Eban's Factual Expose of Real Culprits in Middle East Aggressions Editorial, Page 4 Incident in Ottawa and the Life Articles THE JEWISH NEW A Weekly Review The New Israeli Ambassador to Canada of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle VOLUME XXXI — No. 25 aaaf:kao 27 17100 W. 7 Mile'Rd. — VE 8-9364 — Detroit 35, August 23, 1957 Commentary, Pg. 2 $5.00 Per Year; Single Copy 15c 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. MediterroneartF-i.in , It Syrian troop movements have been noted from Damascus LEBANON49 Sea several vantage points along the border, but armored equipment was only infrequently seen. It was assumed 0** that most of the armored equipment formerly deployed along the Israel border was withdrawn to Damascus to Cairo strengthen the pro-Communist military group in their E ,G power coup.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 ROM • 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.