State Department
and Israel:
Study in Maps
and Territorial
HE JEWISH NEWS
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Editorial, Page 4
VOLUME 23—No. 16
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Israel Assured MSA Aid; Senate
To Act on $65,000,000 Sum
Israel Moves to Unify
Its Educational System
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM — Education Minister Ben Zion Dinur
Monday night officially introduced in parliament the gov-
ernment's bill for a national unified educational system. The
measure is designed to provide a single state system of
education, divorced from party politics, to replace the cur-
rent four "trend" or party system.
Speaking on the basic aims of the legislation, Prof.
Dinur declared, "we have to educate a generation of build-
ers; a generation educated in our historic cultural heritage
and tradition; a generation which loves its country and
knows it thoroughly—its historical, national and cultural
values; a generation educated to agriculture and the crea-
tive crafts; a generation of mutual tolerance and national
responsibility."
The Education Minister maintained that the state could
not leave education in the hands of parties or "trends," in-
sisting that it must be unified to "achieve a homogenic
populace which will be one of the most important achieve-
ments of the ingathering of the exiles." He was vigorously
supported by deputies of the pro-government Mapai and
general Zionist parties and attacked by the leftist Mapam
and orthodox Aguda.h parties.
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WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Aid for Israel, estimated at approximately $65,000,000 in
economic support funds and a potential share in military allocations, remained intact
in the Mutual Security Bill following a vote last Friday by the House of Representa-
tives which approved the entire $4,998,732,500 measure.
However, this represented only the fir st step the bill must hurdle before it is trans-
lated into law. It now goes to the Senate. L ater the actual allocation of funds must again
be approved by both houses and it is expected that this last phase may see the most de-
termined efforts to reduce the amount of appropriation.
High State Department officials indicated that Arab states will receive no pri-
ority over Israel in any granting of arms b y. the United States to countries in the
Near East. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency learned that plans for a Middle East
Defense Command were shelved and individual arrangements with separate Arab
states and Israel were decided upon at a meeting held in the State Department on
June 16. Officials of the Defense Department participated.
A State Department official, who could not be quoted directly, called attention to
the June 1 speech by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles as the key to what Israel
should expect the arms policy to be. Mr. Dulles said in this speech that "while await-
ing the formal creation of a security association, the United States can usefully help
strengthen the inter-related defense of those countries which want strength, not as
against each other or the West, but to resist a common threat to all free nations."
The Department is now deciding on how best to implement the formula supplied
by Mr. Dulles in his speech. It has definitely been decided that assurances will be
required that all arms must be used defe nsively, Department officials said.
(The Associated Press reported from W ashington that in order to qualify for gift
American weapons, the Middle East nations must sign pledges they will back the West-
ern countries in the East-West struggle. They must agree to accept a small American
military mission which will teach the local armed forces how to use American weapons
and provide adequate publicity for the operation.)
According to officials in the Department, a press report that the Arab states would
be given priority over Israel in arms aid has no basis in fact. What the actual program
will look like when it is ready, it was said, is "anybody's guess." No details of plans to
strengthen the Near East against Communism have yet been worked out, it was said,
= - -- 11* - tiviattritiies with Whietr1Mate Department arms arrangements are at the
most advanced stage are Syria and Egypt, it was learned here.
Meanwhile the Senate Foreign Relations Committee issued a report on the Mutual
Security Act in which the Committee declares that it "is hopeful that a Middle East
Defense Organization will come into existence during the fiscal year of 1954 and that
a durable peace settlement can be arrived at between Israel and the Arab states."
The committee said it was mindful of the unrest within the area and "strongly of
the opinion that, in the absence of a collective organization and an Israel-Arab peace,
the strictest controls and supervision over military end-item assistance should be exer-
cised." Assurances that this will be done were received by the committee, it reported.
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Claim $50,000,000 from Austria
Attending the ground breaking ceremonies at the Home
for Aged, left to right: ISID'ORE SOBELOFF, executive direc-
tor, Jewish Welfare Federation; SIDNEY J. ALLEN, chair-
man, building committee; MYRON A. KEYS, president; MAX
J. ZIVIAN, chairman, Federation committee on capital needs,
Ground Broken for New
Unit at Home for Aged
Ground breaking ceremonies, marking the beginning
of construction of a new unit which will bring expanded
kitchen and dining facilities and new heating facilities, at
the Jewish Home for Aged, took place last Friday.
These improvements will be used to serve the addi-
tional unit to be built at a later date, to provide for approxi-
mately 80 more beds for the Home.
- The Jewish Welfare Federation is making available
$200,000 through the Committee on Capital Needs for this
project—$110,000 allocated from the 1952 Allied Jewish
Campaign and $90,000 for the 1953 drive. Remainder of
the cost will come from the capital funds of the Home.
• The existing facility is composed of two units. The newer one
was opened in 1937 and the second was converted from the for-
mer Jewish Children's Home in 1948 to house chronically-ill
residents. With a present capacity of 190 persons, 91 individuals
are housed in the infirmary and 99 persons in the main building.
The new bed unit will be used for infirmary patients.
The Jewish Home for Aged dates back to 1905 when it was
organized as a Hevrah Kadisha.
Myron A. Keys is president of the Home and Sidney J. Allen
is chairman of its building committee. Dr. Daniel E. Cohn, Ar-
thur A. Fleischman, Joseph Holtzman, Max J. Kogan, Frank A,
Wetsman, Lew Wisper, Edward Fleischman, and Gus D. Newman
are members of the committee. Ira I. Sonnenblick is executive
direct=
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Dr. Nahum Goldmann, upon his arrival here, revealed that
the Jewish organizations now engaged in reparations talks with Austria will claim from
the Austrian government $50,000,000 for damages to Jews under the Nazi regime..
Dr. Goldmann emphasized that there are good prospects for the outcome of the
Austrian-Jewish negotiations. He pointed out that it is highly important to seek improve-
ment of the existing restitution laws in Austria as well as to assure that payment will
be made to individuals claiming compensation. The Austrian Chancellor, Dr. Julius
Raab, has expressed his hope that the negotiations will conclude successfully, Dr. Gold-
mann stated.
Austrian Cabinet Members Meet With Jewish Delegates on Claims
VIENNA, (JTA)—Members of the Austrian Cabinet met with members of the
Jewish delegation who arrived here to initiate the discussions on Jewish claims against
Austria.
Members of the Austrian Cabinet who participated in the talks were Foreign Min-
ister Dr. Karl Gruber and Finance Minister Dr. Rhinehard Kamitz. The Jewish delega-
tion was represented by Adolph Held, chairman of the American Jewish Labor Commit-
tee; M. Beckelman, European director of the Joint Distribution Committee, and Dr. Emil
Maurer, president of the Jewish Community of Vienna.
The technical committee which started its meetings Wednesday with Austrian of-
ficials is headed by Mr. Beckelman and is c omposed of experts assigned by Jewish or-
ganizations in the United States and London. It also includes Joseph Gurrin of Tel Aviv,
president of the Association of Former Austrian Jews in 'Israel, and Dr. E. Laor, Euro-
pean treasurer of the Jewish Agency.
The delegation of Jewish organizations submitted a memorandum to the Allied Com-
mission here asking the Allied Powers to support the Jewish claims, as presented last
week to the Austrian Chancellor.
Dr. Goldmann Discusses Indemnification Problems With Adenauer
BONN, (JTA)—Dr. Nahum Goldmann called last Friday on Chancellor Adenauer
to discuss problems regarding execution of the Israel-German reparations treaty and the
uncertainty surrounding the chances for Parliamentary approval of proposed German
legislation to indemnify individual victims of Nazism. In the agreement concluded with
the Conference last year, the German government undertook to expedite the enactment
of this legislation.
The Federal Council of the Upper House of the West German Parliament approved
a bill for the indemnification of individual victims of Nazism. The measure now goes
to the Bundestag, the lower House, where it will have to be reported out by the legal
committee and approved in three separate readings before being returned to the Upper
House for final approval.
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