THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, June 6, 1958-8

Israeli Delegate to Women's Clubs Answers Arab Speaker's Claim

By FRANK SIMONS
In the short space of two
minutes, an Israeli delegate to
the General Federation of Wo-
men's Clubs, which is currently
meeting here for its 67th annual
meeting, did much to dispel pro-
paganda spread by a leading
Arab spokesman who addressed
the conference earlier.
On Wednesday afternoon, at
the presentation of international
delegates to the 3,000 women
who attended the parley at Ford
Auditorium, Mrs. Yaacov Herzog
spoke on the role women of all
nations must play "in develop-
ing understanding among na-
tions."
Part of her reply, however,
she reserved as a subtle answer
to Dr. Fayez A. Sayegh, coun-
selor at the Arab States dele-
gations in New York. The re-
mainder of the answer to Dr.
Sayegh will come this afternoon
when Dr. Nasrollah Fatemi, for-
mer head of the Iranian delega-
tion to the UN, and professor
at Princeton University and a
friend of Israel, speaks to dele-
gates.
Mrs. Herzog, the wife of
Israel's Minister Plenipoteniary
in Washington, told the dele-
gates, who represent 80,000,000
women throughout the world,
that education begins at home.
"By deepending the integrity
of the family, by service in edu-
cation, health, the social services
and by international cultural
exchange, women can make the
world a better place in which to
live. The women of Israel," she
said, "are dedicated to the pro-
positions I have outlined."
She continued, "In Israel,
women—Jewish and Arab—par-
ticipate with men on terms of
full equality: in industry, agri-
culture, teaching and the pro-

fessions. There are 11 women
members in Parliament and wo-
men serve as members of the
bar and as judges.
"The only woman foreign
minister in the world," she
reminded the GFWC delegates,
"is the Israeli Foreign Minister,
Mrs..Golda Meir, who also twice
headed our delegation to the
United Nations Assembly."
Mrs. Herzog said that she and

Mrs. Michael Simon, wife of
Israel's Consul-General in Mon-
treal, the other Israeli woman
delegate, "represent organiza-
tions in Israel with a member-
ship of about 400,000 women,"
Dr. Sayegh, in speaking to
the women Tuesday, mentioned
Arab nationalism and the fate of
the Arabs of Palestine as the
two most important problems
facing the Arab world today.

Sarnoff Shows President Works
Behind NBC Broadcasting Center

—International Soundphoto

Robert W. Sarnoff, NBC president, explains operation of the
control room of the network's new $4,000,000 broadcasting
center in Washington to President Eisenhower. The President
spoke at dedication of the building, his first color TV ap-
pearance.

The latter issue, which he
broadly termed "the Arab-
Israeli conflict," came about
with the mass immigration of
aliens who "came into the
country with the avowed inten-
tion of setting up a state of
their own on the territory be-
longing to the Arabs, and dis-
placing 'the Arab inhabitants of
Palestine," Sayegh said.
He further charged, "The
Arabs of Palestine have been
liquidated as a national com-
munity and widely dispersed
as individuals in order that
others might come and live in
their homes and set up a state
in their homeland."
The two Israeli delegates were
joined by many of their fellows
in questioning the appearance
of Dr. Sayegh at the program,
in addition to which there was
an Arab information booth set
up in the Ford Auditorium
lobby to distribute propaganda.
The Arab representative's
name does not appear as a
speaker on the original program
of the convention, and there was
speculation that Dr. Sayegh's
apearance was in some way con-
nected with the fact that the
outgoing pr e s i d e n t of the
GFWC, Mrs. R. I. C. Prout, of
Wakefield, Mich., is a member
of the American Friends of the
Middle East, an anti-Zionist or-
ganization.
The Israeli delegation repre-
sented the only Jewish organiza-
tions in the GFWC, although
Jewish women are affiliated
with it through various other
groups. The National Council
of Jewish Women withdrew its
affiliation a few years ago, al-
though it was not on matters of
policy difference, an NCJW
leader indicated.

Use of Yiddish
Declines Among
Canadian Jews

MONTREAL, (JTA) — The
percentage of Canadian Jews
claiming Yiddish as their mother
tongue declined by nearly half
between 1931 and 1951, accord-
ing to a study just made public
by the Canadian Jewish Con-
gress. The decline of Yiddish
was also mirrored in the 18-fold
increase in the number of Jews
who reported English as their
mother tongue.
In the two decades, Canadian
Jews who reported Yiddish as
theis basic language dropped
from 95.4 percent of the Jewish
population to 50.6 percent, while
those who had been brought up
from early childhood to speak
English increased from 2.4 per-
cent to 42.8. The CJC study
projected the rate of decline
of Yiddish and concluded that
by 1991-33 years hence—less
than one-quarter of the Jews of
Canada would have learned
Yiddish as their first language.
In explanation of the decline
of Yiddish, the report said: "It
is evident that while the mother
tongue and the languages spoken
by Jews are dependent to a very
large extent upon the country
of birth, period of immigration,
and age structure of the Jewish
population, the will to survive
as an ethnic and cultural entity,
and the degree of the efforts
exerted by individuals and
groups within each community
to make that survival and con-
tinual development possible des-
pite all difficulties also play an
important part in the results
achieved."

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