Historic Moyne Case to Be Related
at ZOD AnnualMeeting on Wednesday
by Gerold Frank, Author of The Deed'

Gerold Frank, author of the
most moving historical accounts
relating to the activities of the
Irgun and the Stern Gang in
Palestine in the early 1940s,-
will speak here, . at the Beth
Aaron social hall, 1E000 Wy-
oming, next Wednesday even-
ing.
He will address the annual
meeting of the Zionist Organi-
zation of Detroit and will des-
cribe the background of his sen-
sational book, "The Deed,"
which has been published by
Simon and Schuster.
Judge Ira Kaufman, ZOD
president, announces that
Frank will be here by ar-
rangement made jointly with
the J. L. Hudson Co. book
GEROLD FRANK
department which is provid-
ing opportunities for the of 17 and 22 who assassinated
autographing of "The Deed" Lord Moyne. the British Min-
by the author during his stay ister Resident in Cairo, in 1944.
_ here.
It -was one of the most dramatic
Election of officers will take episodes of political activism
place at Wednesday's meeting by Jews during the tragic per-
and Judge Kaufman will sub- iod when 6,000,000 Jews were
mit his annual report. being slaughtered - like sheep .by
Frank's "The Deed" is the the Nails.
Gerold Frank was one of the
story of two young Jewish boys

few correspondents to attend
the trial In Cairo in 1945 of
the two boys, Eliahu Hakim and
Eliahu Ben-Zouri. The moving
story of the Jewish resistance,
of how the two young boys
came to feel that by their
desperate act they would hasten
Jewish freedom, is told by
Frank in "The Deed."
Frank, who for a short time
was director of public • informa-
tion for Bnai Brith, had six
newspaper assignments to the
Near East. He accompanied
both the Anglo-American Com-
mittee of Inquiry and UNSCOP
(United Nations Special Com-
mittee on Palestine), and vis-
ited DP camps after the war.
He collaborated with the
late Bartley Crum in the wri-
ting of "Behind the Silken
Curtain" and with Ambass-
adore Jorge Garcia-Granados
of Uruguay in "The Birth of
Israel."
Frank's publishers, Simon &
Schuster, say "The Deed" is-"the
most electrifying work of non-
fiction to be published in Ameri-
ca in the 1960s."

50 Witnesses to Testify at Trial

of 2 Eichmann Aides in Germany

FRANKFURT, (JTA)
At tant for T e Netherlands,
least 50 witnesses are expected Erich Rajakovic.
Rajakovic is now under ar-
to be called upon for testimony
when Hermann Krum ey and rest in Vienna, where Austrian
authorities a r e investigating
Otto. Hunsche, . former aides to charges that, under Eichmann's
the late Adolf Eichmann, go on jurisdiction, he had sent 110,-
trial here for the mass murder 000 Dutch Jews to the Nazi
of more than 430,000 Hungarian death camps.
One of the ex-Nazis being
Jews during World War II, the
public prosecutor's office dis- questioned now in connection
closed here. The date of the with the deportation of the
trial, expected to open in the Dutch Jews is Wilhelm Zoeph.
near future, has not yet been One of Eichmann's chieftains in
set.
Holland during the war, he is
The indictment against the suspected of having been re-
two men charges not only par- sponsible for many thousands
ticipation in the mass annihila- of deportations between 1942
tion of the Hungarian Jews, but and 1945.
also blackmail. The latter count
embraces their alleged compli- Hebrew Corner
city in the infamous "trucks-
for-lives" deal, in which Eich-
mann was involved. Under that
scheme, 1,000,000 Jews were to
The name "Exodus" is still in style
have been freed by the Nazis in Israel. There a. film, there is
a popular tune and even . . . res-
in return for 10,000 trucks.
taurants using this name. Therefore,

The Ship Exodus

maybe, it is not a coincidence that
a Haifa architect lately finished a
model of the ship Exodus, on which
he worked many years. The model
of the ship Exodus is one of the
scores of models found in the home
of the architect, Jacob Vinokur,
whose hobby is to build models of
ships and boats.
The collection of Vinokur contains
models of both historic and model
and military shipping. We saw there
an Indian boat and a Chinese boat
house, various motor boats, yachts,
fishing schooners, a coast guard cut-
ter, landing craft. "Cleopatra's Ship,"
"Noah's Ark," and, of course, the
"Exodus-Europe 1947."
To build the Exodus was not easy.
Vinokur began to gather information
ten years ago, when he served in
the navy. He- turned to the company
able in their descriptions of the in the United States that built this
Revisionist activities, of the ship and received the exact plans.
also read all the literature pub-
policies and plans of Vladimir He
lished in connection with the acts of
Jabtinsky, the emergence of heroism on the ship, and he spoke
to scores of people who were on
the Betar, the rise of extrem- the
ship during its unfortunate trip
ist groups and the split among to the country and back. After he
built
decks, he ordered from a
them, the opposition to them by Haifa the
sculptor and from a foundry
the Haganah which favored in the United States, dolls of men,
and children, in different posi-
Havlagah — restraint — and women
tions, wounded, standing on guard,
called upon the Yishuv not to eating and . . . vomiting into the
condone the terrorists' activ- sea. All the figures are in a natural
form and depict the tragedy of Im-
ities.
migration B (the illegal iminigpation).
His book emerges as a valu- When he finished the work, Vinokur
a number of those who trav-
able chapter in Zionist history. invited
eled on the ship who confirmed?
"The Deed" becomes a major "Yes, that is exactly how Exodus
factor in evaluating the era of looked . . . "
Translation of Hebrew Column
pre-statehood in Israel. —P.S.
Published by
4% Brith Ivrith Olamith, Jerusalem

BONN, (JTA)—Bavarian of-
ficials announced that they have
resumed probes into the war-
time activities of ex-Nazis who
collaborated during the war
with the late Adolf Eichmann
and the latter's principal assis-

Gerold Frank's The Deed . Emerges as
Valuable Chapter in Zionist History

Gerald Frank whose experi- who did not even have an active
ences as a correspondent in the post in Palestine? It was Sir
Near East in the crucial years Harold MacMichael, the cruel
of World War II and the try- High. Commissioner for Pales-
ing period that followed it in tine, the man who was respon-
the Middle East, have given sible for the wholesale death
him a deep insight into devel- of Jews on the Patria and the
opments in Palestine, prior to Struma, the man who ordered
the emergence of Israel, has the stringent measures that in-
incorporated his major find- troduced curfews, retaliatory
ings about the • underground murders by British military,
anti-British activities in his who aimed at uprooting the
deeply moving account of the •Zionist ideal, who was WANT-
deed—the assassination of Lord ED FOR MURDER by the Pales-
Moyne—and of those who com- tinian underground. Attempts
were made to get rid of Mac-
mitted it.
His latest work, "The Deed," Michael. The best that could
published by Simon and Schus- be attained, by the FFI, before
ter, is a detailed historical ac- the High Commissioner was re-
count of the events that led to called to be succeeded by Gen-
the murder in Cairo, the British eral Gort, was to wound him.
Lord Moyne—the victim—is
efforts to destroy the Zionist
structure in Palestine, the re- described as the man "not fa-
sistance movement, the extrem- vorable to Zionism." When the
ism that marked the work of a FFI leaders met to discuss him
small group whence stemmed they considered him thus:
the assassins.
"As MacMichael's superior,
It is history, yet it reads like he directed or approved every
a fiction and it holds the read- major decision of the high Com-
er's attention from cover to missioner. He supported the
cover.
White Paper. He had once, in
For 20 years, Gerold Frank
Parliament, eloquently argued
was haunted by the memory the Arab case. He had been
of the deed, by the thoughts
Colonial Secretary at the time
about the two youngsters of the Patria and Struma. He
who committed the murder, was against any further Jewish
by the motivations of the
immigrant into Palestine: he
group they represented—the could not understand why dis-
FFI — the Fighters for the placed persons would not want
Freedom of Israel — the to return to the country of their
Sternists who were looked birth. He had even questioned
upon as outlaws not only by whether the Jews were actually
the British but also by the Semites and had any claim to
Jewish population of Pales-
Palestine. No, he was not a
tine. It was a rejected group, friend. But this was not why
yet its activities drew the at- he had been marked for death:
tention of the entire world. he had been chosen as the chief
Did its deeds help bring the executive of the foreign ruler
State of Israel into reality? —the symbol of foreign rule
Was terrorism a necessary itself. The entire Middle East
weapon against British ob- was ruled from his office in
struction? Frank does not Cairo."
commit himself. He lets his
That is how Moyne was
readers draw their own con- chosen to be the victim. As
clusions.
British Minister of State dur-
To enable his readers to ing the war, holding the office
judge for themselves, however, next highest to Churchill's he
he has gone to the root of the was to die as a symbol of op-
historical facts about the Irgun, position to British rule in
the Stern Gang, the FFI, as Palestine. .
well as the Haganah's resist-
In presenting the dramatic
ance to the British White Paper story of the two young boys
that would have struck a death- who committed the deed,
blow at Jewish hopes in Pales- Frank also reviews the com-
tine, for which Moyne and his plete story of British inter-
associates were held respon- ference with efforts to rescue
sible.
Jews from Nazism, of the
Why did the two young boys, sunken ships with human
Eliahu Bet Zouri. 22, and Eliahu
cargo, of the debate in the
Hakim, 17, undertake the suici- House of Common during
dal task of murdering a man which Sir Josiah Wedgwood

condemned the actions of his
own government and went so
far as to state: "I hope to see
the day when those who sent
the Struma - back to the Nazis
will hang, as Haman did, side
by side with their prototype
and leader, Adolf Hitler."
Such were the tensions in
Palestine at the time that a
small group undertook to des-
troy British property to Pales-
tine, to take life for life every
time the British followed Mac-
Michael's orders. The FFI even
took venegeance upon Jewish
informers who stood in the way
of the battle against the "for-
eign" invader of the homeland.
Enumerating the blame
placed upon Lord Moyne, Frank
tells of Joel Brand's message,
after negotiations to rescue a
million Jews and states:
"Was one to believe Brand's
story? It could be a trap. His
Majesty's Government could not
engage in anything that might
be constituted as "negotiating
with the enemy.' Eden was wary
of the scheme. Moyne remem-
bered his own brief meeting
with Brand and his remark to
the distraught man (assuming
the offer was in good faith):
`My dear fellow, whatever
would I do with a million
Jews?"
Thus the evidence piled up,
and the FFI was determined,
at personal sacrifices—many of
their leaders died martyrs'
deaths—to fight the obstruc-
tionists.
It was especially when 19-
year-old Shlomo Ben Josef
was hanged by the British—
"the first Jew to be executed
in Palestine since the destruc-
tion of the Temple nearly
1900 years before"—that the
wrath grew. It was for aveng-
ing Arab terrorism that Ben
Josef was hanged, MacMi-
chael refusing to listen to
appeals for mercy.
Deeply moving are Frank's
descriptions of the court scenes
during the Cairo trial, the ap-
peals that were made by three
Egyptian lawyers that were as-
signed to the defense, the sym-
pathy for the boys and the ad-
miration for their s t o i c i s rn
among the Egyptians. The Jew-
ish community, the rabbis of
Cairo, were compassionate and
hoped for mercy and for clem-
ency for the youths.
Gerold Frank's historical
analyses are extremely valu-

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