extensive tour of the
Soviet Union reported this
week that, despite the resist-
ance of Soviet Jews, to the
Russian anti-religious drive,
they were dying out "as Jews,
at a rate unparalleled in his-
tory."
Rabbi Ephraim F. Einhorn,
writing in the California Jew-
ish Voice, declared that Jews
"eventually will cease to exist
in the Soviet Union if the
campaign continues unabated.
The government's "relentless
campaign to eliminate religion"
is resulting in the "slow strang-
ulation of all faiths and of
Judaism in particular," he de-
clared.
With all Jewish educational
institutions shut down, the syn-
agogue is virtually the only
source of Jewish continuity
"but anyone going to a syna-
gogue seriously compromises
himself, his family and all who
associate with him," Rabbi
Einhorn stated. The much-
publicized "Freedom of Re-
ligion" in the Soviet Union
and the satellite countries "en-
ables the Jews only to bury
their dead in a traditional
manner," he added.
He said that every child is
taught six days out of seven
in Soviet public schools that
"God has been invited by the
enemies of the peoples of the
Soviet Union for the purpose
of exploiting the w o r k i n g
masses." The parents trying to
give religious education to
their child pit themselves
"against the power and pres-
tige of the school and the
Government."