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XXXIV—No. 11 ior,V, n1",lioii n Sillop 17100
W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE 8-9364—Detroit 35, November 14, 1958 $5 Per Year; Single Copy 15c
Blow at Arab Lea ue Seen
In New Mid-East Incidents
Crackpots Continue Threats
to Synagogues and Centers
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
STAMFORD, Conn.—Police reported that three synagogues
were under police surveillance here following bomb threats.
Police were told by an anonymous caller that a bombing
attack was planned. Firemen and police immediately searched
Agudath Sholem, Temple Sinai and Temple Beth-El. No bomb
was found. Police regarded the threats as an anti-Semitic hoax,
but nevertheless took precautions.
COLUMBIA, Mo.—The Hillel Center on the University
of Missouri campus here had a bomb threat Sunday when a
shoebox containing a railroad fuse with a rigged up bomb
was found on the Center's porch. Police doused the apparatus,
which contained a complex electrical circuit, with water.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (JTA) — New York Sen. Jacob K.
Javits and Senator-elect Kenneth Keating, completing a three-
day visit to southern cities where synagogues or schools had
been bombed, said there appeared to be a definite pattern to
the dynamitings. They visited Jacksonville, Fla., Atlanta,- Ga.,
and Birmingham in fulfillment of a campaign promise by
Keating. A suggestion by Javits and Keating for Federal legisla-
tion aimed specifically at hate bombings was received coolly
and was viewed by newspapers as "politics."
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JERUSALEM — The Syrian air attack against King Hussein of Jordan was
labeled by political observers here Tuesday as a grave blow at United Nations
Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's efforts to create the impression that
Middle East tensions have eased.
The experts also said that King Hussein's success in escaping had greatly
boosted his prestige in the Middle East. It was reported that Hussein had origin-
ally planned to fly through Saudi Arabia, Bahrein, Iran and Turkey, but that he
agreed to change the course and fly over Syria to help demonstrate the lessened
hostility between Jordan and the United Arab Republic and the return of inter-
Arab confidence in the Middle East.
The incident also was regarded here as destructive to Hammarskjold's
efforts to revive the Arab League, through which President Nasser of the UAR
was generally believed here as hoping to achieve the dominance of the Arab
world which he has so far failed to win through more direct tactics.
The experts said that, prior to the Syrian-Hussein incident, Hammarsk-
jold's only achievement in implementing the Arab-written General Assembly
resolution for Middle East pacification was getting Nasser's agreement to lift his
anti-Jordan blockade. Even this, they noted, had been on condition of Britain's
withdrawal from Jordan. The Hussein plane incident, the experts said, apparently
had nullified "even this small achievement."
Premier David Ben-Gurion and Foreign Minister Golda Meir appeared be-
fore the parliamentary security and foreign affairs committee to complete a
foreign policy review they began last week.
Among the subjects on which they were questioned
closely was the most recent Syrian firings on Huleh re-
clamation workers and the dramatic Syrian air force at-
tack on King Hussein's plane. One of the Israeli deputies
asked. the Premier and Mrs. Meir whether Israel would
allow the Jordan monarch to fly over its territory en route
to a vacation abroad. He was told that his question was
"hypothetical."
(From London it was reported that Israel had appar-
ently 'given permission for British jet fighters to cross
its airspace en route to reinforce British air units in
Jordan.
(Cairo and Damascus Radios continued this week to
blast against Hussein. They frequently charged that
Jordan was in collusion with Israel).
Snub ,of 'Crystal Night Event
Resented by Austrian Jewry
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish. News
eIDC's Boon to Aged and Sick:
The 44th annual
meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee, to be held Dec. 11, in New York,
will focus attention on JDC activities in Israel, including Malben, the JDC health
and welfare program for aged, sick and handicapped immigrants. Shown here are
some of the thousands who are benefitting from JDC's rich experience in social
service. Top, left, is a resident of Givat Hashlosha, where senior citizens are
enabled to live out their lives in dignity and peace. Top right—an immigrant suf-
fering from a chronic eye ailment is treated at a clinic in Pardess Katz with the
aid of modern medical equipment. Bottom, left, an elderly Jewish immigrant in
the Malben home for the aged at Nevei Avot exercises her legs, which have been
paralyzed for many years. Israel youth also receive JDC aid—at bottom, right, are
two boys in a machine shop of the JDC-supported yeshiva in Safariah. Funds for
JDC's services are received from the United Jewish Appeal, which is supported in
Detroit by the Allied Jewish Campaign.
VIENNA—Austrian Jewish leaders were sharply critical
Tuesday of the fact that not a single Austrian government repre-
sentative attended the commemoration of "Crystal Night," the
20th anniversary of the Nazi burnings of synagogues.
. The mass meeting was held Monday to mark the day when
the Nazis began major anti-Semitic persecutions in Austria with
the burning of 58 Austrian synagogues, including 17 in Vienna,
and the deportation of some 10,000 Jews to concentration camps.
Jewish leaders contrasted the complete absence of official
Austrian government representation with the action of West
German President Theodor Huess and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
in sending special messages to West German Jewry on the
commemoration.
In a letter to the Central Council of Jews in Germany, the
Chancellor wrote that nothing could cancel out the suffering
caused the Jews by the Nazi regime. "But because of this, it
was and is a special desire of the Federal government to
compensate at least for material losses as far as possible."
'West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt said that "only when the
entire German people become aware of the monstrosity of what
was done, can we hope that this most terrible period of our
history will have been surmounted.
Emil Maurer, president of the Austrian Jewish Community,
and - Ernst Feldsberg, the vice-president, appealed to the Austrian
government to furnish "true restitution" for Austrian survivors
of the Nazi terror, who in the past 13 years had "benefited from
general social security programs," but still had failed to receive
real compensation for their sufferings.
A resolution, sponsored by the Board of Austrian Jewish
Communities, was approved at the memorial meeting, charging
that the government of Austria lacked a positive attitude toward
true restitution. The resolution asserted that to date, the persecu-
tors had been favored over the persecutees in government com-
pensation and demanded that the government fulfill its state
treaty obligations.
In the United States, more than 2,500 Orthodox, Conservative
and Reform rabbis led their congregations in "Crystal Night"
observances at Sabbath services. The rabbis responded to requests
from the Synagogue Council of America and the JWV.