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July 18, 1969 - Image 12

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The Detroit Jewish News, 1969-07-18

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Knesset Adopts Bill Subsidizing Pariies . Eleelion Efforti

Egypt's New Oil Pipeline Out of Israeli Gun Range

NEW YORK (JTA) — Construe- port of Eilat on the Gulf of Aqaba
ally approved become null and Lion will begin in Alexandria with Ashdod on the Mediterranean,
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Knes- t he Supreme Court.
But the bill on mayoral elec- void when the Knesset adjourns shortly of a 207-mile oil pipeline the Times said.-
set over-rode bitter objections by
ions apparently seemed less ur- and must be introduced anew in linking the Gulf of Suez with the
small party representatives Mon. t
gent although it was supported by the next ,Knesset. The fate of the Mediterranean. A contract to build
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
day to pass a new election cam-
most political factions. There was bill hinges on the slim chance that the 42-inch, $175 million conduit 12—Friday, July 1$, 1969
paign subsidy bill by a vote of 81-5
only time for a first reading and the sixth Knesset will choose to re- was signed in Cairo by the Egyp-
with two abstentions. The bill will
t seemed unlikely that this Knes- main in emergency session until tian Government and an 11-nation
replace a previous measure that i
. ale sixth, will vote on the the seventh Knesset convenes. consortium headed by France, the
CARS TO BE DRIVEN
was nullified by the Israel Su-
final readings before the adjourn- Otherwise, Israel's mayors will New York Times reported.
To any state. Also drivers furnish.
preme Court on grounds that it
ment deadline. According to law, continue to be selected from -the
ed to drive your car anywhere.
discriminated against new politi-
The pipeline project will employ
Fully insured and I.C.C. licensed.
every Knesset is a sovereign body lists of the winning parties as
cal factions.
3,000
Egyptian
construction
work-
heretofore.
Insured Driveaway System
and all pending measures not fin-
Under the bill, which was given
ers and engineers and is expected
9970 Grand River
its first reading Monday, the Israel
to be in operation by 1971: It will
Detroit, Mich. 48204
treasury will subsidize every pbli-
rival an Israeli oil pipeline now
WE 1 - 0620 - 21 - 22
tical party in the amount of about
under construction connecting the
By F. HELLENDALL
$33.000 for each seat it holds in
Editor's Note: Dr. F. Hellendall, the author of this article of
the present Knesset. The money is
warning of a growing pro-Nazi bias in Germany, is a member of the
to be used for campaigning for
Heinrich Heine Universitaet Duesseldorf Citizens Committee. A
next October's Knesset elections.
former Duesenldorf citizen who left Germany in 1934 and settled in
Existing parties will receive the
England where he is a solicitor, he calls attention to strange develop-
No PoiaIs—No Commission
money in advance of the elections.
ments revolving around the proposal that the Duesseldorf University
I would also like to list or sell your home, any
New parties will be subsidized
be renamed in honor of Heinrich Heine, the great German Jewish
condition anywhere.
after they have elected at least
poet who was born there in 1797 and referred to Duesseldorf as that
one member to the Knesset. The
"beautiful city on the Rhine." Hellendall states: "I am alarmed at
CLOSING 24 HOURS
FREE APPRAISAL
measure passed final reading Tues- ' the strength of anti-Jewish and neo-Nazi tendencies still prevailing in
day.
the country of my birth 24 years after the Allied forces defeated
L. Horwitz
The Knesset also voted 79-6 in Nazism—we had hoped forever."
favor of a bill reaffirming all pre-
in the name of "academic free-
2643 E. 7 MILE
MONTGOMERY
The
West
German
newspaper
Die
;
viously passed election laws. The
dam" took steps to muzzle all
10725 W. McNichols
REALTY
measure was intended to avert , Welt recently reported that the par-
further discussion on it by the
possible future nullification of any ents and pupils of a new grammar
university staff. ,
school
in
Heidelberg
rejected
the
of those laws by the high court.
A citizens' committee has been
El
proposal to name the school after
The campaigns subsidy bill the late German-Jewish nuclear formed in Duesseldorf to fight for
be
easily garnered 20 more votes psysicist Lise Meitner. A Heidel- the aim that the universiy
than the absolute majority of 61 berg liberal Town Councillor drew named "Heinrich Heine Univer-
insisted on by the Supreme Court. attention to the fact that time and sity" after all. It has received sup-
But it encountered angry opposi- again difficulties arise in West Ger- port not only in West Germany, but
tion from the small factions and many when suggestions are made all over the world. Well-known Ger-
from several members of larger to name schools or streets after man writers like Guenther Grass
parties. Uri Avneri of the one-man Jewish or anti-Nazi personalites and Carl Zuckmayer, Pastor Nie- 9
Haolam Hazeh faction charged like Lise Meitner, Bertold Brecht moeller• the West German T.U.C.
that the bill "stifled" new political or Hans and Sophie Scholl who and the Social Democratic Party,
forces. He was supported by mem- were executed by the Nazis in 1943. even the Federal German Minister
bers of the Free Center faction. A
of the Interior and the North Rhine- CI
Similar difficulties were experi-
bitter exchange ensued when Dr.
Westphalian Minister of Justice en-
by 118 professors and leetur- dorsed the Duesseldorf Citizens
yochonan Bader of Gahal (Herut-
ers of Duesseldorf University who
Est.
Liberal alignment) suggested that ers
and a papal
0
had submitted a proposal to name Committee's appeal,
1951
the small parties should refuse to their university after Heinrich prelate, Prof. Solzbacher, declared CI
accept the campaign subsidies of-
his support with the words:
fered them if they objected to the Heine. Heine was born in Duessel- rich Heine, -that would be •a pro-
as the son of Jewish parents in ;
measure so vehemently.
gram!"
1797. His "Buch der Lieder" (Book
Another measure calling for the of Songs) and in particular his im- , But Prof. Diemer and the major-
direct elections of mayors expired mortal song of the "Lorelei" ity of his University Senate remain
when the current Knesset ad- (which even the Nazis were unable unperturbed by this and by the
journed Wednesday, even though to eradicate, but continued to pub- strong adverse criticism which 0
SERVING DETROIT and SOUTH
it passed its first reading by a list in their song books with the their attitude has received not only
OAKLAND COUNTY
46-23 vote.
note "Poet unknown!" ) made Heine in leading West German newspa-
24 HOURS A DAY
but also in countries as far
The Knesset also gave final ap- one of the greatest lyrical poets in pers,
8
a
Dorothy Sipher
proval to a bill validating all pre- the German language. But he was away as Sweden and the United
Allen Sipher
"a States and by the damaging effect
viously _passed election laws. Its more than that: be, the pOet of
was of this attitude on the democratic
Jerry Sipher
purpose was to forestall the pos- new song and a better song"
reputation of the young university-
a
sibility of future nullifications by an uncompromising enemy of Phil- On the contrary, Diemer , a prota-
istinism, Prusslanism and all the
g
other forces of yesterday—still so gonist of the philosophy of Martin
other
i Heidegger the first Nazi rector of
much alive in his native land to-
Freiburg University who declared
day. His prophetic prose and poetry
in 1933: "Not principles and ideas
analyzing and ridiculing the Ger-
of his days are in many should
s
govern your existence! The
man scene
Fuehrer himself and alone is the
respects as true now as they were
Present
INTERIOR ONE-COAT FINISH
more than 100 years ago when theyresent and future German reality
and its law!") has been re-elected
were written.
Fadeless
as the rector of Duesseldorf Uni-
Colors •
Since his death in exile in Paris versity for another year. The Swe-
Odorless
112 years ago many attempts' dish newspaper Aftonbladet has in-
Non-toxic
were made to honor Heine in his dicated that other more powerful
No-Drip
native city of Duesseldorf, but in forces are backing Diemer in his
When Printing a Newspaper,
Scrubbable
the Kaiser's Germany as in the opposition to Heine.
Clean up
Large or small
Weimar Republic all attempts by
Lise Meitner in Heidelberg, Ber-
with water
Heine admirers to erect a statue told Brecht in Augsburg, Heinrich
Publishers Need Both .
in his honor there were thwarted Heine in Duesseldorf . . . If Hei-
SOF gal.
by anti-Semites and reactionaries. degger should prove to be stronger
POST'S winning combination of Hot Type composi-
tion and Letterpress Printing is the "time-proven"
The Nazis destroyed all traces of than Heine in Duesseldorf, the
answer. From page proof "OK" to "on press" is
COMPLETE SATISFACTION
Heine's existence and even re- democratic world may regard this
minutes, not hours. POST also offers the most
OR YOUR MONEY BACK
moved the memorial plaque from as one more alarm signal.
versatile 'line of Offset Printing in the Midwest.
the house where he was born.
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And, alas, Heine is not • faring Columnist Wants Yiddish
much better in the "freedom-lov-
Printers of The Jewish News for over a Quarter Century .
Whitest white
ing and democratic" Republic of Taught in Canada School
Non fading
color
West Germany: since the end of
WINNIPEG, Canada, (JTA)—A
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111011T••11
the war the friends of Heine have columnist for the Yiddish Press, a
Resistant
fought for a proper memorial in weekly newspaper published here,
Peel
honor of the poet in Duesseldorf— has urged the local rabbinate to
Resistant
without success. The suggestion prevail upon the city fathers to in-
Clean up
to name Duesseldorf's new uni- clude the Yiddish language in the
with water
versity after the great "soldier in public school curriculum, starting
the war for the liberation of man- next September.
The call, by Dr. M. Erenberg,
gal.
kind" was too much for the uni-
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Diemer. He described the pro- ment that the Ukrainian language
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1 "charlatanry" and an example of schools next September, beginning
broad.
the "cult of the personality" and with the seventh grade.

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