Begin Adviser Will Speak for Campaign
Leading Israeli political correspondent, adviser and confidant to Is-
rael's presidents and prime ministers are among the accomplishments of
Dan Pattir, guest speaker at the annual dinner meeting of the Allied
Jewish Campaign - Israel Emergency Fund. Pattir will appear at the
dinner, which begins with a 6 p.m. cocktail reception, March 24 at Adat
Shalom Synagogue.
Born in Israel in 1931, Pattir graduated from Hebrew University and
went on to become defense correspondent for the Davar daily newspaper in
Tel Aviv. He has covered the Israeli political scene for the country's Armed
Forces Broadcasting Network, and worked for Israeli television and radio
networks and British and American newspapers.
Pattir, who was appointed counselor to Prime Minister Begin for
media affairs in 1977, has an impressive public service career. He served
on Israel's delegation to the United Nations' 20th General Assembly and
was counselor to the Israel Embassy in Washington. D.C.
Autonomy
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Justice
Promulgated
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Camp David Accord
He was press secretary to Israeli President Zalman Shazar
during his 1966 and 1967 visits to the U.S. and Canada, serving in
the same capacity to Prime Minister Levi Eshkol the following year.
In 1975, Pattir was appointed counselor to Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin, in charge of communications and public affairs.
Among his other accomplishments, Pattir was a member of the first
Israel delegation to the Cairo Conference in December 1977, and accom-
panied Prime Minister Begin to his meeting with Anwar Sadat in Is-
mailia, Egypt. Pattir was also part of the Israel delegation to the Camp
David summit talks in September 1978.
The annual Campaign dinner is a kick-off for an intense six-week
period of solicitation by hundreds of volunteers. Jay M. Kogan and Joel D..
Tauber are general chairmen of Campaign, and Jack A. Robinson and I.
William Sherr are co-chairmen. For dinner reservations, call the Jewish
Welfare Federation, 965-3939.
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of Jewish Events
Anti-Semitism
of the Left
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Commentary
on the Decline
of Liberalism
Victor Bienstock's
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March 12, 1982
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — Three human rights organizations have asked a federal appeals court to rule
against granting tax exempt status to a white supremacist Nazi group that advocates race extermination.
In an amici curiae (friends-of-the-court) brief filed last week, the Anti-Defamation League of Bnai
Brith, the American Jewish Congress and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
asserted that the Virginia-based National Alliance is not entitled to tax exemption because it is not an
"educational and charitable" organization as it claims.
The basic issue, the three ogranizations said, is whether advocating racial hatred and the extermina-
tion of Jews and blacks constitute a charitable or educational activity.
The National Alliance was denied tax exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service in 1978 because
the IRS found that the Alliance's publications did not meet the agency's definition of "educational"
according to the IRS code.
The Nazi group, claiming that its exercise of free speech automatically qualified it as "charit-
(Continued on Page 21)
Echoes of Leo Frank Lynchin
in Belated Conscience-Clearin
NASHVILLE (JTA) — The anti-Semitic frenzy that swept Atlanta, Ga. nearly 70
years ago, culminating in the lynching of Leo Frank, a Jewish factory employee, was
recalled by the revelations of 83-year-old Alonzo Mann that absolve Frank of the murder
for which he was found guilty in 1913.
Frank, then 29, a supervisor at a local pencil factory, was convicted of killing
14-year-old Mary Phagan who worked at the factory. Mann, a teenager at the time also
employed at the factory, told the Nashville Tennessean that he saw the real murderer,
janitor Jim Conley, carrying the limp body of,the dead girl to the basement.
Frank's sensational trial drew mobs to the Atlanta courthouse shouting "Kill
the JeW." One newspaper referred to the accused as "Jew Sodomite."
Frank's conviction was appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which
refused to grant him a new trial. Justices Charles Evans Hughes and Oliver Wendell
Holmes dissented from the majority opinion.
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Conference Began 'Final Solution'
(Editor's note: The Nazi bestialities, the detailed plans for mass murder which the Nazis called "the Final
Solution of the Jewish Question," were drawn up at the Wannsee Conference, described in a Frankfurter
Rundschau article in January by Jochen Siemens. It appeared in the following English translation Feb. 7 in
the German Tribune, and is reprinted here by special arrangement with the West German Consulate in
Detroit.)
"The orderlies came round with one cocktail after another," Adolf Eichmann recalled, "and by the end everyone
v,..)alking at once."
He was referring to the Wannsee Conference, held 40 years ago on Jan. 20, 1942, at which Third Reich authorities
agreed on plans for the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question."
Eichmann saw it as having been a kind of cocktail party at which there had been some plain speaking. "It only
lasted an hour and a half," he said.
Yet this 90-minute meeting at Interpol headquarters in wartime Berlin was enough to set the stage for
the Nazi bid to exterminate the entire Jewish race in Europe.
It was held by SS Obergruppenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich at the behest of Hermann Goering. Its proceedings were
classified but by no means an SS conspiracy.
It was attended by state secretaries from the Ministry of the Interior, the Foreign Office,the Ministry of Justice,
the Reich Chancellery, the Ministry for Occupied Eastern Territories, the Office of the Generalgouvernement
(occupied Poland) and representatives of a wide range of government departments.
Had it not been for their presence minutes of the proceedings might well not have been taken. They were prepared
because, or so Eichmann later said, Heydrich wanted to be able to remind the ministry officials later of the undertak-
ings they had given.
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Wannsee Date Is
Marked in Israel
JERUSALEM (ZINS) — The Knesiet - and the Israeli
media in January marked the 40th anniversary of the
Wannsee Conference, at which the Nazis decided on the
"Final Solution to the Jewish Question:"
At the Knesset, two Holocaust survivors, Dov
Shilansky and Prof. Shevuah Weis, spoke on the signifi-
cance of the date, Jan. 20, 1942. Both pointed out the mean-
ing of the existence of the state of Israel as an answer to the
implication of the Holocaust. They also stressed the need of
continuing the fight against the dissemination of racist
theories.
On television, Profs. Yehuda Bauer and Shlomo
Aharonson, and Dr. Eliyau Ben-Elisar, the newly-
appointed chairman of the Foreign Relations Com-
mittee of the Knesset, discussed several aspects of the
Wannsee decision. All agreed on the virtual impo-
tence of the Jewish people to deal properly with the
magnitude of the disaster, once it was known.
They also agreed on the fact that the Western powers
could have done more to save Jews during the war.