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Nazi armbands?
SAN FRANCISCO, (JTA)—A
leading flag manufacturer that
sells flags to the State of California
and the city of San Francisco also
manufactures and sells the red,
white and black swastika flag of
Nazi Germany, the San Francisco
Jewish Bulletin disclosed. Nazi
swastika armbands are also sold
over the counter—or under—by a
concessionaire at a local F.W.
Woolworth Variety Store, the
Bulletin's assistant editor Phil
Bronstein reported.
The Paramount Rag Co. does
over S4000 a year in business with
the State, according to the State
purchasing manager Frank Oliver,
and the city buys from SI 200-
$ 1500 worth of flags from the firm,
senior buyer Ray Erikson said.
Jeff Sutter, manager ot
Paramount, acknowledged that
the firm manufactures the Nazi
emblem, which is not illegal. But,
he told the Bulletin, it does so on
special order and does not
advertise the item. He said
Paramount sells only a few dozen
Nazi flags a year in addition to
sales to a Los Angeles outlet that
supplies film companies with
replicas of the flags. Paramount
also carries other Nazi emblems
including the SS flag and Herman
Goering’s personal standard.
At Woolworth’s, Don Gotlieb,
who is Jewish, Bronstein reported,
sells the Nazi armband at his
concession, the profits of which he
shares with Woolworth’s.
“Originally, Gotlieb sold the
armbands displayed on the
counter along with buttons, coins,
masks and bumper stickers he
regularly sells. But Gotlieb says his
father, who is an observant Jew,
complained bitterly as did a
customer and Gotlieb removed the
armbands to a drawer undent)?
counter ana now sells them ‘on
. request,' ” Bronstein reported.
by Gil Sedan
JERUSALEM, (JTA) —
Attending a meeting of the
Ministerial Security Committee
Monday, Defense Minister Ezer
Weizman suddenly ripped a
“peace” poster from the wall. It
had been prepared for Israel's 30th
anniversary festivities. Weizman
said he failed to see the point of
such a poster when it was doubtful
that everybody in the Cabinet
wants peace.
Earlier in the day, Weizman
stalked out of a meeting with
members of the Knesset's Foreign
Affairs and Security Committee
after refusing to brief them on his
talks with President Anwar Sadat
of Egypt in Salzbury last week.
Both incidents reflect the anger
and frustration that has
characterized the Defense
Minister’s mood of late.
Some circles here say his
behavior is a reaction to the
Cabinet's decision Sunday to
postpone consideration of Sadat’s
Jatest peace proposals that were
conveyed to Weizman at their
meeting in Austria. He was also
reportedly miffed by the Cabinet’s
resolution on the conduct of future
negotiations which seemed aimed
in part at restricting the scope of
his personal contacts with Arab
leaders in the future.
Begin and other ministers have
been infuriated by Sadat’s public
assessment of Israel's leaders
which categorizes the Premier as a
bitter intransigent with whom
there is no point in negotiating,
while making a “favorite” of
Wgizman. Tbe Defense Minister
has no control over Sadat's public
"^Utterances. But many of his
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colleagues believe he should have
demanded an immediate apology
from the Egyptian leader for his
unflattering remarks about Begin
or else walked out of their meeting
in Austria.
While Weizman may have
initiated the meeting on his own,
he attended it with the approval of
Begin and authorization by the
Cabinet. But when he briefed the
Cabinet on the results Sunday, the
attitude of some of his colleagues
was unfriendly and even
derogatory, informed sources
reported.
His most vocal critics were
Agriculture Minister Ariel
Sharon, the most outspoken hawk
among the ministers, and Yigael
Hurwitz, the Minister of
Commerce and Industry. They
were tough and Weizman
responded in kind, accusing his
Likud colleagues of being
ungrateful for his efforts to revive
peace talks with Egypt. Begin had
to intervene more than once to
cool the heated exchange.
Sunday’s Cabinet session was
almost a replay of the one last
month when a majority of the
ministers rejected Weizman's
proposed formulation of a reply to
the American questions on the
future of the West Bank and Gaza
Strip. Instead, they adopted a
Begin-Dayan reply that was widely
criticized in Israel and abroad as
evasive. After that meeting,
Weizman announced that he
would, in the future, stay out of
political affairs and concentrate on
building up the army for the “next
war."
But the energetic Defense
Minister did not stay on the
sidelines for long. Two weeks ago,
after the Cabinet flatly rejected
Egypt’s six-point peace proposals,
Weizman contacted his Egyptian
counterpart. War Minister
Mohammed Gamassy, proposing
that they get together. The result
was his meeting with Sadat and
Gamassy at Sadat’s vacation
retreat near Salzburg.
Weizman appears once more to
be isolated. The feeling here is that
he must soon decide whether to
openly challenge the Begin-Dayan
policies or resign.
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