adit
Showing That a Jew Remains a Jew
Armchair Strategist's Views
Stem from Early Training
Israeli Enrolls- at MIT
With First Scholarship
Israel Feldman, first young Is-
raeli to enroll in Massachusetts
Institute of Technology under the
Benjamin Cooper Fellowship
plan, began a program of study
planned not only for his own pro-
ession al ad-
vancement b u t
also to further
industrial
growth through-
out his rapidly-
d e v eloping
young country.
C onsidered
one of the out-
standing engin-
eering students
Feldman
of the new re-
public, Feldman was selected as
a Cooper Fellow through compe-
tition open to graduating stu-
dents of the Haifa Technion.
His training here under spon-
sorship of Benjamin Cooper,
New York industrialist and pres-
ident of Taller & Cooper, Inc.,.
automation engineers, will in-
clude a year of post-graduate
work in the School of Industrial
Management at MIT and a year
of practical, on-the-jo• training
in American industry.
Johann de Bloch — a Polish-
accurate and precise than his
born Jew who became a Christian
contemporaries realized.
convert early in life—is known
The unexpected collapse of the
for his evaluation of the Boer Boer 'resistance had firmly con-
War and its military strategy, vinced the British public that the
despite the fact that he had never war was approaching a decisive
visited South Africa and died in
end. In some quarters it was
Warsaw before the peace of Ve-
hinted, as a trivial detail, that the
reeniging officially ended the
restoration of order might entail
war.
some police work.
Bloch's unusual personality is
Long points out that Bloch was
described as follows by Nahum
the exception to these views. His
Sokolow, Zionist leader and pub-
pamphlet passed unnoticed. "Yet
licist:
from beginning to end it was
"And his biography? The old
a mass of cogent reasoning and
story that is ever knew. The
confident prediction that the war
young Johann—in those days, of
had hardly ended its beginning.
course, he was not called Johann
After reviewing the topography
—visited ,in his earliest child-
of South Africa, the inadequacy
hood days, the Cheder. Even then
of its communications and food
he astonished the Rabbi with his
resources, Bloch predicted that
capabilities.
after the regular warfare was
"In spite of his assimilation he
over, a period lasting for years of
was the best of half-Jews: a the severest guerilla warfare
penetrating Jewish mind, a warm would ensue, which, in de
Jewish heart, a practical genius fault of a formal peace, could only
and a poet.
be ended by the hunting down
"A genuine Jewish type, an of every individual Boer in the
intellectual, mild, thoroughly
field."
good face, a high Lamden fore-
Long goes on to say that
head, clever piercing eyes, in
"Bloch's triumph lieS in the fact
his youth somewhat chic, but that he laid down his theories in
in his "old days" the features black and white at a time when
marked and inner natural char- not only the lay public, but the
EL PASO, Texas, (JTA) — A
acteristics once more brought military experts and military ad- decision by the El Paso Jewish
out; Jewish, humanly Jewish- visois of the British government Community Council to publish
intellectual , quiet, deliberate,
were positively confident that- a contributor's yearbook was de-
tactful ,but always Jewish. An the war would be over when Pre- scribed as a "bomb" dropped
old, clever. good Jew."
toria had fallen , into British "in the laps of the Council mem-
bers" in a, front page editorial
As a Russian Counciller;/ of hands."
State, this Jew-turned-Christian,
The most fascinating aspect of in The Desert Star here.
The editorial, which explained
was an authority on .tHe eco- Bloch's assertions is that they
nomics of Tsarist RuSsia and were made by. a man who had the reasons behind the Council's
gained reknown for his financing never visited South Africa, but decision - to publish the yearbook,
and superint&iding the construe- read about the local situation and described the plan as "the , most
.tion of thousands of miles or rail- then used his own facile mind, to controversial issue to arise on
the El Paso Jewish scene in
way for the „fiussian government. present his views.
many years."
But Blo-.;ri is more widely cele-
brated a pacifist and his views Israel Explains Halting
In outlining the thinking which
are lucidly expressed in his seven
led the Council's board of direc-
volume Russian work entitled Of Scrip, Parcel Groups
tors to adopt the plan, the editor-
JERUSALEM, (•TA)—The Is- ial revealed that "some figures
"The Future of War in Its Tech-
nical, Economical and Political rael Treasury has explained its you will be reading for the first
Aspects" (St. Petersberg, 1898)— order suspending activities of time. In 1948 the campaign
translated in part into English firms dealing in gift parcels from raised $263,000. Almost every,
abroad for Israel residents and year since that time the amount
by R. C. E. Long.
In these volumes, Bloch tried "scrip companieS". which sell has decreased until this year less
to prove the futility of maintain- certificates abroad for goods to than $120,000 was raised.
ing great modern armies and be purchased in Israel.
Primarily, the Treasury said,
pointed out that any prolonged
war usually results in either a the domestic food situation has U.S. Willing to Continue
suicidal stalemate or social revo- improved and -there is sufficient Aid to Refugees in UN
lution. He also stressed that mod- food available in Israel. Anything
UNITED NATIONS, (JTA) —
ern imperialism is unprofitable. semi-governmental agencies need The United States Government,
Bloch's theories became a wide- can be purchased for pounds in- which appropriated $1,200,000 in
ly debated topic during the South stead of dollars, therefore there 1955 for the work of the United
African War of 1899-1902, but his is no need for outside sources to Nations High Commissioner for
contemporaries so misrepresented send food into the country.
Refugees, is prepared to ask Con-
his ideas that one of them stated,
The Treasury also said that gress "for a further substantial
"many people regard the fact that some of the certificates in circu- contribution for 1956" if other
war broke out—and not merely lation were not bonafide. The governments' do their share, it
the course which it took—as a statement noted that the order was announced here by Jacob
refutation of the whole thesis in cancelling the companies applied Blaustein, U. S. delegate to the
"The Future of War."
regardless of whether the "scrip General Assembly's Social, Cul-
R. C. E. Long, Bloch's English company" or the gift organiza- tural and Humanitarian Commit-
admirer, defended the theories tion was a profit or non-profit tee.
in the London Fortnightly Re-
group.
Blaustein, honorary president
view of 1902 by writing that
of the American Jewish Com-
Bloch's pamphlets, "The Trans-
Moslems in Tunis Asked mittee, made his maiden speech
vaal and Its Problems" and
during the General - Assembly as
"Lord Roberts' Campaign and To Halt Attacks on Jews the opening speaker On the an-
TUNIS, (JTA) — Habib Bour- nual report delivered recently
Its Consequences" Were more
guiba, leader of the nationalist by Dr. G. J. van Heuven
Neo-Destour Party of Tunis, ap- Goedhart, UN High Commission-
pealed to the Moslem population er for Refugees. On behalf of the
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to halt attacks on Jews and not to United States, Blaustein praised
sack their stores. M. Bourguiba the Commissioner's work and
has made consistently pro-Jewish called for further governmental
statements since his return from aid.
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exile recently when the national-
ist movement won an agreement
for greater autonomy f r o m New-Found Israel Oil
France.
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Lights Torch for Ampal
The appeal followed a number
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A lamp,
of recent incidents in which Jews lit with oil from Israel's first well
have been injured and Jewish at Ampal House here, symbolized
stores have been looted by Mos- Israel's hope and joy at the dis-
lem gangs. A mob of unemployed covery of oil in the northern
Moslems attempted to loot Jewish Negev. The lamp was lit by .
stores in the native quarter. Po- Abraham Dickenstein, president
... a luxury ranch-resort lice were called and two Moslems of Ampal-American Israel Cor-
and a Jewish boy were wounded
observing the dietary laws! when police used gunfire to dis- poration, with the first sample of
the oil from the new well, which
perse the mob which had turned had just arrived here by air.
on them.
Dickenstein paid tribute to
Write for coior &older:
Israel's pioneering spirit as ex- .
rate & reservation in New High in Membership
emplified in the oil strike, and
formation
Of Bnai Brith Youth Groups
added that the strike was the
Registered membership in the product of that spirit "together
Bnai Brith Youth Organization with the know-how, the finan-
Esther Dokow,
spiralled to an all-time high of cial and moral support supplied
Reservation Mgr.
30,616 for the year ending Aug. by a group of American inves-
31, it was announced by Label tors."
BOX 2151
A. Katz, New Orleans attorney
TUCSON, ARIZONA
Philip Cohen, Ampal general
and realtor, chairman of the Bnai secretary in Israel, who had just
Brith National Youth Commis-
arrived from Israel with the first
sion. The new registration fig- samples of
oil, gave an eye-
ures represent a net increase of
witness account of the scene at
2,541 members over last year. the site of the strike.
Meyer Cohen,
During the past four years the •
Managing pirectiv youth-serving agency has shown DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-21
a membership gain of one-third.
Friday, October 14, 1955
Dachau Crematorium to Remain Intact
BONN (JTA)—The latest at-
tempt by Herr Junker, commis-
sioner for the county of Dachau,
to have the Dachau crematorium,
where hundreds of thousands of
-Jews were murdered by the
Nazis, closed to visitors, ended
in failure in the Bavarian Par-
liament.
Juriker,,, who introduced a mo-
tion in the provincial legislature
to close down the museum at the
former death camp, said that he
wanted to keep the commemora-
tion of Nazi victims "within
bounds." He said that the name
of the town of Dachau had been
brought into disrepute through-
out the world as a result of the
publicity which the camp had
received.
He withdrew his motion, how-
ever, after it was pointed out
Professor Gets Promotion
CLEVELAND, 0. (JTA) -. Dr.
Abrah S. Stavitsky has been pro-
moted to the rank of associate
professor of microbiology at the
Western Reserve University Med-
ical School.
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to him that a recent Bonn-Paris
agreement obligates the West
German government to preserve
burial places. of and memorials
to Nazi victims in their original
state. Before he withdrew his
motion, Herr Junker came under
attack from Social Democrats
and members of his own Chris*
tian Democratic party.
Later, on a motion by Junker,
it was agreed to erect a memo-
rial consisting of a cross and a
Star of David on a hill overlook,-
ing the Dachau camp.
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