THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, October 9, 1981 1 Reagan Confers Honorary Citizenship on Raoul Wallenberg • WASHINGTON (JTA) — President Reagan said Monday that Raoul Wal- lenberg, the Swedish dip- lomat who is credited with saving the lives of 100,000 Hungarian Jews in World War II, may still be held in a Soviet prison. (See book re- view, Page 64). The Presi- dent made these remarks as he conferred honorary citi- zenship on Wallenberg, the second person ever granted this honor. The first was Sir Winston Churchill. Like Churchill, the war- time British prime minis- ter, Wallenberg exemplified compassion, Reagan said at a White House ceremony at- tended by the missing dip- lomat's brother and sister. He said the U.S. had asked Sweden in 1944 to cooperate in protecting Hungarian Jews who faced extermina- tion at the hands of Nazis. "The United States supplied the funds and di- rectives, and Raoul Wallen- berg supplied the courage and the passion," Reagan said. The President said that Wallenberg's seizure by Soviet troops in 1945 at the end of the war was "in violation of diplomatic immunity and interna- tional law." He was refer- ring to the fact that the Swedish government gave Wallenberg dip- lomatic status in 1944 and assigned him to Budapest where he issued Swedish passports and pressed Hungarian authorities to improve the treatment of Jews and Roman Catholics. Sponsors of the measure to make Wallenberg an honorary U.S. citizen said it would strengthen the U.S. hand in seeking informa- tion about Wallenberg's Condition and demanding his release if he is found to alive. Soviet officials claim that he died in prison in 1947, but there have been repeated accounts from former Soviet prisoners that he is still alive. If so, he would be 69 years old. Sweden still lists Wallen- berg as missing and rejects the Soviet account that he died of heart failure and the Soviet contention that he was detained, as a suspected spy, as a result of the exces- ses of the Stalin era. Reagan's action followed a joint resolution passed by both houses of Congress last month-which called on the President "to take all possi- ble steps to ascertain from the Soviet Union the whereabouts of Raoul Wal- lenberg and to secure his re- turn to freedom." The resol- ution described Wallenberg as "a prisoner in the Soviet Union since 1945." At a reception Monday night, sponsored by the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai Brith, former Vice President Walter Mondale said that Americans had not acted as Americans should have during the Holocaust. He said that if they had acted as did Wallenberg, they could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives and perhaps millions. Two days of ceremonies in honor of Wallenberg ended Tuesday night when mem- bers of the Jewish Commun- ity Council of Greater Washington and the Luthe- ran Place Memorial Church held a candlelight ceremony across the street from the Soviet Embassy. This afternoon, Wallen- berg's brother and half- sister are scheduled to be present at the District of Columbia building when Mayor Marion Barry de- clares today as Wallenberg Day in Washington. Great Taxbreaks... and a Gift for Savings. The Metro TaxSaver Account. • LOW MINIMUM DEPOSIT. BIG PROTECTION. INVEST NOW. AND PICK A GIFT. Simply visit 56 Our new Metro TaxSaver Account matures in one year from date of deposit and pays the highest effective annual yield allow- able by law, for this type of account. Mini- SPECIAL BONUS: mum deposit: $500.00. And all accounts are in- sured to a maximum of $100,000 by an agency of the federal government. 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