Lindbergh Recalled as Sympathizer to Nazis, Denouncer of U.S. Jews
NEW YORK (JTA) —
Charles A. Lindbergh, the
aviation pioneer who died at
his home in Hawaii of cancer
Monday at age 72, is remem-
bered by Jews as a sympa-
thizer with the Hitler regime
in the late 1930s, as a man
who accepted a medal from
Hitler's Nazi air force chief,
Herman Goering, and refused
to return it even after his
country was at war with Ger-
many; and as an advocate of
American nonintervention in
World War II who publicly
accused American Jews of
pushing the nation into war
and called them a "danger"
to their country because of
"their large ownership and
influence in our motion pic-
tures, our press, our radio
and our government."
Despite that statement,
which Lindbergh made in a
speech in Des Moines, Iowa,
on Sept. 11, 1941, after nam-
ing "the British, the Jewish
and the Roosevelt Adminis-
tration" as the groups ?ek-
ing American "entanglement
in European affairs," the
flyer vigorously denied that
he was anti-Semitic.
New York Times writer,
Alden Whitman, recalled that
when, in an interview with
Lindbergh two years ago he
put the question to him, Lind-
berg replied "Good God, no"
and cited "his fondness for
Jews he had known or dealt
with."
According to Whitman and
others who knew Lindbergh,
the aviator had a "blind
spot" that allowed him to
criticize Hitlers genocidal
policies while at the same
time supporting Nazi theories
of racial elitism.
In his Des Moines speech,
Lindbergh conceded that "No
person with a sense of dig-
nity of mankind can condone
the persecution the Jewish
Technion Probes Secrets of Aging; Study
Shows Cause of Enzyme Malfunctions
HAIFA — The answer to
what causes a living or-
ganism to grow old and die
is being sought by a scientist
at the Department of Biology
at the Technion-Israel Insti-
tute of Technology, and he
believes his results offer an
explanation.
Nearing the climax of
years of patient laboratory
experimentation now being
conducted in the Horace. W.
Goldsmith Building at Tech-
nion City. Prof. David
Gershon is confirming his
hypothesis that it is the pro-
grammed accumulation, with
time, of faulty protein mole-
cules which form enzymes
in the living cell which causes
the cell to age and die.
Prof. Gershon explain-
ed that enzymes are the cru-
cial catalysts responsible for
regulating the life of the cell
—such processes as respira-
tion, growth, reproduction
and the maintenance of mech-
anisms which protect the cell
from attack.
When eventually too many
faulty molecules build up in
these enzymes, the cell's
proper, orderly functioning is
impaired and when this is
simultaneously happening in
thousands (or millions) of
cells in a living tissue, then
the tissue and in turn the
organ of which it is a part,
cannot perform its task and
the living being, whether a
plant, animal or even a hu-
man being, begins to show
signs of deterioration, can no
longer defend itself from the
stresses of its environment,
and succumbs to disease or
injury and dies.
In 1970 the
• prestigious
British scientific journal Na-
ture published Prof. Ger-
shon's preliminary results
which were the first to show
that it is the accumulation
of faulty protein molecules
which causes the malfunction
of enzymes in the cell.
He then attacked the ques-
tion of whether this accumu-
lation is random or acci-
dental, or whether it is pro-
grammed — as an inevitable
continuation or consequence
of the normal development
program of the organism
dictated by its genetic "in-
structions."
Prof. Gershb n's pres-
ent tentative conclusions are
that the process is program-
med and his current work is
being carried out to prove
this beyond doubt to the
scientific community.
Prof. G e r s h o n's studies
are being carried out with
the help of an $80,000 grant
from the NIH and an addi-
tional 100,000 Marks from
the West German Science
Foundation (DFG).
One of the goals of geriatric
research is to devise ways
of delaying the effects of ag-
ing on all levels of the popu-
lation so that people would
be more active and would
not suffer from prolonged
periods of debility in their
old age.
Weizmann Institute Develops
Bromine-Based Flame Retardant
REHOVOT, Israel—A wide- of the Makhteshim Chemical
scale industrial application of Works in Beersheba began in-
bromine — one of the few vestigating methods for in-
raw materials present -in dustrially synthesizing one of
large quantities in Israel, in these compounds — bromo-
the Dead Sea — has been de- styrene.
veloPed by scientists in the
Styrene, which is derived
Weizmann Institute's plastics from petroleum, is one of the
research department.
most important synthetic bas-
It has long been known ic ingredients used in the
that when as little as 10 per- plastics industry, but both
cent -bromine is combined styrene and plastics made
with another substance, the from it are highl y flam-
resultant compound is fire- mable.
retardant. Four years ago,
Scientists have known for
institute researchers, under some time that a modified
the direction of Prof. David styrene containing bromine
Vofsi, and with the support (bromo-styrene, which was
first synthesized 50 years
Ear Specialist to Get ago) and plastics manufac-
tured- from this compound
Maimonides Award
would be self-extinguishing.
MILWAUKEE—Dr. Victor However, only recently has
Goodhill has been chosen to there been enough commer-
receive the second annual cial interest in this potential
product to spur research into
Maimonides Award of Wis- converting the inefficient lab-
consin by the Wisconsin So- oratory processes into an in-
ciety for Jewish Learning and dustrial one.
The new method devel-
Mount Sinai Medical Center
of Milwaukee. Dr. Goodhill oped by institute researchers
produces very pure bromo-
will present a paper on medi- styrene at a high rate of con-
cine - and Judaica at the version and yield which, in
award ceremony to be held in addition to being suitable for
fall.
large-scale industrial produc-
Dr. Goodhill is a professor tion also yields a valuable
of surgery at the University by-product, methyl bromide,
of California School of Medi- a fumigant used to kill pests
cine, Los Angeles, and a in soil and in grain silos.
noted ear specialist. He is the Makhteshim has already set
director of research at the up a pilot plant to test the
Hope for Hearing Research large-scale production of the
Foundation, University of material and various firms
California, and director of from abroad have expressed
the otologic laboratory, Insti- interest in the product.
The price of bromo-styrene
tute of Medical Research,
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, has now become commercial-
Los Angeles. He has author- ly more attractive. Bromine
ed 130 books and publications was considered a very ex-
and numerous articles on pensive raw material until
the recent sharp rise in crude
Judaica.
oil prices drastically in-
A scholarship will be pre- creased the cost of petro-
sented in his honor to a stu- chemicals such as styrene,
dent of Hebraic studies at a thus making bromine and
Wisconsin institution of higlk bromo-styrene relatively in-
er learning.
expensive.
race suffered in Germany."
but, he ,added, "Instead of
agitating for war, the Jewish
groups in this country should
be opposing it in every pos-
sible way for they will be
among the first to feel its
consequences."
He preached to Jews that
"tolerance is a virtue that
depends on peace and
strength. A few far-sighted
Jewish people realize this
and stand opposed to inter-
vention, but the majority still
do not. Their greatest danger
to their country lies in their
large ownership and influ-
ence in our motion pictures,
our press, our radio and our
government."
Lindbergh was, at the time
of thqk speech, an admired
national hero whose 1927 solo
flight across the Atlantic
Ocean and subsequent map-
ping of international airline
routes colored his remarks
with the enormous prestige
of his exploits.
He refused to repudiate the
service cross of the German
Eagle which Goering award-
ed him in 1938 at the direc-
tion of Hitler while on a visit
to Berlin. He said later that
he felt Goering had given
him the award "with good
intent and friendship" and
that he did not "want to
throw it back in his face"
however much "I disagreed
with him about other things."
Lindbergh visited Germany
several times during the
1930s and expressed the view
that the Nazi Luftwaffe was
unbeatable and that Germany
and Britain should cooperate
on the basis of their racial
ties against the menace of
Soviet Russia. Neither those
views or his attitude toward
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
8—Friday, August 30, 1974
Jews was ever repudiated.
He reaffirmed them in his
Wartime Journals, published
in 1970.
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