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Security Council to Decide
On Argentine-Israel Problem
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (J-
TA)—Lengthy behind-the-scenes
efforts to avoid a Security Coun
cil session on Argentina’s com
plaint against Israel in the Adolf
Eichmann case appeared this
past week to have broken down.
The steam appeared to have
gone out of the effort, sparked
by some La tin-American dele
gates to the UN, when the en
tire La tin-American bloc agreed,
after an hour-long meeting that
Argentina's complaint was valid
because Israel had violated Ar
gentine sovereignty in seizing
Eichmann by "illicit and clande
stine" means. Argentina has de
manded Eichmann’s return and
asked for the Security Coundl
session when Israel did not ac
cede.
The request for the Security
Council session was made by
Israel Denies
Suicide Attempt
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—A London
newspaper report that Adolf
Eichmann had attempted suicide
by bashing his head against the
wall of his cell was flatly’de
nied here recently by Command
er Abraham Selinger, head of
the Sixth Bureau which is con
ducting the investigation of the
Eichmann case.
Selinger insisted that there
had not been any attempt by
Eichmann to take his life. Ac
cording to reports here, Eich
mann’s cell is padded to pre
vent the prisoner from harming
himself.
Indications that Eichmann
will be formally charged with
crimes against the Jewish peo
ple—a capital offense under Is
rael law—were given last night
with the disclosure of details
about the secret arraignment of
Eichmann before a magistrate
earlier in the day. The Nazi was
brought before Magistrate Al
fred Back of Haifa in a specially
prepared chamber at the prison
where the Nazi official is being
held. He was ordered remanded
for another period of 15 days.
Assistant Commander Ephraim
Hofstater, deputy head of the
Sixth Bureau, appeared before
the magistrate to ask for the
remand. He also asked for a
court order under the terms of
the laws against crimes against
humanity and against the Jew
ish people prohibiting publica
tion of information on Eich
mann’s place of detention or
security arrangements. The mag
istrate granted the remand re
quested by Hofstater and the
security order.
Ben-Gurion May
Meet Frondizi
PARIS, (JTA)—Contacts be
tween Argentina and Israel are
continuing effectively on a
diplomatic level for a meeting
between Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion and President Ar
turo Frondizi, it was reported
by Israel sources here recently.
The contacts are taking place
in New York and in Buenos
Aires, it was reported authorita
tively.
It was indicated that, before
such a meeting can be arranged
while the two leaders are in
Europe, some common ground
would have to be found. The
Argentine President, according
to these sources, was aware
that Israel will not yield Eich
mann, as Argentina demanded,
and a meeting now depends on
Argentina’s acceptance of this
position.
According to these sources,
there was belief that the meet-,
ing could be arranged on those
terms, and that the two leaders
probably will meet Friday in
either Holland or Belgium. (A
Foreign Ministry spokesman in
Israel said in Jerusalem this
week that a meeting in Europe
between Prime Minister Ben-
Gitfion and President Frondizi,
over the deadlock between the
two countries on the Eichmann
case, is “a technical possibility
and even more than that.’’)
Dr. Mario Armadeo, Argentina’s
permanent UN representative.
The request contended that the
presumed violation sets up a
precedent of a country “taking
justice in one’s own hands’’ and
that this constituted “a grave
danger to the preservation of
peace."
The memorandum referred to
a two-hour conference held pre
viously between Dr. Amadeo
and Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel’s
Foreign Minister, in which the
Argentine diplomat repeated
his Government’s demand for
Eichmann’s return and Mrs. Meir
adhered to the Israel Govern
ment’s position of declining to
do so.
The memoradum stressed that
before approaching the Security
Council, Argentina had tried to
find other means to settle the
” (fHJJ'OT@""BHfause of its “desire
not to jeopardize the close
friendship” between the two
countries. The memorandum
■ took note of Israel’s feelings
about the enormity of Eich
mann’s crimes but insisted that
“no consideration of any kind
including those invoked by the
Government of Israel, could
supersede the sovereign right of
Argentina.”
Israel Officials
Seem Unalarmed
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Foreign
Ministry officials received the
news this week on the Argentina
request for a Security Council
meeting without alarm. Observ
ers here reiterated their belief
that the Security Council debate
might be helpful in restoring
the Eichmann matter to its
“proper dimensions.’’ The nature
of Eichmann’s capture in Buenos
Aires is viewed as a minor
technical issue compared with
the enormity of the crimes in
volved and the “patent absurdi
ty” of any move which might
help Eichmann to escape justice.
Israel sources also argue that
the UN was established to pre
vent re-occurrence of Nasi type
crimes and that it was “unthink
able" that the UN should now
become a kind of de facto pro
tector of Nazi war criminals,
Israel officials have meanwhile
contacted here and in other
capitals representatives of coun
tries which are members of the
Security Council. These repre
sentatives have been briefed on
Israel’s position.
Eichmann's Adjutant
Held in Germany
BONN, (JTA)—Herman Kru-
mey, who served as adjutant to
Nazi master war criminal Adolf
Eichmann, was arrested in
Frankfurt last week for the third
time on charges of murder com
mitted during the Nazi regime.
He was released on each prior
arrest. *
The Fran kfurt Prosecutor’s
Office was reported to be con
sidering a request for extradi
tion of Eichmann after his trial
in Israel. A spokesman for the
Prosecutor’s office told the Jew
ish Telegraphic Agency that a
warrant for Eichmann’s arrest,
issued by a Frankfurt court in
1956, was still valid. It was also
indicated that the Prosecutor’s
Office plans to send staff mem
bers to Israel to attend the Eich
mann trial.
The West German Government
indicated the possibility of a
bid to extradite Eichmann was
highly unlikely because no ex
tradition agreement exists be
tween the two countries. A
spokesman added that the Bonn
Government was "highly grati
fied” that Eichmann had finally
£een caught “and we see no
reason to help him.”
Members of the opposition So
cial Democratic party have de
manded that Eichmann be tried
in West Germany or that an
official West German observer
be sent to the trial in Israel.
Fritz Schaffer, West Germany
Justice Minister, said it would
EICHMANN CASE
I SPOTLIGHT
U. N. Members Seek to Prevent
Council Discussion on Eichmann
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (J-
TA)—A number of delegations
here, including leading repre
sentatives of the Western Pow
ers, are continuing to exert
pressures against having the
United Nations Security Council
debate the Argentine complaint
against Israel in connection with
the capture of Adolf Eichman,
the Nazi leader who directed the
killing of 6,000,000 Jews.
The Security Council meeting
on this issue is scheduled to
take place this week. However,
hopes were expressed that some
compromise might be reached
between Israel and Argentina,
perhaps through a meeting be
tween Israel’s Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion aqd Argen
tine President Frondizi, both of
whom are now in Europe.
' The Israel delegation here
continued to maintain close con-
Goldmann Favors
International Court
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Dr. Na
hum Goldmann, president of the
World Zionist Organization, re
iterated his belief last week that
Adolf Eichmann, who directed
the deportation of Europe’s Jews
to the Nazi slaughter camps,
should be tried by an inter
national court sitting in Jerusa
lem.
“My opinion was, and I am
still of that opinion,” Dr. Gold
mann told a press conference
“that Eichmann and the Nazis
did not exterminate Jews only
and therefore it is advisable to
invite other countries, whose
citizens were exterminated, to
send judges to Israel and sit as
a tribunal with an Israel chair
man, to try Eichmann.”
Dr. Goldmann called the con
ference to reply to Premier
David Ben-Gurion who had ac
cused him of a “blow to the
feelings of the people of Isarel
and to the honor of the state”
by his proposal. Mr. Ben-Gurion
said in a public statement that
he protests “with all the force
at my command” against Dr.
Goldmann making his proposal
public. At his press conference,
Dr. Goldmann announced that
he had written a letter to Mr.
Ben-Gurion rejecting protest.
"I can understand that you op
pose my proposal,” Dr. Gold
mann said in his letter to the
Israeli leader, “but I cannot
understand why such a proposal
is ‘a severe blow.’ I have al
ready stated that I have no
doubt of Israel’s right to try
Eichmann and I have expressed
my confidence in Israel’s just
ice. But I thought, and I still
think that since it was not only
Jews who were killed by Eich
mann and the Nazis, but other
countries whose citizekis were
murdered, it is advisable to in
vite these countries to send
judges to Israel.
"I think it a great honor to
Israel that other judges would
come here and sit under an
Israeli presiding judge,” Dr.
Goldmann stressed. He empha
sized to the newspapermen that
he had spoken as an individual,
in his own name, not in the
name of any organization he
heads and that he had not,
therefore, consulted them be-
be “preferable” that Eichmann
be tried in a West German court
He said his Ministry would like
to question Eichmann who could
be a key witness in forthcoming
trials of defendants in the mur
der’s committed at the Ausch
witz death camp.
tact with members of the Se
curity Council on the lane.
Last week Israel’s Foreign Min
ister Golda Meir InteiTnfrtod a
previously scheduled lecture
tour of the United States to
come here for a conference on
the Argentine grievance with
Secretary General Dag Hamaiar-
skjokL Israel’s permanent rep
resentative, Michael S. Comay,
also discussed the issue with the
Secretary General as well as
with Dr. Tingfu F. Tslang, of
China, president of the Security
Council, and all other members
of the Council, Including Arkady
A. Sobolev, of the Soviet Union.
(Moscow dispatches indicated
that the Soviet delegation at the
UN may take a double stand on
the Argentine grievance when
it comes to the Security Coun
cil. On the one hand, Russia may
fore making his proposals.
“If I were not permitted to ex
press my own ideas,” he exclaim
ed, “I would have resigned with
in 24 hours from those organ
izations.” He noted that Mr.
Ben-Gurion had frequently made
a number of important state
ments that were his own per
sonal opinions.
Third Detention
Order Issued
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Adolf
Eichmann, Nazi SS colonel and
Hitler’s specialist in the exter
mination of 6,000,000 European
Jews, has been remanded for a
third time after a brief hearing
before Magistrate Alfred Bach,
of Haifa. The detention, for 15
days, is the third for the Nazi
killer—the utmost permitted un
der Israeli law.
The application for further
detention, to permit further in
terrogation, was made by Police
Commander Ephraim Hofstatter,
deputy head of the Pplice De
partment’s Sixth Bureau. He was
acting on behalf of Minister of
Justice Pinhas Rosen who is also
acting Attorney General. Under
Israeli law, only the attorney
general or his representative is
entitled to an order for a third
detention.
No preliminary hearing has
as yet been held for. Eichmann.
Such a hearing can be conduct
ed only after a charge sheet had
been drawn up. The formal
charge sheet had been drawn
up. The formal charge sheet will
be presented after the courrent
detention period is over.
Interrogation of Eichmann
continued, meanwhile, by offi
cers of the Sixth Bureau of the
Israel police. Study also was
continued in the documents and
material which continue to pour
in. One of the more unusual
documents received recently
was a letter from a Russian Jew,
listing the names of several
Jews in Russia who had sur
vived Nazi death camps and
could give evidence in the case.
Israeli authorities made pub- .
lie the latest letter, received
here last week, from President
Arturo Frondizi of Argentina to
Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion, dealing with the Eich
mann case. In his note, Mr.
Frondizi agreed with Israel’s
stand about the need for bring
ing Eichmann to justice, but in
sisted that the Nazi’s apprehen
sion in Argentina endangered
“peaceful co-existence” because
it was “not in accord with Juri
dical norms.”
support Argentina on its insist
ence that the anti-Israel, griev
ance should be inscribed on the
Council’s agenda, thus making
possible full debate on the issue.
On the other hand, Russia might
side at the Coundl with Israel
on its method of capturing Eich
mann, pointing out that the
arch-criminal was able to hide
in the Western world for 15
years.)
The consensus of many ex
perienced observers here was
that, if the Argentine issue does
receive public airing before the
Security Council, that body
might adopt a resolution only
“recommending” that Israel re
turn Eichmann to Argentina, as
the Buenos Aires Government
insists. Such a recommendation,
however, would not be legally
binding upon Israel.
Hammarskjold
Complaint Based
On a Principle
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (J-
TA) — Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold said at a press
conference recently that “a ques
tion of prindple” is involved in
the grievance which Argentina
brought against Israel before the
Security Council. He made it
clear, however, that he was not
judging eithar the “merits or de
merits” of Argentina’s case, but
speaking merely from the view
point' of the Security Council’s
competence in the issue.
Asked whether he thought
the Security Council should
handle the Argentine complaint,
since the grievance involves “a
legal question, while the Security
Council is a poll teal body,” he
replied:
“As this question is, or will
be probably, pending in the
Security Council, I cannot com
ment on the substance of the
case but in a hypothetical sense,
there is a question of prindple
involved. If a member state
should feel that a certain rule
is essential to safeguard it from
danger, the Security Coundl
can, within the limits of its au
thority, rule whether there is
creation of tension or, more
than tension, perhaps a risk in
volved. I sav this without in
any way judging the merits or
demerits of the case.
“The Security Council can be
used—not as a court—but is
limited in authority to decide
whether rules are applicable or
not, whether to accept or re
ject such an application,” he
said. He then emphasized again
that he was not prejudging
Argentin's case or speaking on
the substance of the grievance
but merely discussing the gen
eral rules applicable.
Asked whether the Nurem
berg Court for the trial of war
criminals might be reinstated as
the competent body for trying
Eichmann, he replied “The court
has never been killed. But the
question is too complicated for
me to answer because my judi
cial knowledge is) not competent
enuogh for that”
Oberlgender Resigns
BONN. (JTA) — Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer accepted last
week the resignation of Theo^or
Oberlaender as West Oerman
Minister for Refugees. Or. Otter
laender had been charged with
Dartidpating in the ItAI maaae-
cre of Polish Jews in Lemberg.