THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS—Fr iday, Fe bruary 26, 196 0-32
Eisenhower Rejects Plan to Sell A round the orld
Arms to Israel; Nasser Repeats
Threat Arabs Will Destroy State
United States
A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from
Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other
News-Gathering Media.
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Rep. Farbstein told Herter
that, in view of the massive
American aid now being given
the United Arab Republic, the
United States had a right to
ask the UAR about its Suez
Canal restrictions against Is-
rael, without depending entirely
on United Nations action.
Herter replied that the Amer-
ican Ambassador in Cairo had
made representations to Presi-
dent Nasser's regime, that the
United States was supporting,
efforts of- UN Secretary Gen-
eral Hammarskjold, and that
Herter had expressed himself
on the matter at the United
Nations.
Meanwhile, JTA reports
from Washington, the U.S.
Navy decided to cancel a con-
tract clause, in its shipping
agreements, which was widely
criticized as abetting the
Arab boycott of Israel.
The clause was part of a con-
tract of the Military Sea Trans-
port Service, which acts as
charterer for the Navy. It con-
tained options to protect Navy
cargoes carried by shippers if
the Arabs refused to accommo-
date their ships for having done
business with Israel.
The effect of the clause was
to foreclose American shippers
who have done business with
Israel from. bidding on the lu-
crative Navy transport cargo
contracts. Disclosure last Jan.
21 that the clauses had been
in effect for nearly two years
touched off widespread protests.
The Navy declared in a state-
ment to Congress, that "the
clause was adopted with no in-
tention to give support to any
political boycott' but rather on
the basis that "it was deemed
advantageous to both the Gov-
ernment and shipowners."
However, the statement added,
the Military Sea Transport
Service "can accomplish its
mission without using the
clause. Inasmuch as it has been
mistakenly construed as pro-
viding some solace to the Arab
boycott imposed on persons
trading with Israel, the Navy
will discontinue its use."
Friends of Israel expressed
could do more than leave
hope here that the Navy
ALBANY — Two Jewish boys — Norman J. Leavitt of the
everything to Dag.
action, in striking the anti-
Bronx and Stephen R. Chinn of Middletown —, tied for first •
Israel "Haifa clause" from
The background of the press place among the 55,000 high school students taking the annual
shipping contracts — w hi c h conference, JTA reports, was New York State Regents scholarship tests, while a Jewish girl,
has been criticized as abet- Hammarskjold's complete fail- Naomi Fuchs of Brooklyn, a senior at Yeshiva University High
ting the Arab boycott—indi- ure to induce UAR President School for Girls, led the girl entrants.
cated a firmer United States Nasser to end the blockade of
CHICAGO — A perpetual fellowship fund for the Law School
Government stand against the Suez Canal to Israel ship- of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was established by the
Arab boycott and blockade ping and cargoes; the clash in Decalogue Society of Lawyers.
practices. the demilitarized zone south-
NEW YORK — Zalman Shazar, acting chairman of the -
Members of Congress made east of Lake Tiberias where Jewish Agency executive in Jerusalem, and Meir Grossman,
known that while they wel- Syrian troops remained en- member of the Agency executive, arrived in New York to •
corned the Navy's abandonment trenched in violation of the participate in important consultations with the executive of
of the discriminatory clause, Syrian-Israel armistice agree- the New York section of the Agency .. . The Israel Consulate
they would continue seeking a ment in defiiance of the UN; General's office announced that the remains of the late Zalman
policy under which the Govern- and statements by President Shneur, famous Yiddish-Hebrew author and poet, will be flown
ment would refuse to collabo- Eisenhower in Washington and for re-interment in Israel . .. The Rabbinical Council of Amer-
rate in any way with anti. British Foreign Secretary Sel- ica announced that it will hold its 25th annual convention in
Israel and anti-Jewish discrim- wyn Lloyd in the House of Israel in July of 1961.
ination practiced by the Arab Commons in London.
BOSTON — Boston's Jewish Community Council reminded
League.
Eisenhower reiterated United Jewish parents that the Jewish community is united in opposition
Department of Agriculture States dependence on the UN to release time for religious instruction in public schools.
sources explained that a dif- to enforce the principle of
Latin America
ferent situation pertains to freedom of navigation and
MEXICO CITY — A new group of school buildings, costing.
another shipping issue affecting Lloyd said he saw a "danger-
vessels trading with Israel. The ous situation" in the Middle 1,000,000 pesos — $80,000 — was presented to the Mexican gov-
United States pays ocean trans- East. Both expressed hope that ernment by the Jewish community.
portation costs to transport sur- the UN would solve the new
Canada
plus commodities to foreign na- and old Middle East deadlocks.
TORONTO A real estate agent who had advertised land
tions. But the recipient nations
The London Times added a for sale adjacent to an "exclusive Jewish golf club" apologized
are entitled to make the actual new note with an editorial sug- in a statement to the Canadian Jewish Congress for indicating
shipping contracts. Therefore,
gesting that the United Na- that membership in the "exclusive" golf club was restricted
the United Arab Republic, re-
tions should act promptly to on racial and religious grounds to Jewish applicants only, the
ceiving U.S. surplus commodi- end the Secretary General's CJC investigation having shown that the real estate agent, a
ties, could refuse to approve a private negotiations if the Se- non-Jew, was responsible for the ad.
contract with any ship on the
OTTAWA — Jewish immigration , into Canada increased
curity Council was not to look
Arab blacklist. The UAR would
in 1959, with a total of 2,686, as compared with 2,290 in 1958.
utterly futile.
have final say.
Agreeing with Lloyd that
Department of Agriculture of-
Israel
ficials held that such chartering there was deterioration in the
TEL AVIV — Patrick Hancock, Great Britain's Ambassador
Middle
East
situation,
the
UN
is removed from their direct
to Israel, stated here that the British government "has not
noted carefully that
control. Surplus commodities official
"actions here are possible in accepted the existence of the Arab boycott against Israel and
are technically c o ns i d e red
accept it.
"sales" to be paid in local cur- the Security Council, in the will not
JERUSALEM — The recruiting of 600 veterans of Hitler's
rency of the foreign nation. General Assembly, and by the Waffen-SS for an "Arab Legion Against Israel" came to light
When paid ,the United States Secretary General."
with the arrest in Hamburg of Wilhelm Adami, 62, right-wing
finds ways of spending the lo-
Asserting that he had not street brawler, it was revealed by the Bonn NANA correspon-
cal currency in the foreign
dent, and it has been indicated that there are 500,000 surviving
nation for the benefit of its there were actions "that other Waffen-SS veterans in Germany . . . The tenure of the Chief
development and other projects. organs of the United Nations Rabbinate Council, which was to expire on Monday, was ex-
(The American Jewish Con- can take and I cannot take." tended by a government regulation, Rabbi Jacob M. Toledano,
gress urged that the Agricul- He added that "there is a cer- Minister of Religions, stated in the Knesset . . . A loan of
ture Department follow the ex- taro tendency in some quarters 20,000,000 pounds from the counterpart funds of the U. S. to the
ample of the . Navy and end to forget these differences and Bank for Industrial Development is under negotiation here.
practices aiding the Arab boy- expect from the Secretary Gen-
Europe
cott against trade with Israel.) eral actions that he cannot
LONDON — The Jewish contribution to the recently-opened
perform."
At the United Nations, Sec-
In effect admitting he had book exhibition here was slight — consisting of one prayer
retary General Dag Hammar-
done all that he could, he as- book printed in 1956 and three partially stencilled calendars
skjold, nettled by criticism
of his efforts to settle the serted that "I see no other way . . . The remains of 900 Austrian Jews, murdered by the Natis
to help the situation except in Yugoslavia 18 years ago, were reburied in a special vault
Suez Canal phase of the Is-
rael-Arab deadlock, sug- for the Security Council to in Belgrade's Jewish cemetery as part of the . program marking
strengthen t', UN and for the the 40th anniversary of the Federation of Jewish Communities
gested tartly at a press con-
in Yugoslavia . . _ Selwyn Lloyd, Britain's Foreign Secretary,
UN to stick to its guns."
ference that the major powers
told the House of Commons that Britain does not recognize
the United Arab Republic's claim — rejected by Israel that
"a state of war" exists between the UAR and Israel.
ROME — A petition for amnesty from former SS Col. Her-
bert Kappler, who is serving a life term for responsibility for
U.S.S.R.
the Ardeatine Cave Massacre, in which hundreds of Jews were
SYRIA: ARMY
murdered, was dismissed by a court here. •
Israeli Forces Outnumbered by Hostile Neighbors
ROMANIA
U.S.S.R.
50,000; . 175
TANKS, 30-40
MIG FIGHTERS
ALB.
Weizmann Society Finishes Second
Grove of Trees in Rehovoth Forest
ANKARA
O
:
G REECE
ATHENS
TURKEY
ISRAEL: ARMY
:MEDITERRANEAN
50,000-60,000.
CIA
RESERVE 180,000;
400 TANKS, 100
JET FIGHTERS
—
0
TEHRAN
-
SYRIA
CYPRUS
BAGHDAD 0
–ISRAE
IRAQ: ARMY
45,000; 100
WARPLANES
JORDAN
CAIRO
EGYPT
JORDAN: ARMY
25,000; SMALL
BUT EFFICIENT
AIR FORCF, 520
MILLION IN U. S.
ARMS. TANKS
° RIYADH
SAUDI ARABIA
RED SEA
SAUDI ARABIA: ARM;
15,000; SOME ARMOR
EGYPT: ARMY
100,000-125,000;
400 TANKS, 120-150
MILS, 55-60 BOMBERS
YEMEN,
SUDAN
MILES
0
200
400
—Central Press Map
Figures indicated on this map show the superior strength of the combined Arab forces that
sre surrounding Israel and are constantly threatening the small nation with destruction,.
The Chaim Weizmann Society completed a second grove
of 1,000 trees in the Weizmann Memorial Forest in Rehovoth,
and embarked upon a third grove which will be planted in the
Freedom Forest, as part of the Landsmanshaften Forest of
50,000 trees. The first grove was completed two years ago.
The society celebrated the occasion at a recent meeting, at
which a certificate for the second grove was presented to
the officers. Left to right: Jack Sherman, vice-president; Percy
Kaplan, JNF executive director; Harry Glaser, president; Louis
Rosenberg, secretary of tree fund. One of the members,
Harry Davidson, started the third grove with 12 trees. Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Rosenberg planted a tree in honor of each new
member and presented the certificate to him upon initiation
into the organization.