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- • • • ground material from which to draw his lectures. NEW YORK, (JTA) — Hope The bill is now awaiting the that "in the not too distant fu- President's signature. To a young heart everything "Although Senator McCarran is fun.—Dickens ture. the American people will insist on revision of our 'press succeeded for the third time in ent immigration system" was slipping through a bill to admit 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- couraging," Mr. Engel said. "It McCarran Sheepherders B i 11. served to focus attention on these facts: "1. 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