IMItay, march 7, 1958—THE DETROIT _ JEWISH NEWS-32

Around the World...

A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from Dis-
patches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other
News Gathering Media.

Israeli Arms-Carrying Plane, Downed in
Algeria, Not Intended for Rebels; France
Joins in Seeking Issue's Amicable Solution

JERUSALEM (JTA) — An David Ben-Gurion told the Israel gaged in Israel for the trip. En
route to South America it was
_
official
Israel g o v e r n in e n t Parliament.
United States
WASHINGTON—Rabbi Theodore L. Adams, president of spokesman indicated that the Although he was replying to scheduled to stop over at the
the Synagogue Council of America, told a national conference French officials had no doubts a direct question by a Herut civilian airports at Algiers and
Dakar, and the usual notifica-
on the U. S. foreign aid program that help now extended "does that a plane from Israel which deputy, the Premier was ac- tions
to this effect were trans-
•$::::.ss
Ns-v,
s:N
s
was
forced
to
land
at
Bone,
tually
attempting
to
assuage
not even begin to be enough," and that the•• §•
mitted to the airports.
Algeria,
last
week
was
not
concern
and
criticism
in
Israel
United States has a clear moral . obligation to
In the neighborhood of Bone,
carrying arms for Algerian that the government's handling
the world community to share Some of its
rebels.
of the B-17 incident had result- the plane developed engine
material wealth . . . Secretary of State John
A Foreign Ministry spokes- ed in damage to its relations trouble and requested ,permis-
Foster Dulles discussed the future relations of
man here told newsmen that with France and had given anti- sion to land at Bone. This was
the. United Arab Republic with Ambassador
there is "no trace of doubt in Semitic elements in France an granted. At the request of the
Ahmed Hussein of Egypt who will serve as
the minds of the foreign auth- opportunity to press anti-Israel Crew, a plane carrying six tech-
UAR envoy.
nicians and a spare engine were
orities concerned that the sentiments.
NEW YORK—More than 200 leading Jewish
subsequently flown to Bone
plane and its cargo were des-
The
Premier
also
expressed
writers participated in a reception given here
tined
for a
Latin
American the hope and the belief that the from the Bedek maintenance
country."
It
was
understood
in honor of Israel Ambassador Abba Eban by
French public would understand plant in Lydda, Ben-Gurion ex-
the Yiddish Writers Union . . . Prof. Martin T.. L. Adams
that the "authorities con- and accept the fact that the plained..
Buber, world famous Jewish philosopher, teach-
cerned" was the French gov-
for a two-month ernment with which Jerusalem plane was over Algeria only in Israel in Squeeze In
er and authority on Chassidim, arrived re he
stay in the United States, to lecture at Princeton to a group has been in constant touch transit and that its arms cargo Algeria-Paris Policy Squeeze
PARIS, (JTA)—A top mem-
of scholars . . . Israel Premier David Ben-Gurion has given since the embarrassing inci- was meant for a friendly power
in Latin America—but not Ven- ber of the Israel Embassy in
assurances of recognition of the principle that Bar-Ilan Univer- dent developed.
Paris was reported flying to Al-
Israeli aviation circles con- ezuela as had been reported.
sity, religiously-oriented institution of higher learning in Israel,
geria to explain to local French
Despite
this
acknowledgment
had earned the right to a subsidy from the Israel government, firmed that the B-17 which
it was reported by Rabbi Joseph Lookstein, chairman of the landed with engine trouble by the French government, he authorities that the plane forced
Academic Council of the university, upon his return from Israel and was interned by local said, the arms cargo might not down at Bone, Algeria, with
where he made a two-month study of the problems created for F r e n c h military authorities, be released because the French, three tons of arms aboard, was
the university by the sudden death last year of its founder and was Israeli in origin. However, under the pressure of the Al- en route to South America.
Even as he left, a French
first president, Dr. Pinchos Churgin . . . Argentina's new govern- these same circles noted, since gerian rebellion, had ruled that
all arms found in transit in that
ment is strongly opposed to all religious discrimination and will the plane and its cargo was country would be seized. Paris Foreign Ministry spokesman
guarantee. to its 350,000 Jews equal rights and an opportunity for sold to an unnamed Latin might not want to establish a said that the French Governor
General of Algeria. Robert La
full integration into the life of the nation and will liberalize its American state f.o.b. Lydda, it
new precedent by releasing the
immigration policies. President-elect Arturo Frondizi told the was no longer an Israeli craft bazookas, mortars and subma- Costet, had ordered a new in-
quiry into the plane incident,
American Jewish Committee's Latin American representative the moment
it was
(From Paris
it airborne.
was reported chine guns in the cargo, Ben- apparently dissatisfied with the
. . . The Treasury of the State of Israel last week-end paid the
Gurion said.
results of the first investigation.
United States Export-Import Bank the sum of $7,734,424, semi- that an Israeli plane had
He recounted that on Feb. 23, The Foreign Office spokesman
_ landed near Bone. Algeria, with
annual installment, on account of the 1949 United States develop
ment loan to the State of Israel; consisting of $5,871,534 of a crew of Israeli mechanics the B-17 left Lydda airport en refused further comment until
principal and $1,862,889 of interest. This payment brings the and spare parts to make the route for South America carry- after the end of the new study.
It was reported that French
total payments to date by the State of Israel to a sum of Flying F o r t r e s s airworthy ing arms without ammunition.
$62,216,546: $33,536,708 on account of principal and $28,679,827 again. Newsmen in Algeria The arms had been released for military officials in Algeria
were . not permitted to talk to sale by the Ministry of Defense were attempting to blow up the
on account of interest . . . Thomas K. Finletter, former Secre- either the new arrivals or the as obsolete—as was the plane, incident in an attempt to divert
tary of the Air Force, said there is "good reason to be appre-
the public's attention from re-
-
hensive over the ultimate direction" of the recent two Arab' crew of the B-17, which in a type of bomber widely used cent incidents in North Africa
mergers, indicating 'that these mergers may imply a pooling eluded an Israeli navigator, by the U. S. Air Corps in World
for which the military was re-
)
War II.
of resources in the direction of aggression. He based his concern Solomon
Rauchweger.
While
details of the affair
The plane was transferred to sponsible. On the other hand,
over the threats of the new Arab mergers, in an address before remain secret here, it was American ownership and its the French Foreign Office is at-
Zionist leaders at a special meeting of the National Executive learned that the present im- wings were marked in accord- tempting to close the affair as
Council of the Zionist Organization of America . . . A report passe is the result of a series ance, the Premier revealed. It soon as possible to avoid fur-
published in the New York Times states that religious dis- of mishaps and misunderStand- was flown by a civilian crew .en- ther embarrassment to Israel.
crimination in the admission of students to medical schools is ings compounded by local
responsible for the shortage of doctors in the U. S. French military suspicion of any
arms cargoes in Algeria. There
Europe
BY AHARON ROSEN
BONN — Justice Minister Fritz Schaeffer, who recently have been occasions when arms
created a furore in and out of Germany by charging that West shipments for the nationalists
flour
Ge?man compensation to Jewish victims of the Nazis was were, upon apprehension, said must (m.s.)
to to be meant for another des-
ke-mah
tsah-reekh
endangering the stability of the deutschemark, has returned
the attack, asserting in a speech in Passau, Bavaria, that 'he
he tination.
sabbath-loaf
The Israeli press is critical cheap
had not made his challenged statements for racist reasons, but
bah lah
zohl-
.
the
truth
.
.
.
The
Social
Democratic
Party
of
the
Foreign Ministry for not
because they wet.
candle
if
announced that Alfred Frenzel, a Socialist deputy from Bavaria, explanation
having made
a clear
and full
of the
incident
im-
would replace Otto Greve as chairman of the Parliamentary me-diately and, thus forestalled
nehr
eem
compensation committee. Herr Greve resigned recently after the wave of suspicion in Al- yet, more
cake
liV .219
charges by other deputies that he had used - his office for geria and, to a lesser extent,
oogah
ohd
personal advantage by representing individual claimants for in the Paris press.
tomorrow
compensation as Nazi victims.
It was revealed in aviation in all, total
z7t7-lt? .220
LONDON—The international forces making for Israel's circles here that the four-
mah-hahr
"
b'sakhhah-kohl
survival and consolidation always have been and still are stronger engine Flying Fortress, which
than those v;orking for Israel's undoing, Abba Eban, Israel's landed at Bone, together with
Ambassador to Washington and head of its delegation to the its cargo of mortars, bazookas
7? —
4 4ti *M1 "flab ni4 117.
United Nations, declared in a lecture here, speaking at Friends and submachine guns, had been
House, where he cited Israel's special friendShip with the sold to a Latin American
•ro.nn n/P. 41 te! nkt
United States, its growing closenesS with France, its relations country.
with Britain and the fact that it has established friendly diplom-
Bad weather forced the craft
kt
rkt
down at Brindizi, Italy, and
atic relations with 75 nations in the last ten years.
44til
1"t3'nkt
PARIS—Israel and France reached an agreement dispensing later engine trouble caused it
with passports and visas for diplomats and government officials to land at Bone.
.n. 4117 741.31
Authoritative c i r c 1 e s here
traveling between the two countries .. . It is reported that the
municipality of Tunis has decided to expropriate the 200-year-old pointed Out that Israel - sold
m .1-13nz ni 17
arms surpluses to friendly na-
Jewish cemetery in that city.
tions, if asked. They expressed
-qv? niniu
tiv
Israel

HEBREW SELF-TAUGHT

-

?

TEL AVIV—At a meeting of 70 delegates representing 5.000 the hope that even if 'the
Americans and Canadians who settled in Israel, held at the French authorities confiscate
ZOA House, Abraham Harman, member of the Jewish Agency the arms
— originally
by cargo
the French
to be
Executive, called on U. S. and Canadian Jewry to defray the destined for Algerian rebels—
cost of enlarged immigration of North American Jews to Israel they would soon return them.
and emphasized the need for such immigrants with high skilled (In Paris, official sources
standards . . . Work was begun recently on the extension of the said the B-17 would be per-
oil pipeline from Ashdot to the refineries in Haifa and more mitted to leave Bone, but
than six miles of pipe has already been laid in place and welded, without its cargo of arms. The
the 9,000,000 pounds project to be ready for operation in June. Associated Press reported that
JERUSALEM—Hearings on Israel's claims for more than the plane carried no wing
$2,000,000 in damages resulting from Soviet unilateral breach- markings, and had a cargo of
ing of an oil-for-citrus agreement after the Sinai operation will 292 bazookas, four mortars and
resume in Moseow . Friday . . . Moshe Douek, young immigrant 100 submachine guns. It added
from Iraq, went on trial charged with throwing a hand grenade that the • plane had been
into the Knesset last October and wounding five members of authorized to continue its jour-
the Israeli Cabinet, including Premier David Ben-Gurion . . . ney to Venezuela whenever the
German compensation to individual Israeli residents for damage ship was repaired.)
done them during the Nazi regime totalled $87,000,000 in three Ben-Gurion Reports
years and should add up to $425,000,000 by 1963, according to a To Knesset on Plane
statement here by Dr. Nahum Goldmann . . . Poland has offered Forced Down in Algeria
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—There
to sell to Israel industria7 equipment on long-term credits . . .
The new Soviet Ambassador, Mikhail Bodrov, was 'received by is no doubt in the minds of
Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and formal presentation of F r e n c h government officials
credentials was made by Bodrov to President Itzhak Beii-Zvi . . . that the B-17 forced down with
U. S. Ambassador Lawson and Mayor Agron signed an agreement an arms cargo at Bone, Algeria,
on a U. S. grant of 1,500,000 pounds for the establishment of was en route from Israel to a
Latin American state, Premier

-

Nirp
.16ptz

.114.z3
r31" 1 771

"TiSI

44t9—

13i4 .nr1;:! 4 . 1 11 - nrit. 3 4/461
rrn4
rain7

1111

■••■■•■•■.1

- i' :04 ,1l?

tti' I L?

- .112

rtt ••

P

2

4L

, •

•

••

!

t

?ni- 14 7ai7 nr3 nbns-
tti7r.ii'? nn aLt lip
7'7i- pri

tn$

Reading material hi vocalized Easy Hebrew, and also material for
advanced students may be obtained through your local Hebrew.
Organization or by writing to : Brit writ Olamit, P.O.B. 7111,
Jerusalem,

Published by Brit Ivrit

