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FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1969 I
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FRIDAY, MARCH 14,1969
PEACE
London (JCNS) - The continuing struggle in Czechoslovakia lietween the liberalizing elements and the hardliners within the country's Community Party, together with their Soviet allies again has brought the issue of anti-semitism to the fore.
"Svobodne Slpvo", the daily newspaper of the non-Communist Czechoslovak Socialist Party, devoted an entire page of its February 27th issue to an analysis of various aspects of antisemi-tism.
(Czechoslovakia nominally is ruled by a group of parties known as the National Front of which the Socialist Party
is a member. However, the real power within the National Front - and the de facto ruler of Czechoslovakia - is the Communist Party.)
The "Svobodne Slovo" articles on antisemitism included one by a Czech philosopher. Dr. Hermach, one by the Czech writer, Ladislav Fuks (a Jew), one by a psychiatrist, Dr. Rubes, and a fourth by Vilem Hejl, described as '-a member of the Society for Human Rights".
The organization of Czechoslovak writers, supported by the trade Unions, oppose the antisemitism of the party headliners and Russians in Czechoslovakia as does
by M. J. Nurenberger
GENERATION OF TRANSITION
Two addresses were heard on relevant topics during the same week in Toronto. One was by Yippie would-be leader Jerry Rubin, the other by John G. Diefenbaker.
Rubin, the pseudorebel, was cheered at the university when he told the students they were being brainwashed into believing that Communism is "oppressive and totalitarian." ^
"Fidel, Cl^e, the Viet Cong, that's Communism," exclaimed the New York Yippie in a triumphant tone as though he had proclaimed truth eternal.
At another meeting, former Prime Minister Dieffcnbaker made clear distinction between preaching dissension and leading people into violent activity. He repeated in eloquent terms the basic tenets of our liberal tradition, that the law is here to protect freedom not from different opinions no matter how we may dislike them but from disorganizing society and creating chaotic conditions which woiild, in turn, spell the end of our liberties in North America.
Rubin was sensational, mod. Therefore he was given tremendous publicity even in our very earnest, morning newspaper. Diefenbaker*s appeal to give the universities back the character of schools received very little coverage; for what he says is as old fashioned as the Bible and the Magna Charta.
In my opinion, the call for making the distinction between verbal opposition to certain traditions and rules and promoting terror by a minority against the established order is the crux of the task before our generation of transition.
We live.at a time when a Jerry Riibin can get away with such nonsense as proclaiming that Communism is against totalitariaiiism.
Not one among the two thousand students who heard him had the courage to get up and point out to this professional rabblerbuser that he should bone up on his Communism. For one of the cardinal principles of orthodox Marxism and Leninism is the belief that the dictatorship of the proletaria is the precondition for establishing a Socialist society..
Today, after fifty-two years of Communism in Russia, of experiments of Socialist dictatorships in other countries, of the bloodiest terror ever seen in the process of coercing peoples into submittitig to Communisih, this Stalinist-Leninist faith in the legality of the dictatorship of the ifew against the many is not theory anymore.
Is there one sane person who would contest the fact that in many countries a democratic vote for or against Communism "by the toilers" would put an end to this "freedom" which the Jerry Rubins, the tools of Communism in.our free world, would impose upon us?
Jerry Rubin and all the other intellectual halfwits have the right to preach whatever they think in a free society. Of course, they could not move on to the Kremlin or the University of Moscow to preach in that free society the virtues of Mao Tse Tung. Though we here definitely should keep free disciission open. But discussing ideas is one thing; organizing riots cer- . taifily is not the job of studenits.
A university, first of all, is an ediicational institution. Whether or not some students like it, education begins with coercion. One does not ask a child of sbc if it wants to go to school; parents force it to go.
For centuries uiiiversities have been centers of debate of free expression. The more dispute, the more debate, the more discussion, the more dissension in the exchange of thought, the more profound the learning. Biit the moment universities become rallying centers for professional troublemakers and wreckers of our free society, they cease to be schools. . fr; ^
It is the duty of our responsible authorities to defend the frecdoin of; the university, its free spirit, against the'Red tyrrany,which the world neo-Fascist and neo-Stalinist conspiracy would impose upon them.
We are. a generation Of transition, marching/to-. wards either more freedom or spiritual slaver^. The law in a democracy is the defense of freedom. Obedience to the law is the conditton sine qua non for the survival of our form of living.
"Mlady Svet", the Prague weekly which is the organ of Czechoslovak youth.
So far, 200 of the more than 350 people — many of them Jews who have applied to the Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry for rehabilitation— have been recommended for it, the Ministry has announce ei Applications are being dealt with by a special rehabilitation commission within the Ministry.
The people affected are former Foreign Ministry employees dismissed and/or imprisoned after 1949 and during the Slansky trial and later ones between 1951 and 1954.
The commission's chairman has announced the names of the most prominent individuals recommended for rehabilitation. They include Professor Eduard Gols-tuecker, Czechoslovakia's first Minister to Israel, chairman of the Czechoslovak Writers' Association, a member of the Czechoslovak Parliament, and former vice rector of Charles University in Prague, who is now a visiting professor at Sussex University.
prague tribute
to victims
. Prague ,(JQN§)..rfQrjhe first time, the largest single killing of Czech and Moravian Jews by the Nazis in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camps on the night of March 8-9, 1944, was officially observed in Czechoslovakia during the weekend^
The annual memorial ceremony, which was organized by the Czechoslovak Council of Jewish Communities, and the Prague and. other communities, the Union of Antifascist Fighters held a rally and musical tribute in the Dvorak Hall of the Artists House in Prague.
The address was given by Professor Dr. Peter Celotka, the president of the National Assembly. Afterwards, with representatives of the Czechoslovak Council of Jewish Communities and the Union of Anti-fascist Fighters, placed a wreath at the liiem-orial to the .77,297 Czechoslovak Jewish victims of the; Nazis.
The gassing of the 3,900 victims of the Naxis on that single night in March, 1944, is especially remembered because they were kept for six months before their execution in the so-called "family" camp at Birkenau. It was given this name to cloak its real character from the Inmates of the Theresienstadt "model" concentration camp in Czechoslovakia.
new Trouble
in poland
London (JCNS) - Although the anti-Jewish campaign in Poland has been muted during past, weeks, it is far from over, as Is shown by a recent speech by General Mieczy-slaw Mociar.
The f or mer head of the P o-lish security police, who iis now a deputy member of the Politburo in' his country, made his latest attack on the Jews at a conference of the Communist Party's district organization in Klelce.
He, accused them of combining with the National Democrats (a pre-war antl-Jewish party known as the "En-deks") to denigrate contemporary Poland.
General Moczar said that the "revisionists", the J^ws and the Endeks were "united in their virulent and ferocious hatred of Socialist Po-' land and on this level/tfieyx are in agreement with each \ other and think identically."
There is a dolible Irony In / this statement \by General j Moczar. In the first place; he lumps together Polish Jews and some of their most determined enemies. Second, many for mer Endeks and Polish Fascists now area,mong his own main allies and supporters. «
PAUL MARTIN AND FRIENO.-Tlie elber sUtesR\an of the Trudeau Government again met Oavid .Ben Gurioh last week in Tiberias. He reports B. G. is as alert as ever.
EL FATAH AGITATES FRENCH STUDENTS
by Fred Goldstein, JCNS Paris Correspondent
El Fatah and the Palestin- anti-Israel, and the authori-
ians have "taken over" many ties may well bepleasedthat
French universities and a the students are spending
similar state of affairs is be- their time and energy fighting
.ginning to buHd,upiothesec-. Israel, for two reascos: this ^
oadary schools. ' ' ciiitnes with cu^ At the Sorbonne in Paris,
El Fatah P9Sters are plastered everywhere. At the new university In Censier Jews have been beaten up. AtNan-tere where near anarchy prevails, there have been noisy demonstrations with students shouting, "Down with the Jews."
How has this situation come about? How is it that the full weight of the erper-lenced and well led extreme Leftwing organizations now Is being exerted on behalf of El Fatih and, by extension, against not only Israel but against Jews?
The answer lies in the one word, Vietnam. The intricate network of so-called Vietnam Committees inFrance, which for years organized and led antl-American agitation among French intellectuals, has been officially transformed iiito an organization of Palesr tine Committees.
They exist in almost every section of French intellectual life and they suppress any tendencies towards moderation among the nonextremist and very likely j^ro-Israel French students. These have been borne down and smothered Into silence even on such matters as the organization of studies.
Only in the Sorbonne law faculty - so far as Paris is concerned, at least - is opposition to the pro-Arabs possible; but even here It is almost macabre. Not long ago, in the law faculty courtyard, a number of propa^-da stands were erected.
This Is common In French universities today where the propaganda stands in the courtyards are accompaiiled by posters, booklets,' 'teach-ins" and similar activities.
At the Sorbonne law faculty on this occasion, anumberof Jewish students who wanted to show how "progressive" they were manned the El Fatah stand.
The Jewish students' Front, an organization led by Betar, the Herut youth movement, also had a stand In the courtyard. But this was manned by a group of non-Jewish students wlshtag to help their Jewish friends.
In the secondary schools of Paris^ the Comltes d'Ac-tlon Lyceens .(Secondary School Actions Committees), Leftwing and vociferous, actively propagate antl-Isi'ael activity. Zionism and Israel are equated with American "Imperialism" and "outdated capitalist society."
The authorities do nothing. In the first place, the Government has its own troubles with the students and secondary school pupils. Then, GaulUst policy Is, of course.
it also means tbat the students are being diverted from fighting General de GauUe.
The situation at the universities and secondary schools in Paris is a major preoccupation for the Jewish public. As for the official Jewish organizations and institutions, they do not seem to know how to approach the problem.
Organized Jewish youth is trying to do something to combat the pro-Arab drive, but opinions vary as to the effectiveness of what is being done, and how tnucb, if at all, it helps Israel's image.
There are three main facets of Jewish youth activity. First, the youth organizations as such are trying to rally Jewish students to Israel's side, but avoid direct confrontation With the "Palestinians".
Second, the "Union of French Jewish Students" led for a long time by Communists and with an ambiguous attitude towards Israel, often tries in combination with other Leftwing groups tode-^ bate the Middle East on an ideoi(%ical basis.
LasV there is the Jewish Students' Front already mentioned. They are not afraid to use force when they think the occasion merits it. Recently when a group of Algerians were trying to organize a "Palestine Day" at the Sor-IxHuie law faculty, meml)ers of the Front beat them up to such effect that three had to be sent to hospital. .
The situation should not be minimized. At the law faculty alone there are 30,-000 students, 6,000 of them Jews, There is little doubt that the future-of French Jewry Is gravely threatened. The ordinary French Jew is wondering what i^ being done to neutralize thfe threat
Canadian ^tatesmanp in exclusive in Ierv ie w, s ay 9 K h arto li m dec i si b n s are dead; Arab future witli Israei; praises Nixon role; no bne can impose settlement without
Jerusalem consent; lauds Israeli leaders as peaceloving
exclusive to The Canadian Jewish Nevw
The Hon. Paul Martin, former Foreign Minister of Canada^ at present Government Leader of the Senate and member of Mr. Trudeau's Cabinet, told The Canadian Jewish News editor that peace in the Middle East depends entirely upon certain Arab rulers. If they change their policy and decide to find an accommodation with the Jewish state, if they accept what they themselves call a political solution, there will be peace in the Middle East.
Mr. Martin received in his Ottawa office this week M. J. Nurenberger, editor of The Canadian Jewish News, for an exclusive interview on his recent mission to Israel. The Senate leader, accompanied by Phil Givens, former Mayor of Toronto and M.P.. represented Canada at the funeral of the'late Levi Eshkol.
Martin returned last weekend from the Holy Land where he had important discussions about peace possibilities with most of the outstanding leaders of Israel. His impression is that the Israelis, despite the fact that they are a little Big Power and can afford to wait, would make substantial concessions for peace with the Arab states. Also, said Mr.
Martin, no one expects the Israelis to return to the begun is to establish 'circumstances'ahd develop status quo ante of May, 1967. For peace, Mr. confidence in his true desire for an entente with Martin continued, there is almost passionate the Soviet Union. This effort should be supported, desire on the part of the Israelis who feel no enmity Mr. Martin spoke about these problems to Mrs. whatsoever for the Arab peoples and who are ready Meir, Foreign Minister Abba Efean, Acting Premier to place at the disposal of Arab nations all their Vigal Allon, Former Prime Ministw- David Ben technical knowledge to make the Middle East a Qurion and others. Not the slightest doubt was better place to live for all. evidenced as to the desire of the Israelis to discuss
The former Foreign Minister, who is considered peace earnestly. The question, of course, is how one of the world's experts on international affairs long these preparations will take; they may drag on and who has been successful following the Six Day into 1970, perhaps longer if the Arab side does not
• About certain Arab countries; some may believe that the conflict, its continuance, will help them. But more and more, Arab statesmen realize the necessity for peace and also that the Khartoum resolution of the Arabs of October, 1967-"no recognition of Israel, no negotiations"—will lead nowhere. The American government, through Mr. Nixon, has made this clear. In fact, no one can ask Israel to relinquish territory unless the others are ready to end the conflict. And this is the crux of the problem.
• The situation: it is tense and "Israel sincerely wants to bring about peace" but it cannot do it alone. Something has to be done. No one can impose a solution. The time when big powers could dictate decisions to smaller powers is over. What President Nixon now is trying to do is create a climate propitious for negotiations, helping UN Mediator Jarring in his task. The U.S. and the USSR both seem to feel that something must be done to accelerate procedure and bring about peace negotiations. But again, it must be done within the context of the United Nations and it cannot be an imposed settlement.
The road to peace: what President Nixon has
War in his mediation between former U.S. President Johnson and Premier Kosygin of the Soviet Union, says there is hope for pesice, though not immediately. For President Nixon realizes both the potential danger in that part of the world and the opportunities for an understanding with the Soviet Union. Nixon, Martin says, definitely has created the climate for peace negotiations both in Southeast Asia and in the Eastern Mediterranean area, and may succeed in bringing closer the opinions of the Soviet Union and the United Suites that, after all, could influence the situation.
Following are the essential points made by Mr. Martin in his talk with the editor of this newspaper:
• About Golda Meir. the Prime Minister Designate: I saw Mrs. Meir whom I have known for ten years. I have grieat respect for her and I extended to her my best wishes for a very delicate mission wh ich she undertakes with a sense of unusual dedication.
• About the Four Power talks, or rather, the Moscow-Washington contacts about the Middle East: no one is going to force Israel to surrender any occupied territory except as a part of peace arrangement which is exactly the spirit of the November, 1967, Security Council resolution.
realize the urgency of the matter and what they can win from peace. Their problem always has been iate or belated realization of a certain situation.
Israel itself is booming economically. In fact, the French embargo proclaimed by De Gaulle following the Beirut raid has boomeranged indirectly in favor of Israel, Mr. Martin said. It is unbelievable to see in what short span of time this country, this nation "which is the greatest achievement of nationhood of all time," has established its own industries to replace French supplies.
Israel cannot be destroyed-it will live, Mr. Martin concluded. "This last visit impressed me more as to the vitality of this nation which is led by outstanding statesmen and is a great friend of Canada."
The Arabs only will benefit from accepting the advice of true friends to make peace. Had they agreed to the Eisenhower Plan in 1958 for the development of the Middle East, they would be in better shape today. The trouble is, they take council from those not tiieir friends. I hope the new efforts convince them to test the road of peace, Mr. Martin added. (See related stories on page 9 and editorial on page 4)
DAYAN TO AID GOLDA MEIR
Tel Aviv (JCNS) - Moshe Dayan, Israel's Defence Minister, signified his readiness to serve under Gola Meir as Prime Minister;
Dayan, a contender for the office, visibly moved, told the political bureau of the Israel Labor Party: "Isupport the National Unity Cabhiet. which
is necessary in the expectations of the new fateful decisions awaiting the country."
Gahal (the Herut-Liberal alignment) seems determined to obtain new concessions in return for its continued Cabinet support, if not by a
by an undertaking that future public declarations will not flagrantly contradict "Greater Israel" aspirations.
In generalj political circles here say that Mrs. Meir is likely to follow Mr. Esh-kol's line, but her refusal to
third Mlnlsterlaiseatatleast consider renouncing most of
an editorial
The Rembrandt Exhibit opening this week at the Art Gallery of Ohtario is an occasion for all of us to pay hom-magc to the people of Tlic Netherlands.
For centuries Holland has been known for its tradition of liberty and tolerance; for authentic culture and true civilization; for the respect of fcllowman and for resistance to tyranny in all its forms. /
Rembrandt, perhaps the greatest master ofUlic Dutch school of painting, Had lived for about twenty years In the Jcwisii quarter of Amsterdam (Amsterdam signifi-
caricature of the Jew but his huinan face. He detected the universal in the parochial, the catholic theme in the individual. '
His house* in tlic center of Amsterdam's Jewisli quarter still stands on Jodcnb(ccstraat (the Jewish main street) as a legacy to gCfcrqtions.x
Perhaps it was this house and what it symbolizes that inspired the workers of Anisterdani to strike against the Germans and their racial laws^during the Naxi occupation. Many died in this battle for human dignity.
Todayr>yHch Israel is battling the forces of darkness
cantly had no glictto) and left behind a ^llcry of Jewisl| conspiring jjghinst its status of equality among the nations portraits incomparable in their beauty and expressiveness. of the earth again it is The Netherlands in the forefront Rembrandt Van Rijn was the first] to paint not the t^f; its true friends.
the occupied territories even in the event of a formal peace, is likely to become more clearly formulated,
sabras ready
Haifa (JCNS) - Young sab-ras are beghinlng to make an increasing mark on Israeli political life as the era of the veterans begins to draw to a close, Maler Asher, the JCNS Haifa Correspondent writes. Nowhere Is this more apparent than In Mapam, the extreme left Zionist Socialist Party, which is beginning to throw off Its old Ideological bonds and produce a ferment of new Ideas.
This was admitted at the eleventh conference of Has-homer Hatzair, Mapam's kibbutz movement, when Mr. Meir Yaari said that most of his Ideas had been;^efeated at the Party's conVentloii In Meglddo last week; Mr. Va-acov Haziin.'^one of Mapam's outstanding leaders, declared: "Qur vision of abl-na-tlonal ^tate lies buMed beneath the debris of the Six-Day War." "