THE JEWISH NEWS - 3

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 United States

WASHINGTON—Ambassador Milton Katz, recently-appointed
U. S. special representative in Europe for the European Coopera-

tive Administration, was named American representative on the
north Atlantic Defense Financial and
Economic Committee.
NEW YORK—The United Jewish
Appeal of Greater New York passed
the $30,000,000 mark as Eddie Cantor,
national UJA campaign chairman,
received $1,500,000 in cash at a lunch-
eon in his honor attended by 1,000
persons . . . An alumni committee in-
vestigating charges of anti-Semitism
on the part of a City College profes-
sor has reported, after a two-year-
study, that Prof. William E. Knicker-
bocker can neither be cleared nor
condemned of the charges. Student
demands for a public trial of the
professor led to a five-day campus
CANTOR'
strike in April, 1949.

Canada

TORONTO—The municipality of Kitchener, Ontario, has fol-
lowed the example of Toronto, Hamilton, Oshawa and Windsor
in banning racial and religious discrimination by business estab-
lishments dealing with the public and licensed by the city.

Mexico

MEXICO CITY--Several thousand Jews attended a mass
meeting addressed by Menchem Beigin, leader of the Herut in
Israel. $50,000 raised at a banquet in his honor will be used to
support invalids and war orphans of the Irgun in Israel.

Israel

JERUSALEM—President Chaim Weizmann marked the 10th

anniversary of the death of Vladimir Jabotinsky with a letter to
the Revisionist founder's son, Eri Jabotinsky, noiv a Herut deputy
in the Knesset.
HAIFA—A fire raging for three days in Upper Galilee swept
across 80,000 •acres of woods, orchards and pasture . . . The train-
ing ship Empire State of the New York State Maritime College
sailed for France following a six-day visit here. . .. Two squad-
rons of the Israel Navy have completed their three-week summer
manuevers in various areas of the Eastern Mediterranean.

Europe

LONDON—Frank Goldman, pres-

ident of Bnai Brith, of America, was
received at Mansion House by Sir
Frederick Rowland, Lord Mayor of
London. He was accompanied by
Gordon Liverman, president Of Bnai
Brith of Britain .. . Delegates to the
meeting of the Coordinating Board of
Jewish Organizations agreed on the
desirability of cooperation among all
Jewish groups with consultative sta-
tus to one or another of the United
Nations organs. The board also
agreed to open a special office In
London, in addition to the one now
functioning in New York.
GOLDMAN
GENEVA—A plea for the return of Jewish war orphans to
Jewish families or organizations from non-Jewish homes and
institutions where they received haven during the Nazi occupa-
tion was made by Dr. Alexander Shafran, speaking in behalf of
Agudas Israel, before the UNESCO committee on non-govern-
mental organizations, ... The establishment of a special "Jubilee
Foundation" for the completion of the important tasks facing the
World ORT Union in the field of vocational training was decided
upon at the 70th session of the ORT Central Board, which also
agreed to establish an annual ORT Day.
BUCHAREST—The Romanian government will no longer per-
mit representatives of the Jewish Agency to participate in the
selection of Jews to emigrate to Israel. It is believed that it will
become more difficult for younger people to leave the country.

Australia

SYDNEY—M. Levin, former charge d'affairs at the Israel lega-

Friday, July 28, 1950

UNESCO Study
Repudiates Racial
Theories, Prejudice

PARIS, (JTA) — The United
Nations Educational, Scientific
and Cultural Organization made
public here what it considers to
be the most authoritative state-
ment of modern scientific doc-
trine ever issued on the contro-
versial subject of race.
The statement sets forth the
conclusions of an international
panel of scientists formed by
UNESCO to define the concept
of race and to summarize the
most recent findings in this
field by biologists, geneticists,
psychologists, sociologists and
anthropologists. The main
points of the experts' conclu-
sions are:

Anglo-Israel Oil Pact Is Blow to Arabs

BOSTON, (JTA) — The con-
clusion of an agreement be-
tween Israel and Britain for the
delivery of crude oil to Haifa
has dealt a heavy blow to the
Arab League boycott of the
Jewish state, the Christian
Science Monitor declared in an
article on the oil relations of
Britain and the Middle East
coun tries.
On the positive side of the
ledger, the Monitor points out
that the agreement will save
Israel $3,000,000 by its not hav-
ing to import oil stocks for
which it must pay in foreign
currency. The Haifa plant, val-
ued at $100,000,000 has an an-
nual output capacity—at pres-
ent prices—of $50,000,000. Des-
pite British and American de-

French Erect Monument
To Jewish Minister

PARIS, (JTA) — A monument
honoring Jean Zay, a Jew and
former French Minister of Edu-
cation who was murdered by the
Nazis near Vichy, during the -
Nazi occupation of France, was
unveiled on the site where M.
Zay was killed.

VOW

1. Racial discrimination has no scien-
tific foundation in biological fact.
2. The range of mental capacities in
all races is much the same. There is no
proof that the groups of mankind differ
in intelligence, temperament or other
innate mental characteristics.
3. Extensive study yields no evidence
that race mixture produces -biologically
bad 'results. The social results of race
mixtures are to be traced to social fac-
tors. There is no biological justification
for prohibiti ng intermarriage between
persons of different ethnic groups.
4. Race is less a biological fact than a
social myth. As a myth it has in recent
years taken a heavy toll in human lives
and suffering and still keeps millions of
Persons from normal development, and
civilization from the full use of the co-
operation of productive minds.
0.
But scientifically, no large modern
national or religious group is a race. Nor
are people who speak a single language,
or live in a single geographical area, or
share in a single cultural community
necessarily a race.
6. Tests have shown essential similarity
in mental character among all human
racial groups. Given similar degrees of
cultural opportunity to realize their poten-
tialities, the average achievement of the
members of each ethnic group is about
the same.
7. All human beings possess educability
and adaptability. the traits which more
than all others have permitted the devel-
opment of men's mental capacities.

The statement, UNESCO of-
ficials said, constitutes the most
far-reaching and competent
pronouncement of its kind ever
made and provides a scientific
foundation for some of the
basic principles expressed in the
United Nations Universal Decla-
ration of Human Righes.

liveries of crude oil the plant is
not expected to operate at more
than one-fourth of its capacity.
The Monitor article declares
that the Anglo-Israel agree-
ment "shows that London now
is taking a 'realistic' view of
conditions in the Middle East
and is prepared to defy Arab
resentment.

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tion in Australia sailed for San Francisco. He will become coun-

sellor to the Israel embassy in Washington.

Detroit Hosts Tel Aviv Vice Mayor
Eliezer PeH, Guest of State Dept,

The City of Detroit was host
to a distinguished guest from
Israel—Hon. Eliezer Peri, for
the past 10 years Vice Mayor of
Tel Aviv—on Tuesday and Wed-
nesday. •
Mr. Peri is in this country at
the invitation and as the guest
of. the United States Govern-
ment. He was invited to come
here to make a study of mu-
nicipal government in leading
American cities. The inviation
to come to the U. S. was offici-
ally extended to Mr. Peri by the
State Department and the U. S.
Embassy in Israel.
His visit in Detroit followed
his brief stay in Chicago. Mr.
Peri stated that thus far he was
most impressed with the ad-
ministration of City Manager
Atkins of Cambridge, Mass., and
that he found the City Hall of
Buffalo, N. Y.; the most inter-
esting.

Mayor Cobo welcomed Mr.
Peri at the City Hall on Tues-
day morning and the Israeli
guest later was taken on a

tour at the city to study the

various functions of this city's
government.

Mr. Peri is the general manger
of Kupath Cholim, the Histadrut
health organization in Israel.
His son was the captian of the
ill-fated immigrant ship the
Exodus which was turned away
from the Haifa port and was
among the first nine Israel
military officials who took pos-
session of Beer Sheba.
An outstanding leader of
Mapai, the Israel labor. party,
Mr. Peri is slated to be labor's
candidate for Mayor of Tel Aviv
at the election on Nov. 14. Labor
Zionists believe that his chances
of being the next mayor of Tel
Aviv are excellent.
During his brief visit here,
Mr. Peri also was the guest of
Messrs. and Mesdames Morris
Schaver and Harry Schumer.

BEERSHEBA (ISI)—The Am-
erican Christian Missionary Al-
lince chapel here was turned
over by the Army to Rev. Alvin
Martin, who will take up resi-
dence as warden.

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