Vol. VI. No. 9 SEPTEMBER., 1951

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TRANSFER OF PENSIONS Hans Reiclunann: It has been agreed to allow transfers on a limited scale to pensioners now resident in the United Kingdom. These transfers will be made in accord­ DINING WITH THE DEVIL ance with the following provisions :- (1) Without any prior examination other than The historical evaluation of Hitler cannot be therefore brought lip topics during these conversa­ that of the genuineness of the claim. made finally at a time which is so close to his tions about which there were arguments in the (2) Provided that the amount concerned does not activity. About the character of this strange man. administration, or between the administration and exceed DM 300 monthly (any sum in excess many derogatory and flattering details are known. the party, or between the military and the party. to be examined individually having regard His opponents certainly underestimated him when Hitler's utterance was then recorded in shorthand. to the personal and financial position of the they presented him as a mentally dull hysteric and if it favoured the intentions of Bormann's applicant and whether unnecessary hardship with the talent of a soap-box orator. who executed radical clique-which was usually the case-it was would arise if the sum were reduced). like a willing tool the commands of his mainly used to silence their opponents. The stenographer (3) Transfer to be arranged upon all current industrialist paymasters. Just as wrong as the was thus probably quite unconscious of the enormity payments falling due after June 1, 1950. reports about the biting of carpets are the ridiculous which was being perpetrated when Bormann in­ (4) Payments which have fallen due between byzantine eulogies according to which he was the sisted on his shorthand elaboration of Hitler's June I. 1950, and the date of application to acme of intellectual and moral strength. utterance about" Mischlinge.'· Moderate elements. be transferred within a period not exceeding probably in the Mini of Justice, did not wish The post-war period has disclosed little about the try SL't months and to be in addition to current real Hitler which was not already known. The to apply the terrible anti-Jewish measures to part­ payments. true Hitler has not been revealed by the German Jew. Bormann eagerly seized upon Hitler's words As the Federal Government still has difficulty in generals. diplomats, by his interpreter and cretary which made it pos ible to accord the same treatment earning sufficient foreign exchange to meet its of State. who are now publishing their voluminous to full and part-Jews. essential requirements. the United Kingdom has memoirs instead of keeping silent about their part This political use of his conversation was of course accepted the present arrangement, but has informed in a criminal regime. :Members of the intimate known to Hitler. He even countersigned some of the Federal Government that it will ask for an circle in which Hitler may have shown himself in the shorthand reports. It follows that he was not increase in the monthly limit if it becomes evident his true colours are. if they have survived. probably completely natural in these talks. but said what he that the additional cost could be met by the unable to write. as these .. old fighters" had the believed uitable for a more or less limited public. Federal authorities without serious repercussions education of chauffeurs and chuckers-out. More­ This limits the use of these records for a character on the balance of payment. over, as these people are scenting the morning air analysis of Hitler. again. they would probably not show us the real Even so there remains plenty for the historian J-litler eith r. but wonId probably present another and the psychologist to learn from these talks, and IMPORTANT FOR BERLI CLAIMANTS legendary distorted image of their idol. especially for those allied politicians who to-day ormer residents oE Berlin are reminded What authoritative personal utterances are profess complete conJidence in those circles which that the time limit for the registration of available to us? First there is his book .. Mein only six years ago were entirely under Hitler's indemnification clainu in Berlin ends on Kampf." in the writing of which he may have been influence. Those who accepted the expression of February 8, 1952. This is only five months from assisted by his close collaborator, but which, in unexampled brutality as the expression of the now on. As every claimant has to submit its essentials. is flesh of his own flesh. To analyse ational Socialist view of liie and acted upon it, documentary evidence which is often difficult his character solely on the basis of this book. do not seem suitable to us as the allies of powers to obtain, he should prepare his claim without however, is dangerous. It is intended as a propa­ who have introduced the term .. Crime against delay, if he has not already done so. ganda work. and the writer shows himself as he Humanity" into international criminal law. Forms are available at the United Restitution wants to be seen, and not as he is. This is even Office, Fairfax [ansions, London, N.W.3 (please more the case in his speeches; even 0, if you .. Expert" in all Fields enclose 6d. and large stamped envelope). listened to these speeches on the wireless or in URO will represent before the indemnification ow what does Hitler talk about? Practically authorities claimants who cannot afford lawyers' public meetings you felt sometime and especially about all questions of politi , war, law, but also about his terrible anti-Semitic fits of rage-that fees. Consultation by special appointment (Tele­ about morals, religion, church and state, science, phone: MAlda Vale 9 96). there the real Hitler revealed himself with all his art and music, architecture. He considers himself brutality and his vulgarity. as expert in all fields, and whether he produces platitudes about smoking or marriage. discusses RESPITE FOR IMMEDIATE AID TAX " Hitler's Table Talks" German pre-history and nordic culture, talks about The Minister of Finance of the German Federal Similar doubts apply to the talks which former Kapoleon I or Jeanne d'Arc or Philipp of Macedon, RepubliC has issued a new Decree, dated June 4, follower of Hitler had with him. We cannot even be always as umes a finality of judgment which is 1951. regarding respite /Stundung) for the pay­ tell in these cases whether the report reflects Hitler's not justified by his education. Undoubtedly he ment of Immediate id Tax (Soforthilfeabgabe) by exact words or the writer's memory of what may read mUCh, and especially of course Houston -azi persecutees. \Vhilst a previous decree had have been said. tewart Chamberlain and popular national his­ already provided for a respite if the persecutee had The .erman Institute for the History of the torian. He also thought about many problems of a claim against a Land on the strength of Indemifi­ ational Socialist Period has now issued, politics and political philosophy, although without cation Laws (e.g. Jews' Tax-Judenvermoegensab­ through its director, the Freiburg historian Professor the ability of seeing any point of view other than gabe-deprivation of liberty. etc.). respite may now Gerhard Ritter, .. Hitler's Table Conversations in his own pre-conceived ultra-nationalist and racial al 0 be granted if the per ecntee submits prima the Leader's Headquarter, 1941-42," as taken one. or is there any doubt that he is more intelli­ facie evidence (Glaubhaftmachung) that he has a down in shorthand by Dr. Henry Picker (published gent and cunning than his opponents would admit. claim against the German Reich on the strength of by Athenaeum, Bonn, 1951). Here then we have His judgments are sometimes even different from restitution laws (compensation for auctioned lift some authentic utterances of the man who was his own propaganda" line." In these conversations vans. delivered jewellery, coniiscated bank accounts. personally guilty of the decision to start the second Stalin is not the blood-thirsty barbarian of azi etc.). If judgment of the restitution authorities world war and of the violent death of millions. propaganda. On the contrary, Hitler admires him cannot be submitted as evidence. the application The conversations were wTitten down in Hitler's because of his recklessness and because he is free for respite may be granted if the .. Oberfinanz­ bunker in East Prussia and in the Ukraine. Hitler's from sentimental humanitarianism. The Russian direktion" can confirm on the strength of its records secretary and political conJidant Martin Bormann Five Year Plan, he thinks, is only outdone by the that the persecutee had been deprived of his assets. caused them to be recorded. His intention was not German Four Year Plan. He even almost salutes The assessment of the amount of damage due to by any means to preserve for posterity every word in Stalin an anti-Semitic ally, for Stalin has told the persecutee has to be based on the R.M. value which the Master uttered at lunch or dinner. Under Ribbentrop he was only waiting until sufficient of the conJiscated property at the time of depriva­ a regime in which the Supreme Court was not native intelligence had matured in the USSR before tion. This R.M. amount has to be converted into ashamed to stipulate the Will of the Leader as the he finished off the Jews as leaders. (?) D.M. at the rate of 1 : I, unless the property would final law. every word he spoke was important. It Hitler does not admire the party .. philosopher" also have decreased in value if it had remained at could be used for the interpretation of law and Rosenberg, but looks down on him as a Bohemian the disposal of the persecutee. could influence the entire administration of the and litterateur. Rosenberg's success he believes Respite has to be granted for the time being­ State. even if it was merely uttered in the course to have been due to the angry criticism he received without prejudice to future legislation-at the rate of a conversation at table. Bormann and others from the Catholics. Himmler's cnlt of Henry the of 10 per cent. of the claim. Continued on page 2 Palte 2 AJR INFORMATION September. 1951

Continued from front page Lion seems ridiculous to Hitler; he, the absolute follower of the nordic-Germanic race theory, even makes fun of the supposed culture of the ancient IN PARLIAMENT Germans. He knows that they were primitive and DEBATE ON IMMIGRATION POLICY NATURALISATION AND POLICE could not compare with the Southern people. On July 26 Mr. Wedgwood Benn raised the Mr. H. Nicholls asked the Secretary of State for If one looks for political revelations of historical question of British immigration policy. He the Home Department how many applications for importance in this book, one will be disappointed. expressed the view that there should be a less British naturalisation have been granted since Hitler merely gives a few facts about his appoint­ restrictive and more positive approach; basically, January, 1946, against the advice of the local police ment as Chancellor and his negotiations with this country should accept the right of everyone to authority concerned. Hindenburg, which hardly add to the k-nown facts. come in, and exclusions should be the exception. Mr. Ede: The police are not asked to advise He quotes a few pronouncements by Hindenburg " With inherited Liberal principles, I feel that the me and, while it is open to them to do so, I am, from the early days of March which, if they are free movement of all people is a good thing and of course, not bound to accept their advice whether true, show up the President's oath on the Consti­ one to be encouraged." Mr. Benn recalled that in or not it is favourable to the applicant. Reports tution in a strange light. On the other hand Hitler 1949, for example, 145,000 people emigrated from submitted by the police are confidential, and it admits that Hindenburg did not agree with the this country and only 60,000 immigrated into this would not be in the public interest to disclose the National Socialist measures against the Jews. country. There was a nearer approach to the ideal nature of the advice tendered by the police when Hitler shows his true character in three fields. of universal admission in the . In they see fit to volunteer it. He openly indulges his morbid megalomania which his reply, the Under-Secretary of State for the makes him dream of the .. Greater Germanic Home Office, Mr. Geoffrey de Freitas, stated at the Empire." He expresses his hatred of the Church outset that the American principle was unsuitable FOREIG DENTISTS BILL and Christianity as genuinely as he feels it, and he to conditions in this country because we were not In answer to a question by Awbery whether a country of immigration like the United States. Mr. lets no opportunity pass without airing his satanic the Minister of Health was now in a position to hatred of the Jews. The broad general policy since the war had been first to admit immigrants who could make a positive state when the Foreign Dentists Bill will be intro­ The Greater Germanic Empire will stretch from duced which will include proposals for new methods the North Cape to the Alps and from the West contribution to the national economy, and secondly, for assessing the qualifications of foreign-trained to help as much as we could to relieve distress and coast of France to the Black Sea. Its capital will dentists, Mr. Marquand replied: "I hope to be Berlin, which will be called" Germania." He persecution abroad. Since the war 120,000 Poles and their dependents of the Polish Resettlement include proposals on this ubject in legislation which will change its structure so that it can only be it is the Governnlent's intention to introduce at an Corps had entered this country; 25,000 former compared with ancient Rome. London and Paris early opportunity." prisoners of war and 94,000 refugees and distressed will be nothing against it. He will let Leningrad (fhe AJR has taken various steps in order to fall to ruins; her inhabitants have already shrunk persons had also come. All but a small proportion had been men and women who could make a direct safeguard the interests of the dentists concerned. to two millions. Hunger, cold and bombs will ruin -The Ed.) it finally. ew villages and towns will arise contribution to our national economy. .. "We throughout the East and will form a living defen­ welcome a foreigner whose employment is approved. sive wall. Whole nations will be transplanted, We want not only workers. If a foreigner PEACE TREATY WITH AUSTRIA e.g. the Southern Tyroleans to the Crimea, Nor­ wants to come here and set up a business and the Home Office are advised by the Government In answer to a question by Mr. Macdonald when wegians, Swedes, Danes and Dutchmen will be it was anticipated that a Peace Treaty with Austria mixed with Germans to renew their blood according Department most closely concerned that it is in the interest of national economy that he should would be signed, Mr. Youuger replied on behalf of to the rules of horse breeding. The Swiss however the Foreign Office: "Although His Majesty's will only be of use as hotel keepers. come in, and that there is no disadvantage about his coming in, then we admit him." With regard Government, together with the French and Ameri­ Russia a Colony to distressed and persecuted people the Home can Governments, have pressed for the conclusion Russia will become the great colony, the new Office had consistently followed the traditional of the Treaty for the Re-establishment of an India. The megalomaniac does think about policy of relieving the victims of persecution abroad. Independent and Democratic Austria, I regret that the fate of the 180 million Russians. The solution .. The fact is that our system of admission, based the attitude of the Soviet Government makes it is simple: they will become slaves. In many on discretion and not restriction, enables us to give impos ible for me to give an indication of when it talks he discusses in detail what must be done to particular care and consideration to the distressing is likely to be completed and ready for siguature." lower the standard of civilisation of the Russians. cases, especially cases of elderly people who are That he is talking about human beings does not living abroad in ill health and alone, who have enter the consciousness of this modern Ghengis relatives in this country willing to look after them." IDEM IFlCATIO RHEINLAND-PFALZ Khan for an instant. The superstition that inocula­ Mr. de Freitas concluded .. that our system is one The time limit for the submission of indemnifica­ tion is dangerous must be spread among them. which works well and that, on the whole, our policy tion claims in Rheinland-Pfalz ends on November 29, Abortion must be advocated. Any fool of a German is sound." 1951. official who might wish to prevent this would be personally shot down by Hitler. (It might be interesting to find out how many times Hitler uses Continued from column I and crying crocodiles' tears after the Jews. The the terms .. shooting down' and" beating up " in Perhaps his hatred of lawyers has a similar root Jew, he says, is equally capable of settling down his talks.) They will get that much schooling only cause as that against the church. The existence in the climates of Lapland and in the Tropics. to understand traffic signs. And anyway, why are of a legal system and of judges remind him dis­ But only a fortnight later he recommends sending the Russians warned to beware of railway cross­ agreeably that his practices run counter to the the Jews not to Siberia, but to some African ings? They must learn enough German not to be moral standard which is reflected in the legal climate, with the implication that they should die able to plead ignorance of German as an excuse systems of all nations. Conscientious objectors on off more quickly there. He is lying when he says for disobeying German commands. Their largest religious grounds have his esteem, but the" Bibel­ that the deportations are the means to free Europe political community shall be the village. If there forscher" who refused military service are shot. of Jews. His S.S. had been executing secret orders is any resistance, a few bombs will be sufficient to "There were only 130, but it certainly had the to murder for a long time wherever they had had the break it. desired effect." opportunity to butcher unarmed people in their Other Eastern peoples will be treated similarly Artists who are sending" any old tripe" for the thousands. to the Russians. He threatened to deport the exhibition in the House of German Art in Munich This book reveals to us a man without tender­ Czechs after the murder of Heydrich, but in the are either impostors and should go to gaol, or they ness, without feeling or regard for human dignity, Alsace too a further quarter of a million Frenchmen are fools and should be kept in the lunatic asylum. and without respect for any authority. Such a still have to disappear. On the other hand he is Ifit was not clear into which category they belonged, man has been idolised by millions of Germans, and against Himmler's plan to force youths from the they should first be made to get used to real work his memory is probably still being honoured by an "Germanic element" of France into German in a concentration camp. increasing number. Why else should the neo-r azi educational institutions to turn them into azis. The man who is the supreme source of the Law agitators become more impudent and open every Hitler does not believe that the militarily incapable feels annoyed by the existence of a legal system, day in their appreciation of the murderous regime French will be much use. and even the most willing servants of his whims and its creator as the ideal of the past and as a The massacres of Russians and Poles have proved among the higher Law officers, such as ScWegel­ model for the future? that his megalomaniac dreams were not mere berger, are persecuted with hatred and derision. It appears, to say the least, too early to make theories. Respect for human dignity or compassion these conversations available to the German people, were as alien to him as the recognition of any Pathololtical Jew Hatred a large part of whom has not yet recovered from the authority other than his own. That may have 'Ne need not go into details about his views on disease with which Hitler has infected it. After been the root cause of his hatred against religion the Jews. We know that their ridiculous nature twelve years of the ational Socialist regime, these and the Church. They assumed a moral authority did not canse them to die out, and Hitler's followers circles lack the clear judgment needed to recognise ., which he, the" Superman," did not acknowledge. still believe as a great truth such views as this :­ the madness and presumptuousness of what Hitler His criticism of religion and church is on a level " By the creation of contract, the Jews found a called his view of life, and which he followed in with the lowest atheist propaganda :- legal form for their frauds which during the last practice. .. If 1 am a poor devil and have no time in my two centuries have depressed our commerce to that We think it unfortunate that the German Insti­ dying hour to repent, I am done for. But if I had low level from which it must certainly be raised tute for the History of the National Socialist Period 10 marks and paid them to the Church in advance again." There have been many speculations about -then all is well! " the root cause of Hitler's hatred of the Jews. This has chosen just this subject for its first publication, "I'd march into the Vatican and get the whole is no phenomenon which can be rationally under­ and we are surprised that people are collaborating gang out. Later I'd say, • Sorry, I've made a stood, but a case for clinical psychiatry. Even so, in this Institute who have been in sympathy with mistake!' But they would be gone I .. Hitler found the tools to carry out the plans which the so-called " view of life" of ational Socialism. That is the level of the man with whom the had been hatched in his morbid brain. In May 1942 If the Germans are to be freed of the remains of Vatican, as the first foreign power, saw fit to he talks about deportation to the East and is National Socialism, different means \vill have to be conclude a Concordat. shocked that the German bourgeoisie is lamenting used from the resuscitation of Hitler's words. AJR INFORMATION September, 1951 Pal1e 3 A. J. Fischer LETTIER FROM JIERUSAlLEM A Dramatic Period: The past few weeks in J erusa1em were a period of tension and drama. JEWISH SCENE IN YUGOSLAVIA The election campaign throughout the country, though conducted with a certain measure of The fourth post-war aliyah-<:omprising about the war, it was the centre of the Jewish community. restraint, culminated in a quiet voting, and the 00 people-will leave Yugoslavia during the next Then it was turned into the Gestapo Headquarters, result proved that the population of did not few days. Israel's Belgrade Legation arranged a where the Jewish victims were collected for succumb to the lures of the extremists on the left reception on the third anniversary of the Day of deportation. When Moshe Ishai, Israel's .first and right. Liberation. ot only the whole Diplomatic Corps, Minister in Yugoslavia, heard this tragic story, he including the American and British Ambassadors asked to be allocated the house in order" to purify While I am writing these lines, another event is as well as the Soviet charge d'affaires, was present, it." Without being pompous in any way. the dominating the Israel scene-Zionist Congress. but also many leading personalities of Yugoslavia's Legation is particularly well and tastefully furnished. Thousands of visitors are thronging the streets of public life, headed by the Foreign Minister and Dr. Ishai is a master in establishing human Israel's capital, and with hardly more than 400 Deputy Prime Mini ter Kardelj and the deputy contact. He was born 55 years ago as son of a beds available in good hotels in Jerusalem, there is chairman of the People's Assembly Presidency­ Rabbi in . Already at an early age, he a prize on every furnished room. ~loshe Pijade. joined the Zionist Movement. In Warsaw and Chagall ExhibItion: The great cnltural and Both events are in some way connected. Without Prague Moshe Ishai studied law and philosophy. social event during the past month in Jerusalem the cordial relations between Yugoslavia and Israel, The 1924 aliyah brought him to Israel. In addition was an exhibition of works by Chagall at the neither the ocial contact would be so clo e, nor to his work as a lawyer. he soon developed an Bezalel Museum. The importance of this artistic would half of Yugoslavia's surviving Jewry have active political interest for Mapai and Histadruth. event was heightened by the presence of the artist, been able to emigrate into their new homeland Thus, he was one of the founders of the Davar, who came to visit Israel after many years of absence. under favourable material conditions and with the first Hebrew daily of the Histadruth. The exhibition included hundreds of his works grateful sentiments for their native country, which In 1943/44 Dr. lshai was entrusted with an reaching back to his early beginnings and thus offered them all chances of a big career up to important mission in Teheran: the organisation of portraying his artistic development throughout the minister and general's posts. refugee transports from Poland, Siberia and decades. A few steps from Belgrade's theatre, the imposing Bucharia to Israel. "Envoy Without a Title" is building of the Israeli Legation is situated. Before the name of his book, which deals with this historical It was surpri ing to find the exhibition popular period. At the end of the war, he went to Warsaw. among people who generally are not well versed in DR. BERNHARD WEISS There he established .first contacts between the modern art or even more, are not greatly interested Dr. Bernhard Weiss, the former " Polizei- new government and the Jewish Agency. in art altogether. It seemed as though the fact Yizepraesident" of Berlin, died at the age of 71 On July 5, 1949, the envoy without a title that here a Jewish artist of international renown in London, where he had lived since 1933. For became an envoy with title and handed his creden­ had exhibited his life work in Jerusalem, attraeted those who remember the political events in Berlin tials to Yugoslavia's President Ivan Ribar. At the masse.s for national rather than artistic rea ons. between 1926-1933, the name of Bernhard Weiss is about the same time, Belgrade's first minister Chagall's works do not lend themselve to easy connected with the vicious campaign which Goebbels arrived in Tel "iv. Thus a friendship between interpretation. They are neither realistic nor led against this courageou civil servant. Dr. Weiss two nations, which has since ,vithstood many tests, symbolistic, and the artist's di regard of the laws was the first Jew to enter the Home Service (Innere was put on a diplomatic level. Yugoslavia has of physics have sometimes a bewildering effect on erwaltung) of pre-Weimar Prussia. A judge, done a great deal to help Israel during the war of the viewer. Horses and carts are suspended in who came from an old Berlin family, he was con­ Liberation and Israel will never forget th e effort . mid-air, people walk about with their heads up ide sidered an exceptionally efficient lawyer. Dr. down, and an ever recurring calf--or is it a goat­ Drews, the .linister who appointed him to a Friendship with Israel plays the violin. However, the less the people position in the Home Service, said of him : "vVhen From a political and military viewpoint, both understood, the more they showed enthu iasm, and we decided to appoint for the Home Service a Jew countries have much in common. Dr. Ishai at the end it was difficult to judge whether Chagall's who was not bapti ed, we knew that the first to be analyses the situation concisely and appropriately: success was due to snobbery or to his impressive appointed would have to be the best. It was you " Both had to fight for their independence without use of colours. There was, 00 doubt, one factor I chose, and having closely followed your career outside help and against overwhelming odds. which contributed to the unique success of the ever since, I am glad to say you have lived up to To-day both are surrounded by unfriendly neigh­ exhibition, that is the Jewish motive in his work, our expectations." These words were written in bours, and continuous frontier incidents are the the atmosphere and figures of the Jewish" staedtel " 1932, when Dr. Weiss's career as a civil servant order of the day. Our work of reconstruction is which permeate his pictures. came to an end. Von Papen had him and his similar, too. Without being neutral, both countries Topical Theatre: The other day I saw Ib n's superior arrested, if only for a day, as a symbol have refrained from joining one of the existing .. Enemy of the People" at the Chamber Theatre that the rules of democratic government no longer blocs." in Jerusalem. One would not have dreamt that applied to , and that Goebbels and his Minister Ishai stresses that he lives in au atmo­ this piece, which sometimes has been described as party had achieved, at least, a partial victory. sphere of sincere friendship: "8,000-9,000 Jews rather dusty, would have gained a new topicality The campaign that Goebb Is had started against from Yugoslavia have already reached Israel. in Israel to-day. This active theatrical group has " Isidor," as Dr. Weiss was maliciously nicknamed Excluded from emigration are for the time being picked it up from the shelves at the very moment by him, had as its target not the man Dr. Weiss. only doctors, engineers and chemists, and other when there was a public controversy on the question It was the \Veimar Republic which, by abusing a specialists of whom Yugoslavia is particularly short of whether bathing on the beach in Tel Aviv should Jewish high civil servant, Goebbels would con­ after the mass murder of a large part of her intelli­ be allowed or prohibited for reasons of health. veniently brand as " The Jews' Republic." Week gentsia during the war. Even these restrictions, As may be recalled, the sea of Tel Aviv has not by week he had cartoon drawn, attacking the however, are occasionally lifted. 1£ there are good passed bacteriological tests, as part of the sewerage Jewish head of the Police, and, later on, a collection reasons, then exceptions are made. The principle of the town is emptying north and south of the of them was published under the title" The Book of self-determination for national minorities in bathing area. A similar problem has been treated Isidor," a true specimen of -azi taste and spirit. Yugoslavia is well respected. Therefore, Jews by Ibsen in his " Enemy of the People." The piece Indeed, in six years of mud-slinging against the having at last obtained their own state, may go reveals a likewise state of affairs in a small ·or­ man who had been singled out by the.Tazis as the there if they wish." wegian town notwithstanding the fact that this whipping boy for the Weimar Republic, not one My question as to whether the considerable truth may ruin the man who discovers it and fact emerged to his dishonour. Mohammedan minority of Yugoslavia does not damage the coffers of the town people. The name of Dr. Bernhard \Yeiss is cIo ely present a handicap for the cordial relations between associated with the history of the unfortunate the two countries is emphatically denied by Dr. Another sign of the times in an otherwise neat \Veimar Republic. From the day when he pro­ Ishai. "These lohammedans are lavs like their performance was the drioking of liquor from tea duced evidence for the subversive activit;ies of the Catholic and Orthodox compatriots. During the cups-quite an astonishing sight in a setting ot a Ru sian Trade Delegation in Berlin to the hunt centuries of Turkish oppression they had accepted Torwegian patrician home, but nevertheless a of the murderers of Rathenau, in the truggle with the Islam." re ult of " tzena," the Communists and the daily .fight against the The commercial relations between Yugoslavia HERBERT FREEDE Brown Shirts, culminating in the arrest of ~ azi and Israel show an upward trend... In 1950 and members of the Reichstag in the Reichstag Building, ] 951 trade agreements covering four million dollars Dr. Weiss stood in the forefront of the forces that were signed. We import from Yugoslavia more tried to protect the young German Democracy. than we can export, and we pay the balance in HART SON & COMPANY (LONDON) LTD. \Vben, shortly before the breakdown of the Nazi dollars. Wood, chemicals and cement are our main MERCHANT BANKERS Party, Hindenburg made his disastrous decision of import articles from Yugoslavia. Business men appointing Hitler Chancellor, Dr. Weiss had to from Israel often come to Belgrade. flee from his country. While his police force was .. The cultural exchange, too, is rising steadily. 9, DRAPERS GARDENS, E.C.2 PHONE CEN 0354/5 ordered to arrest him and Goering had put a reward Opera singers and in trumentalists such as Franz on his head, a political friend took him by car Pollak, one of our best musicians, made Israel more acro s the zech border. From Prague he accepted popular in Yugoslavia. Sports contests bring an invitation to this country, where he fir t received Israeli teams to Yugo lavia and vice versa." BLOCKED GERMAN MARKS generous hospitality and later established a printing Dr. Ishai considers it as a proof of friendship and stationery business of his own. Grateful that a delegation of the Jewish community wa AND AUSTRIAN SHILLINGS though he was to the country that gave him refuge, permitted to participate in Israel's Independence he felt him elf an exile and regarded as his true Day celebrations: .. Yugoslavia is the only place the country which had 0 ungratefully re­ Communist state which offered this chance to her ENQUIRIES INVITED warded the love and devotion of a man who had Jews." served it well. H.R. COPYRIGHT BY . J. FISCHER Page 4 AJR INFORMATION September, 1951

no longer 0, and everything centres around the Ignaz Maybaum c1ifIerence between the Jewish "emoonah," faith in the sense of being faithful, and the Pauline " pistis," fai th in the sense of theoretical conviction MARTIN BUBER'§ GREAT HARVEST and proof. With the emphasis on this difference alone and with the neglect of the messianic element Vladimir Solovyev has given us what can be as a " Pauline century," a diagnosis made by Franz the difference between the Jew and the three types called a theological map of Europe. Eastern Rosenzweig about Germany's dilemma of either of Christian believers is not made sufficiently Europe, especially Russia, is shown as the civilisa­ blind force or blind faith. Though mentioning the visible. tion under the influence of the Apostle John. The Christianity of John and Peter, Buber does not Buber is the great master in interpreting and Protestant continent between East and West, give sufficient attention to them in his book and contradicting the Pauline specialisation on theore­ especially Germany, is the place of a civilisation concentrates more on Paul, when he compares tical conviction, the Damascus of theoretical man. which owes its decisive inspiration to Paulus. Judaism and Christianity. This is the decisive \Vhat Leo Baeck wanted in his "Wesen des For the Western world, especially the Anglo-Saxon difference between Buber and Rosenzweig. Bubcr's Judentum ," what all the German Rabbi from civilisation, Peter rendered the formative influence. " Zwei Glaubensweisen" is a great work, but its Zacharias Frankel to this day wanterl in their books Solovyev's life work as a theologian aimed at the shortcomings are exactly there, where it di£!ers about apologetics: to represent to the Christian unification of these three Christian worlds. When from Franz Ro enzweig. Rosenzweig's work con­ world, thinking in dogma and doctrine, the Jewish he saw he failed, he withdrew to a friend's estate fronts Judaism with all three forms of Christianity. doctrine, has been fully achieved by Buber, perhap near Moscow, ready and willing to die; he received Buber, being the great interpreter of our modern as never before. As far as Pharisaic Judaism can extreme unction by an orthodox priest and spent Pauline age from Hegel to Hitler, sometimes be e""pres ed a a doctrine, and confronted with the the last weeks of his life praying for the Jews. becomes himself a prisoner of this age. 'When he doctrine of hristianity, and that means with Paul, He saw the Jews in possession of the whole and -in his controversy with Professor K. L. Schmidt Buber has done the job. But Pharisaic Judaism is undivided faith which in the process of Gentile -refuses to be regarded as the speaker of the not exhausted as a doctrine. Here, Buber is history had split into the three forms of Chris­ " Synagogue" and wants to be seen "only" as lacking something of which we are in great need, tianity: into the faith of John. converting wisdom the speaker of " Judaism," he reveals unconsciously to-day even more than before 1933. Buber is our and aspiring to personal sanctity through worship his one-sided partiality to the Pauline civilisation great teacher, where we preach Judaism; but in and ritual, into the faith of Paul converting the of the continent; but Jews in Anglo-Saxon order to preach Judaism, we must have Jewish soul and aspiring to personal conviction through countries live their Jewish lives under the impact homes, Synagognes and Jewish congregations. scriptural or theoretical proof, and into the faith of Petrine civilisation. Buber remains--even as These practical issues are embraced by the" Hala­ of Peter converting society and aiming at a just the Israeli Jew-the speaker of German Jewry of chah." As far as these practical issues are con­ order. the twenties and thirties. cerned, Buber is an outsider. In his book "Zwei Glaubensweisen" (Manesse Change of Approach Chassidism interpreted Verlag, ZUrich) Martin Buber mentions neither And yet he is the propagator of Chassidism. Vladimir Solovyev nor Franz Rosenzweig who There is one great difference between Buber of How is that possible? The answer is that Buber made full use of Solovyev's theological map in his 1933 and Buber of 1951. In his writings between has, as interpreter of Chassidism, done what a "Der Stern der Erlbsung." That is surprising, 1933 and 193 , most remarkably in his already musician does, who transposes a piece of music because Buber lavishes in footnotes, and it is also mentioned dispute with Professor Karl Schmidt, from one key to another; Buber treats Chassidism to be deplored, because one would like to know Buber stressed the messianic element as the as if it had grown in the Pauline ci,"ilisation in whether Buber is aware that he builds on a founda­ decisive difference between J udaism and Chris­ which the main issue is not religious practice, but tion laid by Rosenzweig. Buber describes our time tianity ; in 1951 with its Jewish State, this is religious conviction. Buber speaks of the" message" of hassidism, and this message is his own creation. Buber is blind to the aim of the Chassidic Rabbis to have communal prayer endowing the individual LAW and LIFE worshipper with holiness. Here he is, more than anywhere else, preoccupied by the Pauline civilisa­ Legal AdviceHol~Ys (for persons with limited means only): Sunday 11 a.m.-12 noon by appointmel1t. tion of Germany. In his novel" Gog and Magog " (Lambert Schneider, Heidelberg) Chassidic Rabbis HIRE-PURCHASE AGREEMENTS has been paid, and the Court has the power to talk philosophy, as if they had all graduated at a Hire-purchase has become a feature of everyday allow the hirer to keep the goods on condition that German university, and as if each of them were a life. When it was first introduced economists the balance is paid in a manner left to the discretion Dr.Phil. What he represents is Chassid-ism, a warned that it would induce the poorer classes to of the Court, usually taking into account the special literary creation. unnecessary purchases and would plunge them financial circumstances of the hirer. While in " Zwei Glaubensweisen" the combina­ into debts and bankruptcy. This theory has been On payment of a fee of one shilling the purchaser tion of industrious scholarship and capable inter­ over-ruled by experience. Buying on the " never­ is entitled to a written information from the vendor pretation i most fortunate, Buber's great learning never" plan has developed into a necessity for the about the following details :-(1) The amount as a biblical scholar has its genuine field in his middle classe, disregarded only by the very paid. (2) The amount unpaid and due. (3) The "ner Glaube der Propheten" (Manesse Verlag, wealthy or by the really poor whose income is not dates of further instalments. (4) The amount of Zurich). There is nobody, neither in the Jewish steady enough to gnarantee the instalments. each instalment becoming due. nor in the Christian world of letters, who is of This outcome has been made pos ible only The vendor has to answer within four day and Buber's stature. But here, too, where we face through a special legislation, clearly rlefinining the failure to do so suspends all further instalments Buber as the great heir of centuries of biblical duties of the purchaser and restricting the rights or any steps to enforce the contract until the answer research and of the untiring endeavour of German of the vendor with his greater power through greater is supplied. After a month has elapsed without Jewry to have prophetism expounded, a word of financial resources. reply the vendor is liable to prosecution and to a caution must be expressed. There is the prophetic fine of £10. The purchaser on the other hand, is conception of the Covenant. The Covenant, being The Hire Purchase Act of 1938 covers the credit­ obliged to inform the vendor at his request where sale agreement where the goods are sold on credit what it is. does notlead to the dilemma individualism and the property passes to the purchaser with the the goods are kept and his failure to give this - collectivism. The individual precedes the contract or at a later strictly defined time. It also information make him also liable to a fine of £10. Covenant but it is the Covenant through which the Certain terms if inserted in the agreement are covers the hire purchase agreement proper in which individual exists. In his interpretation of the the property is hired and the hirer has the right bound by law to be void and bear no consequence prophets Buber tends to bc influenced by modern to buy and to become the owner usually after even if agreed to and signed by the purchaser. collectivism. But the happy inconsistencies within having paid the last instalment. The most important of them are :- Buber' great personality enable him to come to a faithful interpretation of the prophets as near as The Act controls the hire purchase of motor (1) Permitting the venclor to enter any premises and to take the goods away, humanly possible to a man with per onal con­ vehicles and certain railway rolling stock up to a victions of his own. faithful interpretation has price of £50, live stock up to {500, and all other (2) altering or restricting the purchaser's right to ternlinate the contract, no need lo stress any collectivism in the prophets, goods up to {lOO. In order to makc the agreement because the "colIective" of the prophets is the quite clear for the purchaser the law requires that (3) relieving the purchaser from any liability for Covenant. Th Covenant with God makes man free the vendor must state in writing the cash price unlawful acts committed by person acting and give him communion with his fellow man. of the goods or must exhibit them with a label on his behalf. The Covenant, the b'rith, is the prototype of every stating the price or must hand over a catalogue Finally, an important protection for the hirer or organisation which can be called Jewish. The with the cash price. Therefore, the purchaser will purchaser lies in the discretion the Courts can Synagogue, being Jewi h organisation, Jurlaism, always know how much more he has to pay on exercise when enforcement of the agreement is being Jewish doctrine, Chassidism, being Jewish hire purchase as again t cash. sought by the vendor. Only the County Court in pietism aiming at worship in holiness, cannot be The law requires that the hirer or purchaser whose di trict the purchaser resides or carries on revived, lest the revival of the Jew himself starts must personally sign a note attached to the contract business can hear the action. The Judge can first. We must begin with him wbo is one and stating the hire purchase price, the cash price, the (Jrder the return of the goods if the instalments whom God can make many, as Isaiah said of amount of each instalment, the dates when payable, ha e not been kept up to date, but can suspend braham: "For when he was but one, I called and a list identifying the goods. the order on condition that further instalments are him, and I blessed him, and made him many" Furthermore, a notice must be attached to the paid as he thinks just, or he can even order return (LT. 2). agreement stating that the hirer has the right to of only part of the goods giving the ownership of The greatness of Euber is the greatness of the terminate the agreement in writing. He can the rest to the purchaser if a certain number of teacher; the teacher is not bound to provide a terminate it at any time after having paid the payments have been made. political panacea for e"ery one. All he can do is to instalments due and after having given notice of It appears, therefore, that the law has regulated prepare those who have to make their decisions. as termination. It is further stated that the vendor the hire-purchase agreement sufficiently not to best as he can. Thi Buber does, and be makes it cannot take the goods back without a Court Order make it too risky a business for the man of small not difficult for one who makes his political decisions if approximately one-third of the purchase price means but reasonably safe income. different from his. AJR INFORMATION September, 1951 Pag.5 THE ANGLO-JEWISH EXHIBITION Old Acquaintances .. Thi Exhibitioll," Lord. 'athan, its President, they are to-day. A for the later arrivals, they Returneell: -,\fter Fritz Kortner, who will said at the opening, .. is th family album of Anglo­ hope they have in no way been unworthy of the direct "l\Iinna von Barnbelm" in Munich. 'lnd Jewry," Lt was a happy phrase, and no one moving example ~et before them. It is now ten years $iu e Ern t Deut3Ch who i going to b(: " Oedipu III among the bright and beau1 iflll cl signs could fail the refugees from ~azi oppres ion banded them­ the re-built Berlin "Schill r-Theater," Antou to feel the homely touch that plainly emanat d sel es together in the A]R, and occa~ion will be \\'albrook i' returning to Diis. eldorf for the coming from the portly portraits of the worthies, from the taken to present, with due respect, the slory of sea~on. He will play hri topher Fry's .. Venus nobly fram d illuminat£'d atldre s('s, and from th(' their achievement. Ob el'ved" and probably .. Towarit~ch" with i;undry souvenirs and trophi£'s proving soundly But in ignoring the vast congreg-ation of immi­ ybitJe Binder, also a retnrne from Lonuon. that thi family had gone far in th worlrt and clone grants, nglo-Jewry was not only dOIll!; nil inju ti'e (;riinrlgens, who run the Dii' eldorf theatre, also well. It had every reason to claim attentl 0 Library, and, after his emigration in 1934, became very sound principle: after each deputy's nallle 1leimweh nach dem Kurfiirstenrlamm," and tell chief librarian of the ~1unicipal Library at Tel .\viv. the number of meetings he attendeu I' mentioned. the tory of the li fe of that city from 19 I9 to J()33. He wa the fund r and first President of the \nd ju t to ronnrl thing up, wc saw P ter Lorre's German Zioni t rgani ation and, as a protagonist first 'erman po i-war picture' "The 1.0 tOne," of Zioni m and an authority on Jewi h cicnce, a JEWI H OBEL PRIZE-" 'I ERS which is by far the best German film since the last well-known leading figure in G rman Jewi h life. REMEMBERED \var. It is learned with deepest regret that Mr. Hanns " \\'hat the German people owe to her Jews," PEM. Kochrnann (formerly Berlin) suddenly passed writes Eric teindaam in .. Das Freie "'ort," .. is away while on holiday in wi 7. rland. Throughout symboli ed by the fact that half of the German his life Mr. Kochmann was a ociated with Jewish -obe! prize-winner were Jew. • i' hllndr d communal work. He was a memb'r of the AJ R thousand Jews have contributed to Germany's PELTOURS TRAVEL SERVICE Board, and ellle sly put him elf at the t1i posa! of world reputation and welfare t the ame extent as tbe cau e whenever his help and ad ice were 60 million German ," SPECIALISTS IN I EXPERTS IN required. His devotion, mode. ty and extreme TRAVEL TO ISRAEL CONTINENTAL TRAVEL helpfulness will be gratefully remembered. All those who had the privilege f knowing him have AZI CHAIRMA OF ACTORS' lost a goor! fri nd and ar united in their [('cling A SOCIATIO WlLL BE HAPPY TO ARRANGE FOR YOU­ of deep sympathy with hi wifl amI his childr n. WITHOUT BOOKING FEE-A JOURNEY 1'h' actor Lud vig Koerner who undl'r ol'1)bels BY RAIL. AIR OR SEA. PLEASE CALL AT Rabbi Dr. 1 aac Holzer, who from 1910 until bad be n 1 resident of the" Reich theat'rkanuuer," ] 940 wa Rabbi of Worm, died in the L .S.A, at has been elected local Berlin Chairman of the 29 DUKE STREET. LONDON, W.1 Tel.: WEL 9943/7 the age of 7 years. Actors' Association. Page 6 AJR INFORMATIO September, 1951 FRO MY DIARY NEWS FROM GERMANY In the life diary recently publi bed 01 J. ~ 1. Keyne ,the conomi t, there is onc passage which "EMOTIO AL INDIFFERE CE ' " EMIGRANT A.D." 1 am sure will be read with eag r inter t by Je\\'1 h The" Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung " de cribes paper of th Free Democratic Party attacked refugee. The biographer, R. F. Harrod, refers to the difficulties which Jewi h members of the liberal the head of the Foreign Department of the German the" delays and red tape" in the releast" from the profe3sions have to encounter when trying to be Trade nion a .. Emigrant a.D." He is described 1 le of Man of .. distinguished refugee scholars who re-instated into their former positions. A typical as an enemy of Germany who had trained his yielded to none in hating the azi regime." .. The example was the refusal to re-appoint a former revolutionary instincts abroad and who was now old fire and fury flared up in Keynes' comments Jewish doctor a medical supervi or, because mean­ trying to introduce" ostisch-asiatische .. principles. on the authorities," Harrod writes and quotes from .. One writes' Emigrants a.D.' and means' Juden a letter written in July 1940: "Our behaviour while he had become 60 years old and was soon due for retirement. "\'.'hen the terrible crimes raus'" comments the Basler .. Nationalzeitung," towards refugees is the mo t disgraceful and quoted by the" Frankfurter Rundschau." Another humiliating thing' 'bich has happened for a long became known after the end of the war," the paper write, .. the ordinary German used to make two paper attacked the head of the Federal Office for time. Also rather disconcertin<> to find that we Constitutional Questions, Dr. John, a returnee from have such obvious fatheads still in charge ... i.I excuse, either that they had been ntirely unknown England, because he had had no qualms to examine there are any •Tazi sympathi er' till at large in to him before, or that he had h ard about them and elas ify German prisoner of war .. as an this country, we should look in the \\'ar Office and with horror but had been unable to do anything employee of a hostile power." our S cret ervice, not in the internment camp." again t them. Both explanations are true, but In another letter Keyu 'S wrote: .. I can remember nevertheless they become untrue, if now, as we nothing equal to what is gomg on for tupidity and are able to speak and to act, we do not compensat RESISTA CE MOVEME T FORGOTTE callousness... at least the survivors. \Ye can not retuTu to them Recalling the event of July 20, 1944, the Ham­ He took up the ca. es of a numb r of refugee Ithe lost years of their lives, nor can we make their burg weekly" Die Zeit .. writes that the" traitors .. economists of wh m llarrod names four, viz., relatives alive again. \Ve can, however, prove that of that day were almost again considered as Messrs. P. raffa, E. Rothbarth, H. W. Singer and as a nation we do not wi h to have in coounon .. traitors." They have become the target of a E. Rosenbaum. .. A vast correspondence piled up. anything with the criminal." At the end, the new" stab in the back" legend. .. If this develop­ There were various autllOrities, both governmental article appeals to President Heu s that everything ment go on, the survivors of July 20 will see the and academic, which professed to be dealing with should be done to overcome the .. emotional in­ tenth anniversary of their revolt against dictator­ the problem. Keynes, determined to leave no ship as exiles abroad." stone unturned, wrote to them all and persisted difference, one of the darkest spot in post-war until the matter was put right" (p. 497). Germany." I believe little has so far been known of tnis part of Keyues's record. out poken ideological attachment3. It i one of ADE A ER AGAI ST RADICALISM • the shortcomings of the book that it hardly portrays In an article published by .. La Metropole" A recently published German novel (Sophie any men or women who find their emotional and (Antwerp), Federal Chancellor Dr. Adenauer stated Kramstyk: .. lan lebt wie man kann," Rowohlt spiritual balance by being upright Jews, either in that the Federal Republic would not repeat the Verlag, DM. H) is meant to describe the Jewish the religious or national sense; therefore the final mi takes which led to the events of 1933. To-day fate during the past decades. The plot is centred conversion to a kind of simplified Zionism of two it was the object of German policy to create a new around members of the Polish Jewish upper middle­ characters is rather abrupt and unconvincing. national fe ling and to make the Germans aware class, most of whom are pending their lives in The language is not always in conformity with of their responsibility towards Europe and the various parts of Europ. They are not refugees th standards to be expected from a good novel \ est. but cosmopolitans who have often proved more and there are also too many debates and dialogues. fit to adapt thems Ives to their environment than On the other hand, the plot is rather thrilling, and many Jews from Germany. HITLER'S TEA HOUSE 'With few exception , the described pl:r ons have though it would not be quite justified to say that The . Land Commissioner for Bavaria, Dr. only rather loose connection with the J ewi h the book has a m ssage, it faithfully records the huster, expre sed the intention of making the site Community. Some are bapti ed Polish patriots, lives of Jewish individuals who had to share the of the Ober 'alzberg accessible to the public. German others try to find salvation in Communism, other fate of the people from whom they were de cended. authorities, he said, were, however, afraid that it again are just ordinary business men without NARRATOR might be abused as a memorial for pilgrimages.

FAMILY EVENTS COOK for private household available; Accommodation Personal part-time. Box 107 10DATIO of any kind Entries in this cottlmn are free of EDUCATED WIDOW, comf. home charge. Texts should be sent in by the C TIER f. blou cs wants pos. Box wanted. AJR Social Service Dept. 1079. GE "TLEM N, with modern 5-room and business in MidI. City, age 49, 18th of tI,e 1IIo"lh. German origin, desires remarriage with Death FI 'lSHER, exp r., wants position. flat, central heating, in Golders Green, refined Gentleman. Box 1059. Mr. Alfred Weisenbeck, 1:.2 Empire Box 10 O. wishes to share household and flat. Court, v\'embley Park, formerly LEDGER CLERK, good at figur Box 1090, ELDERLYREFI EDGE TLEMAN Munich, suddenly passed away follow­ available. Box 10 1. F R..'l'1 HED ROOM, po ibly base- (60), lacking other opportunity, eeks i ng a heart attack on 1st Augu t at LL A ERE f. small workroom f. ment, by dre smaker required. Box acquaintance with good-looking, cul- the age of 76, deeply mourned by hi 10 6. tured Lady (45-50) as companion for wife, daughters and sons-in-law. dr es, blou es or shirt , expo cutter dinners, concert ,etc. Offered relia- and pattern maker seeks pos. Box Miscellaneous CLASSIFIED 10 2. ALTERATlOK, Remodel, Dr - bility, integrity, required perfect -·ng friendship. Please write to Box 1060. Employment FILl -G CLERK, reliable, looking for mak er, rMrs. Cohn, now 13 !\.1 :'IlIDDLE- GED LADY wants 2-3 Henry's Road, ~ .W.3. PRI-6167. wor.k Box 10 3. BERLI PROPERTY, Administra. hours evening work. Good Typist MISSI G PERSO S (Invoice Typist), or Restaurant or HOr EKEEPER wants pos. as exper. tion. Fritz Rosskamm, Berlin-Char­ Private House. Any suggestions cook with business couple or single lottenburg, 4, Clausewitzstr. a. Enquiries from AJR welcomed. Box 10 9. gentlem., non-resid. Box 10 4. FIRST-CLASS PAIKTER, very re­ Friedmann, Richard and Erna, nee TE" TILE AGEl CY require capable YO NG lA~, omm., Techn. and liable, takes week-end work for prompt Jungmann, from Frankfurt/Main, for person well introduced in making-up Journal. exper. Adaptable, energetic, execution. Box 10 8. Amt fuer Vermoegenskontrolle & trade. Full details to Box 1061. resourceful, seeks progr ssive position ISRAEL MALE ST DENT offers \\"iedergutmachung, Frankfurt. APABLE WOM N wanted. Good of trust and respon ibility, "ith scope Hebre\ or French lessons au pair. Contin utal Cook. Four adults out at for initiative. Does anything, goes any- Box 1065. Scharman, Dr. Rudolf, born 23.3.95, busine . Light house duties. lodern here. Box lOtH). ELECTRICl K available: fitting Vienna, for Jewish Refugees Com­ Tiat. Hours 1.30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Ko BO K-KEEPEl (full et of books) or Iires, wmng pencil elements and mittee. 'at. Applicants pr ferred living in admin. work, wants employment, Ielectro bars, rep. of lectr. appliances. Stern, Au~ust and Ella, nee Mit­ Hampstead or wiss Cottage or Sabbath Ob en'. Box 1 70. Box 1071. scherlich, from Munich, for IRSO, Golders Green Area. \i ages £4 10s. )1 'AGER (Canned Food and :'Ileat VIOLIr- wanted on loan by expo Munich. Insurance paid. Call personally, Nita Importers) wants to change pos. amateur.' Box 1063. Goldblatt, 59 Charlotte treet, London, Bo.' 1072. GABELSBERGER HORTHAl Heirs of Miss Rosa Halpern from W.1. PHYSICI~\ former Doctor of kin \ ho can teach Eng!. transfer system \Varschau, for IR 0, Berlin. 'HORTH~ D TYPIST, perfect Diseases, wants congenial work in the and/or can lend textbooks? Box 1064. English and German, five days week, cosmetic and chemical line. Box 1073. WHO WO LD GIVE a wireless se(to Enquiries from HIAS required. Box 1091. DAILY HELP wanted for light work EXP. BUSI ESS MAN seeks pos. as an elderly lady, bound to her home I Dryden Chambers, 119 Oxford Street, (4 hours a day). Box 1087. Manager of ollice or factory Organiser by not being well? Box 10 5. London, W.l of Light Engineer. ub-Contr.-Insur- S~WI G (HAND) MACHI E, TRAI TED IATERNITY r RE Kelly, Getrude, nee Benger, born free from 2. 21.9.51, and fTom 15.1 . ance, Forwarding, Import/Exp. I'now- Fnster & Rosmann, for sale. GO?d ledge of Eng!., German, French, co~d. £ ,or neare ~ offer. Box ~066. 1!J23 in Vienna, dressmaker, last onward. Go anywhere. l30x 1062. known address: 19 Warrington Cres­ ART 'EEDLEWORKER, Vienncse, Ru sian, Ital. Box 1074. Q ALIT\ F R1\ IT RE, Piano, MARRIED CO PLE, wife cook, "Violin, Gramop~hone, ctc. (private). for cent, London, \V.9, sought by uncle expo in any kind of needlework, pec. Oskar Porjes in I rae!. hand-made ladies underwear. Box 1076. husband kitch n-porter. wants po. sale. Box 106 /. COMP TIO, formerly Concert in a hool, onval. Home or Ho·tel; ll, PRE-V\.\I~ CLOTHLTG, Eisenberg, Tool, born in Berlin, inger and Teacher, wants part-time good referenccs. untry preferrcd. medium size, good cond., pri\'ate, for owner of a sweet hop, sought by job. Box 1077. Box 1075. sale. Box 106 . uncle, Alfred Hersberg of New Yurk. September, 1951 Pa2e 7

BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIO ER REAFFIRM RESTIT TIO POLICY AJR AT WORK In a l"tt r to the Prime ~1ini ters of the Laendl'r i~ Briti~~ AJR EMPLOYME T AGE CY AJR FRIENDSHIP CLVB the Zune .t1\" Briti h High CommisSIOner, IT I oue l\.Jrkpatnck, tresses that Hi l\1ajesty's (Annually licensed by the L.C.C.) The activiti of the A1R Friendship Club are Government's restitution poli y would r main During the holiday period we received fewer offers now b mg resumed. :Meetings in September are ~ncbanged and ,WOUld not be affected by the for vacancies, but there were also less applicants taking place at Zion House, 57 Eton Avenue, ·.~7.3, tntended alterations of the legal relationship for jobs. evertheless we were able to place the London, ... at 7 p.m. on the following four between Germany and the Allied Powers. By this usual number of employees. Several people with­ Sundays; September 2 (Talk by Dr. W. Rosen· ~tatement the British High Commi,,~ioner has out special skill were directed to the courses of the stock about his Visit to Germany), September 9, followed suit to Mr. McCloy, who had recently London Ort School, where they can obtain training. September 16 (Talk by Mr. H. Jaeger about Middle­ issued a similar declaration fOr the American Zon -. We wish to thank all our friends who were good East problems), and eptemb r 23. Interested non­ enough to help in the so-called Hardship Ca es members of the lub may obtain full programme INDEMNIFlCATIO FOR VICTIMS OF which have been published every month in this from AJR Hea lquarters. EXPERIME TS column. ---- The Jewish organisations have repeatedly pointed Needlewomen Service: \Ve have now on our THE HYPHE out to the German Federal Government that many register a rota of experienced and reliable women At a meeting on Saturday, September 15, at categories of .. azi persecutees have not been con­ for all kinds of needlework; reports we have 7.30 p.ro., a talk will be given by l\1rs. Ro sidered by the existing indemnification la\\'~ of the received con1irm that the work is carried out Henrique. Details about place and ubject as Laender. With regard to thusl' victims who w re satisfactorily. This encourages us to ask our well. as about other Hyph n activities may be u ed 1Jy the ::"azi for so-called scientific experi­ members and friends to make u e of this service and obtalDed from the Hon. ecretary, Miss Margot ments, the Federal Government bas now issued a contact u whenever possible. Fuld, Flat A, 2 Exeter Road, .W.2 (Gla. 5 7 ). decree according to which effective assi ·tance may Secretarial Service: We have on our records be given in special cases of hardship to victims of ~omen and men for typing or shorthand typing Letter to tbe lEi!ll8tOIl" Tazi eJ..-perin:ents ~so if they are now residing Jobs at home and outdoor, some with book·keeping abroad and If, owmg to lack of a domicile in knowledge. We also have on our books book­ O.R.T. COURSES I HAMPSTEAD ermany or owing to the e"'piration of the deadline keepers, full and part-time, for in- and outdoor for regi tration, they are not entitled to file claim work. Dear Sir, The report of the London a.R.T., covering the on the strength of the Laender Indemnification Laws. A.Y.D. Service: We have started a new .. At Person concern d should appr ach the nited Your Disposal " service and we can place men or ' period from the openi11g of the Hampstead premi. es in December 1950 untt! the end of tM ummer term Re titution Office in London, Fairf~x Mansions women .. at your disposal" for any kind of odd _'.\".3. ' jobs such as ;- in July 1951 reveal' that the a.R.T. has settled very Meeting people at the station coming from abroad well i11tO a programme oJ patient lInd uuful .. Re­ habilitation through Training" work in ils 111'W BA ARI COMPE SATIO OFFICE and accompanying them in London ; The Bavarian finister of Finance. Friedrich Lending a hand to people who are moving; ;tlrrotmdtngs. The 1ltlmber of students who were enlisted within this time wa 116, 26 were ml'1l a11d Ziet ch, has appointed an Advisory Council for the Shopping for elderly or ill people ; Bavarian Compensation Office. Amongst the Bringing gift parcels to the Post Office; {l0 were WOIllC11 , the oldest being 71, lhe )'ott1lgest 14 years of age. Training fadlities were, inter alia, in evcnteen members are repre entatives of all parties Getting passports or railway tickets. and many as well as of the organi ations of pers cutees, in­ more similar jobs. the following fields : l\ll/chine sewing, Use of machine attachment, Production of men's shirts and women's cluding the philanthropi t Baron Rudolf Hirsch and Hardship Cases blouses, Dres making, Patterumaking, Fitti11g and the Bard Members of the .Iunich Jewish Com­ Why not employ elderly men? If they are in Fimshing. munity Lothar B rnstein and Edmund 10na . need and have to earn their living, they certainly 1110 t sll~dent~ took courses on two evenings per deserve OUR HELP. Please reply to our Employ' week. Enngratttm, change of trade because of illness CO SECRATIO OF KARLSRUHE ment Agency. old age, widming of trade experIence were lhe main SYNAGOG E Elderly Man, formerly owner china factory, seeks reaslms for joining them. On July :W. a new Synagogue was con ecrated clerical post. Own typewriter available. The total expenditure involved amounts to £997 : at fIeerenstrasse 14 in the presence of repre-enta­ Old-age Pensioner, formerly own busine s, wants this means that abOltt £ 12s. per head has been spmt bve of. t~e Churches and of tne State and Iunicipal part-time work, clerical or storekeeper or home­ by a.R.T. dt,rillg tI,i period. In my opinioll this Authontles. The sermon was delivered by Rabbi work. a~Il0u.llt cannot be considered as extravagant, C011­ Dr. Geis. "'hil-t once the Community con i t cl Elderly Gentleman, eager to work, wants po t as stde1'1ng the fact that by the courses much misery has of about 3,000 members, there are now only 125 packer and/or storekeeper. been cured or at least alleviated. It would, therefore J ws left in Karl TUhe. Elderly Artist, highly experienced, restores be highly essential to COflti,tUe the courses, and my pictures, or paints portraits from photos. appe~l is directed to all who read this report to help JEWISH COMMUNITY GREETS Pensioner wants filing or ledger clerk position. us etth,r tJzrough fi1wncial 01' fabric contribution, 01' PROTESTA T MEETING Good at figures. both. In a telegram to the Protestant Church Meeting Elderly Man, best references, wants light office the Jewish Community Berlin stressed that its or packer work. No lifting. A. Lewinnek, members would n ver forget the assistance given Experien~d p~cker, Old-Age Pensioner, healthy, London a.R.T. Gmtre. Principal. by members of the Protestant Church to the Jewish wants part-time Job. 102 Belsize Lane. Hampstead, N.W.3. persecutees. J. A. C. *BE WELL INFORMED ON GERMAN AFFAIRS "ASHDALE GUESTHOUSE" BROADIWRST HALL, LOOKING FOR J BROADBURST GARD_N8. N.W.6 DIE GEGENWART 23, BEAUlIEU ROAD-­ (beIIiad .10'" BarD..) * (edited by formu FNlnkfurtu Z.itun, editors) BOURNEMOUTH W. Opea DailJ from J-U p.m. * GERMANY'S LEADING POLITICAL NEW CUSTO ERS? tor .,.. AND LITERARY FORTNIGHTLY Tel. Westbourne 6190471 T~as, Dinners and * For free copy write: Emlee Foreign Publications 5 min. Sea-All Convenl.nc... Continontal Cookins 33 D.nmouth Park Avenue, N.W.5 ADVERTISE IN late Suppers *********** .... *** Early Booking requested _ ..cell..t Ouialno - Tu OordeD Colf.. LOUD'. -0.... Vlean..o PaU.orle NORWESl' CAR HIRE cc Fu1lJ L1couod Prop. E. & H. Bruder AJ Information" 1><0... bJ OlU"lloUllbt : SoturclaJ and CHAUFFEUR DRIVEN SlIDclaJ IIYODIIl. AND SELF DRIVE LARO_ HALL tor Clifton Guesthouse WJlDDINGa. UcaPTION&, CONcaRT8, 511. FINCHLEY ROAD. N.W.3 MaKTlNGa. ate:. Tel.: GUL11Yer 1964 14 CLIFTON PLACE .._ ....and htoado R..orY. MAl '411 (Mon.-Fri. 8 8.m.-5.30 p.m.) Brighton 277231 HAMpstead 4160 (NIQbts &: WeelteDdo) A VERY REASONABLE Classified Adverts Balsam's Restaurant AND ATTRACTIVE by candlelight ANNOUNCEMENTS CATERING - ESTABLISHMENT (Employment, Accommodation, etc.) ; Continental Cookln.. All convenienc•• 3/- per line open until 2.30 a.m. fully licensed Prop. K. and G. Atkln. Dinner and Dance7/6 inclusive of BIRTHS, BARMITZVAHS, Display: IS/- per inch single column. Restaurant open Sundays ENGAGEMENTS, MARRIAGES, FURZEDOW 20 Down Street, Mayfair, GROV, 4679 JUBILEES, DEATHS, Etc. (Mr. & Mrs. F. Schwarz) Insertions in text columns by special HINDHEAD. SURREY. Telephone 335 arrangement. Deadline for can be published in Excellent Continental cuisine. All diets. The boo e for convale cence. Adverts. in OCTOBER "AJR INFORMATION" Snnsbed. 2 acre garden. $,...0. DON..T8D 8Y S. P. 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