Deicide Rejected by Episcopalians; 4th
Catholic Council in View on Jewish Iss= es
ST. LOUIS (JTA)—The House of
Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal
Church declared here Oct. 13 that
the charge of deicide against Jews
was wrong, and that anti-Semitism
was a "direct contradiction of
Christian doctrine." The statement
by the 150 bishops was considered
the strongest on the subject ever
issued by a major Protestant body
in this country.
The statement said the deicide
charge involved a "tragic misun-
derstanding of the inner signific-
ance of the crucifixion." While it
is a fact that "Jesus was crucified
by some Roman soldiers at the
instigation of some Jews," the
statement asserted, this "cannot be
construed as imputing corporate
guilt to every Jew in Jesus' day,
much less the Jewish people in
subsequent generations. Simple
justice alone proclaims the charge
of a corporate and inherited cure
on the Jewish people to be false."
In denouncing anti-Semitism as
un-Christian, the bishops declared
that Jesus was a Jew 'and' since
the Christian church is rooted in
Israel, spiritually we are Semites."
Christian-motivated anti-Semitism.
Conservative prelates have sought
to water down that and other
stands clearly favored by a major-
ity of the prelates.
it.
The issue was linked with the
determination of the progressive
Council fathers to obtain a defini-
tive declaration absolving Jews,
past and present, of the ancient
charge of deicide in the crucifixion
of Jesus, and a condemnation of
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contention which led a group of
cardinals to make an unpreced-
ented appeal last Sunday to Pope
Paul, to intervene against the
conservative bishops. However,
Cardinal Bea insists that the
final elaboration of the draft,
Prior to the vote, be left with his
secretariat.
It was reported that Augustin
Cardinal Bea, president of the
Secretariat for the Promotion of
Christian Unity, which sponsored
the initial strong declaration on
Jews, was not seriously opposed
British Jewish
MPs Re-Elected
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occasions professed friendship to-
ward Israel, but the party has not
advocated a Middle East policy sig-
nificantly different from that of
the Conservatives, favoring elimi-
nation of an arms race in the area
and the preservation of the status
quo.
( From Jerusalem, Israel's pre-
mier, Levi Eshkol, cabled his gov-
ernment's congratulations to Prime
Minister Wilson in a message re-
calling • -with great pleasure your
Fourth Vatican Council May Be
visit to Israel. Am looking forward
Held to Complete
to a continuation and further
ROME (JTA)—Qualified sources strengthening of the friendly bonds
reported that a fourth session of so happily existing between our
the Ecumenical Council may be
necessary to deal with the much-
debated declaration on Catholic-
Jewish relations. That possibility
developed after an evaluation of
the procedures through which the
draft must pass before the 2,500
prelates attending the Council will
have the opportunity to vote on -
to having the draft inserted into
the schema "De Eccesia." Such a
shift was one of the points of
countries," Eshkol wrote. Israel
Foreign Minister Golda Meir ca-
bled a congratulatory message to
Patrick Gordon Walker, Britain's
Foreign Secretary.)
Prime Minister Wilson's new
Cabinet includes two of the most
ardent friends of Israel among
Britain's non-Jews. They are An-
thony Greenwood, who was named
Colonial Secretary, a n d Richard
Crossman, the new Minister of
Housing. Many other Labor Party
leaders are pro-Israel, and have
maintained close relations with
leaders of the Histadrut, the Israel
labor federation.
Sir Barnett Stross, 75-year-old
Jewish Labor Party Member of
Parliament and chairman of the
British OSE organization, has
been named parliamentary sec-
retary to the Minister of Health
in the new government.
The two Jewish Conservative
MPs who were returned to Parlia-
ment are Sir Keith Joseph, who
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Cardinal Bea's stand received
support from Cardinal Doepfner of
Munich, one of the council's four
moderators, who declared tonight
at a press conference that the final
elaboration on the declaration on
the Jews, as well as on religious
freedom, remained in the compet-
ence of the Secretariat for the
Promotion of Christian Unity.
Cardinal Doepfner also said that
he could say nothing at the present
time about the placement of the
declaration on Jews among the
Council documents. This was un-
derstood to mean that he did not
exclude the possibility it would be
inserted in the "De Ecclesia"
schema.
If that is the final determina-
tion, the sources said, voting pro-
cedures would be in complete un-
certainty. T h e
"De Ecclesia"
schema has already been approved
Poet, Writer Receive
Israel's Ussishkin Prize
JERUSALEM—The Menahem Us-
sishkin Prize, distributed annually
by the Jewish National Fund, on
the anniversary of the Fund's late
president, for outstanding Hebrew
literary works, has been awarded
this year to the poet Amir Gilboa
in Council voting. Its Theological for his book "Shelosha She'arim
Commission is preparing the de- Hozrim" ("Three Returning Stan-
finitive text for final voting by a zas"). and to the writer Rivka Gur-
;procedure of screening several fein for her book "Kokhavim me'al
thousand reservations and observa- ha-Gan" ("Stars Above the Gar-
tions made by the Council fathers den").
in the course of debate. Such final
voting could not be expected dur-
ing the present third session, and
possibly not until well into a fourth
session.
The possibility of a fourth ses-
• sion was strengthened also by a re-
quest by Archbishop Gomes of
Brazil, who spoke today on another
draft and asked that voting be
postponed
until a fourth session.
signed,
Most observers at the Council in-
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d icated that an early vote on the
declaration on the Jews would be
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Egypt to Launch
Broad Anti-Israel
Drive in France
PARIS
(JTA)—Egypt was re-
ported to be ready to launch a
major propaganda offensive in
France, with the goal of strengthen-
ing Franco-Arab friendship and
disrupting the traditionally strong
Franco-Israel ties.
Egypt plans to open in Paris
a Central Bureau of Information
to coordinate Arab propaganda ac-
tivities in Western Europe: The
bureau will issue a daily bulletin
based on reports of the "Middle ;
East News Agency," a Cairo
propaganda organization. and pub-
lish a local edition of the Cairo
propaganda weekly, "The Scribe."
It was reported that Dr. Adel '
Amar, a young university lecturer
and diplomat, who will head the
operation, and who is already in
Paris, has been given unlimited
funds and is trying to buy a large
block of shares in a French daily
newspaper as a base for anti-Israel
propaganda. He has had little suc-
cess so far.
The Egyptian Information Cen-
ter is bpsy seeking to organize
into one unit the 7,000 Arab stu-
dents. attending French universi-
ties. "The Association of Arab
Students" recently held its first
meeting, which was largely an anti-
Israel demonstration.
The Egyptian activities followed
the decision of the 13 Arab League
state rulers, at the recent summit
meeting in Alexandria, to launch
a major propaganda drive against
Israel in Western capitals'.
was Housing Minister in the out-
going Cabinet; and Sir Henry
d'Avigdor Goldsmid, president of
the Jewish Colonization Associa-
tion.
The Jewish MPs on the govern-
ment side of the new House in-
elude Emanuel Shinwell, a former
Defense Minister; Sydney Silver-
man, former chairman of the Brit-
ish Section, World Jewish Con-
gress; David W i t z m a n, active
Youth Aliyah leader; Maurice Ed-
elman, president of the Anglo-Jew-
ish Association; Sir Barnett Dan-
ner, former president of the Board
of Deputies of British Jews; Sir
Meyer Alpern, Ian Mikardo, Mau-
rice Crbach, Julius Silverman and
David Guinsberg.
Also elected as Labor MPs were
Harold and Leslie Lever; Sam and
John Silkin; Col. Marcus Lipton,
George Strauss, former Transport
Fasting with bread in the bas-
Minister; Barnett Stross, chairman ket is not like fasting without
of the British OSE; Mrs. Lena bread in the basket. Kethuboth 63.
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