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Statute of Limitations, NPD Rise, Major German Issues
Suez Canal Issue Solution Hinges on Israel's Rights to Free Passage
Davies said that the United tage material and other equipment
observers want to travel from their Strip. The letter also described
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services and States government "continues to was found at the site of the en-
health
and
welfare
observation
posts
on
cease-fire
Roberta said: "The for eign
be concerned with Israel's defense counter between the Israeli patrol
secretary is in touch with both the duty, their Israeli liaison officer economic advantages introduced requirements" and quoted the joint and the Jordanian unit."
by
Israel.
goes
with
them.
The
sources
ex-
I Israel and UAR governments and
"I wish to draw your attention
Ambassador Tekoah noted that statement issued by President
very much hopes that arrangements plained that Israel could not take
Johnson and Prime Minister Esh- to the fact that the penetration of
till be ad to secure release responsibility for the safety and because of the activities of sabo-
•
the Jordanian sabotage unit into
lives of the UN observers unless teurs sent into the area from kol on Jan. 8.
of the ships blocked in the canal.
Israeli territory was executed with
But observance of the cease-fire they were accompanied on such Egypt, measures had to be taken Israel Formally Charges
the connivance and support of the
is a matter for the United Na- trips by someone who knew the "to prevent the threats to the Jordan With Aiding
Jordanian armed forces," Tekoah
language for the area and theI peace which they pose" and said
Terrorist
Intruders
wrote.
He requested that his letter
this would be inevitable as long as
Yeshayahu Anug, minister at the passwords.
be circulated as an official docu-
UNITED
NATIONS,
N.
Y.
(JTA)
Meanwhile, the foreign ministry Egypt pressed active belligerency
Israeli embassy here, said in a
—Israel for the first time has ment of the Security Council and
speech before the British section charged that President Tito of and "persists in carrying out hos- formally charged the Jordanian the General Assembly.
of the World Jewish Congress that Yugoslavia was interfering with tile acts against Israel."
government with aiding and shel-
(In a swing over to the offen-
Israel regarded the current im- the efforts of United Nations agen-
tering armed bands which enter
The ancient Phoenicians and
passe over the canal as an issue cies to promote a permanent peace sive, the Israel document, which
Israel-held territory for purposes other eastern civilizations used
separate and apart from the rest in the Middle East and warned , was circulated to all members of
of sabotage and terror in violation stones to crack whole wheat for a
the Security Council and General
of the Middle East dispute. He said that his "one-sided" initiatives
of the cease-fire agreements. Am- cereal food they called "bughol."
Assembly declared that "there is
the canal issue could be settled may have just the opposite effect.
bassador Yosef Tekoah, permanent Today, bulgar wheat processed by
The foreign ministry statement,
also much that Egypt has to con-
only if Israel received free passage
ceal about the treatment meted representative of Israel to the modern automated methods is one
through the canal like every other in reply to questions here, referred
United Nations, made the charge of the nourishing staples CARE
to Marshal Tito's recent visits to out to the Jewis within her fron-
nation.
in a letter to United Nations Sec- I uses in its feeding programs for
tiers." It said the "physical tor-
Ambassador Gunnar Jarring, the India, Egypt and other countries
retary General U Thant, dated the world's hungry people.
ture, atrocities and bestial per-
special United Nations envoy in where he is reportedly attempting
Feb. 2, 1968. The letter referred
versities" to which Jews were
the Middle East, completed another to promote support for a Middle
specifically to an incident which
visit to Amman, the Jordanian capi- East peace formula that was re-
subjected in Egyptian concentra-
took place during the night of
tal, Monday, and was expected in jected by the United Nations last tion camps "will remain forever
Jan. 29-30.
Jerusalem shortly. Speaking on June. It calls for Israeli with-
a somber, shocking reminder of
"The sequence of events was as
the Israel Radio Sunday night, For- drawal to the pre-June 5, 1967,
inhumanity toward the weak and
follows," Tekoah wrote. "On 29
eign Minister Abba S. Eban dis- frontiers in return for an Arab
innocent.")
COUTURE-BOUTIQUE
January 1968 at approximately
missed reports that the Jarring declaration of non-belligerency.
(The two chief items of "evi- 2:30 (9:30 p.m.), local time, an Is-
peace mission had failed. He said British Pressure on U.S.
dence" of Israel's alleged mal- raeli patrol was attacked on the
CUSTOM DESIGNS
the envoy's assignment was not "a to Unblock Suez Canal
treatment of Arabs in the Gaza
LINGERIE - LOUNGEWEAR
short or easy task" and that his
BOSTON (JTA) — Britain has Strip were reported by two Brit- west bank of the Jordan River
ACCESSOR I ES
erforts had not reached the stage asked the United States to make ish newspaper correspondents who near the settlement of Ashdot
at which they could be said either "urgent representations" to Israel apparently based their dispatches Yaakov by a Jordanian sabotage
HARVARD ROW MALL
to have failed or succeeded.
to end its opposition to Egyptian to The Guardian and the London unit. Fire was returned. At ap-
* * *
11 MILE Et LASHER
surveys aimed at unblocking the Sunday Observer on the same trip proximately 2345 hours (11:45
Suez Canal, Christian Science to the Gaza area and interviews p.m.) local time, Jordanian army
353-7640
units
on
the
east
bank
of
the
river
Monitor Correspondent John K. with the same persons.)
opened fire at Israeli forces in the
Cooley reported from Cairo Tues-
U.S. State Dept. Repeats
west bank, in order to give cover
day.
to the retreating sabotage unit. Is-
"Strong diplomatic moves are Its Belief Egypt Wants
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
raeli forces returned fire. Israeli
to The Jewish News)
under way to reactivate clearing Solution to Mid-East Dispute
NEW YORK (JTA)—The State fire was directed at the sources
ROME — Gen. Yitzhak Rabin, of the Suez Canal as a possible
Israel's ambassador-designate to first step toward a Mideast settle- Department has advised the presi- of Jordanian fire. The exchange
dent the Jewish Nazi Victims Or- continued until approximately 0100
says:
the United States, declared here ment," Cooley reports.
ganization of America that "in hours (1 a.m.) local time. Sabo-
Wednesday that everything is ne-
"/ will sell yon a new 0
Egyptian
Pound
No
Longer
I
spite
of
the
current
debate
in
the
gotiable in peace talks between Is-
m
CHRYSLER, PLYM- em
Cairo press over the possibility of
rael and the Arab states, except I Negotiable Currency
O UT H , VALIANT or •
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israeli au- a political solution to the Arab-
Jerusalem.
OIMPERIA L for less()
Gen. Rabin, who recently retired , thorities announced Tuesday that Israel dispute, the stated policy of
..money than any dealer ma
the Egyptian pound will cease to the UAR government is to seek
as chief of staff of Israel's armed
be negotiable currency in the Gaza
Earn 12% interest on short
M in or out of the city...
forces, was interviewed by the Strip and Sinai after Feb. 16 and such a solution."
term secured loans. Loans can
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The department views, made
newspaper Corriere Della Sera. possession of it will be prohibited.
be paid off with interest or
mi
Sales Manager
The general is visiting Italy on a The Israel pound will be the only known in a letter from Deputy
renewed at approximately 6-
Assistant Secretary of State Rod-
holiday before taking up his new
month intervals.
Ims
BILL
SNETHKAMP,
Inc.
legal tender.
U
ger
P.
Davies
to
Moses
I.
Socha-
References
upon
request.
post in Washington later this
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Col. Dan Hiram, coordinator of
Highland Park
month. However, he attended a economic affairs in the occupied chevsky, expressed the hope that
Call
1 bik. S. of 6 Mi.
meeting of the Italo-Israel Associa- territories, said the measure was "all states involved in the June
war will be flexible and moderate
TO 8-3300
tion Wednesday and was honored taken to end
MR.
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e monetary abuses and in cooperating with the mission
'We lease all models" 0
at a reception given by the Israel currency speculation which have
of Ambassador Jarring and that
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military attache.
been going on at the expense of a workable peace settlement will
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the poorest classes. The Egyptian
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result."
Jarring Renews Search
pound has not been legal tender
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for Formula for Release
in Gaza and the Sinai for months
of Suez Stranded Ships
but Israeli authorities have hitherto
JERUSALEM (JTA) ---:Diploma- ignored the fact that it was used
tic quarters here indicated that Is- in local transactions. It was also
rael might be willing to permit used by Gaza merchants trading
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Egypt to survey the northern end with the West Bank.
wnfgA'
of the Suez Canal if a survey of
The Egyptian pound is worth
the southern end found it to be four Israeli pounds on the inter-
unfeasible as an exit for 15 mer- national market. Israeli author-
chant ships stranded there since ities said they would exchange one
last June. They indicated that UN pound Egyptian notes for Israeli
Ambassador Gunnar Jarring would pounds through Feb. 16 at a rate
try to persuade Egypt to accept of six to one in order to ensure
such a formula.
the completeness of the exchange.
Egypt has indefinitely suspended The official rate of the Israeli
all survey work on the canal fol- pound to the U.S. dollar is 3.5
lowing an artillery clash with Is- to one.
raeli forces last Tuesday which
Israel rejected categorically
broke out when two Egyptian sur-
Tuesday charges made by Egypt
vey craft attempted to enter the
in letters to United Nations Sec-
canal's northern sector. Israel had
retary General U Thant of per-
agreed to a survey of the south
secution of the Arab refugees of
portion but not the north. The
the Gaza Strip as "unsubsan-
semi-official Cairo newspaper Al
tiated" and "not supported by
Ahram said Egypt might call off
the various documents quoted
Ambassador Jarring's mission and
therein."
take the entire Israel-Arab dispute.
The Israeli reply, signed by Am-
including the Suez issue. back to bassador Yosef Tekoah, head of
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday
;]•:.;4.4
the Security Council. There was the Israel mission, told the secre-
no confirmation of this from offi- tary-general that "if a little of the
February 15 Thru 18th.
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cial Egyptian sources.
energy spent by spokesmen of the
Foreign ministry sources, cit-
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The Israeli letter refuted two
are stationed on both sides of
charges made by Egypt—that Is-
the canal.
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The sources said that when UN from Gaza and had barred Arab
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By ALFRED WOLFMANN
JTA Correspondent in West
Germany
(Copyright 1968, JTA Inc.)
BONN—There are two issues in
Germany that arouse concern be-
yond the borders of the Federal
Republic as they do inside the
country. They are the statute of
limitations on war crimes and the
political growth of the radical
right - wing National Democratic
Party, often described as neo-
Nazi.
Both issues are closely followed
by people who lived through the
era of the Third Reich and World
War II.
The uneasiness felt by the
American Jews over the possible
trend of events in Germany was
reflected in the visit paid to Chan-
cellor Kurt Kiesinger in January
by Dr. William A. Wexler, presi-
dent of Bnai Brith, and Herman
Edelsberg, director of the inter-
national council of Bnai Brith.
The statute of limitations which
would bar the prosecution of war
criminals beyond a certain date,
was to have gone into effect in
1965. Only the pressure of world
opinion forced its postponement
until Dec. 31, 1969. The postpone-
ment applies only to war criminals
charged with murder. Those ac-
cuced of beatings, torture and
manslaughter became immune to
prosecution by statutes adopted
years ago.
The extension to 1970 of the
period when murderers may be
prosecuted will not prevent untold
numbers of them from escaping
the consequences of their crimes.
The new minister of justice,
Dr. Gustav Heineman, has left
DO doubts that he would like to
see the statute abolished and
will work toward that end. But
he is encountering great diffi-
culties. A majority of the Bun-
destag (lower house) may also
favor abolition. But they dare
not go that far for fear of Ger-
man voter reaction. Most Ger-
mans, they believe, are sick and
tired of war crimes trials and
don't want to hear of them any-
more. Chancellor Kiesinger him-
self was equivocal in the reply
he gave to a question on the sub-
bet by this correspondent at a
press conference last December.
According to the latest public
polls, Dr. Kiesinger told the Bnai
Brith guests, 58 per cent of the
German people favor continuing
trials of Nazi war criminals and
oppose the statute of limitations.
Only 28 per cent favor the sta-
tute. He went on to tell his guests
that it is mainly the older Ger-
mans who oppose the statute of
limitations because they lived
through the era when the Nazi
crimes took place, whereas younger
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LBJ Asked Israel Halt Syria March
the chancellor said that the gov-
ernment would not file a petition
PARIS (ZINS)—The Paris news- to desist. Israel yielded, and at 6
in the Constitutional High Court
paper L'Express has revealed that p.m. ceased operations. In this
unless it was certain that the
the
"hot line" between Washing- way, the L'Express concludes, the
court agreed that the party is
ton and Moscow was activated on "hot line saved the peace of the
anti-democratic.
world."
June 10 at 2 p.m.
The court might be prompted
On that day, the newspaper
to such a conclusion, he said, if
writes, Israeli tanks had shattered
the NPD demonstrated overt anti-
the Syrian front, and were pro-
Semitism because, for the German
PLASTIC
ceeding in the direction of Damas-
people, Nazism and anti-Semitism
cus, when Soviet Premier Kosygin
are synonymous. In that case, the
SLIPCOVERS
contacted President Johnson on the
court and the German people
"hot line" and warned him that if
would have sufficient grounds to
II-GAUGE GLASS CLEAR
Israel did not suspend its military
outlaw the NPD. But the chan-
drive toward Damascus, Soviet
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cellor thought that the best way
war planes would intervene on the
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to counter it was to build a healthy
side of Syria. This, Kosygin 'said,
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achieve power in Germany in the action.
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event of a major economic crisis.
President Johnson—the L'Ex-
Can
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Obviously,• no radical political press continues—supported the So-
movement can flourish in times of viet stand in order to avoid a mili-
prosperity when a majority of the tary confrontation between the two
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people are interested in maintain- powers, and forthwith asked Israel
ing the status quo. But what if an
economic crisis should occur in
Germany? Should we expect a re-
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version to the right? The fact is
Thad-
according
to
polls,
van
that,
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NEW YORK — Dr. Avraham ed out, in the depths of a de-
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quities
and
museums, denied
charges made by the director of
the American School of Oriental
Research in East Jerusalem that
the government of Israel was in-
terfering with archaeological re-
search in its newly occupied areas.
PLASTICOVER « 341-8792
Israeli Denies
Curb to Diggings
by U.S. School
A good suggestion,
straight from the employes' "think box?
Rev. William Van Etten Casey,
director of the school, charged in
Beirut that the school was being
forced to operate in other parts
of the Moslem world. Father
Casey, a Jesuit professor of theo-
logy, claimed that "We are being
forced out of our bailiwick into
other parts of the Fertile Cres-
cent"
The school plans to move from
East Jerusalem to Beirut, with
headquarters extending into Am-
man and Baghdad.
Father Casey said that the school
was involved with a tax contro-
versy with Israel, and that there
have been attempts by Israelis to
take over the school's administra-
tion.
Why not print
the word
"VEGETARIAN. "
in Red on our label?
The president of the American
Schools in Beirut and Jerusalem,
Dr. George Ernest Wright, profes-
sor of divinity at Harvard, said
that the relations of the Jerusalem
school with Israel were excellent,
in fact as cooperative as they were
with the Jordanian Department of
Antiquities. He said he felt that
the comment attributed to Fr.
Casey was a misstatement.
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Germans, who had no first hand
experience under Nazism, are in-
different. This is surprising in
itself. For as everybody in Ger-
many knows, the loudest opposi-
tion to war crimes trials has come
from older Germans who were
themselves Nazi party members or
otherwise involved with Hitler.
Also surprising was Dr. Kiesin-
ger's assertion that 38 per cent of
the supporters of the National
Democratic Party oppose the sta-
tute of limitations and want to see
war crimes trials go on. This, by
the way, is just the reverse of
stand taken by NPD chairman
Adolph van Thadden. In addition,
according to Dr. Kiesin g er, a sub-
stantial number of NPD support-
ers sympathize with Israel in the
current Middle East dispute be-
cause they admire Israel's military
accomplishments and her defiance
of the Soviet Union. This too, is
at variance with van Thadden's
public statements.
As for efforts to ban the NPD,
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Excellent, Miss Golbitz! You arc
really on the ball. You're right—
"VEGETARIAN" is a mighty im-
portant part of the name of the
world's most popular vegetarian
beans. You might also have sug-
gested printing the © in red; the
seal of the Union of Orthodox
Jewish Congregations of America
is just as important. But, Miss Gol-
bitz, the red type would clash with
the other colors on the label. It
would make the whole thing "too
busy". However, Miss Golbitz,
don't think that we're just going
to file your suggestion away and
forget it. Positively not! We're go-
ing to make you famous (at the
office, at least!) We've decided to
create an ad out of your very orig-
inal idea. Here it is, Miss Golbitz!
This is the ad!