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- $75 Per Week in major war games exercises. ers by accusing Israel of aggres- Includes Everything 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 Reasonable Children's Rates Russian military tactics. The has had considerable economic Israel "Blue Force" was given success in those countries. YOUR NEW HOSTS: the assignment of blasting RUBEN GOLD through to the Green strong- Newest Story: Argentina DONALD RUNDE hold and taking it. Planes sup- Nazis "Studying Hebrew" MERTON SEGAL ported the ground action. Live In Argentina, they now are JOSEPH HIRSCH ammunition was used. saying that the Nazis who have Brigadier General Chaim Las- found refuge there are studying kov, chief of the armed forces, Hebrew. said the large-scale military When one of them was asked maneuvers will be carried out the reason for it, he replied: 200 Miles North of Detroit in a way which will affect as "LeShanah Habah beYerush- Ca n little as possible routine civilian alayim"—"Next Year in Jerus- STate 6-2452 Colle ct: life in the country. alem." GOLF! -COURSE! LEWISTON LODGE . LEWISTON LODGE 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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