I
Strictly Confidential
Israel Bonds Assist
Fertilizers Plant
By PHINEAS J. BIRON
FOOTNOTES AND
- invested with the irresistible
FOREWORDS
cogency conferred by the un-
Recently we commented on conscious obsessions of men
Richard Crossman's book ( not who uttered it . . . For the
yet out) "A Nation Reborn" British failed in Palestine not
(just published by Atheneum). as a result of too little imagin-
. We did not comment how- ation on the part of their ad-
ever on the chapter which deals visers, but as a result of too
with Ernest Bevin or as Cross- much imagination . . . The
man calls it "The End of the dream of a Levant regenerated
Mandate" ... The Mandate is of by Jewish enterprise was as
course already ancient history chimerical as the vision of an
. . Contemporary historians, Arab Confederation westernized
particularly in Great Britain, by the British 'know how' . .
It is interesting that in the
are examining and sometimes
reassessing the role played by United •States and of course in
Britain . . . Crossman tells us Israel an entirely different in-
that orthodox British historical terpretation obtains . . This
interpretation treats the Bal- (and here we quote Crossman)
four Declaration as a misguid- holds that, so far from being
ed act of imperial generosity chimerical, the Balfour Declar-
bound from the first to end in ation was an act of real states-
ruin and disaster . . . An excel- manship, which was betrayed by
lent example of this British successive British Governments
view has been presented recent- and High Commissioners . .
ly by John Marlowe in his Britain's pledge to the Jews
book "The Seat of Pilate." . . . would have been fulfilled and
Israel's largest single indus-
In it, Marlowe concluded what an independent Israel state trial enterprise, Fertilizers
must be the first complete his- could have developed peaceful- and Chemicals Ltd., situated
tory of the Mandate with a ly out of the National Home IF in the Haifa Bay area, re-
judgment that falls with equal Britain had conducted her Mid- cently completed this installa-
severity on Lord Balfour and dle Eastern policy on sound tion for the production of
lines and carried out the terms ammonia, which was con-
Ernest Bevin.
Let us quote this appraisal, of the Mandate without preju- structed with the aid of Is-
rael Bond funds. In addition
for it reveals that British his- dice against the Jews .. .
to ammonia, the firm manu-
We are dealing here of course
torians and in any case some
of them, believe that Balfour with prehistory of the State of factures other vital chemicals,
should never have allowed the Israel, history which is per- including sulphuric acid,
issuance of the Balfour Declara- haps nothing more than futile superphosphates, ammonium
tion and that Bevin r ishandled speculation . . . Yet Crossman's sulphate, potassium sulphate,
di-calcium phosphate and hy-
the end of the Mandate. Writes views on the Bevin phase are
drochloric acid. The plant,
Marlowe: "One of the hills on rather relevant for they con-
which Jerusalem is built is firm that Zionists were not which produces these chem-
called The Mount of Evil Coun- mere fanatics when they ac- icals and fertilizers for domes-
sel . . . The spirit of this hill cused Bevin of anti-Semitism tic use and for such export
seems to have brooded over the . . . Crossman writes that "it is markets as Italy, France,
British adventure in Palestine difficult to deny that Bevin's Japan and Burma, is a notable
example of the impressive
. . At the beginning the at- usually shrewd and farsighted
progress made in industry as
tempt to use Zionism as an appreciation of any situation he
a result of Israel Bond in-
instrument of British policy was handling had become heav-
was prompted by evil counsel ily clouded by anti-Semitism ... vestments.
. . . At the end, to use Arab na- One sign of this was an extra-
tionalism as an instrument of ordinary credulity . . . One day USSR Attacks Germany
British policy, was equally he came and sat down beside for Paying Reparations
prompted by evil counsel . . . me in the House of Commons
WASHINGTON, (JTA) —
But always this evil counsel, . . . (Throughout the crisis Bev- Radio Mocow has launched an-
whispered to Balfour in 1917 in was always ready to talk to other of its attacks on Israel,
and to Bevin in 1947, seemed me. I think because he quite this time for Arab consump-
liked a little opposition as long tion, on what it called the part-
as he was certain he could nership between Israel and the
smash it, comments Crossman) Bonn government.
. . . 'Now I've got something
In its Near East service in
which may finally convince you
Arabic, radio Moscow reached
that you're in the wrong,' Bevin back to Prime Minister Ben-
started . . . 'The Foreign Office Gurion's meeting with Chancel-
has given me their latest infor- lor Adenauer saying, incorrect-
mation from the Soviet Union ly, that it took place "right in
. . . The Russians have massed Washington and not anywhere
an army of Jews at Odessa, else" and adding that "signifi-
ready for the attack' . . . I tried cantly this meeting took place
to convince him that it was on the eve of the summit con-
just because the leaders of the ference in Paris which was later
Yishuv were of Russian origin torpedoed by U.S. rulers."
that nearly all of them were
The "collaboration" was ex-
fanatically opposed to Russian plained by the broadcaster as
(Formerly Gossel's)
Communism . . . Moreover, direct result of U.S. sponsor-
apart from a minority of fellow- ship of both countries and, in
Carved out of the piney woods,
travellers, I added, the leader- addition, branded as a device to
a brand new 9 hole semi-pri-
vate course adjoins Lewiston
ship of the Histadruth, includ- help Israel's military purposes
Lodge—and beautiful flower-
ing Ben-Gurion, felt that the by allocating huge sums of
rimmed courts for tennis play-
one labour movement in the money to a country "which has
ers. These are just two of the
world whose ideals they shared no right whatsoever to repara-
unusual features at Lewiston,
was the British." . .. We shall tions, since the victims of the
a relaxer's paradise on the
come back to this fascinating Nazis are in Europe and not
shores of gorgeous East Twin
book by Crossman .. •
Israel."
Lake. Live in cool comfort in
individual cabins or the main
Rich in quotations from al-
lodge. There's also:
leged Israeli sources, the broad-
Army
on
War
Games
• cast concluded by stating that
• Swimming • Trout fishing
Maneuvers in Negev the object of paving the way
• Boating.
SOMEWHERE IN THE between Israel and Bonn was
The food is great and dished
NEGEV, (JTA) — A powerful to encourage the "expansionist
out generously in North Coun-
try helpings!
Israel striking force, composed intentions" of those two coun-
of artillery, armor and armored tries. The object of the broad-
BY DAY OR WEEK
infantry units was on the move cast itself was obviously a dou-
in
the Southern Negev today ble one: to please Arab listen-
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The force's "target" was the sive intentions and at the time
Yes . . Meals Too
"Green Enemy Force" estab- to discredit West Germany in
lished in a stronghold and using their eyes, since West Germany
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Russian military tactics. The has had considerable economic
Israel
"Blue Force" was given success in those countries.
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Virulent Press Articles Reveal
Tenuous Position of Jews in USSR
Revealing new light on the
tenuous position of Jews in the
Soviet Union has been shed by
recently published material in
provincial Soviet newspapers,
which are difficult to come by
outside the USSR and have, only
lately arrived here.
The articles, which appeared
during March and April of this
year, testify to the unabating,
virulent nature of the Soviet
press incitement against Jews
and Judaism. But beyond that,
one of them indicates the con-
tinuing sense of Jewish identi-
fication not only among ordi-
nary Jews, but, despite the dif-
ficulties, even among Soviet
Jewish functionaries in posi-
tions
tons of some importance in the
provinces.
Most importantly, perhaps,
another of the articles is a
harsh, explicit criticism of a
living Soviet Jewish writer—so
far as is known, the first such
direct attack since the inception
of the anti-Jewish press cam-
paign a few years ago.
Three of the articles 'are
"feuilletons," a form of didactic
feature article familiar to read-
ers of the Soviet press, which
appeared in the following news-
papers: "Commentary on 'Under
the Synagogue Vaults' " in
"Sovietskaya Bielorussia," pub-
lished in Minsk, White Russia
(March 21); "The Food of the
Gods" in Kazakhstanskaya Prav-
da, published in Alma Ata, Ka-
zakhstan (April 12); "A Syna-
gogue Event" in Radianska Bu-
kovina, published . in Cherno-
vitz, Bukovina (March 27).
Chernovitz, which has a popu-
lation of 70-80,000 Jews out of
a total population of about 150,-
000, has become a particular
center of anti-Jewish press agi-
tation. Three weeks before the
above-mentioned publication in
newspaper carried an attack on
Meir Kharatz, a Yiddish poet of
that city, who may be in some
jeopardy as a result.
British Non-Zionists
to Send Delegation
to Zionist Congress
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to
The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM. — The Israel
committee of the Board of Depu-
ties of British Jews has voted
unanimously to recommend the
sending of an .official fraternal
delegation to the 25th World
Zionist Congress, it was dis-
closed Tuesday.
The action marks the first ac-
ceptance by a major central
body of European Jews of the
proposal by Dr. Nahum Gold-
mann, president of the world
Zionist Organization, to invite
non-Zionist Jewish groups to .
participate in the next World
Zionist Congress on a non-vot-
ing basis. The next Congress
will be held in Jerusalem in
December. The proposal is a ; _i;
key aspect of Dr. Goldmann's -
plan to expand the World Zion- ,;
ist organization to include rep-
resentation of all mafor Jewish
communities in the world.
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