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Ben-Gurion's attack on Prime Minister Eshkol last week is proof that the old campaigner never had cny intention cf keeping quiet, not even in the face of his Rafi defeat Eunng the recent nolional election. As Ben-Gurion sees it, the S40 million loan this year from West Germany is proof that "the Govern- ment of Israel has humiliated itself." The charge comes at a strange tme smack in the wake of Konrad Adenauer's visit, during which Dr. Adenauer and Eshkol exchanged seated words at a luncheon in Jerus- alem over the manner in which te- rcel must henceforward conduct .-.erseli toward Germany and things German. It was the Prime Minister's view. and emphatically expressed, that .-.ere are too many things Jews gen- erally should not be expected to forget. Dr. Adenauer replied that Germany's unbroken evidence of good-will toward Israel spoke for itself, that rehabilitation was a two- vcy street, and that if Jews could not be ex- rected to forget, they should nevertheless make a better effort to he civil. In fact, the former West German Chancellor suggested that Mr. Eshkol's attitude, publicly expressed during his visit to Israel, was c per- iect example of what is not civil. A second luncheon in Jerusalem, prior to Dr. Adenauer's departure, was made necessary in order for the two leaders to patch up their lift, if only for public relations consumption, and to sweep their mutually heated words under the table. The visit came as a consequency of the ongoing friendship between Dr. Adenauer and Mr. Ben-Gurion, whose guest Dr. Adenauer was. In the face of all this. Ben-Gurion is now slapping at the Prime Minister for knuckling under too cheaply to the Germans. As Ben-Gurion again and again reminds us. he had been promised a S500 million loan torn Bonn by Dr. Adenauer during a meeting between the two heads of state in New York back in 1960. Therefore, to slam the point home, the S40 million loan for 1966 "is further proof that Eshkol is unfit to be Prime Minister." All of which causes us to wonder, did Mr. Eshkol learn Dr. Adenauer's lesson taught him in Jerusalem too well? Did Ben-Gurion, in his usually cavalier way, fail to profit by it at all? Whctever the answers to these and other questions, one thing seems certain: David Ben- Gurion is a long way off from speaking his final word on the German question and, in- deed, on the fi'.ness of any isreeii Prime Min- jstei save himself. Need for Ultimate Honesty Look Magazine's article on Pope Pius XII, r:. Robert Leiber, S.J., is c. r-orr.plete turn- about from the trend established cs a conse- quence of th Rolf Hochhuih play called "The Deputy." and even well before that. Fr. Leiber s article suggests that not only did the Pope show deep concern and anxiety for the fate of European Jewry, but that he spent his personal fortune in order to help save as many Jews from Nazi immolation cs he pos- sibly could. Now the Fr. Leiber article in Look offers a view that is precisely opposite. It seems that much more than this article will be needed as evidence before the two sides can be consid- ered as equivalent contenders. Too much nega- tive opinion and fact exist that thus far appear effectively to negate this newer and somewhat sensational contention. Dr. lipschitz at the Helm The community takes the occasion to con- gratulate Dr. Max Lipschitz on the occasion o: his assumption of the presidency of the Greater Miami Rabbinical Association. Since his arrival in Miami. Dr. Lipschitz has done more than to stand at the spiritual helm of Beth Torah Congregation. While it has bur- geoned positively and healthfully under his guiding hand. Dr. Lipschitz also brought his creative capabilities to a variety of Jewish communal tasks, both religious and secular, to reflect his laudable involvement in the affairs of our city. The Rabbinical Association can look for- ward to another year of successful endeavor . Dr. Lipschitz at th< ucceed .- out- president, Ra E. Caplan, of Sky lane Synagogue. Dr. Heschel Speaks Out The revered theologian. Dr. Abraham Joshua Heschel. made an interesting point in his address before the 66th annual convention of the Rabbinical Assembly of America in Toronto. It was Dr. Heschel's feeling that ecumenism. which he recognizes cs a profoundly positive development in our time, has led to ecuallv profound negative tendencies. The negative his view, is ecumenical nihilism. We agree that the ecumenicci spirit was .rrended, in the broadest sense, merely to serve as a new and never tried means of es- tablishing closer relationships among Chris- tians and their non-Chris!-an neighbors. This, of course, includes the Jews, with whom Christianity has had a shockinoly scd and historically cruel he for nearly two-thousand years. But as Dr. Heschel sees it, ecumenism seems to have become the late a: this i ently. he did find it at least uncomfortable enough u publicly with such poetical intention. But fantasy final'.' when in anonymity, quite as if the words were hi- own he stay his ravenousness from filching the spirit of an i soul. KtCOUiaiON Of A HOTBL HAIL tHCOUNTt* COME WILL SAY it was all an accident But wi- \\ an ac- ** him several days later to talk about "getting Floi di even better, to imitate to perfection the famous Kenni photograph which portrays the late President at tr, i960 "' convention microphones'." Perhaps summer is setting in too for tolerance to continue at winter's more gracious truth is that this is a poseur's pretense which, at be si can be less than irksome . ~s a i Gov- M hi- ' tfted by incoln, the cm on "luafly ng bit arallefca] am not 'amp 1 hom tappily - 'Otnote it a hit \|par- himself * on out j;led to dead I ' -' and. victory TIOCTSlic quickiv lui the >tajij NOTE ON A GERMAN: Reference to Franz Jo?- : Stra ui tbe daily press over the weekend reminds me. ir.t ;ui Ij 'of''- +.( encounter with him in the lobby of a Haifa hotel higl Mediterranean. The chairman of the ( hristian Social emerged from a tumultuous scandal in West Gi and hence schooled in the spirit of Hitlerian Nazism S defense minister in 1962 arrested Rudolf Augsteii publisl of tbe highly influential Spiegel.'' for what he calk. Augstcin had done neither more nor less tl j 0| Strauss An aroused Germany, extremely sensitivi to the i ,. democratic tactic- that attempted in Third Reich :,.),, mist the freedom of th< press, demanded a farlu tion Strauss, his ambition momentarily fanned bi himself and the fact that Hitler and the Nal oyed back in 1945 i ir pi I tempting to test thi here His am fascism Ir art; cas ed under oath, ii to d with the | ci raids on Au By the timi ei gaged in mei his fences By then alsi !id in wresting conl the I s; as hi I - IN ."fTSOSPfCT it DOtS NOT UAUtU I SAW STRAUSS in the lobby, in the balls, at a seveninI Israeli breakfast sideboard filled with a variet) of fish...... and cold garden vegetables Wherever he Stra sur- rounded by his own strongarm corps, plus visitii pert tesy of Mr Ben-Gurion. When I approached hin his mi tourage snarled He covered his Bavarian teeth with a -mile and waved them aside His visit to the country har. aroused lutragc everywhere. Posters appeared almost simultaneous^ throi lout th country, reading in equivalent Yankee Go Home fashion Strauss." Why had he come to Israel" The answers wen then, ai I remain today, varied and speculative It seemed an apt expressn : Ben Gurion's increasingl) frank courtship of German dfpTomafc re"co$ nition But it also marked the calendar of thtr. Fofetgo ^t.iiMstt* Golda Meir's angn announcement to the world of Iht 6IJ & West German scientists at work in Cairo on nucleal and -one's Strauss, apart from his CSU chairmanship, had no olfiaal capamy. What could either he or Israel hope for" In the case of Ben-Curion. perhaps it was hi- o I exaltation by association, for the government spared n ett i and dine the visitor, including guarded trips to Israti ato -f laboratory and nuclear reactor at Dimona In the rasi SI i possibly it was the ne\ercnding need of the pig TO del kosher split hoof in the most ad\antageear before. I can only conclude in reti fcl I 9 not matu r ~ A fAMIUAR SUtJlCT IMBUUSMD VHAi vLD B4.ACN MAGIC AGAIN: A fri she was glad I fmallj "finished" with tbe '> and a half columns were er !'' Here comes .. succulent iii. Guild's director. Dr. Arturo di Filli; hty active thc-t da>> on his subscription telephones in preparatioi lot w Jewish members of the Guild are complaining tn;.! thej uceiving calls from Dr. di Fillipi during which hi flatly a thiir scats will no longer be available to them When the> reply m amazement that they have been buying these seats for years, th impresario comes up with something like this: Because of the nasty old Jewish community, the Opera GuiM can no longer hold functions at "certain places.' a petulant euphem- ism for clubs with anti-Semitic membership policies Thi- '"til's 'o make the Guild's fund-raising activities that much harder The reasoning here should escape any rational being. As a COI the Jewish'' scats are being given over to patron.- uni usly Gentile by implication who ha' Then, thi After all ' the thildn n of < hrisl who reallj children of IsnK Of com dren of Israel ca. nee .