Arabs and Jews Agree on 'Harvest Line'
Satterthwaite Directs
Near East Department
WASHINGTON,(JTA)
Joseph C. Satterthwaite has been
appointed director of the State
Department's Office of Near East=
ern and African Affairs, Secre-
tary of State George C. Marshall
announced. Formerly deputy di-
rector of the office. Satterthwaite
now moves up to the position
made vacant by the appointment
of Loy Henderson as Ambassador
to India. Satterthwaite has held
consular posts in Mexico City,
Buenos Aires, Baghdad, Ankara
and Damascus.
Presidential
press-secretary
Charles G. Ross told a news con-
ference that he had "nothing on
it," relative to a report, circulat-
ing at Lake Success, that Presi-
dent Truman would lift the Mid-
dle East arms embargo shortly.
6—THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday July 23, 1948
$136 Raised for Israel
At Party for Infant
In honor of the birth of her
grandson, Paul Howard Kuneck,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Meyer Ku-
neck of Birwood Ave., Mrs. Max
Pitkowsky entertained at her
home July 10.
At the party, $136 was raised
and turned over to the • Chernig-
over and Loy ever Aid Society,
through which the funds will be
sent to Palestine agencies.
Tel Aviv's Heavy Air Raid
—International News Photo
Eliahu Epstein Represents Israel
With Devotion, Integrity, Honor
I
By MURRAY FRANK
On beautiful, broad Massachusetts Avenue in Wash-
ington, there stands a simple, white, three-story building.
The attention of the passerby would seldom be attracted to
the building, were it not for the flag which flies lustily from
a second-story window. There, in the heart of the foreign
embassies and legations, this flag is still something new,
six hours, while scattered en-
gagements took place at Zara,
to realize that Jews must become
Bugosh and Deir Tarif, where
more closely acquainted with
Jewish advance units are oper-
their Arab neighbors, must learn
ating. Fighting was also report-
their customs and habits as a
ed near Khan Yunis, on the
means toward better understand-
Egyptian
border.
ing. In 1930, he was granted a
scholarship by the Rockefeller
Foundation to contniue his stud-
ies on Arabian civilization at the
American University in Beirut,
Lebanon.
In 1934 he returned to Pales-
tine, where his knowledge of
Arab affairs was soon recog-
nized, and he was taken on by
the Jewish Agency as its Arab
expert. His official title was
"Chief , of the Middle East Sec-
tion".
Epstein's first direct contact
with U. S. officials was made at
the San Francisco Conference,
and this helped pave the way for
him subsequently in Washington
and as adviser to the Jewish
Agency delegation at Lake Suc-
cess when the partition of Pales-
tine was under discussion.
Today, Epstein is one of the
busiest diplomats in Washing-
ton. When friends reprove him
gently that his phone is always
busy, and that he always seems
to be in conference, he smiles
politely and replies: "Our strug-
gle is not yet completely over."
He and Mrs. Epstein occupy a
small apartment a short distance
from-his office. Mrs. Epstein, a
charming young woman in her
thirties, is Palestinian-born. She
met Epstein when they were both
students at the Hebrew Univer-
sity.
something unbelievably novel. 0
It is the familiar, blue-white
Tall in stature, with blue eyes,
Jewish flag which now flutters grayish wavy hair, a friendly
so proudly _over the building. smile on his lips and in his eyes,
At the entrance, a small brass when serious his eyes will move
plaque on, the door bears the back and forth somewhat ner-
legend: "State of Israel, Mission vously, visibly impatient—this is
Eliahu Epstein.
Epstein is still reasonably
young for hiS accomplishments.
He was born September 16, 1904,
in the town of Snovsk, in the
Ukraine. In his early education,
the emphasis was on Jewish reli-
gion and Hebrew, and the natur-
al corollary of this was the grow-
th of a great love for Zion which
young Eliahu developed. His
father, a merchant, wanted his
son to obtain a secular educa-
tion, and enrolled him in the
Russian "Gymnasium" (high
school). In 1921, Eliahu entered
the University of Kiev where he
ELIAHU EPSTEIN
studied for several years. At the
to the United States". This, then, age of 21, he left Russia and made
is the building which houses the his way to Palestine, where he
diplomatic mission of Israel in arrived in 1925 as a Chalutz. He
the capital of the United States helped build the highways, he
and the head of that mission, dug ditches for irrigation, he till-
Boys with good voices wanted
Eliahu Epstein, the first official ed the barren soil, and did similar
representative of the People of menial labor which to him was
to sing in the Choir of Congre-
sweet and welcome because it
Israel and the Land of Israel.
gation Bnai David. Good pay
Epstein arrived in Washington meant the upbuilding of Zion.
In 1927 he entered the Hebriw
three years ago as the represent-
and
opportunity for year round
kive of the Jewish Agency for University in Jerusalem in order
to
complete
his
studies.
By
this
Palestine. In the spring of 1945,
position. For auditions call
Epstein was delegated by the time, Epstein had developed a
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and observers, who cooperated
closely with the Jewish Agency,
immediately became aware that
he was an expert on Arab affairs
and a brilliant political analyst.
Shortly after the San Francisco
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June, Epstein came to Washing-
Done Exclusively by Mr. Leo
ton to establish an office of the
Jewish Agency. He moved slow-
ly and cautiously in making his
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first diplomatic steps, in orientat-
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Under United Nations supervision, representatives of Jews and Arabs meet at a roadside point 14 persons were killed and 35
near Latrun, Palestine, and agree upon a line of demarcation which will make crop harvesting safe for wounded when Egyptian bomb-
both warring sides. Under the arrangement, farmers of both factions can come up to this boundary ers, in one of the heaviest raids
to gather their harvests. The meeting was described as cordial, though held in a sector where heavy of the Palestine war, raided Tel
fighting had been going on before the truce. At left is the UN representative, Maj. George Malizsewski, Aviv's business center.
The Jewish settlement, Gvar-
of Lowell, Mass. At right is Lt. Col. Herzog, son of Palestine's chief rabbi. The Arab Legion repre-
am, in the Negev, was shelled for
sentatives were not identified.
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