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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1958
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Israel’s Achievements Anti-Semitism No Longer AProblem
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA) — Dr.
Arye Levavi, Israel’s new Am
bassador to the Argentine, pre
sented his credentials to Presi
dent Arturo Frondizi this week in
a colorful ceremony at Govern
ment House. The Ambassador
was escorted from the Israel Em
bassy to Government House by a
squadron of Mounted Grenadiers;
his arrival for the audience was
the signal for the playing of the
Israeli national anthem by an
army band.
After the formalities were
over, the President invited Dr.
Leva for a brief conversation
during which Dr. Frondizi said
that the “Argentine people have
followed with extraordinary in
terest and sympathy the first
phase of the Jewish people’s
reconstruction and later, its
independence. We have follow
ed your outstanding achieve
ments and know them well, the
trumph, ability and sacrifice and
the labor against natural diffi
culties,’’ the President contin
ued.
“Argentina is part of the west
ern world, therefore we defend
the western tradition, in which
we include Israel. The Argentine
delegate at the United Nations
will support action in th direc
tion of peace and democracy in
the Middle East,” Dr. Frondizi
pledged.
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The In
gum rubber plant, established in
Israel by Argentine investors in
partnership with the Koor rub
ber plant here, has required addi
tional capitalization and each of
the partners has put up an addi
tional 300,000 pounds, Alfredo
Korn of Argentina announced
this week. Production from the
Ingum plant is destined chiefly
for export.
In Germany, Adenauer Declares
Zionist Loader Fights Synagogue
Use of German - Made School Hus
PHONEX, (JTA)—A national
Zionist leader who settled in
Tucson several years ago appeal
ed this week for the support of
Tucson’s 8,000 Jews in his fight
against the use by a Tucson syna
gogue of a German-made Volks-
vagen bus.
Joseph Weiss, a former treas
urer of the National Jewish Fund
and of the Histadrut Ivrit, an
nounced his resignation from
Three Authors Get
1958 Leo Baeck Award
From Jews in Germany
DUSSELDORF, (JTA)—The
1958 Leo Baeck Prize for litera
ture was awarded this week to
three writers living in Britain,
Switzerland and Germany. The
prize, awarded annually by the
Central Council of Jews in Ger
many and the Central Charitable
Association of Jews in Germany,
in memory of the late Chief
Rabbi of Berlin, amounted to
3,000 marks.
The recipients were: Dr. H. G.
Adler, of London, whose second
volume on the Theresienstadt
concentration camp has just ap
peared; Dr. Ernst Ehrlich of
Basle, one of the Dr. Baeck’s last
students and author of studies of
ancient Jewish history; and, Er
win Sylvanus, of Voellinhausen,
Westphalia, whose play about a
physician in the Warsaw Ghetto,
“Korczak and the Children.” will
shortly be produced in 30 Ger
man and European theatres.
Congregation Anshei Israel in an
open letter which he inserted as
a paid advertisement in the
Arizona Post. He reproduced in
the advertisement an exchange
of letters with David Kramer,
president of the Congregation.
He reported, in his letter of
resignation to Kramer, that he
was shocked when he found that
the synagogue owned a German-
made car, which he called “an
abominable thing.” He said that
when he reproached the lay
leaders, they disclaimed respon
sibility and referred him to Rab
bi Breger.
Weiss reported that Rabbi Bre
ger told him the bus was a gift
from a member of the congrega
tion “and he could not refuse it
as the Hebrew school needed it
to transport the children.” Weiss
also wrote Kramer that he had
asked the rabbi “whether he had
explained that no Jewish insti
tution, especially a synagogue,
had a moral right to accept a
present produced by the murder-
yers of our people.” He said that
Rabbi Breger had said he had
not done so, fearing that “he
might offend the donor.”
Asserting that “the incident is
a serious matter,” Weiss accused
the rabbi of giving the Tucson
Jewish community sanction “to
rebuild and strengthen the eco
nomy of our bloodiest enemy
since the Amalekites.”
The open letter closed with an
appeal to Tucson’s Jews to “let
your voice be heard in protest.”
BERLIN, (JTA)In an exclusive
interview with the Jewish Tele
graphic Agency, Dr. Konrad
Adenauer, Chancellor of West
Germany, has expressed the view
that anti-Semitism is no longer a
problem in West Germany and
explained his hopes of achieving
a “reconciliation” between the
German and the Jewish peoples
and his working toward a “nor
malization” of relations between
West Germany and Israel. The
interview, in the form of ques
tions and answers, follows:
Question: What does the Chan
cellor think of the status of anti-
Semitism in the German Federal
Republic?
Answer: I am convinced that
there is today no anti-Semitism
in the Federal Republic. The
anti-Semitic pestilence which
poisoned relations between the
Jews and Germans during the
Hitler regime was a temporary
development restricted to Na
tional Socialism.
Certainly, from time to time
some individual instances of anti-
Semitic utterances are reported
in and knocked about by the
German press. But these occur
rences are few and should not be
generalized upon. I am certain
that the German people as a
whole disapprove of anti-Semi
tism, anti-Semitic discrimination
or excesses.
You probably know that the
Federal Government has made it
an item of its program to achieve
reconciliation between the Jews
and the German people. Not only
did we sign and fulfill the re
stitution agreement, but for all
our Jewish fellow-citizens who
returned to Germany we also
created bases for them to feel
they are full citizens and so to
become accustomed to life in
Germany. Not only through laws,
but through measures of enlight
enment such efforts have proven
really successful.
In conclusion, let me say again:
here and there a single case of
anti-Semitic attitude may be ob
served, but in the main there is
neither a mass appearance of
anti-Semitism nor danger of it
in Germany today. That doesn’t
exist anymore.
Question: What are the pros
pects for relations between Israel
and the Federal Republic?
Answer: From the very begin-
Mid-Winter Program Dec. 29-31 for
Atlanta Hebrew Schools Pupils
An unusual mid-winter pro
gram for children attending af-
ternoon Hebrew Schools and the
Hebrew Academy will be held
on the mornings of December 29,
30 and 31 from 9:30 to 12 noon.
The host school this year is the
Hebrew Institute and its princi
pal, Joseph Schuchatowitz, is in
charge of the total program. All
sessions will be held at the He
brew Institute Building and the
Shearith Israel Synagogue.
The progiam has been planned
by the Professional Council of
the Atlanta Bureau of Jewish
Education and coordinated by the
Bureau. The Council is made up
of all directors of Jewish Schools
in Atlanta. Staff 'members of the
various schools will be in charge
of the activities.
Children will be grouped by
age and grade and each activity
will be geared to their own level.
The central theme of this three
day program is “Jewish Living
and Learning.”
The sessions each day will open
with a prayer service Rev. Philip
Rosenblatt of the Hebrew Insti-
ning, it has been one of the tar
gets of the Federal Republic’s
policy to achieve a reconciliation
between the German and Jewish
people. From the beginning, the
Federal Government knew very
well that such an aim would not
be easily achieved in view of the
terrible, monstrous crimes
against the Jews of which the
regime which fell in 1945 had
been guilty.
To manifest as rapidly as poss
ible its goodwill in speedy and
visible form, the Federal Repub
lic was interested in material
restitution and signed the well
known agreement of September
1952 with Israel, and caused the
adoption of restitution laws
which were already in prepara
tion.
The Federal Government hoped
that in doing so, it would create
an atmosphere whose beneficial
effects would spread beyond the
scope of these actions. This hope
was not false. Relations between
Israel and the German Repub
lic have improved visibly.
However, the final aim—com
plete normalization of relations
on both sides—has not yet been
achieved. We must and will al
ways keep in view this aim. We
shall work for its realization pa
tiently and indefatigably.
Replying to a question whether
the Federal Republic will do
everything necessary with regard
to discussion and getting down
to the problem of the years 1933-
45, Dr. Adenauer said:
“Just as there is no anti-Semi
tism worth mentioning in the
German Federal Republic, so
there exists no longer National
Socialism. Each Parliamentary
election has shown that the ad
herents of right-radical groups
at the most never amount to
more than one or two percent of
the constituency taken as a
whole. Furthermore, I must stress
the ‘time’ factor. In spite of the
fact that the German people still
have to carry the heavy burden
of the consequences of National
Socialism, that disastrous period
is already in the past for as long
as the period that it existed.
Meanwhile, youth have grown
up who do not at all remember
the time of National Socialism.”
Dr. Adenauer said it was “very
interesting and often noted, that
the growing generation shows no,
or very little, understanding
when Hitler’s name is mention
ed. All this leads to the conclu
sion—and rightly—that National
Socialism has been nothing but
an unbelievably frightful event,
the happening of which can be
explained only through the terri
ble suffering and misery which
followed the First World War.
Today, our politics of collabora
tion, known to us in the West,
also provides the German people
with sufficient work and bread,
a fact that I believe to be the
simplest and by far the most
effective means to defeat Na
tional Socialism forever.”
Eygptian Jet Plane Shot Down
By Israeli Pilot in Air Battle
tute staff will assist the children
in the prayer services. Mrs. Jos
eph Margolis, an instructor at
the Hebrew Academy, will illus
trate the practice of Kashrut
and will discuss “Kashrut, What
and How.” Rabbi Joseph Cohen of
Or VeShalom Congregation, will
•discuss “The Art of the Sofer”
and will describe how the Torah,
Tefillin and Mezuzah are made.
Joseph Margolis, teacher at the
Ahavath Achim Hebrew School,
will preseent a “Picture Tour of
Israel” which will deal with a
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TEL AVIV, (JTA)—An Egyp
tian-piloted MIG 17, one of the
planes supplied to the United
Arab Republic by the Soviet
Union, was shot down December
20 when Israeli patrol planes
encountered eight MIGs over the
southwestern portion of Israel.
Seven of the eight planes, fly
ing in two formations of four
jets at six miles up, escaped into
Egypt when the eighth was
downed. A parachute was seen
opening as the Israelis turned
back and resumed their patrol.
The pilot who made the kill, an
Israel-born 26-year-old officer,
said at a press conference later
that it was “not a light, but a
pursuit” because the Egyptians
had no stomach for combat. He
said the Egyptians were so rat
tled that they failed to release
their spare gas tanks to give
them extra maneuverability
when the Israeli fighters de
scended on them.
At this point, Col. Ezer Weiz-
mann, commander of the Israel
Air Force, who was also present
at the press conference, inter
jected grimly: “The Egyptian’s
primary mistake, for which he
was shot down, was his penetra
tion of Israel’s air space.” Several
times in the last few weeks,
Egyptian and Syrian based planes
have flown over Israeli territory,
chiefly at night, on photo recon
naissance missions.
For the first time this morn
ing, Radio Cairo admitted that
Egyptian planes had flown over
Israel. In its version of the fight
which cost the United Arab Re
public one MIG-17, the Arab
radio—in a Hebrew language
broadcast—charged that Israeli
planes had penetrated Egyptian
air space over the Sinai Penni-
sula and had been “chased” back
“deep into Israel territory.”
(The authoritative Cairo news
paper A1 Ahram boasted yester
day that the Soviet Union has
supplied the United Arab Repub
lic with enough spare parts, So
viet-manufactured arms for MIG-
17 fighters to last the UAR five
years, according to a dispatch re
ceived in London from the UAR
capital.)
TEL AVIV; (JTA)—A small
Lebanese fishing smack with a
crew of three was captured in
Israeli waters off the northern
border of the country in the vi
cinity of Aziv.
The vessel and its cargo will be
sold and the proceeds deposited
pending a court’s decision as to
its final disposition. The fisher
men, when captured, asserted
that they could find no food fish
in Lebanese waters so they con
tinued south until they encount-
tered fish.
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—United
Nations Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold is expected to dis
patch a study mission to investi
gate the situation of the Arab
refugees, the Arab newspapers
in Jordan reported today.
The Arab dispatches stated
that members of the study mis
sion would visit each of the
countries in which refugees are
now located, after which it
would draft and submit to the
Secretary General recommenda
tions for continuation of relief
to the refugees.