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The Canadian Engttfth Jewish Weekly
GAHDENVALE, QUEBC. IUIY 29. I960
Charges MX Anti-Semitic Groups Link Bigots In 16 Countries
Last Christmas Eve's smearing of a Cologne Synagogue set off a global wave of anti-Semitic incidents in 41 countries. The number of incidents is estimated at somewhere between 2000 and 2500. The initial act by members of a German neo-Nazi group �parked teen-age and adult Tiood-lums, drunks, individual anti-Semites, as well as organized anti-Jewish groupings, some of them with international links, to go on a spree of synagogue bombing and arson, vandalism of churches, cemeteries, and synagogues, as well as personal and group insults, daubing buildings with anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi slogans in at least 430 different places throughout the world.
A fact sheet on the epidemic has been submitted to the United Nations by the World Jewish Congress in New York, according to Samuel Bronfman, of Montreal, Canada, chairman of the WJC's North American Executive Committee. The submission was made public together with a report on the background, motivations, and consequences of the world-wide incidents. Mr. Bronfman noted that the material had been prepared following a resolution by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. The World Jewish Congress urged United Nations action to curb anti-Semitism and suggested the mobilization of InterpoT to investigate the incidents and their background, as well as to hunt down neo-Fascist groups with international connections',
Dar. Kchamiah Robinson, diree-ts�<rf tt� WJCj� fefttate of Jew-!sn Affairs, who headed the organisation's .study of anti-Semitism, documented as examples of international anti-Semitic groups six organizations abroad with a seventh, the Ku Klux Klan, in the U.S.A. "entering the international field by establishing contacts m West Germany, Great Britain, Austria, and Argentina." These are mostly groups of recent vintage.
Dr. Robinson's report cited the Unites States as the country with the largest known number of places where anti-Semitic manifestations took place following the Cologne synagogue desecration last December. He named 126 places in the United States where such incidents occurred; 82 in West Germany; 37 in Great Britain; 32 in Italy; 25 in Austria; 17 in France; 13 in Sweden; 10 in Switzerland; and about 100 places in other countries. The number of localities does not necessarily correspond with the total of incidents, he notes. In West Berlin alone investigations were conducted in 344 instances.
Dr. Robinson charged that the six international anti-Semitic groups together link bigots in 16 countries: Austria, Australia, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Norway, South Africa. . Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. The six groups are:
1. The European New Order, headed by Cnarles Luca, of France, and based mainly on the French Popular Movement, asso-
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Apparel Man Gave Most Of Life To Industry Progress
, Bertram Reinitz, former newspaper man and for the last four years executive director of the In-dustrial Council of Cloak, Suit and Skirt Manufacturers, Inc., died in New York, in his home at 11 Riverside Drive. He was 62 years old, Mr. Reinitz entered the newspaper field shortly after his graduation from high school, joining The. Brooklyn Times. From there he went to the editorial staff of the former New York American and then to The Herald Tribune.
From 1925 to 1929, he was a regular contributor to The New York Times, writing Sunday columns dealing with personalities and day-to-day changes in the life of the city. His first close association with the garment trade, to which he later devoted most of his life, began in 1921 when he became editor of The Daily Garment News. The next year he went to The Garment Trade Review and eventually became its publisher.
Mr. Reinitz was credited by the industry for its introduction to the field of public relations when he became public relations director of the Trade association in 1926, says the New York Times. After the National Recovery Act was declared unconstitutional, Mr. Reinitz helped in the formation of the National Coat and Suit Industry Recovery Board, a nation-wide association of manufacturers affiliated with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union.
His work spread to other sections of the apparel industry. He successively helped in forming the Fashion Originators Guild of America, the Affiliated Dress
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Dnring his lifetime, Mr. Rein-it* was acclaimed in the industry as being one of the most progressive influences in shaping piajcies and actions used today. He also helped to form the Apparel Industries Inter-Association Committee, which worked closely with the National Retail Merchants Association on the creation of fair trade standards.
He was a member of the Lambs. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Dinny Reinitz; a daughter, Mrs. Judith Lazarus of Washington: a son, Dr. Neale Reinitz, a Professor of Literature at Colorado College; a brother. Irving Reinitz, of New York; and a grandson.
Gratification over the German decision to recognize the eligibility of victims of persecution in. Rumanian provinces under Nazi Influence during the war, who filed timely claims for indemnification, was expressed by the executive committee of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany, at its semi-annual meeting at the Royal Monceau Hotel, in Paris, France. Dr. Nahum Goldmann presided. At the same time, the Committee recorded its "deep concern over the laggard pace" at which adjudication of claims for individual indemnification were being processed. The Federal Indemnification Law, it was explained, expires on March 31, 1963. and to date less than one hall of the claims filed have been settled. Of 2,674,328 such claims filed, only 996,403 were processed by the beginning of this year.
A call to the German states through whom the federal law is being administered to accelerate the rate of settlement and payment was issued by the executive committee. "At the present pace, the full program cannot be completed by the closing date", the committee stated. "Some few of the states are keeping to schedule and will cover their complete lists before the deadline; the others must do likewise. The situation calls for the acceleration and simplification of the processes of adjudication and settlements, and for the taking on of additional personnel to insure that tens of thousands are not cut off from the indemnification due them and which they so sorely need".
One of the major bottlenecks holding up settlement is the processing of claims made for permanent j>bjrsJcs4 and mental isjv* nes �offered wider Nazi persecution, the meeting was told. Many of the German states are demanding forms of detailed documentation which are practically impossible to provide and that are "definitely contrary to the spirit of the federal law which demands only that reasonable proof be given", Dr. Goldmann said. As a result of the Claims Conference representations, it is expected that arrangements will be made for( German medical experts to be' available in important overseas centers of refugee settlement.
Extension of present indemnification laws to cover victims of Nazi persecution in the Rumanian provinces of Bukovina, Transnis-
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Defend Him
Adolf Eichmann chose Dr. Robert Servatius of Cologne, West Germany, to defend him at his forthcoming trial, a spokesman of the Israeli Ministry of Justice announced. The 65-year-old German lawyer participated in the Nuremberg war crimes trials as a defense counsel, says the New York Times. He was not a Nazi.
Eichmann. who headed the Gestapo's Jewish section and who will be tried in Israel for his part in the murder of millions of European Jews during World War II, chose Dr. Servatius from three names submitted to him, according to the Ministry of Justice.
Dr. Servatius had been authorized to take over the defense of Eichmann by the letter's brother, Dr. Robert Eichmann, of Linz, Austria. The lawyer then wrote to the Ministry of Justice, which gave his name to the prisoner along with the names of a Chilean national who is living in West Germany, and a New York lawyer. Both had offered their services.
The Ministry spokesman also said Eichmann had been informed that new legislation would be submitted to the Knesset (Parliament) to enable foreign counsel to represent him in an Israeli court. Under existing legislation a foreigner may appear in an Israeli court only as a "friend" of the defendant, says the New York Times. The court has the final say Who may appear in this way, and a defense counsel appearing
The New York Philharmonic will give two concerts at the W�st Berlin Cultural Festival on September 22 and 28 under the sponsorship of the Ford Motor Co. Fund. All expenses in transporting the 106 musicians will be paid by Ford. The bill is estimated at 1150,000.
Leonard Bernstein will conduct the concerts in the hall of Berlin's broadcasting station SFB. David M. Keiser, president of the Philharmonic, told the New York Herald Tribune that officials of the . Ford Fund had asked that the proceeds of the concerts go to a charity chosen by Willy Brandt, Mayor of West Berlin, and Dr. Gerhart von WeBterman, director of the festival.
Henry Ford II, president of the Ford Motor Co., said in a statement that he regards financing the Philharmonic's Berlin appearances as an opportunity to "aid the courageous people of West Berlin in their ideological battle with
as a "friend" may not ask pay. ment for his service*.
After reading the- letters from each of the three possible lawyers, Eichmann said he preferred Dr. Servatius because toe latter had been asked to take the case by Eichmann's brother and the lawyer was experienced in defending Nazis accused of war crimes.
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The Philharmonic, which begins a tour of the United States and Canada on August 10, will play in Charlotte, N.C., on September 18; arrive in New York tne next day and leave for Germany on September 20. It will return to the U.S. for the last concert of the tour in Washington on September 25 arid open its regular New York seasoQ on September 29. To give time for the trip to Berlin, concerts scheduled for Columbia, S.C.; I Raleigh, N.C.; Richmond, Va.; and Baltimore have been postponed to next spring.
The visit to Berlin, which is probably the most expensive orchestral expedition financed by a single business firm, will be the Philharmonic's fourth. It played there in 1930 under Arturo Tos-canini; in 1965 under Dimitri Mi-tropoulos; and in 1959 under Mr. Bernstein.
Mr. Ford called the annual fall festival in West Berlin a potent weapon in the cultural struggle between West and East Germany, says the New York Herald Tribune. The West Berlin Festival, he noted, has become so attractive to East Berliners that the East Berlin government has formed a festival of its own featuring prominent performers from Communist nations.
Abbott Washburn, acting director of the United States Information Agency, hailed the Philharmonic's West Berlin appearances � as a "superb indication of the support and encouragement of tne American people and their Western Allies/'
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