Congressmen Express Concern
Milwaukee Rabbi
Over Middle East to Secretary Dulles To Open Season
DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-3
Friday, August 2'7, 1954
For Hadassah
I influence it has obtained through
Senator Leverett Saltonstall its co-sponsorship of the Anglo-
(R., Mass.) headed a Congres- Egyptian Suez agreement to
Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman,
sional delegation which met bring about a commitment by
with Secretary of State John Egypt to end the blockade. This young spiritual leader from Mil-
Foster Dulles to express con-
waukee, Wis., will launch the
cern over three points of critical is to a United
matter of
central
importance
States
prestige
in the Detroit Chapter of Hadassah's
importance to the stabilization
1954 Honor Roll drive. at its
of relations between Israel and Middle East and the general initial meeting at 12:30 p.m. ;
other countries in the Middle security situation in that area."
Sept. 14, at Temple Israel. Des-
East: the preliminary Suez Senator. Saltonstall raised the sert luncheon will be served.
agreement between Egypt and question whether military aid
Rabbi Fried-
Britain and its bearing on Egypt's should have been promised to
blockade of shipping to and the Arab countries as long as man, who serv-
from Israel, the effects on the they refuse to negotiate peace ed overseas with
security ' of Israel of military treaties with Israel, maintain a the U. S. Army,
agreements between the United state of belligerency, and employ conducted t h e
States and Arab: , nations, and such openly hostile practices as
first public Pass-.
military assistance by the United an economic boycott and block:. over seder n..
ade.
Such
military
aid
having
States to Israel itself.
Berlin in 14
Also present at the discussion been promised, he pointed out, years after the.
with the Secretary of State were the United States should at least American Army
Senators Irving M. Ives (R. N.Y.) take concrete action to cruaran- took possession
and Herbert H. Lehman (D. N.Y.) tee that the security of Israel is of the city.
Rabbi Friedman
n weakened by these military
and Representatives William G. not
Deputy to Rabbi Philip Bern-
dagreements
between
the
United
Bray (R. Ind.) and Jacob K
stein, advisor on Jewish affairs
Javits (R. N.Y.). Sen. Saltonktall, States and Arab nations, and to the commanding generals of
chairman of the Senate Armed that the precarious balance of Germany and Austria, Rabbi
Services Committee, spoke also power in the Middle East is not Friedman was one of the first
for Sen. Homer Ferguson, chair- upset.
The third point urged by the Jewish leaders to make contact
man of the Senate Majority Pol-
with DP camps in those coun-
icy Committee, who could not delegation concerned Israel's re- tries.
be present because of the funeral quest for United States military
of Rep. Paul W. Schafer (R. aid under the Mutual Security I At the invitation of ex-Pre-
Act. This, they said, would re-' mier David Ben-Gurion, Rabbi
Mich.).
"By blockading shipment s assure Israel and prevent a ; Friedman attended the historic
through the Suez Canal bound change in the military balance Jerusalem Conference in Sep-
to and from Israel," Senator of the Middle East. They also tember, 1950, at which plans
Saltonstall said, "Egypt is violat- urged that serious consideration were outlined for the first Bond
ing a binding decision of the by given to integrating Israel issue of the Israel government.
Rabbi Friedman also was the
United Nations Security Council into overall United States plan-
in 1951 which ordered Egypt to ning for the defense of the Mid- first chairman of the Summer
Institute of the Central Con-
reopen the Canal to friendly dle East.
navigation. I expressed to Secre-
"I came away from this meet- ference of American Rabbis held
tary Dulles the position that the ing much encouraged," Senator in Israel. Coupled with his par-
ticipation in numerous national
United States should utilize the Saltonstall commented.
movements and causes, Rabbi
Friedman has a wealth of back-
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ground material from which to
draw his lectures.
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expressed by Irving M. Engel, more Basque sheepherders above
president of the American Jew- the normal Spanish quota, the
opposition to this attempt to
ish Committee, in a statement
take
care only of the Senator's
commenting on the passage by
the House last Friday of the Nevada constituents was en-
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McCarran Sheepherders B i 11.
served to focus attention on
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by Senator McCarran to obtain
preferential treatment for Bas,-
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which Senator McCarran was
principal author—was to stran-
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his own state; 3. There are
shortages of skilled workers not
only in the sheep-raising indus-
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ing the needle trades, agricul-
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watchmaking, and the McCar-
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ers from abroad who could al-
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hope that in the not too distant
future the American people will
insist on revision of our present
immigration system," Mr. Engel
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