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What Will
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I n 1960?
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VOLUME 19—No. 1
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Purim in Tel Aviv
A young Queen Esther con-
*its her handmaiden, as ehil-
dren • in a Mizrachi Women's
ehild-care center in Tel Aviv
prepare to celebrate the Festival
of Purim. More than 3,500 Youth
Aliyah and native children will
1 mark the holiday in the net-
work of projects maintained in
,:grael by the Mizrachi Women's
Organization of America.
flow Bond Issue
Will Aid Israel
Of the total of $500,000,000 to
be realized through the sale of
state of Israel bonds in the
United States, approximately
$205,000,000 will be devoted to
industrial expansion. This de-
velopment program will greatly
strengthen Israel's role as the
key industrial nation of the
Middle East. The remainder of
e funds raised will provide for
he expansion of Israel's agri-
u l t u r e, transportation, and
other branches of her economy.
- 50,000,000 razor blades will be
'the annual product of a new
actory which is one of the pro-
'ects planned for completion
th funds realized through the
sale of Israel bonds. Most of the
'Output of this factory will be
to the export market.
I directed
Israelis soon will be traveling
around their country on domes-
tically made motorcycles. A fac-
tory with a yearly output of
5,000 motorcycles is planned for
2eonstruction in the very near
future. This will be made pos-
sible as a result of the sale of
Israel bonds, which will start in
this country about May I.
More than half a million dun-
aMs of land are expected to be
made fertile as a result of Is-
:rael's irrigation program plan-
.- ted for the next three years,
This vast program will be made
possible by the $500,000,000 Is-
rael bond issue.
The "land of milk and honey"
has recently doubled its number
of bee hives by the acquisition
Of 30,000 hives from the United
States. Israel produced 350 tons
of honey during the past year,
prior to the importation of the
new hives. Like other branches
of Israel's agriculture, the mak-
I. of honey will be assisted in
its development by the Israel
bond drive.
TEL AVIV—The Israel Government seeks reparations from Germany of $1,500,000,000 as a "minimum claim" in
behalf of the Jewish sufferers of the Nazi regime, it was announced here Tuesday.
In identical notes delivered in London, Paris and Washington and to the Soviet Minister in Tel Aviv, the Israel
Government asked that this claim be placed on the agenda of the Conference of Foreign Ministers in Paris. The note
demanded that full powers should not be handed over to any German government without arrangements for repara-
tions.
"The government of Israel trusts that your .government will accept the justice of its claim," the note states. "It
urgently requests that the occupying powers should not hand over full.tpowers to any German government without
express reservations being made for payment of reparations to Israel. It would welcome an early expression of your
government's views concerning the practical steps which might most effectively be taken towards implementing the
proposals outlined in this note."
The document stresses that "no German reparations can be -regarded as equitable on moral or legal grounds which'.
would not meet this minimum claim in behalf of the major sufferers - of the Nazi regime. Nor can there be any ap-
proach to Germany's rehabilitation in the community of nations until this basic measure of reparations has been
effected."
The note recalls the extermination of European Jewry and the German atrocities and stresses that Israel ac-
cepted and resettled the survivors. Therefore, it stated, Israel is the only country entitled to claim reparations and
it expects Germany to pay at least indemnification to the survivors since Germany still is in possession of looted goods.
Israel, the note continued, is unable to specify the full amount of damage estimated at six billifon dollars but
claims expenditures of one and a half billions for resettlement of 500,000 immigrants.
This amount is not too much for Germany, the note states, since it is equal only to the value of West Germany's
exports last year. These exports will certainly be higher this year. •
The note concludes by asking the big powers to make reservations for these reparations before transferring
full powers to any German government.
Israel Note Expresses Pain Over Leniency to Nazis
TEL AVIV—The "profound pain" of the Israel government and people over the decision of the United States
High Commissioner in Germany, authorizing communtation and reduction of sentences pronounced by the Nurem-
berg Military Tribunal on a large number of major war criminals, was formally communicated to the United States
Tuesday by Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett.
Mr. Sharett handed to Monnett Davis, the American Ambassador in Tel Aviv, a memorandum expressing and
discussing the Israel government's views. He referred to the Landsheirg documentary report issued by High Com-
missioner James J. McCloy on the subject and pointed out that the report stressed the calculated. sadism of the crimes
perpetrated by the War criminals whose sentences have now been reduced.
The memorandum refers to the fact that even the seven death sentences which it said the American authori-
ties in Germany had no choice but to uphold had not yet been carried out and were now subject to renewed appeals.
The High Commissioner's action, it went on, to a large measure had undone the great achievement of the Nu-
remberg trials which had established the principle that there were certain basic rules of morality which no state or
no government can disregard with impunity and individuals found guilty of their violation are to be held personally
able and not to be permitted to escape on the ground of "superior orders."
The Israel government, the memorandum added, "believes the action now taken inevitably will be interpreted
as having introduced the consideration of political expediency for what was throughout regarded as a judicial and
humanitarian issue and the deterrent effect of the sentencces therefore gravely impaired."
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Truman's Secretary:
Yeoman EMIL
KESSELMAN of New York last week became President
Truman's temporary secretary at ,Key West, Fla. He is
shown here with his sister, Miss GERALDINE KESSEL-
MAN, a WAVE in the days when Mr. and Mrs. Meyer
Kesselman boasted of a complete "Navy family." Another
son, George, also is in the Navy. The Meyer Kesselmans
first learned of Emil's new duties as the President's part-
time secretary when neighbors saw the gob on TV with
Harry S. Truman. Mrs. Emil (Sydelle) Kesselman and five-
month old son will join their husband and father in Key
West in a few days. Emil joined the Navy at 17 1/2.
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—American Jewish Press Photos
Israel-U.S. Pact:
The official signing of
the historic agreement under which Israel will receive aid
from the United States under provisions of President Tru-
man's "Four Point" program is recorded here in one of the
first photos of the signing-in from the Jewish state. The
agreement was signed by MOSHE SHARETT, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, and the newly-appointed American Ambas-
sador to Israel, MONNETT B. DAVIS. In the lower photo,
U. S. Ambassador Davis (left) raises his glass in a toast
to iraers President CHAIM WE1ZMANN, at the latter's
residence. Foreign Minister Sharett is at the right.
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