Israel's Parliament Votes to Dissolve
Itself; Sets General Elections for Aug. 15
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
JERUSLEM — By a vote of
56 to 44, the Knesset voted Tues-
day to dissolve itself and set
new general elections for Aug.
15 for a government to re-
place the one toppled by Prime
Minister Ben-Gurion when he
resigned Jan. 31.
A proposal that the elections
be held July 11 was voted down
on gounds it would occur dur-
tween the 17 of Tamuz and
Tishabay. The Knesset. also de-
feated a bid for an Aug. 1 elec-
tion date.
Mapai and the National Re-
ligious Party mustered a ma._
jority for the Aug. 15 date
to move the elections as far
as possible from a "certain
trial" on the assumption that
the trial of Eichmann would
be over by that time.
Seven of Israel's parties had
sought an earlier date than the
one chosen, on grounds of
economies in money and energy
and to reduce the incumbency
of the caretaker government.
Speakers for the proposal ar-
gued that a government with-
out a mandate could not carry
out policy in either domestic
or foreign affairs.
The parties involved were
the General Zionists, Herut,
Achdut Avodah, Mapam, the
Progressives, the Communists
and Agudat Israel.
The current Knesset is the
fourth since establishment of
the state. It was elected in
1959, for a four-year period.
The government which fell on
Jan. 31 was Israel's ninth. -
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ion as prime minister. However,
minister.
Shapiro indicated he under- the two left wing parties ad-
stood the Mapai would be will- hered to their refusal to any
ing to agree to such a solution agreement which would make
if the Mapam and Achdut Avo- Eshkol premier to be succeeded
dah would withdraw their an- by Ben-Gurion after a few
nounced rejection of Ben-Gur- months.
Greene's "The 'Mozart' Leaves at
Nine," About Post-War Problems o
Refugees, Jewish Servicemen, Reds
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which encouraged the Israeli
As a post-war novel that presents a moving account of the
flight of the survivors from Nazism to Palestine, in defiance
of all obstacles that were set up for them, and as an expose of
the Communist tactics in Austria, in an effort to establish a
•
foothold for the Soviets in Europe, "The - `Mozart' Leaves at
Nine," by Harris Greene, has earned a very high rank.
This new Doubleday novel has its setting in Salzburg. There,
U.S. Army personnel are stationed. Some are in security service.
There are Jews and Italians and Pbles among them.
In the midst of the despair that followed the war, the
Jews who survived are on the march. They try to break throu
the border patrol to reach Italy, thence to attempt breakthro
WO
the British embargo lines and to get to Palestine. It w
years before the emergence of the State of Israel.
erican
It is here that a serious problem faces the
n the call
army officers and personnel who must decide bet
of duty and the humanitarian element of people' craving and
search for freedom. As the 300 march in on f t, one of the
i at the heail,
officers orders his men to shoot. The aged r
e refug
of the procession is killed. The leader of
injured. But an onslaught is prevented by 0 r U.S.
• n
the MPs as a group refuse to open fire, an the co
of the uniformed men prevails.
INTERNATIONAL DEPARTMENT
The incident is whitewashed, the Jewis refugees r ain
rch to f dom.
where they settled, later to continue their
MEZZANINE, MAIN OFFICE
roaches Rozen-
A bit later, one of the American officers
is cooperation
stein, the leader of the refugees, to ask him fo
,5 ionAL
in rescuing a Russian escapee from Soviet per ution. Unl
the Russian is taken out of the area, he was
deported with his bride to Russia and to certain dea .
OF D ET 1 ■ 2 0‘'
Rozenstein consents. He gives the Russian and his bride
Jewish names and he takes them into his group that is proceed-
ing to Italy. In this instance, too, the American officer breaks a
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ule. It is against the code of the army of occupation to assist
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ational of another country to escape what that country .con- •
si rs "justice," but the American knew that it was a matter
o ife or death, and he defied regulations. .
Wiadyslaw Sodeck, the American of Polish extraction
o pleads with Rozenstein, tries to explain to him that anti-
mitism .15 no longer a major problem in the United States,
at "we're slowly 'melting together there," and Rozenstein,
ooking Sodeck straight in the face, says: "It would com-
pletely destroy a theory I have - that Slays acquire anti-
Semitic instincts in the womb."
Whereupon Sodeck, who prevented the massacre of the
reftigees by the soldiers, declares:
"Rozenstein, until Monday you Jewish DPs were just
another border headache to me, a big one. I learned a lot about
them and you, and about them from you in our talk, since - then.
I. admire you and I admire your people. I hope to hell they find
the peace they deserve; I think the world owes them that peace
and freedom."
BUt there also was an anti-Semitic element in the army.
General Redding was a problem to the men who were deter-
mined to locate every Nazi and to assure his punishment. Werner
Baumgart was one of the security men who was hunting the
Nazi leaders. Redding made sure to label hini a Viennese Jew.
Another Jew, Cameron Winston, was stung when the German
countess he had a love affair with labeled him, a Jew pig.
The security force, and prior to that. General Redding,
were ordered to leave Salzburg. They were to be on the
"Mozart" train that left at 9. Thence the title of the book.
The story, however, ends with a powerful lesson, with more
than a passing triumph for those who sought fairness in their
dealings with their fellow men. The Russian intrigues were
exposed. The Jewish refugees were assisted in their trek towards
freedom. The Jewish servicemen asserted themselves and re-
gained their self-respect.
Cameron Winston even decides to resume his original name
of Hermann Weinstein. As he leaves Salzburg, he writes to his
"Dearest sister Naomi":
"There Is one matter that I want to begin with imme-
diately, and since your husband's brother Max is a good lawyer
he can perhaps expedite this for me. Simply it's this: I want
to change my name legally back to what . it 'was: Hermann
Weinstein. I remember how caustic' and bitter you were when
I changed it to my current name before the war began. I.
have lived a good bit and experienced a goot bit and you
were right, dear sister: it should have stayed what it was
originally. The change of the name was illusory, childish, and
for motives • I am not especially proud to think about now.
Drawing by Saul Raskin
But that is over. Please tell Max not to delay. When I return
I must return to myself, to what I am and to what I was
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born. It is not enough to fool others: I am faced here with
The memo s of Passovers gone by— he s h .and sale of the Chomitz—Grande`W
the problem of fooling myself, and this must stop now at a
poking ar nd the kitchen, making the horsera h and the Chorachis—putting on the
good moment,
new sun f clothes and shoes—pockets full of zel nuts—and almonds—anxiously
". . . You will recall my note of a few months age, that
d Aun adie were always late—the whole
waitin or the Seder to start—Uncle
through a chance interview here in Austria with a friend of
pro ng the pillow on the chair beside
famil ogether—Grandpa looki ► like
father's who survived I fixed the precise day of his death
g all y but "Ma Malcha" my queen, he
him randma tired after bat(
at Dachau concentration camp on the fifteenth of March
Nishtanah" and the answer givee
for "
t
call her—the Kiddus
r all—the fir half of the Hagadah almost over-I
1941. It should be easy to remember: the ides of March . .
wit randpa's von
Passovers as always "strong"—all were corn!,
"The `Mozart' Leaves at Nine" has a lot of power. It carries eve the bitter a t.sted a
u not get th and boiled egg and salt water—and
to eat it
with it many morals. It has a positive Jewish angle that indi- pel d the
better than Grandma—we ate—and .
meal but body, could
cates the author's understanding of the Jews who sought free- the
the Hagadah—and some more cups of
d then the a en"—and the rest
ate
dom after the war, as well as of those who discovered the win and the open f the door—and t stories of how in the old country someone
futility of trying to escape from Jewish heritage.
t that door—but best of all the songs with
frigh ed the who amity by appeari
nd—and the feeling of drowsiness—contenf-
The. author, Harris Greene, born in Waltham, Mass., studied which e second half of the Hagadah
in Boston University, worked on a Boston newspaper, served ment- the thought that tomorr the same thing once more
MEYER H. ROBINSON
in World War II and spent three years with the U.S. Army in
for the Manischewitz family
Austria. He is now a commercial consultant for American •firms
of traditional Passover wines
ew York N. Y.
ManischewItz
in Europe and lives in Rome with his wife and two daughters.
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