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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, January 25, 1974,

Forbidden Fruit

Be fit for more than the
thing you are now doing.—
Adam was human; he
James A. Garfield.
didn't want the apple for the
apple's sake; he wanted it
because it was forbidden.—
RED
21-23—and said that several Mark Twain.
times "I was put against the
MAGEN
wall with a gun to my head."
WE CAN FIT YOU!
DAVID
He said that Antonescu, al-
though an ally of Hitler, pro-
NEEDS MONEY FOR
tected the Romanian Jews.
MEDICAL SUPPLIES
Nevertheless, half of the 800,-
LONG, SHORT, PATIO
000 Jews in Romania were
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killed in the Holocaust. Rabbi
PARTIES. SIZES 6 to 44
Rosen said the remainder
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were being prepared to be
THANK You
shipped to their death when
154 SOUTH WOODWARD
MURRY KONA ADV.
the invasion of the Soviet
BIRMINGHAM MI 2-4150
army saved them.
Since the war, some 300,000
Romanian Jews emigrated to
Israel, making them the larg-
est ethnic group in the Jew-
And so we are forced to expand our operation.
ish state.
We are in immediate need of salespeople to
Romania now has some
staff our offices. Some type of sales experience
90,000 Jews, the second high-
preferred. But if you have the necessary quali-
est Jewish population in
fications and are selected, we will INDIVID-
Eastern Europe. (Soviet
UALLY and INTENSIVELY train you. NOW
Jewry is the largest.)
IS THE TIME TO START, SO CALL AT ONCE!
He has not learned the les-
son of life who does not ev-
ery day surmount a fear.—
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Ralph Waldo Emerson.

L ied About Past to Immigration Aides

WASHINGTON (JTA) — A
newspaper report that Presi-
By DAVID FRIEDMAN
the United Jewish Appeal in
dent Nixon had referred
"glowingly" to Albert Speer, JTA Staff Writer order to seek additional funds
a top Nazi during World War NEW YORK (JTA)—When for the Joint Distribution
II, during a recent meeting Dr. Moses Rosen. chief rabbi Committee's program in Ro-
on the energy crisis was con- of Romania, first visited the mania, said he did not have
firmed by Presidential press United States in 1962, he to raise the issue of Trif a
secretary Gerald Warren. brought documentary evi- now that the former Iron
Asked about the report in dence that Valerian D. Trifa, Guard leader's past was ex-
the syndicated Evans-Novak a Michigan bishop who is posed in newspaper articles,
colt–nn,
nn, Warren said he un- head of the Romanian Ortho- including The Jewish News of
derstood Mr. Nixon had re- dox Episcopate of America, Detroit. He noted that the
ferred to Speer "in the con- had been a leader of the issue was ' raised by every
text of Speer's work relating fascist Iron Guard in Ro- interviewer since their ar-
to the mobilization of . indus- mania and the man who di- rival in the U.S.
try."
rected an anti-Semitic po-
Trifa was exonerated by
Speer was one of the most grom in 1941.
the Justice Department,
important men in the Nazi
Trifa was cleared at that which upheld his claim that
government and was credited time by the Justice Depart- he was a victim of Commun-
with keeping German indus- ment.
ist slander. But Rabbi Rosen
try at peak production dur-
Now Rabbi Rosen is visiting said Trifa lied in telling im-
ing the war years. He was the United States when, by migration officials that he
convicted of war crimes at coincidence, the U.S. Immi- left Romania in 1946 to es-
the Nuremberg trials at the gration a n d Naturalization cape the Communists. The
end of the war. Service is again investigating rabbi said Trifa actually left
Speer's autobiography, "In- charges that Trifa lied about Romania in 1941 when he and
side the Third Reich: Mem- his past as an immigrant to other Iron Guard leaders
oirs of Albert Speer," was a the U.S.
escaped to Nazi Germany
best seller several years
But Rabbi Rosen is staying after Gen. Ion Antonescu,
ago.
out of what he says is strictly who became prime minister
Asked if the President re- an American affair. "It is a with the help of the Guard,
gretted his reference to matter of moral significance later turned on the organiza-
Speer, Warren replied: "I for Americans," he told the tion.
don't think that a reference Jewish Telegraphic Agency
Rabbi Rosen said there are
to an historical event should during an interview in his 123 graves in Bucharest of
lead to a feeling of regret. hotel suite in the Essex victims of the 1941 pogram.
There are lessons to be House. He noted that Jan. 21 was
learned from both former , The 61-year-old rabbi, visit- their yarzeit. Rabbi Rosen
enemies as well as former ing the U.S. for a three-week himself lived through the
friends." lecture tour under auspices of three days of horror—Jan.

Freedom of Passage for Israel Cargo
Through Suez Foreseen in New Pacts

TEL AVIV (JTA)—Egypt
will p e r m i t Israel-bound
cargo to pass through the
Suez Canal once it reopens.
According to a secret ar-
rangement worked out by
U.S. Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger and
Egypt during the secretary's
visit to the Middle East
where he worked out the dis-
engagement agreement be-
tween Israel and Egypt, was
reported Tuesday in Maariv.
Kissinger, according to
Maariv, gave this assurance
to Premier Golda Meir fol-
lowing his talks with Presi-
dent Anwar Sadat of Egypt.
The Egyptians also gave as-
surances that the blockade
on Israel-bound shipping
through the Straits of Bab El
Mandeb, which link the In-
dian Ocean and the Red Sea,
would be lifted.
However, Maariv reported
that during the first phase of
peace, following Israel and
Egyptian disengagement of
orces, ships carrying Israeli
ags will not be allowed to
use the Suez Canal.
Reports here and in Wash-
ington also noted that other
unpublished arrange-
ments were also reached in
the process of developing
the disengagement agree-
ment. These included: The
U.S. will continue support
for Israel, the U.S. reserves
its option to use its satellites
to check on arms violations
by either Egypt or Israel, and
the U.S. will not assume the

SAY I
WI

role of guaranteeing the buf-
fer zone patrolled by UNEF
forces but that this is up to
Egypt and Israel to do so.
(In Washington, key U.S.
senators said Monday after
meeting with Kissinger for
two hours that the U.S. has
made "no secret agreements"
with Israel or Egypt in bring-
ing them to agree to the dis-
engagement of their forces.)
Meanwhile Foreign Minis-
ter Abba Eban said in a tele-
vision interview Monday night
that chances for a disengage-
ment accord with Syria had
barely entered the "prelimin-
ary stage" and outlooks for
such a accord remained slim.
He stated that all Israel
received from Kissinger dur-
ing his stop over in Israel on
his way back from Damascus
Sunday was a very tenuous
Syrian reaction without any
detailed plans for negotia-
tions.
(The JTA reported Sunday
that Kissinger had failed to
bring back any list of Is-
raeli POWs from Syria.)
Eban reasserted - Israel's
"unbreakable condition" that
there could be no talks with
Syria unless she provided a
full POW list and permitted
International Red Cross of-
ficials to visit them.
In other developments, Sa-
dat held talks Monday night
in Algiers with President
Houari Boumedienne on ways
of coordinating Arab policy
for the second phase of the
Geneva peace talks. The Al-
gerian government has not

said anything officially so
far about the disengagement
accord, but the Algerian
News Agency rapped what it
termed a "partial agree-
ment" which bears the stamp
of American diplomacy."
Sadat also reportedly dis-
cussed the disengagement of
Israeli-Syrian forces, which
the Egyptian president .said
must be given to priority.
At the same time, Egyp-
tian Foreign Minister Ismail
Fahmi was in Moscow to
brief Soviet leaders on the
disengagment accord. Soviet
Foreign Minister Andrei Gro-
myko reportedly told Fahmi
that the USSR has no objec-
tions to U.S. efforts in the
Mideast providing they
aimed at preserving Arab
and Palestinian rights and
that closer relations between
the U.S. and Egypt was not
at the expense of the Soviet
Union.

BONN (JTA) — The West
German air force began Fri-
day transporting West Afri-
can troops from Senegal and
Ghana to the Suez Canal zone
where they will be part of
the UN peace-keeping force.
This involves some 1,000
men and about 500 tons of
arms and equipment and will
last 10 days.

There is no use in your
walking five miles to fish
when you can depend on be-
ing just unsuccessful near
home.—Mark Twain.

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