Expanding Congo Cong.
Reaches Out to Eilfold
All Jews in Territory

The tendency of American
Jews to slip out to the suburbs
is something of a headache to
Jewish organizations here, and
it might be well to follow the
example being set by the tiny
Jewish community of the Bel-
gian Congo.
For the third time in its 35-
year history, that country's cen-
tral representative Jeivish body
is reorganizing itself to meet
the problems of its community,
which is scattered over 925,733
square miles, and the adjacent
territory of Ruanda - Urundi.
which is administered by Bel-
gium as a UN trust.
In outlining the latest change,
Dr. I. Schwartzbart, director of
the organization department of
the World Jewish Congress, re-
ported that Belgian Congo Jew-
ry today numbers 2,500 as com-
pared- to 1,400 in 1947.
Elisabethville claims most of
them with 500 families out of
a total of 904 families. While
the bulk of the institutions and
the headquarters of the Chief
Rabbi are there, there are fam-
Mrs. Sidonia Weisz, 80, who last saw her son, Bela, and her
ilies and facilities in other ci-
daughter-in-law, Julianna (pictured above), 19 months ago,
ties, such as Leopoldville,
when the couple escaped from Russian custody in a Hungarian
Usumbura and 10 smaller cities.
village and fled to Austria, is reunited with them in New York
To meet the changing char-
at the office of United Hias Service, which obtained a visa for
acter of settlement, the com-
Mrs. Weisz after she managed to reach Vienna with a passport
munity has officially changed
issued last August by Hungarian officials.
its name from Congregation Is-
raelite du Congo Belge to
Communaute Israelite du Congo
Blge et du Ruanda-Urundi. The
initial name years ago was Con-
gregation Israelite du Katanga,
named after the province in
Golda Meir, Moshe Sharett and which Elisabethville is located.
By DAVID HOROWITZ
others.
NEW YORK (AJP)—Had it
Realizing the great importance Jewish Hospital Builds
not been for an American Negro
woman, Marguerite Cartwright, and significance of Marguerite's New $5,000,000 Pavilion;
mission,
the Israeli leaders lost Lauded by Eisenhower
roving correspondent f o r the
Pittsburgh Courier, who resides no time. The Foreign Office ma-
NEW YORK (JTA)—Presi-
in New York with her distin- chinery was put into motion dent Eisenhower lauded the
guished husband, Leonard Carl immediately. The results have Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn
Cartwright, Israel today would been phenomenal.
for its "distinguished record
There is an Israel-Ghana ship- in the field of medicine and in
never enjoy the close and
friendly relations with the new, ping line. And, in Ghana, Israel service to the people of the
important West African state of experts in a score of fields are community" in a message read
everywhere, as both nations during cornerstone ceremonies
Ghana.
Both Marguerite and her hus- benefit from the mutual ex- for a new $5,000,000 pavilion.
change of goods. And Margue-
band played a vital role i g the
Appelate Division Justice
events that led to the Ghana- rite Cartwright has become the George J. Beldock, hospital
darling
of
the
Israeli
Foreign
Israel relations.
honorary president, Isidor Lev-
Office and the best friend Nkru-
iton. president, and Mayor Rob-
It all happened in the year of mah has.
the Bandung Conference. En
When Golda Meir made her ert F. Wagner, set the corner-
route to Bandung, Marguerite— state visit to Ghana recently. the stone. Participating in the
a sort of modern Queen of Sheba Israeli Foreign Minister insisted ceremony was nine - year - old
type—visited the then Gold that Marguerite Cartwright ac- Rosemary Muller of Roslyn
Coast and interviewed the lead- company h e r throughout the Heights, L. I., who recently un-
derwent major heart surgery
ers of the country, including the trip.
at the hospital to close 31
present Prime Minister Kwame
holes and save her life.
Nkrumah, who is scheduled to $250,000 Blaustein Gift
visit America on July 23.
to AJC New York Center
Rabbis Urge Laymen Be
Through many discussions,
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A gift Called for Invocations
Marguerite convinced Nkhrumah of $250,000 by Mr. and Mrs. Ja-
MINNEAPOLIS (JTA)—A
and his colleagues that, upon cob Blaustein to the Institute of
Ghana's attainment of indepen- Human Relations of the Amer- resolution urging Jewish or-
dence, Israel would be the most ican Jewish Committee was an- ganizations to assign invoca-
logical country to call upon for nounced here by Irving M. En- tions and benedictions to "other
than members of the rabbinate,
technical, cultural, maritime, gel. AJC president.
whenever feasible," was unani-
civil and administrative assist-
The Institute, a $2,000.000 mously adopted here by the
ance, since, she told Nkhrumah, structure now under construc-
Israel had succeeded gloriously tion in New York, will be com- Minnesota Rabbinical Associa-
in all these endeavors during pleted early next year. It will tion.
The resolution noted that
her short period of indepen- serve as a center for research
dence.
and practical application in the prayers were not the monopoly
of the rabbis and "can and
At first, however. Marguerite field of human relations. Blau- should be said by men and
stein
was
president
of
the
Amer-
told this writer, Nkrumah ap-
women . . . of the organiza-
peared skeptical, being fully ican Jewish Committee for five tion.
aware of the strained Arab- years and is currently honorary
Israel relations. He dismissed president of the organization.
United Arab Republic
the thought. But the persistent
modern Queen of Sheba kept Briscoe Loses Again Bars Return of Jews
harping upon the positive re-
Robert Briscoe, Dublin Jew-
Former Egyptian and Syrian
sults that would accrue from ish leader, former Mayor of his Jews are barred from returning
relations with the Jewish State. native city, lost in a contest to their native lands by a rul-
He agreed, finally.
for the Mayoralty of Dublin to ing of the United Arab Re-
Thus, fortified with this man- Mrs. Catherine Byrne, Scottish- public, Zechariah Shuster, Euro-
date, she went to Bandung and, born Catholic. Mrs. Byrne won pean director of the American
on her way back, stopped in in a close vote on the fourth Jewish Committee, reported in
Paris Tuesday.
Israel. Thew she conferred with ballot.

How American Negro Editor Aided
Israel, Ghana Establish Relations

D AWN!

BY HENRY LEONARD

[h

Hungarian Family Reunited in U. S.

On
On

enough for • aninyen."

Caw 1.67. Leonard Pritbkin

`Escape from Fear': Bursten's Fine
Story of Huntiarian Rescue Efforts-

The man best informed on
the Hungarian refugee situa-
tion, Martin A. Bursten, who
was among the first newsmen
to reach the Austro-Hungarian
border in November 1956, has
written an important account
of that situation. In - Escape
from Fear," published by
Syracuse University Press, Bur-
sten, who is the director of
public relations of United Hias
Service, gives an important
account of what had happened.
His book will remain a valuable
document in the chronicle of
events of our era.
It is especially interesting
that the introduction to his
book should have been writ-
ten by Ambassador Scott
McLeod, former Administra-
tor of the U.S. Refugee Relief
Act programs, now Ambas-
sador to Ireland, who was
under attack three years ago
for his attitude toward im-
migrants and his support of

the McCarran-Walter Act. In
his introduction to Bursten's
book he declares: "To me the

story of the Hungarian migra-
tion in the fall of 1956 is the

perfect example of why we
should seek to devise a re-
vision of our immigration
policy, in line with the sug-
gestions by President Eisen-
how." Will wonders never
cease!

Free Europe of charges that
they had engineered the up-
rising in Hungary by promising
American monetary aid.
Life of refugees in Camp
Kilmer is described graphically
in "Escape from Fear."
The assistance given to the
refugees by the American
Jewish Joint Distribution
Committee is described in
detail. Funds made available
by the United Jewish Appeal

Emergency Rescue Fund
were used to assist the Jew-
ish escapees.

The manner in which anti-
Semitic propaganda was spread
by the Stalinists also is out-
lined by Bursten.
He pays special tribute to

Hias for the role it played in

assisting those rescued from
the Communist terror. He
also relates how Hias helped
the escapees- at Camp Kilmer
by providing them with
kosher food and by fulfilling
their religious needs.
Bursten's book is graphically
illustrated. It is a well-written
and excellently compiled record
of an important occurrence in
world history.

Abhor Anti-Semitism in
`Anne Frank' Showing

FRANKFURT (WJA)—Pub-
lic announcements of perform-
Bursten tells of the flight ances of the "Diary of Anne
from Austria of 200,000 es- Frank" in Wuppertal were de-
capees from the Communists. faced by anti-Semitic slogans,
His is a graphic story of the Frankfurter Rundschau reports.
"Death to the Jews", "Too
Freedom Fighters and the dar-
ing escapes of tens of thousands few have been g a s s e d", and
from Communist-ruled Hung- "Down with the parasites of the
German people" are specimens
ary.
There is a complete account of the language used.
"These outrages have caused
in his book of the success in
efforts to interpret American great indignation in Wuppertal,"
law so that escapees could the Frankfurt daily states.
enter the United States. In the "The performances of t h e
course of this account, he tells i play, however, were not dis-
about the conflict that arose turbed and made a deep im-
at that time between the State pression particularly among
and Justice Departments in the i younger people in the audience.
interpretation of the existing The city of Wuppertal has ex-
pressed sincere apologies to the
laws.
Bursten accuses the Russians Jewish community."
of having rewritten history to
suit their needs and of having
Blessed are they that keep
spread lies to accomplish His testimonies, and that seek
their purposes. He acquits the Him with the whole heart.—Ps.
Voice of America and Radio 119:2.

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