THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 26 Friday, June 22, 1919 • Win Koch Prize REHOVOT— The Robert Koch Prize in the Medical Sciences has been awarded this year to Prof. Ruth Arnon of the Weizmann In- stitute's Chemical Im- munology Department and to Prof. Peter Starlinger, director of the Institute of Genetics at the University of Cologne. Disco Parties by Dan Sandberg - 353-6699 Tokayer"s Rugu Plan,' Notable Wartime Account By ALLEN A. WARSEN Marvin Tokayer and Mary Swartz authored,"The Fugu Plan" (Paddington Press Ltd.) The book consists of three parts and includes an intro- duction, glossary of He- Discomfort Index TEL AVIV (ZINS) — Is- rael has had an unusually hot spring and two Tel Aviv University professors have developed a discomfort index to monitor the weather. The system is---- a hot weather counterpart to the "wind-chill factor" used in the U.S, in the winter. Party Entertainment "Euphony" With The PRIMO'S Dance Music/Shows for every celebration. 3 . 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He notes that his interest in the plan began in 1968 when he became the spiritual leader of the Japanese Jewish community. As he established closer ties with his con- gregants, he became fas- cinated by their anec- dotes and tales they were relating about their ex- periences. Realizing "that no one had yet put together a col- lection of those remarkable experiences," he began trac- ing their roots and weaving them together. "For three years," he writes, "I took notes, taped interviews and gained familiarity with the sometimes scarcely believ- able story of the flight of thousands of Polish Jews away from the threatening hand of one Axis nation right into the apparently welcoming arms of an- other." Then, unexpectedly, he discovered volumes of documents in the possession of the Japanese Jewish resident, Michael Kogan, that revealed "a scheme for manipulating world Jewry into `The Fugu Plan." Naming the documents the Kogan Papers, the author started tracking down the people "who had actually been involved with the "Fugu Plan." . They in- cluded the widow of Navy Captain, Koreshige _ In- uzuka, one of the "Fugu" planners. The others were the son of a Col. Norihito Yasue, Mitsugi Shibata, a Shanghai ex-consul, and Mitsuzo Triura, the New York's liaison. came "Protocol" scholars and experts. "Scholarly" studies multiplied in military periodicals. They were ti- tled "Studies in the In- ternational Conspiracy" and "Studies on the Jews." - The Foreign Ministry, the "Graimusho," too, became interested in the Jewish conspiracy and established a special secret bureau to gather information on world Jewry. The "confidential" infor- mation it obtained consisted of synagogue bulletins, extracts from rabbinic ser- mons, programs of youth ac- tivities and digests of anti- Semitic speeches, including those of Hitler. Unexpectedly, an idea oc- curred to certain Japanese officials: to use Jews to help develop Manchukuo. The of- ficials reasoned, "Jewish settlers, if they could be brought from Europe, would provide the creative energy, the industrial skill, even the cultural finesse that Manchukuo needed to realize its potential. If Jews established settlements in Manchukuo, the American and British Jews who had a stranglehold on world capi- tals would naturally be- come interested in invest- ing there." - The proposal to create a. Jewish territorial cen- ter in Manchukuo be- came known as "the Fugu Plan." (Fugu is the Japanese term for "blow- fish whose deadly poison must be removed before -it can be eaten.") "The Fugu Plan," how- ever, turned out to be noth- ing more than a mirage. As a matter of fact, the 17,000 Jews, many of them refu- gees, residing in Shanghai threatened total annihila- tion. This condition was caused by the then Reichsfuhrer Hinfmler who directed Col. Joseph Meisinger, then chief of the Gestapo for Japan, China and Manchukuo, to put pressure on the Japanese to liquidate its Jews. Incidentally, Meisinger, the notorious "Butcher of Warsaw," in 1939 had been responsible for the cold- blooded murder of more than 100,000 Jews. At the close of World War II, he was arrested by the Japanese. "After a brief stay in the United States where he attempted unsuc- cessfully to commit suicide," he was deported to Germany where he was tried by the War Crimes Tribunal in 1946 and was hanged. Nevertheless, in 1942, Meisinger's diabolical scheme almost succeeded. At his initiative, the Japanese decided, as a first step, to confine the Jews of Shanghai in a ghetto and exterminate them at a later date. Parts of the proclama- tion setting up a ghetto, dated Feb. 18, 1943, read: "Due to military neces- sity, places of residence and business of the stateless refugees in the Shangha . area shall hereafter be stricted to the undermen- tioned area in the Interna- tional Settlement: east of the line connecting Chaoufoong Road, Muirhead Road and Dent Road; west of the Yangtzpoo Creek; north of the line con- necting East Seward Road and south of the boundary of the International Settl ment. "Persons who will hav violated this proclamation or obstructed its re- enforcement shall be liable to severe punishment." It is important to ern; phasize that the living con- ditions in the Shanghai Ghetto differed little from those in the ghettos under Nazi rule. Luckily, the end of the war also marked the end of the Shanghai Ghetto. (See Commentary, Page 2) Warning Against Provocations in Middle East Negotiations WASHINGTON (JTA) — Ambassador Robert Strauss, addressing his first Jewish audience since his appointment. As President Carter's chief negotiator in the Israeli-Egyptian peace process, cautioned that "for To gain a better his- this peace treaty to develop into a true peace during this toric perspective of the "Fugu" affair, Tokayerr critical year, there must be reconstructed the dip- extraordinary mutual polit- lomatic evolution of ical sensitivity to the prob- Japan from its inception lems of others." Strauss, who expects to go in 1853, the year Commo- dore Mathew Perry to the Middle East July 1, addressed- the Scopus forced Japan to open its "doors to intercourse" Award dinner of the Ameri- with the world, through can Friends of the Hebrew University in New York, at the Second World War. In the course of this dip- which he was presented lomatic development, the with the award. Japanese became influ- The American envoy enced by "The Protocols of stressed that "for this peace the Elders of Zion" which to become real peace, all they thought to be a sides must refrain from pro- genuine document, and vocations and actions that were awed by the "power" of those not committed to the Jewish financier, Jacob Peace can manipulate to Schiff, who had assisted undermine the foundation their defeat of Czarist Rus- of peace that we havv e al- sia. ready built." The two most prominent warned Strauss military men, Col. Norihiro against public relations Yasue and the naval officer tactics. "This arduous Inuzuka, were genuinely process of negotiations convinced that the Jews cannot be successfully were actually conspiring to implemented in a public conquer and dominate the process," he said. "The world by every means issues will not be solved possible, including "induc- by public posturing to the ing immorality into the Washington Post, the young and creating general New York Times, Al dissatisfaction among all Ahram or Maariv. Issues classes." will be negotiated at the The circle of believers in a peace table, not at the Jewish conspiracy rapidly newspaper typesetting increased. Some of them be- table." Defense- Minister Ezer Wellman, meanwhile, pre- dicted that the U.S. would pose the greatest obstacle to success in Middle East peace negotiations. "We shall have problems with the Egyptians, but it will be the Americans that will be the most difficult partner in the autonomy negotiations," Weizman said. He accused the U.S. of being the only, party to the peace agreement not to have modified its stance in any way and to have ad- justed its attitude to "the new reality." Weizman said; "I often tell my American col- leagues that while (President Anwar) Sadat agreed to recognize Israel and we agreed the Ameri- cans are still talking about the 1967 frontiers with minor adjustments, just as they did years ago, as if nothing new has hap- pened." In Washington, the White House said that it was "somewhat disap- pointed" that France has failed to support the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty, following French Foreign Minister Jean- Francois Poncet's talks with President Carter and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance. accord might turn out to be a separate peace without leading-to a solution of the Palestinian problem. In a related development, at the highest U.S. and Is- raeli official levels in Wash- ington, the considered opin- ion is that President Carter and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev will only briefly discuss Middle East issues at their Vienna conference later this month — but without results that would significantly alter their present formulas for a Mid- dle East settlement. These officials believe the leaders of the superpowers are too involved at present in their particular ap- proaches to change them abruptly. The U.S. is deeply committed to a "com- prehensive" settlement through the Egyptia Israeli treaty and Cam David processes. The Soviets want to discard the treaty and accords and settle all at a Geneva type conference of "all" the parties in- cluding the Palestine Liberation Organization without preconditions. The U.S. insists on the PLO accepting conditions regarding Israel before dealing with it. Israeli Inflation Presidential Press Secre- JERUSALEM (ZINS) — tary Jody Powell referred to Poncet's refusal to endorse Israeli economists predict the treaty. The French dip- that the cost of living will lomat said at a press confer- rise 50 percent in Israel dur- ence that France feared the ing the coming fiscal year.