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Thursday, October 19, 1950

JERUSALEM—(p
Secial)—Israel's cabinet crisis came to
a head last Monday night when Premier David Ben Gurion
told the Knesset that he was unable to form a neW govern-
ment with a sufficient majority to replace the four-party
10c a Copy — $3 Per Year coalition which broke up Sunday.
Ben Gurion called for the dissolution of the parliament
and new elections within two months.

33 Groups to Partake
in Israel Conference

NEW YORK—(WNS)—Active participation in the National Planning Conference for
Israel and Jewish Rehabilitation, to be held in Washington, Oct. 27-29, was announced here
by 33 major Jewish organizations whose membership constitutes a majority of the 5,000,000
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Jews in the country.

The conference, a result of the
parley held last month in Jeru-
salem with Prime Minister David
Ben Gurion on the economic prob-
lems confronting the Jewish state,
is to formulate a three-year pro-
gram of financial assistance to
Israel on an unprecedented scale.
In making public the names of
the Jewish organizations that
will be represented on the Steer-
ing Committee of the National
Planning Conference, Dr. Nahum
Goldmann, chairman of the ar-
rangements committee, empha-
sized that the list is still incom-
plete and that a number of im-
portant Jewish groups has not
yet had time to act on the mat-
ter.
Among the organizations which
have already named delegates to
the steering committee are:
Achdut Haavodah Poale Zion;
American Jewish Committee;
American Jewish Congress; Amer-
lean-Jewish Joint Distribution
Commitree r- American Fed,
eratiori; American. Zf6tirst 'teuri-
cil; Bnai Brith; Bnai Zion; Brith
Shalom; Farband-Labor Zionist
Order; Free Sons of Israel; Ha-
dassah; Hapoel Hamizrachi of
America; Independent Order
Brith Abraham; Industrial Insti-
tute of Israel; Jewish Agency for
Palestine, American Section; Jew-
ish Labor Committee;' Jewish War
Veterans.
Labor Zionist Organization of
American-Poale Zion; Mizrachi
Organization of America; Mizra-
chi Women's Organization of
America; N a Li o n a 1 Women's

League of United Synagogue; Pal-
estine Economic Corp.; Union of
Orthodox Jewish Congregations
of America; United Jewish Ap-
peal; United Palestine Appeal;
United Service for New Amer-
icans; United Synagogue of Amer-

ica; University Institute Tech-
nion; Women's American ORT;
Women's Branch, Union of Or-
thodox Jewish Congregations;
Women's Division, American Jew-
ish Congress; and Zionist Organiz-
ation of America.

Biwa Brith Honored

The Premier also proposed toi,
the Knesset an interim govern- called a meeting of his cabinet,
ment of the seven Mapai mem- following whin he invited rep-
bers of the outgoing cabinet. The resentatives of all parties in the
progressives, who had been in Knesset to meet with him. At the
the coalition, and Mapam and time it was learned that. the Pro-
General Zionists, who had been gressive Party was making ef-
in the opposition, declined to join forts to influence the General
in such an interim government.
Zionists to support the new gov-
The religious bloc which had ernment and that the Sephardic
precipitated the crisis was not in- Party would support Ben Gurion
vited.
in any proposed new cabinet.
In political circles it was con-
In the meantime conferences
sidered likely that the Mapai
cabinet would receive a confi- were going on among the lead-
ers of the political parties, with
dence vote.
The first indication of possible the religious bloc insisting that it
political trouble was seen in the would accept no "ultimatum"
unexpected arrival of President from the Premier and demanding
Weizmann from Paris, where he that the issue be settled within a
was expected to stay through the week.
The left-wing Socialist party,
month of October.
The significance of that event Mapam, indicated it will not
was seen within a few days, when enter any government based on
Premier David Ben Gurion sub- the program of the old govern-
mitted his resignation to Weiz- ment. Representatives of Mapam
declared, however, that if agree-
mann.
In a move to avert disruption, ment could be reached between
the President asked the Premier Mapam and Mapai, the former
to form a new cabinet and remain would enter a coalition govern-
in office during the interim. ment.
President Weizmann made the The General Zionists indicated
request following consultations they would enter the new cabinet
with the leaders of the various if they received three portfolios.
parties in the Knesset. At the same time, spokesmen
The Premier's resignation came for the religious bloc declared
24 hours before the Knesset was that they withdrew from the gov-
to have inet in session and Ben ernment not only because of dia-
Gurion was to have asked a v te a ree

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—Photo by Bigelman

Mhyor Albert E. Cobo, sealed, signs the proclamation declaring
Oct. 13-19 Bnai Brith Week in Detroit. Oct. 13 marked the 107th
anniversary of the Bnai Brith. Receiving the proclamation are,
left to right, Victor Bloomfield, president of the Greater Detridt
Bnai Brith Council; Mrs. Morris Tack, Women's Council vice-
president; Samuel W. Leib, junior past president of District Grand
Lodge 6; and Mrs. Lewis Manning, president of the Women's
Council.

Six Jewish Groups Call Hart
Hatemonger in Anti-Red Cloak

NEW YORK, (WNS)—A warn-
ing that Merwin K. Hart and his
National Economic Council are
financing "a many-sided program
of hate-mongering," with funds
contributed by Americans under
the mistaken belief they are thus
helping to combat Communism,
was sounded here by six major
Jewish organizations.
Prompted by the appearance in
recent weeks of paid advertise-
ments in "several responsible
daily newspapers, soliciting con-
tributions for the National Eco-
nomic Council on the grounds
that it is combatting Commun-
ism," the statement said that the
recent exposure of Hart before
congressional investigating com-
mittees-and the public press have
"cost him the support of many
citizens and organizations" and
that "Hart now seeks to recoup
these losses by advertisements
with which he hopes to win sup-
port of other Americans who, un-
aware of his pro-Fascist and anti-
Semitic record and • program,
wish to do something to fight
Communism.
In addition, the statement point-
ed out that Hart and his Council
were Against Communism, and
that Hart has recently attacked
the anti-Communist "Crusade for
Freedom," which is led by such
men as General Eisenhower, Gen.
Clay and former Ambassador
Joseph G. Grew.

Asks Elections,
Interim Rule

Organizations which signed the
statement were the American
Jewish Committee; American
Jewish Congress; Anti-Defama-
tion League of Bnai Brith; Jew-
ish Labor Committee; National
Community Relations Advisory
Council, and Union of American
Hebrew Congregations.

NEW CONSUL
NEW YORK—(ISI)—Dr. Abra-
ham Ernst Lewin, head of the
commercial department of the
Israel Consulate General in New
York, was promoted to the rank
of Consul. Dr. Lewin has been
associated with the Consulate
General here since the summer
of 1949 as Vice-Consul, until the
resignation of Consul Gideon
Strauss a few weeks ago.

Israel Deported Arabs,
Egypt . Charges in UN

LAKE SUCCESS—(Special)---
His face flushed with emotion,
Aubrey Eban, Israeli representa-
tive to the United Nations told
the Security Council that Egypt's
charges against Israel were a
tissue of falsehoods presented by
a country that had been "either
for aggression or indifferent to
it" in previous debates.
The Egyptian complaint
charged that Israel was guilty of
having rounded up Palestine
Arabs and shipped them across
the border into Egypt.
Mahmoud Fawzi Bey, Egyptian
delegate, stated that Israel's ar-
mistice violations were becoming
bolder every day. He charged
that Israel was disdaining the
whole civilized world.
Eban replied that the Arabs re-
ferred to were either those that

Beth Din Hears DP Murder Charge

NEW YORK—(WNS)—Two rabbis and a
prominent attorney sat in judgment here last
week in a unique hearing.
The "Beth Din" hearing was held at the head-
quarters of the American Jewish Congress.
Seated at the table, as judges, were Rabbi
Simon Federbush, a former member of the Polish
parliament and now a member of the executive
of the American Jewish Congress; Rabbi Emman-
uel Rackman, a member on the faculty of the
Yeshivah University, and Leo Pfeffer, associate
general counsel of the American Jewish Con-
gress.
The "case" before the tribunal brought back the
horrors of the Nazi concentration camps, the ti ag-
edy of families parted .by deliberate murder and
the tragic life of the.survivors.
The men before the tribunal were two Jews,
from Poland, both of whom survived the hor-
rors of Hitler's death camps and both of whom
found haven in America. One, Benjamin Krieger,
charged that the other, Meyer Mittleman, killed
his brother Salman Krieger in the Muhldorf camp,
where they were inmates.
Krieger testified that in 1945 Mittleman, whom

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he identified as block clerk, struck Zalman over
the head with a metal plate in a dispute over a
food portion.
Krieger first pointed the finger of guilt on
Mittleman last June, when he fell on the accused,
beating and berating him as a murderer.
Mittleman did not take the stand but he told
reporters he expects to be exonerated since Krieg-
er's case is based on mistaken identity. He ad-
mitted being in the same camp, but he denied hav-
ing struck Zalman or anyone else. He is expected to
testify when the hearing is resumed on Oct. 22,
when the tribunal will release its findings without
recommendations or sanctions.
Two witnesses for the accused, Moses Hoffman
and Jacob Grossinger, testified that Mittleman was
ill at the time of the purported attack.
When Krieger first accused Mittleman, a num-
ber of camp inmates, including Rabbi Halberstam,
told newsmen the accuser had made a mistake.
Rabbi Halbersteam said he knew Mittleman as a
fine person, one who observed Jewish law and
who risked his life praying in tallis and tefillim
while a camp inmate.

were living in territory belonging
to Egypt at the time of the ar-
mistice or others who sold their
land to the Israelis and left for
Egypt of their own free will.
He stated that these Arabs had
taken $400,000 with them from
the land sales. The Egyptian gov-
ernment has supplied the trucks
to transport them over the bor-
der, he added.

2 Collectives
Get Fines for
Price Gouging

TEL AVIV, (WNS)—Heavy
fines were imposed by a Haifa
court on two collective settle-
ments for selling cereals at inflat-
ed prices.
The first action of this kind
was taken against the settlements
Gal Ed and Gazit, which were
respectively fined 1,500 and 1,200
pounds. In addition, the treasur-
ers of the settlements were sent-
enced to jail terms of two weeks.
The court, however, declared
there was no evidence the sales
were motivated by a desire to
reap excessive profits.
At the same time it was dis-
closed here that 90 people were
held under detention in Tel Aviv
jails pending investigation of
blackmarket and hoarding com-
plaints against them. The arrests
were made to eradicate black
marketeering and illicit hoarding.

JOB OUTLOOK GOOD
JERUSALEM—(ISI)—Employ-
meat will not be a major prob-
lem among Israel's newcomers in
the coming months because as the
winter approaches, the citrus in-
dustry will require at least 6,000
additional workers.

