THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, September S, 195S-40
Miss Israel B ack at the Campus
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Miriam Hadar, Miss Israel for 1958, who competed in the
international Miss Universe beauty contest, stops to chat with
two fellow students on the campus at Hebrew University
where she is enrolled in the law school. The 21-year-old beauty
appeared on a number of U.S. television shows during her
visit to the United States.
Around the TP - orld...
A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from
Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other
News Gathering Media.
United States
SAN FRANCISCO—Dr. B. L. Freedlander, of Mt. Zion Hos-.
pital and Medical Center. was given an $8,510 grant by the
American Cancer Society to continue studies inaugurated at the
hospital into chemicals which may prove useful in combatting
cancer . . . Edward Howden, newly-appointed director of the
FEPC, said the first six months of the commission's operations
will be directed toward educating the public in requirements of
the municipality's recently adopted anti-bias ordinance.
TUCSON. Arizona—A survey conducted by Gil Kushner,
University of Arizona graduate student, established that four-
fifths of the Tucson Jewish community is affiliated with one of
the two local religious institutions or the Jewish Community
Center.
LOS ANGELES—U.S. Attorney General William P. Rogers
told the American Bar Association that segregationist violence
was a matter for local rather than Federal authorities, although
the U.S. =would prosecute racist agitators like John Kasper who
organize concerted interference with a Federal Court integration
decree.
WASHINGTON—Rep. Kenneth P. Keating has made public
a letter he addressed to Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, the
U.S. delegate to the UN, urging that the United States take the
lead at the UN in protesting anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union.
Europe
VIENNA—A report received here from Warsaw reveals that
the campaign started by Jewish Communists in Poland to dis-
courage emigration of Jews from that country is being intensi-
fied in the press and by speakers at Jewish gatherings in Polish
cities.
BONN—It was reported here that Dr. Ludwig Erhard, West
German Minister of Economic Affairs, may visit Egypt during
a four-week world tour, after the forthcoming International Mone-
tary Fund conference in New Delhi, India, to discuss with the
Nasser regime the possibility of ,West German financial and
technical aid for Egypt . . . Peter Prueckeimaier, 49, a former
. SS guard at the Mauhausen concentration camp where thousands
of Jews and other victims of Nazism were murdered, has
been named a candidate for the Bavarian. Pariliament by the
right-wing Christian Social Union, a party allied with Chancellor
Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union, and he is said to
be assured of election, his constituency being called "safe."
LONDON—Contrary to some reports, it was stated by British
newspaper correspondents in Germany that a West Berlin cinema
audience saw nothing to laugh at or to applaud in Charlie Chap-
lin's "The Great Dictator," while there was some laughter during
the first scenes in the film . . . A report from the Moscow news-
paper Sovetskaya Rossiya received here . states that five Jewish
families have arrived in Birobidjan, once called the autonomous
Jewish region in Siberia, being the first new Jewish settlers there
in many years, and they now live on a collective farm . .. The
British Home Office has granted visas to ten young Iranian Jews
who will attend the Sunderland Yeshiva to study for the rab-
binate, Agudas Israel having arranged for their entry . . . Kadish
Looz, Israel Minister of Agriculture, said here, upon completion of
a four-week study tour of Western European countries, that Israel
hopes to increase its agricultural exports to European coun-
tries.
Israel
TEL AVIV—The Solel Boneh construction company, which
already has completed a variety of building projects in Turkey,
Cyprus and Ghana, has signed contracts with an undisclosed
Middle Eastern country for an extensive construction program.
JERUSALEM — Finance Minister Levi Eshkol and David
Horowitz, governor of Israel's State Bank, will go to New Delhi,
India, early in October to attend an internatiOnal monetary fund
conference.
. Latin America
BUENOS AIRES—A ten-day strike by teachers in the Jew-
ish schools of Buenos Aires and its vicinity ended following
agreement between the teachers' group and the Jewish Educa-
tional Committee on new wage scales adjusted to meet the spiral-
ing cost of living in Argentina.
Rickover Denies
Anti-Semitism Is
Issue ir His Case
Israel's President Brings Torah to
dassah Youth Aliyah Synagogue
NEW YORK (AJP) — In
his series o`f articles on Rear
Admiral Ryiian Rickowtr ap-
pearing in the New York
Post, writer Stan Opotowsky
quotes Rickover as saying
that anti-Semitism is not at
all involved in his case.
" 'Don't get into that,' he
told a reporter during the
1953 promotion fight," Opo-
towsky writes. " 'I've run into
lots of anti-Semitism in the
Navy, but that is not in-
volved here. This is some-
thing different: This is those
stuffed shirts fighting any-
body with new ideas.' "
Earl Wilson, in his column,
reports that "Agent Abbe
Greshler — who owns the
`Nautilus' title for films —
wants to do a film biography
of Adm. Rickover. Rickover's
answer, Wilson reveals, was:
"Call me four years after I'm
dead."
80 Million Pounds
Voted by Agency
for Settlements
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM — The Jewish
Agency budget commission on
Wednesday approved an 80,-
000,000-pound allocation to the
Agency's settlement depart-
ment for the next fiscal year.
Reporting to the budget com-
mission, Israel Finance Minis-
ter Levi Eshkol said that the
plan for„, setting up a network
of settlements throughout Gali-
lee required an investment of
400,000,000 pounds. One aspect
of this program would be the
consolidation of hundreds of
settlements with a total popu-
lation of 32,000 men, women
and children, which were
founded since the establish-
ment of the State.
Meanwhile, the Agency
executive discussed a proposal
for the settlement of 350
families from the United
States, Britain and South
Africa.
Totaling some 1500 persons,
the families are organized in
five settlement organizations
with which the Israel govern-
ment and the Agency are ne-
gotiating the details of immi-
gration.
President ITZHAK BEN-ZVI of Israel (left) is shown
carrying a Sefer Torah into the newly-opened synagogue built .
by Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, at
Ramat-Hadassah-Szold for Youth Aliyah, international agency
for the rescue of underprivileged Jewish children and their
rehabilitation in Israel. Hadassah, the official representative of
Youth Aliyah in the United States, has contributed more than
$34,000,000 to Youth Aliyah in the last 24 years toward the
rescue and rehabilitation of more than 85,000 children and
youth from 72 countries. Shown with President Ben Zvi (left
to right) is MOSHE KOL, world head of Youth Aliyah, and
Rabbi MOSHE MUNK, Youth Aliyah supervisor for religious
institutions.
Red China's Machinations Bring
Changed Sino-Israeli Relations
tion of UN membership for
Red China was much discussed.
WASHINGTON — Coopera- Many held it was unnecessary
to
agree with a nation's policies
tion is growing between Red
China and Nasser's United to allow it a voice at an inter-
Arab Republic. State Depart- national f or u m. But at the
ment officials have noted Com- Bandung conference it was Red
munist C h i'n e s e attempts to China which was prominent
keep the pot boiling in the among those who denied Israel
a right to attend.
Near East.
At the 29-nation m e e t i n g,
q
National-
Chiang Kai Shek'
ist Chinese regDme voted Chou en-Lai bid strongly for
against partition in 1947 and Arab favor by supporting
otherwise opposed Jewish aspi- claims against Israel. He
rations in Palestine. When backed Arab demands for terri-
Israel gained United Nations torial concessions by Israel and
membership, the Chinese Na- stressed the issue of Arab
tionalists could be found on the refugee return.
Arab side. Subsequently, Israel
Since Bandung, the Chinese
recognized the Peiping Corn- Communists have moved into
munist Government but never the Near East. They have made
established formal diplomatic deals favoring Arab regimes.
Arab military delegations were
relations.
Israel took a stand at the invited to China. Peiping army
'United Nations against the ad- men pointed out that China
mission of Communist China at could help the Arabs because
a time when Peiping was fight- it specialized in training Masses
of illiterate and backward men
ing UN forces in Korea.
to use modern arms.
Egypt refused to permit
In addition to pa s s in g on
French airborne forces bound
German Council Lists for Indo-China to fight Com- training guidance, Peiping
munism to fly across Egyptian spoke of "volunteers" at the
Nazi Pensioners
airspace. The State Depart- time of the Suez war. Some
HANOVER (JTA)—The Trade ment, trying to woo Egypt, kept Chinese Communist military
Union Council of, Lower Saxony silent. Later, Nasser grantel technicians have arrived in
has published a second list of full diplomatic recognition to Cairo and Damascus. State De-
prominent Nazis and "enemies Peiping and ousted the Chinese partment reports now refer in
of democracy" who are receiv- Nationalists from Cairo.
detail to "Sino-Soviet" attempts
ing Bonn government pensions
In February, 1955, an Israeli to penetrate the Near East,
and subsidies from private in- delegation visited Peiping to thus linking China with Russia
dustry. The list supplements an promote trade. According to in regional Intrigue.
earlier report on 51 Nazi top the New York Times, members
As the Arabs moved closer to
officials living in comfort on of the mission reached a con- Peiping, the Nationalist Gov-
pensions.
clusion that Chiang Kai Shek ernment on Formosa took a
Heading the new list of "mur- was "discredited" on the new look at Israel. A friendlier
derers," . as the Council calls Chinese mainland. The Israelis atmosphere developed. This
who
ho are receiving mil- expressed a view that Western was reflected at the United
lions of deutschemarks while embargoes had not seriously Nations and elsewhere. In
Nazi victims are still awaiting hurt Peiping and might even Washington, Madame Chiang
adequate compensation, are such have facilitated Russian pen- Kai-Shek spoke favorably of
men as Helmut Stellrecht, one- etration. The mission character- Israel on her most recent visit.
time aide to Alfred Rosenberg; ized the visit as "friendly."
Israel shares free world con-
Hans Lammer, former chief of
David Hacohen, Israeli dip- cern lest rising tension in the
Hitler's Chancellery; the widow lomat who headed the mission, Far East bring war. However,
of Dr. Harald Turner, an SS
said "there can be no doubt Israel and the United States
leader who participated in the
that Mao Tse-Tung is more pop- share a conviction that Chinese
massacre of Jews •in the Bel- ular in China that Stalin was Communist aggression cannot
grade ghetto, and a number of in Russia, Hitler in Germany be tolerated: Israel has trouble
former police and SS officials
enough in - its own region but
or Mussolini in Italy.
as well as concentration camp
Israel envisaged a flow of is closely observing the mach-
doctors.
inations of Peiping.
Stellrecht has asked a 90,000 light industrial products, tex-
mark pension, claiming lack of tiles, and pharmaceuticals to New Railroad to Span Negev
responsibility for Nazi crimes China's vast markets. In return,
BEERSHEBA (AJP) — The
because he served as a deputy Israel hoped for soya beans,
new three mil-
in the Reichstag. Lammers is rice, various oils and metals. first tracks of a
lion dollar railroad leading
asking the return of property But it all came to naught. Mao
from this city into ElAt‘h were
received as a gift from the Nazi Tse-Tung embraced Nasser.
By the time of the Bandung laid down last week. Hundreds
Party for services rendered—
of tourists attended the colorful
which include the organization Conference of Asian - African
powers in April, 1955, the ques- ceremonies.
of the mass murder of Jews.
BY MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright, 1958, JTA, Inc.)