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Moshe ,Shapira Gets Hotiora•v Degree

Israel Minister of •In-
terior, who speaks
here Monda y, was-
awarded the - decree
of Doctor of Hebrew
Literature by; Hebrew
Theologi c a 1- College.
Chicago. Right to
left: Dr. Meyer Wax-
man, Rabbi Oscar Z.
Fasman, Dr. Joseph
Babad, Dr. Shapira
and Rabbi D. Regens-

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Friday, May 4, 1951

Left Wing Wins
Mapam Election

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The ex-
treme left wing of the left So-
cialist Mapam Party has cap-
tured complete control of the
party according to the results of
the intra-party elections. Ninety
percent of the Membership
voted.
Hashomer Hatzair, led in Par-
liament by Meir Yaari, won 60
percent of the votes cast. Achdut
Avoda group received 36 percent
while the Poale Zion faction ob-
tained only four per cent.

berg.

Trygve Lie Sees Israel as
Needing and Desiring Peace

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TEL AVIV, (JTA)—United Na-
tions Secretary General Trygve
Lie left . Israel declaring at the
airport that it has been a "stim-
ulating experience" •for him to
see the Jewish state and its peo-
ple. He was seen off at the air-
port by Israel's Foreign Minister
Moshe Sharett and other high
officials of Israel's Foreign Of-
fice.
"I leave your country with two
convictions," Mr. Lie said. "First-
ly, that even under the most
difficult circumstances, Israel
has people imbued with courage
and vitality who are determined
to survive and are able to con-
vert barren land into fruitful
and productive soil. Secondly,
what the people of Israel need
and desire above all is peace
with their neighbors and peace
throughout the world."
Tribute to Israel's dynamic
- efforts for economic and politi-
cal consolidation was paid by
Mr. Lie at a reception given by
Foreign Minister Sharett. Min-
ister Sharett replied with a toast
to the "great champion of world
peace." Dr. Abba Hillel Silver
was among the guests.
During his visit here Mr. Lie
toured the country inspecting
industrial and agricultural de-
velopment projects. His praise of
Israel's economic progress is
seen here as significant.
(The New York Times report-
ed from Tel Aviv that it is be-
lieved that Mr. Lie's Middle East
tour has convinced him that the
United Nations methods and
machinery are inadequate and
must be radically overhauled to

Sylk Heads UPA

cope with the Israeli-Arab prob-
lems. The opinion is expressed
that the activities of the three
United Nations agencies now
working on Israeli-Arab affairs
must be consolidated into one
over-all apparatus headed by a
forceful personality. The three
agencies are: UN Truce Cora-
mission, Palestine Conciliation
Commission and UN Works and
Relief Administration.)

Arab Rejection of Peace
Spells Middle East Trouble
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.,
(JTA)—Abba Eban, Israel's per-
manent UN delegate, told an
American radio audience that
the real trouble in the Middle
East stemmed not from periodic
border flare-up such as the cur-
rent Israel-Syrian dispute, but
from the long-term fact that
Israel is encircled by hostile
states who refuse to establish a
permanent peace. This situation,
he said, must come to an end,
and he asked, why do not these
states sign a peace treaty with
Israel.

Britain Pessimistic.About
Intervention With Iraq
LONDON, (JTA) — The pros-
pects of legal intervention with
the Iraqi government against
anti-Jewish discrimination are
"not very good," Minister of
State Kenneth Younger told
Parliament. .
The Minister said that the
British Government has drawn
the attention of the Iraqi Gov-
ernment to the "unfortunate
consequences" which might en-
sue if substance is given to the
charge that the Jews are sub-
jected to persecution. He added
that the Iraqi government "had
taken note of this approach."

Must Repulse Attacks
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Israel must
be prepared to repulse attacks
from any quarter because the
only guarantee Israel can have
for its neutrality is the respect
which belligerent nations have
for its sovereignity and internal
freedom, Premier David Ben
Gurion declared at a Mapai par-
ty conference called to consider
its program in the forthcoming
national elections.

Reader Commends Our
Stand on Loyalties

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By HENRY M. GOTTLIEB
Asst. U. S. Attorney

WILLIAM D. SYLK

I heartily concur with your
NEW YORK • — Funds total- recent courageous and dignified
ling $431.450,000, provided with stand in the matter of a local
the aid of American Jews, were group who recently found it
spent by United Palestine Ap- necessary to flaunt their loyalty
peal agencies for an over-all in such a fawning and apologetic
program of immigration, reset- manner.
tlement and upbuilding in the
It appears to _e that every
three years since the establish- time any of us takes such a po-
ment of the State of Israel : Ru- sition, it is tantamount to sub-
dolf G. Sonneborn, UPA Na- scribing to a second-class citi-
tional Chairman, reported to a zenship. I had always thought
board of directors' meeting.
that in our American tradition
William D. Sylk, of Philadel- every religious or -racial group is
phia, president of the Sun Ray entitled to a "lunatic fringe."
Drug Co., and a leading Zionist,
It should be unnecessary for
was installed as Chairman of any Jewish group to shout from
the UPA board of directors.
the house-tops and humbly re- ,
Mr. Sonneborn pointed out
that approximately 600.000 im- assert a 200 percent Americanism
migrants have entered the Jew- to prove their patriotism. Rabbi
ish State since its inception in Goode and thousands of Amer-
May, 1948. Of this number, ican Jewish boys have already
which represents a doubling of established us as citizens in good
its population, he said that standing, to say the least. A de-
about 470,000 had been fully or basing, fawning attitude smacks
partially absorbed in settl e- of a feeling of insecurity and a
ments, cities, or work villages lack of respect for one's heri-
while 125,000, mostly social prob-itage.
lem cases, aged people, widows,
disabled and the like, have not
Most people can't stand pros-
yet been integrated into the perity fortunately most people
country's economy.
don't have to.

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`Oliver Twist' Has-
Quiet U.S. Debut

No picketing, no demonstra-
tions, no police and very little
attendance was the reaction of
American moviegoers last week
to the first showing in the
United States of the much-
publicized British film "Oliver
Twist."
The American premier of the
hotly - debated movie at the
Metropolitan Theater in
Houston, Tex., drew about 50
per cent of normal attendance,
despite extensive advertising and
special appeals.
The showin-g in Boston opened
a day later with an equal
absence of attention, either out-
side or inside of the movie
house.
The versions in the opening
showings, which ended- an in-
formal three-year ban on the
film in the United States, were
those which had been sharply
edited in conformity with a de-
mand by the Motion Picture
Producers Association.
The ban had been put into
effect in 1948 through the advice
of refusing the film an MPPA
seal of approval, without which
no American movie house will
show a motion picture.
Early this year, Eagle - Lion
films, distributers for J. Arthur
Rank films in this country,
agreed to have sharp cuts made
in the film ,of scenes featuring'
Fagin, which Jewish organiza ,-
tions had attacked as likely to
promote anti-Semitism.

Map Shows Location
Of N. Y. Synagogues

The Union.o• Orthodox Jewish
Congregations of America has
completed plotting the exact lo-
cation of 975 synagogues in
Greater New York on a huge
wall map.
While this is believed to be
the most complete map of its
kind, it is estimated that this
represents little more than half
of the total number of congre-
gations in the New York metro-
politan area.
The map indicates whether a
congregation is orthodox, con-
servativa or reform. Of the 975
congregations already plotted,
more than 87% are orthodox.
Since all conservative and re-
form congregations in the area
have been plotted, those remain-
ing to be plotted are the smaller
orthodox congregations.

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Nominate Candidates For Council Committee

Candidates for the executive
committee of the Jewish Com-
munity Council as announced
at the last delegates assembly by
Morris Lieberman, chairman of
the nominating committee, are:
Joseph Bernstein, Hoke Levin,
Harry Nathan, Sam Rabinovitz,
Samuel J. Rhodes, Isidore Sobe-
loff, Morris Zwerdling, Louis La-
Med, Mrs. Harry Frank, Dr.
Lawrence Yaffa, Louis Levine
and Rabbi Moses Lehrman. An
additional candidate nominated
at the assembly is Samuel J. Lie-
berman.
Dr. Shmarya Kleinman, pres-
ident of the Community Council,
announced that the election of
candidates for all executive
committee positions and officers

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would be .held at the Council's
concluding delegate assembly of
the season, May 31:8:30 p.m., at
the Davison Jewish Center.

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