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Olympics Leaders Fight Ban on
Israel from Middle East Games
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NEW YORK—Arab intransigence over Israel's participation in any interna-
tional event where Arab states are represented again has boiled over into the world
of sports. This time, the occasion is the second Mediterranean Regional Olympic
Games, scheduled for July 16 in Barcelona, Spain. Israel,. originally invited to par-
ticipate, has now been excluded from those games and blame for the reversal has
been laid to Egypt and other nations sympathetic to the Arab cause.
Hope for another reversal and the re-inclusion of Israel in the games has been
expressed here. Col. Harry D. Henshel, chairman of the U.S. Olympic Basketball
Committee and chairman of the U.S. committee for. Sports in Israel, told the Jew-
ish Telegraphic Agency Tuesday that Avery Brundage, president of the Interna-
tional Olympic Committee, had given assurances to Charles L. Ornstein, member
of the executive board of the U.S. Olym pie committee, at the recently held Pan-
American games in MexiCo City, that he would suppcirt- Israel's contention that she
be included. Col. Henshel credited Mr. Brundage with steering Israel's admission
into the International Olympic Committee when Egypt and others threatened to
_boycott the 1952 Olympics if Israel were admitted.
It is understood here that Mr. Brundage, who received a letter from Nahum
Heth, president of the Olympic Committee of Israel, reviewing the regulations for
games and banning political interference in the games, had been convinced by the
facts as stated _in that letter, that he should reverse his earlier decision that he
had no right to interfere with the makeup of regional games. It is also under-
stood that the next meeting of the International Olympics ComMittee _will be held
in Switzerland in May.
Carlos Pena Cardenal, vice-president of Spain's organizing c _ ominittee for the
games., in oblique denial of -Egyptian pr es tire, said Israel : had not been invited
only because it was desired that the games be limited to those who participated at
the first Mediterranean games in Alexandria in 1951. The principal chink in this
explanation is the fact that the principality of Monaco, which did not participate in
the first games, will take part at Barcelona. Nor did it explain why Israel was
invited in the first place.
Evidence of Egyptian interference is seen in the tact that she threatened to
boycott the 1952 Olympics and that she withdrew from the world basketball cham-
pionships at Rio de Janeiro this year because of Israel's participation. Both Col.
Henshel: here and Mr. Heth in Israel stated that it was Egyptian and Arab pres-
sure which caused the withdrawal of Israel's invitation. Heth underscored that
contention in his letter to Mr. Brundage, stating it was "well known to all others
concerned in the matter."
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Eban to Speak Tuesclay .at
Mid-Point .Campaign Dinner
All is in readiness for the big night in the Allied Jewish
Campaign. At 6:30 p.m., Tuesday, the drive will have
reached mid-point and the curtain will tise on "Campaign
Climax," at the • Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel, where campaign
leaders will hear Abba Eban, Ambassador of Israel to the
United States and Chief Israel' Delegate to the UN.
All divisions and all levels of campaign organization
are maintaining a high degree of activity.
Members of the arts and crafts division in the 1955
Allied Jewish Campaign will gather for a dinner meeting
at 6 p.m., Monday, in the Woodward Room of the Hotel
Detroiter. The speaker will be the newly-appointed head
of the United Jewish Appeal, Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman,
Tercentenary Art Institute
Lecture on Monday Evening
These are two of the silhouettes included in the Art Institute Tercentenary exhibition, arranged
by the Art Institute's Curator, Francis W. Robinson. Both silhouettes are by Augustin Edouart
of New York. The upper one, a silhouette portrait of Mordecai Manuel Noah, the famous Amer-
ican Jewish leader who proposed the establishment of a Jewish State near Buffalo, is dated
Nov. 2, 1840. The lower silhouette portraits. cut by Edouart on April 5, 1845, is of Rabbi Samuel
Myer 'scums, of the Elm Street Synagogue, New York City, with Mrs. Isaacs and their children.
A special program, welcoming the American Jewish
Tercentenary art exhibition, at the Detroit Institute of Arts,
will be held Monday, evening.
Charles E. Feinberg, chairman of the exhibits commit-
tee of the Detroit Tercentenary Committee, announces that
an invitation has been extended to the entire community
by the Tercentenary -Committee and the Art Institute for
a special viewing of the exhibit, from 7:30 to 11 p.m. Mon-
day. At 9 p.m., in the Art Institute Lecture Hall, a lecture
will be given by Miss Jane Bortman on the subject "Jewish
Contributions to the American Cultural Heritage." A re.
ception will follow and refreshments will be served.
Detailed Stories on Page 24
Community invited to Tercentenary Program at Art Institute Monday