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2—THE JEWISH NEWS

AMP AL to Fete Its Stockholders
At 10th Anniversary Dinner Monday

At a banquet on Monday even-
ing, at the Hotel Staler, AMPAL
(American Palestine Trading
Corporation) will celebrate its
10th anniversary with stock and
bond-holders.
A complete report of the cor-
poration will be given and pla-
ques distributed to members
most active in initiating sales of
stock during the early years of
AMPAL.
Principal speakers will be
Abraham Dickenstein, president
of AMPAL, and Zeev Shind,
head of Zim, Israel Navigation
Company, Ltd. Samuel Neaman,
assistant to Dickenstein is in
charge of arrangements.
Since its inception, AMPAL
led the way in obtaining loans
for Israel from the American
community through sale of
bonds. In the past two years,
Ampal has sold more than $12,-

Robinson Stars in
111 A Radio Program
On Monday Evening

Edward G. Robinson will tell
the dramatic story of a Yem-
enite Jew's first Rosh Hashanah
in Israel in a special Jewish Ap-
peal High Holy Day program to
be heard over the Mutual
Broadcasting System Monday,
10:30 to 11 p.m.
Mr. Robinson will portray the
role of Tenami, a downtrodden
and despairing Jew of Yemen
who is transported to the free-
dom and democracy of Israel
with the aid of the United Jew-
ish Appeal.
Sidor Belarsky, an authority
on the folk music of Israel, will
play the part of the Cantor, in-
toning the New Year service on
the air as cantors will in syna-
gogues and temples all over the
world.
The story, titled "The Man
Who Was Exalted," is one of
four radio dramas being pre-
sented this fall by the United
Jewish Appeal over the major
networks. The next broadcast is
scheduled for October 11, the
day . after Yom Kippur, on the
American Broadcasting Com-
pany chain. On Oct. 25, Jack
Benny will star in a program
over the Columbia Broadcasting
System.

WARNING !

000,000 worth of bonds, com-
pletely subcribing its first issue.
The goal of Ampal is to use
the natural resources of the
country to manufacture items
which will make Israel self suf-
ficient in as short a time as pos-
sible.

Beware of
Racketeers

Racketeering solicitors again
have invaded this area to ask for
subscriptions and advertisements
for New York and other small
newspapers which have abso-
lutely no circulation in Detroit
and other Michigan cities. They
make the false claim that they
are fighting anti -Semitis m.
Those solicited—whether for
subscriptions or advertising—can
render a great service both by
refusing to patronize them and
by reporting them to the Better
Business Bureau. It is the only
Just before Rosh Hashanah 5712, these Iranian children
way of removing this cancer in received new shoes and new clothing from the Joint Distribution
Ada
Committee. The clean, serviceable garments which they are wear-
Jewish life.
ABRAHAM DICKENSTEIN
ing and the nourishing food they receive each day, are their
source of hope that help is at hand—that the Jews of America,
At present, besides its numer-
through their support of the United Jewish Appeal, are waging
ous enterprises, Ampal is man- Mrs. D. W. Friedman
a real fight against the squalor, disease and ignorance they have
ufacturing wall board for hous- Heads JWF Women;
known all their lives.
ing out of waste materials of the

plywood factory of Kibbutz Af-
ikim, glass from sands . of the
Negev, constructing a cannery
for fish on the shores of Lake
Galilee and is establishing the
first American Company to ex-
ploit the oil resources of the
Negev.
To save foreign exchange and
shipping costs for export of Is-
rael products, a big merchant
marine for Israel is being un-
dertaken. AMPAL is buying Zim
common stock, made available
at its original value. This will be
a source of new revenues and
conserving of foreign exchange.
The Israel Merchant Marine
counts 21 ships.
The assets of Ampal have
grown from 16 to 22 million dol-
lars in 1951. Ampal was able to
loan Israel , over $6,000,000 re-
cently to help immigration.
The committee for the ban-
quet is headed by Morris Lie-
berman, Harry Schumer a n d
Sidney Shevitz. Cocktails will
precede dinner at 6:30 p.m.
Music will be provided by Her-
shel Leib and his string en-
semble. Information may be ob-
tained by calling TO. 9-8710, or
send reservations to . the AM-
PAL office, 13722 Linwood. -

Purely Commentary

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

Egypt—Self-"Exposed

New Clothes, New Shoes, New Hope

Friday, September 21, 1951

Hold Parley Sept. 26

Mrs. Donna Weiss Friedman,
former secretary of the Jewish
Community Fund of Grand

Russia Questions Jewish Employees
About Relatives, Friends in Israel

LONDON (JTA) —Between in Russia,' but that from the
March and June Jewish employ- moment the Jewish state was

MRS. D. W. FRIEDMAN

Rapids, has been appointed ex-
ecutive director of the Women's
Division of the Jewish Welfare
Federation of Detroit, Samuel H.
Rubiner, Federation president,
announced.
A graduate of the University
of Michigan, Mrs. Friedman was
a leader in Jewish activities in
her native city of Grand Rapids,
and served as treasurer a n d
educational chairman of Hadas-
sah, founder and chairman of
the New Americans Committee,
board member of the Judean
Service Guild, Temple Emanuel
Sisterhood and Jewish Welfare
Society.
As director of the Women's
Division, a post in which she
succeeds Mrs. Harry L. Jackson,
Mrs. Friedman will coordinate
the year-round education pro-
gram and the Allied Jewish
Campaign women's drive.
The Women's Division will
play hostess to the Michigan
Regional Conference of the na-
tional women's division of the
United Jewish Appeal at 11 a.m.
Wednesday at the Great Lakes
Club.
Coming from New York for
the conference and for the in-
itial board meeting of the divis-
ion on the following day, will be
Mrs. Albert Klein, chairman of
regions, and Mrs. Judith Cole
Stang, national women's • divis-
ion director.
Mrs. John C. Hopp, president
of Federation's' Women's Divis-
ion, with Mrs. Henry Wineman,
both members of the national
women's executive committee,
invited members of the local
women's campaign executive
committee to attend the one-
day regional conference.

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Not all Egyptians are anti-Israel. Neither are all the people
in the land of the Pharaohs blinded by passionate hatred for Jews
and blind adherence to the policies of the Arab League. Rameses
Girawi indicated it in an article in the - Egyptian periodical Al
Manarah Al Misrieh (Egyptian Lighthouse) which has been made
'available in an English translation in the Jewish Frontier.
Girawi wrote that his people are overcrowded, that the coun-
try's poverty should not be increased by responsibilities to Arab
refugees, and referring to the latter he stated:
"The million Arabs will be for us like a million plagues. They
will quickly increase and add to our troubles. We have already
forfeited our good name for their sake. In the course of one year
we uselessly spent on them 175 million pounds—the cost of our
war against Israel in which we had no interest. Now we waste
still greater sums on the purchase of weapons—all for these
Arabs, because a state of war still exists between us and Israel,
though no one knows why that should be so. Or can we forget
the thousands of young lives that were last in that war, and
the additional thousands whom Egypt is preparing to offer up
on the altar of the (Arabism' that has suddenly siezed upon our
cynical generation?"
Note: This appeared in an Egyptian periodical and was writ-
ten by an Egyptian.
Girawi is not alone among the Arabs in pleading for peace
with Israel and in opposing the continuation )f the existing state
of war. Prof. Salama Moussa, Arab philosopher, in an article in
the Egyptian publication Al-Inzar (The Warning) on the subject
"We Must Conclude Peace With Israel," made this statement:
"We, the Egyptians, and the other Arab States, must con-
clude peace with Israel. We must also make it a condition of
peace that both sides stop arming. For we dare not spend so
• much money on military preparedness as we did before 1948.
We must spend our resources on raising the standard of living
High British Official
of our people,. through creating the necessary industry for that
purpose. PEACE WILL OPEN FOR US THE DOORS OF ISRAEL
Minister to Tel Aviv
WHERE WE MAY VISIT, OBSERVE AND LEARN, BENEFITING
FROM THE NEW SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTIONS WHICH THE
LONDON, (JTA)—Sir Francis
JEWS HAVE FOUNDED IN THEIR COUNTRY!"
Edward Evans, former British
Thus, there is evidence of a revolt against the Arab politicians. Consul General in New York and
It is clear that the Arab peoples desire peace, but their chieftains now Assistant Under-Secretary
hold them in check. In the meantime even Jordan, under the of State for Foreign Affairs, has
leadership of the new King Tallal, is upholding Egypt's stand of been named British Minister to
refusing the UN's warning against the enforcement of the Suez Tel Aviv.
blockade. While the Arab intellectuals are pleading for peace, the
He succeeds S i r Alexander
destructive politicians. are preparing for war. Only time will tell Knox Helm who has been ap-
which forces will win—the forces of reason and common sense or pointed Ambassador to Turkey.
the ,destructive minds which seek only power over impoverished Sir Noel Charles, present British
and ignorant . masses. A, victory for Israel, would mean the. freez- Ambassador to Turkey, is yetir-
ing =of- the Arab -slaves and-
d their-en-lightenment—an a that g-
i just 'idg--- "soon ir bin the diplomatic
what the effendis are trying to prevent.
service.

ees of state-owned stores in the
Soviet Union were questioned by
authorities about friends and
relatives in Israel or about their
contacts with Israeli diplomatic
personnel stationed in Moscow,
according to a letter published
in the London Daily Telegraph
and signed by one, Jan Olechow-
ski.
The writer says his informa-
tion was furnished by Jews who
recently fled from Minsk and
Odessa and from Eastern Euro-
pean countries. He declared
that four such Jewish employees
were expelled from Odessa and
that others are under the con-
stant watch of the police.
One Jew who received a bul-
letin from the Israeli legation
in Warsaw was arrested and has
not been heard from since, the
letter states, adding that other
Jews who had been in contact
with the Israel legation sought
to escape a similar fate and fled
to the Middle East.
The writer maintains that
anti-Semitism was always alive

established secret police and the
administration were ordered to
purge all Jewish elements sus-
pected of sympathy. _
"Jews working in Soviet prop-
aganda , and information offices
or newspapers, clubs or cultural
centers are now under close
scrutiny," he writes. "Cosmo-
politanism or Jewish national-
ism is among the chief reasons
for dismisSals, expulsions and
arrests."
-__ The letter concludes: "Another
example of this anti-Semitic
trend in Soviet policy was the
expulsion in June from the
Academy of Science of three well
known Jewish professors of
Chemistry—Kabacznik, Woiken-

sztein and Syrkin."

Katz Chair at Brandeis

Brandeis University announced

the establishment of the Benja-
min S. Katz Family Foundation
Chair in Mathematics, named
for the founder Benjamin S.
Katz of Cincinnati, president of

the Gruen Watch Company.

Between You and Me

By BORIS SMOLAR

(Copy-right, 1951, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

International Trends

I have been asked why Israel was not among the nations
which signed the peace treaty with. Japan in San Francisco . . .
The answer is: Israel was not at war with Japan, since the Jewisn
state was established after Japan's defeat . . . Jewish groups in the
United States, no less than the Israel Government, are now watch-
ing with special interest Germany's increased activities in the
international arena . . . It is clear that the closer Germany is tied
with the Western nations economically and politically, the poorer
the chances of satisfaction of Jewish, claims against Germany .. .
Especially the claim for $1,500,000,000 presented by Israel . . . The
present discussions about the unfavorable German trade balance
is one case in point . . . Germany's unfavorable trade balance acts
as a potent defense against the claims of Nazi victims abroad .
The German signing of the Schuman Plan is another example
Through the Schuman Plan, Germany has obtained a new line of
defense against claims of others because the economic interests
of Germany under this plan become the concern of all nations
participating in it . .. These nations will be inclined to support
Germany against all restitution and reparation claims made by
outside nations . . . There is a definite feeling today in Germany
that Israel may not get strong support from the Western Allies
for its reparations claims . . . Hence, the Bonn Government obvi-
ously considers that the best way to deal with Israel's claims is
to disregard them but in such a way that even the disregard is
not noted ... Jewish_groups feel that something must be _done to
make Germany aware that it cannot get away with the apparent
intention of avoiding payment for looted Jewish property.

Eyes on Russia

Jews in Soviet Russia are frustrated in their desire to emigrate
to Israel, according to. official information compiled in Washing-
ton by the Senate Committee on Foreign. Relations ... "The Jewish
people in Russia are inspired by Zionism as they have never
before been inspired," the document says . . . It also deals with
the rebirth of anti-Semitism in Russia . . The growth of anti-
Jewish feelings in the Soviet Union is one of the developments
which increase tensions within the USSR, the report states . It
blames the Kremlin for the resurgence of anti-Jewish sentiment
in the country .. Soviet flirtations with the Arab countries are
being closely watched by the U. S. Government . . An Egyptian
military mission is now in Prague buying Czech arms . . . And the
Soviet legation in Cairo invited Egyptian newspapermen to make
a 'tour of the Sovet Union ... Egyptian-Soviet trade figures show
an, upward trend . . And Soviet broadcasts in Arabic are being
intensified . . The Soviet radio claims that 2100,000 persons in
Lebanon signed the Kremlin's . ( peace appeal,':'.. and 1114 „0,W).:
signatures were obtained in Syria.

