By PHINEAS J. BIRON
Africa Loses A Real Leader
seen before the things I saw
We are turning this week's here at the Weizmann. . . . The
column over to Rinna Dafni, labs, th.e _electron microscope,
well known Israeli editor and a photograph of a virus .
journalist, as an exclusive for haven't had the time to
our readers . . . Miss Dafni about a lot but it is
vel,
sent us this moving article on a miracle, isn't it?
. knew
the Rev. S. B. Caulker, out- nothing at all
t science
standing leader of Sierra Leone, before I came
. . . I know
Africa, who died in a stupid nothing now
t I have seen
airplane crash on his way home and heard
ttle—and it will
from the International Confer- stay with
always.' . . . He
ence on Science in the Advance- had said
same thing the
ment of New States, which con- day bef
at' the closing of
cluded its sessions recently at the Conf
nce. . . . 'I came in
the Weizmann Institute of Sci- darkness
ut I leave in light.
ence at Rehovoth . . . Let Rinna . . . I sh
go back a different
Dafni tell you about this rare man' he
told the delegates
personality:
—and it w
s if he spoke for
"Perhaps, more than any all of them,
ver o -
other man at the International added to their sum o nowledge
Conference, Rev. Caulker, who and experience during those
died in the crash of an Air two weeks . . .
France plane off Dakar, em-
"It is a frightful thing that
bodied the hopes of the young Dr. Caulker who was young,
nations of Africa . . . All vigorous, and certainly would
through the fortnight of lec- have helped to .bring about
tures and discussions at Reho- those changes he so ardently
vot, Dr. Caulker had played a desired, should have died in an
central role. . . . Modestly, inexplicable failure of contem-
eloquently, truthfully, he pulled porary technology — in what,
the participants away f r o in really. was a scientific accident.
what might have been theoreti- . . . And even more frightful
cal contemplations and back to that he never went back at all."
the demanding realities of
Africa and Asia in our day and
age . . . No one who was at
the conference will forget the
fervor with which Dr. Caulker
appealed to the delegates to
give what he called "an answer
to the witch doctor." .. . This,
UNITED NATIONS, (JTA)-
he cried, was what the confer- Highlights of United Nations
ence must do for him, for history, from the establishment
Sierra Leone, for all the con- of the organization in 1945 to
tinent.
the present crisis in the Congo,
"Several times in the con- have been written and produced
ference's formal sessions, and in _a phonograph-record album
the informal round-table of the
by Saul Car-
participants among themselves.
son, Jewish
Dr. Caulker pressed for such
Telegraphic
know-how . . . By doing so,
Agency corre-
he was among those who made
spondent at
the conference a truly useful
the United Na-
instrument. . . . He was a
tions , it w a s
teacher by profession — the
announced at
Vice-Principal of Fourah Bay
the UN head-
College in Freetown—and each
quarters here.
time he spoke he taught the
The album,
needs and problems of develop-
which will be
ing countries, though he was
Carson distributed
never pedantic and never more commercially in the United
impatient than a good teacher States and abroad by Decca
must be. . . .
Records, is narrated by Ralph
" 'It is very sentimental of Bellamy, noted star of the stage
me, I k n o w,' he explained and films. It is dedicated to
apologetically . . . 'But I stood Secretary General Dag Ham-
there and wondered how many marskjold. The purpose of the
people I met here I would ever album is educational in re-
see again. . . . We all come gard to the aims, policies and
from so many places and now achievements of the United Na-
we are dispersing . . . I don't tions.
think we shall all ever meet
Among the heads of govern-
1 ment whose voices are include
once more.' .
"We we
alking do
the in the recording are those
path fr
the Institute G
t- Presidents Truman and Eise
Hous
an artin F
hower of the United States; th
ulty
. . . Dr. Caulke Chairman of the Council of Min
lo
around at the green ters of the USSR, Nikita S.
ds of the Institute . and I hrushchev; Queen Elizabeth
me how much he liked
; King Saud of Saudi Arabia;
ael. . . . 'It is more than
ime Minister David Ben-
ing impressed', he
urion of Israel; Prime Minis-
t is a sort love shall er Jawaharlal Nehru of India;
ome bac
thi and President Kwame Nkrumah
ime wi
of Ghana. Secretariat members
ers.'
included a r e Mr. Hammar-
ng skjold; Andrew W. Cordier, ex-
bout
dentists
eir ecutive assistant to the Secre-
never tary General; and Under Secre-
quipment
tary Ralph J. Bunche.
$36,400,000 in Loans
Awarded to Israel by U.S. World Banks
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — A airliners, each ship with a ca- of five and three-fourths per-
$27,500,000 loan was voted to pacity of 131 passengers.
cent a year. The total cost of
The World Bank loan for the developing the new port will
Israel by the International Bank
for Reconstruction and Develop- Ashdod project is for 25 years, amount, according to the bank,
interest at the rate to $54,700,000.
ment.
-Import Bank announ
an agreement to lend $8,900,000
to El Al Israel Airlines.
The World Bank loan is ear-
So Sorry!
marked specifically to help Is-
rael build and equip a sheltered,
deep-water t at Ashdod, on
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1 5 — THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Frid ay, Se ptember 1 6, 1960
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