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Rep. Griffiths Proposes Middle East Resolution, for Deniocratic Platform
Shevers Give
$100,00 for
Israel Center
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Nathan
and David Shever, former De-
troiters, two brothers who are
outstanding philanthropic lead-
ers of St. Louis, Mo., announced
that they would contribute
$100,000 to the establishment of
a cultural and community cen-
ter in Beersheba. The Shever
Center will be erected by the
Congresswoman Martha W.
Griffiths, of Detroit, announced
this week that, together with
several Democratic -members of
Congress, she proposes to pre-
sent a plank for the Democratic
Platform pledging support in
Israel's defense, opposing dis-
crimination against American
citizens on account of race, re-
. ligion or color, and condemning
blockades and boycotts in the
Near East.
Those who already have
joined with her in this effort
include Rep. Thomas Dodd
(Conn.), who will present the
Dingell Pleads for Israel, Criticizes
Excessive Military Aid Given Egypt
ti
Nathan Shever David Shever
American Fund for Israel Insti-
tutions in cooperation- with the
municipal government of Beer-
sheba.
The Shevers flew to Israel
this week to attend the corner-
stone laying ceremony of the
Center. They will be joined at
the ceremony in Beersheba by
their brother and sister-in-law,
Mr. -and Mrs. Morris &haver of
Detroit, who now are visiting
Israel.
The Shever Center, patterned
on the community center move-
ment in the United States, will
be a modern building with fa-
cilities for child and youth rec-
reation, adult education and
recreation, meetings, lectures
and seminars; creative expres-
sion in music, dance and the-
ater with special emphasis on
the development of a folk art;
arts and crafts and a complete
physical education program for
all ages, including a varied
sports program. Opportunity
for informal recreation will be
offered in the game rooms,
lounge and library. The Center
will also offer counsel and guid-
ance to its members on educa-
tional, vocational and personal
problems, under the supervision
and guidance of trainee Social
workers.
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resolution to the Platform Com-
mittee at the Democratic • Con-
vention; Reps. Edith Green
(Ore.), Abraham Multer (N.Y.),
Emanuel Celler (N.Y.) and
James Roosevelt (Calif.).
The text of the -proposed res-
olution condemns the Eisen-
h o w e r Administration f o r
having failed to promote an
Arab-Israel peace and f o r
having failed "to distinguish
between those who stand for
peace and democracy and those
who stand for war and dictator-
ship." It accuses the Republi-
can administration of having
Israel, Hungary Sign Pact
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel
and Hungary signed a new
trade agreement here, the
fourth such agreement since
1949. The new pact provides an
exchange of $2,600,000 of goods
through barter arrangements.
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"tolerated and condoned block-
ades and boycotts which were
aimed both against Israel and
against American citizens and
commerce, and which violated
the principles and decisions of
the United States."
The proposed platform plank
then offers to strive to avert
war in the Near East "by vig-
orous leadership in the United
A Touch of Irony
Jewish Woman Heads
Delegation Welcoming
Iraq's King to London
LONDON (JTA)—The mag-
nificent welcome accorded King
Feisal of Iraq as he arrived here
on a formal visit of state was
not without its touch of irony.
A handsomely printed address
of welcome was presented to the
monarch by a delegation from
the London County Council,
headed by Council chairman
Mrs. Norman Bentwich, a Jew
and wife of the Anglo-Jewish
leader Prof. Norman Bentwich.
King Feisal does not permit
British Jews—nor Jewish citi-
zens of any other country—to
visit his country or even to
touch down in a plane en route
to another country.
Nations, by strengthening our
Commitments in the 1950 Tri-
partite Declaration, by security
treaties to give effect to that
declaration and by making 'de- .
fensive arms available to Israel
to enable her to defend her-
self f r o m the Communist
weapons which now form a
steel ring around her frontiers."
"We shall work, both in and
outside the United Nations, to
promote negotiations between
Israel and the Arab states to
bring about an Arab-Israel peace
settlement based on mutual
agreement," the proposal con-
tinues. It offers to . promote a
program for the resettlement of
Arab refugees, it condemns dis-
crimination against American
citizens — apparently referring
to the bias practiced against
American Jews in Arab coun-
tries — and to oppose boycotts
and blockades — referring here
to the blockade of Israel ship-
ping in the Suez Canal area by
Egypt.
and certainly will not respect us
for it.
"I have raised my voice many
times to urge an intelligent pol-
icy on the Middle East, one
serving our enlightened self-in-
terest. Such a policy surely in-
cludes - the use at our aid to
build up the peaceful countries
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of the area so that those desir-
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if war starts in the Middle East
that American troops will cer-
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greatly. But I do see funds flow-
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that area, and American boys
will be sent into another holo-
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situation still worse, there is a
very strong possibility that our
troops, on entry into such a con-
flict, will find Israel, America's
only real friend in the area,
overrun and a smoking ruin
before rescue can arrive.
"Egypt has not renounced its
earlier threats to destroy Israel.
Put •your request in
Indeed we still hear threats
from Egypt. Nasser is only bid-
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quantities of Soviet arms flow-
ing into Egypt and that country
is now using over one quarter
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"I will say that the situation is
pointnient of probation officers being aggravated by the aid
in Children's Court here On the which we are sending into Egypt
basis _of religious quotas will be because our economic aid makes
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"Mr. Chapman, I hope the ad-
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ministration will heed my voice
He disclosed that John W. and those of other Members
Hill, President Justice of the who have so often urged defen-
Domestic Relations Court, which sive arms for our tiny sister de-
has jurisdiction over Children's mocracy and a- vigorous, wise
Court, has agreed to drop ques- American policy in the Middle
tions pertaining to the religion East to prevent war now, before
of applicants for probation of- it starts."
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The matter was brought up Samarkand Rabbi Reports
Now Located at
by the American Jewish Con- 50,000 Jews in Bokhara
gress which complained that
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Some
Justice Hill attempted. to keep 50,000 Jews live in Soviet Bok-
the total number of Jewish hara, Rabbi Yechiel Maximoff,
pribation officers near five per- Chief Rabbi of the fabled city
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cent.
of Samarkand and recent immi-
The policy was based on a grant to Israel, said:
law that "when practicable a
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child." Jewish' "children make in Soviet Bokhara.
up only five percent of the case
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that the 50,000 Jews include a
The AJC contended that the large number of Ashkenazi
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law referred only to the assign- Jews who came to Soviet Asia
ment of cases, not to the origi- after the war and who, he said,
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The Congress plans to pro-
There are about 30,000 Jews
test Conway's failure to rule in the cities of Tashkent, Sa-
on the assignment of cases on a markand and Stalinabad, Rabbi
religious quota and his ruling Maximoff estimated.
that AJC has no standing in
questioning discriminatory ap-
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In a speech delivered last
week, in the:17.S. House of Rep-
resentatives, during the debate
on the mutual security appro-
priations bill, Congressman John
D. Dingell pleaded for military
aid for Israel and took occasion
to deplore the imbalance of
military conditions created by
Soviet arms being sent to Egypt.
Congressmen Bennett, Don-
dero, Hoffman, Johansen, and
Thompson were the Michigan
members of the House of Rep-
resentatives who voted against
the mutual security act.
In his speech, Rep. Dingell
said:.
"I note with some satisfaction
that there is provision for aid
to Israel in the mutual security
appropriation bill now before
us. I note that Israel is to re-
ceive technical assistance. Israel
is our friend, and that is good.
"I note that the Middle East,
Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon,
and Libya are to receive some
$63 million in development as-
sistance. I see that the amount
• to go to each of the several
countries is listed as classified.
I am pleased that Israel is to
receive this aid, but I find it
distasteful to see American
funds flowing into areas where
they do America and its friends,
among them Israel, no good.
"I regret very much that we
are still bidding against the So-
viet Union .to see whose aid
Egypt- is to accept. I feel that
that is a bad thing for any in-
telligent person to do, and worse
for us, an enlightened country,
to do. I am sure that the Egyp-
tians will not thank us for it
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