Two Dangers
Facing Jewry:
Arab War Threats
and Resurgence
THE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
of Nazism
Editorials, Page 4
VOL. 25, No. 3
of Jewish Events
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Arabs Threaten to Attack Jewish State
Israel Seeks Western Aid
To Prevent .War; Protests,
Failure to Censure Jordan
Mounting war Threats in the Middle East, defiance of Israel's status by the Arab states and murderous attacks
on Israeli citizens by infiltrees from Moslem countries: pointed to rising threats of a possible renewal of the Arab-Israel
war, Israeli spokesman renewed their appeals to the Western Powers and to the United Nations to exert their influence
to prevent organized warfare and to demand an end of Arab aggression, while the Arabs launched a campaign against
Israel marked by charges That the Jewish state is mobilizing for war. A crisis in the Mixed Armistice Commission in Israel
and the refusal of Jordan to comply with the UN call for a meeting with Israel to discuss the armistice agreement added
to the tension and to rising threats of war.
Israelis Walk Out of Armistice Commifsion Meeting
$900,000 for `Yavneh Fellowships'
In Protest Against America's Abstention on Censure
German Reparations Funds
Aid Cultural Rehabilitation
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NEW YORK, (JTA)—Nearly $1,000,000 from West Germany's
first reparations payments to Israel has been allocated for use
during 1954 in an unprecedented program of cultural rehabilita-
tion, including scholarships and fellowships to Nazi victims and
for the salvage of the vast cultural treasures destroyed by the
Nazis. The allocation was voted by the board of directors of the
Conference -on - Jewish Material Claims Against Germany meeting
at the Hotel Roosevelt here.
Attending the board meetings were more than 40 representa-
tives of major Jewish organizations and communities in the free
world. More than a half of this sum of $900,000 will be devoted
to a program of grants to Jewish students and teachers, known
as the "Yavne Fellowships" after a town in Palestine in which
the greatest academicians and intellectuals of the second Jewish
Commonwealth congregated to pursue Jewish learning following
the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem.
This is part of the $9,000,000 which the conference assigned
to aid 30,000 needy Jewish victims of Nazism -z;-ho now live in
Western Europe, the Americas, Africa, Australia and the Far
East. The allocations include funds providing legal assistance
to about 100,000 individual claimants seeking restitution and in-
demnification from West Germany. The $9,000,000 is the con-
ference share of the moneys received by Israel to date under the
$822,000,000 Bonn-Israel reparations agreement.
The conference went on record as satisfied with West
Germany's compliance, so far, with the terms of her year-old
reparations pact with Israel. However, the resolution deplores
the Bonn government's failure to implement and improve
its indemnification laws and thereby alleviate the hardships
of Many thousands of claimants. The resolution demanded
that the German federal government correct "without further
delay" the deficiencies of the indemnification law and
called for the immediate issuance by Bonn of regulations for
its effective implementation.
The program for cultural rehabilitation is intended to help
fill the almost irreparable gap left by the destruction of • great
Jewish centers of learning, of schools, synagogues, libraries, mu-
seums and archives and by the loss of countless numbers of
Jewish lay and professional leaders which has robbed Jewish
communities throughout the world of a great cultural potential.
The program will include scholarships and fellowships for
Jewish studies; special projects for independent research by
scholars in the field of Jewish creative arts and sciences; sti-
pends for students in Yeshivas, rabbinical seminaries trans-
planted from Eastern Europe; grants-in-aid to Jewish teachers
who were victims of Nazism; the salvage, restoration and pre-
servation of Jewish books, manuscripts, historical documents,
records, works of art, religious articles and other cultural treas-
ures which were destroyed or lost during the Nazi regime in
Europe.
The program is based on the recommendations of a
group of outstanding scholars from America and Europe
who constitute a Cultural Advisory Committee, chaired by
Prof. Salo W. Baron of Columbia University, which has been
studying the problem of cultural restoration for over a year.
It will be carried out in cooperation with established Jewish
organizations in various fields and with Jewish communi-
ties of Europe.
The conference board of directors announced that the
Joint Distribution Committee with a record of four decades
as a major international relief organization, will be entrusted
with the administration of funds and the supervision of
their use by established relief organizations in the countries
concerned. The conference monies will supplement the funds
available from the United Jewish Appeal which are unable,
alone, to meet rehabilitation needs.
The meetings considered applications totalling $54,000,000
for relief and rehabilitation activities from 100 organizations
operating in 31 countries, more than six times the sum available
this year.
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM — The Israeli delegation to the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice
Commission Tuesday walked out of an emergency meeting of the commission when
the United Nations chairman, American Naval Commander E. R. Hutchinson, ab-
stained on a resolution condemning the Jordan government as responsible for the
ambush in the Negev last week which cost 11 Israeli men, women and children their
lives.
There were indications that the Israeli walk-out meant that Israel would quit
the commission rather than merely walk out of one session in protest. The resolution
proposed by the Israeli delegation read:
"The Mixed Armistice Commission deeply deplores the loss of innocent lives in-
curred as a result of the attack on the Israeli bus carried out by a Jordanian organ-
ized gang with rifles and automatic weapons near Scorpion Pass, March 17.
"The Mixed Armistice Commission finds Jordan responsible for this unprovoked
attack which resulted in the cold-blooded murder of 11 passengers and the wounding of
two others, which constitutes a most flagrant violation of the armistice agreement.
"The Mixed Armistice Commission condemns in the strongest terms the latest
Jordan aggression and calls on the Jordan authorities to terminate all warlike acts
against Israel, take the most effective measures to prevent the future violation of the
armistice agreement, to apprehend the culprits and to mete out severe punishment to
the perpetrators of this crime and those responsible for it."
In the voting on the resolution, which was held paragraph by paragraph, the
Israelis voted for the first paragraph the Jordanians voted against and the chairman
abstained. After the same vote was registered on the second paragraph, the senior
Israeli delegate, Lt. Col. Arieh Shalev, declared: "The Israeli delegation is not in posi-
tion under these circumstances to continue its participation in the Israel-Jordan Mixed
Armistice Commission." The Israelis then walked out.
When the MAC meeting opened, the chairman suggested that discussion be
postponed i 1 ,, til the completion of the investigation into the details of the ambush.
The IsrL
1 -gation asserted that the investigation of the massacre itself had noth-
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Lions' President Refracts Anti-Jewish
Statements; Regrets Attacks on Israel
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A retraction of anti-Jewish statements he made in Los An-
geles last month was made to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency this week by S. A. Dodge,
of Detroit, president of Lions International.
In a statement to the JTA, Mr. Dodge declared that a JTA dispatch quoting his re-
marks in Los Angeles "has given the impression that I harbor ill feeling toward people
of Jewish faith" and added:
"The statements which you quoted were made by me, under great stress, shortly
after I had returned from a trip durino. which I had witnessed the shocking plight of
the Arab refugees and felt that possible Communist inroads in the Middle East could
lead to a conflict involving the use of American troops.
"Unfortunately, I had only partial knowledge of the reasons for these conditions and
did not realize the full implications of my statement. I regret exceedingly that the re-
porting of my statements seemed to reflect any anti-Semitic attitude on my part be-
cause this, of course, is diametrically opposed to my own viewpoint as it is to that of
Lions International. I could not condone such thinking_ either personally or as a repre-
sentative of the association."
Mr. Dodge declared that he had since conferred with representatives of the Anti-
Defamation League of Bnai Brith and "information has been made available to me on the
problems of Israel, the origins of the Arab-Israel conflict, the Arab refugee problem and
the American program of aid to the Arab States as well as to Israel. This has given me
a broader perspective of the complex problems in this troubled area.
"I am more deeply impressed with the necessity for renewed efforts to establish
peace between Israel and the Arab states which would provide the conditions for justice
for all the peoples of that area.
"I earnestly hope and pray to God," Mr. Dodge concluded, "that our Lions organiza-
tion, with its basic emphasis on service to all men, regardless of race or creed, may be-
come an agency through which the peoples of all nations meet in an atmosphere of
friendship and mutual understanding to solve, according to the will of our Creator, the
many problems that vex the human family, that the world may be, as planned in the be-
ginning, a place of peace."