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Peace Negotiations Go On;
Russia Permits Emigration

chance in Palestine on both sides
of the Jordan; a system of direct
democracy must prevail in Israel
with the constitution containing
principles of popular referendum
in order to give every citizen an
opportunity to form decisions On
•vital problems that may face the
Israeli nation's future; the Free-
dom movement will fight all
forms of trusts and monopolies
whether they are controlled by
individuals or by groups and
factions.
"We shall endeavor to encour-
age investment of productive
capital for new enterprises so
that our country should be made
economically sound to absorb
hundreds of thousands of re-
patriates who shall return to
their homeland," he declared.

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Arabians expressed their desire to
emphasize that the Palestine
problem "is a serious one," and
went on to state that if it were
not solved "according to princi-
ples of right • and justice," it
would lead to "unexpected de-
velopments of far-reaching and
unlimited calamities."
Meanwhile what has come to
be considered a "filibuster" was
continued by Arab spokesmen at
the Tuesday morning session of
the political committee. Lengthy
statements introducing no new
elements into the discussion were
offered by delegates of Egypt,
Lebanon and Yemen.

Peace Negotiations
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Before
the current negotiations between
Jewish and Arab Legion com-
manders in Jerusalem, under
sponsorship of the UN truce
commission, were adjourned, the
establishment of a convoy sys-
tem to Mt. Scopus and the reg-
ular relief of Jewish security
troops guarding the Hadassah
Hospital on that height were dis-
cussed, it -was learned Tuesday.
Arab sources report that both
the Arab Legion and Israeli
commanders turned down a pro-
posal to demilitarize the area
between Jerusalem and Bethle-
hem in order to permit proces-
sions and celebrations between
the two cities in honor of Christ-
mas.
While the negotiations were in
progress, Arab forces in the Old
City and oh Mt. Zion .started
work on new fortifications. The
construction of concrete pill
boxes and similar projects was
carried on openly on the first
anniversary of the UN partition
decision.
. Soviet citizens who are the
parents or dependents of Israeli
citizens may leave the USSR
and their relatives in the
Jewish State under the terms
of an agreement eoncluded be-
tween the Jewish Agency and
the Soviet Legation in Tel
Aviv, it was learned here.
_ The agreement is conditional
- upon the agency's accepting full
- responsibility for the immigrants
from the moment they cease to
be Soviet citizens. Further dis-
cussions• on the immigration of
Jewish children from the USSR
to Israel have been held up while
Soviet representatives await in-
structions from their govern-
ment. Meanwhile a search is be-
- ing made for Israeli citizens in
the USSR by members of the
Israeli legation in Moscow.

Reception for UJA Delegates
TEL. AVIV (JTA) — The 35
member United Jewish Appeal
delegation touring Israel returned
from Jerusalem where the dele-
gates were met and entertained
by representatives of the Jewish
Agency and the Jewish National
Fund. The Americans also visited
the now quiet Jerusalem front.
At a press conference, the UJA_
delegates told of their "deep
emotional experience" in seeing
the "Yishuv's heroic efforts" and
_ pledged that they would re-
double their efforts hi behalf of
UJA allocations to Israel when
they returned to the United
States. Speakers included Max
- Ogust N. Golmovsk y, Mrs.
Eleanor Abraham, Jack Cooper,
_ Maurice Gorman, Samuel Reese
and others. The delegation left
• Israel Wednesday.

Beigin Toasts Ben-Gurion.
.
NEW YORK (JTA) — More
than 2,000 guests, each paying
$50 a plate, honoring Menachem
Beigin at a dinner at the Wal-
dorf Astoria Monday night heard
Beigin's toast for David Ben-
Gurion, "our first Prime Min-
- ister who granted me an exit
permit to come to the U.S. and
• whom I helped to become Prime
Minister." Interrupted often by
• applause, Beigin outlined the
program of his party' as being:
Against the Bernadotte plan;
against Jessup's plan "because
even the American plan alleged-
ly is supported by Britain, is
still a British plan in its pur-
pose to choke us within ghetto
walls whatever its name may
be"; Israel must be given a

Friday, December 3, 1948

Try and Stop Me

`Hatikvah' : Refrain's
Old and New Versions

By BENNETT CERF

Complying with the requests
that have come from many of
our readers that we reprint the
text of "Hatikvah," together with
the Israeli version of the refrain,
we present them here in the
original and in translation.
The complete story of "Hatikv-
ah" and its author—the late
Naphtali Herz Imber—appeared
in full-page feature article in The
June 11 issue of The Jewish
News.
- The first stanza and the refrain
of Imber's "Hatikvah" are:

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NEW YORK (JTA)—Gratitude
to the Jewish and non-Jewish
r'
communities of the United States
for their moral and material as-
sistance to Israel was expressed
last week on behalf of the Is-
, tit
raeli government by Eliahu Ep-
stein, special representative of
Israel to the United States, at a
Red Mogen Dovid dinner at the
Waldorf-Astoria, at which Her-
r1
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bert Bayard Swope acted as toast-
master.
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More than 1,500 guests attend-
ed the gathering at which ,mes-
Nina Salaman's translation of
sages were read from- President
Truman, President Chaim Weiz- these two verses from the Hebrew
mann, and Israeli Prime Min- in, use in Zion means:
ister David Ben Gurion. The. While ever yet unchanged
event highlighted the current within his breast,
drive of the Red Mogen Dovid The inmost heart of Israel
to enroll 250,000 members as a yearns,
means of ,providing a fleet of And seeking still the borders
ambulances, medical and first aid of the East,
supplies for Israel.
His loving gaze to Zion turns—
Other speakers at the dinner
included Mayor O'Dwyer, Joseph So long our hope will never
M. Proskauer, Louis Lipsky, for- die,
mer Secretary of War Robert Yea, this our hone, through
Patterson, Ted 0. Thackrey, edi- ages felt,
tor of the New York Post, Rep. Back to our father's land to
Emanuel Celler of New York, fly,
Mrs. Wendell Willkie, and Brig. Home to the height where
David dwelt.
Gen. Julius Klein.
In the Jewish State—in th
Exchange of Arab, Jewish settlements preceding the proc-
lamation of the State of Israel—
Populations Suggested
the r e f r a i n was changed, the
authorship being unknown, the
An exchange of the Jewish text being as follows:
populations of Iraq, Syria and
Egypt for the Arab population of
Israel was suggested by the Hon.
A3t)pr.1
Edwin Samuel; C. M. G., who
served for 30 years as a British
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official in Palestine, in the first
of a series of lectures on "Israel
and the Middle East" given Nov.
30 at Dropsie College, Phila- —1331bt; ttP9n
delphia, by members of the
faculty of the Institute on Israel
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and the Middle East. Prof. Sam-
uel niade this suggestion "in view
"We have not abandoned our
of the difficulty of welding Jews hope
and Arabs into a homogeneous
The hope of two thousand
state. Great as the price would years,
be in immediate human suffer-
To be a free people in our
ing," said Prof. Samuel, "it might land
be wiser to arrange for an ex-
The land of Zion and Jerus-
alem."
change of populations."

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.LIVES OF OUR TIMES

the other day. She was mighty pretty too. Mr. Knopf
tightened his orange cravat, flicked a grain of dust off his
magenta trousers, and dic-
tated a seven-page letter to
Author Thom as Mann.
When he fihished an hour
later, he found the big,
beautiful blue eyes of the
new secretary fixed on his.

"I hope you'll excuse me, Mr.

Knopf," she told him, "but I
didn't quite get what you said
between 'My dear Thomas' and

'as ever yours'."
• • •
Dr. Morris Fishbein, head of
the AMA, tells of one medico
who wrote out a prescription
in the usual legible fashion doc-
tors use on such occasions. The patient used it for two years as a
railroad pass. Twice it got him into Radio City Music Hall, and once
into Ebbets Field. It came in handy as a letter from his employer
to the cashier to increase his salary. And to cap the climax, his
daughter played it on the piano and won a scholarship to the Curtis
Music Conservatory.

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Q UENTIN
Montgomery's campaign in the Near East altered a

REYNOLDS calls attention to the fact that

centuries-old custom of the natives in those parts. "Since
time immemorial," s a. y s 1
Reynolds, "Arabian m e n
rode majestically on the
family donkey while their
wives, laden down with all
sorts of burdens, trudged
patiently behind on foot.
After 1942, however, allc.„,
that was changed. The wife
was emancipated. She now E •4•••
walks in front. There are t- 413 '
a
r
many unexploded land ec t
mines ..."

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6
Forain, the FT ench en-
graver, was on his death bed.
His family, gathered about hirn,
simulated confidence in his recovery. "You're looking much better,"
his wife assured him. "The color has come back to your cheeks," said
his son. "You are breathing easier, father," his daughter observed.
Forain nodded and smiled weakly. "Thank you all," he whispered.
"I'm going to..die cured."
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RICH landowner in Sussex, England, had three daugh-
A ters
who were so ugly and mean-tempered that none

of them could find a husband. In a coffee house one rainy
afternoon the exasperated
landowner declared loudly,
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"I'd give ten thousand
Nor Yrt rouNo
pounds apiece to get those
A WAY MAW
confounded girls off my
MEN
hands."
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An Irishman: sitting unob-
trusively in the corner, stepped
forward and said, "With your
leave, sir. at that price I'll take
TWO of them."
• • •
Unlikely Bernard Shaw story
No. 8611; The ninety-two-year-
old sage visited a great London
specialist for a general check-
up. "You're in remark able
shape. considering your age," said that gentleman, "but you realize,
sir. that various' infirmities will crop up at this stage of the game.
Unfortunately, we doctors have not yet found a way to make men
younger."
"I didn't come to you to make me younger," snapped Shaw. "What
I want to do is grow older."

Copyright. 1948. by Bennett Col, Distributed by king Features Syndicate, Inc.

HAYIM GREENBERG

PRODUCED SY NORMAN 6 50t. MODEL
TEXT BY LAURA G. SHARON

NE .TURNED TO WRITING AND LECTURING, IN
HEBREKYIDDISH AND RUSSIAN,IN BEHALF OF
WE ZIONIST IDEAL.HE LEFT RUSSIA IN 1920,AND
IMMIGRATED TO THE U.S. FOUR YEARS LATER.
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VETERAN SPOKESMAN FOR THE LABOR
ZIONIST MOVEMENT IN THE U.S. AND ONE
Of THE FOREMOST ZIONIST LEADERS IN
' THE WORLD TODAY

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GRE ENDER°

PUBLISHER ALFRED KNOPF tried out a new secretary

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TODAY NE 1 ' 5 EDITOR OF THE'YIDDISHER
KEMFEC AND THE:JEWISH FRONTIER:
OFFICIAL IIDDISH AND ENGLISH ORGANS Of
THEU.S. LABOR ZIONIST MOVE MEIIT.

BORN IN BESSARABIA IN 1889, HE WAS BROUGHT UP IN
THE FERVENT ZIONIST ATMOSPHERE OF ODESSA,WHERE
BIALIK,USSISHKIN AND OTHER PIONEERS Of THE ZIONIST
MOVEMENT WORKED AND WROTE

AT PRESENT HE IS A MEMBER OF THE ZIONIST
ACTIONS
AND Of THE EXECUTIVE
OF THE JEWISH AGENCY

SINCE HIS ARRIVAL IN THE UNITED STATES,IN
HAS CROSSED THE COUNTRY SEVERAL TIMES.
SPEAKING IN BEHALF Of LIBOR ZIONiSM.HE 15 AN
ACCOMPLISHED, FIERY ORATOR

COMMITTEE

HE SERVED AS CHAIRMAN Of THE
AMERICAN ZIONIST EMERGENCY COUNCIL
AND HAS ATTENDED NUMEROUS . SESSIONS
OF THE WORLD ZIONIST CONGRESS.

SPOKESMAN FOR THE LABOR ZIONIST MOVEMENT
IN A1AERICA,WHO HAS GIVEN A LIFETIME OF
SERVICE TO REALIZING THE DREAM OF ISRAEL
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