UNESCO Approves
Protection of Refugees
GENEVA, (JTA) — The prin-
ciple of international protection
of refugees by the United Na-
tions was approved by the Unit-
ed Nations Economic and Social
Council. The Council also ap-
proved an American proposal
that Secretary-General Trygve
Lie should submit a plan for
United Nations protection of
refugees to -the forthcoming
General Assembly, which opens
in Flushing Meadows next
month.
An Israeli-sponsored amend-
ment to the modernized draft
convention for the protection of
civilians in wartime providing
that "as far as possible educa-
tion of deserted orphaned chil-
,-...slren should be entrusted to
persons of the same cultural
traditions" was adopted by the
conference of Red Cross so-
cieties considering proposals for
the revision of the Geneva Con-
vention.
The conference also adopted
another Israeli-sponsored
amendment providing that per-
sons retaining citizenship in for-
mer enemy nations without re-
ceiving protection from that
state should not be automati-
cally subjected to measures ap-
plying to enemy nationals. Ger-
man and Austrian Jews were
classified as enemy nationals by
Allied bodies at the end of the
last war.
The Red Mogen Dovid will be
retained as the emblem for
Army and civilian medical in-
stitutions, Emile Najar, a
spokesman for the Israeli Gov-
ernment, told the plenary ses-
sion of the Conference. The
emblem will be retained, he
stated. despite the refusal of
the Conference to rcognize it
on a par with the Red Cross,
Red Crescent and Red Lion of
Iran.
Argentine Leader
Agency Names Delegates
To S. American Countries
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The ap-
pointment of Jewish Agency
reprensentatives for Argentina,
Peru and Costa Rica was an-
nounced by Benno Weiser, direc-
tor of the Latin American De-
partment of the Jewish Agency.
Dr. Abraham Mibashan, who
has been connected with the
Jewish Agency for many years,
will act as its representative in
Buenos Aires. The representa-
tive in Peru is Dr. Marcos Roit-
man. In Costa Rica, the repre-
sentative is Israel Blumenfeld,
former publisher of the "Jue-
dische Rundschau" in postwar
Germany.
10,000 Israel Immigrants
Processed in France
PARIS, (JTA)—Ten thousand
Jews who left for Israel after
residing in France were process-
ed by Palestine offices in France
last year, it was reported by M.
Fingerhut, chief of the Paris Of-
fice.
Transfer of Herzl Body
Postponed to Aug. 15
Discusses Illegals
SUJER MATRAJT (right, President of the Organisation
lsraelita Argentine, at the office of HIAS (Hebrew Immigrant
Ad Society) , in New York, where he stopped on his way home
from Israel, to discuss the affairs of the 400,000 Jews in Argen-
tina with ISAAC L. ASOFSKY (center) , executive director of
the Society and DR. HENRY SHOSKES, HIAS overseas repre-
sentative. Matrajt arfd Asofsky conferred on the details of the
legalization by the Argentine Government of irregularly-entered
Jewish immigrants into Argentina.
DP Children Learn
U. S. Ways_ at Camp
Displaying implements used by
early pioneers (the original DPs
of this country), Elias A. Cohen,
member of the board of direc-
tors of HIAS (Hebrew Immi-
grant Aid Society) explains the
Israel Consul Refutes
French Canadian
Daily's Propaganda
MONTREAL (JTA)--Indirectly
•refuting an attack on Israel by
the local French Canadian daily
Le Devoir, Abraham Harman,
newly-appointed Israeli Consul-
General in Canada, at his first
meeting with representatives of
the press, said that he had been
in Jerusalem until the end of
the siege and that he could
vouch for the fact that Israeli
forces took special care to pro-
tect the Holy Places from dam-
age.
He revealed that the Israeli
Cabinet, in special session, had
ordered its troops not to damage
Nazareth and Ein Karim, the
reputed birthplace of St. John
the Baptist. At the moment, he
said, only about five percent of
the Holy Places were in the
Israeli sector of Jerusalem. Is-
rael, he declared, welcomes the
principle of freedom of access
to the Holy Places for all reli-
gions and has proposed the es-
tablishment of international
machinery to ensure their sanc-
tity.
THE JEWISH NEWS-5
Friday, August 12, 1949
American heritage to a group of
children, many of them newly-
arrived immigrants. Cohen an-
nually provides summer vaca-
tions for hundreds of children,
a good percentage of them im-
igrants, at Tranquility Camp in
the Catskill Mountains, near
Earlton, N. Y. Newly-arrived
children are recommended for
vacations at Tranquility Camp
by organizations such as HIAS.
Syrian Veteran Bombs
Damascus Synagogue
DAMASCUS—A 17 - year - old
Syrian who fought against Israel
confessed that he and two others
threw hand grenades into the
synagogue here, killing 12 Jews
and wounding 20 others, Syrian
President Husni Z aim an-
nounced.
Zaim has ordered an intensive
police s e a r c h. Hospitals to
which the injured were rushed
were commanded to give the
victims the best attention and
diet available.
Premier Mohsen el Barazi,
who visited the scene of the ex-
plosion,. which took place in the
courtyard of the synagogue, vis-
ited the hospitalized victims. He
stated to a representative of the
United States Legation at Dam-
ascus that the bombing was an
attack on the authority of the
government and an affront to
its prestige. He asserted that
every means was being employed
to discover the criminals respon-
sible.
The explosion occurred when
a bomb, apparently homemade,
was thrown into the entrance of
the synagogue just as prepara-
tions were being made for the
Sabbath services. Eye-witnesses
said that the bombing had been
the work of three men, who were
seen fleeing immediately after
the bomb went off.
VIENNA (JTA)—The transfer
of the remains of Dr. Theodor
Herzl from Austria for reburial
in Israel, which was scheduled
to take place last Monday, has
been postponed for one week.
The remains will be flown from
here on Aug. 15, according to
the latest plans.
An Israeli delegation will es-
cort the body to the Jewish
state. The delegation will con-
sist of a 10-man guard of honor
of Israeli Army personnel and,
reportedly, Minister of Com-
munications David Reme z,
representing t h e government,
and Itzhak Gruenbaum, former
Minister of Interior, represent-
ing the Jewish Agency.
The remains of Herzl's sister,
Pauline, now interred in Buda-
pest, will be brought to Vienna
to be flown to Israel. Herzl's
parents, who are buried in Vien-
na, will be disinterred and the
remains transferred at the same
time. The bodies lay in state at
t h e Seitenstetten Synagogoue
Sunday.
McGhee Is Appointed
To Head NE Affairs
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Con-
firmation of the appointment of
George C. McGhee as Assistant
Secretary of State for Near East
and African Affairs was an-
nounced by the State Depart-
ment.
The Department ) also named
Raymond A. Hare, who has been
reassigned under the new ar-
rangement, to be deputy assist-
ant director of the Office of
Near East and African Affairs,
and John W. Jago, who was ap-
pointed executive director. Mr.
Hare returned from Lausanne
where he participated in the
UN Palestine Conciliation Coin-
mission talks.
Jews in SE Turkey
Emigrate to Israel
ISTANBUL—(JTA) — The two
southeastern Turkish towns of
Marash and Diarbakir were re-
ported completely without Jews
following the departure of 300
Jews for Israel. Almost all the
small Jewish communities of
that area are reported as hav-
ing been completely liquidated.
These Jewish communities,
which were considered the most
ancient in Turkey, were com-
pletely isolated from the world
and from Turkish Jewry. They
had no link with Judaism other
than religion and Hebrew tradi-
tions, which differ from those
of the Sephardic Jews living in
the country.
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Senate Group to Quiz
McCarran on DP Law;
Delay Troubles Truman
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
Senate Democratic Policy Com-
mittee decided to invite Chair-
man Pat McCarran of the Sen-
ate Judiciary Committee before
it to explain his blocking of the
House-approved displaced per-
sons bill.
Senators said that if Sen. Mc-
Carran continues. his refusal to
act, Republicans may .join with
Democrats in an effort to force
the measure out of the commit-
tee and before the Senate. Sen.
McCarran opposes the bill and
has stated that he can see no
basis for Jewish complaints on
the United States displaced per-
sons program.
Sen. Pat McCarran also said at
hearings on DP legislation that
he is exceedingly sympathetic to
Germans who would like priority
to enter this country.
President Truman is "very
distressed" at Senate failure to
act on the House-approved dis-
placed persons bill, Rep. Celler
of New York said following a
visit to the White House.
Celler said that the President
told him that he was doing
"everything possible" to get the„
legislation out of the Senate-
Judiciary Committee.
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