Beni-Gurion Hall-Heartedly Retracts
Slur on Herut After Knesset Uproar
Open Trial of Nazis
on Charge They Killed
Jews in Ukrainia
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — T h e denying defensive weapons to scientists for armament devel-
NUREMBERG (JTA)
Tt,e
Knesset, Israel's Parliament, Israel.
opment. "It did not share with trial of three former members
adopted a resolution calling
Ben-Gurion said he was confi- them (Herut)," the Premier con- of the Nazi Security P o 1 i c e,
upon the Israel government to dent the United States Presi- tinued, "when they praised and
charged with complicity in the
strengthen the deterrent power dent will understand that, under exalted the name of Hitler."
murders of at least 2,400 Ukrain-
of the country's armed forces the present circumstances, Is-
Menahem Beigin, leader of ian Jews in the fall of 1942,
and to increase the security of rael had no alternative but to
the border settlements, in the engage in all-out increase of the the Herut, arose, shouting: opened here in the same court
light of the renewed Arab deterrent power of its armed "Stoolpigeon! Collaborator!" buildings in which the Nurem-
Other members of Herut yelled berg war crimes trials were
threats against Israel and the forces.
invectives.
Luz tried to restore held.
tense situation in the Middle
Ben-Gurion's conclusion of
order,
as
the
entire Knesset
East.
The trial of Joseph Paur, Wil-
the foreign debate, followed
The resolution was adopted by the Knesset decision, came broke into an uproar, and or- helm Wacker and Otto Koeler is
following a speech by Prime after the Knesset had been dered Mr. Ben-Gurion to pro- expected to last three to four
Minister David Ben-Gurion adjourned for three hours by ceed. But the members of He- weeks with some 50 witnesses
which completed the debate on Kadish Luz, Speaker of the rut demanded apologies. The expected to testify. The, three
Israel's foreign policy. The Is- Parliament, due to an uproar Prime Minister was heckled for committed the mass-murders in
raeli Prime Minister said that that followed an attack by about eight minutes as he tried the towns of Sdolbunov, Misotch
he shared President Kennedy's Ben-Gurion against the right- to go on with his speech, and and Ostrog in the Rovno area.
Luz adjourned the House.
desire—as expressed at his May wing Herut Party.
At the same time a re-trial
8 press conference—to halt
During the three-hour recess, got underway in Hamburg of
Ben-Gurion had spoken only
the arms race in the Middle about two minutes, and was re- efforts was made to get Ben- three former Nazis charged with
East. However, Ben-Gurion plying to anti-government criti- Gurion to withdraw his charges the murder in July 1941 of 220
added, as long as the United cisms by Haim Landau, of Herut, against -Herut, based on some Jews in Lithuania. Werner
States and the Soviet Union can- when he told the Knesset: "I writings dating back to 1933. Scheu, Karl Struvea and Otto
not achieve concerted action confess I don't share the con- At first, Ben-Gurion refused to Bastian were convicted and sen-
about the Middle East situation, cepts of Mr. Landau and his retract. However, he was finally tenced by a jury court in Aurich
and as long as the U.S. is un- colleagues about Germany." He convinced by the Knesset presid- to six, five-and-a-half and four
able to halt the flow of Soviet was referring to Herut's claim ium, and he did tell the House years at hard labor, respectively.
arms to Egypt and other Arab that the government did not act after the session was resumed However, the judgment was
states, the halting of the arms forthrightly against the Egyp- that he "withdraws" the criti- suspended by the West German
race in the region only meant tian employment of German cism against Herut. •
Federal Supreme Court at Karls-
Report Zalman Shazar Is Assured
of Election to Israel Presidency
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The elec-
tion by the Israel parliament of
veteran Zionist Zalman Shazar
as President of Israel to succeed
the late Itzhak Ben-Zvi became
a virtual certainty after the Na-
tional Religious Party decided
by a majority vote to support
his candidacy.
The decision came after a dra-
matic vote by Religious Party
members of 12 for and f iv e
against. A last minute approach
by the Herut Party for a differ-
ent candidate to keep all major
government posts from being
under Mapai control was re-
jected by the Religious Party.
Even the Poale Agudat Israel
Party decided to support Shazar
but the party will not second his
nomination, agreeing simply to
join in an affirmative vote. If
these decisions are implemented
in the balloting, Shazar would
have a majority of nearly 80
votes in parliament. Balloting
will take place May 21. .
Leaders of the Liberal Party
meanwhile nominated Dr. Peretz
Bernstein, a Liberal leader, as a
candidate after Dr. Pinchas
Rosen, Liberal and former Jus-
tice Minister, declined to run
because no other party would
support his candidacy.
KAPLAN BROS.
rube. The jury court found the
three defendants guilty of par-
ticipation in the murders and
not merely of complicity.
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Politician Accused
of Nazism Returned
to German Bundestag
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
DUSSELDORF —Protests
against the return of former
Minister for Refugees Theodor
Oberlander to the Bundestag
were lodged Tuesday with the
president of the Bundestag, Dr.
Eugen Gerstenmaier, by the
Conference of East German
Refugees.
The Conference, which has
just concluded its convention,
complained that Oberlander dur-
ing the Hitler regime "fostered
National Socialism."
Several years ago, Oberlander
resigned from the post of Minis-
ter for Refugees under charges
that he had been involved with
a group that condoned the mur-
der of Jews in Lvov during the
Nazi Army's occupation of that
city. However, he finished the
term he then held in the Bunde-
stag. Now, it was disclosed here,
he has been appointed to fill a
Bundestag seat vacated by the
death of a deputy from Lower
Saxony. He was defeated when
he ran for that office in the last
elections.
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Anti-Semitic Float
In Austrian Carnival
VIENNA, (JTA)—One of the
features of the carnival proces-
sion of Mallnitz was a "Jews
sion
float" with two Jews represented
by municipal workers in the best
Nazi tradition, it was reported
here.
The float showed an inscrib
tion reading "Jews Eichmann
spared because of poverty." On-
lookers shouted anti-Semitic re-
marks as the float passed by.
began an investiga-
tion of the incident.
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