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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, June 24, 1960 —
IT. S. Backs Israel in UN; See Speedy
Solution to Complaint by Argentina
(Continued from Page 1)
Russian delegate Sobelov,
while he upheld Argentina's
position, contended that Nazi
criminals must be punished.
The Council session was con-
vened a half hour late while
A m a de o was redrafting his
scheduled speech, after talking
on the telephone with President
Arturo Frondizi. In that phone
call from Frondizi, from Paris,
the latter instructed Amadeo to
announce' that he is not going
to meet Ben-Gurion.
Amadeo told the council that
the Frondizi - Ben-Gurion meet-
ing had been considered, but
that Ben-Gurion foreclosed use-
fulness of such a meeting by
saying at a press conference in
Brussels Tuesday that he would
like "friendly relations to be
continued with Argentina but
Eichmann remains in Israel."
In view of that statement,
said Amadeo, "the government
of Argentina does not believe"
such a meeting would be useful.
"Under these circumstances,
President Frondizi could not
agree to such a meeting."
Amadeo stressed friendly
relations with Israel, and
emphasized that "hundreds of
thousands of Jews live freely in
Argentina as citizens with full
rights." For those reasons alone,
he said Israel's "affront" to
Argentina is "even more inex-
plicable." He took a long time
before he got around to indi-
cating that in any way at all
he regrets Eichmann's crimes as
such. He f in all y did refer
briefly to those crimes "of
which Eichmann is accused."
But the matter is one of pro-
tecting all refugees in Argen-
tina, he said, including many
Jews who came there between
1933 and 1946, "many of whose
papers were certainly not in
order."
He then introduced a draft
resolution which would declare
that "acts as the one considered,
affecting the sovereignty of a
member s t a t e and therefore
causing international friction,
may, if repeated, endanger in-
ternational peace and security"
and "requests the government
of Israel to proceed to an ade-
quate reparation in accordance
with the charter of the United
Nations and rules of interna-
tional law."
Amadeo had made it clear in
his address that by "repara-
tions" Argentina means return
of Eichmann and punishment of
those guilty of abducting him.
Secretary General Dag Ham-
marskjold said at a press con-
ference that "a question o f
principle" is involved in the
grievance which Argentina
brought against Israel before
the Security Council. He made
it clear, however, that he was
not judging either the "merits
or demerits" of Argentina's
case, but speaking merely from
the viewpoint of the Security
Council's competence in the
issue.
Asked whether he thought
the Security Council should
handle the Argentine complaint,
since the grievance involves "a
legal question, while the Secur-
ity Council is a political body,"
he replied:
"As this question is pending
in the Security Council, I can-
not comment on the substance
of the case but in a hypotheti-
cal sense, there is a question of
principle involved. If a member
state should feel that a certain
rule is essential to safeguard
it from danger, the Security
Council can, within the limits
of its authority, rule whether
there is creation of tension or,
more than tension, perhaps a
risk involved. I say this without
in any way judging the merits
or demerits of the case.
"The Security Council can be
used—not as a court—but is
limited in authority to decide
whether rules are applicable or
not, whether to accept or reject
such an application," he said.
He then emphasized again that
he was not pre-judging Argen-
tina's case or speaking on the
substance of the grievance but
merely discussing the general
rules applicable.
Asked whether the Nurem-
berg Court for the trial of war
criminals might be reinstated
as the competent body for try-
ing Eichmann, he replied: "The
court has never been killed.
But the question is too compli-
cated for me to answer because
my judicial knowledge is not
competent enough for that."
Bonn Says Argentina
Refused to Extradite
Nazi War Criminal
BONN, (JTA) — A spokes-
man for the West German Min-
istry of Justice confirmed re-
ports that Argentina had failed
to reply to a request last Janu-
ary for the extradition of Dr.
Joseph Mengele, a Nazi concen-
tration camp physician.
Mengele, who has been on the
list of "wanted" war criminals
for the past 15 years, was in
charge of sorting out victims at
the Auschwitz murder camp, di-
viding them into those to be
gassed and those to be sent to
slave labor units.
(Interrogation of Eichmann
continued in Israel. He was re-
manded for the third time on
Sunday after a brief hearing
before Magistrate Alfred Bach,
of Haifa. The detention, for 15
days, is the third for the Nazi
killer — the utmost permitted
under Israeli law).
Eichmann Tried to Block
`Deals' on Jews, Former
Negotiator Charges
PARIS, (JTA) — A former
Hungarian Jew who dealt with
Adolf Eichmann, in 1944, in the
effort to exhange 10,000 trucks
and medical supplies for the
lives of a million Jews, charged
here that Adolf Eichmann tried
to block attempts to save the
lives of many Jews from the
Nazi death camps.
"Had it been up to Eich-
mann," the former negotiator
said, "all liungarian Jews would
have been wiped out."
The man who reveals Eich-
mann's role in what he called
"that grisly trucks-for-lives af-
fair" was Andre Biss, former
industrialist in Hungary. He
told his story at a news confer-
ence at European headquarters
of the American Jewish Com-
mittee.
Biss said he became the chief
negotiator with Eichmann in
1944, when two Jews, who had
DAYENU
been trying to make the "deal"
for saving the lives of Jews by
providing trucks to the Nazis,
had to leave Budapest. The two
who got out w e r e Rudolph
Kastner, assassinated in Israel
a year ago; and Joel Brand, now
an Israeli citizen.
The "trucks for Jews" deal,
said Biss, was the idea of Hein-
rich Himmler; head of the Nazi
police system. But the actual
negotiations h a d to be c o n -
ducted with Eichmann, as the
Nazi "specialist" . for "the final
solution" of the Jewish problem.
"In every way possible,"
Biss ass er ted, "Eichmann
sought to sabotage Himmler's
orders to deal with us. Had it
been up to him, all Hungarian
Jews would have been wiped
out. He was obviously coldly
happy in July, 1944, when he
told Kastner and me that the
negotiations had fallen through.
`I can do nothing for you,' Eich-
mann told us, 'you have not de-
livered. ' "
According to Biss, "to us who
dealt with the Germans, it was
clear that we had to by-pass
Eichmann at every opportunity,
getting our offers to Himmler
through other channels."
London Newspaper Advises
Argentina Accept Israel's
Stand in Eichmann Case
LONDON, (JTA) — The Lon-
don Daily Telegraph, which has
been critical of Israel's han-
dling of the case of Nazi killer
Adolf Eichmann, warned Argen-
tina in an editorial that, if it
persists in rejecting the denial
by the Israel government of its
responsibility in the capture of
Eichmann and his removal
from Argentine soil to Israel
territory, Argentina "is in dan-
ger of creating an unfortunate
impression regarding its own
attitude and intentions."
"To overplay objections that
might prevent a trial for Eich-
mann," declared the editorial,
"might look to some people like
siding with Eichmann. It would
be in Argentina's interest to
avoid any danger of giving such
an impression."
Eichmann Story to Be Told
by British Writer
The life story. of Adolf Eich-
mann, the notorious Nazi ac-
cused of the slaying of 6,000,000
Jews during the Hitler era, will
be published early next year
by Prentice-Hall.
Charles Wighton, a British
author, will include in the story
the dramatic 15-year search
made for Eichmann over five
continents. Wighton is current-
ly in Europe doing research on
Eichmann's background.
BY HENRY LEONARD
"Welt, at least Grandpa digs my beatnik
friends. He thinks they're Yeshiva students."
Leonard Pritikbi
Around the Tr6rld...
A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from
Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other
News-Gathering Media.
United States
NEW YORK — Nassau County police are investigating the
desecration by vandals of 15 gravestones in Beth David Cemetery,
Elmont, N.Y., one of the largest Jewish cemeteries in the New
York area . . . Two 15-year-old youths — Aaron Gafney of New
York and H. Lee Michelson of Hartford — won trips to Israel
by gaining first prizes in the American Bible Contest sponsored
by the American Zionist Council and the Israel Bible Society.
. . Moshe Shapiro, Israel Minister of Interior, urged "the
establishment of a joint fund-raising agency of all religious
bodies in the United States, to fill the void created by the recent
reorganization of the Jewish Agency," in an address at the
golden jubilee banquet of Religious Zionists of America. . . .
At a United Hias Service dinner, addressed by Golda Meir,
Israel's Foreign Minister, contributions nearing $1,000,000 were
announced to the United Jewish Appeal, at the testimonial to
Ben Touster and Carlos L. Israels, former Hias presidents. .. .
Governor Nelson A. Rockf eller presented the New York State
flag to leaders of Hadassah to be included in the "Avenue of
American State Flags" at the dedication Aug. 3 of the new
$25,000,000 Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center on out-
skirts of Jerusalem. . . . Israel's claim to the right to try Adolf
Eichmann "transcends" that of any other nation or any group
of nations, Dr. Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish
Congress, declared, stating that Israel "has not only legal
grounds to try Eichmann, but also a great moral right and
responsibility for bringing him to justice."
Europe
BREMEN — A new freighter, built by the Vulkan Werft
West German shipyard, for the Zim-Israel Navigation Co., under
the German-Israel reparations agreement, was launched here
and was named "Gederah" by Mrs. Vera Tsur, wife of Yaacov
Tsur, member of the Jewish Agency Executive, former Israel
Ambassador to France and now world president of the Jewish
National Fund. . . .
BONN — Establishment of a special high school for Jewish
studies to help indoctrinate German youth against anti-Semitism
was demanded by leaders of the German Students Organizations,
at a seminar of youth from all over Germany who heard lectures
on Judaism and discussed the contributions of Jews to world
and German cultures. . .
HARRISBURG, Pa.—Judge David L. Ullman, chairman of
the Fellowship Commission Committee on Opportunities for
Higher Education, has urged the Governor's Committee on Edu-
cation to end bias in higher education in Pennsylvania, and
proposed that legislation be enacted with non-discrimination pro-
visions for grants affecting post-high school educational institu-
tions. . . .
MILWAUKEE — A Department of Hebrew Studies will be
established by the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee in the
fall of 1961, announcement having been made by Dr. J. Martin
Klotsche, University provost, that the department has been as-
sisted by a pledge of the Wisconsin Society for Jewish Learning
to provide $50,000 for the project.
LOS ANGELES — This year's Fourth of July celebration
and fireworks display in the huge Los Angeles Coliseum will be
dedicated by the County Council of the American Legion to a
"Salute to Israel."
ATLANTIC CITY — The homes of three Jewish families
in neighboring Absecon were defaced with swastikas and anti-
Jewish slogans.
Israel
JERUSALEM — Reporting an 8 per cent increase over last
year in United Jewish Appeal campaigns in the United States,
Melvin Goldstein, UJA administrative vice-chairman, spoke of the
"beneficent influence" upon American Jewish community life
and upon fund-raising resulting from the recent reorganization
of the Jewish Agency. . . . The Association of Americans and
Canadians in Israel signed a $1,000,000 contract for the con-
struction of 62 housing units for American settlers in a new
fashionable development area near the Valley of the Cross in
Jerusalem. .. A spokesman for Solel Boneh, the Histadrut con-
struction company, disclosed the signing of an agreement for a
$3,000,000 project for the U.S. Army in Turkey, between U.S.
Army representatives in Turkey and a partnership consisting
of Solel Boneh and an American contracting firm. . . Dr.
Nahum Goldmann announced here that the World Zionist Organi-
zation, with the full support of the Israel government, will
embark upon a campaign to get Jewish communities and non-
Zionist groups into the world Zionist movement. . . . A proposal
to levy a compulsory property loan of 15,000,000 to 20,000,000
pounds, to cover a growing deficit in Israel's budget, was ap-
proved by a majority of the government coordination committee.
. . . The West German government has agreed to share in pay-
ments by Austria of restitution to former Austrian Jews, victims
of the Nazi regime, Dr. Goldmann disclosed here. . . . A special
meeting of the Israeli Cabinet approved and sent to the Knesset
an increase in this year's budget of 100,000,000 Israeli pounds
($56,000,000). . . . Col. Yehuda Ben-David, Israel Consul General
at Dakar, has been accredited Ambassador to the Mali Federation
which attained independence on Monday. . . A 64-year-old
American Jew named Harry Stone, formerly Steinman, who
carried a mariner's papers and had been living in Shaar Haaliya,
was shot and killed by Jordan border guards when he failed to
heed orders to halt as he approached the frontier in central
Israel. . . . Israel and Cambodia have raised the status of their
representation from legation to embassy, and Mordechai Kidron,
Israel Ambassador to Thailand, was named non-resident ambas-
sador to Cambodia. . . . Dr. Shimon Btesh, head of the
epidemiological department of the Israel Ministry of Health, has
been appointed head of the organization department of medical
care at Geneva headquarters of the World Health Organization.
. . The Knesset passed by a narrow margin a bill increasing
Israel's current budget by 110,000,000 Israeli pounds ($61,600,-
000), only coalition parties voting for the bill.
TEL AVIV — The first stage of the Jordan-Negev pipeline,
Israel's largest irrigation project, should be completed by the
end of 1963, if the current work pace keeps up, Aharon Wiener,
chief engineer of the Israel Water Planning Authority, 'told
members of the Knesset Finance Committee.