10—DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 24, 1955
Israel Fund's Founder,
Edward Norman, Dies
Between You and Me
Republican. Club Drops Arab Speaker;
Probe Is Demanded by Anti-Zionist
By BORIS SMOLAR
$Copyright, 1955, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
Washington Trends
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Edward
There is no foundation to the assertion by Dr. Peretz Bern-
A. Norman, 55, president and stein, member of the Israel Cabinet, that the United States has
founder of the American Fund presented definite conditions to Israel for an American-Israeli
for Israel Institutions, died in security arrangement . . . However, certain hints on this matter
New Canaan, Conn., June 20.
have been dropped to Israel Ambassador Abba Eban in the State
An eminent New York philan- Department ... These hints are important insofar as they indicate
thropist, Mr. Norman was also that the State Department is no longer waiting to conclude a
president and founder of the pact with Israel until after such pacts are reached with the Arab
Group Farming Research Insti- states . .. They also show that the State Department's attitude
tute, secretary of the American toward Israel is beginning to improve. It can be expected that
:gewish Commit- the question of an American-Israel pact will come to the forefront
tee, trustee of this summer . . . Some members of Congress •feel such a pact will
Mt. Sinai Hos- be of great benefit for U.S. interests . . They point to the fact
p it a l, member that the United States has now embarked on a policy of con-
of the board of cluding defense pacts with all kinds of nations, even with Fascist
directors of the Spain, and they ask: "Why not with such a democratic country
American as Israel?"
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Friends of the
Hebrew Univer- A Notable Congress
sity and a mem-
Not many Jewish .organizations can boast of '75 years of
ber of the board existence with a record of excellent work and growing popularity
of the Palestine
. The ORT which is this week celebrating its 75th anniversary
Economic Cor- with a three-day World ORT Congress in Geneva is today perhaps
poration.
.
the only organization which enjoys such a unique position
Born in Chi- I IORT is even older than the organized world Zionist movement .. .
u-a&-.i a-ti-e-tIkti& -dr -ge4-Frd.14-ffin:111rCa71Q-LPPaSkat2.-11,-C Jews there ta,.
Comman etc
States Navy during World War in 19 countries, from the United States to Iran and from Argentina
II. His most active interest was to Israel . . . Since the end of World War II alone more than
With the American Fund for Is- 200,000 students were graduated from ORT institutions . . This
rael Institutions, which he year the ORT student body numbers about 18,000, with some 4,000
founded in 1941 in support of of them attending ORT training schools in Israel and about 2,500
many of the leading educational in North Africa . . . President Eisenhower who, as Commander of
and cultural organizations in the American armed forces in Europe, had an opportunity to
Israel. He was president since its evaluate the ORT activities in countries liberated from the Nazis,
founding.
has paid high tribute to ORT . Principal credit for the post-war
During several trips . to Pales- achievenients of the ORT is due to Dr. Aaron Syngalowski, the able,
tine in the early `30's, Mr. Nor- untiring head of World ORT Union who has been one of the
man became interested in Jew- pillars of the ORT movement for several decades, since his student
ish settlements in that country days . . . It is from Geneva that he succeeded in developing an
and particularly in a number of impressive ORT program in many countries during the war and
cultural and educational insti- postwar years . . A part of the ORT budget is now covered by
JDC . . . Especially highly laudable is ORT work in Israel and
tutions.
Concerned with the many sep- North Africa.
arate campaigns then being
conducted in behalf of Pales- UN Echoes
tine institutions, he began, dur-
There are few American journalists who had the opportunity
ing 1939 and 1940, to enlist the of attending the sessions of the League of Nations in
aid of a number of eminent Geneva and also witnessing the birth of the United Nations at San
. civic leaders to found a single, Francisco . .. I am one of these fortunate people . .. The cele-
federated agency for all these I bration of the 10th anniversary of the existence of the United
institutions. As a result the Nations thus recalls many interesting scenes and episodes in the
American Fund was organized fight for international protection of Jewish rights both in Geneva
In 1941 and Mr. Norman was and at the first UN session at San Francisco ... It was no easy
elected president.
matter to have the program of human rights included in the UN
Charter . . . Neither the Western Powers nor the Soviet delegation
Israel Physicians Threaten
at the San Francisco session of the United Nations were enthui-
Strike Over Wage Dispute
astic about issuing a Declaration of Human Rights in which
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Physi- Jewish leaders were particularly interested. . . American Jewish
cians employed by the Israel leaders, who were actually the originators of the request for
government began a slow-down inserting a human rights clause in the UN Charter—in order to
and members of the academic have Jewish rights protected in various countries—were working
staff of the Hebrew University at San Francisco against the • mighty opposition of all the Big
are scheduled to strike in moves Powers ... It was only after Judge Joseph Proskauer button-holed
designed to force the govern- Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius and actually treatened to
ment to make good its promises expose publicly the tactics of the U. S. delegation that the
to increase their salaries.
opposition of the U. S. delegation was finally broken . I
witnessed the meeting at which Judge Proskauer lost his temper
with Stettinius and I can say that it was the most courageous
action of its type involving a Jewish leader which I ever saw . .
After this, matters ran more smoothly for Jews approaching the
delegations of the other Western countries . . Today, 10 years
after the San Francisco conference, the U. S. Government is still
hesitant about pushing the adoption of the United Nations human
rights covenants.
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Arab Provocations by Jordan, Egypt
Bring Rebuke from Truce Chief
WHITE PLAINS. N.Y., (JTA)
—Alfred M. Lilienthal, an anti-
Zionist and former official of
the Council for Judaism, called
on Attorney General Jacob Da-
vits to investigate an alleged
"threat" which he said had led
the Westchester Young Wom-
en's Republican Club to cancel
an address at its annual con-
vention last month in Bronx-
ville by Omar Khadra of the
Saudi Arabian delegation to the
United Nations.
Lilienthal asserted that the
speech was cancelled after the
group had received warning that
the convention would be picket-
ed. He called on the Attorney
General to investigate the
threat to freedom of speech and
reveal the name of the organi-
zation which had made the
threats. Miss Margaret Calnan,
vice president of the Republican
group, who received the alleged
telephone threats, termed Lilien-
thal's demand "ridiculous." She
denied that any organization
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serious criticism for failing to
give both sides a hearing on a
controversial issue. Khadra was
later invited to speak before the
White Plains Rotary Club and
warned his hearers then against
Zionist attempts to restrict free-
dom of speech in this country.
The Westchester Zionist Re - .
gion took notice of the episode
by adopting a resolution affirm-
ing "the traditional American
doctrine of free speech" which,
it pointed out, "is consonant
with Zionist principles." It
stressed . that public platforms
should be "open and unrestrict-
ed to the presentation of all
points of view on public issues."
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TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Two hand would be patrolled by joint mili-
grenades were thrown through tary patrols under UN com-
the windows of a house near mand); regular meetings be-
the Jordan border but miracu- tween local commanders on both
sides and direct telephonic com-
lously injured no one.
The grenades exploded in a munications between the two
room in which three adults and commanders, and issuance of or-
two small girls were sleeping in ders to Egyptian troops not to
a house at Neve Yamin, near fire on Israel patrols moving
about in Israel territory near
Kfar Saba.
An army spokesman also re- the border.
(In London., the Daily Tele-
vealed that all telephone lines
and water pipelines to Kissufim, graph reported from Jerusalem
an Israel settlement near the that the Israel Cabinet had
Gaza strip, were severed by in- agreed to a "medium level" con-
filtrators from Egyptian terri- ference of Israel and Egyptian
tory. Kissufim is located some officers under the chairmanship
of Gen. Burns.)
two miles from the frontier.
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Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns,
United Nations truce chief, Armistice Commission censured
blamed large concentrations of Israel for an incident on May
Arab refugees in the Gaza strip 20 when Israelis were charged
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the Israel-Egyptian border.
and a flock of sheep inside
Gen. Burns forwarded to the Egyptian territory in the Gaza
Egyptians an Israel plan for re- strip.
establishing security along the
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