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that Hitler* ition. without In past. \, ;;ON--'-: �a former xabbi of was expelled from k* ia 1987, reported )f social and political completed last month il&y. He spoke at,a
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ternauonal Affairs of the American Jewish Congress in Stephen Wise Coadress House, 15 east '84th_Stre�� New York.
"Some apologists for Germany claim not only thai Nasisin was An isolated incident in German history/ Dr. Prins declared. "They would forget the twelve years of the * Bitter regime and have us think of Germany only In terms of
of World War II. Accordingly, they attack books like WHWWO Shlrer1*, 'Rise and Fall of the Third Rftk&V ** deliberate at-� tempt* td discredit Germany." He continued i ...'.''. ;,
"The new Germany now rising "" � etanet ilevelop strong Ie institutions for to-own hit-friends
principles and ideals of democracy remains absent
. -''More than ever*. it - appears cleat1 that the main concern in Germany is no$ with building strong fobn&tifcu. of "political It* bertynbot with promoting economic prosperity. Democracy in Ger-matiy ^Klay is only skin deep."
fhe "American Jewish Congress leader called fetv increased vigilance in footing o^t ex-Nans fron) positions of trust and authority in the .government administration, the military, and the Judiciary. H* also urged ^substantial-increased .programs of education for children and adults alined at providing a igennine undetttaj&dtng of the Nasi past and. a genuine appreciation of democratic valtfes.
Dr. Prins said: "Perhaps the most revealing indication of the failure of democracy to take firm root in Germany ^was the Adenauer administration's clumsy handling of the Der Spiegel affair, in which the editor of an opposition journal was arrested in Nazi fashion aad the case was fpre-judged by the Chancellor him-.self, who accused the editor of treason."
. While deploring the action of the Adenauer administration, Dr. Prins said he was encouraged by the vigorous protests made, by y&uth groups, newspapers, and outers against the Gictapo-like attest of the m*g**toe'a editor anf the, psdlocJdntf of -Its offices, the pablft outcry against "- ie sign
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The President was further for:"his fjritT stand fe separation of church and �. persistent and articulate oj to forces of th* " right; his ployment anc throughout the 14 ment; his prompt i nunciatiohs of
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. President Kennedy's speech of acceptance of the Award "Here We Have Planted Freedom", follows:
"I am honored to receive this award from an organization which, on its fiftieth anniversary, should, itself, be receiving an honor for distinguished contribution to the enrichment of America's democratic legacy. Your tireless pursuit of equality of treatment-for all Americans has made a lasting and substantial contribution to our de-
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T�tnpl6 Bnai Abraham, in Newark, N.J., add^d: "Only aiter the Ger-maA people have nad the courage to f*6� taeir.OW|B>pa8t and purge themselve*4f it can they begin the moral re-education they must com-pkte if they are to win th* Confidence and respect of the free world. No such moral re-education can take place by pretending that Hitler never happened, or that Germans were unaware of the vicious nature of Nazism, or that the Kami myth of Aryan racial snpf&oaey and all that went with it nao no antecedents in German
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"Thq men who first shaped the democratic legacy that you honor were filled with a sense of commitment and of wonder at the importance of the events in which they were participating. It was not .only, as John Adams exalted, that they were to have the unteue opportunity to write a new Constitution and form a new government an* begin a new nation; it was also the deep conviction, as later expressed by Walt Whitman, that re we have planted the standard freedom, and here we will test ties of men for self-gov-
agreement
for Israeli
tate the construction oT homes for
over 8,000 lmmlgranta\expected to
arrive in Israel In 1(6$. The four
participating companies are: the
Penn if utual Life Insurance Co.,
setts Mutual Lire. Insurance Co., of SpringfieM, Mas*.! the State Mutual Life- AftOTMce Co. of America, of WoreestatvMass.; and the Phoenix Mutual |oe Insurance Co., of Hartford, Xwatit
On the strength of. this agreement, United Associates, Inc., a new Corporation formed by Jack D. Weiler and Benjamin H. Swig, two leading NeWJfork and San Francisco realtors, wjll finance the construction of over .2,000 immi-"grant housing units throughout Israel ranging from Safed in the North to Ashdot ia the South. United Associate* will invest $10 million in the financing: of these units, including $1 million of its own capital; f4.5 million in proceeds of 15-year note* at 6% per cent interest subscribed by the four insurance companies; and $4� million in subordinated capital participation subscribed to by
authority and lea*%!r to the Jewish Agency for Israel Inc., a philanthropic organisation which is the major benefkiary of the nation-wide United Jewish Appeal. The Agency, whiev win d& tribute the units to new immigrant* as part of its over-all immigrant, rehabilitation program in Israel, will pay abroad annual rental to United Associates to cover repayment of the initial investment and interest Charges. This* fixed annual rental to be Covered out of the Agency's share In tha United Jewish App4alVwill serv* to guarantee the loans received by United Associates.
As Israel's population has morifc than trebled during fifteaa years of Independence, the construction of low-rent public housing for over one-million immigrants (the vasjt majority of them penniless refugees) has been one of the country's major problems. During thdbe fifteen years, over 300,000 new housing units were constructed, a iarg* portion of them in new develop-ment areas where some $8 new towns have sprung up in little over a decade. During the curj^pt year, it is anticipated that new arrivals alone will require about 20,000 additional housing units and tile cost
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The financing, oonstr distribution of the- .units built by United Associates follows a pattern established last year by American Associates; the Massachusetts Life insurance Co.; and tha New England Life Insurance Co., which made it possible for the first time for Amerfean insurance firms to provide k|ipi for taraal's
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. "Hitlerfsm did happen, and the German people, for all their denials, saw that Jews had to wear the T�lloW Badge on the street, saw that Jews Could buy food onhr at B|ght,. and,, finally, saw their Ji pear f rgj* t ments. Th* vented 'r' and racism
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that Hitter in-Ant^Semitism g Uea prorai-trman life, ex-ty years to the moveownt, which Aryan
�racial purity* and called for the elimination 04 .Jews from German cultural and political life, "It should also her remembered," id, "that .the nineteenth anti-Semitic movements in vi^nuKu/, which developed after As creation of a united German
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a* as a reaction to military de-feai tet ia response to military victory. � -.
Dr. Prifik warned against think-te-te stereotypes abMt tha new Ottiaa&yr^Jwl as it is wrong to assert that the people of Germany were fttoorani of the ttoesses of
tant to recall that there was a German HoSl revolutJoa in'1848 aad a Gertsaa liberal turniaaent ia 1919. It is adther wise DOT just to assume that the Geifttaa people have ao potential for daaocraejr. But^tf tfaet* is to develop ia'Ger-maajr an important bOty of opin-kA Oat rejetta the authoritarian and aa&deniocrattc attitofles that _ tha norm of Ger-
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In his refh&rt, Dr. Prim commented on recent public opinion polls indicating that eight per cent of West Genfcans admitted they still believed In Hitler while thirty-nine per cent said they were undecided about Nazism, "It is this thirty-nine per cent, a vast number ox Germans, who must be watched carefully for signs that they may once again be swayed by the counsels of racial hatred and super-patriotism," he declared. "There is no politically significant neo-Nazi movement in Germany today and little overt anti-Semitism. But wre is no doubt in my mind whatsoever, that latent anti-Semitism among the German people remains a powerful force.
"Anti-Semitism in Germany has historically been, and remains, an anti-Semiti�m without Jews. Because Jews Clever constituted more than one p�r cent of the German population,'German anti-Semitism has had a 'kind of mystical quality. It was never the Jew who lived around the corner who was hated. Rather, German anti-Semitism was compounded out of a hatred of the invisible Jew and then directed, as ft were, against the innocent Jewish bystander. \ "Thus. anti-Semitinn can remain latent among the German people evea when, as today, Jews make up an infinitesimal part of the West "German population, a mere twenty-two thousand iadtvi-dnals living among 57.000,000 Germans. All Ihis is said not to perpetuate old hatreds or to arouse new fears fent to help Germany to recognise its own past, Unless the German people confront their own national history and cleanse themselves of it, the Nasi era will remain the great traumatic experience of the German people, a trauma mating impossible any genuine moral recovery or democratic development*.'*
Dr. Priai saidJtwjstratk that the. mffaaca represented by Communist East Germany should have seived to ~ divert attention � from the nteesaftf of streaftfaeaiag the Meals ejrtreedota ia West Gar* many, "waaterer problems of an-
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tieaaUstt ajafmnt West G*rtaaay, it must sFrMotafea* tfcftlbeV exist in greaUr dafm aad wtth in East Gemsay.
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takta hy the Boa* fitstaiiiat. last G�raaaay baa aot ealy ae-aootat oot the services Nask wimivir this to afossia* greater UaMu the
Admiral George' derson, Chief of Naval Operations and member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; David L. Baselon, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; David-Coleman, Judge of the Superior Court of the State of California; Archibald�Cox, U.S. Solicitor General; Rt. Rev, William F. Creighton, Bishop of Washington, D.C.; J. Edward Day, U.S. Postmaster General; William 0. Douglas. Associate Justice of the U.o. Supreme Court; Myer Feldraan, Deputy Special Counsel to the President; Henry H. Fowler, Under Secretary of the Treasury) Orvillft L. Freenjfen, Secretary of Agriculture;
Rev. Dr. Norman Gerstenfeld, Rabbi. Washington Hebrew Con* gregationr-ArtWr J. GoWUrg, As*�lat*T J�tte*^a*-the y* Su^-prette^XJoutt; "Leonaifd H. Golden-son, president of American Broadcasting-Paramount Theatres; Er-win Griswold, Dean, Harvard Law School; Gen. Alfred M. Gruenther, president, American Red Cross; Richard H. Gutstadt: Avraham Harmaar Ambassador from Israel; W. Avtrel! Harriman, Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs; Hubert H. Humphrey, U.S. Senator from Minnesota, and Majority Whip of the U.S. Senate; Jacob & Javlts, U.S. Senator from New York;
Lyndon B. Johnson, Vice President of the United States; Eric A. Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America: Nicholas DeB. Katzenback, U.S. Detrtrty Attorney General; Francis Keppel, U.S. Commissioner of Education: Fred Korth, Secretary of the Navy; Thomas H. Kttchel, UA Senator from California, and Minority Whip of the U�. Senate: David H. Litter, member of the -New York City Mayor's Commission on Human Refatfrast Richard Livingston; J. Howard McGrath, formerly U.S. Attorney Gtaaral; Robert a Mc-Naaara* Secretary of Defense;
Newton N. Miaow, chairman, . tha Federal Cooraunkation* Com-mlasiori* Bdwmrd R. Marrow, director, U.B. Information Agency; latest N. NahHt, icresideat. How-
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continent*. In short, wrote Jefferson to Adams, "The flames kindled on the 4th of July 1776 have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble energies of despotism." Although Jefferson also foresaw that to attain liberty in other parts of the globe, jrears of desolation must pass over.
"Almost two centuries have passed since a small, weak nation, a beachhead on a continent, began the great experiment of democracy in a world where government by
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the 1963/64 fiscal year is- estimated at close to $64 znfiUoft or 27.8% of Israel's devebpteeat
budget. � **
"I am weH aware that provided by United Astrida cover only a small is needed to house I en in 1968", Mr. "But with the American Associates Associates we have which we
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Life
Insurance Cot, as MpMterifc as well as Jack D. Weiler and Benjfftmin H. Swig as investors, are "repeaters", having participated in the American Associates as well as the United Associates transactions. Negotiations for the formation of both companies were conducted by Gottlieb Hammer, executive vice-chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel, Inc., and Maurice M. Bouk-stein, the Agency's attorney and counsel^
The unite to be financed by United Associates will be purchased from the Israel Housing
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which reiieyes
Inc., and its agent, the
Agency, in Jerusalem* from
pressure of frantic shorfcierm bor-
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immigrant housing program.'* The
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Israel
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at least one-third of all boosing units.
Mr. Weiler noted that Ah* simultaneous transfer of titles and funds required for this complex
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