Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 July 1961 — Page 4

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Report Implicates CIA Chief Dulles Nazi "Negotiating" With Fate of Jews

A million or more Jews might to sell emigration permits to Jews

be alive today if Adolph Eichmann had matched the power-playing “finesse” of his boss, Heinrich Himmler. The grisly irony is evident when coupling last week’s Eichmann defense testimony and a recent special report of the U. S. weekly, The Nation, on the Counter Intelligenc« Agency. Veteran expose reporter Fx*ed Cook tells in The Nation of Himmler’s double-dealing in the waning days of the war, when the SS and Gestapo chief preened himself in “diplomatic” maneuvers to take over Hitler’s leadership of the crumbling Nazi empire. Himmler Agents Meet Dulles Himmler sought the aid of an anti-Semitic sounding Allen Dulles, then a U.S. cloak-and-dagger operative in Switzerland and n o w head of the CIA, Cook reports. At the time, the Eichmann trial brought out last week, Himmler was seeking to head off Eichmann’s murders to help his bid for Western support in the proposed take-over from Hitler. Himmler is said to have told Eichmann: “If until now you have been the exterminator of the Jews, so now I order that you must become a person who deals with Jews very considei’ately.” At the time, Cook recounts, Himmler had taken the precaution of leaving at large som eof the military clique he knew were plotting Hitler’s assassination. Himmler’s representatives were m e e t - ing in Switzerland with Allen Dulles at the same time to seek U.S. support for Himmler’s accession to power. Eichmann Defies Himmler Himmler, on a more mundane basis, was also lining his pockets from Jewish suffering: he planned

who could pay the money to escape death. But Eichmann, according to last week’s testimony, refused to heed Himmler’s orders and continued deporting Jews to the death camps. It was at this time that Eichmann’s own abortive trucks-for-Jews dealing with Joel Brand purportedly took place. The face the ambitious Himmler tried to present to Allen Dulles wasn’t exactly friendly to Jews even if he sought a pause in their murders. His emmissaries attitude toward Jews was apparently sufficiently obvious to Dulles to elicit this reported comment — from Dulles: Dulles, writes reporter Cook, said he was “fed up with listening all the time to outdated politicians, emigres and prejudic-

ed Jews.”

“U. S. Trying To Get Rid of Jews” Cook reports the Himmler emissary then saying he “sometimes actually felt the Americans were only going on with the war so as to be able to get rid of the Jews and send them back again.” Dulles’ reply is reported to have been that “in America things had not quite got to that point yet...” The impression the Himmler agent got from Dulles, says Cook, was that “America intended rather to send off the Jews to Africa.” They were still being killed in wholesale lots, meanwhile, b y Eichmann’s co-workers. Protests Jews’ Martyrdom Still another talk Himmler agents had during h i s bid for power was with a Dulles aide, one “Mr. Roberts.” This worthy, according to SS reports Cook quotes,, said he “did not like Jews and it was distasteful to think that they were now able to adorn their six-point-ed star with an additional wreath of martyrdom

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The Dulles - Himmler negotiations, obviously, collapsed. S o, equally and tragically obvious, did even the sordid, assorted ransom schemes for exchanging one million Jews for 10,000 trucks to be used against the Russians, and even the crasser cash-for-immigra-tion-permit proposal.

"Unusual” French Anti-Semite Dies PARIS (P-O) — An unusual antiSemite died here. He was LouisFerdinand Celine, author. His books were largely autobiographical, and richly written protests against just about everything. Thus he also wrote anti-Semtitic diatribes during the Nazi occupation of France. However, Celine’s anti-Semitism was, as one obituary commented, “so obviously a metaphor of revolt against a world he could not abide that even a Jewish association testified in his behalf at his collaboration trial” after the war. Celine, who once said “the only thing you mustn’t scrap in America is Mickey Mouse,” found Nazis to be his severest critics. They complained his burlesque stream - of -consciousness diatribes were sabotaging their “serious” anti-Semitic efforts. His principal anti-Semitic work was “Guignol’s Band”. He was better known — and critically acclaimed — for books such as “Death on the Installment Plan” and “Journey to the End of the Night.”

Girls Hunt Men in Catskills ~ But the Supply Is Short!

NEW YORK (P-O) — The girls are still having a rough time of it in Catskill Mountains resorts — not enough men, reports the New York Daily News. “Thousands of New York girls looking for fun and games head for the Catskill mountain resorts less than 100 miles” from the city, writes the News, Kitty Hanson. She had, she notes, herself “sasashayed into the hills to learn how the girls are tackling today’s most serious problem — the great man shortage.” The girls themselves call the quest “the rat race.” For many, it’s a “planned investment: 50 weeks of skipped lunches and half-soled shoes for two weeks in a romantic setting, wearing romantic clothes, in search of romantic entanglements.” It starts on Friday afternoons, “when streams of girls leave the city in buses, limousines and shared cars for the 2 1 /2-hour ride to the Catskill country. They pour out of the city’s shops and offices, dragging their suitcases and carrying the plastic-wrapped gowns which are too fragile to be crushed into suitcases. In the bags are innumerable changes of shorts, slacks, dreses and swimsuits — some of which may even come into contact with the water.” .Girls Swap . .“Hunting Lore” The girls find it helpful to swap with each other tidbits of “hunting lore. For one thing, since there are fewer men than women these days, the men play hard to get. For another, while the women are really the hunters, it’s the men who still have the initiative.” The hotel staffs do all they can to help, Reporter Hanson says. There are social hostesses, social directors, dance instructors, cera-

mics and painting instructors, ath. letic directors and other staffers “who — no matter what their titles — are primarily concerned with seeing that females get to know males, and vice versa.” Most important of all is the hotel staffer in charge of dining room seating. “Probably the most powerful and important to the gal in the rat race is the maitre D, — the man in charge of the ‘right’ table.” For some it works, for most it doesn’t. “The gal in the rat race heads for home, to wait for another weekend, another year, another chance to meet the right man.”

Morimioims f© Tour Their "iHbimieland" JERUSALEM (P-O) — This nation of Jews is awaiting a delegation of non-Jews who call themselves “Chosen People” and the Jews “Gentiles”. The delegation of Mormons from Utah will come next month as tourists. They plan a 13-day visit to locations of Biblical accounts as well as a stay at a Kibbutz. The Mormons claim many things in common with the people of Israel. Both were driven from their homelands by persecution, and both settled in inhospitable desert. The Jerusalem Post even notes that “the Mnrmons have been Zionistic in their feeling ever since 1841 when the Mormon Church authorized one of its leaders to go to Jerusalem and dedicate the land for the restoration of Israel...”

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BOSTON (P-O) — America is changing — and so, inevitably, is its Jewish community. That was the theme pursued by Dean Charles I. Schottland of the Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare Brandeis University. He was taking part in the Sixth annual convention of the National Association of Temple Educators. Growth alone is an important change to be reckoned with, Dean Schottland said. “If we are to serve the Jewish community of America in the next ten years we must prepare for an increase in population of. about 25 per cent among the children...” Families to Focus .On Children The children will need the attention, according to Dean Schottland’s prognosis. “The Jewish family is responding to the family disorganization prevalent in the general community — divorce, separation, desertion . . . For the first time we have a great increase in desertion among Jews... And for the first time in my experience in the last 10 years we have had Jewish women deserting... “Divorce is becoming prevalent, alike in Jewish families as in the general population... And there has been quite an increase in the rate of unwed mothers in the Jewish community... Jewish communities are also faced with a growing problem of juvenile delinquency, similar to the general community.” Looser Family Ties The family which will have to meet these burgeoning problems will be changed, too, Dean Schottland predicts, today’s Jewish family “has changed from a large family where aunts and uncles and grandparents and brothers and sisters and in-laws were a very closely-knit economic and social group, to a family which more and more is becoming a pa-rent-child family which has shed

all the other relatives...” Today’s family “has changed from a self-contained family which did much more than it does today in terms of religious education, recreation and other activities so that the synagogue now has the problem of religious education almost exclusively separated from the family. Leisure time is today the problem of community centers and commercial recreation rather than that of the family.” Dean Schottland also sees a breaking down of traditional lines of authority within the family. There’s no longer the strict division of labor wliich kept women in the home and the father as the lord and master “at least in theory — I always suspected it never was true even years ago.” The Jewish family of the future, Dean Schottland predicted, will be child-centered, with the parents

expected to support the children well beyond high school. Closer Ties to Synagogue Commenting on Dean Schottland’s views, Carl Erdberg of Rodeph Sholom, New York, predicted a growth in youths’ attendance at religious schools, coupled with their being drawn closer to the synagogue for answers to the meaning of life. He also foresaw that “the Jewish child and youth of the next decade will demonstrate a greater interest in social action... paralleling the general condition throughout the country.” As a final criticism, Dean Schottland commented: “We talk a great deal about the family in America and in Jewish life, but most of our programs are not geared to the family at all. They are geared to individuals. ...It is only recently that such things as Jewish Centers are becoming family-centered.

Israel Still Tussling Over B'nai Israel, Karaite Jews

JERUSALEM (P-O)' — ‘ Many accept Israelis would hesitate to define “Jew” in the wake of new troubles experienced by the B’nai Israel community from India and the Karaites from Egypt. Some rabbis are refusing to perform marriage

rites for them.

“Both groups are incensed that their being Jewish should be questioned,” reports the New York Times’ Lawrence Fellows. The chief rabbinate so far has refused to rule on their Jewishness, meanwhile leaving their marriage up to local rabbis. Since there is no civil marriage in Israel, Fellows reports, many Karaites and B’nai Israelites “must either search for an obliging rabbi or fly to Cyprus for a civil wedding.” The status of the 6,000 Karaites is questioned because they do not

the Talmud. Their origin

was in 8th Century Persia, whore they rejected discipline from Babylon. Otherwise, they observe Biblical injunctions “usually more strictly than the rabbinate would

require,” Fellows found.

The 7,000 members of the B’nai Israel community believe restrictions on them stem from the reputation 18th Century Indian Jewry Had for lax Jewish observance. The question of eligibility pops up everytime members of either of these two groups seeks recognition. In Ashkalon, for instance, the Sephardic rabbi there refused to marry a couple on the grounds that the bride was born in Calcutta and therefore is not Jewish. She admitted she was born in India, the Israeli newspaper Yidiot Acharonot reports, but claimed being 100 percent Jewish because her parents were of Iraqui extraction.