Around the World .

A digest of current news reported by the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, the Israel Service of Information and the World
Jewish Affairs News Service.

THE JEWISH NEWS

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Friday, June 30, 1950

Signs Air Accord

United States

NEW YORK—The United Press from Frankfurt reported 700

displaced Jews had returned from Israel and are appealing for
restoration, of their status as DPs before the International Refu-
gee Organization . . . Pledges totalling $1,100,000 were received by
the UJA of Greater New York at the second annual Stephen S.
Wise Memorial Dinner sponsored by the American Jewish Con-
gress. . . . Fifty members of Pioneer Women left Idlewood airport
June 23 for a 30 day stay in Israel, via El Al, Israel national air-
lines.

Mexico

MEXICO CITY—Minister of Interior Adolfo Ruiz Cortines as-

Bishop Lauds Israel At Catholic College

ERIE, Pa.—(JTA)—The Cath-
olic Bishop of Erie, the Most
Reverend Bishop John Mark
Gannon, expressed "great ad-
miration for the substantial ac-
complishment Israel has made
during its short existence." Bis-
hop Gannon, who is also treas-
urer of the National Catholic
Welfare Conference, spoke at
the first celebration of "Middle
East Day" at Gannon College, a
Catholic institution here. The
celebration was held to honor
Rabbi Abraham B. Shoulson,
professor of Hebrew and Middle
East Studies at the school.
Bishop Gannon characterized
Jerusalem and Israel as the

seat of religion in the develop-
ment of civilization. The Right
Rev. Dr. Joseph J. Wehrle, pres-
ident of the college, who also
spoke, traced the historical de-
velopment of Israel from the
fall of the Second Temple to
the present day. Dr. Moshe
Keren, counsel at the Israel Em-
bassy in Washington, who ap-
peared in place of Ambassador
Aubrey S. Eban, declared that
"Israel's mission in the Middle
East could and should be, by
example, cooperation and ex-
change of knowledge and goods,
to teach neighboring nations
modern ways of life and demo-
cratic freedom."

sured a delegation of the Jewish Central Committee that the
government will relax the immigration law under which Jews
from certain Latin American countries could not secure visas to
Mexico.

Israel

JERUSALEM—The Jewish Agency is striving to distribute

immigrants throughout Israel, especially in less congested areas
according to Eliahu Dobkin, Agency immigration chief . . . The
new water pipeline to Jerusalem has been completed after a
year's work .. First volume of the Encyclopedia Biblica, valuable
contribution to Biblical science, was published here by the Jewish
Agency's Institute for Hebrew Literature . . Finance Minister
Eliezer Kaplan, speaking before the Keren Hayesod's 30th anni-
versary celebration, denied that establishment of Israel made un-
necessary the Keren Hayesod and other Zionist funds.
TEL AVIV—Israel has ordered 1,200 tons of kosher meat from
France and placed orders in Brazil and Uruguay. An Israel-
France Friendship Association was formed here ... Mayor Israel
Rokach announced that the government had turned over the
former Israel Parliament building to the city as a cultural center.

Europe

LONDON—The Trades Advisory Council, Jewish group corn-

batting anti-Semitism, released a study revealing an increase in
employment discrimination in Britain. The Council also asked
Jews4hot to trade with Germany. Its • national chairman, Alex
Nathan was honored with the award of a trust fund in his name
for an „annual prize to any Britain resident furthering the Coun-
cil's aims . . . The Board of Deputies of British Jews voted a con-
ference of representatives of Jwish communities of the British
Commonwealth to meet in London July 16 . . . Unconfirmed re-
ports here from Egypt say that the Egypt Cabinet, in secret ses-
sion, decided to permit passage of oil tankers enroute to Israel
through the Suez Canal, providing the oil is not used in the Jewish
State . . . The Board of Deputies of British Jews has protested ap-
pointment of H. Wurmann as West German vice-consul to Brit-
ain, following his quoted remark to the effect that history will
appreciate the Nazi treatment of the Jews.
ATHENS—Jewish Central Board of Greece congratulated
Police Brigadier Anghelos Evert on his assuming command of the
national police force. During the war Brig. Evert as chief of
Athens police, rescued hundreds of Jews from the Nazis.
BUDAPEST—The third and largest group of Israel-bound
Hungarian Jews, 313, left for Venice on the first leg of their
journey.

Australia

SYDNEY—The picture "Sword in the Desert," has been well
received here, with no untoward incidents.

Lappin Elected ZOD's President

A. C. Lappin, who has been
active in Jewish community af-
fairs in Detroit for 30 years, on
Tuesday night was elected pres-
ident of the Zionist Organiza-
tion of Detroit.

A. C. LAPPIN

Mr. Lappin succeeds Leon Kay,

who was ordered by his doctors
to curtail his activities and not
to take another term as ZOD
president for which he was
slated at the election meeting
on June 15.
The election of Mr. Lappin
took place at a meeting of the
ZOD board at the Rose Sittig
Cohen Bldg.
Rabbi Moses Lehrman was
elected secretary of the organ-
ization, replacing Mr. Lappin.
In 1924-25, Mr. Lappin was
executive director of the Keren
Hayesod in Detroit. He is a
former president of the. Men's
Club of Temple Beth El; was a
leader in Bnai Brith, having
served as acting president of
PiSgab. Lodge for many months,

and has always been active in
the Zionist movement. He is
an attorney specializing in arbi-
tration and conciliation cases.
In the past 10 years , he has
handled some of the most im-
portant labor dispute cases in
Michigan..
A resident of Detroit since
1912, Mr. Lappin spent consider-
able time with the late Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt as sec-
retary of the Wayne Coul-ity Bull
Moose Committee. He served as
Workmen's Compensation Com-
missioner, as a member of the
Labor Mediation Board, has al-
ways been a strong advocate of
labor mediation and now is
chairman of the Jewish Commu-
nity Council Arbitration-Concil-
iation Committee.
He served numerous times as
chairman of speakers' commit-
tees of Allied Jewish Campaigns
and of the Red Cross. He was
chairman of the 1947 ZOD Bal-
four Ball and served as a mem-
ber of the Draft Board.
A large delegation of De-

troiters will attend the annual
convention of the Zionist Or-
ganization of America this
week-end. Morris Jacobs was
chosen co-chairman of the
session to be held before noon
Sunday to be devoted to the
theme "The Year in Review-
ZO A Activities."

Episcopal Churches Urged
To Aid Jewish Appeal

NEW YORK, (JTA)—Episcopal
churches throughout the Diocese
of Western New York were urged
to make "the strongest possible
appeal" in behalf of the current
drive of the United Jewish Ap-
peal by the Rt. Rev. Lauriston
L. Scaife, Episcopal Bishop of
the Diocese.

—International Photo

An air transport agreement
between the U.S. and Israel
is signed at Hakirya, Israel, by
American Ambassador JAMES
G. McDONALD. The pact pro-
vides equal rights in America
and Israel for air lines they
designated.

Congress Asks U.S. to Ban
Neo-Nazi Publication

NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
World Jewish Congress, in a
communication to the State De-
partment's Office of German
and Austrian Affairs, urged that
steps be taken immediately to
ban the anti-Semitic and neo-
Nazi magazine, Der Weg, which
is published in German in Ar-
gentina and widely circulated in
Germany.

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