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Devoted to Amorlcan
and Jewish Ideals.
umanian Education lax
Chicago City Council Urges U.S.
To Aid Falashas
CHICAGO (JTA)—The Chicago City Council, by a vote of
43-2, adopted a resolution urging the United States to assist in
rescuing and resettling the Falashas, the Jews of Ethiopia.
The resolution noted that "The Ethiopian Jews are amongst
the oldest continuous Jewish communities in existence" and
that "this ancient group is in danger of actual physical
extinction unless immediate assistance is forthcoming from
a generous and powerful country like the United States"
which "has always been a haven for the persecuted and
downtrodden of other countries...'-."
Over 100 Killed In Blizzard In Lebanon
TEL AVIV (JTA)—A severe winter storm with blizzard
conditions has taken over 100 lives in Lebanon where Israeli
troops are helping in rescue operations, it was reported last
week. In addition to clearing roads, including the section of
the Beirut-Damascus highway which they control, the Israel
soldiers were extricating people from villages buried in snow
drifts yards deep and from stranded vehicles.
WJC Approves Participation
In Warsaw Uprising Observance
Will Apply To Jews mm
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NEW YORK, (JTA)-Declaring it "unthinkable that in a
place drenched with Jewish blood there should not be Jews to
bear witness and recite Kaddish,". the World Jewish' Congress Governing Board has decided "in principle" that the
WJC will participate in the solemn commemoration of the
40th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising to be held in
Warsaw in April. The Governing Board, following the deliberation of some 100 delegates from' 27' countries who met
earlier this month in Washington, has also recommended
that WJC member communities participate in the observance as well.
SPECIAL TO THE JTA
Barbie's Escape From
By Vatican, CIC*" *
TEL   AVIV   (JTA)-Rumania Chief Rabbi Moses
Rosen, making a reversal
from an earlier statement,
asserted here that the new
Rumanian law requiring all
emigrants to reimburse the
government for the free secondary and higher education
, they had received, would in
fact be applied to those Jews
seeking to make aliya.
"Just as I announced then
(last November) the positive
approach of the authorities
in Bucharest, I feel obliged
to report... on the change
that has taken place in
Rumania and that the new
law also applies to Jews,"
Rosen told reporters.
The publication of the new
directive  last  November
caused widespread consternation among Jews around
the  world.   The  Reagan
Administration has repeatedly warned that the education tax could affect Most
Favored Nation Trade status
to Rumania on the grounds
thatthe new law violates the
terms of the Jackson-Vanik
Amendment to the Foreign
Trade Act which links trade
with Communist bloc nations
to their emigration policies
Following the publication
of  the  tax  law,   Rosen
asserted that the Rumanian
government,   for  many
decades, has made a'distinc- '
tion between "emigration"
and "aliya." He added that
Jews seeking to emigrate
would therefore be "treated
in a totally different way."
Rosen told reporters here
that his earlier statement
was made after he received
assurances from Rumanian
officials   "at  the  highest
level." He said the Rumanian government did not collect the tariff from some 40
Jews who left the country
since the tax was announced.
But since then, Rosen added,
he has been informed that
the authorities resumed collecting the tax from Jews
emigrating to Israel.
Rosen was speaking
against the background of a
report last week from
Bucharest which quoted an
unidentified Rumanian government- official dismissing
press reports that Jews and
ethnic Germans would be
exempt from the education
tax. "The decree does not
make any distinctions and
applies to Rumanian citizens
who want to settle abroad,"
the official was quoted as
saying. "It's logical and
moral that all citizens reimburse society for investments made for their education." V
E. Hlman Appoints Three
To Chair CJF Partners Day
Europe Arranged
Red Cross
By Charles Allen, Jr.
Part Two
Editor's note; Charles Allen Jr. is an
internationally published author/journalist Whose book in the early 1960s,
Nail War Criminals Among' Us, provided detailed Information about 38
known and suspected war criminals.
Ho has also been called upon frequently by Congressional committees
to testify about activities of former
Nails now living in the U.S.
Part One appeared in the Feb. M
issue of the Chronicle.
NEW   YORK   (JTA)-
Further confirmation of the
knowing role of the Vatican
in the escape of Barbie—as
well as scores if not hun-.
dreds of other SS genocid-
ists—came  in  a  hitherto
"Top Secret" 35-page set of
State  Department  documents which have come into ,
my possession, largely by
way of my Freedom of Information requests  over  the
past five years.
It is an internal memoran-'
dum,   classified  "Top  Secret"  and dated May  14,
1947. Copies are shown to
have been sent to the head of
the "American Legation in
Vienna" and to the then U.S.
Secretary of State, five-star
General George Catlett Marshall. The State Department
has refused to discuss this
report, ,
The  title  of  the   "Top
Secret"  report is  "Illegal
Emigration Movements In
and Through  Italy.''   Its
author was Vincent La Vista,
an   international  lawyer,
then (1947) military attache
to the American embassy in
Rome and already a skilled
intelligence/diplomatic
State Department officer.
The "La Vista Report" as
it became known in American  intelligence   circles,
broke  down   into  precise
detail more than 22 permutations of SS, Nazi Party, ethnic collaborators who were
knowingly   guided  safely
through the Vatican's "monastery route."
The La Vista Report also
noted in detail the names
and political backgrounds of
the high-ranking members
' of the Roman Catholic hierarchy who master-minded
the war criminals' escape
routes along which Barbie
successfully fled.
Alois Hudal, Bishop of Elia,
resident of Collegio Teuton-
ica de Santa Maria dell'
Anima in Vatican City.
Hudal personally had welcomed many SS escapees.
Hudal defied public criticism of a high cleric's intercession in behalf of wanted
Nazi mass murderers: "I
am neither police nor cara-
binieri," hesaidinl947. "My
Christian duty is to save
whoever can be saved."
Hudal's background, address and telephone numbers—along with the fact of
his "directing" the escapees
from the Munich/Augsberg/
Austrian region—are carefully recorded in the documented pages of the "Top
Secret" La \ ista Report.
can countries as well. ..
with people of all political
beliefs as long as they are
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 11)
Edwin M.  Ellman,  1983
United Jewish Fund general
chairman,   recently   announced the appointment of
Diane Cummins and Nor-   :
man Traeger as Partners
Day chairpersons and Gary
Cheses as vice chairman of
Partners Day.
In  making  his  appointments, Ellman stated that he
has selected three community leaders to be his "partners" in the special peoplte-
to-people fundraising day on
Wednesday,   March  16.
"Diane, Norman and Gary
agree that Jewish needs are
best communicated oh a one-
to-one basis at a highly personal level: My three partners ,in this revitalized fund-
raising effort hope to solicit
strong  Columbus  Jewish
community  support.  They
will be joined by other partners in helping to sustain our
Jewish lifeline."
Partners Day is the Advance Gift section's organized day of face-to-face
fundraising for the United
Jewish Fund and features a
three part program which
begins with a breakfast kick-
off at 8 a.m. and concludes
with a Victory Cocktail
Party at 5 p.m. The interven
ing time combines partnered
solicitors visiting prospects
to solicit a United Jewish
Fund gift and to further
extend the concept of partnership in helping to build a
strong Jewish community.
Agudas Achim To Honor Masons
At Friday Night Service, March 11
,. iaj-     ur    Pnhpnstein.   who
The Role Of Msgr. Hudal
One of the termination
points before exiting Italy to
the sunnier climes of Latin
America was the notorious
pro-fascist  cleric, - Msgr.
Vatican's Role Explained
By U.S. Document
■ The  State  Department
report stated: "The Vatican,
of course, is the largest single organization involved in
- the illegal movement... the
Vatican's  justification   for
this illegal traffic is simply
the propogation of the Faith.
The  Vatican('s)  desire to
infiltrate not only European
countries but Latin Ameri-
Services in honor of the
Free and Accepted Masons
of the 14th District of Ohio
will be held on Friday,
March 11, at 8 p.m. at the
Agudas Achim Synagogue,
2767 E. Broad St.
This event was instituted
nine years ago by Program
Chairman Brother Bill Goldsmith, trustee of the Whitehall Lodge #761, and W.
Brother Jack Masser P.M. of
Humboldt Lodge #476.
Brother Goldsmith, in his
comments regarding this occasion, stated that "it is
throughserviqes such as this
that we attempt to bring into
focus the , similarities between Judaism and Masonry
which is 'The Fatherhood ol
G-d and Brotherhood of
Men.'"
There will be a brief
religious service followed by
remarks from Rabbi Samuel
W.  Rubenstein,  who  is
Masonic Brother, and other
selected guests.
Holland Lattanncr
The honored guest speaker
will be Deputy Grand Master
R. W. Brother C. Rolland
Lattanner, who will represent Grand Master the Most
Worshipful Brother Vernon
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 11)
Majority Of Americans
View Israel As Ally
NEW   YORK   (JTA)-A
clear majority of Americans
continue to view Israel as the
United States' closest ally in
the Middle East, although
many have indicated disenchantment with the manner
in which:the government, of
Premier Menachem Begin
has handled me fate of former Defense Minister Ariel
Sharon following the publication of the findings of the
commission of inquiry into
the massacre of Palestinians
at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps, according to
the" latest Harris poll published here.
The poll was conducted by
telephone between Feb. 11
and 16 and surveyed 1,248
adults nationwide. According to the poll, 80 percent of
those surveyed agreed with
the claim that "unless Israel
punished those who allowed
the massacre to take place,
then Israel will lose much of
its claim to being a moral,
democratic country."
Seventy-two  percent
agreed  that  "by  keeping
Sharon in his Cabinet, Begin
has created a real doubt that
his government is really ad-
itting it was wrong" to
1 ive  allowed  Lebanese
hristian Phalangists  into
e refugee camps, the poll
id. Furthermore, 67 per-
nt maintained that "since
1 ;gin has not really gotten
rid of Sharon, Begin should
dissolve his government and
call an early election to let
the people of Israel decide
whether Begin has done the
right thing about the Lebanese massacre," the poll
reported.
But according to the poll,
many Americans, 62 percent
of those surveyed, still view
Israel as basically a friendly
state. The poll noted that in
Nov. 1982,72 percent, and in
1981, 81 percent, viewed
Israel as a friendly state.
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