THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
16 Friday, March 9, 1919
Appeals to FreeEx-Nazis Rejected
AMSTERDAM (JTA) —
Dutch Justice Minister
Jacob de Ruiter has rejected
an appeal for the release of
the last three German war
criminals still in prison in
Holland.
The appeal came in the
form of an ,open letter sev-
eral weeks ago from Isaac A.
Diepenhorst, a Calvinist
Senator and law professor
who is chairman of the In-
terchurch Commission for
Prisons. Diepenhorst
argued that the continued
imprisonment of the three
men serves no useful pur-
pose after 30 years.
The three are Franz
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Fischer, who was in charge
of deportations from The
Hague; Ferdinand aus der
Fuenten, who had the same
post in Amsterdam; and
Joseph Kotaella.
Meanwhile, de Ruiter
told Parliament last week
that the government has
rejected a request from
Israel that millionaire art
collector Pieter Menten
be extradited to face war
crimes charges there. He
said that under the 1957
European Treaty on Ex-
tradition, The Nether-
lands could not extradite
Dutch citizens.
Israel wants to try the
79-year-old Menten for al-
leged murders of Jews and
others in the former Polish
village of Podhorodze and
Urycz in 1941. The- Dutch
Supreme Court is scheduled
to hear an appeal by the
public prosecutor of a of a
ruling by a Hague court
which said that Menten
could not • be tried on war
crimes because he had been
promised immunity in 1957
by the then justice minister.
In Rome, the military
court of La Spezia has re-
jected an appeal for freedom
by Walter Reder, a former.
Austrian SS commander
serving a life sentence for
the mass, murder of the
population of the town of
Marzabotto in northern
Italy during World War II.
Reder, 70, is the last war
criminal still incarcerated
in an Italian prison.
Reder is held responsi-
ble for the deaths of 1834
people, mostly women
and children.
Meanwhile, Joseph Luns,
secretary general of the
North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) has
vigorously denied allega-
tions that he belonged to the
Dutch Nazi Party (NSB)
during his student days in
the 1930s.
Luns, who served as
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foreign minister of The
Netherlands from 1956 to
1971, issued his denial from
NATO headquarters in
Brussels.
The allegation was made
by Prof. Louis de Jong, di-
rector of The Netherlands
State Institute for War
Documentation. He said
that documents in the Insti-
tute's archives showed that.
a Joseph Luns was a
member of the NSB from
the spring of 1933 untilthe
middle of 1936 when he res-
igned.
Luns, --now 67, said
there was a misun-
derstanding and planned
to meet with-de Jong. The
NATO official, a Roman
Catholic, entered the
Dutch diplomatic service
after completing his law
studies.
Last November, de Jong
disclosed that a prominent
member of The Netherlands
Parliament Willem Aant-
jes, had been a member of
the Nazi Party as a youth.
Aantjes, who was chairman
of the Christian Democratic
Party's parliamentary fac-
tion, was forced to retire
from political life.
In Bonn, "David," a film
about a rabbi's son in Nazi
Germany, an adaptation
from an autobiographical
novel by Joel Koening, won
the "Golden Bear" Award
for the best full-length film
at the Berlin Film Festival.
In Vienna, the first
episode of the NBC-TV
film series "Holocaust,"
screened on state-owned
television, drew a mixed
reaction from viewers. --
Police threw a security
cordon around the televi-
sion studios during the
broadcast to prevent
threateried right-wing
demonstrations but no inci-
dents were reported. In
Graz in the south of Austria,
leaflets were distributed,
presumably -by right-wing
organizations, calling the
Holocaust "the biggest lie in
history."
Laws to Reduce Soviet Bars
to Emigration Under Attack
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Henry Jackson (D.:Wash.)
Two laws overwhelmingly on the trade law and, ac-
adopted by the Congress in „cording to Jackson aides,
the mid-1970s to help loosen the President has not
Soviet restrictions against indicated alternatives.
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any of its citizens — Jewish
The
Jackson-Vanik
and non-Jewish — who wish Amendment bars MFN
to emigrate now face a fresh treatment for "non-market”
legislative_ assault that (Communist) countries as •=4
would divert them from the long as they do not provide
purpose for which they were "assurances" of liberalized
written.
emigration practices. MFN
Together with the old allows much lower tariff
rates.
arguments that the
Jackson-Wanik Amend-
The Stevenson Amend-
ment to the U.S. Trade Act ment, passed in 1975, is the
and the Stevenson Amend- other side of the trade coin.
ment to the Export-Import It permits the Soviet Union •4
Bank Act hurt American to borrow up to $300 million
business and employment in U.S. credits unless Con- 4
and does not help emigra- gress allowas a higher level.
tion anyway are two new This law also limits export
contentions — opening the of energy-related equip-
door to the China trade de- merit and technology to the
mands equal trade rights USSR to $40 million in cre- tol
for Moscow and Peking to dit that requires Ex-Im
avoid Soviet charges of dis- backing. It also requires a
crimination by Washing- Presidential determination
ton and, furthermore, with that a U.S. loan - of $50 mil-
Soviet emigration reaching lion or more to a Communist
an all-time high the Krem- country in a single transac-
lin should be rewarded with tion is in the U.S. national
softer commercial meas- interest.
ures.
Sen. Adlai Stevenson (D-
Marshalling
their Ill.), who authored the
strength to bring "about Export-Import Amend-
most-favored-nation (MFN) ment, now has offered the
treatment and wastly Senate a bill that, in his
greater governmental' cre- words, amends the Ex-Im
dit to the Soviets are busi- and J-V Amendments "to
ness leaders — notably provide identical require-
those in the U.S.-USSR ments- for determining the
Trade Council — and their eligibility of any Com-
allies in the federal munist state for MFN and
bureaucracy who consis- Ex-Im Bank credit, and for
tently argue that the Soviet reviewing and limiting such
Union should not be of- credits. Provisions in both
fended for its treatment of acts which single out the
its own people.
USSR for special treatment
would be repealed."
Thurs far, the Carter
His bill, Stevenson told'
Administration con-
the Senate would "also
tinues to stand by the
Jackson _ Amendment remove restrictions" in
the Ex-Im Act on financ-
adopted in 1974. Its lead-
ing exports to the Soviet
ing spokesmen and Se-
Union for developing fos-
nate Majority Leader
Robert Byrd (D-W. Va.-) sil fuel energy resources.
He would raise the loan
have publicly said their
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ceiling to two billion dol-
positions are unchanged.
lars and single transac-
President Carter pledged
tions. to $200 million.
support in 1976 to Sen.
Neither the present law
Sephardim Start Hospital Fund Drive nor Stevenson's new bill
would affect the loans to
Mrs. Irma Lopes Car-
NEW YORK — Plans to
the
Soviet Union from the
rebuild Misgav Ladach dozo, chairman of the
Commodity Credit Corp.
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Hospital — the oldest American Friends, ex-
for american agricultural
Jewish medical institution plained that the new hos-
products.
in Jerusalem — were an- pital will have enlarged
nounced by Mayor Teddy gynecological, obstetric
Both the National Con-
Kollek as a $6 million and new-born baby de-
ference for Soviet Jewry and
fund-raising campaign was partments, as well as a
Russian Jews in nine Soviet
launched by the American day-care hospital and
cities oppose the Stevenson
Sephardi community. out-patient clinics.
measures. The Soviet re-
"This hospital, built by
The new Misgav Ladach fusniks told the Congress
the Rothschild family in
the Jackson Amendrnen
Hospital is being supported
1854 and later operated by
"the only legislative e
by
the
World
Sephardi
Fed-
Sephardim, represents a
ment which, to some extei
eration and the Jerusalem
century of Sephardi com-
at least, acts as an obstacle
Foundation.
munal responsibility in
to the unbridled tyranny of
Jerusalem," Kollek told a
the
Soviet authorities in
special meeting of the Train Sabotaged
their emigration policies."
American Friends of Mis- JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Rep. Robert Drinan (D-
gav Ladach Hospital. "For Rail traffic between
decades the hospital was the Jerusalem and Tel Aviv was Mass.), chairman of the In-
mainstay of a network of brought to a halt briefly ternational Committee for
Sephardi-operated charita- Sunday morning following the Release of Anatoly SO
ble institutions in the Old detonation of an explosive Shcharansky, notes that
City."
at the western outskirts of "weakening the Jackson-
The hospital, destroyed in the capital.
-- Vanik Amendment now
1948, was relocated in
The mine exploded un- would send precisely the
Katamon in cramped and derneath the engine of a wrong signal to the Soviet
inadequate facilities serv- train which was en route Union and would be taken
as an indication that our
ing the immediate from Jerusalem to Beit
neighborhood as well as Shemesh. There were no in- firm resolve on this critical
many of Jerusalem's Arab juries and the train was not hunan rights question is
crumbling."
residents. derailed.
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