°rt.' Jewish Leaders' Coniere ce
Oct. 25-26 to cut on Germ n Offer

Israelis $1,500,000,000
Demand for Rescued is
Major Restitution Claim

NEW YORK, (JTA) —Representatives of major Jewish organ-
izations throughoUt the world will meet in New York Oct. 25-26 to
review Western Germany's recent offer to discuss with "represen-
tatives of _Israel and the Jewish people" all Jewish claims arising
out of Hitler's persecution of Jewry, it was announced by Dr. Nah-
um Goldmann, co-chairman of the Jewish Agency, which will spon-
sor the meeting.
Present at the two-day sessions will be delegations from at
least seven countries, including the United States, Canada, South
Africa, France, Australia, Great Britain and Argentina as well as
representatives of the Israel government, which in recent months
has laid before the Occupying Powers a claim for $1,500,000,000
against Germany, based on the cost to Israel of giving haven to
more than 500,000 surviving victims of the Nazi terror.
In announcing the conference, Dr. Goldmann, who will preside,
declared:
"Discussions at the meeting will cover various kinds of claims
which have been presented to Germany by various Jewish bodies,
- and especially the claims of the Israel government as they have
been set forth in two notes delivered in recent months to the Occu-
pying Powers. Included in the discussions will be the restitution
owed to the Jewish people as a whole for Jewish property which
has been left heirless. We must reach agreement at this conference
on methods for arriving at a settlement with Germany in some
measure commensurate with the staggering material losses in-
flicted upon the Jewish .people by the Nazis."

Jacob Blaustein, president of the American Jewish Committee, sent a
cable to Chancellor Adenauer stating: "American Jewish Committee wel-
comes your forthright statement and Parliamentary action as a signifi-
cant first step toward Germany's assumption of moral and legal respon-
sibility regarding what you rightfully call unspeakable crimes against
Jews. We look forward to genuine implementation of this promising be-
- ginning and to speedy settlement of material reparations problem. As
you properly say it is now necessary for your government to take effective
action against elements promoting intolerance and toward democratic
- education of the German nation especially youth. We hope with you that
- principles you express will become policy of the German government and
deep col fiction of entire German nation."
Louis Lipsky, chairman of the American Zionist Council, declared:
'
"It will be hard for Jews to forget the sufferings caused by the Nazi
'• regime and the connection therewith of the German people. The wounds
are too deep and still unhealed. There is moral satisfaction, however,
in the fact that the conscience of Germany has at last found a voice to
speak for it." -

Adenauer's Pledge Draws Varied Press Comments

FRANKFURT, (JTA)—Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's declaration in
Parliament pledging restitution to Jewish victims of Nazism and offering
peace to Israel was widely featured in the German press and drew varied
comments.
The right-wing Dusseldorf 'daily, Der Mittag, commented that "the
Jews have not been too popular a subject of conversation in recent years.
Everyone remained silent and ashamed when 'flocks of sheep and chil-
dren destroyed tombstones and ravaged cemeteries.'"
The Cologne Social Democratic daily, Rheinishe Zeitung, said that
the Adenauer statement had not come too soon and it would have been
in the German interest in restoration of mutual confidence with other
countries if the statement had been made when the government first
took office. The paper charged the Adenauer government with protect-
ing former Nazis in Foreign Ministry posts.
The newspaper Neue Presse, which is close to the Christian" Demo-
eratic_Union, raised the question of the right of the State of Israel to
speak in the name of all the Jews. "It is true that Israel perhaps would
like to claim this position," the paper asserted; "but the state is the result
- of the Zionist movement which certainly gained considerable ground
among Jews but never embraced them all. A great part of the German
Jews refused and will always refuse to be represented by a foreign state
in a dispute with their homeland."

Non-Aggression an
Gets Israel sApproval

• PARIS, (JTA)—The Israel delegation endorsed in general terms the
proposed declaration of non-aggression and goodwill drafted by the
United Nations Conciliation Commission on Palestine and submitted by
the commission to Israel and the four Arab states represented at the
triangular peace talks here.
Israel's views on the declaration, contained in the preamble to the
five-point plan proposed by the commission, were voiced at a meeting
of the commission and the Israeli delegation. The commission now has
before it Israel's endorsement of the preamble, supported by an offer of
_ non-aggression pacts with the Arab nations, and Arab objections to the
preamble.

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Arab League Plans World-Wide Anti-Zionist Campaign

LONDON, (JTA)—The Arab League has prepared a plan for an exten-
sive propaganda campaign on a world-wide basis, the Damascus radio
reported. The decision •was taken. the Arab radio said, because of the
"Zionists' intensified hostile propaganda."

The Palestine Electric Corporation has placed orders in the United
States for new equipment valued at $10,000,000, it disclosed in its annual
report.

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Congressman Roosevelt Arrives in Israel

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., of New York, ar•
rived here by air Sunday for a four-day visit. Immediately upon his
Arrival he went to Jerusalem where he conferred with President Chaim

Weizmann at the King David Hotel. :-•

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October 12, 1951

Ben-Gurion Receives
Vote of Confidence
On His New Coalition

JERUSALEM—The Israeli Parliament early Tuesday morning gave a vote
of confidence to Premier David Ben-Gurion's new Mapai - Religious Bloc coali-
tion. The - government secured 56 votes to 40 opposition ballots, with the four
Progressive party deputies abstaining.
The vote followed a twelve-hour de bate in which Ben-Gurion defended his
"narrow coalition" government and its proposed program, and in an address to
the Knesset blamed the General Zionists • and the Mapam for the failure to form
a broader based cabinet. In a speech so free of bitterness toward the parties he
held most responsible for the failure to form a broader coalition that it aroused
speculation that he still had hopes of attracting at least the General Zionists
into the coalition, the Premier presented a detailed picture Of the inter-party ne-
gotiations. He charged that the final reason for the General Zionist refusal to
enter the cabinet was that it wanted to exclude the orthodox parties, to which
the Mapai would not agree. He expres sed gratification that toward the end of
the negotiations the centrists had reduce d their demands for control over the sup-
ply and rationing machinery but insisted that the Mapai would not compromise
its policy of "a minimum for all before plenty for few." He added that he felt
that a system of free enterprise could not provide plenty for all.

The Premier reserved his heaviest attack for the proportional representation sys-
it encouraged splinter parties and prevented a single majority party from
tem. He said
_
forming a stable government.
The five Arab members of the Israel Parliant who are associated with the pro-
government Mapai party indicated earlier Tuesday that they are ready to support the
newly-formed Mapai-Orthodox cabinet. However, they presented a twelve point pro-
gram for the Israeli-Arab population to the government.
Speaking for all the five, Seif Edin Zueibi called for a broadening of the program
for reunion of Arabs in Israel with memb ers of their families who are still outside of
the country. He demanded the return of property to local Arabs in Israel, the abo-
lition of military government in certain ar cos in Israel, that Arabic should be the basic
language in Arab schools and the establishment of more Arab schools in Israel.
The spokesman for the Arab deputies also requested "absolute equality" for Arabs
in Israel, abolition of the trust which markets Arab products, more mechanization of
Arab agriculture, more roads, and the reestablishment of the Arab religious bodies
of the Waqf with the return of their properties.
The members of the new cabinet are: Mr. Ben-Gurion, Premier and Defense
Minister; Moshe Sharett, Foreign Minister; Eliezer Kaplan, Finance Minister; Golda

Myerson, Minister of Labor; Behar Shitreet, Minister of Internal Security; Levi Esh-
kol, Minister of Agriculture and Development; Dr. Peretz Naphtali, Minister without
portfolio to handle Economic Co-ordination; Prof. Ben Zion Dinaburg, Minister of
Education and Culture. Dr. Dov Joseph will hold the portfolios of Trade and Indus-
try and of Justice. These nine ministers are members of the Mapai Party.
The members of the cabinet representing the religious groups are: Moshe Sha-
piro, Minister of Interior and Minister for Religious Affairs; David Pinkas, Minister of
Communications; Rabbi I. M. Lewin, Minis ter for Social Welfare; and Dr. Joseph Burg,

Health Minister.
The Premier announced that the parties in the coalition had agreed to accept
collective responsibility for the government's policies, and pledged equal rights in the
question of wages and employment to the Arab population. Touching on his govern-
ment'sment's foreign policy, he reiterated one of its basic foundations—willingness to
sign peace treaties with the neighboring Arab states. •
The debate was begun by the General Zionist leader, Dr. Peretz Bernstein, who as-
- sailed the Mapai's refusal to give his party top economic posts in the government and
announced that the centrists would vote against the government. A similar announce-
ment was made by Mapam leader Meir Ya ari who assailed the Premier's party for
abandoning its pledge of attempting to achieve "So-
cialism in our times" by the formation of a gov-
Lay Sinai Hospital
ernment with the religious parties.
Cornerstone Sunday
The Ministers who left the Cabinet were Mapai
leader Pinhas Lavon, who gave up the Ministry of
The cornerstone -laying
Agriculture, Mizrachi leader Rabbi Judah L. Mai-
ceremonies of Sinai Hospital
mon, who formerly held the post of Minister of
will take place at 1 p.m. Sun-
Religions, and Dr. Pinhas Rosen, leader of the Pro-
day, at the Hospital site, Out-
gressives, v.rhO gave up the Ministry . of Justice.
er Drive, between Whitcomb
During a 40-minute address in which he pre-
and Lauder. Impressive cere-
sented the liSt of ministers and outlined his new
monies have been arranged.
government's policy, Mr. Ben-Gurion said that the
government would strive to increase output in both
The entire community is in-
the agricultdral and industrial fields to assure the
vited.
population adequate supplies of all products.
(Detailed Story, Page 3)

Riley Upholds Israel: in Huleh Issue

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (JTA)—Lt. Gen. William E. Riley, United Nations
truce supervisor in Palestine, supported the Israeli contention that Syrian Army
units were involved in the Huleh fightin g last May.
In a report to United Nations hea dquarters here, Gen. Riley said that al-
legations that personnel of the Syrian .A rely participated in the operations at Tel
'el Metullah "must in my opinion be co nsidered as having been proven." The
proof, the report said, was the publicatio n of two orders of the Syrian Ministry
of Defense in the Syrian Official Gazette awarding decorations to Syrian troops
kw valor in the Tel el Metullah engagem eats. Publication of the orders, Gen Riley
said, "furnished, in my view, proof of the Syrian aggression which suppreaves
the necessity of a discussion in the next Mixed Armistice Commission:"
The publication of the orders was b rought to Gen. Riley's attention in a
•formal complaint lodged by the Govern ment of Israel,

