Vatican Statement
'Guilt Confession'
2
Israel's 'Oldest Salt' Retires After 58 Years at Sea
Hail and hearty at 72, Captain
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Edmond Sagi, senior shipmaster of
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is misunderstood as a statement
Israel's young merchant marine,
Action against the right-wing took the most difficult step in the
that "Catholics absolve the Jews,"
bigots was initiated by the New career of every seafaring man
Father Ashley said:
Jersey state Republican chairman,
"They have missed the point Walter B. Todd, and by the chair- this month: He "swallowed the
that this declaration is essentially man of the state's Young Republi- anchor"—retired—after 58 years as
a confession by Catholics of their
a cadet, deck officer and com-
cans, Clark Allen. (See Commen- mander
of passenger liners and
own guilt in the persecution of the tary,
Page 2.)
Jews throughout 2,000 years. But
cargo ships under a variety of
Todd
warned
Allen
that
failure
if we Catholics are not absolving
flags.
to take corrective action would
– the Jews, we are seeking absolu- "necessitate remedial action by
On Jan. 18, Captain and Mrs.
ion of our own guilt through hon- the senior party organization." Sagi were guests of honor at a
.st confession and a resolution
farewell reception tendered by the
';o work against anti-Semitism and Rep. Florence Dwyer, New Jersey Zim Lines, Israel's largest ship-
Republican, said in Washington
- all forms of racial or religious that
the charters of the Young ping company, and the Haifa Port
discrimination."
Republican groups in New Jersey Authority.
Recalling "the facts of Jewish and elsewhere, should be sus-
Earlier, Captain Sagi, his skin
persecution," he told the sympos- pended or revoked if they could leathered by nearly three score
ium: "For many centuries, in not eliminate anti-Semitic and ra- years at sea, but sharp of eye as
countries calling themselves Cath- cist elements.
ever, turned over his last com-
olic—I will let Protestants speak
Richard Flechner, an attorney mand to a younger skipper. That
for themselves — Jews have fre- and admitted member of the "Rat command was of the Zim Lines'
quently been subject to injustices Fink" faction, said he had not 23,000 deadweight ton bulk carrier
as a persecuted minority. These seen any copies of the songs. He Timna, a vessel built in 1961 and
have included injustices ranging denied there was any anti-Semitism one of the most modern of her
from discriminatory practices that and racism in the faction. While type in the world.
still go on in the United States, to he would not say how many of
Captain Sagi began his career in
disenfranchisement, to public the 8,000 New Jersey Young Re-
branding and dishonor, to confis- publicans were members of the 1908 at the age of 14 as a cadet
catory taxation, to violent attacks "Rat Fink" faction, some estimates at the Royal Hungarian Naval
and deportation, and finally to tor- put the membership in hundreds. Academy at Fiume on the Adriatic
ture and mass murders. In our
Sen. Stamler said that the songs Sea. He was one of only two Jews
own time, the Nazis, some of whom indicated that the state's Young ever to gain admittance to that
were Catholics by origin, in a few Republicans "have been infiltrated institution whose cadet corps was
years exterminated over 6,000,000 by a tiny group of extreme right- made up of members of the Austro-
Jews, a great part of the whole wing bigots who would destroy the Hungarian aristocracy. He gradu-
party for the sake of their own ated in 1912 as second mate. After
Jewish people."
a brief spell in the merchant
selfish interests."
He derided the excuse that holds
He said the songs had been print- marine, he served with reserve
that "after all, the Jews deserve ed in a seven-page song sheet officer rank in the Austro-Hun-
to suffer because they put Jesus which, he asserted, had wide cir- garian Navy throughout the 1914-
Christ to death and, for some time, culation among members of a 18 war.
persecuted his first followers." He right-wing faction in the state's
Captain Sagi returned to the
stressed that this was precisely the Young Republicans, which mem-
excuse declared false by the Vati- bers call themselves "Rat Finks." merchant marine after the war,
serving under the Hungarian and
can, saying:
He cited the lyrics of one anti- Italian flags. On April 5, 1921 he
"The fact that, 2,000 years ago, Semitic song which he said had successfully passed his examina-
a small group of Jews were in- been used at a "group sing" at the tions for a Master's ticket—at the
volved, along with the Gentile oc- Young Republican conclave in age of 27. He received his first
cupation government, in the unjust Wildwood last May and at the command ten years later. In 1934,
trial and crucifixion of Jesus of Young Republican national conven- he settled in Israel, then Palestine,
Nazareth in no way implies any tion in Miami a month later.
and a year later received the first
guilt on the part of the great ma-
To the tune of "Jingle Bells," Master's certificate issued by the
jority of the Jews then living who Sen. Stamler declared, the lyrics Mandatory authorities.
played no part in these troubles, sung at the - two gatherings were:
Captain Sagi commanded pas-
and perhaps never even heard of "Riding through the Reich in a
them, and certainly implies no Mercedes-Benz / Shooting all the senger vessels of the Palestine
guilt on the part of the hundreds kikes, making lots of friends / Rat Maritime Lloyd, one of the pioneer
of generations of Jews who have tat-tat-tat, mow the bastards down Jewish maritime ventures during
lived since then or are living now." / Oh what fun it is to have the the nineteen-thirties. During World
Nazis back in town."
Party Head in Pennsylvania
Canada Cutting Troops
Charged with Anti-Semitism
PHILADELPHIA (JTA) — The on Egypt-Israel Border
charge that the new chairman of
the Conservative Party of Pennsyl- in Accord With UN Plan
vania, W. Henry MacFarland, has
OTTAWA (JTA) — The Cana-
been involved in anti-Jewish and
anti-Negro activities for the past dian Defense Department an-
20 years was made here by the nounced that it was reducing the
Anti-Defamation League of Bnai number of Canadian troops serving
with the United Nations Emergen-
Brith.
David Berger, chairman of the cy Force on the Egyptian-Israeli
ADL Philadelphia advisory board border and ending Canada's rec-
OFF ON ALL
and former City Solicitor, said that onnaisance duties for UNEF.
The announcement followed UN
MacFarland, at the age of 24, con-
tributed articles to an anti-Jewish, plans to reduce UNEF from 7,000
anti-Negro publication in Danville, to about 4,000 troops after a re-
Va., started his own publication in port to UN Secretary General U
1945 and since then formed a num- Thant by a UN survey team he
ber of organizations. Two of them, sent to Egypt last year. About 900
the ADL official said, were cited Canadians are serving in UNEF.
as "Fascist" in 1949 by the then-
One squadron of the Eighth Can-
U.S. Attorney General Tom Clark. adian Hussars will return to Can-
One of the organizations was listed ada next month. A 112-man squad-
in a report on "Subversive Activi- ron of the same regiment, which
ties of Hate Groups" by the Amer- the Defense Department has an-
icanism Commission of the Illinois nounced would be sent to Egypt,
OFF
Department of t h e American will not go. The troops had pa-
Legion.
ON ALL
trolled a 25-mile sector on the bor-
In 1954, the ADL leader said, the der. In their place, Canada will
SWEATERS
House Un-American Activities provide 30 more transport drivers
and
Committee issued a report on and 12 more signal men to UNEF.
ITALIAN
"Pro-Fascist and Hate Groups"
which listed MacFarland as active
KNITS
both in the anti-Semitic National Yeshiva U. Building
Renaissance Party and Conde Mc- $5,000,000 Library
Ginley's hate sheet, "Common
UP
NEW YORK—Construction has
OFF
Sense." B e r g e r said that Mac-
TO
Farland's publication, "National started on a $5,000,000 Central
On Special Group of
Progress" not only published University Library for Yeshiva
"false and insulting statements University in the Washington
about Jews" but urged a constitu- Heights section of Manhattan.
The six-story library, sched-
tional amendment to bar immigra-
tion entry of all persons "who are uled for completion in 1967, will
have a total capacity of 750,000
not of the Christian faith."
volumes, including the university's
major collection of Judaica, He-
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War II he served as Master
of various Palestinian vessels em-
ployed in ferrying troops and
ammunition in the Allied cause.
In 1948, Captain Sagi joined the
Zim Lines and was given com-
mand of the 5,000 gross ton S/S
Negbah, one of the first ships in
the Zim fleet. The Negbah had
been built in Holland in 1915 and
was once well known in America
as the "Ecuador" in the trans-
Pacific service of the Pacific Mail
Line and later as the "Santa
Olivia" in the inter-coastal service
of the Grace Line. Under Captain
Sagi's command, the vessel was
chiefly employed in the mass
transportation of immigrants to
Israel. In 1956, Captain Sagi re-
ceived command of Israel's first
trans-Atlantic passenger liner, the
S/S Jerusalem.
At his request he was trans-
ferred in 1958 to the brand new
15,000 deadweight ton cargo motor-
ship Ampal which opened the Zim
Lines service to U.S. Gulf ports.
Later commands were the new
bulk carriers Elat and Timna.
His son, Captain Uri Sagi, is
presently in command of a Zim
ship and a grandson is an officer
in the Israel Navy.
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