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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.

United States

NEW YORK—Forty thousand Jews "are literally rotting" in

the Casablanca mellah (ghetto), Mrs. Ludwig Kaplan, national

president of the Women's American ORT, said on her return from
a visit to North Africa and Israel.
LAKE SUCCESS—Israel's U. S. ambassador and UN delegate,
Abba S. Eban met with the heads of the Soviet, American, French,
British and Indian UN delegations in talks of an undisclosed
nature.

Israel

JERUSALEM—Evidences of a neolithic civilization in the Jeru-
salem area over 6,000 years ago was uncovered by a French
archaeological commission at the Arab village of Abu Gosh.
TEL AVIV—American labor consultant and productivity ex-
pert Prof. Hy Fish, stated here that Israel's pioneer spirit will
enable it to solve its productivity problems . . . Israel has ap-
proved barter agreements with the Netherlands, Denmark, Austria
and Sweden for exchange of goods valued in excess of six million
dollars . . . Tel Aviv has permission from the government for a
$2 million U. S. Export-Import Bank loan for a water supply
station . . . 100 new enterprises capitalized at $26 million have
been granted preferred status in Israel under • terms encouraging
capital investments . .. Israel and Hungary have signed -a new
preliminary trade agreement.
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Europe

LONDON—Soviet authorities in the Carpatho-Ukraihian in-
dustrial city of Munkacevo have banned all Jewish communal
activities, a Rome report said.
COPENHAGEN—A Danish fishing vessel will leave for Israel
fishing waters to instruct Israelis in the use of Danish equipment.
BERLIN—Protestant students at Humbold University and
Technical College have volunteered to help in the restoration of
desecrated Jewish cemeteries.
HAMBURG—Loans up to 10,000 marks will be granted per-
sons ousted from jobs in Germany after 1937, provided the money
is used for rehabilitation and cannot be obtained in any other
way, the Bremen Senate has decided . . . Gestapo officer Willy
Hase is being extradited to Poland to stand trial as the murderer
of 7,000 Cracow Jews.
MUNICH—An American -court has reversed the decision of a
German court that upheld the refusal of a German to return
Jewish property sold under Nazi duress in 1938. The American
court insisted that business transacted under the Nuremberg Laws
is "contrary to a sense of justice."

South America

BUENOS AIRES—One Jew was injured when fascist thugs
here invaded a cafe to assault Jewish patrons . . . Argentine Jews
have opened a campaign for an Israel forest honoring the national
hero, Gen. San Martin.

Bath

Where Nothing
Grows But by
Israel's Sweat

By VICTOR H. BERNSTEIN

Wave of Protest Forces
Nazi Leader from U.S.

WASHINGTON, (J TA) —
Karol Sidor, Slovakian . Nazi
leader whose presence in the
United States caused a storm
of protest from Jewish and
Slovakian organization, has
left the country, the Immi-
gration and Naturalization
ervice said.
Sidor's temporary three-
month visitor's pass expired
Aug. 23. Authorities here said
it would not be renewed. The
decision followed complaints
by Rep. Arthur G. Klein of
New York to the Justice and
State Departments, noting
that Sidor led Nazi organiza-
tions in Czechoslovakia dur-
ing the Hitler era.

Elath, at the southern tip of
Israel, is reached by plane from
Lydda airport in an hour. The
rising plane circles to the south
and in a few minutes the green
coastal area dissolves rearward
and you are plunging deeper
and deeper into the wild brown
hills of the Negev, treeless and
waterless and baking under the
summer sun.
This is a madman's country,
an inferno of thirst and heat
and twisted contours flung, in
sharp black silhouettes, against
the spotless sapphire of the sky.
We drop onto a runway of
heavily-rolled earth and disem- Pious, Mapam Youths
bark. The sun smites at you like Released After Clash
a mighty fist. A soldier tells
you it is fairly warm today-125
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degrees. An army truck carries
you through the flaming air to
JERUSALEM — A magistrate
the "pavilion", • a ramshackle Tuesday released on bail three
structure at the water's edge. A
score of soldiers and a few civil- youths arrested Saturday in a
ians are splashing in the sea. clash between Orthodox Sab-
Nearby a long line of men, in bath observers and a group of
bathing suits or ragged bits of Mapam youths.
army clothing, wait patiently to
The clash took place in the
buy drinks at a lone-faucet soda
fountain. The water barely drib- Mea Shearim quarter, a strong-
bleS from the faucet; it takes a hold of Orthodox Jewry in this
half-minute to fill a small glass, city. During the "battle,'.' the
five minutes to fill a canteen. religious group was forced to
The water, carried through a retreat to the Hebron Yeshiva
newly-opened line from a well from whose windows they pelted
the laborites with various ob-
30 kilometers back in the hills,
jects.
Several youths on both
and
brackish.
is warm
sides
were
injured in the fracas.
From the shade of the pavil-
ion, where the temperature
drops to a cool 115 degrees, you and the cloudless sky shriek
look around. On the narrow with the agonies of thirst. Yet
flatlands between sea and for- there is water here. Somewhere
bidding brown •hills, a handful • in the hot bowels of the earth
of buildings are already up. the residues of the winter's tor-
Three months ago there was rents lie waiting to be tapped.
nothing here — no water, no
Forty-eight hours later, we
buildings, no people. There is are in Amsterdam, the Venice of
still no green here. Precious the north. From my hotel win-
water is reserved for drinking dows I can count three fresh-
and washing. "We have show- water canals wandering off into
ers," says a soldier. "Only trouble the distance, and 'around the
is, there's nothing but hot wat- corner the broad Amstel river
er. The pipe runs overland and flows gently towards the sea.
The city is full of parks where
the sun does the cooking."
Water! Water for Elath. Water lush grass and brilliant flowers
for the Negev. The yellow earth burgeon out of moist black loam.

German Encyclopedia
Gives Space to Nazis

THE JEWISH NEWS-5 Friday, September 1, 1950

BERLIN, (JTA)—Knaurs Lexi-
kon, the latest encyclopedia to
appear in Germany, has devoted
considerable space to the Nazi
Tole in German history and has
omitted mention of a number
of famous German Jewish liter-
ary figures included in pre-
Nazi compilations.
Knaurs Lexikon, which as-
signs 78 lines to Hitler, the
most space given any individual
in German history, also devotes
a number of pages in various
sections to the history of the
Nazi Party.
The encyclopedia which says
that the Nazi program "coin-
cided with the national feelings
and desires of the German
people," devotes 17 lines to
Himmler and 18 lines to Mus-
solini, while it gives eight lines
to the present West German
Chancellor, Dr. Konrad Aden-
auer, and three lines to the
current President, Dr. Theodor
Heuss.

Holidays Require Special Deadlines

Since The Jewish News office will be closed Sept. 12 and
13 for Rosh Hashanah, all copy and photographs for the
edition of Friday, Sept. 15, must reach our office, 708 David
Stott Bldg., not later than 12 noon Friday, Sept. 8.
Early deadlines for the editions of Sept. 29 and Oct. 6
will be necessitated by Sukkot, which occurs Sept. 27 and 28
and Oct. 3 and 4. For the Sept. 29 issue, copy and photo-
graphs will be accepted until 12 noon Friday, Sept. 22, and
for the Oct. 6 issue, copy and photographs will be accepted
until 12 noon Friday, Sept. 29.

Finance Council Plans
JWB Budget Study

CHICAGO—JWB's 1951 budge-
tary needs in the light of mount-
ing demands for the armed
forces and expansion of the Jew-
ish Community Center move-
ment will be considered at the
annual meeting of JWB's Na-
tional Finance Council, at the
Stevens Hotel here Oct. 20, 21
and 22, according to Robert S.
Adler, chairman of the Council.

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