Judith Coplon Cleared
Df 16-year Spy Charge
WASHINGTON — Judith Coplon,
charged 16 years ago with supply-
ing government secrets to the
Soviet Union, was finally cleared
when the federal courts dropped
charges on the ground that its evi-
dence would not stand up in court.
Miss Coplon, a 27-year-old em-
ploye of the Justice Department at
the time, was accused and convict-
ed of supplying government se-
crets to her alleged lover, Soviet
diplomat Valentin A. Gubitchev.
In an appeals court she was re-
leased on the grounds that she had
been arrested without a warrant
and that documents had been taken
from her illegally.
Miss Coplon, now 43, is married
to one of her lawyers, Albert H.
Socolov, and they have four chil-
dren.
Jews from Tangiers Open
Synagogue in Toronto
TORONTO (JTA) — Toronto's
400-member congregation of Seph-
ardic Jews from Tangiers, Moroc-
co, opened their first synagogue
here with a service conducted in
four languages — Spanish, Eng-
lish, French and Hebrew. The
congregation. Petam Tikva Anshei
Castilla, purchased the synagogue
building from Cong. Shomrei Shab-
bos, founded in 1889 by Austro-
Galician Jews.
The members of the TangierS
congregation are mainly , descend-
ants of Spanish, Jews who fled to
North Africa at the time of the
Spanish Inquisition. Their emigra-
tion from Morocco began when
that country achieved indepen-
dence in 1956.
Mapai Editor Demands
Eshkol's Resignation
TEL AVIV (ZINS)—"Levi
kol, if you will resign now. it will
be an honorable act; but if you
will procrastinate, yo'i will descend
to the level of your erstwhile Ger-
man colleague Dr. Erhard, and
maybe, even to a lower level."
This warning was made by Meir
Bareli, member of the editorial
board of Davar, Mapai organ.
Bareli, a veteran Mapai leader,
charges the prime minister with
responsibility for the "unfavorable
climate of opinion now prevailing
in the country. This atmosphere
contributes to the recession, gives
rise to the spreading of dangerous
jokes at the expense of the prime
minister and the state. The only
course for such a prime minister
is to resign," he writes.
Boris Smolar's
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright, 1967, JTA, Inc.)
•
EYES ON GERMANY: Ever since I returned from my recent
study of conditions in Germany I am being asked from various sides
whether the present West German Government can be trusted to fight
neo-Nazism; whether neo-Nazism will grow in West Germany; and
whether there is danger for the 30,000 Jews now residing there . . .
My answer is that there can be no doubt that the Social Democratic
Party, as well as the Christian Democratic Union — the two parties
of which the Bonn government is now composed — are fully interested
in fighting neo-Nazism . . . Whether they will be able to do it effec-
tively is a different question, now that they have accepted Dr. Kurt
Georg Kiesinger, an ex-Nazi, as chancellor of West Germany . . .
Chancellor Kiesinger himself regretting his Nazi past, will probably
be inclined to go out of the way to prove that his heart is now on
the right side . . . Yet, by accepting a person with a Nazi record —
however slight the record may be — as head of the West German
government, the two large and leading political parties in the cabinet
have made people with a Nazi past respectable . . . They thereby
strengthened the position of former Nazis in the country . . . Every
former Nazi can now feel himself exonerated by pointing to the fact
that a former Nazi is the head of the Government . . . The Christian
Democratic Union could have found in its ranks some other leading
member, who was not a Nazi in Hitler's days, as candidate for Chan-
cellor . . . They could, for instance, have named Paul Luecke—also
a member of CDU — for the chancellorship . Dr. Luecke, who is
minister of interior and is in charge of suppressing subversive activi-
ties, has never been a Nazi . . . On the contrary, he was held by the
Nazis in a camp from which he emerged crippled but energetic
enough to become a very popular government leader . . . In fact, he
was mentioned by many in Germany to me as the possible candidate
for Chancellor . • . Yet, it was not Luecke but Kiesinger whom the
CDU named for chancellor and who was accepted for that post also
by the Social Democratic Party . . . With all the fine qualities that
Dr. Kiesinger has, his becoming the head of the Bonn Government
contributed a certain measure of self-assurance to former Nazis, many
of whom can still be found in government offices . . . Their feeling
now is that the time when one had to be ashamed of his Nazi past
is over . . . That such a feeling creates a field for increase of neo-
Nazism is obvious . . . The internal situation in Germany must there-
fore be watched very attentively by all inside and outside Germany
interested in checking the rise of neo-Nazism.
EXPLOSIVE ISSUES: Does this mean that the 30,000 Jews now
residing in Germany may again be exposed to danger? . . . The
answer can be given as "no" . . . The reason is not only because the
number of Jews in Germany today is small, playing no role whatso-
ever in the life of the country, but also because of the fact that anti-
Semitism is not one of the major issues of the neo-Nazi movement
in Germany . . . There is a long list of issues, which are raised by
German extreme nationalists, and anti-Semitism is not among them.
. . . The major issues which German neo-Nazis advocate are: 1. The
reunification of Germany; 2. The removal of American and other
foreign troops from Germany; 3. The acquisition of the right to pro-
duce atomic weapons similar to those produced in England and France;
4. The abolition of purchases in the United States of arms which
Germany itself can produce; 5. Equal status among nations, like
having the right to be a member of the United Nations which even
underdeveloped countries enjoy . . . These and other similar issues
are of an explosive nature, since they go to the very core of prevent-
ing the possibility of Germany becoming again a danger to world
peace . . . It is on these issues that neo-Nazism and extreme national-
ism in Germany will grow, should the present economic situation
change for the worse in Germany . . . As far as anti-Semitism is
concerned, even if it comes into the open — which is at present not
the case — it will not be the kind of anti-Semitism where Jewish
enterprises will be picketed, synagogues burned, Nuremberg laws
pro-claimed and Jews sent to annihilation camps . . . It will be the
ordinary "cold" anti-Semitism prevailing now also in other countries.
. . . Today, anti-Semitic propaganda is outlawed in West Germany,
yet no legal measures have been taken so far against the anti-Semitic
newspaper National-und-Soldaten Zeitung which is gaining in circula-
tion . . . The paper is being watched very closely by the Bonn ministry
of interior which is in a position to bring about its closing down under
existing constitutional provisions . . . Why the Ministry of Interior
maintains a reserved attitude toward this extremist paper is some-
thing Jews cannot understand.
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM — Hadassah Hos-
pital will dismiss 50 staff mem-
bers in the first stage of a re-
trenchment program because of
accumulated deficits, hospital offi-
cials said Tuesday. The announce-
ment was made after a meeting
with American Hadassah leaders.
Mrs. Charlotte Jacobson, presi-
dent of Hadassah, said that the
accumulated deficit totalled $2,-
000,000. She added that even col-
lection of $10,000,000 annually in
the United States by Hadassah
would not s u f f i c e to meet the
deficit.
Theater than had been anticipated
at the start of the year.
She said the troupe had made
more provinical tours and man-
aged to visit small towns, some of
them without any Jewish residents,
but they played to full houses
everywhere.
The troupe will move into its
new building this year, an ultra-
modern theater built by the Polish
government especially for the Yid-
dish State Theater.
The aci
German High Court Bars
Pensions for Judges Who
TEL AVIV (ZINS)—Calories in Sentenced Anti-Nazis
food consumed by Israelis meets
BONN (JTA) — The West Ger-
the required nutritional standards, man High Court in Berlin has
according to the findings of a spe- ruled that Germans who, as judges
cial study completed by Dr. Sarah during the Nazi era, participated
Bavli, an authority on employment in the sentencing of "terrorists,"
statistics.
will not be entitled to receive gov-
The study established that while ernment pensions.
the Israelis eat less meat, sugar
The ruling developed from a
and milk than in the Western coun- case in which a pension was re-
tries, their per capita consump- fused to a person who had served
tion of these food items is larger as a judge in the Nazi judiciary
than that in other countries.
and passed a death sentence on a
On the other hand, Israelis eat German charged with sabotage
more fruit, vegetables and eggs within the German army during
than those living in Western coun- the war. Officials said the ruling
tries.
will be mandatory for similar cases
The study adds however, that in in all West German courts in the
cases of larger families numbering future.
more than six persons, the food
consumption is less and often in-
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NEW. YORK—The World Union
for Progressive Judaism, the inter-
national body of 750 Liberal and
Reform synagogues in 25 countries,
has endorsed the Vietnam peace
proposals of United Nations Sec-
retary-General U Thant.
In a resolution adopted by the
organization's governing body, the
Jewish group lauded the steps be-
ing taken by the UN secretary-
general to stop the war in South-
east Asia. Specifically, the three-
point program of cessation of bomb-
ing of North Vietnam, of scaling- -
down military operation and of
negotiation was supported.
The declaration is to be circulat-
ed to all constituent member groups
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Israelis Eating Well
Yiddish State Theater of Poland Will Visit U.S.
MONTH
World Reform Body Backs
Thant Peace Proposals
Hadassah, Faced
With a Deficit,
Cuts Its Staff
'Between You
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WARSAW (JTA)—The Yiddish
State Theater of Warsaw will make
a visit to Israel and to the United
States this year, Ida Kaminska,
Jan. 12 - Feb. 10
the noted actress and director of
the theater, disclosed in an inter-
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