Security Service and police will eral office in Munich; and Hein-
A. M. Sonnabend, of Boston i tee's Latin Amercian office, re- Kennedy. Referring to the fact
go on trial here, May 14, accused rich Tunnat, formerly deputy
and Palm Beach, industrialist ported that anti-Semitism in that the United States does not of having murdered 11,000 Jews, manager of the Chamber of
and civic leader, has been elect- South America generally — and take refuge in secrecy regarding
ed 12th president of the Amer- particularly in Argentina — is racial and religious prejudices, including men, women and chil- Trades at Oldenberg .
dren, between July and October,
ican Jewish Committee at its presently at its "highest level
At least 20 countries have bor-
of which, he said, "the vast 1941, in German-occupied terri-
55th annual
since the end of World War majority of the American peo-
meeting at
II." Monk said that the Fron- ple are aware and are anxious" tory in Russia. The trial is ex- King" for their national anthem.
pected to last 16 days.
Commodore
dizi Administration in Argen- to deal with, the Attorney Gen-
The principal defendant, Al-
Hotel. New
tina did not interfere with the eral noted: "How different from
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ized countries, are set aside."
ment program for the Commit- erupted, Monk said.
The resolution asserted that
tee's Institute of Human Rela-
He reported that even in !in the Soviets' anti-religious
tions. The Institute, at Third
Brazil, a country traditionally Icampaigns, "Jews are singled
Ave. and 56th st., New York, free of religious and racial bias, out for spcieal attacks. the Jew-
is the Committee's national
Jewish cemeteries in two cities .ish group is refused the mini-
headquarter.
were recently desecrate d. I mal rights granted to other
The director of the Ameri- "These are the worst anti-Semi- : faiths" and Jewish congrega-
can Jewish Committee's Euro- tic incidents ever recalled in tions "must function in utter
pean office reported a "wide- Brazil. Despite intensive gov- isolation."
spread movement" among ernment action to apprehend the Senator Javits urged the Un-
European Catholic and Pro- culprits, they are still at large," ited States Government to press
testant church leaders "to he said.
through the United Nations for
combat anti-Jewish prejudice
The Committee reported that an investigation of the Soviet
rooted in religious texts and discrimination based on -religion Union's official policy of severe
materials."
against technicians and special- discrimination against its Jew-
Zachariah Shuster, who came ists, including engineers, scien- ish citizens. He said that, be-
to this country to report to the tists, researchers and econom- cause of the "consistent and re-
Committee's annual meeting, ists, in major American indus- liable reports" of Soviet repres-
stressed that important church tries, has largely disappeared. sion of Jews. "the world is en-
leaders have been striving to However, discriminatory bar- titled to an accounting from the
"demonstrate the fundamentally riers on upper management and USSR which should be clear and-
un-Christian nature of biased policy-making levels still persist unequivocal."
religious teachings that have "to a very strong degree."
A special AJC study made
Louis Caplan, retiring presi- public at the meeting revealed
fed anti-Semitism over the cen-
turies."
dent of the Committee stressed that more state civil rights
He reported that in the Euro- that the "current technological laws were enacted in the Un-
pean Christian world, there is revolution in the United States ited States during 1961 than in
"a ferment of reappraisal go- had made possible a major and any similar period in this coun-
ing on with regard to attitudes widespread break through try's history. However, the same
toward Jews." against discrimination" in the period saw the emergence of
Shuster said this ferment has technical and research branches difficult school desegregation
found expression in a "renewed of American industry. issues in a number of large
study and respect for the Old
In this field, he said. "nega- northern cities.
Testament and Judaism, not tive stereotypes against Jews
At another session, Ignacio
just as relics of Biblical times are dim memories, and high Winizky, professor of law at the
but as having contemporary , mobility, in terms of proinotion University of Buenos Aires, and
force and meaning."
:and advancement on the basis vice-president of the Argentina
Dr. John Slawson, AJC ex- of skill and know-how, is the Jewish Institute of Culture and
ecutive vice-president, took general rule.
Information, warned that Ar-
issue with those who "strive
In sharp contrast, in the top gentina's recent political up-
to have American Jewry ap
managerial and policy echelons, heaval has jeopardized the
pear as a religious group in • "artificial barriers and stereo- democratic institutions of that
the strictly creedal sense" be- types still exclude qualified country. Of the recent upsurge
cause they feel that this con- personnel for irrelevant reasons of anti-Semitism in Argentina.
forms more to the American of religion or race," the report he expressed confidence that
pattern. 'said. It cited, as an example, when the political situation
"It is a known fact," Dr. the fact that Jews comprise less stabilizes, Argentina will return
Slawson said. - that while there ' than one-half of one percent ,to a climate which offers greater
has been a great increase in l of the management executives security to its Jewish popula-
affiliation in this country with employed by 500 major Amer- tion.
both Church and Synagogue, ican corporations despite the f Peter Schwabe. a business ex-
devotionalism or orthodoxy has fact that executive personnel ecutive of Rio de Janeiro and
by no means increased. As a are recruited from the ranks vice-president of the Brazilian
matter of fact, the communal of college graduates. and that Institute of Culture and Infor-
aspect of religious association Jews comprise eight percent mation, stressed the tremendous
—i.e.. the sense of community, of all college graduates in the potentialities of his country for
the feeling of belongingness-- U. S.
economic development. He said
is becoming increasingly a fac-
A resolution sharply con- that the participation of the ,
tor in religious association. demning Soviet anti-Semitism, Jewish community in this
Jews may attend synagogue less
and calling upon the Govern- growth will be of great impor-
often than certain Christian ment of the USSR to remove tance both to itself and to the
groups. especially the Catholic,
"all discriminatory policies" country as a whole.
but they meet much of their directed against Russia's Jew-
Emphasizing that there is al-
communal association needs in
ish citizens, was adopted at most no discrimination in Bra-
the secular area. Philanthropy the closing session of the zil. Schwabe pointed out that
is an example. In Christian Committee's annual meeting. the country has welcomed immi-
communities philanthropy is "This Soviet legislation," the gration from many parts of the
frequently organically related resolution declared, "is being world. The lack of prejudice. he
to Church. It is not necessary applied with particular severity said, also enables the immi-
for Jews to water down Jew- to Jews, as is clearly demon- grants to become quickly inte-
ish identity to meet the fantasy strated by their high ratio—in grated into the rich cultural
of a sort of monolithic Ameri- ecess of two-thirds—among the and social life of the country.
can pattern that does not ex- death sentences reported in the
ist. There is no absolute for- Soviet newspapers."
Although more than half of
mula as to the type and char-
Soviet discriminations against the Presidents were in military
acter of group identification in Jews were touched upon in a service during their lifetimes,
the United States."
major address before the AJC. only three—Monroe, Hayes and
Abraham Monk, Director of when the principal speaker was Kennedy—were wounded in
the American Jewish Commit- Attorney General Robert F. battle.

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Sonnabend Heads American Jewish Committee;
6 Nazis on Trial for Killing Jews
BERLIN. (JTA) — Six for- en. of Bavaria; Konrad Fiebig,
Progress Noted in Ridding Textbooks of Prejudice mer
high officers of the Nazi 52. formerly employed in a Fed-

