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Dr. Silver Inspires Memorable
Gathering with Hopeful Message
Israel Peace
Moves Attract
UN Attention
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-UNITED NATIONS, (JTA)—
Israel's relations with the United
States and Britain vis-a-vis se-
curity in the Middle East, as
well as Israel's impact on world
opinion through a series of re-
cent steps intended to show that
the Jewish State wants peace
with its Arab neighbors are at-
tracting special attention here
among the delegates attending
the United Nations General As-
sembly. •
While Mr. Eban's meetings
with the American and British
delegation heads here could be
described as "routine" in con-.
nection with the Security Coun-
cil meeting on the Bat Galim
complaint, the effect of these
talks on broader problems that
had been under discussion m
Washington and London was not
being overlooked.
The Washington negotiations
have so far had the effect of
keeping Mr. Dulles from making
any • statement regarding Israel.
However, some diplomatic ob-
servers here believe that Israel's
position, as expressed by Mr.
Eban in his talks with Mr. Dul-
les, would lead eventually to a
reaffirmation of the 1950 tripar-
tite declaration and to clothing -
that declaration with more for-
mal guarantees of Israel's sov-
ereignty.
Israel won a significant vic-
tory at the United Nations Se-
curity Council when an at-
tempt by the Arabs to post-
pone discussion on Israel's
complaint against Egypt's
seizure and detention of the
Israel vessel "Bat Galim" and
against Egyptian restriction
on the passage of ships trad
ing with Israel through the
Suez Canal, was defeated, and
Abba Eban was called_ upon
to present his case.
Ambassador Eban „called upon
the Security Council to: 1. Re-
emphasize its previous resolu-
tions affirming Israel's right to
"innocent • passage" of shipping
through the Suez Canal; 2. Con-
demn and criticize Egypt for its
"hostile act and false reports"
in connection with the seizure
of the Bat Galim and its crew:
3. Help bring about immediate
liberation of the ship and its
crew; 4. See to it that such
violation of international law
by Egypt does not occur again.
Egypt's version of the Bat
Galim incident, was called by
Mr. Eban a "most extraordinary
and monstrous libel, "a fiction!'
He said that Egypt could not
prove that there was any firing
by the Bat Gallim, that there
were any casualties "by land or
sea," and that the entire "fic-
tion" was a product of the Egyp-
tian ministry of propaganda.
Dr. Mahmoud Azmi, Egypt's
permanent representative at
the United Nations, who fol-
lowed Mr. Eban told the Se-
curity Council that although
Egypt recognizes that the Su-
ez Canal must be open for
passage for all ships of all na-
tions, the security oft Egypt
must be maintained.
UN Report Blames Arabs For
Plight of Near East Refugees
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., (JTA)—"It will take many
years" before the Arab refugees in the Middle East can get
along without relief, and one of the principal causes for their
present circumstances is the "reluctance or inability" of the
Arab governments to help their own compatriots, the UN
General Assembly was told.
The entire problem of Arab refugees relief and rehabilita-
tion was outlined before the General Assembly in the report of
Henry R. Labouisse, director of the United Nations Relief and
Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. The Agency, known as
UNRWA, cared for a total of 887,000 Arab refugees as of the
end of last June, according to Mr. Labouisse. Of the total,
486,000 live in Jordan, over 212,000 in Gaza, more than 101,000
in Lebanon and about 86,000 in Syria.
It is obvious from Mr. Labouisse's report that the figure
of 887,000 refugees is based on a considerable number of false,
or "improper" registrations. "There are undoubtedly," he ze-
ported "numerous improper registrations." HOwever, he point-
ed out, neither the refugees themselves 'nor the Arab govern-
ments where they live have been willing to help the Agency to
clear the rolls of "persons not entitled to rations or other as-
sistance."
Past resolutions of the General Assembly had expressed
the hope that the Palestine refugee problem might be solved,
at the latest, by the summer of 1954. But, according to Mr.
La,bouisse, "the achievement of such a result in so short a
period of time was a practical impossibility:" In diplomatic
language but clearly and with force the UNRWA director
pointed the finger at the Arab governments and at the refu-
gees themselves for UNRWA's inability to solve the problem.
The Arab governments, Mr. Labouisse declared, have "not
been prepared to undertake with the Agency, the development
of some promising rehabilitation projects." The Arab govern-
ments, be stated have mostly given to the refugees Made-
quate" physical resources, have assigned to them agricultural
lands "marginal at best—and, in some case, unusable," have
refused to allow them to get jobs on the ground that "their
economies cannot at present absorb any significant number of
people unexpectedly entering the labor, market," and have
refused "to accept administrative responsibility for the relief
program."
One "very important obstacle" to attainment of the Gen-
eral Assembly's goal regarding the Arab refugees, Mr. Labouisse
reported, is the absence of a solution regarding repatriation
and compensation. Apart from that, "however," he pointed
out, "the slow progress" can be attributed to the "meagerness
of the physical rescources made available" to the refugees by
the Arab governments; in part to "the attitude of the refu-
gees"; and in some cases to the attitude of the Arab govern-
ments which "have served to make progress difficult."
By FRANK SIMONS
A stirring and historic address by American Jewry's
most outstanding spokesman, Dr. Abba Hillel Silver,
highlighted the most gigantic birthday party ever held
by the Detroit Jewish community, at the memorable and
thrilling Tercentenary dinner last Sunday evening, at
the Statler Hotel.
Hundreds of Detroiters who attended the dinner
and hundreds more who came later, in addition to thou-
sands who listened on the radio, heard Dr. Silver's earnest
plea for a restoration of "the synagogue, the school,
the academy and the religious disciplines of Judaism"
to its proper and historic place in Jewish life.
Portions of the evening's programs were highlighted -
on film the following evening over WJBK-TV.
"What we should fear most," Dr. Silver declared,
"Is the rise of a generation of prosperous Jews who
have no spiritual anchorage, or a generation of clever,
restless Jews of quick ferment and high voltage, rooted
in no religious tradition, reverent of no moral code, ig-
norant of all Jewish learning and held to social respon-
sibility by no inner spiritual restraint . .
"They will range and bluster all over the American
scene from literature and art to politics and government,
and will commit their fellow Jews in the eyes of the
American people. Such floating Mines are a danger to
any people, but especially to a minority group."
Dr. Silver's speech is being hailed as an American
speech as well as a Jewish speech. The impact he left
on his vast audience, it was felt, not only served to make
Jews aware of future problems as Jews but as Ameri-
cans.
He referred to this century as the "American Cen-
tury," just as he said the 19th century was "The Cen-
tury of Great Britain." Dr. Silver said, "Destiny has
singled out our beloved country, the foremost democracy
on earth, to give leadership to the world and to lead
mankind out of the grave social, political and economic
predicament in which it finds itself. I believe that Ameri-
can leadership will prove itself equal to the challenge, if
it will take counsel of faith and not of fear, and if it
will be guided by the prophetic insights- and the wide
perspectives of the Founding Fathers of this republic."
"I believe that the age in which we are living is a
great age, and that we are moving toward an even
greater age,". Dr. Silver said. "Many people are quick to
describe our age as materialistic, as lacking in idealism,
in aim and purpose, and as drifting helplessly to dis-
aster . . . In characterizing our age as great, I am think-
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Tercentenary Dinner Participants:
From the left! Rabbi MOSES LEHRMAN, WIL-
LIAM E. STIRTON, Or, A. M. HERSHMAN, PHILIP SLOMOVITZ, Dr. ABBA HILLBL SILVER, Mrs. MORRIS SCHAVER,
MAX OSNOS, Rabbi LEON FRAM, LAWRENCE GUBOW. (Samuel H. Rubiner„ not in picture s was
on of the speakers.)