World Peace Movement Branded Instrument of Hypocrisy
By MOSHE RON
Jewish News Special
Correspondent in Israel
TEL AVIV — In the Second
World War, when the Soviet Union
fought together with the U.S.,
England and France against Nazi
Germany, peace movements sprung
up all over the world to preserve
peace after the war. The chief
organizers of these movements
were the Communist parties in the
different countries which tried to
coopt in these movements Social-
ist organizations, left and intel-
lectual circles, which were eager
to secure peace.
In Eretz Israel, the peace move-
ment was comprised of the leaders
of the Labor parties. Its president
was the Mapam leader Meir Yaari
and its secretary, the .Mapam func-
tionary, Jacob Majus. The World
Peace Movement upheld the noble
ideal to do everything in order to
avoid wars between nations. It op-
posed the war in Korea and Viet-
nam, but refrained 'from taking
sides against Arab aggressions in
the Middle East. On the contrary,
immediately after the Six-Day War
the World Peace Movement with
its center in Helsinki supported
the case of the Arab aggressors.
It refuted the protest letters and
memoranda from the Israeli Peace
Movement (the minority of the
pro-Moscow Israeli Communist
Party, Rakach, opposed these let-
ters in the movement) and ac-
cepted the line of Moscow in the
Middle East conflict.
The secretary of the Israeli
Peace Movement, Majus told
me that this movement was
created in 1949 on the initiative
of Mapam and the United COM-
monist Party. In the first dele-
gation to the Peace Congress
in Paris, Meir Yaari, the leader
of Ahdut A v oda, the late
member of the Israeli cabinet,
Israel Bar Yehuda, the Is-
raeli poet Abraham Shlonski
(member of Mapam) and the
Communists, the poet Alex-
ander Pen and the Arab leader,
Tufik Tubi, took part. In this
congress the World Peace Move-
ment was founded. Communists,
Socialists, Social-Democrats, Lib-
eral, intellectual and spiritual
leaders of Western and Eastern
countries attended. The prin-
cipal aims of the world move-
ment were to avoid wars and to
influence the U.S. and Soviet
Union to refrain from using
atomic weapons and to create
an atmosphere of peaceful
coexistence.
During the last years, the Is-
raeli labor parties became con-
vinced that the Peace Movement
was only a propaganda instrument
of Moscow. This was proven dur-
ing the conflict between Russia
and Yugoslavia in the Stalin era.
Moscow had then demanded that
Yugoslavia be ejected from the
Peace Movement and this was ac-
cepted without opposition. Even
the leaders of Mapam had then
fostered the illusion that the
Soviet Union was an ally of theirs.
And the leader of Ahdut Avoda,
Beni Marshak, a former high of-
ficer in the Palmach, who has
been an ardent champion of the
Peace Movement, told the story of
the Israeli soldier who was killed
and in whose pocket two' books
were found—the Bible and "The
Capital" by Karl Marx-
2 Ex..SS Men Admit to Murders;
Guards Convicted_ but Go Free
BONN (JTA) — Two former SS
men admitted in a Wiesbadan
court that they participated in the
mass murder of Jews at Maidanek
death camp, near Lublin in 1943-
44, but claimed they acted under
orders.
The two are among five former
SS guards on trial for the massacre
of 65,000 Jews at Maidanek.
Gotthard Schubert, 57, of Wies-
baden, said that on Nov. 19, 1943,
he was ordered to arrange the
shootings of 31,000 Jews. He said
the camp inmates were lined up
naked and shot with machineguns.
He described the act as "terrible"
but insisted he was only following
orders.
His co-defendant, 65-y e a r-old
George Hoffman of Limburg, told
the court that in 1944 he par-
ticipated in the shooting of 40
Jews.
Two former guards at the
Buchenwald concentration camp
were freed although a war crimes
court found them guilty of man-
slaughter in the death of Jewish
inmates during the final weeks
of World War IL The statute of
limitations on war crimes which
went into effect last year, pre-
cludes sentences for any crime
other than wilful murder.
The court found that the two
defendants killed Jews during a
march after Buchenwald camp
was evacuated in 1945 but could
not prove wilful murder.
Majus thinks even today that Movement legitimization. Mapam,
the members of Ahdut Avoda which has been left in the Israeli
should not have left the move-
movement alone with the Com-
ment. As an Israeli delegation is
munists, now tries to find new
allies for the Israeli movement.
invited to all conferences of the
World Peace Movement, it has
It is difficult to understand what
the possibility of keeping con-
keeps Mapam in the Israeli move-
tact with Communist leaders of ment. Nobody would regret it if
many countries and even with Mapam, which is represented in
representatives (rim Arab coun-
the Israeli government, also would
tries, with left-wing journalists
draw the necessary conclusions
and important intellectuals from from the anti-Israeli activities of
all over the world. Not long ago, the World Peace Movement and
Majus met moderate Arab rep-
leave that movement, which has
resentatives from Tunis, Le-
become more and more an instru-
banon, Egypt, and also Com- ment to propagate the Soviet point
munist leaders from several of view and propaganda in world
countries, and had talks with politics.
them about the conflict between
the Arabs and Israel. He keeps
up permanent contacts with
Communist and left-wing repre-
sentatives by correspondence.
It is better not to reveal their
opinions about the situation in
the Near East.
The former representatives of
Ahdut Avoda in the Peace Move-
ment have quite another opinion
about it. A year ago this party
decided to leave the Peace Move-
ment but then the executive of
this decision was put off. They
saw that the Peace Movement sup-
ports the Arab terrorists, and had
turned into "branches" of El
Fatah in many countries of the
world. On the initiative of the
Peace Movement, a day of com-
memoration for the Six-Day War
had been declared as an expres-
sion of solidarity with the Arabs
. . . The Peace Movement also
established schools for Arab ref-
ugees in Jordan and Egypt and
appealed to all its branches in
the world to support these schools.
dor to the U.S., protesting against
the severity of the sentence.
Representatives at a Michigan
State Temple Youth conclave in
Lansing called a demonstration on
the steps of the State Capitol
Wednesday.
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The central committee of the
Peace Movement arranges con-
ferences in the Arab countries
on purpose and publishes ant•
Israel propaganda material. It.
Is characteristic that the World
Movement, which cares so math
for peace, -did sot find it nec-
essary even awe to blame the
hijacking of civilise planes bp
Arab terrorists, as it did not
with to hamper SW sens•."
When the whole civilised wield
attacked these acts of piracy,
the Wed* Peace Movenumt kept
silent.
Therefore, the leaders of Ahdut
Avoda believe that the so-called
World Peace Movement is an in-
strument of hypocrisy,- which dam-
ages the interests of Israel and
only serves those of the Soviet
Union and the Arabs. It is use-
less for Zionists and Socialists to
participate in such an organiza-
tion and by this act give the Peace
Local Protests Are Mounting
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Soviet Jewry conference Wednes-
day in Washington, D. C., along
with Hubert Sidlow, vice president
of the Council.
Rabbi Fram also called for a
day of prayer for Soviet Jews in
synagogues and churches this
weekend.
The Council of Orthodox Rab-
bis has set this coming Sabbath
as a day for special prayers for
the Jews of Russia. Special
prayers also will be chanted next
Thursday —Aura b'Tevet — the
Fast of the Tenth of Tevet.
A one-hour special program on
the crisis of Soviet Jewry was
scheduled for Thursday (Dec. 31)
at 2:30 p.m. over station WMUZ-
FM (103.5). Daniel Berk, local at-
torney whose experiences in the
Soviet Union were related in The
Jewish News, is being interviewed.
With the cooperation of the
Council, some 150 Jewish youth
were joined by adults at a peace-
ful demonstration last Wednesday,
in Kennedy Square. The young pec:;
ple, chanting "Let My People Go,
Protested the trials and the situa-
tion of Soviet Jews, who are not
allowed to practice their religion
and customs, and are not allowed
to leave the country for IsraeL
The Community Council continued
to urge the sending of telegrams to
Anatoly Dobrynin, Soviet ambassa-
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