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AS Congress and Chicago Riots
Editor, The - Jewish News.
I note your editorial. on the
Chicago riots. You ask: "Is it
possible that our national or-
ganization, which are asking
for huge sums for civic-protec-
tive work, fail to do their duty?"
For the record : The , Ameri-
can Jewish Congress was in na-
tional convention in New York
City when reports of the riot
came through from Chicago.
Rabbi Morton Berman tele-
phoned Chicago for a full report
and issued a statement at the
Convention in which he stressed
the anti-Semitic aspects of the
riot. The American Jewish Con-
gress, through its Chicago Divis-
ion, took the lead in calling a
conference of organizations to
deal with the situation. I am
happy that the AJ Congress
does not qualify for your other-
wise just criticism.
J. L. TELLER,
Director, Public Relations
American Jewish Congress
Editor's Note: The Jewish
News stands corrected: Con-
gress Weekly carried an article,
"Chicago Jewry Learns a Les-
son." by Byron S. Miller,. on Jan.
2, 1950.
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Round Table Comments
On Belgian Priest Story
EDITOR, The Jewish News:
l ow The Jewish News is to be com-
plimented on carrying the ISI
story of the Belgian priest and
his Jewish war-orphans.
The story, which appeared in
your issue of March 17, embod-
ies a fine total picture of char-
ity at its best. The telling of the
story is, in itself, an act of
charity.
We need to hear more and
more of the positive events. Too
often the public's attention is
focused on the strife and dis-
sension to the exclusion of all
positive achievements. This
creates an unbalanced state of
mind, which in turn spreads ten-
sion.
It is easy to appeal to the
emotions and much more diffi-
cult to appeal to the mind. The
Jewish News enjoys a fine rep-
utation from this viewpoint.
May it continue to prosper.
Sincerely yours,
Frank Wurtsmith,
Pablic Relations Director
Detroit Round Table
U. S. Diplomats Seek
Arab DP Solutiori
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LONDON (JTA)—The. confer-
ence of 50 American diplomatic
officials stationed in the Near
East, which concluded in Cairo
last weekend, designed to pro-
mote peace and prosperity in
the area, voiced the hope that
"the present deplorable situa-
jion" of Arab displaced persons
from Israel "can be corrected."
The conferees also emphasized
that U.S. z:iplomacy should make
every passible effort to achieve
a solution. of the Palestine prob-
lem. (A.bul Rahman Azzarn
Pasha, secretary-general of the
Arab League, in an interview
with the New York Times in
Cairo was quoted as saying that
should an Israel-Transjordan
agreement be concluded, it
would "violate" the compact of
the seven Arab League states,
which provides that they act in
unison and that they boycott
the Jewish state economically
and politically.)
The U.S. government will sup-
port every contribution to peace
and stability. in the Middle East,
.-At was emphasized by Jefferson
Caffery, U.S. Ambassador to
Egypt, who presided at the ses-
sions.
Jewish Communities Given Legal
Status in German Province
MUNICH, (JTA) — The North
Rhine - Westphalian provincial
government passed a law giving
official status to Jewish com-
munities in the state. The regu-
latioh recognizes the right of
the communities to collect a
"synagogue tax" and names the
Communities as successors to
the pre-Nazi Jewish communi-
ties in the province.
LTJA Starts Israel Trans-Jordan Seeks 'Adequate' Terms
Migration of Iraqi For Truce Revision with. Israel
Jews Next. Month
TEL AVIV — (JTA) — The government to permit its Jews
JACOB SALOMON
DR. GEORGE JOSEPHTHAL
Dr. George Josephthal, direc-
tor of the absorption depart-
ment of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine, and Jacob Salomon,
outstanding Israel attorney and
army officer, have arrived in
the United States for participa-
tion in the 1950 United Jewish
Appeal campaign.
Dr. Josephthal was a member
of the underground in Germany,
and barely escaped with his life
from the Nazis. Salomon played
a key role in the capture of
Haifa from the Arabs in April,
1948, and helped to organize
large-scale "illegal" immigration
t.c Palestine.
A combined sea and air op-
eration aimed at moving 80,000
Jews out of Iraq within the next
12 months will be 'initiated next
month with funds provided by
the United Jewish - Appeal, it
was disclosed by Dr. Josephthal,
on his arrival.
He said that the movement
of Iraqi Jews would cost ap-
proximately $60,000,000. This
sum is over and above the $210,-
000,000 required by the Agency
to receive, absorb, and resettle
150.000 immigrants from other
countries who are scheduled to
be brought into Israel during
1950, and to provide homes and
other services for those new-
comers and the 85,000 presently
in reception camps.
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VOL. 1, No. 1
Transjordan government,
through its radio station in Ra-
mallah, in the Arab triangle
area. declared that the "best
course open to the Transjordan
government is to make adequate
arrangements with Israe 1,
through revision of armistice
clauses, which will permit a set-
tlement satisfactory to both
Sides."
The Ramallah broadcast, mon-
itored here, added that "such
arrangements must not be in-
terpreted as a peace treaty."
The station said that the "two
main problems facing , Trans-
jordan today are the settlement
of the refugee question' and
safeguarding (t h e country's)
lengthy frontiers."
"Anybody who imagines that
these two paramount issues can
be settled by force of arms is
very far from the realities of
the situation," the broadcast
concluded.
In accordance with an agree-
ment concluded by representa-
tives to the mixed Israel-Egypt-
ian Armistice Commission con-
cerning the removal of bodies
of Egyptian soldiers slain in the
Arab-Israel war, a group of
Egyptian officers crossed the
Israel line in the Gaza-Bethle-
hem area to search for the re-
mains of bodies interred there
and arrange for their transfer
to Egypt. A convoy of 12 vehicles
crossed Israel territory and will
return via the same route, it was
announced.
The first Israel automobile
to enter Transjordan - held
Jenin, in the Arab triangle
area, carried Israel Army
Chief Rabbi Col. A. Goren,
who visited the burial place of
30 Israel soldiers. A large
crowd of Arabs surrounded
the vehicle when it crossed
the Arab line. Many of the
Arabs threatened the auto
passengers, thinking' they were
"Israel spies," but dispersed
quietly when Rabbi Goren's
objective in visiting Jenin was
made known.
Plans for the transfer of Jews
from Iraq to Israel are now
being considered here by gov-
ernment experts and officials of
various national institutions.
The Israel Government still has
not received official notification
of the intention of the Iraq
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to emigrate. However, in view
of repeated press reports from
Bagdad, it is taken for granted
here that the ban on emigra-
tion of Jews to Israel will de-
finitely be lifted.
A Mapam and Communist-
sponsored conference adopted a
resolution to establish an Israel
branch of the "World Peace
Movement." Speakers addressing
the left-wing parley—Meir Yaari,
Parliamentary deputy of the
left-wing United Workers Party
(Mapam), Dr. Moshe S n e h,
former Jewish Agency executive
member and also a Mapam
deputy in the Knesset, and Tew-
fik Toubi, Arab Communist
leader — stressed the improve-
ment in the situation of Arab
residents of Israel.
U. S. Shekel Drive Tops
Previous Drive Figures
NEW YORK—The nationwide
Shekel registration campaign
for the 23rd World Zionist Con-
gress now rounding out its
fourth month under the auspices
of the U. S. Central Shekel and
Election Board, has been main-
taining a pace exceeding the
registration set by the last Shek-
el drive in 1947-48 over a com-
parable period, it was reported
by Charles Ross, the board's
chairman.
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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, March Z4, 1950
—
Ex-Hungarian Vet Leader
Charges Bias in Government
NEW YORK (JTA)—Bela Fa-
bian, former president of the
Jewish War Veterans of Hun-
gary, charged in a letter to the
New York Times that in various
Hungarian Ministries and in the
"Communist - founded National
Peasants Party" officials con-
tinue an anti-Jewish attitude
which does "not differ in the
least in spirit from public offices
under the Nazis."
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