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had even greater courage to re-
pair what his people had wrought."
Dr. Adenauer was still w;aring
the "Remembrance" badge he had
received at a visit to the Yad
Washem in Jerusalem, the Israeli
center for documentation of the
Nazi holocaust. He replied with a
reference to his admiration "for
the Israeli people's great construc-
tive endeavours." He said he wish-
ed.Israel "strength and. energy and
leaders like Ben-Gurion, who are
admired and honored by the entire
world."
The two men discussed interna-
tional affairs for an hour, but the
long awaited informal meeting on
specific political matters did not
take place before Dr. Adenauer
was taken by helicopter to Lydda
Airport for his return to West
Germany.
Israel Cabinet Discusses Police
Brutality Charges; Name Inquiry
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prime
Minister Levi Eshkol appointed a
special commission to inquire into
charges of police brutality against
Hebrew University students who,
last Thursday, staged a demonstra-
tion protesting the visit to the
university by Dr. Konrad Aden-
auer.
The commission, to be headed
by Y. Salomon, an attorney, of
Haifa, was named by the Premier
after the full cabinet discussed the
police-student clash, and a report
on the events was submitted by
Dr. Eliahu Elath, president of the
Hebrew University. In his report,
compiled by a committee that he
had appointed under the chair-
manship of a university professor
of law, Dr. Elath made the follow-
ing charges:
One student was thrown off a
roof, and was beaten while slip-
ping down; another student was
trampled under foot and clubbed
by policemen at the same time;
one woman student, who was
pregnant, was slugged lii the
police; the police did not try to
use persuasion to halt the demon-
stration but used "excessive
force;" 12 students were injured
as well as 10 policemen.
After the Cabinet's decision to
have an inquiry commission named,
and the Premier's action in
appointing the body, student lead-
ers at the university announced
that their immediate demands had
been met and that they would, as
a result, return to classes to-
morrow. They had declined to at-
tend classes since the clash.
A visit Dr. Adenauer had
scheduled to make to Bar-Ilan
University, at Ramat Gan, was
cancelled for fear that students
there might repeat the kind of
demonstration that had greeted
him at the Hebrew University.
Dr. Adenauer attended services
at the Church of the Beatitude at
Capernaum, and visited Christian
shrines in Nazareth. Both at Caper-
naum and Nazareth, the ex-chan-
cellor, a devout Catholic, was seen
engaged in deep meditation and
prayer. However, he told news-
men after the church services:
"This is not a religious pilgrimage
but mainly a political trip, aiming
toward further improvement of re-
lations between Israel and Ger-
many."
After the church services, Dr.
Adenauer visited Kibbutz Afikim,
and showed great interest in the
life and activities of the Israeli
settlers there. -
Dr. Adenauer underwent more
heckling when he visited the settle-
ment of Nahalal, a smallholders'
cooperative, where the residents
cheered him — but, at the same
time, he was booed by other per-
sons who had gathered outside that
settlement. There, police arrested
five persons for the vigorous pro-
test demonstration.
More than 1,000 Hebrew Uni-
versity students protested the visit
by Adenauer to the University.
About 18 of the demonstrators
were wounded and several arrest-
ed as some 500 police, wearing
steel helmets, battled the rioting
students to clear a path for Dr.
Adenauer and his party. The de-
monstration reached a peak when
the former Chancellor's cavalcade
entered the campus through a side
entrance. The students, carrying
posters and shouting "Adenauer
Raus," managed to reach the cen-
tral building where the former
Chancellor's group was entertain-
ed by University president Eliahu
Elath and faculty members.
The noise of the clash did not
penetrate Elath's soundproofed
office but the visitors could clearly
see through the windows the battle
between the students and the po-
lice. Throughout the clash on
campus, Dr. Adenauer calmly con-
tinued to examine books and to dis-
cuss cultural matters with his
faculty hosts.
When he first learned of the
plans for the demonstration, Dr.
Adenauer told his hosts: "I have
experienced many demonstra-
tions and I am not afraid of
them. Let us go. I am even pre-
pared to meet with a student de-
legation."
After Dr. Adenauer left the
campus, 1,000 students assembled
before Premier Eshkol's office in
Jerusalem to protest against "po-
lice brutality." The students sang
songs against the police and
against the Premier, and called
through loudspeakers to the Pre-
mier to receive them. Officials said
the Premier was "unfindable."
Dr. Adenauer's visit to the Uni-
versity was cut short because the
police appeared to be in danger of
losing control of the situation.
Several hundred police surrounded
the 90-year-old German statesman
as he left the campus. He reported-
ly said "I can understand their
feelings. It is all so sad." It was
reported that among the injured
students one was in serious condi-
tion with a fractured skull. Several
policemen also were hurt.
Dr. Adenauer concluded his
visit to Jerusalem with a "thank
you to the Jewish people who help-
ed us Germans wash off the shame
and dirt of the past, which has
helped us become again members
of the family of nations." He spoke
at a luncheon tendered by t h e
Conference on Material Claims
Against Germany. "I spoke only
briefly," he added, "only a few
words, for what else can I say but
`thank you'."
He recalled his association with
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, "a man
who was prepared to seek, to-
gether with us, a new future. I must
also thank him." Dr. Goldmann, as
president of the Claims Confer-
ence, had a key role in arranging
for West German reparations to
Israel and restitution payments to
Jewish victims of Nazism. Dr.
Adenauer disclosed that West Ger-
many has paid out about $40,000,-
000,000 in reparations and resti-
tution, of which nearly $10,000,-
000,000 has been paid to Jews. He
said "we never counted, as some
say we did. Our only wish and
desire was to try to make up as
far as humanly possible for the
terrible past."
The German elder statesman
assured his audience, made up
of Cabinet Ministers, judges,
scholars and other public figures,
that "the past cannot repeat
itself in Germany, if for no other
reason than because the Ger-
mans have learned that nothing
good can come out of injustice."
He asserted that rightwing poli-
tical groups in West Germany
were small, consisting mainly of
persons over 45 and that "our
youth is healthy and Germany
will never again be what it was."
Dr. Goldmann, speaking as
Claims Conference President, paid
tribute to Dr. Adenauer as "the
greatest figure in contemporary
Germany without whom nothing of
what has been done in German-
Jewish relations could have been
achieved." Dr. Goldmann also said
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that "normalization does not mean
forgetfulness, for nations can never
forget either their victories or their
shames, their bravery or their
cowardice."
The problem now, Dr. Goldmann
added, is no longer material repa-
rations, "which is relatively easier
to settle, but moral reparations."
He called West Germany's legisla-
tion on indemnification and resti-
tution "a unique phenomenon" in
that "there is practically no pre-
cedent where a new government
has paid indemnification to vic-
tims of a past regime who are not
citizens of its country. This legis-
lation has created a new and im-
portant precedent in international
legislation."
Dr. Adenauer called on Presi-
dent Shazar at the President's
home for a 30,minute meeting. He
also visited the Jerusalem Town
Hall, where he was presented with
a city pin by Mayor Theodore
Kollek. Dr. Adenauer, who served
for many years as mayor of Co-
logne, remarked "here in this
house I feel at home in a place
which I am used to and like."
He attended a dinner tendered
by Foreign Minister Abba Eban.
There he said: "When I return
home, it will be with a feeling of
deep satisfaction with all I have
seen here. It is a beautiful and
strong country and I wish it a
blessed and peaceful future." He
also visited Tiberius.
* * *
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Nine per-
sons were arrested here Sunday
night, when 200 to 300 demonstra-
tors staged a protest against a re-
ception being given at the Shera-
ton Hotel here in honor of Dr. Kon-
rad Adenauer.
The reception was given by Dr.
Rolf Pauls, Bonn's Ambassador to
Israel. The demonstrators massed
outside the hotel but were kept
from entering by mounted police-
men wearing steel helmets and
wielding clubs. One youth did
manage to enter the hotel lounge,
just before Dr. Adenauer arrived
for the reception. The youth show-
ered leaflets protesting Dr. Aden-
auer's visit to Israel.
Inside the hotel ballroom, how-
ever, hundreds of guests came to
greet Dr. Adenauer who, despite
his age, stood in the receiving line
for three solid hours, greeting the
invited guests who had turned out
to honor him.
More Hopeful Israel-Soviet Relations
By ELIAHU SALPETER
Chief JTA Correspondent in Israel
(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)
JERUSALEM — Foreign Minis-
ter Abba Eban's visit to Warsaw
this month to attend the regional
conference of Israeli ambassadors
in East European capitals, is wide-
ly interpreted in the pro-govern-
ment press here as the first fruit,
if not turning point, in Israel's
relations with the Communist
countries.
There are signs that Israel's re-
lations with the Communist coun-
tries are slowly emerging from
their low-point reached after the
first Soviet-Egyptian arms deal
and the Sinai campaign (which,
by the way, destroyed or landed
in Israeli hands much of that
first shipment of Communist
weapons).
Bulgaria and Poland were the
friendliest for many years, while
with the East German puppet
regime there are not even form-
al diplomatic relations. (Actually,
East Germany is a special .case,
characterized less by the Pan-
kow government's prolonged ad-
herence to Stalinist methods than
by its refusal to accept, contrary
to Bonn, any responsibility for
what Germany had done to the
Jewish people during the Nazi
era.) Significantly, there is a
clear parallel between the atti-
tude of each East European re-
gime toward Israel and its atti-
tude toward its own Jewish com-
munity: the better the relations
with Israel, the more readiness is
there to permit Jewish cultural
life within the . country.
Lately, however, there have
been some slight improvements also
in relations between Israel and
the Soviet Union. Trade has been
resumed on a limited scale, follow-
ing an agreement for the sale of
Russian church properties to
Israel, paid for in part by Israel
exports. More obvious has been
the thaw in the cultural field.
Soviet artists began to arrive for
appearances in this country, in-
cluding the celebrated violinist,
David Oistrakh, whom in years be-
fore Israel tried repeatedly to in-
vite for guest performances here.
The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
has been scheduled to play in Mos-
cow and, although that appearance
has been postponed by the Soviet
authorities, it has not been can-
celed. The noted Soviet writer,
Konstantin Semionov, arrived in
April as guest of the Israel Writer's
Union.
Significant as these signs of
a thaw are, they represent only
a side aspect of Israel-Solitt
relations. The crux of the rela-
tions is in two other spheres:
Moscow's supply of huge quan-
tities of modern arms to the
Arabs, and the Soviet regime's
attitude toward her Jewish citi-
zens, in general, and their right
to emigrate, in particular.
Despite some minor indications of
an improvement on some of these
issues, by and large Moscow's line
remains, so far, unchanged. Until
such changes occur, Israelis will
find it hard, to equate scores of
Soviet supersonic jet fighters to
Egypt with half a score of guest
performances by a Soviet violinist
in Israel, or a shipload of Soviet
armor in Alexandria with a guest
lecture of a Soviet writer in Tel
Aviv.
Prime Minister Eshkol probably
believes that the road to the cru-
cial issues begins from the mar-
ginal ones. It is hoped that success
in the latter will not obscure the
distance from the central questions.
of Israel-Soviet relations.
University Creates
Lectureship on Judaism
St. LOUIS (JTA) — A resident
lectureship on Judaism will be
established at St. Louis University,
a Catholic institution, according
to an announcement by the Na-
tional Federation of Temple
Brotherhoods. The first holder of
the lectureship, the announcement
stated, will be Rabbi Martin E.
Katzenstein, of Temple Israel.
The lectureship will be spon-
sored by the Jewish Chautauqua
Society and will be Initiated in
honor of Harold W. Dubinsky,
honorary president of the federa-
tion.
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