Ohio Jewish Chronicle, 1961-04-21

              COLUMBUS EDITION
COLUMBUS EDITION
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Vol. 39, No. 16
FRIDAY, APRIL .21, 1961
QQ    D»vot»d to Am«rlc«n ^^       and Jewish  Idealt
Israel Theoretician Is Arrested For 'Spying For Foreign Power'
(Special to  the  Chronicle)
JEIRUSAL.E3M—Along with the developments in the trial of Adolf Eichmann, Israel waa rooked last weekend by a sensational story of espionage tied to a man long considered one of Israel's foremost mlUtary historians.
The Jewish State has revealed, that, since March 31 It has had under arrest its own "Quisling Laval and Benedict Arnold" In the person of Dr. Israel Behr, Israeli theoretician and former Lieutenant colonel in Israel's army, who was
WALL STREET MEZUZAH
What is believed to be the first time In the history ot WaU Street, the affixing of a Mezuzah marked the official dedication bf a banking instltuiUon in this center of the world's (inandol activities. For tbe opening of its modern new premises on the main floor ot 60 Wall Street, the New York Agency of Bank Leuml le-Israel (Hebrew for : National Bank of Israel) was host to hundreds of invited guests from New York's banking and business communities, the Israel Government, New York State and City officials, religious and lay leadera. Shown with Rabbi Joseph H. Looksteln as he pronounces the blessing over the Mezuzah are Oldeon Strauss, (right), maiiager of Bank Leuitii's New York Agency, and Theodore K. Landau, the Assistant Manager. 	
arrested by IsraeU security au¬ thorities on March 31 for "spying for  a  foreign  power."
BEam IS now in prison, and it has been officially announced that he has admitted giving Is¬ rael's miUtary secrets to an Elast European power and haa justified his treason on Ideological grounds.
Behr was working for the Is¬ raeli Ministry of Defense as a civilian preparing an official his¬ tory of the war against the Arabs. He was trusted by the entire mili¬ tary estabUshment. His office was close to the Ministry of Defense headed by frlme Minister David Ben-Gurion.
BEHR, 49 TEARS old. Is a native of Vienna He earned his degree tn pfiiloeophy and was graduated from the military ac¬ ademy of Austria. He was active as an extreme left SoclaUst In the fighting during the uprising against Chancellor Bngelbert DoU- fuss and, later, was an officer for the loyalists in tho Spanish Civil War. Later still, he worked for the Jewish police unit within the  British Secret  Service.
Ohio-Kentucky Regional Board Of A.D.L Annual Meeting Set
Benjamin R. Epstein, national director of the Antl-Defamatlon League, wlU be the featured speaker at the forthcoming 12th annual meeting of the OhJo-Kentucky Regional BoArd of the League,
Epstein Is one of the most outatanding leaders of the American Jewish community. The meeting will take place on Saturday night, April 29, and all day Sunday. April 30, at the Deshler Hilton Hotel tn Oolumbus. ADL, B'nai B'rith and Jewish community leaders through¬ out    Ohio    and    Kentucky    will
gather at that time to determine poUoles and procedure In deaUng with Important civic defense and community relations problems which confront the Jewish com¬ munities in tills region. The meet¬ ing will be presided over by Law¬ rence H. WlUlama of Cleveland, who Is chairman of the Board.
EP^EIN HAS been assoeiated with the Antl-Defamatlon League for more than 20 years, 13 of them as national director. He was elect¬ ed a national commissioner of ADL In 1956. But it is not only his leadership tn ADL that accounts for his eminence in hia field; be is alao nationally known for his speeches and writings on many aspects of inter-group relations.
The theme of this year's Re¬ gional Board meeting will be "Anti-Semitism In America: Ita Manifestations and Ita (Causes." "The Manlfestationa of Anti- Semitism" wiU be the subject of BSpstein's keynote address at the Saturday evening meeting. He will discuss "The Causes of Antl- Semdtism" at the Saturday morn¬ ing session.
THE DEUBERATIONS of the
Board wUl be tied In vrtth a five- year program of scientific re¬ search Into Anti-Semitism In A- raerlca which la being embarked upon by the League. The research program wUl be under the super¬
vision of the Survey Research (Center of the University of CiaU- fomla at Berkley.
There have been many import¬ ant sociological studies of preju¬ dice and Jewa There have been major studies of the prejudicial personality and the ways of preju¬ dice, studies of the adjustment of Jews to suburban Ufe, even of the relative consumption of alcohol by Jews.
ADL'a research project wlU make use of, and buUd upon, the accumulaited reaearch of other in¬ stitutions In the area of prejudice, race relations and intergroup tensions. However, this five year program wiU explore the problem ot anti-Semitism, in a manner which will extend beyond the scope and penetration of aU pre¬ vious research studies into this problem.
THE BfidlONAL Board has been requested to give Its rec¬ ommendation with regard to the questions and problems to be ex¬ plored in this great research pro¬ ject. The Board will formulate Its opinions as to what questions need to be answered, what prob¬ lems should be analyzed, what areas of research should be given priority status. These recommen¬ dations will be forwarded to the research  team and  will  help  in
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Benjamin R. Epstein
Behr came to Israel In 1940 and during Israel's War for Indepen¬ dence wfts commander of a brig¬ ade in the Galillee Sector. Because of a dispute with Gen. Moshe Dayan in 1949, Behr was released as a lieutenant colonel In the Israeli reserves. For the next six years he worked on newspapers aa a military expert and taught mlUtary history to the top brass of the Israeli army.
mr 1966 WHEN Ben-Gurlon left the government, Behr waa accepted by the then Minister of Defense, Pinhas Lavon, as chief military historian of the Israeli army.
Behr haa virrltten books on mili¬ tary strategy in the Middle EJast and was a member of the Inter¬ national Association of Military Writers. His articles have appear¬ ed in such Important publications as "Revue Mllltaire De Prance" and he has been referred to as "The Ldddell Hart of the Middle Blast"
rr IS KNOWN that Behr visit¬ ed Bast Berlin on several occa¬ sions. Until recently It waa be¬ lieved here that he had completely repudiated his Mandst views and there was no suspicion concerning his reliablUty.
IsraeU Security PoUce received information one year ago which made them suspicious of Behr, but, in absence of proof of spy activities, he was not arrested al¬ though army officials were noti¬ fied of these suspicions. Late In March he was proved to be a spy.
AARON SHLUSH, head of the special department of the police, gave a statement to the IsraeU press Saturday containing only one sentence: "On the day of March 31, 1961, Dr. Israe] Behr was arrested as a suspect for be¬ ing In connection with spies of a foreign country and handing to them secret information."
Slilush said that Behr, when ar¬ rested, had secret material which was found in his home. His arrest was kept secret in order not to disturb the Investigation, but ru¬ mors ot his treason have circu¬ lated in Israel for several weeks.
NO OmoiAL, Information was [given as to how Behr's espionage IContlnued on pege 14)
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Give Blood On 'B' Day, May 3
'B' Day, Billy, Story Of Heart Surgery
"B" Day and Billy. The name Is fictitious, but the tacts are not. This story happened, right here in the Columbus community.
Billy wanted to be peppy, to play hard and long as the other little boys tn his group did. But BHly could not, because Billy had a congenital heart defect, which had he been unfortunate enough to have been bom a few years earlier, would have caused him to live a short, inactive life.
BUT BILLY was bom at the
right time, at a time when a new surg^lcal technique had been de¬ veloped, a technique to correct congenital heart defects and make its patients live normal, produc¬ tive lives.
Time, money, material things, these all mean nothing when a life is at stake, but blood means almost everything. Without blood there could be no surgical tech¬ niques to correct defective hearts and money cannot buy enough blood.
BIX)OD COSTS approximately $25 per pint if obtained from pro¬ fessional donors plus an added expense for administering it to the patient The surgical tech¬ nique, called open heart surgery, requires  from  12  to  33  pints  of
blood per patient. $300-$825 plus administrating costs, plus surg¬ eon's fees, plus hospital fees—all a tremepdous amount of money.
But because of the Jewish com- munltjr's contract with the Red Cross Blood Bank, blood is made available at no charge to all mem¬ bers of the Jewish community. And so it was with Billy's case. Surgery was performed and BU- lys defective heart was corrected. He recovered and is now as active and full of Ufe aa any child liis age.
IN FACTT, a recent article in the evening newspaper depicted form¬ er open heart surgery patients now roller skating at a. local rink. This was Billy's story. His life was saved  because  the  Jewish   com-
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Now Is The Time To Pay That Pledge To UJFC
Eichmann's Formal Plea Is 'Not Guilty'
BY  HARRY GOLDEN,  Chronicle Special  Writer
OERUSALEM, (Israeli Sector), "In the spirit of the hidlctment I p^lad not guilty."
Adolf Eichmann replied to each of the questions of Presiding Judge Moshe Landau, who enumerated the 15 counts In the indict¬ ment and then asked: "Do you plead guilty or not guilty to the flrat count etc.?"
EIOHIVIANN^ replies were academic since under Israeli law you cannot plead guUty to a oapl
tal offense (Nazi crimes against humanity and treason In time of war).
There was ?ome discussion con¬ cerning Eichmann's use of phrase "in the spirit of the indict¬ ment . . ." Apparently, the De¬ fense will not dispute the facts of the massacre of 6,000,000 Jews, but will base Its defense on the grounds that Eilchmann was a minor bureaucrat carrying out orders from the top.
BEFORE THE formal plea of not guilty, the court handed down its replies to the challenge by Defense Counsel, Dr. Servatius, ot
Israel's right to try the accused, his challenge to legality of the manner of E}lchmann's capture as well as the objections to the court's prejudice, in view of the posslblUty that members of the tribunal may have personally suf¬ fered loss of loved ones in the massacres.
Judge Landau emphasized that in all olvUized countries, an ac¬ cused must stand trial regardless of the manner of his apprehen¬ sion. Therefore the court denied the defense motion to call as witnesses the EU Al airline offi¬ cers who brought EUchmann from
Argentina to Israel. The court went Into greater detail on the queatlon of prejudice on the part of members of the court.
"ALL JUDOES everywhere," said Landau, "are men of flesh and blood, subject to all human emotions, but the nature of their training and their oath Is to pass judgment only on the evidence that is presented before them." If this were not so, added Landau, no judge, anywhere, would be competent to try a murderer or a traitor.
The court then called upon At¬ torney General Gideon Hausner to commence his opening address.
IT WAS EVIDENT at the open¬ ing that the Israeli count Intends to detail the entire course of Anti-Semitism In Germany, be¬ ginning in 1933 and ending with the massacre of 6,000,000 cdvlUans. This Une of attack came tn the nature of a surprise.
It had been t^t, that due to tbe
delicate relations between West Germany and Israel, and the good will existing between Chancellor Adenauer and Prime Miniater Ben-Gurion, that the German past would be soft pedalled, with all concentration on the defendant. When I asked an IsraeU gov¬ ernment official about this, he replied that it was impossible to try EUchmann in a vacuum, and that the IsraeUs will stick to their earUer plan — trying the Nazi era — rather than seeking ven¬ geance against one man.
THE     PBOSECUTOB    is    no
Thomas E. Dewey or aarence Darrow, but his great restraint and lack of personaUty may ac¬ tually emphasize Uie enormity of the crime which is being discussed before us. I have heard it a thou¬ sand times, but when Monloa Delme of Lite Magazine and the girl from the (3erman Press Of¬ fice, who were seated behind me, (Continued on page 4)