JNF World President to Extend
Israel's Greetings at Golden Jubilee

In a call issued. to Jewish com-
munities throughout the United
States, recounting the historic
achievements of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund, land purchasing
agency for Israel, as well as its
plans for the future in the
building of the Jewish Homeland,
2000 representatives of Jewish
organizations were summoned to
attend the golden jubilee con-

Ellmann Is R e -Elected
Knollwood President

James I. Ellmann, local attor-
ney and leader in numerous
Jewish and civic causes, was re
elected president of Knollwood
Country Club at
a meeting of
t he board of
directors, D e c .

6.

Other officers
elected by
-Knollwood f o r
the coming year
a.r e Harold H.
Gilbert, vice
president: John
Isaacs, s e c r e- Ellmann
tary; David Tann, assistant sec-
retary; Joseph Gendelman,
treasurer and Ben Tolmich, as-
sistant treasurer.
The Board of Directors in-
cludes: Henry S. Alper, Raphael
Altman, Louis Berry, Irving W.
Blumberg, Irwin L Cohn, Na-
than Fishman, Harry N. Gross-
man, Adolph H. Lichter, Louis
H. Luckof and Arthur Robin-
son.

ference of JNF to be held in
Washington, D.C., Jan. 19 to 21,
at Hotel Statler.
The call was signed by Dr.
Harris J. Levine, JNF President,
Dr. Israel Goldstein, member of
the executive of the Jewish
Agency and national chairman
of the JNF golden jubilee com-7
mittee, and Mendel N. Fisher,
JNF executive director.
DT. Abraham Granott, world
president of the board of direc-
tors of the Jewish National
Fund, is coming from Jerusalem
to attend the conference. Bring-
ing greetings from State of Is-
rael, he is authorized to submit
what he himself calls "A Blue-
print of the Future" presenting
a ten-year program which in-
cludes a vast irrigation project
through the Negev, an affores-
tation plan involving the plant-
ing of 225,000,000 trees, the
draining of the Huleh Basin Re-
gion in Galilee, the building of
200,000 housing units and a vast
land cultivation scheme that
will double the agricultural out-
put of the country. The es-
timated capital outlay involved
in this program is about $500,-
000,000.

Israel Minister to Paraguay
Extends State's Appreciation

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THE JEWISH NEWS
Friday, December 15, 1950

Training Airplane Mechanics

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A Welcome to Roosevelt

At the impressive annual do-
nor event of the Detroit Pioneer
Women's Organization, at the
Masonic Temple, Dec. 6,. LAW-
RENCE O'LARRY (right) greet-
ed the guest speaker, Congress-
man FRANKLIN D. ROOSE-
VELT, JR., of New York. Mrs.
Irving Turner, donor .chairman,
announced that the Pioneer
Women's goal of $60,000 was• only
$2,000 short of fulfillment. Sam
Levenson, outstanding Jewish
humorist, was featured on the
program with Mr. Roosevelt.

Aliens Warned of '51 .
Security Reruirements

A course for airplane mech a nics was opened recently at the
Attorney General J. Howard Max Pine Trade School of the Histadrut
in Tel Aviv. Boys are
McGrath this week directed at-
tention to the requirements of taught all the angles of this new vocation to help develop Israel's
the Alien Registration Act of aviation. industry. The Max Pine School, founded with funds of
National Committee for Israel, offers courses in auto repair,
1940 as amended by the Internal the
electricity and radio.
Security Act of 1950. •
The Attorney General said
that under the amended law
any alien residing in the United
States on Jan. 1, 1951, except one
lawfully here in a temporary
status, must notify the Commis-
By BORIS SMOLAR
sioner of the Immigration and
Naturalization Service, Washing-. Spirit of Unity
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
ton, D. C.; of his current ad-
The spirit of unity in American Jewish life again manifested
Arnold Zweig in the Soviet Zone
dress within 10 days thereafter itself at the General Assembly of the Council of Jewish Federa-
Arnold Zweig, noted author of the trilogy which began . and during the same period in tions and Welfare Funds last week in Washington . . . Contrary
to the anticipation that there would be "hot fighting" between
with "The Case of Sergeant Grischa" and of other ably-written each succeeding year.
Zionists and non-Zionists, peace "broke out" before war started
A.
R.
Mackey,
Acting
Commis-
novels and essays which attracted wide attention, lived in Israel for
a number of years, after his escape from the Nazis. It was re- sioner of Immigration and Nat- . . . This was achieved due to behind-the-scenes talks betWeen
ported that he was rather unhappy, that he was losing his eye- uralization, cautioned all aliens leaders of CJFWF and the Zionist opposition group . . . The Zion-
sight, that he was highly critical of the Zionist cause. Now we that failure to comply with ist group was satisfied with the fact that the CJFWF blueprint
these provisions of the law will for a central community-sponsored campaign organization was
learn that he has settled down in the Soviet Zone in Germany, subject them to prosecution. not brought before the Assembly . . . Non-Zionist community
that he is president of the East German Academy of Arts and Mr. Mackey also said that an leaders were satisfied with the promiseof Dr. Nahum Goldmann
that he was one of the leading figures at the Soviet-inspired address- report • card (known as on behalf of the Jewish Agency that the Agency will increase its
Berlin "Peace Congress." What an interesting cycle: from Nazi- Form 1-53) should be used in authority and control over all independent Israeli campaigns
in
Germany to Israel and back to Soviet-controlled Berlin! If Israel making the required reports, the United States . . . This promise was interpreted to mean that
could not inspire him, it is inconceivable that he, in turn, might and that Alien Registration the CJFWF request for merging all pro-Iirael fund-raising in the
have inspired Israel. Therefore it is inevitable that he should numbers should be printed on United States into one — to even include Hadassah and Histadrut
be back where, perhaps, he belongs:
the forms. Form 1-53 may be —has not entirely been rejected by the Jewish Agency . • . The
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obtained at any Immigration Zionist group could have pressed for the consideration of the
John Rankin vs. Anna M. Rosenberg
and Naturalization Service Of- CJFWF blueprint in order to dispose of it. This would have meant
fice or any United States Post an open fight at the Assembly, and nobody actually wanted such
The U. S. Senate Armed Services Committee has unanimously Office. -
a fight . . . Especially, since the argument that the blueprint aims
approved the appointment of Mrs. Anna M.. Rosenberg as Assist-
The D e t r o i t Naturalization to replace the United Jewish Appeal lost its strength in the light
ant Secretary of Defense. But Congressman John E. Rankin of
and Immigration office is at of the fact that UJA had been renewed for 1951. . . And so the
Mississippi, in a speech in the U. S. House of Representatives, 3770
East Jefferson Ave. James 700 Jewish community leaders returned to their communities with
unleashed a tirade in which he said that "the American people are W. Butterfield is the director.
nothing to report on the anticipated "war," but with praise for
aroused and indignant that this exalted position .. . should be
the spirit of unity which emerged from the gathering.
turned over to ,a foreign-born individual whose record for associ-
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ation with Communist organizations shows that she is unfit to Ilarofe Haivri Prints
The UJA Future
occupy a place of such responsibility." He did not indicate that
The national conference of the United. Jewish Appeal. in At-
Secretary .of Defense GeOrge C. Marshall personally selected Mrs. Second 1950 Volume
lantic City this week-end will be one of the most important gath-
Rosenberg as his assistant, praising her as the ablest person avail- Of Medical Literature
-erings in the existence of the UJA . .. It may not be as glamorous
, able for the job of supervising manpower. Actually, Rep. Rankin's
as previous conferences but it will definitely mark a turning point
vituperative attack is an assault on:General of the Army Marshall.
Volume 2, 1950, of Hebrew in
UJA history ... . It will have to devise plans for conducting
Only a person with COngressiOnal immunity can get away with Medical Journal (Harofe Haivri),
the insults that were hurled by 'Rep.`Rankin Upon Mrs. Rosenberg. concludes the 23rd successful activities in the light of competition it will face by the sale. of
year of its publication under the Israel bonds . . . The conference will effect a change in UJA ad-
ministration by appointing Dr. JoSeph J. Schwartz executive head
editorship of Dr. Moses Ein- to
Herzl's View on Jerusalem
succeed Henry Montor, who - is leaving the UJA to conduct the
horn.
In 1896, writing in - "The Jewish State," Dr. Theodor Herzl,
Israel bond campaign.. . . The Atlantic City 4)arley will have to
Written - in Hebrew, with Eng- take into consideration the fact that in 1951 the need for Ameri-
founder of the World Zionist. Organization and the World Zionist lish summaries,
the journal is a
Congress, foresaw the possibility of an argument over the Holy contribution to the development carl"free dollars" Wilt be greater in.Israel thap ever before-
Places in Palestine. He then stated, in his epoch-making brochure: of the Hebrew medical litera- that these "free dollars" can only • come throUgh• the UJA . .
There is dissatisfaction. among UjA leaderS With Mrs. RoSt Halprin,
"The sanctuaries of • Christendom would be safeguarded by
ture, and aids the newly estab-
assigning to them an extra-territorial status such as is well known lished Hebrew University Med- Hadassah president, for ,a:statement she made': estimating that
the UJA will not produce more than $40 ; 000,600 for Israel in. , 1951.
to the law of nations. We should form a guard of honor about ical School in Jerusalem.
. . . This statement was Made at a public session of the recent
these sanctuaries, answering fOr the fulfillment of this duty with
The section "Israel and
Assembly of the Coundl of Jewish Federations and Wel-
,
our existence. This guard of honor would be the great symbol Health" contains an article by General
fare Funds . . . UJA leaders claim that such a prediction was in-
of the solution of the Jewish question- after 18 centuries of Jew- Dr. M. Temkin on the various' accurate and out of place.
ish suffering."
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infectious diseases *Inch pre-
Israel stands Rat on this principle. There would be no prob- vailed in Palestine.
Zionist Crisis
lem vis-a-vis Jerusalem if it were not for diehards and the atti-
"Old Hebrew Medical Manu-
The crisis within the American Zionist Council may come to
tude of the Vatican. But since the anti-Israel attitude remains scripts" by Dr. Zussmann Mun-
,
unrealistic and has a Don Quixote aura, the importance originally tner, of Jerusalem, presents a an end this week with. Louis Lipsky resuming the chairmanship.
.7.. A four-point demand has been advanced by Lipsky as a con-
attached to it gradually is diminishing—rightfully so, of course. 12th C e ni u r y manuscript on dition-
for withdrawal of his resignation . . . One of the points is
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Diarrhea, by Abu'l Walid Ibn a stipulation
that the American section of the Jewish Agency
Israel and WOrld Peace
Rosh (Averroes, the Philoso- should
not impose a "veto" on the Council and that the Council
"The realization that Israel has become a factor in world af- pher). "Personalia" includes should have a free hand to act as representative of the organized
fairs is e)tamplified by its election to the new Peace Observation biographical sketches on Dr. American Zionist •movement . . . It is understood that the Ameri-
Commission," Israel Ambassador Abba Eban told the National David Israel Macht, Dr. Harry can section of the. AgenCy is anxious to see Lipsky remain the
Friedenwald, Dr. Abraham J.
Press .Club in Washington.
of the. American Zionist Council, and is even :willing, to in-
Rongy
and Dr. Nathan Ratnoff. head
Last week, Israel was selected by UN Secretary-General Tryg-
crease its allocatiOn of funds for the Council's* budget . . Lipsky
For information, write the edi- also seems to resent the fact that Benjamin G. Browdy• takes in-
Ve Lie to participate in neutral-country discussions with the
torial office of Hebrew Medical
Chinese Communist delegation. Mr. Lie had invited' representa- Journal, 983 Park Ave., New dependent action-in certain matters although as president of the
tives of five nations to an informal diimer at his home in Forest York 28.
ZOA he should clear everything through the Ainerican.• Zionist
Council . : He _especially resents Browdy's visits. to the White
Hills, N. Y., in an effort to bring Wu Hsiu-chan and his Peking
HOuSe Without prior consultation with the Zionist Council
delegation into contact with middle-of-the-road delegations in Namir, Resigned Minister
order to avert differences of opinion in the ranK:of ZQA ; . some
discussions of the Korean crisis. Israel Foreign Minister Moshe To Soviet, Returns to Israel
of its leaders now advance a novel plan . They surgest that top
Sliarett represented his government, in the talks in which Great
ZOA affairs be conducted by a seven - member 'cabinet, with each
Britain, Sweden, India and Pakistan also participated.
TEL, AVIV (JTA) — Mordecai
This was another landmark for Israel, in her international re- Namir, former Israel Minister to member responsible for a special department . . • Br. Abba Hillel
lations,—exemplifying anew how the Jewish state "became a factor the Soviet Union, who resigned Silver is mentioned as the member to be in charge of the political
department ... Lipsky is mentioned as member in charge of the
in world: affairs."
his post, returned. to. Israel.
department of information.
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ASUNCION, Paraguay (JTA)--
Yaacov Tsur, Israel Minister to
Paraguay, presented his creden-
tials to President Chaves and
expressed the Jewish state's ap-
preciation for Paraguay's favor-
able attitude .to Israel in the
United Nations.

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