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THE JEWISH NEW
A Weekly Review
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VOLUME XXXI — No. 25 aaaf:kao 27
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Israel Watches Pro-Soviet Border Developments
Troop Movements Cause
Serious Apprehensions
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
TURKEY
TEL AVIV.—Reports received here of the arrest
in Syria of Col. Elazem, Syrian commander along the
Israel border, gave rise Tuesday to apprehensions of
SYRIA
renewed Syrian border provocation.
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Syrian troop movements have been noted from
Damascus
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several vantage points along the border, but armored
equipment was only infrequently seen. It was assumed
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that most of the armored equipment formerly deployed
along the Israel border was withdrawn to Damascus to
Cairo
strengthen the pro-Communist military group in their
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power coup.
SAUDI
ARABIA
Israel authorities indicated Tuesday that they were
Re d
not prepared to comply with a United Nations truce
Soo
observation force request that they agree to an increase
in the number of UN observers stationed in the four
Pro-Soviet forces in the Sy-
UN observation posts on Israel territory along the
rian army have placed Damas-
Israel-Syrian border.
cus police under control of
Some observers of the developments in Syria took
Russian - doctrinated officers.
the view Tuesday that they would result in renewed
Those sympathizing with the
border provocations deliberately undertaken to divert
West have been "purged" and
many have fled to Beirut,
public attention in Syria from the domestic situation,
Lebanon. Ailing Syrian Presi-
thus permitting the quiet Sovietation of the country.
dent Shukri Al Kuwatly is in
Israel Sees Syrian Threat to Its Security
an Alexandria hospital. He
JERUSALEM, (JTA) —Israel is closely following
met earlier with Egypt's
developments in neighboring Syria where Communist
President Gamal Abdel Nas-
ser.
elements have taken over key security posts, including
that of Chief of Staff of the
Syrlian Army, and a pro-Soviet
officers' clique moved towards
complete domination of the
regime.
Foreign Ministry spokesmen
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News)
said there was no immediate
TEL AVIV.—An Israel government official Tues-
threat in the latest develop-
day charged that the British Petroleum and Shell Co.,
ments, but the situation could
which announced plans to halt sales operations in Israel,
evolve dangerously for Israel
had "surrendered to economic aggression" and that the
some time in the not too distant
British government was a party to the action.
future. -
Moshe Bartur, director of the economic division of
It was learned that Israel
the Israeli Foreign Ministry, told the Israeli-British
officials were giVing considera-
Chamber of Commerce that "the Israel government be-
tion to the question of a com-
lieves that whoever surrenders to economic aggression
associates himself willingly or unwillingly with aggres-
plaint to the United Nations
sors and aggression."
against the Soviet Union and
Asserting that the action of the two oil firms was
Syria over Syrian acts and
partly in response to Arab boycott demands, Bartur
threats of aggression and Soviet
asserted that Britain could not "wash its hands" of the
threats against the peace and
matter. He noted that the British government is a ma-
security of the Jewish State.
jority stockholder in British Petroleum_
Israelis were not so much
Such actions by the British, he said, may endanger
concerned over the prominence
and even cost England her position in the Middle East
which "can best be protected by Israel." He added
the Soviet propaganda machine
that he believed Britain would eventually discontinue
gave to Syrian threats against
its "policy of appeasement" of Arab "blackmail."
Israel as they were about the
Bartur predicted that Israel would emerge unhurt
warnings of Soviet propagan-
from the oil firm withdrawal, adding that except for
dists that Israel was endanger-
a "small number of successes" the Arab boycott has
ing its existence as an indepen-
failed.
Cyprus
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Hadassah Housing Plan:
Dr.
Miriam Freund, national president of Hadassah, the
Women's Zionist Organization of America, is shown above
signing a contract, in Jerusalem, with Zelig Lavon, repre-
senting Shikun Ovdim Ltd., the housing corporation of His-
tadrut, Israel's labor federation, for construction of 600
housing units at Kiryat Hadassah, five miles west of Jeru-
salem. Kiryat Hadassah is being created primarily to house
the staff of the $15,000,000 Hadassah-Hebrew University
Medical Center, also now under construction. However,
some homes will be available to persons not on the Hadas-
sah Medical Organization staff. Signing of the contract
gives the "green light" for building roads, due to corn-
mence next month. Housing construction will begin before
the end of 1957. Left to right are Mr. Lavon; Miss Loula
D. Lasker, of New York City, national Hadassah chairman
of Kiryat Hadassah; Dr. Freund; and Dr. Kalman J. Mann,
director-general) of the Hadassah Medical Organization.
Mrs. Freund will be here on Sept. 10 to address the De-
troit Chapter of Hadassah's opening Honor Roll event at
Temple Israel.
British Govt. Accused of
Complicity in Shell Oil
`Surrender' to the Arabs
(Story of JWV Convention's Boycott Action on Page 3)
(Continued on Page 12)
Richard Cohn's $425,000 Bequest Enables
Wayne Universi!ty to Erect New Building for
Its College oUiNirsing and Graduate School
—International Radiophoto
B-G Greets Dr. Elson:
Israel's Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion gestures to explain a point in
his chat with the Rev. Dr. Edward L. R. Elson, President
Eisenhower's pastor in Washington, when he received him
in Jerusalem. Dr. Elson, who is chairman of the anti-Israel
national council of the American Friends of the Middle
East, has announced that his organization is considering
opening a field office in Israel. In his sermon at the Nation-
al Presbyterian Church in Washington, Dr. Elson told the
President and others in his congregation that he favors a
"cooling off and settling period" between the Arabs and
Israel and said "there is some promise in the Promised
Land."
An endowment of $425,000, bequeathed to Wayne State University in the will of Richard
Cohn, well known Detroit advertising and publishing executive, was accepted by the univer-
sity board of governors.
The bequest was made for the construct ion of a new building for the university's college
of nursing and its graduate school. It will bear the name of the donor.
The $425,000 gift liquidates the Richard Cohn Foundation.
The late Mr. Cohn, who died in January, 1956, was the founder, in 1905, of the Theater
Program Advertising Co. He was the publisher of the Yellow Pages Telephone Directory
which he turned over to the Michigan Bell Telephone Co. before his death.
Wayne State University's school of nursing and graduate school will be located on Cass
Avenue, between Ferry and Palmer. At present, the facilities for both departments are housed
in scattered buildings. The present school of nursing enrollment of 600 will be appreciably
increased as a result of the erection of the new building.
In February of 1956, the Greater Detroit Hospital Fund allocated the sum of $270.000
towards the Wayne State University school of nursing. The two funds will assure immediate
construction work on the planned building.
In his lifetime, Mr. Cohn was interested in health institutions and contributed funds to
clinics and hospitals. He was a generous contributor to Sinai Hospital, Jewish Home for the
Aged, Brandeis University, the Allied Jewish Campaign and other Jewish causes.