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Israel Ends 'Silence Policy on
USSR; Will Expose Antagonism
Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News
Mrs.FDR Cancels
Stay at Fla. Hotel
Practicing Bias
JERUSALEM—The government of Israel apparently has decided to end its policy of silence on the subject of
Soviet incitement against Israel, informed observers said Tuesday. They cited reports that the government was plan-
ning publication of a "White Book" an Russia's Jewish and Middle East policies as well as Premier David Ben-
Gurion's charge Monday that anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union had neither ceased nor weakened. The Premier
made the statement in an address Sunday to the International Jewish Ideological Conference taking place at the
Hebrew University.
(Editor's Note: Detailed story of controversial debate over status of Zionism at International Jewish Ideological C
ference on Page 24).
Speculation that the Israel- government was preparing to speak out against Moscow coincided with observance
in Israel of the fifth anniversary of the Soviet extermination of most of- the leading Yiddish writers in the Soviet
Union. Editorials in the press here asserted that as many as 30 of the Yiddish writers were murdered on August 12,
1952. The papers poked fun at a statement in a Communist paper quoting Soviet propagandist Ilyah Ehrenburg as
saying he would like to visit Israel but was deterred by fear he would be "murdered by Israeli war mongers."
Israel May Act on Moscow's Arming of Syria; Resents Incitement
MRS. F. D. ROOSEVELT
MIAMI, Fla., (JTA) — Mrs.
Eleanor Roosevelt was sched-
uled to stay at the home of
two long-time Jewish friends
af,er officials of the Greater
Miami chapter of the United
Nations Association cancelled
reservations for her at the
Key Biscayne Hotel when
they learned the hotel man-
agement prefers Gentile to
Jewish guests.
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Israel government circles were reported studying means of impressing on Russia the "ex-
treme seriousness" of the Moscow game of both inciting and arming the Syrians.
Informed observers said that following talks with the United. States, Israel was likely to make a formal request
to the Soviet government for explanations concerning the Russian campaign of inciting the Syrians and attacking
Israel, particularly via Moscow Radio broadcasts. Such a request would again stress that Israel has no aggressive
intentions against Syria.
Talks with the Eisenhower Administration would be based on the belief in Israeli government circles that
Soviet support of Syrian aggressiveness clearly extends beyond the framework of the Israel-Arab dispute and cannot,
therefore, be handled effectively by Israel alone. Soviet-Syrian provocations, it was reported, are considered as great
a danger to the United States position in the Middle East as they are to Israel.
The London Jewish Observer said Syria's forces have been altered by the mass of Soviet equipment pouring
into that Arab country. The newspaper said that Syria now has 40,000 men under arms, with six infantry brigades
and at least two armored brigades.
These units are now being completely re-equipped with Soviet weapOns, the well-informed paper reported. These
include 150 T-34 tanks, 100 SU-100 tank destroyers and 150 medium guns, mostly 122 and 155-millimeter weapons.
Two of the infantry brigades and one armored unit are b eing modeled completely on the Soviet pattern. Soviet and
Czech instructors are training Syrian troops, and Syrian ;cadets are being sent to the Soviet Union for further training.
Marshal Zhukov Reported Planning Visit in Syria
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Marshal Georgi K Zhukov, Soviet defense chief, will soon visit Syria, it was reported here.
It is understood that Syrian Defense Minister Khaled el-Azm had, during his recent visit in Moscow, negotiated
with Marshal Zhukov an agreement to bring a top-ranking Soviet military team to Syria to help modernize the
Syrian army.
In connection with Zhukov's impending visit to Syria, a spokesman of the
Israeli Foreign Office said Syria has received $120,000,000 worth of Soviet arms
up to the end of July, and that these arms were given by Moscow to Syria at
prices one-third less than the world market prices.
`Cooling Off and Settling' Period
Urged for M. E. by Ike's Pastor
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—President Eisenhower's pastor, Dr. Edward
L. R. Elson, who just returned from a six-week visit to Middle East
countries, Sunday recommended the introduction of a "cooling-off and
settling period" between the Arab states and Israel. He said that such
a "cooling-off" period would be "antiseptic."
Rev. Elson voiced this recommendation in a sermon at the National
Presbyterian Church here. He told the President and others in the
congregation that "in the light of recent events it is probably more
important for a while to keep the Arabs and Israeli apart than to try
to bring them together in direct negotiations."
But by next year, he suggested, the time might be ripe for the
United Nations to make "-a new study of boundaries, waterways, re-
sources and other factors" in the Arab-Israel relations.
(The New York Times reported from Cairo that "the Soviet drive to build
up the armies of Egypt, Syria and Yemen was viewed by diplomats in the
Middle East as a concerted effort to establish a powerful friendly force at the
back door of the West's northern tier defenses. The Soviet Union is reported to
be supplying some of the latest model MIG-19 jet fighter planes to Egypt and
Syria and is sending two submarines to the Syrians as a Mediterranean sup-
plement to the three already delivered to Egypt," the Times report said.)
The Israeli spokesman revealed that in 1955 the Israel government extend-
ed an invitation to two top-ranking Soviet leaders, Dmitri Shepilov, the since-
deposed Soviet Foreign Minister, and Anastasi Mikoyan, Soviet Deputy Pre-
mier. The two declined the invitation with the excuse they could not fit such
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New Federation Bank Loan of $1,500,000 Boosts
Detroit's UJA Remittance for 1957 to $3,100,000
In order to help finance the .continuous flow of immigration to Israel,
the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, responding to an urgent plea
in behalf of refugees and expellees from tyranny and anti-Semitism,
has negotiated an additional bank loan of $1,500,000 for immediate
transmission to the United Jewish Appeal.
With prior outstanding loans totaling approximately $1,000,000, this
newest borrowing in anticipation of collections on Allied Jewish Cam-
paign pledges brings the current bank obligation to V,500,000.
The formal action was taken at a joint meeting of L.L-1P board of
governors of Federation, presided over by Judge Theodore Levin, and
the United Jewish Charities, with Abraham Srere, its pr9sident, in the
chair.
The board acted on recommendation of the executive committee,
whose chairman, Samuel H. Rubiner, made the presentation, outlining
both the urgent nature of the requirements abroad and the financial
eonsiderations involved. The plan to make available the greatest possible
amount of additional funds at this time was developed by Max J.
Zivian, Federation treasurer and chairman of its finance committee,
together with Max M. Fisher, vice president of Federation and liaison
officer with United Jewish Appeal, in his post of national cabinet
member. Other national cabinet members include Joseph Holtzman,
Abe Kasle and Louis Berry.
Rubiner, reviewing the situation, declared that the tide of immi-
gration to Israel is rising even higher within the time schedule this
year than planned. This tide, however, happens to be one which we,
as Jews, welcome because it brings refugees and expellees to a country
where they share complete freedom and equality. The time element can
be overcome only if communities proceed with sufficient funds now."
He quoted Dewey D. Stone, national UJA chairman, as reporting
that the bank borrowings of the Detroit Federation for the UJA have
helped enormously during the past several years to enable Israel to
receive the flow of Jewish immigrants without interruption. But this
year, Stone noted, is a, fantastically exceptional year — the 100,000
expected to immigrate to Israel is being rapidly swelled by an unex-
pectedly larger flow of refugees from Iron Curtain countries that were
forbidding Jewish emigration just a short time ago.
Beyond the $1,500,000 being rushed to the UJA by this latest action,
Detroit also has sent more than $1,600,000, the first proceeds from cur-
rent collections on the 1957 drive, for a combined total of $3,100,000.
"Apart from the problem ahead of reducing the amount outstanding
on the bank loan," stated Zivian, as treasurer, "we respectfully ask all
contributors to forward payments as promptly as possible, since our
ability to send further remittances to the UJA and to meet other
essential obligations is dependent on the flow of cash to Federation.
The generous pledges to our recent campaign are commendable, but
they can perform their life-saving function only when they are con-
verted into payments and quickly forwarded for the noble purposes for
which they were promised."