for Hungarians in Students' Courage; Will Be Here
General Assembly, Jan. 8 for Annual Mizrachi Event
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
Dr. "Pinkhos Churgin, presi themselves, refused to leave."
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — A dent of Bar-Ilan University in Dr. Churgin said he plans to
moving plea for the cessation Israel, an outstanding leader in call a meeting of parents of all
of persecutions directed against educational circles and a vet- American students at Bar-Ilan
University and give them de-
Hungarian freedom fighters and
for the withdrawal of Soviet eran in the Mizrachi movement, tailed regards from their chil-
troops from Hungary was made on his arrival from Israel, re- dren.
Dr. Churgin. disclosed plans
in the UN General Assembly ported on the spirit of the stu-
for the expansion of Bar-Ilan
here Tuesday by Mrs: Golda dents of Bar-Ilan University.
He emphasized the high moral University, which will have, in
Meir, Foreign Minister of Israel.
It was Mrs. Meir's maiden strength of the American stu- the next academic year, over
speech before the United Na- dents at the University. "They 500 students. On the campus,
tions and . it drew a burst of met this historic moment with which already has nine - com-
calm and courage and with a pleted buildings, plans for 15
applause from the delegates.
"We," Mrs. Meir said, refer- feeling of responsibility. They more - dormitories and science
ring to the Israel delegation, are filled with pride and happi: laboratories have been made.
Dr. Churgin will be the guest
"have had such an intimate ness that they are a part of the
knowledge of box cars- and of Yishuv in Israel in these days of the Detroit Committee for
deportations to unknown des- of great events in the Jewish Bar-Ilan University, next month
and will participate in the an-
tinations that we cannot be State," Dr. Churgin said.
He told a press conference nual Mizrachi banquet, Jan. 8,
silent. Is it really asking too
much for a people to want to that despite the call of the with the Hon. James G. Mc,
decide its own fate, to demand American Embassy to American Donald, first U. S. Ambassador .
that it alone shall. choose how students to leaVe Israel and that to Israel. Dr. Churgin came to
and, by whom it shall be gov- a warship and planes were this country in the interest. of
erned, that its young people, if ready to evacuate them—"the-y, the university and to enlarge
they rise against what they be- after a short meeting among its faculty.
lieve is wrong, shall not be de-
ported from their home and
country?"
Mrs. Meir asked the General
Assembly to give the, privilege
of addressing the UN to Mrs.
Judge Nathan J. Kaufman, of
The new center will provide
Anna Kathley, Hungarian Social
Democratic leader, who was the Juvenile Court, will address facilities- in that area for youth
briefly a member of the , late the formal opening of the and adults. Its sponSoring or-
Imre Nagy goverment, declaring Clay-Oakland Merchants Com- ganization, the Clay-Oakland
that she had heard Mrs. Keth- munity Center, in the new cen- Merchants AssoCiation, h a s
ley's "tragic story." ,Mrs. Meir ter, 1300 Clay, at 4 p.m. Sunday. fvorked to better the neighbor-
hood's conditions and to help
said, "One cannot listen to this
build bridges of understanding
woman without being convinced
of the truth of her portrayal Deputies Back • Janner's among all inhabitants, regard-
less of color, religion or nation-
with an understatement of de- Position Against -Eden
tails and with a ,modesty of her
LONDON (JTA)—The Board al origin. -
The center comes into being
requests."
of Deputies of British Jews gave
"It is the tragedy of our gen- its president, Barnett Janner, as a result of an extended series
eration," Mrs: Mier --told the an overwhelming vote of confi- of , discussions with civic and
Assembly, - "that small nations dence. He had been challenged communal groups, including the
have not yet'gained the security because as a Labor member of DepartMent of Parks and Rec-
of exercising their natural right Parliament he had voted with reation, Jewish Community
—namely that of being masters the Opposition to condemn the Council, Urban League, United
of their own destiny."
Anglo-French intervention in Community Services, Neighbor-
"There are and probably will the Israel-Egyptian fighting in hood Service Organization, Po-
lice Youth .Bureau, school prin-
be for a long time ideological the Sinai Peninsula. ,
differences as to which is the
The motion of confidence stat _ cipals, and kindred organiza-
right and -desired form of so- ed it was not to be taken either tions.
Although the • Clay-Oakland
ciety and -government. There is as approval or disapproval of
no great harm in this important the British Government's ac- Merchants Association made the
discussion as long as it is not tion. Proponents of the motion premises for the Center avail,
held to the accompaniment of said that the vote censuring the able to the community and will
tanks and guns — as long as the governMent, in which Mr. Jan- largely be responsible for . its
dignity of the human being, and ner participated, in noway con- maintenance, the Department of
the integrity of each nation; cerned Israel and that during Parks and Recreation will co-
large and small, are respected; the debate, Mr. Janner vigor- operate by assigning qualified
as long as advantage of size of ously defended Isiael's action. supervisory - staff personnel.
territory, number of inhabitants
Opponents argued that by ex-
and military strength are not pressing confidence In Mr. Jan- , RusSia's Jews Face.
used to force small nations to ner, the Board of Deputies
act and live against their •on- would be associating itself with -- Cultural Extinction,
victions," she said. ,
the Labor Party's anti-gOvern- Rabbi Says in 'Look'
"Turning to denials by the ment stand. They also asserted
NEW YORK — Two and a
Soviet - mid Hungarian delega- that by voting with Labor; Mr.
tions of deportation reports Janner had associated himself half million Russian Jews face
which they brand as "vicious with Socialist leaders' descrip- cultural and religious extinc-
propaganda,". Mrs. Meir told the • tion of Israel as an aggressor in tion, according to a Brooklyn
rabbi, who recently returned
Assembly: "We all/ know that this action.
from the Soviet Union.
reports of suffering and martyr-
The Board adopted a resolu-
Rabbi Joseph Miller, of Cong.
dom in Europe, which were once tion expressing solidarity with
labelled propaganda, -turned out Israel and asserted that it look- Shaare Torah and vice presi-
dent of the New York Board of
to be tragically true."
ed to the "United 'Nations to Rabbis made his observations on
"The Israel delegation," Mrs.
use their best endeavors to
Weir concluded, "fervently bring Egypt and the other Arab "The Plight of the Jews in Rus-
hopes that the voice of the states into direct negotiations sia," in an article in Look Mag-
world's conscience will be heed- with Istael for the establish- azine. , . -
""There " are many ways of
ed, that the suffering of the ment of a settled peace."
kill i ri g people," Dr. Miller
Hungarian people will be
wrote. "You can shoot them.
brought to an end, that these
You can ,stare them. You can
IleportationS will cease and that Pearl Buck Wins
gas - them in chambers. Or, if
Soviet forces , will leave Hun-
you want to be more subtly ef-
gary and allow its people to Women's Award
fective, you can do what the
build their own future in free-
Politburo is doing to the Jews
dom and peace."
in Russia—you can make them
forget who they are." -
Although the Bulganin-
Khrushchev_ group has made
public promises to 4undo the
wrongs done to the Jews dur-
ing Stalin's time, Dr ,Miller said
that he saw "no such hopeful .
signs."
Dr. Miller wrote that almost
—Simply by saving ow
nothing about the plight of the
antomers the most mow
Jews there could be called en- .
Elf Off HMS
couraging. He said he sensed
Mt-TME-Mul IME M ALIMMUIS
"fear, the sense of hopeless
alienation, futility that perme-
Ring
ated the Jewish communities."
He noted that the Russian
Nobel Prize-winning author
PEARL S. BUCK (right) is rabbis his group met were most-
shown receiving the "Woman ly physically debilitated and
of the Year" award from psychologically run down as
ESTHER HERLITZ, Consul well.
"They spoke in hoarse whis-
of Israel, at the recent fourth
annual luncheon of the Wo- pers even in the apparent safety
men's Division, American . of:their own homes. They were
Friends of the Hebrew Uni- afraid of government reprisals,"
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Opening of ,Clay-Oakland Center
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