Ervin Kaldor, 61, Australian BB Leader
WASHINGTON ( J T A ) —
Ervin Kaldor, president of
Bnai Brith in Australia and
New Zealand, died Feb. 23
at age 61.
Bnai Brith President David
M. Blumberg, who last May
installed Mr. Kaldor for a
three-year term as president
of Bnai Brith District 21, said
here that he was "an imag-
inative leader who had served
energetically throughout his
tragically shortened term."
Before his election as
district president, Mr. Kal-
ad served as Bnai Brith
president for New South
Wales and as liaison officer
between lodges in Sydney
and the district headquarters
in Melbourne, as district
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head. He also served on the
B'nai B r i t h International
Board of Governors.
Songwriter Ruby
LOS ANGELES — Song-
writer Harry Ruby who
composed "Who's Sorry
'Now?" a smash hit of the
1940s, died Feb. 23 at age
79. Mr. Ruby, who was
famous for a number of
songs used in successful
Movies and Broadway musi-
cals, was a partner of Bert
Kalmar. Both Ruby and Kal-
mar wrote movie music for
the Marx Brothers.
Israel Cardiologist
TEL AVIV — Dr. Fritz
Dreyfuss, a leading Israeli
cardiologist, died Feb. 22 at
age 63. Dr. Dreyfuss was
professor of internal medi-
cine at the University of Tel
Aviv, and had served as dean
of the faculty of continuing
medical education.
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Ford, GM
Deny Aiding _
Nazi War Effort
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WASHINGTON — Coopera-
tion with the Nazi war effort
during World War II has been
denied by General Motors
Corp. and Ford Motor Co.,
responding to charges by a
staff counsel to the Senate
antitrust and monoply sub-
committee, w h i c h opened
hearings Tuesday on pro-
posals to break up the big
automotive manufacturers.
Bradfoid C. Snell, a staff
counsel to the subcommittee
headed by Sen. Philip Hart,
said that GM and Ford co-
operated prior to and during
World War II with Nazi war-
making plans.
Snell said this cooperation
brought prewar Nazi medals
to GM and Ford representa-,
tives.
When Sen. Roman Hruska
(R. Neb.) said that countries
other than Germany had
made use of plants during
the war which were owned
by enemy nations, Snell re-
sponded: "No other corpora-
tion (other than GM) was in
the position of being an es-
sential ingredient in both
(Allied and Nazi) war efforts,
and I think that is a danger-
ous situation."
The GM office in Washing-
ton stated that the charge is
false. "A German board of
managers appointed by the
Nazi government assumed
responsibility for the daily
operations of Opel (the plant)
after Sept. 3, 1939. After the
United States and Germany
were at war, the opeartion
was under control ,of a Ger-
man alien enemy custodian."
Snell's study also alleged
that Alfred P. Sloan Jr., GM
board chairman, and three
GM vice presidents served
on the GM-Open board of di-
rectors throughout the war.
It said that "communications
as well as material reportedly
continued to flow for the dur-
ation of the war between GM
and Ford plants in Allied
countries and those in Axis
territories." The GM state-
ment didn't answer those al-
legations.
Ford- issued a similar de-
nial, insisting that the policies
and direction of any company
In Germany preceding and
during the war years were
dictated by the German gov-
ernment. "Ford Motor Co.
had no participation in the
operation or financial results
of Ford of Germany while
the United States was en-
gaged in World War II.
"It seems to us that events
of more than 30 years ago
are irrelevant to any judg-
ment on the role of inter-
national corporations in the
vastly different world of to-
day," the Ford statement
said.
Tel Aviv's
Kissinger
Egypt and U.S. Resume Diplomatic
Relations; Kissinger Now Cairo's Idol
There is a Kissinger in Tel
Aviv. He is Ernst Kissinger,
a tailor who operates his own
shop. His cousin, is U.S. Sec-
retary of State Henry A.
Kissinger. He was visited by
Dr. Kissinger when the pres-
ent American diplomat was
in Israel in 1964 but there
has been no contact between'
them since then. Ernst Kiss-
inger reportedly continues
correspondence with the fam-
ily of. Henry Kissinger in New
York.
Absorption Center
for Soviet Jews Is
Hailed by Keating
REHOVOT (JTA) — Four
hundred cheering Soviet im-
migrants and native Israelis
joined U.S. Ambassador to
Israel, Kenneth B. Keating,
at the dedication ceremony of
the Rehovot absorption cen-
ter.
The four-building complex,
to be used for housing new
immigrants from Russia, was
built with funds provided by
the American people. These
funds were part of a $75,000,-
000 grant given to the United
Israel Appeal, Inc. - of New
York to assist and absorb
Soviet immigrants.
Ambassador Frank Kellogg,
special assistant to the sec-
retary of state for migration
and refugee affairs, spoke
for the U.S. Department of
State. He had recently Com-
pleted an extensive tour of
absorption centers, educa-
tional facilities and hospitals
in areas populated by recent
arrivals from the Soviet
Union to Israel.
Eban to Visit Paris,
Jobert to Jerusalem
Genocide Pact Defeat Assailed
NEW YORK (JTA) —
While declaring appreciation
to the U.S. government and
Congress for its aid and
support of Israel, the Ameri-
can Federation of Jewish
Fighters, Camp Inmates and
Nazi Victims in an all-day
conference Sunday said it
was "appalled" at the Sen-
ate's failure to ratify the
Genocide Convention.
The several hundred dele-
gates, Jewish survivors of
the Holocaust, who met at
the New York Hilton, also de-
clared in 1 its resolution that
the Senate should pass the
treaty because "it is in ac-
cord with the basic rights of
American democracy."
The survivors demanded
that governments, including
the U.S., bring Nazi crimin-
als "who enjoy a free and
secure.. life in many coun-
tries" to trial.
Solomon Zynstein, chair-
man of conference, said that
the one-day session was call-
ed because the survivors be-
lieve "the world has shown
the same indifference to the
,fundamental rights of Israel
to live in peace and freedom
as the world showed in World
War II to the murder of in-
nocent Jews by the Nazis."
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The federation called on
the organized Jewish com-
munity and its instiltutions
"to join with us in the es-
tablishment of a Remem-
brance Center which will be
dedicated to the strengthen-
ing of the awareness of the
Holocaust. The center will
also serve as a stimulus to
further the education of Jew-
ish youth in their studies of
their heritage."
Declaring that 'they too
"were victims of inhumanity"
the survivors said they view
gravely the inhuman acts
of Syria against the Israeli
POWs and called "on hu-
manity not to remain silent
in this violation of interna-
tional law."
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After a seven-year breach, the United States and Egypt
resumed diplomatic relations Thursday.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger was given a
royal welcome to Egypt and was presented with the key
to the city of Cairo.
Egypt had broken relations with the U. S. after the
Six-Day War.
Now it is asserted in Cairo that a warm friendship has
been established between Kissinger and Egypt's President
Anwar el-Sadat. Kissinger was quoted in Cairo as saying
that he is now "deeply in love with Egypt"—an assertion
interpreted that it negates earlier views that the American
diplomat was leaning toward Israel. -
It is now believed that Syrian-U. S. relations may also
be renewed as a result of Kissinger's successful negotiations
in Damascus for release of names of Israeli prisoners of
war and for disengagement plans on the Golan Heights.
PARIS (JTA)—The French
government is said to have
laid the basic outlines for an
official visit to Paris by Is-
raeli Foreign Minister Abba
Eban sometime next April.
It is expected Eban will
meet wittr-President Georges
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Messmer and Foreign Minis-
ter Michel Jobert during a
predicted five-day visit.
Jobert himself is expected
to visit Jerusalem either this
09ewelier
summer or fall for two days
during which he will visit
other parts of the country.
It will be the first time a
French minister will have
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