`Moral Victory in Lost
Suit Over Dictionary's
Abuse of the Term 'Jew'

An Urgent Plea
For Retention
of Memory
of the
Holocaust

Commentary
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LONDON (JTA) — The four-year-old legal fight by a Manchester 'businessman to have the Oxford
English Dictionary drop what he considered derogatory definitions of the word "Jew" has been lost. But a
moral victory was won when Robert Burchfield, editor of the dictionary, said the 1975 supplement would in-
clude an historical note explaining the origin of the disputed definitions.
Romanian-born Marcus Shloimovitz had objected to definitions of Jew as "to cheat or over-reach in the
way attributed to Jewish traders or usurers" and "a grasping or extortionate usurer, or a trader who drives
hard bargains and deals craftily."
High Court Judge Sir Reginald Goff ruled that the 66-year-old textile merchant had not proved he suf-
fered personally from the definitions. Shloimovitz said that he would not appeal the ruling but would leave the
matter to public opinion.
Clarendon Press, publisher of the dictionary, promised not to collect the $3,000 in costs the court
awarded against Shloimovitz.

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July 13, 1973

Need for World Intervention
Seen to Save Iraq, Syria Jews

Dr. Goldmann Reveals More
Nazi Victims' Reparations
Payments Difficult to Get

GENEVA (JTA) — Dr. Nahum Goldmann said that he was
not "very optimistic" over the chances of a favorable settlement
of claims by Nazi victims in three areas where such claims
are still outstanding. He described as "rather heavy going" his
current negotiations with the West German Government to ex-
tend reparations payments to Jewish victims of Nazism from
Eastern Europe who filed their claims after the 1965 deadline
on payments.
He said there also "was not a great deal of optimism" over
the chances of compensation from the Austrian government and
that he did-not hold out much hope of compensation from the
East German regime for Nazi victims living outside its borders.
Dr. Goldmann spoke at the board of directors meeting of
the Conference on Jewish Claims Against Germany which opened
here Tuesday morning.
Dr. Goldmann, who was re-elected president of the confer-
ence, noted that since the "Schlussgesetz," the final law govern-
ing compensation and indemnification was passed in West Ger-
many settting a 1965 deadline for claims, "Nazi victims have
been arriving from the Soviet Union and other Eastern European
countries" and "They have valid claims." But "this Schluss-
gesetz is in their way. This is what I am negotiating with the
Germans about. It is rather heavy going for a number of rea-
sons. It is difficult to see how the negotiations will eventually
conclude, but while I am not very optimistic, I would not give
up hope for some arrangement," Dr. Goldmann said.
Dr. Goldmann revealed that he had talks with Austrian
Premier Bruno Kreisky about three weeks ago. "There was not
a great deal of optimism but the efforts are continuing," he said.
The claims conference board of directors adopted a resolu-
tion asking the West German government to create a fund under
existing laws to provide a measure of compensation for claim-
ants who filed after the Dec. 31, 1965, deadline and Jo improve
the administration of the present reparations laws.
Dr. Goldmann disclosed that the West German Government
has paid out nearly eight times more in restitution and indemni-
fication than had been anticipated when the reparations agree-
ment was signed in Luxemburg in 1952. According to Dr. Gold-
man, a figure of six billion Deutschmarks had been envisaged
but some 45 billion DM have been paid to date and experts
estimate that an additional two billion DM in reparations pay-
r"-its are yet to be made.

LAUSANNE (JTA) — The international president of Bnai Brith expressed concern
here over the increasingly desperate plight of Jews in Iraq and Syria and called for the mas-
sive intervention of world leaders.
David Blumberg of Knoxville, Tenn., addressing the annual meeting of the International
Council of Bnai Brith, declared that unless there is outside intervention, it is only a question
of time before both of these beleaguered communities—hostages of the Middle East conflict
—disappear.
"There is incontestable evidence," he said, "that the barbaric anti-Jewish policies of these
governments stand in clear violation of the provisions of Article 2 of the UN Genocide Conven-
tion, which defined genocide as acts committed' with the intent to destroy in whole or in part a
national, ethnic, racial or religious group." Blumberg made an urgent appeal to UN Secretary
General Kurt Waldheim and "all friendly governments" to intercede immediately on behalf of
the Jews in these countries.
(Fifteen hundred Jerusalem high school pupils signed a petition denouncing the "slow
extermination" of Syrian and Iraqi Jewry.)
About 50 delegates, representing 40
UN Sec. Waldheim Negotiates
countries, attended the two-and-a-half-
day session. It was the first time in
For Possible ME Peace Trip
nearly a decade that the Council has
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) — Secretary General Kurt
met on the European continent.
Waldheim said Tuesday that he would be willing to travel
Dr. William A. Wexler of Savannah,
to the Middle East in the interest of furthering a negotiated
setlement of the Arab-Israeli dispute. Answering questions
Ga., chairman of the Council, urged
at a luncheon with UN correspondents, Waldheim said that
the U.S. government to exercise cau-
a visit by him to the Mideast might be useful but whether
tion in its planned sale of Phantom
he makes it depends on consultations he is now holding with
jets to Saudi Arabia and possibly Ku-
the Egyptian and Israeli UN ambassadors.
wait. "We recognize that neither na-
Waldheim met Tuesday with the Egyptian envoy, Abdel
tion has been directly involved in the
Meguid, had a one-hour meeting Wednesday with Israel am-
Middle East conflict, even though both
bassador Yosef Tekoah and met with British Ambassador
have been violently anti-Israel and
KKenneth Jamieson, this month's president of the Security
have. supported Egypt's belligerence
Council.
and El Fatah terrorism. But the Phan-
Waldheim. repeated what he said recently in Geneva,
toms can fly from Saudi Arabia to
that the only way to solve the Mideast dispute is through
negotiations, which must be under UN auspices. He said that
Israel, for the first time, giving the
the Security Council's debate on the Middle East, scheduled
Saudis direct access to Israel. There
to be resumed Monday can be fruitful. But, he added, public
is always the possibility that the pres-
discussion by itself cannot solve the problem and that is
ent regime will be replaced by a radi-
why negotiations are needed.
cal one or that the planes will be
Waldheim, who returned to New York Monday night, said
transferred
to another Arab state,"
he met in Geneva with President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia.
Dr. Wexler said. The prudent course
He said Bourguiba told him that there had been no followup
for the U.S. is to control the flow and
to his recent proposal for a meeting with an Israeli leader",
kind of weapon delivered to the Saudis
Statement by Abba Eban rejecting possibility of further
with an eye on the shifting conditions
(See related story on page 5. Statement by Abba Eban
rejecting possibility of further talks with Bourguiba)
in that volatile region."

Christian Scholars Reject Anti-Israel Charges,
Rate Anti-Semitism as a Dangerous' Pandora's Box'

NEW YORK — Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith welcomed a statement by a group of leading Christian
scholars denying that Israel's policy is one of belligerence and warning that "anti-Semitism is a Pandora's box from
which spring out not only atrocities against Jews but also contempt for Christ."
The statement, by the Israel Study Group, asserts that Israel's sovereignty is valid "on moral and juridical
grounds," that Christian "hostility and indifference" to Israel constitute "a major source of friction in contem-
porary Christian-Jewish relations," and that "whatever the anti-Semite inflicts on the Jews he inflicts on Christ,
who is 'bone of their bone and flesh of their flesh.' "
Rabbi Solomon S. Bernards, director of ADL's interreligious cooperation department, said the statement by
"some of the most distinguished scholars and theologians" was "an exceptionally sensitive and insightful appre-
ciation of Jewish faith, affirmation and self-understanding."
The Israel Study 'Group — formed two years ago by the Commission on Faith and Order of the National
Council of Churches and the Secretariat for Catholic-Jewish Relations—is now under the chairmanship of the Rev.
John T. Pawlikowski, O.M.I., of the Catholic Theological Union, Chicago.
The statement made these other points:
Even underground, as now, anti-Semitism is "a difficult virus to counterattack," having "a pervasiveness
that infects our whole civilization," but fortunately "some 'Christian churches are working hard" to excise anti-
Semitic references from liturgy and education.
(Continued on Page 6)

Collective Nobel Peace
Prize Asked for Jews'
Rescuers in Bundestag

BONN (JTA) — Opposition party members 'in
the Bundestag have appealed to the Nobel Commit-
tee to award the 1973 Peace Prize collectively to
persons who saved Jews during the Nazi era.
Members of the Christian 'Democratic Union and
Christian Socialist parties, in a letter• to the Oslo-
based committee, said that those who risked their
own lives to rescue Jews "placed the principles of
humanity higher than tyranny and terror and made
a genuine contribution to peace and reconciliation."
The group also noted, in support of the propahl,
that the Israeli Yad Vashem Committee awards its
"Medal of the Just" to those who can prove they
helped Jews in the Hitler era.

