Purim's Lesson!' 'The Ungodly Are Like Thorns THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review In the Flesh' Editorial, Page 4 /OL. 25, No. 1 of Jewish Events 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE. 8-9364—Detroit 35, March 12, 1954 As a Volunteer Worker in the 1954 Allied Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle ceS 31. , Enroll NOW Jewish Campaign $4.00 Per Year; Single Copy, 15c 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. 10 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 - 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. - 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. .