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Jewry's Dignity Linked With Israel's Survival
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$135,000,000 Promised for Israel
And Arabs In U.S. Economic Aid
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Senate and House adoption
of the final form of the Mutual Security Act—under which
Israel and the Arab countries will get $135,000,000 in eco-
nomic 'aid—appeared only a formality after conferees of
both Houses agreed during the week-end on compromise ap-
propriations. The bill is expected to be approved this week
by President Eisenhower.
The $135,000,000 represents an amount which is ex-
pected to be divided about equally between the Arab states
and Israel. The final sum includes the restoration of $15,-
000,000 of $20,000,000 cut from the bill by the House. The
sum for military aid for the area remained at the figure of
$30,000,000 as voted by the Senate. The military funds,
however, will be disbursed only at the discretion of Presi-
dent Eisenhower.
(Senator Homer Ferguson of Michigan was among
the most sympathetic among the members of the Senate
Conference Committee to the idea of granting larger
sums to Near Eastern countries for economic aid and for
reducing the, military appropriations.
(Congressman Gerald Ford of Grand Rapids also
played an important role in support of the President's
economic program. Rep. Ford has been among the most
sympathetic pro-Israel Congressmen).
Spokesmen for the American Zionist Council were
pleased with the Congressional action. I. L. Kenen, the
Council's Washington representative, was especially elated
over the results.
GENEVA, Switzerland.—Hope that those Jewish groups in the United States and
other western countries who oppose emigration of Jews from those countries to Israel
would revise their views was expressed here Tuesday by Dr. Nahum Goldmann, presi-
dent of the World Jewish Congress, in an address at the opening session of the third
plenary session of the organization.
"These groups," Dr. Goldmann said, "all thoroughly friendly and helpful to Israel
and concerned about Israel's future, are of the mistaken notion that to urge Jews to go
to Israel is somewhat incompatible with the loyalty and devotion to the countries in
which they live. The sooner this attitude is rooted out of Jewish life the better."
"No one regards the millions of non-Jews who want to emigrate from Europe_.
many of whom are helped by their countries to do so—as disloyal," Dr. Goldmann con-
tinued. "Why then should Jews sharing the same desire be considered so?"
Dr. Goldmann also expressed hope that the resumption of diplomatic relations by
the Soviet government with Israel would result in a change in the emigration policies
of the Soviet Union and the other countries behind the Iron Curtain, thus opening larger
reservoirs of potential Jewish immigrants to Israel.
The most pressing responsibility in Jewish life today, Dr. Goldmann emphasized, is
aiding Israel to solve her complex economic, political and social problems "which threat-
en the very existence of the Jewish state." He described these problems as "enormous,"
requiring years and perhaps decades of determined effort before they can be. solved.
Israel's major problems which must find solution to assure her existence are that of
achieving peace with the Arab world, of integrating the Jewish state into a communi-
ty "of nations in the Middle East," of developing a national economy which will make
Israel a self-sustaining Jewish community and of molding hundreds of thousands of im-
migrants from a score of countries and of diverse background cultures and languages
into a homogeneous group of Israel citizens.
"Israel's difficulties," Dr. Goldmann pointed opt, "stem from the fact that the Jewish
state was born in one of the most sensitive strategic spots on earth and was burdened
with the task of absorbing hordes of immigrants in such a /brief period of time." He
termed the efforts which will be required on the part of Israel and world Jewry to sur-
mount these difficulties as even "more arduous" than the ones which involved Jewry
in the launching of the Jewish state five years ago.
Dr. Goldmann suggested two courses of action as basic to the ultimate solution of
Israel's difficulties: 1. Because Israel is unique among nations, in that only a small pro-
portion of its total or potential population resides there presently, every step should be
taken to increase Jewish immigration to Israel; 2. Because Israel cannot hope to solve
her problems without unstinted support of world Jewry, greater understanding and amity
must be developed between the two.
"Both must become concerned with the totality of the Jewish people with its needs,
interests and ideas," Dr. Goldmann stated. "Israel's responsibilities, stemming as they
do from tasks of statehood and that of the Jewish communities outside of Israel, which
is based on domestic and general problems—such as relationships with other groups, an-
ti-Semitism, health, Jewish education and religious needs—must be brought into bal-
ance.
"It would be unfortunate if a conflict were permitted to develop between these two
sets of responsibilities," Dr. Goldmann continued. "Instead, a way must be found
whereby the Jewish communities outside of Israel will realize that their dignity and
their very survival is linked with the future and the survival of Israel and whereby Israel
will realize that it must have the help of the Jewish people to survive and that Israel's
future is dependent on the well being—material and spiritual—of the Jewish people as a
whole.
German Parliament Unanimously Approves Bill
To Compensate Individual Victims of Nazism
—International Photo
Finalys in Israel:
This first exclusive pho-
tograph of Robert and Gerald Finaly shows the two Jewish
orphans, whose fate aroused a storm of religious controversy,
upon their arrival in Israel. They are accompanied by their
aunt, Mrs. Yehudith Rosner, and Rabbi Cohen of Grenoble,
Spain. Mrs. Rosner gained custody of the boys after a long
legal battle in France. The youngsters were baptized in 1948
and were secretly taken to Spain by Catholic priests and nuns
with the intention of keeping them in the Christian fold. A
JTA report from Paris this week revealed that Mlle. Antoinette
Brun, the woman who had the Finaly boys baptized as Catho-
kcs when they were five and seven years old, and who helped
spirit them out of the country when the French courts award-
ed the orphans' custody to their aunt, called at the summer
residence of President Vincent Auriol to ask his intervention
to have the children returned from Israel to France. Mlle.
Brun said that she had saved the children from certain death
at the hands of the Naziso
BONN, (JTA)—At the last possible moment of its four-year legislative term the
Bundesrat, the Upper House of the West German Parliament, gave its unanimous ap-
proval to a bill to indemnify individual victims of the Nazis. The measure, which goes
into effect Oct. 1, was pledged in the reparations agreement between West Germany
and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany.
It is believed that somewhat more than half the beneficiaries are Jews. It is esti-
mated that if all payments are carried out in good faith the total to be paid the Nazi
victims will range between $700,000,000 and $1,000,000,000 during the next 10 years.
The law, previously passed by the Lower House, provides for direct payments to
Nazi victims, or their surviving dependents who were illegally detained by the Nazis or
who lost property or suffered physical injuries resulting in disabilities as a result of
Nazi persecution. Former concentration camp inmates will receive approximately $35
for each month that they were imprisoned.
Compensation legislation- is already on the books in the German states, which so
far have paid out about $15,000,000 to Nazi victims. German Jews in the United States
zone will be least affected by the new bill because it is modeled after restitution legis-
lation in effect in that zone. Improvement will result for Jews in the French and British
zones.
Bavaria Pays 1,500,000 Marks for Restitution to Nazi Victims
MUNICH, (JTA) — The Bavarian government's Restitution Office paid out 5,000,-
000 marks to the victims of Nazi persecution in the State of Bavaria during the month of
June. This is the highest monthly total of payments since the Restitution Office was
opened.