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 - 5 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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