At the Girl Scouts' 38th Bap
tional convention in Seattle, MRS.
HARRY L. JONES, of Detroit,
politically. In practice, he pre- I on the NPD. It has a capacity for
ferred to ignore rather than fight making trouble and a vested inter- was elected to the national board
of directors for a three-year term.
them, and his own party's cam- est in it.
paign took on a decidedly con-
servative tinge to attract rightist
voters away from von Thadden.
SEE or CALL
The defeat of the NPD is attri-
NPD Threat Continues in Germany; Relations With Israel Are Undecided
By ALFRED WOLFMANN
(Copyright 1949. JTA, One.)
BONN —The exercise of politics
does not always have logical re-
sults as evidenced by the after-
math of West Germany's national
elections. Not the front runner, but
the second place Social Democratic
Party (SPD) combined with the
Free Democrats (FDP) who ran a
very poor third, will form the new
coalition governmelt. For the first
time in 20 years, the Christian
Democratic Union (CDU) of the
late Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
will be deprived of power, though
it polled considerably more votes
than any other party.
This change of leadership pre-
sages a sharp turn in West Ger-
many's foreign policy that is very
likely to affect the Federal Repub-
lic's relations with Israel. SPD
leader Willy Brandt has proven the
sincerity of his friendship toward
Israel as foreign minister in the
cabinet of Kurt Georg Kiesinger.
As the new prime minister, he is
not considered likely to change his
attitude toward the Jewish state.
The new foreign minister-desig-
nate, Walter Scheel, chairman of
the FDP, can not be considered
a foe of Israel. But Scheel has
made it clear that he intends to
follow a policy that will lead to
closer cooperation with the East
European Communist block and
especially with the Soviet Union.
He is expected to try to re-estab-
lish diplomatic and friendly rela-
tions with the Arab countries
which broke off with West Ger-
many when Bonn recognized
Israel in 1965. He has indicated
that he will not be deterred by
the fact that several Arab re-
gimes have already recognized
the East German People's Re-
public headed by Bonn's arch
foe, Walter Ulbricht.
Should a rapprochement occur
between West Germany and the
Arab states, the new government's
relations with Israel may well cool
to a degree. Scheel is aware that
an improvement in relations with
the Arab, can be achieved only if
Bonn exhibits no specially friendly
attitudes toward Israel. However,
it is believed that Brandt will not
permit relations with Israel to de-
teriorate seriously in order to pla-
cate the Arabs. Time will tell.
The other big event of the elec-
tions was the ignominious defeat of
the ultra right-wing neo-Nazi Na-
tional Democratic Party (NPD).
Many in Germany and abroad re-
garded the party of Adolf (The
Second) von Thadden as heir ap-
parent of .Hitler's Brownshirts. And
this no doubt frightened off many
voters. But it would be dangerous
to write off the NPD at - this stage.
It polled 4.3 per cent of the nation-
al vote, seven-tenths of one per-
centage point short of the neces-
sary margin to win seats in the
Bundestag. But that 4.3 per cent
nevertheless represented 1,500,000
German voters and was more than
twice the vote polled by the NPD
in the last national elections in
1965.
For more than a year prior to
the national balloting, the NPD
was making alarming progress in1
municipal and provincial elections.
It managed to win seats in seven
out of ten state legislatures and in
some districts polled a respectable
portion of the vote. It was the only
one of several splinter parties to
demonstrate voter appeal. When
von Thadden predicted that his
party would win 8 to 12 per cent of
the national vote, many astute poli-
ticians were inclined to take him
at his word, although public opin-
ion polls indicated otherwise. A
disturbing fact was that many
Germans did not regard the NPD
as a menace to democracy, but
only feared the image of Germany
it might project abroad.
Chancellor Kiesinger and other
leading politicians said publicly
that the NPD might be disreput-
atle but was not neo-Nazi. The
Kiesinger government backed
away from any move to have the
party banned under West Ger-
man law. The chancellor said he
would fight the right-wingers
Youth Must Have Share in Decisions,
Eisendrath Cautions Reform Conclave
MIAMI BEACH (JTA) — Dr.
Maurice N. Eisendrath, president
of the Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, warned that "Our
youth will increasingly abandon
an 'Establishment' religion" un-
less they are given an opportunity
to "share in those decisions that
shape their destiny."
The future of the synagogue, he
said, rests upon young Jews who
today condemn the "hypocritical
hiatus between pretensions and
practice, precept and example."
Addressing 3,009 guests and
delegates to both the 50th gen-
eral assembly of the UAHC, the
central congregational body of
Reform Judaism in the U.S. and
Canada, and the 27th biennial
assembly of the National Fed-
travel to Buenos Aires from the
convention to attend a special
regional conference of the World
Union for Progressive Judaism
starting Monday.
(The WUPJ delegation will meet
with heads of South American
' constituent congregations and of
Argentine Jewish religious and
secular organizations.
(The conference will study the
relationship of the growing Re-
form movement in Latin America
to the general situation of the
Jewish communities and chart an
expanded program.)
lishment," Rabbi Eisendrath asked
if parents are "really, truly, gen-
uinely concerned with fealty to
folk and faith" of their children.
Ile recommended that they listen
to youth "instead of the voice of
expediency and caution which too
frequently prompts our every
thought and action."
Rabbi Eisendrath, in a stinging
denunciation of the Vietnam war,
accused the Nixon administration
of "sleight of hand" tactics and
I called the military regime of
South Vietnam "tyrannical." He
asked that the convention demand
in a resolution an immediate
standstill—cease-fire in Vietnam.
He said Mr. Nixon seeks to pla-
cate public opinion and cool dis-
sent" by withdrawing troops "in
agonizingly small installments."
whose headquar-
ters will be at
2328 Lamberton,
Rabbi David S. Hachen, for-
. mer spiritual leader of Rock-
, dale Temple in Cincinnati, has
been appointed
director of the
eration of Temple Sisterhoods,
Great Lakes
the rabbi called for inclusion of
Region of the
youth in the national regional
UAHC, it was
and local governing bodies of
announced by
Reform Judaism.
, Rabbi Eisen-
dratb.
Chiding those who are critical
Rabbi Hachen,
of youth's rejection of the "Estab-
Cleveland
Heights,
will
serve as coordi-
nator of regional
activities involv-
.. ing congrega-
Rabbi Hachen tions throughout
alt of Michigan and parts of Ohio,
Pennsylvania and New York.
ROBERT E. ROSENBERG, ex-
ecutive vice president of Franklin
National Bank, has been named
recipient of the 1969 American
Jewish Committee Human Rela-
tions Award. Presentation of the
honor will take place at a dinner
sponsored by the AJC's Ap-
peal for Human Relations, Nov.
A group of the delegates will 1 18, at the New York Hilton Hotel.
NEW CADILLAC?
butable to factors other than its
neo-Nazi image. The violent dem-
onstrations by leftwing students
and trade unionists who followed
NPD election rallies all over Ger-
many created an impression of
chaos around the party. The brutal
manner in which NPD ushers man-
handled hecklers and even beat up -
uninvolved passers-by disgusted
many Germans. In general, it
seemed to the average German
that a party which espoused law
and order to the exclusion of al-
most every other issue, was unable
to maintain it at its own functions.
And many Germans were also
frightened by von Thadden's de-
clared intention of forcing all for-
eign troops off German soil. Even
the most nationalistic voters recog- i
nized that the departure of Allied
troops wonld leave West Germany
vulnerable to threats by Soviet
Russia.
So the NPD was roundly reject-
ed. But it remains a potential
menace. Whether its defeat in the
national elections will affect its
standing in the provinces remains
to be seen. Clearly von Thadden
intends to retain command. He has ,
unabashedly denied his much pub-
licized campaign promise to resign
if his party polled less than 5 1
per cent of the vote. He is a candi-
date for party chairman at the
NPD congress which convenes in
Hanover Nov. 25.
Political observers believe that
the NPD intends to make another
bid for the Bundestag in the elec-
tions four years hence. It bases its
hopes on an economic crisis or
' some other event that could shatter
the new coalition just as economic
chaos and bitterness paved the
way for Hitler in the late 1920s. It
is essential to keep a close watch
18—Friday, October 31, 1969
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