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THE JEWISH NEWS
Possible Ban on Zionism
In Ecuador Is Prevented
'Assimilation of Jews'
In Czechoslovakia Is
Political Only—Masaryk
`Attorney General's Ruling Regarded as Setting Precedent
for Safeguarding Jewish Rights in All of Latin-
America: Official Backs Homeland
QUITO, Ecuador, (JPS)—A ruling by the Attorney
General, regarded as setting a precedent for safeguarding
Jewish rights in all of Latin-America, staved off a possible
ban on Zionism in this country, Benno Weiser, president of
the Zionist Federation of Ecuado
r, announced here.
The Attorney General also recommended revision of the
Aliens Law under which Zion-
ism was to have been banned,
to read so that it forbids the
collective exercise of political
rights by foreigners only if they
- violate the political and moral
principles of Ecuador and pre-
judice its international position.
He recalled, in his ruling, that
Ecuador, as a member of the
League of Nations, approved
the purposes of the Balfour
Declaration.
The small Ecuadorian Jewish
Community, numbering three to
four thousand persons, set a
precedent of its own by appeal-
ing to the., Attorney General
from an unfavorable recom-
mendation of the Legal Adviser
to the Minister of the Interior.
The Attorney General declar-
ed: "This (Zionist) .aim is just
and does not violate any insti-
tutional principles or fair prac-
tices of our land. On the con-
trary, it is in full agreement
with the modern juridical prin-
ciples of democracy and of the
equality of peoples as well as
of individuals.
"What the Jewish people,
martyred in all lands and
throughout m any centuries,
is asking now is the restoration
of its National Home in Pales-
tine, namely, that it, too, be
granted some spot on this earth
where it should be able to de-
velop its own economic, social
and political life.
"The Jewish people is a
human aggregate of a unique
character in the history of man-
kind. It has survived and pres-
erved its millennial spiritual
and religious values despite the
lack of a territory of its own.
Now the world will have to
recognize the right of the Jew-
ish people to national status and
dignity. The Jewish people can
attain these only through • the
possession of a State of its own,
and a State is inconceivable
without a territory."
Latin-American Students
Endorse Commonwealth
SANTA FE, Argentina, (JPS)
—The representatives of Student
Associations of Argentina, Boliv-
ia, Chile, Ecuador, ,Mexico, Peru,
and Uruguay, and other states,
meeting here under the auspices
of the Latin American Students
Federation, adopted a resolution
endorsing a Jewish Common-
wealth in Palestine.
This is the first time in the
history of the Federation, which
was founded in 1918, and has
been an important force in the
fight against Fascism, that the
Jewish problem and Zionism
were placed on its agenda.
Bolivian Zionists Meet
In La Paz on Aug. 4
LA PAZ, Bolivia, (JPS)—The
second annual Zionist Conven-
tion in Bolivia, will be held Aug.
4, the Bolivian Zionist Federa-
tion announced. Zionist dele-
gates from the districts of Co-
chabamba, Oruru, Sucre and
Tarija, will attend.
The Zionists of Bolivia, at
last year's convention, secured
the good will and cooperation
of the foremost Bolivian in-
tellectual and political leaders
and founded the Institute for
Cultural Cooperation, under the
chairmanship of Vincent Donoso
Torres, President of the Nation-
al Council of Education.
Parley of Uruguyan Zionists
Backs Commonwealth Demand
MONTEVIDEO, (JTA) — The
19th annual conference of the
Zionist Federation of Uruguay
concluded here this week after
a■ Siopting resolutions expressing
its support of the demand for
immediate creation of Palestine
as a Jewish commonwealth and
- urging that the Jewish Brigade
participate in the occupation of
Germany. The conference was
addressed by Rabbi Joseph
Lookstein, of New York, who
is in South America on a mis-
sion for the Joint Distribution
Committee, and by Argentine
and Uruguyan Jewish leaders.
Jewish Students Meet
In Brazil, Plan Action
RIO DE JANIERO, (JPS) —
Zionist student delegations from
Sao Paulo and Porto Allegre, met
here to discuss plans for Zion-
ist activities for the first time
since 1938, when
a decree
against subversive activities was
erroneously applied against the
Zionist movement.
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The re-
cent announcement by a Czecho-
slovak Government spokesman
concerning the "assimilation of
Jews," in Czecholslovakia did not
mean that there would be any
forced assimilation as far as
religious or cultural freedom is
concerned, Jan Masaryk, Czech
Foreign Minister, said here.
In a conversation with Jacob
Rosenheim, president of the
Agudas Israel World Organiza-
tion, Mr. Masaryk said that not
only will individuals of Jewish
faith or origin have complete
freedom of conscience, but also
Jewish religious communities
will enjoy the unrestricted right
of establishing educational and
social institutions of any kind in
accordance with their traditions.
Political minority rights, which
were abused by the German
minority in CzechOlslovakia no
longer will exist for any minority
group, even those who were
friendly to the Czecholslovakian
Government, Mr. Masaryk said.
Friday, July 27, 1945
H. R. Solomon, Prominent
Here, Dies in Los Angeles
trustees. He was at one time
president of the Men's Temple
Club. He served for long periods
as chairman of the choir com-
mittee of the Temple and also as
Harry R. Solomon, for many chairman of its cemetery board.
years prominent as chairman of He especially was active in the
the collection committee of the Jewish Welfare Federation and
Allied Jewish Campaigns spon- the Service Group.
He was a member of the Mich-
sored by the Jewish Welfare
Federation and Detroit Service igan Sovereign Consistory and of
Group; as a leader . in Temple the Shrine and was one of the
Beth El and civic and community founding members of the old
movements, as an attorney and Fellowship Club and also of the
in later years in other fields of Redford Country Club.
About 42 years ago he was
business, died on Sunday, July
22, after a brief illness, at his married to Miss Esther Levyn of
home in Los Angeles.
Alpena, by whom he is survived,
Mr. Solomon came to Detroit as well as by two children, Mrs.
about the turn of the century E. W. Walters and Milton S. Solo-
from Au Sable, Mich., his place mon, and by two sisters, Mrs.
of birth, where he had been as- William Levyn and Miss Anna
sociated in the lumber business Solomon, all of Los Angeles.
with his father, Selig .Solomon, There are also four grandchil-
former mayor of that city. dren.
About five months ago Mr.
Mr. Solomon for many years
Solomon moved from Detroit to
was a member of Temple Beth El Los Angeles to be near his
and during a great portion of that family. Burial was in Los
time a member of its board of Angeles.
Was Active in Affairs of
Temple Beth El, Federation
and Service Group
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