Mrs. Meir Tells UN of Egyptian Atrocities

(Continued from Page 1)
- In a memorandum attached to
the letter, which was circulated
to all delegations here, Mrs.
Meir provided these details: Ap-
proximately 1,000 Jews of for-
eign nationality have been im-
prisoned "under w r e t c h e d
physical conditions" in the
Prison des Barrages in Cairo.
The whereabouts and fate of
some 900 individual members
of deported families being held
as hostages is not known yet.
About 4,000 Jews have been or-
dered to leave within seven
days, and 17,000 have been given
30 days to depart.
. Under military proclamations,
bank accounts have been frozen,
property sequestrated, industriV.
and commercial concerns taken
over by the government and
Jewish employees generally dis-
missed. Among the Jewish busi-
ness firms seized are the Pinto
Cotton Company, the banking
house of Zilka and Mosseri, and
four of the best known and long
established C air o department
stores—Cicurel, Chemla, Hanau
and Chalons.
Jewish physicians have been
expelled from the Egyptian
medical association and are be-
ing boycotted. A number of
stores have put up notices that
they will henceforth refuse to
serve Jewish customers.
The status of Grand Rabbi
Haim Nahoum was cleared up
in Mrs. Meir's communication.
Last week when there was an-
nouncement that t h e Grand
Rabbi had resigned in protest
against the anti-Jewish persecu-
tions, the spokesman for the
Egyptian delegation here
branded that statement a lie.
However, Mrs. Meir revealed
' the following details of this in-
cident:
When Rabbi Mahoum failed
to obtain the release of impris-
oned Jewish leaders, and was
told by government officials to
"mind his own business," he
sent his resignation directly to
President Gamel Abdel Nasser.
Two .members of the Egyptian
security police then came to
his home, toOk - him to the Min-
istry of the Interior and there
he was ordered to take back his

Letter from Spain
Describes 'Hell' of
Egyptian Terror

An appraisal of the tensions
that have been mounting for
Jews in Egypt ever since the
creation of the state of Israel
was told here this week by Mrs.
Simone Nemon, of 21920 Avon,
Oak Park.
`Egypt was a wonderful place
in which to live until eight years
ago," Mrs. Nemon said. She her-
self came to Canada five years
ago with her brother, and there
she married Norbert Nemon, of
Detroit.
Mrs. Nemon has just received
a letter from her parents, who
are now living in Spain, telling
the grim news of the Nasser ex-
pulsion Or der which they
likened to Hitler's campaign
against the Jews.
Her parents wrote, "The news
reaching us here in Madrid is
horrible. All 50,000 Jews are in
difficulty, the jails are full;
money has been confiscated and
there are not enough ships to
take all of the Jews out of that
hell."
Mrs. Nemon, who was just eli-
gible to apply for citizenship
two months ago, contacted the
American Red Cross to see if
anything could be done about
bringing her parents here; how-
ever, that organization is oc-
cupied with the Hungarian ref-
ugees and unable to assist.
Until any action is taken in
Washington none of the Jews
leaving Egypt is eligible for
entry to this country. Requests,
however, from numerous na-
tional Jewish organizations that
stateless Jews be allowed to im-
migrate here like the refugees
from Hungary, are pending in
the nation's capitol.

* * *

New Gaza Mayor

structions." The paper called
the Egyptian move against Jews
"altogether Hitlerian in concept
and in scale."
Israeli Mass Gathering
Protests 'llitlerian Methods'
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Thou-
sands of Israelis last night
crowded into Tel Aviv's Cen-
tral Square to protest the per-
secution of Egyptian Jews and
to warn the world that if these
moves were not halted they
might, like similar developments
under Hitler, end up in a world
blood bath.
The meeting adopted resolu-
tions expressing solidarity with
Egyptian Jews, calling on the
United Nations and other world
bodies to condemn the "barbaric
acts" of confiscating Jewish
property and the exiling of
Jews, demanding the release of
all arrested Jews and the low-
ering of barriers to the emigra-
tion of Jews who wished to quit
Egypt.
Chief Magistrate Emanuel Ye-
did Halevi, chairman of the
Association of Egyptian Jews in
Israel, expressed anxiety over
the fate of the Jews in Egypt.
Representatives of every politi-
cal party in Israel from the far
right Herut to the leftist Ma-
pam pledged that Israel's doors
would remain open to any Egyp-
tian Jews who wished to come
to this country.

physical harm and expulsion.
Reception and relief activities
for the new waves of refugees
has been organized by the
United Jewish Community here
and the Joint Distribution Com-
mittee.
Sweden has requested that
Secretary General Hammar-
skjold make an effort to find
out what Egypt is doing in re-
gard to deportations and perse-
cutions of Jews, Osten Unden,
Foreign Minister of Sweden,
declared here.
Italian Planes Fail to Arrive
to Transport Egyptian Wounded
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
scheduled repatriation of 27 se-
riously wounded Egyptian sol-
diers was postponed indefinitely
when two Italian planes which
were to move the men to Cairo
failed to show up.
The transfer was to be ef-
fected by International Red
Cross representatives and the
Egyptian wounded had already
been placed in ambulances to
be taken to the airport.

"Our United Nations delega-
tion should be instructed to ask
for UN inquiry into this situ-
ation," Sen. Lehman urged. "It
is intolerable that Egypt which
has been such a beneficiary of
UN intervention should be per-
mitted to trample on the UN
Charter and Declaration of Hu-
man Rights."
The Rabbinical Alliance of
America, 'an organization of Or-
thodox Rabbis and the national
executive board of Brith Abra-
ham, representing 300 lodges of
the fraternal order, both sent
messages to President Eisen-
hower asking him to do all that
he can to end Egypt's action
against her Jewish population.

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Sen. Lehman Urges Congress
for Special Legislation
T. H. GRANT
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Sen.
Herbert H. Lehman appealed to
GEMOLOGIST
President Eisenhower to extend
the special refugee program for
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Hungarian refugees to include
Jewelers
also Jews deported from Egypt.
He pointed out that the situ-
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ation of the Jews now being
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Egyptian Jewry Faces Loss
deported from Egypt or interned
of S1,700,000,000 in Property
WO 5-7750
in camps there "is analogous to
ROME, (JTA)—The Egyptian what is ,gaing on in Hungary."
government has moved to ex
propriate Jewish property in
—International Photo
Egypt worth an estimated $1,-
Roushdi Shawa, new mayor 700,000,000, Italian Jews ex-
of Israel-occupied G a z a, i s pelled from Egypt declared here
shown as he addressed the upon their arrival at the port of
first Town Council_ meeting Brindisi earlier this week.
Thinking of Cadillac —
since the I s r a e l i invasion.
The refugees, who arrived
Above him flies the Israeli aboard a Greek vessel, num-
Think of Me
flag.
bered 120 Italian nationals, 15
British and 40 French Jews.
JOHN LEBOW
resignation. Rabbi Nahoum re- Each carried a small suitcase
with a few personal belongings
fused to do so.
Representing
One of his subordinates was and the equivalent of $40—the
then prevailed upon - to give an maximum which the Egyptian
EAST JEFFERSON BRANCH
unauthorized "denial" to an authorities had permitted each
American newspaper correspon- to take from his own monies.
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Unless the UN intervenes, the
dent. Rabbi Nahoum is de-
scribed by those here who know refugees declared, all the Jews
3180 E. JEFFERSON
LO. 7-6811—Res. UN. 3-5127
him as of very advanced age in Egypt will be in danger of
and close to blindness.
Mrs. Meir told the UN that
"it may not be without signifi-
cance that the Egyptian govern-
ment has for a number of years
had at its disposal the services
of several hundred f or m e r
Nazis, whose philosophy, influ-
ence, training and methods have
permeated the higher echelons
of the army, the government
and the propaganda machine."

State Department Suggests
Economic Motive for Terror
WASHINGTON, ( J T A ) —
Egypt moved against its Jewish
population to confiscate assets
because of Egypt's desperate fi-
nancial situation, a State De-
partment source has suggested.
Government officials reported
that the United States is carry-
ing on efforts behind the scenes
through diplomatic channels on
behalf of Egyptian Jewry, The
Department is presumably seek-
ing to ascertain the facts of the
situation in Egypt and register
concern over anti-Jewish mea-
sures.
Last week State Department
spokesman Lincoln White de-
nied that official U. S. represen-
tations have been made. How-
ever, sources in the Department
said the United States is under-
taking to aid Jews in Egypt but
wishes to avoid giving any of-
fense to Egypt.
Commenting on the Egyptian
denial that "no Egyptian citi-
zen" because of religion has
been expelled or dismissed from
his job, the Washington Post
and Times-Herald pointed out
the deception in the Egyptian
statement.
In an editorial, the paper said
that only 10 percent of the Jews
in Egypt are Egyptian citizens
and more than half of the Jew-
ish population is stateless and
unable to obtain citizenship be-
cause of "administrative ob-

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