et,
Arab League Seeks Boycott Offices
in Morocco, Tunisia; Protests Rise
Youth Acclaimed for Hebrew 'South Pacific'
ber of others gave fine per-
formances. Bloody Mary's role
was done well by Marsha Tay-
lor.
Mrs. _Nathan Shur, Miss Hel-
en Shur and Miss Janet Waser-
man were given awards for
their direction of the musical.
Prior to • the performance,
kiddush cups, awarded by the
National Federation of Jewish
Men's Clubs, were presented to
David Wolok, Paul Levi, Mal-
colm Katz and Deborah Wolok.
Awards for scholastic excel-
The ingenuity of young
people, students in the Shaarey
Zedek religious schools, emerg-
ed in creative form when about
40 of them staged a Hebrew
version of "South Pacific," at
the Youth Awards Night of the
congregation's Men's Club, Sun-
day evening.
A packed hall acclaimed the
young people for their songs,
dances and splendid acting.
The entire performance was
in Hebrew, and several of the
boys and girls distinguished
themselves.
salem Wednesday and conferred
with Foreign Minister Golda
LONDON — The Arab Meir on Thursday. He then left
League's anti-Israel boycott for Amman to see Jordanian
committee is trying to open officials, returning to Jerusalem
offices in Morocco and Tunisia Friday to meet Prime Minister
and is seeking to persuade David Ben-Gurion.
The Israel Ambassador to
authorities in Bahrein and Batar
to cooperate with the boycott London, Eliahu Elath, met with
campaign, it was reported here Foreign Secretary Selwyn
Lloyd, for the first time in two
Tuesday.
The Arab League was re- months, to discuss recent devel-
ported to fear that the new free opments in international affairs,
zone in Bahrein may provide an with special emphasis on the
opening for Israel goods to current Middle East situation.
Jan Berris was the star of
In Washington, it was re-
come into Arab countries.
ported that trade restrictions the evening in the role of
In another boycott develop- imposed by ' the Arab States to Nellie Forbush.
ment, Jordan announced it was
Mickey Shur, Michael Stul-
hamper Israel's commerce have
banning all trade with eight actually resulted in causing the berg, Alan Schwartz and a num-
Italian companies in addition to
Arab States to pay higher
the British and Canadian nickel
freight rates.
companies banned last week.
The International Chamber of
The main office of the boy-
Commerce was told by B. Rosen,
cott committee reported that
Israeli representative, that Near
"considerable s u c c e s s" was
East freight rates were higher
achieved in the last half of
because normal carriers were
1958, but added that the Arabs
compelled to split cargoes and
feared Israel would make a
BOSTON, (JTA)—In a pre-
route them separately to Israel
great effort to establish an
cedent-making d e c i s i o n, the
and
to
Arab
destinations.
economic footing in Cyprus,
This, he - said, represented Board of Review of the Massa-
once the island achieved final
much greater cost to the Arabs chusetts Division of Employ-
independence from Britain.
than to the Israelis because of ment Security has ruled in
A British government spokes-
favor of an Orthodox Jewish
man here reasserted in Com- the larger tonnage shipped to woman who had been denied
Arab ports and because the
mons his government's opposi-
Arabs were more dependent on unemployment compensation be-
tion to continuing Arab
cause she had refused to work
attempts to boycott British foreign-flag shipping.
Reports received in London on the sabbath.
firms for dealing with Israel
The decision, handed down
disclosed an extension of the
and said it would make further
Arab anti-Israel boycott to a on the appeal of a bookkeeper,
representations "whenever it
number of British, French and from a ruling last January deny-
seems that these would be Canadian firms for having done ing her the right to collect
fruitful."
business with Israel. Iraq black- compensation, because of her
T h e government statement
listed Imperial Chemical Indus- refusal to accept a job offered
came in reply to Sir Leslie tries, Ltd., of Britain, and Air her which required some work
Plummer, a Laborite, who drew France; Jordan six other firms. on Saturdays, held that this
attention to recent announce-
refusal was reasonable, and did
ments from Bagdad and Amman
not destroy her availability for
adding Imperial Chemicals,
bookkeeping work in general.
Mond Nickel and other British
Edward J. Barshak, attorney
and Commonwealth enterprises
for the American Jewish Con-
to the Arab boycott list because
gress, who pressed the appeal,
they traded with Israel.
pointed out to the review board
John D. Profumo. Foreign
that the statutes made no pro-
Office spokesman in the House,
Henry Cabot Lodge, U. S. Am- vision for Sabbath observance,
replied that the government bassador to the United Nations, and asked the board to construe
"has, on several occasions, made has deplored the action of the the statutes in the light of the
representations to the Arab Council of Free African States constitutional requirement of
governments concerned. H e r in refusing to invite Israel to religious liberty. He termed the
Majesty's Government will con- a reception honoring Africa decision a "victory for religious
tinue to make further represen- Freedom Day.
freedom."
In a letter to Dr. Joachim
tations whenever it seems that
Prinz, president of the Ameri-
these would be fruitful."
In Jerusalem, Israeli Foreign can Jewish Congress, Ambassa-
Ministry circles said they had dor Lodge declared:
"The conduct of which you
no information as to whether
United Nations Undersecretary complain is of a character which
Ralph J. Bunche had discussed I would unhesitatingly and vig-
seizure of Israeli cargoes in the orously repudiate if it were pro-
Suez Canal or whether he had posed as a course for my own
received any assurances about government to follow." He wrote
the future from United Arab that the governments whose rep-
resentatives were hosts at the
Republic officials in. Cairo.
Dr. Bunche arrived in Jeru- reception acted in the "indepen-
dent exercise of their own poli-
cy." He noted, however, that
"the unfavorable reaction to
their decision, which is so wide-
spread, will have a desirable
effect for the future."
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Mass. Board
Upholds Woman
in Sabbath Plea
Lodge Deplores
African,s' Refusal
to Invite Israel
.
lence went to Ahuvah Edelman,
Raymond Silverman, Judith
Wax, Miriam Klein, Jan Berris,
Sarah Marwil and Stanley ROD-
enbaum.
Leaders of the Shaarey Zedek
Men's Club made the presenta-
tions.
Last year, the Shaarey Zed-
ek youth staged a similar per-
formance of "Oklahoma," also
in Hebrew.
Their version of "South Pa-
cific" will be re-enacted in Bay
City next month.
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