Governmental Candor' Urged
by Oppenheimer; Acclaims
Accomplishments in Israel
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2/3 of Jewish Youth Attending Colleges
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.,
Dr. Jospe, in a review of the
(JTA) — Two of every three general student picture, re- 0:1
Jewish young people attend vealed that 86 percent of the
college, Dr. Alfred Jospe, na- Jewish girls at college are
tional director of programs and married during their college
resources of the Bnai Brith career. He recalled that 36
Hillel Foundation, declared years ago the Hillel Founda-
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
hardly comprehensible dead- As of today Israel still has a here at a meeting of the Pur- tion launched its first unit for
NEW YORK—The Weizmann liness, and in some respects reprieve from the curse of big- due University Hillel unit. The 500 students at the University
at least increasingly intract- ness, and serves to remind us occasion was a ceremony at of Illinois. Now there are 217
Institute of Science in Rehovot,
able to control. War poses a of what a small band of devoted which the Hillel building's chapters on American cam- 1-0
Israel, scored another triumph
more macabre threat than has men can do when they can mortgage was burned.
here, at the 15th annual dinner,
puses.
Tuesday night, at the Waldorf faced man in his history. Thus understand one another as
we should welcome, despite a friends, and can build a coin-
Astoria Hotel, with 1,300 of the
supporters of its American Com- clear steadiness of purpose, mon purpose on a common ex-
mittee in attendance from all all that is new and hopeful in perience and shared knowl-
the conduct of our affairs, knowledge."
parts of the country.
and from all sources. This, I
A distinct honor was accord-
The highlights of the evening
think, is what men have in ed Meyer W. Weisgal, close
were the address of Dr. J.
mind who speak with weari- personal associate of the late
Robert Oppenheimer, director
ness of the cold war."
Dr. Weizmann, who has directed
of the Institute of Advance
Study at Princeton, N.J., and
Asking for "governmental the work . of the Weizmann In-
Heavy wool plush, subdued
5
the first showing of the United candor" in discussions of the stitute, in the form of a citation
Artists' film on the Weizmann cold war issues, Dr. Oppen- from President Itzhak Ben-Zvi
and dignified. The lush lux-
Institute, "Profile of a Miracle," heimer said: and Prime Minister David Ben-
crc
ury of this decorator fabric
narrated by Yul Brynner. The
"This war is too serious, not Gurion of Israel, as part of the
has years of wear and
cs
film, which was described in only for the generals, but for gift plaque containing the Holy
Phineas Biron's article in The the statesmen too, and in the Land mosaic map.
beauty built in. It has a mil-
Jewish News three weeks ago, end for all of us. It is too seri-
The citation, lauding Weis-
lion dollar look at down-to-.
will now be shown in theaters ous for the generals and the gal's "services to the Jewish
earth
prices. 10 decorator
in all English-speaking coun- statesmen because they must State before and after its estab-
tries and in Israel.
colors. Regular $12.95
act on our behalf, and cannot lishment, and his active role in
In one of his rare public ad- talk to us. It is too serious for the provision and creation of
dresses, the eminent physicist, us, because, being ignorant and the means and facilities to fur-
Dr. Oppenheimer, spoke of the unsure, we are irresponsible. ther scientific advancement in
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impact of science on world We need to ask hard questions Israel," was read by Israel's
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and
our
purposes.
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brew
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gift
is
glowing terms of his recent ex-
periences in Israel. He also ex- best this can never be easy; a scale replica of the celebrated
pressed foreboding over the re- this will as always take high mosaic 6th century depiction of
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sults of the cold war and said courage. It will not be possible the Biblical Holy Land known
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last 15 years "there is room what our situation is, know ars the world over as "The
both for despair and for hope." what we know and do not know, Madaba Map," one of the out-
and begin to reassume as indi- standing finds of the antique
He expressed this warning:
TERMS
viduals the inescapable human Middle East made during the
"The armaments now in our responsibility that comes from present century. The map, an
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This is the reason for govern- Blum, working from colored
mental candor: that in coping print reproductions and photo-
imilifinsimane
with what could be the final graphs. Because of its unique
acts of human history, we its character, the Israel Museum of
citizens may know and think, Antiquities in Jerusalem has
suffer and act, and, as much as requested it as "the only rep-
This
it is given to man, be free." resentation of the Madaba Map
Speaking of his visit at the ever created."
Hanukah
Weizmann Institute in Rehovot,
Warm tribute to Israel was
Dr. Oppenheimer said:
The
paid at the dinner in an un-
"In this society, forced by scheduled address by Governor
Most Wonderful
danger, by hardship, by hos- Averell Harriman.
tile neighbors, to an intense,
Arthur B. Krim, of New
Gift of Them All
continued common effort, one York, president of United Ar-
finds a health of spirit, a tists Corporation, presided.
human health, now grown Ben Grauer introduced the
rare in the great lands of notables on the dais.
Europe and America, which
In his opening remarks, Krim
will serve not only to bring said that the Weizmann Insti-
dedicated men and dedication tute of Science symbolized two
to Israel, but to lead us to basic aspirations of our time—
refresh and renew the an- the fight for a free mind in a
cient sources of our own democratic way of life, and the
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With living costs as they are today
and, we hope, reasonably small. until the "Palestine people re-
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But the practical needs of the turn to their homeland," King
than the most you can earn on
country will mean that a larger Idris of Libya declared in a
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and larger proportion of. the speech from the throne, opening
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defense against the high cost of
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which is now available, in the
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