ADL, ACLU Differ on Interpretation of
Nazis' Rights to Advocate Murders
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Democratic Students, and an- News-Gathering Media.
lumbia legal authorities con-
other leader of the group, Ru-
cluded it was not obscene. Or-
dolf von Roegen, resigned from
United States
ders have been issued to police
CHICAGO—Efforts are under way to induce Illinois state
the League, after reiterating
to protect Rockwell's Nazis as
demands that Dr. Oberlander election officials to make special arrangements for Jewish voters
they distribute the handbills.
resign from the' Cabinet. The to participate in the April 12 primary election, which occurs
Police were told not to inter-
League adopted a resolution a on the first day of Passover, Milton H. Miller, a candidate for
fere with the "peaceful distribu-
week ago calling for Dr. Ober- a Democratic committee post in Chicago, having indicated to
tion of the pamphlets" unless
the Board of Election Commissioners that Jewish citizens other-
lander's resignation.
they see "a clear and present
The resignation of Dr.. Ober- wise would be deprived "of the right of suffrage."
threat to public disorder."
PHILADELPHIA—Dropsie College's .Middle East Institute
Lander from the Cabinet has
Lawrence Speiser, Washing-
long been demanded by the announced fellowships for the academic year 1960-61 ranging
ton spokesman for the Ameri-
Social Democratic Party. It was from an annual value of $600 to $1,000, available to qualified
can Civil Liberties Union, said
also urged in "Die Welt," an students who are candidates for the M. A. and Ph. D. degrees
that District of Columbia legal
influential weekly of the Chris- in languages and area studies of modern and contemporary
authorities should be highly
tian Democratic Party of which Middle East.
commended for permitting and
Dr. Oberlander is now a mem- . NEW YORK—The first export shipment of fresh cabbage
protecting the distribution of
The publication said that from Israel to the U. S., valued at $90,000, was unloaded here
g
from the SS Zion of the Zim Lines, the consignment, consisting ,
the American Nazi Party's anti-
Dr. Oberlander "had been
cases, each weighing approximately 85 pounds, having
Jewish handbills. He termed
HAMBURG, (JTA) — George sometimes a Democrat, some- of 4,921
the attitude of the authorities Marschall, a former SS man; times a Nazi before 1945, ac- been loaded at Haifa on Jan. 23. . . . The American Jewish
"admirable" in the face of was given a sentence of life im- cording to which way the wind Congress charged that a tacit "gentleman's agreement" existed
between the State Department and West Germany aimed at
what he described as "intense prisonment after being found blew."
suppressing information about the role of ex-Nazis in the Bonn
pressures" to act against "free guilty of murdering Joseph Die-
regime. . . . A resolution adopted by a conference called by
speech."
ner, a Jew, in 1952 in the mark- Bonn Anti-Semitism
the Jewish Labor Committee to speak out against Anti-Semitic
et place in Sdolbunow, Poland.
manifestations in the United States, West Germany and other
Ambassador of Chile to
Not
`Organizational,'
West German officials mean-
world areas, urged "the re-tooling of the world's educational
UN Forced to Give Hitler
systems, including the U. S. and West Germany, to teach the
while announced the arrest of White Paper Insists
Salute at Gunpoint
lessons of brutality against mankind by the Nazis." . . . Jacob
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Am- Wolfgang Seuss in the Saarland.
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
Blaustein, upon his return from Israel, met at the United Na-
to The Jewish News)
bassador Daniel Schweitzer, The 52-year-old former SS guard
permanent Chilean representa- at the Dachau murder camp had BONN — The spurt of anti- tions with UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold for a dis-
five to the United Nations, was been serving a prison term in Jewish incidents touched off by cussion of Middle East problems, including the seizure of Israeli
held up at his home early Sun- France. He is accused of killing the Christmas eve smearing of cargoes through the Suez by Egypt . ..
day night, forced at gunpoint two Jews in the Dachau camp in the Cologne Synagogue were
Europe
to say "Heil Hitler," and was 1938 by throwing them into a not the work of an organization,
ROME—An amendment to the Italian penal code, to provide
robbed of $200 in cash. cement-mixer. according to a Government
stiff jail sentences for persons committing anti-Semitic and
Schweitzer, a bachelor, and I Two men accused of partici- white paper, which was pre- other hate-stirring actions, was advocated here at a meeting of
Jew,
lives
alone
in
an
apart-
pating
in
the
recent
spate
of
seated
Thursday
to
the
Bundes-
a
lawyers and leading members of the Jewish community.
ment in New York. At 6:15 anti-Semitic manifestations were tag.
PARIS—President Charles de Gaulle expressed the hope,
The
white
paper
concludes
p.m., three men broke a window given four-month jail sentences
when accepting the credentials of Israel's new Ambassador,
in the front entrance to the At Stuttgart, the sentence that provincial police and fed- Walter Eytan, that political, economic and cultural relations be-
house, entered the study where was imposed on a 28 -year- old eral investigations did not pro— tween France and Israel would continue to be close and friendly.
the Ambassador sat reading, locksmith convicted of uttering duce conclusive evidence to sup-
LONDON—Nazi documents that fell into British hands after
and held him up. After forcing anti-Semitic remarks. The same port charges that the excesses the victory over Germany in 1945 have been turned over to the
him to say "Heil Hitler," they term was meted out to a 40- were systematically carried out U. S. authorities, which are in "sole possession of the records,"
took his money and fled. He year-old man at Duisburg for a either by right-wing or left-wing John Profumo, Joint Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, told
gave police authorities descrip- similar offense. groups.
the House of Commons. . . . The trustees of the Sunday Ob-
The report said that of the server are seeking legal advice on the possibility of interpreting
At Stuttgart, a 19-year-old
tions of the men.
youth went on trial today, ac- 685 incidents listed up to Jan. the newspaper's trust deed to end a ban on employment of Jews
Suspect in Bombing Kansas
cused of daubing the swastika 28, 215 were "children's scrib- and Catholics in top policy-making positions on the newspaper's
City Synagogue Arrested
on the bulletin board of a Ger- Wings:" A total of 234 vandals staff, it was disclosed by the paper's editor, David Astor. . . .
KANSAS CITY, Mo., (JTA)— man army barracks. At Pinne- were arrested; 73 cases were Soviet scientist M. Agrest suggested that Sodom and Gomorrah
Charles Bednarz, 47, formerly berg, a 16-year-old boy was ar- determined to be politically were destroyed not by fire and brimstone, as recounted in
a patient at two mental hos- rested for displaying a Nazi motivated; and, of these, only Genesis, but by a nuclear blast set off by invaders from space
pitals here, was arrested and symbol. about one-fourth were consid- . • . Recent developments in Algeria have delayed publication
ered "genuinely anti-Semitic."
placed under psychiatric obser-
of the January issue of Information Juive, sole Jewish periodical
The report said that most of in the country, published by the Algerian Jewish Committee for
vation in connection with the Bavarian Parliament Declares
the incidents were committed Social Studies.
explosion of a bomb last month 'Abhorrence' of Anti-Semitism
at the Kehilath Israel Syna- MUNICH, (JTA)—The Bavar- by persons who "allowed them-
THE HAGUE—The Ashkenazic, Sephardic and Liberal Jew-
gogue here. According to po- ian Parliament declared its "oh- selves to be carried away by ish communities joined in a protest to the Dutch Senate about
lice, Bednarz had told a friend, horrence" of anti-Semitism at a smoldering p o 1 it i c a 1 under- a plan of Dr. A. C. W. Beerman, Dutch Minister of Justice, to
pointing to the synagogue, "this special session, after Dr. Hans tones." In a few cases, corn- pardon German war criminals detained in Holland who already
would be a good one to blow Ehard, speaker of the House, munist ideological background had their terms commuted from the death penalty to life im-
prisonment, the leaders having stressed that the war criminals
up." The friend informed au- requested that the government was uncovered.
were responsible for the murders of many thousands of Dutch,
thorities.
uncover the background of the Four Jews Injured in
most of them Jews.
recent anti-Semitic outbreaks Algiers Grenade Throwing
South Rhodesian Youth
BONN — A court test on whether an edict of the Nazi
and "take action against the of-
ALGIERS
—
Four
Jews
were
Sentenced for Daubing
fenders as well as those who are seriously injured by the explo- regime takes precedence over laws of the Federal Republic
Swastika on Synagogue
was set in motion by Adolf Andt, Social Democratic party
behind them."
sion of a grenade presumably
SALISBURY, South Rhode-
Bavaria is the only state in thrown by Algerian nationalists executive chairman in the West German Bundestag, who asked
sia, (JTA) — An 18-year-old West Germany that has on its
that his Parliamentary immunity be lifted so that criminal
youth was sentenced here to books a law making defamation into the customary Saturday proceedings may be instituted against him under a Nazi col-
morning
throng
on
the
main
payment of a 50-pound fine or of a minority group punishable
lection law of 1934, which he intends to violate . . spe-
street of Constantine.
cial library of 8,000 volumes on the history and religion of the
a 50-day jail term for daubing as a crime.
It was not believed there was Jews, which were hidden from the Nazis during World War II
a swastika on the synagogue
any specific anti-Jewish motive and were found by U. S. occupation forces in 1945, will be
in Bulawayo. The sentence was
in the attack.
added to the Nuremberg city library. . . .
the first one handed down for
The Algerian government's
-
swastika daubing by a Southern
_ Israel .
decision to ban the extreme
Rhodesian court since the re-
Katsh,
of
New
York
University,
Abraham
TEL
AVIV—Prof.
g-
BONN, (JTA)—Dr. Theodor right
wing anti-Semitic move
cent outbreak of anti-Semitic
ment, Jene Nation, was wel- stated here . upon his arrival from a six-week visit in Soviet
incidents.
Oberlander, . Federal Minister
Russia that younger Jews attend synagogue services in southern
The youth had also painted for Refugees, will appear be- coined by the Jewish commu- centers in Russia, and that he found many Hebrew scholars,
the slogan, "Yiddishe swine, fore a Tribunal of Honor of pity. The organization, whose Jews and non-Jews, many of whom asked for news about • Israel.
Raus," on the synagogue build- Chancellor Adenauer's Chris- main activity in metropolitan . . Brig. Gen. Ezer Weizmann, commander of the Air Force,
ing. In defense of his action, tian Democratic Party to reply France has been to carry on addressing the National Aeronautical Association, declared that •
the youth claimed that he "felt to charges that he participated anti - Jewish propaganda, was the Israel Air Force must keep up with the newest developMents
bored" and thought it would be in the 1941 massacres of the considered responsible for some in aeronautics and in aircraft if it is to maintain its qualitative
fun to paint a swastika on a Jews in Lemberg during the of the swastika daubings here superiority over Arab air forces. . . Plans for a. European
on the city walls during the
synagogue.
tour by Israel's Yemenite dance troupe, Inbal, were upset by
Nazi occupation of Poland.
Dr. Oberlander, himself a recent anti-Semitic manifesta- a statement from Mrs. Sara Levi Tabai, leader of the troupe,
tions.
that it would not perform in Austria:and West Germany.)
member of the Christian Demo-
JERUSALEM—The Israel Ministry of Education issued a
cratic Party, has not denied Accuse Adenauer of
circular to all schools ordering instruction to pro-mete under-
that he was a member of the
to Violence'
standing by pupils of all religions, the Ministry acting at the
Nazi Party during the war, but `Inciting
(Direct Teletype Wire
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
urging of Israel's Interfaith Cooperation Committee • headed by
he
has
denied
that
he
was
in-
to
The
Jewish News)
to The Jewish News)
BONN — The office of the Prof. Benjamin Mazar, president of the Hebrew University.
NUREMBERG, GERMANY— volved in the Lemberg mas-
public prosecutor has turned . . Reduction in the sentences of three 'principal defendants
One man was sentenced to 15 sacre.
The Tribunal of Honor would over to Chancellor Konrad in the Kfar Kassem village killings on the eve of the :Sinai
months imprisonment, t h r e e
Campaign were made on the recommendation of Prime Minister
others were arrested on charges not examine the political as- Adenauer seven formal corn-
Beri-Gurion, Shimon Peres, .Deputy Defense Minister, stated in
pects
of
his
career,
but
whether
plaints
in
which
the
complain-
of anti-Semitism in court and
police actions against further or not his activities during the ants accuse the Chancellor of the Knesset.
Canada
anit-Semitic outbreaks in the Nazi period were "dishonor- inciting to violence, it was dis-
TORONTO—At, an all-day celebration, marking the national
able," it was explained.
closed Tuesday.
vicinity of this city.
(From The Hague it was re-
The complaints were based climax of the celebration of Canadian Jewry's Bicentenary,
The man sent to prison after
trial in Criminal Court here is ported that Dr. Oberlander on a recent radio and television Georges P. Vanier, Governor General of Canada, spoke warmly
Ludwig Vogel, 23, who admitted will be invited to testify again address in which the Chancel- of the 'activities of Canadian Jewry.
to the court that he is anti- before the international com- lor had urged people to give
South Africa
Semitic, and said he had applied mittee there investigating the an on-the-spot thrashing to van-
JOHANNESBURG—The Zionist Council announced - a deci-
dals
caught
in
•
the
act
of
Lemberg
massacre
in
Nazi-held
for membership on the right-
daubing swastikas and anti- sion to set up a commission to study the problems of financing
Poland.)
wing Deutsches Reichs Party.
the movement of the growing Jewish day schools in South Africa.
Jewish
slogans.
Hannes
Schneider,
chairman
He was convicted of placing
anti-Semitic posters on the walls
of homes in nearby 5 cheinfeld
and of writing threatening let-
ters to Jews in the town.
The three youths given week-
end jail sentences were con-
victed by the juvenile Court at
Kassel. They had smeared anti-
Semitic slogans on walls. Mean-
while, police at Goettingen ar-
rested three men caught paint-
ing swastikas and the Nazi slo-
gan "Judea Raus" on sidewalks.
German Teacher
Gets Life Term
f or Killin Jew ber.
Movement to Oust
Oberlander Gains
Punish Neo-Nazis
ill German Courts
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