Intermarriage
and
Assimilation:
Problems in
Many Jewish
Communities
HE JEWISH NEWS
A Weekly Review
Editorial, Page 4
Loneliness and
Defeatism:
Niches' Escape
Through
Intermarriage
of Jewish Events
Commentary,
Page 2
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VOLUME XXIX—No. 14
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Innocuous UN Resolution Forces
Israel Into Status(duo Position
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—There simply is no unity here as between East and
West when it comes to the Middle East problem. That is perhaps the outstanding
lesson learned from the long UN Security Council session which concluded Mon-
day. In the opinion of most experienced diplomats here, the Security Council had
come to the brink of peace but shied away from the concept of an Arab - Israel
settlement on a mutually acceptable basis because the Soviet Union knuckled under
to Arab pressures and refused to follow through in the Council on pious expressions
enunciated by its leaders, first in Moscow in mid-April and later jointly with the
British in London.
The resolution adopted unanimously Monday is seen as having expressed only in-
nocuous platitudes. The draft could have been passed with the paragraph calling for
a mutually acceptable Israel-Arab peace settlement if the British had persisted in
their original plan. Instead the Security Council has shown that as a result of strong
Arab pressures the Soviet Union will not support a genuine Middle East peace move
here, and the West, on the other hand, stands ready to trim its sails accordingly. The
Security Council has shown itself a one-way street which never runs counter to
Arab 'sentiments.
Israel is understood to be concerned not with what the resolution as passed con-
tains, but rather with what , the draft omitted after having tried to say something
substantial. The resolution itself is not at all bad for Israel and in some respects is
good for the Jewish State, since it reaffirms a basic reliance on armistice agree-
ments. However, having inserted a clause about mutual acceptability, then deleted
the clause, the Council showed it was ready for nothing except status quo ante. In
effect, the Council said on June 4, 1956, that it is now only August 11, 1949—the
date it put its stamp of approval on original armistice agreements.
Old Glory Is 179!
We observe June 14 as
Flag Day because it was on that date in 1777 that the Mars
, and Stripes, by resolution of the Continental Congress, came
into being, with "thirteen stripes of alternate red and white,
with a union of thirteen stars of white in a blue field, repre-
senting the new constellation" in the Western skies. Our flag
was first carried by American troops in the Battle of the Bran-
dywine the following September. The first Old Glory was made
by Betsy Ross of Philadelphia, at General Washington's request.
Whatever the future of UN Secretary Dag Hammarskjold's Middle East mission
may be. the fact is that it is now limited. Hammarskjold's reluctance to return to the
Middle ' East is now well known and clear, but even from his headquarters here he can-
not, within the terms of his mandate, go into issues like freedom for Israel ships to
pass through the Suez Canal, freedom for Israel to resume its work on the Bnot Yaacov
Canal or make any efforts to transform armistices into peace talks.
A combination of Soviet intrasigeance, Arab unwillingness to think in terms of •
ultimate peace and Western timidity, have spelled out clearly Israel's future course.
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Dr. Neumann to be Drafted
As U. S. Zionists' President
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NEW YORK — Dr. Emanuel Neumann, leader of the
Zionist Organization of America and a member of the
Jewish Agency Executive, will be drafted as president
of the ZOA at the forthcoming convention of the organi-
zation which will open on Aug. 24 in Washington, D. C.,
it was announced here, Tuesday.
Bnai Brith District 6 Parley
I it Detroit, June 30 to July 3
The 88th annual convention of District Grand Lodge No. 6,
Bnai Brith will be held beginning Saturday evening, June 30,
through Tuesday evening, July 3, inclusive, at the Sheraton
Cadillac Hotel. At the same time, the Women's District Grand
Lodge will hold its 24th annual convention.
1st DP's 10th Anniversary: upper
photo shows a panel of gov-
ernment and lay migration experts at the tenth anniversary observance of the coming of the
first DP ship, the SS Marine Flasher, held at United Hias Service headquarters in New York.
Speaking is Murray I. Gurfein, • president of the Jewish international migration agency. The
panel, left to right, which questioned some of the more than 200 present who had arrived on
the historic ship, is: George L. Warren, State Departmnet Advisor on Refugees and DPs; Abner
Bregman, of executive committee of United Hias; Mr. Gurfein; Ugo Carusi, former Commis-
sioner of U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service; James P. Rice, acting executive di-.
rector of Hias. In lower photos, on the left, R. Scott McLeod (left), administrator, U. S. Refugee
Program, and Mr. Gurfein stand by to receive a slice of the celebration cake as the first in-
cision is made by Mrs. Sonya Weissman, who arrived on the Marine Flasher on its first voyage
with DPs to the U. S., and was the first DP to come down the gangplank in New York. Of the
867 DPs on the ship, more than 600 were assisted in their immigration by the predecessor
agencies of United Hias. (Right) Harry Ende, who arrived on the Marine Flasher with his
wife, Frieda, points out to her and to their two children, Jimmy, 9, and Stuart, 2, where he
discovered his picture on the enlargement of the photograph of the first DP ship as she ar-
rived in New York harbor. It was a triple celebration for the Endes, as it was his birthday,
the birthday of Jimmy, who was born in New York exactly one year to the day after his par-
ents' arrival, and the anniversary of the Endes' landing in their new country.
Sidney J. Karbel, of Detroit, president of District Grand
Lodge No. 6, will preside at all sessions of the men's group.
Dr. Lawrence I. Yaffa has been named chairman of the Detroit
convention committee. The Greater Detroit Bnai Brith Men's
and Women's Councils and their constituent lodges and chap-
ters are preparing events for all delegates, alternates, visitors
and their families.
District Grand Lodge No. 6 includes 199 Lodges and 120
Women's Chapters in Minnesota, Wisconsin, North and South
Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan and the Canadian
Provinces of Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta,
with a total membership of "nearly 75,000. More than 1,000
delegates are expected to attend both conventions.
A reception and dance is planned for Saturday evening,
June 30. On Sunday, July 1, registration of delegates will start
at 8:30 a.m. The District presidents' luncheon will be held at
noon with the annual message to be delivered by Sidney J.
Karbel, president of District Grand Lodge No. 6. Convention
committees will meet in the afternoon. A special awards pro-
gram will be held at 7 p.m., to be followed by a cabaret and
dance at 9 p.m. —
Convention sessions will be held all day and in the eve-
ning on Monday, July 2. At noon, the Supreme Lodge vice
presidents' luncheon will be held, featuring an address by Ben-
jamin I. Morris, past president of District Grand Lodge No. 6
and vice president of the Supreme Lodge.