14—Friday, January 3, 1969

Toronto Star Editor Denies Charges of Bias Against Israel

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

Record Sum Paid for Israel Bonds

TORONTO (JTA)—An editor of
the Toronto Star, Canada's largest
newspaper, defended it against
charges by the Toronto Zionist
Council that the paper was biased
in its reportage on Israel.
But Mark Harrison, editor of the
Star's editorial page, conceded
that some errors may have been
made inadvertently in preparing
some stories under the pressure of
deadlines which made them ap-
pear to be slanted against Israel.
Harrison spoke at a luncheon
given by the Toronto Zionist Coun-
cil which posed the question, "Is
the Star Fair to Israel?"
Rabbi David Monsen, luncheon
chairman, claimed the Jewish
community was disturbed by re-
ports and editorials in the Star in
recent months. Some questioners
complained of alleged bias in Star
headlines. They referred to one
over a Dec. 3 story which read
"Israel War Planes Hit Jordanian
Village-25 Reported Dead." They

Henry H. Fowler, retiring U.S. secretary of the treasury, is
shown congratulating Pinhas Sapir, Israel minister without portfolio
and former finance minister, on the payment of $48,258,000 for coupon
bonds of the first development issue of Israel Bonds, which matured
Jan. 1. This is the largest sum ever paid out by the state of Israel in
the United States for any purpose. Shown at a special meeting of the
Israel Bond Board of Governors marking the occasion are (from left)
Abraham Feinberg, president of the Israel Bond Organization; Sapir,
holding the check for the record payment; Fowler; and Samuel Roth-
berg, Israel Bond national campaign chairman.

Vietnam Chaplain
to Be Buried in Israel

Weizmann Institute VIPs to Pick Next President

REHOVOT — A committee of
seven leading personalities, both
laymen and scientists, was ap-
pointed by the board of governors
of the Weizmann Institute of Sci-
ence in order to seek a successor
to Meyer W. Weisgal, Institute
president, who announced his in-
tention to resign his office "by the
end of 1969, if not sooner."
The governors meeting, presided
over by the chairman of the board,
Dewey D. Stone, noted the comple-
tion of Prof. Amos de-Shalit's term
of office as director general of the
Institute. Prof. de-Shalit will head
the newly-created department of
scientific education, approved by
the board. Prof. Mordhay Avron,
chairman of the scientific coun-
cil, will function as acting direc-
tor.
Members of the committee to
nominate a new president are:
Prof. Christian B. Anfinsen,
Prof. Ernst B. Chain, Dr. Zevi
Dinstein, David Ginsburg, Arye
Dissentshik, Philip Sporn and
Stephen L. Stulman.
The board approved a budget
for 1969-70, including research
contracts and development of some
44,000,000 pounds ($12,760,000). It

also expressed satisfaction "at
the encouragement given by the
management of the Institute to the
establishment of science-based in-
dustries in its neighborhood," and
welcomed this development as a
major contribution to the economy
of the state of Israel.

170 Latin Jews Bound
for New Life in Israel

BUENOS AIRES (JTA) — The
Israeli liner Theodor Herzl sailed
for Haifa Monday with more than
240 passengers bound for per-
manent settlement in Israel or for
periods of work and study there
under various programs.
The olim (immigrants) number
170, including 19 under the aus-
pices of Youth Ailya, 12 members
of various kibutz movements and
the rest families.
Fifty youths are bound for a
year of voluntary service in Israel
under the "Shnat Sherut" pro-
gram. and 20 more will study at
the Ben-Gurion College in Sde
Boker. A group of young teachers
also are sailing to attend the
Greenberg and Gold teachers sem-
inaries in Israel.

NEW YORK — Chaplain (Capt.)
Morton H. Singer, Jewish chaplain
of I Corps Area, Vietnam, who
was killed in a plane crash while
on a mission to conduct Hanuka
services for his men, will be buri-
ed in Israel.
In making this announcement,
Rabbi Edward T. Sandrow, chair-
man of the commission on Jewish
chaplaincy of the National Jewish
Welfare Board, said that the U.S.
army is providing a Jewish chap-
laincy escort to accompany Chap-
lain Singer's body, which it is fly-
ing to Israel. The U.S. military
attache in Tel Aviv has been in-
formed, he said, and is coordinat-
ing local arrangements, for the
burial and for military honors,
with members of Chaplain Sing-
er's family.
Chaplain Singer was among the
14 killed on Dec. 17 when a U.S.
Air Force C-123 transport plane
crashed shortly after taking off
from the Chulai Airfield, South
Vietnam.

said other local newspapers pub-
lished the same story under =-
provocative headlines.
They also complained of a story
on Sirhan Sirhan, following the
assassination of Sen. Robert F.
Kennedy, which referred to the
accused killer's deed as having
been prompted by his having
witnessed Israelis bayonetting
Arab women in his childhood.
(The same reference was con-
tained in stories that appeared
in many other papers, though it
turned out later that Sirhan had
never witnessed any fighting
during his childhood in Jordan.)
Another complaint leveled
against the Star concerned its pub-
lication of reports by the Rev. A.
C. Forrest, editor of the organ of
the United Church of Canada,
whose views are notorious for their
anti-Israel bias. The complainants
said the Star failed to label them
as opinion, not news.
They also complained of "nega-
tive" material in dispatches from
the Star's correspondent in Israel,
Solomon Stockell. Harrison said
that Stockell was a South African
Jew living in Israel since 1948 and
that his material, if examined dis-
passionately, was overwhelmingly
"positive."
He said that an inch-by-inch
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Swiss Ban Anti-Semitic
Book; Copies Destroyed

GENEVA (JTA)—The cantonal
court in Lausanne has banned an
anti-Semitic book and has ordered
all printed copies destroyed in ad-
dition to requiring the author to
pay court expenses. The book,
"The Past, the Present and the
Jewish Question," was written by
James Albert Mathez, a retired
doctor from Vevey. A complaint
was brought against the book last
year by the Federation of Jewish
Communities in Switzerland, Roger
Nordmann, a journalist, and set-
eral other persons. An injunction
was issued at the time to prevent
its distribution. The book was de-
s cribed as a crude attack on Jews
and a demand that they be de-
prived of their civil rights.

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peering in the Star would prove
that it was not biased but in fact
always firmly defended Israel's
right to survive free of harass-
ment and always praised Israel's
achievements.
He referred to a story carried
in 1933 as proof that the Star was
the first newspaper in Canada to
warn of the peril of Hitler and that
its correspondents had been eject-
ed from Germany by the Nazis.

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