Propagandist- for Nazis Is Denied U.S.. Citizenship
ks Spirit of Ghetto
Kennedy
to Founding of State of Israel
- NEW - YORK, (JTA)—Presi-
dent Kennedy, in a message to
the 2,000 guests attending the
Histadrut Third Seder night at
the Waldorf Astoria, stated that
"it •is "perhaps the profoundest
lesson of the Passover that
each generation may also draw
sustenance...from the hope of
freedom. The spirit of the peo-
ple of the Warsaw Ghetto fore-
shadowed the reality of a demo-
cratic Israel."
Ban German Flag
from Israel Fair
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The flag
of West Germany, one of the
22 countries participating in
Jerusalem's first • International
Book Fair, Will not be flown
during the week-long exhibit
'opening - April, 21.
'The decision to bar the West
German flag_ was taken to avert
posinile .anti- Bonn derrionstra--
tions by Israelis opposed to the
informal Government' policy" of
gradual normalization of rela-
tions between the two countries,
an opposition Which - ranges from
the : right and to the left and
of Israel's political spectrum.
The same reasoning will treat
the West German • books as
entries of priVate publishers and
not as national exhibits.
The problem of West German
participation in the book fair
troubled both: the Israel. Foreign
Ministry and the Jerusalem Mu-
nicipality and the issue was
sharpened by the current con-
troversy over West German
scientists working on advanced
weapons • development in Egypt.
The formal • decision was that
only the flags of countries with
which Israel maintains diplo-
matic relations will be flown
during the fair. A total of 2,400
publishers will exhibit. Coun-
tries represented include the.
United States, "Britain, France,
Russia, Argezitina, Canada, Ja-
pan, Spain Poland, Iran, Switz-
erland, Mexico, Venezuela, Cey-
lon, Italy, Belgium, Cyprus, Den-
mark; as well as the United
Nations. - .
Jerusalem Mayor Mordechai
Ish-Shalom openly expressed
the municipality's disappoint-
ment over the. fact that pub-
lishers of • Yiddish books and
jOurnals and of exclusively Jew-
ish- books failed to participate
to the degree "we had hoped
for":".
Edward Vieth Sittler, the na-
tive of Ohio who- addressed war-
time American radio audiences
as "Dr. Vieth, your Nazi com-
mentator," has lost a court ap-
peal to have his citizenship re-
stored.
He had renounced his U.S.
citizenship to become a propa-
gandist for Hitler during World
War II. The U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals voted 2-1 that Sitt-
ler has failed to repudiate the
Nazi system. He now lives in
West Germany with his wife and
eight children.
After the war, Sittler returned
to the United States as a Ger-
man- immigrant and received
his doctrate in comparative lit-
erature at Northwestern Uni-
sity. Because of his Nazi back-
ground, he lost subsequent
teaching jobs at Michigan Insti-
tute of Mining and Technology
In his message, Presideht
Kennedy said: "The ancient
festival of freedom you cele-
brate coincidence this year with
the 20th anniversary of the War-
saw Ghetto uprising and the
15th anniversary of the founda-
tion •of the State of Israel.
"The concurrence of these
anniversaries is a fortuitous re-
minder, if any need be given,
that many generations have
been called to taste, in their
turn, the bitterness of loss of
freedom. It is perhaps the pro-
foundest lesson of .the Pass-
over, however, that each gener-
ation may also draw sustenance
from the hope of freedom. The
spirit of the people of the War-
saw Ghetto foreshadowed the
reality of a democratic Israel.
"The future belongs to the
free, not only because free so-
cieties have been able to
assernble impressive material
wealth and expand human
knowledge but because the na-
ture of man, is set on a course
toward ultimate liberties and
realizations. Man's destiny today
is no different from that of
those led out of Egypt; it is
escape from bondage. It is the
particular pride, and the partic-
ular obligation of American
citizenship that we have a cen-
tral role to play in this greatest
of history's dramas."
Six memorial candles were lit
in a ceremony dedicated to the
6,000,000 Jews who perished
under Hitlerism.
Honor Zvi Herman
Aboard Zim Liner
NorthWestern and Long- Island
University. He was dismissed
from the Michigan college in
1949.
Sittler said after learning of
the denial that he would carry
the case to tire United States
Supreme Court. He told re-
porters in Munich that the
Appeals Court decision an-
nounced in New York, was
"very unfair."
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author of a recent book "Peo-
ple, Seas and Ships," was hon-
ored by representatives - of vari-
ous Jewish organizations at a
luncheon. given aboard the s/s
Zion which. is docked here.
Gottlieb Hammer, president of
the American-Israeli' Shipping
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The Zim announced an ex-
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Eden Says Britain's
'56 Invasion of Egypt
Was His Responsibility
Anthony Eden has announced
to the London preis that it was
his decision that Britain invade
Egypt, along with France and
Israel; during the Suez crisis of
1956.
He issued the statement in
response to an editorial in the
London Sunday Express which
criticized former Defense 'Min-
ister Lord Head for the coun-
try's act in that turbulent situa-
tion. Eden replied that ". .. it
(the responsibility) was, as - it
must- always be, the Prime Atin-
ister's, in this instance, mine."
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Two Nazis Sentenced
for Killing PriSoners
HANOVER, (JTA)—The Han-
over jury court rejected a pro-
secution 'demand for • life im-
prisonment and had labor for
two former SS men and sen-
tenced each to three years' and
six months r at hard labor.
The defendants were Wilhelm
Genth, 69, a pensioner,. and
Paul Maass, 53; who were con-
victed of the Murder of ooh-*
centration camp prisoners who
were marched in April 1945
from Hanover . to the Bergen-
Belsen camp just before the ar-
rival of allied forces who could
have saved them.
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