Harvard U. Students Blast Nam
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NEW YORK (JTA) — A spokesman for the Jewish
Student Association of the Harvard University John F.
Kennedy School of Government appealed Sunday to the
American Jewish community to "impress" upon the uni-
versity to remove the name of John McCloy from a new, $2
million German-American scholarship program financed
by Volkswagen Foundation.
McCloy, 88 years old, is a partner in the New York City
law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy, and was
Assistant Secretary of War during World War II and
American Military Governor of Occupied Germany from
Congressional
Precedents:
Fish and Rogers
Role in
Enrolling
U.S. Support
for Zionism
of Scholarship After McCloy
1949 to 1952. The February edition of Harper's magazine
described McCloy as "the most influential private citizen in
America."
Jewish student groups at Harvard have charged
that McCloy was instrumental in persuading
President Roosevelt in the Allied decision not to bomb
Nazi death camps during World War II, which the
Jewish student groups said could have saved hun-
dreds of thousands of lives.
The student spokesman, Joseph Cislowski, as well as
Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor, are
among those who have charged McCloy with having par-
doned a number of Nazi war criminals immediately after
World War II in his capacity as high commissioner of occu-
pied Germany. Furthermore, Dershowitz has charged that
while acting in the capacity of a. private citizen, McCloy
lobbied the Nixon Administration against sending U.S.
defensive weaponry to Israel during the 1973 Yom Kippur
War.
Asian-American student organizations at Harvard ob-
ject to the scholarship named for McCloy because they
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of Jewish Events
The Arab
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and the
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Israel-Lebanon Pact Viewed
Nearest-to-Peace Attainment
An Israel-Lebanese cooperative agreement, signed on Tuesday in Israel and
"We believe that this (signing) is a major achievement that proves that
in Lebanon, initialed by the United States, is viewed in what appears to be a
peace negotiations can work in the Middle East," Nicholas Veliotes, assistant
global acclaim as the nearest trek toward peace in the Middle East.
secretary of state for Near East and South Asian affairs, declared in briefing
Despite the abstention of the Labor Alignment in the Israel Knesset when
reporters on the agreement. President Reagan hailed the signing `!as a positive
the vote was taken Monday on the proposed agreement, and even with the
step toward peace in the Middle East." Speaking to Congressional leaders at a
declaration of Lebanese President Amin Gemayel that he would not sign an
budget meeting, Reagan also called on Syria and the Palestine Liberation
outright peace pact without the endorsement of the entire Arab world, the
Organization to agree to withdraw as well, so that all foreign forces would be out
achievement has attained several positive aims. With only Libya and -Syria, who
of Lebanon and that country can regain its sovereignty and control of its ter-
are supported by the Soviet Union in-the out-
ritory.
right war-threatening roles, the situation is
The President thanked Premier
viewed brighter than ever.
Menahem Begin of Israel and Lebanese
Then there are the possibilities that Jor-
President Gemayel for the courage and
dan and Saudi Arabia will "abstain" from
statesmanship they showed in the negotia-
warmongering, in view of their already hav-
tions for troop withdrawals, and he particu-
NEW YORK (JTA) — Defense Secre-
ing urged all other Arab states to support the
larly thanked Secretary of State George
tary Caspar Weinberger publicly denied
agreement.
Shultz for his efforts that led to the agree-
allegations that he was anti-Israel and
Besides, the continuing positive
ment.
declared that he is a strong supporter of
trade relations between Israel and Leba-
Israel and believed that a strong Israel is
Veliotes said the agreement worked
non, already in effect, are proving hear-
in the best interests of the United States.
out
by Shultz during his two-week mis-
tening factors in what had hitherto been
Addressing some 600 Jewish leaders
sion
to the Middle East "is the first essen-
a war-threatening Middle East situation.
at a luncheon given by the American
tial step in achieving the withdrawal of
Jewish Committee at the New York Hil-
The Reagan Administration, obviously
all foreign forces from Lebanon." He said
ton hotel last Friday, the secretary de-
pleased that Israel and Lebanon signed the
the agreement becomes officially effec-
clared:
agreement for the withdrawal of Israeli
tive when Lebanon and Israel exchange
"I want to say, as forcefully as I can,
troops from Lebanon, continued to express
that this (the allegation that he is against
the documents of ratification. But he
confidence that Syria would agree to leave
Israel) is simply not true. I am a strong
stressed that it is understood that Israel
CASPAR WEINBERGER
too.
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Support for Israel in U.S.
Interest, Weinberger Says
The 1933 Horror and Infamy: An Indictment
`Flashback: The Day German Jews Became An Alien Race'
By HERBERT FREEDEN
Views differ on the significance of
what happened on April 1, 1933, the day
German Jews began to be treated as aliens.
It pales in importance in comparison
with the Holocaust in which they were
engulfed a decade later.
There is a world of difference between
the boycott of Jewish businesses and dis-
missal of Jews from public service jobs and
the gas chambers and crematoriums of the
1940s.
Yet in retrospect more than a century
of Jewish emancipation can be said to have
come to an end 50 years ago.
It was the day on which a covert war
was declared, a precursor of the war that
was to be waged 6 1/2 years later, from Sep-
tember 1939.
On April 1, 1933, the Nazis declared
war on the standards of civilization. The
Nazi propaganda machine embarked a
month beforehand on its first major cam-
paign after the Nazi take-over.
Foreign Jews, it was said, were
spreading horror stories about how their
co-religionists were being treated in the
Reich.
As a measure of self-defense the Nazis
called for a total ban on German Jews in
business and public life.
The boycott began in the first half of
March. Every day Jews were beaten and
robbed. No one dared complain; that meant
trouble.
Jewish homes were searched and laid
waste. Jewish businesses and shops were
plundered and their owners maltreated.
Police patrol cars drove past without stop-
ping.
"The police," Berlin's chiefof police
announced, "are not a security corps for
Jewish department stores."
At this stage the campaign was not yet
official and government-backed. It was
still run by the Nazi party. Hitler led a
coalition of Nazis and members of the
German National Party.
Non-Nazi Cabinet Ministers included
Editor's note: This is an indictment of Germans by Germans. Under the
heading "Flashback — The Day the German Jews Became an Alien Race," the
German Tribune, the English-language weekly magazine published in Ham-
burg, West Germany, printed the accompanying article in an English transla-
tion. It appeared originally April 24 in the German-language Kieler Nachrich-
ter and was written by Herbert Freeden. It is a devastating expose, as devas-
tating as the Holocaust of a decade after the events described in this tragic
depiction of the experiences of the Jews of Germany. This article is reprinted
by special arrangement with the West German Consul in Detroit, Dr. Josef
Deutz.
Papen, Hugenberg, Neurath, Krosigk and
others. Only a few months earlier
President Hindenburg had reiterated his
guarantee of civil rights for German Jews.
The chairman of the Central Commit-
tee for Defense from Jewish Propaganda,
Julius Streicher, was not a member of the
ruling coalition.
Streicher, a Nazi backbencher, was
publisher of Der Sturmer, the anti-Semitic
magazine. His vice chairman was Karl
Holz, who wrote for Streicher's magazine.
Other committee members were
Himmler of the SS, Robert Ley, later
leader of the Nazi trade union organization
and Adolf Hunlein, deputy leader of the
SA.
The official campaign was to get off to
an immediate start on April 1 with the
slogan "Jews Out": out of public life, out of
industry, out of the civil service, out of
offices and factories, out of stores and
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