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Friday, June 22, 1956—THE DETROIT JEWIS H N EWS-32

Ambassador Comay to Address Bnai Brith

Speaks at Banquet Slated
to Close District Parley Here

,

A record number of delegates
from eight • Midwestern states
and four Canadian provinces
will be welcomed by Detroit
Bnai Brith men and women at
the annual conventions of Dis-
trict Grand Lodge No. 6.
The conventions, to be held
simultaneously from June 30 to
July 3, at the Sheraton-Cadillac

MICHAEL S. COMAY

Hotel,- will be the 88th for the
men and the 24th for the women.
Highlighting the list of guest
speakers will be Michael Saul
Comay, Ambassador Extraordi-
nary and Minister Plenipoten-
tiary of Israel to Canada.
Mr. Comay will be principal
speaker at the convention ban-
quet on July 3, at which both
men's and women's groups will
be presented.
Comay, born in Capetown,
South Africa, holds BA and
BL degrees from the Univer-
sity of Capetown, and, until
World War II, was a practic-
ing attorney in South Africa.
He served with South Af-
rican forces during the war,
advancing to the rank of ma-
jor and winning two citations
for gallantry in action.
Joining the Political Depart-
ment of the Jewish Agency after
settling in Palestine in 1946,
Comay also served in Jerusalem,
the United Nations, Australia,
New Zealand and South Africa.
When Israel was established
in 1948, he was appointed direc-
tor of the British Common-
wealth Division of the Foreign

Wisconsin Chronicle
Scores Political Slur
on Wiley, Israel Bonds

MILWAUKEE, (JTA) — Rep.
Glenn R. Davis has been ac-
cused by the Wisconsin Jewish
Chronicle here of having aimed
a "foul blow" at Sen. Alexander
Wiley when he charged the
Senator with having solicited
the sale of bonds for a "foreign
country."
An editorial in the current
issue of the Chronicle said that
it was obviously a reference to
Sen. Wiley's speeches at Israel
bond rallies and added that
F, 2p. Davis "should not by in-
nuendo, in attacking. his op-
ponent, impugn the reputation
of Jews in the United States,
nor sully the character of Israel
in the same snide remark."
Rep. Davis' remark came in
the course of a reply to a
charge by Sen. Wiley that
"kingmaker" backers in the Re-
publican Party had obtained the
party's endorsement for Davis
and that the entire episode
"smelled of oil."
In his reply Rep. Davis denied
having received "oil or gas
money" and added, "I don't have
the proceeds of honorariums
amounting to hundreds of dol-
lars for speaking at rallies on
behalf of the sale of bonds of
any foreign country at a time
when our own government was
soliciting American citizens to
purchase bonds of the United
States government."

Ministry. He became assistant
Ministry director in 1952.
_ He has served in Canada since
1953, first as minister, and since
1954 as Ambassador when the
status of the legation at Ottawa
was raised to an embassy.
Other dignitaries present to
address the men's sessions will
be Benjamin I. Morris, Chicago,
vice-president of the Supreme
Lodge, who will speak at the
July 2 luncheon on "The State
of the Order"; and Sidney J.
Karbel, Detroit, president of
District 6, who will give the an-
nual report at Sunday's first
report luncheon.
Harry Yudkoff, a past District
president, will be singled out
for honors at a presentation
ceremony to be part of Tues-
day's Past Presidents' Honor
Luncheon.
Appearing at the women's
convention as speakers will be
Mesdames Louis L. Perlman,
Supreme Council president; Ar-
thur Laufman, national women's
activities director; Louis Harri-
son, president, Leo N. Levi Hos-
pital; Fannie McLaughlin, di-
rector of the Levi Hospital; Dr.
Fritz Mayer, psychiatrist at .
Cleveland's Bellefaire Children's
Home; Mr. Abbott Rosen, ADL
representative; and Mrs. Ber-
nard C. Bolotin, executive sec-
retary of the Women's District
Lodge.
Mrs. F. Solomon, Chicago,
president of the District, will
preside at the convention pro-
ceeding's. Mrs. Alfred E. Lakin
is district chairman, and Mes-
dames Harry Tarlov and Albert
M. Kaplan, both of Chicago, are
registration and reservations
chairmen.
Registration of delegates will
take place from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m.,
June 30, and from 8:30 a.m. to
12 noon, July 1. A reception
is planned Saturday evening for
all delegates, their families and
guests.
Sunday afternoon will be de-
voted to convention committee
meetings, and will precede the
9 p.m. Honor Awards program,
to be followed by a cabaret
night, with Mickey Woolf as
master of ceremonies.
A memorial service will be
held at 11 a.m., July 2, when
Dr. Max Kapustin, dircetor of
Bnai Brith Hillel Foundation
at Wayne University, delivers
the sermon. Cantor Nicholas
Fenakel, of Adas Shalom, will
chant the liturgy, and Ben Z.
Glass, executive secretary of
District 6, will read the nec-
rology.
During the past week,' local
convention committees met reg-
ularly to complete assignments,
under general chairman, Dr.
Lawrence. I. Yaffa.
Women's committees working
on the convention include: Mes-
dames Lewis Manning, ar-
rangements; Seymour Weisman,
seating sessions; David Gros-
berg, decorations; Philip Fealk,
hostesses; Samuel Gutterman,
souvenirs; Jack Hartstein, sec-
retaries; Irving Lipson a n d
George Karabenick, bulletin;
Bernard Goodman and Samuel
Aaron, publicity; Joseph Radkin,
registration; Hy Burnstein, Sid-
ney Eidelman and Leon Drey-
linger, gift shop; Henry Onrich;
Bernard Bliefield, Philip Edel-
Tieit, Saul Bloom and Jack Ke-
tai, Council reception; Arthur
Monson and David Holtzman,
choral group.
Louis E. Barden, president of
the Detroit Council, will lead
the local delegation represent-
ing 23 lodges, to the parley.
With the contingent will be
District committeemen Milton
M. Weinstein and Melvin Weisz
and past District presidents
Aaron Droack, Harry Yudkoff
and Samuel W. Leib.
Special entertainment and
hospitality for wives of delegates
who are not delegates to the
women's convention is planned.

Ben-Gurion, Pledges Peace

Knesset Debates 7 Hours
on Sharett's Resignation

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

JERUSALEM — Premier
David Ben-Gurion of Israel on
Tuesday pledged his country to
a policy of peace and observ-
ance of the Armistice agree-
ments, as far as they are re-
spected by their Arab signa-
tories.
His pledge came in course of
a seven-hour, foreign affairs de-
bate in the Knesset, following

The party's leader, Pinhas
Rosen, Minister of Justice,
was absent from the' debate,
and party spokesmen in the
debate said that the Progres-
sives had found it impossible
to justify the manner of Shar-
ett's removal from office and
thus would abstain from vot-
ing. Political observers ex-
pressed the belief that this
may result in a new cabinet
and the resignation of Rosen.
The Knesset debate was
opened by Menache Beigi n,
leader of Herut, who accused
the Premier of withholding the
real reason for S harett's resign-
ation, and called for the re-
signation of the entire cabinet.
In his reply, Premier Ben-
Gurion reaffirmed the policy
of the government, and said
Sharett's resignation did not re-
sult from any policy changes.
He reiterated opposition to "pre-
ventive war," which he char-
acter4ed as "sheer madness,"
but made it clear that he would
not hesitate to rally all of the
country's forces against any
Arab aggressor.
He assailed opposition de-
mands for action against Jor-
dan, which, he pointed out,
would mean war against Britain
and against the Great Powers.
He advised it would be "sheer-
est folly."
The Premier said that re-
cently the situation had become
so grave, and dangers in for-
eign affairs had become such
as to demand complete identity
of views between the Defense
Minister and Foreign Ministry.
He said he had recognized a
need for a change in leadership
of the Foreign Ministry as the
most useful to the government,
but insisted that this did not
mean a change in security policy
or foreign. affairs.
Ben-Gurion indicated that the
decision to make a change in
the Foreign Ministry was cry-
stallized after recent sessions
of the United Nations Security
Council. He stressed that Israel's
policy after that meeting was
that the armistice agreements
would be respected to the de-
gree that Arabs respected them.
He left little doubt that Israel
would not permit persistent

.

MOSHE SHARETT

cabinet changes which saw the
replacement of Moshe Sharett
as Foreign Minister by Mrs.
Golda Myerson.
Two non-confidence motions
calling for the resignation of the
entire cabinet, introduced by
the Herut and General Zionist
parties, were defeated by votes
by 65 to 24 with six abstentions.
A government motion draft-
ing Mordechai Namir as Min-
ister of Labor to fill Mrs. Myer-
son's former post was carried
by '65 to 24 with six absentions.
Progressive Party members of
the government coalition had
previously notified Ben-Gurion
that their party had decided to
refrain from support of cabinet
changes. The Premier reminded
the party of a previous decision
obligating coalition partners to
"actively support" majority cab-
Met decisions and of the prin-
ciple of collective responsibility.
He urged the party to recon-
sider.

Nobel Prize Winner, Judge Levinthal
Awarded Degrees by Dropsie College

Chief Justice Horace Stern, of the Supreme Court of
Pennsylvania, chairman of the board of governors of Dropsie
College (right), and Dr. Abraham A. Neuman, president of
Dropsie College (second from right), congratulate Prof. I. I.
Rabi (second from left) and Judge Louis E. Levinthal (left),
on their receiving honorary degrees from Dropsie College,
Philadelphia. Dr. Rabi, Nobel Prize winner in physics, Prof.
in physics at Columbia University and chairman of the General
Advisory Committee of the Atomic Energy Commission, re-
ceived the degree in recognition of his "efforts in behalf of
peace and conciliation among the family of nations." Judge
Levinthal was honored for his "life-long devotion to the educa-
tion and well being of the Jewish people throughout the
world, and his zealous service for the cause of Jewish
publications."

border violations to go unchal-
lenged.
The Premier described the
attitude of the Great Powers
in the Security Council as
"strange behavior," and ac-
cused them of submitting to
"terrorization" by the Arabs
in agreeing to delete the
"peace phrase" from the Brit-
ish Draft Resolution. He
warned that this surrender
had impaired the moral status
of the Security Council.
He also voiced criticism of
Security General Dag Ham-
marskjold for his failure to in-
clude in his report to the Se-
curity Council on his Middle
East pacification mission, Israel's
declared intention to observe
the letter and spirit of the
armistice agreements only so
long as the other side equally
observed them.
He warned the Knesset
against attempts to dictate a
settlement which might affect
the territorial integrity of
Israel, and pointed out that "we
will need great determination to
say 'no' to the most powerful
powers."
A spokesman for Achdut
Avodah, a member of the gov-
ernment coalition said S.harett's
resignation was not a confes-
sion of the failure of his minis-
try but a protest. He declared
that a more forceful foreign
policy as demanded by Premier
Ben-Gurion did not mean nec-
essarily force of arms or vio-
lence. He agreed that the for-
eign ministry had required a
shakeup.
A Mapam Party speaker
urged an active defense policy
for Israel, but rejected a mere
show of force. He stressed the
promise of difficulties ahead,
and expressed hope that the
change in policy, if it comes,
would break vicious circles in
which foreign affairs hitherto
went.
A spokesman for the Poale
Agudah Party complained of
the government's failure in the
public relations sphere.
He said the government had
failed to exploit many channels
to present its case, and, among
other things, had failed to em-
phasize that Israel had absorbed
half a million refugees from
Arab countries. In those coun-
tries, he said, millions of acres
lay waste, crying for develop-
ment, while so-called Palestine
refugees languished in camps.
A Hapoel Mizrachi speaker
blamed Sharett's resignation
on the bitter disappointment
which followed the let-down
by Western Powers of his con-
tinuous moderate policy,
which he hoped would justify
Israel's right to defensive
arms. •
The resignation, he said,
should serve as a vigorous pro-
test of a peace-loving states-
man who felt betrayed by the
Great Powers.
Meir Argov, head of the se-
curity and foreign affairs com-
mittee, speaking for the domin-
ant Mapai Party, said Sharett's
resignation was a protest to
those who should have respond-
ed to Israel's request for defen-
sive arms.
The London Times, report-
Mg Ben-Gurion's statement and
the Knesset debate says it's pos-
sible that Ben-Gurion's inter-
pretation of the armistice agree-
ments was one of the main
spheres of difference between
himself and Sharett.
Quoting Ben-Gurion's views,
that although he believed Is-
rael's stand is just and logical,
it might be difficult to maintain
and may bring Israel into con-
flict with important powers.
"Avoidance of such a conflict
was one of Sharett's chief aims,"
the Times comments.

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