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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This - Sabbath, the seventh day of Tammuz, 5716, the following Scriptural selections
will be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Hukkath, Num. 19 :1-22 :1. Prophetical portion, Judges 11:1-33.

Licht Benchen, Friday, June 15, 7:51 p.m.

VOL. XXIX. No 15

Page Four

June 15, 1956

'Highest Orders Militate Against Peace

Lovers of peace and justice, who also
are students of international affairs, had
a disillusioning experience when it be-
came known. that the United Nations
Security Council yielded to pressure and
failed to adopt . a resolution calling for
amity in • the Middle East: The United
States and French. delegates protested
against the watering down of the British
resolution, "However," we learn from the
report of Thomas J. Hamilton in the New
York Times, "the paragraph (which called
for 'a peaceful settlement on a mutually
acceptable basis') was eliminated on di-
rect orders from 'the highest authority,'
meaning Sir Anthony Eden, British Prime
Minister."
The New York Times, editorially, ab-
solved the major powers and wrote that
"the United Kingdom and the United
States were not inconsistent . . they
yielded in the interests of `unanimity;'
and achieved it — a mistaken course, we
think, but not an ignoble one." But the
editorial does question the wisdom of the
resolution. Appearing under the heading
"UN Has a Bad Day, it declares that the
UN • and the Security CounCil "seemed
weaker" in from
its
that resulted from
presSures - from the four Arab states,
"aided and abetted by Russia." This edi-
torial, in which - the "consistent" action of
the Arab states (which "have not con-
cealed their desire to get rid of the little
State of Itrael, which, though they out-
number it twenty , times over, they pre-
tend to fear") is contrasted with the in-
consistency of the Soviet Union. We are
reminded that the latter had asked, on
April 17, in a statement made in Moscow

Dr. Neumann 's Visit

The visit here, on Monday evening, of
Dr. Emanuel Neumann, one of the most
distinguished American Zionist leaders,
must be viewed as an event of consider-
able importance.
A courageous spokesman for the Zion-
ist cause, Dr. Neumann has fearlessly
faced the issues that have confronted Is-
rael and the Zionist movement. He is one
of the Zionist movement's leading "career
diplomats." A noted scholar, one of our
leading Hebraists and an effective orator,
he has to his credit many accomplish-
ments. He has kept the Zionist idea in the
forefront of Jewish thinking. He was one
of Jewry's spokesmen before the United
Nations when the partition plan was dis-
cussed in 1947.
He may well be considered on& of the
ablest guides of American Zionists, and
it is no wonder that he. has been drafted
for the presidenCY of the Zionist Organiz-
ation of America. We join in welcoming
him to Detroit as the most distinguished
guest of the year. of the Zionist Organ-
ization of Detroit.

Congratulations, UAW

We extend hearty congratulations to
the UAW on its 20th anniversary.
The important labor organization has
earned the -esteem of all liberal-minded
people for its consistent fight for adher-
ence to principles of social justice, for its
share in the fight for human rights.
The battle for strong FEPC legislation
might never have been won if it were not
for the UAW. Its leaders have worked
untiringly against racial and religious
prejudice. They have stood by- Israel. in
the Jewish state's fight for justice and for
survival. Histadrut always has found
ready supporters in the ranks of UAW.
These qualities have earned for UAW
the gratitude of our community. We greet
the UAW and its leaders on their current
anniversary celebration.

by Vyacheslav M. Molotov, for "a stable,
peaceful settlement of the Palestine ques-
tion on a mutually acceptable basis."
These were the words, that were incor-
porated in the originally-sponsored British
'resolution, which was denuded by Soviet-
Arab force.
"Perhaps the UN will be the stronger
if this one act of folly opens its eyes to
the eternal truth that empty compromises
win no victories, and that in the end prin-
ciples worth defending must be defended,"
the New York Times editorial concludes.
It is good advice, but we wonder whether
it can possibly strike a sympathetic note
anywhere. outside the ranks of the seven
(of the eleven) voices that had spoken
reasonably in the Security Council. The
seven (of the eleven) could have forced
a showdown in the issue, in spite .of Arab
threats, But there is panic in the ranks of
the United Nations. And you can't expect
firm • peace action where there is fear.
First, therefore, we must pray that fright
will be driven from the minds and hearts
of our "statesmen" who have darkened
the-United Nations' horizon on that "bad
day" of June 4, when a minority of war-
mongers stifled peaceful voices and post-
poned hope for amity and international
cooperation.

Israel Trade Show

A major event -on our community's
calendar is the Israel trade show, to be
here June 18-21 at the Sheraton Cadillac
Hotel.
Displaying 28 categories of products
that are produced, for export, in Israel,
this show, organized by the Israel Consul
in Chicago, Shaul Ben-Haim, will include
construction material, knitwear, plate
glass, arts and crafts • and many other
items.
We share the hopes of the organizers
of this important display that many De-
troiters will avail themselves of the op-
portunity of seeing the type of products
manufactured in the Jewish State. This
display should encourage investments in
Israel. It should inspire the importing of
goods from Israel and the purchase of the
scores of arts and crafts creations as gifts
or for personal use.
The American-Israel Chamber of Com-
merce and Industry last week made known
some interesting facts. It reported that
U. • S. imports from Israel registered an
increase of nearly $4,000,000 over 1954 and
reached a total of $17,159,999, with pol-
ished diamonds accounting for $13,808;000.
The balance included foodstuffs (biscuits,
fruit preserves, chocolate, candy, wine,
beer), flower bulbs and foliage, clothing
(raincoats and sweaters) , wool yarn, paper
products, wood products, marble, cement,
g 1 a s s, giftware, electrical appliances
(radios), machinery, scientific instru-
ments, books,- pictures, stamps, art work
and antiques.
This is an encouraging indication of
progress. But with exports into Israel
from the United States totalling $90,190,-
000 as compared with $74,609,000 in 1954—
Israel faces the problem of a trade im-
balance. It is urgent that there should be
an increase in the use of Israel's products
by Americans. The trade show can en-
courage changes in the trade imbalance.
A study of Israel's industrial develop-
ment, as expressed in the trade show here,
should go a long way not only in encourag-
ing private investments but primarily in
inspiring increased purchases of Israel
Bonds. It is through Development Bond
incomes that many of the industries,
whose products will be on display here,
were enabled to produce the excellent
Israel material.
-A new link in Israel-American unity
is provided by the trade show. We wel-
come it heartily to our community.

4 ‘Ifie

am tor WE'LL NAVE PeAee

Gillons"Vanquish the Angel'

:Novel of Modern Israel

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The team of Diana and Meir Gillon has combined in writing .
a splendid novel about modern Israel, under the title "Vanquish
the Angel." We are informed by their publishers, John Day Co.
(52 W. 45th, _ NY 36), that Diana Gillon—who lived in Jeru-
salem during World War II and to whom were born two sons:
and a daughter in the Holy City—drafts the story, and both
laborate in producing the finished product.
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In "Vanquish the Angel" they have succeeded admirably in
presenting a panorama of Zionist achievements, Palestinian
Jewry's struggles for statehood and the eventual rise of Israel.

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It is the story of a son of a very Orthodox Jerusalem family
who later studies in London, meets a gentile girl, marries her,
has many difficulties in adjusting to the life of an intermarriage
and finally achieves : happiness.
Yoel Wolfson, who Hebraizes his name to Ze'ev, meets Olivia
Turner in her home to which he is brought by her brother, a
Presbyterian theology student who had befriended Yoe' while in
Palestine. They marry with their eyes open. But upon their
arrival in 'Israel, where Olivia works on the English language
daily and Yoel becomes involved in Haganah affairs, they be-
come estranged. Olivia has an affair with a British officer. The
war for independence speeds eventual reconciliation and their
wedded life winds up in affection and a renewal of their deep
love.
The importance of the novel lies in its historical data. There
is an interesting description of the appearance in an orthodox
synagogue, where he was given Maftir, of Sir Hebert Samuel,
the First High Commissioner for Palestine, on Sabbath Nahamu.
The determination-of the settlers to win status of independence
is eloquently told in discussions of Jewry's status, one of the
pioneers asserting that the Jew's desire is for a state wherein
he can "live as he likes, but live as a Jew."
It is the non-Jewess who, when offered asylum in a time
of danger, refuses Britain's protection, ,chooses to remain in
Israel and to be a part of the Jewish State, and declares that
"Great Britain can get on perfectly well without me," but points
to lirael's need for strong settlers and defenders.
Every element in state-building is injected into the story—
language, and Hebrew's development; religion and . its 7flicts;
the lure of the kibbutz, etc.
"Vanquish the Angel" is a well-written, well-told, whole-
some story, in which the intermarriage angle vanishes in loyalty
to Israel. The Gillons have performed a good job and those who
have read their novel about modern Israel will pay 'special
attention to whatever else they may publish in the future.

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An Inspiring Anthology

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The Wisdom of the Torah'

Dr. Dagobert D. Runes, author of a dozen books that were
well. received, makes an interesting approach to traditional Jew-
ish lore, in his newest book, "The Wisdom of the Torah," pub-
lished -by Philosophical Library (15 E. 40th, NY16 .
• In an explanatory note on the Hebrew Bible, "an anthology
of 39 books, reckoned as 22, written for the most part in Hebrew,
a little of it in Aramaic," he mentions five basic types of ma-
terial: legendary tales, historical books of remarkable accuracy,
ritualistic codes, prophetic sermons and philosophical and poetic
works.
Concentrating on such a formula, Dr. Runes begins his work
with notes on •"The Men Behind the Book"—Moses, David,
Solomon, Job, Jeshu ben Sirah, Isaiah -and Jeremiah.

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He then proceeds to offer his selections from:
The Books of Moses, the Ballad of Job, Poems of King
David, Parables of King Solomon, Solomon's Elegy on Vanity,
The Vision of Isaiah, the Lament of Jeremiah, Ethics of King
Solomon, Aphorisms of Jeshu ben Sirah and the Love Songs of
King Solomon.
Good judgment was exercised by Dr. Runes in his selection
of material for his volutne. As ethical lore, as Prophetic visions,
as parables and guides in afflictions, the choice Biblical pearls
in this volume will serve an important purpose as inspirations to
the readers and in keeping alive the wisdom of the Torah.

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