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Belated Honor
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Swedish Hero:
U. of M. Project
for Raoul
Wallenberg
Commentary
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Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle
VOLUME LVI—No. 11
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Impending Arab War Decisions
Conflict With U.S. Peace Hope
Does Vietnamese Issue
Provoke Anti-Semitism?
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright, 1969, JTA, Inc.
WASHINGTON—In the opinion of some observers, the
recent polarization of American opinion on the Vietnam
Issue is creating a climate conducive to anti-Semitism.
Anti-Jewish and anti-Israel voices and remarks are start-
ting to emerge from radical extremists of the right and
the left.
A dangerous indication of anti-Semitism was reported
from South Vietnam by Maynard Parker, Saigon bureau
chief of Newsweek magazine. He said that "since they
are convinced that it is not the loss of men and money
that is behind much of the U.S. protest. There are some
Vietnamese—possibly tutored by their American friends
—who are beginning to look beyond the Communists for
other scapegoats." It turned out that "other scapegoats"
were the Jews.
A Saigon cabinet member told Parker: "The Jew-
ish voters in the United States are forcing Nixon to leave
here so he can send American troops and planes to Israel
to help fight the Arabs." This report from Saigon coin-
cided with remarks by other leaders of the Thieu-Ky
regime that have gone unreported.
U.S. officials in Washington feel that Saigon officials
do not understand the domestic American scene. Their
conclusions on alleged Jewish pressures should therefore
be disregarded, according to the administration. But a
number of important personages in Washington, within
and outside the administration, have privately suggested
that too many Jews are appearing in peace demonstra-
tions. It is their contention that "the great silent major-
ity" is growing vexed by the alleged prominence of Jews
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Hopes for an end to the Middle East conflict were stymied by conflicting developments which
do not promise prospects for early negotiations between Israel and the Arab states.
A pessimistic element entered in the struggle that remains a world problem by the view advanced
by Israel Foreign Minister Abba Eban, who told an Israel cabinet meeting Sunday that the Arab
summit conference in Rabat, Morocco, next month can be expected to decide on nothing less than war
with Israel. Eban reiterated Israel's opposition to current bilateral American-Soviet negotiations.
At the same time, in an address at the annual dinner of the Zionist Organization of America in
New York, Sunday, at which the Theodor Herzl Gold Medallion Award was presented to former
Canadian Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson, Herbert G. Klein, President Nixon's director of commu-
nications, stated that the future role of the U.S. in the Middle East depended on the attainment of
peace. He declared: "A strong American presence in the Middle East will grow when Americans can
go to work again with the people of the area in building a better future."
Pearson, who played an important role in previous United Nations negotiations to seek .an end
to the Middle East war, said that no new United Nations Emergency Force should be sent to the
Middle East without both the practical and the juridical basis of that force being made clear beyond -
danger of later and arbitrary interpretation." The only exception to this principle, he said, should be
the dispatching of a UN force in the case of an "actual outbreak of fighting in circumstances which
made UN intervention urgently and immediately necessary as a , temporary measure."
Pearson presented a 1956 UN resolution which called for a UN Emergency Force in the
Sinai Peninsula. He received the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in resolving the 1956 Suez
Crisis. In May 1967, Secretary General U Thant withdrew the UNEF force along the Gaza Strip and
at Sharm el-Sheikh at the request of Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser and without consulting
UN organs. Pearson defended the 1956 UN intervention saying that the armed conflict and threat
of escalation at the time "required an international force to be brought into being without time for
sufficient consideration of its organization and juridical basis being possible."
He called upon the Arab states to reverse their policy of non-recognition of Israel and to take
that "essential first step" toward establishment of peace. He noted that behind Arab intransigence
was the Soviet Union "without any pretence of of objectivity or fairness of judgment, and with her
own games to play."
Pearson's UN roles of two decades ago when he was instrumental in helping secure passage of
the Palestine Partition Resolution, was praised by ZOA President Jacques Torczyner. The gold medal
was given to Pearson by Herman L. Weisman, chairman of the 7.0.I's administrative board.
Emanuel Neumann. chairman of the American Section of the Jewish Agency. warned in a speech
at the ZOA dinner that the U.S. was showing "ominous signs of departing from her former position
and yielding to the Soviet-Arab attempts at political extortion and blackmail." He recalled Pearson's
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Raoul Wallenhero's WW 11 Rescue Missions
Which Saved Thousands of Ilungacian Jews
Inspire University of llichigan Lectureship
!!!,
Few names in history denote heroism as much as that of Raoul Wallenberg. And few stories of a
man's dedication to a task of rescuing lives is marked with as much drama, with as much tragedy and
pathos and uncertainty as that of the Swedish young man who turned to diplomacy to be of service to
oppressed who were being doomed to death by the barbaric forces of Nazism.
He had graduated from the University of Michigan College of Architecture with honors in 1934. He
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came from a distinguished family of bankers, and he resumed the family tradition by going into the
banking business. For a very short time, he was in a banking pursuit in Haifa toward the end of the
1930s. He had gone to Budapest in 1942. He was in Eastern Europe. During those years he had learned
of the dangers that faced the Jews of Europe under Hitler.
When, therefore, the danger that faced the Jews of Hungary became apparent to the knowledge-
able--there were so many who did not know, so many who were silent!—he accepted an assignment
that began on July 6, 1944, to join the Swedish legation in Budapest and to undertake the rescue of as
many as could be saved.
There were more than 800,000 Jews in Hungary—including those who had lived there for many
sears, some for generations, before the war, and perhaps another
$60,000 who came there as refugees fom Hitler-ruled territories
Plsewhere. By the time Wallenberg had come to Budapest, more
than half the swelled number had already been sent to their
doom in extermination camps. Some 450,000 remained.
Herschel Johnson was U. S. ambassador to Sweden at the
IiMe. He appealed to King Gustav to send a representative to
,Budapest to undertake the rescue of Jews whose fate was doomed.
Raoul Wallenberg, then 32, was asked to undertake the mission.
Wallenberg assumed a task of such vast proportions that it
staggers the imagination. He acquired numerous buildings, hoisted
rounded up for deportation he housed them, packing them in like
the Swedish flag over them, as soon as he heard of Jews being
_rounded up for deportation, lie housed them. packing them in like
Sardines and claimed them as his Swedish citizens, thus protecting
their lives. He began, in addition to acquiring these large apart-
ment houses, to make "passports" which he issued in the
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thousands.
RAOUL WALLENBERG
Oak Park Woman Owes Life
to Swedish Envoy's Courage
BY CHARLOTTE DUBIN
She never met Raoul Wallenberg, but one Oak Park woman places
him slightly above the angels.'
For without the aid of that heroic Christian, Rella Gelberman.
her husband David and two children would not be here to tell how
they survived the horror of World War II.
The Gelbermans live in a comfortable house on Leslie St.. not far
from their son George, a Mtunford High School art
teacher, and their daughter, Mrs. Moishe (Erica)
Grossbard. They have four grandchilden.
Mr. Gelberman sells clothing — an occupation
that recalls the days in Hungary, when he was a
successful coat manufacturer. Not that he needs
reminders: after a quarter-century, dates do get
the memories are
fuzzy, but to the Gelbermans
still fresh.
Natives of Czechoslovakia. they were married in
Hungary, where their families brought them after
World War I. Mrs. Gelberman's parents settled on
the outskirts of Budapest. Mrs. Gelberman
For several years. the Gelbermans lived peaceably in Budapest •
raising a family, building up a business. They became part of a
flourishing Jewish community of 500,000, whose material wealth was
the envy of many a Hungarian peasant.
Envy is an old story to the Jews. When the Germans man-hed
into Budapest—taking over the Cielbermans' business on the way—
there were many citizens on the sidelines to cheer them on. With the
native Fascists in control, those on the bottom rung of Hungarian
society scrambled for the top.
Mrs. Gelberman and her two young children-5 and 3—were soon
alone. Her parents and five of six brothers would never return from
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