AMPAL's Annual Dinner June 22 ;
Robert Nathan to be Speaker
The annual meeting of stock-
holders and friends of AMPAL
American Palestine Trading
Corporation — and W o rk e r s
Bank limited will be held at the
Book Cadillac Hotel on Thurs-
day evening, June 22, Morris
Lieberman, local representative,
announced this week,
Lieberman, acting chairman of
the banquet committee, is as-
sisted by Morris L. Schaver, Dr.
MORRIS LIEBERMAN
B. Benedict Glazer, Sidney M.
Shevitz, Boris Joffe, Herman Ja-
cobs, Charles Feinberg, Dr. and
Mrs. A. W. Sanders, William
Hordes, Mrs. Samuel Green, Nor-
man Cottler, John Isaacs, Ben-
jamin Laikin, Irving Pokemp-
ner, Dr. Irving Posner, Alexan-
der Schreier, Dr. Paul C. Stein,
Abraham White, Samuel Rabino-
witz, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Lin-
den, Aaron Kaminker, Morris
Kane, Dr. Martin Naimark, Abe
Kasle and Dr. Shmarya Klein-
man.
$12,000,000 Assets
Robert Nathan, director of the
economic department of the
Jewish Agency for Palestine, co-
author of "Palestine: Problems
and •Promise," who has made
numerous trips to Israel for
studies of economic problems,
will be the geust tspeaker. Res-
ervations for the dinner may be
phoned to TO. 9-8710,
AMPAL, which was established
in 1942 for the purpose of de-
veloping trade relations be-
tween this country and Pales-
tine and strength ening the
economy of Israel, has develop-
ed tremendously during the
last two years since the crea-
tion of the State of Israel,
When the decision to parti-
tion Palestine took place., AM-
RA•'s total assets amounted to
little over $3,000,000. Today,
that figure is close to $12,000,-
000. During this period, AMPAL
has financed purchases in this
country for the Israel govern-
ment, the Jewish Agency, the
cooperative institutions and in-
dustries, to the amount of close
to .$18,000,000.
Expands Israel's Economy
This financing has helped
Israel to go through its most
difficult period. When the war
started in Israel, 'and the new
nation was in desperate need
of. t r a n s p or t ation facilities,
foodstuffs,- and other consumer
goods, AMPAL supplied these
vital items. With the war fin-
ished, and :611.e nation's economic
_revival , under way, - AMPAL
expended millions of dollars for
the- purchase of metallurgical
plants, increasing the output of
the glass factories, the estab-
lishment of pipe plants, the
Technion Dinner Sunday
In Honor of Karl Segall
The dinner arranged by the
Detroit Technion Society in
honor of Karl Segall, eminent
Detroit engineer and former
president of society, will be held
Sunday evening at the Belcrest.
Col. J. R. Elyachar, national
Technion president, will be guest
speaker: Benjamin Wilk, presi-
dent of the Detroit Technion,
and Harold Goodman, chairman
of the program committee, will
speak briefly.
Reservations for the dinner
Still
are being accepted by
Messrs. Wilk and Goodman and
members of the Technion,
28—THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, May 26, 1950
Leaves Post in U.S.
purchase of agricultural Ma-
chinery, pipes for irrigation,
and drilling machinery for the
Negev, expansion of the lime
and stone industry.
Official Calls for Greater
Investments In Israel
NEW YORK, (JTA)—The
granting of loans to Israel is
not enough, Sidney Sherwood,
secretary of the U. S. Export-
Import Bank, which granted a
$100,000,000 loan to the Jewish
state, declared here. He stressed
that "expression of confidence in
the new state by private busi-
nessmen in the form of actual
investment of private funds in
the country is essential."
Mr. Sherwood spoke at a cer-
emony marking the opening of
a new six-story building for
Ampal-American Palestine Trad-
ing C or por atio n, the largest
single American investor in Is-
rael. He paid high tribute to
Ampal for its vital role in stim-
ulating private investments in
the Jewish State.
Wilfred Malenbaum, chief of
the Investment and Develop-
ment staff of the State Depart-
ment, also emphasized the need
for private investment in Israel.
He pointed out that the U. S.
Government has long supported
policies to encourage private
overseas investment by Ameri-
can citizens. He lauded the Israel
Government for its enactment
of legislation aimed at attract-
ing private foreign investments.
Israel Consul Gideon Strauss
praised Ampal's economic
achievements in I s r a e 1. • He
pointed out that Ampal activi-
ties make the corporation a ma-
jor factor in Israel's dealings
with the United States. Edmund
I. Kaufman, chairman of Am-
pal's board of directors, an-
nounced that the assets of the
corporation today amount to
more than $12,000,000 and that
its capital resources are close to
$11,000,000.
U. S. Receives Attache
WASHINGTON (JTA) — C o 1.
Chaim Herzog, n e w military,
naval and air attache here for
Israel, was presented at the U. S.
National Military Establishment.
He was presented by Lt. Col.
Emanuel Avidor, chief attache
since the return of Col. Efraim
Ben Arzi to Israel. Col. Herzog,
son of Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog,
arrived in the U. S. this week.
—International Photo
Transferred to London, Is-
ELIAHU
rael's Ambassador
ELATH waves as he leaves the
White House - after bidding
goodbye to President Truman.
Medical Association
Organ Called Bias
• NEW YORK (JTA) — Citing
numerous situations-wanted ad-
vertisements published in the
monthly Journal of the Aineri-
can Medical Association which
list religious or racial specifica-
tions, the American Jewish Con-
gress announced that it had
filed a complaint against the
A.M.A. with the New York State
Commission Against Di.scrimin-
ation. The complaint charged
that such ads published by the
A.M.A.'s official organ violated
the New York State law ban-
ning references to race, creed or
color.
State Department Backs Address By
Buttenwieser; Now Released to Public.
With the approval of the State
Department, U. S. Assistant High
Commissioner Benjamin J. But-
tenwieser on Friday delivered
the speech which was cancelled
by the Bnai Brith Anti-Defama-
tion League's Chicago conven-
tion before the Foreign Policy
Association in New York. Copies
of the speech then were released
by the State Department.
The Washington Post and the
Washington Evening Star today
published editorials severely
criticizing the Anti-Defamation
League for not permitting Mr.
Buttenwieser to deliver his
speech. The Post argues that
the League could have heard
Mr. Buttenwieser's views and
then rebuked him. The Star
says that "Mr. Buttenwieser's
censors have no reason whatever
to be proud of their act."
The speech advocates leniency
toward the Germans and claims
that Nazism in Germany "has
been destroyed never to rise
again." At the same time, Mr.
Buttenwieser admits that there
are former Nazis in many pub-
lic positions in Germany, includ-
ing school teachers, policemen;
high state officials as well as
businessmen holding important
posts.
25,000,000 Nazis
Asserting that not all of these
former members of the Nazi
Party "were devils," Mr. Butten-
wieser says that "it is neither
possible nor ' desirable to try to
keep 7,000,000 former party
members—and, with their de-
pendents, probably 25,000,000
peopleoutside of the commun-
ity or outcasts from it." He
claims that the major war crim-
inals were tried at Nuremberg
and before special U. S. military
Commentator Kelsey's Objectivity
Cited at Congress Award Luncheon
William K. Kelsey, "The Com-
mentator" of the Detroit News
for the past 14 years, was cited
as "outstandingly objective in
judgment," "giving an overall
perspective to human problems"
and "displaying an intimate
On the Record
By NATHAN ZIPR1N
(Copyright, 1950, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate, Inc.)
On the Home Front — .
The storm precipitated by the Buttenwieser incident still
brews . . . Forty-eight hours after he was denied the floor af the
ADL for giving his views on denazification he read the address at
a closed session of the American Jewish Committee's commission
on Germany . . . Many ADL leaders resented the development .. .
Concern for freedom of expression was not the sole factor for the
decision to give Buttenwieser a hearing .. . It was at the sugges-
tion of the commission that ADL invited Buttenwieser to Chicago.
. . . It was the commission's baby and they had to clean it up . .
What is baffling is that no one seemed to know. of Buttenwieser's
views, no one sought to ascertain them ... More amazing is the
fact that no one pointed out that the fourteen-page speech does
not contain the word "Jew" or anti-Semitism"
Bon Mot . .
Dr. Louis I. Rabinowitz, Chief Rabbi of the Union of South
Africa, tells of a Johannesburg Jew converted to Christianity who
joined the church and, true to custom of the convert, attended
services with a remarkable zeal and punctiliousness . .. One day
Dr. Rabinowitz was stopped by a church member who was also a
member of 'Parliament . . . The churchman lauded the convert's
avid attention to his new faith and ritual . . There is only one
thing the matter with our new friend, the churchman remarked,
he hasn't overcome the habit of reading his prayer book from
right to left . . . As an illustration of the hold Zionism has on
the Jews in South Africa, the Chief Rabbi, now in the U. S., re-
lates that a young and extremely orthodox Jew in the employ of the
Zionist Organization was sent on a fund-raising mission to a
small Jewish community. On arriving, he was asked whether it
was permissible to elect to the leadership of the local Zionist
group a man married to a Christian woman . . . The emissary
was in a dilemma when he noticed the reaction to his negative
reply . . . Hesitating a moment, he added he didn't however think
it advisable that the Zionist be excluded from the Jewish com-
munity because he married out of the fold .. . God forbid, the
community leader assured the young man, we never intended
anything of the kind, in fact, we elected him president of our
congregation . Dr. Rabinowitz, incidentally, was the central fig-
ure in a dramatic interfaith development in his country . . . It
was at his home that a Catholic and Anglican Bishop met for the
first time in Johannesburg.
courts at Dachau.
Mr. Buttenwieser takes issue
with those who suggest that the
U. S. policy on the eradication
of Nazism and measures to pre-
vent its reappearance have been
woefully weak. "There are," he
says, "Americans and Germans
who feel that, in the face of
the fiendish crimes committed
under the Hitler regime, unpar-
alleled in the annals of his-
tory, our measures were all too
weak - and compromising in fer-
reting out and punishing those
who had any part in those bar-
baric ravages."
Extremist View
Terming this view "extremist,"
Mr. Buttenwieser says that if
stronger measures were taken
by the U. S. occupation forces to
eradicate -N azism, it would
"merely have been allowing the
predatory law of the jungle to
prevail." The U. S. Assistant
High Commissioner expresses the
belief that "in the spirit of for-
giveness" as well as "with a
constructive view to the future,"
it was far better "to err on the
side of fairness and leniency
rather than arbitrariness and
ruthlessness."
Insisting that "it is proper to
have former Nazis, who have
been tried and either acquitted
or found guilty and served their
sentences, function Wherever
their skills and ability permit,"
Mr. Buttenwieser argues that
keeping them from earning a
lievlihood would mean punish-
ment over and beyond what was
stipulated by legal procedures,
"Such punishment," he says,
"would simply mean to create an.
atmosphere of revenge in which
a people could not reform them-
selves."
MRS. HARRY FRANK
knowlege of a_ vide variety of
subjects," Wednesday, May 17,
when he was presented with the
1950 Amity Award of the Wo-
men's Division of the American
Jewish Congress.
George Schermer, chairman
of the Mayor's Interracial
Committee and head of the
judges for the award, made
the presentation, He praised
Kelsey as "one of the great
scholars of Michigan," a n d
quoted NV. S. Gilmore, Detroit
News editor, as stating that
Kelsey "combines the wisdom
of the ages with a practical
understanding of the world
today."
The division also presented an -
amity award, in absentia, to Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, who ac-
cepted the citation in a tele-
gram read at the meeting.
Kelsey, responding to the pre-
sentation, praised his employ-
ers, the owners and manage-
ment of the News, for allowing
him complete freedom of ex-
pression on controversial issues
discussed in his column. He
praised the influence of the
, American Jewish Congress "in
the construction for good and
Permanent and idealistic
things." •
Mrs. Harry Frank was r e -
elected division president at the
luncheon meeting at Masonic
Temple, attended by more than
200 women. The entire slate, pre-
sented by nominating commit-
tee chairman Mrs. William Got-
tesman, was accepted. Other
new officers are:
Vice presidents, Mesdames M,
J. Kritchman, Harold Nelson.,
Dan Shapiro, Erwin Kornwise,
Wm. Glazer, Wm. Gottesman,
Samuel Green; secretaries, Mes-
dames Benj. Kohn, Gerald Stein-
berg, Wallace Nathan, Jack Lew-
is; member-at-large, Mrs. Bar-
nett Dickman.
Mrs. Samuel Green, president
of the Michigan Congress Coun-
cil, announced that construc-
tion is slated to begin within
two weeks on the Louise Water-
man Wise Memorial Youth Cen-
ter in Israel. A project of the
national Congress women, the
youth center will house 150 chil-
dren for two-week periods, and
150 day students.
A musical program honoring
Jewish women and motherhood
was presented by Moe Kesner,
who also. participated in the in-
stallation ceremonies.
Mrs. Frank's annual presiden-
tial report concluded the pro-
gram.
Survey Shows Yanks
Don't Trust Germans
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Failure
of the American denazification
program has resulted in the
blossoming forth of a "Ger-
many renazified" and made
Germany "the real winner in
the cold war thus far," the Anti-
Defamation League declared in
a report made public by New
York Supreme Court Justice
Meier Steinbrink, national chair-
man of the League.
The report includes a poll of
American public opinion taken
during the past month which
declares that the American pub-
lic recognizes the failure to
democratize Western Germany,
The poll was conducted by the
National Opinion Research Cen-
ter. Two-thirds of American ad-
ults, the survey reveals, believe
that Germans can not be trust-
ed to be democratic and peace-
ful at present,