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Iraq to Release Detained. Israelis;
Hammarskjold Sees Peace Hope

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UNITED NATIONS — Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold announced Tues-
day that Israel had complied with the Iraqi terms for releasing three Israeli citizens
imprisoned in Bagdad when their plane was forced down.
He told a press conference Tuesday that he had received a letter from the
Israel government saying that it was Israel's policy to return any Iraqi citizens found
in its territory. He had forwarded this letter, which was dated a week ago, to the
Iraqi delegation. Such a letter had been demanded by the Iraqis who contended that
seven unnamed Iraqi citizens might be somewhere in Israel.
When he was asked if this was not similar to Hitler's principle of holding host-
ages, he agreed that the principle was an "extraordinary" one, but if the parties agreed
there was nothing he could do. Mr. Hammarskjold also announced that he was giv-
ing "active consideration" to strengthening also the observer group in Palestine under
Maj. Vagn Bennike. He said he did not understand Danish reports that the Danish
government would ask Gen. Bennike to resign and he indicated that he had full con-
fidence in the general.
The Secretary General said that this diplomatic exchange was another sign of
the "irregular conditions" in the Middle East.
The Secretary General also told the press conference that the interdepartmental
committee headed by Dr. Ralph Bunche had wound up its work on surveying the question
of the use of Jordan River waters. He said he would see "if there was any common
ground where the secretariat action would be wise."

British, Jordan Confer
On Renewal of Direct
Contacts With Israel

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Rare Haggadah:

on the eve of Passover,
one of the rarest Haggadahs in the world was presented to
the American Fund for Israel Institutions by Mrs. A. S. Ya-
huda of New Haven for the Bezalel Museum, Jerusalem, a
beneficiary of the American Fund. Above (right) is Dr.
MORDECAI NARKISS, director of the Museum, receiving
the gift from Mrs. YAHUDA. This Passover Haggadah, to
be known as the "Yahuda Haggadah" in honor of Mrs. Ya-
huda's late husband, the eminent Prof. A. S. Yahuda, is one of
only three. Haggadahs known remaining from those that were
used in Germany at the beginning of the second half of the
15th century. Of the other two, one is in the National Mu-
seum, Nurnberg, Germany, and the other is in the Bibliothe-
que Nationale in Paris. The manuscript, hand lettered on
parchment, is profusely illuminated in rich colors of gold and
silver, with polished lettering and ornaments. The illustra-
tions follow the tradition of German gothic architecture and
ornamentation, with picture captions in Hebrew rhyme and
Occasionally German. The "Yahuda Haggadah" has 40 leaves
and is bound in 5 quaternions (8 pages to each quaternion)
with every page illustrated. This Haggadah, whose existence
was last mentioned in 1898 in the Revue des Etudes Juives
by Prof. David Kaufman, was lost for many years in the liter-
ature on illuminated Haggadahs and is not mentioned at all
in the authoritative study by Italiner-Freiman. This rare
volume will be added to the collection at the Bezalel Museum,
which has one of the most important collections of Hagga-
dahs in the world.

LONDON—The British and Jor-
dan governments have been con-
ferring the last two weeks on the
Israel-Jordon border situation, the
London Times reported Tuesday.
Jordan is hoping to obtain Bri-
tish agreement to invocation of
the Anglo-Jordan Treaty of 1948.
under which either party is re-
quired to come to the assistance
of the other in the event of an
attack. Jordan last tried unsuc-
cessfully to obtain British assist-
ance to patrol the border in Febru-
ary of 1953, the Times said.
The newspaper reported that
the British government is most
concerned with re-establishing
direct contact between Jordan and
Israel- in the wake of Israel's boy-
cott of the Mixed Armistice Com-
mission. It adds that while Jordan
refuses to meet with Israel under
the terms of Article XII of the
armistice agreement, it might be
willing to confer if all the Arab
states participated and if t h e
agenda was restricted to the single
item of border conflict.

The United Nations Security Council ses-
sion on the Israel-Jordan cross-complaints of
armistice agreement violation's was postponed
by Andrei Vishinsky of the Soviet Union, who
is president of the Council this month, and will
be held on Thursday. The postponement, Mr.
Vishinsky said, was due to the illness of Dr.
Charles Malik, Lebanese member of the Secur-
ity Council who speaks for the Arab states.
A request by the Israel delegation that the
session originally set for last Monday be post-
poned because it conflicted with the second
day of Passover, was rejected several days ago
by Mr. Vishinsky. The Israel delegation then
announced it would not be present at Monday's
session.

Arabs, With Soviet Backing,
Block UN Palestine Debate

Israel denounced a Lebanese attempt to force
the Security Council to commit itself to a con-
demnation of the alleged Israeli attack on the
Jordanian village of Nahalin in exchange for
Arab agreement to a general discussion by the
Council of Jordan-Israel relations.
The Arab demand, supported by the Soviet
Union, that the Council first consider the com-
plaint against Israel, plunged the Security Coun-
cil into a procedural morass from which it could
not find an egress in two heated sessions.
The Western Powers, with the backing of a
majority of the members of the Council, stood
out for an overall discussion of the Jordan-Israel
situation. They accepted a Brazilian-Colombian
compromise under which the agenda would be

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2 Major Campaign Events: Opening Rally
Tuesday Evening; omen s G-Day, May 2

Two major events will mark the formal opening of the 1954 Allied Jewish Campaign..
The opening rally, next Tuesday evening, at Temple Israel, will be addressed by
Congressman Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., of New York, and Israel Minister of Communi-
cations Joseph Saphir. Cantor Moshe Kusevitsky, will be the guest artist.
Women's Division annual G-Day will be on May 2, when 2,000 women will solicit
14,000 prospective women contributors.

