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Report Marks 30th Anniversary of Historic Reparations Pact
LONDON — On the 30th anniversary of the restitution agreements under which
West Germany undertook to make "recompense" for Nazi crimes, the World Jewish
Congress has issued a detailed study which estimates that the total of the compensation
program would exceed $35 billion. However, the study finds that "important sections of
the victims have received no, or only very restricted, indemnification." The two-part
study is dedicated to the late Nahum Goldmann, architect of the historic agreement.
In a study of the history and results of the agreement, published by the WJC research
arm, Institute of Jewish Affairs, the author, Dr. Stephen Roth, emphasizes the agree-
ment's far-reaching significance: "It established the principle that wrongs must be
redressed and that nobody — least of all the perpetrator — is allowed to benefit from
crimes."
Dr. Roth, director of the institute, explains the immense problems that had to
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be overcome to secure the agreement "Jewish claims could not be pursued by
orthodox concepts of international or domestic law; new ground had to be
broken, new legal concepts evolVed." The Jewish leaders realized that "the
Jewish claim had to be based more on moral principles than on legal precedents
and recognized equally that the fight would have to be political and not legal."
The Paris Reparations Agreement of 1945 was disappointing but Jewish efforts con-
tinued. It was hoped that measures introduced by the Occupying Powers would help but
they left "the overwhelming majority of victims without any recompense." So as time
passed, the report observes, "the hopes which the Jews placed in the Allies regarding
matters of indemnification gradually faded."
Two historic events changed the picture — the establishment of the state of Israel in
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Peres Poses the Settlements,
Militarism as Chief Concerns
Hanuka Head Start
for Israel Youngsters
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Labor Party Chairman Shimon Peres charged Wednesday
that the Likud government's settlement policy was weakening Israel and leading it
toward a military future rather -than a political future.
Addressing the 30th World Zionist Congress, Peres maintained that the settle-
ments did not add Jews to Israel but only dispersed them in a different form. A
settlement policy should give priority to those places which could attract potential
immigrants, he said, mainly the capital, Jerusalem.
Peres stressed that no one wants a compromise that would weaken Israel.
But, he warned, "in the absence of a solution to the Palestinian problem, in the
absence of Israeli readiness for compromise and in the absence of aliya, Israel
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faces a military future rather than a political future." If the present policy continues, he said, "We
shall become either equal or a minority in our own country because of the rate of birth, because of
the lack of aliya and because we shall devote too much of our energies to control the .Arabs
instead of investing in the development of our own country."
Peres' speech was one of the few delivered in its entirety without the partisan heckling or other
disorders that have marred this congress almost from its opening last week. The opposition leader placed
the greatest emphasis on the economy and aliya.
Israel's economy must be advanced and made more independent. Science and technology should focus
on developments that will attract more young educated Jews from the Diaspora, Peres said. Declaring that
"Israel is_riot a business, it is a human experience," he called on every-Jewish family around the world to
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Red Cross Will Continue Fight for MDA
Four-year-old Eli Cohen, assisted by his teacher,
lights the first candle of Hanuka. Eli is one of hun-
dreds of children in Israel who participate in early
childhood education programs, designed to offer
youngsters from deprived neighborhoods a "head
start." The programs were founded in part by the
American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and
the Israel Association of Community Centers as a
demonstration model.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The American Red Cross (ARC) has pledged to continue efforts to help Israel's Magen
David Adom receive official international recognition, according to Rabbi Rubin Dobin, chairman of Operation
Recognition.
The pledge was made at a luncheon last week at which George Elsey, who is retiring after 12 years as president of
the ARC, received the International Humanitarian Award of the American Red Magen David for Israel (ARMDI). The
award was presented by ARMDI chairman Joseph Handleman.
Dobin said Richard Schubert, who is the incoming president of the ARC, said he will continue Elsey's efforts to get
the Magen David Adorn recognized by the International Committee of the Red Cross and teh League of Red Cross
Societies. The Geneva-based groups do not recognize the Magen David emblem while they do recognize the Red
Crescent of the Moslem countries.
The ARC recognizes the "bigotry" of the two international groups against Israel and the "blackmail" that is being
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Women Surpass $20 Million Contributions to Brandeis Libraries
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WALTHAM, Mass. — The year was 1948. Truman
upset Dewey. Babe Ruth died. Kinsey published his sex
I survey. And Russia blockaded Berlin. It also was the year
the state of Israel was born.
But for eight Boston-area women, two other events
helped make 1948 unforgettable. One was the founding of
Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass. the only Jewish-
sponsored, nonsectarian university in A;nerica. The other
i was the creation by those eight women of the Brandeis
( ' University National Women's Committee (BUNWC), a
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volunteer group that audaciously accepted the challenge of
building a library for the fledgling liberal arts school.
Today, on the threshold of both the university's and the
organization's 35th birthday, the National Women's Com-
mittee announced that its total contributions in support of
the Brandeis libraries have reached $20 million.
The largest friends-of-a-library movement in the
world,
the Brandeis University National Women's
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Committee now boasts 67,000 members and 125 chap-
ters in nearly every state of the union. Moreover, it is
the single largest benefactor in Brandeis' history and
one of the largest contributors to any university
brary in America.
Perhaps what makes the achievements of the National
Women's Committee all the more impressive are two re-
markable facts: only a relative handful of its members are
Brandeis graduates, and very few of the 67,000 women
have ever seen the campus whose libraries they have so
lovingly supported.
From its humble beginnings shepherding a 1,000 vol-
ume "library" housed in a converted stable in 1948 — a
veterinary and medical school formerly occupied the 250-
acre Brandeis site — the BUNWC has translated its $20
million benefaction into 800,000 books and 600,000 mic-
rotexts for the university's Goldfarb and Gerstenzang lib-
raries. Besides filling the stacks and maintaining the lib-
raries, the National Women's Committee also provides
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With a symbolic $1 bill as a backdrop -, Brandeis
University National Women's. Committee President
Cynthia Shulman presents a check to Brandeis
President Marver H. Bernstein, bringing the organ-
ization's total contributions to the Brandeis Libraries
to $20 million.