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VOLUME XXXIV—No. 22

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Ness, Migration Movement Stirs
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Opening Meeting of '59 Drive
Brings Pledges of $1, 913, 785

Bonn Moves to Punish
Race Haters; Adenauer
to Fight Anti-Semites

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BONN-The anti-defamation bill approved

by the West
German cabinet on Jan. 14 was presented to the federal parlia-
ment Monday.
The draft is an amendment of Paragraph 113 of the West
German Penal Code. The proposed amendment reads that "any
one who in the future, in a form endangering the public peace,
will agitate against national, racial or religious groups, or
against a group because of its national origin; who will slander
them or make them contemptible, or against better knowledge
make defamation and assertions of a factual nature, will be
punished with not less than three months imprisonment. - In
addition a fine maybe imposed.
The law is expected to reach the floor of parliament soon
for discussion. A similar draft has been placed before parlia-
ment for discussion three times since 1950. Ministry of Justice
officials said that the draft laws had never been discussed in
parliament for "technical reasons."
The West German Government will do everything in its
power to prevent the recurrence of anti-Semitic incidents such
as burst on the scene in recent weeks and months, Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer promised Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president
of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany,
at an audience here.
The Chancellor reiterated to Dr. Goldmann what he had
earlier stated in a several-days-long debate in the West German
Parliament, that the incidents were "isolated" occurrences
which were not condoned by the German people.
Additionally. the Chancellor pledged that Federal and
state governments would join in seeking ways and means of
implementing the indemnification law. That program, he prom-
ised, would meet its deadline. He promised favorable consider-
ation of a number of measures to speed indemnification.
In Parliament, Socialist leader Adolf Arndt opposed as
"imprudent and dangerous to free expression" a Cabinet pro-
posal to make group libel of a national or religious group a
criminal offense. This is a reversal, since in the past the Social
Democrats have favored such legislation.
Other deputies., including Free Democratic Party men,
spoke out against the government's return to official positions
former Nazi judges and prosecutors. Chris-
tian Democratic Union members protested
bitterly when the Socialists held Finance
Minister Fritz Schaeffer responsible. in
part, for the wave of anti-Semitism. The
Socialists said he contributed to the out-
bursts when he charged last year that res-
titution to the Jews would exceed 56,000,-
000,000.
Rising in his own defense, Herr
Schaeffer pointed out that in his official
capacity he had signed the Indemnification
Law, adding that his remarks were aimed
at the "financial effects" of the indemnifi-
cation program. He said this view had been
confirmed by Jewish organizations, adding:
9 am covered by the decency of the Jews."

Deeply moved by reports of new migration movements to
Israel by tens of 'thousands who must find refuge from perse-
cutions and humiliations immediately, and stirred to action by
an eloquent appeal for continued generosity from American
Jewry made by Avraham Harman, director of Jewish Agency
activities in Israel and former Israel Consul in New York, pre-
campaign leaders, gathered at the annual and traditional Sucher
Meeting, Tuesday evening, pledged the sum of $1,913,785
towards the 1959 Allied Jewish Campaign.

The pledgors of this sum—a record figure for initiating a local philan-
thropic effort—last year contributed $1,713,960, and Tuesday's gifts there-
fore represented an increase of 16 per cent in their giving.

The Sucher Meeting was the seventh annual such gathering at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. C. William Sucher, 1500 Balmoral Drive. It has
become a tradition here to open the Allied Jewish Campaign with a social
event for larger contributors at the Suchers' home, and the results of these
meetings—as indicated by the high record for giving set Tuesday evening
—have made the Sucher name known in Jewish circles in this country and
in Israel.

Many of the 110 people at the Sucher home made very large increases
in their giving, and a number of contributors gave as much as 25 to 50
per cent above their last year's gifts. Several doubled their pledges.

Irwin I. Cohn. 1959 campaign chairman, presided at the gathering,
and he was joined in making the appeal by Max M. Fisher, last year's
campaign chairman, and Paul Zuckerman. pre-campaign chairman.

In opening welcoming remarks to his guests, Mr. Sucher said that he
and Mrs. Sucher "get a thrill in knowing that the Sucher home has become
a shrine for Detroit campaigns." Mr. Harman corroborated the fact that
the results of campaign efforts at Sucher gatherings have become widely
known as pace-setters in American Jewish philanthropic efforts.

Mr. Sucher accompanied his welcoming remarks with the announce-
ment that he and his associate, Max M. Fisher, are contributing $150,000—
which to-date is the largest gift to the 1959 Allied Jewish Campaign.

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Top campaign leaders at the Sucher meeting, left to right: Hyman
Safran, Charles H. Gershenson, Max M. Fisher, Irwin I. Cohn, Avra-
ham Harman, C. William Sucher, Milton I. Taubman of Tulsa, Okla.,
Paul Zuckerman, Leonard N. Simons, Isidore Sobeloff and Judge Theo-
dore Levin.

Danger of Anti-Semitic Revival
Indicated by Agency Spokesman;
Mikoyan's Denials Repudiated

AMSTERDAM — A wide ranging re-
view • of the status of Jews in many Euro-
pean countries was presented Monday

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