34—Friday, January 17, 1969
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS `Limitations Statute Issue
7
'Negro Anti-Semitism is Injurious
to School Decentralization'—'Young
NEW YORK (JTA) — A Negro
civil rights leader warned here
that "nothing could be more
damaging to the cause" of school
decentralization than the anti-
Semitic accusations recently made
by Negro advocates of that cause.
Whitney M. Young Jr., executive
director of the National • Urban
League, one of the staunchest sup-
porters of decentralization and
community control of New York
City's public schoOl system, said
that "religious prejudice has no
place among people who have
been the victims of •racial pre-
judice . . . Nothing could confuse
the issue more than malicious
baiting of teachers or others be-
cause of race or religion."
Young's statement, made on be-
_ half of the Urban League's na-
tional board of trustees, was
understood to have been prompted
by two 'recent Negro attacks
against Jewish teachers and the
largely Jewish United Federation
of Teachers. One was an editorial
in the Afro-American Teachers
Forum, a magazine, which asked,
"How long shall the black and
Puerto Rican communities of New
York City sit back and allow the
Jewish-dominated United Federa-
tion of Teachers to destroy our
every effort to rescue our children
from those incompetent teachers
whose any goal — aside from re-
ceiving fat pay checks—is stifling
our children's intellectual
growth?"
The other anti-Jewish attack was
made at a board of education
hearing on school decentralization
Jan. 3 by William 0. Marley,
a member of the Brownsville Mod-
el Cities Committee, who charged
that "control by this group has
been detrimental to black and
Puerto Rican children" and re-
sponsible for the relatively small
number of Negro teachers and ad-
ministrators in the school system.
Marley did not identify the group
but his reference was considered
obviously to be to Jewish teachers.
Young declared that the case for
school decentralization was strong
enough to stand on its own merits
without the injection of irrelevant
issues and warned that, "There
are racist elements in our society
who would dearly love to see Ne-
groes and Jews—New York City's
two largest ethnic groups—at each
other's throats because this in-
fighting weakens the capacity of
both groups to fight the true rac-
ists of our society."
Must End by Elections'
BONN (JTA) — West German
Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger
and Minister of Justice Gustav
Heinemann said in separate inter-
views that the question of the
statute of limitations on Nazi war
crimes prosecutions will have to
be settled before the elections to
the Bundestag (lower house) next
September.
The statute, to take effect Dec.
31, 1969, will bar trials of war
criminals involved in murder.
There is a large body of opinion
in Germany and abroad favoring
abolition of the statute or post-
ponement of its effective date.
Dr. Heinemann said any per-
son who aided in mass murders
under the Nazi regime will con-
tinue to be prosecuted despite a
recent amendment to the law
which exempts so-called "desk
killers"—those who signed docu-
ments which sent Jews and
others to their death but did not
participate directly In their
execution.
Meanwhile, the state prosecutor
announced that an investigation
will begin into the wartime activi-
ties of Herbert Muller Roschach,
West Germany's ambassador to
Portugal, who has been accused of
having signed documents relating
to the deportation of Jews when
he was a high official of the Jew-
ish section of the Nazi Foreign
Ministry.
The probe will seek evidence of
alleged perjury by Roschach when
he swore at the trial of Nazi war
criminal Adolf von Beckerle that
he was unaware of the mass mur-
der
of Jews, the prosecutor said.
Israel's newest institution of Most are immigrants from the
The Constitutional High Court at
higher learning is more like a U.S.
piece of America on Israeli soil.
The college is privately sponsor- Karlsruhe started bearings Tues-
It is the American College in ed by groups and private individ- day on appeals by defendants in
Jerusalem, a liberal arts college uals in the U.S. and Canada. It is the main Auschwitz trials which
along the lines of the 'U.S. system, chartered in the District of Colum- were held in Frankfurt and lasted
with English as the language of bia and will apply for provisional over a year.
Six of the accused were given
Instruction.
accreditation from state education
Dr. Norman Greenwald, former boards in the U.S. during the first life sentences, 11 received lesser
sentences,
and three were acquit-
instructor at the City College of year of operation.
ted. Several of those convicted,
New York and a director of the
however, are already free, among
Brandeis University Institute in W. Germans Rate Dayan
them Robert Mulka who was de-
Israel, is the driving force behind
puty commander of the Auschwitz
the new college, of which he is One of Top Strategists
president.
BONN (ZINS)—In a poll recent- death camp. The appeal hearings
He explained as his reason for ly conducted by a prestigious in- are expected to last several weeks.
founding the new institution that stitution in West Germany, the 10
"Many of the students who came most popular countries are: Swit- Young Americans to Settle
under the aegis of Brandeis want- zerland, United States, Sweden, in Mediterranean Kibutz
ed to continue their studies in Is- France, England, Austria, Hol-
NEW YORK—Thirty five young
rael. However, the need to adjust land, Norway, Denmark and Can-
men and women in their mid-20s
to the Israeli university system, ada.
who make up "Habonim Garin
plus the necessity of a thorough
Israel occupies the 18th place in
understanding of Hebrew discour- the poll, before New Zealand, Etgar" will leave for Kibutz Ges-
her Haziv in Israel early in Sep-
aged most of them."
Mexico, Czechoslovakia and Poland. tember.
Thus, a college to allow the
The poll also contained the
The members of Garin Etgar-
student from America to ad- question: Who, do you believe, is the Challenged — come from the
vance with his studies, at the - the most brilliant strategist of the
Midwest and East Coast. They
same pace as he could in the 20th Century?
have decided to settle in the col-
U.S., while living in, and learn-
The first place went to the "De- lective settlement which was first
ing about, Israel.
sert
Fox"
Rommel;
the
second
founded by Americans in 1948 on
Sixty students started classes in
October, 53 of them from overseas, place to General Dwight D. Eisen- the Mediterranean coast in the
mainly the U.S. There is a teach- hower; Von Hindenburg, the fa- Western Galilee. For information,
ing and counseling staff of 22 mous German commander during write Etgar, Room 2B, 819 Sixth
members, half of them full time. World War I, was third; and Ave., New York.
Moshe Dayan took the fourth
place, followed by de Gaulle,
U.S. Jets for Jordan
Crisis Fails to Deter Israel Churchill, Hitler and Von Kiesser-
ling.
This week's Newsweek carries
From Economic Goals,
this item:
Says Bonds' Dr. Schwartz
"The U.S. Is sending Jordan
NEW YORK—The people of Is- Israel's Diamond Center
some of the 20 F-104G Starfighter
rael are determined to go ahead
jets contracted for before the
Points
to
Growing
Trade
with their economic development
TEL AVIV—Israel's diamond ex- June 1967 war. Though the F-
in spite of any danger of increased
tension and violence in the region, port industry, second only to Bel- 104G's are older and slower than
the 50 Phantom jets promised to
Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, vice presi- gium's, now has a new 27-story
Israel, they will be turned over to
dent of the Israel Bond Organiza- concourse in which to carry on
Jordan ahead of the F-4s for Is-
tion, declared following his return its trade.
rael. Jordan has contracted for
from Israel.
The Israel Diamond Center, larg- an additional 10 F-4s to be deliver-
Dr. Schwartz spent a week talk- est in the world, was planned in
ing with Prime Minister Levi Esh- stages, first 11, then 14, then 17, ed later."
kol, and other government leaders finally 27 stories to accommodate
on the economic needs of 1969.
those who wanted space. More El Al, With Airliner Out,
"The people in Israel were sad- than 10,000 skilled workmen are
dened by a lack of understanding employed in more than 100 major Buys 8th Boeing 707
TEL AVIV (JTA) — El Al,
on the part of the world-at-large plants in Israel. There are 250 Is-
of their difficult position and earn- raeli and foreign companies lo- Israel's national airline, an-
nounced that it has purchased its
est desire to find a peaceful solu- cated in the building.
eighth Boeing 707 jet airliner,
tion to the present unrest," he
which is expected to be deliv-
said. "However, they are determined
- ered at the end of January or the
to defend their channels of trade Immortality
Preoccupation with immortality beginning of February.
and communication at any cost ...
Meanwhile, El Al is operating a
The present mood of the country is for the upper classes, particular-
indicates that Israel will not per- ly ladies with nothing to do. An chartered plane to maintain its
schedules.
One of its planes was
mit any situation short of war to able man, who has a regular job
deter it from going forward with and must toil and produce day by temporarily removed from oper-
ation after an attack on it in
its long-range program of economic day, leaves the future world to it-
development in 1969 as a keystone self, and is active and useful in Athens last month by Arab ter-
American College in Jerusalem Aims
to Solve Language Woe of U.S. Student
of the peace it so fervently seeks." this one. —Goethe
rorists.
NYU Professor Tries Out Preservative
on Ancient Curacao Jewish Cemetery
NEW YORK—A New York Uni- tinual slow crumbling of the stone,
versity chemistry professor's for- he said.
mula for preserving ancient stone
By painting the gravestones with
monuments is being exposed to clear liquid compound, a different
"the most exaggerated adverse chemical reaction takes place and
conditions we could imagine" at a much harder and more durable
the old Jewish cemetery in Cura- crystal is formed in the stone. "We
cao, capital of the Netherlands have every reason to believe the
Antilles.
erosion process is thereby stopped
Prof. Seymour Z. Lewin devel- and the stones will last indefinite-
oped the liquid formula in 1966, ly," he added.
and since then it has been tested
Treatment of the remaining
at various sites. He was invited to
Curacao by members of Cong. gravestones in Curacao will resume
in
April and probably will be com-
Mikve-Israel Emmanuel, which
was founded by Portuguese Jewish pleted within a month.
refugees from the Inquisition, who
had fled to Holland and thence to
PHOTOGRAPHY
the Dutch West Indies. The ceme-
tery, believed to be the oldest Cau-
casian burial ground. in the New
547-4805
World, was established in the early
WEDDINGS — BAR MITZVAS
1600s, and some of the 2,567 tomb-
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The marble grave markers, in-
cluding that of the sister of the
philosopher Spinoza, were in
danger of obliteration due to air
pollutants from a nearby oil re-
finery. The persident of the Cura-
cao congregation, Charles Gomez-
Cassires, arranged with the oil
company to provide labor and
equipment, and a local paint
company agreed to manufacture
the formula.
Prof. Lewin arrived in Curacao
in August and began his work by
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