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Romania Faces UNESCO Opposition
In Retaliation for. Anti-Semitism

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

German. Bundestag Unanimously
Approves Act Against Genocide

BONN, (JTA)—The West German Bundestag unanimously
approver the second and third readings of a bill calling for Ger-
man dherence to the international Convention Against
Genocide.
- The bill still has to be approved by the Federal Council, but
this is expected to be a mere 7ormality. West German formal
ratification of the genocide measure is expected by the end of
Summer or Fall, at the latest.
The bill was approved after a sponsoring address by Jacob
Altmaier, Jewish member of the Social Democratic Party. He
recalled that a "trail of blood" marked Germany's recent history
and insisted that this "trail of horror" made it imperative that
Germany pledge its support to an international law which pro-
vided the heaviest penalties for crimes of a like nature.
He noted, however, that the convention would be able to ful-
fill its "true intent only if it became a matter of the heart rather
than a mere legislative measure; if it awakened the conscience
of each individual to the moral obligation of preventing the
new flowering of poisonous seeds." When no other speakers rose
to make any comment on the measure, the Speaker of the House
declared the bill adopted unanimously.

Fort Knox Bar illitzvah:

Jewish
chaplains recruited, ecclesiastically endorsed and served by
the National Jewish Welfare Board's Commission on Jewish
Chaplaincy perform a large variety of services not only for
Jewish GIs and veterans but for their families as well. Here,
for example, Chaplain SAMUEL Z. JAFFE (left) officiates
at the Bar Mitzvah of JEFFREY CARL MAGNUM, son of
Major and Mrs. Benjamin C. Magnum, in the 13th Cavalry
Road Chapel, Fort Knox, Ky. Major Magnum is at the right
of his son. This was the first such ceremony ever held at
Fort Knox.

GENEVA—The United Nations Economic and Social Council voted to admit
Romania into membership in the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural
Organization, but the margin by which the vote passed indicated that the application
might be rejected in the UNESCO general council where membership applications
must be accepted by two-thirds majority.
The vote for admission was 10 for, seven against and one nation abstaining.
Voting against were the United States, Britain, France, Turkey, China, Cuba and Ecu-
ador. Venezuela abstained.
The American delegate, J. Hotchkiss, opposed admission on the grounds that
there was no reason to have confidence in Romania's living up to her obligation after
admission into UNESCO and that the UN General Assembly had already condemned
Romania for failing to observe the human rights guarantees included in her treaties
of peace with the allies.
Mr. Hotchkiss also called the attention of the Council to a World Jewish Con-
gress memorandum detailing persecution of Jewish communal and Zionist leaders in
Romania and insisted that these charges alone were sufficient to bar Romania from
membership. The British delegate also indicated that his vote against admission was
based on Romanian non-compliance with its treaty obligations.
The Soviet delegate, defending Romania, said that Romania was a democratic
country in which national minorities had all rights. He noted that Romania had
recently sent a note to Israel dealing extensively with the charges of anti-Jewish per
s ecuti

Aniount of Israel Foreign Aid. Obscured
By Across-the-Board Appropibiations Slash

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
WASHINGTON—The amount of foreign aid Israel will receive in the new fiscal year was
obscured by doubt Tuesday as a 10 per cent across-the-board slash was applied against funds
requested by the Administration.
The $130,000,000 authorization reqUested for the entire Near Eastern area was reduced by
Tuesday's action to $117,000,000. It is to be shared by the Arabs andrIsrael.
No exact breakdown to individual countries has been specified because the State Department
wants to maintain "flexibility" so that it might determine at' a later date how much it feels
each country should receive. Before the new slash it was anticipated that Israel might get
about $40,000,000. State Department officials announced during recent hearings that they intend
to increase aid to Arab League states while reducing assistance to Israel..
Last week, Sen. George A. Smathers of Florida offered • an amendment to the foreign aid
bill to cut the Near East authorization from $130,000,000 to $124,000,000.
Henry A. Byroade, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, told the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee that Arab-Israel. tension representS the greatest danger in the Near
East because "the security council of the United Nations, much as we deplore the fact, will be
more and more ineffective on helping on this problem."
Mr. Byroade said the one place in the Near East where, he could not report progress was the
Arab-Israel region. He reported on increasing Soviet activities in the region in what he said was
a Red campaign to win the friendship of the Arabs.
CoMplete confidence was expressed by Mr. Byroade in Iraqi assurances that U. S. munitions
grants will never be used against Israel. He reported that "the Kibya affair set us back, 'per-
haps, a year in everything we are trying to do."
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Israel Exposes Nazi - Like Desecration
Of Jewish Cemetery in Statement to UN

Tercentenary Proclamation:

The American Jewish Tercentenary, which begins in Septem-
ber and continues through May 1955, was proclaimed as a
period of "thanksgiving, prayer, study and celebration," at
special ceremonies at Congregation Shearith Israel of New
York, which was founded in 1654 by the first group of Jews
in New Amsterdam. Shown left to right are RALPH E. SAM-
UEL, chairman of the Tercentenary Committee on Religious
and Educational Participation; Rabbi HARRY HALPERN,
president of the Rabbinical Assembly of America; Dr. DAVID
de SOLA POOL, rabbi of Congregation Shearith Israel: Dr.
JULIUS MARK, chairman of the Tercentenary Committee of
the New York Board of Rabbis; N. Y. State Supreme Court
Justice EDGAR J. NATHAN Jr., president of Congregation
Shearith Israel and Rabbi SIIVICHA LEVY, of Congregation
Shaarey Tefiloh, Perth Amboy, N. J,

Desecrated Tombstones on Mount of Olives

UNITED 'NATIONS, N.Y. (AJP)—In typical Nazi-like manner, the Jordanian
Arabs have desecrated more than half the area of the ancient Jewish cemetery on the
Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem. Late last Friday night, Mordecai R. Kidron sub-
mitted a letter to the United Nations informing the delegates that he has received "re-
liable information from Israel, furnishing conclusive proof of the extent to which the
destruction and spoliation of the cemetery has proceeded."
Mr. Kidron's letter was accompanied by a number of photographs which showed
"tombstones completely destroyed or removed and some parts of the ground ploughed."
The letter also stated that "some of the missing stones were used in the construction of a

cinema in Jericho. The remaining stones were overturned and broken."

