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Dr. Goldman'', Attacks Delay of Arms, Security Measures
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Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chair-
man of the Jewish Agency for
Palestine, was pessimistic about
either the United States or
France providing arms to Is,-
rael. In the major address at
the opening session of the con-
ference, Tuesday evening, at
the Shoreham Hotel, Dr. Gold-
mann deplored the delay by
the Big Three in providing
arms to Israel to balance the
flow of Communist munitions
to Egypt. Dr. Goldmann said
Great Britain was the most
guilty among the Big Three
because it has shipped arms to
Egypt. 'while denying them to
Israel.
Dr. Goldmann said: "Presi-
dent Eisenhower, in his State
of the Union message, ex-
pressed the underlying prin-
ciple of American policy — a
correct and wise principle —
when he said America's mili-
tary power is the chief deterent
to Communist aggression. Why
is this elementary truth for
America right for all free na-
tions, and why is it wrong and
improper for Israel?"
He said: "Shapers of Amer-
ican policy are men of goodwill
and honest intent, but unfor-
tunately they have vacillated
too long. They have lacked de-
Histadrut Urges
Five Percent Hike
in Wage Level
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TEL AVIV — Increase of five
percent in basic wages should
be granted to Israeli workers, it
was decided here by the execu-
tive of Histadrut, Israel labor
federation.
. The decision followed pro-
longed discussion and negotia-
tion which necessitated partici-
pation at one time of Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion and
Minister of Finance Levi Esh-
kol
Exact increases for each of
the trades will be determined
by the federation's trade union
department.
On the other hand earlier
promises to professionals and
certain of the trade unions
would now be shelved and
wages of workers in these cate-
gories are to be frozen because
of the present emergency. De-
cision. as to whether new in-
creases should be tied to a cost
of living index will also be
made by the trade union depart-
ment.
The decision to ask this wage
increase pattern was taken by
a majority vote, in the executive
The vote was recorded as fol-
lows: Mapai, 32 votes in favor
of the pattern; Achdut Avodah,
8 votes; Mapam, 7 votes; Haoved
one vote; Communists, two
votes — all against. Each of
minority groups put forward its
own proposals and all were de-
feated by the Mapai majority.
Groups to the left of Mapai
had asked larger increases with
Achdut Avodah asking ten per-
cent and Communists asking 30
percent.
Prior to adoption of the reso-
lution, Eshkol told Histadrut
leaders that " a raise in pay and
more bank notes will not raise
the standard of living but will
bring inflation." This. he added,
might not be felt immediately
but it would be felt in a few
months time. The only way to
combat inflation, he asserted -,
was to increase production and
exports.
Meanwhile, it was learned
here that Israel's exports
dropped slightly in the last
month. The report was based
on government statistics.
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termination, they have surren-
dered to hesitation and it is
up to the American people now
to instruct them in a course of
strong and fearless action. If
the American people will it, the
State Department will do its
will."
Stating that he did not hes-
itate "to say there is no prob-
ability that either the United
States or France will soon send
arms to Israel," Dr. Goldmann
stressed that "we must not con-
found consideration of Israel's
request for arms with the meet-
ing of this request."
He said, "Assuming that
Israel is inclined to slight
hysteria, we cannot relieve
her hysteria except by re-
moving circumstances that
have brought it on. Nor can
we, who feel an especially
strong kinship for Israel, be
admonished for sharing her
apprehensions, so long as
nothing has been done to re-
store her confidence."
Dr. Goldmann cited the de-
struction of the Warsaw ghetto.
He said: "It would be a great,
error to disregard the mounting
air of isolation and frustration
in Israel in the face of mount-
ing Egyptian strength. Do not
expect sober judgment, sweet
reason and psychological re-
straint from an alarmed people.
I, for one, shall not presume
to pass judgment on Israel's ac-
tions even on such action that
has been described as detri-
mental to Israel's own interests
and complicating dangerous sit-
uation, but I do know and state
this view without equivocation
or qualification: that to cite
such action as an excuse for
further delay of Israel's request
for arms and security guaranty
is to season diplomacy with
moral hypocrisy and to court
peril. We cannot afford to ig-
nore the psychological temper
of the Arab people.
"Some people in the State
Department a r e preoccupied
day and night with Nasser's
mood, Salem's whims and vag-
aries of Arab public opinion.
I do not critize them for this
preoccupation, but they would
accrue no harm if they showed
also some concern for the mood
of Ben-Gurion, the feeling of
Sharett and the temper of Is-
rael's public opinion.
"It would be well for the
State Department to recall that
an important change has oc-
curred in the destiny of a con-
siderable faction of the Jewish
people. Israelis may die in bat-
tle, but they will not wait to
be massacred."
Dr. Goldmann asked: "Why
should the Arab states, sworn
to vengeance against Israel,
agree to negotiate peace under
conditions so favorable to
them? Yet America, whose
policy and purpose is peace,
does nothing to alter a condi-
tion that prevents peace."
He said: "S hould the
United States arm Israel, the
Arab states will at once real-
ize that what confronts them
is not a cake-walk victory,
but a senseless and futile
arms race. Should America
extend security guarantees to
Israel, the Arab states would
be forced to realize that their
hope of destroying Israel is
a dangerous illusion.' It is at
this point they would be
ready to consider peace."
In an evident reply to the
Council for Judaism, Dr. Gold-
mann said, "Dual allegiance"
was "a fiction incubated in the
minds of unbalanced, inferior-
ity-ridden Jews who pose as
super-patriotic Americans and
yet malign the nature of Amer-
ican democracy by comforting
themselves like the Judenrats
of Nazi Europe in a land that
has cradled the concept of lib-
erty and human dignity.
"They are clinical creatures
. . . they are the concern of
psychiatry." Dr. Goldmann sug-
gested that no one, including
officials of the Department of
State, has a right to suggest
to us the nature and intensity
of our emotional and spiritual
relationship to Israel."
* * *
Organized Labor
Stoutly Backs Israel
Leaders of organized labor
registered strong support .of Is-
rael and Israel's appeal for
arms. George Meany, president
of the American Federation of
Labor and the Congress of In-
dustrial Organizations, in a
message to the emergency con-
ference, urged "reaffirmation
of the Tripartite Declaration of
1950, implemented by means to
enable Israel to obtain arms
for defense."
Meany said: "The AFL-CIO
considers the recent interven-
tion of Soviet Russia into
Middle Eastern affairs a grave
threat to world peace. We feel
America and her allies, to-
gether with the United Nations,
should act to prevent aggres-
sion in that area. Positive steps
should include mutual defense
pacts, economic aid and promo-
tion of friendly relations be-
tween Israel and the Arab na-
tions, based on 'mutual recog-
nition of each other's existence
and territorial integrity."
Meany's message was read
by Adolph Held, chairman of
Friday, January 20, 1956
the Jewish Labor Committee.
Held told the conference that
the American labor movement
had stood by Jewry. He said
leaders of labor in attendance
at the conference joined in urg-
ing an end to the "State De-
partment policy which appeases
Arab tyrannies at the expense
of . . . Israel." Held charged
that "Nasser is Bulganin's mes-
senger boy, in the Middle East,
just as the Grand Mufti was
Hitler's appeasement of tyr-
anny. It has always proved
catastrophic when employed by
democracies." Held said free
labor joined in demanding that
American foreign policy pre-
v e n t- "extermination of the
State of Israel by the Nasser,
Bulganin axis."
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Cash on Hand and in Banks
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Stock in Federal Home Loan Bank
First Mortgage Loans
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1,026,515.63
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Home Improvement Loans
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Land Contracts Purchased
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Furniture, Fixtures and Equipment
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15,253.89
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Contracts Purchased
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Uncollected Interest on Loans
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