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At the UN
Blum slams Waldheim
by Yitzhak Rabi
UNITED NATIONS (JTA) -
Yehuda Blum, Israel’s Ambassa
dor to the United Nations, has
Sharply criticized the performance
of Secretary General Kurt
Waldheim who, he charged, lacked
“moral leadership,” adding, the
Secretary General, instead of
taking issue with the “majority of
totalitarian regimes” at the UN
which vote for resolutions
deviating from its Charter, carries
out these resolutions.
While Israel has in the past had
differences of opinion with
Waldheim and has criticized some
of his actions, Blum’s remarks last
week were the most outspoken
attack ever made by an Israeli
envoy on the Secretary General.
Blum spoke as the guest of honor
at a luncheon tendered here by “UN
We Believe," a private, non-profit
organization that describes itself as
serving the business community as
liaison to the UN and its
specialized agencies.
The Israeli Ambassador claimed
that the UN is in a constant state of
decline and charged that the UN
today is ruled by a majority of
countries which he characterized
as dictatorships. At the same time,
he said, the minority of its
members of the free world actually
finance the world organization. He
contended that the UN
consistently departs “from its
principles and its Charter.”
Blum warned that as long as the
UN is ruled by a “majority of
totalitarian regimes I don’t see how
the situation can be altered." He
noted, however, that the UN is
extremely sensitive to public
criticism in the free world,
especially from the U S. and from
BONN (JTA)—Three former
Nazis will go on trial in October for
their alleged role in the murder of
more than 33,000 French Jews
between 1942 and 1944, the
Cologne .prosecutor’s office
announced this week, rhe three are
Kurt Lischka. who was Hitler’s
deputy commander of the Gestapo
in France from 1940 to 1943, and
two of his colleagues, Herbert
Hagen and Ernst Heinrichsohn.
The three were indicted in June
1978, but were not arrested.
In 1950, a French court
sentenced Lischka in absentia to
hard labor for his part in deporting
100,000 French Jews and
communists to Nazi concentration
camps. He remained free,
however, because the West
independent groups.
He pointed out that countries of
the free world at the UN face
problems when they try to form a
united front against the majority
because “the energy crisis is very
much reflected in what is going on
in this organization.” Therefore,
he said, the free countries of the
West do not want to antagonize
their oil sources.
German constitution prevented
German subjects from being
extradited But in 1975, West
Germany’s Parliament ratified a
treaty with France permitting
Lischka and his colleagues to be
tried in Cologne.
The prosecution spokesman
said the three men are charged with
being responsible for deporting at
least 73,000 Jews to Auschwitz and
other death camps in Poland and
that of these, 33,592 were sent to
their deaths in gas chambers
According to the prosecutor’s
office, Lischka, a retired clerk
living in Cologne, has not
responded to the charges but the
other two men have denied
personal responsibility
Former Nazis face
trial in Germany