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 Israeli VIPs, Workers Spend May Day Digging Kibutz Security Trenches NOW i SHOWING New Spring .Selection of SUITS SPORT JACKETS and SLACKS ' st Olandtrar Custom Iirailor o 25913 COOLIDGE OAK PARK LI 7-5794 \ 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. 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