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?" * C * 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. -- . 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 VOA - Al icAetimttig- 11-31t 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." *PATIENCE IS OUR VIRTUE —Save your new car —Save one excited moment —Save one costly accident For peace of mind DI. 1-9200 H. Flam in Tennis Tourney Tennis star Herb Flam got as far as the quarter finals in the Rome international tennis tour- nament. He was eliminated by Italian champion Fausto Gar- dini by scores of 6-1, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1. 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