MAC Units Work Out Minor
Israel-Arab Treaty Disputes

Continued from Page 1

But "freedom from fear of MAC is the busy, problem-beset
attack" is a big phrase that Israeli-Syrian MAC. Two head-
means many small things, in- quarters, used alternatingly
cluding dealing with an endless every other week, house this
crop of complaints made' by group.
One is the community center
either side against real or im-
aginary — trifling or serious— of the Jewish Kibutz Rosh Pin-
violations of the armistice agree- na. The other is the former
custom house at Jisr Banat Ya-
ments.
Each case is threshed out in cub, on the Syrian side of the
MAC meetings. There is one big border.
The Syrian armistice, last of
rule: keep talking until a unani-
rnous decision is reached! Most the four concluded between Is-
of the time, that rule works per- rael and her neighbors, gives
fectly, -but in some exceptional this MAC a particularly tough
cases, when talking simply does job. As efforts to agree on a
not bring unanimity, decisions single demarcation line between
are made by majority vote. That the two territories failed in the
means that the chairman, al- armistice negotiations last
ways a representative of UN, spring, a compromise was
votes with one side or the other reached. A considerable area
was demilitarized and virtually
to bring a decision.
put under the civilian control of
No Man's Land
the UN chairman of the Israeli-
The half-wrecked former Syrian MAC.
home of the Bible Mission in the
The Israeli side of the demili-
center of "Mandelbaum Gate" tarized area is under Jewish
—a no-man's-land between Arab civilian administration, the Sy-
and Jewish Jerusalem — is the rian side under Arab administra-
headquarters of the Hashemite tion. But the UN representative
Jordan Kingdom-Israeli Mixed at the head of the MAC has
Armistice Commission.
the duty of generally supervis-
Within a half mile in any di- ing the local administrations on
rection from the bullet-scarred both sides and the responsibility
building where this reporter saw of gradually restoring peaceful
this particular MAC, there is civilian life. Thus, a small patch
nothing but ruins. Not a house, of land between Syria and Israel
not a tree, not a square yard of has become the only part of
pavement that had not been Palestine administered under di-
ripped up, wrecked or burned rect UN supervision.
by the severe shelling and bomb-
Good for Crops
ing of the Holy City last year.
It is true that there is little
The Bible Mission then served as from which to make black head-
a post for irregular snipers. The lines in the quiet, insistent work
third floor windows—shattered of General William Riley's little
as are all the others in this area MAC corps. But it is also quite
— are still barricaded with sand- literally true, as this reporter
bags. But now the canvas is was told at El Auja, that "it is
rotting and a few meager, but good for crops."
beautiful flowers are sprouting
Palestine's agronomists esti-
in the sand.
mate that enough grain to feed
This MAC'S five members— more than 10,000 people is be-
two Arabs, two Jews and one UN ing grown in the no-man's-lands
representative, who is chairman and other areas restored to
— meet regularly at the Bible peaceful plowing during the last
Mission to deal with the prob- six. months.
lems arising along a demarca-
tion line of almost 300 miles,
separating Israel from Arab Pal- City of Hope Develops
estine. •
New TB Technique
In six months of hard work
Detroit Business Men's Group
since the conclusion of the Is- announces that Dr. Arthur E.
rael-Jordan armistice, the one- T. Rogers, medical director of
time no-man's lands .have been the City of Hope (formerly Los
replaced with a single demar- Angeles Sanatorium) introduced
cation line everywhere except in a new method of administering
the area of Jerusalem and its PAS:para-amino - solicylic acid,
close environs.
at the tuberculosis institutions
Resettling Arabs in Israel
It is an intra-venus prepara-
In the Latrun no-man's-land, tion, for patients unable to take
UN observers are, meanwhile, it by mouth.
helping Arabs and Jews in the
The Detroit Business Men's
sad task of recovering unburied Group met at a dinner Thurs-
bodies of soldiers and civilians day at Detroit Furniture Club in
killed in last year's fighting. An the Detroit Hotel.
agreement reached by MAC per-
mits search parties under UN
supervision to seek the bodies
and remove them 'for proper
burial.
The vaulted custom house of
Ras El Nakura, crowded between
the southern hip of the rocky
Lebanon mountains and the blue
Mediterranean, is the home of
the Israeli-Lebanese Mixed Ar-
mistice Commission, the most
tranquil of the four MACs.
There are not many border
problems along the few miles of
demarcation line between the
•
Jewish territory and Lebanon.
Most complaints which come to
ART SELMAN
the Ras El Nakura MAC concern
Manager
goats and sheep and cows, stolen
by raiders from one side or the
other. More often than not,
OPEN UNTIL
United Nations observers are
9 P.M.
able to recover the loot after
some friendly persuasion of the
Arab or Jewish "raiding parties."
But some of the most import-
ant work done by the Israeli-
Lebanese MAC concerns people.
Thousands of missing persons
and war prisoners have been lo-
cated and returned to their
homes by the men working in
the Ras El Nakura custom house.
Right now, they are attempting
to bring Arab refugees, who have
relatives in Israel, back from
Lebanese refugee camps to their
old Palestinian homes. • At the
same time, the MAC is working
on. a plan under which non-
Lebanese Jews living in Lebanon
Will have an opportunity to come
to Israel across the demarcation
tine,
Syrian-Jewish Problems
Contrasting with the tran-
quility of the Israel-Lebanese

THE JEWISH NEWS

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Friday, January 13, 1950

Keret' Kayerneth
Director to Speak
At Jan. 19 Meeting

Leon Kay, president of the
Zionist Organization of Detroit,
has announced that a city-wide
meeting will be held Thursday
evening, Jan. 19, at the North-

JDC Faces 'Now or Never'
Rescue Problems in 1950

By Jewish News Correspondent
NEW YORK—The Joint Dis-
tribution Committee, at its 35th
annual meeting here on Sunday,
revealed that pressing needs ex-
ist to aid 500,000 persons in
Europe and in Moslem countries
and that the requirements for
the continuation of JDC's pro-
gram will be a minimum of $44,-
512,000 for 1950.
Warning was issued by Henry
Morgenthau Jr., general chair-
man of the United Jewish Ap-
peal whose over-all quota in-
cludes the JDC, that nearly 1.-
000,000 Jews in Moslem countries
live "in cruel oppression and in-
describable 'poverty." Mr. Mor-
genthau praised the JDC and
declared that "the elements of
urgency and danger are not yet
removed from the scene of Jew-
ish existence." He compared the
needs in Moselm countries with
those of the Jews in Germany
under Nazi rule.

who have permission to leave
Poland before Aug. 15, Jews who
can be removed from Moslem
lands and those who can enter
the U. S. before the expiration of
the DP act.
It was announced that JDC
will' establish four hospitals to
care for Yemenite Jews in Israel,
two at Sarafend, one at Haifa
and one at Jaffa.

Cantor's Concert Is
Scheduled for Jan. 31

The Cantor's Association's
Grand Concert rehearsals are
proceeding with the return of
conductor D a n
Frohman from
Florida.
With the
Cantors a group
of eight excel-
qen singers will
: participate; a I I
':told, a group of
JDC Chairman Edward M. M.
twenty will per-.
Warburg reported that 48,000
Jews in Europe and elsewhere
T h e concert
must be helped to emigrate dur-
take place
ing 1950 before they lose their
last opportunity to leave their Cantor Fenakel Tuesday night,
ELIAS EPSTEIN
present habitations -for Israel. Jan. 31, at the Cong. Bnai
David. Last year the concert
west Synagogue when Elias M. Among what he described as a drew an audience of 1500.
Epstein of Jerusalem, overseas "now or never" class are Jews
director of the Keren •Kayemeth :
will be the principal speaker.
Epstein, who has just come
from Israel, is the founder and
Dromeis
editor of the Palestine Review
Decorator
and has been a. columnist of the
Palestine Post.
Styled
He is a founding member of
"Israel - Ainerica," the new or-
ganization formed to promote
CARPETS
cultural ties between the United
BREATH
States and the Jewish State
Albert Elazar, Detroit Zionist
NEW LIFE
District program chairman, has
arranged a program to include
and BEAUTY
Moe Kesner, interpreter of Jew-
INTO
ish songs.
Two awards will be made at
YOUR HOME
this meeting by Ben Weiss,-
membership chairman, for "Z-
Day" workers who signed up the
largest number of members last
Sunday.

There is a long-lasting high-styled Drome rug or carpet
to fit your taste and purse. Call for a free estimate—
no obligation, of course.

The International Refugee
Organization closed its offices .
in Haifa and thereby ended
its operations in Israel.

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