Nixon, at Warsaw Ghetto Memorta
. 1, Asks for
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To The Jewish News
WARSAW — Standing beside
the memorial to the more than
70,000 Jews who fought and
died in,. the famous Warsaw
Ghetto, near the very bunker
which served as the Jews' last
bastion against the Nazi on-
slaught, Vice President Richard
M. Nixon on Tuesday called on
all men to "unite against such
prejudices because here we see
again what happens when such
passions, which are allowed to
be nourished, are unleashed."
Picking his way through the
ruins of the bunker, the Vice
President remarked, "I think
this ruined building, even more
than the memorial, brings home
some lessons we forget too
quickly."
The memorial to which Nixon
referred is currently being built
by the Polish -government. The -
plans for the monument were
selected through a contest in
which over 500 of the world's
foremost artists competed.
The memorial is being made
from the stones which the Nazis
had planned to use for a monu-
ment to Hitler's "One Thousand
Year Reich."
Later, speaking in more gen-
eral terms about the important
lessons that should be learned
Visiting the Warsaw Ghetto where 70,000 Jews were
from this historic site, Nixon massacred by the Nazis in World War II, Vice President
said, "This has been a battle- RICHARD N. NIXON peers into the
ruins of a dungeon where
ground. We know about the par- many Jews were imprisoned. The Ghetto
visit was a climax
titions and the great suffering of Nixon's three-day trip to Poland.
of the people when the great
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powers have been fighting for
bition
in
Moscow
on
time,
ac-
a geodesic cupola.
control of the land which be-
cording to a Soviet Embassy
longs to the Polish people.
"According to the American
release.
blueprints, the Soviet builders
"As we see this memorial,"
The USSR release, among produced and assembled a cupo-
continued the Vice President,
"we realize the importance of other things, reveals this story: la. Special structures were sup-
"An interesting situation, posed to hold the cupola on a
avoiding another war, but we
also see the importance that wherein the Soviet builders set of foundations. But when
Polish homelands should never helped their American col- the workers started to assemble
be devastated again. This na- leagues 'get out of a fix,' is de- them, it turned out that the sup-
scribed by 0. Kurganov in his ports did not fit into the foun-
tion has suffered enough."
Nixon, who was visibly stir- article in Stroitelnaya Gazeta. dationS.
red as he toured the site of It happened at the construction
"The Americans themselves
one of Hitler's gravest ads site of the cupola-shaped pavil- acknowledged that there was an
ion,
which
the
Americans
call
of inhumanity, p•I aced a
error in their blueprints. The
wreath of flowers before the
as-yet-unfinished monument.
When completed, the Warsaw
Ghetto Memorial will consist of
a broad path cutting diagonally
across the Ghetto site. Lining
the path on either side will be
23 large marble blocks connect-
ed by heavy metal links. The
blocks are meant to represent
each of the countries whose
citizens were exterminated at
the nearby Tremblinka Concen-
tration - Camp, while the metal
chains portray the Nazi trains
which carried those people to
their death.
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Senators Attack Soviet
Purge of Jewish Books
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—U.S.
Senators condemned the purge
of Jewish and other books from
the American Exhibition in Mos-
cow.
Sen. Styles Bridges, New
Hampshire Republican, s a i d:
"The Jews of this country
should be greatly flattered that
the Soviets culled out Leo W.
Schwartz' Great Ages and Ideas
of the Jewish People'."
Speaking on the Senate floor,
the senator added: "The fine
heritage of the Jews offers meat
and drink too strong for the
Kremlin's stomach. I have read
the book. It is a great book,"
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey,
Minnesota Democrat, said "The
Soviets removed some splendid
essays on the people of the Jew-
ish faith. This is excellent liter-
ature which should be read."
Sen. Bridges criticized Ameri-
can liberals for failing to "raise
the cry of book-burning."
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situation which had developed Soviet Union, Nixon was asked
could have delayed the con- whether in his talks . with
struction of the cupola and con- Khrushchev and other Soviet
sequently the opening of the leaders he had a chance "to
exhibition. touch on the reported discrimi-
"It was then that Soviet engi- nation against Jews in the So-
neers, particularly. V. Abramov, viet Union." Nixon replied:
suggested a new variant for the "I recognize that there is a
distribution - of the foundations. legitimate interest among mem-
This variant not only put things bers of the press in the subjects
right but accelerated the con- that I did discuss with Mr.
struction of the pavilion. At Khrushchev and the other lead-
first the American engineers ers, but I have always followed
did not believe that the variant the practice of not disclosing
could be realized. But when it the substance of
such talks or
became an accomplished fact, indicating the subjects
covered.
they praised the skill of the I think this is the
only proper
Soviet engineers."
course to follow and this way
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we encourage a very frank ex•
Talks with Khrushchev change of views when talks of
this type do take place.
on Russian Jewry
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Vice
President Richard M. Nixon
implied that, during his talks in
Moscow with Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev, he discussed
with the Soviet leader also the
Serving Detroit
suppression of Jewish commu-
Homes and - Industry
nal life in the Soviet Union, a
for Over 45 Years
cable from Moscow said.
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prior to his departure from the
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NEW YORK, (AJP)—A So-
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