Friday, July 12, 1957 -- THE D ETROIT JEWISH NEWS-8

Gem Burns Denies Report
of Resignation from UNEF

Sholem Asch Dies in London at 77 •
Found Happiness in New Israel Home

I
JERUSALEM, (JTA)
Gen. E. L. M. Burns, commander
of the United Nations Emer-
gency Force and head of the
UN Truce Supervision Organ-
ization, denied a report in a
Tel Aviv newspaper that he
was resigning because of con-
flict between him and UN Sec-
retary' General Dag Hammar-
skjold over the powers and
functions of UNEF in the Gaza
area.
"Gen. Burns states that this
report is false," a statement is-
sued at UNEF headquarters
a i d. "There
is a thorough
u n d erstanding
between h i m
and the Secre-
ta ry _General
concerning pol-
icies governing
t h e operation
of UNEF and
the reasons
therefor and
GEN. BURNS and there is
not, and has never been, any
disagreement. Gen. Burns has
no intention of resigning and
expects to continue in command
of UNEF for an indefinite
period.
(A similar denial was issued
also at the UN headquarters in
New York on behalf of Ham-
marskj old. )
An experimental load of 1,700
containers of milk from Israel
was brought to the Gaza Strip
by troops of the United Nations
Emergency Force in a UNEF
quartermaster test of supplying
UNEF regularly with fresh Is-
raeli milk.
UNEF previously had been
prevented by Egyptian author-
ities from any transactions with
Israel, although individual

LONDON—Sholem Asch, the
beloved Jewish novelist whose
latter years were involved in
controversies over novels deal-
ing with aspects of early Chris-
tianity and who found happi-
ness in Israel, died early Wed-
nesday at his
London home
of a brain hem-k1
morhage.
He was 77.
Death was
sudden. A vis-
itor who was
with him Tues-
day said he ap-
peared to have
been in good Sholem Asch
health with no signs. of an ill-
ness which hospitalized him in
Israel for several weeks last
spring.
The novelist and his wife had
been .guests last Friday of Is-
rael Ambassador Eliahu Elath
and Mrs. Elath. During that
visit the liovelist spoke of the
great happiness he had found
living in Israel and that he had
discoVered a peace of mind in
the Jewish State which he had
not known in his many years
of wandering through the
world.

UNEF officers have purchased
furniture in Israel for private
use.
The Israeli Radio announced
plans to begin foreign language
broadcasts for troops of the
United Nations Emergency
Force who have been cut off
from almost all contact with
Israel at the insistence of Presi-
dent Nasser of Egypt.
Current broadcasts in Eng-
lish, understandable to Indian
UNEF troops, and in Spanish-
Ladino, understandable to Latin
American soldiers, will be aug-
mented by broadcasts in Swed-
ish, Danish and Indonesian.
The five-language one-hour
daily broadcasts will reach most
of the UNEF troops.
Israeli sources said that the
UNEF soldiers were eager to
obtain information about Israel
and that Nasser knew whatever
they learned underscored their
poor opinion of Egypt.
As a result, Nasser persuaded
UN Secretary General Dag
Harnmarskjold to ban UNEF
visits to Israel. Scandinavian-
Indonesian broadcasts should
help UNEF soldiers get a "real
picture of Israel and world
news independent of Nasser's
propaganda machine," it was
stated here.

PLANT
TREES in
ISRAEL

•

He told the envoy that he re-
gretted he had not settled in
Israel when he was young and
spoke of plans for a book about
Israel, particularly its youth
among whom he said he had

(From JTA and AJP

Dispatches)

appreciation of the constructive
achievements of Israel under
the Socialist leadership of the
Mapai Party. Introduced by the
Britsh Labor Party, the resolu-
tion called for economic devel-
opment of the Middle East un-
der UN auspices. The Jewish
Socialist Bund and the Japan-
ese Socialist Party representa-
tives abstained.

France Ups Grant
to $45,000,000

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—France
has agreed to increase her orig-
inal grant of $30,000,000 in credit
to Israel to $45,000,000 and 'san
more favorable terms, Finance
Minister Levi Eshkol reported
at the first Cabinet session since
his return from the United
States. En route home he
stopped - off in Paris.
The original credit grant re-
quired Israel to use $5,000,000
for consumer goods, $5,000,000
for semi-finished products and
the remainder for development
equipment.
The new credit may be used
entirely for development pur-
poses, including the purchase of
port equipment and facilities
for the overland transportation
of liquid cargo in bulk.
Official Israel circles ex-
pressed their gratitude at this
latest French move, noting that
at a time when the French eco-
nomy is pressed France has
agreed to . increase the scope of
her aid to the Jewish State.
Rabbi Herbert Friedman, ex-
ecutive vice president of the
United Jewish Appeal, reported
at the plenary session of the
Jewish Agency on the success
of the UJA campaign this year.
He reported on plans to speed
the tempo of the 1958 campaign
and to inaugurate this Septem-
ber nationwide "goodwill tours"
which will, within an eight-day
period, bring information teams
into 76 major American Jewish
communities with the UJA mes-
sage.

Ambassador to Israel Lawson
to Be Honored at Luncheon
United States Ambassador to
Israel Edward B. Lawson will
be honored at a luncheon spon-
sored by the United States
Committee for Sports in Israel
at the Sheraton-Astor Hotel,
New York, July 8. The group
will give to Ambassador Law-
son its second presentation of
the Justice Algeron L Nova
AWard.

found emotions and idealism
rare anywhere in the world.
Ambassador Elath went to the
Asch home to convey person-
ally the condolences of the gov-
ernment of Israel and his own
sympathy.

Center Denied Roadway
to Proposed Temple

RIVER EDGE, N. J. (JTA)-
The Jewish Community Center
here appeared to have lost a
fight to gain a roadway to a
site on which it planned to
build a temple.
Bought over a year ago, the
site is "land - locked" by a
brook, private homes, a school
site and an acre of municipal
property. The center officials
hoped to get approval for a
20-foot wide -driveway through
the borough-owned plot, but
the request was denied.
David B. Kuehne, attorney
for the Borough Council, said
that the municipal property
would be used for a park. The
land, unused for four and a
half years, is situated in a
marshy area. Mayor S. Walter
Wanner has called it "marginal
property."

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Socialist Delegates Adopt Resolution
Urging Israel-Arab Peace Talks

VIENNA Responding to an
urgeht - appeal by Mrs. Golda
Meir, Israel Foreign Minister,
delegates to the International
Socialist Congress, meet in g
here, unanimously adopted a
resolution calling for Arab-
Israel peace negotiations.
Going a step further, the
resolution demanded of the
United Nations action that
would guarantee freedom of
navigation of all ships, includ-
in gthose of Israel, through the
Suez Canal and Gulf of Aqaba.
Mrs. Meir had urged the Con-
gress to press for support by
their governments directly and
through the UN for peace be-
SIGNIFICANCE
tween the Arab countries and
Israel.
TO EVERY
- Asserting it was "high time"
OCCASION ..
for the UN to use its power and
influence to achieve that goal,
Mrs. Meir told delegates that
freedom of the seas must be
guaranteed to Israel equally
with all nations.
She warned that it was im-
possible for one - part of the
world to live in peace while
another section was under per-
manent threat of war. NO other
group of persons and no other
TO HONOR
organization desires peace so
• Births • Bar Mitzvahs
strongly as members of the So-
cialist Internationale, she said.
• Weddings • Holidays
Discussing the problem of the
• Confirmation
Arab refugees, Mrs. Meir said
• Graduation
they have been forced by the
• Family Occasions
Arab leaders .to live under mis-
erable circumstances, a plight
she contrasted with the accep-
PLEASE NOTE:
tance by Israel in nine years
Your JNF Blue-White box
will be cleared by calling
of 1,000,000 persons, 80 per-
UN. 4-2767.
cent of whom, she said, were
refugees
for whom jobs and
SUMMER HOURS:
food must be provided.
Monday through Thursday
Another resolution calls atten-
9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
tion to the treatment of Jews
Friday: 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
in the Soviet Union and urged
CLOSED SUNDAY During
world public opinion to speak
JULY and AUGUST
out against the liquidation of
Jewish institutions in that coun-
CALL
try. The resolution was intro-
duced by the French delegation.
UN 4-2767
Dr. S. Levenberg, director of
the Jewish Agency office in
London and a Mapai member,
ISRAEL
told the congress that "we are
deeply disturbed about the en-
NEEDS
forced assimilation policy car-
TREES
ried out towards the Jewish
population of the Soviet Union.
"He pointed out, however,
that he was raising the question
JEWISH
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NATIONAL
grounds, and that he wanted to
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