Barry Goldwater's Views on
Immigration and Middle East
The Republican candidate for the Presidency, replying to questions addressed to hint
by the editor of The Jewish News, outlined his views on two major issues. His replies
are on Page 3 and the editor's comments are on Page 40.
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Knesset Demands Germany End
Scientists' Activities In Egypt
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'Sabotaging' of Liberals'
Schema on Jews Believed
Overruled by Pope Paul
ROME (JTA)—Pope Paul VI responded Tues-
day to an appeal by a group of liberal cardinals
attending the Ecumenical Council, and overruled
a group of conservative prelates an Vatican offi-
cials who reportedly have been striving to dilute
a draft declaration on Catholic-Jewish relations
and freedom of conscience.
An official source said that the Pope acted
after 15 prominent cardinals asked him to inter-
vene to prevent the conservative prelate from
"sabotaging" the desires of the Council majority
on controversial key issues. American, European
and Latin AmericaN cardinals made their appeal
to the Pope Sunday night, after they met to review
what they called "the gravest crisis" of the entire
Council.
They expressed fears that the Vatican Co-
ordinating Commisson and the Council presidency,
staffed. mainly by conservative church administra-
tors from the Vatican Curia, were determined to
water down Council actions already taken on the
key issues. The Curia is the central administration
of the Catholic Church.
The strategy of the conservative foes of the
major trend among the 2,500 prelates at the
Ecumenical Coun'cil was geared to removal of the
two declarations from the Secretariat for the pro-
motion of Christian Unity, headed by Augustin
Cardinal Bea, and their placement in a mixed
JERUSALEM—Debate opened Tuesday in Israel's parliament on the issue of West German
scientists working on weapons in Egypt, after an address by Premier Levi gshkol who declared)
that it was "inconceivable that West:Germany could not find ways to halt such activities."
The-Premier's statement on the long simmering issue opened the winter session of the Knesset.
It followed by a week a comment by West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard that his government had
no legal means of recalling the scientists.
The Premier was challenged in the debate by Menahem Beigin, leader of the right-wing Herut
Party, and Elimelech Rimalt of the Liberal Party.
Eshkol warned against the "deceptive and dangerous illusions" stemming from the "modera-
tion" shown recently by President Nasser of Egypt. He said that the "ostensibly restraining influ-
ence" which Nasser was exercising against demands of other' Arab rulers for an attack on
Israel was not motiviated by a desire for a peaceful solution "but to fight under more convenient
conditions."
The Premier then called on Chancellor Erhard's government to take "effective measures"
to stop the work of the West German scientists "helping Nasser's war machine." It is enough,
he said, "if we visualize the combination of blind Arab hatred with the murderous efficiency of
Hitler's days for the pkctur6 to become clear."
He cited the condemnations of the scientists' activities which he said were reiterated regularly
in West German newspapers, radio and television and by many leading West German personali-
ties, "but from a practical viewpoint nothing changes."
Calling Chancellor. Erhard's position on the issue "negative," the Premier emphasized
forcefully that Israel was entitled to demand and to express its conviction that it was out of the
question for German hands ever again to be raised against the Jewish people and that_this conviction
"should sink deep in the minds and hearts of the entire German people." -
He said that within the German people of today there- were forces "striving for renewal" and
abandonment of its recent past and that it was pernsib.le to hope that within that people there
were "great latent forces for the future. -
He emphasized, however, that this possibility could not diminish the "moral force" of the
'demand for a halt to participation of West German nationals in the development of "the war
machine which is declaredly meant to be used against us, and it is inconceivable that the powerful
German state is unable to express in legal terms its declared disapproval - of the scientists' activities."
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He warned the Arab rulers that Israel was not looking for a trial of strength but that if
attacked "we are confident of our capacity to give a good account of ourselves." He also warned
that "in the present international situation" it was "dangerous" to speak about "local disputes"
and that "a war which may start with Arab aggression against Israel is liable to spread beyond the
confines of this area and threaten a large scale conflagration." Continued on Page 7
Shocking Expose of Forced Marranoism
Jewish Personnel of U.S. Air Force at Wheelus
Base in Tripoli, Libya, Must Hide Their Jewishness
Due to Hafredi of Arabs; Children Suffer the Most
By MILTON FR I EDMAN
(Copyright, 1969, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
WASHINGTON—Has the United States Air Force caused Jewish per-
sonnel and dependents to become virtual "Marranos"—secret Jews— at
Wheelus Air Base, at Tripoli, Libya?
Personnel of the base have written to Sen. Jacob K. Javits, New York
Republican, detailing their plight in the anti-Jewish atmosphere of the
Arab country.
The Air Force position is that Arab passions are directed not only
against Jews but also against the continued use of the strategic base by the
United States. There is concern that no offense be given to the Arabs. The
preservation of "cordial relations" transcends the rights and feelings of
American Jews based in Libya, in the Air Force view.
Jews stationed at Wheelus charge, in effect, that the Air Force would
like them to conceal their Jewish identity.
Describing the situation of married personnel, an Air Force Captain
wrote of his concern over the fate of his wife and children.
He said "We live under constant fear of intimidation. It is not as if we
enjoyed the walled sanctity of Wheelus Air Base. We are dispersed in Arab
towns, some miles from the base. To be sure, we have been forced to com-
pletely lose our Jewish identity. Christmas will be a nightmare. The pressure
to put up a Christmas tree 'as all Americans do' will be overwhelming."
The captain and his wife started a Sunday School for 20 Jewish chil-
dren. The children were too young to understand that they must keep secret
the fact that they were Jewish. "All Jews are personna non grata here,"
said the captain. The words "hear, oh Israel" are treason. Jewish prayer
books must be smuggled M. There was fear of teaching the children
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JO Unpublished Hebrew Poems
of Spanish Golden Age Discovered
Fifty religious poems by the leading poets of the Spanish Golden A.de of
Hebrew literature have been published for the first time this month. The poems were
discovered by Dr. Abraham I. Katsh, director of New York University's Institute of
Hebrew Studies. The previously unpublished works were contained in a Mahzor (prayer
book) compiled in Barcelona in October of 1264. The 700-year-old manuscript contained
a total of 285 liturgical poems for the Sabbath, Yom Kippur, Passover, Purim, Hanukah
and Sukkot.
Published by the the M. Newman Publishing House in Jerusalem, the volume
includes an introduction, notes, and critical commentary by Dr. Katsh.
Dr. Katsh found the poems in 1960 in the Baron David Guenzburg Collection
of the Lenin Public Library in Moscow. Microfilm copies are now on file at NYU's
Library of Judaica and Hebraica.
Among the poets whose writings were discovered in Moscow are Solomon ibn
Gabirol (1021-1056), Abraham ibn Ezra, "Rabbi Ben Ezra" (1092-1167), Joseph ibn Isaac
Abitur (10th century), Yehudah Halevi (1085-1142) and Yitzhak Giat (11th century).
The manuscript reveals three' new poems and 42 previously published works
by Halevi, the foremost Hebrew poet of the Medieval period. Each stanza in one of the
new poems begins with a different letter to the 2Z-letter Hebrew alphabeibt.
All of Halevi's previously published poems found in the Barcitlona manuscript
show sigrfificant variants in wording and punctuation when compared with readings
printed in standard prayer books today, says Dr. Katsh. He reports that almost all of
the 235 puglished poems in the prayer book manuscript differ from current versions.
Among the prayers contained in the manuscript is a complete unpublished
Hosanna (0 Save!) written by Abitur for Sukkot. Abitur's prayer calls upon his core-
ligionists to observe Sukkot diligently and joyfully in gratitude for deliverance of Israel
from the land of Egypt.
Included in the prayer book are two poems in the Aramaic language, in use
at the time of Jesus. One of the works was completely unknown previously and was
probably written by Yitzhak Giat. The newly found poem is a dirge on the death of
Moses the lawgiver.
The book published in Israel this month is entitled "Yiggal Hazon," or "The
Vision Revealed," the title of a poem by Gabirol. The work expresses hope for divine
revelation. Dr. Katsh discovered the prayer book manuscript when he represented the
American Oriental Society and the American Council of Learned Societies at the 25th
International Oriental Congress held in Moscow in August 1960. Publication of "Yiggal
Hazon" has b e en assisted by the Alexander Kohut Memorial Foundation and the
William Liebermann Fund.