THE JEWISH N EWS-3 Around the World • • • A digest of current news reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and the Israel Service of Information. Friday, April 7, 1950 Dr. Marks to Deliver. Frisch Memorial Talk Leon Kay, president of the Zionist Organization of Detroit, NEW YORK—Dr. Harry Grundfest, associate professor of announced that a memorial neurology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University is chairman of the 16-man medical advisory board formed here to give counsel and guidance to the Hebrew University —Hadassah Medical School in Jerusalem on problems of curricu- lum, personnel, supplies and research ... Spanish authorities have received a direct offer- from the Israel government to support Spanish interests in the United Nations if Spain formally recog- nizes Israel, the New York Times reports from Madrid . . . U. S. approval of British arms shipments to the Arabs is considered by Arab statesman as an indication that this country is not too anxious to see a final Israel-Arab peace, Joseph Gravitsky, senior Israel government press official, said at a press conference on his arrival here . . . Final results in the 1949-50 building fund and maintenance campaign of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies in New York are expected to total $24,000,000 in pledges and con- tributions . . . Israel should serve as an open door connecting the East and West, Dr. Leo Baeck, president of the World Union for Progressive Judaism, declared in an address at HUC-JIR. The United States Canada WINNIPEG—The City Council here ruled that a local ski club DR. SIDNEY MARKS which applied for the use of a parcel of city property must prove meeting in tribute to the late that the organization does not discriminate against Jews prior president of the Zionist Organ- to receiving permission to build a projected ski jump. ization of America will be held Thursday, April 20, at the Davi- son Jewish Center with Dr. Sid- JERUSALEM—Legislation providing the maximum penalty ney Marks, executive director of for Nazi war criminals and collaborators who committed crimes the ZOA, as guest speaker. against humanity as defined by the international war crimes tribunal at Nuremburg was sent to committee by the Israel Par- Max Osnos Appointed liament . . . Municipal elections will be held this year in 12 towns and 31 local councils, in areas containing about 400,0 00 Voters . . . State's UJA Chairman The coffin containing the remains of Hannah Szenesh, Pales- tinian heroine and martyr, was buried on Mt. Herzl Hill with full Max Osnos has been appointed military honors . . . A Parliamentary committee decided to drop chairman of the United Jewish all disciplinary action against Communist deputy Meir Wilner Appeal for the state of Michigan for his "unparliamentary conduct in the Knesset debate on Henry by Henry Morgenthau Jr., na- Morgenthau, Jr." . . . A truck laden with Passover matzohs and tional UJA chairman. holiday foods, and accompanied by a rabbi, was permitted to climb Arab-controlled Mt. Scopus to the Hebrew University and Hadassah Hospital, so that the Israelis stationed there might ob- serve the festival. TEL AVIV—Premier David Ben Gurion has returned from his three weeks' leave. His first act on resuming work was to meet with the Cabinet and Jewish Agency executive to explore possibilities of the immigration of Iraqi Jews to Israel . .. More than one-third of the claimants for restitution for privately-owned Jewish property in western Germany live in Israel, Dr. George' Landauer, Israel expert, de- clared here. He estimated the restitution claims at '$50,000,000 . . . Israel's luxury tax is expected to yield about $10,000,000 in the coming fiscal year . . . An advisory council of 20 leading educators was appointed to supervise implemen- tation of Israel's compulsory education law. Two Ben Gurion will represent the parties which now sponsor the Histadrut schools; six, the "general" schools, three, Mizrachi, and one Agudah . . Col. Ephraim Ben Arzi, Israel military attache in Washington, has returned to service in the Army here. Lt. Col. A. Avidor will be acting military attache pending a permanent appointment .. . A warning thaat the drafting of men into the Israel Army might cause a certain amount of disorganization in industry was sounded by Army Chief of Staff Yigal Yadin . . . Premier Ben Gurion, in Jerusalem, and Postmaster General Zvi Prihar, in Beersheba, exchanged greetings via the first telephone line to be hooked up between the ancient Biblical city in the Negev and the rest of Israel ... Two Arab experts have been appointed by the Ministry of Agriculture to supervise the cultivation of tobacco among Arab farmers . . . American equipment for a broom factory which will employ blind war veterans was purchased by the Ministry of De- fense . . . Three Arab smugglers were killed when a band of marauders was intercepted near the settlement of Neve Yair. RAMAN GAN—A garden city of 600 dunams which will in- clude a commercial center, school, cinema and cafe is being built here by the Keret Company, composed of English _Jews. Israel . Prof. Slosson Advocates' Allocation Of Marshall Plan Funds to Israel In an enlightening lecture on the history of the Middle East and on geographical conditions which affect the new state of Israel, Dr. Preston Slosson, chairman of the history depart- ment of the University of Mich- igan, speaking before a large as- sembly of the Zionist Organiza- tion of Detroit on March 29, strongly endorsed Israel's in- clusion in assistance that is be- ing given Marshall Plan lands. Prof. Slosson advanced the view that money spent in that fashion "will never be wasted, it will return enormous interest in the pacification of the world." While he declared that the interest of this country in Israel is strengthened by the numeri- cal voting strength of American Jews who therefore are a vital political factor, Prof Slosson stated that there are many rea- sons for the U. S. interest in Zionism. The major factor, he said, is that "when we were small- boys in Sunday School, we were saturated in the history and legends of Palestine. This fact, that Palestine forms the mental hinterland in American thinking, has inspired our in- terest in Zionism." He said that the same motives applied to Byron's joining the fight for the freedom of Greece, because he received a classical education. Dr. Slosson said that in ad- dition to assisting Israel eco- nomically, Jews should not hesitate to act politically, by writing to Congressmen and newspapers in behalf of the Jewish state, and added that the fear of dual allegiance is not justified. While advocating . a liberalized DP bill for the admission of Jews to this country, he said that Israel im important as a refuge for those who need it and that those who support Israel are assisting the cause of advanc- ing the Middle East and striv- ing for world peace, thus kill- ing two birds with one stone. Predicting a good future for Israel, whose existence, he said, is "assured and acknowledged," Dr. Slosson said he did not be- lieve -that a war would be re- newed because the Arabs were previously unsuccessful, because the Arab League is less a reality now and because none of the great powers want war and rec- ognize that a war in the Mid- dle East could break out into another world conflict. "Sooner or later, the existing boundaries will be recognized," he added. If he were a Jew, he said, he would . prefer to live in the Greater Zion of the United States because of the vaster op- portunities available here. Nev- ertheless, he is a Zionist because of the justice of Jewish claims and because the horrors of the last war made it necessary that a homeland be established for Jews who need it. Among other reasons he advanced for the justice of the Jewish claims to the ancient land is the existence of a strong Jewish community in Palestine and the ability Jews have shown to make real the Biblical prophecy that Jews would make the land "blossom like a rose." • It's time to store your Furs at Hudson's Just as soon as the temperature tops 50 degrees Europe your furs need safe storage care. That's when moths PARIS—The plenary session of the World - Council of the Confederation of General Zionists, which was scheduled for April 12 in Jerusalem, has been postponed, it was announced at the European headquarters of the Confederation . . . Allocation of Marshall Plan funds to support ORT schools in Holland and Bel- gium is being requested by David Lvovitch, president of the world ORT executive. . . . Adolph Berman, former president of the Cen- tral Committee of Polish Jews in Warsaw, arriving here enroute to Israel, told the press that Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz had promised him that Poland will accelerate the emigration of Jews to Israel. LONDON—Dr. Ralph Bunche testified here that permanent peace in the Holy Land is Inevitable. He told newsman he takes absolutely no stock in rumors of an impending new outbreak of hostilities. MUNICH—U. S. High Commissioner John McCloy announced that verdicts acquitting or imposing light sentences on former Nazi officials and other war criminals will be reviewed by a spe- cial investigation commission . . . Brig. Gen. Edmund Sebree, com- mander of U. S. armed forces in Munich, participated in Pass- over services and the seder held for Jewish members of the occu- pation forces and local Jewish residents . . . Ilse Koch has been given a psychiatric examination at the Guenzburg Hospital and returned to prison at Aichach. 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