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May 09, 1969 - Image 14

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1969-05-09

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S rawberry Statement': Charm in Kunen's

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS ' A- -
t
14—Friday, Allay 9, 1969

What's a "strawberry festival"? have to develop new values, their
During the Columbia University values, and become a killer. So if
fracas last year, a dean comment- long hair just happens to be the
.
ed that there is as much signific- peace thing, it's an appropriate
ance to certain attitudes as in tell- happening."
That's how this journal runs,
ing whether one does or does not
and it runs well, with dignity,
like strawberries.
the dignity of a peace seeker who
That explains the title of a
NEW YORK (JTA)—A plea to
is part of the revolution but
the conscience of the world not to charming book, "The Strawberry
without resorting to violence.
permit the "desecration of the Statement: Notes of a College Re-
And he doesn't even have to use
graves" at the Bergen-Belsen con- volutionary," by James Simon
too many four-letter words ex-
centration camp site was made Kunen, published by Random
cept a harmless one in two
last weekend by Rabbi Herschel House.
chapter titles.
We call it a charming book be-
Schacter, chairman of the Con-
Kunen takes religion to task.
ference of Presidents of Major cause Kunen, writing his journal. "Evil is a drag," he tells nis
actually presents an account of his
American Jewish Organizations.
reader.
Rabbi Schacter said it was im- experiences, as a Columbia U.
Oh, yes: he also talks about
student,
during the controversies.
portant that world opinion be
drugs, and he comments about vio-
mobilized against the attempt of He does it with skill—because it is lence with this: "I don't know if
the French government to remove like a factual diary and because it Americans are sick, but I would go
the bodies of 139 French citizens can be read as easily as the young so far as to say that I heard a
chap (he was 19) wrote it.
buried there.
button vender, outside a funeral in
We meet here the students New York, yelling 'Remember
He said, "We are deeply and
and
the
faculty,
Mark
Rudd
and
sorely disturbed to learn the shock-
Bobby—fifty cents.' "
the police, and we are taken for
There is an afterward: "I do not
ing news that the French authori-
rides that explain how a normal want to fight in Vietnam, of
ties insist on disturbing the rest
lift, how he
a
fellow
asks
for
course. But I also don't want to
of the thousands of martyrs who
drives a car without enough
were murdered with brutal inhu-
money to assure him an end to I
manity by the Nazis. It is difficult
his road; we meet the profs with- Bonn Dissolves Unit
to believe that such a macabre act
out venom and the students with
will be permitted 25 years . later.
sympathy—and all of it is done of Neo-Nazis That
All decent individuals and world
with such ease that one marvels Planned Branches
opinion must react with horror to
how
a revolutionary can be so
BONN (JTA)—A neo-Nazi organ-
such a desecration. We plead with
mellowed.
ization that had planned to open
our fellow human beings against
It is clear that if it were not branches in Berlin, Hamburg and
any desecration of the remains of
those who suffered so long in life for war—for Vietnam—we might Schleswig-Holstein May I has been
and who ought now to be left in have had a different experience in dissolved on orders from the min-
this turbulent year. Kunen seems istry of interior, a ministry spokes-
reverent peace."
to indicate and to prove that.
man disclosed.
The West German government
He said the group calling itself
has issued a temporary order
He registers his protest with
preventing the French govern-
skills, dispassionately, in com- the Association of German Na-
tional Socialists had only seven
ment from opening the graves.
ments such as:
Appearing as key witnesses at
"Isn't it singular that no one members but had worked out a
the hearings before the nine-man
ever goes to jail for waging wars. Nazi political platform calling for
international court of arbitration
let alone advocating them? But a fight against international Jewry.
are Joseph Rosensaft, president
the jails are filled with those He said that a frequent consultant
of the World' Federation of
who want peace. Not to kill is to of the group was Martin E. Bruce,
Bergen-Belsen Associations, and
be a criminal. They put you a leader of the defunct American
Gen. Glyn Hughes, the British
right into jail if all you do is Nazi Party, who is presently serv-
Army officer who liberated the
ask them to leave you alone . ing with U.S. forces in West Ger
camp in 1945.
Exercising the right to live is a many.
In a related development, East
Gen. Hughes will testify that it
violation of law. It strikes me as
Germany handed journalists photo-
was impossible to differentiate 25
quite singular."
stats of documents purporting to
years ago to determine which were
He speaks about his dream for
the bodies of the Frenchmen. a great America, and he deplores show that more than 200 officials
Rosensaft said that opening the "the dream that ruined the dream" of the West German Foreign Min-
graves would not make it possible because America is becoming like istry held high posts under the
to determine which of the bodies other countries: "There aren't Nazis and were directly concerned
were French.
good countries . . . We could be- with plans for the mass killing of
In Tel Aviv, the chairman of the come the first good country ever." Jews. The documents were pre-
sented at a press conference called
Union of Bergen-Belsen survivors
Kunen doesn't overlook much. He
appealed to world opinion to bring writes about hair, the "appropriate I by the East German Foreign Min-
istry in East Berlin.
pressure to bear on France.
badge . . . Long hair should be
associated with peace, because the
first time American men wore
Communal Computers
NEW YORK (JTA)—Widespread short hair was after World War
agreement on procedures for use the first time great numbers of
of electronic data processing by American men had been through,
Jewish federations was reached at the military. Armies always shave '
an institute conducted last month hair to deprive the soldier of his
by the committee on data process- individuality and his masculinity.
ing of the Council of Jewish Fed- (Yes, masculinity. S a m so n,
erations and Welfare Funds, the much?) They want to depersonal-
CJFWF has reported. The institute ize and humiliate you so that you
was attended by 28 representatives aren't anybody any more and
from 19 member communities and you'll have to prove yourself to
them in their way, so that you
the United Jewish Appeal.

Protests Urged
on Bergen-Belsen
Exhumation

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TEL -AVIV (JTA)—Deputy Pre-
mier Yigal Allon, joined by lead-
ers of Histadrut, Israel's labor
federation, spent May 1 digging
security trenches at Kiryat She-
mona in Upper Galilee along with
hnudreds of other volunteers from
all walks of life.
The scene was repeated in bor-
der settlements in the Golan
Heights, the Beisan and Jordan
Valleys on the occasion of May
Day, the traditional labor holiday
which is usually observed in Israel
as a day without toil.
But this year, May Day was de-
clared a day of solidarity with the
border settlers who come under
constant gunfire from Arab guer-
rillas.
Hundreds of Israelis, white and
blue collar workers alike, volun,
teered to help build and extend
the settlements' fortifications and
bomb shelters. Virtually every Is-
raeli wage earner worked a half
day and donated his pay to a secu-
rity fund for the border villages.
The decision was taken by His-
tadrut and there were few dissen-
ters.

Rebellion

fight the draft, or fight the law, or
fight anything. I'm a 19-year-old
civilian, and I am tired of fight-
ing. One of these days I may fight
in earnest and altogether so that I
won't have to fight any more."
So he fights with words — and
there is charm in the "Strawberry
Statement." —P. S.

Will for Education

NEW YORK (ZINS) — David
Stern, a Zionist philanthropist from
Long Island, who passed away
recently, willed $400,000 to the
Zionist Organization of America,
In his will, the deceased expressed
his wish that a new educational
project be established in his name
in Kfar Silver—one of the ZOA
Projects in Israel.

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