14 Friday, April 22, 1983
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The American Jewish
Committee announced last
weekend that it had can-
celed plans to participate in
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Maynard Wishner,
AJCommittee president,
explained that the origi-
nal decision to partici-
pate "was a difficult one,
but we felt that the mem-
ory of the victims and the .
sanctity of the Warsaw
Ghetto site outweighed
our problems with the
auspices under which the
event is held.
"However, we have
learned that the Polish gov-
ernment has chosen to
politicize the event as man-
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ifested in a spate of vitriolic
anti-Israel editorials, the
presence in positions of
prominence of people asso-
ciated with the anti-Semitic
campaign during the time of
the Gomulka regime, and
especially the recent news
that a representative of the
PLO will be present to lay a
wreath at the memorial to
the martyred victims.
"Given this flagrant in-
sult to the dead as well as to
the living, we have recalled
our representative and can-
celed all plans to partici-
pate."
Alexander Schindler,
president of the Union of
American Hebrew Congre-
gations (Reform), said last
week, before leaving for
Warsaw, that he had re-
ceived assurances that
there was no truth to the
news that a PLO represen-
tative would be allowed to
officially participate in a
wreath-laying ceremony at
the Warsaw Ghetto monu-
ment.
At the same time, Gen.
Mieczyslaw Moczar, who
led an anti-Semitic purge
of the Communist Party
during the Gomulka re-
gime in 1968, was eased
out of his post as head of
the Polish veterans
organization where he sion" is "a betrayal of our
would have played a struggle . . . It is an act of
major role in the cere- cynicism and contempt.
monies. Some 9,000
On Monday, police dis-
people lost their jobs in
persed
some 1,000 people
the 1968 purge after
being accused of having attending an unofficial
Jewish origins and the ceremony organized by Sol-
majority of the some idarity supporters to honor
30,000 Jews still in Po- heroes of the Warsaw
Ghetto Uprising.
land were forced to flee.
On Tuesday, the Great
Meanwhile, Dr. Marek
Edelman, a commander of Synagogue on Twarda
Street was re-opened and
the Warsaw Ghetto Upris-
given
to the Polish Jewish
ing, was placed under police
community. Destroyed by
surveillance and ordered
not to leave his home city of the Nazis in 1943, it was re-
built by Poland at a cost of
Lodz. The 62-year-old car-
$1 million.
diologist had issued a
The UAHC delegation
statement in an under-
ground Solidarity union met for an hour last Fri-
day with Joseph Cardi-
newspaper saying that he
nal Glemp, Catholic pri-
would not participate in the
committee organizing the mate of Poland.
ceremonies and called for a
"It was a meeting of.
boycott of the event. He had
brothers," said Rabbi
written that observance "of Schindler. "We discussed
our anniversary here,
both domestic and interna-
where social life in its
tional issues of mutual con-
entirety is overshadowed by
cern, including the nuclear
degradation and oppres-
arms race."
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Jewish Affairs Adviser
Albert Spiegel Resigns Post
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
The resignation of Albert
Spiegel as President Rea-
gan's unpaid adviser on
Jewish affairs appeared to
be due to "frustration" over
not having any input on the
Administration's policy
toward Israel, but being
asked to support a position
already formulated. -
This was the assessment
of Hyman Bookbinder,
Washington representative
of the American Jewish
Committee, who said it was
made both after a talk with
Spiegel and observing him
in Washington over the last
year-and-a-half.
Spiegel,
meanwhile,
reached by telephone at his
Los Angeles home, said he
did not want to discuss at
this time publicly his rea-
sons for his resignation.
He said the reason for
his reluctance was that
he believes he still has an
"obligation" to "keep the
breach from widening"
between the Jewish
community and Adminis-
tration. In fact, he added
he would like to close that
breach.
A long-time supporter of
Reagan, Spiegel said that
he still believes the
President is a "fine guy"
who is "sincerely" commit-
ted to the security of Israel.
But he said certain policies
"interfere with the fulfill-
ment" of this commitment.
Bookbinder said that the
two-part series in the Wall
Street Journal last week in
which King Hussein of Jor-
dan was quoted as discuss-
ing pressures on Israel
promised him by Reagan,
was "the last straw" that
caused Spiegel's resigna-
tion.
He said the series is not
the reason for the resigna-
tion since he left because of
"accumulated" reasons.
This was confirmed by
Spiegel.
The 67-year-old lawyer
and businessman is also
chairman of the National
Republican Jewish coali-