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Jorda Makes Old Jerusalem Its
Capital; Plans Economic Program
Economic Aid to Israel, Arabs
Restored By Senate Committee ;
Continue '75,000,000 Loan Talks
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The Senate Appropriations Commit-
tee restored $20,000,000 in economic assistance to Israel, the
Arab states and Iran, which was slashed by the House. This
action brought the total economic aid for the Near East area
to $140,000,000, as had been requested by the Administration.
At the same time, the Senators cut military aid for the
Arab states and Israel from $50,000,000 to $30,000,000. Testimony
in the Senate committee disclosed that some Senators had main-
ifested a concern about.arms going into the Middle East area
in advance of peace.
(Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson, who played a leading
role in assuring restoration of the $20,000,000 item, was espec-
ially active in the effort to cut the military appropriation. lie
informed The Jewish News that members of the Senate Com-
mittee agreed with him that it is more valuable to offer eco-
nomic than military aid to that area.)
The Senate body restored nearly $20,000,000 which had be-n
taken from Point Four funds by the House. This will mean that
Israel will receive the full $1,500,000 requested by the Adminis-
tiation for this purpose—if the committee action is upheld.
The Senate group also restored half of the $8,500,000 slash-
ed from the U. S. contribution to the United Nations technical
assistance program for 1954 and restored the full $4,500,000
pledged for 1953 which had not yet been paid out and which
had been rescinded by the House. It also ordered restored $9,-
000,000 cut from the UN Children's International Fund and the
sum of $4,800,000 for 1953 which had been rescinded.
Israel to Continue $75,000,000 Loan To!ks
JERUSALEM, (JTA)--Negotiations between Israel and the
United States for a long-term American loan of $75,000,000 to
consolidate a number of short term obligations will continue on
Cabinet level, a spokesman for the Foreign Ministry stated.
(In Washington, it was stated that the State Department
had notified the Israel government of the U. S. negative de-
cision. A ruling was made by the Department of State, the
Treasury and the Mutual Security Agency, in cooperation with
the U. S. Export-Import Bank to the effect that no American
agency has the authority to lend funds for the purposes Israel
has in mind.)
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Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News
LONDON—The Jordan government announced its decision to open offices of all its
ministries in the Old City of• Jerusalem and to make Jerusalem the administrative cen-
ter of Western Jordan, following the Cabinet's first meeting in the "Old City" Monday,
it was reported here Tuesday from Jordan.
In a statement opening the Cabinet meeting in the former Palestine Government
House, some 700 yards from the armistice lines, Jordan Premier Dr. Fawzi el Mulki de-
clared, "We are determined to defend the city at all costs and we are going to strength-
en it economically. Jerusalem is dear to us and to all )he world."
It was reported that the Cabinet's move was taken on the suggestion of 18-year-old
King Hussein.
Mapam May Re-Enter Coalition Government
TEL AVIV—An indication that the left-wing Socialist Mapam Party might join
the government coalition was given here by Mordecai Erem, a Mapam leader, address-
ing a meeting of the Israel-Soviet Friendship League.
Commenting on the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the two coun-
tries, Mr. Erem said that if the Israel government follows the policy outlined by Foreign
Minister Moshe Sharett in a letter to Soviet Foreign Minister V. Molotov, to the ef- _
fect that Israel will not participate in any alliance hostile to the USSR, then one of the
important obstacles to the Mapam's entering the government would be removed.
Meanwhile, Mapam circles here have indicated that it is too early to discuss, in con-
crete terms, Mapam's entrance into the government, although many members of the
party favor such a move.
Israeli Admits Anti-Soviet Terrorist Activities
SARAFAND, Israel—The three-man military tribunal trying 15 young Israelis on
charges of membership in an illegal terrorist organization Tuesday heard the confes-
sion of Yehoshofat Givon, one of the defendants, that he helped bomb a car belonging
to the Czechoslovak 'legation in Tel Aviv, attempted to bomb the car of the Soviet Min-
ister to Tel Aviv and was scheduled to assist in the bombing of the Russian Legation.
The confession said that Givon did not actually participate in the Soviet Legation
attack because he was forced to remain home at the time, but that he set fire to the
Russian Minister's car and placed a bomb under the Czech automobile. He implicated
three members of the underground group as having instructed him to participate in the
Russian Legation incident.
Plan Israel Forest to Honor Harry Cohen on
Seventieth Birthday; Kasle Heads Committee
In recognition of his numerous services to all important Jewish causes and to his
many years of leadership in the Zionist movement, the United Hebrew Schools, the Allied
Jewish Campaign and congregational endeavors, Harry Cohen will be honored on his
70th birthday with a Forest in Israel on soil of the Jewish Na-
tional Fund.
A committee to direct this effort was organized Monday night,
at a meeting at the Zionist House, under the chairmanship of Abe
Kasle.
Rabbi Moses Lehrman, president of the Zionist Organization
of Detroit and Dr. A. M. Hershman are vice-chairmen of the com-
mittee; . Walter L. Field is treasurer and Philip Slomovitz, secretary.
Committee members include the following:
Israel Davidson, Joseph Holtzman, Max Osnos, Bernard
Isaacs, Morris Jacobs, Mrs. William Isenberg, William Hordes,
Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, William Friedman, Mrs. Theodore Barg-
man, Mrs. Ralph Davidson, Robert Marwil, Hyman Safran, Mor-
ris Schaver, Phillip Stollman and Irving Schlussel.
This committee still is in formation, with representatives of
several congregations and organizations to be coopted in the coming
few days.
—International Photo
Smiling in Accord: Criticism of two Jew-
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ish staff members of Senator Joseph McCarthy's Senate in-
vestigating subcommittee—Roy M. Cohn and David Schine-
created a stir in the United States Senate. Senator MIKE
MONRONEY (left) and SENATOR HERBERT H. LEHMAN
are shown smiling in accord after defying McCarthy's charge
of. "flagrant" anti-Semitism against Monroney. The charge
was made when Monroney sought to curb i-he McCarthy
committee's methods of inquiry, calling Cohn and Schine
`Keystone Kops." Lehman, speaking as a Jew, came to
Monroney's defense, accusing McCarthy of "pure and arrant
demagoguery."
CohAn
Mr. Cohen will be 70 on Sept. 15. It is planned to honor him at a community dinner
at which it is hoped that the project for the planting of a forest of 10,000 trees, at $1.50
a tree, will be completed and a certificate will then be presented to him.
The entire community is invited to participate in this project by making checks
payable to the Jewish National Fund. Che cks may be mailed either to the JNF, 11345
Linwood, or to Mr. Kasle.
For a number of years chairman of the Zionist Organization's Balfour Ball Com-
mittee, former president of the United Hebrew Schools and Congregation Shaarey
Zedek, Mr. Cohen has distinguished himself as a campaigner. He is among the leading
workers for the Allied Jewish Campaign, is active in Mo'os Hitim and has aided every
important communal movement.
Mr. Kasle expressed the hope that Mr. Cohen's friends will respond to the call to
plant trees in the planned Cohen Forest in Israel and that a prompt response to this
call will provide the needed $15,000 to complete the project.
"Mr. Cohen's tireless efforts for all worthy causes, his devotion to our religious, ed-
ucational and philanthropic needs, his piety, his love for Zion, have earned for him the
honor we plan for him," Mr. Kasle said. "We hope all who know him will join in plant-
ing trees in the Cohen Forest, and it is our special hope that many will plant gardens
of 100 trees as an indication of the esteem all of us have for our worthy communal co-
worker."
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