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Communists Increase Munitions Shipments to Arabs

ArmsValued at $250,000,000
Are On Three Routes to Egypt

EDITORIAL

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Duplicity and 'Ludicrous Partition

Basic American principles are at stake in the latest manifestations
of bigotry against Israel. But it is not Israel alone that is involved.
Our system of government, our human valuesvare in danger.
Last Sunday, on the NBC.American Forum program originating
from Washington, a "plasterboard curtain" was set up at the
insistence of the Syrian Ambassador, Farrid Zeineddine, who refused
to appear with Israel's Ambassador Abba Eban. He thereby indicated
that his country was not recognizing Israel.
In the meantime, however, a new policy was introduced on an
American public platform: separating people who are not on speaking
terms from public view.
This might be workable on the stage, in a farce or comedy. But
on the public platform, during discussion of matters of world interest,
it sets a dangerous pretedent against which every American with
a sense of decency must register his protest.
We do so now. We protest also against Ambassador • Eban's.
yielding to such an inhuman and indecent procedure. We protest
against F. Plch an un-American policy countenanced by the NBC
officials. We condemn the Syrian's demand for the introduction
of such a "ludicrous partition," as Ambassador Eban described it.
If such policies are permitted in the future, we shall next have
Southerners (segregationists) similarly partitioned off. from North-
erners (desegregationists), Republicans from Democrats, labor from
capital, rich from p-",or.
If such procedures are permitted, the most sacred American
ideals will be undermined.
We are suffering sufficiently at this time from duplicity practiced
against Israel on the international scene. On top of that we now have
stupid dividing lines .,on public platforms, plasterboards that reek
with hatred, partitions that spell bigotry and ill will.
Those who, in the future, either introduce or approve such a
partition, must be viewed as enemies of free discussion and of a
decent approach to true brotherhood. We condemn such practices as
un-American and inhuman.

The burning fuse on the international battlefront is getting closer to the powder keg,
and it may become more difficult to prevent a conflagration unless immediate action is
taken to stop the flood of arms that is reaching the Arab nations.
While the State Department was reiterating its refusal to provide Israel with Nike
anti-aircraft missiles, reports from many world capitals were that more Communist arms
shipments are being made to Egypt.
But at his press conference on Wednesday, President Eisenhower reopened the possi-
bility of Israel's receiving American arms and kept the door open for such an eventuality.
Arab-Jewish tensions are not limited to the Israel situation. A report from Casablanca
quotes Ira Hirschmann, New York businessman, operator of radio stations, as revealing
a wave of fear among the Jews of Morocco over their future security and their anxiety to
emigrate to Israel. The 1954 massacre of 12 Jews in the Moroccan town of Petitjean has
increased the tensions. Mr. Hirschmann revealed that more than a fourth of Morocco's
210,000 Jews are registered for emigration to Israel. It is estimated that 45,000 Moroccan
Jews will go to Israel this year, as compared with 10,50 0 in 1954 an 28,761 in 1955.
• From Haifa comes the report that Christian Arabs and Druses are being drafted into
the Israel army.
Speaking at a UJA conference in New Orleans, Governor Theodore R. McKeldin
called upon the U. S. and the Western Powers "to lift the arms embargo against Israel."
Speaking at the 33rd annual convention of the Zionist Organization of Canada, Israel's
Ambassador to Ottawa, Michael Comay, appealed to the Canadian government to dis-
play the same statesmanship now that it showed at the time of the creation of the Jewish
State, and to endorse Israel's need for defensive arms.

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Czech, USSR, Hungarian Arms Shipments to Egypt

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

VIENNA—Arms worth $250,000,000 are going to Egypt fro sm . Czechoslova-
kia, the Soviet Union and Hungary in three distinct routes, it w a s reported
here Tuesday.
Russian experts attached to the Czech Ministry of. Defense have organized
the shipments which consist chiefly of Czech ,weapons and include tanks, heavy
artillery, anti-aircraft guns, planes, including Soviet-type MIGs, and armored
cars, the report said.
It added that weapons are shipped, by Danube barges from Czechoslovakia
through. Austria and to the Yugoslav port of Fiume where* they are loaded on
Yugoslav freighters for Egyptian ports.

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Allied Jewish Campaign Readied for Formal Opening

Advance activity mounts as all divisions move toward. the ,formal opening
that 80 men from the division are sponsoring the affair, at Hotel Statler.
of the Allied Jewish Campaign on Wednesday, April 4, at Temple Israel, when
The dentists and dental technicians will meet' at the Rainbow Terrace
section heads will gather at a leadership dinner conference at 6 to collect
at dinner, at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Alvin B. Lezell, chairman of ,the section, has three
reports on all pre-campaign activity to be presented at the larger public meet-
associate chairman, Drs. Samuel Krohn, Frank Reisman and Ted Winshall,
ing at 8:30 p.m., in the main temple.
with Dr. Martin Naimark as counselor.
In addition to the five major campaign fund-raising dinners on the week's
The leaders are hoping to duplicate the record of the section set at a recent
docket for the arts and craft, real estate and building, apparel trades, mechanical
assignment-social held at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Herbert J. Bloom, where all
trades, dentists' and dvntal technicians' sections, there are scheduled a series
present announced increased pledges.
of other section assignment get-togethers.
The annual Mechanarama Dinner of the mechanic-al trades division will
Members of insurance sections will meet at the home of Sidney J. Bertin,
be held at •6:30 Thursday, at the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel, with Zvi Kolitz,
17166 Fairfield, 8:15 p.m. Monday, with Louis C. Blumberg, pre-campaign chair-
Israel pioneer and producer of the award winning ISrael film, "Hill 24
man, discussing the emergency situation reflected in the $5,380,000 goal for the
Doesn't Answer," as guest speaker.
1956 campaign.
Chairman of the dinner is Harvey 'H. Golman, who,_ with Samuel J. Ham-
Physicians on the staff of Brent Hospital met this week and those on the
burger, his co-chairman, announced that there are 101 dinner sponsors.
staff of Sinai will meet at 8:15 p.m. Tuesday. Chairman Dr. Abraham S.
Jack O. Lefton and Emil T. Stern are mechanical trades chairmen. Sol
Rogoff and co-chairman Dr. Perry Goldman announce that their section has
Eisenberg is pre-campaign chairman. Division vice-chairmen are Harry Aronow,
already reported $56,000 in pledges, with increases ranging up to 150 per cent
Jerry J. Bielfield, Sam D. Jacobs and Robert JaneWay.
of last year's giving.
Samuel H. Katzin, co-developer of Detroit's Gratiot-Orleans Redevelop-
Two sections of the professional division will meet on Thursday, the gov-
ment Project, past president of Chicago's Combined Jewish Appeal, will ad-
ernment services at 4:30 p.m. at the offices of Julius Pliskow, 1010 City-County
dress the real estate and building council's annual dinner, 6:30 p.m., Wednes-
Bldg., and the educational services at 8:15 p.m., at the' home of Dr. Norman
day, at the Sheraton-Cadillac. Hotel. - -
Drachler, 18971 Littlefield. Harry Shumaker and Max Smith are chairmen of
The first all glass and steel towers in the Midwest, built on C•icago's near
the former and Jean - Holtzman and Melvin
north side, were constructed by Katzin and his
Weisz head the latter.
associate's. Katzin has been chosen by the De-
The social services section, which last year
troit Citizens Redevelopment Corporation to
raised $15,000, already secured almost that
build the $25,000,000 Gratiot-Orleans Redevel-
amount, with 50 per cent of the prospects
opment
Project which will house 1500 families.
covered at an advance solicitation meeting.
Lt. Col. Ruth Berman, an heroic veteran of
The division, headed by Abe Green, aims at
Israel's defense forces, will address two Allied
a million dollar goal.
Jewish Campaign dinners—the apparel trades
Division associate chairmen Milton Howard
section of the mercantile division on Wednes-
and Irving Rose have enrolled more than 40
day, and the dentists and dental technicians of
the professional division on Thursday.
members of the division as dinner sponsors.
Lt. Col. Berman, who was in the United.
Kolitz, author of many stories on Jewish
States in 14948 when her presentation of the
subjects and of the book "The Tiger Beneath
hopes and aspiration of Israel's people helped
the Skin," published in New York, the sched-
mobilize support for the creation of a Jewish
uled speaker at the Mechanarama dinner, is a
State, spent most of her life in Palestine. Prior
frequent contributor to leading Israeli dailies.
to Israel's establishment, she played a dramatic
His "Hill 24 Doesn't Answer," Israel's first ma-
role in the immigration of the thousands of
jor motion picture, was awarded international
Jews who arrived in Palestine' despite - the Brit-
prizes in Cannes and Mexico City and was
ish blockade.
chosen one of the 10 best pictures of 1955 by
Stanley J. Winkelman and Arthur Leebove,
the New York Post. It was shown in Detroit
chairmen of the mercantile division, reported
Lt. Col. Berman
in the latter part of 1955.

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