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Baron Rothschild Retains Hope for Jews in N. Afriea

PARIS, (JTA) — Baron Guy
de Rothschild, a leader of the
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
French Jewish community, told
(Ccpyright, 1955, Seven Arts • Feature Syndicate)
the 10th annual directors confer-
ence of the Joint Distribution
What's In a Name?
Committee here that French Jews
The Israeli press, busy these days with oil, has recently been "do not agree that establishment
carrying stories about a water celebration in the remote Negev of Arab sovereignty is an oc-
ettlement of Revivim.
casion in itself for setting up a
It was about 13 years ago that a group of yOung Israelis estab- program of flight for the Jews
lished that settlement. The primary objective of the settlers was in North Africa." He said that the
purely pOlitical since the Mandatory government was seeking to Jewish community leadership in
constrict the Jewish settlement as much as possible, especially to France has faith in what the
keep them out of the Negev. The Jews felt that to yield was to French government can do for
forfeit their rights to the future. So the young Jews went out and North African Jewry in the pres-
made a pretext at settlement. You seemingly could do a little more ent crisis.
"We counsel prudence and
then. For miles around the land was as bare as a billiard ball. No
watchfulness to our North Afri-
one seemed to know if anything' could be grown. The nearest Jew-
can co-religionists but we re-
ish settlement was miles and miles away. There was a Bedouin
fuse to admit in advance that
village nearby, commonly known in Arabic as the "Village of the
the cause is lost," Baron de
Bandits." One apparently had to be a bandit to survive there. And
Rothschild declared. "We will
there was no water, no rainfall, either.
do everything in our power,
Well, everything else was bad, and the settlers began looking
feeble though it may be, to
about for a nice name. Let that at least be nice, they said, and
safeguard the rights of the
they named the place after the thing they wanted most—Revivim,
Jews in North Africa."
meaning showers or copious draughts of water
Saul Kagan, secretary of the
They tried to make the dream come true, the settlers. They dug Conference on Jewish Material
for water and at last found a well—but it was salty water, bitter Claims Against Germany, re-
water. They couldn't drink it of course, but they found there were ported to the final session of the
some plants, like dates for instance, which didn't object too much conference that 409 applications
if there was a bit of salt in their water. And so they seeded dates had been received from 27 coun-
and other such plants. There were a lot of other things which tries for assistance in 1956 to-
happened—the war and so on—but we will skip them to get down taling $30 million. He pointed out
to - the end of the story, the celebration in Revivim. Amidst the that this total was three times
rejoicing in oil, the people of Revivim were dancing about the big the funds available to the con-
water pipes, financed by Israel bonds, which are now bringing them ference.
The problem of Jewish survival
the water of the Yarkon many miles away. Revivim now is more
than a dream, a hope. It is a reality, a fulfillment.

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The moral of the story seems to be that Shakespeare was all
wet when he said there was nothing in a name. How could the
waters resist the lure of a persuasion that is Revivim?

Johnston Optimistic on Jordan Plan ApprOval

WASHLNGTON (JTA) — Eric
_Johnston, President Eisenhower's
special envoy, told; newsmen he
thought prospects for adoption of
the Johnston plan for develop-
ment of the Jordan River were
"very good." -
He made this statement after a
hasty oral report to Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles to
whom he was to sub/rift a de-
tailed report on the results of his .
most recent visit to the Middle

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plan.
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In a comment on a previous
statement by Johnston that the
Jordan development , plan now
stands "on the one-inch line,"
the Christian 'Science Monitor
noted that "into that long last
inch, however, are packed all the
reasons why the Arabs hitherto
have refused to make peace with
Israel." It added that Syria and
Lebanon had "raised last-minute
objections to the plan and that,
to avoid the onus of turning it
down, the Arab League had
asked for more time to decide."
Johnston said he did not think
the Arab States were stalling on
consideration of his plan. He said
the request . for more time was
a reasonable one since, in both
Lebanon and Syria, the present
governments were less than two
weeks old.

Jewish War Vets Play
Key Role in Religious Revival

FALLSBURG, N. Y., (JTA) -:-
World War II and Korean veter-
ans whose contact with Jewish
military chaplains restored their
religious devotion are playing a
key role in the religious revival
of American Jewry, Frank L.
Weil, honorary president of the
National Jewish Welfare Board,
declared at the fifth biennial
convention of the Association of
Jewish Chaplains of the Armed
Forces. ‘
He spoke at a dinner in his
honor at which he was awarded
a scroll in recc.gnition of his con-
tributions to the chaplaincy and
morale programs of the armed
forces. -

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in Europe has shifted during the
past decade from the preserva-
tion of life, health and welfare
of the individual Jew to the re-
construction of organized Jewish
community life which was so
violently disrupted during the 13
years of Nazism and war, Charles
H. Jordan, assistant director gen-
eral of the Joint Distribution
Committee, told the JDC con-
ference.

will be such that they will re-
, quire ev'en more help than
heretofore, Herbert Katzki, as-
sistant director general of the
Joint Distribution Committee
declared.

Sam Haber, JDC director in
Morocco, reported that the pow
litical and economic crisis in
Morocco had increased the feel-
ing of instability and insecurity
among the Jewish population
Mr. Jordan reported that of , there. He gave figures indicating
that the Jewish population of
the 1,500,000 Jews on the Euro-
pean continent," exclusive of
Morocco, including Tangiers and
the Spanish zone, was 214,756
the Soviet Union, at the end
of the war more than 600,000 and that more than 50,000 emi-
grants had left the area since
emigrated, chiefly with the as-
1951, most of them. for Israel.
sistance of the JDC. Of the re-
maining 900,000, he said, 400,-
000 are in the so-called Iron
Curtain countries for which no
welfare need figures are avail-
able. Of the 500,000 Jews in
Western Europe, less than 30,-
000 are on the private relief
rolls of Jewish organizations,
he reported. The 1,400 Jews in
DP camps and the 2,000-odd
who are unaffiliated with com-
munities, Mr. Jordan said, will
either emigrate or be absorbed
into the communities.
Moses W. Beckelman, Euro-
pean director general of JDC,
expressed gratification with the
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communities realize the danger
in over-dependence on currently
available funds of the JDC and
Francis 0. Wilcox, Assistant the Conference of Jewish Ma-
Secretary of State • for Interna- terial Claims Against Germany.
Many of North Africa's
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opening meeting of the season of
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The program will be held at 1
p.m., Nov. 7, in
the Brown Me-
morial Chapel, of
Temple Beth El.
Wilcox will
speak on "The
United Nations
and Interna-
tional Affairs."
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President
Eisenhower a p -
pointed Wilcox
to his present
post in July of
this year. He had Wilcox
been Chief of Staff of the Senate
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For e i g n Relations Committee
since 1947.
A scholar and government ex-
pert in international affairs, Wil-
cox has held a number of teach-
ing .posts. In 1941, he was visit-
at
ing professor of political science
at the University of Michigan.
Joining the Government in
1942, he has served with the Of- ,
lice of the Coordinator of Inter-1
American Affairs, Office of Civi-
lian Defense and Chief Interna-
tional Relations Analyst for the
Library of Congress. 1
Wilcox was a member of the i
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Carnahan to Address
Round Table Dinner

Paul Carnahan, president of
the Great Lakes Steel Corpora-
tion, will be principal speaker at
the 27th anniversary dinner of
the Detroit Round Table of the
National Conference of Christians I
and Jews. The subject of his ad-
dress is "The Way of Com-
panions." The dinner will be held
in the Fountain Room of the
Masonic Temple at 6:30 p.m.;
Nov. 17. An attendance of 1000
is expected.
Dr. Robert M. Frehse, executive
director of the Detroit Round
Table, will outline the local-pro-
gram. Edgar A, Guest will be
toastmaster.
Dr. Everett R. Clinchy,
dent of the National Conference
of Christians and Jews, will ex-
plain the progress of the brother-
hood idea.
The headquarters of the Na-
tional Conference in New York
City, which stems from a $1,000,-
000 gift from the Ford Motor Co.
Fund, will be dedicated the week
previous, Nov. 6-13.

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