Israel Foreign Minister Speaks Here 4>opens in Washington on Sept. 20. Mr. Sharett will be met at the airport by a delegation of community leaders and repre- sentatives of Jewish organia- tions. A motorcade of cars with police motorcycle escort will convoy Israel's spokesman to his hotel. A City Hall re- constructing his country's ception is planned, with Mayor Cobo or other high city of- economy. Max Osnos, chairman ficials xtending Detroit's cour- of the Detroit Israel Bond Com- tesy to the distinguished guest. mittee, will preside at the din- The foreign minister will re- ner meeting. new acquaintance with a De- Mr. Sharett's appearance here troit friend, Hickman G. Price, will be one of a very few during his current visit in this country. He came to the United States primarily to attend the • Ameri- can Economic Conference for Is- rael, sponsored by the Israel bond drive organization, which Officials to Honor Him; Detroit Bond Committee Sponsors Dinner Meeting A report on the economic de- velopment program of the state of Israel will be presented next Wednesday evening to a Detroit audience, at a dinner at the Book Cadillac Hotel, by Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Shar- rett. Appearing here under the sponsorship of the Detroit Israel Bond Committee, Mr. Sharett will discuss the role of the $500,- 000,000 Israel bond issue in re-_ Purely Commentary By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ State Department's Blunders—Israel's Triumphs United States Senators vied with one another last week, dur- ing the debate on the Mutual Security Act, to pay tribute to Is- rael's accomplishments. Senator Benton of Connecticut told the Senate that Israel already is manufacturing a high percentage of arms for her army of 200,000; that the Jewish state's population, which has doubled in three years, "has unleashed in the industrial field the kind of enterprise and initiative which we like to asso- ciate with the best of what we call the enterprise system in the Unted Statics." An interesting exchange of views on the attitude of our State Department towards Israel took place between Senators Douglas and Humphrey of Illinois and Minnesota. It would have been a good occasion for one of them to insert in the Congressional Record portions of James G. McDonald's book "My Mission in Is- rael," in whicn the anti-Israel attitude of the State Department similarly is exposed. The colloqui between Senators Douglas and Humphrey is suf- Iiciently important to deserve full quotation. Here it is: MOSHE SHARETT executive vice-president of the Kaiser-Frazer Export Corpora- tion. They met in Haifa, when Mr. Price dedicated K a i s e r- Frazer's $2,500,000 Israel assem- bly plant. If his schedule permits, Mr. Sharett may meet with other Detroit industrialists c o n t e m- plating investments in Israel. The visiting diplomat will meet the press and radio representatives at a confer- ence in his hotel room. "Mr. Sharett's visit to Detroit to give a preview of the report he will make to the National Economic Conference in Wash- ington ,is an event of great sig- nificance to our community," Osnos declared. "Detroiters will hear the personal report of the man who helps shape the major decisions on Israel's economic and political future. "Mr. Sharett was one of the authors of Israel's four point economic development program. He has wrestled personally with the economic problems Israel must' overcome, and has helped decide how the first American dollars derived by the sale of Israel bonds shall be invested. His report will have tremendous meaning for every responsible and business-minded American Jew." Mr. Sharett was Israel's ne- gotiator in the mixed Armistice Commission and b e f ore the United Nations body which fixed Israel's boundaries. Right hand m a n of Premier Ben-Gurion, and his stand-in as acting prime minister and minister of defense during Mr. Ben-Gurion's U.S. tour this spring, he has been intimately associated with the Israel prime minister in the struggle to build a Jewish state. Mr. DOUGLAS. Israel has probably the strongest army in the Near East. Mr. HUMPHREY. I will say to the Senator from Illinois, who has taken such a deep interest in the economic welfare of the new State of Israel, that it appears to me that the State of Israel is one of our strongest links in the Near East, find that she can make great contribution, not only to the stability of that area, but to the whole force of freedom in the Mediter- ranean and in Eastern Europe. Mr. DOUGLAS.: If the Senator will further permit MR— Mr. HUMPHREY. I yield. Mr. DOUGLAS. I hope I do not reflect unduly upon the State Department, but is it not true that the predictions of the State Department concerning Israel have been shown to be almost completely false? The State Department expected Israel to go down. The State Department expected that Israel would not be able to defend itself. The truth of the matter is that not only did Israel defend itself against the Arab attack, but it has built up a strong nation of Israel. Mr. HUMPHREY. I know that there was a period of time when our Government was surely vacillating about the recog- nition of the independent status of Israel. have tong worked for a free and independent Palestine. Mr. DOUGLAS. I think it is a general understanding that the State Department was hostile to Israel, that the Department adopted a pro-Arab and pro-British attitude and position by shutting off aid to Israel, and - expected Israel to go down. I think that background should be considered, because a great many of those approaches still carry over in spite of the fact that history has shown them to be false. Mr. HUMPHREY. In reply to the Senator from Illinois, I will say that it should be clear now even to those who had the strongest doubts, that because of its valiant people this little nation is firmly implanted and will survive. It has the will to survive; I emphasize that. What Israel has done is another demonstration of the fact that if a nation has the will to live, it can survive against tremendous odds. The armies of several, nations moved against Israel, and yet she survived, and she will continue to survive. I intended to point that out later in my speech, but inasmuch as it has now been brought up, I shall deal with it at this point. Let us take a Zook at the State of Israel. Israel is in an arid area of the world that is supposed to be literally lost. Its soil was exploited. Its people were oppressed. Yet in that poverty- stricken, arid region of the world, a determined people, with creative ability, with ingenuity, with perserverance, with -limited Israel I ndustra I fists economic resources, have literally converted vast areas of that To Address Conference country into a fertile garden. Moshe Bejarano, owner of My legislative counsel is visiting Israel, and I have received Assis, Ltd., the largest cannery many letters from him. He says that present day Israel is one in the Middle East, and Joseph of the most thrilling and inspiring sights he has ever seen. Sugarman, managing director of The people have been able to take the soil, which-was as dry the Jerusalem Shoe Co., are as the sand one finds on the side of the road, an area that was coming to this country to par- naked, without any covering whatsoever, and by means of ir- ticipate in the first National rigation, by the use of science and technology, literally to cre- Economic Conference for Israel, ate whole areas into rich farm lands producing all sorts of which will be held Sept. 20 to fruits, vegetables, and cereal grains. .I think that is a great 23, in Washington, D.C., at example of what can be done by the will of the people and the the Shoreham Hotel. application of science to the building up of a nation. Mr. Bejarano and his brothers, Thus, the State Department again stands condemned for acts which proved unwise and lacking in vision. True—very few people believed that Israel would be able to resist the armies of all Arab states, that the emerging Jewish state would triumph, that the inexperienced state-builders would prove more ingenious than their antagonists; yet, it was totally unnecessary to obstruct— and that is what the enemies of Israel in Washington did. But this is a new era—even though only three years old—and what is asked of the men in Washington is friendship and humaneness. The recent Friendship Treaty was a step in the proper direction. Former enemies in London say so as loudly as the good-hearted. Americans in the District of Columbia. Therefore things look bet- ter now than they did only a short time ago. After all, adoption of a grant to a very small state by our country—the world's most powerful nation—is not to be looked at lightly. It is a great his- toric step. Shehecheyanu ... I natives of Bulgaria, also operate the largest alcohol distillery in Israel and the third largest cig- arette factory in that country. He is president of the Jaffa-Tel Aviv Club of Rotary Interna- tional and a former Economic Counselor of the Israel Foreign Office. Mr. Sugarman, a former law- yer and businessman of Boston, recently established the Jerusa- lem Shoe Company, only mass 2 — THE JEWISH NEWS Friday, September 14, 1951 production shoe plant in Israel, in conjunction with the Gen- eral Shoe Company of Nashville, Tenn. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Israel Government Investment Center. Among principal speakers at the Conference in Washington will be Israel Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett; Maurice J. To- bin, U. S. Secretary of Labor, who recently returned from a visit to Israel; David Horowitz, Di- rector-General of the Israel Min- istry of Finance, and Hickman Price of Ann Arbor, Mich., vice- president of Kaiser-Fraser Ex- port Corp. Leaders of the State of Israel Independence Bond Drive who will participate in the Confer- ence are Henry Moi`genthau, Jr., chairman of the board of gov- ernors of the American Finan- cial and Development Corpora- tion for Israel which directs the bond drive; Rudolf G. Sonne- born, president; James G. Mc- Donald, chairman of the advi- sory committee; Julian _B. Ve- nezky, chairman of the execu- tive committee, and Henry Man- ton, vice-president. DETROIT DELEGATES Detroiters who have already announced their intention to take part in the conference de- liberations and to report to the Detroit community on its re- sults include: Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Barg- man, Mr. and Mrs. Israel David- son, Mr. and Mrs. Louis David- son, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Holtz- man, Mr. and Mrs. Max Osnos, Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Temchin. Mesdames Samuel Croll and Carl Schiller; and Louis Berry, Leon Kay, Isidore Sobeloff, Philip Stollman, Zvi Tomkevitz and Osias Zwerdling of Ann Arbor. Rutland, Vt., First Over Top Rutland, Vt., has the distinc- tion of being the first communi- ty in the United States where ednesday every Jewish family is a chaser of Israel Bonds. With Bonds- in the amount $60,000 already sold, the local committee now is well on the way to enrolling every single Jewish man, woman and child as a Bond purchaser. Meyer Hackei is chairman of the Rutland Bond Drive. - The Israel Bond drive for the state of Vermont was launched, at a dinner meeting in Burling- ton which had as participants Governor Lee E. Emerson; May- or Edward Moran; Theodor Kol- lek, Israel Minister to the U.S.; William I. Ginsberg, state bond chairman, Joseph Wool, Burling- ton bond committee chairman, and Henry Montor. of United Foundation Calls Volunteers The United Foundation issued 'A a plea for 20,000 volunteer soli- citors to raise the largest ), amount of money ever sought in a single drive in any commun- ity. The third annual Torch Drive'. Oct. 16 to Nov. 8, will atempt to raise enough money to support :1 150 different health and corn- munity services through 1952,) The goal, as yet unannounced, is 1 exepected to exceed last year's,/ $10,350,000 by more than a mil-( 1 lion dollars. Combined in one campaigx, will be all the national heal' services which formerly h e :: 1 their own annual drives, e, cepting only the National Fourr ) dation for Infantile Paralysis:,, Donations to the Torch Driv will aid polio sufferers in the, Detroit area through support c' the Sister Kenny FoundatiOn and rehabilitation center in Herman Kiefer Hospital. BetWeen You and Me By BORIS SMOLAR (Copyright, 1951, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Lae.) The Israel Scene A new problem has arisen in Israel in relation to the office of President . . . Unlike the post in the United States, the Israel presidency is not a repository of real power, but of ceremonial functions and symbols ... President Weizmann's personal powers are now failing . . . At 77 he has behind him a life not only of hard work, but of hardship . . This is now taking its toll . . Dr. Weizmann was too weak to escape this summer's climatic rigors in Israel to the more clement climate of Switzerland Also, the burdens of heading the state are too great for him He could not even appear at the recent Zionist Congress in Je- rusalem .. After cutting all official duties to the bone, it was still necessary to appoint Dr. Leo Kohn Presidential Counsellor . • Now it appears that there is need for a Vice-President to act for the President . . . Knesset Speaker Joseph Sprinzak, who by law replaces the President during his absence, has declined to act for him during any other incapacity . . . There is talk of Dr. Pinhas Rosen, Minister of Justice, becoming Vice-President no and perhaps succeeding to the Presidency when that becomes necessary. It is an established fact that one of the major reasons why the Mapai—the government party—failed to get a 51 percent majority of votes in the recent parliamentary elections was a sudden shortage ,of ice . . Domestic ice is the principal means of preserving food at home in Israel . Everyone has an ice boX, few a refrigerator . . In July, just on the eve of the elections, a shortage of ice suddenly occurred, causing a panic . . . The sit- uation affected, and still affects, tens of thousands of homes Food spoils easily in Israel's climate, and if rationed foods spoil, a calamity occurs . . The ice shortage was attributed by the thousands of voters to the fact that last year the government refused to grant a few dollars of foreign currency to buy spare parts for ice plants . . . Hence, many voters "retaliated" by voting against the government party. w . Domestic Issues • Steps are being undertaken with regard to Prof. MacIver'S report on the activities of the Jewish organizations engaged in combatting anti-Semitism . The report, which has become %- controversial issue in American Jewish communal life, will cor up this week-end before the Evaluative Studies Committee National Community Relations Advisory Council . . later—Sept. 24—the executive board of NCRAC will m.. -6et tct t sider the conclusions of the Evaluative Studies Committee . that time all Jewish groups affected by Prof. MacIver's will have submitted their observations on the re-commendatio in the report . . . One need not be a prophet to --Predict that matter what the observations are, things will not remain as th are today in the field of civic protection work . .. There will, course, be compromises . . . Most of the larger Jewish Federatio and Welfare Funds, which financed Prof. MacIver's study; co sider his recommendations "an excellent first step" in re-valu 1 tion of the work of the civic protective agencies . They poi' out that back of their desire for Prof. MacIver% - Study were t following questions . .. 1. Were the funds that were allocated civic protective agencies expended to the best advantage? . 2. Was the cause to which these funds were dedicated served the most efficient. manner by independent agencies that gat evidences of a contentious separation? , . 3. Were the claiil of great achievement they severally made—each speaking itself alone—validated? . . . They are. particularly interested checking the duplication of services..