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arley in N. Y. to Act Sunday on German Reparations

Israel's Decision to Negotiate
Leads to Threats of Reprisals

Bonn Ready to Pursue Talks ;
Hope Negotiations Start Soon

BONN, (JTA)—The West German government expressed
its willingness to enter into direct negotiations with Israel over
the Jewish State's reparations claims. In a comment on the Israel
Parliament's decision, the Bonn government's official bulletin
expressed the hope that the negotiations would get under way
soon.
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Germany is ready to pay Israel a cer-
tain sum either in the form of cash or goods as settlement of the
Jewish State's reparations claims, Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett
declared here at a meeting of the central committee of the
Mapai. He criticized the centrist General Zionist Party for vot-
ing in Parliament against direct negotiations with Germany on
reparations and asserted. that "their hearts are not in the vote."
He also denounced the left-wing Mapam Party stating that the
Mapam is anti-democratic "but ready to benefit from democracy."

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Jewish organizations demanding reparations from Germany
will hold their second international conference in New York on Jan. 20, it was an-
nounced by a Jewish Agency spokesman. The policy committee of the Conference on
Jewish Claims Against Germany is expected wholeheartedly to endorse the position
of the Israel government.
It was indicated here that the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Israel Parliament
will meet to make a final decision on the manner in which Israel will approach Ger-
many on the $1,500,000,000 in reparations claimed by the Jewish State. The Foreign
Affairs Committee was given a free hand by Parliament to take any action it sees fit in
connection with the proposal of the Israel Cabinet for direct negotiations with Germany.
The Jewish Agency spokesman revealed that 700,000,000 deutschemarks had been
received in reparations claims from the states in the American zone of Germany by
individual claimants. Some 20,000 claims have been filed by Israeli residents alone,
he said, adding that 30,000,000 deutschemarks were paid to Israeli residents from the
American zone.
He also disclosed that 31,500,000 deutschemarks had been paid out in restitution
of Jewish public property in West Germany and that claims for another 120,000,000 are
yet to be submitted in this category. •
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Meanwhile, it was announced here that over 200 of the 410
Israelis detained following the demonstration and riot in front of
Irg,unists Threaten
Parliament Monday in protest against direct negotiations with
Germany, have been released. A total of 188 still face charges of
To 'Wipe Out' All
organizing unlawful demonstrations and causing public disturb-
ances. All were remanded for 10 days 'co permit the police author-
German
ities to prepare more detailed charges against each defendant.
• Visitors

The evening newspaper - Yedioth Achronoth, quoting "informed sources," reports that
Irgun and Stern Group members who claim adherence to no political parties have warned
that they will "wipe out" every German official or private person who visits Israel. They
have also threatened to burn all German goods arriving in Israel, the same sources said.

Eight Germans with passports issued by the Bonn government passed through_ the
Lydda airport en routp .to_the—Far---East:--No arrests were made because none of • the eight
was on offiCial Israeli "wanted persons" list. However, they remained isolated since no one
would speak to them.
The Knesset vote followed a 10-hour debate on the government statement on repar-
ations made by Premier David Ben-Gurion. By a vote of 61 to 50 with five abstentions and
four absences, the Knesset approved a government resolution that "the Knesset has taken
notice of the government announcement and empowers the Foreign Affairs committee to take
steps according to the circumstances."

HIAS Assists Aliens:

In cooperation
with the U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, HIAS,
the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, set up a special alien
registration bureau at its New York Shelter where individual
assistance was given to thousands of non-citizens of all faiths
required to register during the first ten days of the year.
More than 75,000 were expected to be assisted in their regis-
tration by HIAS by the end of the registration period. ED-
WARD J. SHAUGHNESSY, (right facing camera) , director
of the N. Y. District of the Immigration and Naturalization
Service, and ISAAC L. ASOFSKY, executive director of HIAS,
are shown passing out the registration blanks to those regis-
tering under the Internal Security Act of 1950.

An opposition motion flatly rejecting any negotiations with Germany was defeated
by the same vote. The significance attached to the issue was shown by the fact that a
Herut deputy, Arieh Ben Eliezer, was brought to the Knesset on a stretcher to cast his vote
in opposition while the Mapai summoned deputy David Ha'Cohen back from Paris to vote
in support.
All 46 Mapai deputies voted for the government resolution as did six Poale Zion depu-
ties, one Mizrachi, three Progressives and five Mapai-affiliated Arab deputies. 22 General
Zionists, 13 Mapain deputies, eight Herut and five Communists voted in oppoSition as did
Rabbi • Mordecai Nurock, of Mizrachi and Yizhar Harari, of the Progressives.

The debate, which opened as a mob estimated at 4,000, organized by the Herut, fought
police around the Knesset building, smashed windows with stones and threw tear-gas bombs
into the chamber, was surcharged , with high tension and powerful emotions
An uproar was precipitated when Menachem Beigin, Herut
Ben-Gurion crises
leader, called Premier Ben-Gurion a "hooligan," only to retract
the statement later when faced with threat of suspension. Beigin,
Beigin of Being
accused by Ben-Gurion of being "the head and organizer of a
revolt" against the Israel government, subsequently announced he
` Revolt Or
would waive his parliamentary immunity.
Pinhas Rosen, Progressive party leader, and Zalman Shazar, of Mapai, supported the
government proposals. Shmuel Mikunis, Communist deputy, opposed negotiations with the
West German government which he called the successor to Hitlerism, but advocated the
conclusion of peace with East Germany. Rabbi Nurock opposed either claiming or accepting
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Rabbi PHILIPS. BERN'-

STEIN (right) of Rochester, president of the Central Confer-
ence of American Rabbis, purchased a $5,000 State of Israel
Bond in the name of the Reform Rabbinical group from RU-
DOLPH G. SONNEBORN, president of State of Israel Bonds,
while Rabbi NATHAN A. PERILMAN (center) of Temple
Emanu-El, president of the New York Association of Reform
Rabbis, looks on. Devotion to the cause of Israel's economic
independence, expressed by purchase of Israel Bonds, will help
build a "bridge of understanding" between Israel and Ameri-
can Jewry, Rabbi Bernstein saki

Israel Increases Food Output:

The watchword throughout
Israel is production. More food and more homes must be turned out to provide for the
700,000 immigrants who, with the aid of United JevVish Appeal funds, entered Israel in
the last three-and-a-half years- and the 120,000 newcomers who must be brought to Is-
rael in 1952. At the right, a young Israeli carefully nurtures a vegetable garden near her
home, while in photo at the left, a young student pitches in to increase the agricultural
output after school hours. The United Jewish Appeal in 1952 must raise $151,500,000 to
help Israel consolidate the gains she has already achieved and to speed the integration of
the vast immigrant population brought to the new state through the UJA's nationwide catm
paignsA including Detroit's Allied Jewish Campaign,

