Around the World .
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A digest of current news reported by the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency and the Israel Service of Information.
The. United States
WASHINGTON—A spokesman for the U. S; State Department
said that there is no truth in reports that the United States has
rejected Israel's request for a special list of ammunition . . . Israel
Ambassador Eliahu Elath told newsmen that in his talk with Sec-
retary of State Dean Acheson April 5, he had exprated confidence
that the U. S. will continue to back the Jewish state in efforts to
achieve peace with the -Arabs. He said he discussed with Acheson
the impact of the Arab League's last session on Middle Eastern
security and added that the League sessions cannot be separated
from tht, Arab arms race.
NEW YORK—Benjamin G. Browdy, ZOA president, took issue
with Rear Admiral Ellis N. Zacharias who had charged that the
American Zionist movement is harmful to normal relations be-
tween this country and Israel. The Admiral, speaking before the
American Council. for Judaism, also declared that U.S. Zionists,
by their actions in Washington, are attempting to speak for all
Jews, Israeli as well as American . . . A new two-million volt X-ray
therapy machine, one of the most powerful for the treatment of
cancer in a general hospital, has arrived in New York for assembly
at the hospital for Joint Diseases, Oscar M. Lazarus, hospital presi-
den announced . . . The American-Israeli Shipping Co. has ac-
quired its fourth ship the "Akko," formerly a Canadian Victory
ship, the S.S. Vancouver County. It will operate between various
Atlantic ports and Haifa . .. The French Moroccan government
has concluded an. agreement with OSE to pay the Jewish health
society a maximum annual subsidy of 8,000,000 francs.
LAKE SUCCESS—Rep. Emanuel Celler has appealed to Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt and the U. S. -delegation to the UN for their
support in behalf of a' proposed clause in the Human Rights Cove-
nent, which would provide that "children whose parents were
killed in a war or other • catastrophe, shall be brought up in the
religion of their parents."
SAN FRANCISCO—Thomas Mann, Nobel prize-winning author,
speaking at an emergency conference on renazifacation of Ger-
many held here, declared that the present distrust of American
Jews toward Germany is justified. He spoke of =the shocking
failure of the denazification proceedings to democratize the area
_or properly punishing the criminally guilty."
LOS ANGELES—FCC hearings on the license renewal appli-
cation by G. A. Richards, owner of radio stations in Los Angeles
and Cleveland and WJR in Detroit, who has been charged with
ordering news broadcasts slanted in an anti-Semitic fashion, were
adjourned until September . . .`Intelligence Digest," Californian
anti-Semitic publication, severely attacks the Anti-Defamation
'League of Bnai Brith and David Lilie4hal in its current issue.
PHILADELPHIA—The establishment of a religious United
Nations—a parliament of world religion—
by heads of religious groups of all faiths,
was urged by Rabbi Barnett R. Brickner
of Cleveland, at the Third Seder of the
National Committed for Labor Lsrael. "It
would be the incentive for world peace
through brotherhood, because unless the
world is infused with a truly religious spirit,
there can be no peace in the world," Rabbi
Brickner said.
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Mexico
Rabbi Brickner
MEXICO CITY — Ambassador Eliahu
Elath, Israel's Ambassador to Washington,
was received. by President Miguel Aleman
and Foreign Minister Manuel Tello.
Canada
OTTAWA—A decision to establish a Senate Committee on
Fundamental Rights and Human Freedoms was adopted here
following a campaign led by Senator Arthur Roebuck, a staunch
supporter of pro-Israel activities in Canada.
Israel
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TEL AVIV—Foreign Minister Sharett flew to Aden to attend
the Seder of the Yemenite immigrants awaiting removal to Israel
from the Hashed transit camp there . .. Egypt has received per-
mission to use water wells located inside Israel territory in the
Negev . .. Tempestuous winds which whipped the entire country
and other parts of the Middle East for three days last week have
taken a toll of lives and property in Israel . . . Members of the UN
Trusteeship Council have been invited by Israel to visit the Jewish
state to learn the "physical impossibility" of implementing the
Jerusalem statute .. . Members of the UN Palestine Conciliation
Commission conferred with Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett.
Europe
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PARIS—Pinkus Chmielnicki, a Jew, was sentenced to death
on charges of torturing prisoners in his charge at the Birkenau
concentration camp.
AMSTERDAM—A special Hague court which was considering
a case involving the restitution of property looted by the Ger-
mans from Dutch Jews during the occupation of Holland,.uphela
the right of the Jews to refuse an offer to accept a portion of it
in lieu of a full settlement.
BUCHAREST—Ion C. Stibles, a former policeman in Czarnitza
Was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for ill-treating and ter-
rorizing a group of Jewish deportees in his village during the war
. . Two former commanders of Jewish slave labor battalions
have been sentenced to 20-year and five-year prison terms by a
Bucharest criminal court.
MUNICH—Paul Loebe, pre-Nazi Reichstag president and one-
time Social Democrat leader, endorsed the position of the Jewish
communities of Germany which refuse to establish a representa-
tive at the Bonn West German Parliament . . . Police in the
Bavarian town of Ansbach were investigating the desecration of
the Jewish cemetery there, where 24 to:Yrnbstones were upset.
BOHN—The Allied High Commission for Western Germany
disapproved a law of the North Rhine-Westphalian legislature
which would have granted to German-Jewish communities now
in existence the right of succession to all rights and property of
former Jewish communities.
BERLIN—"Der Weg,"' an anti-Semitic publication published
in Argentinia and banned by the American occupation forces in
Germany in May, 1949, is again being circulated in German cities.
VIENNA—Austria and Israel have completed a trade pact
which permits the Jewish state to pay for the largest part of its
purchases here with the blocked funds of Jewish emigrants,
thus permitting the transfer of frozen assets to Israel.
FRANKFURT—Heinrich Baab, former Gestapo officer, was
sentenced to life imprisonment for 55 murders and 21 attempted
murders of Jews and 29 cases of maltreatment of Jewish prisoners.
Friday, April 14, 1950
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