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Editorial, Page 4
/OL. 25, No. 1
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Eisenhower Rep • rt Stresses Aid
To Israel,NotesUnabate Tension
roogressmen Seek to Block
Sending II S. Arms to Araks
, . _WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Members of Congress, repre-
If
ienting both parties, issued a statement revealing that
hey had held a meeting with officials of the State Depart-
, nellt: f..7,:m whom they sought assurances that the U. S.
government would not supply arms to the Arab states as
ong as their rulers refuse to make peace with Israel.
The statement does not indicate whether the desired
tssurances were secured. From diplomatic sources it was
earned that Acting Secretary of State Walter Bedell Smith
,nd Assistant Secretary of State Henry A. Byroade argued
hat American arms aid for Arab states is necessary for
he "security" of the area.
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iioreatn Hero:
This JWB Bureau of War
records photo shows Sgt. ROBERT A. LERNER, who
Dst a leg in combat in Korea, receiving the Silver Star
rom Brig. Gen. CORBY, deputy commander of the
Valter Reed Army Medical Center and Hospital,
Washington, D.C. Sgt. Lerner, son of Mrs. Minnie
erner, 1541 E. 29th St., Brooklyn, N.Y., is a patient
It Walter Reed where he is being fitted for an artificial
-eg. He plans to study medicine. JWB activities are
inanced in Detroit by the Jewish Welfare Federation's
Allied Jewish Campaign.
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—President Eisenhower on Monday transmitted to Congress a
report on the operation of the Mutual Security program which said "the tensions between
Arab and Israeli have not abated, and only a precarious truce is maintained."
The President's report, which was for the six months ended Dec. 31, 1953, said:
"Boycott of Israeli goods and firms has been extended; the Arab refugee problem remains
as a tragic barrier to regional harmony." It noted that "dispute over the Jordan waters
has stirred hatred and bitterness and has aggravated nationalism to a degree which threat-
ens the possibility of cooperative development of this vital resource."
The report recommended military aid to the Near East, stressing the importance
of the countries possessing oil. It did not list any particular Arab League state nor did
it list Israel as a suggested recipient of such aid.
The Arab refugee problem, involving what was said to be 850,000 Palestinian Arab
refugees, was described in the Presidential report in great detail. "These refugees," said
the report, "constitute a serious problem which is woven inextricably into the economic,
social and political frictions that afflict the Near East." It said this problem "remains as
one of the principal unresolved issues between Israel and the Arabs."
President Eisenhower considered "the most significant development" during the
period covered by the report to be "the preparation of a plan for unified development of
the Jordan Valley." It was said that Mr. Eisenhower has
now asked Eric Johnston to return to the area "for fur-
Sen. Wiley Joins in
ther discussion as soon as the governments complete their
review."
Urging Austria Honor
It was estimated in the report "that 240,000 acres of
Jewry's 'Just Claims'
land, now idle and unproductive, can be put - into produc-
tion if the proposed development plan is accepted. Most
NEW YORK (JTA)—The
trian government was urged to
of this land would yield three crops a year. In addition,
honor the "just claims" of Aus-
more than 65,000 kilowatts of power could be made avail-
trian Jewish victims of Nazism
able to aid the industrial development of the area."
and "not to seek to• enrich it-
The report told of how "Israel is helped to stabilize
self" at the expense of these
its
economy"
through special U.S. economic aid. Of the
victims.
$26,000,000 made available in NoVember, 1953, the re-
The call to the Austrian goy=
port said that $20,500,000 worth of procurement author-
ernment was issued at a mem-
izations were issued within two months. There was no
orial meeting here marking the
indication as to whether or not Congress will be asked
16th year since the Nazis march-
for economic assistance allocations for Israel for the
ed into Austria. Principal speak-
next fiscal year.
ers included Senator Alexander
Wiley, chairman of the Senate
Foreign. Relations Committee;
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chair-
man of the Jewish Agency and
president of the Committee for
Jewish_ Claims on Austria; Con-
gressman Jacob Javits and Dr.
Gustav Jellinek, vice-president
of the American Federation of
Jews from Austria, which ar--/
ranged the meeting.
By honoring the claims of
surviving Austrian Jewry, "our
friend Austria can play an ex-
panded role in the family of
nations," Sen. Wiley said.
"Already there has been delay,
unfortunately," Sen. Wiley said.
UN to Act on Israel's Complaint
Against Egyptian Blockade Today
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — The Turkish president
of the Security Council, Selim Sarper, on Tuesday called
a meeting of the Council for this afternoon to resume
consideration of Israel's complaint against the Egyptian
blockade of the Suez Canal and the Gulf of Eilath. It is
understood that New Zealand's delegate Leslie Knox
Munro prepared a draft which he discussed with Security
Council members, particularly the Big Three. No one else,
including Israel, has seen the resolution which is expected
to go as far as the last Security Council resolution on
the Suez blockade in 1951, but 1.1so is expected to go no
further.
'Seven Pointers of Israel' Exhibit Comes to Detroit
'1 oonsored by J. L Hudson Co., March 20 to April 7
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J. L. Hudson Co. this week announced that it will
onsor the "Seven Painters of Israel" exhibition, starting
.arch 20, and continuing through April 7, at its Wood-
ard Avenue store.
A preview of the exhibit has been arranged by
the Jewish Welfare Federation and the Detroit
Round Table of Christians and Jews for Friday,
Vlarch 19, 2 to 5 p.m.
Assembled and circulated by the Institute of Con-
e mporary Art of Boston, Mass., of which James S. Plaut
director, the exhibition was first shown at the Boston
stitute and then at the Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh;
e Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, at the
ne time as the archaeological exhibition From the Land
the Bible;" also presented by the American Fund; the
bright Art Gallery of Buffalo; Baltimore Museum of Art;
Los Angeles County Museum; the Tucson Fine Arts
sociarion; and now in Detroit.
Following the local showing the exhibition will travel
Coral Gables, Fla.
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The exhibition, now being presented nationally, was
aught to this country by the American Fund for Israel
stitutions, a beneficiary of the Detroit Jewish Welfare
xletation's Allied Jewish Campaign, as part of its pro-
:am of cultural exchange between the United States and
rael,
"Seven Painters of Israel" co4tains 70 paintings by
. rordecai Ardon-Bronstein, Moshe Castel, Nahum Gut-
:Ann, Marcel Janco, Moshe Mokakly. Reuven Rubin and
Wearin' o' the Green
Yarmelke From. Israel.
Brings. Touch of Erin
Only one of the painters, Moshe Castel, is Israeli by
birth, but the others have long been identified with the
country throughout the most significant chapters in its
modern history. Nahum Gutmann came to Palestine as a
child in 1903; Rubin, whose paintings are best known in
this country, arrived in 1912; Mokady in 1920; Zaritzky
in 1924; Ardon in 1933; Janco in 1942.
NEW YORK — A touch of Old
Erin has come to France from the
Holy Land, via Morocco, and Ameri-
can Jewish GIs stationed in the Com-
munications Zone have let the Wear-
in' of the Green go to their heads, ac-
cording to the Jewish Welfare Board.
It all began when Chaplain Mor-
ton Lifshutz, Washington, 'D. C., as-
signed to Army Hq. in Orleans,
France, on a trip to Israel last sum-
mer, ordered a shipment of Yarmel-
kes for his soldier congregation. Now,
these skull caps are normally black,
or possibly blue or white. The yar-
melkes from Israel, arriving months
later after having been misdirected
to Morocco, were brilliant green.
In addition to the "Seven Painters of Israel" exhibi-
tion, the American Fund, in its cultural program, has pre-
sented the Isrpl Philharmonic Orchestra in the United
States, including an appearance in Detroit, as well as the
Habim ah Theater; and in turn has sent American works
of art and great American musical and theatrical artists to
Israel.
The American Fund for Israel Institutions has de-
veloped this inter-cultural program in conjunction with
its efforts for scores of Israel art and training centers and
academies.
So this is now the situation: A large
quantity of skull caps, bought by a Jew-
ish chaplain, in Israel, with funds made
available by the Commission on Jewish
Chaplaincy of the National Jewish Wel-
fare Board, is setting a new style for
Jewish GIs in a land where new styles
in headgear are born. And at Chaplain
Lifshutz's services, a wit is sometimes
heard to say:
"Begorrah, it's a foine Shabbes
(Sabbath) service we're having today."
Joseph Zaritzky. The exhibition has been endorsed by rep-
resentatives of the Israel and American governments as a
"salutary undertaking in the realm of cultural exchange."
Included in the exhibition are men whose leadership
in Israel go far beyond their art work. Mordecai Ardon,
formerly head of the Bezalel Arts and Crafts School, is now
director of art for the Israel Ministry of Education and
Culture. Moshe Mokady preceded Mr. Ardon as the first
director of art. Reuven Rubin, called the "Dean of Israel
Painters," was the first Ambassador of Israel to Romania.
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