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Doctrine
Threatened
with
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Romanian Jews Stream Into
Israel on Boats and Planes;
31,000 Dwellings Being Built
Ben-Zvi Ureic . ()uses 353 New
Romanian Arrivals at Haifa
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
HAIFA—A group of newcomers from Romania
were welcomed personally by President Itzhak Ben-Zvi
when they landed at the Haifa port Tuesday.
"You are here among brothers and friends," the
President declared. "_The government and the Jewish
Agency as well as Israelis as a whole will help you, but
you must also help yourselves. You must immediately
start to learn Hebrew." The President addressed the
353 immigrants in Yiddish and his talk was relayed by
loudspeakers in the hall where the newcomers waited
for transportation to various parts of Israel.
Before his brief welcome, President Ben-Zvi
mingled among the newcomers, accompanied by Mrs.
Ben-Zvi. • They asked the newcomers various questions
and sought to bolster their morale in their new effort
to rebuild their lives in Israel. The President later
had tea with four families among the arrivals.
liammarskjold States New
Immigration to Urael Is
`Strictly an Internal Issue'
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA)—The new mass immigra-
tion into Israel falls "strictly within the internal jurisdiction"
of the Jewish State, Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold de-
clared here.
Hammarskjold denied that he had told Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion, when the two met recently in Israel,, that
Israel should admit a million Arab refugees instead of a million
more Jews. Such a report, he stated, "is part of the imaginative
journalism into which one runs once in a while."
The Secretary General's assertion that the immigration is
an internal matter over which Israel alone has jurisdiction came
in reply to a_ query as to whether "the United Nations could
limit immigration into Israel to quiet fears and in the interests
of peace in the area."
"I don't want to enter into a matter," Hammarskjold
replied, "which is strictly under the internal jurisdiction of a
member state. It does have its legal aspects, too, however. But
I don't want to enter into a question of what the UN can do
or cannot do. I leave it to debate inside or outside the UN. I
would rather leave it to debate."
In answer to other questions, the UN chief stated:
There is no ruling that the Security Council need not
consider Israeli complaints of violations of the truce agreements
with the Arab states, unless complaints were filed first with
the Mixed Armistice Commission.
The "Palestine Question" remains on the agenda of the
Security Council, and so does the question of reparations for
Arab refugees. United Nations decisions regarding refugees
remain on the records.
Both Syria and Israel have accepted his proposals for
demarcation of the Syrian-Israel frontier, "but so far, nothing
has been done" in this direction.
The question of Jordanian compliance with Article VIII
of its armistice agreement with Israel, granting free access to
holy shrines, is a Matter which he has been trying to settle
"for years." "But the ball is still up in the air," the Secretary
General added, "and I would not like to comment further at
this time."
Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel Foreign Minister, accompanied by
Joseph Tekoah, deputy permanent representative of Israel at
the United Nations, met for an hour with Secretary General
Hammarskjold, prior to his departure abroad Saturday. They
engaged in a survey of the current Middle East situation.
Dr. Hugh L. Keenleyside, United Nations Under Secretary
in charge of the newly-established Office for Public Adminis-
tration, left New York for a Middle East and African tour.
Dr. Keenleyside is scheduled to arrive in Israel on March
22, for a stay of about a week, to participate in meetings of
the technological advisory board, an agency of the Israel gov-
ernment composed of heads of various governmental depart-
ments and UN technical experts. The board is reviewing proj-
ects in industrial and technological fields. Dr. Keenleyside is
taking part in the March session at the request of the Israel
government.
VIENNA, (JTA)—Two transports carrying 350 Jews from Romania arrived
by train here Monday while Romanian Jewish emigrants left Vienna on a special
train for Naples to embark there on a ship for Israel. Another group of 80 emi-
grants left here Monday for Israel on an El Al plane.
The emigrants who reached here Monday reported that some of them were
taken off the train by the Romanian border authorities at the Romanian-Hungarian
frontier, but were permitted to continue their trip eight hours later.
(In Jerusalem, the Jewish Agency announced Monday that sites have been
selected on which 31,000 dwelling units will be built for the housing of new immi-
grants arriving and expected to come. The sites of the new homes will be on sandy
areas only, the announcement said. Cultivatable land is being conserved for agri-
cultural development.)
Eban Flesigns; -
II-G Suffers
Knesset Defeat
Israel's Ambassador to the
United States Abba Eban on Tues-
day officially submitted his resig-
nation as Ambassador and as his
country's permanent representative
to the .United Nations, to enter
the political . field in Israel as a
candidate for a seat in the Knesset.
(Ambassador Eban, who will re-
tire from his American and UN
posts the end of May, is sched-
uled to address the opening meet-
ing of Detroit's Allied Jewish
Campaign on March 23).
Israel's ruling party, Mapai, and
its leader, Prime Minister Ben-
Gurion, suffered a setback Mon-
day when Berl Locker was defeated
for the post of Speaker of the
Knesset by Nahum Nir, Achdut
Avodah candidate.
Detailed Stories on Page 6
Emigration Disappoints Arabs
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
Abdel Khalek Hassouna,
secretary general of •the Arab League, express.
ed keen disappointment in Cairo Tuesday, be-
cause "the Arab communities are showing small
interest in the danger of the immigration into
Israel."
Cairo's morning newspapers, received here,
reported Hassouna's "disappointment" because
the meeting of the Arab League Council, con-
vened in Cairo Monday, was attended only by
Ambassadors. Hassouna had called the meet-
ing an "emergency" session and had demanded
that all Arab governments send to the session
their Prime Ministers or, at least, their For-
eign Ministers.
Miffed by the slur that Hassouna feels he
received, the league official met Monday with
the Romanian and Hungarian Ambassadors at
Cairo, complaining to them about mass emigra-
tion to Israel, according to the Cairo press.
The articles report that the Russian satellite en-
voys denied that there is a mass immigration to
Israel from Eastern Europe.
JERUSALEM —
(Related Stories on Page 3)
Max M Fisher Elected President of Jewish
Welfare Federation; Judge Levin Honored
Max M. Fisher, chairman of the board of Aurora Gasoline Corporation, was elected pres-
ident of the Jewish Welfare Federation of Detroit, at a meeting of the Federation board of
governors, at noon Monday. He succeeds Federal Judge Theodore Levin, who announced his
impending retirement at the Federation annual meeting last month.
Fisher's first act of office was to present Judge Levin with an inscribed gavel expressing
the community's appreciation of his four years of distinguished service as Federation president.
Fisher, chairman of the 1958 Allied Jewish Ca mpaign, the Federation's annual fund-raising
effort, explained that the gavel was made in Israel, of olive wood, under the supervision of
Prime Minister Beh-Gurion's staff.
"In Judge Levin's last year of office, the Federation distributed $5,000,000 among more
than 60 essential causes, with our 12 local member agencies and the United Jewish Appeal,
the major beneficiaries," Fisher said. "Judge Levin's dedicated leadership of the social plan-
ning and budgeting functions assured the 26,000 participants in the Federation's Allied Jewish
Campaign that each is helping provide a fine n etwork of health and . welfare, formal and in-
formal education, and recreation services in Detroit, while at the same time contributing to
the welfare of his less fortunate co-religionists overseas with a sound sense of partnership."
Fisher is a board member of the United Foundation, the Metropolitan Detroit Building
Fund, Health Council of Detroit and is an active leader in the Torch Drive. He is vice-presi-
dent of Sinai Hospital and chairman
of its executive and finance commit-
tees. Nationally he is a board mem-
ber of the United Jewish Appeal and
big-gifts chairman, of the UJA fund-
raising campaign. •
Other officers elected by the Fed-
eration are: Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich,
Hyman Safran and Max J. Zivian,
vice-presidents; George M. Stutz,
treasurer. Judge Levin, Milton M.
Maddin, Milford R. Pregerson and
Paul Zuckerman, members of the ex-
exutive committee. Honorary mem-
bers are William Friedman, Abe
Kasle, Samuel H. Rubiner and Abe
Max M. Fisher
Srere.
Judge Theodore Levin