Vintage Flags Enliven Fisher Bldg.
The foreign•flag
display in the
Fisher Building
arcade recently
brought together
(from left) Max
Fisher, Louis
Berry and Nor-
man II. Birn-
krant. Birnkrant,
consul general of
Austria, spoke in
the arcade at a
ceremony dedi-
cating the flags
recently found in
the Fisher Build-
ing after being hidden for 42 years. Members of the Detroit consular
corps participated. Fisher is chairman and Berry is president of the
Fisher-New Center Company. The flags will be on public display in the
arcade until July 10. Among them is the flag of Zion, which became
Israel's flag.
Jewish Personalities Are Included
in List of World's 100 Leading People
Nearly every classification in
Most Important People
in the World Today," by Donald
Robinson, (published by Putnam)
contains one or more Jewish
names.
In the public affairs section. Is-
rael Prime Minister Golda Meir is
presented as Israel's Golda shelanu
—our Golda. The eminent lady's
views are presented in an interest-
ing four-page biographical sketch
which ends by quoting her:
"This war is unwinnable. The
Arabs can't defeat us and we
cannot conquer the Arabs. The
only solution is peace. We must
live together and dream dreams
of what we can do together.
Mrs. Meir has one regret: "I
can almost forgive the Arabs for
killing our sons. But I can never
forgive them for having 46es)cd
us to teach our children to kill'
Israel's war hero Moshe Dayan
is listed among those involved in
military matters and his sketch is
illuminating as a review of the
life of one of the most interesting
world personalities.
Listed in the section devoted to
economy are Andre Meyer, the in-
vestment banker, head of the
BY SHIMON PERES
French Lazard Freres, and Yevsei
(Copyright 1970, JTA. Inc.)
Liberman, the Soviet economist.
(Chimon Peres, minister of Immi-
gration absorption, a former deputy
Robert W. Sarnoff plays a role in
minister of defense, and one of Is-
communications and the press.
rael's leading armaments experts, was
recently interviewed by the European
In the section devoted to the
editor of
the
Jewish Telegraphic
sciences is the name of Marshall
Agency, S. J. Goldsmith. Peres' pre-
diction that Israel could be self-
W. Nirenberg.
sufficient in arms production was
Prof. Abraham J. Heschel is
made during that Interview. Peres
was in England in connection with
among the religious personalities.
the publication of his new book
Saul
Bellow won a spot among
"David's Sling," published by Weiden-
(cid and Nit°ison simultaneously in
writers as "the foremost American
England and Israel on June 25 as the
novelist."
first book in their new venture of
parallel Englsh-Hebrew publications.
In the fine arts section are the
In his book, Peres states that "Israel
names of Marc Chagall, Igor Stra-
must reach independence in the pro-
duction and maintenance of its arma-
vinsky
and Leonard Bernstein.
ments and equipment, particularly in
In each instance the accom-
view of existing and potential em-
bargoes." The interview of Peres by
lishments of those selected for
Goldsmith Is presented here in the
the listing are reviewed and in
form of questions and answers.)
Q. "Can this self-sufficiency be
the case of statesmen and war-
achieved?"
riors there is a record of events
A. "Yes, I am sure of that. Per-
that marked their rise to fame.
haps not 100 per cent. There is
The entire list of replete with
never 100 per cent in such things. famous names, and the internation-
But we can advance near to this al coverage included in Robinson's
point. The Swedes have done it, labors of gathering the facts for
and we can emulate their example this interesting book is most im-
profitably. In some ways we have pressive.
already followed them on this road.
They have produced their own jets,
and so have we. And there are
other parallels."
Q. "Can Israel solve the prob-
lem of know-how involved in self-
USS GEORGE C. MARSHAL —
sufficiency in a very sophisticated What may have been the first
industry?"
seder to be conducted under water
A. "Of this I have no doubt. I took place aboard an atom-powered
accept your reference to a prob- submarine which recently surfaced
lem in this context, but if there is after completing a patrol duty
such a problem it is soluble."
mission. Four Jewish crew mem-
Q. "What about finance?"
bers and six guests participated.
A. "Again, a problem but a solu-
In reporting on this unique Pass-
ble one."
over observance, made possible
Q. "How long do you think it "only through the assistance of the
would take for Israel to achieve Commission on Jewish Chaplaincy
self-sufficiency in both armaments of the National Jewish Welfare
and equipment?"
Board, which provided both the
A. "I would say it can be done essentials and the necessary guid-
within a decade, making progress ance," Commanding Officer James
all the time, and reaching the goal C. Hay of the submarine USS
at the end of the period, so that George C. Marshall, stated:
dependence decreases all the time
"In the past, efforts in this area
we go along."
were stifled by the belief that only
Q. "What impact would such a in a family atmosphere could the
state of affairs have upon Israel's true spirit of the Seder be appre-
foreign policy?"
ciated. This proved false. The bond
A. "Naturally, as dependence between submarine sailors proved
decreases, freedom of choice in- analogous to the bonds between
creases. Israel's self-sufficiency in family members and close friends.
armaments and equipment — we
"The mutual sharing, sacrifice,
already manufacture all our am- and purpose that form the very
munition and some ammunition basis of the family bond are in-
for export—would make life so trinsic qualities one also finds
much easier on the foreign policy within a submarine's crew. The
level, reduce pressures and make seder proved a great success—
decisions more true to Israel's own meaningful to all and most en-
vital interests."
lightening to the guests."
_ .
38 — Friday, July 3, 1970
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
"The 100
Israel Virtually
-
Self-Sufficient
Producing Arms
Report on Seder
Held Undersea
Bergen-Belsen Survivors Mark
Their 25th Ye air of Liberation
Israel's Friends
Write 'Advocates'
Backing Jet Sale
To "The Advocates," Box 1970,
Boston, Mass. 02134, there are be-
ginning to pour in thousands of
replies to the inquiry whether the
U.S. should sell Israel aircraft for
defensive purposes.
It was revealed this week that
the Arab propaganda machines
have conducted a campaign to
have people write in opposition to
this question, which results from
the two programs that were car-
ried by Channel 56 on the Arab-
Israel issue.
To counteract such a campaign
that would give a wrong impres-
sion of American sentiment on
the subject, positive replies are
beginning to arrive in the Boston
network office from supporters
of Israel.
There is a special role in the
advocacy of support for the sale
of II.S. defensive arms to Israel
in the endorsement the effort was
given .by 79 of the 100 U.S. sena-
tors and more than half of the
U.S. House of Representatives.
Those writing "The Advocates"
lit support of the jets' sales to
Israel have a few days left be-
fore deadline for the count of the
mail vote in the Boston office. All
that is necessary is a postcard
which says: "Should the United
States supply more arms to
Israel?" Yes.
By HENRY W. LEVY
BERGEN-BELSEN, Germany —
A graveside kadish for thousands
of Jewish victims of the Holocaust
was recited on Wednesday morn-
ing at the notorious Bergen-Belsen
Nazi death camp by men and wom-
en survivors of the concentration
camp.
Present were the children of
many of the mourning survivors,
paying memorial tribute to close
relatives they had never seen.
The occasion was the pilgrimage
of the World Federation of Bergen-
Belsen Survivors Associations to
commemorate the 25th anniversary
of the liberation of the death camp
by the British Army on April 15,
1945. There were survivors from
all over the world, several hundred
from the United States and Canada,
others from Israel, and the other
free countries of the world —
France, England, South America
and South Africa.
For most of the survivors it
was their first visit to Bergen-
Belsen since the camp was lib-
erated by the British Army under
the command of Brig. Gen. H.
L. Glyn Hughes. Many of those
present 25 years later had heard
Capt. Derrick Sington, a British
army officer, the first to enter
the camp, announce to the 6,000
survivors: "You are free!"
Children of all ages were among
those participating with their par-
ents in the most moving ceremony
of the "Procession of Silence."
"Those children know and their
children will know of the Holocaust
Aliya by Scientists Contributing
to Development of Israel Society
By HAIM SHACHTER
The more than 100,000 immi-
grants who arrived in Israel since
the Six-Day War have made an
outstanding contribution to the
country's development and to the
consolidation of Israeli society.
No one could have imagined
that such a great number of out-
standing minds — people who had
given up key positions in their
various countries — would decide
to come over, and never before
have there been greater prospects
for increased aliya to Israel than
there is at present.
The monetary problems involved
in immigrant absorption were very
pressing, particularly as there has
been a tendency to cut still fur-
ther the budget of the ministry of
absorption which had never been
Holocaust Expert
Authors Volume
Dr. Yehuda Bauer (right),
author of "Flight and Rescue"
confers with Prof. Moshe Davis,
head of the Institute of Contem-
porary Jewry of the Hebrew Uni-
versity of Jerusalem and editor
of the Contemporary Jewish Civ-
ilization series published by Ran-
dom House in cooperation with
the institute. Dr. Bauer is head
of the latter's department of
Holocaust studies. His book, re-
viewed in The Jewish News June
19, discounts the widely held be-
lief that the Jews yielded to the
Nazis "like sheep to slaughter."
sufficient to meet the pressing
needs, and especially as it must
be borne in mind that each of the
new arrivals must receive indivi-
dual care and treatment and that
each presents individual absorp-
tion problems.
Over 100 leading American Jew-
ish scientists have indicated their
readiness to go on aliya, but where
was one to find the $10,000,000
needed for their initial absorption
in the country?
New forms of absorption are
being tried, special attention be-
ing given to social absorption
in places of employment. The
place of work of the new immi-
grant constituted the most or-
ganized and most effective social
nucleus. For the time being,
only some four or five leading
enterprises in the country, out-
standing among them being the
aeronautical industry, had shown
marked progress in immigrant
absorption.
To attract large numbers of
young people to settlement in
Israel, the minister of absorption
advocates the establishment of a
special university for them, where
they would feel they were not
encumbered by language and other
barriers.
Leon Dultzin, minister without
portfolio in the Israel government,
said that 40 per cent of the 100,000
Jews who had settled in Israel
since the Six-Day War hailed from
the affluent countries of the West.
Many of them had brought scien-
tific know-how which had given a
great boost to the electronic and
military industries in the country.
Dultzin envisaged an aliya of
50,000 during the year 1970, of
whom some 10,000 would be com-
ing from the United States. Im-
migration from the United States,
however, was in large measure
governed by the quality of housing
that Israel would be able to place
at their disposal.
Not one of the prospective im-
migrants from the United States
had cencelled his preparations for
aliya owing to the security situa-
tion in the country, Dultzin pointed
out.
All good maxims are in the
world. We only need to apply them.
—Pascal.
that must forever remain in the
memory of humanity, above all the
Jewish people," remarked Josef
Rosensaft, a survivor, who today
heads the World Federation of
Bergen-Belsen Survivors Associa-
tions.
There were no addresses at
Belsen, just silence—and the kad-
dish—and, of course, the chanting
of the El Mole Rahamin by Cantor
Moshe Kraus, a survivor of Belsen
who came all the way from Johan-
nesburg, South Africa, to pay his
respects to the victims of Nazi
inhumanity to man. •
The services at Bergen-Belsen
marked the beginning of a two-
week commemoration of the 25th
anniversary of liberation. After •
Belsen, the survivors will gather
in Jerusalem for a series of events.
Participating in the program will
be Prime Minister Golda Meir,
President Zalman Shazar and other
Israeli leaders.
The commemorative events in
Israel will begin Sunday with a
literary symposium in Tel Aviv at
which the novel, "Stalemate With
Death," by Yitzhak Mar, will be
made available for the first time.
Written behind the Iron Curtain
in Mar's native Lithuanian, it has
now been brought to the outside
world. In Tel Aviv, it has been
published in a Hebrew translation.
Later the Bergen-Belsen Memorial
Press will publish it in English and
French editions.
A colloquium on the subject of
"Modern Implications of the
Holocaust" will be held Monday
evening at the official residence
of President Shazar. Such distin-
guished writers as Elie Wiesel,
Saul Bellow, Arthur D. Morse,
Piotr Rawicz, Prof. Emil Facken-
heim, Mannes Sperber, Chaim
Grade, Dr. Yehuda Bauer, Dr.
David Lazar and others wiU par-
ticipate.
Another procession of remem-
brance will be held 9 a.m. Tuesday,
at Yad Vashem Memorial Hill,
Cave of the Holocaust; kadish will
said by the survivors at the Ber-
gen-Belsen monument on Mt. Zion.
Holocaust book collections will
be presented to municipal libraries
and over a hundred schools in the
Jerusalem area.
The ceremonies will reach a cli-
max on Tuesday evening when the
1970 Rememberance Award will
be presented to the City of Jeru-
salem. A major address will be
delivered by Premier Golda Meir.
The mayor of Jerusalem, Teddy
Kollek, will accept the award on
behalf of the city.
Christian Film
on Jerusalem
Praised by Kollek
NEW YORK—"I haven't seen a
better film about Jerusalem—
ever," was the way Teddy Kollek,
mayor of Jerusalem, reacted to a
new movie made by a Christian
group.
"Thank you for picturing our
land as it is. I've never seen it so
beautiful," said Israeli Prime Min-
ister Golda Meir.
The film, "His Land," is the lat-
est production of World Wide Pic-
tures, the film division of the Billy
Graham Association. Prints of the
movie, in either 16 mm or 35 mm
versions, may be obtained on a
free will offering basis from World
Wide Pictures, 1313 Hennepin,
Minneapolis, Minn. 55403.
A discussion guide to "His
Land" is available from the
interreligious affairs department,
American Jewish Committee, 165
E. 56 St., New York 10022.
The hour-length color movie,
filmed in Israel this past spring
and costing more than $250,000,
was produced primarily for Chris
tian audiences, but has evoked a
positive response among both
Christians and Jews. Reflecting
Protestant evangelical theology, it
views the return of the Jewish peo-
ple to the land of Israel as related
to biblical prophesy.