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Intent on the Eichmann trial, Israelis were suddenly staggered and dismayed by the discovery of a spy in their midst. Dr. Israel Baer, 49, a hero of the war of independence, was arrested on the charge of passing secret state documents to the Soviet Union...
...Baer was Premier David Ben-Gurion's friend. A lean intellectual with protruding teeth and crew-cut hair, Baer was so close an associate that he was allowed to read Ben-Gurion's private diaries, was told three days in advance of Israel's intention to start the successful 1956 Sinai campaign. Austrian-born, Baer fought as a battalion commander on the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War, went to Palestine in 1938 as a military instructor to Haganah, the powerful Jewish underground organization...
...somewhat sharper note was struck by Werner Baer, Instructor in Economics. Baer, who spent several years in a concentration camp, expresses the same tension between technicality and outrage, but resolves it in favor of outrage. "I realize," he says, "that there are a lot of legal questions. I also realize that a lot of old hates are going to be stirred up by the trial. Maybe it would be better not to stir them up. But somehow my sense of poetic justice is too strong...
...Baer's stand is representative of one group of Faculty members who declined to be quoted. Their argument takes into account the identical objections posed by Handlin, Hughes, and McCloskey, but all, with varying degrees of rationality, brush them aside. Some couch their feelings in legal terms. Some do not bother.15H. STUART HUGHES...
Named to succeed Baer as head tutor H. Francis Wilkinson, instructor in Economics...