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The Southern Israel*^
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A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — t o« esV * A -«* aa *
Vol. XLII
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, ERIDAY, MAY 12, 1967
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NO. 19
Canadian Neo-Nazis
Sentenced to Jail
TORONTO (JTA) — ? John
Beattie, Canadian neo-Nazi, was
sentenced May 6 to six months
imprisonment on charges of con
spiracy, after a trial in which
he and two followers were
found to have placed swastikas
on the homes of prominent Jews
in Toronto.
Magistrate Tupper Bigelow
sentenced John Reese, 31, and
Robert Wood, 29, the other two
defendants, to three months each
in jail. Most of the evidence
against the three neo-Nazis was
given by John Charles Gerrity,
who said he was hired as a
private detective by the Cana
dian Jewish Congress and had
infiltrated the tiny Nazi group.
Gerrity testified that Beattie
had a list of 12 homes of pre
sumed Jews where he was to
hang swastika plaques. Gerrity
testified also he had been driver
of a car used by the three neo-
Nazis for that operation and re
ported on it to police, who seized
Beattie after the fourth swastika
placement, which was in front of
the home of Rabbi Abraham
Seinberg, a leading Canadian
Reform rabbi.
Wood is now serving an eight-
month prison sentence on an
other charge, Beattie’s appear
ance here was one of several in
recent years stemming from, his
neo-Nazi activities. In 1965 he
touched off a riot in the city’s
Allan Park with a violent anti-
Semitic harangue.
Temple Emanu-Efs Withdrawal
From UAHC Stirs Controversy
NEW YORK (JTA) — Hope
that Temple Emanu-El, the larg
est Reform congregation in the
world, would reconsider its
“hasty” withdrawal from the
Union of American Hebrew
Congregations, the association of
Reform congregations, was ex
pressed by Irving Fane, chair
man of the UAHC board of
trustees.
Disclosure that a divided
Temple board had voted, six to
four, to pull the congregation out
of the UAHC for the second
'time, touched off a series of ex
changes between officials of the
Temple and the UAHC. In dis
closing the withdrawal action,
Alfred Bachrach, congregation
president, said the action was
taken in protest about state
ments on United States partici
pation in the Viet Nam war and
other public issues by Rabbi
Maurice Eisendrath, UAHC pres
ident. Dr. Eisendrath has been
one of the sharpest critics among
a group of Reform rabbis oppos
ing the American role in the
war.
Mr. Bachrach said Dr. Eisen
drath had assumed the role of
spokesman for the entire Re
'New Tactics' of Syrian Terrorists
Ben-Gurion Refuses . . #
To View Independence Likened to Viet Cona Guerrillas
Day Parade
JERUSALEM (JTA) — David
Ben-gurion, former Prime Min
ister of Israel, has announced
that he will not attend Israel’s
Independence Day military
parade, which is to take place in
Jerusalem on May 15. It is un
derstood that his refusal to par
ticipate in the parade is due to
his being opposed to the curtail
ment of the display of armament
at the pmrade and to the fact that
the size of the parade will be
limited generally.
The curtailment of military
display has been decided upon
by the Israel Government in view
of the fact that Jerusalem is
near the Jordanian border and
also because of the opposition of
certain governments to the hold
ing of the parade in Jerusalem
which they refuse to recognize
as the capital of Israel.
Israel Galili, Minister for in
formation, commenting today on
a possible boycott of Israel’s In
dependence Day Parade by dip
lomatic representatives of a
number of countries said: “Israel
asked no one’s permission to
transfer its Parliament to Jeru
salem and we need no permis
sion to hold our Independence
Day parade in Jerusalem.” He
made the statement in an address
to the Industrial and Commercial
Club here. Britain has already
indicated it would not be repre
sented among observers at the
parade and other major powers
'are expected to follow suit.
Israel’s Cabinet will not hold
its regular meeting next Sunday
on which Israel will observe its
annual Memorial Day for those
who died in the War of Inde
pendence. The Memorial Day
traditionally comes the day be
fore Independence Day, a suc
cession arranged to link the joy
of independence with the sorrow
for those who died to make it
possible.
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
Israel Cabinet has -discussed to
day the new tactics of Syrian
terrorists expressed last week
end in the firing of mortar shells
into Israel from Lebanese terri
tory. Reports were given at the
Cabinet meeting by Acting Chief
of Israel’s Army, Brigadier Gen
eral Ezer Weizmann and by
Foreign Minister Abba Eban.
Prime Minister Eshkol spoke on
the political implication^ of the
new Syrian tactics.
The decisions of the Cabinet
were not made public. However
Mr. Eban will send another note
to the United Nations on the
subject for distribution among
the members of the U.N. Secur
ity Council. Gen. Weizmann said
that the new military tactics
embarked upon this weekend by
Syrian terrorists seem to emulate
the tactics used by Viet Cong
guerrillas.
During the weekend, the
Syrians fired seven 60-mm mor
tar shells at the Israeli border
settlement of Manara from the
Lebanese side of the border. In
a second incident, Syrian infil
trators blew up a water pump
on Lake Tiberias, about three
miles from the Syrian border.
One of the mortar shells dam
aged one house in the Manara
kibbutz. Three fell short and the
other three could not be found.
The new tactic apparently was
decided on, officials said here,
after several groups of maraud
ers were intercepted recently by .
Israeli patrols. The shelling last
ed three to four minutes. Army
experts said 60-mm mortars are
standard Syrian army equip
ment. The. gunners moved into
i in brief
Interiaith Parley
Split on School Aid
BOSTON (JTA) — The extent
of agreement in sectional groups
at the two-day interfaith con
ference on the Role of Consci
ence in Social Reform ranged at
the concluding session from al
most complete consensus in the
discussion of racial justice to al
most complete disagreement in
the section on government aid
to religious education.
The 48 Protestant, 58 Catholic,
54 Jewish and five Eastern
Orthodox representatives, how-
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Seek Smearers
ROME (JTA) — Rightwing
extremists were believed to be
responsible for a black paint
smearing of a memorial stone
here commemorating the Nazi
massacre in August 1944 of 12
citizens, including seven Jews.
The slaughter took place just be
fore the arrival of Allied troops.
Only a few days previously, au
thorities had placed a wreath in
memory of Pardo Roquez, leader
of the slain group. Police were
hunting for the vandals.
Desecrations Solved
BONN (JTA) — Officials dis
closed here this week that 207
desecrations in Jewish cemeteries
in West Germany have been re
ported since 1948. They Said 147
of the actions were solved by po
lice and the offenders were
caught. They included 122
minors.
NDP Lease Voided •
BONN (JTA) — The manage
ment of the city hall of Wies
baden has Canceled a contract it
had to rent the hall to the Na
tional Democratic Party (NDP)
for the party’s congress. The con
tract was canceled as a result of
pressure by the Wiesbaden Mu
nicipality, which holds 75 per
cent of the ownership of the
hall’s management. A spokesman
for the NDP said that a suit
would be brought against the
management to fulfill its con
tract.
Death Camp Doctor Dies
BONN (JTA) — Dr. Hans
Eisele, a doctor at the Buchen-
wald death camp died last week
in Cairo at the age of 55. Eisele
fled from a war crimes trial to
Egypt in 1952 and remained
there after President Nasser re
jected a West German request
for his extradition.
Partition Gavel
Presented to Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Dr. Emol-
ides Aranha, son of the late Braz
ilian statesman Oswaldo Aranha,
handed over to Israel two his
toric items used by his father in
the historic United Nations vote
to partition Palestine into Jew
ish and Arab states. Dr. Oswaldo
Aranha was President of the spec
ial session of the UN General As
sembly at which the partition rec
ommendation was approved on
November 29, 1947.
The items were the gavel he
used and the voting list he pre
pared for the vote. The items
were presented to the Brazilian
cultural center at Bror Hayil
named after the late statesman.
They were placed in glass cases
at the settlement for permanent
display. Foreign Minister Abba
Eban attended the ceremony. He
hailed Israeli-Brazilian coopera
tion and expressed the hope that
those ties would be expanded and
strengthened.
Lebanese territory about 15 miles
from the Syrian border. (A re
port from Damascus today con
firmed that the shelling was done
by the Syrian terrorist group, A1
Assefa.)
In another weekend incident,
five members of a northern kib
butz escaped injury when a pick
up truck in which they were
riding hit a mine and was wreck
ed in Upper Galilee near the
Lebanese border. The vehicle,
driven by a Daram settlement
member and carrying Sasa set
tlement residents, had almost
reached Daram when the driver
saw a suspicious object on the
road. He immediately swerved
‘ the vehicle but it detonated the
mine, blasting the truck off the
ground. Footprints of four men
were found leading to the
Lebanese border.
Leave for Moscow
To Set Up Exhibit
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A four-
man Israeli delegation has left
for Moscow to make final prepa
rations for Israel’s exhibit at
Moscow’s internatiortal food fair
which will open May 16. Sixteen
Israeli firms will have exhibits
at the fair. Most of them will
feature citrus products.
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister
Abba Eban reported today that
Katriel Katz, Israel’s Ambas
sador to the Soviet Union, told
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Jacob Malik in Moscow that
there was no truth whatever in
the Soviet contention that Israel
was acting on behalf of “third
parties” seeking to overthrow the
Syrian regime.
Expo Housing
Hailed by Writer
MONTREAL (JTA)—Visitors
to Expo 67, the Canadian world’s
fair were impressed by Habitat,
the dramatic housing experiment
built by 28 year old Israeli
architect Moshe Safdi and spon
sored and paid for by the Cana
dian Government. It was des
cribed as the. “permanent sym
bol and landmark of the fair,” by
N.Y. Times architecture writer
Ada Louise Huxtable.
Habitat is a group of one-story
and two-story homes arranged
in a cluster of pyramids and jut
ting boxes, vaguely resembling
a streamlined version of the
cliffside pueblo dwellings of
American Indians in the south
west. It is considered to be one
of the most impressive housing
experiments ever undertaken.
form movement and stressed that
such a position was “unauthor
ized and impossible.” Louis
Broido, a board member of Tem
ple Emanu-El, said that a “bare
quorum” of the board’s 21 mem
bers attended the April 25 meet
ing at which the withdrawal de
cision was made. He said he and
other opponents of the with
drawal action would bring the
issue up at the board’s May 28
meeting and that, if it Was not
reversed there, they would seek
to get a reversal at a congrega
tional meeting, which may be
called on petition of 25 congre
gation members.
Dr. Eisendrath claimed that
the withdrawal reflected a wide
spread tendency to use the Viet
Nam war to “curtail free ex
pression of opinion.” He also
charged that “the background
for this continued dispute be
tween certain members of the
Temple’s board and the Union
has been a disagreement with the
Union’s whole program of social
actions.” He said that the * “one
issue” of the Viet Nam war
“should not be used as an ex
cuse to alienate the congregation
of Temple Emanu-El from the
Reform Jewish movement and
from th^ great humanitarian,
ethical and religious impulse
that has bound us in fellowship.”
Mr. Bachrach replied that Dr.
Eiaendrath “favors di s s e n t
against everything except his
own views.” He added that the
Temple had withdrawn “because
we favor dissent. Our point is
that he wants it to appear that
he represents Reform Judaism
and we do not agree that this is
his right.” The Temple previous
ly was out of the UAHC from
July 1964 to July 1965 in a dis
pute over whether individual
congregations should have the
right to elect some of the UAHC’s
150 trustees.
New Envoy
j
Presents UN
Credentials
UNITED NATIIONS (JTA)—
Ambassador Gideon Rafael,
Israel’s new permanent repre
sentative and head of Mission
here, presented his credentials to
Secretary-General U Thant last
week, after which the two diplo
mats discussed current United
Nations problems including
Arab-Israeli issues. Ambassador
Rafael was then a guest of the
United Nations Correspondents
Association, a reception where
the representatives of all news
media at the U.N. greeted the
new envoy.
Mr. Rafael told the newsmen
that en-route from Israel to
New York he visited the Soviet
Union and conferred with top
USSR Foreign Ministry officials
including Deputy; Foreign Min
ister Vladimir Semionov. He said
his talks with these officials
were “realistic,” but would dis
close no further details.
He expressed the hope that the
USSR delegation at the United
Nations might be “more object
ive” in dealing with Israeli-
Arab problems. He said “that‘as
long as the Middle East arms
race continued, Israel is determ
ined not to lag behind. We wel
come any means to end that
race. But there is always more
than one party in a race. We did
not start it.”