`Granting Arms to Iraq Puts Premium I
Qi
On Opposition to Peace '—Sharett
JERUSALEM. (JTA) — The
United States' decision to grant
arms to Iraq can only have the
effect of worsening Middle East
tension and of "placing a pre-
mium on opposition to peace,"
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ORT in Israel : Comment on
Article by Daniel Elazar
Editor, The Jewish News:
The difficult and dangerous
situation with regard to second-
ary education in Israel was ex-
cellently presented by Daniel
Elazar in your April 16 issue. Too
few people are aware of the
problem and The Detroit Jewish
News performed a signal service
in bringing it to community at-
tention.
The facts are simple enough.
While primary education in Isra-
el is rapidly coming to cover all
youth in the 6 to 14 year age
group, the high school system
stagnates. Of the some 100,000
youngsters in these impression-
able adolescent years only a
handful — about 15,000—are re-
ceiving a secondary education.
There are another 5,000 in full
time vocational high schools,
and a like number in agricultural
schools. For the rest there are
no facilities. no schools or teach-
ers. High tuition fees bar the
vast majority, particularly youth
of North African and Eastern
origin. The majority of Israel's
teen-agers have been described
by Jacob Oleiski, ORT director
in Israel as "standing at the
crossroads of life with no sign-
post to indicate what turn to
take."
The situation with regard to
vocational education, which is
the primary area of ORT inter-
est, is at least as bad, if not
worse. I refer here to the sec-
ondary trade schools. The ORT
network in Israel of 33 schools
in 18 cities and towns, with an
enrollment of 2,000, is the largest
in the field. In all candidness it
must be said, however, that what
ORT, together with all other or-
ganizations engaged in vocation-
al training of youth are doing,
is but a fraction of what is ur-
gently needed.
Gen. Dori, president of Israel's
Technion, has estimated that
only between 30 and 40% of the
needs of Israel's industry for
trained personnel are being met
by the vocational high schools.
Yet this is the generation from
which must be drawn the indus-
trial and agricultural managers,
skilled workmen, foremen, su-
pervisors and other technicians.
The supply of educated future
leaders for the nation is being
narrowed down to a dangerous
extent. It is likewise an unbal-
anced educational system, de-
spite efforts at rectification, that
draws 95% of its students from
the "Western" half of the popu-
lation and finds room for only
5% from the "Eastern" half,
There are many good reasons
for this situation, of course. The
Israeli government has many
urgent priorities affecting its
survival. Nonetheless, since sec-
ondary schooling, including vo-
cational, is sponsored by non-
governmental groups, most of
which are represented here, the
American Jewish community has
channels through which to rec-
ognize and attempt to amelior-
ate this serious condition.
PAUL BERNICK,
Executive Secretary, ORT
Reflections of the Warsaw
Ghetto Memorial Meeting
Editor. The Jewish News:
One of the fundamental
lessons that all freedom-lov-
ing people everywhere may
learn from the heroic battle
against tyranny by the men
and women in the ghetto of
Warsaw is well expressed in
the following quotation,
"Befgoah chayahs - hodom
be, dom hatain tachas dom."
"If we are ever attacked
by beastly human being s,
there shall be no submission
but blood for. blood."
—AARON M. PREGERSON
Premier Moshe Sharett told
newsmen here.
He noted that an Israeli re-
quest for similar U. S. military
aid had not been granted al-
though it was based on "simple
security needs and on consider-
ation of regional responsibility."
The latest aspect of the Mu-
tual Security legislation was in-
formation from Washington of
t?ie elimination of a non-aggres-
sion clause which might restrain
Iraq from using its arms against
Israel.
The new draft repeals section
202A of the Mutual Security law
dealing specifically with guaranL
tees that no shipment is to be
provided unless the recipient re-
frains from committing aggres-
sion against any other nation.
Acting on the advice of the
State Department, Congress "re-
codified" the law, in which the
anti-aggression guarantee was
repealed. The Department of
Defense, it was learned, is now
considering an arms grant to
Saudi Arabia. It is known that
a Saudi Arabian military attache
has been involved in detailed
conversations on the subject.
Policy Reversal by Britain
Britain welcomed the U. S. de-
cision to supply free arms to
Iraq, Foreign Office sources in
London revealed. It was indi-
cated that the British govern-
ment was kept fully informed of
developments in the situation.
The same sources, however,
were unable to confirm a re-
port that most of the arms sup-
plied would be actually manu-
factured in Britain and pur-
chased by the U. S. as part of
its offshore procurement pro-
gram.
A delegation representing the
American Zionist Council for
Public Affairs discussed the
Iraqi situation for over one-
and-one-half hours with Assis-
tant Secretary of State Byroade
and urged that the United
States reconsider its decision to
grant arms to the Arab state.
The delegation stressed the
belief that the best interests
of the. U.S. would be served by
concentration on economic as-
sistance to raise living, standards
in the Middle East and by bring-
ing about reconciliation and co-
operation. It said that "to throw
arms into the region at this
moment is to gamble with peace
and security."
It was emphasized that the
plan may undermine rather
than strengthen Middle Eastern
defenses and that the region
could not be made secure
against Communism until there
is a reconciliation of internal
conflicts.
The delegation was headed by
Louis Lipsky, chairman of the
council, and included: I. L.
Kenen, its executive director;
Rabbi Mordecai Kirshblum, of
the Mizrachi, and Rabbi James
G. Heller, of the Labor-Zionist
Organization of America.
President Eisenhower indicat-
ed to his press conference that
he envisions military assistance
to Iraq for use against Com-
munism and not for any local
war.
The President was asked if in
view of the decision to grant
arms aid to Iraq the Adminis-
tration considered similar assis-
tance for Israel. He replied that
he had forgotton for the mo-
ment the state of American neg-
otiations with Israel but that
he knew we have rendered econ-
omic assistance to Israel.
GOP Leader Gives Assurance
The Republican National Com-
mittee issued a statement by
Bernard Katzen, its Jewish af-
fairs expert, reporting "assur-
ances" from Under-Secretary of
State Walter Bedell Smith and
Byroade that arms sent to Iraq
will represent no danger to Is-
rael.
Katzen said that he had met
Smith and Byroade to discuss
the Iraq arms questions. He said
he was "assured" by State De-
partment officials "that our
Government is using all possible
means to bring about better re-
lations and ultimate peace be-
tween the Arabs and Lsrael and
it will continue to work for the
establishment of a stable peace
in the Middle East.'
DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-5
Friday, May 7, 1954
Travis Succeeds Isbey
In State Bond Post
Secretary of the Treasury
George M. Humphrey announces
the appointment of Noble D.
Travis, vice president of the De-
troit Trust Company, as state
chairman of the
U. S. Savings
Bonds Advisory
Committee f o r,
Michigan.
Travis suc-"
ceeds Frank N.'
Isbey, who re-
signed in Feb-
ruary after
serving as
Michigan state
chairman since Travis
the inception of the savings
bonds program in 1941.
The new state chairman will
direct volunteer activities for the
entire state, including the Treas-
ury's "Billion More in '54" Sav-
ings Bonds campaign.
Sentencing of Romanian Leaders
Raises Storm of Protest in Free World
LONDON, (JTA) — Some 25
Jewish leaders have been sen-
tenced in Romania to long prison
terms—including three life sen-
tences—following their convic-
tion on charges of illegal Zionist
activity and maintaining con-
tact with the Israel legation in
Bucharest.
World Jewish Congress re-
ported that some 40 Jews, in-
cluding six women, were indicted
in the trials which are still con-
tinuing. This is the fifth mass
trial involving over 150 leaders
of the Romanian Jewish Com-
munity, many of whom have
been in prisons for the past four
years.
From New York, Dr. Nahum
Goldmann, president of WJC,
said, "The information which
has reached WJC on the secret
trials of about 100 leaders will
be received with horror and in-
dignation not only in the Jewish
communities throughout t h e
world, but everywhere that men
respect human dignity and be-
lieve in intellectual freedom."
He concluded by stating, "It is
within the power of the Ro-
manian government to reverse
a policy which must be con-
demned by the civilian world.
We earnestly call upon them to
halt the trials now in progress
and to restore to freedom men
and women who already have
languished in prison."
Meanwhile, in Tel Aviv, a pub-
lic committee has been estab-
lished to seek the release and
subsequent admission to Israel
of the Romanian leaders, ac-
cording to Idov Cohen, Knesset
member and a leader of the for-
mer Romanian Jews now living
in Israel,
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Dr. Hale Named Director of U.S. Mission in Israel
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Dr.
Lincoln B. Hale, 54, president of
Evansville (Indiana) C o 1 1 e g e,
has been officially named direc-
tor of the U.S. operations mis-
sions in Israel, which is receiv-
ing $52,500,000 in special eco-
nomic aid for the current fiscal
year.
Besides the special economic
aid program, Dr. Hale will direct
the extensive work under the
technical cooperation program,
which affects virtually all ele-
ments of the economy. U.S.
technicians are contributing to-
ward the development of Israel's
transportation, educational, agri-
cultural, industrial, public health
and sanitation systems. During
the current fiscal year $1,487,000
Churches of Christ Greet
National Tercentenary Body
has been alloted for this pur-
pose.
Dr. Hale was born in Ansonia,
Conn., in August, 1899. He was
awarded degrees at Yale and
Vincennes Universities. Fr o m
1927 to 1930, he was assistant
director of t h e Thessaloniki
Agricultural and Industrial In-
stitute in Greece. He is an or-
dained minister of the Congre-
gational Church, and served as
field representative of the Yale
Divinity School.
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