Whom the gods
Would Destroy:
Expose of
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In Spite of All the Protests .. .
Religious Question Included in
Census Bureau Population Survey
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Reports of the demise of the religious inquiries of the
U.S. Census Bureau have been exaggerated, it was learned here on Monday.
Robert W. Burgess, census director, has made known that while the religious
question had been eliminated from the 1960 census, the Bureau intended to keep
using it in the current population survey. In this survey persons interviewed are
being asked to state their religion. The current position was made known by Bur-
gess in a communication to Glenn A. Archer, executive director of "Protestants and
Other Americans United for Separation of Church and State."
In March, 1957, the first use of the question, "what is your religion?" was made
in a Federal census survey. A number of Jewish and other organizations protested
that the government was violating constitutional guarantees and American tradition
providing for separation of the government from religion.
In his communication. the census director wrote that "many have urged tiat
more information, rather than less, on this general (religious) subject be made
available.", He wrote another organization, the Religious Liberty Association, that
"we do not see how .in a voluntary survey the inquiry infringes on the religious
freedom of an individual."
Slain Iraqi Premier's Jewish Grandson
Claims His Fortune Estimated in Millions
TEL AVIV (JTA):7—The District Court in Tel Aviv began 'a hearing to decide
whether 17 - year - old Abraham Mazaliah is a grandson of the late Iraqi Premier
Nuii-el-Said, The youth is seeking to be recognized as the sole surviving heir of
the assasinated Premier and to - claim his fortune, estimated to run in the millions
of pounds, and believed to be on deposit in British and Swiss banks.
While the court would not agree to hand down a decision whether Abraham
Mazaliah is, as he claims, the sole surviving member of the el-Said family, it did
agree to preside over proceedings seeking to establish his relationship as a grandson.
The first witness was his Jewish mother, who testified that she was married
to Sabah el-Said, son of Nuri el-Said, in a legal ceremony at Mossol in 1941. - She
was divorced by Sabah el-Said ; in 1945 because of the pressure of Moslem religious
circles and • left for Israel the: next year. keeping his identity a secret. Sabah
el-Said, together with another wife and two children, were murdered by an Iraqi
mob during the Iraqi Army coup in July.
British Foreign Office Disclaims Having
Granted Israel Arms Worth $110,000,000;
U. S. 'State Dept. Also Denies Pledging Aid
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
LONDON—Israel Ambassador Eliahu Elath left London Wednesday for a four
or five week stay in Israel for consultations with Foreign Ministry officials on
developments relating to recent changes in Anglo-Israeli relations.
Meanwhile, the Daily Telegraph, which has close ties with the Foreign - Office,
denied an Egyptian report that the British government , had .agreed to provide
Israel with 50,000,000 pounds (S140.000,000), worth of arms. "The British govern-
ment," the Telegraph said, "has taken no final decision on what military equipment
will be supplied to Israel."
(A JTA , report from Washington states that an official State Department
source has denied an Egyptian report that the United States had agreed to provide
Israel with a significant amount of heavy arms. While the United States is continu-
ing study of an Israeli request for defensive arms, the State Department said, any
report that the U.S. government has promised Israel 40 to 50 million dollars worth
of arms is untrue.)
Happier Bides Into Future
As 5719 Arrives in Israel
Sale of Nationalized Israeli Chemical
When the United Jewish Appeal steps in, it be-
Plant Turned Into Political Issue by MapaM.
comes a happier ride into the future for those arriving
Israel. Whether it is on a hobby-horse — as in the
upper photrof the two youngsters at the Mosad Tech-
in
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish NeWs
TEL AVIV—The Mapam party has decided to convene its central bodies to
iyah sleeff=in nursery at Tel Raanan—a Mizrachi Wo- discuss the government's decision to sell control of the nationalized Fertilizer and
Chemical Producing Plant to private American interests, it was revealed Wednesday.
men's Organization project—or in the lower photo
Observers discount the likelihood that the Mapam will upset the Coalition
showing the ma'abarot, where 100,000 Jews will spend.
Cabinet over the issue at this time, despite a threat by Development Minister Mor-
Rosh Hashanah in temporary immigrant villages of tents
and shacks, it was the UJA, with funds raised primarily decai Bentov, Mapam leader. who violently opposes the sale. Bentov charges that
the plant, whiCh falls under the jurisdiction of his Ministry, is being sold for 20,-
by American Jewry,.that had made possible the settle-
000,000 pounds, though its value is 45,000,000 Rounds.
ment of large numbers of Jews who escaped from per-
It is understood that the Mamirn leadership hag demanded a "summit conference"
secutions and humiliations in lands of oppression. The
of the three labor parties in the cabinet—Mapai, Mapam and Achdut Avoda—to iron
center photo shows an East European family being
out differences over the issue.
briefed while the ship they travel on is waiting to dock
views the proposed sale of a 50 per cent interest in the plant as a test
at Haifa. The resettlement and absorption program . ' is case Mapam
of the principle of keeping nationalized economic facilities under government
carried out by the Jewish Agency for Israel, the phil-
control. Sale of such property, -the leftwing Socialist party claims, conflicts with
anthropic agency working in the Jewish State with
the interests of the Israeli people.
funds provided by 'the UJA.
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