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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
XXXVI
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1961
WO. 96
Post Office to Proceed Against
Nazi Party for Mailings
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
U.S. Post Office Department
ruled this week that Nazi Post
cards mailed to defame and
threaten Jews were in violation
of statutes and announced that
"the Chief Inspector is currently
investigating the activities of the
American Nazi Party with a
view to determining those re
sponsible for the mailings.
Deputy Postmaster General
Bill Brawley made this known
in a letter to Rep. Seymour
Halpern. The Congressman, who
received a barrage of Nazi phone
calls and mail, turned over a
newly mailed nazi piece stating
“the Jews are going up the
smokestack . . Rockwell to pow
er.
^Mr. Brawley said criminal pro
ceedings are considered and “you
may be sure that everything
feasible under the law will be
done to bring the perpetrators
to justice.”
The Chief Postal Inspector and
General Counsel of the Depart
ment joined Mr. Brawley in
initiating action against the Nazis
after examining the material
mailed to Rep. Halpern.
Mr. Brawley said “the Chief
Postal Inspector and the Gen
eral Counsel feel as I do that
these insidious missives should
not be afforded the privilege of
being transported in the United
States mails. Preliminary analy
sis indicates the General Counsel
will find the mailings violative
of the scurrilous and defamatory
statute (18 United States code
1718). Accordingly the Chief In
spector has commenced action
against the Nazi Party to appre
hend those responsible for the
mailings and presentation to the
Department of Justice for “in
stituting criminal proceedings.”
Yeshiva Youths Raid Camp
To ‘Rescue’ Teen-Agers
TEL AVIV (JTA) — About 100
Yeshiva youths belonging to the
ultra-zealous "Torah Camp” of
the ultra-Orthodox Agudat Is
rael Party this week raided Ra-
mat Hadassah, an immigrant
youth distribution center near
Haifa, and claimed they had
"rescued” 30 teenage immigrants
who, allegedly, were being
brought up “irreligiously” by the
center.
The raiders rolled into the
camp in trucks, some equipped
with loud speakers, and summon
ed the teenage residents to leave
with them. As inducements, they
passed out cigarettes and candy
to the teenage residents. Camp
instructors and other personnel
fought the raiders and, when po
lice reinforcements arrived, about
50 of the raiders were detained.
However, Moshe Kol, head of the
Jewish Agency's Youth Aliyah
department, who arrived soon
after the police, requested that
the 50 be freed, and they were
released.
The claim that 30 of the teen
agers had gone away with the
raiders was made in Jerusalem
by Rabbi Menahem Porush, a
member of Parliament. Camp of
ficials denied that any of the
youths left voluntarily with the
raiders. "Religious people will
not be quiet,” Rabbi Porush said,
“until every religious boy or girl
gets a religious education in Is
rael.” Leaders of the raiding
party charged that the teenagers
from the Ramat Hadassah dis
tribution center “are being sent
to settlements where pigs are
raised, and are encouraged to
apostasy.”
Mr. Kol indignantly denied
these charges, calling them
“groundless slander.” He said
that no children with religious
background would be or are
being turned over to non-religi
ous settlements or institutions.
On the contrary, he said, one
group of teenagers was sent only
this week, prior to the Orthodox
Pinovecz Yeshiva, in Bnei Brak,
while others had already been
prepared for enrollment in
schools conducted by the Habad
branch of the Hassidic move
ment.
Sharett Condemns Zealots Campaign
Against Youth Immigration System
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Moshe
Sharett, chairman of the Jewish
Agency, this week condemned
the campaign being conducted
by ultra-religious zealots against
the Agency’s youth immigration
department.
The department, said Mr. Sha
rett, "has had under its charge
for many years the sons and
daughters of Orthodox families,
and no protest had been voiced
against the spirit or the tone of
their education in Israel.”
Mr. Sharett pointed out that
three-fourths of all recently ar
rived teen-age immigrants have
been sent to Orthodox institu
tions for their education. Some
questions still pending, he de
clared, "continue to be subjected
to clarification.” He added that
a full report on the issue will be
made to the next meeting of the
Jewish Agency’s executive.
Representatives of the Jewish
Agency met this morning with
religious representatives, includ
ing a delegation from the Na
tional Religious Party, and dis
cussed ways to end the dispute
about the type of religious train
ing being given the young immi
grants. The ultra-Orthodox raid
ers who stormed the Ramat Ha
dassah youth immigration camp
last week charged that the teen
agers were not being properly
indoctrinated in Orthodox reli
gious practices.
Representatives of the Na
tional Religious Party demanded
at this morning’s meeting that
religous instructors be appointed
for the youth immigrants, not
only here but also abroad. They
also requested that representa
tives of Israel’s Chief Rabbinate
be named to a committee to de
termine the type of education to
be given the young immigrants.
Another meeting of today’s par
ticipants has been scheduled for
Wednesday.
The ultra-Orthodox Agudath
Israel, however, is continuing its
agitations on the issue. Last
night, Agudah held a mass-meet
ing here, denouncing the Agen
cy’s Youth Aliyah department.
UN Envoy to Seek Mid East
Solution for Arab Refugees
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (J-
TA)—The United Nations Pales
tine Conciliation Commission will
send a special representative to
the Middle East “to explore with
the host governments and with
Israel practical means of seeking
progress on the Palestine Arab
refugee problem.”
The commission’s envoy will
be Dr. Joseph E. Johnson, presi
dent of the Carnegie Foundation
for International Peace. Israel
Foreign Minister Golda Meir im
mediately advised the UN Secre
tary General Dag Hammarskjold
New Chief Rabbi
Chosen in Turkey
ISTANBUL, (JTA) — Rabbi
David Asseo was chosen this
week from among six candidates
to become a Chief Rabbi of the
Turkish Jewish community.
Rabbi Asseo, 47, who was
elected by 55 religious and lay
delegates representing various
Jewish communities throughout
the country, was formerly secre
tary of the Grand Rabbinate and
was director of the rabbinical
seminary here.
Ivri Stone in China
1,200 Years Old
LONDON, (JTA) — A Jewish
tombstone dating back to the
eighth century has been discov
ered in China, according to a re
port in the Warsaw Folkstimme.
The directorate of the historical
museum in Peking sent a copy of
the inscription on the jtombstone
—which is in Hebrew—to arch
aeologists in Israel, the paper re
ported.
BRUSSELS (JTA) — Ratifica
tion papers of a treaty, by which
West Germany will give Belgium
$19,992,000 for distribution among
Belgian victims of Nazism, were
exchanged this weekend by the
two governments, according to
a report issued today.
VIENNA, (JTA)—A documen
tation center for gathering, fil
ing and indexing of information
and data about the fate of more
than 16,000 Austrian Jews killed
or deported during World War
II by the Nazi regime will be
opened here September 1, ac
cording to an announcement this
week by the Federal Oroganiza-
tion of Austrian Jewish Com
munities.
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—United
Nations Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold was asked this
week by the Tunisian Immigrants
Association of Israel, to help re
store postal communications be
tween Israel and Tunisia.
Last week. Tunisia severed
postal communications with Is
rael on the grounds that the
Arab Postal Union forbids mail
contact between member states
and Israel.
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Israel’s
financial problems involved in
the program for the absorption
of new immigrants were discuss
ed here this week by the Cabi
net of the outgoing caretaker
Government. Finance Minister
Levi Eshkol presided at the meet
ing in the absence of Prime Min
ister David Ben-Gurion, who is
on vacation until after the High
Holy Daya.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Israel
and the Malagasy Republic (Ma
dagascar) have signed a treaty
that Israel would be happy to
receive Dr. Johnson at any time.
The Commission, which is com
posed of representatives of the
United States, Turkey and
France, said it was sending Dr.
Johnson to the Middle East pur
suant to a resolution adopted by
the General Assembly last April
21. That resolution instructed the
P.C.C. to report to the next As
sembly, not later than October 15,
what progress it had made to
ward implementing instructions
issued years ago regarding “re
patriation” of the Arab refugees
to Israel or their compensaton
by Israel.
(The national convention of
Hadassah, in Denver last week,
adopted a resolution calling on
the United States Government
The New York Times reported
this week that President Gamal
Abdel Nasser of the United Arab
Republic had “challenged” Presi
dent Kennedy’s views on the
Arab-Israeli situation by calling
on the U.S. Administration to
show that American “policy in
the Middle East was inspired
solely by United States interests,
and not by world Zionism.” The
dispatch, from Beirut, asserted
that Col. Nasser’s alleged chal
lenge was contained in a reply
to Mr. Kennedy’s letter of last
May to the Arab leaders on the
Arab refugee question.
President Nasser himself, in a
television interview with Eric
Sevareid and Howard K. Smith,
of friendship and technical co
operation in the fields of api
culture, industry, vocational and
professional training, youth ac
tivities, education, public health
service and transportation.
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The Lib
eral Party this week turned 'down
the proposal of the Herat Party
for the formation of a Llberal-
Herut parliamentary bloc in the
next Knesset.
At a meeting that lasted sev
eral hours, last night, leaders of
the Liberal Party and Liberals
elected to the Knesset in the na
tional elections, August 15, voted
that formation of a bloc like the
one proposed by Herat would be
“a betrayal of the voters, who
did not give us a mandate to
enter into such a partnership."
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to press during the forthcom
ing General Assembly for so
lution of the Arab refugee
problem by resettlement bn the
Arab countries.)
Dr. Johnson, who has laen
head of the Carnegie Peace or
ganization since 1960, is a his
torian with degrees from Har
vard University. From 1942 to
1947, he served in the U.S. De
partment of State and partici
pated in various international
conferences that led to and
launched the formation of the
United Nations. Later, Dr. John
son served in other capacities
with the State Department For
three years prior to amiming
the presidency of the Carnegie
Endowment he was president of
Williams College.
carried last week by the Colum
bia Broadcasting System net
work, carefully avoided any In
dication of hpw he , believed
settlement of the ^rab refugee
problems could be achieved short
of the settlement of all the refu
gees on the territory of Israel.
Asked pointblank whether , his
aim was “that Israel be removed
from the map,” the Egyptian dic
tator replied:
“We feel and we think that
the rights of the Arabs of Pales
tine must be regained because
more than one million Arabs
were expelled out of their terri
tory. They must return back to
their land. What is the point of
view of the Israeli Government?
The Israeli Government refused.
They said that hey will not per
mit any of these Arabs to return
back and they want immigralim,
Jewish immigration, from the
outside.”
He likewise avoided direct ans
wer to a question/ whether he
believed no solution of the Arab-
Israeli issue was possible with
out conflict and insisted the con
flict existed and an Israeli threat
to the Arabs as well. He called
on the United States Government
and press to take a “neutral
view” in this conflict
Eichmann Refuses
To Testify On Other
Nazi War Criminals
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Adolf
Eichmann, the former Gestapo
specialist in the annihilation Of
Jews, whose fate is now being
weighed by the Jerusalem Dis
trict Court which heard the
charges against him in a four-
month-long trial, refuses to testi
fy about the activities of other,
accused ex-war criminals.
Yaacov Siegelman, a Haifa
magistrate who had gone to the
prison at the request of the West
German and Austrian govern
ments reported that the prisoner
said he was instructed by his
attorney. Dr. Robert Servatius,
not to answer any questions
now. The magistrate wantqd-
Eichmann to answer questions
about the activities of 27 former
Nazis now on trial for their war
time activities in Germany and
Austria.
The three-judge court which
heard the charges against KtOT-
mann, accused of crimes sgsiuul
humanity, is not expected to
render its verdict until Novem
ber.
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