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President’s proclamation
Thirty-four yenrs ago today the United States
Armed Forces liberated the Dachau concentration
camp during the closing days of World War II in
Europe. Words alone cannot convey the shock and
horror that accompanied this tangible evidence of the
Nazi regime’s systematic program of genocide.
Dachau and other death-centers like Buchenwald,
Auschwitz and Treblinka were the means by which the
Nazi regime murdered six million Jewish people and
millions of other victims in a planned program of
extermination. These crimes have few if any equals in
history. Their legacy left deep moral scars on all
humankind. No one who participated in the
liberation of these camps or who has studied their
history can ever forget—least of all the quarter-of-a-
million survivors who found a home and built a new
life in this country after the war.
During my recent trip to Israel, I visited Yad
Vashem, the Israeli memorial to the victims of the
Holocaust. I vowed then, and I repeat now, that the
world must never permit such events ever to occur
again.
We must never forget these crimes against
humanity. We must study and understand the record
of the Holocaust. From this, we must learn to remain
eternally vigilant against all tyranny and oppression.
We must rededicate ourselves to the principle of
equality and justice for all peoples, remembering the
terrible fruits of bigotry and hatred.
A joint resolution of theCongress(H.J. Res. 1014)
approved September 18, 1978, authorized and
requested the President to issue a proclamation
designating April 28 and 29, 1979, as “Days of
Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust.”
NOW, THEREFORE, I, JIMMY CARTER,
President of the United States of America, do hereby
designate April 28 and April 29, 1979, as “Days of
Remembrance of Victims of the Holocaust.” I ask the
people of the United States to observe this solemn
anniversary of the liberation of Dachau with
appropriate study, prayers and commemoration as a
tribute to the spirit of freedom, justice and
compassion which Americans fought to preserve.
On the recommendation of the President’s
Commission on the Holocaust, 1 also ask the people of
the United States to note International Holocaust
Commemoration Day on April 24, 1979.
IN WITNESS THEREOF, I have hereunto set my
hand this second day of April, in the year of our Lord
nineteen hundred seventv-nine, and of the
Independence of the United States of America the
two hundred and third. Jimmy Carter
“Figures in the Warsaw Ghetto"
The Southern Israelite
The Weekly Newspaper For Southern Jewry
Our 55th Year
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Difference of opinion between Hussein and
his brother is exemplified by demonstrations,
terrorism and apparent assassinations
Atlanta, Georgia Friday, April 20, 1979
by David Landau
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A surge
of political tension, punctuated by
violence and suspected assassina
tions and attempted assassina
tions, was reported this week from
Jordan. The tension is believed to
stem from a deep division of
opinion between King Hussein and
his heir apparent and brother.
Crown Prince Hassan, regarding
Jordan’s steady drift toward the
rejectionist group of Arab states
led by Iraq and Syria.
While Hussein has been pushing
in this direction ever since Camp
David, Hassan is growing more
and more unhappy with it—and he
is supported by significant sections
of the officer corps and of the
Jordanian indigenous (as opposed
to Palestinian) elite. Clashes on
Amman University's campus
recently between Palestinian and
other students are explained as a
reflection of the tension in the
governing echelons.
Haaretz led off its front page
Sunday with a report compiled by
Arab affairs monitor Oded Zarai
of the various stones and rumors
of growing unrest in the Hashemite
kingdom.
The Haaretz headline said the
U.S. was planning for the
evacuation of American citizens
and companies from Jordan. The
story itself reported that the U.S.
Embassy in Amman had been
angrily questioned about this by
the Jordanian government and
had responded that the
contingency plans were merely
routine and were not connected to
any particular political situation.
The Haaretz report cited
Jordanians visiting the West Bank,
and West Bankers known for their
close ties with the royal house, to
authenticate the signs of tension in
the neighboring state. A group of
prominent West Bankers protested
to Amman last week at the method
by which police had broken up the
campus demonstrations —
apparently because injuries were
sustained by Palestinian students.
Jordanian travelers reported
that prices on the Amman stock
exchange were falling and that key
families involved in commerce
were moving funds out of the
country.
Meanwhile, the not-entirely-
rrliable Phalangist radio nation in
Lebanon reported that a
Palestinian aeronautical engineer
had. been arrested in Jordan on
suspicion of trying to plant a bomb
aboard the King's plane as it was
about to fly Hussein to Vienna. As
a result, security had been
tightened on all Alia Airline
flights, the radio said.
The Haaretz report also
discussed two mysterious recent
accidents in Amman in which
high-level political allies of Hassan
had met an untimely death. In one,
Sherif Nasser Ben-Jamil, an uncle
of the King, and passionate foe of
the PLO, lost control of his car and
crashed to his death. “There are
rumors rife in court circles,”
according to the report, “that the
car was tampered with."
In the other incident, the chief of
internal security, another close
supporter of Hassan, was killed at
Amman Airport on his return
from Qatar. A brief official
statement said only that his car had
collided with another vehicle.
There has also been a spate of
explosions in Amman in recent
weeks, which government
authorities there have attributed to
“Zionist agents.” Meanwhile,
Hussein himself was in Rabat this
week for talks with King Hassan
on the Israel-Egypt treaty and
Arab world reactions.
Israel Prime Minister Menachem Begin
accepts a special peace lithograph from Sam
Rothberg, general chairman, State of Israel
Bonds. The lithograph, depicting Begin,
President Carter and Egyptian President Sadat,
was created for the Bond organization by artist
Philip Ratner. 1
Inscription in English and Hebrew on the
picture reads, "The Lord will give strength unto
his people; the Lord will bless his people with
peace.”