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The Southern Israelite
Vol. XLJ
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Establish*^
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Senator Dodd Rips
Reform on Vietnam
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1966
WASHINGTON (JTA) — For
the first time in the Viet Nam
war, a United States Senator at
tacked the views of a Jewish or
ganization which has criticized
the United States and appealed
for an early peace in the struggle.
Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, a mem
ber of the Senate subcommittee
on internal security, denounced
in a Senate speech such appeals
by the Union of American He
brew Congregations, the Reform
congregational body. The Connec
ticut Democrat cited an article by
Albert Vorspan in “American Ju
daism,” the UAHC organ, which
said that “Jews are traditionally
fighters for peace” and that Viet
Nam is “not comparable to Mun
ich and Hitler.” Sen. Dodd de
plored that position and said such
thinking had been “criticized by
in Brief
BONN (JTA i — A former Nazi
police captain was sentenced to
life imprisonment for the war
time murder of Jews in the Polish
town of Czenstochowa. in one of
a number of actions involving
Nazi war criminals.
The life term, relatively rare
in the hundreds ol sentences im
posed by West German jury
courts in such trials, was passed
n Pail Pepenharrtt 72. by a
Dune burg court. He was found
guilty on 28 counts of having shot
7: Jews in 1942 and 1943.
WASHINGTON (JTA)— Hear
ings stated to the Senate on a bill
Community Service Corps based
on the Senior Service Corps pro
gram of the National Council of
Jew ish Women. The bill is spon
sored by Sen. Harrison A. Wil
liams. New Jersey Democrat,
who has submitted the success of
the NCJW project as proof of the
desirability of federal sponsor
ship of similar activities.
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The Army
spokesman confirmed that an Is
raeli platoon on maneuvers in the
south had crossed the Jordanian
border by mistake. The spokes
man said that the Jordanians
opened fire on the platoon which
realized its mistake and with
drew into Israel without return
ing the Jordanian fire and with
out suffering any casualties.
ZURICH (JTA)— The Assem
bly of Delegates of the Swiss Fed
eration of Jewish Communities
adopted unianimously a resolu
tion voicing “grave concern that
two decades after Hitler, National
Socialist ideology has again rear
ed its head in Germany.”
The resolution, which was de
livered to the West German am
bassador in Berne, expressed
“amazement” that groups whose
spirit is very close to that of the
Nazis were able to form again
and the German press allowed to
publish anti-Jewish propaganda.
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German-lsrael Jewish i
Society Formed Weekly suitors to Washing!
In Berlin
on
many Jewish leaders.”
Specifically, the Senate cited
as a more typical and “percep
tive” Jewish view, an article in
the “Jewish Veteran' by Jewish
War Veterans executive director
Monroe Eheinberg, who attacked
the Vorspan views and sought to
justify the “morality of our cur
rent commitment’! in Viet Nam.
Sen. Dodd introduced into the
Senate speech the text of the
JWV stand. He also said he be
lieved that most religious senti
ment — Protestant, Catholic and
Jewish —■ endorsed the United
States stand. He singled out for
particular criticism a sentence in
the orspan article that the “im
morality of American actions in
Viet Nam arises from our pecu
liarly American brand of obses
sive anti-Communism.”
BERLIN (JTA) — Asher Ben-
Nathan, Israel’s first Ambassador
to West Germany, told the found
ing meeting of the German-lsrael
Society in West Berlin that there
were still persons in Germany
who had learned nothing and who
were hostile to anything relating
to Israel.
He told the 2,000 persons pres
ent in the Hall of the Academy
of Art that he was pleased at
the opportunity to speak amid a
large number of friends and peo
ple who themselves had suffered
at the hands of the Nazis. He said
there were Germans whom one
could not forgive but that there
were others who had done
nothing and should not be sub
ject to blame.
Dr. Heinrich Grueber, a long
time foe of the Nazis, was named
honorary president of the Socie
ty. The president is Dr. Gerhard
Jahn, a Social Democratic mem
ber of the Bundestag, the West
German lower house of Parlia
ment. The Society board includes
former Chancellor Konrad Ade
nauer, Dr. Eugen Gerstenmair,
president of the Bundestag. Dr.
Carlo Schmidt, vice president of
the Bundestag, Munich Mayor
Hans Fogel and other West Ger
man leaders. One of the vice pres
idents is Ernst Bender, who init
iated the successful effort to ex
tend the deadline for prosecution
of Nazi war criminals last year.
Other -speakers, in addition-to
the Israel Ambassador, were Dr.
Grueber, Mayor Willy Brandt of
West Berlin, Ernst Lemmer of
the Christian Democratic Party,
and Dr. Adolf Arndt, a Social
Democratic Member of Parlia
ment, who outlined the tasks of
the Society. A special choir of
Cologne students who had work
ed in a kibbutz in Israel sang
songs fluently in Hebrew as jpart
of the program of the meeting.
Climaxing the observance of American-Jewish Press Week,
editors and publishers of leading United States weekly news
papers gathered In Washington this week for their annual con
vention. tinder the presidency of Morris Janoff of Jersey City.
Sessions were held in the B’nai B’rlth Headquarters Building.
Plead Guilty In Attack on Israeli Nurse
Johnson Receives American Jewish Committee Medal
Sen. Kennedy Says
Red Tape Snarling
Immigration Law
NEW YORK (JTA) — Five
young men who kidnaped an Is
raeli nurse from Welfare Island
last October pleaded guilty here
to first-degree attempted rape.
The original indictment listed 20
counts of abduction, and other
crimes for which, if convicted,
each defendant could have been
sentenced to 100 years imprison
ment
The nurse, however, was too
shaken to testify and the guilty
pleas were accepted as a com
promise. The five were released
on bail pending sentencing which
is set for June 23. The law pro
vides for a maximum 10 years
imprisonment on the charge to
which the men pleaded guilty.
President Johnson accepts the American Liberties Medallion
from American Jewish Committee President at the Committee's
60th Anniversary Annual Meeting in Washington, I). C.
"Coming from a group such as yours, who have made the
path of freedom easier to travel for all of their fellow citizens,
this award means Just a little more for this kind of man,” the
President said.
Mr. Abrams will be in Atlanta this weekend to address the
annual meeting of the Atlanta Chapter at the Atlanta Cabana
Motor Motel. Arm and May and Leonard Haas, founders of the
Chapter, will be honored prior to the June 3 dinner and a re
ception will be held for Mr. Abrams.
NEW YORK (JTA)—The spirit
of the Immigration Act of 1965.
which liberalized United States
entry requirement by eliminating
the old national origins quota
system, is being snarled by “red
tape” and U. S. Labor Depart
ment regulations. Son. Edward
M Kennedy, Massachusetts Dem
ocrat, charged here.
In an address during the week
end before the American Immi
gration and Citizenship Confer
ence. Sen. Kennedy said that the
Labor Department’s interpreta
tion of some of the clauses in
the 1965 Act are "working a hard
ship on hundreds of thousands of
people" whose entry could “fill
a need in the United States.” He
said he had discussed the matter
with Secretary of Labor W. Wil
lard Wirtz who “recognizes the
situation and, I believe, will make
every effort to find reasonable
and cooperative answers to the
undeniable problems which
exist."
Sen. Kennedy, who was one of
the principal backers of the Im
migration Act of 1965, said that
the chief problem concerns Labor
Department regulations setting
up categories of “open” and
“closed” occupations. Would-be
immigrants whose occupations are
in “closed” categories will “al
most certainly” be denied admis
sion .even if they can get a job
in the United States, Sen. Ken
nedy said.
GOVERNOR APPROVES SUPPLEMENT
Governor Carl Sanders congratulates The Southern Israelite as
one of the more than 100 newspapers in Georgia featuring a
special newspaper supplement, Vacation Georgia ’66, published
by Georgia Press Association and the Georgia Department of
Industry and Trade, Tourist Division.
