THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, April 22, 1960- 10

Congressional Committee Suggests
Continuation of U.S. Aid to Israel

WASHINGTON, (JTA) — A
recommendation was made by
the House Foreign Affairs Com-
mittee that special assistance
grant aid to Israel be main-
tained in fiscal year 1961, be-
ginning July 1, at the same level
as in fiscal year 1960. Israel re-
ceived $7,500,000 in such aid in
the current fiscal year ending
June 30.
At the same time the House
Foreign Affairs Committee
took the Administration to
task for failing to do an ade-
quate job in supporting free-
dom of passage in the Suez
Canal.
A committee report said the
body "has followed closely de-
velopments related to the use of ;
the Suez Canal and believes that !
the United States has not done
as effective a job as it should
have in urging the removal of
the restrictions on the free
movement of commerce through
the canal."
The committee said it was
"with this and other situa-
tions in various parts of the
world in mind," that the com-
mittee had proposed an
amendment to the Mutual Se-
curity Act expressing the
sense of Congress in opposi-
tion to the Arab blockade.
The $7,500,000 special assist-
ance grant aid to Israel for fis-
cal year 1960 was won by the
House Foreign Affairs Commit-
tee last year over the objections
of the Administration which
sought to cut Israel out of this
program. Congressional opposi-
tion was so intense that the ex-
ecutive department was •forced
to reinstate special assistance
grant aid for Israel. This new
expression indicated that the
Committee is seeking continua-
tion of this form of aid for yet
another year.
A committee statement said
that "Against great odds, Is-
rael has continued to be a
bulwark of stability in an
otherwise disturbed area. It
has used effectively the mod-
est amount of special assist-
ance extended under the
mutual security program."
The committee decided that
"the determination of Israel to
develop its industry and to in-
crease its agricultural output

will necessitate aid at the same
leVel for the next year as in the
current year. The committee is
therefore of the opinion that
special assistance to Israel
should be maintained at the
level of fiscal year 1960."
In fiscal year 1960, which
ends June 30, Israel received
special assistance grant aid in
the amount of $7,500,000; $1,-
370,000 in Point Four technical
cooperation; and $32,000,000 in
s u rp 1 u s commodities. Some
loans remain pending in nego-
tiation stage.
Israel, in 1959 fiscal year, re-
ceived $10,000,000 in special as-
sistance grant aid and Point
Four technical cooperation;
$38,300,000 in surplus commod-
ities, and a $5,000,000 loan from
the Development Loan Fund.

enate Committee Defers Action on Austrian Payments

WASHINGTON, (JTA) —The
Senate Foreign Relations Com-
mittee deferred a State Depart-
ment-supported' measure to pay
$6,000,000 reimbursement for
World War II losses to 131 Aus-
trian Nazis and pro-Hitler Aus-
trian collaborators.
Senator George A. Smathers,
Florida Democrat, could see no
merit in American taxpayers re-
imbursing Nazis. He -urged the
committee to delay . -action.
Chairman J. W. Fuibright, Ar-
kansas Democrat, announced
that the committee would defer
action, pending a complete re-
port from the Justice Depart-
ment.
A State Department spokes-
man said the reimbursement bill
Should be approved because
none of the Austrian Nazis to
be benefited were convicted of
major war crimes. It was re-

Germany to indemnify
Scandinavian Victims

Weizmann Fellows
Arrive for Research

REHOVOTH, Israel—A Polish
and a Japanese scientist will
be among four new Weizmann
Fellows arriving at the Weiz-
mann Institute of Science for
one year's research in 1960-61.
It was after Dr. Weizmann's
death in 1952 that the Prime
Minister, David Ben-Gurion,
proposed that there should be
78 memorial exchange fellow-
ships corresponding with the
span of the late first President's
life.
The new fellows are Dr. Saul
Abarbanel, of the Massachus-
etts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, U.S.A., who is corn-
ing to the Applied Mathematics
Department (headed by Prof.
C. L. Perkeris) for one year;
Dr. Andrzej Morawiecki, of the
Institute of Immunology and
Experimental Therapy, Polish
Academy of Science, in Warsaw,
who will do his year's research
in the Biophysicis. Department
(under Prof. Ephraim liatchal-
ski); Dr. Toshiyuki Nishiyama,
of Osaka University, Japan, who
will be the guest of the Nuclear
Physics Department (under
Prof. Anion "de Shalit); and Dr.
Wolfie Traub, of Columbia
University, New York, who will
work in the X-Ray Crystallo-
graphy Department (headed by
Prof. G. M. J. Schmidt) for one
year.

BONN, (JTA) — West Ger-
many's lower House of Parlia-
ment, the Bundestag, voted ap-
proval of agreements between
the Federal Republic of Ger-
many on the one hand, and Nor-
way and Denmark on the other
hand, providing indemnification
for victims of Nazi crimes in
the. two Scandinvai•n countries.
Norway will receive, under
the pacts, $14,000,000, while
Denmark will get $4,000,000
from the German Government.
The payments will be made in
three installments, beginning
May 1, 1961.
The German government is
still conducting negotiations for
similar indemnification to Nazi
victims with Britain, Belgium,
France,•Greece, Luxemburg and
The Netherlands.

vealed that the State Depart-
ment quietly signed a treaty
with Austria on Jan. 30, 1959,
undertaking to appropriate
funds to the former Austrian
Nazis. Most of the restitution
would go to two individuals,
Oskar Teuber, an ex-Nazi, and
Countess Marianne Thun-Hohen-
stein, a devotee of Adolf Hitler.
A Justice Department memo-
randum said: "The primary class
of persons benefited are per-
sons who were active collabora-
tors with the Nazis, who aided
the conspiracy which led to the
downfall of Austria in 1938, and
who are not entitled to favor-
able consideration either by the
United States or Austria."

Among the beneficiaries of
the measure are a considerable
number of Austrian anti-
Semites. The Justice Depart-
ment said "the proposed treaty
would take away a portion of
the funds which have been de.
voted by Congress as a trust
fund for United States war
claimants, and would turn it
over to Nazis, collaborators, and
war criminals."

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