UN Resolution Urges Arab Lands
To Absorb Palestine Refugees
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., four-power resolution calling
(JTA) — A resolution calling for extension of the UN relief
upon the Arab governments to and work program for the Pal -
cooperate with the United Na- estine refugees in the Arab
JEWISH TOURIST'S GUIDE TO THE
tions in carrying out projects to countries for another five years, A U.
S. By Bernard Postal and Lionel
make the Palestine refugees in as a reply to the persistent Arab
Koppman. Philadelphia, Pa., Jewish
Publication Society of America.
their countries self - supporting demands for "repatriation" of
and virtually freezing the UN the refugees to Israel soil.
A Review by
Arab refugee organization on a
A similar stand was taken
DR. BERTRAM W. KORN
long-time basis, was introduced earlier in the debate by James
here today by the United States, J. Wadsworth, United States
Eyery person who likes bein
Britain, France and Turkey at delegate. He told the Arab na••
the General Assembly's special t ion s th at they must .stop a k- an American Jew will discover
his own reasons for rejoicing in
political committee.
ing about sending the Arab ref- the publication of this unique
The resolution is considered ugees back to Israel soil.
new book on American Jewish
an indirect but firm rebuke to
It is the ", "?.onviction" of the
the Arab League states, since United States, Mr. Wadsworth life, "A Jewish Tourist's • Guide
the Arab governments have been said, "that the eventual resolu- l to the U. S.," researched and
insisting that "repatriation" of tion of the refugee problem eompiled and written by those
two undaunted servants of the
the Palestine refugees to Israel rests not in looking back but in National
Jewish Welfare Board,
must be given priority.
looking forward to a new and Bernard Postal and Lionel Kopp-
The resolution extends the 'life stronger economy for the Arab man, who were told by many
of the United Nations Relief and states, coming to regard many an advisor that it simply "could
Works Agency for Palestine Re- of their Arab refugee brothers not be done."
fugees in the Near East for a not as temporary residents but_
This is living, breathing, work-
five-year period, ending June 30, as fellow citizens."
ing, functional American Jewish
1960; fixes the next fiscal year's
Wadsworth called on Israel to I
budget for the Agency of $25,- do what it could to compensate ' life—life as it is lived in every
town and city and village where
1 . 00,000 for relief plus $36,200,000
the refugees, but declared that ' Jews have made permanent set-
for rehabilitation, and provides "vie also belieye that it is esseh : tlement, and even some ghost-
for maintenance of a fund of tial that the refugees under-1
towns where they lingered only
$200,000,000 additionally for de- stand that the true destiny of briefly
some time during their
velopment projects that would most of them 'lies in the Arab
three-hundred-year
residence on
give work to some of the ap -
proximately 900,000 Arab re- world." He urged the -refugees' this" continent. This is not the
"host" countries—Jordan, Egypt, myopic • picture of Judaism in
fugees in Jordan, Syria, Leban-
Syria and Lebanon—to stop I America viewed from the na-
on and Egypt.
hampering some of UNRWA's tional offices of mammoth or-
In connection with the latter . projects intended to help the ganiZations in New York, but the
fund, the Arab states have been refugees toward self-support.
broad sweep and local depth of
demanding that portions of the
He announced American ad- the reality of our existence, with
$200,000,000 be given to their
history for background, and the
countries for "local" develop- herence to the main resolution synagogues, centers, cemeteries,
fixing
UNRWA's
budget
and
ex-
ment projects that might aid
hospitals, old folks homes,
the refugees indirectly, However, tending its tenure, but' said he monuments, s e e t s, houses
will
oppose
allocating
any
part
the four-member resolution ig-
of UNRWA's $200,000,000 rehab- where Jews today worship and
nores that request.
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ilitation fund for projects bene- meet and make their mark
1 Arabs Warned On Relief
throughout the country.
. In the debate on the Pales-, fiting the Arab countries instead
You get a sense of rootage in
of
the
Arab
refugees.
tine refugee situation, the Arab
Israel is willing to consider this book—not a vague amor-
governments were sternly warned
that if they do not proceed to. compensation for Arab refu- phous "pride" that is frequently
integrate the Palestine refugees, gees, but the Arab • states will a disguise for insecurity, but a
they may face a situation in have to lift their economic genuine knowledge that Jewish
Which international relief. for bOycotts; and foreign lOans to life "belongs" to America, spirit-
help pay the Arabs will have , ually as well as physically. You
these refugees will cease. .
travel from- state • to state, in-
This warning was voiced by to be arranged, according. to vestigating the origins
. of Jew-
rierre Ordonneau, French dele- Michael S. Comay, a member
ish settlement and meeting no-
of
Israel's
delegation
here.
gate, who emphasized that "this
table citizens on the way; you
was no threat, but an expression
While Israel did not .`.`create '
Of reality." He supported the the Arab refugee problem, it linger in. metropolis and suburb
and small town, savoring of the
"can not be insensitive to the monuments to Jewish life in the
human tragedy involved," Co- past, old burial grounds, schools
may declared. "We have done and parks and museums
and will do what we can to alle
Which brings us to the task
Of= BOTTLES.-SOL'D,
viate -
that "couldn't be done:" The
scholars. quailed at the thought
Jr. Hadassah Convention , of- - bringing together all our
knowledge of local. Jewish life
Urges Study of Hebrew
and history; but these two be-
BOSTON, (JTA)
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1955 was adopted at the 31st . your reviewer states - as an
annual national convention of acaderniCian—Will one find as.
material on American Jew-
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outlined by Akiva 'Skidell, direc- 1 ength and breadth of America,.
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principal speakers at the parley and 'comradeship •
were Miss Esther Herlitz, newly
appointed consul at the. Israel
consulate general in New York,
and I. L, Kenen, executive direc-
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Age 30-45
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Cornerstorie Laid for
of
Arab-Israeli hostilities that
are now threatened as a result
NEW YORK, (JTA) — More of America's shipment of arms
than 25,000,000 trees are now be- to the Arab states, Hanan Yar-
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