Jordanian Slo an Stirs Protest
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taken in a police wagon, hand-
cuffed, to the Queens County Court
House. There, they were placed in
a cell. They were provided with
lunch, consisting of soup and bread
—but were not given any spoons.
For three hours, until their ar-
raignment, they 'sat- or stood in
their cell, singing various songs
including an old Negro spiritual,
"Go Down, Moses." •
Prior to entering the Fair
grounds, Dr. Prinz issued a state-
ment in which he declared that
the material displayed in the
Jordanian pavilion was "designed
to obscure the truth about Arab
refugees." He called the mural
"offensive and malicious," saying
it was "a cynical effort to use the
refugees for political purposes, a
libel of the Jewish people." The
AJC, he said, "protests the use of
the World's Fair to promote hate
propaganda."
Criticizing Moses' denial of the
requested permit, Dr. Prinz de-
clared:
"We reject as arbitrary, caprici-
ous and contemptuous Mr. Moses'
flat refusal of our request. If any
`international incidents' — to use
his phrase — are created, they will
arise out of the fact that Mr. Moses
refuses to enforce his own wise
regulations designed to prevent
exploitation of the Fair for poli-
tical purposes.
"Under his policy, any exhibitor
is free to make any political com-
ment, no matter how offensive. The
public, however,
is denied the
right to reply.
"Mr. Moses
acts as if the Fair
grounds are pri-
vate property. On
the contrary,
they are public
streets so desig-
nated in the
lease between
the city and the
Moses
World's Fair Corporation.
"Citizens have the constitutional
right of free speech on those
streets, subject only to regulations
limiting the number of pickets.
We intend to exercise that right.
"Mr. Moses' statement indicates
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that he regards himself as the sole
judge of whether picketing pro-
motes or hampers international
friendship. In this country, no pub-
lic official — even one so eminent
as Mr. Moses — has the authority
to make such decisions."
In making the request to picket
the Fair, the American Jewish
Congress did not concede the
legality of Fair regulations limit-
ing protest demonstrations, Dr.
Prinz said.
On Tuesday, as counteraction,
Arab pickets marched in front of
the national headquarters of the
American Jewish Congress and the
Anti-Defamation League of Bnai
Brith. They carried signs de-
nouncing "Zionist totalitarianism"
and accusing both organizations of
bias.
Arab officials in New York said
earlier this week that they would
picket the Jewish organizations if
there was any picketing of the
Jordan Pavilion at the World's
Fair.
One sign carried by the Arab
pickets had the word "Emet" in
Hebrew and "Truth" in English.
Another bore the legend "AJC and
ADL Believe in Freedom for All
Except the Arabs." Spokesmen for
the two Jewish groups issued
statements upholding the right of
the Arabs to picket but assailing
the pickets' motives and point of
view.
In Washington, U. S. Govern-
ment sources said they -could un-
derstand the motivation of the 12
American Jewish Congress offici-
als arrested for picketing the
Jordanian exhibit at the New York
World's Fair but thought the dem-
onstration "unwise and counter-
productive." They predicted the
real result of the picketing and ar-
rests would be to focus more at-
tention on the Jordanian exhibit
and increase its attendance.
ewish Leaders Warn Bonn
Not to Dilute Indemnification
BONN (JTA)—The process of
normalizing relations between
Jews and Germany "will be pro-
longed and hard if the West Ger-
man government insists on dilut-
ing its indemnification program,"
Curt Silbermann of New York,
president of the American Feder-
ation of Jews from Central Eu-
rope, told a press conference here.
Both he and Kurt Grossman of
the Conference on Jewish Material
Claims Against Germany outlined
the views of the two organizations
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Government officials made clear
they felt Jordan used dubious
judgment in exhibiting the contro-
versial inscription. But, after the
initial appropriate protests, "the
resort to picketing only had the
effect of inadvertently publicizing
and promoting attendance at Jor-
dan's pavilion."
The Jordan Pavilion wall display
in question consists of a large
photo of an Arab refugee woman
holding a bedraggled child in her
arms and a statement in letters ten
inches high which reads in part:
"Strangers from abroad, pro-
fessing one thing, but under-
neath another, began buying up
the land and stirring up the peo-
ple . . . The strangers, once
thought terror's victims, became
terror's fierce practioners . . .
But even now to protect their
gains ill-got as if the land was
theirs and has the right, they are
threatening to disturb the Jor-
dan's course and make the desert
bloom with warriors."
The mayor himself, the ADL
petition points out, has asked Fair
officials to order the removal of
this wall display as being contrary
to the general welfare of the peo-
ple and purposes of the Fair.
"The failure of the Fair Cor-
poration to comply with the May-
or's demand is itself a violation
of the lease between the city and
the Corporation," it concludes.
Arnold Forster, general coun-
sel for the ADL, in a statement ac-
companying an affidavit supporting
the petition, said, that "insofar
as the mural in the Jordan Pavil-
ion casts aspersions at all citizens
and residents of the City of New
York of the Jewish faith and in-
cites to hatred against them, it is
far more inconsistent with the pri-
mary aim of the World's Fair—
that of educating the peoples of
the world concerning the interde-
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on the indemnification issue at a
special press briefing.
Both officials stressed that West
German objections to extending
the deadline for victims of Nazi
persecution to file claims for com-
pensation were based on a false
estimate of the situation.
"There is a fear in the gov-
ernment, especially in the fi-
nance ministry, that lifting the
Oct. 1, 1953 deadline, which now
prevents some 100,000 victims
of Nazism from filing claims,
will cost several billion dollars,"
Silbermann said. This was the
deadline which many victims,
caught behind the Iron Curtain
on that date, were unable to
meet.
"There is no justification for
this feeling," he asserted. "In esti-
mating the costs of such compen-
sation, the government fails to
take into account, first of all, the
mortality rate among people re-
ceiving indemnification, and sec-
ond, the fact that many claims
which were filed have not been
honored."
He also described what he called
several myths which govern the
West German treaty on indemnifi-
cation. One of these, he said, was
the feeling that victims of Nazi
persecution were making too many
"unreasonable" demands and that
the number of people getting in-
demnification is far greater than
is actually the case.
There is also a feeling that there
must be a deadline, he asserted,
though in fact the present law
establishes a retroactive deadline.
Then there is the widespread view,
he pointed out, that the Govern-
ment and the country cannot af-
ford to pay more for restitution
and compensation despite the fact
that West- Germany is one of the
richest countries in the world.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 29, 1064
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