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Ben-Gurion Launches Battle
Against Leftists in Israel
Levi Eshkol May Preside as Deputy Premier
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Nasser's 'Secrecy' Condition on Suez Seen by Israel as Impractical
Jean Henri Dunant, Founder of Red Cross,
Christian Forerunner of Theodor Hera
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
(Copyright, 1959, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
One hundred years ago, from the battlefield of Solferino, in northern Italy, there came
forth a human cry—Tutti Fratelli—which means, in Italian: all men are brothers. This slogan
became the watchword of the men of mercy who aided the wounded in a battle in which there
were 40,000 casualties.
Out of the mission of mercy that gave birth to the Tutti
Fratelli watchword was born the great Red Cross movement, and
the man who fathered the idea was a 31-year-old Swiss banker,
Jean Henri Dunant.
Dunant not only has earned a • place in history as the
founder of the Red Cross: he also has gained an imperishable
place in Jewish history as an advocate of reconstituted Jewish
Statehood in the Holy Land and as one of the great forerunners
of Dr. Theodor Herzl and one of the Christian supporters of the
Zionist idea.
The idea of a Red Cross was born at Solferino in 1859.
The International Red Cross came into being as a result of the
Geneva Conference of 1864. In 1901, M. Dunant was the first
recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, in recognition of his great
Dunant
humanitarian ideal.
At the same time, M. Dunant was nourishing in his heart another dream: for the reha-
bilitation of the dispersed. sorely tried and persecuted Jews.
In an impressive biography, "Dunant—The Story of the Red Cross," (Oxford University
Press), Martin Gumpert wrote about Dunant:
"His prophetic glance did not yet see into the distance, not even as far as the misery
that was waiting just around the corner. Dunant had a new idea. In March, 1866, be divulged
his plan for a 'Universal and International Society for the Revival of the Orient.' Did he see
so clearly in advance the evil that was brewing in aged and fanatic Europe and which could
regenerate at last into an inconceivable race hatred? Once more it was a touching mixture of
the apostolic spirit, the humanitarianism of the century and a sense for business speculation
that made him the legitimate forerunner of Theodor Herzl and Zionism and finally led his plan
astray. In the Biblioteque Nationale is a single copy of his extraordinary eight-page memo-
randum on this subject. Palestine was to be neutralized in the interests of a great colonial
society. And in the following year the International Palestine Company was actually founded.
with Dunant as president; it proceeded to make contacts with Jewish societies until the enter-
prise broke up.
"Nevertheless, the Palestine project had flourished so far that by 186: Dunant could
discuss it with the Empress Eugenie in the presence of the French Ambassador to Constanti-
nople, M. Bouree."
It is possible that Dr. Herzl may have been totally unaware of the activities of M. Dunant;
else he might have attempted to enlist his services in behalf of the Jewish National Home in
Palestine towards the end of the last century.
Much needs to be said about Dunant's interest in Palestine and his famous statement. It
is necessary to understand Dunant to be able to appreciate his concern for the Jewish people.
Dunant began his movement for the injection of a spirit of mercy in the cruelties of war
with a practical act of his own.
At Castiglioni, a village in the center of the French position in the collision of the
armies of Austro- and Franco-Sardinia, in 1859, he personally urged the French women and
girls to follow him to the fields that were covered with the bodies of the dying and dead and
to offer drink to the thirsty, food to the hungry and whatever care was possible to the wounded
and maimed. When Dunant's volunteers began to make a search for the French and Italian
wounded and turned their backs on the unfortunate Austrians, the founder of the Red Cross
pointed out to them that Austrians were human beings too. "Tutti fratelli."—all are brothers—
he said to them. and with that phrase on their lips they helped all and in reality established
the foundation for the humanitarian idea that was called into being by Jean Henri Dunant.
It must have been this spirit of "tutti fratelli" that motivated Dunant's "Open Letter," in
1866, appealing for the colonization of Palestine and the "resurrection of the East. - which
"uniting with the rise of religious sentiment, will be aided by the cooperation of Israelites,
whose valuable qualities and remarkable aptitudes cannot but prove very advantageous to
Palestine."
Dunant's letter was published a year after the publication of Moses Hess' "Rome and
Jerusalem," but it is clear that his theories were worked out by himself and were not moti-
vated by earlier writings. In the plans that he worked out, and for which he appealed to the
Jewish and non-Jewish worlds, he is one of the foremost forerunners of Dr. Theodor Herzl,
and is one of the greatest Christians of the past century to have joined in advocating Pales-
tine's resurrection.
Dunant appealed to the Alliance Israelite Universelle in France to settle Jews in Pales-
tine. His appeal fell on deaf ears. He pleaded for his cause with the Anglo-Jewish Association,
with Berlin Jews, he wrote letters to the London Jewish Chronicle, but it was not as easy to
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Israel faces new issues in the coming weeks.
A major problem arose over the formation of a
new government, David Ben-Gurion having
launched a personal campaign against the leftist
parties. It is possible that the Israeli elections,
which were scheduled for mid-November, will
be held much earlier, in order to resolve the
crisis. At the same time, the adamant attitude
of President Gamal Abdel Nasser of the United
Arab Republic in barring Israel shipping froni
the Suez Canal continues to create tensions in-
volving Israel's neighbors.
B-G Administers Rebuke to Opponents
Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News
JERUSALEM—David Ben-Gurion Tuesday admin-
istered another snub to the four left-wing ministers
who opposed the Israel arms pact with West Germany
by announcing that he was taking an indefinite leave
of absence from the Premiership. He said he would
continue his duties as Defense Minister and also would
continue as Acting Foreign Minister during the absence
of Mrs. Golda Heir, who is on a South American tour.
Ben-Gurion administered his earlier snub to the
Ministers of Mapam and Achdut Avodah Monday night
when he ostentatiously took a seat on the Mapai
benches in the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, instead of
at the usual place at the center table. He is usually
flanked and faced by the left wing Ministers when he
sits at the center table.
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Shepherd Dogs for Israel:
The three German Shepherd dogs shown here arrived
in Israel after a 16-hour flight from the United States
aboard an El Al jet-powered Britannia. This is the
second shipment of watchdogs purchased by a non-profit;
group of Missourians headed by a Kansas City lawye
Arnold Shanberg. So far the group has sent nine sucfi :
dogs to the Israel Police Force for special patrol duty;
in that country's border settlements. The dogs are sho‘Vn
here being _handled upon arrival by Sgt. Rosenbaum:
(left) in charge of canine patrols of the Israel Police::
Force and Dr. Ralbeg (center), the police veterinarian,
at LOD International Airport.