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Good Christian-Jewish Ties
Help United States, Kennedy
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Good
intergroup relations are vital to
national progress and to the na
tion’s position of leadership in
the free world, President Ken
nedy stated here this week at a
White House reception for trus
tees of the National Conference
of Christians and Jews.
The reception by Mr. Kennedy
marked the conclusion of the
NCCJ’s 33rd anniversary conven
tion. More than 500 delegates and
guests attended the convention
which, at its closing session, re
elected its officers, including
three national co-chairmen:
Lewis L. Strauss, former United
States Secretary of Commerce;
Robert D. Murphy, former un
dersecretary of State; and Carrol
M. Shanks, Dr. Lewis Webster
Jones was re-elected president.
At the White House reception,
the NCCJ trustees informed the
President of the launching of a
new, four-year project to “raise
the general level of discussion’’
of public issues, such as aid to
parochial schools and birth con
trol, on which major religious
groups in this country are in
sharp disagreement.
Earlier, in an address to the
convention, Dr. Jones reported
on his recent trip abroad, during
which he visited European coun
tries as well as Israel, and his
conclusion that “the principle of
the complete separation of
Church and State appears to be
uniquely American.” He said the
four-year project on Religious
Freedom and Public Affair* was
needed because there is “con
siderable confusion” in America
about the meaning of religious
liberty and its application to pub
lic issues.
Two Fraternities
Merge Into
Phi Epsilon Pi
WASHINGTON, (JTA) —
Two Jewish college fraterni
ties, Phi Epsilon Pi and Kap
pa No, announced here this
week that they have merged
into one organization, to be
called Phi Epsilon PL
The merged fraternity will
have a combined undergradu
ate and alumni membership
of 22,MO, with 5M active
chapters on college campuses
throughout the United States
and Canada. Phi Epsilon Pi
was founded at City College
of New York in 1904, while
Kappa Nu was established in
1911 at the University of Ro
chester.
Eichmann to be Moved
From Prison to Prison
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Adolf
Eichmann will be moved from
prison to prison every few weeks
until a final decision is made on
the death sentence imposed on
him last Friday, the Israel Pri
son Commission said this week.
The switches of prison loca
tions was directed to deal with
the “extreme possibility” of a
conspiracy by fellow-prisoners to
kill the former Gestapo colonel.
Eichmann currently is back in
Ramie prison working again on
his memoirs. An appeal from
Buber Wins Literary
Award; Eichmann
Issue Raised
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Professor
Martin Buber was presented this
week with the Tel Aviv Munici
pality award for literature but
not until after a sharp debate
on his publicly expressed view
that Adolf Eichmann’s death
sentence should be commuted to
life imprisonment
Council members of the Herut
party demanded that the prize
should not be awarded to Prof.
Buber. Joseph Sosiphoff of Herut
said that Professor Buber had
not denied a statement attributed
to him that he would seek a
revision of the death sentence
imposed on the former Gestapo
colonel.
Acting Mayor E. Schechter op
posed the motion and said that
Prof. Buber, whom he described
as “one of the greatest thinkers
of our time,” had the right to
expres his opinion on any sub
ject he chose. The Council ap
proved the prize by a majority
vote.
Professor Buber received the
award for his book “Hiddeh
Light.” The same prize was
awarded to Mordechai Ben Ye-
hezkel for hia collection of Has-
sidic stories, “Sefer Hamassiot,”
Book of Tales. Prof. Buber spoke
briefly at the ceremony at which
the awards were presented He
did not refer to capital punish
ment or to Eichmann.
the death sentence has been
filed with the Israel Supreme
Court which is not expected to
act before next March on the
Eichmann’s Lawyer
Seeks Contribution
From Bonn Government
COLOGNE, (JTA)—Dr. Rob
ert Servatius, chief of defense
conusel for Adolf Eichmann,
said here that he hoped the West
German Government would
“change its mind” and contribute
toward the expenses of Eich
mann’s defense.
The Israel Government had
voted $20,000 to help defray the
expenses for the defense of the
ex-Gestapo colonel, now found
guilty in the court at Jerusalem
and sentenced to hang. How
ever, according to Dr. Servatius,
the amount voted by Israel was
not sufficient to cover the costs.
Those costs have been estimated
at $32,000. A request by Dr.
Servatius a year ago, that the
German Government contribute
toward the Eichmann' defense,
had been vetoed by the authori
ties at Bonn.
UN Assembly i .^cts Pro-Arab
Changes on Refugee Resolution
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (J-
TA)—The annual debate in the
United Nations on tha Arab refu
gee problem ended last week
with the General Assembly re
jecting two pro-Arab amend
ments to a United States resolu
tion.
The plenary session adopted
the American resolution mums
the proposed amendments with
out a single negative vote. The
final balloting on the American
Message of Israel
Will Highlight
Southern Rabbis
ABC’s coast-to-coast weekly
Sunday “Message of Israel” will
devote three of its January pro
grams to a “Salute to the South
land,” presenting outstanding
rabbis in key areas of North
Carolina, Georgia and Alabama.
On Sunday, Jan. 7, Rabbi Jos
eph Asher of Temple Emanuel,
Greensboro, N.C., will speak on
“Silence To Think By.”
Rabbi Solomon E. Starrella,
Congregation Mickve Israel, Sa
vannah, will discuss “What
Makes One A Jew?” on Sun
day, Jan. 14.
Rabbi Eugene Blachschleger,
Temple Beth-Or, Montgomery,
will have the spotlight Sunday,
Jan. 28, discussing “Carrying On
In Days Like These.”
The programs will be carried
on the following stations in Sou
thern states , . .. • ,
(’indicates stations where Mlfiiii*
ules should be checked week by
week):
ALA.—Anniston-WHMA, Flor
ence, 5:30 p.m.-WOWL; Tusca
loosa 6:30 p.m. WJRD.
FLA. — Daytona Beach 10:05
a.m. WNDB, Jacksonville 9:30
a.m. WZOK, Mariana 5:30 p.m.
•WTOT, Miami 10:30 a.m. *WQ-
AM, Orlando 4:20 p.m. WHOO,
Palm Beach 10:30 a.m. WLIZ,
Pensacola, WEAR, St. Peters
burg 10:05 a.m. WSUN, Vera
Beach WTTB.
GA.—Augusta 10:05 a.m. WG-
AC, Atlanta 5:30 p.m. WGST,
Savannah 7 pjn. WFRP, Val
dosta 10:05 a.m. WGAF, Macon
10 a.m. *WRPB, West Point 10:05
a.m. WRLD.
N.C. — Asheville 10:30 a.m.
WLOS, Charlotte 10:35 a.m. WC-
GC, Clinton 10:05 a.m. WRRZ,
Durham WTIK, Gastonia 9:30
a.m. W G N C, Hendersonville,
WHKP, Hickory 10:05 a.m. WH-
KY, High Point 7:30 p.m. WM-
FR, Wilmington 10:05 a.m. WM-
FD.
S.C.—Columbia 7:50 a.m. WC-
OS, Dillon 10:05 a.m. WDSC,
Florence 10:30 am. *WJMI,
Greenville WMBR, Spartanburg
10:05 a.m. WJAM, Sumter WS-
SC.
TENN. — Knoxville 7:35 p.m.
WBIR, Memphis 4 p.m. WHHM,
Nashville 8:50 p.m. WSIX, Pula
ski 10:30 a.m. WKSR.
draft, for which Israel voted,
was 62 in favor, none against
and 37 abstentions. The absan-
tions included the Arab and So
viet blocs.
The resolution recalls a aeries
of Assembly resolutions adopted
here since 1948, notea “with
deep regret that repatriation or
compensation of the refugees
has not been effected; that no
substantial progress has been
made “for the re-integration of
the refugees either by repatria
tion or resettlement”; and that,
therefore, the situation of the
refugees “continues to be a mat
ter of serious concern.”
The resolution requests the
Palestine Conciliation Commis
sion to “intensify” its efforts for
implementation of a 1948 As
sembly resolution which called
not only for repatriation or com
pensation of the refugees but
also for their possible resettle
ment or reintegration into the
Middle East economies. The reso
lution further requested the PCC
to “intensify its work on the
identification and evaluation of
Arab refugee immovable proper
ties in Palestine” and' to make
every effort to complete this
work by September 1, 1962.
The next operative clause of
the resolution calls upon all
. member governments to contri
bute and increase their contri
butions for the work of the
United Nations Relief and Works
Agency for Palestine TlitegOM
in the Hear East This clausa
pointedly “urges non-contribut
ing governments” to contribute
to UNRWA. That phrasing was
directed at the Soviet Union and
other members of the Soviet
bloc who have never contributed
any money to UNRWA. Ip the
Special Political Committee on
the two pro-Arab amendments
both amendments rieiitil to
pic majorities but fell thrimgh
because they did not obtain the
necessary two-thirds vote la the
Assembly.
The first of the amendments
called for reconstitution at the
Palestine Conduction Commis
sion and its enlargement dt to
present three members to five.
On this amendment to ptoanr
voted 44 in favor 20 against with
25 abstentions. All the leading
Western Powers, lad by tip
United States, Britain gad
France, voted against the smasgl
meat, as did IsraeL
The second amendment would
have requested the reconstituted
Conciliation Commission “to
take measures for the protection
of the rights, property and in
terests of the Palestine Arab
refugees, located in IsraeL” This
was, according to Michael S.
Comay, Israel’s permanent rep
resentative here, only “a thinly
veiled” revival of an Arab ef
fort defeated by the Assembly
last April to establish some form
of UN custodianship over alleged
Arab property In IsraeL On the
property amendment, the United
States, Britain and France again
led the opposition. The voting on
that clause showed 40 in tool,
37 against with XI abstentions.
The same masting of to Spe
cial Political Committee which
approved tits
34 votes on behalf of another
resoiution,which, lor the first
time fe'many years, called to
direct peace negotiations between
Israel and the Arab states. By a
simple majority of 44 votes to 34,
with 20 abstentions, this resolu
tion was rejected. However, to
size of to favorable vote was
deemed here as a very significant
move in the direction of ultimate
Arab-Israel peace negotiations.
Four Nazis Sentenced for
Killing Jews; Big Trial Coming
Hooligans Attack NY Rabbi
Over Eichmann Sentence
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
Council on Racial Equality sent
a telegram this week to Mayor
Robert W. Wagner demanding an
investigation into a physical as
sault on Rabbi Kurt Flascher,
an official of CORE in a Green
wich Village coffee house.
Rabbi Flascher was discussing
the Eichmann trial with another
CORE official when he was in
terrupted by two young men at
a nearby table, who were de
scribed as blond, in their early
20’s and crewcUt The rabbi said
one of the men came over to
him and said “We Germans are
not going to take this. Hitler
should have killed all the Jews”
and the two men began to punch
the rabbi, shouting "Jews are
lice, vermin.” Then they fled.
The rabbi’s nose was broken
in the assault. Somebody ran for
a police officer to whom the
rabbi described the incident. The
officer was skeptical, asserting
“there are no Nazis, walking the
streets of New York.” Rabbi
Flascher, who teafhes at- Yeshtea
University, assumed the police
that the attack was unprovoked.
BONN, (JTA)—Four former
Nazis received prison terms this
week for participation in the
Nazi genocide of European Jews
while plana were pushed for one
of the largest war crimes trials
to date in West Germany.
Franz Hoffman, a former de
tention chief at the Dachau
murder camp, was sentenced to
life imprisonment for the mur
der of two Jews in 1938.
The Karlsruhe jury court con
victed three former Einsatz Com
mando leaders of complicity in
the murder of some 1,000 Jew
ish men, women and children in
the Soviet Union dining the
1941-1943 period. They were
sentenced immediately.
Erich Erlinger, a leader in Hit
ler’s SS Elite Guard, was sent
enced to 12 years’ imprisonment
for participation in the murder
of 100 Jews. Former SS Lt Rein
hold Bruennert and former Cap-
1 tain Hans Schuhmacher, two of
Gen. ErUnger’s aides, each re
ceived four years imprison
ment Schuhmacher reportedly
was an official of to Weft Ger
man Government a tor Years
ago, serving as bead of to Saar
land office for combining Com
munism and Nazism.
Robert Mulka, 66, tenner SS
colonel and assistant to Ausch
witz commander Rudolf Hoess,
was released on bail following
his re-arrest on charges of su
spicion of murder.
Mulka waa arrested in No
vember 1010 on charges of spp-
plying trucks which tfancpdrted
victims teem to Auschwitz rail
road station to the gas chambers.
He was released but again ar
rested on May 2S this year 00
orders of the Frankfurt Superior
District Court
crimes trial la West Owisny**
will epen at to sad ef 1002
when 20 former 88 efflctels st
the Auschwitz marder
be tried, Hetas Wetf,
Attorney, saasaared
He said tot he expected to
complete preliminary legal In
vestigations against the 26 sx-
Nazis next March or ApriL The
most prominent ef to 26 is
termer Auschwitz eemmandant
Richard Baer, who was arrested
a year ago near Hamburg where
he was working as a woodcutter.
The others Include tenner camp
doctors, dentists, guards and
members of to so-called “politi
cal section,” of to Gestapo.
Charges of war crimes have
been filed against 12,715 persons
in West Germany since the end
of World War II, the West Ger
man Ministry of Justice declared
in its annual report this week.
Of the 5,732 persons who Ware
convicted, 12 were sentenced to
death, 68 to life imprisonment,
5,178 to jail terms and 110 Win
penalized by fines. The counts
acquitted 4,011 and LMI
proceedings were dosed. The
port said that the proaatuttan of
Nazi crimes wtt bo ‘essentially
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