Friday, Oc tober 25, 19 63—THE DETROIT JEWIS H NEWS-1 0
Cardinal Bea's Schema Called Premature; 'Planting' Charged
ROME, (JTA) — An official
statement issued here by the
Secretariat for Promoting Chris-
tian Unity, of which Augustin
Cardinal Bea is the head, made
it clear that no decision has
been taken as yet in the Vatican
regarding the distribution of the
draft of a document on Cath-
olic-Jewish relations, and noth-
ing has been decided as yet on
the manner in which this docu-
ment should be presented to the
Fathers attending the Ecumen-
Fathers attending the Ecumen-
ical Council—was ready for sub-
mission at the first session of
the Council last year but was
tabled because Dr. Goldmann
had announced in Rome that
Dr. Chaim Wardi, director of
Christian affairs for the Israeli
Ministry of Religion, would at-
tend the Ecumenical Council as
an unofficial observer represent-
ing the Congress.
Dr. Goldmann declared the
"whole story is completely
wrong." He said that Dr. Wardi
was never appointed as un-
official observer to the Ecu-
menical Council and Dr. Gold-
mann never announced his ap-
pointment. Some Israeli papers,
he stated, reported about the
intention of the World Jewish
Congress to appoint Dr. Wardi
and an Italian News Agency
took over this story.
Dr. Goldman pointed out that
he was always aware of the
fact that an observer to the
Council has to be invited by
the Council and the World
Jewish Congress has no possi-
bility to appoint such an of-
ficial observer.
"As a matter of fact," Dr.
Goldmann said, "on several oc-
casions I advised Cardinal
Bea not to pursue the idea of
inviting Jewish observers to the
Ecumenical Council because of
the opposition of Jewish Or-
thodoxy to it and the likelihood
of an internal Jewish conflict
whether to accept such an in-
vitation or not whoch would
only be harmful from the point
of view of improving Jewish-
Catholic relations which all
Jewish organizations wish to
bring about."
Bea's office for submission to
the Ecumenical Council might
cause the postponement of the
presentation of the document to
the Council Fathers. Members
of the American press panel
here deplored "gossip and guess-
work in relation to this delicate
matter."
Council sources suggested
that the news in the American
press on the document—which
is reported to repudiate in ef-
fect that the Jewish people are
historically responsible for the
crucifixion of Jesus — was
"planted" by special-interested
groups. The statement issued by
the Secretariat of Cardinal
Bea's office read:
"In answer to questions that
have been raised because of
A unanimous appeal to Soviet
certain articles appearing in the
authorities to open the gates
daily newspapers, the Secre-
for Jews wishing to emigrate to
tariat confirms already that two
Israel marked the close of the
years ago it began to draft a
convention. The convention also
document on the purely religi-
appealed to Moscow to grant
ous
relations between Catholics
Jews full religious, national and
cultural rights and to abolish and Jews, and submitted its
all restrictions on their ob- final text last June to those
Council authorities who are the
servance of Jewish tradition.
only ones competent for its
printing and distribution to the
Council Fathers. These author-
ities have taken no decision
about the distribution of the
document to the Council Fath-
ers or about the way by which
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
the document should be intro-
to The Jewish News)
BONN—Dr. Konrad Adenauer, duced to them."
The Council authorities to
the retired chancellor of the which
the communique refers
West German government, Tues- were identified as the coordi-
day sent a cable to Dr. Nahum nating commission of seven
Goldmann, chairman of the Jew Cardinals, of whom Cardinal
ish Claims Conference, thank- Spellman of New York is one.
ing him for the understanding An adviser to Cardinal Bea's
and confidence displayed in con- office said that the communique
nection with West Germany's was issued with the intention
payment reparations to Jewish of indicating that "it is not
victims of Nazism. The cable helpful to have gosSip" on the
document in preparation.
read:
( See Commentary, Page 2)
"I thank you most sincerely
Dr.
Goldmann Takes
the
message
you
sent
me
in
for
connection with my retirement. Issue with Report on
I was especially glad to receive Ecumenical council
ical Council, which would have
to act on it.
The statement was issued in
denial of a report in the Amer-
ican press that a text. on Jews
was ready . at the Vatican for
distribution among the more
than 2,000 Fathers of the Cath-
olic Church attending the Ecu-
menical Council. Jewish sources
in Rome were disturbed by the
report. They said that prema-
ture publication of the contents
of the text drafted by Cardinal
Solution to Major Israel Problem
In Enforced Stay in High School,
Ben-Gurion Tells UJA Mission
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM—Israel is seek-
ing to raise the age level for
compulsory education of chil-
dren from 14 to 16, thus ex-
tending free education to in-
clude two years of high school
or vocational training, former
Prime Minister David Ben-Gur-
ion told members of the 120-
member United Jewish Appeal
Adenauer Thanks
study mission Wednesday.
Next to security, he told
members of the mission visiting Dr. Goldmann for
him at his vacation retreat at Reparations Help
Sde Boker, the broadening of
educational opportunities repre-
sented Israel's 'most pressing
problem. He saidIsrael's "great-
est resource is trained brains"
and that science, education and
manpower would eventually re-
sult in the conquest of the
Negev.
He expressed the hope that
many persons imbued with the
spirit of pioneering would come
to Israel to live in and develop
the Negev.
Asked by one of the visitors in
a humorous aside whether the
report was true that "you mean
to devote your next 20 years to
improving education in Israel,".
the 77-year-old leader retorted,
your telegram. You know how
"why only 20?"
* *
deeply interested I was to re-
pair—as much as was in our
Urges
Ben-Gurion
power to do—the events of the
unholy past. I therefore thank
17 Years Education
you now for your understand-
for Israeli Youth
ing, your cooperation and your
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Former confidence during all these
Premier David Ben-Gurion, ad- years., I hope to see you during
dressing 3,000 delegates and, your next visit here."
-
guests at the annual conven-
tion of the Map ai Party,
stressed the need for Israel to
bridge the educational gap be-
tween its population of Western
origin and those of its residents
who had come from the less-
devloped African and Asian
regions.
Receiving an overwhelming
ovation from his party adher-
ents, Ben-Gurion said he would
not touch on political or se-
curity problems "which are in
good hands." Instead, he told
his party that Israel must be-
come "an academic-labor na-
tion." He demanded that every
Israeli receive at least 17 years
of education, from the age of
3. The last two or three years
of an Israeli's education, he
said, must be devoted to the
learning of a profession or
trade.
Moshe Sharett, chairman of
the Jewish Agency executive,
told the convention that Mapai
had "a very dark future if
it continues to deal with day-to-
day problems, in which there
are already appearances of a
lack of the just and human ap-
proach." He urged that Mapai
renew ideologic discussions "to
refresh our way of thinking
and study practical views."
Messages of greetings and
support were received by the
convention from the Socialist
International. and from Harold
Wilson, leader of the British
Labor Party. The Socialist In-
ternational noted, in its mes-
sage, that its recent congresses
at Amsterdam had called on the
Soviet government to cease
• anti-Jewish discrimination, and
to permit emigration for pur-
pose of family reunification.
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
CASABLANCA — Salomon
Bensabat, former counsellor to
the court of appeal at Tangier,
was named counsellor to the
supreme court at Rabat by the
Moroccan Justice Ministry.
A former rabbi, he had been
nmaed by the late King Mo-
hammed V to the National Con-
sultative Assembly in 1956. He
had been head of the Maimoni-
des Institute at Tetuan.
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as president of the World Jew-
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taking issue with a New York
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claring that the declaration on
Catholic-Jewish relations—now
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