Murderers of Jews Get 6-Year USSR Jail Sentences

LONDON (JTA) — The president of a synagogue in Sverdlovsk, a Soviet regional
capital in the Urals, and several Jewish friends of the president, were murdered and
robbed of funds they had accumulated for the construction of a new synagogue in
that city, according to reliable information reaching London.
The murders were investigated by highest government officials from Moscow,
the report stated, the killers were caught and convicted, and were given prison terms
of six years each. No names or numbers—either of the victims or of the murderers—

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were given in the report. The killers had been caught and brought to trial by officials
of the KGB, the Soviet political security police.
The murderers had told the court their act was 3otivated solely by a desire
to obtain the money accumulated for the projected new synagogue, and not by anti-
Semitism. Among the victims was one non-Jew, a physician, who happened to be in
the home of the synagogue official the night - the murders were committed. The city
of Sverdlovsk has a total population of 853,000, including 16,000 Jews.

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Ecumenical 'Jewish Question'
Debate Begins; U. S. Prelates
Support Stronger Declaration

Israel Notifies the UN
of Its Aims for Defense
H Arabs Should Attack

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (JTA)—Israel warned the
United Nations Security Council that it "will know how
to defend itself and to repel any aggression" if the Arab
states should go through with war plans designed at the
summit meeting held recently at Alexandria, Egypt, by 13
kings and other rulers of the Arab League states.
The warnings came in a letter to Platon Morozov, of
the Soviet Union, this month's president of the Security
Council, from Michael Comay, Israel's permanent repre-
sentative here. •
Comay did not ask for a session of the Council on this
issue but requested that the submission be circulated to
all members of the Council.
In his letter, Comay pointed out that the Arab states
issued a proclamation, at the end of their Alexandria con-
ference, declaring unanimously that their "national cause"
Mils for "liberating Palestine from Zionist imperialism"
and stating that the Arab states endorsed a decision "to
establish the Palestine Liberation Army."
"The clear purport of this proclamation," stated
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ROME (JTA)—The anticipated debate at the Ecumenical Council on the proposed draft
declaration on Jews will begin either today or Monday, it was predicted here. It will follow the
discussion on the declaration on religious liberty, which started Wednesday.

The American prelates met Tuesday and reached an agreement on the number of their speakers

to participate in the debates on the two declarations. Richard Cardinal Cushing of Boston and Joseph
Cardinal Ritter of St. Louis will lead in the debate, demanding complete exoneration of the Jewish

people from the deicide charge, and asking for a stronger text on the attitude of the Catholic church
toward the Jelis than the one presented to the Council fathers.

Nobody 'here is undertaking to predict how long the debate on the declaration on Jews will
last. However, fall indications point to the belief that this debate may last several days, since there is
tremendous interest in the document on Jews, as testified by the fact that there are 70 pages of
amendments -and proposals to the original text, which was prepared last year and revised for the
pres nt session.

The revisions, made under the pressure of conservative bishops and of Catholic prelates from

Arab ountries, will come under strong criticism when the debate starts. The majority of the 2,500

prelates attending the session are dissatisfied with the revisions, which provoked deep dissatisfaction
also among the Jews of the world because they diluted the original draft in which the Jews were
exonerated from collective guilt for the death of Jesus. The revised draft says that only the Jews "of,
our time" cannot be blamed for the crucifixion of Jesus, implying that the Jews in Jesus' time are still -
guilty of his execution by the Romans.
The American bishops met Monday afternoon and selected a number of speakers to participate
in the debate at the Council on the document on the Jews. It was later reported that about 40 prelates
have requested to be chosen to speak at the Council on the "Jewish question." The number will have

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