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Democratic Platform Calls for
Direct Arab-Israel Peace Talks
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The platform's request for
"direct" Arab-Israel peace ne-
gotiations represented the first
time since 1952 that a political
platform has contained such a
call for direct negotiations.
The platform also appeared
to reject efforts by Chairman J.
W. Fulbright, of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee,
!: and others to transfer the bur-
cf) den of responsibility for Arab
refugees to Israel. This was in-
fr.4 dicated by the platform's call
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for resettlement of Arab refu-
t.1 gees in Arab countries, while
no mention was made of corn-
pensation or readmission by
Israel.
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National Community Relations
Advisory Council, spokesman
for the 34 agencies and groups,
also urged the Democratic
Party to "oppose any interna-
tional agreement or treaty
which by its terms or practices
differentiates among United
States citizens on grounds of
race or religion."
Pacht told the platform corn_
mittee that "this proposed plank
deals principally with a form of
discrimination against Amer-
ican Jews—a campaign that so
far has been acquiesced in, if
not condoned by our own gov-
ernment."
He explained that "broadly,
the forms of this discrimina-
The action of the Democratic tion may be grouped into
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gO platform committee came after three categories: I. Arab de-
spokesmen for 34 national re- • nial of entry or transit visas
ligious, civic and labor bodies, to American Jews; 2. Arab
of all faiths and interests, called boycott of American Jewish
upon the Democratic Party to businesses; 3. The exclusion
of American Jewish citizens
"implement the repeatedly ex-
pressed opposition of the Con- from United States Govern-
gress to the imposition by ment civilian and military
foreign governments ,of dis- posts and from employment
criminations against United on United States defense con-
States citizens on grounds of tracts in Arab countries."
race or religion."
Pacht pointed out to the com-
"Judge Isaac Pacht of Los" mittee that the proposed plat-
Angeles, vice-chairman of the form plank was submitted, for
the first time, as part of an
overall civil rights program
rather than as a foreign policy
Hebrew Corner
proposal because the organiza-
tions he represented recognized
that "any impairment of the
I first visited Sderot five years citizenship rights of one group
ago. Sderot is a town in the north- of Americans impairs the rights
ern Negev, near the Gaza Strip. At
that time (then) a friend of mine of all."
Committee, Union of Amer-
ican Hebrew Congregations,
. Union of Orthodox Jewish
Congregations of America and
United Synagogue of Amer-
ica.
Other organizations support-
ing the proposal included the
American Civil Liberties Union,
the Catholic Interracial Coun-
cil, the Congregational Christian
Churches, The Friends Commit-
tee on National Legislation, the
Industrial Union Department of
the AFL-CIO, the National As-
sociation for the Advancement
of Colored People, the National
Council of Protestant Episcopal
Churches and the Southern
Christian Leadership Confer-
ence.
Around the TT6Titi...
A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from
Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Other
News-Gathering Media.
United States
NEW YORK—The new immigration legislation awaiting
President Eisenhower's signature, which provides for the admis-
sion of refugees into the U.S., assigns to the State. Department
the responsibility for indicating the number of refugees resettled
by other countries between July, 1959 and July, 1960, and calls
for a number equal to 25 per cent of the totals admitted to other
countries to be admitted to the U.S. . . . The Rabbinical Council
of America will publish in September a new English editiOn
of the Orthodox prayer book devoted to the Sabbath and Fes-
tivals, with Rabbi David de Sola Pool of New York as its editor.
WASHINGTON—The Washington Star editorially voiced
approval of official action against
said Lincoln Rockwell and
his American Nazi Party and said that this was the right pro-
cedure since Rockwell had become a public nuisance.
RICHMOND—Chief legal officers of the northern counties
of Virginia agreed they would not enforce the state's controver-
sial new Sunday "Blue Law" until the Virginia Supreme Court
rules on its constitutionality.
An attack against Israel by a
Israel
spokesman for the anti-Zionist
JERUSALEM—A German . documentary film on Israel will
American Council for Judaism
drew fire from platform com- be shown in this country despite the long-standing ban on
German-language films, the Israeli cabinet describing the film
mittee members.
as one of the best documentaries on Israel ever filmed, the
Rep. Emmanuel Celler, Brook- condition being that the commentary should be in Hebrew, not
lyn Democrat, took sharp ex- German, and that the title be changed from "Furnace" ("Feuro-
ception to the Council for Juda- fen") to "Melting Pot" . . . Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion
ism testimony which was an- has requested experts to study the possibility of enlarging
swered for the America-Israel Israel's cultivable area by drying out shallow seabeds . . . Presi-
Public Affairs Committee by I. dent I. Ben-Zvi presented 3,000 doses of anti-polio vaccine
L. Kenen, who told the platform to the Burmese Ambassador at a ceremony at the Ministry of
members that since the Council Health . . . Israel has offered 100 scholarships for study in
for Judaism claimed to speak Israeli schools and universities to students in the new Republic
in the name of Judaism, he of Congo . . . The Israel cabinet approved the temporary ap-
wanted the committee members pointment of Minister of Police Behor Shitreet as Minister of
to know that the anti-Zionist Posts, relieving Premier Ben-Gurion who has been holding the
group had been repeatedly de- portofolio . .. A week-long symposium
: sponsored by the Inter-
nounced by Orthodox, Conserva- national Mathematical Union was held at
the Hebrew University
tive and Reform rabbinical or- and 34 outstanding mathematicians from 11 countries par-
ganizations.
ticipated, about half of them from the United States . . . Con-
Kennen said he deplored tracts have been approved with a French firm for construction
the "propaganda" of the anti- in Israel of pre-fabricated school buildings with a total of 300
explained to me that Sderot had
The spokesman noted that Zionist group which he said classrooms and accommodations for 10,000 pupils at a cost of
been born two years ago, and that
the inhabitants, all of them from
`official justification for our "recklessly defames Amer- $1,400,000 . • . A nationwide programs of events commemorating
North Africa, had difficult prob.
do-nothing policy' in this area ican friendship for Israel as the 100th anniversary of the birth of Henrietta Szold, founder
lems, mainly unemployment, and
that it was doubtful whether it had repeatedly has been couched in
a surrender to alleged minor- of Hadassah, was announced here by the Szold Centenial Com-
a reason for existence.
terms that emphasize the need ity pressures."
mittee . . A Soviet delegation has arrived here to'negotiate
Two weeks ago I traveled to for solicitude in dealing with
Beersheba in a taxi. On the way
He rejected as a "contempti- the return of property in Israel which belongd to the Orthodox
I fell asleep. Suddenly I felt that Arab governments so that we
the taxi had stopped and I woke May protect military and eco- ble insult" to American leaders Palestinian Society . . . President Ben-Zvi in a message welcomed
up. "Beersheba?" I asked the driver.
"the insinuation that support the opening of the "Freedom from Hunger" campaign launched
onlic relations presumed to be
"Not yet," he replied. "This is
Sderot." I got out. It was before V ital to our national interests." for Israel has been a mere pan- by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization and
evening and I saw people return-
dering to a non-existent bloc pledged Israel's support in _"the realization of its lofty aim"
ing to their homes from all direc-
He expressed conviction, how- vote at the expense of the na- . . . A total of 707 students were awarded degrees from the
tions. I felt and saw throbbing
life.
ver, that "a realistic appraisal tional interest.
Hebrew University at the 30th annual graduation exercises . .
"What has happened here?" I 0 f the Middle East will disclose
"Such misleading and dishon- The Mapai Party was reported ready to resume active campaign-
asked the driver once again. "Here," that no legitimate American in- est doctrine defeats American ing for electoral reform to change Israel's proportional represen-
he said. "there was a real revolu•
tion, the moment a number of in- terest is in real danger from interests because it fortifies re- tation system to one of direct or district representation, with
dustrialists built factories." He Arab rulers whose economic sistance to peace," he said.
the Government party seeking the support of other party factions
went on telling and showing me--
. . . Yehonatan Prato, former Israel diplomatic representative
a shoe factory, a workship for the advancement is largely depend.
He
urged
the
platform
com-
manufacture of parts of prefabri- ent upon American investment
mittee to include in the party's in Greece, has been named Israel ambassador to Cuba . . . The
cated houses, etc. etc. All this to- dollars.
gether with agricultural work have
national platform planks advo- Czechoslovak embassy here announced that it is offering scholar-
opened up new horizons ("have
In addition to speaking for cating a new United States ini- ships for advanced study in Prague to Arab graduates of Israeli
brought the town onto the king's
highway") for the town.
the NCRAC, Judge Pacht also tiative for direct Israel-Arab high schools • . . The government press office has officially
The four thousand inhabitants of
presented the views of the peace talks, continued economic notified foreign correspondents that they will receive a 20 per
the place hope that the prophecy
American Jewish Committee, aid to both Arabs and Israel cent premium on their foreign currency earnings from abroad
that Sderot will be a big town will
soon be realized.
American Jewish Congress, and guarantees to preserve the which are exchanged for Israel currency .. . The National Re-
Anti-Defamation League of sovereignty of Israel's borders. search and Development Council has made a Sir Simon Marks
Translation of Hebrew column.
Research award to Professor G. Stein, head of the Hebrew
Published by Brit Ivrit Olamit
Bnai Brith, Jewish Labor
T h e Democratic platform
University's department of physical chemistry, to enable him to
committee was told, also, by
study in England the biochemical effects of radiation . . . Pre-
=r
Mrs. Leo Hartfield of the Na-
2. rh - f d
parations for the carrying out of a master-plan for oil explora-
tional Council of Jewish Women
that the United States should tion in Israel was announced as a result of a decision of the
insist that the United Arab Re- three Israeli oil companies to conduct a new and all-embracing
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geological survey for the purpose of indicating the possibilities
public open the Suez Canal.
of finding oil and establishing a priority list for new drillings
"The boycott by Arab coun- . . . The swelling tourist boom brought 56,173 visitors to Israel
tries of firms which employ in the first six months of this year and produced more than
Jews or do business with Israel, $10,000,000 for the Israel Treasury, according to statistics
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and the policy of discrimination released recently . . . Marking the first anniversary this week
against the posting of Jewish of the death of the late Chief Rabbi Isaac Halevi HerzOg was
personnel at U.S. military bases an official memorial meeting at Heichal Shlorno, the Central
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in these countries must be op- Religious Center, where Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim, Minister
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posed by the U.S. Government of the Interior Moshe Shapiro and Tel Aviv Chief Rabbi Issar
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as a violation of basic indi- Yehuda Unterman will speak . . . The $75,000 Harry Glickman
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vidual rights of American citi- Memorial Hall in the Hebrew University's Institute of Human-
zens," she said.
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ities, built by the family of the late Harry Glickman and the
(A major role in the nomina- Minnesota chapter of the American Friends of the Hebrew
tion of Senator John F. Ken- University, was dedicated here, while the University also an-
nedy for the Presidency was nounced the gift of 10,000 Israeli pounds for expanding the
played by Governor Abraham teaching of the Russian language by Miles Sherover, the Vene-
Ribicoff of Connecticut. Colonel zuelan philanthropist . . . The Ministry for Religious Affairs
Arvey of Chicago also was in- disclosed that it had been having talks with a group of American
strumental in corralling sup- Jewish undertakers on the possibility of establishing a ceme-
port for the young Massachu- tery in Jerusalem for Orthodox American Jews who want to
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setts Senator. Many other Jew- be buried in the Holy Land
ish delegates assisted Senator
Kennedy in securing the Demo-
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cratic nomination.
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GENEVA—A letter written on parchment in the manner of
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(Rabbi Max Nussbaum of Los a Torah scribe was received here by the offices of the Joint
Angeles, nationally prominent Distribution Committee from the rabbi of Inezgaze near Agadir,
Zionist and American Jewish expressing the gratitude of the community's 175 Jews for JDC's
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Congress leader, gave the open- help following the Agadir earthquake disaster . . .Seventy-eight
ing prayer at Wednesday's ses- international voluntary agencies concerned with refugees have
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called upon the United Nations to issue a special appeal for
the continuation of efforts to aid refugees following the close
(Former
Senator
Herbert
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Lehman seconded the nomina- of World Refugee Year, which ended officially on June 30,
including among the worldwide organizations the Joint Dis-
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tion of Adlai Stevenson.
tribution Committee, the World Ort Union, United Hias Service,
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for Reconstruction and Social Action and the Oeuvre de Pro-
Stuart Symington.)
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