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32—Friday, July 27, 1973
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
German Liberal Leader Gets
Wrist Slapped for Biased Words
By PETER FRIEDLINGER
JTA Vienna Correspondent
VIENNA (JTA)—Officials
of Austria's Liberal Party
Tuesday rebuked "uncon-
scious anti-Semitic" state-
ments of their own right-
wing member Hans Klement,
who said he would never co-
operate with a Jewish poli-
tician.
However, Tassilo Broe-
sigke, chairman of the Vien-
nese section of the Liberals,
indicated that Klement would
not be expelled from the
party, because "other poli-
ticians of other parties made
similar statements in the
past without being expelled."
Klement, a former mem-
ber of the National Socialist
underground movement be-
fore the Nazi takeover in
Austria in 1938, like many
other leading politicians of
the Liberal Party, said in an
interview with the Austrian
magazine "Profil" last week
that his education, his basic
points of view and "emo-
tional reasons" bar him from
cooperation with Socialist
Chancellor Bruno Kreisky in
a possible Social-Liberal gov-
ernment after the next gen-
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Klement said that his party
would not think of forming
a coalition with the ruling
Social Democrats, because
"Kreisky is a Jew." In 1933,
Klement was forced to leave
the Austrian army because
of his Nazi activities.
Denying he is an anti•
Semite, Klement, who is now
vice chairman of the Vien-
nese party section, said some
"unconscious anti-Semitism,"
along with a "broad ideo-
logical gap," prevented him
from cooperation with a So-
cialist Jewish politician.
Broesigke rebuked this
statement of his deputy
Tuesday, but hinted there
would be no "ostracism" of
Klement.
Friedrich Peter, former
staff officer of the Nazi-SS
(security squad) and now
chairman of the Liberal
Party, officially rejected Kle-
ment's statements. "There
are no racial, religious or
ethnic discriminations in the
Liberal Party," Peter told
journalists.
In talks behind closed
doors with Kreisky, party
sources said, Peter paved
the way for a possible Social-
Liberal government after the
probable loss of the absolute
Socialist majority in the
1975 general elections.
But right-wing Klement
called his party leader's
plans to bring the Liberals
into government "mere op-
portunity." "I can't imagine
that a man with former posi-
tion as SS-obersturmbann-
fuehrer like Peter could
really change his political
opinions this way," Klement
told "Profil" last week.
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One apostle of universal
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healing insight
Might revive my failing
ego. Bring him soon, unruly
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To sanctify this hellish
solitude,
Or 1 perish.
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humanity and manhood an
inmate suffers during his in-
carceration.
This loss of humanity, or
more specifically, the inhu-
mane treatment of prison in-
mates, is the focus of the
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What the authors suggest
that in these situations the in-
mate feels cut off from other in a section called "prescrip-
inmates and the outside tions" for the ailing prison-
world. He prescribes a call system is to overhaul the
from the inmate's family or present prison system, to
change the perspective of
attorney.
Dr. Danto suggests the pre- prisoner behavior, to ex-
vention of night suicides change screens for the pen-
(the most frequent) by cir- like bars, to create recrea-
culating rescue patrols for tional facilities, and to up-
lonely prisoners, reorganiz- grade correction office train-
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The book is divided into the
sitive staffs and promoting
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setting." In each section are
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of inmates.
Dr. Danto dedicates the
book to those who "are fash-
ioning a noose from their
bedding or trousers and
hanging themselves in a
mood of hopelessness about
the future; in a moment of
feeling completely isolated
from humanity and estranged
from any desirable group
identity."
The purpose of the book, in
the eyes of the contributors,
is that it "will be the knife
which cuts down forever the
dangling, lifeless body of a
prisoner whose hope has gone
and whose sense of psycholo-
gical aliveness has stopped."
The average suicidal in-
mate is unmarried, of a mi-
nority group who has a his-
tory of mental illness and
shows some degree of violent
behavior. He makes one pre-
vious suicide attempt before
the fatal one, usually by
hanging.
However, Dr. Danto and
his colleagues imply that the
emotional being of this indi-
vidual is aggravated by the
penal system. Frequent cell
transfers create a stress on
the individual and isolation is
deadly. Dr. Dante suggests
DR. BRUCE DANTO
study entitled, "Jail House
Blues," edited by Dr. Bruce
L. Danto and published by
Epic Publications.
Dr. Danto, who received
his bachelors, masters and
MD degrees from Wayne
State University, is assistant
professor in the department
of psychiatry at the univer-
sity's school of medicine, an
instructor in the school of so-
cial work and director of the
Detroit Suicide Prevention
and Drug Information Cen-
ter. He is also an instructor
in suicidology for the Detroit
Police Academy and a con-
sulting psychiatrist for sev-
eral government agencies.
The book is an informative
compilation of papers by doc-
tors, lawyers, former in-
mates, social workers, sui-
cidologists, criminologists,
psychiatrists and psycholo-
gists, who collectively call
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