Purely Commentarw 7
Allied Campaign On In Full Force;
New Record Set at Sucher Meeting'
By PHILIP'SLOMOVITZ
Sir Anthony Eden, Eisenhower, Eban and Israel
In his accusations that the United States had failed t o
cooperate with its British and French allies during the 1956
: Suez Canal crisis. Sir Anthony Eden, the former British Prime
%linister. defends Israel's Sinai Campaign and maintains that
Gamal Abdel Nasser was mobilizing Egypt's forces to destroy
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Jewish state. lie states in his memoirs, now being published,
ea: the
in reference to Israel:
ti
e.:
"The marked victim of the garrotter is not to be con-
dernned if he strikes out before the noose is round his throat."
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decent jobs," Berinstein said.
"Our side of the partnership
with the Israelis has been easy.
But we can take pride in the
fact that we give from the heart
as well as with common sense."
He emphasized American
Jewry's responsibility and de-
clared that "Jews who go to
Israel belong to us as much as
they do to Israel, and the bur-
den of taking care of them is
ours.
Commending Mr. and 'Mrs.
Sucher for sponsoring the big ;
givers' meeting annually, Ber-
instein said that the Sucher
name has become well known
"because the Sucher Meeting
has become famous."
That is what the Israelis and their friends said in 1956.
But that also is what the Israelis said throughout their struggle
7 for independence. during the years of their battle for justice
and security.
Where was Sir Anthony in the days of his glory, when
he could have been so helpful to Jewry and to Israel? This
Commentator saw him in action at the time of the formation
C of the United Nations, in San Francisco. in 1945. Like the other
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leaders of the democratic nations, he did not believe there ever
would he an independent Israel. and he was either hard-hearted
Berinstein emphasized that
about Zionist appeals. or was cool to them.
the causes represented in the
A bit of warmth then would have helped later, and would campaign represent a significant
have meant a great deal even today.
total picture, since not only the
Now we also wonder whether President Eisenhower, who
replied to Eden at his press conference on Tuesday, realizes
how much he has hurt the Jewish people with his statements
reiterating biased cliches about "Jewish" sympathy during an
election period, etc.
Is it possible that our Chief Executive does not yet realize
that the Sinai Campaign was not a mere Jewish Issue, but that
other lands were involved and that millions of Christians ap-
proved of Israel's self-defense act? Can it be that President
Eisenhower has forgotten that he himself had pledged to pro-
tect Israel's rights to freedom of the seas in February 1957? By
giving credence to banal accusations of a "Jewish vote." etc.,
usually resorted to by anti-Semites. President Eisenhower has
innocently swallowed an unfortunate canard. He has thereby hurt
every Jew in America.
U.S. Navy a Party to Anti-Israel Boycott
in spite of Sir Anthony Eden's presentation of the facts
relating to the events that shook the world in October of 1956,
and contrary to warnings that have been issued by responsible
leaders against extreme appeasement of Arab die-hards and
obstructionists. we now have additional shocking news of
encouragement given by the United States to those who "seek
Israel's destruction.
It has just been revealed that the U. S. Navy has for two
years foreclosed bidding on oil cargo shipping contracts to U. S.
flag ships doing business with Israel. It has been confirmed by
Navy officials that there are cancellation clauses in contracts with
'U. S. flag ships which take into account the Arab boycott of
Israel.
This means that the U. S. is collaborating with the dis-
credited Arab League in its boycott of Israel. It means that our
government condoned attempts to destroy Israel.
It means that serious efforts must be made to repudiate
such an unholy alliance and to demand the erasing of the
damaging clauses from our Navy's contracts.
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Butzel Award for Judge Levin
We have no doubt that the entire community will welcome
the news that Judge Theodore Levin has been selected to receive
the 1960 Fred M. Butzel Award. at the annual meeting of the
Jewish Welfare Federation, next Tuesday evening. and that
the satisfaction with which the choice will be acclaimed will
be equal to that with which the judges made it.
Having played an important role in Detroit's communal
affairs for 40 years, Judge Levin has well earned the honor to
be accorded him.
Katharine Cornell's Role in Israel Play
—in the amount of 5160,000, declines in 1958 and 1959.
a $10,000 increase over last
Safran pointed out in his re-
year's gift.. It is the largest marks that a portion of every
Allied Jewish Campaign con-
dollar contributed to the cam-
tribution ever given.
paign, goes not only to the
Fisher said that "if the proper United Jewish Appeal but also
help had been provided in the for local educational work, for
last 10 years, our task would care of the aged, for civic pro-
have been easier today." He ex-' tective and other activities.
pressed satisfaction with "the
All campaign divisions have
fine start given the campaign" moved into action. The official
and said he looked forward to opening of the drive will be on
better results this year, after March 21.
Boris Smolar's
Between You
. and Me'
(Copyright. 1960.
Jewish Telegraphic Agency. Inc.)
Israeli Reflections
United Jewish Appeal is repre-
As the time of the "summit meeting" approaches, Israel
sented — as benefactor of the is beginning to feel anxious about what the results of this
Joint Distribution Committee as meeting may mean for the Jewish State . . . It is obvious that
well as the United Israel' Appeal Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and President Eisenhower
—but also the major national will set the tone . . . There is no doubt in Israel that they will
and the important local causes. discuss the Middle East, whether they settle European ques
Complementing the remarks Lions or not . . . Political experts forecast that Eisenhower and
of Berinstein, Holtzman de- Khrushchev will call a halt to open hostility in the Middle East
scribed his visits in Tangiers
. . Solutions will be sought for the problem of the Arab
and said that he found shocking refugees . . . Khrushchev will no doubt press for an arrange-
poverty there. He reported that ment to give the refugees the choice of returning to the terri-
4.000 out of the 12.000 Tangiers tory which is now Israel, or being settled elsewhere . . . The
Jews are unemployable and said question in Israel is whether Eisenhower will oppose this solu-
they would perish if not for the tion . . . Indications are that he might be less and less willing
aid given them by the JDC, a to do so . . • Another likely Soviet recommendation may involve
UJA beneficiary. He also ap- a reduction of Israel's territory with a view to cutting her down
pealed for speedy action to re- to the 1948 partition borders ... Eisenhower may be much more
place the Maabarot with suitable willing to stand by the status quo, but one cannot be sure . . .
homes for newcomers to Israel. What worries Israelis is that, when the time for decision arrives.
Max Fisher announced the
Eisenhower may not be sufficiently aware of the implications
largest gift of the evening for , and details of the major decisions as they affect the smaller
himself and C. William Sucher
nations. especially those without affiliation with a voting block.
in the United Nations, like Israel.
Israel to Launch Rocket
in Cosmic Ray Research
Domestic Moods
When officials of the American Jewish Congress participate
in public conferences sponsored by the American Jewish Com-
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Israel
will launch a rocket for me-
teorological and cosmic ray re-
search within a year, it was
announced by Moshe Arens,
president of the Israel Astro-
nautical Society, senior lec-
turer in the aeronautics depart-
ment of the Technion Institute
at Haifa.
The rocket, designed by
members of the Astronautical
Society, is expected to reach
an altitude of about 30 miles.
If the design proves successful,
Arens said, there is no reason
why Israel may not sell the
rocket to research organizations
abroad.
According to Arens, the so-
ciety will sow, start operation
of a satellite-tracing station,
using five telescopes to be
loaned by the Smithsonian In-
stitute of Washington. Young
members of the Israeli Civil
Aviation Corps will man the
station, which will be erected
on Mount Carmel, in Haifa.
! mittee—and when their names are listed in the American Jew-
ish Committee program—it can be considered as news . . . This
is what happened at the dedication events of the Institute of
Human Relations of the American Jewish Committee . . Two
leading officials of the American Jewish Congress—Will Mas-
low and Leo Pfeffer—were on the program on intergroup rela-
tions which marked the dedication of the American Jewish Corn-
' mittee's Institute . . . Does this mean that the areas of interests
of the American Jewish Committee and the American Jewish
Congress do not differ so widely as many are inclined to be-
lieve? , . . Some observers predict that within a generation the
American Jewish Committee and the American Jewish Congress
will cease to exist as two separate—and often competing—organ-
izations . . . As the membership of both organizations becomes
more and more a membership of American-born Jews, the need
for two organizations working in the same field is less under-
stood . .. The ideologies which led to the establishment of the
American Jewish Congress as distinct from the American Jew-
ish Committee have practically disappeared . . . Today the
American Jewish Committee is no longer considered an organiza-
tion of "assimilated" Jews and the American Jewish Congress
is no longer an organization of "immigrant" Jews . . . In fact.
some of the leaders of the American Jewish Congress take a
more "assimilated" attitude toward certain problems than some
of the leaders of the American Jewish Committee ... Dr. Joachim
Prinz, when he became president of the American Jewish Con-
gress, insisted that the Congress should become more "Jewish"
. . . The president of the American Jewish Committee, Herbert
Ehrmann, is well known for his deep feelings for things Jewish
. . . A Kentucky-born lawyer, a Harvard man, a prominent
Boston resident, he best displayed these 'feelings by educating
his son to become a rabbi . . . As the divisions in American
Jewish life will continue to shrink with the march of time,
there will be no basis for the existence of two separate organ-
izations the activities of which can be merged and conducted
by one body.
Katharine Cornell's appearance here. with Brian Aherne, in
the charming production of "Dear Liar" (Jerome Kilty's adapta-
tion for the stage of the facts contained in George Bernard
Shaw's "love letters" to and from Mrs. Patrick Campbell) serves
to recall the eminent actress' appearance on Broadway, two years
ago, in Christopher Fry's "The Firstborn," which was presented
in tribute to Israel's tenth anniversary. Miss Cornell performed evidently belonged to the ex-
brilliantly in that play. She excels in "Dear Liar." With Aherne. treme radical Reform school of
Jewish thought, and regarded
she makes a great team in a great play.
adherence to any traditional
Jewish custom as a violation of
Additional Data on Aaron Sapiro
a cardinal principle in his religi-
This Commentator recently referred to the role that was ous thinking. The change was Washington Action
played by the late Aaron Sapiro in the Henry Ford case.
made, and it caused terrific re-
.
All indications are that the U.S. Congress will not act this
An interesting reminiscence about Sapiro also appeared sentment among the entire audi- year on measures to liberalize the present immigration laws
in the Bulletin of the Brooklyn Jewish Center, where Dr. Israel ence. Admittance charges had . . . However, something new has now been quietly introduced
H. Levinthal is the rabbi. Over the initials I. H. L., the Brooklyn to be refunded to those who by the State Department in the visa system for non-immigrants
Center Bulletin recalls that the Center's forum committee had could not be admitted to the . . . Beginning this month, new and important regulations
invited Sapiro to deliver an address, in 1927. In the article, auditorium, and f or ma ny have gone into effect encouraging travel to this country on
entitled "An Interesting Episode in Our Center History," it is months thereafter this incident visitors' visas . . . Applications for visitors' visas have been
pointed out that an overflow audience forced the transfer of was the topic of conversation in shortened and simplified . . . But what is even more important
the meeting from the auditorium, where men do not wear hats the entire community. Fortu- —visitor's visas will as from this month be issued for a period
or yarmulkas, io the synagogue sanctuary. The article proceeds nately for the Center, never , of four years valid for any number of trips during that period
to recall the following details in that incident:
again did such an episode oc- . . . Furthermore, a non-immigrant's visa may from now on be
"When the lecture was about to begin. the chairman of cur. No Christian or Jew who revalidated for up to four years without formal application . . .
the evening told Mr. Sapiro of the change in plans which pleased spoke under the auspices of our This means that anyone entering the United States—to visit
him greatly because so many were anxious to hear him. Of Forum in the synagogue ever relatives, or as a tourist, or for business purposes—can remain
course. he was asked to wear his hat. Mr. Sapiro instantly refused to abide by a tradition in the United States a full eight years . . . He can leave the
refused. We told him of the rule and that no one else had held sacred by our congrega- United States within these eight years and come back on his
ever objected. William Jennings Bryan, Clarence Darrow, Sena- tion."
unexpired visa ... If he is unmarried, he can marry an American,
tor Borah and other leading figures who spoke from the syna-
Fortunately, Reform Jews — have American-born children, and thus become eligible to
gogue pulpit, all consented to wear a hat and we never had rabbis and laymen alike—gen- change his non-immigrant visa to an immigrant visa . . . It is
any difficulty; but Mr. Sapiro was stubborn in his refusal. All !, erally are not disrespectful. expected that no more than 5,500 Jewish immigra-nts would
our pleading was in vain. Finally we told him that there was Aaron Sapiro was an exception be admitted into the United States during 1960 under the
only one recourse left to us—that we would have to bring the to the rule. But he was an ex- existing immigration quota . . . They will include an increased
audience back to the auditorium and that more than half of ception to many other rules number of Egyptian Jews and a small number of Jews from
the congregants would be denied the privilege of hearing him. I with which many of us did not Poland entitled to admission under the Family Reunion Law
That did not affect him either, and he persisted in his refusal. He agree.
passed last September.