Warm Welcome
Given. Israel's
Consul General
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Simcha Pratt, Israel's Gen-
eral Consul, who, was here this
week for a two-day stay, was
given a warm welcome by non-
Jewish and Jewish audiences.
Speaking at a public meeting
crf thee Zionist Organization of
. Detroit. at the Berman Hebrew
Schools' building, Wednesday.
night, Mr: Pratt outlined the
functions of the various de-
partments of the Israel govern-
ment and described their demo-
cratic processes. • .
"We have a tradition of rep-
resentative government running
in our veins from earliest
times," he said. "It all came
naturally to us, stemming from
Biblical tines. There is an at-
tachment to basic democratic
ideals within us as old as our
fathers thousands of years ago."
Mr. Pratt outlined the activi-
ties of the judiciary. He called
it the "finest branch of our govd-
ern•ment, possessing total inde-
pendence." .
•Mr. Pratt had a busy schedule
in Detroit. He addressed con-
vocations and press conferences
of the University of Detroit arid
Wayne State University, spoke
on TV and radio programs—Guy
Nunn's on CKLW-TV, WWJ-
TV, and other programs, and
was the guest of the Wayne
State -University law school's
faculty at lunch Thursday. He
attended- the Israel basketball
team game Thursday night.
ADL Committee Seeks
to Encourage Legacies
Organization of a committee
to encourage legacies and •be-
guests to finance long-range
projects in human relations edu-
cation was announced by Henry
Edward Schultz, national chair-
man of the Anti-Defamation
League of Bnai Brith.
Schultz deClared :that former
Sen. Herbert H. Lehman will
: serve as honorary chairman of
the League's Legacy beveldp,
•nent Committee and Col. Mel-
vin H. Schlesing of Denver, will
be its chairman.
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A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from
Dispatches of - the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and
Other News Gathering Media.
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Europe
PARIS—Most of the 1,100 Egyptian JewS who arrived in
Athens'. port of Piraeus on the Egyptian vessel • Misr and the
Greek liner Aeolean are expected to go to Israel. -
LONDON—It was reported here from Warsaw that Soviet
authoritieshave banned the Yiddish newspaper Folkshtlmme
which hitherto was received by institutions and libraries in the
Soviet Union. . . . Warsaw Radio praised the work of a citizens'
militia for apprehending gang leaders responsible for attacks
on -the Jewish population of Bielawa. Latest issues of Folk-
shtimme carry renewed appeals to the non-Jews in Poland to
combat anti-Jewish elements and not to fall under influence
of anti-Semitic propaganda.
. . . Prime • Minister Harold Macmillan invited Barn-ett Janner,
Labor M.P. and president of the Board of Deputies of British
Jews, to confer with him or any other member of the government
on the positiOn of Jewish refugees from Egypt who are now in
Britain . . . • . _
HAMBURG--A German news agency, to be known as DPA,
with Rudolf Kuestermeier as its representative, will be estab-
lished soon in Israel. The announcement was hailed in German
newspaper circles and by Jewish. leaders. The correspondent
was a founder of the "Peace with- Israel" movement, together.
with Erich Lueth. Upon his releaie from concentration camps he
met and married a Bergen-Belsen Jewish survivor, Fanny
Walowic, and they have a daughter of 10. •
Israel
JERUSALEM—Annual Rothschild research prizes, awarded
by the Palestine Jewish Colonization Association, went to Prof.
M. Evanari, for study, with seeds and flowers; Dr. M. Ish-Shalom,
for -resettlement historical studies; 'Prof. A. Brawer, Palestine
sociological research in the days of the Crusades, and Dr. J.
Denesch, for electric altimeter work. . . . Turkey's Court of Ap-
peals returned to Israel three fishing craft seized off the Turkish
coast on charges of violating territorial waters. A lower court
previously awarded the vessels to the Turkish government.
Kibbutzim which own the - vessels will resume fishing- in the
Mediterranean and will market their catch from these waters
in Cyprus.
TEL AVIV—Moshe Dayan, Israel's 41-year-old -Chief of Staff,
said at a meeting of the Rotary Club here that Israel's youth
generation .is stable but provincial, that the youth is a good
worker and sturdy but guilty of inability "to see his place in the
community of nations." . . . Dr. Benzion Kadouri, director of the
municipal education department, told the Tel Aviv City Council
that the 240 classes in the second shift of this city's public schools
—representing 20 per cent of all Tel Aviv public school classes—
are a serious problem affecting public education and urged the
establishment of 600 additional classes in the next few years.
HERZLIA—Planting a grove near here to honor Israeli
soldiers who fell in the Israeli campaign, 25 Israeli delinquents,
Who are confined to the Ogen Institution, a Ministry- of Social
Welfare ,home for juvenile delinquents, participated in a cere-
mony that is considered certain to -hasten - their rehabilitation
as useful Israeli citizens.
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By JULIO MANDELKORN
UN Correspondent of Cuban Daily
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UNITED NATIONS (AJP)--
Dr. Emilio Nunez Portuondo,
Permanent Representative - of
Cuba. to the UN, has hailed
Israel as a land of wonders.
In an interview with this re-
porter on the problem of Israeli
withdrawal from the Gulf of
Aqaba and Gaza, Dr. Portuondo
said that while he cannot ex-
press his Own view on this deli-
cate matter as yet, the question
is now being considered by the
'Foreign Ministry of Cuba. How-
ever, his praise- Of the Jewish
State could be interpreted as
meaning that Cuba: will not go
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along with the - Afro-Asian
groups asking for sanctions.
"I have been to Israel in
1955," he said, "and have seen
with my Own eyes the wonder-
ful achievements of the Jewish.
people there — the wonders of
progress where swamps and
deserts have been converted
Into flour.ishin.g lands."
Dr. Portuondo is known here
as a fighter . for democracy,
freedCJFfh and the self-determina-
tion of peoples. He was in the
first line of the struggle for the
right of the Hungarian people
to choose a government of their
own. During the Assembly de.-
bates on the Middle East, he
stood out as a champion of the
Israeli cause.
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South Africa'
JOHANNESBURG—Phil Berman, president - of United Prog-
ressive Jewish Congregation of South Africa, announces, that a
selection committee is negotiating with "world leaders of our
movement in London, New York and Cincinnati" to find a succes-
sor to Rabbi Moses C. Weiler, who was the founder of the Prog-
ressive Judaism movement here and who resigned his position
last month.
United States
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Cuban UN Delegate Indicates Support
for Israel- Position in Present ME Crisis
Around the World...
NEW YORK—A survey conducted by Dr. Laurence R. Camp-
bell, dean of the .Florida State School of Jouinalism, and pub-
lished in Editor and PUblisher, establishes the impartiality of'
the American press in reporting on the Arab-Israel conflict,
based on a study of 132 American daily newspapers with circu-
lations of 100,000 or more.
DENVER—Robert Morris, hospital_ and health consultant to
the Council of Jewish Federations, informed the Denver Allied
Jewish Community Council that the Denver Jewish community
.leads the United States in providing the most hospital beds per
Jewish patient. An amended bill now before the Colorado-
state legislature seeks the extension of fair 'employment prac-
tices protection.
Claims Conference Hits Indemnification Ruling
NEW• YORK (JTA) — The
Conference on Jewish Material
-Claims Against Germany sub-
mitted a strong protest to the
president of the German Bun-
desrat; the upper chamber of
the Bonn Parliament, which
currently is granting cbnsidera-
tion to the Third Implementing
Regulation to the Federal In-
demnification Law for • the bene-
fit of Nazi victims.
More • than One-fourth of the
one million claims presently on
file at German indemnification-
offices demand damages spring-
ing from injuries due to em-
ployment and . the interruption
of careers in business and the
professions, and hence will fall
under the provisiont of the pro-
Posed regulation. - -
The Claims Conference ex-
plained that the yardstick for
the payment of economic dam-
ages under the Federal Indem-
nification Law, was intended to
be the difference between
earned income and income
which would have accrued in
the absence of Nazi persecution.
The impleibenting regulatioh,
however, .fixes the standards for
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income which would have ac-
crued, at levels so low that
many thousands of Nazi victim's
who suffered economic losses
will be stripped completely of
all benefits, or the cOmpensa-
tion they will receive. will be
grossly 'disproportionate to the
losses sustained.
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