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may learn socialism from Mapai
rather than the reverse. He
urged Mapai youth on to great
pioneering effort, to renew the
barren areas and to scientific
achievements "since the future
of Israel must be based on the
development of industry."
Mr. Sharett urged Map a i
youth delegates to build an ex-
tensive network of agricultural
settlements to "fructify the bar-
ren areas and especially to es-
tablish . a chain of semi-military
settlements on the border." De-
spite the present truce and the
fact that Israel seeks peace, he
cautioned that "we must not
forget the surrounding hostile
countries."
Zalman Shazar, Minister of

Education, asked for thou-
sands of educators of youth to
work in immigrant camps. The
6,000 Mapai youth from 152
settlements who attended the
convention adopted resolutions
calling for a mass draft of
youth to help in immigrant

camps.
Immigration Minister Moshe
Shapira conferred with Eliahu
Elath, Israeli Ambassador to the
U.S., on t h e possibilities of
American immigration to Israel.
Shapira also received a delega-
tion of OSE leaders from Gen-
eva and Paris who are visiting
in Israel. OSE plans extension
of its program to this country.
A delegation of World Union
of Jewish Students arrived at
Lydda from Paris to set up an
international study camp for
250 students.
Daniel Frisch, president of the
Zionist Organization of America,
told t h e Jewish Telegraphic
Agency following a one-hour
conference with Finance Min-
ister Eliezer Kaplan that he felt
that critics of the Israeli Gov-
ernment could not "better the
' attempts" of Mr. Kaplan and
Premier Ben Gurion. He said he
learned that only 75 percent of
all employable persons in the
Jewish state now hold down jobs.
This situation, he added, affects
Israel's economic position seri-
ously. He emphasized the need
for private capital investment in
Israel to solve the new state's
economic problems resulting
from the huge number of recent
immigrants and in . order to
check the inflationary spiral.
• Foreign Minister Moshe Shar-
ett denied a charge by Meir Wil-
ner, deputy of the Israeli Com-
munist Party,' that Israel had
abrogated its treaty on• immi-
gration with Romania. Minister
Sharett, who replied to Deputy
Wilner during the course of a
foreign policy debate in the
Knesset, stated that the Foreign
Ministry was constantly con-
cerned with the fate of Jews in
Arab countries and was making
every effort to bring them to
Israel and guarantee them equal
rights upon their arrival.

King Receives Envoy

LONDON.—Israel Minister to
Britain Dr. Mordecai Eliash pre-
sented his credentials Tuesday
to King George VI at Bucking-
ham Palace. After a 15-minute
audience with the British mon-
arch, a spokesman for Dr. Eliash
said that "His Majesty showed
interest in the welfare and de-
velopment of the new state and
graciously inquired a f t e r its
president." The King showed
full acquaintance with the prob-
lems of Israel, the spokesman
added.

(Dr. Weizmann last week
formally renounced his British
citizenship by signing a re-
quired document at Tel Aviv).

Presents Credentials

PARIS—Maurice Fischer, Is-
raeli envoy to France, presented
his credentials to French Presi-
dent Vincent Auriol Tuesday.

Frisch in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM. — T h e Jewish
community here on Tuesday
Welcomed the ZOA delegation
headed by Daniel Frisch, who
declared that American Jews
would not rest until Jerusalem
was part and parcel of the state
of Israel. Mr. Frisch urged Is-
raeli political groups to sub-
merge their differences and to

THE JEWISH NEWS-3

Friday, July 8, 1949

Zionist Council
Reelects Shevitz

create an Israeli governmental
coalition for three years in order
to evoke the confidence of pri-
vate capital abroad. Otherwise,
he said, there was a grave threat
to the new state's economic sta-
Sidney Shevitz was re-elected
bility and absorptive capacity in
president of the Zionist Council
receiving immigrants.
of Detroit on June 30.
Other Zionist Council officers
UN Conciliation Commission
for the coming year are:
Adjourns Lausanne Session
Leon B. Kay, Sophie Blanche
LAUSANNE, (JTA) — The
United Nations Conciliation
Commission on Palestine ad-
journed after a final meeting
with the Arab delegations. The
Parleys will be resumed July 18.
Prior to the conclusion of the
session, Transjordan D e f ense
Minister Mulki Pasha lodged a
complaint with the Commission
about an alleged forcible expul-
sion of 1,500 Arabs from a vil-
lage near Tulkarm which was
handed over to Israel under the
Israeli-Transjordan a r m i s tice
agreement.

:; •

JERUSALEM, (JTA — A re-
solution calling for cooperation
between Israel and the Arab
nations of the Near East as
"the only way to bring about a
realization of the Semitic na-
tions' national aspirations" was
adopted at a two-day conven-
tion of the Ihud Party. The
100-odd delegates expressed op-
position to "every political trend
that makes it its purpose to build
our national life on seclusion
and separation between the two
nations." The conference was
opened with a eulogy of the
late Dr. Judah L. Ma g n e s,
founder of the Ihud movement.

SIDNEY SHEVITZ

Schwartz and Irivng W. Sehlus-
sel, vice presidents; William
Hordes, treasurer; Mrs. Evelyn
Tobias, secretary.
The following are members of
the executive committtee: Law-
rence W. Crohn, Rabbi Leon
Fram, Morris M. Jacobs, Rabbi
Moses Lehrman, Benjamin M.
Israel-Syria Armistice
Laikin, Morris Lieberman, Philip
Sloinovitz, Mrs. Theodore Barg-
Agreement Is Expected
man and Mrs. Beatrice Fealk.
TEL AVIV, (JTA)--An armis- Three additional members will
tice agreement with Syria is ex- be chosen for the executive com-
mittee from the youth groups.
pected to be reached by the end
of this week or the beginning First 1,000 Yugoslav
of next week, following talks at Jews Land in Haifa
Mahanaim.
HAIFA, (JTA) — More than
The Israeli and Syrian dele- 1,000 Jewish immigrants from
gations reached agreement in Yugoslavia arrived here aboard
principle on the basis of UN the S.S. Radenik, the first group
Acting Mediator Ralph J. of Yugoslav Jews who have been
Bunche's plan for demilitariza- granted permission to leave
tion of territory held by the their homes for Israel with their
Syrian Army.
property.

Kosher Meat Conflict Ends;
Butchers Agree to Post Prices

Adoption by the Kosher Butchers' Association of the principle
of posting prices of all cuts of meats, brought to an end, last Fri-
day, the lengthy controversy between the Kosher butchers and
the Jewish houswives of Detroit.
The agreement was brought about after a series of meetings
held under auspices of the Jewish Community Council. The butch-
ers' new practice, which also includes display of all cuts of meats,
(as far as possible) with prices attached, in butchers' showcases,
follows the principle outlined by Dr. B. Benedict Glazer on the
basis of a ,suggestion by Julian Krolik:
Present at the July 1 meeting were Rabbi Morris Adler, Rabbi
David Bakst, Aaron Droock, Ben Eiselman, Judge William Fried-
man, Dr. Glazer, Krolik, David Krause, Robert Nathan, Judge
Charles Rubiner, Rabbi Joseph Thumin, Julius Weinberg, and
Mesdames Lillian Aaron and Celia Kritchman.

Knesset Approves Sharett's
Resistance to U.S. Pressure

TEL AVIV, (JTA) — The Is-
raeli Parliament approved For-
eign. Minister Moshe Sharett's
foreign policy in which he re-
jected United States pressure on
the Jewish state to make im-
portant concessions on the read-
mission of Arab refugees and
on territorial adjustment. The
vote on the policy was carried
out by blocs, with each major
faction in the Knesset present-
ing its own program.
The proposals of the govern-
ment coalition—Mapai, Religious
Bloc, Progressives, and Sephar-
dim—were presented by Zalman
Aharonovitz, Mapai leader and
chairman of the Foreign Affairs
Committee of the Knesset. Ap-
proving the Foreign Minister's
statement of policy, the coali-
tion expressed support of the
government in its resistance to
political pressure from without
which would endanger the boun-
daries and security of the state.
It was reiterated that Jerusalem
is a part of Israel, that every
Jew has the right to migrate to
Israel, and encouraged the gov-
ernment in its campaign for
free immigration to the Jewish
state.
The Mapam program, pre-
sented by Itzhak Riftin, received
the votes of only the Mapam
parliamentary fraction. It ex-
pressed opposition to the use of
the Arab refugee problem as a

form of pressure against Israel
and advocated that the problem
be settled within the general
framework of a peace settlement
with Israel accepting a share
of the refugee Arabs. It favored
incorporation of the Gaza area
with its Arab population into
Israel and opposed the annexa-
tion of any Palestine territory
by an Arab state.
Mapam also demanded that
the government issue an ultima-
tum to the Syrians to imme-
diately evacuate Israeli territory.
Expressing its desire that Jeru-
salem remain a part of Israel,
the Mapam statement asked in-
ternational supervision of the
Holy Places alone. Opposing
joint peace talks with all the
Arab invaders, it called for ne-
gotiations with them one-by-
one.
Riftin declared that his party
recognizes the right of all Jews
to migrate to Israel and ex-
pressed the hope that immigra-
tion from Eastern European
countries would increase.
For the Herut party, Yaacov
Meridor opposed the return of
any Arab refugees and asked
that the government demand
reparations from all of the in-
vading states.
Josef Saphir, General Zionist,
approved the neutrality of the
government in relation to the

major international split.

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