Mideast Crossroads

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Vol. 51, No. 11

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110 Friday, February 11, 1949

10e a Copy 83 Per Year

Arab States Joining
Israeli Peace Talks

The Lydda airport, now securely a possession of Israel, is one
of the most important commercial airports in the world. Here
airplanes from America meet craft from Turkey, India, Britain
and other countries. Lydda is to become one of the main points
of entry into Israel for the thousands of tourists expected to
flock there soon.

Hero to Relate Adventures
of Haganah at League Event

A non-Jewish hero of Haganah
The session is set for 1 p. in.,
as speaker, a complimentary des- Monday at Temple Beth El. Mrs.
sert luncheon and an SOS shower
Arthur Bloom is program chair-
of canned fruits, juices and milk
will he the highlights of the man.

meeting of the League of Jewish IRISH-AMERICAN
Women's Organizations dedicatel
Hugh McDonald, young Califor-
to the Women's Division of the
nia Irishman, who recently re-
Jewish Welfare Federation.
turned from Israel, will relate his
exciting experiences which culmi-
nated in his taking action to move
refugees out of Europe.

JWF Assemblies
Set for March 13

The motive prompting this non-
J( wish youth's activities on behalf
of Haganah was the desire to see
The Jewish Welfare Federa- a people gain the home and the
tion announces that its annual freedom that had been long denied
meeting and the annual meetings them.

of five member agencies (Fresh
Air Society, Jewish Social Serv-
ice Bureau, Jewish Vocational
Service, Resettlement Service
and North End Clinic) will take
place Sunday, March 13 at the
Center.
The meeting will begin at 3:30
p. in. with four simultaneous for-
ums on the budget and planning
divisions of the Federation, fol-
lowed by a buffet reception for
Prof. William Haber, former ad-
viser to Gen. Lucius Clay on
Jewish affairs. Haber will ad-
dress the 8 p. m. session at Tem-
ple Beth El.

ASKS BIG ATTENDANCE
"As this meeting is dedicat;,,-1 to

the Women's Division, said Mrs.
Samuel Danto, League president,
"it is urgent that we have a large
attendance to indicate the willing-
ness of all women, of our commun-
ity to cooperate In this vitally im-
portant community project.

There is an acute need for can-
ned milk, fruit and fruit juices for
the thousands of children in the DP
camps, and the League is asking
its membership's cooperation hi
smiplying its share for distribution
in Europe.

Progressive Zionists Refuted:

Dr. Weizmann 111,
U.S. Trip Delayed

RHODES (WNS)—The Israeli-Egyptian armistice talks
are progressing satisfactorily and the negotiations will no t
be halted until an accord has been reached and a pac
signed, acting U.N. Mediator Ralph J. Bunche said.
Dr. Bunche warned against speculation that a success.

WASHINGTON (WNS) — Dr.
Chaim Weizmann "has been
cornelled by illness to postpone
his visit to the U.S. until April,"
it was disclosed in a White House
statement which simultaneously
revealed that the Israeli presi-
dent's illness was not of a seri-
ous character.
When informed of the post-
ponement, President Tr um an
cabled Dr. Weizmann saying that
he was praying for the latter's
speedy recovery and that he
was "looking forward" to meet-
ing him again.
Dr. Weizmann said that he was
deeply conscious of Mr. Tru-
man's friendship and would be
grateful if the New York function
in his honor be postponed to the
latter part of April.
In New York City, the Amer-
ican Committee for the Weiz-
mann Institute of Science an-
nounced that the "Salute to the
President of Israel Dinner" it
had planned for Feb. 19 would be
held on April 23.

Hab er Visions onpetnitm. iHsteicsaiEd xlpice cwtaatsio'n'caruatniohuisglyit
Closing of DP

0 ful end of the talks was immi-

when Transjordan gave a fa-
vorable reply on the question of
its entering the negotiations.

Camps in 1950

WASHINGTON (WNS)
Dr.
William Haber, former adviser
on JAVish Affairs to the U.S.
army in Germany, predicted in
his report to Army Secretary
Royall that the Jewish Displaced
Persons camps in the U. S. zone
in Germany will be closed out
by June, 1950, if no "unforseen
events" develop jn the interim.
The report disclosed that about
37,000. Jewish DP's were reset-
tled from the U.S. zone in Ger-
many and about 9,000 from Aus-
tria.

Important agreements w ere
said to have been reached in the
talks between Israel and Egypt.
When they - are finally approved,
the other Arab states are ex-
pected to join in the armistice
negotiations. At the same time it
was reported that both Syria
and Lebanon had agreed in prin-
cipal to join the talks here.

In fact, unofficial reports said
all six Arab League states were
ready to talk peace.

UN OFFICIALS ON TOUR

While the negotiations were
proceeding here, the UN Concil-
iation Commission was carrying
out inspection tours of Arab
refugee camps, preparatory, to a
six-week tour of the capitals of
the Middle East. In view of Dr.
Bunche's efforts at Rhodes, the
ultimate functions of the com-
mission are not yet clear.

The report revealed that the
evacuation from both zones pro-
ceeded at the rate of between
4,000 and 5,000 per month and
that "the past year represents
Spur. Membirship
a period that has shown the
greatest advance in the solution
of tl* Jewish Displaced Persons
I
problem since the end of the
Foreign Minister Shertok and
war."
the UN representatives have met,
At the same time Dr. Haber however, for preliminary talks
reported that anti-Semitism was on border changes.
still "deeply rooted in Ger-
While Israeli representatives
many," manifesting i t s e l f in at Rhodes were preoccupying
many ways—in the desecration themselves with the armistice
of cemeteries, in provocative ar- negotiations, the'new State was
ticles in the press, in publicly busily engaged in planning its
holding the Jewish Displaced political future and government.
Persons responsible for the black
An indication of the future
market, in occasional blood libel
rumors and in the obvious pub- course of the Mapai party, which
lic an.tagonism against the Jews emerged victorious with 46 seats
with whom the Germans come in the recent election, was given
by Premier David Ben Gurion
into contact."
when he declared at a labor
party conference at Tel Aviv
that his party's road has "been
GERSHON AGRONSKY, Isra- `Israel Established,'
independent of outside influences
el's most distinguished newspa-
and will remain so" and that "no
perman as ..publisher of the Cairo Paper Agrees
conditions or guarantees con-
Palestine Post, will address a
CAIRO (WNS) — An editorial cerning the formation of a coal-
city-wide gathering at 8:30 p.m., stating that "Israel is estab- ition government are acceptable
Thursday, Feb. 17 at the North- lished" appeared this week in to Mapai."
west Congregation. The meet- the newspaper of the Saddist
ing is sponsored by Detroit party of Premier Pashe, gener- REPLY TO MAPAM
Histadrut which announced this ally considged as speaking for
His statement was designed as
week that its campaign total the pr e n t government. It a reply to the demand of Mapam,
has passed the 30 percent would be a "misrepresentation of second highest party in the Con-
mark. The drive is seeking facts" to call Israel "an alleged stituent Assembly elections, that
$375,000 for Israel.
country" the article said.
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Neumann Blasts Foes, Sees Montor Tieup

NEW YORK (WNS)– The Com-
mittee for Progressive Zionism is
"part of a chain of front organiza-
tions" which have all been mas-
ter-minded or directed behind the
scenes by Heitry Montor, a re-
signed official who has been in-
venting one technique after an-

other for undermining the move-
ment which has nurtured him and
employed him for years," it was
charged by Dr. Emanuel Neu-

mann, president-of the Zionist Or-
ganization of America.

Dr. Neumann made the accusa-
tion in reply to a statement issued
by the Committee for Progressive
Zionism.
The ZOA president said the
'high - sounding s l o g a ns and

lePok.a.i.mesbaalais

cliches"of the "dissident opposi-
tion" were "but a cover to cloak
their ambitions and their cravings
to be restored to power and leader-

ship" and he simultaneously
charged that "the opppsitionist ex-
presidents and the other members
of the Progressive groups" had
sidestepped the democratic proc-
esses of the organization and boy-
cotted the "meetings of the na-
tional executive committee and the
national administrative council
where every opportunity has been
given them to express their views."
BITTER MALCONTENTS
Dr. Neumann asserted there
was "nothing progressive" about
the Committee "except its pro-
gressive deterioration from a pre-

sumably 'loyal opposition,' offer-
ing wise counsel, and its rapid
degeneration Into a collection of
embittered malcontents, indulg-
ing in periodic eruptions of brim-
stone and fire."
He charged that the committee,
along with "front organizations,''
was disturbing the peace and unity
of the Zionist movement in Ameri-
ca and that ''this hydra-headed op-
position, supported by outside
forces, is itself divided on every
possible question of policy."
The opposition, he added, was
"held together only by a common
antagonism to the ZOA adminis-
tration and implacable hostility to
the political leadership of Dr. A6-
ba Hillel Silver, whose force and

statesmanship in recent years have uate his rule civet the ZOA, Dr.
carried our movement to the tri- Neumann pointed out that his term
umphs we are celebrating today." expires next summer and that the
W1BERS BACK HIM
ZOA constitution precluded his
Dr. Neumann stressed that the continuance in office after the ex-
ZOA was more firmly united be- piration of his two year term.
hind its leadership than ever before In the meantime Dr. Neumann'
and that opposition leaders had announced he had summoned an ex-
consistently been elected to ZOA traordinary national conference of
governing bodies but that "instead Zionist leaders throughout the
of availing themselves of these op- country to discuss the present sit-
portunitics to make converts they uatipn in the movement, and to
have chosen to boycott the meet- rally the "constructive forces in
ings and to sulk in their tents, American Zionism" with a view to
emerging from time to time, oily safeguarding "the Integrity of the
to vent their feelings In a movement, to consolidate its struc-
manner most hurtful to the move- Sure, and to adopt su6 plans and
ment." means as will serve to carry out
Referring to the committee's in an effective manner the organi-
charge that he sought to perpet-
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