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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, May 4, 1962
Soviet Poet Says His 'Bahl Yar'
Was Misunderstood in the West
LONDON, (JTA) Yevgeny
Yevtushenko, the young Soviet
poet who attracted worldwide at-
tention for his poem, Babi Yar,
told a press conference here that
the meaning of the poem has
been misundrstood in the West,
which had hailed it as a denun-
ciation of continuing anti-Semi-
tism in the Soviet Union.
He came here Friday for a two-
week visit under the Anglo-Soviet
cultural exchange pact.
"I wanted to show that anti-
Semitism has no relationship to
the spirit of the Russian people,"
he said. "I am a nationalist and
I do believe that nationalists are
good people. To me, the world
is divided into two nations, the
The Anti-Defamation League
good people and the bad people,
no other division. I wanted to of Bnai Brith has praised the de-
show in the poem that anti- cision of the New York Elk's
Semites in old Russia were not Lodge No. 1 to ask the Grand
representative of the true Rus- Lodge to eliminate the Cauca-
si2ms only" clause from its by-
sian spirit."
Babi Yar is the name of the laws as "a heartening and good
gully in which the Nazis, then step toward ending a discrimina-
in occupation of Kiev, dumped tory membership policy that af-
the bodies of more than 40,000 fronts and hurts many Ameri-
Jewish men, women and children cans:'
Arnold Forster, general coun-
into a mass grave after slaugh-
sel of the League, declared how-
tering them.
The Soviet government has ever, that "the decision is a first
never permitted the erection of step and a first step only.
any monument to indicate the
"The membership policy of the
monstrous Nazi crime a6linst the Elks not only discriminates
Jews which took place there.
against non - Caucasians but
Algerian Vice Premier Denies He
Would Send Troops to Fight Israel
PARIS, (JTA) — Mohammed
Ben Bella, Vice Premier of the
Algerian Provisional Govern-
ment, denied vehemently, in an
interview at Tunis, that he had
stated that independent Algeria
would provide 100,000 soldiers to
help the Arab people "liberate"
Palestine from Israel rule.
Ben Bella was quoted to that
effect nearly three weeks ago
after he visited Cairo. The infor-
mation Minister of the Algerian
Provisional Government has al-
ready denied that Ben Bella
could have made such a state-
ment.
Now Ben Bella himself, in an
interview at the Tunis temporary
headquarters of the Provisional
Government, pinned down the
statement as a falsehood.
Referring to the Cairo report
of his alleged anti-Israeli state-
ment, he said: "I never made the
nationalists have appealed pub-
licly for the first time for the
backing of Algerian Jews in the
battle against the OAS, the secret
cities.
Eshel, Rivlin Get New
Israeli Assignments
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to The Jewish News)
news agency, the APS, reported service as the head of the South
this week that the Algerian American Bureau of the Jewish
Agency for - Israel and later as
First Secretary and Consul of
the Israel Legation at Buenos
Aires.
The Foreign Ministry also an-
nounced the promotion of David
Rivlin, Consul in New York and
Philadelphia, to the post of Con-
sul General in Montreal. Chaim
Zohar will succeed Rivlin in the
post at the New York mission.
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against members of other minor-
ity groups too,' Forster said. He
reported that a League study of
Elks membership practices, made
in 1956, showed that 64 of 454
lodges "did not admit Jews or
made it difficult for them to
become members."
The study is reported in full
in the new book, "Some of My
Best Friends .. ." by Benjamin
R Epstein, the Leagues national
director, and Forster. It was pub-
lished by Farrar, Straus and
Cudahy.
European underground army in
Algeria.
The APS reported that the
Algerian Moslem Committee for
the Struggle Against Fascism
had distributed pamphlets
throughout Algeria which car-
ried this message: "Jews of Al- Austrian Bishops
geria, do not forget that the
Secret Army equals fascism, anti- to Act on
Semitism, Auschwitz, Buchenwald
and the Warsaw Ghetto." Post- Libel Against Jews
VIENNA (JTA) — The Aus-
ers bearing a similar message
also were placed in Algerian trian Bishops Conference was
JERUSALEM — Ambassador
remarks that were attributed to Aryeh Eshel, Israel Consul Gen-
me. I never gave that alleged eral in New York, was appointed
interview. I want this made by the Foreign Ministry here
clear."
Wednesday to the post of Ambas-
The Vice Premier added that sador Plenipotentiary to Brazil.
the Arabs in Algeria regard the He will succeed Yosef Tekoah
Jews as "compatriots who can who has been shifted to the post
find their place in the Algerian of ambassador to Moscow.
fatherland."
Eshel had been Israel's ambas-
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sador to Uruguay before being
transferred to New York where
Algerian Nationalists
he was Deputy Permanent Repre-
Appeal to Jews for
sentative to the United Nations
Support Against OAS
prior to assuming the post of
TUNIS. (JTA) — The Alger- Consul General. His Latin Amer-
ian provisional government's ican experiences have included
EVERYONE CAN
ADL Praises Elk
Lodge for Move to
End Bias Clause
winter of 1963-64.
This stage of the plan, which
has been repeatedly and strongly
protested by the neighboring
Arab states, calls for completion
of a waterline from Lake Tiberias
to Tel Aviv at which point the
water would be pumped to the
present Yarkon River - Negev
waterline.
The plan would provide for a
flow of 225,000,000 cubic meters
of water annually from Lake
Tiberias southward. A pumping
station has been completed at
Lake ' Tiberias and pumping
equipment is expected to be in
operation by the coming winter.
Work is now underway on parts
of the pipeline and the connect-
ing tunnels.
Officials said approval of the
project at this stage was made
essential by the acute salination
of underground waters in the
central parts of Israel and the
lowering of the subterranean
water surface.
reported to have placed on its
agenda complaints that a Catho-
lic Church, St. Andrews, in Linz,
was still exhibiting an old tablet
containing a statement of the
ancient blood libel against Jews.
Linz is in the Tyrol section of
Austria.
The tablet, which Catholic
guides show to visitors, bears the
inscription: "In memory of four-
year-old Ursula Bock who was
cruelly murdered by Jews on
Good Friday, 1443." A similar
tablet was recently removed from
a church in Rinn in the same
area. According to reports, the
Catholic hierarchy in the Tyrol
has refused to remove the libel-
ous tablet at St. Andrews Church.
Exhibition of such tablets has
been forbidden by Pope John
XXIII and all such matter has
been ordered removed from Cath-
olic churches. In Poland, where
many such tablets have been
displayed on church walls, they
have been covered.
Attempt to Dynamite Synagogue
in Miami Fails; Police Hunt Culprits
MIAMI, (JTA) — Five sticks
of dynamite attached to a lighted,
nine-foot fuse, powerful enough
according to police to "have dam-
aged the entire neighborhood and
possibly cause loss of life," were
found by police here early Sun-
day on the lawn in front of Anshe
lames Congregation, a small syna-
gogue located in the heart of a
thickly populated area of small
homes.
The synagogue was closed for
the night at the time the dyna-
mite was found.
According to the police author-
ities, a passerby noticed the burn-
ing fuse in front of the syna-
gogue and telephoned police
headquarters. Police bomb ex-
perts and firemen who responded
found that seven feet of the long
fuse had burned down. The flame
on the fuse was extinguished,
and there was no damage.
Detectives said they will re-
assemble the contrivance and
try to trace the perpetrators of
the intended explosion through
fingerprints and other identiti-
ing marks.
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Tuesday at the Congress of the
Council of Jewish Communities
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