German Textbook Examiner
Refutes Foreign Criticisms

United Hias Service Acclaims New Law on Admission of Refugees

NEW YORK, (JTA) — The international refugee assistance country under the previous law
on admission of refugees.
new bill on admission of refugees programs.
"The permanent extention of
The new act, Gurfein said, "for
Prof. Georg Eckert, director have told us whether our pre- . to the United States, :signed by
provisions
for refugee aid enables
the
first
time
in
our
history
President
Kennedy
last
Thursday,
of the International Schoolbook sentations are correct."
us to assist those now calling
establishes
refugee
legislation
Institute of Brunswick, rejected
Eckert did acknowledge, how- was hailed by Murray I. Gurfein,
upon us for help in even greater
foreign criticism of the cover- ever, that a number of teachers president of the United Hias with no terminal date." Pointing numbers than during the past two
ti
out that the U.S. now had a per-
age of recent German history were ill-suited to teach history Service.
manent method of admitting cer- years," he stated.
in textbooks used in German because of their personal in-
The bill provides the basis for tain categories of refugees, Gur-
'CS
schools.
volvement in the Nazi past.
continued U.S. participation in fein said this means that "there
His rebuttal came in an ad-
no longer is any cut-off date for
dress at the United States Em-
the migration assistance United
bassy in Bonn.
Refinishing - Restoring
Hias Service is giving to refugees
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Furniture
Eckert said that "the younger
Repaired &
from
Europe
and
Egypt
who
de-
generation of teachers was not
Refinished in
sire
to
emigrate
to
this
country."
Any Color of
z burdened with the problems of Three years ago, World Pub- "Williamsburg (The Spirit)"
Your Choice.
"The new refugee aid law is
involvement . . . and could give
Antiques . . Old
tell
about
the
Hasidim
and
a
landmark
in
refugee
legisla-
lishing
Co.,
(119
W.
57th,
N.
Y.
Furniture
Made
rn a sober accounting to the
Like New. Cig-
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young . . ." of the Nazi atroci- 19), publisher of Meridian the ultra-orthodox in this tion and renews our confidence
arette Burns Re-
INISHINO
in the ultimate passage of a re-
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ties and recent anti-Semitic Books, issued what is called "an area.
paired. All work
(WM70040041 guaranteed.
Many of the famous Jewish vised, non-discriminatory immi-
outbreaks.
City-Wide and
Prof. Eckert's Institute exam- uncommon guidebook," as a restaurants are listed in the gration and nationality act," Gur-
Suburban
ines hundreds of texts each Meridian paperback, under the book, which does not fail to fein continued. He stressed that Free
Larry Paul
Estimates
title
"New
York
—
Places
and
mention
the
old
Jewish
ceme-
the United Hias Service has al-
year and requires international
UN.4-8440
approval of foreign governments Pleasures." This book by Kate tery on 11th St., between 5th ready assisted approximately
sw
2,000 refugees to come to this
before history texts can be Simon has been such an out- and 6th avenues.
Even those who think they
used in the German public standing success that it is now
out in a revised edition, and the know New York will learn from
, schools.
"The United States, France new book is one-third entirely this "uncommon" book that
or Britain get the hooks as new, thus adding to its value. they have much to learn—and
gifts if they deal with matters ; Whether it is in the section this guidebook by Kate Simon,
"Night for Insomniacs," or in with illustrations by Bob Gill,
pertaining to them." he assert-
.1. "W e do not ad ► nit them to "Innocent and Less Innocent provides an unlimited amount
Merriment," in the department of information. It is a guide-
schools until after these nations . "Shops:
The Celestial City," or book and a source of knowledge
in "Children, Feeding and En-' about the great metropolis.
tertainment," and the score of '
other intriguing sections, this Negev Phosphates Co.
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facing the court tests are Christ-
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Easter programs, recitation of
the Lord's Prayer and baccalau-
reate services.
As bitterness mounted against
the decision which many ex-
perts said was not as embracing
as the critics assumed -- anti-
Semitic undertones began to
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Roth. father of two teen-age
children, said he did not belong
to any religious group.
President Kennedy, the na-
tion's first Catholic chief execu-
tive, declined to state at his reg-
ular press conference whether
he personally agreed with the
decision. He said the important
thing at this stage was to accept
all Supreme Court decisions.
Opinion of some of the lead-
ing dailies was split. The New
York Times, for instance, said
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