KLEIN HINTS FIREWORKS BEFORE SENATORS

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• Document Creation Date: November 11, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 1999
• Sequence Number: 68
• Publication Date: July 15, 1966
• Content Type: NSPR

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`' Klein Hints Fireworks Before Senathrs
r. ? By Dreto Pearson
and Jack Anderson
Maj. Gen. Julius Kleinj re-
tired officer in the Illinois
`National Guard, has "sailed
Iserenely back to the,/ United
States to face ' Senate Ethics
Committee hearings next
week" which may not be --
The sometimes , urbane,
:sometimes explosive lobbyist
for West German interests
,scheduled his trip to Europe
at the exact time the Senate
hearings were scheduled, and
then returned home by boat,
not plane. While abroad, he
gave an interview to Charles
Collingwood of C,63S which in-
dicates there will be fireworks
when Klein takes the witness
,stand.
Asked whether he would
give the Senate committee the
names of other Senators, be-
sides Tom Dodd,: to whom he
had contributed, Klein , ex.
ploded:
"I wouldn't tell you now
and I surely wouldn't tell the
Senate committee. If they
want to know who I contribu-
ted to, they should ask the
Senators or send a round
robip.
"I would go to Jail in oon?
tempt of the Senate before
embarassing any United States
Senator under the present
climate In Washington who
would be smeared, and if this
.question Is asked of me .1
.might as.W,ell tell you today I
will refuse to answer and I and Defense Departments and wrote Dodd just before he'
won't take, the Fifth Amend- considerable publicity regard. left for Europe in April, 1964,1
ment. I~ ?will _ say, 'I refuse to mg Klein in this column, "see him (Globke) first to
answer. brief you. Dr. Globke Is your
Rheinmetali
paid $600,000 to devoted friend. He will ever
Strange Defender slave camp survivors. be grateful to you for the'
Even while. abroad, avits' brother Ben had be- courageous stand taken in
was en come the attorney for Klein your Senate speech of 1960.
was the cause because of further abroad, Klein ein the con- at the t ne of the April 21 ... To. refresh your. memory,'
port given him on April 21 p- letter. Following the unfavor- attached is a marked copy.of
this year by Sen. Jacob Javits able publicity, the Senator your speech. '
of New York a definite candi- asked him to withdraw. "Globke ... is already world
date for Vice President on the All this highlights one, of Ing on my problem," Klein
Republican ticket the reasons why Klein was.re- wrote Dodd relative to keep.
tamed by West German in. ing his West German clients.-
Javits strangely went to bat terests-namely his religion. "Dr. Globke. will support' and
for Klein In connection with Klein has made much of the guide you 100 per cent in my
the $75 million arms contract fact that' ho Is a past cam- behalf. You can show him
the Pentagon was negotiating mander of the Jewish War everything and discus s every. '
with , Klein's client, Rhein. Veterans, and in dne of the e thing with him."
metall, which company had many eletters eers to editors regard. Yet it was Globke, accord= failed to pay restitution to ing our columns, Klein men. lug to two experts of the Anti-
Jewish victims of the slave ti'o.ned his religion no less than Defamation League, Arnold
labor camp it operated, under ii alines. . Forster and Ben Epstein, who
Hitler. made "this official contribu?
American Jews frown on tion to German racial legisla?!
This was not a matter to be members _.of their faith who tioni 'The Jew is completely,
kissed off cavalierly. It in. trade on their religion. But alien. to us in character and
volved one of the great human German leaders, accused in blood... The Nuremburg laws
tragedies of this century, the the past of being anti-Semitic, Will form a permanent block-
material of Jews as raw considered It an asset to be ads against further ? permanent bloc,-
material by the Nazi indus- represented In the United
trialists who actually built States by a Jew, especially tier of Jewish blood -into the'
one German nation."'
their factories alongside Jew? who could get a Senator close The book "Destruction of
ish crematories, to the White House -Tom the European Jews," by Raul
Yet Rheinmetall was one of Dodd-to cooperate closely., . Ifilberg gives further details
the few industries which re- regarding Globke's part in
fused to make even token " lulliored Hitler Decrees
payment of restitution, anti-Jewish campalgin
The ironY~""td, 1! b tV a e;
, Kloin, "The er revocation order (fora
its agent In the United States, that the man whom Klein in? i
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h
ng
ews w
o Grad adopted
backed It up, while Javits on structed Dodd to see first in German names to return to
April 21-wrote him a letter of Germany In April, 1964, was their old names) was followed
support and again last Sun- Dr. Hans Globkw, accused by by the decree of August 17,
day on "Face the Nation" Jewish leaders as, the author 1938, drafted by Minisberiairat
defended. Klein. Finally; "on of Hitler's first anti-Jewish Globke, name expert of the In-
May 18, after an adamant decrees. ? f, terror Ministry
position ,by -. ,tbe V.B. State When in Bonn,a
Klein }sde, 8?il?ASaciuis esn'lueaii. tne
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