PRESIDENT SHAZAR AT LUBAVITCHER EXHIBIT
President Shazar touring the Lubavitcher exhibit at Nir Hall in
Tel Aviv. The exhibit, under the theme "Jewish Consciousness," is
geared to attract Jewish youth to traditional Jewish observance.
It depicts various phases of Jewish life, the method of observance
of numerous Jewish precepts and customs and the highlights of
the observance of the complete yearly cycle of Jewish holidays and
festivals. Mr. Shazar is seen here at one of the Kashrut dioramas
talking with Yitzchak Gansburg, exhibit director. On Mr. Gans-
burg's left is Shlomo Madanchik, Mayor of the Lubavitcher village,
Kfar Chabad, near Tel Aviv. On the occasion of its Silver Anniver-
sary, the Detroit friends of Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch invite the
community to their annual dinner to be held on Monday, May 16th
at the Latin Quarter. The chairman of the dinner is Avern Cohn
and the guest speaker will be the U.S. Senator Wayne Morse of
Oregon. For further information call 544-7168. A
Israel-Bonn Economic Talks
Continue: Aim to Avoid Crisis
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
BONN—The economic aid talks
between Israeli and West German
negotiating teams will not be com-
pleted until the end of this week
at the earliest. is was indicated
here Tuesday, when it was re-
ported that the talks would con-
tinue for the rest of the week with-
out any suspensions to avert specu-
lations of a possible crisis in West
German-Israeli relations.
It was reported that after the
sessions on Wednesday, the dis-
cussions will concern "technical
questions." T h e announcement
raised the question of how such
technical issues could be discussed
before there was -a basic agree-
ment of the subject of such techni-
cal discussions.
Despite such problems, it was
clear that both sides were deter-
mined to continue the talks and
bring them to a satisfactory con-
clusion to avoid any such crisis.
When the talks resumed Tuesday,
the Israelis handed to the Bonn
negotiators counter-proposals on
the terms of the proposed aid and,
it was believed, on the quantity.
Abdel El-Halali, the Iraq econo-
mic minister here, warned in a
press interview that the majority
of the Arab States will break off
economic relations with West Ger-
many "if too many concessions"
are made to Israel. The Arab
states, he said, regard West Ger-
many's indemnification payments
to Israel as "concluded."
The We st German Cabinet
discussed Wednesday the pro-
posals submitted Monday by Israeli
negotiators to the West Germans
in the talks on West German
economic aid to Israel.
While details of the Israeli pro-
posal were not revealed, it was
learned that Israel made demands
regarding both the amount of aid
and the terms. The disputed ques-
tions include the matter of interest
rates on loans, which it was
learned was between 3 and 4 per
cent.
Another issue in dispute is a
proposal for a three-year interim
period without interest payments
and a third is in regard to the
total period in which interest pay-
ments will be made. Israel report-
edly asked for an extension of the
proposed limit.
State Secretary Rolf Lahr, head
of the West German negotiators,
reported on the talks to the cab-
inet. Talks were devoted Wednes-
day and Thursday to minor techni-
cal points. When Dr. Lahr returns
today from talks in Brussels, the
talks are to be pushed for
completion.
In Jerusalem official Israeli
sources took a more optimistic
view Wednesday on the outcome
of the talks after receiving a
report from Bohn on the latest
phase of the lengthy negotiations.
According to unofficial reports,
the West Germans raised the sum
offered by another $1,000,000 for
the first and precedent-setting year
of West German aid. The Israelis
consider this a more reasonable
sum than the reported initial offer
of $40,000,000. However, the Is-
raelis were still seeking better
terms in lower interest and longer
maturity on loans.
Detroit ranks fifth among the
nation's metropolitan cities so far
as new active cases of tubercul-
osis are concerned. Latest figures
show the Motor City as having a
case rate of 66 per 100,000. This
compares to 49. 3 per 100,000 for
Wayne County, 27.1 per 100,000 for
the state and 26.3 for the nation.
Claims Pins XII Spent His Own Funds to Rescue Jews
NEW YORK (JTA) — Taking a
hand in the controversy over the
role played by the late Pope Pius
XII with regard to the mass-kill-
ing of Jews, the Rev. Robert
Leiber, a 79-year-old retired Jesuit
priest in Rome, who served as con-
fessor, secretary and confidant to
the Pontiff, asserts in an article in
the_current issue of Look magazine
the Pope Pius "helped the Jews as
much as he could" during the Nazi
horror, and that "he spent his
whole private fortune for that pur-
pose."
"Pius," said Father Leiber,
"spent what he inherited himself,
as a Pacelli, from his family. It
was not an enormous sum of
money. I refer to it only to make
it clear that he did what he could."
Father Leiber stated that, aside
from raising funds to help the
Jews, Pope Pius helped thousands
to escape to North and South
America when Hitler embarked
on his "final solution." Moreover,
according to Leiber, Pope Pius
"suspended at that time the clau-
sura rules for all religious com-
munities—nuns, brothers, fathers—
in order to permit them to hide as
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Friday, May 6, 1966-13
many Jews as possible. Thousands
of Jews were saved that way."
Father Leiber, noting that once
Pope Pius considered speaking out
against the Nazi horror, said, "at
one time, the Pope, as I learned
only later, collected material to be
used in a protest and then put
everything aside. He did that after
ample consideration. There were
perhaps also other opinions on how
to handle the problem. But this
was his firm conviction: that it
was better to keep silent."
The Look article also quotes
contents of a note, sent to the
State Department by Harold H.
Tittmann, an American repre-
sentative to the Holy See in 1942,
in which the American diplomat
reported: "The Holy See is still
apparently convinced that a forth-
right' dennunciation by the Pope
of Nazi atrocities, at least insofar
as Poland is concerned, would only
result in the violent* deaths of
many more people."
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