Major, Reception in capitol, UN
Honor Israel's Ambassador Eban
Report German Youth Unaware of Hitler Brutality
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A tele-
vision crew, visiting scores of
West German classrooms to
record student opinions on
Nazism, found that nine out of
every ten students 15 to 17
Nazi killings of Jews, generally ignorance existed and was told
listed as a minimum of 6,000,000 that the crammed curriculum
delegates to the United Nations,
victims.
gave little time to Germany's
and numerous distinguished
The television crew asked a recent past, dwelling instead on
Americans attended a farewell
group of teachers why such ancient historY.
dinner Monday night, in honor
of Israel Ambassador Abba years of age had never heard
Eban.
of Hitl,,•r or, if they had, be-
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The event was Eban's fare- lieved that on the whole the
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well to the United Nations, after Nazi leader had done more
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11 years of ' service at Israel's good than harm.
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permanent representative. here.
Die Welt of Hamburg com-
The dinner was presided over
Sir Pierson Dixon, of the mented that "there is some-
by Sen. Javits who subdtituted United Kingdom, and Ambassa- thing rotten in German schools"
for Gov. McKeldin, who had dor U Thant of Burma spoke on and the Permanent Conference
suddenly taken. ill.
behalf of the crops of the per- of West German cultural min-
Rep. James McCormick, House manent delegates at the United isters announced that the prob-
majority leader, spoke of Israel Nations. -Other speakers in-, lem would be considered at the
as "one of the best friends eluded Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, next meeting of the Conference,
SHORE CHEVROLET
America has throughout the former New York State Gov- according to the New York
world," and acclaimed Eban as ernor Thomas E. Dewey, U.S. Times in a report this week
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a "distinguished • diplomat and Sen. Jacob K. Javits, and Mrs. from Bonn.
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Rose
Halprin,
acting
chairman
The
resulting
television
dis-
on
all
models
scholar." The• Senate minority
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leader, Everett Dirksen, said of the Jewish Agency. All closed not only widespread
that Eban had "enriched our speakers paid warm tribute to ignorance among West German
youth of the appalling events
nation with the quality he Eban.
Recalling that, exactly 10 of the Nazi era but also that
brought here."
years ago, on May 11, 1949, the students knew little about
The retiring Ambassador was
Israel
was admitted to member- Germany's present situation.
highly honored in an address
A typical reply to the key
by the Very Rev. Edward B. ship of the United Nations, Am-
Bunn, president of Georgetown bassador Eban reviewed "the question "What do you know
about Hitler?" was: "Hitler
University, who spoke of Eban drama of Israel's rebirth" as en-
acted before the world at the revived Germany. He did away
as "my personal friend."
United Nations. He pointed out with unemployment and built
The sentiments of the Jewish that Israel is a people to whom the autobahns." Die Welt called
community were expressed in nothing has been freely given.
such answers _ "alarming and
an impressive address by Philip
"Her narrow land, her scanty scandalous."
Klutznick, national president of water, the freedom of her home
The highest estimate given by
Bnai Brith, who declared:
and lives, her capital city, her students on the number of Jews
"Even in the press of what status in the international fam- slaughtered by the Nazis was
appears to be serious conflicts ily, her maritime access to half 30,000. Many students said they
of interest, the dignity of the the world — gifts with which did not know anything about
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Ambassador's b e h a v i o r, his other nations are endowed at
wears, wonderfully easy to care for . . . • 100% wool pile—
splendid scholarship, has extra- the moment of their birth --
ordinary talent for felicitous ex- have been for us the fruit of Liverpool Fire Destroys
amazingly crush-resistant — will not
pression kept controversy where bitter contest," he said.
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it belongs — a difference be-
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LIVERPOOL — Irreplacable
difference between our nation one verdict on the outcome of
improves with wear . . . • Variety of
and any segment of his con- this story," he continued. "Is- old Hebrew scrolls, including
Tweed or plain colors!
stituency." He acclaimed Eban rael has gained far more from some invaluable, hand-written
documents
on
old
parchment,
for having evaluated "the image her association with this union
of a positive Jew that his pres- of sovereign peoples than she were destroyed in a synagogue,
fire here Monday night.
ence has created among us."
• Custom
has ever lost in occasional mo-
The fire is believed to have
As a token of the American ments of fustration and disap-
Installation
been set by thieves who had
people's admiration for Eban ; pointment.
broken
into
the
synagogue
of-
F. Joseph Donohue, chairman
"I know not what the course
• Convenient
of the board of the American-i of our history might have been fice.
The office had been ransack-
Terms
Israel Society, presented him if the desperate surge of the
with a reproduction of the his- Jewish people towards its free- ed, and money and other val-
toric Blackstone Memorial of i dom had not intersected with uables were taken from the
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March 5, 1891, which requested another line of historic progress safe. Half the roof of the syna-
gogue
collapsed
before
firemen
President Benjamin Harrison to —that which created an interna-
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take action on behalf of a Jew- tional forum where issues trol.
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ish National Home in Palestine. could be judged above the level
Ambassador Eban's stirring of national strategies and in-
address in reply to the encomia terests.
was a review of American-
"The history of man," Eban
Israel friendship: an appeal for said, "has nat been written
its continuation and a declara- solely by great empires and con-
tion that "we hold in common tinental powers. Ancient Israel
a vision of peace between Israel was surrounded by strong em-
and its Arab neighbors."
pires which excelled her in
The honors to the Ebans were military power, in material
carried over even to the chil- wealth, and in the sophistica-
dren. The school attended by tion and refinement of their
the Ebans' nine-year-old son, Eli, arts.
declared Wednesday as "Eli
"Rut all these crumble in ob-
Eban Day." Eli was given the livion while our small voice
privilege of choosing the menu came down across the ages with
for luncheon and his classmates undying power. Small nations
will present him shortly with should not confuse their phys-
a magnetic chess board. -
ical smallness with spiritual and
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intellectual impotence. It is in
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., the General Assembly that
(JTA)—Fifty ambassadors from fullest scope is available to the
foreign countries, many of the gifts of insight, influence and
expression," he concluded.
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able diplomatic representative
in Washington." Be described
the "perils a n d glorious
achievements" of Israel, re-
ferred to the "rapid tempo
of crises" that have developed
there and paid high honor to
the "keen judgment" of the
retiring Ambassador.
.
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this year's Council activities,
including interests in the fields
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Middle East developments, com-
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