Around the World .
Israel Is Veering
To Western Views,
Report Declares
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A digest of current news reported by the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, the Israel Service of Information and the World
Jewish Affairs News Service.
The United States
WASHINGTON—Secretary of State Dean Acheson told House
and Senate leaders that arms shipments to the Middle East would
"Promote peace and stability in that area.". • . . Max W. Ball,
formerly of the Dept. of Interior gas and oil division, will soon
leave to investigate Israel's oil possibilities.
NEW YORK—World Jewish Congress has protested to Attor-
ney-General J. Howard McGrath concerning "reliable informa-
tion" that a new directive makes former Nazi Gestapo members
eligible for immigration to the U. S. .. . American Zionist Coun-
cil has postponed its June 4 conference to protest Britain's arms
shipments to the Arabs, due to the new Anglo-Anierican-French
policy on Near East arms shipments . . .
The first annual Stephen
S.
Wise
award for outstanding service to Israel was
given to Premier David Ben Gurion by
the American Jewish Congress . . . Isaac
Wolfson, of England, presented $280,000 to
the Weizmann Institute of Science at Re-
hovot, Israel. . . Dr. David Petergor-
y, executive director of the American Jew-
ish Congress and member of the World Jew-
ish Congress executive committee, left New
York for a four months visit of Israel and
'North Africa. . Zionist Organization of
Dr. Petergorsky America announces Dr. Abba Hillel Silver's
endorsement of the program of action presented by ZOA presi-
dent, Benjamin G. Browdy at a regiorkal Zionist conference in
Boston. The conference adopted a resolution calling for Browdy's
election at the national convention in Chicago, June 30.
GREENFIELD PARK, New York—Hapoel Hamizrachi, meeting
iii its 27th annual convention, hailed the new tri-power policy
on Near East arms shipments and adopted a resolution calling
for reconstitution of the Sanhedrin in Israel. Another resolution
demanded that the organization be permitted to absorb all reli-
gious Jews who so desire, into the religious settlements in Israel.
Charles Bick was elected president.
BOSTON—Gov. Paul A. Dever signed legislation broadening
jurisdiction of the state Fair Employment Practices Commission,
to cover public housing and other accommodations serving the
public . . . The convention of the National Association of Hebrew
Day Schools ended here with an appeal for greater support from
Jewish federations and welfare funds. Benjamin A, Pollack, spe-
cial assistant to U. S. Attorney General J. Howard McGrath and
Chief Rabbi Louis Rabinowitz of South Africa lauded the role of
the Hebrew Day School in American Jewish life.
MILWAUKEE—Acting under an 1895 anti-discrimination law,
Wisconsin has moved to eliminate all religious and racial dis-
crimination from its large resort business.
Israel
JERUSALEM—Moshe Sneh, leader of the left-wing Mapam,
urged that Israel reject any connection with the Anglo-American
super-highway from Istanbul to Cairo, to be routed through
Lebanon, Israel, and the Sinai Desert, claiming it "is aimed to
fit in with Anglo-American war plans." . Leib Weissfish, mem-
ber of the ultra-Orthodox Neturei Karta sect, received six months
in prison for refusing to enter Israel's armed forces on "moral
and religious grounds." . . . The Knesset approved Premier David
Ben Gurion's views on the Big Three Powers arms shipments
policy by 64 affirmative votes. The Premier reserved approval of
the new policy, claiming that the Big Three statement carried
no guarantee . . . The Church of the•Dormition was reconsecrated
and high mass celebrated there for the first time since May, 1948
. Members for the first course for Arab social workers were re-
ceived by the Minister of Social Welfare, I. M. Levine . . . Plans for
resettlement of 60,000 immigrants in tent villages near work cen-
ters throughout the country_ have been prepared by the Jewish
Agency's absorption department and the Ministry of Labor . . .
Transjordan police returned $4,000 stolen goods to Israel officials.
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TEL AVIV—Israel dedicated "Government House" to house
administrative offices for the southern portion of the country,
May 30 ...Hungarian Jews immigrating to Israel can transfer their
assets to the Jewish State, according to a new Hungarian-Israel
trade pact . .. 10,000 Jews have been cleared for immigration- to
Israel 13, the Romanian Government. . . Iraqi Jews arriving in
Israel reported that Iraq authorities had imprisoned more than
500 Jews
Minister, Red Clash In French Assembly
Sentiment toward the Soviet
Union is "hardening" in Israel
and that young republic now
favors the West in the contem-
porary diplomatic struggle, ac-
cording to a report on "Israel
After Two Years" published by
the Foreign Policy Association.
Israel is officially neutral.
The report is written by a
non-Zionist, Edward A. Nor-
man, president of the American
Fund for Israel Institutions and
co-chairman of the American
Economic Committee for Pales-
tine.
The attitude in the East-
West conflict results from Is-
rael's internal political align-
ment, the report declared. The
government was organized as a
coalition of the Labor and
United Religious par ties to
"avoid an arrangement with the
pro-Soviet elements."
The report stated that "Is-
rael's greatest need at present
is to increase by a very great
degree its own production of
manufactured goods and food-
stuffs."
Norman reported that "all
work on the preparation of a
basic law or constitution has
come to a halt because the
coalition could not survive the
battle that would have to be
fought over questions revolving
about religious tenets, such as
enforcement of Sabbath observ-
ance and dietary laws, and the
grant to religious authorities of
control over personal status
and education."
The Labor and Union Reli-
gious parties that make up the
government obtained 51 percent
of the votes in the last election,
in 1949. Pro-Soviet parties won
less than 18 percent of the
votes.
Norman reported that the
"so-called 'monopoly' by or-
ganized labor and its leaders
and its widespread influence
have aroused dissatisfaction in
Israel."
PARIS, (JTA)—The freeing by I were to have taken a decision
French authorities of Xavier not to set Vallat free. However,
. Vallat, pro-Nazi Commissioner a Minister of Justice must be
able to prove that he does not
of Jewish Affairs curing the confuse justice with revenge."
Nazi occupation of France,
The Communist deputy inter-
evoked a clash in the French
National Assembly between rupted. the Minister shouting,
Rene Mayer, Minister of Justice, "Justice of the House of Roth-
and Jacques Duclos, secretary of schild," alluding to the director-
the Central Committee of the ship formerly held by Mayer in
Communist Party of France.
the Rothschild Bank in France.
Justifying Vallat's liberation, Replying to the Communist dep-
Mayer said: "I know what Xavier uty, Mayer said that minutes of
Vallat did better than anybody a previous debate would show
else since in 1941 I was chair- that Duclos had called him a
man of the Union of French "dirty tolerated alien." This,
Jews organized by the Vichy the Jewish Minister said, proves
Government. As a Jew, and on that Duclos' own party has been
behalf of my co-religionists, I polluted by anti-Semitic propa-
could have had many excuses if ganda.
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Europe
LONDON—Reuters reported that the present Egyptian Gov-
ernment had defended itself in the Egyptian Senate on charges
of financial irregularities in conducting the Palestine war . . . The
Arab News Agency quoted a Cairo report from the Egyptian Am-
bassador in Washington calling for the support of Arab propa-
ganda in America to counter Zionist propaganda. The Ambassa-
dor felt that the Arabian American Oil Co. should make a sub-
stantial donation to the Arab propaganda program.
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PARIS—U. S. Ambassador to France, David Bruce, was guest
of honor at ceremonies marking the installation of the American
Lodge of Bnai Brith.
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Louis Segal to Address Labor
Zionist Rally Here on Tuesday
Louis Segal, general secretary Alliance (Farband), who has
'of the Jewish National Workers just returned from Israel where
he attended the meetings of the
Zionist Actions Committee, will
address a labor Zionist rally here
next Tuesday, at 8:30 p.m., at the
Labor Zionist Institute, 13722
Linwood.
Mr. Segal, who will speak un-
der auspices of the Labor De-
partment of the Jewish Nation-
al Fund, will report on the re-
sults of the Actions Committee
meeting and will describe his ex-
periences at sessions of the
Knesset and Mapai in Israel.
All members of the labor
Zionist movement and its
branches and their friends are
invited to attend the rally.
THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 9, 1950
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