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XXXV
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, I860
NO. IS
Argentina, Israel Settle Differences Over Eichmann Case
Congo Eyes Israel as Builder
Of Her Rural Cooperatives
By ASHER M1BASHAN
JTA STAFF CORRESPONDENT
By DAVID
UNITED NATIONS, (WUP)—
It appears that Israel’s decades
ot experience in building rural
cooperatives will now be harn
essed by the new Congo Repub
lic in an ambitious plan to
create in 'the central African
state a strong cooperative socie
ty.
The plan for the reconstruc
tion of this giant land—which is
three times the size of Poland
and which has a population of
13 million people—was disclosed
here at the UN by Prime Minis
ter Patrice Lumumba after he
visited Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold recently.
Before one of the largest press
corps ever to attend a UN press
conference, Prime Minister Lu
mumba declared:
“Our program is to create
vast cooperatives throughout the
country in order to raise our
population from a subsistence
economy and to create a pros
perous and stable national and
rural economy. In this connec
tion,” he added, “we have re
quested technical assistance from
the UN . I am convinced that,
with our programs, with our
good will and with the assist
ance which has already beer
promised us by ‘friendly ~na
tions,’ the Congo will resume
normal life . . .”
It goes without saying that
Israel is one of the “friendly
nations” he referred to.
In this connection, it is inter
ROCKWELL POUND
COMPETENT
TO STAND TRIAL
WASHINGTON, (JTA) —Geo.
Lincoln Rockwell, leader of the
American Nazi Party, was re
leased last week from the Dis
trict of Columbia General Hos
pital to which he had been com
mitted last month for observa
tion to determine whether he
was mentally competent to face
trial on charges of disturbing
the peace.
He was found competent to
stand trial.
Rockwell had been committed
by a district court on motion of
the prosecuting attorney after
his arrest when fighting broke
out at one of his anti-Semitic
rallies in early June. He was
arrested a second time while
the first case was pending.
The Nazi leader will now have
1o face the court on the charges
arising out of the two fracases.
HOROWITZ
esting to note that, about two
weeks before Congo declared its
independence and before there
were any signs of a crisis, the
Belgium Prime Minister Eyskens
made a significant statement at
a dinner in' Brussels honoring
the visiting Premier David Ben-
Gurion. Praising Israel’s im
portant role in. the noon-to-be
independent Congo, Eyskens
made the following declaration
foreshadowing Israel’s future
task as an architect in the estab
lishment of Congo's cooperatives:
“I am certain that productive
cooperation, the foundations of
which have already been laid,
will be carried out between Is
rael and the young State of the
Congo, which will be able to see
in you (Israel) an example and
will accept your advice, parti
cularly in rural economics and
cooperative and collective farm
organization.”
Two weeks later, Belgium's
position in the Congo all but
collapsed by the tragic events of
the anti-Belgium rioting. How
ever, Prime Minister Lumumba
stated here at the UN that Bel
gium’s economic role in the Re
public is still welcome. Thus,
Israel’s position as far as Bel- .
Pft' concerned, remains. Yet,
should Belgium forfeit her role
in the UN, Israel’s aid to the
Congo will become doubly im
portant.
TOYNBEE LAUDS
JEWISH FAMILY
STANDARDS
LOS ANGELES, (WUP)—
Arnold J. Toynbee, British his
torian who once termed Judaism
a fossilized religion and then re
tracted by urging Jews to mis-
sionize their universal faith, has
again come out in defense of
Judaism with the declaration
that “the Jewish standard of
family life” has “set an example
to the world.” In a letter sent to
Rabbi Moshe M. Maggal, head
of the Jewish Information Serv
ice,” historian Toynbee wrote,
in part: “The spiritual power of
Judaism can be seen in Its prac
tical aspects: for instance, the
Jewish standard of family life,
in which the Jews have set an
example to the world; the Jew
ish standard of generosity, not
only in helping fellow Jews but
in supporting good causes even
when these are not directly con
nected with Judaism.”
BUENOS AIRES, (JTA) —
Argentine and Israel spokesmen
agreed this week that the formal
accord reached here between
the two countries had closed the
Adolf Eichmann incident and
would mark the resumption of
the normal, friendly relations
which formerly prevailed.
The two governments had
been at odds since last May
when Argentina formally pro
tested to the United Nations
Security Council that IsTael had
violated Argentine sovereignty
in the capture of Adolf Eich
mann. the Nazi war criminal
who directed the extermination
of six million Jews, jand in re
moving him 1 from Argentina to
Israel.
The breach was officially
closed by publication of a joint
statement in this city and Jeru
salem which declared: “The
Governments of Israel and Ar
gentina, animated by the wish
to comply with the Security
Council resolution of June 23,
in which hope was expressed
that the traditionally friendly
relations between the two coun
tries will be advanced, have de
cided to regard as closed the in
cident that arose from action by
Israel nationals which infringed
on the fundamental rights of
Argentina."
Angel Centeno, Argentine For
eign Under-Secretary confirmed
that Argentina 'regarded Israel 9
acknowledgment in the joint
communique that Argentine
rights had been violated, to
gether with the diplomatic ac
tion taken by his own Govern
ment, as the “adequate repara
tion” which was demanded of
Israel in the Security Council
resolution of June 23. He com
mented that “World opinion
Rabbi to Aid
Isolated Maranos
In Majorca
NEW YORK, (WUP)—Rabbi
Charles Judah Hoffmann, who
had succeeded in escaping the
Hitlerian holocaust after the
Nazis murdered his parents and
family who had arrived in the
U.S. in 1950, left New York this
past week on the Queen Mary
for an extended stay in, the
Spanish Island of Palma de Ma
jorca.
There he plans to aid the
community of Marrarros who
are in desperate need of a spirit
ual leader. Rabbi Hoffmann, who
speaks Spanish, French, He
brew, German, Hungarian, Eng
lish and Yiddish, was born in
Hungary and is 48 years of age.
will judge how Argentina acted
in this matter.
The rapprochement between
the two countries followed the
visit here of Dr. Shabtai Rosen-
ne, legal adviser to the Israel
Foreign Ministry, who had per
sonal meetings with President
Arturo Frondizi and Foreign
Minister Diogenes Taboada.
Dr. Rosenne, who carried out
the negotiations mainly with
his Argentine counterpart, Luis
de Pablo Pardo, told the JTA
that the talks were held in an
informal atmosphere without
any “philosophical entangel-
ments.”
He- said that when he left
Jerusalem, his instructions had
been -to find out what kind of
satisfaction the Argentine Gov
ernment was seeking from Is
rael in connection with the
Eichmann affair. When he ar
rived here, Dr. Rosenne said, he
found that the stage had been
already set for the expulsion of
the Israel Ambassador Aryeh
Levavi. He became aware, he
said, of the fact that the Argen
tine Government needed such a
spectacular measure. It was alter
the announcement that Ambassa
dor fevavi was persona non
grata, (ithat the accord became
possible, Dr. Rosenne indicated.
Asked about the redesigna
tion of ambassadors by the two
countries, Dr. Rosenne said they
would be named very -soon,
possibly after the Jewish holi-
To Be Honored
Max Cuba, outstanding Atlanta
roriinmnal leader, has been
selected by Post No. 112, Jewish
War Veterans to be honored as
“Mah of the Tear” at its Annual
Commander's Banquet next
spring.
days early in October. He said
that he hoped the normalization
of relations between the two
countries would be accompanied
by “better feelings” in the local
Jewish community.
“An uncommon situation was
created primarily by an uncom
mon phenomenon — Eichmann,"
Dr. Rosenne declared. He said
that normal legal standards
could not be applied in this case.
A Buenos Aires judge, mean
while, has ordered an investiga
tion into the kidnaping of Etefa-
mann here last May. The order
was issued by Federal i
Leopoldo Ieurralde on the
of a complaint brought by .
manh’s wife, Vera. Judge Issur
alde ruled, however, that Mrs.
ffiehraaan had no legal right to
sue since Eichmann was the
person directly affected.
There Is a
“Jewish Vote”
Says Neuman
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Dr.
Emanuel Neumann, American
Zionist leader, dented conten
tions last weak that "there is
no Jewish vote” in this country
and insisted, on the contrary,
that “the Jewish vote is an un-
organzied but potent reality."
American Jews, he added “are
in this respect no different from
other groups .of citizens making
up the American elector***!, .
Dr. Neumann, honorary presi
dent of the Zionist Organization
of America, and member of the
Jewish Agency Executive, spoke
at a reception on his return from
conferences in Jerusalem and
Antwerp.
“Recently, as in other election
years,’ he noted, “some Jewish
spokesmen have announced to
the world that there is no Jew
ish vote. It baffles me to under
sand why such gratuitous pro
nouncements are made. The Jew
ish vote is an unorganized but
potent reality. Assertions to the
contrary are inaccurate and mis
leading and convince nobody—
least of all practical politicians
and molders ot public opinion.”
He declared that “the reac
tion of American Jews to speci
fic situations and issues are in
fluenced by their own back
grounds, traditions and senti
ments,” adding that “this both
normal and legitimate in any
democracy.” He stressed that no
one could command or "deliver”
the Jewish vote. Nor could Jew
ish support of any party be
taken for grantetd. "It must be
courted and won, rfs is the case
with other recognized groups of
the American electorate,’ he de
clared.
Other Nazi Records, Found in Washington
Eichmann Archives,
By MILTON WUEDMAN
JTA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON, (JTA) —
West German war crimes investi
gators have found the "complete
file” of Nazi S.S. Col. Adolf
Elchmann’s Jewish liquidation
quarters and have uncovered
documents spelling out the war
crimes guilt of many other Nazis
who may now be brought to
trial
The Eichmaato files and a map
of evidence incriminating other
Nazis were located here in vari
ous warehouses and in the
archives of the Library of Con
gress by a West German investi
gating team that had permis
sion to search for the missing
Nazi records. '
The Eichmann files were found
in a huge qnd poorly catalogued
mass of documents captured in
Germany by the American forces
and brought here alter the war.
The Germans indicated that the
material will be turned over to
Israel for use in preparing for
the forthcoming trial of Eich
mann there on charges of crimes
against the Jewish people and
crimes against humanity.
Announcement of the discov
ery was made here at a press
conference at the German Em
bassy by Erwin Schuele, head
of the West German Central
Office for Prosecution of Nazi
War Crimes, a cooperative bu
reau maintained by the justice
ministries of the various West
German states.
Mr. Schuele was granted per
mission to search here for docu
ments that might provide evi
dence against Eichmann and
other war criminals. The Ger
man investigator, who began
his research in Washington three
weeks ago, said he now had the
records of Eichmann’s notorious
“Section IV-B-4” of the Gestapo,
the Nazi sent here. This office
controlled the liquidation of
Jews throughout German-occu
pied territories.
Mr. Schuele reported that he
had found a mass of “immense
ly valuable” documents stored
in warehouses here and in the
Library of Congress archives.
American authorities apparently,
in all the years since World War
II, did not conduct a thorough
research of the war crimes ma
terial.
Mr. Schuele and his aide, Kurt
Hinrichsen, expect to spend as
much as ten more weeks here
exploring the mountain of ma
terial they have uncovered. Al
ready, many documents have
been found to prove the guilt
of several other Nazi criminals
who face trial in West Germany.
He declined to identify these
Nazis.
The German researchers avoid
ed criticism of the American au
thorities but could not conceal
their amazement that, in the
many years since the war, the
Eichmann material and other
data about the liquidation of the
Jews by the Nazi regime had re
mained buried here.
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