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Page, ThreEr ,. " , Thursday, August~,~, THE ,J£WISH, POST Thursday, August II, 1962 , , THE JEWllijB PQS'l' ~ Pap Two 'Mcmtreal Dateline M;:k~t. Mr. Markiss' position that Vatican Version Can U.S. Justify Aid to Nasser? 's trade possibilities with a Rome (JCNS) _ "Dr. Haim Vardi Washington (JTA) - Seeking to UAR has substantial development of the Jewish Chronicle '\'-, From the Desk country like , surely must justify increased American assist- and cUlTent payment!! resources I", My has never had any contact with I lEWlsRPDST depend to a considerable extent on ance to the United Ar.ab Republic" with the Soviet bloc, mainly be- THE CASE AGAINST DR. SOBLEN two factors', heardCardinal his Bea'sname forSecretariat. the first timeWe Assistant Secretary of State Fred-! cause the bloc provides the market would be concerned with "Trotskyite groups." The Oldest Anglo-Jewish Week~iI in Westem Canada View ,1. The ability of Israel to pro- h erick G. Dutton said this week that I for 'large quantities of the UAR's ! By ,RlCflARD YAFFEE (Issued wE:ekly in the interests of J e~i.sh JJoP1munit~ aet~vities w en reading the newspapers .. His I : Dr. Soblen's attorney tried again and' again in .Winnipeg and Western Canada) By CHARLES i.LAZARU;; duce mercluindise competitively, "aid to the UAR in fiscal year 1962, principal export commodity"coUon, ' both. in terms of price mid quality., so-called appointment to follow the was about $5,50 per capita and to which cannot be sold in the free Much, has been written, and said, in recent to learn from Soble in what specific acts of espion­ Member of tlie Jewish Telegraphic Agency Ecumenical Council conference oc- It is unfortunate' that our con­ 2. The ability of Israel's poten- Israel about $34 per capita." world at reasonable prices." , weeks about the "convicted Spy'" Dr. Robert age his client had engaged, particularly in connec­ • cUlTed without our being informed, Soblen and his " for the Sovie;t Union." tion with'America's defence, but without success. Published every Thursday by tacts with Israeli diplomats is too tial customers and distributors of and ,without our consent. We know The State Department official He explained that the U.S, ,aid " Little, if any, reference has' been made to the Soble, replied: "If national defence consists" of EMPIRE PRINTERS, LTD.' often .restricted to those whose , her products, to recognize that her' that the Arab 'States were surprised advanced this argument in a letter pro g r. a m, including stabilizati~n details'of the trial which resulted in his receiving atomic bombs and H .. bombs and the many mod": Printers and Publishers majQl' functions are either cere­ trade positiq,n can onlybe as good at the announcement of Dr. Vardi's to Senator Ke.nnelh B. Keating, New loans, were designed to meet Presi-' ',RUPERT SHRIAR,Ph;D: LEO J. LEZACK 'as the confidence shown in her " " . York Republican' who had raised d tN' "te 't' 1 :a sentence of life iinpr~sonment. ' " ,,' " 'ern weapons this count:t:y ,created, ypu 'are:very Editor ., AdvertUiing J'!1anager" 'mon1al. or in the' field of public " ," apPQmtment, but we . have nothing, '. " .,'.' , en asser s , mporary, cn lC~ relations. ' future. " to do with the' entire matter.'" a ,.qu~stlon abo~t t~e proprIety, of shortage, of convertible currencies," I , It is just a year ago that Soblen went on trial, far from the truth, beCause.1 never had anything, Head ,Office: <1244 Main St~, Winnipeg 4, Canada ,~, r At the' Israeli on Mc- "What, this means in simple ., ' , ' '. Amerlcan finanCial ald to the Uruted Three-quarters of, American, aid" befo,re Judge William B. Herlands charged with to do with these things." , Subscription: "$4.00, per annum co~sulate \ conspiracy to commit espio~age on, behalf of the The attorney, Mr. Joseph Brill, pressed Soble: Gregor Street;, for example, Yechiel terms," Mr. Narkiss told me, "is ~s was the ~eplY of ~n ~uthorl,- Arab Republic, in view of Nasser's $221,300,000 in 'commodity. ship- I Phone JU 9-7331' Eve. Phone HU 9-2989 Narkiss occupies an office' with that we hllVe 'reached a point of tatlve member of -Ca~dmal s Bea s purchases of Soviet jet bombers 'd nl' - the conspiracy being to obtain "You don't consider that (was) national defence, Authorized as second class mail by th'e Post Offic't;!: Department. S ta . t t th JCNS ' ' ments, crepresente 0 y surplus r Ottawa. and fa,r payment of poetan in cash ' , sheves, 1 a 1most b endin g und er the so, phistication in our trade i:eiatio~' ecre na .0 e ,correspond- fighter planes and other modern f-~"" 'd ' material relating to national defence during the what yQu did?" Soble replied: "Work against, . ht f Is' Ii d ts dis ent h . d bo t th . d uuu, Sal Mr, Dutton. welg 0 rae pro UC • on _ with Canada that oUr produc41 are w 0 enqwre a u e reporte munitions" , Second World War and' af,ter. .,,' the Trotskyites,' MensIteviksand work atnong lay and hi d k lit all . ' cancellation of Dr. Vardi's appom't- He justified the Egyptian-Soviet . ':.' , ,s es er , y m\Ul- passing' the 'test of quality, and " "The State' Department's studies t d b th h ' , , 'He was the sple defendant in the trial, which the Zionists .•.. I don't consider it as national ous efforts to persuade the new African States P "·th documents d f' t ment as an "observer" to the con- arms' , ra e y , saying at t ere was, based on an indictment naming eighteen defence of this 'country. I am very happy that, to regard Israel as an enemy. Were this policy dated WI an ac' now it is up to, the indiVl'dual dis- feren~'e. ' ' " show there IS" no sl'gru'ficant corre'1' a- was ,no ma,rket ,in the' West for s h eets symb olizing the manner,' in tribu ttlor 0 ,00 k a t WlU--co JU• d ge 'lla tion,' b etween' " aid and , alleged,co-conspirator'h s, including Lavrentil' Beria, I did not steal any national defence things from'to be judged by pronouncemen't s 0 f b 0 d'les l'kI e ,the late head of t e Soviet secret po Ice. ' this country ...." " the Afro-'Asian Peoples' Solidarity Conference and which the new state is taking her products fairly," to see . where he ,Jewish and Catholic sources, here UAR's arms purchases," Mr. 'Dutton Egyptian "cotton "at reasonable The main witl)ess' against Soblen was his 'Mr~ Brill:, "In other words, you feel th!l.t the Casablanca ",bloc's" communiques, they would place m., the, world' of trade and can get the best buy." agree on the, following version of said. ''The UAR's international pay- pric.es"imd that "were the U,S. brother, , who had been arrested in you are serving a prison sentence without being appear to have succeeded. But the Israeli Presi­ commerce, The pornt of the matter _ and, the the controversy: When Dr, Gold- 'nients' problem!; are found in its now to. cease aid, ,the UAR's abi4ty January; 1957, together with his wife and friend, guilty of any crimes, don't you?" , dent's tour and the recent visits to Israel by a , , It might well be' worth men- appointments set up for me by Mr. mann came to Rome last June he lack 'of sufficient free, world con- to purchase 8rms would not be I Jack Albam, and charged with espionage. The Soble: "What do you mean I did not commit number of African heads of State are a sign that. tioning, at this point,' that' Mr. Narkiss in Israel, confirmed this _ say Cardinal Bea and asked whether vertible currencies, In contrast, the Isubstantially affected." three pleaded not guilty., Soon afterwards Soble any crimes in this country? What are you trying Nasser has failed. Thes,e, new States have now Nl!rkiss, with the_,nominal title of is that the young country no longer the W,J.C. could appoint a repre- ,',' had a mental breakdown and attempted to com- to do?' I committed' a 'crime because I lied to this demonstrate, d' that' they accept. Israel's' "bonna' "~onsul of ~srael". whose func~' is content to depend '~n emotional sentative to' follow the CO\Ulcil's ftJi iJEMHI ...£=-"ft mit'suicide in his cell. He subsequent1 y spent.t Government. I came on the visa, having falsified fides," that they regard her as a ffIend and that , tions are baSically m the area of appeal, to sell its products. work, Cardinal Bea agreed, on the "If' liff " BY HENRY,' ,LEONARD' seve~al weeks in the 'psych iatric ward of a CI y 'myquestionnaite;. and not ,having answered if 'the are ",ell able to withstand Arab pressure. trade and commerce, very recent- ~, What h- -- ha' ' .i ' th t assumption that both the meeting _____-' _-~-:--:;' K.:-::~:i~;:;--:::-:-~"':-' ..iv'en tIt'e' very specI'al title . a. S ppe, ne, IS a, and the authorl'zatl'on' "'ould b' L./, . '1 ,h?Spital, -. followed by another attempt to take I. was a Commumst or not. 'What do ~o~ call ,We;tern Governments and lioeral opposition cir­ Iy was M '. , I 'f ''T "d" C .." trade DllSSlOns from and to Can- ,kept, off the record. W ' e eSSlaU ,Com,es, 0 '0 ' ' , hIS own h~e. . ' . lies and, what do you call truth, ~r. Brlll.. . ., des would do well to" give this development the o . ra . e OlmmSSlOner. ' a d' a, are ha'vmg th'ell' b"rainS ,PIC. k e d '". Three ~ont~s after, theIr ~rrest, Soble, hIS" Do ,y~u understand that. I commItted crlmes? ,proper weight in their' political calculations not Thi~ IS understood to ,be the on such widespread subjects as. When it was later publicly ,dis- ~Ife ~nd hIS frIend. pl.eaded gUilty to one count "Tha~ IS why I ~m shoutmg . .I 3:mglad lam, only when determining their attitudes towards first tune the latter rank I,tas ever IItyling,' packaging, 'delivery fun- closed, representatives of nine.. Arab . m the five-count mdlctment. Mes. Soble an~, servmg even thIS term, because It showed me Israel and Israeli-Arab relations but also when been created in Canada, making ing and the like in order to make countries requested Cardinal· Bea , fi t tr d ' to authorize the a:ppointr~ent of a Albam were sentenced to five and a half years ,the way to truth." " ' , 'th "t N '8' l' • ht . Mr. Narkis s Is raeI ,s rs a e it as simple as possible for Israeli , .0, i ' imprisonment eaoh. 'Soble was given :seven and The only evidence in the Soblen case concern~ AtY: com~ assess, asser rea welg m commissioner in this country. producers to market then:, pr~- Moslem Arab representative "hav- " a half years. lIe "was ,nearing the end of 'his term· ing" secret information came from. ,Mrs. Johanna rlCan a aIrs. This development in Israel's dip- , duct!, ,iii Canada. ing the same status as that of the' ,! when called upon to' give evidence against his Beker, daughter o'f a former ,Communist Deputy ---'------' , Israeli.'" \ lomatic service for Canada should It may come as a surprise to many , brother.. In .:the previous three years he had in the Reichstag, who worked as" a typist for Incitement not be\Ulderestimated, for it re- 'Cana!Iian women wearing' the very 'In ord~r to avoid further comph­ been givel). twenty shock ,treatments ,and liiag- Soblen during the war'. She testified that in the It was inevitable that, plans to hold Mosley flects not only' a desire to, give popular Israeli Aled knitwear, cations Cardinal- Bea is reported to nosed'by Government psychiatrists asa psychotic. ' spring of.1945 a part-time consultant to the O.S.So", meetings so soon after the Jordan meeting would Yechiel Narkiss :;t, mo~e important whose' plant I visited ill Tel Aviv, have let Dr. Goldmann know that The facp that Soble and ',his ass?ciates had" forerunner to t,he Central Intelligence Agency, arouse strong feelings, particularly among the and highly-deserved status, but it that it took months of research be- no W,J:C, representative' would be pleaded guIlty precluded the necess1ty for the gave her a report, which she passed. on, to Soblen. Jewish community. It' 'is n,ot surprising, there-, . indicates' as well 'the manner in fore the attractive garments were admitted to' the CO\UlcU:s meetings, I Government. to produce documentary proof of The report, she said, had to do with "some im­ 'fore, that many' should find counsels of restrail).t which, trade between Israel and offered to American retail outlets; Therefore 'Dr. Vardi's R6me ap- 11 espionage. ,Thus, the trial of S!,blen. was expected portant. military project .... , which would decide , irksome and even denounce them as a betrayal, , Canada has developed, since he took as pr04ucts fit. and, shaped for pointment was considered as can- ., to produce the first full publIc eVIdence of the the end of the' war considerably." ,of leadership. over as conunercial consul, " A,merican taSte. celled. 4 i: crimes in which all four, :vere involved~ '. Mrs., Beker'stestimony concerning ,the O.S;S. Those who urge action to break up such meet­ , Mr. Narkiss in recent months paid " There i~ no question that Israel To the 'question";'hether the Mos­ , Sol?I; wa~ .the fir~t. 'Yltn~ss. H~ told. of hIS "secrets" she turned over to Soblen, wasvehe- ings invariably make the comparison with the two visits to Israel during which has handled more serious crises, !ems 'would be, ~llowed to follow ~lr(~th~r s,p.oht!cal a~tIVlhes ?l the twenties and mently assailed by four defence witnesses at a fight against Mosley' in the 1930's.. But then it tinie I paid one, and between, the in her short history, than that posed the conference, a ViItican official" ... ;.... thll'hes I~ Llthuan~a. and III German~, where, hearing on the defendant's plea for, a new trial, was the fasCists who introduced the use ,of force .','. I: two of us in conversation, we were by the' common market; and it is repli!!d: '''We ar'; only cop.cemed Soble ~e.stIfied, they J~med the Commun}st ¥,arty, which was refused. All these witnesses had and quasi military thugs Into politics and there .. sUPll0rtll~g Il;;td speakmg on behalf of ItS Trot-, worked for the O.S.S., during the war. Two are" able to evaluate some of Israel's just because her trade problems do with, and we' only deal with the was"no Public Order Act on the Statute Book. To trade problems and challenges, pan- not appear to have a sense of urg­ "Hannah and I would be so happy. If our ~. skYIte WI~g. . ' . well-known university professors,_ one at Harvard, advocate today the use of. violence to' break ,up ticularly in view of the competitionency, that Mr; Narkiss is anxious union of Christians." ,This is inter­ '$on, David, would only grow up to be , . ,He said, th~t .th~ conspIracy -' under . Whl~h the other at Brandeis. .Another, . Mrs. Charlotte , a public meeting is' quite' a different matter. For posed by the creation and develop- to place' the matter· in true' per':" preted, as' meaning, that the Arabs' I , hiS brother wasmdlc~ed - was entered.. I~to ~n Stone, who had been in chargeof the Biographi- , " a needle':worker, too." one thing it is in its own way a surrender to the ment of the EUropean Common spective; , request had also been rejected, late 1939, or 1940 whIle he, Soble! was IIvmg l~ cal Data unit of the 0.8.S., testified that no one very ideas which we oppose; secondly, it implies , ' Mos~ow, 'Yhere he had been ",:"orkmg on a~ anh- ,in her office had access to secret information. It . a quite unjustified lac~ of confidence in' British Naz! German newspaper. Berla sent for ~Im, ~e, was from employees of ,this' section that Mrs. democracy, law, and order and in the possibility testIfied, and ,p~oposed.. that, together WIth hiS Beker allegedly got her information to give to of remedying those marginal blemishes on demo­ 'Report Shows Major Faiths Hiding in 'Triple 'Ghetto' ,,' brother and theIr famIlIes, he should go abroad Soblen.' . ' cratic life by constitutional and orderly; means. STUDY OF TEN Mi\JOR AMERICAN CITms RELEASED staaets that, 'I have Pl'eached in Pittsburgh for'thirty years, ,non-believers represent the most important unorganized and gath~r informati~n .for the Soviet Uni?~. During the trial it was developed, in cr,oss­ Moreover, it gives the fascists and racialists a ~I The detaIls of the 1?lssion w.ere vague.. Berla examination that Mrs. Beker, had been inter- ,BY UNION OF AMERICAN HEBREW CONGEGATIONS, and, do not know persoIllllly a single Catholic'· priest or 'minority' in American life." ,measure of publicity and' attention they could , IN A TALE :QF TEN CITIES' Jewish rabbi.' Pastor ,EagelJron proposed an imaginative • Issues ~f separation of church and state r~present the 'j"' ,sl!ggeste.d no co~mtrles nor dld he speCify the viewed' by ,the Federal Bureau of Investigation otherwise n~ver hope to receive and even ensures by remedy' -, a tri-faith fishing trip to Canada - and the most pervasive and explosive source 9f interreligious dis- " kmdof mformatIonhe wante~., . at least 27 times since early 1952 and had told , the attendance of a certain kind. of thrill-seeking • RABBI EUGENE J. LIPMAN" and ALBERT VORSPA~, publicity attracted a Catholic priest who explained that he ' cord in every community. Nashville, Tennessee, is cited as' a . Soble thereupon ~ent to Llthuama, whel,'e, he them that the only information she had received sightseer at their gatherings. Fimilly it is ,bound Religious tenSions"are on the, rise in American co~- had, never met a Protestant Clergyman. It is presumed that community which has faced acute racial' tension: but where So~le~ sll:ld" told hIm heh.ad ,been approached from her contacts in the O.S.S. was in connection "to antagonize important sections of the public munities at the very same time that the three faith groups an.., equally lonely rabbi was flus4ed out for the occasion. 'the potential for conflict is equally serious in the church- , WIth a ~I.mIlar. proposal. WIth forged~assports with biographies of 'German individuals residing 'who, however much they abhor' fascist 'policies, , ." and HaItIan. VIsas the .two b.r?thers, WIth sonte in New York. She agreed with Mr., Brill that it tend to separate themselves behind the walls of a "triple But one wonders about the state of interreligious relations state area, The struggle for public funds for sectarian' ,react:strongly against public disorder to suppress ghetto" in American life, according to a major study in America if similar stlints must be ~ummoned up as bait ' institutions is the ,biggest "reef' in the sea of American fift~en members,?f theIr ,famIlIes" set off ~or the was a "fair statement to say" that none of the freedom of speech. ' , , published this week' by the Uni<1n of American Hebrew in order to get' Clergymen of various faiths to known one interreligious life, " , UJ;ute!I States, ~la; VladIvostok. Soble dId not material she received bore any identifying marks , . ': These considerations -in no way derogate from Congregations., ' ' , 'another." '.Self-s~gregation is, a mO\Ulting problem am9ng,Jews' and,' .-.{. ' ~xplam wh:y- thelrp~ssports h~d to, be forged. ,,' of any agency of the U.S.A. Government. ' the 'need, for alert and ac;tive ,defence organiza­ • "l~, , 'The arrival of Jack Soble and ' ", ',' '. . .' , , , Among the' findings of the study' were ,the following Another study of' Holyoke,Massachusetts revealed'the Catholics, and is developing 'rapidly in',the Protesiani com;~- , ! tions. But the effectiveness' of these defence i 'in San Francisco constituted the first "overt act" On~ of her two alleged contacts m the O.S.S., items: , following: "Catholic and Protestant clerdVn'leneo,'" not only did mum't y as, we.ll" .",. LUT_t erreIi' glOUS tension" can no longer in: the conspiracy case as required by the law. who c;IIed bef?re the case, was named as a co­ organizations depends on their ability to persuade • Recent decisions' of the United States Supreme Court not know one another personally but, for the most part, bIde concea e "can no 1onger be swept under the, rug as un- It was also the only such act required to make WIth Dr. Soblen. The was not the community by giving guidance at the right demonstrate that America is not a "Christian nation" but had no desire for closer relationships. Mutual hostl'lity was Am'encan, "th e auth ors ' maintain. " Many justified criti- ~on~plrator o~her ~ time that self-discipline is much more important " .:, . II case. Soble said they arrived virtually penni~ lp.dlcted and was not called as a WItness. has become a "religiously plural" society which ,is now in marked. Said a rabbi about the Catholic priest, ' ... The 'cisms could be made of contemporary American religion.' ! less and he himself found work with another (Copyright, The Jewish Chronicle Feature & News than ill-considered action for the sake of activity. its "post-Protestll,nt" phase. ' Catholic proposition is You serVe God in your wa' y and 'we It can b e. lab e 1e d superfi Cla . 1 or irrel' evant in many ' ways, Servic~) It would be tragic if members of' Anglo-Jewry brother iIi. Canada, since dead and whose pass­ • There, is little ongoing communication among Catholic, in ruS.''' , ' and social action is the, main avenue found so far for were to lose their sense of proportion and lapse Protestant and Jewish religious leaders in any of the cities • Atheists and' secularists are in danger of becmning improving interreligious relations. port Soblen used for his flight to Israel. Ben Zvi in Africa into near-hysteria exemplified by implied com­ In 1942, Soble added, he made contact with studied, even in the face of bitter community conflicts on "second-class citizens" as a result of the increasing con- "Indeed, there is some gro\Uld for fear that Ame;ica President Ben-Zvi's departure last week for parisons with Weimar . such issues as birth control, divorce, racial relations, and formity of American religious life. As the authors state it: is becoming not a triple melting pot but rather a triple the Soviet trading organization in America a tour of Africa in which he is to visit four new Jewish citizens should press for legislative church-sta,te issues: "The priest, the rabbi, and the minis- "Another source of tension has resulted from the so-called ghetto. Evi~ence abounds that, while the legal walls of (Amtorg) on a business matter. There h~ met African States is a significant' political event. and administrative action by all constitutional 'ter," the authors note, "may still be linked together in religious revival of the post-World War II era. Great pres- racial and religious segregation are tumbling down in the , a Soviet official named Zubilin, who reminded him In the first place it is, a relllinder that Israel, as means available. This activity should not be con­ ancient jokes, but, in most American communities, they sure~ are being exerted on all Americans to believe and to United States, the walls of self-segregation are springing up," of his agreement with :aeria and ordered him to fined to national organizations; local bodies and move to the U,S.A:, to "get any information a small relatively new State, has found a common come together in real life only occasionally, usually at affiliate, The right to disbelieve has always been as sacred • The much-advertised process of "dialogue'" is still limited language with new Mrican States. True, at the individuals should press -through their M.P., rather formal occasions, and they rarely develop a close to America as th,e right to believe freely. It was this to a few conununities and is conducted mostly on the level you can." " ' through )pcal authorities, trade unions and simi­ He introduced Soblen to Zubiliri and was latel present s1:;1ge IsraeUends to give materially more per~onar relationship." voluiltary character of American religion ~hich, in the of leadership. "Still to come and hadly needed," the authors ' than she receives, but the readiness of these lar bodies with which British society is' so richly 'The book cites two examples of this dilemma: "A letter view of De TocqueVille and other European observers, gave write, "is real and continuing dialogue about basic theo­ told ,by Mrs. ~Q'bilin that she' was his brothers States to receive aid and advice from Israel in endQwed. !5uch action may be less spectacular 'appeared in the Pittsburgh Post - Gazette, signed by a American religion its dynamic quality. The right to dis- olgical differences, long-standing historic disagreements and "superior." 'Until that time, said Soble, he h~ many poli~ically sensitive fields is· ~ l:Iign of their ~pan heckl~ng or ,the, str!le~ bl'awl~ng into 'which done no' work ff)r the ~ussians~ E,!U'~y ~~ 1~~3. Methodist minister, Pastor Hodge M. Eagelson, in which he believe is in jeopardy in America today, Certain).y, the confIicts~" See AMERICAN FAITHS, page 8 confidence. lsra,el's enemies; oorticulllrly N~ser It. almost mvar~ably de¥ener~tes., blit it ~s i~fi., Zubiliri became .ldlSgusted witlt me" ,and handed and his Communist allies, have been making ardu- . mtely more frUItful. ' ' him on 'fo"another contact, who told hbn he , ' " ,- I,

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