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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1967
Tribute Paid to Memory
Of Henry Morgenthau, Jr.
Britons Prod S
To Make Good 'tiis Promises
NEW YORK (JTA) — Associ
ates of Henry Morgenthau, Jr. in
government and philanthropy
joined his family and friends in
tribute to the former Secretary
of the Treasury at funeral ser
vices at Temple Emanu-El here.
Mr. Morgenthau, who served
President Roosevelt for 11 years
as Treasury Secretary and who
was a general chairman of the
United Jewish Appeal and first
chairman of the Israel Bond
Organization, died in Poughkeep
sie at the age of 75.
Under Mr. Morgenthau’s lead
ership, the UJA, from 1947 to
1950, raised $465,000,000 for na
tional and overseas aid, From
1951 to 1954 he was chairman of
the board of governors for the
American Financial and Develop
ment Corporation for Israel,
which launched a $500,000,000
Israel Bond issue.
A close friend of Mr. Roosevelt
for many years, prior to FDR’s
election as Governor of New
York State and subsequent elec
tion as President, Mr. Morgenthau
was chairman of the New York
Germany Plans
No Ban on NDP
Any Time Soon
BONN (JTA) — Paul Lucke,
the West German Interior Mini
ster, who has publicly labeled the
National Delnoeratic pa ty as
“neo-Nazi,” has declined to con
sider immediate outlawing of the
extremist right-wing party.
In a report in the Ministry’s
publication, Internal Security, the
Minister said that any decision on
ruling the NDP illegal would de
pend on the party’s future de
velopment. He added that the
Ministw expected a growing
number%f crises of leadership to
develop in the party this year.
The Minister said that the issue
was whether the party posed a
threat to West Germany’s consti
tutional order, and declared that
the party maintained “a front” of
formal loyalty to the Constitution
behind which there was visible
the party’s “nationalistic, anti
democratic basis.”
He said also that there were
m the NDP “numerous” former
officials of the Nazi party in key
positions and that “at the ‘very
least those people had great in
fluence in inculcating Nazi ide
ology in the party,” He also ex
pressed the opinion that many
members had not yet recognized
the Nazi influences operating
within it.
He declared that despite all this
evidence of Nazism, there would
not be an immediate move to ban
the NDP, as the Communist party
has been banned. He said the
NDP at least gives formal loyalty
to the Constitution while the
Communist party openly pro
claimed its intention to destroy
the Constitution.
Mass Bar Mitzva
At Masada Fort
JERUSALEM (WUP)— Eigh
teen Israeli schoolboys recently
celebrated their Bar Mitzva in
the remains of the synagogue on
the height of the ancient fortress
of Masada where the first-cen
tury Jewish zealots prayed dur
ing their heroic last stand against
the Roman legions.
The ceremony came as the cli
max of a year of preparation
under the guidance of Daniel
Graetz, a {eacher at the Remez
Primary School of Naharyiah and
the originator of the idea.
State Agricultural Advisory Com
mittee and, later, head of the
Federal Farm Board.
Mr. Morgenthau’s interest in
foreign affairs and knowledge of
agriculture brought him into a
number of controversies, especi
ally his plan for post-World II
Germany, known as the Morgen
thau Plan, under which that na
tion would have been stripped of
industries and converted into an
agricultural state.
Mr. Morgenthau was born in
New York, the son of Henry
Morgenthau. The latter had been
United States Ambassador to
Turkey from 1913 to 1916 and had
also been chairman of the Demo
cratic National Committee’s fi
nancial r committee, as well as
very active in many Jewish phil
anthropies. The second Henry
Morgenthau graduated from
Cornell University in 1910. In his
maturity, he was the recipient of
many honorary doctorates, in
cluding kudos from Hebrew
Union College, the Chicago Col
lege of Jewish Studies and
Yeshiva University.
Besides his widow, the former
Mrs. Marcello Puthon Hirsch of
New York, Mr. Morgenthau is
survived by three children of a
previous marriage. They are
Robert M. Morgenthau, the Unit
ed States Attorney for the South
ern District of New York and
unsuccessful Democratic candi
date against Governor Rockefel
ler in 1962; Henry Morgenthau
3rd of Cambridge, Mass., a tele
vision producer; and Dr. Joan E.
Morgenthau, a pediatrician.
B’nai B’rith Bond
Sales Reach Peak
WASHINGTON (JTA)— B’nai
B’rith sold a record total of $8,-
060,275 in Israel bonds during
1966, an increase of $186,555 over
the previous year, it was report
ed here by Milton Seidenman,
chairman of B’nai B’rith’s Israel
bond committee. Last year was
the first in which the organiza
tion’s Israel bond sales exceeded
$8,000,000. Mr. Seidenman report
ed that cumulative sales by B’nai
B’rith for the 15-year period
reached nearly $88,000,000 in
bonds.
A total of 92,133 trees were pur
chased last year and planted in the
B’nai B’rith Martyr’s Forest in
the Judean Hills near Jerusalem,
it was reported by Meyer Hal-
perin, chairman of the organiza
tion’s Martyr’s Forest commit
tee.
Radio Will Teach
Spoken Hebrew
NEW YORK (JTA)—An ele
mentary course in Hebrew, en
titled Let’s Speak Hebrew,” will
be presented over radio station
WEVD, of New York, by the Tar-
bqth Foundation for the Ad
vancement of Hebrew Culture in
America, it was announced by
Abraham Goodman, president.
The course will be offered in co
operation with the department of
education and culture of the Jew
ish Agency.
Reuben Bar-Server, former
broadcaster of Hebrew instruc
tion for new immigrants in Is
rael over radio Kol Israel in Jer
usalem, will conduct the course
from 11:30 to 11:45 a. m., Mon
days through Thursdays, wrth
the Tuesday and Thursday les
sons repeated in order to rein
force learning and retention.
LONDON (JTA)—Representa-
tatives of British Jewry, failing
to obtain a meeting with Soviet
Premier Kosygin during his eight
day visit to London, have sub
mitted a memorandum to the
Premier urging full implemen
tation of his pledge to allow
Russian Jews to leave the Soviet
Union for re-union with mem
bers of their families living in
other countries.
The Soviet leader promised
during a visit to Paris last De
cember that Soviet authorities
would not hinder such emigra
tion.
The memorandum, signed by
the Board of Deputies of British
Jews, the Chief Rabbinate, the
Sephardic community leader and
all other major Jewish organiza
tions here, also urged the Pre
mier to permit Soviet Jews to
have Jewish educational facilities
and to allow them to set up a
central Jewish religious body si
milar to those which other re
ligious groups in the Soviet
Union now have.
The memorandum noted appre
ciatively Kosygin’s Paris declar
ation that Jewish families want
ing to leave Russia to be re
united with relatives abroad
^could do so. It “fervently hoped”
that “administrative difficulties
or discouragement, on either na
tional or local levels, will be re
moved for those Jews wishing to
apply for family reunion in Is
rael and elsewhere.” The mem
orandum declared that “the full
implementation of such an hu
manitarian policy towards fam
ilies who, as a result of Nazi war
and oppression, have been tom
asunder, would be greatly ap-
Bill Would Recognize
Jewish Holidays
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep.
Leonard Farbstein, New York
Democrat, has introduced a bill
to grant time off to Government
employees for the observance of
Jewish and other non-Christian
holidays.
Mr. Farbstein told the House
of Representative that “in this
country of many religions, it is
clearly inequitable for all Gov
ernment employees to be given
time off only to celebrate Chris
tian holidays.” His bill would al
low Government workers to
choose the days off that coincide
with their own religious convic
tions. The bill would require em
ployes to make up any time they
took off, although the time would
not be deducted from annual
leave.
preciated, not only by British
Jewry, but, we feel sure, by Brit
ish public opinion in general.”
The memorandum reminded
Mr. Kosygin that ‘‘in the earlier
years of Communism, before the
last war, and in other Socialist
countries of Eastern Europe after
the war, facilities were made
available for Jews to transmit
knowledge of their cultural and
religious tradition, history, lang
uage and literature to their chil
dren.
British Jews, it went on, are
distressed that, today in the
USSR, the essential means for
maintaining their existence as a
community—granted to other na
tionalities and groups in accord
ance with the Constitution of the
USSR—are, in practice, available
to the Jewish community in far
lesser degree.
The memorandum pointed out
that “in some cities with a Jew
ish population, there are no syn
agogues and no adequate facil
ities to meet essential religious
requirements. There is a serious
shortage of prayer books, the
publication of which, although
promised on several occasions,
has unfortunately still not taken
place. There is no central Jewish
religious body similar to those
which exist for other groups.”
The (memorandum deplored
“the nob-existence of a Jewish
communal organization In the
USSR.” It regretted also “the in
ability of Soviet Jewry to main
tain contact with Jewish com
munities in other parts of the
world, and the absence of rep
resentatives of Soviet Jewry at
international Jewish gatherings
dealing with cultural and religi-
Unemployment Drops
TEL AVIV (WUP)—The month
of January showed a drop in un
employment from 14,371 to 13,-
549. The Employment Headquar
ters, whose leaders met recently
under the chairmanship of Labor
Minister Yigal Allon, expressed
the hope that the trend in grow
ing employment will continue.
Hen Gurion Fears
Arabs to Get A-Bomb
TEL AVIV (WUP)—Address
ing Rafi’s Central Committee
here, former Premier David Ben
Gurion expressed his deep con
cern that Red China, which is
currently training Arab guerrillas,
may give an atomic bomb to the
United Arab Republic* out of its
hatred for Israel. B. G. also
voiced his belief that an inter
party list to the Seventh Knesset
cOuld mobilize a majority for
electoral reform.
ous problems.”
The document concluded with
an appeal in the name of British
Jewry for the Jews of the Soviet
Union, declaring: “Speaking on
behalf of the Jewish community
of the United Kingdom, number
ing half a million, we appeal to
the Soviet Government to enable
the reunion of families and to
give to their Jewish community
the same facilities for cultural
and religious self-expression as
are available to other nationali
ties and religions in the USSR.”
Meanwile, an unprecedented
total of 265 members of Parlia
ment signed a motion pending in
the House of Common requesting
the British Government to use its
“good offices” with the Soviet
Government to secure equality of
treatment for the Jews in the So
viet Union.
Protest Won’t Stop
Independence March
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Is
rael Government intends to go
through with its plans to hold
this year’s Independence Day pa
rade in Jerusalem in spite of pro
tests by Jordan which are con
sidered here as “wide of the
mark.” Reaction by political cir
cles here followed a note the Jor
danian Government sent to
United Nations Secretary Gener
al U Thant last week protesting
plans by Israel to hold the pn-
parade in Jerusalem.
Political circles here stressed
that Israel was entitled to hold
the parade in the capital in ac
cordance with the 1949 armistice
agreement with Jordan, but must
exclude from the city heavy arms
such as planes and tanks, which
will be omitted from the parade.
Asserting that there was no hint
of provocation ■ whatsoever nor
any desire to “show off” in the
decision to hold the parade in
Jerusalem, the Israeli circles des
cribed the parade plans as “leg
itimate.”
Jaffa Port to Be
“Sports Paradise”
TEL AVIV (WUP)—The Jaffa
port, renowned in biblical history
and which has been closed fol
lowing the construction of the
Ashdod port some 20 miles to the
south, is going to be transformed
into a sportsman’s paradise for
the use of fishermen and tourists,
it was announced here by A.
Ofer, Deputy Mayor of Tel Aviv,
during a recent tour of the area
with M. Kol, Israel’s Minister of
Tourism.
The proposal calls for the
clearing of slum areas along the
harbor and the construction of
art studios and galleries, souvenir
shops, restaurants and clubs.
1,000,000 JNF Trees
To Honor Canada
TORONTO (JTA)—A forest of
1,006,000 trees will be planted in
Israel to mark the Canadian
centennial celebration this year,
it was announced by the Jewish
National Fund here. The Canad
ian Centennial Forest will be
planted during the next three or
four years in the Dvir area, about
25 miles southwest, of Jerusalem.
One grove of 1,000 trees, fi
nanced by an anonymous donor,
will be named for Prime Mini
ster Lester B. Pearson. Ten other
groves will be named for the lO
provincial Premiers. Official ded
ication of the Centennial Forest
will take place in May.
Israel Blames UN, Major
Powers for Border Tension
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Joseph Tekoah, director-general of
the Israeli Foreign Ministry, asserted here that the “failure” of
the United Nations and the major powers to act to discourage
Syrian aggression was contributing to current Middle East ten
sions.
Mr. Tekoah, who is chief adviser to Israel’s delegation to
the current extraordinary session of the Israeli-Syrian Mixed
Armistice Commission, made the charge in a speech at the
Commercial Club. The MA*" ssion. the first in eight years,
was arranged at the ini. atlve of UN Secretary-General U
Thant, who stepped in when Syrian-Israeli border tensions
reached a dangerous level last month. The fourth meeting of the
MAC session, scheduled for February 9, was postponed until
February 16 at the request of Syria. “
Mr. Tekoah declared that, as long as the UN was unable to
guarantee Israel’s rights in accordance with the UN Charter
and prevent Arab attacks, the UN was not entitled, either
morally or juridically, to criticize Israel’s actions in defense
of its independence and territorial Integrity.