Israel Gets $15,000,000 FOA
Loan; To Be Repaid In Forty Years

WASHINGTON, (JTA) — A
load of $15;000,000 to be repaid
in Israel currency over a period
of 40 years, was announced by
the Foreign Operations Admin-
istration. This - is the first Amer-
ican loan to a foreign govern-
ment- under • the Mutual Securi-
ty -Act•of 1954.
Israel will use the loan to buy
surplus agricultural commodi-
ties, primarily wheat, cotton
and corn. The loan•was granted
on a technicality in the Mutual
Security Act, permitting loans
for the purchase of surplus ag-
ricultural commodities and re-
quiring that a percentage of
grant aid be in the form of long
term loans.
An agreement on the loan was
signed by Ambassador Abba
Eban and Gen. Glen Edgerton,
chairman of the board of di-
rectors of - the Export-Import
Bank, which is acting as the
agent for the . FOA. The terms
of the agreement provide that
Israel is to pay 4 percent in-
terest.
The loan is part Of the larger
FOA program for this fiscal
year now being discussed with
Israel. Counting the sum loan-
ed, a total of . $30,300,000 in aid
for the fiscal year 1955 has
been allotted to Israel. Although
Israel will get some further
aid, informed sources said the
bulk has already been allotted
in the $30,300,000 sum. A Maxi- ,
mum figure for the year has
been discussed. by Israel with
the United States and that fig-
ure. has been communicated to
Israel, but has not been made
public.
• In 1949 . the Export-Import
Bank granted a loan o' $100,-
000,000 to Israel. Another $35,-
000,000 was extended by the Ex-

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port-Import Bank in 1951, bring-
ing the total to $135,000,000.
Some of the amount extended
from this source has already
been repaid by Israel.
The State Department an-
nounced that Walter Clay Low-
dernailk, consultant to the Unit-
ed Nations on economic devel-
opment, has been awarded a
supplemental grant under the
International Education Ex-
change Program of the State
Department to enable him to
accept an invitation to head the
new Department of Agricultural
Engineering at the Israel In-
stitute of Technology and to
serve as consultant to the gov-
ernment of Israel for at least
six months. He left on Feb. 5
for Tel Aviv.
In his capacity as head of
the Department of Agricultural
Engineering at the Israel In-
stitute of Technology, Dr. Low-
dermilk will not only direct its
activities but will also advise
regarding the preparation of
syllabi for soil and water con-
servation courses, train lectur-
ers and provide guidance for a
research program in addition to
lecturing in these fields. As an
adviser to the government of
Israel he will recommend and
promulgate sound land and wa-
ter use policies for the country.

DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-3
Friday, February 18, 1955

Sobelof f Reveals
Immigration Aid Plans

FRANKFURT, (JTA)—Quota-
tions from Adolf Hitler are be-
ing spread throughout Germany
in a calendar published by a
German business firm. The cal-
endar, distributed by.Poerringer
and Schindler of Zweibruecken,
contains a quotation by a well
known personality for each day
of the day. Hitler is among the
authors quoted.
A film on the life of Walther
Rathenau, Jewish Foreign Min-
ister of the Weimar Republic -
who was murdered by, Nazi
thugs on the streets of Berlin
in 1922, has been assigned to
two script writers, one of whom
was implicated in the assassina-
tion. The firm which is shooting
the filth, Area Film Company,
has hired writer Ern/st von Sol-
onion, one time member of the
pre-Nazi "Firekorps” who served
U. S. Solicitor General SIMON a five-year term as an accessory'
E. SOBELOFF (left) a principal in Rathenau's murder. Von Sol-
speaker at the national confer- omon recently drew criticism in

the United States when his tae-
ti-American, nationalist "Fra-
genbogen" was published in an
English translation.

once on Jewish migration spon-
OZI N
When you are aspiring to the
sored. by United BIAS Service
highest place, it is honorable to
1
ois
in New York last week, is shown reach the 'second or even the
BLOCKS NORTH OF 7 MILE ROAD
as he brought news to BEN third rank.—Cicero..
AimmommulaMMIIIINIM
TOUSTER, president of the
global migration agency, that
the bottleneck in the Refugee
Relief Act has apparently been
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broken and that it is expected
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that some 40,000 U. S. visas will
Turkey Recognizes
be issued-to refugees, under the
Call CApital 3-'5100 daily tilt 9 p.m.
Act, during the next four
Jews' Full Equality,
months. The conference, first
Istanbul Mayor Says
,annual meeting of United HIAS
Service, was attended by lay
ISTANBUL, (JTA)—The Turk- z.-,nd professional Jewish leader,s
ish government considers the from 80 communities in 20
Jews of Turkey equal to all states.
You're invited

other citizens and will not per-
mit any discriminatory action
against them, Fahrettin K. Go-
kay, Mayor of Istanbul, declar-
ed at exercises dedicating the
new rabbinical seminary opened
at the nearby suburb of Has-
koy.
Mayor GOkay, alluding to the
discrimination suffered by the
Jews and other minorities dur-
ing the last war, said that those
days were gone forever. He in-
sisted that when the govern-
ment referred to the Jews as a
minority it meant to distinguish
the jews as a religious group and
not as a separate segment of
Turkish society.
He asserted that a basic tenet.
of the present government is
the granting of full religious
liberty and the creation of an
atmosphere of brotherhood
among all citizens in Turkey and
all nations in the world

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Israel Clinic for
Bedouins in Negev

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—The fourth
medical clinic for Bedouin
tribesmen living in Israel terri:
tory was opened near Tel el
Maleh, in the Upper Negev be-
tween Beersheba and the Dead
Sea.
The four clinics -now serve
13,000 Israel Bedouin .in 18
tribes. Five of the tribes con-
tributed some 2,000 pounds and
the Ministry of Health provided
several thousand more pounds
to build and staff the newest
clinic. A doctor and nurse visit
each clinic one or two days a
week. The clinics are equipped
with facilities for minor surges
and treatment of most diseases.

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Jewish Physician Treats
Israel Envoy in Moscow

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Antic-Jewish Terror In
Casablanca Continues

CASABLANCA, (JTA) — Two
Jews were shot and wounded
here during the last two days
by Moslem terrorists in a con-
tinuation of a campaign to force
.participation* in a Moroccan-
campaign boydOtting French
products.
One Jew, a fruit peddler, was
shot in the lung and is in a
critical condition. The second, a
pharmacist, was hit in the shoul-
der and is now in a hospital. He
apparently disregarded, boycott
warnings delivered several weeks
ago.
It was announced that the po-
lice have captured members of
a savage gang of terrorists who
killed a Jew last year in the
nearby town of Berrichid only
because he was a Jew. The gang,
which committed many atroci-
ties in the past year, was
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Ifider's Sayings Perpetuated in
Calendar Published in Germany

Elyashiv, Israel Minister to the
Soviet union, is now under the
treatment of Prof. M. S. Vofsi,
famous Moscow Jewish doctor
who was involved in the "doc-
tor's pia" several years ago
when a number of Soviet physi-
cians, most of them Jews, were
falsely accused of plotting to
kill Soviet leaders. All the ac-
cused doctors were freed and
their innocence established 'al-

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