Fate of 7 Iraqis Unknown After- Spy `Trial
weekend for allegedly spying for
(Continued from Page 1)
Israel.
The press conference was called
A report from Damascus quoted
by the Committee for Humanity
in Iraq, which was set up follow- Baghdad radio as saying there had
ing the first Iraqi hanging last been no trial and that no execu-
month and which sponsored a si- tions were scheduled Monday or
lent vigil Feb. 9 in Kennedy Tuesday. This was contrary to re-
ports from diplomatic sources at
Square .
the United Nations and from -Is-
( A Jordanian immigrant who dis- rael that seven were scheduled
rupted the vigil pleaded guilty Feb. die.
25 and was fined $50 on a charge
Dispatches from Beirut Tuesday
of disturbing an orderly meeting
said there was neither confirma-
in a public place.
tion nor denial of impending exe-
(A complaint against Abder Sa- cutions in Baghdad. But Baghdad
lam. 24, had been filed by attor- radio was reported to have de-
ney Ronald Karp after the former clared that "no power in the world"
tore down a placard at the Ken- would prevent Iraq from execut-
nedy Square demonstration.
ing traitors. The broadcast, moni-
(Salam sought the defense coun- tored in Beirut, reportedly said
sel of Abdeen Jabara, Detroit law- "Iraq reaffirms anew that it will
yer who has been assisting in the execute everyone who proves to
Sirhan Sirhan case in Los Angeles. have been a traitor to his home-
(Because Jabara was not avail- land and to have spied for imperi-
able, an attorney from his office alism and Zionism."
represented young Salam, who
A State Department spokesman
speaks little English. He applied
for a jury trial, then asked that said Monday night that the U.S.
the complainant "show compassion government had unconfirmed re-
for a sick boy," claiming that he ports that additional mass hang-
were scheduled-
in Baghdad
e motionally disturbed at the time ings
but hoped
such information
proved
of the demonstration.
unfounded.
Karn. supported by witnesses
The
spokesman,
Carl
Bartch,
M
Gilbert Frimet and arcus'
Plot- said, "As we have made clear on
kin. refused
to withdraw
his
plaint.
and Judge
Robert
A. com-
Co- two recent occasions, we are con-
cerned on humanitarian grounds
lomho i , sued the fine.)
by the circumstances of these trials
Meanwhile, there was uncer- and executions."
tainty over the fate of the seven
On Jan. 27, 14 Iraqis, nine of
Iraqis, at least two or three of
them Jews, who were reportedly lerred
them Jews,
were for
hanged
al-
espionage
Israel. for
Seven
sentenced to death over the more Iraqis
— none Jews — were
executed on the same charges Feb.
American Judaica 020 ' The Israeli government noted
the reports with anxiety and
Will Be Exhibited
voiced hope that the world reac-
tion to the earlier hangings
ill Israel by JWB
would lead the Baghdad authori-
NEW YORK—An exhibit of 175 ties to refrain from repeating
recently published books of Jew- the act. Israeli Arabs attending
ish interest by American authors a memorial meeting for the late
will be disnlayed at the fourth Premier Levi Eshkol adopted a
Jerusalem International Book Fair resolution protesting the hang-
throogh arrangements made by ings, harassment and torture of
the Jewish Book Council of the Na- political prisoners of the -Moslem,
tional Jewish Welfare Board, Dr. Jewish and Christian faiths in
Judah Nadich, president of the Iraq. The gathering included sev-
Book Council, announced. eral hundred Arab labor leaders
Sponsored by the Municipality of and representatives of town
Jerusalem, the International Book councils. Representatives from
Fair will be held in the city's Con- East Jerusalem also attended.
In anticipation of the new hang-
vention Hall March 19-27. Book
publishers from all parts of the ings, Rabbi Israel Miller, chair-
o orld will participate in the event. man of the American Zionist Conn-
Lesser Zussman, executive direc- cil, called on the U.S. government
tor of the Jewish Publication So- "to act quickly and in the most
ciety of America, will be the Jew- forceful manner to prevent the
ish Book Council's representative execution of Iraqi citizens" who
at the fair. At a public meeting are victims "of nothing more than
under the auspices of the Israel the fact that they are out of sym-
branch of the Jewish Book Coun- Pathy with the aims of the present
cil and the Association of Amer- Iraqi rulers." Jewish students
jeans and Canadians in Israel, demonstrated in front of the Iraqi
Zussman will deliver an address UN mission Monday. (The demon-
on Jewish book publishing in the strators represented the North
United States. Dr. Sol Liptzin, a American Jewish Youth Council,
past president of the Jewish Book Yeshiva University, Stern College
Council and chairman of the Israel and several local Hebrew day
branch, is making the arrange- schools.)
The summary executions of the
ments in Jerusalem.
alleged spies and the brutal dis-
play of their corpses created a
Rabbi Kirshblum
wave of revulsion that was believed
in some quarters to have had politi-
Endorsed by Region
cal effects on the Baghdad regime.
Several news reports following
for ZOA Presidency
the Jan. 27 hangings said that Iraq
JAMAICA, N.Y.—The candidacy had released some Jews held in
of Rabbi I. Usher Kirshblum, vet- prison. These reports were denied
eran Zionist leader, as next presi- last week by Rabbi Herschel Schac-
dent of the Zionist Organization ter, chairman of the Conference
of America, was endorsed by the of Presidents of Major American
Long Island Zionist Region, largest Jewish Organizations. Speaking at
regional constituent body of the a memorial service for the victims,
organization, in a resolution adopt- he said that "reliable sources re-
ed at its last executive committee veal that the tragic status of Jews
meeting held under the chairman- in Iraq, Egypt and Syria remains
ship of Samuel D. Paul, president unchanged. He claimed that "hun-
of the region. dreds of Jews are still languishing
Rabbi Kirshblum, who is spiri- in prison for no other crime what-
tual leader of the Jewish Center ever other than that they are
of Kew Gardens Hills, N.Y., would Jews."
succeed to the office to be vacated
United Nations Secretary-Gen-
by the incumbent, Jacques Tor- eral U Thant was in contact over
czyner, under the provisions of the the weekend with the ambasa-
constitution after having serving dors of Iraq and Israel. The UN
the prescribed four consecutive spokesman declined to give any
terms. The election of a president details of Thant's intervention.
for the ensuing year will be held The seeretary-general intervened
at the 72nd ZOA convention which unsuccessfully with the Bagh-
opens Aug. 28 in Los Angeles. dad regime list January. He
subsequently issued a statement
deploring the action.
The World Jewish Congress in
New York appealed to Thant to
intercede urgently with the Iraqi
government to prevent the execu-
tions. In Geneva, the WJCongress
asked the United Nations Commis-
sion on Human Rights, now in
session there, to act without delay
to prevent the executions.
In London, the Right Rev. Carl
Witton Davies, chairman of the
executive committee of the Coun-
cil of Christians and Jews, cabled
the president of Iraq, asserting
that executions such as the one,
of last Jan. 29 were "a defiance
of all civilized standards" and
urging that further executions be
halted. William Simpson, chair-
man of the international consulta-
tive council of the Organization
for Christian-Jewish Collaboration,
also cabled a plea.
In Stockholm, the Jewish com-
munity made an appeal to the Con-
ference of Nordic Foreign Min-
isters, currently in session there,
to intervene with Baghdad. The
community also asked that the
Nordic states — Sweden, Norway,
Denmark and Finland — announce
their readiness to accept the Jews
from Iraq.
In Copenhagen, the Israel-Den-
mark Friendship League sent a
delegation to ask the Danish gov-
ernment and Parliament to in-
tervene.
A committee for Iraqi Jews
was formed in Amsterdam, con-
sisting of 16 prominent Dutch
personalities, including former
Prime Minister William Drees
and J.M.L. Cals, university pro-
fessors, newspaper editors and
clergymen. The group's first act
was to send a telegram to the
Iraqi ambassador in Holland
demanding that Iraqi Jews be
given the right to emigrate.
In Washington, Dr. William A.
Wexler, president of Bnai Brith,
appealed to Thant to "use every
means at the disposal of the UN"
to halt the scheduled executions.
In Sao Paulo, the Confederation of
Brazilian Jews and the Brazilian
Institute for Human Rights cabled
the UN secretary-general urging
his full efforts to prevent further
executions.
Canadian Jewry, through its rep-
resentative organizations, called on
international public opinion to fur-
ther hangings.
o
(Other pleas directed to the
regime came in a full-page $7,440
New York Times advertisement
paid for by children in 17 New
York area Jewish religious schools
and placed through the Jewish
Education Committee of New
York; from Italian Foreign Min-
ister Pietro Nenni; and the Dutch
Committee for Support of Iraqi
Jews, who sought aid via Foreign
Minister Dr. Joseph Lulls.)
Sen. Everett Dirksen, the Repub-
lican minority leader, told a Jew-
ish delegation from New Jersey
over the weekend that he would
ask President Nixon and Secre-
tary of State Rogers to use Amer-
ican diplomatic channels to pres-
sure Iraq into permitting
e7 111 e Jews
there to emigrate. Th U.S. does
not have diplomatic r ations with
Iraq; its interests in Baghdad are
represented by Belgiu, and Iraqi
interests in Washington, by India.
The delegation reported that
both New Jersey senators, Clifford
Case (Rep.) and Harrison Wil-
liams (Dem.) promised to seek all
possible efforts by the U.S. to for Hungarian refugees in 1958
and later for Cubans.
bring relief to Iraq's Jews.
In a meeting it had with the
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15-man New Jersey Congressional
delegation, it received assurances
WE DO OUR
that the Congressmen would seek
to have Camp Kilmer opened for
OWN COLOR!
Iraqi Jews if they were permitted
to emigrate. The camp was used
Sakti 3zainf
Photographers
10—Friday, March 7, 1969
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