Pressure for Rudolf Hess' Release
BY MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright, 1966, JTA, Inc.)
WASHINGTON — The United
States government is expected to
press for the release next Septem-
ber of Rudolf Fiess, once Adolf
Hitler's top deputy, w h en the
other two remaining Nazi war
criminals in Berlin's Spandau Pri-
son are freed.'
Hess' German attorney has de-
manded that President Johnson
pardon Hess. The German argu-
ment now adyanced is that Israel's
farmer Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion, General Moshe Dayan; and
British and French leaders went
unpunished for the "war crimes"
of the 1956 Sinai-Suez war. -
Washington authorities said the
issue of clemency for Hess will be
reviewed in September when he
would become the solitary remain-
ing prisoner in the f o u r-power
Spandau war crimes prison. Free-
dom will then be accorded to Bal-
dur von Schirach, the fanatic Hit-
ler youth leader, and Albert Speer,
Reichsminister of armaments and
munitions.
The international Nuremberg
tribunal desisted from sentenc-
ing von Schirach and Speer to
death only because their testi-
mony helped incriminate t h e
other Nazis o n trial. Without
their self - serving testimony,
both surely would have been ex-
ecuted. They received 20 years
each. Their sentences terminate
this fall.
Hess escaped death because of
a mental condition that may have
been feigned. He was sentenced to
life imprisonment.
The German Red Cross has in-
formed U.S. officials that Hess is
a pitiful victim of psychiatric dis-
turbances. They asked - that Ameri-
ca not demand "a pound of flesh"
and permit Hess to spend his re-
maining years in freedonm. Wash-
ington is inclined to accede be-
cause of the American alliance
with German military forces in
NATO. Freedom for HeSs is seen as
a public relations gesture, a sort of
symbol of forgiveness for the mil-
itary officers who fought under
the swastika emblem and n o w
serve under a joint command with
Americans.
But the Soviet Union still has a
say at Spandau, even if France and
Ragland agree to release Hess. The
four-power arrangement requires
agreement of all four countries.
German diplomats have pressed
Washington to find a formula to
remove Hess from Soviet
"tyranny."
After dissolution in 1948 of the
four-power control council in Ger-
many, there was no supreme auth-
ority which could grant clemency
to the last inmates at Spandau.
Hess was one of the earliest
and most vicious Nazis. The jud-
ges at Nuremberg decided that
"as deputy to the fuehrer, Hess
was the top man in the Nazi par--
ty, with responsibility for hand-
ling all party matters, and auth-
ority to make decisions in Hitler's
name on all questions of party
leadership. Hess was an informed
and willing participant . .."
While t h e judges thought i t
might be true that Hess acts in an
abnormal manner, "there is no-
thing to show that he does not
realize the mature of the charges
against him, or is incapable of de-
fending himself. He was ably rep-
resented at the- trial by counsel...
There is no suggestion that Hess
was not completely sane when the
acts charged against him were
committed."
Justice Robert H. Jackson, i n
the summation address for the U.S.
delegation at Nuremberg, referred
to the criminal Nazi role of Hess.
He said "the zealot, Hess ...was
the engineer tending the party
machinery, passing orders and pro-
paganda down to the leadership
corps, supervising every aspect of
party activities, and maintaining
the organization as a .loyal, and rea-
dy instrument of power."
The justice added that if one
was to say that Hess was not guil-
ty, "it would be as to say there
had been no war, there have been
no slain, there has been no crime."
- It appears, however, that Hess
will now receive mercy and com-
passion of a quality he was never
known to accord his Jewish vic-
tims.
Likeness With Troubadours, Spanish Songs Found in Synagogue Music
"Is there a correspondence be-
tween the melodies of the trouba-
dours of Southern France, the can-
tigas of Medieval Spain, and the
synagogue chants of the Proven-
cal Jewish tradition?" This is the
subject of the first Judaistic-musi-
cological doctoral thesis done with
the help of an electronic computer,
written by Judith Kaplan Eisen-
stein of New York City.
Two ancient Jewish sources men-
tion such a relationship, but only
in the form of sayings. Both of
them were chroniclers on the spot,
and their remarks have been
splendidly vindicated. Among the
troubadours, whom Mrs. Eisen-
stein (and the computers) singled
out as most popular to the Jews,
are Giraud de Riquiers and Fol-
quet de Marseille.
synagogue, together with
Spanish songs from the court or
church. There seems also to
have been some h4fluence by
Jewish poets or singers upon old
French troubadours. And there
were Jewish troubadours or jon-
gleurs, whose compositions were
of both chivalrous and religious
character.
Mrs. Eisenstein is the daughter
of Prof. Mordecai Kaplan, founder
and mentor of the Society for the
Advancement of Judaisni a n d
wife of T r. Ira Eisenstein, presi-
dent of the Reconstructionist Foun-
dation. She received het. MA de-
gree from New York University,
and studied Jewish music and
encal
philosophy.
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Friday, June 10, 1966-11
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Melodies and types of poems
found their way into the Prov-
Montreal Rabbi Gets
$1,000 Grant for Issuing
Rare Rabbinic Work
musicology at the Hebrew Union
College-Jewish Institute of Reli-
gion under Prof. Eric Werner.
On June 5, at commencement ex-
ercises of the New York School of
the College-Institute, she was
awarded the degree of doctor of
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Israelis Living Abroad
Run Into Delays on
Renouncing Citizenship
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The hand-
ling of applications of Israelis
living abroad who wish to re-
nounce their Israeli citizenship is
being
Every bride should have a bank she can call her own. Ours.
accelerated, but there is
still a lag in processing those ap-
plications, Dr. I. Ben Meir, deputy
minister of the interior, said in the
Knesset.
Replying to a written question,
the ministry official said that ap-
plications submitted after Febru-
ary 1964 still awaited processing.
He did not deny, however, that
there were such cases still out-
standing since 1962.
However, he reported, such "re-
luctant citizens" cannot get their
regular Israeli passports renewed.
He said that persons residing
abroad for more than five years
are given passports only for a re-
turn to Israel unless there were
special circumstances.
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grew up in. And goodbye, All You
Things that I love. Goodbye.
Tomorrow . . . I am going to be
married and have a new name, and
live in a new place.
Oh, Cookbooks, please
be clear and easy to read.
.
And, Oven, please don't burn the
roast. Not the first week, anyway.
And, Money, please don't go any-
place but where the budget says;
Like so much for rent . . . and so
much for food . . . and so much for
clothes ... and so much for savings.
And, George, dear George, I will
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that we're opening a Joint Account,'
in a way our money is getting
married, too.
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