orld... Around the A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other News Gathering Media. Friday, January 4, • United States NEW YORK—More than 1,000 orthodox Jews honored Israel's Moshe Shapira, Social Welfare and Religious Affairs Minister, at a recent Waldorf-Astoria dinner, sponsored by the American Rabbinical Council, N.Y. Board of Rabbis, Mizrachi, Orthodox Congregations Union, and Young Israel National Council. . . 750 Hungarian Jewish refugees will arrive in Aus- tralia by 'Jan. 15, according to Sydney Einfield, president of Australian Jewry's Executive Council, reporting to the World Jewish Congress here. More than 1500 are registered to migrate to Australia .. ". Not a single American investor in Arnpal (Amer- ican Israel Corporation), largest group of private American investors in Israeli enterprises, has requested to have his holdings sold, Abrham Dickenstein, corporation president,' told a board of directors meeting. Sales of securities recently have equalled and surpassed those of comparable periods during the past year . Bnai Brith will establish student centers at Oxford and Leeds Universities in England and Delft University in Holland, an- nounced William Haber, Hillel Commission national chairman. WASHINGTON—A resolution urging racial integration in public schools was adopted last week at the national convention of the United Synagogue of America youth groups. South America MONTEVIDEO—A resolution appealing to Israel's govern- ment to establisl, a cabinet of "national unity," composed of a "wide coalition" was adopted here by the General Zionist Con- federation of Latin America presidium here. Europe FRANKFURT—The "epoch of indemnification" is coming to an end, declared Heinz Galinsky, Berlin Jewish leader, who stressed to the annual plenary meeting of German Jews' sCentral Council the need for "activation" of Jewish cultural life if German Jewry is to endure. Bavarian Jewish leaders appealed for Council intervention to aid Jewish DP's acquisition of German citizenship. Council urged greater watchfulness of anti-Semitic and neo-Nazi activities. BERLIN—A West Berlin court sentenced to three months in prison a former Communist for shouting "the Nazis neglected to burn you Jews to a crisp" to his 73-year-old Jewish neighbor. Defendant Walter Barthel was fined $23, payable to the German Red Cross, and given suspended sentence, pending three years good behavior. VIENNA—JDC, United Hias and Agudath Israel are stepping up activities here on behalf of Jewish refugees from Hungary. Michael G. Trees, , AI President, brought $30,000 raised by his organization for relief. AI has rented the 104-room former Con- tinental Hotel for living quarters for 500 Jews, who had been sleeping on floors or benches in local synagogues and Hebrew schools, and has established three kindergartens for refugees' children . . .'Trees has been refused visas by Hungarian and Ro- manian governments, which stated no reason for denials. Argentine Woman Is Guest of NCJW An Argentine Jewish women's leader arrived at New York's Idlewild Airport from Buenos Aires to learn how American women manage to accomplish so much through their volun- teer service organizations. She is Mrs. Felisa F. deKohan, president of the Council of Jew- ish Women of Argentina, who has been grant- ed a fellowship for training here by the Na- tional Council of Jewish Wo- men. of the United States. Mrs. deKohan Mrs. deKohan w i 11 spend three months in New York, Bos- ton and Pittsburgh studying how community organizations of all faiths work together. She is the fourth women's leader from abroad to be _granted this type of fellowship under the Volunteer Leader Training Pro- gram of the NCJW, a 64-year- old volunteer service and _ adult education organization which has 107,000 members in 240 cities. Boris Smolar's 'Between You ... and Me' (Copyright, 1957, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) Washington Sanctions: What amounts to economic sanctions is now quietly ,being imposed upon Israel by the United States . . • Shortly before the Presidential elections, it was taken for granted that the U.S. would grant a $76,000,000 loan to Israel through the Export- Import Bank . . . It was even announced that the Export-Import Bank was sending a group of experts to Israel in connection with this projected loan . . . Action on this loan has, however, been held up by Washington since Israel's entrance into Sinai, and one hears no more talk about it . . Since Nov. 1, Washington has also suspended authorizations for purchases by Israel in this country under the U.S. grant-in-aid program . . No expenditures on the 1956-57 grant in the amount of $25,000,000 had been authorized by Nov. 1 . . . Also, no new authorizations have been issued since that date for the purchase of U.S. surplus food in Israeli currency . . . Even U.S. technical assistance in Israel has come to a halt . . . The U.S. mission which is giving technical aid to Israel is no longer granting any assistance_even in implementation of plans approved some months ago . . . These measures are reminiscent of the time when Secretary of State Dulles announced "economic sanctions" against Israel for the Kibya affair . . . However, at that time his action attracted wide attention and much protest . . . This time . the State Department is acting without any public announcements . . . Thus, few have noticed the change that has come about in Washington with regard to economic aid to Israel since the Sinai developments. Pressure On Israel: A WASHINGTON, (JTA) delegation representing 2,200 rabbis and 4,000 Jewish congre- gations in the United States pre- sented— a. memorandum to the State Department, requesting the U. S. 'Government to con- demn Egypt's mass arrests and deportations of Jews, and the confiscation of their property. The memorandum was pre- sented to Assistant Secretary of State William M. Rountree. The delegation was composed of representatives of the Syna- gogue Council of America, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Rabbinical Assem- bly of America, and the Rab- binical Council of America. The latter three groups represent Reform, Conservative and Or- thodox rabbis, respectively. The delegation expressed its "concern over the position and safety" of Chief Rabbi Haim Nahum of Egypt who is report- edly under house arrest. political developments . . They may be the forerunners to pressure on Israel for concessions in the political field .. • . This opinion is based on the belief that Israel's military operations— and the strengthening of its defense after Egypt's receipt of arms from Moscow—have caused Israel to spend tens of millions of dollars . . . It is also assumed that Israel's economy has suffered much from dislocation by the recent mobilization of manpower and equipment . . . In addition, Israel's industry stands to suffer greatly from the fact that Soviet Russia has cancelled its oil agreement with Israel, while the price of Western oil has gone up . . . Moscow had supplied Israel with one-third of the crude oil required by the Jewish State . . . All these factors, it is believed, will greatly reduce Israel's dollar income from exports . . . Not to speak of the fact that Israel's dollar income from tourism is already being drastically reduced, since the State Department does not permit Americans to visit Israel . . Also reduced for the same reason is Israel's dollar income from its airlines and passenger ships which, for the time being, cannot carry American passengers . . . To cover its $480,1100,000 foreign currency budget of this year, Israel may thus be forced to depend primarily on three sources: Income from German reparations, United Jewish Appeal, and the sale of Israel Bonds . . . In 1955-56 Israel's income from German reparations reached about $90,000,000 plus about $45,000,000 that individual residents in Israel received from Germany in restitution payments and other remittances . . . Israel's dollar income from exports and shipping exceeded $126,000,000 during the year. Germany's New Budget Includes $175,000,000 Sum for Jewish Claims; $60,000,000 Earmarked for Israel . South Africa JOHANNESBURG—A charge by Rabbi Andre Ungar that the government's order, for him to leave the country was intended to intimidate Jewish citizens was repudiated by the Eastern Province Committee. of the South African Jewish Board of Depu- ties. Ungar, an American citizen, had criticized the government's policy on segregation of colored people. Israel Sends Hungary 15, 000 Grams of Antibiotics JERUSALEM, (JTA) — is sending 15,000 grams of streptomycin and penicillin as a gift to hospitals in Hungary. The antibiotics were taken by air to Red Cross headquarters in Budapest by Arye Eshel, head of the East European di- vision of the Foreign Ministry. A cable from the United Na- tions Children Fund offices in Vienna was received by the Youth Immigration department of the Jewish Agency, thanking the' Agency for sending 2,000 cans of fruit juices which had been shipped by air for Hunga- 111111)04111•10+111111M1110 ■ 111111414011111141111111M Rabbis Urge U. S. It is obvious that the economic restrictions which are now Action on Egyptian Jews being practiced against Israel in Washington are preparatory to Israel TEL AVIV—Israeli exports to the U.S., chiefly diamonds, raincoats, cement, chocolate, fine arts and steel pipe, should total $181/2 million in 1956, as against $161/2 million in '55, $131/2 million in '54, according to Eitan Ezrahi, Israel foreign trade director . . • Launching of a world-wide project to inscribe martyrs of. Israel's defense army, who fell during Sinai action, in the JNF Golden Book was announced here by Abraham Kaminy, national JNF chairman. JERUSALEM—Israel's cabinet adopted a 1956-57 budget of 850 million pounds ($476 million), 80 million pounds increase over last year, assuming U.S. grants-in-aid and a U.S. Import- Export Bank loan. The Jewish Agency will donate 18 million pounds for services to immigrants. Special defense expenditures, to be raised through additional taxation, is not included in the budget . . . A proposal that Dr. Nahum Goldmann, head of World Zionism, participate in Israel cabinet meetings (for improved cooperation between the government and Zionist movement) will be presented to the Israeli government by the Progressive Party . . . Transformation of 23 immigrant work villages into agricultural settlements for 6,000 persons will cost 15 million pounds and will be aided by the government Labor Ministry and JNF . . . Jews numbering 144,198 are the third largest minority in Romania; 43,263 declare Yiddish as their mother tongue, according to Bucharest statistics received here . . . JDC's Malben, institution for handicapped-immigrant care, set a 17 million pound budget (c. $9 million) for its next fiscal year . . . Daily newspaper Maariv was fined 100 Israeli pounds ($55) for publishing againk government censorship orders the name of Mary Frances Hagan, American convicted here in October for espionage. Earlier, pro-government newspaper Davar was fined 450 pounds ($248) for the same violation . . . President Itzhak Ben Zvi expressed the hope that 1957 "may see further strengthening of bonds of friendship between nations and all sections of our population" in a statement to heads of Israeli Christian communities. 114•1111 ■ 01111111 ■ 01111111.0411111.0 ■ 04 ■ 414 ■ 11411M1H141111•4141•10041 rian child refugees. In the cable, UNICF,F asked whether it might be possible to provide vitamins for these children. Israel postal authorities have issued special temporary regula- tions governing the dispatching of food and medical parcels by Israelis to relatives in Hungary. The regulations were issued after the Hungarian authorities had agreed to exempt from all customs fees shipments of food -and medicines. Special ship- ments will be limited to 10 pounds, over and above the reg- ular parcel post limits. BONN, (JTA)—Approximate- Twelve years after the col- the total of such lump-sum pay- ly $175,000,000 for the payment lapse of Nazism, no legal. ments will shrink considerably. For operation of the Interna- of Jewish claims is allocated in measure dealing with the sit- uation has yet been enacted. tional Tracing Service, • Which • the 1957-58 federal budget sub- Now that a draft bill has at maintains the Arolsen concen- mitted by the Ministry of. Fi- nance to the Bundestag here last been introduced in par- tration camp archives on behalf liament, the finance ministry of the International Red Cross, for approval. The sum includes $60,000,000 for the payment of has for the second time set Germany will furnish $420,000, reparations to Israel—the same aside $35;700,000 in the budget which is $15,000 more than this 'amount as paid during the last to cover advances and possible year Finally, a residual $50,000 is available for crippled victims few years—while the remainder future payments. provides for individual indem- The federal republic some of Nazi medical experiments nification, internal restitution years ago assumed responsibil- who, for various technical rea- and rabbinical pensions. ity for the pensions earned by sons, are not eligible to receive nearly 3,000 former German regular compensation. The appropriation for indem- The aggregate total of ex- rabbis or erstwhile officials of nification this year is $35,000,000 penditures budgeted under all more than last year. Indemni- Jewish communities, institu- these categories is $245,000,000, fication payments, which until tions and organizations. These but allowance must be made for last year were well below the pensions are expected to cost benefits accruing to non-Jewish $6,800,000 in the forthcoming reparations allotment from the victims of Nazism. JeWs are federal treasury, now far over- year, as compared to $7,600,000 likely to receive slightly under shadow reparations and all other in the current one. The drop is $175,000,000 from the indemni- categories of Jewish claims, traceable to the reduced num- fication, reparations and resti- even without taking into ac- ber of lump-sum back pay- tion program. All "Jewish count the funds contributed by ments, which are made when a claims" together constitute only claim is initially approved by Germany's individual states. the proper German government a little more than two percent As for reparations to Israel, agency. Only a few hundred ap- of anticipated federal expendi- the Federal Republic is for the plications are pending, so that tures in the coming year. fourth time in succession tak- ing advantage • of an escape clause in the reparations pact Trend to Suburbs Breeds New Ghettoes, Parley Told permitting it, as a last resort, NEWARK, N..J., (JTA) — A communities, non - Jews have to restrict payments for repara- major aspect of the exodus of moved out. He added it was im- tions shipments to the contract- portant that contact should be ual minimum of $60,000,000 a American Jews to the suburbs maintained in the suburbs be- year. The reparations agree- is the involuntary creation of tween Jews and non-Jews, espe- ment sets $74,000,000 as the ghettos, a Newark Jewish youth cially in the public schools. "normal" rate, but this sum has leader declared during a sym- "The crucial thing" in Jewish never in fact been made avail- posium on "Subtu- bia 1957" at suburban communal life, he told able in one year, Germany's un- the annual meeting of the Jew- more than 200 attending the precedented economic prosper- ish Community Council of Essex symposium, is "to provide a ity notwithstanding. community structure which will County. Milton H. Stern said the ghet- enable the resident of Suburbia A sorry chapter is the re- striction of identifiable Jew- to creation process was develop- 1957 to have freedom of expres- ish property confiscated, by ing from the fact that where sion, including the right to be the former German Reich. Jews have moved into suburban different."