Fund to Erect New Knesset
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM—The Palestine
Jewish Colonization Association
(PICA), founded by Baron Ed-
mond. de Rothschild 75 years
ago, will wind up its activities
in Israel, give ownership of its
land holdings to Israel national
institutions and contribute its
6,000,000 pounds ($3,333,000) in
cash assets to a fund to erect
a new home for the Knesset,
Israel's Parliament.
This decision was made by
the late Baron James Armand
de Rothschild some time before
his death in England on May
7 of this year and was com-
municated to Israel's Premier
David Ben-Gm-io• by a post-
humously-delivered letter. Ben-
Gurion informed parliament of
the news at its session Monday
night.
Baron de Rothschild, who
was president of PICA, recalled
in his letter the founding of
the first Rothschild settlements
in Palestine and the subse-
quent role of PICA. The estab-
lishment of the State of Israel,
he said, had taken over the
main task of settlement on the
land which had been PICA's
objective.
"Having deliberated about
these problems," he wrote Ben-
Gurion, "I reached the conclu-
sion that PICA's activities
should be completed to avoid
duplication with work which is
now being done on a grander
scale by national institutions."
In explanation of his decision
to use funds of PICA to erect
a new home for the Parliament,
Baron die Rothschild said: "The
Knesset building should sym-
bolize for the entire world the
State of Israel's external exist-
ence."
The famed Anglo-Jewish
leader hastened to add that the
termination of PICA's activities
would not mean the end of his
personal interest in the de-
velopment of Israel. He said he
was studying ways in which
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he could contribute in the fu-
ture to the development of
science and culture in Israel.
"I am sure that with God's
help a new chapter in the life
of our people was begun by
the establishment of the State.
It will be a chapter of glory
and eternal life," Baron de
Rothschild said in concluding
his letter.
A postscript by his widow
advised Ben-Gurion that she
was studying hoWe to imple-
ment her late husband's inten-
tions to aid the development of
science and culture in Israel.
_ Israeli Scouts a Hit
at Valley Forge
VALLEY F 0 R G E, Pa.
(JTA) — The most popular
participants in one of the
main sports of the Fourth
National Boy Scout Jambo-
ree — swapping — are the Is-
raeli Scouts, Rabbi Aryeh
Lev, Jewish Chaplain Gen-
eral at the event, reported
this week.
Rabbi Lev, chairman of the
chaplaincy commission of
the National Jewish Welfare
Board, also disclosed that
scores of American Boy
Scouts have expressed a hope
they will be able to attend
the Israeli Boy Scout Jam-
boree in the summer of 1958.
Bonn Press Chief Hopes for Relations
Between Israel, Germany Shortly
BONN (JTA) — The Federal
government here wants to nor-
malize relations with Israel and
hopes this will be realized in
the "not too distant future,"
press chief Felix von Eckhardt
said at a press conference.
He added that the time for
such a step was not yet at
hand; that although the prob-
lem of the Arab attitude was
not an easy one it might be
solved in due time through
"appropriate measures."
(In Damascus, Syrian Prime
Minister Sabri Assali said that
Roper Poll Shows
Majority in U.S.
Favor Israel
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A
survey of American public opin-
ion released by Elmo Roper and.
Associates has revealed that
"the State . of Israel does not
lack American friends."
The survey demonstrated that
"dramatic events of the past
year — including armed invas-
ion of Egypt by the Israeli
Army — have not lost Israel the
sympathetic understanding of a
maj Or it y of the American
people."
The survey exposed the fact
that anti-Israel sentiment is
more intense on the East Coast
than in the Far West.
However, only five percent
of persons polled throughout
the nation said they had a low
opinion of Israel while another
14 percent said that while they
could understand Israel's diffi-
cult position in general they did
not think well of her.
A national total of 11 percent
expressed a high opinion of
Israel. But the significant bulk
of the cross country study —
44 percent — said that although
Israel had done some things
disapproved in general she is
thought well of Only 26 per-
cent said they did not know
how they felt toward Israel.
Compared with opinions ex-
pressed about England and
Egypt, Israel fared very well.
It was found that rural areas
are friendlier to rlsael than big
cities. In the nation's great met-
ropolitan centers, the pro-Israel
feeling runs only two and one-
half to one favorable; in rural
areas it runs more than three to
one.
The pollsters considered this
somewhat surprising. These
urban-rural contrasts were said
to hel pexplain why it is the
West and not the cosmopolitan
East that takes the friendliest
view of Israel.
JCA to Help Brazil Jewish
Immigrants With Loan Fund
LONDON, (JTA) — A new
loan fund for Jewish immi-
grants to Brazil has been es-
tablished with Jewish Coloniza-
tion Ass'n. aid, it was reported
at a quarterly meeting of the
JCA. The fund, opened in Rio
de Janeiro, is the third in Bra-
zil — the other two are in Sao
Paulo.
Syria will recognize Communist
East Germany if West Germany
establishes diplomatic relations
with Israel. West Germany does
considerable business with the
Arab states.)
West Germany is not repre-
sented in Israel, but Israel has
for the past four years main-
tained a purchasing mission in
Cologne.
In Jerusalem, stressing the
difference between Germany
today and Nazi Germany, high
praise was given the Bonn
government's scrupulous obser-
vance of reparations obligations
and its resistance to Arab
blackmail by Walter Eytan,
director general of the Israel
Foreign Ministry in his com-
mentary on Israel's short wave
broadcasts to Jews abroad.
Coming after Premier David
Ben-Gurion's statement to the
same effect, Dr. Eytan's broad-
cast is considered part of an
effort to obtain world Jewry's
tacit consent for Israel-German
diplomatic relations.
, Describing West German
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer as
"himself a victim of Hitler,"
Dr. Eytan said it was not im-
portant to inquire whether
reparations is felt by the Ger-
mans as a moral or a political
obligation. "The moral element
was certainly strong in the case
of Adenauer himself," Dr. Ey-
tan asserted.
Stating that "reparations pay-
ments have contributed more
probably than any other single
factor" to Israel's economic
development, Dr. Eytan sharply
attacked Communist East Ger-
many for having "refused to
make reparations of any kind
for Hitler's crimes: it appar-
ently has no pangs of con-
science."
Describing in detail the con-
stant Arab pressure on Bonn
to renege on reparations, Dr.
Eytan said that the Bonn gov-
ernment, more than any in the
world, had resisted Arab
threats and pressure—even the
heaviest. This required, he
pointed out, "rare political
courage and deserves the full-
est recognition."
French Loan to Provide Israel with
Trucks, Tractors; Good Market for
Israeli Products in French Africa
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
TEL AVIV — French trucks,
tractors, agricultural machinery
and industrial equipment will
soon be seen in Israel as a re-
sult of the $30,000,000 credit re-
cently extended to this country
by France, I. Bacquier, French
commercial attache, said here
Tuesday.
He announced that Israel will
participate for the first time in
the famed Marseilles Inter-
national Fair.
In an interview here, M. Bac-
quier said that there was a good
market in French Africa for
Israeli exports. Israeli products
were well received there, he
said, especially vehicles assemb-
led in Israel.
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