THWDETROIT JEWISH NEWS—Friday, December 26, 1958-24
Russia Steps Up Propaganda Drive;
Claims U.S., Britain Arming Israel
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.
(JTA)—The Soviet- delegation
to the United Nations dis-
tributed propaganda here
charging the United States and
Britain with arming Israel in
preparation for "aggression"
against the neighboring Arab
countries.
The United States, according
to the material disseminated
here by members of the Soviet
delegation, is conducting nego-
tiations with Israel to equip
the Israel army with rocket
installations.
* Britain is charged with sell-
ing Israel not only submarines,
but also radar equipment, heli-
copters, jet aircraft, heavy
tanks and other armaments
valued by Soviet authorities at
$140,000,000.
"Military facilities are being
built in the Negev desert in
the immediate vicinity of Arab
territory," states a Soviet tract
' handed out to delegation mem-
bers and correspondents at the
United Nations. "The United
States intends using this area
as a testing ground for rocket
weapons," it adds. It alleges
that Israel, the United States
and Britain are planning anti-
Arab aggressions.
Similar allegations were
voiced by Radio Moscow. The
broadcast said Israel is "vicious-
ly subservient to dying im-
perialism." It contended that
the United States and Britain
were both giving top priority
to stepping up arms shipments
to Israel.
At the same time, the Mos-
cow broadcast urged the Soviet
people to read the anti-Israel
book, "The State of Israel, Its
Position and Policy," just pub-
lished by the state-owned
Soviet Political Literature Pub-
lishing House, and asserted
that Israel's 1948 war for in-
Arabs Blamed by UN Agency for
Israeli Fields' Locust Invasion
LONDON (JTA)—At a meet-
(In Israel, new invasions of
ing of the Middle East regional millions of red locusts were re-
organization of the Food and ported, moving northwestward
Agriculture Organization, a out of Jordan and entering Is-
United Nations specialized agen- rael in the vicinity of Elath,
cy, it was made clear that the the port on the Gulf of Akaba.)
region was suffering one of its
One hundred Palestine Arab
most costly locust invasions be- refugees went on strike in the
cause of the Arab states' re- central office of the United Na-
fusal to cooperate with Israel. tions Relief and Works Agency
The meeting urged all coun- for Arab refugees in Beirut, it
tries cooperating in the region- was reported here from the
al organization — Israel is ex- Lebanese capital. The strike
cluded and attached to the Eu- was apparently called in re-
ropean region because of Arab sponse to instruction from ref-1
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operate in fighting The'- pests,
it was reported here from the forthcoming centralization of
UNRWA activities in Beirut.
Syrian capital.
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Between You
... and Me'
(Copyright, 1958,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
Immigration Outlook:
About 5,300 Jewish immigrants are expected to be admitted
into the United States during 1959. . . . This is somewhat less
than the number who entered the country during 1958. . . .
Many more Jewish immigrants could have entered the United
States, were it not for the national origins quota system which
is being fought by all Jewish organizations for its racist and
ethnic exclusions. . . . Not to speak of the McCarran-Walter
Law — which is considered by. Jewish organizations discrimina-
tory, arbitrary, harsh and reactionary. . . All major Jewish
organizations are determined to actively continue their fight
in 1959 for the liberalization of the existing immigration laws.
. . Becausea of the dilatory tactics applied by the Administra-
tion in the granting of entry permits to political refugees,
only 24 visas had been issued up to May, 1958, and these included
only two families of Egyptian Jews who fled from Nasser's anti-
Jewish terror . . . Jewish organizations are hopeful that "a rela-
tively large number" of Jewish refugees from Egypt, now wait-
ing for U.S. visas in Europe, will be admitted to this country in
1959.
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Views on U.S. Jews:
Leaders of the American Zionist movement will not feel
very happy over the views of American Zionism expressed by
one of Israel's highest officials now visiting this country, Shirnon
Peres, director general of Israel's Ministry of Defense and a
leading figure among the younger elements in Israel whom Pre-
mier Ben-Gurion is grooming for Cabinet posts or for leading
roles in the Knesset. . . . Sharing his impressions of American
Jewish life with a small group of people, Peres said he feels the
United Jewish Appeal has replaced the Zionist movement in
this country. . . "Zionism," he stated, "has become a small
and unimportant organization in the United States.". . . The back-
bone of American Jewish relations with Israel, he continued, is
now the United Jewish Appeal. . . . He was especially impressed,
he said, with seeing 1,200 leading Jews from all over the country
spending three busy days at the UJA national conference in
New York last week. . . . What impressed him most was that
there were many young people among them. . . . He saw in
them "the hope and promise of the continuance of pro-Israel
feelings in America."... He was impressed with the desire among
Jews in the United States to understand more deeply Israel's
reality, and not "just follow slogans that make hearts grow
warm and eyes moist."... Peres found American Jewish life so
interesting that he returns to Israel with the determination to
plead with the Israeli press to carry more news of the acivities
Of the American Jewish community.
dependence was "not really a
war between Arabs and Jews,
but actually a war which was
provoked by foreign imperial-
ists who were striving to retain
their positions in this part of
the world."
Parallel with the Moscow
broadcast in the Russian lan-
guage, the Soviet radio also
carried a broadcast in Arabic
beamed to the Arab countries.
The broadcast dealt with Is-
rael's complaint to the UN
Security Council against the
recent Syrian shelling of Is-
raeli villages.
"It is obvious that there is
a strong desire to give the
events on the Syrian-Israeli
borders a wide international
significance," the broadcast
said. It claimed that "it was
the Israeli frontier guards who
began the exchange of fire."
Asserting that "the West is
devoting great care to the
strengthening of Israel's de-
fensive potential," the Soviet
broadcast told the Arabs that
"recently, a large number of
Israelis arrived in the United
States, France and West Ger-
many for military purposes"
and that "the Israeli Chief of
Staff went to France on a
secret mission."
"If war between the Arabs
and Israel should break out
again, the United States would
try to benefit from it for the
purpose of realizing its aims
after declaring that the situa-
tion threatens world peace and
makes Western armed interven-
tion necessary," the Soviet
radio "warned" the Arabs.
Around the World...
A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from
Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other
News-Gathering Media.
United States
NEW YORK—The Jewish College of Bolivia, a community
day school at La Paz, has been awarded the Eagle of the Andes,
the nation's highest decdration, by the Bolivian Senate, it was
reported here by Rabbi G. Friedlander of La Paz, principal
of the college, who is visiting the United States to confer with
leaders of the World Jewish Congress on affairs of his 3,000-
member community . . American and Canadian students who
wish to spend a year of study at the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem, will be accepted if they apply before Jan. 15, it
was announced by American Friends of the Hebrew University ...
WASHINGTON—Among those who were received by Presi-
dent Eisenhower, in preparation for the 1960 White House Con-
ference on Children and Youth, were Philip Klutznick, president
of Bnai Brith, Mrs. Moise Cahn, president of the National
Council of Jewish Women, and Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, executive
director of the Synagogue Council of America .. •
Europe
BRUSSELS — The Belgian Socialist Party's national con-
ference here adopted a resolution calling for international
guarantees of the existence and territorial integrity of the
State of Israel . .
VIENNA — The Austrian Parliament's finance committee
submitted a government proposal to negotiate with the Jewish
community on the long-delayed fulfilment of Jewish demands
for compensation to victims of the Nazi period . . . Fredreick
Tomke, a Hitler official known during the Nazi occupation of
Poland as "Bloody Frits," has been arrested at Nova-Sul, in the
Lublin area, and is being held by Polish police for trial on
charges that he was responsible for the murder of at least 100,
according to word received here from Warsaw .. .
LONDON — J. D. Profumo, Parliamentary Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, said in Commons that the British government
will make every effort to obtain maximum compensation for
British nationals who suffered damages and losses at the hands
of the Nazis . . • The Jewish Defense Committee reported to
the Board of Deputies of British Jews that British Fascist ele-
ments have lost considerable ground in the last three months
despite their efforts to obtain publicity and support . . At a
meeting of the Council of Christians and Jews, Canon C. E.
Raven, Chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II, urged the calling of a
conference between Christians and Jews of all regions to set out
their fundamental religious convictions, not as much in theologi-
cal terms as in terms of their ethical and social significance. . . .
The first of four ships carrying parts of a Soviet factory to be
set up in Egypt has arrived in Alexandria and three others are
Claims Late Pope Was due, all four vessels to return to Russia with a combined cargo
of 1-1,000 bnicie of cotton grown in Egypt and Syria . . . Israel
Not a Friend of Jews
Ambassador Eliahu Elath discussed economic relations between
NEW YORK (AJP)—In a Britain and Israel with Chancellor of the Exchequer Heathecoat
leading editorial, "The Pope Amory .
and Jewry," editor of the Jew-
HANOVER — Dr. Werner Hofmeister, Minister of Justice of
ish Forum, Isaac Rosengarten,
takes issue with the many Jew- Lower Saxony, expressed the view that there is an underground
ish editors and writers who organization in Germany which helps prevent the prosecution
and punishment of Nazi war criminals.
had heaped praises upon the
BONN — The lower house of the West German Parliament
late Pope and extolled him for
"saving" Jewish lives during voted to extend the deadline for filing applications for individual
restitution claims by victims of the Nazis from Dec. 31 to April
the Hitlerian holocaust.
Citing the Yiddish writer Dr. 1, 1959 . . • Former S. S. Gen. Erich von dem Bach Zelewski was
Hillel Seidman, Dr. Rosengar- arrested here and is held responsible for crimes against humanity,
ten reveals that "after the cur- having been attached in 1941-42 as S. S. chief of a unit of the
tain was raised and the terrify- German army that conducted mass annihilation of Jews .. .
ing horror of the German
BERLIN (JTA) — Robert Kremer, editor in chief of the
massacres and tortures was neo-Nazi publication "Anklage" and one of his assistants, Kurt
manifest before the entire Genkel, went on trial here on charges of having assisted Franz
world, not a single word of Rademacher, Nazi official of the Hitler Foreign Office, escape
condemnation fell from the from Germany.
Vatican.
WIESBADEN, Germany (JTA)—Dr. H. Schweinsberger, a
"When the Jews were about
to be deported, the Papal Nun- local court official, was arrested on charges of having condoned
cio of - Pressburg was ap- the execution of Jews when he was judge of a Nazi court in 1942.
proached with an appeal to
Israel
stop it. He was told: 'It is a
JERUSALEM — A group of senior officers of the Portuguese
matter of rescuing little chil-
dren, to prevent bloodshed of National Airlines made a study here of the administrative and
innocents.' He replied: 'There business practices of El Al Israel National Airlines. . . . Yugo-
is no innocent Jewish blood.' slavia and Israel signed trade and payments agreements, the
Archbishop Tiso himself re- list of commodities to be exchanged amounting to $6,300,000 from
ported to the Pope himself as each country. . . . Prof. Ernst Bergman, summing up results of
having said: 'Our Fatherly a visit here of a team of world-famous Norwegian atomic scien-
heart decided that converts (to tists who discussed the peaceful uses of atomic energy, said
Christianity) should not be de- Israel hopes to acquire an atomic power plant by 1965 through
close cooperation with Norway. . . . An Histadrut committee
ported'."
studying the inter-urban bus situation in Israel recommended
that the cooperative monopoly of bus service be replaced with
Yiddish Encyclopedia
a government-controlled and partly-owned arrangement, in the
of public service. . . . Cairo Radio is reported here to
to Record Nazi Crimes interests
have indicated that the United Arab Republic will demand of
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Yid- United Nations Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold on his
dish Encyclopedia, which has approaching visit that the UN Emergency Force be withdrawn
to date published ten volumes from the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip. . . . A new Ameri-
in Yiddish and four volumes in can-Israel corporation has been formed to transport fruit by
English, is now preparing two freighter from Nicaragua to the United States, the initial capi-
new volumes which are to in- talization to be $14,000,000 . . . The Israel government continued
clude the history of the Jewish its program of economic liberalization by expressing its readiness
catastrophe in all countries to transfer all food imports to private business under certain
which were ruled by the Nazis conditions . . . The Israel press is considering a total boycott of
and their allies.
Knesset news coverage in its struggle againSt government restric-
The volumes will appear in tions on news gathering .
Yiddish and it is being planned
TEL AVIV—The General Zionist Party has decided to sup-
to issue them in other languages
as well. The material for Vol- port Premier Ben-Gurion's proposal that mayors be elected by
ume I will be ready for publica- direct ballot rather than by municipal councils . . . Alfredo Korn
tion during the first half of 1959 of Argentina announced that the Ingum rubber plant, established
and the material for Volume II in Israel by Argentinian investors, in partnership with the Koor
will be ready several months rubber plant here, has required additional capitalization and
each partner has put up an additional 300,000 pounds .
later.