U.S. Still Studying Possibility
of Contract 'With Rheinmetall
Soviet Premier Kosygin to Visit Egypt While Adenauer Is in Israel
ANKARA (ZINS)—The semi-offi• Kosygin will pay an official visit former German Chancellor Con-
cial Egyptian paper, "El Ahram," to Egypt in the month of May. In rad Adenauer, is scheduled to visit
reports that Soviet Premier Alexei the same month, the 90-year old Israel,
WASHINGTON (JTA) —No deci- three wartime members of the Nazi
sion has yet been made by the U.S. Party is not known," he added.
government with regard to the con-
Rep. Leonard Farbstein, New
troversial issue of awarding a York Democrat, asked the House
United States munitions contract to Armed Services Committee to
the West German arms works, hold hearings for action on his
Rheinmetall, which is charged with bill to prohibit purchase by the
refusing to honor claims of Jewish United States of arms from for-
survivors who worked for this firm eign firms which have used slave
as slave laborers under the Nazi labor unless compensation has
regime. Rheinmetall was formerly been made to victims or their
operated by the Nazi trust called heirs.
Reichswerke Hermann Goering.
Rep. Farbstein said: "I am out-
Bnai Brith revealed that Rhein- raged that, today, a German com-
Of all the nights in
metall had sent "feelers" offer- pany has the arrogance to main-
: ing to settle claims by the former tain that the profits it earned from
the year, those of
slave laborers. But the company the blood and indignities of slave
Pesach
are tradition-
later acted to reaffirm its con- laborers are not stained. I will not
ally the ones when
tinued refusal to negotiate a com- have our government be a party
pensation settlement.
you and your entire
to this shameful and disgraceful
Dr. William A. Wexler, presi- situation. Our government must
family get together.
dent of Bnai Brith, reported these have regard for fundamental de-
What
better way to
facts to the executive committee of cencies — and dealing with the
commemorate t h e
the Bnai Brith International Coun- Rheinmetall Co. of Dusseldorf I
cil during its meeting here. He said regard as indecent."
holiday • . to drama-
that overtures for a settlement had
T h e Congressman announced
tize the present-day
been received by the Jewish serv- that, if the final appropriations bill
festivities . . and
ice organization shortly after it had fails to contain the prohibitory
to display your" own
publicly protested last month to amendment, he would seek a floor
the State and Defense departments, fight. He asserted that "there must
good taste . . . than
opposing the prospective contract be no complicity on the part of our
with
these majestic
with the Army.
government in excusing the bloody
handcrafted pieces
But on March 1, Dr. Wexler ad- practices of the Nazis and their
ded, Rheinmetall's directors, meet- backers."
from the Land of
ing at the company's headquarters
Milk and Honey it-
in Dusseldorf, again voted to re-
self?
ject any financial responsibility for
wartime use of slave labor in its
plants. Bnai Brith repeated to the
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Author Meyer Levin seems to
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action by our government that season. With "The Stronghold"
might reward an industrial organi- published by Simon and Schuster
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U.S. Army tests of the Rhein- ple. For children there will be a
metall-made • cannons are still in new version of "My Father's
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progress and the Defense Depart- House," presented by Behrman
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ment must review these tests prior House. This novel was originally
to a final procurement contract de- published for adults in 1948.
cision, it was stated.
Citadel Press is issuing a colle-
However, the State Department giate paperback edition of "The
has informed Sen. Jacob K. Javits, Golden Mountain," Levin's re-tell- * New — Fold-a-Way Matzoh
New York Republican, that the ing of the tales about Rabbi Is- * Basket. New different, excit-
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The State Department also in- nous allegorical tales of the Baal * tractive accent to your holi-
formed Sen. Javits that it was ad- Shem's grandson, Rabbi Nachman. * day table setting. Size 8 1/ax
vised of "the financial claims by Originally published in 1933, "The * 8 1 /4 to conveniently hold full
size matzohs.
slave laborers against Rhein- Golden Mountain" was decades
metall" and brought them to the ahead of the present-day interest Air Folds down
attention of the U.S. Defense De- in Hassidism, which it helped cre- * flat for easy
partment and the German Ministry ate. Half a dozen of Levin's tales * storage from
of Defense, "which in turn discuss- of the rabbis are to be found in
one Passover
to the next.
ed them with Rheinmetall." As- various best-story anthologies, but
sistant Secretary of State Douglas thevolume itself has had only
MacArthur II, said that the State limited distribution, which Citadel
Department has been in touch now plans to expand.
with legal representatives inter-
Levin also is writing afilmcall-
ested in the matter."
ed
Igor, about a Russian truck-
MacArthur, in his formal letter
poet on a cultural mission
to Sen. Javits, pointed out that driver
abroad, who fears the looney-bin
the State Department under- if
he goes home, and attempts to
stands that "discussions are now hide—with attendant wild adven-
going on between interested par- tures—in Israel.
ties in Germany regarding pos-
sible steps toward a settlement."
He said that "there may be as Patient Says He Set
many as 1,000 claims by former
slave labor employes involved." Fire to 3 Synagogues
"Many of these appear to derive
and Two Hospitals
from employment in plants which
CHICAGO (JTA)—A mental pa-
were in the Soviet zone in East
for Seder Hard Boiled Eggs
Germany," the assistant secretary tient at Billings Hospital here con-
of state stated. "Exact information fessed to police Monday that he
Re g.
$8g.
as to the number of claimants, the had tried to set fire to three syna-
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location of their wartime service is gogues in Chicago and to two hos-
not known to the State Depart- pitals conducted here under Jew-
ment." (Other State Department ish auspices.
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officials have been informally al - The man, James Saraca, had
leging that some of the Jewish vic- previously been a patient at two
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tims of Nazi incarceration are mak- other hospitals here at Mount
ing "exaggerated" claims for slave Sinai and Michael Reece, both of
labor compensation from Rhein- which are under Jewish auspices.
metall.)
He was caught Sunday trying to :
MacArthur conceded in his com- set fire to Billings HospitaL
munication to Sen. Javits that "it
Upon interrogation, he admitted
appears that, of the five present he had been responsible for at-
principal officers of the Rhein- tempted arson at Mount Sinai and
metall, three were members of the Michael Reece as well as to three
Nazi Party during World War II. synagogues. Police continued to
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