Israel's 'Miniparade,' Senators' Greetings,
Arab Wails Mark 19th Independence Day

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel
formally celebrated Monday the
19th anniversary of the founding
of its modern state with a military
parade in Jerusalem. The parade
was boycotted by virtually all
major powers but was impressive,
nevertheless, in its smart turn-out,
highly disciplined ranks and sym-
bolic representation of every arm
of Israel's defense forces.
Many Israelis had termed the
ceremonies "a miniparade."
Promptly at 9:30 a.m., with a
crowd of 14,000 selected guests,
many of them foreigners, jamming
the University Stadium, General
Uzi Narkiss. officer in command
of the , Israel army's central com-
mand, entered the stadium.
At that very moment, President
Zalman Shazar, Prime Minister
Levi Eshkol and Gen. Yitzhak
Rabin, chief of staff of Israel's
armed forces, took their places in
the of ficial reviewing stand,
flanked by police and military out-
riders. The flags of the nation and
the military forces saluted, a bugle
blew, and Gen. Narkiss, as mar-
shal, addressed Mr. S'hazar with
the request: "Mr. President, do we
have your permission to start the
ceremonies?" Shazar nodded as-
sent, and the ceremonies were
under way.
Through two gates, the armed
forces started marching in. There
were soldiers and sailors, the
crack Golani Brigade, girl sol-
diers carrying light machine
guns, Druzes, representatives of
Nahal, the border guard youth
units, other border patrols, para-
troopers in their colorful uni-
forms topped by red berets, air
force fliers, and units represent-
ing those troops who, in recent
weeks, have born the brunt of
Israeli defense against Arab
marauders from the Syrian bor-
ders in the north.
The latter. obviously in recogni-
tion of their very recent defense
actions. were welcomed with roar-
ing cheers.
Every armed unit in all of
Israel's armed forces was repre-
sented among the 1,400 men and
women who participated in the
parade that soon filled the entire
stadium. In deference to the pro-
visions in the 1949 armistice agree-
ments, which forbid the use of
most heavy arms and aircraft by
Israel in Jerusalem, the various
branches of the service were rep-
resented only by their flags and
pennants.
A half-dozen trucks rumbled on-
to the scene. carrying anti-aircraft
guns, the only artillery pieces per-
mitted under the armistice pacts.
It was pointed out that the music
and the cheering would be heard
clearly across the dividing line
separating Israel's Jerusalem from
the Old City held by Jordan, pro-
viding in action the answer given
by Premier Eshkol who had
pledged that "even with the ab-
sence of the foreign diplomats, all
will know that the parade was
under way." It was freely pre-
dicted that, in 1968, when Israel
celebrates its 20th anniversary
with a giant parade at Tel Aviv,
Israel's real armed might will be
shown for all the world to see.
This morning's parade was
only the climax of a night-long
series of anniversary celebra-
tions held throughout Israel. All
through the night, and into the
dawn crowds filled squares and
other meeting grounds in every
Israeli city, town and settlement,
singing, dancing and watching
various types of entertainment.
At Tel Aviv alone, the overnight
crowds were estimated at more
than 250,000, while at least 100,000
participated in the street celebra-
tions in Jerusalem.
While absenting themselves from
the parade, all major diplomatic
envoys did attend the day before,
the official anniversary reception
held in the home of President Sha-
zar. The diplomatic corps at the
reception was headed by the dean

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of the corps, Liberia's Ambassador
A. Jancy. After the reception,
sirens sounded a signal for the
halt for one minute of all traffic
throughout the country. The min-
ute of silence was in honor of the
memories of the Israeli men and
women who had lost their lives in
the fight for the establishment of
Israel's independence.
Jordan complained to the United
Nations against Israel's conduct of
its Independence Day military par-
ade in Jerusalem, but the grie-
vance was rejected by the UN.
The Jordanian complaint had
been filed with the Jordan-Israel
Mixed Armistice Commission, Am-
man, contending that Israel had
violated the 1949 armistice agree-
ment between the t w o nations,
despite the fact that Israel had
been careful to display none of
the heavy weapons forbidden to
either side in Jerusalem.
The Israeli delegate to the
Mixed Armistice Commission ob-
jected to Jordan's complaint on
the grounds that the issue in-
volved a political matter which
is outside the MAC's jurisdic-
tion. The chairman of the com•
mission, representing the United
Nations, upheld Israel's objec-
tion, and the issue was dropped.
Israel's anniversary was hon-
ored Monday in both the Senate
and the House with many state-
ments by important members of
Congress voicing good will
toward Israel and hope for
peace.
One highlight of the Congres-
sional events was a luncheon ten-
dered by Sen. Joseph S. Clark,
Pennsylvania Democrat, and mem-
ber of the Senate Foreign Rela-
tions Committee. The Senator was
host to Israel Ambassador Avra-
ham Harman and a number of
Jewish personages from Philadel-
phia. In conjunction with the
affair, Sen. Clark arranged for the
opening prayer of Monday's ses-
sion of the Senate to be delivered
by Rabbi David Goldstein, Har
Zion Temple, Philadelphia.
Ambassador Harman, in remarks
at the Senate luncheon, referred
to the danger arising from the new
forms of Syrian aggression.
Meanwhile, on the floor of the
Senate, Sen. Edward W. Brooke,
Massachusetts Republican who re-
cently returned from a visit to
Israel, lauded Israeli achievements.
Sen. William Proxmire, Wisconsin
Democrat, also commended Israel.
In the House, a special order of
business covering one hour was
organized by R e p. Abraham J.
Multer, New York Democrat, more
than 30 members of the House,
representing both parties, spoke
in strong support of Israel.
Rep. Multer pointed out that
Israel has sought peace despite
threats and provocations. He noted
that Israel would not stand for
further aggression from Syria. Rep.
Seymour Halpern, New York Re-
publican, called attention to the
absence of the U.S. ambassador
from the Independence Day parade
in Jerusalem.
He said: "I want to know why
we are sending men to fight in
Vietnam to oppose aggression,
when we don't even send our
ambassador to the Independence
Day parade of a friendly
country."
In New York, two official Israeli
receptions were conducted, respec-
tively, by Ambassador Gideon
Rafael, Israel's permanent repre-
sentative at the United Nations,
and Michael Arnon, Israel's con-
sul-general in New York. Leading
UN diplomats representing vir-
tually every member state of the
United Nations, except the Arabs,
attended the reception conducted
by Ambassador Gideon Rafael, at
the headquarters of the America-
Israel Cultural Foundation. Arnon's
reception drew the participation of
nearly all foreign consuls In New
York rs well as leading personali-
ties in New York, Jewish and non-
Jewish.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Mayor Lindsay conducted a cere-
mony in his office at City Hall,
issuing his official proclamation,
setting the day aside as "Israel
Independence Day."
Syria's state of mind and "irra-
tional conduct" endanger the peace
of the Middle East and are "at the
very root of all the turmoil and
backwardness" in the Mid-East re-
gion, Rafael warned at a celebra-
tion observing the Independence
Day. Rafael spoke before 2,000
delegates of the fraternal and
benevolent societies affiliated with
the Council of Organization's of
the United Jewish Appeal of
Greater New York.
In Mexico City, a mass rally
marking the anniversary was
held by the Mexican Zionist
Federation at the Jewish Sports
Center. Mexican President Gus-
tavo Diaz Ordaz cabled a greet-
ing to Israeli President Zalman
Shazar, congratulating Israel on
behalf of the Mexican govern-
ment and people. A number of
Mexican newspapers featured
special articles on Israel in
honor of the event.
President Heinrich Luebke of
West Germany sent a cable of con-
gratulations to Israel President
Shazar on the occasion of Israel's
Independence Day. President Lue-
beke expressed his good wishes for
Israel's peaceful development.
Asher Ben-Nathan arranged an
impressive diplomatic reception in
Bad Godesburg. Leading West
German personalities and foreign
diplomats attended the event.
In New Delhi, about 200 Delhi
University students, most of them
Arabs, staked a wild, anti-Israel
demonstration as the Indian
Friends of Israel held a celebra-
tion in honor of Israel's Independ-
ence Day.
The students, organized by the
Indo-Arab Youth Forum, shouted
insults at all guests arriving for
the celebration, spat at some of
the guests, tore one woman's dress
and yelled slogans like "Down
With Israel," and "Israel is Im-
perialism and Palestine is an Arab
State." Policemen scuffled with the
demonstrators, but the jeering con-
tinued during the pro-Israeli rally.
No one was arrested.

Rothberg's 'The Heirs of Cain' Is
A Great and Intriguing New Novel

The positive and effective way
in which Abraham Rothberg deals
with the holocaust, the respectful
treatment of a tragic era in history,
elevates his novel, "The Heirs of
Cain," to a position far above the
average and deserving a place
among the best produced in our
time.
The able author, who has served
as correspondent for the Man-
chester Guardian and the National
Observer, who has authored a
four-volume "Eyewitness History
of World War II," writes with
authority.
This brilliantly written novel
contains not only elements recall-
ing the events under Nazism, but
also the Zionist story, the emer-

650 Jewish Cadets
Commissioned Since '47

NEW YORK (JTA) — Twenty-
five Jewish cadets will be com-
missioned by United States service
academies at graduation exercises
June 7.
They will bring the total num-
ber who have become officers
since 1947 to 650, Rabbi Selwyn
D. Ruslander, chairman of the Na-
tional Jewish Welfare Board Com-
mission on Jewish Chaplaincy, re-
ported.
During this 20-year period, Rab-
bi Ruslander noted, 233 Jewish
cadets will have been graduated
from the U.S. Military Academy,
205 from the U.S. Naval Academy,
150 from the U.S. Merchant Marine
Academy, 38 from the U.S. Air
Force Academy, and 24 from the
U.S. Coast Guard Academy.
The June 7 graduates will re-
ceive inscribed copies of the
Bible from the JWB Commission
on Jewish Chaplaincy at special
baccalaureate services. The Bible
presentations are part of the
year-round religious program
provided at the academies by
Jewish chaplains recruited and
served by the Commission on
Jewish Chaplaincy.
The U.S. Military Academy at
West Point will commission seven
Jewish cadets as second lieuten-
ants. The U.S. Naval Academy at
Annapolis, Md., will commission
eight Jewish cadets as ensigns. The
U.S. Air Force Academy at Color-
ado Springs, Col., will commission
seven Jewish graduates as second
lieutenants, and the U.S. Coast
Guard Academy at New London,
Conn., will graduate three Jewish
ensigns. At commencement exer-
cises Feb. 10, the U.S. Merchant
Marine Academy at Kings Point,
N.Y., commissioned five Jewish
CHICAGO (JTA) — George cadets as ensigns.
Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the
American Nazi Party, was today
sentenced to three months in jail
and fined $500, the heaviest pen-
alty yet imposed on the Nazi leader.
The sentence today followed a
finding of guilty yesterday by a
jury after jurors heard evidence of
Rockwell's disorderly conduct,
criminal trespassing, and obstruct-
ing a peace officer.
The sentence imposed on the
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in creating disturbances during
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dressed to the California Board
of Regents by Herbert F. Rosoff,
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commander, Department of Cali-
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fornia Jewish War Veterans.
Rockwell addressed an overflow
crowd of students at the Santa
Barbara campus, necessitating the
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own followers and others who
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offers provocations to violence and
breaches of law and order."

Rockwell Given
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gence of Israel, the battles for
independence in the Jewish state.
There are tragedies, brutalities,
records of inhumanity of man to
man, accounts of Jews who also
turned brutes under conditions
created by a war filled with hor-
rors.
The element of vengeance, the
rejection of one man wreaking
retribution, enter into this tale.
The survivors are introduced as
questioning God's existence.
In all its approaches, this is a
novel filled with great power. It
deserves a place on top of best
sellers.
Published by G. P. Putnam's
Sons (200 Madison, NY). This
novel introduces Jacob Nissim, a
killer for the Israel secret police,
who struggles to reconcile the
tenets of Judaism with his role
as avenger of the sins committed
against him and his people. The
recurrent theme in his life has
been the loss of whatever he has
come to love, death by murder.
In retaliation he has become the
sword of his people, a trained emo-
tionless killer who meets the
world on the terms it has taught
him.
Nissim is faced, in spite of him-
self, with what he once was and
what he has become. As his as-
signment reaches its climax high
in the Swiss Alps with far more
than the lives of two men at stake,
his questions to himself become
very urgent: righter or committer
of wrongs?
"The Heirs of Cain" is drama
mingled with action, with chal-
lenge to man's philosophy of life
in our time. Abraham Rothberg
has produced a great and an in-
triguing novel.

Hebrew Corner
New Immigrants,
Zabarim Together

When three years ago Yechiel Erez
came to a settlement of new immigrants
in the mountains of Jerusalem he found
55 families from Kurdistan there.
The situation in the village was difficult
for though the immigrants knew how to
tend fruit trees they did not know the
meaning of a budget or of cooperation.
Yechiel was the social instructor of
the Jewish Agency. Instead of going
home every evening as is customary he
brought his wife Edna and their one-
month old son with him to the village.
They were followed to Evan Sapir by
another Zabar family, David Eichen-
baum who worked in the University in
Jerusalem, his wife Rachel, who was a
teacher and their daughter Dinah. who
was ten years old. First of all Rachel
taught the inhabitants to read and to
write. After a while David stopped work-
ing in Jerusalem and together with his
wife established a rural education center
for the villages of the neighborhood.
Sixty inhabitants of seven villages come
twice a week to Even Sapir to study
Hebrew and arithmetic. In the school
there is also a high school class and
here the working youth of all the vil-
lages of the neighborhood receive spe-
cial lessons.
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