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JERUSALEM.—Premier David Ben-Gurion, speak-
ing as a member of Israel's parliament, Monday night
advocated reforms in Israel's electorial system which
would pattern it after the British and American systems
and which would reduce the size of the Knesset. He
suggested that the present 120-member Parliament be
reduced to 71 which, he held, was sufficient for a small
country.
Mr. Ben-Gurion called the two and three party
systems of the U. S. and Britain more democratic and
preferable to the proportional representation principle.
The Israeli method, he charged, does not give the voter
access to an elected Deputy and destroys all sense of
national responsibility.
Israel is a small country, poor and surrounded by
enemies, and trying to build a nation of immigrants from
backward countries, "but instead of creating a system
to help unite them and draw them closer," Mr. Ben-
Gurion continued, "we have created a system which
does everything in its power to disrupt, alienate, stupify
and widen rifts."
Speakers who followed were near unanimous in
their opposition to the Ben-Gurion proposals. Interior
Minister Israel Bar Yehuda challenged the assertion that

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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—Secretary of State John Foster Dulles on Tuesday threw the
weight of the United States Government behind the Franco-British proposal being discussed
by the Security Council here for Egyptian acceptance of a solution to the Suez Canal crisis
on the basis of cooperation with the Suez Canal Users Association.
Mr. Dulles was the last speaker in the Council's general debate Tuesday morning, before
the body prepared for secret meetings in which it is hoped some basis for a settlement of the
crisis might be found.
Only once did Mr. Dulles mention explicitly "free and equal passage through the Suez
Canal," although he referred repeatedly to the Constantinople Convention of 1888 which
guarantees freedom of passage through the w aterway.
Unlike Britain's Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd and Foreign Minister of France Christian
Pineau, who had spoken in the debate last week, Mr. Dulles did not once mention Israel's
direct stake in the canal situation. It was noted also that Mr. Dulles did not once refer, as the
British and French Foreign Ministers had, to the Security Council's resolution of 1951 which
called upon Egypt to keep the canal open to ships of all flags "wherever bound."
Immediately after his address, Mr. Dulles was asked by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
whether he cared to comment on the fact that the United States alone among the Western Big
Three had failed to mention either Israel or the 1951 resolution explicity in the debate. Mr.
Dulles replied that he had "quoted" from the ease which is well know .rn as having a bearing upon
the Israel-Egypt situation. That quotation, it was pointed out, was mention by Mr. Dulles of
Israel's complaint in 1954 against Egypt's seizure of the Israeli Freighter Bat Galim. Mr.
Dulles' mention of the Bat Galim case quoted Egypt's represepvf3fiir° "" - " - ='""
that Cairo had conceded that the canal is a "universal
France and Cuba focused on Israel's charges
Representatives of Britain, Belgium, .A.ti,Erana,
against 7 'gypt. in their addresses in the Security Council debate, the most forthright accusa-
tion being that of Dr. Emilio Munez-Portuondo, of Cuba.
Dr. Portuondo denied Egypt's claim that the anti-Israel blockade of the Suez was justi-
fied on the gr'unds that a state of war exists between the two states. "It cannot be denied," he
pointed out, "that that argument was rejected by the Security Council and that its resolution
has not been respected. The Cuban government maintains that the United Nations cannot
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Panorama of Jewish Learning

—Photo Courtesy National Citizens Commission for the Public Schools. Explanatory Note on Page 2

These children, who are waiting for their teacher, may well be your children, in our public and
our Jewish schools . . . The shortage of teachers and our overcrowded classrooms are our most
distressing problems . . . The Jewish News dedicates this issue to , our Community and Congre-
gational Schools, and to our community's adult education programs. It is our hope that the
panorama of Jewish learning, represented in the symposium in this issue on our educational
problems, participated in by our educators and lay leaders, will lead to a better understanding
of our educational needs and to cooperative efforts to solve the problems affecting our schools
and our cultural programs: Education Month Symposium, Pages 2, 5, 32

