Jewish Victim of Slansky Trials Sentenced Again by. Prague Tribunal
LONDON — Dr. Hubert Stein
and five other defendants were
sentenced by the Prague City
Court in mid-July to jail terms
ranging from 1 to 12 years en
.charges of espionage, the official
Czech news agency. reports.
According to Prague radio, some
of the defendants were given "ad-
ditional penalties" which have not
been specified.
An appeal by Dr. Stein against
the verdict was dismissed by the
Supreme Court of the Czech
Socialist Republic in mid-August.
ceed in his spirit and to follow
his path. Many are asking how
we shall persevere in our reli-
gious life without a rabbi. Our
answer is that we are not afraid
of the future. We can temporar-
ily maintain Our religious frater-
nity without a rabbi. We shall
have a young successor to the
In a • New Year's message
office, and we believe that with
Frantisek Fuchs, chairman of
him and with our correligionists
the Council of Jewish religious
we shall assure the continuity
communities in the Czech lands,
of our religions fraternity".
attacks unspecified "foreign
Meanwhile, however, the Jewish
newspapers" for having Pub-
lished -information on the per- communal organization of Czech-
Of the six defendants air-, secution of Jew's in Czechoslo-- members of the community to
vakia..
oslovakia has been appealing to
- raigned on 70 charges of espion-
This is in reference to political send in prayer books for services,
age, three are known to be of
Jewish origin, although they are trials and to the expulsion from since they are out of print. The
not known to have had any as- the Communist Party of a num- Communist press listed Religious
sociation with the Jewish corn. ber- of prominent writers, includ- literature and Bibles with porno-
graphy among the items seized by
• mune! organization of the coun- ing a number of. Jews.
The Prague Jewish leader con- customs officials, before a special
try. They were given a total of
tinues:
"No
limitations
are
beir
, exhibition arranged recently in
23 years of imprisonment, while
'nine years and 18 months were imposed upon the religious, cul- Bratislava.
It is unlikely that Jewish reli-
meted out gainst the three non- tural-religious and social activities
of our Jewish religious communi- gious organizations shall be able
Jewish defendants. -
ties. On the contrary: ActiVities to obtain government support for
Dr. Stein, who received 12 years, in these fields
is the first of the victims of the
Slansky trials to have been ar-
raigned again. A lawyer, Dr.
Stein served with the Czechoslo-
vak armed forces during World
War II in the Middle East.
Later he was appointed com-
mercial counsellor at the Czecho-
slovak Embassy in Ankara but
was recalled in the early 50s to
face trial as an alleged member
of the "sabotage and espionage
center" of Slansky. A long prison
sentence was reduced by the am-
nesty of the 60s.
After working as a warehouie-
man and laborer, Dr. Stein
eventually obtained a post as
translator at the Netherlands Em-
bassy in Prague.
Dr. Stein's wife, Milada Ku.
biqsova, a translator at the
French Embassy in Prague, was
given 10 years for espionage;
Dr. Edith Cerensky, also of
Jewish origin, received one
year for "endangering official
secrets." Her husband, Col.
Vaclav Cerensky, a non-Jew
who also served with the Czech
Army in the Middle East, was
given five years.
Three weeks before the trial,
the president of the Czech Su-
preme Court, Dr. Josef Ondrej,
rejected Western allegations that
political trials were being held in
Czechoslovakia.
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Earlier this -year, two Jews,
Stefan Grosz and Jan Weiss, were
among six men sentenced to im-
prisonment from 4 1 2 to 9'z years
on charges of having "terrorized
a women for her positive attitude
to the Soviet Union," the' official
Czech news agency reports.
are, among others,
supported by the State as in the
case of other religious denomina-
tions. I know of no one having
been persecuted in our country
on ground of his Jewish religious
affiliation or on the ground of
holding office of a Jewish reli-
gious community."
Fuchs also paid tribute to Dr.
Richard Feder, the chief rabbi of
Czechoslovakia, who died last
year at age 95; and -stated:
,
"We are determined to pro-
stF you TURN THE
In comparison, the Ger man
minority, only a little larger in
numbers than the Jewish com-
munity, has been enabled for a
number of years now to publish
a weekly paper..
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the printing of new prayer books
in Czechoslovakia.
Since the beginning of 1971,
"Vestnik", the monthly of the
Jewish communal organizations,
is no longer permitted to send
complimentary copies to Jewish
organizations, institutions and li-
braries in the West, as in the
past.
The offical explanation is that
distribution had to be curtailed
as a result of increased postal
charges.
Malnutrition Claim Rejected by Sapir
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Finance
Minister Pinhas Sapir challenged
a statement in the New Year's
message of President Shazar as -
serting there were many cases of
malnutrition in Israel_ and was in
turn challenged by a member of
the Jerusalem Labor Council lis-
tening to his speech.
Israel's devaluation last month,
in which the finance minister had
a key role, and some consequences
of the devaluation also came under
sharp criticism at the meeting.
Sapir, without mentioning Sha-
zar by name, said "It is a pity that
a very high ranking person has
made such a statement. Apparent-
ly he has been given false infor-
mation."
Shazar said in his New Year
statement that "There has been no
narrowing but rather widening in
the economic gap between the
large numbers of the undernour-
ished 'and the individuals" whose
incomes had "grown too easily."
Sapir argued that government sta-
tistics and independent research
"prove" that the standard of living
of all Israelis, including even the
lowest income groups, had risen
during recent years. He added that
"No one in Israel suffers frotn mal-
nutrition." A member of the audi-
ence broke into the Sapir address
to say "there are such cases in
Jerusalem."
Among the complaints voiced
by members of the council were
that after the devaluation there
had been price increases, and
that a general weakening of the
wage-earner's purchasing power
had taken place in recent years
and that taxation favored em-
ployers. Sapir also said that as a
reign of the devaluation, Israel's
defense outlays in Israeli cur-
rency would have to be increased
by some $125,000. He said the
total sum spent for defense this
year would be about $1,500,000,.
000, and that in 1972 it would
have to be increased still more.
Disgruntled electric power sta-
tion workers in Eilat, who shut
down a water desalination plant
there at the height of the summer
heat and who returned to their
jobs under a government return-
to-work order, announced ' a new
wrinkle in slowdown tactics. Effec-
tive immediately, they will remain
on the job after their regular shifts
thus becoming so exhausted they
will be- unable to comply with the
compulsory work order, their
spokesman 'said.
The spokesman said that, while
the workers have been back on the
job more than a month, the Elec-
tric Corporation has done nothing
to comply with a recommendation
of a government mediator to add
more workers to each shift, the
issue on which they originally quit
their jobs.
Eilat officials have acted to as-
sure full reservoirs and expressed
confidence that they could assure
water supplies even if the unique
new job action cuts off new sup-
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