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American People Financing Arab Students

By MILTON FRIEDMAN

dicated that it was a waste of public free people, as their agents, the-
funds to finance the Arab League
WASHINGTON—Congress wants propaganda apparatus in the United CIA may have to engage in legiti-
to know why the Executive Depart- States. A number of Congressmen mate counter-espionage. Millions of
Americans, however, cannot under-
ment subsidizes Arab "student" have demanded a review of this stand how the national security in-
propagandists when Egyptian and other undertakings recently
terests of the United States are
President Nasser has served notice exposed.
served by subsidizing hundreds of
that his country would not pay
In preserving the interests of a anti-Israel agitators.
debts to the United States.
In a recent anti-American speech
in Cairo, Nasser condemned alleged
"pressure" by the United States.
He made clear that $150,000,000
in debts would not be paid.
MUNICH (JTA) — A Munich Former SS Major Wilhelm Zopf,
This assertion came at a time
when the State Department said it court sentenced this weekend to Harster's principal aide in Hot-_
was studying new applications for prison terms the former head of land, was sentenced to nine yet
the Nazi security police in occu- at hard labor.
aid by Egypt.
Harster admitted during the
Nasser's remarks also coincided pied Holland and two of his key
with the disclosure in Washington aides on charges of knowingly here that he knew that, "as a
that the Central Intelligence transporting to Nazi death camps whole," the Dutch Jews were going
Agency, acting under the direction 94,398 Dutch Jews. to their deaths.
One of the victims was Anne
Harster had previously been
and authority of the White House
and the National Security Council, Frank, whose diary became a lit- convicted by a Dutch court in 1949
had financed the so-called "Ameri- erary testament to the suffering of "abuse of duty" and sentenced
can Friends of the Middle East." of the Jews during the holocaust. ' to-12 years' imprisonment. He was
The "Friends" were friendly only Only 1,070 of the deportees sur- freed after serving six years and
to the Arabs. They conducted the vived. returned to Germany where a de-
Former SS Gen. Wilhelm Har- nazification court declared him
most potent and bitter anti-Israel
ster, 62, was sentenced to 15 years "mildly incriminated."
front in the United States.
While the State Department imprisonment at hard labor for
In 1956 the Bavarian Civil Sery
piously denied it, CIA funds for complicity in the deportation of ice named him to a school post in
Upper Bavaria.
several years were channeled to Jews in 82,000 cases.
Gertrud Slotke, chief of the
the AFME treasury through various
He retired three years ago on
conduits. Most of this money was women's section of the Nazi police grounds of illness and has since
used to finance AFME's aid to under Gen. Harster, received a been living on a civil service pen-
Arab students who attend over 100 five-year term. sion.
American colleges and universities.
The AFME student program is
endorsed by the Arab League and
used for a coordinated propaganda
campaign on the campuses of
American colleges from coast to
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News)
coast.
TURIN, Italy—A war crimes trial which is expected to he
Although the Arab students are the biggest judicial proceeding of the kind since the Nuremberg
subsidized by American taxpayers, war crimes trials that followed World War II will be held in West
their main drive is not directed Berlin soon, it was announced here Tuesday.
at communism but at Zionism.
The announcement was made by Prof. Ernest Heinitz, president
Many support the Viet Cong and of the West Berlin Court of Justice, who is here to attend a conference.
condemn the American role in Viet- According to the jurist, the trial will bring before the court more
nam. Their favorite and most than 300 former Nazis who worked in the Gestapo under Heinrich
frequent reference to communism Himmler, chief of Hitler's secret police.
is a threat that unless the United
States stops aiding Israel, the
Arabs will go Communist.
BY AHARON ROSEN
Exploiting the right of free
speech, Arab students have fre-
quently voiced anti-Jewish pre- month
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judice. A few were identified
66h-desh
among sponsors of campus invita-
Ieloom (loh kh' loom)
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tions to the neo-Nazi speaker, date
juice
George Rockwell.
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The CIA apparently rationalized other
meets
its underwriting of such students
orange
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by hoping, through exposure to
tah-poor
American democracy, to win them Or
away from the extremist and pro-
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Communist tendencies of the Arab
esh-koh-leet
world. Perhaps it was viewed as Of
moment
good for Israel, in the long run.
she!
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In any event, hundreds of loud-
re-gah
mouthed bigots were imported at
the expense of the American peo-
ple without the public's knowl-
in
edge and truth.
Members of Congress have in-
fit K7 Di' ~ ttilh

(Copyright, 1967, JTA, Inc.)

By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright, 4967, JTA, Inc.)
ISRAEL ECHOES: Israel's former Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion is now visiting the United States at a time when American
Jewry is more than ever worried about the great economic difficulties
which Israel is undergoing . . Confusion over the present economic
crisis in Israel is noted among American Jews, many of whom are
asking whether it is the present government of Israel which makes
economic policy or whether economic facts push the government
along . Within Israel, similar confusion prevails among the
people, leading at the present moment to a credibility gap and to a
lack of trust between the public and the government of Prime
Minister Levi Eshkol . . . All this has caused the lowering of public
morale, a series of whispering campaigns, and a wave of sick humor
of which the government is the principal object . . . Golda Meir,
former Foreign Minister, and Premier Eshkol attribute the disparaging
jokes to Ben-Gurion's Rafi party, calling the campaign a "foul
way of attacking the government by ridicule." . . But Ben-Gurion
himself makes no secret of the fact that he • has a low opinion of
the present government, and calls Eshkol publicly all kinds of names
. . . Whether he will do the same during his three-week visit to
the Jewish communities in the United States is, however, questionable
. • . People here remember that, when the Herut leader Menahem
Beigin came for a visit to this country after the establishment of
Israel — at the height of his attacks in Israel against the Ben-Gurion
government—he painstakingly refrained from criticizing Ben-Gurion
during his public appearance in the U S
"I can criticize my
government when I am in Israel, but don't expect me to say anything
against my government when I am abroad—it is, after all, my
government," he told an audience at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in
New York . . . American Jewish leaders interested in Israel, and
in honoring Ben-Gurion here. assume that, with all his sharp personal
opposition against Eshkol, Ben-Gurion will do no less than Beigin
did, and will abstain from attacking the present Israel government
publicly while addressing audiences in this country.
*
*
COMMUNAL AFFAIRS: Small Jewish communities, like the
federations and welfare funds in the larger cities, also have their
problems They need—and receive—specially-tailored counseling
and guidance under the auspices of the Council of Jewish Federations
and Welfare Funds . . . Some of their problems have to do with
upgrading fund-raising through solicitor training . . Another has
to do with their being beset by multiple appeals and a calendar of
events requiring advance planning to minimize conflict, . . . A good
many of them suffer also from frequent duplication of leadership,
resulting too often in a confusion of identity as to which campaign
effort a leader represents . . And there is, of course, the problem
of services to the aged which is different in the small communities
than in the larger centers, where there are Jewish homes for the
aged . Typical is the case in Sioux City, Iowa, where provisions
in a will left $70,000 for the construction of a Home for the Aged
A study
• . There are altogether 1,685 Jews in Sioux City . .
of the persons in the community over 70 years of age was taken
, It revealed a wide variety of individual needs among the aged
Only six persons could be considered candidates for a Home
•
for the Aged . . After considerable discussion, it was concluded that
operation of a home would place an overwhelming burden on the
community . . . It could result eventually in the collapse of local-
community programs and diversion of funds from national and
overseas needs . . . The Sioux City communal leaders therefore decided
that a well-rounded, diversified type of community program was
more important than construction of a Home for the Aged . . .
In Long Beach, California, a study on coping with needs of the
local Jewish aged people posed a number of questions of interest
These questions
to many other small Jewish communities . .
revealed the multiplicity of services available to the aged person
in a small community on a local level . The key questions raised
by the study were: Does the community need a program to develop
apartment communities for the aging? . . Are "meals on wheels"
. . Should a small
or community eating facilities needed?
community have a home for the non-ambulatory aged and another
for the ambulatory persons, with differing wants and needs?_ . .
Should a small community explore contractual regional services for
its aged with large nearby communities to use their already established
How can the community best utilize
facilities on a fee basis? .
MONTREAL (JTA). — The Ca-
the Jewish Community Center and other local agencies in meeting
The study contradicted previously-held nadian Jewish Congress has docu-
needs of the aged? . .
notions about the Jewish aged and their adjustment . . The prior mentary evidence that at least six
notion held that older persons are generally worried and anxious major Nazi war criminals are liv-
about their health and economic security, and that they feel lonely, ing in Canada, according to execu-
isolated, unwanted, inadequate, and unable to adjust themselves tive vice president Saul Haves.
Hayes made the statement in
The Long Beach study found
rapidly to changing conditions . .
that, with the exception of health programs, these people are often testimony before a Montreal hear_
content with their life, do not have difficulty adjusting to an older ing of the federal Senate-Commons
age, and do not have unmet needs with the possible exception of immigration committee studying
a small minority of widowed women . . . They feel that they are the government's white paper on
free of responsibility and now can enjoy life, and few of them seem immigration. He told the commit-
tee that "we know of at least six
to suffer loneliness or boredom
major cases where people who

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Nazi Who Deported 94,398 Jews
From Holland Get Prison Sentences

!Biggest Trial Since Nuremberg
Expected in West Berlin Soon

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6 Nazi Criminals
Living in Canada?

CONTEMPORARY HISTORY: Many books have been written on
the Nazi bestialities against Jews, but few have brought out facts
of how the civilized world—including the United States—had stood
aside and refused to help save Jews from Nazi hands, even when
this was possible . . A book on this subject has now, appeared
in this country under the title "A Conspiracy of Complicity and
Complacency," by David Porter, published by Vantage . The
author starts with his impressions of the Evian Conference on
Refugees called by President Roosevelt in 1938, at which practically
none of the 36 nations represented expressed willingness for mass_
admission of Jews persecuted by the Nazis . . He scrutinizes
severely the words and deeds of British statesmen like Churchill,
Atlee, Bevin and generals like Montgomery and Wavel . . . And, on
the basis of research, he claims that German documents confirm
that Hitler was more encouraged than discouraged, by the demeanor
of the outer world, to go ahead with the annihilation of Jews . .
The author also deals with the cooperation between Arab leaders
and the Nazis, and warns the world about the evil emanating from
Nasser's Egypt Several chapters in the book are also devoted
to Nazi postwar activity around the world, and how it is being
tolerated in various countries • .

were arch war criminals entered
Canada. Once they become citizens
they are innocent no matter how
heinous their crimes."
He said he approved of a
white paper . clause which makes
a distinction between landed im-
migrants and citizens because
for sonic time to come, Canada
has to protect itself in the event
certain people come into the
country who were part of the
Nazi death machine.
Hayes told the committee that
since the war, 76,000 Jews had
come to Canada, 90 per cent of
whom settled in Montreal and
Toronto. He added that recently
more French-speaking Jewish im-
migrants had arrived but they
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