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The Red
Cross Needs
Donations Of Blood
Shechitah Exempted
In Bill Regulating
Slaughter in U. S.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A
bill regulating the slaughter of
livestock and poultry which spe
cifically exempts Jewish ritual
slaughtering has been introduced
in the Senate and the House of
Representatives.
Thfc bill, which is backed by
the American Humane Association
was introduced by Senator Hu
bert H. Humphrey and Rep. Mar
tha Griffiths. It requires slaugh
ter houses to render animals and
poultry unconscious and insen
sible to pain before slaughter. Re
quirements of the bill do not ap
ply to any individual who is duly
authorized by a rabbi to serve as
a ritual slaughter.
Hearings on the bill are not
scheduled in either House. It was
learned from Senator Humphrey’s
office that efforts are being made
to amend the bill to reflect a pos
itive acceptance of Jewish ritual
slaughtering as a humane method.
The bill now treats Jewish ritual
slaughter only as' an exception.
The bill is numbered S.1636 in
the Senate and H. R. 6099 in the
House of Representative^. It has
been referred to the Committee
on Agriculture in each House.
Holland Decorates
Former JTA Staffer
THE HAGUE, (JTA) — Daniel
L. Schorr, American newspaper
man, has been elevated to the
rank of Officer of the Order of
Orange Nazzau by Queen Juliana,
it was announced here this week.
Mr. Schorr, who is now with the
Columbia Broadcasting System,
was a member of the staff of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency from
1934 to 1941. During World War
II, he was a member of the staff
of the Dutch news agency ANE-
TA, which was organized by the
Netherlands Government in Ex
ile. Later he was the correspond
ent in Holland of a number of
publications, including the Chris
tian Science Monitor, Time ma
gazine and the New York Times.
Barton's Offering
New N. Y. Cards
The gracious tradition of send
ing New Year greetings to friends
and relatives for Rosh Hashanah
has been given a tasteful new di
mension this year. Now, for the
first time, you can send a beau
tifully designed New Year card
which those who receive it can
read, admire and then eat
The novel and delicious Choco
late New Year Greeting Card is
a new creation of Barton’s Bon-
bonniere. Slightly larger than
post card size, it is made of kosh
er continental milk chocolate
symbolically designed with a
scroll and the words, “Happy
New Year," embossed in Hebrew
and English. The chocolate card
comes in a colorfully illustrated
cardboard mailer. You just ad
dress the reverse side, drop it in
any mailbox and a 4-cent stamp
delivers it anywhere in the United
States.
Barton’s Chocolate New Year
Greeting Card sells for 39 cents
ready for mailing. For ordering
via mail order, add 30 cents mail
ing cost for first three cards, 20
cents for each additional five.
The name of the sender will be
imprinted on the address panel of
each mailing box without charge
on quantities of 100 cards or more.
At least one month in advance of
the holiday should be allowed for
imprinting.
Many Jewish service organiza
tions have arranged with Bar
ton’s to use the novel Chocolate
New Year Card as an effective
means of fund-raising under a
special plan. Inquiries concern
ing this plan should be made to
Barton’s, 80 DeKalb Avenue,
Brooklyn 1, N. Y. They will sup
ply information promptly.
Connecticut Names
15 to Court Posts
HARTFORD, CONN. (JRA) —
Nominees for lower court
benches throughout the state of
Connecticut include 15 Jews. The
nominees were selected by Gov
ernor Abraham A. Ribicoff.
Designated as judges were Da
vid B. Cohen, Charles Henchell,
Irving Levine, Raymond B. Ru
bens, Simon Bernstein, Harold M.
Missal, Michael Radin, Harry
Kaminsky, Max H. Reicher and
Robert P. Sneidman. Appointed
deputy judges were Louis A. Sil-
verstein, Selig Schwartz, Julius
Frankel, Harvey Koizim and Har
ry H. Kleinman.
Adolph Held Reports
Israel's Progress
After Second Visit
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Com
paring a visit to Israel in 1949
with his recent trip there, Adolph
Held, national chairman of the
Jewish Labor Committee, told a
meeting of the organization’s ad
ministrative committee, that
“there have been tremendous
strides made within a short span
of time. What were sand dunes
in the Negev in 1949 were fertile
farmlands, nourished by a net
work of water-pipes, in June of
1955."
He contrasted his visit to Beer-
sheba in 1949, then a small town
of 5,000 persons and its status to
day as a thriving community
with a population of 20,000 with
its own theatre and hospital.
“There are hundreds of new
homes,” he said, “where I recall
desolate area in 1949. It is now
the capital of the Negev. Haifa
is now a modern port, with well-
paved roads and a bustle of ac
tivity that is unmatched in com
parable ports of other nations.
Thousands of homes dot the hori
zon as far as the eye can see.”
PUTTING TWO AND TWO TOGETHER
The Kastner Affair
By RINNA GROSSMAN
The case of Malkiel Greenwald
versus Rudolf Kastner (now Is
rael Kastner) has passed into its
second stage. It has been one of
those strange and dreadful spec
tacles which seem to be part of
our post war years, which have
divided a citizenry, have created
vast eddies of identification and
brought about a total recall of
horror. Perhaps above all, it has
been a trial whose true jury no
longer lives, whose higher judges
pass down their judgments in
eternal silence. Here defendant
and accuser have suffered alike
and together and are both part of
the most frightful blood bath of
man’s recorded history.
It does not matter much wheth
er Malkiel Greenwald should
have made his awful charges.
Nor does it matter very much in
what degrees and to what extent
vengeance has been his motive.
Nothing will be accomplished by
this trial. Nothing, really, will
be proven about Israel Kastner,
not even the kind of man he is,
or was, during those years of fear
and torment. But, bowed and
embittered by utter bereavement,
Greenwald shrieked out his accu
sation of betrayal. He accused an
honored and respected active
member of the community of Is
rael with having lulled the Jew—
ry of Hungary into that state of
hope which permitted it to be led
to its ghastly slaughter. He did
all these things, said Greenwald,
to save himself and his family.
The charge rings wild in the ears.
Even those in Israel who do not
know Kastner, who have not
heard of his wartime mission, of
his attempts to deal with the
murderer in order to lessen the
toll, find the charge hard to cre
dit.
But it does not matter, the de
tails of innocence are not impor
tant, who counts is the piercing
memory awakened for all of Is
rael of the blackest days in Jewish
histoi*y, the blackest perhaps for
all mankind. There stands Green
wald, an old man, who has lost
all that makes life dear. • Per
haps he is a little mad, as a re
sult. Perhaps he needs this hat
red in order to survive himself.
And there is Kastner, whose ap
peal is before the Supreme Court,
a man who also lived through the
holocaust, whose wholeness must
have been affected, who has dar
ed to do what few men dared and
therefore might even be a tragic
hero. For he dealt, on behalf of
those in danger, with the Nazis.
This is the fact that stands out.
A collaborationist? What price
collaboration? And who would
demur when human existence
hung in the balance? Could any
one call upon a moral daintiness
in those years? If Israel Kastner
tried, then the fact of his ill-fat
ed try alone clears him — or
does it damn him forever? There
are the things that all of Israel
asks today. Wherever you go, to
whomever you speak, these are
the issues. For a nation jarred
into remembering the ungrasp-
able past, has now been called
upon to make some sort of ac
counting. What would I have done
had Kastner’s mission been mine,
says the teacher and the fisher
man and the conductor on the
train. Was anyone innocent of
the urge to save those he loved?
Could Kastner, could anyone have
known what a Nazi bargain was,
in reality, and would I have made
the bargain, even aware of the
odds? This is how it goes. Every
one cares about the trial, for
through it each man has ponder
ed his own potential, for bravery,
for fear, for restoration. No one
outside Israel can perceive this
thread of identification that
stretches from the figures of these
two men into the very beings of
the adult population. Even the
“new” * immigrants have been
caught up in this vortex of recol
lection and assessment for this is
uniquely of Jewish humor — a
retrospective one.
In the meantime the present
claims its own attention. The
Gaza talks, the forthcoming elec
tions, the economic situation —
the usual round of tension and
hope that is part of the daily life
of this country. But in the long
run it is quite possible that it is
the trial and everything it throws
up that is most important. What
ever its results and regardless of
who is cleared of what, this has
certainly been one of the most
painful reconstructions of the not-
too-distant past ever to have been
forced upon a nation.
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LONDON, (JTA) — The Inter
national Tracing Service at Arol-
sen, Germany, which is a com
plete catalogue of all those im
prisoned and done to death in
Nazi concentration camps liberat
ed by the troops of the Western
Powers, as well as a catalogue of
instructions from Hitler. Himm
ler and other top Nazis for the ex
termination of European Jewry,
will be administered by the In
ternational Red Cross under an
international committee, Hanan
Cidor, an Israel official, revealed
at a press conference here recent
ly.
Mr. Cidor, director of the Di
vision for International Organ
izations of the Israel Foreign Min
istry and head of the committee
in Israel on the Arolsen archives
said that the international com
mittee which will be responsible
for the archives will consist of
representatives on the ambassa
dorial level, of the United States,
France, Britain, Belgium, the
Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy,
Israel and Germany.
For the first five years the
Bonn Government will bear the
administrative costs of approx
imately 1.5 million deutschmarks
annually. After that time, the
international committee will de
cide what to do about the future
of the archives. The pact setting
up the administration of the files
was initialled at Bonn last week
two days before Germany became
a sovereign state, Mr. Cidor re
vealed.
Mr. Cidor disclosed that non
governmental organizations with
a special interest in the archives
will be allowed to participate in
meetings of the international com
mittee, but without voting rights.