Goldmann Skeptical About Zionist
Future; Criticizes Israeli Leaders

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

TEL AVIV—Dr. Nahum Gold-
mann, who said that one of his
main reasons for declining re-
election to another term as presi-
dent of the World Zionist Organi-
zation was to be free to speak his
mind, exercised that freedom at
a press conference here Tuesday.
The 74-year-old world Jewish
leader voiced some sharp criti-
cism of Israeli foreign policy. He
took a dim view of the future of
the Zionist movement which he
had headed until a week ago.
Dr. Goldmann urged the Israel
government to state its proposals
for a peace settlement with the
Arabs now, even if that meant
wrecking the national coalition
government that Prime Minister
Levi Eshkol put together during
the war crisis of May 1967. Dr.
Goldmann spoke at the Tzavta
Club, an organization sponsored
by the leftist labor party, Mapam.
He said that American diplomats

with whom he was in touch were
getting "weary" of Israel's in-
sistence that she would reveal
her peace plans only at the nego-
tiating table with the Arabs. He
told questioners that he was con-
vinced that the road to Middle
East peace passes through Moscow
and that he would continue to
maintain his contacts with Soviet
bloc diplomats.
Dr. Goldmann said that he
doubted whether the Zionist move-
ment could be revived though he
would do his best to help his
"good friend" Aryeh L. Pincus,
chairman of the Jewish Agency
Executive. According to Dr.
Goldmann, the undoing of the
Zionist movement was partially
the result of his failure to reach
young intellectuals, a failure for
which he accepted his share of the
blame. At the same time, he
accused Israeli intellectuals of
refusing to go to the United States
on Zionist missions.

Expect Kiesinger Party Will Offer
•
Limitations
Postponement of Statute of --
• •

BONN (JTA) — The Christian
Democratic Union of Chancellor
Kurt Georg Kiesinger is expected
to decide next week against any
postponement of the statute of
limitations on Nazi war crimes,
which is scheduled to go into ef-
fect on Dec. 31, 1969, the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency has learned.
That stand by the Christian Demo-
crats may provide a parliamen-
tary majority against prolonging
the period during which war crim-
inals may be indicted and tried
in cases of murder. A statute of
limitations is already in effect on
lesser crimes including m a n-

Seminary Gets
Richards' Files

NEW YORK (JTA)—The Jewish
Theological Seminary of America
(Conservative) has acquired the
personal files of Bernard G. Rich-
ards, founder and director until
this year of the Jewish Informa-
tion Bureau.
Richard's correspondence is the
first major acquisition of the
American Jewish Religious Ar-
chives, established at the Semi-
nary last year as a repository for
source materials about the history
of Judaism in the United States
and Canada.
"The Richards' files contain a
wealth of historic material con-
cerning the early days of Zion-
ism," according to Dr. Moshe
Davis, co-director of the Semi-
nary's American Jewish History
Center here. In addition to con-
fidential reports on the problems
of Jews around the world in the
1920s and 1930s, the file contains
more than 1,000 letters from such
historic figures as Louis D. Bran-
deis, Jacob Schiff, Julian W.
Mack, Louis Marshall and Stephen
S. Wise, among others. The His-
tory Center is devoted to the pre-
paration of historical materials
and the writing of history.
Richards was a correspondent
and an editor for various Yiddish
newspapers after coming to .his
country from Lithuania at the age
of mine in 1886. He was a feature
writer for Boston and New York
newspapers and was a founder
and executive secretary of the
American Jewish Congress.

Eighty per cent of the world's
merchant fleet can reach Michigan
harbors via the St. Lawrence Sea-
way.

slaughter. The expected majority
may be provided by the CDU and
the Free Democrats. The Social
Democrats in the present gov-
ernment coalition are officially op-
posed to the statute of limitations
but some members of that party
favor it.
Meanwhile, the state prosecutor
in Canebruck has demanded life
sentences for the three principal
defendants in a war crimes trial
who are accused of responsibility
for the murder of 36 Jewish men,
women and children at Lake Mag-
giore in northern Italy in 1943.
The three are Hans Roewher, 52,
Hans Krueger, 56, and Herbert
Schnelle, 55, and, according to the
prosecution, they acted out of
sheer racial malice. Sentences for
two other defendants, Oscar Shulz
and Ludwig Leithe, will be re-
quested next week. The .verdict is
not expected before July 5.
West German authorities barred
600 out of 700 East German dele-
gates from entering Bavaria last
week to participate in a "rally of
democratic action against neo-
Nazism and Fascism in Germany."
A spokesman for the Bavarian
Ministry of Interior said that only
100 delegates would be admitted.
As a result, the entire 700 mem-
ber delegation returned home.
The Democratic Action Organiza-
tion of Bavaria protested the ban.
The European Association of
Fighters Against Neo-Nazism and
Fascism staged a rally today at
the site of the former Dachau
death camp on the theme: "Act

Now Before It's Too Late. The
National Democratic Party
Is

Growing Steadily."
The NPD issued a statement ex-
pressing sympathy with the Greek
military regime, the first time the
party has openly identified itself
with such a Government. The NPD
said it understood "quite well"
when people were called "fascists"
in a reference to charges against
the Greek dictatorship and itself.

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Romania's Acting Foreign
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TEL AVIV (JTA) — Romanian
and Israeli Cabinet ministers are
exchanging visits. Israel's Minister I
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of Commerce and Industry, Zeev
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ate the progress of a. trade agree-
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and Romania six months ago and
draw up plans with their
Romanian counterparts for further
development and expansion of
trade. Mr. Macovescu arrived here
following a visit to Cairo where he
met with President Nasser and
Egyptian Foreign Minister, Mah-
moud Riad.

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