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Vol. 52—No. 38
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Freedom Bell Calls Jews
Jordan to Drop
UN Complaint,
Israel Hears
AMMAN, Jordan—(Special)—A spokesman of the Jordan
foreign ministry denied reports from Israel that Jordan had
decided to drop its complaint to the United Nations that Israel
invaded Jordanian territory at the junction of the Jordan and
Yarmuk rivers.
TEL AVIV — (WNS) — The government of Jordan has
asked the United Nations to drop Security Council action .on
its recent claim that Israel had unlawfully occupied a strip
of land in the Naharayim area, Lieut. Col. Yehoshafat Har-
kavy, chief Israel delegate to the Mixed Armistice Commis-
sion, told a press conference here.
When the Freedom Bell visited Detroit, a delegation from the Jewish Community Council met
with Victor G. Reuther, state chairman of the Freedom Crusade, at a public ceremony. Pictured
above are, left to right, Harry Nathan, American Jewish Congress; Walter Klein, assistant-direc-
tor of the Council; B. M. Joffe, Council executive director; Irving W. Schiussel, Mizrachi; Rabbi
Samuel II. Prero, Young Lsrael of Detroit; Reuther; Norman L. Berkley, Jewish War Veterans;
Louis Rosenzweig, Bnai Brith; and Sidney M. Shevitz, Labor Zionist Organization. The Executive
Committee of the Community Council has endorsed the Council's participation in the "Crusade
for Freedom," and Dr. Slunarya Kleinman, president, has been named a member of the Michigan
State Committee which is leading the drive in this state to enroll a million signers on the Freedom
Scrolls which are being circulated. Spurred by the slogan, "Help Lift the Iron Curtain Every ■
where," the Freedom Crusaders have already launched Radio Free Europe, a new, hard-hitting
radio outlet in Western Germany. The Freedom Scrolls are available to individuals or organiza-
tions at the Council, or directly from Crusade headquarters, 312 Boulevard Building. TR. 2-7616.
U. S. Parley
to Discuss
Israel's Needs
JERUSALEM — ( W N S ) —
Representatives of leading Jew-
ish organizations in America will
meet in national conference next
month to discuss the decisions
reached at the recent parley
here with American Jewish
leaders, Eliahu Dobkin, Jewish
Agency leader, disclosed.
The conference, to be held in
New York City on Oct. 24, will
deal with the projected floating
by Israel of a billion dollar bond
issue in the United States, the
expansion of the United Jewish
Appeal and with measures de-
signed to encourage private in-
vestment in Israel.
Israel Mizrachi
May Quit Cabinet
NEW YORK — (WNS) — Un-
less the present Israel govern-
ment meets the series of demands
which the Mizrachi movement in
Israel has presented to it during
the past two weeks, Mizrachi
contemplates leaving the coali-
tion government, a leader of the
World Federation of General
Mizrachi Zionists declared this
week.
Rabbi Dr. I. Solomon Rosen-
berg, vice-chairman of the World
Federation of General Mizrachi
Zionists, who last week returned
from Israel, said that the relig-
ious-Zionists' demands of the
present coalition government in-
volve religious and economic re-
lationships.
VEGETABLE PRODUCTION
TEL AVIV (Special) —Mar-
keting of vegetables last June
totaled 14,885 tons, of which
13,357 tons were supplied • by
Jewish farms and 1,528 by Arabs.
The supply represents an increase
Dr. Neumann Blasts Israel
for 'Slighting World Zionists'
TEL AVIV — (WNS) — Dr.
Emanuel N e u in a n n, former
president of the Zionist Organi-
zation of America, lashed out
here against the Israel govern-
ment for its policy of "leading on
non-Zionist elements in the Unit-
ed States" and "for slighting the
World Zionist Organization."
Speaking at a General Zionist
rally in the overcrowded Mogra-
bi Theater here, the American
Zionist leader called the Zionist
movement Israel's "most loyal
ally" while simultaneously cau-
tioning that the World Zionist
Organization was confronted with
the possibility of early liquida-
tion.
He said Israel's attitude toward
the Zionist Organization was one
of "de jure recognition but not
de facto" and that this situation
has created "a state of cold war"
between the two.
At the same time he charged
that the Israel government's un-
derestimation of the strength and
potential of the Zionist mov6
WASHINGTON — (WNS) — ment throughout the world has
led to a waning of Zionist inter-
President Truman disclosed that est and to a drop in the yield
he had not received any resig- of fund-raising activities.
nation from James G. McDonald,
America's first ambassador to
VALLEY ACQUEDUCT
Israel, and that he was therefore
JERUSALEM— (ZOA) — The
not considering a successor to Jordan Valley Regional Council
the post.
has set up a company for the
The President's statemen t, construction of an aqueduct
made at a press conference, came which will permit the irrigation
against the background of nu- of 8,000 dunams of abandoned
merous unconfirmed reports that land that has lain fallow for
McDonald had no intentions of many years. (A dunam is equal
returning to his post in Israel.
to one-fourth acre).
Truman Denies
McDonald Quit
When Jordan filed its complaint
with the United Nations a week
ago, its foreign office claimed
that the land in dispute belonged
to Amman under the armistice
terms and that Israel had forged
the armistice map in order to
justify its seizure of the territory.
Jordan's government also
threatened military action against
Israel.
The changed Jordan attitude
came against the background of
an assertion by Major General
William E. Riley, UN chief truce
supervisor, that the disputed ter-
ritory belonged to Israel.
According to Harkavy, the Jor-
danians changed their position
when they "observed the signa-
ture of John Glubb Pasha, Arab
Legion commander during the
Arab-Israel war, on a map show-
ing that the disputed area was
awarded to Israel."
At the same time he asserted
No Danger of Israeli Collapse,
Browdy Tells ZOA Executive
NEW YORK—(WNS)—Benja-
min G. Browdy, president of the
Zionist Organization of-America,
.deelared that although Isfael is
confronted by serious economic
difficulties there is no imminence
of an economic collapse.
He made the assertion at a
meeting of the ZOA national ex-
ecutive committee at the Hotel
Biltmore, where he reported on
the recent emergency conference
of American Jewish leaders in
Jerusalem.
He characterized the current
situation in Israel as one of grow-
ing pains of a new state, adding
that he found "no panic whatso-
ever" in Israel.
At the same time he asserted
that the decision of the Israel
Government to keep the doors
open to unlimited Jewish immi-
gration was "irrevocable" despite
the serious impact of such an in-
flux upon the economic condition
of the country.
Israel, he said, is prepared if
necessary to receive a million im-
migrants within the next three
years "and certainly a minimum
of 600,000."
Dwelling on the American
scene, Browdy asserted that the
tension engendered by the Ko-
rean war has given the dark
forces in the country a weapon
"to intensify their anti-Jewish
propaganda."
Ridiculing the elements who
accuse Jews of both being com-
munists and capitalists at the
same time, the ZOA president
said that "the time for an apolo-
Prof. Cook Named Franklin Lecturer
Prof. Lloyd A. Cook, chairman of the depart-
ment of educational sociology in Wayne Univer-
sity's College of Education, has been named the
Leo M. Franklin Memorial Professor in Human
Relations at the University for the current year.
Selection was made by a five man committee
designated by Dr. David D. Henry, Wayne presi-
dent, under a plan outlined a year ago when the
chair was established through action of the board
of trustees of Temple Beth El and the Detroit
Board of Education.
Rabbi Franklin. who had been at Temple Beth
El for 42 years before his death in 1948, was known
widely for his humanitarianism and understand-
ing, and it was thought appropriate by the Tem-
ple's board to set up in his honor a program for
the advancement of human relations. The estab-
-
of 0 per cent over the same
month last year.
lishment of the fund for the purpose was reported
that Israel was deeply concerned
over the 'intensification recently
of incidents along the Egyptian
border," adding that a most ener-
getic protest will be raised over
the issue at the next meeting of
the mixed armistice commission.
In the meantime, the Israel
government filed a complaint ,
with the United Nations against
Egypt and Jordan, accusing those
countries of "threatening aggres-
sive action" and violating the
armistice agreements. The com-
plaint-accuses Egypt of "blockade
practices" and charges that Jor-
dan is blocking the movement of
traffic on the Bethlehem and La-
trun-Jerusalem roads in violation
of the armistice pact.
In a counter-move, the Egyp-
tian government filed charges
with the Security Council that
Israel had driven out some 4,000
Arab Bedouins.
getic attitude on the part of
American Jews is long past,"
adding ,that "every intelligent
person knows that the concepts
of Judaism and Zionism are dia-
metrically opposed to Commun-
ism on the simple issues of be-
lief in God and human freedom."
M. Rothenberg
UPA Head, •
Dies at Banquet
NEW YORK—(WNS) — Judge
Morris Rothenberg, general
chairman of the United Palestine
Appeal, died here of a heart at-
tack after addressing a meeting
of the national executive com-
mittee of the Zionist Organiza-
tion of America at the Hotel
Biltmore. He was 65 years old.
The former president of the
Zionist Organization of America
was stricken as he ended a ban-
quet speech. As he fell to the
floor, his wife and a number of
friends ran to his aid, but he
was dead before medical aid ar-
rived. The subject of his last
address was the recent Jeru-
salem conference of American
Jewish leaders with Prime Min-
ister David Ben Gurion.
Born in Estonia, he came to
the United States with his par.
ents in 1893. In 1905 he was
graduated from the New York
University School of Law.
Israel Here
to Stay —India
to the University by Congregation Beth El's presi-
dent, Nate S. Shapero, last October.
New Delhi — (Special) — India
The professorship carries an annual stipend of
$1,000 over and above the professor's salary. Under recognized the government of
the plan Wayne will present annually a lecture Israel last Monday.
It was pointed out, however,
series known as the "Leo M. Franklin Memorial
Lectures in Human Relations." The series will in- by officials that the step did not
clude addresses by the memorial professor, and indicate any increased friendli-
ness toward Israel or any lessen-
by four other lecturers selected by him.
Dr. Cook came to Wayne from Ohio State Uni- ing in India's sympathy for the
versity in 1946, with a distinguished reputation as Arab cause. Diplomatic repre-
a consultant, author, and teacher in educational sentatives will not be exchanged
sociology. His directorship of the National College at present.
The external affairs ministry
Study in Intergroup Relations, sponsored by the
American Council on Education, has had nation- explained that the recognition
wide attention among professional groups. He is was granted on the ground that
a consultant to numerous national organizations "Israel is here to stay." Recogni-
tion, therefore, is only acceptance
and foundations.
of an established fact.