, ,4,... =' 1116.1111,111.1111111111.1#1101 ;• You Are Invited to March 30 Tercentenary Music Festival Rufus Learsi's Passover Commemorative Ritual in . HE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Tribute to Ghetto Heroes Commentary, Page 2 VOLUME-27—No. 3 An invitation is extended to the entire community to attend the Tercentenary Music Festival, at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday, at Temple Israel Auditorium, Manderson and Merton. Featured on the program will be Detroit's major Jewish choral groups, under the direction of Dan Frohman; the appearance of Marc Lavry, Israel's leading composer and pianist; and solos by Emma Schaver Detailed Story on Page 2 and Cantor J. H. Sonenklar, of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper— Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle aLie 7 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE. 8-9364—Detroit 35, March 25, 1955 Evaluating the Division of the Allied Jewish Campaign Dollar Editorials, Page 4 $4.00 Per Year, Single Copy 1 Sc Egypt's Aspirations Branded 'Blackmail' Israel Rejects 'Attempted Negev 'Grab'; London Takes Cool View Assailed me,ew s hNes ws , TAT5typ e,: esto A Of Demand; 'Arrog et n Discussions About Jews, Zionism Revealed in the Yalta Documents WASHINGTON, (JTA) —Jewish problems were discussed among President Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and late Soviet Premier Stalin during the historic Yalta conference which took place in February, 1945. President Roosevelt told Stalin that he was a Zionist and asked if Stalin was one. Stalin replied that he was one in prin- ciple but he recognized the difficulty. The exchange of these re- marks was preceded by a statement by President Roosevelt telling Stalin that he had three kings waiting for him in the Near East, including Ibn Saud. Stalin, ,saWthat the Jewish problem was a very difficult one, that they had tried to establish a national home for the Jews in Birobidzhan but that they had only stayed there two or three years and then scattered to the cities. He said the Jews were natural traders but much had been accomplished by putting small groups in some agricultural areas. (The New York Times said it is not entirely clear from the text as released why Stalin began talking about the Jewish problem. "A line of asterisks preceding Stalin's statement seems to raise the possibility that one of Stalin's high-level colleagues may have initiated the discussion of Jews with a statement that has been censored from the published text," the Times said). During the same dinner-meeting—which took place on Feb. 10—President Roosevelt said that he recalled that there had been an organization in the United States called the Ku Klux Klan that had hated the Catholics and the Jews, and once when he had been on a visit in a small town in the South he had been the guest of the president of the local Chamber of Commerce. He had sat next to an Italian on one side and a Jew on the other and had asked the president of the Chambei of Commerce whe- ther they were members of the Ku Klux Klan, to which the Pres- ident had replied that they were, but that they were considered all right since everyone in the community knew them. (Continued on Page 3) JERUSALEM. — An Israel Foreign Ministry spokesman Tuesday labelled as "war propaganda" a statement in Cairo Monday b y the Egyptian propaganda minister that Egypt would be willing to make a deal with the Western Powers in return for the Negev. The Israel spokesman said that the statement by the Egyptian Minister for Na- tional Guidance, Major Salah Salem, was "another device of Egypt's war propaganda against Israel." It is "idle" to assume tha t Egypt can exact "blackmail" at the ex- pense of Israel territory, he said, adding: "No part of Israel's territory is at the disposal of anyone to serve as a quid pro quo for political or military arrangement of any kind nor for any other purpose." State Dept. Won't Comment, Londoh Cool to Demand WASHINGTON. — The State Department declined comment on a report from Cairo revealing that Egypt demands that Israel cede the Negev to the Arabs as a prerequisite to Egyptian cooperation with the Western Powers against Communism. In London, the British Foreign Office t ook a cool view of the Egyptian proposal and reaffirmed the tripartite declaration guaranteeing Israel's territory. A spokesman for the Israel Embassy here said that the Egyptian demand "has thrown light" on the underlying cause for tension between Egypt and Israel." An ar- rogant and utterly lawless claim to the Negev which is more than half of the Israeli territory is at the root of Egyptian policy and especially of the military harrasment launched from Gaza," he said. "It should not be difficult to understand why Gaza headquarters is so active in preventing peaceful Israeli- life and development in the Negev." "The Egyptians will of course not get the Negev. But the frank publication of their expansionist design is most significant and disquieting,"! the Israel spokesman stated, Israel 'Has Not Rejected' Proposal for Egypt-Jordan Negev Corridor LONDON. — Although Major Salem's assertion that Egypt wants the Negev as the price for its alignment with the West should not be taken as an official-statement of the Egyptian government, territorial ch anges of a more than local nature would "al- most certainly" have to be considered in any Arab-Israel final settlement, the Times of London declared Tuesday. In an article by its diplomatic correspondent, the Times notes that in the past there has been some discussion of a corridor across the Negev to link Egypt with • Jordan. In a dispatch from Jerusalem, the Times asserts that the Israel government has considered and "has not rejected" a proposal to grant. Egypt thoroughfare rights through the Negev as part of a wider settlement. The dis- patch added "it would be surprising if the Western powers felt able to persuade Israel to make a bigger Negev con- cession than this. It is assumed here," the Jerusalem dis- patch continued, "that Major Salem made the statement in the belief that the United Kingdom and the United States were ready to accept the Egyptian claim to the whole of the Southern Negev in return for a settlement with Israel and willingness to cooperate in a Wes-tern regional defense system." Report Heavy Concentration of Egyptian Troops An exhibition of Early American Jewish Silver and Portraits selected from some of the finest collections in the country will be on view April 6 through May 1 at the TEL AVIV. — The Israel press on Tuesday reported heavy concentrations of Egyptian troops pouring into the Detroit Institute of Arts, to commemorate the American Jewish Tercentenary. Gaza area. The reports from foreign sources said that the This display of 18th and 19th century silhouettes, miniatures and oil and crayon portraits, and of important silver objects, is presented in cooperation with the Detroit equivalent of two brigades of regular troops and a special Committee of 300 for the American Jewish Tercentenary. A lecture by Miss Jane volunteer commando unit had arrived in the Gaza strip. Bortman and a reception on Tuesday evening, April 19, will highlight the observance, These reports were viewed here against a background Principal contributor to the exhibition is Mark Bortman of Boston, lending from of almost daily reports from Israel settlements near the border Which speak of endless convoys of military trucks his famed collection of portraits and silver. Among the items loaned by Mr. Bortman will be a large group of silver by Myer Myers, leading 18th century New York silver- filled with Egyptian troops moving north from Rafah. It smith, and 21 silhouettes by the celebrated early 19th century French artist, August was also learned that an Egyptian battalion trained by Edouart, oil portraits of Revolutionary War patriot Jonas Phillips and of his grandson, former Nazi officers is among those now stationed in the Benjamin Phillips Levy; crayon portraits by St. Memin of Mrs. Samson Levy, Sr., and Gaza strip. her son, Samson Levy, Jr., and a miniature of Rachel Gratz by Edward Malbone. Finally, it was reported Tuesday that the Egyptians Other items will be lent by the American Jewish Historical Society and other are planning the construction of . a radar station along the sources. Of particular interest locally will be a fine repousse silver bowl by Myer Myers, border strip. The post and its equipment would be put lent by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman; a silver salver made by Halsted and together from stores left in the Suez Canal Zone when the Myers, lent by the Henry Ford Museum, Dearborn, and several pieces from the col- British army withdrew. lection of • the Detroit Institute of Arts—a self portrait. by Frederick E. Cohen, who Goldman Charges Western worked in Detroit in the mid-19th century, an early Gilbert Stuart portrait of Mrs. Powers with Discrimination Aaron Lopez and son Joshua, and a silver cream pitcher by Myer Myers. NEW YORK — Discrimination by the Western Powers The Bortman and Meyers items are detailed on Page 5 of this issue. against Israel in defense arrangements for the Middle East The exhibition is being arranged by Curator Francis W. Robinson in cooperation were assailed by Dr. Nahum Goldmann, Jewish Agency with Philip Slomovitz, chairman of the Detroit committee, and Charles E. Feinberg, Exhibition of Early American Jewish Silver, Portraits, at Art Institute, April 6-May 1 To Commemorate U.S. Jewish Tercentenary Detroit chairman of Tercentenary exhibitions. Continued on rag* 2S