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'Between You
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(Copyright, 1965, JTA, Inc.)
Britisher Gets Five Years for Setting Fire to Synagogue
LONDON (JTA) — Aubrey
Desmond Cadogan, 39, formerly
the managing director of a tailor-
ing firm here owned by Jews, who
reportedly told police that his
mother was Jewish, was convicted
in Old Bailey of having set fire
to a synagogue and sentenced to
five years' imprisonment.
While he had pleaded not guilty,
the court found that, on July 9,
he had broken into the Palmers
Green and Southgate District
Synagogue, in London, and had
set fire to it. Police witnesses
had testified that, immediately
after the fire had started, they
had found him carrying an oil can
near the synagogue.
The prosecution also charged
that, in Cadogan's home, police
found considerable quantities of
Nazi literature; including a copy
of a book entitled "Hilter Was
Right." One detective quoted
the man as saying after his ar-
rest that his mother was Jewish
and insisting: "So, I'm not like-
ly to do a thing like that, am
I?"
Cadogan continued to insist be-
fore the court that he was in-
nocent of the charge and, after
the sentence, called it "a travesty
of justice." But Judge Mervyn-
Griffith Jones, who presided at
the jury trial in Old Bailey —
which is London's C e n t r al
Criminal Court — told him:
"I put out of my mind what un-
doubtedly appeared to be your
political views. I deal with case
simply on the basis that you have
committed the offence of which
you have been convicted, coupled
with the fact that, in setting fire
to the contents of that synagogue,
you must have had it in mind to
burn down the synagogue as a
whole."
"This," the judge continued,
"was a deliberate act and not only
wicked in itself but one which
might have caused danger and loss
to surrounding buildings. It con-
stitutes conduct which, in a civil-
ized state, simply cannot be
tolerated." Detective Inspector
George Claiden told the court,
during the trail, that the arson
committeed at synagogues in north-
west London "had been of great
concern" to police authorities.
DIPLOMATIC NOTES: When West German Chancellor Erhard
comes to the United States for consultations with President Johnson,
he will be faced with two Jewish questions . . . First, why is the Bonn
government reneging on the decision of the German Parliament to pay
in 1966 $50,000,000 to Nazi victims who could not file application for in-
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demnification before October 1953, because they were in countries be-
hind the Iron Curtain? . . . Second, why is the Bonn government failing
SEE
to act on its promise to start financial talks with Israel after Germany
and Israel establish diplomatic relations? . . Both questions are of
major interest to American Jewry . . . It took the leaders of the Con-
ference on Jewish Materials Claims Against Germany many months
AT
of negotiations with Bonn before securing compensation for the post-
1953 claimants as Nazi victims . . . American Jews also watched with
satisfaction the exchange of letters between Chancellor Erhard and
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Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol last May, in which the former spoke of a
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"special relationship" between West Germany and Israel . . . The pre-
cise nature of the "special relationship" was thoroughly defined in dis-
cussions between the Chancellor's special envoy, Herr Birrenbach, and
Israeli leaders . . . Now indications in the West German press point to
the possibility that the Erhard government is inclined to seek excuses
from its pledges to Israel, claiming budgetary difficulties . . . The same
excuse of "budgetary difficulties" has also been given by West German
Finance Minister Rolf Dahlgruen when he announced last month that
the first payment of $50,000,000 compensation to the post-1953 claimants
will not be made in 1966, and would be "deferred for one year" ... Ex-
perts in this country who are watching West Germany's financial situa-
tion see no basis for these excuses ... They consider Germany's econo-
mic situatiim as prosperous this year as in any of the previous years,
and they say so to interested American Jewish leaders ...Is there any
• Oak Park Councilman - Elected
other reason why the Bonn Government is seeking to evade its obliga-
1961 - Re-Elected 1965
tions to Israel and to thousands of Jewish victims of Nazism? .. Chancel-
• Elected Mayor Pro-Tern unani-
mously by city council 1965
lor Erhard will have to answer this question to American Jewry during
• Commissioner - Oak Park Plan-
his visit to the United States ... Certainly, he cannot claim that, in the
ning Commission
• Vice President Oak Park Civic
case of Israel, he is afraid of Arab reaction, as some German news-
Improvement League
papers assert . . . By his own experience, he knows that the Arab
• Past President Oak Park Area
PTA
Council
countries need Germany more than Bonn needs the Arabs . . . He acted
• Served as Member Oak Park
like a leader of a great country when he disregarded the Arab threats
Employees' Retirement System
• Served as Member Oak Park
and entered diplomatic relations with Israel . . . No Arab government
Civil Defense Commission
carried out the threat of recognizing Communist Germany, and it is an
• Member Ex-Officio, Oak Park
Jewish
Migration
Recreation Advisory Board
open secret that even those Arab states which formally broke off diplo-
• Director Oak Park Symphony
matic relations with Bonn are now courting it because they need what
The great influx of imigration
Society
West Germany has to offer.
• Member B'nai B`rith Morganthau
from North Africa to France has
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stopped but a small flow still con-
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Veterans No. 716
tinues.
There
has
also
been
some
MARCH OF TIME: One of the oldest and largest Jewish fraternal
• Member Oak Park Human Rela-
tions Committee
organizations in this country is the Workmen's Circle . . . It is now pre- emigration to Spain, mainly from
Mayor Pro-Tem Shayne has al-
• Member Friends of the Library
North
Africa,
bringing
the
size
of
paring to celebrate the 65th year of its existence and is determined to
ready proven that he is capable
• Member Congregation B'nai
Jewish
community
in
Spain
to
be-
of the mayoral responsibilities.
David
attract more American-born English-speaking Jews into its ranks . . . ,
• 1965 City Chairman Boy Scout
Founded 65 years ago, when the wave of Jewish immigration into the tween 4,000 and 6,000 persons.
Membership Drive
Mayor Pro-Tem Shayne took over
• Veteran - U.S. Army
United States was at its height, the Workmen's Circle was practically
the full duties of mayor and has
• Local Insurance Agency owner
continued the smooth legislation
the club of every Jewish immigrant . . . To be a member of the Work-
• Resident of Oak Park 10 Years
which we as citizens are accus-
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men's Circle was tantamount to being a member of a large family of
tomed. ELECT THE P R 0 V EN
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friends . . . Its membership reached in many tens of thousands, with
University
branches all over the country . . . The members enjoyed not only cul-
tural benefit—like lectures for adults and schools and summer camps
for their children—but also insurance, old-age benefits, free cemetery,
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sanatoriums, health services, and numerous other benefits . . . They
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trating on bringing in more and more English-speaking and younger ele-
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ments . . . At present, the Workmen's Circle has more than 22,000
members in its 100 English-speaking branches throughout the country,
in addition to the many thousands of Yiddish-speaking members . . .
The first English-speaking branch was established 35 years ago, and
some of its members are today among the top leaders of the organiza-
tion . . . This includes also the president of the Workmen's Circle, Jacob
T. Zukerman, a prominent Jewish social worker who understands the
needs of the younger generation of American Jews and is therefore ex-
tremely ambitious to have as many of them as possible join his organi- 44
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ner, are especially concentrating now on 12 larger cities to stimulate
young American Jews there to become members of the Workmen's
Circle . . . These cities include Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Cleve-
land, Boston, Philadelphia, Newark, Washington, Atlanta, Miami and
others . . . The planning of attracting English-speaking members in
these cities is based on methods employed successfully in New York,
where the English-speaking branches have in the last few years gained
more than 1,500 members each year . . . It is taken for granted that a
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credit union, social service, medical service and other such forms of
benefits—in addition to cultural and social activities—Would interest
American-born Jews no less than their European-born parents for whom
the Workmen's Circle was a tower of strength during the 65 years of
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its existence.
NOTICE!
MORRIS BENSMAN
BOB ARMSTRONG NICK, INC.
ELECT MAYOR PRO-TEM
SIDNEY L.
SHAYNE
OAK PARK MAYOR
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Against 'Egyptian-Style' Fortifications
TEL AVIV (JTA) — A large
Israeli military task force, includ-
ing artillery and massive air sup-
port, opened an attack at dawn
Monday against Egyptian-style
fortifications in the Negev, as part
of the autumn maneuvers of Is-
rael's armed forces. The purpose
of the exercise was to test new
combat methods, providing an op-
portunity for the coordinated par-
ticipation of all of Israel's land-
based forces in a simulated war.
Israel's "blue" forces were to
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test their strength against presum-
ed Egyptian positions which they
were to overcome before proce-
eding further inland, if Israel
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were given names like "Shulamit"
and "Naomi" for the purposes of
this exercise.
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