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VOLUME XXXI — No. 21
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Eisenhowek Reaffirms Suez
Stand; Test Passage 'Unofficial
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Genots:Springboard
for the _Modern DAP
to Nese Homelands
BY DR. JOSEPH GLOGAU
GENOA — This is Italy's greatest port. It
is always crowded with ships flying the flags
of many nations, arriving and departing, and -
linking the East to the West. Yet the freight
that the ships carry, the human freight, is a
sYmbol of the times in which we live.
In this port is located an important office
Of United Hias Service, the world-wide Jewish
migration agency, which has specialized for
many decades in rescue and resettlement.
I talked to many of these refugees, and at
the office of United Hias I was given the oppor-
tunity to learn the new version of the Jewish
tragedy created by the uprising in Hungary
and by events in Egypt.
. With the Hungarian uprising and the ex-
pulsion of Jews from Egypt, -the United , Hias
office's activity increased to an enormous ex-
tent. While, in former times, emigrants arrived
in Genoa •In small groups, completely processed
and in possession of ship tickets to leave on a
fixed date and ship, they are now arriving in
shiploads, but often without firm bookings.
It would be impossible to give a complete
picture of the sufferings the Egyptian Jews
sustained . incarcerated under the most in-
human conditions and then expelled with
nothing but a few Egyptian pounds and some
personal belongings.
One man, to whom I spoke, a man of the
highest social and cultural standing, was ar-
rested in the middle of the night. Separated
from his wife and young children, he was
confined for weeks, with "30 other Jews, in a
windowless cell not large enough, ordinarily,
for more than five persons. He was brought to
the ship handcuffed to an Egyptian policeman,
without knowing where his family was, or
what had happened to them. .
Another man, whose parents and ancestors
had all been born in Egypt, was nevertheless
considered stateless; he was beatenup and
then expelled with his family, leaving behind
him a busy factory which had given- work to
several hundred Egyptian workers.
• - - Dozens of times they put the same question
to me: Where is the UN? Where is America,
the traditional protector and defender of the
poor and the homeless? Among these men,
women, and children, there are craftsmen, pro-
fessionals, scientists, orthodox and liberals. All
Of them are brought down to a Common level,
the old and the young, the rich and the poor ...
they are now DPs, refugees, escapees.
I inquired what was being done for them,
particularly in terms of emigration, since. this
seems tc be the only definite solution to their
Problems. One thing I learned at once: There
was not the least doubt that their problems are
being handled by United Hias in the most
expert and competent manner.
United Hias workers in Genoa do not know
office hours, weekends or holidays; whenever
ships arrive or leave they are at the port, but
I have never seen a Hias worker lose his friend,
ly patience or.his understanding sympathy.
About 22,000 Jews have left Egypt. Some
10,000 are currently in Italy according to a
statement by the Italian • representative with
the Intergovernmental Committee for European
Migration (ICEM). About 10,000 more Jews
Are expected to leave Egypt in the near fii-
- ture..
.
Those t3f- the expellees who -wish to go to
.Israel are, brought to Greece and from there
forwarded to Israel by the Jewish Agency,
while those who, on the basis of their nation-
ality, may stay '- in a European country or are
forced to emigrate overseas, are brought to
Genoa.
Oily a handful of the Egyptian Jews went
to the United States by the end of spring,
mostly on preference quota, since no special
emergency legislation has yet been passed, in
- Congress_ in aid of the Egyptian refugees.
Lord Rothschild
Liquidates PICA.
Passage. of' Israeli ships through the Suez Canal and the Gulf of
Aqaba remains the major test in the current Israel-Arab issue.
On Tuesday, the Israel-chartered Danish ship Briggite Toft was,
permitted through the Suez Canal, on its way to Haifa, with a cargo
of rice and copra' from Burma. The Toft is flying a Danish flag. But
an Israeli sailor, Raphael Eilon, who replaced an ill Danish cargoman,
was .arrested. The Toft paid canal tolls in free pounds 'sterling. Since
it did not carry the Israeli flag, Israel regarded the test as "unofficial."
The-Brigitte Toft, operating under charter to Israel, was the first
large vessel to= enter. Elath harbor after the Aqaba Gulf blockade was
breached by Israeli troops in the Sinai Peninsula.
The ship suffered serious damage and loss of some of the cargo
while loading in Burma: Ethergency repairs were made and it was
decided to send the ship to unload at Haifa—rather than Elath, as
originally scheduled—before directing it to a Danish port for repairs.
Ike Writes Arab Rulers
About U.S. Stand on Aqaba
A Jewish. Telegraphic
Agency cable_ from Jerusalem
on Monday revealed that the
activities of the Palestine Jew-
ish Colonization Association
(PICA), which was established
by Baron Edmond de Roths-
child 75 years ago, are being
wound up and its assets are
being -turned over to national
Israeli institutions, the avail-
able cash of $3,333,000 to be
used for the construction of
a Knesset building. The de-
cision was made by the late
James de Rothschild prior to
his recent death, in a com-
munication received posthu-
mously by Israel's Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion. A
detailed story of the Roths-
child decision appears on
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WASHINGTON, (JTA) —President Eisenhower has written per-
sonal letters not only to Arabian King Saud but to heads of other
Arab states to calm rising Arab resentment over American support of
Israeli shipping rights in the Gulf of Aqaba, it was reported in official
circles.
The President is-understood to have restated the American posi-
tion in general. support .of Israel's right to use the gulf. A major
difference exists between America and the Arabs on the definition of
Arab territorial waters. The United States. holds to the view that a
three-mile limit prevails while the Arabs maintain their territorial
waters' extend six miles thus covering the narrow entrance to'th.e gulf.
A report from -Cairo said Saudi
Arabia has begun fortifying the entrance
Indonesia Withdraws
to the Gulf of Aqaba. The report said the
Its Force from UNEF
Saudis are placing heavy artillery at the
UNITED NATIONS, N.
gulf entrance. If true, the report points
Y., (JTA)—The Indonesian
up the fact that Saudi Arabia has taken
government has informed
over from Egypt the burden of the Aqaba
the United Nations that it
Gulf issue.
is withdrawing its 584 sol-
diers in the UN Emergency
The White House denied that the Rev.
Force at the termination
Edward Ls, R. Elson, who is President
of their six months of
Eisenhower's pastor, is on a government
service. In a letter to the
mission seeking Arab-Israel peace. Dr.
Secretariat, the government
Elson, chairman of the national council
of Indonesia expressed
of American Friends of the Middle East,
"deep regret at its inability
recently met with President Nasser in
to provide a replacement
Cairo. (Continued on Page 6) for further service."
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Emigrants' Springboard in Genoa:
At left, a view of the busy port
of departure 'for thousands of Jewish migrants in their
journey to safe and hospitable havens. At right, United Hias officials check the credentials and
ments of the wanderers who are assisted by the great global migration agency to emigrate to the-docu-
cbuntries
of sanctuary. Above is a facsimile of the travelers' check issued to Jews expelled from Egypt. This 'is
all
the money these despoiled people are permitted to take out' of_ Egypt. All else is left behind. Below
the
check is a passpOrt issued by the Egyptian government. With this passport, and the few dollars they
receive upon cashing the traveler's check that is if they can cash it, which is not always the case—
and the few items of personal belongings they can carry with them, the expelled Jews of Egypt set
out bravely
of Genoa, Italy, 'which has become the point
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to face the world and to begin new lives.