Friday, April 25, 1958—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEW S- 10
Glorious Emergence of Israel Depicted in
Ben-Gurion's Knesset Anniversary Speech
Direct. JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM—The rebirth of
Israel differed completely from
the birth of any other new
state in the past decade where
the people were not cut off from
their lands, Premier David Ben-
Gurion declared Tuesday in a
special address on the occasion
of Israel's tenth anniversary of
independence.
The Premier spoke in a flag
bedecked Parliament called into
special session to mark the ob-
servance of a decade of freedom
and development. Chief among
the visitors who listened to
Ben-Gurion's words was Israel
President Itzhak Ben-Zvi, whose
presence in the - building was
signified by the flying of presi-
dential flag from the mast over
the building. Other notables in
the visitors' gallery were Dr.
Nahum Goldmann, president of
the World Zionist Organization;
Chief Rabbis Isaac Nissim and
Isaac Herzog and Dr. Abba
Hillel Silver, veteran American
Zionist leader.
Ben-Gurion noted that while
the uprooted and scattered Jew-
ish people a "hopeless minor-
ity" among the nations of the
world, had survived, other na-
tions who had similarly been
uprooted had vanished.
"Neither exile nor unparal-
leled sufferings crushed the
Jewish people," he said. "Their
profound spiritual bonds were
unbroken while all of Israel's
neighbors in the Biblical period
_ have disappeared their lan-
guages forgotten, their cultures
vanished, their religions no
longer in existence."
"Israel is the only people in
the Middle East that was re-
rooted after a lapse of cen-
turies in the land of its fathers,"
he add. "This is unique in hu-
man history and is the outcome
of the tremendous spiritual
forces latent among our people
which were revealed in the
eternal creative achievements
contained in the Book of Books
and in Israel's unflinching re-
fusal to surrender throughout
its long wanderings."
"Today," the Premier contin-
ued, "the establishment of a
Jewish -village is an everyday
event. Jews who plough, sow,
build roads, work in factories
and mines, sail the seas, pilot
aircraft and do every other type'
of work in town and country
are everyday phenomena. Jew-
ish soldiers armed with light
and heavy weapons on land, sea
and air have in the course of a
decade become part of the land-
scape."
"Referring to the settlement
of Jews in Argentine and the
Soviet region of Birobidjan, the
two great experiments in settle-
ment of Jews on the soil before
the establishment of Israel, the
Premier said only few Jews re-
mained in these developments
because they were settled "on
alien soil and lacked the devo-
tion to the vision of Messianic .
redemption and the spiritual
bond with their ancient home-
land."
In reference to Soviet Pre-
mier Nikita Khrushchev, Ben-
Gurion said that a "great Soviet
expert" had expressed the opin-
ion that Birobidjan was a fail-
ure because Jews preferred
trade and avoided building and
agriculture, since they did not
like teamwork. But, he pointed
out, "those (Jews) who came to
Israel had also been divorced
from labor on the soil for cen-
turies but when they settled
here they worked in every
branch of the economy and en-
gaged in occupations in which
Jews had not worked before."
Moreover, he went on, the
Jewish people in Israel "live
and work as a team, maintain
economic undertakings on a co-
operative basis to which there
is no parallel in the world—
and these enterprises, coopera-
tive and collectives—have been
established not by coercion and
governmental injunction but in
complete liberty and from free
choice."
Continuous Stream of Tourists
Arrive for Celebrations
TEL AVIV (JTA)—A virtu-
a'-'_y continuous stream of prom-
inent statesmen, public figures
and scientists from all countries
Seek to Send
Group to Russia
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM — Dr. Nahum
Goldmann, world Jewish leader,
will make a new attempt to find
an acceptable formula for send-
ing a World Jewish Congress
delegation to the Soviet Union,
he told a press conference here.
Dr. Goldmann, WJC presi-
dent, who plans to return to
United States after Israel's In-
dependence celebration, advised
a re-reading of Soviet Premier
Nikita Khrushchev's comments
on the failure of the Jewish au-
tonomous region set up by the
USSR at Birobidjan. These re-
marks, he asserted., are not nec-
essarily negative, and do not
clash with what the Zionists
have been saying about Birobid-
jan. He underlined that Khrush-
chev's remarks during an inter-
view with the Paris newspaper
Le Figaro constituted the first
public Soviet utterance that
Jewish problem did exist in the
USSR_
of the world pour into Israel in
advance of Independence Day.
Among the VIP's to to arrive
was Vincent Auriol, ex-Presi-
dent of France, accompanied by
Mine. Auriol. They were lunch-
eon guests of honor of Presi-
dent Itzhak Ben-Zvi and will
spend two weeks in Israel.
Other guests included Cana-
dian Minister of Posts William
Hamilton, Henry F. Jensen,
Mayor of Sydney, Australia, Dr.
Selman Waksman, American
Nobel Prize winner and discov-
erer of streptomycin, who will
receive an honorary doctorate
from the Hebrew University,
and Prof. F. Farren, head of
the French atomic energy com-
mission. Fifteen members of the
West German Parliament also
arrived.
One-Sided MAC
Asks Troop Ban;
Ignored by Israel
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM — The Israel-
Jordan Mixed Armistice Com-
mission, with Israel not parti-
cipating and chairman Maj.
George Flint abstaining, voted
Wednesday to support a Jordan
resolution that Israel remove
within 12 hours the heavy mili-
tary equipment and troops
brought into Jerusalem for the
Independence Day parade
Thursday.
Maj. Flint said he was ab-
staining because both sides had
violated the armistice agree-
ment in the dispute.
Maj. Flint, in announcing the
commission action voted for
only by Jordan, called on both
countries to avoid "untoward
incidents" that might arise out
of the action of both sides in
bringing prohibited military
equipment into Jerusalem.
It was learned early Thursday
that Israel had ignored the MAC
ruling and had proceeded with
its parade as scheduled. A 10-
gun salute on Mount Herzl
officially opened the anniversary
festivities.
NYBR Cites Mayor Wagner on
Israel's Tenth Anniversary
The New York Board of Rab-
bis presented the Israel Emblem
to Mayor Robert F. Wagner on
the occasion of the Board's ob-
servance of Israel's Tenth An-
niversary Celebration.
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Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
WASHINGTON — State De-
partment sources made known
Tuesday that the United States
considers the movement of
heavy military equipment into
Jerusalem for the tenth anni-
versary parade to be a violation
of the general armistice agree-
ment between Israel and Jor-
dan and a threat to peace.
The State Department, it was
learned, is taking an extremely
serious view of the Israel gov-
ernment's position on the parade
and the United States is con-
sidering public expression on
the matter. Among the ideas
being discussed at the State
Department is a warning to
American citizens to stay away
from the parade in Jerusalem
because of the danger of violent
eruption.
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