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PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

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war" against Israel and of "a the security of the borders of
to The Jewish News)
LONDON—John
Biggs-David- decision to be taken in 1963 or all Middle Eastern states.
The Nazi Legacy
1964." Replying to Biggs-Davidson,
Eichmann is dead. but his dastardly inhuman bequest lives son, Conservative Party mem-
He demanded that the Peter Thomas, Joint Undersec-
ber of parliament. declared in
to plague not only Jewry but all mankind.
the House of Commons Tuesday Lord Privy Seal raise the retary of State for Foreign
He breathed his last without remorse, unrepentant, believing that Egypt is contemplating an
issue at the United Nations. Affairs, said he had seen a copy
He stated that "apart from of Al Ahram of May 18 which
he did his duty.
invasion of Israel in 1963 or
our partnership in the Tri- inclnded an account of a dis-
Had he been human. he would have known that one does not 1964 and demanded that the
parte Declaration, has not cussion- alleged to have taken
torture people, murder them wholesale. without qualms of con-I i British government intervene
interven .
!at the United Nations now to Britain a great interest and place at a United Arab Repub-
science.
obligations in the Middle lic cabinet meeting in 1959. He
But he was not alone and he would not have remained alone halt such planned aggression
East and should not some- said he did not think "such
had he lived. There are too many like him who still hold on to "as a threat to the peace."
their Nazi beliefs, who give the Nazi salute in their hearts, who f Biggs-Davidson said that both thing be done in time to see evidence could be regarded as
that there was increased un- proof that military preparations
Al Ahram, the influential Cairo
sing the Horst Wessel song.
derstanding between Israel are being made today."
Eichmann's son plotted to harm Jewry during a brief visit in daily newspaper close to the
and her neighbors?"
Nasser government, and the
An aggressive campaign to
this country, during which he was given comfort by a prominent j
The Triparte Declaration to get all Moslem states in
writer: it was to have been a business transaction. Yet the Nazi Cairo Radio had spread "with
which
Biggs-Davidson
referred
Africa and Asia to sever dip-
son of a Nazi, on the morning after his father paid the supreme great publicity" the minutes of
an Egyptian cabinet meeting at was the joint statement made lomatic relations with Israel
penalty for the worst crimes in history, had only words of abuse I
in 1950 by Britain, the United
and
to contribute funds for
for Jews, linking them with money: the perverted mind still saw which President
Nasser had States and France guaranteeing
a "comprehensive
the Arab "struggle for Pales-
the distorted image that was created by his father and his father's spoken of
tine" was formulated at Bag-
cohorts. His heritage remains clothed in Nazi codes.
dad Tuesday by the fifth
Tragically, the horrors of Ilitlerism and Eichmannism have
World Moslem Conference,
nut vanished when the arch enemies of mankind perished.
according to Iraqi dispatches
Eichmann's death is a sad reminder of the indignities and
received here.
the brutalities he imposed upon millions of people. Would that it
The closing session of the
TEL
AVIV,
(JTA)
—
Yaacov
i
vailing.
In
spite
of
that
fact,
he
could have been said that only the memory of his crimes remains.
Bar-Or, prominent Israeli mem- was appointed legal advisor to week-long conference, attended
lie has left behind him entirely too many who are unrepentant.
by 127 delegates from 31 Mos-
Therefore the end of Eichmann does not conclude the tragic ber of the Ministry of Justice the Welfare Ministry, and later lem countries, called upon all
legal staff, the number two gov- assigned to the district attorney-
Nazi chapter in world history. The memory lingers on because
Moslem countries to issue offi-
it is so important that the legacy that was left by Hitler and ernment counsel, next to Attor ship here.
cial declarations supporting the
In
addition
to
assisting
Haus-
Goering and Goebbels and Streicher and Eichmann should spur ney General Gideon Hausner
during the prosecution and trial ner during the Eichmann prose- Arab "struggle" against Israel,
us on to continue the battle against indecency unto the end of of Adolf Eichmann, was arrested cution, he had been in charge of help with money, establish con-
days. From Biblical times on a warning has gone forth: "Remem- and released on bail on charges several important government sulates in Jordanian Jerusalem
ber Amalek!" Now we add to it: "Remember littler and Etch - of presenting a "false document" cases, including the prosecution and "encourage Palestinians to
mann!" Only by remembering them and their deeds will any
observe annually a Palestine
vestige of the legacies they left behind be uprooted among civilized pertaining to his legal qualifica - in several espionage cases.
According to the charges, he week."
Lions as a member of the Israeli
peoples.
The conference also called on
received his license as a lawyer
bar.
Bar-Or, until Sunday -the Dis- only this year. In applying for West Germany to halt its repa-
To Those Who Say 'It's of the Past—Let's Forget'
trict Attorney of Tel Aviv, was that license, the accusation rations aid to Israel and re-
There still are those who say "it's of the past . .. let's not born in Germany and came to stated, he gave an alleged "false" quested France to discontinue
statement to Israel's Supreme all aid to Israel taking up a
perpetuate the past . . let's forget. - To such people who are Palestine in 1936, studying law
1"neutralist" stand instead.
sincere but unrealistic, it is necessary to say that horrors, if in this country. But he had Court Justice Yitzhak Olshan.
their repetition is to be averted, must not be erased from the missed his final examinations
human mind just because they have left scars on humanity. Their during the War of Liberation in
indelibility is essential as a means of putting an end to the 1948. due to the chaos then pre-
inhumanity of man to man.
Even now. there are in our midst people with minds so
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corrupted, with hearts so hardened, that they have no compas- ""•3" • - --
sion, that there is no human feeling left in them when they think
of the era during which many millions of people were destroyed
on orders of the Nazi fuehrers. There still are people today
who justify the mass extermination policies of the Hitlerites. If
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there were only one such person alive, it would be necessary
to remind the world continually of the Nazi menace. But there
Important P resentation
are many of them, and some would even deify Eichmann as
The contents of the memorandum submitted by Jewish
well as Hitler. To keep their ideas disgraced in the eyes of
organizations to the forthcoming Ecumenical Council convened
humanity. the crimes of their Nazi idols and the ugliness of their
by Pope John XIII in Rome for October, appealing for the
pro-Nazi thoughts, must be kept in the limelight as abominations
elimination of anti-Jewish references from Catholic texts,
for all time to c
liturgies, inscriptions and pictorial representations, was signed
r.
by all constituent member groups of the COJO--World Confer-
ence of Jewish Organizations—with the exception of the Board
The Repercussions from Crackpot Quarters
of Deputies of British Jewish .. . Dr. Nahum Goldmann, presi-
The crackpots. who still abound in our midst. always look
dent of the World Jewish Congress, and Label Katz, world
for an excuse to revive their hatred of Jews. That is why it is
president of Bnai Brith, so-chairmen of the COJO, expressed
not surprising that swastika-daubing should again have been
the hope that "although the memorandum is addressed to Pope
resorted to. that synagogues and other Jewish public buildings
John in person," it would be sent to the Ecumenical Council
should have been desecrated by the pro-Hitlerites after the
with the Pope's approval . . . The memorandum states that
hanging of Eichmann.
world Jewry is "deeply convinced" that the time has come for
It is useless to get angry over the swastikas that were in
a sustained effort to master this evil—anti-Semitism—on the
Avrunin
Soskis
evidence again this week. We- would surely he blind to reality
part of all who believe in human rights . . . "We think," the
if we were to expect a sudden end to hatred and to anti-Semitism.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. — memorandum says, "that the struggle against anti-Semitism is
Let the swastika serve to strengthen anew the determined will Philip Soskis of Brooklyn, exec- the struggle for emancipation of all mankind" . . . The memo-
of all people of good will. of lovers of liberty and strivers for
utive director of the New York randum points out that if COJO addressed itself to the Catholic
justice. to labor to the end that every vestige of hatred should Association for New Americans, Church in particular, it is because of certain references to Jews
he eradicated. Let the re-emergence of bigotry inspire new efforts
in Catholic liturgical texts . . . "It is unfortunately not to be
for libertarian idealism. let the re-emergence of the Nazi methods was installed as president of denied that the ignorant, or malicious, may misunderstand,
the
National
Conference
of
Jew-
be a challenge to all to remain eternally vigilant in defense of
ish Communal Service at its distort, and exploit such references, foment hatred of others
human rights.
64th annual meeting in the and promote conflict with the church's doctrine of the brother-
Ambassador Hotel here. He suc- hood of man," the memorandum stresses . . . It then draws
Ironic Communist Mimicry
ceeds Donald B. Hurwitz, of attention to "allegations by churches in various parts of the
world of ritual crimes by Jews" . . . The charges, the COJO
There is an element of irony in some of the opinions ex- Philadelphia.
says, were perpetuated in inscriptions, pictorial representations,
pressed on the execution of Eichmann, and the most ludicrous
William Avrunin, of Detroit, and even in commemorative services . . . It expresses doubt
of all is the attempt of Communists to make political capital of was elected secretary.
whether those who saw such inscriptions or attended such
the Eichmann case.
services were aware that they had been "the subject of repeated
AI)N. East Germany's news agency, while reporting a feeling
Papal condemnation" . . . It then thanks the Pope for his recent
of satisfaction over the execution, had the gall to state in refer- Israel Credits
historic decision to remove objectionable phrases from the
ence to Eichmann: "Similar creatures who are not less guilty France for Security,
liturgy and asks that the Catholic Church "undertake such
rejoice today in West Germany not only in ever-increasing favor
measures as may seem appropriate" to alert those within and
but in the greatest well being."
Abba Eban Asserts
outside its ranks to the great spiritual and social dangers
What about the scores upon scores of former Nazi leaders
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inherent in racism.
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who are today enjoying immunity under Communist rule in East
JERUASELM
—
Education
Germany? There are many Nazi criminals who are at large in
Personality
Profile
West Germany today, but when one is caught he faces court Minister Abba Eban paid tribute
Dr. Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Con-
action. How often does one hear of a former Nazi being placed Wednesday to the friendship of gress, whose 60th birthday is now being celebrated, was con-
on trial by the Communists? Why has East Germany hushed up France, asserted that "every sidered'"the young Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of Germany" before
charges against ex-Nazis whenever any one of those they are Israeli who knows Israel can with- he came to the United States, because of his brilliance as a
stand the enemies encompassing
sheltering is mentioned?
it, also knows this is so largely speaker ... During my visit in Berlin in pre-war years I enjoyed
"Those who live in glass houses" — and the German Com- thanks to France."
the sermons he delivered at his synagogue . . . He was one of
munists must not delude themselves into believing that their
He spoke at the opening ses- the youngest rabbis in Germany and was looked upon as a
misdeeds are not under scrutiny — should he careful before sion of the annual conference of young spiritual leader with a bright future . . . The Nazi regim
•rjti•izing others while they, themselves, are among the guiltiest the joint French-Israeli commit- put an end to his career in Germany . . remember meeting
in the past-war period of atonement by Germans for their people's tee for implementation of the him and his wife in 1937, in a cafe in Paris on their way to
Nazism.
cultural agreement between the the United States as refugees ... Today he is the spiritual leader
Unlike West Germany. East Germany has refused to make two countries.
of Temple Bnai Abraham in Newark . . . He is highly respected
reparations to the victims of Nazism. They have interfered in
French Ambassador Jean Bour- as one of the successors of the late Rabbi Wise to the post of
indemnification plans and have proven harmful in all efforts deillette •also addressed the ses- president of the American Jewish Congress . . . He brought
that have been extended to provide aid for the sufferers from sion, which was held at the the American Jewish Congress back to the idea of laying more
Hitlerism. Yet it is East Germany that seeks to capitalize on the Hebrew University, with partici- emphasis on the word "Jewish" in the title of the AJCongress
Eichmann case for Communist purposes. Their schemes are not pation of a special delegation . . . Under his presidency the AJCongress began to pay more
fooling too in-any.
attention to Jewish cultural efforts.
from France.

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