Jew in Allende Govt. Sentenced to 13 Years by Chilean Military

8—Friday, October 5, 1973

BY MURRAY ZUCKOFF
JTA News Editor

ICAO Council Postpones Action
on Terrorists Nabbed in Rome

NEW YORK (JTA)—Daniel
Silberman, a prominent Jew
in the former government of
Dr. Salvador Allende Gossens,
was sentenced Tuesday to 13
years in prison by a Chilean
military tribunal sitting in
Antofagasta, some 800 miles
north of Santiago, according
to news reports reaching
here from the Chilean capi-
tal.
Silberman, who was the di-
rector of the country's na-
tionalized copper mine cor-
poration, Chuquicamata, the
largest open-pit copper mine
in the world, was one of eight
former corporation officials
accused of trying to flee the

country with funds allegedly
taken from the industry's
treasury.
According to the reports,
Silberman was transferred to
an army military academy in
Santiago to await a second
trial in connection with hav-
ing operated the mine under
the Allende government.

In addition to those promi-
nent Jews who served in top
positions in the Allende gov-
ernment, whose whereabouts
remain unknown, a knowl-
edgeable source told the Jew-
ish Telegraphic Agency that
there was cause for alarm
concerning the fate of the two
more prominent Jews who
held important posts in the
former government.

The source identified the
two as: Jacques Chonchon,
minister of agriculture, and
David Beitleman, vice presi-
dent of the Corporation of
Agrarian Reform. Both were
responsible for implementing
the nationalization of the
large agricultural estates.
It was reported earlier that
Voldia Toitlebaum, Commu-
nist Party senator, was safe
in Italy, and that Jaime Fai-
vovich, mayor of Santiago
and undersecretary of the
ministry of transport, had
been granted asylum in the
Mexican Embassy in Santi-
ago.
None of the Jewish com-
munal institutions have been
harmed and the Jewish corn-

Stalin's Anti-Semitism Exposed
in Robert C. Tucker's 'Lenin'

Never-ending interest in
Russia, the Communist lead-
ership, Jews who played
their roles in the October
Revolution, all gain new sig-
nificance in "Lenin as Revo-
lutionary, 1879 - 1929," by
Robert C. Tucker, published
by Norton.
Primarily "a study in his-
tory and personality" with
emphasis on Vladimir Ilyich
Lenin (Ulyanov), additional
light is cast upon the char-
acters of Iosif Djugashvili
Stalin ("as a boy he was
called 'Soso,' the common
Georgian n i c k n a me for
'Iosif' "), Lev Trotsky (I. D.
Bronstein), Grigori Zinoviev,
Lev Kamenev, Lazar Kaga-
novich and many others.

The role of the Jewish
Workers' Bund is alluded to
as a factor in the conflicts
that existed in organizational
Communist activities.

The known anti-Zionist at-
titude of Lenin ii'not alluded
to, but the anti-Jewish senti-
ments of Stalin are recorded.
There is the well-known
Stalinist prejudice:
"Djugashvili's anti - Semi-
tism, which would grow over
the years and finally become
an obsession toward the end
of his life, may also, in part.
have been an expression of
contempt for whatever was
small and weak. The Jews
were a dispersed people
without a territory of their
own and very often (especial-
ly in Russia) a helpless ob-
ject of pogroms and other
forms of persecution. Be-
cause they were frequently
being beaten he could not
respect them, and pity was
not a feeling that came
easily to him if it came at
all. Hence his willingness to
repeat Alexinsky's crude jest
about the 'Jewish faction'
and the desirability of a
pogrom in the party."
The Alexinsky anti-Semitic
comment is incorporated in
this reference to Stalin, at a
party congress in 1907:
"Djugashvili declared that
the faction of the real pro-
letarians was also the fac-
tion of real Russians. An-
alyzing the composition of
delegations by nationality, he
pointed out that whereas the
majority of the 85 Menshevik
delegates were Jews, with
Georgians in second place
numerically and Russians it
third, the great majority of
the 92 Bolshevik delegates
were Russians, with Jews
coming next, then Geor-
gians, and so on. He pro-
ceeded to quote the jest of a

munity continues its activi-
ties unhampered.
The junta sent a message
to the Representative Corn-
mittee of Chilean Jews wish-
ing the Jewish community a
happy Rosh Hashana and re-
iterating that it "will continue
the Chilean tradition of dem-
ocracy and freedom and re-
spect for all religious faiths."
Meanwhile, the Union of
Jewish Students in France
called on "all progressive
and democratic Jews" to ex-
press their "indignation" at
the Israeli government's de-
cision to recognize the Chil-
ean military junta.
Calling the recognition "un-
speakable," the union said
Israel, by its action, "hasn't
even the excuse of trying to
assure the security of the
Chilean Jewish community."
Israel became the 24th na-
tion to recognize Chile under
the new military junta.
Hashomer Hatzair of North
America also denounced the
junta, and the British Poale
Zion protested Britain's "has-
ty recognition." It said events
in Chile were a blow to de-
mocracy everywhere "and
can only give a filip to the
advocates of violence."

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS

MONTREAL (JTA) — The
executive council of the In-
ternational Civil Aviation Or-
ganization (ICAO), meeting
in closed session, decided to
postpone consideration of the
number one item on its
agenda, Israel's request for
action against Arab terrorists
arrested in Rome Sept. 5 in
possession of Soviet-made
missiles with which they in-
tended to shoot down an Is-
raeli airliner.
The decision to postpone
the agenda item until further
information on the incident is
made available was approved
unanimously with the United
States abstaining.
Ephraim Haran, director
of the economic division of

the Israeli Foreign Ministry
who headed the Israeli dele
gation attending the meeting,
expressed surprise that while
the terrorists were arrested
Sept. 5, the ICAO Council has
not yet received information
from the Italian authorities
on the strength of which it
could act. •

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Bolshevik delegate named
Alexinsky. who had described
the Mensheviks and Bolshe-
viks at the congress as, re-
spectively, the 'Jewish fac-
tion' and the 'true-Russian
faction' and suggested that
it might not be a bad idea
for the Bolsheviks to 'con-
duct a pogrom in the party.'
His heavy-handed treatment
of this theme and his lack of
embarrassment about quot-
ing Alexinsky's anti-Semitic
remark add credibility to R.
Arzenidze's memory of his
speaking as follows to Geor-
gian workers in Batum in
1905: ' "Lenin," Koba would
say, "is outraged that God
sent him such comrades as
the Mensheviks! Wh% are
these people anyway! Mar-
tov, Dan Axelrod are cir-
cumcised Yids. And that old
woman V. Zasulich. Try and
work with them. You can't
go into a fight with them, or
have a feast with them.
Cowards and peddlers!" ' "

emergence of the "new
hero" to succeed Lenin,
Stalin, receive thorough ac-
counting in this important
work on the first hero of the
revolution. The resume in
Tucker's work of Lenin as
the revolutionary, his as-
sociates, the era of Com-
munism through 1929, have
much relevance to conditions
in Russia today.

Russian peasant attitudes
towards Jews, even within
the party, were recorded by
the journalist Ale Nikolai
Valentinov, who quoted a
peasant saying to him, in
1922:
"Lenin is a Russian man,
he respects the peasants,
does not allow them to be
robbed and driven into com-
munes, while that other
ruler, Trotsky, is a Jew,
cares nothing for the peas-
ants, knows nothing of their
work and life, and does not
want to know anything."

Trotsky's tragic role is
fully accounted for, and the

He who learns receives but
one-fifth of the reward that
goes to the one who teaches.
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