Strictly Confidential n . isn't it about time your (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) THE HAGUE, — More than 17,000 'Dutch citizens of all 'de- nominations have submitted a petition to Minister of Justice A. C. W. Beerman, protesting the intended release of the six remaining German war crimin- als from Breda prison, it was re- ported here Tuesday. Two of the former Nazis are expected to be released by the end of the year. The four others, scheduled to 35th Year With Special Issue ATLANTA (JTA) — The Southern Israelite, English- Jewish weekly, published a special supplement to mark its 35th anniversary. The supple- ment describes, pictorially, the various stages in putting out an issue of the weekly. Adolph Rosenberg is editor and pub- lisher of the paper. be released at a later date, were originally sentenced to death by a war crimes tribunal for the deportation and murder of some 110,000 Jews during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. 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But Weizmann made a tre- Peace Delegation, was Chief Po ■ mendous impression on the litical Officer in Palestine an d iBritish Colonel who at midnight Syria, 1919-1920, and as mili of that meeting wrote in his tary adviser to the Middle Eas t- 1Diary: "I have altered my views Department of the Colonial Of _ on Zionism for two reasons .. . fice, 1921-1924 . . . He played a n In the first place I regard the important part in the affairs position of the Jews in the of the Middle East, and notabl world mosaic of nations as most in Palestine, and his interest i unsatisfactory . .. That a great "Dayenu, by Henry Leonard," and connection with this regio n people. like the Jews should not the popular cartoon featured continued ever since ... This i ' have a home of their own is a regularly in The Jewish News, the amazing Col. Meinertzhage – monstrous injustice . . . They has achieved more acclaim with of whom the Zionist wort d must not only have a home but the advent of its publication in heard very little during the it must be their own where book form entitled, "Open Your Mandate years . . . The Diar they can exercise sovereign rights . . . Secondly, a contented Mouth and Say `Oy' ", published has interesting entries. prosperous Jewish people in by Crown. Published a few In 1918, the Colonel met Dr • Palestine would lend great months ago, the paperback is Weizmann for the first time strength to the British Empire already going into its third printing. It contains 60 of and wrote: "Doctor Weizmann , in the Middle East . . . The Bal- "Dayenu"- favorites, displaying head of the Zionist Federation four Declaration, which Weiz- the salty flavor of Jewish wit. called on me today (•t the War mann regards as a great docu- Besides the laughs and chuckles, Office) . . . I found him a very ment„ a charter of freedom, is the collection shows a more im- enlightened a n d interesting in fact a paradox, meaning noth- portant underlying satire on man . . . He is an enthusias t ing at all, like so many other Jewish life as it meets a me- about Palestine and the Zion - things emanating from A.J.B. chanized American society. It ists, and a fanatic if such a (Arthur James Balfour)." is a biting commentary on the clever man can be so termed - From then on the British manners and mores of contem- .. . He is, however, an enemy Civil Service man goes all out porary Jewish life. Besides of society and his real aims go for Zionism .. . Continuing on being seen regularly by our further than Zionism, for they the same subject he writes: "I own • readers, "Dayenu" now encompass the destruction of all had a long talk with Weizmann appears in 50 publications. society which hinders revolu - today and advised him to go all Henry Leonard, creator of this tionary ideas . . . He leaves for out for Jewish Sovereignty in cartoon, is thepen name for Palestine in a few days and Palestine . . . He might get it two men. Henry Rabin, director will no doubt be a thorn in the now, whereas in a year's time of Bnai Brith Hillel Founda- side of our Civil Administra- it will be impossible ... I told tions at Los Angeles City and tion out there . . . He is very him I would help him all I State Colleges, conceives the naturally a violent enemy of the knew . . . I have good reason ideas. The person who actually Arabs, and in this matter alone to believe that Lloyd George draws them is Leonard Pritikin, will get scant sympathy from land Wilson will support him ... an art and advertising director. our officials, though I person- i Clemenceau and the Italians Together they are Henry Leon- ally am prepared to back Jew would, of course, oppose it, as ard. On the left in the photo is against Arab every time . Rabin. Pritikin is on the right. The Jew means progress and they have schemes of their Own perhaps the upsetting • of mod- in the Middle East . . . But . Weizmann thinks the time in- Court Sets Spy Hearing ern governments, the Arab is opportune and might wreck the stagnation and stands for im- Against Mapam Leader moral•ty, rotten government, I whole idea of Mandatory Zion- TEL AVIV, (JTA) — The corrupt and dishonest society." ' ism . . . I am sure the Arabs trial of Aharon Cohen, veteran . . . God preserve us from our I will accept anything from the kibbutz member and Mapam friends . .- The Colonel was Peace Conference but would leader, was ordered transferred pro-Jewish and yet infected by never accept a Jewish Sovereign to the Haifa District Court for the anti-Semetic fairy tale of State imposed by Great Britain I in, say, five years time . . . a hearing on espionage charges. the Elders of Zion .. . Cohen was arrested in Octo- 'There are vast anti-Semitic A year later the British forces at work even now in ber, 1958 on charges of main- taining contact with an agent Colonel changed his tune some- London and elsewhere but they of a foreign power and with what . • Meeting Weizmann at I are incoherent and powerleis to passing to the agent secret in- the Paris Peace Conference in intervene in Paris ... . In five _rite s: years' time they will be in a formation. His arrest followed 1919, Meinertzhagen w months of surveillance by Israel Weizman dined with me last position to deny to the Jews security agents who reported night and told me what the aims their rights . . . I have con- watching Cohen's alleged meet- of the Zionists were . . . He sulted Smuts who was a bit ings with the agent who came wants recognition of the League doubtful at first but eventually in a diplomatic car to Kibbutz of Nations to the historic title agreed to support me . . . Veni- Shaar Haamakim of which of the Jewish people to Pales- zelos agrees .. . Henry Wilson tine and the right of the Jews ( the general) is enthusiastic on Cohen was a founder. to reconstitute in Palestine strategic grounds . . I tried their National Home . . . He the Japs, but they were not in- See Page 14 for New Year lays down the boundaries as terested and would only go so Greeting Coupon follows .. . On the north from far as to say they would sup- Sidon to the foot hills of the port the idea if the others Lebanon over the dividing line proposed it ... But I fear Weiz- between the eastern and west- mann is afraid of it at present ern slopes of Hermon and then lest it wreck the whole show close to but west of the Hedjaz . . • He thinks that once the Railway . . . In the East a line Jews get a foothold in Palestine close to and west of the Hedjaz they will absorb the whole Railway terminating at the Gulf country . . . He doesn't know of Agaba . . . in the south a H.M.G. (His Majesty's Govern- frontier agreed on with the ment) . . . I got Laurence to Egyptian government and in the agree and he promised Feisal's west the Mediterranean ... The support ... I have also advised sovereign possession of Pales- that the Palestine boundaries tine to be vested in the League extend east to cover the whole of Nations and the government of Moab and south to Akaba to be entrusted to Great Bri- . . . I should also give the Jews tain as Mandatory Power . . . Sinai and compensate Egypt Fullest freedom of worship for elsewhere." all creeds, and no discrimination Looking back, one wonders among the inhabitants with re- whether Meinertzhagen evalu- gard to citizenship and civil ated the situation correctly and rights." . . . The Colonel wrote whether Israel could have been in his diary: "I agree with the boundary claims . . . The cor- born politically in 1920 when rect eastern boundary for Pales- the Yishuv in Palestine was tine is the Sea of Galilee, Jor- weak and far from ready to as- dan and the Dead Sea, as sume the responsibilities of a sovereign state. judged on ethical grounds." That same day, he had a long Twenty per cent of all conversation with Weizmann Americans are infected with during which he quoted Weiz- TB germs and are in danger of ROO mann as follows: "If Christ having active tuberculosis. Get LINWOOD x• were to come to Paris now, he a chest X-ray! Dutch Citizens Outraged at Intent to Release German War Criminals 1 3-TH E DETROIT JEWISH NEWS—Friday, August 19, 196 0 `Dayenu' Cartoon Book Enters Its Third Printing