Viscount Samuel, British Peer,
Numbers Americans Among Kin
The American Jewish
Archives, the historical re-
search center at the Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute
of Religion in Cincinnati, has
established a connection be-
tween Ameri-
can Jewry and
one of the out-
standing Jews
of the present
era, England'
Viscount Her-
bert Samuel,
who celebrat-
ed his 9 0 t h
birthday
on Sunday.
In the course
of a long ca-
reer he h a s
achieved
eminence
in many fields.
Nearly 60
years ago he
was elected to Viscount Samuel
the British House of Commons.
In 1905 along with another bril-
liant young Man, Winston
Churchill, he received the first
of many government appoint-
ments. For over half a century,
he has been a member of the
Privy Council, and his pre-emin-
ence as an Elder Statesman was
recognized in 1958, when Queen
Elizabeth II conferred on him
the coveted Order of Merit.
But Lord Samuel is also a
philosopher. N o t withstanding
the distractions of public life,
he has kept up his studies in
that field, and his philosophical
writings have always command-
ed his attention. Late in life
he took up broadcasting, and
his calm measured voice always
attracted a wide listening audi-
ence.
Lord Samuel has shown a
deep concern for his own
people. During the dark days
of the First World War he
helped to initiate the discus-
sions that led to the Balfour
Declaration, and it fell to .him,
as first British High -Commis-
sioner for Palestine, to set up
the country's civil administra-
tion after Palestine had been
conquered from the Turks. He
was actively_ engaged in organ-
izing relief for the Jewish vic-
tims of the Nazis and early in
1936 headed a mission of Brit-
ish Jews who came to America
to concert arrangements for this
purpose.
Viscount Samuel's f a m i l y,
which has been settled in Eng-
land for two centuries, has
many intimate ties with Amer-
ica, according to a volume just
issued by the Hebrew Union
College Press. The family tree
of the Samuels is one of the
many included in "Americans
of Jewish Descent," an exten-
sive work compiled by Rabbi
Malcolm H. Stern, of Norfolk,
Va., and prepared at the Ameri-
can Jewish Archives.
Among the • family connec-
tions of the Samuels in this
country was the colorful Yates-
Levy clan of South Carolina
and Georgia. Samuel Yates
Levy, of Savannah, was an ac-
complished poet during the mid-
1800's, while his sisters, Eu-
genia Levy Phillips and Phoebe
Yates Pember, distinguished
themselves in the annals of the
Confederacy.
Eugenia Phillips, an ardent
rebel, provoked Union General
Benjamin F. Butler's wrath in
New Orleans due to her un-
disguised contempt for the
Union forces.
Phoebe Pember served dur-
ing the Civil War in Richmond
as a hospital matron and later
recounted her experiences in a
memoir-like book entitled "A
Southern Woman's Story."
The director of the Ameri-
can Jewish Archives, Dr. Jacob
R.. Marcus, contributes a fore-
word to "Americans of Jewish
Descent."
LONDON, (JTA)—Mrs. Golda
Meir, Israel's Foreign Minister,
declared in an interview with
the Sunday Times that Israel
could not "remain passive if any
country tries to dominate Jordan.
We cannot accept the presence of
any other army on our frontiers."
She asserted V President
Nasser of the United Arab Re-
public was "deliberately trying to
dominate Jordan." She. added that
while Israel could do nothmg :o
help Jordan, "we understand Jor-
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gestion that if Nasser moved -
against Jordan, he would be met
by a coordinated Jordan-Israel
defense. "We have no more con-
nection with Jordan than with
any other Arab stare" she said.
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with the UAR-was inevitable, Mrs.
Meir replied that this depended
entirely on Nasser "If Nasser
wa: as genuinely peace-loving as
his speeches at the United Na-
tions made out, there could be
peace tonight but even in New
Yorl - he did not preach peace
in the Middle East," she stated.
"His prestige is based on his de-
clared policy of extermination of
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LONDON, (JTA) — Viscount
Herbert Louis Samuel, Britain's
first High Commissioner for Pal-
estine and one of Anglo-Jewry's
leading figures, celebrated his
90th birthday. •
Lord Samuel was lauded by
former Socialist Prime Minister
Lord Attlee, in an article in the
Sunday Observer. The former
Prime Minister evaluating Sam-
uel's role as High Commissioner
said that ."the lot of the man
who tries to hold the scales of
justice is not easy." He recalled
that the Arabs regarded Samuel
with enmity while "his advocacy
of a bi-national state lost him the
sympathy of the Zionists."
Attlee emphasized that since
Samuel's early days there was "lit
in him a steady flame for social
justice never to be extinguished"
and added that Samuel, still per-
haps "the most effective speak-
er" in the House of Lords, "is
heard with great respect. He is
honored as a man who has never
been self-seeking, a man of high
integrity and mature wisdom."
In a long and distinguished
career, Samuel has been a leader
of the Liberal party, Parliamentry
Undersecretary of the Home De-
partment, Postmaster General,
Home Secretary, British Special
Commissioner to Belgium, chair:
man of a Royal Commission on
the Coal Industry, and has held
other governmental posts.
-Author of many books on lib-
eralism and a philosopher, Sam-
uel is a member of the Royal
Institute of Philosophy and has
been a lecturer at Oxford Uni-
versity. He has served as a Gov-
ernor of the Hebrew University,
and chairman of the Movement
for the Care of Children coming
from Germany.
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and girls jumped out. They were
gay and without a care and made
plenty of noise.
"Quiet." said the youth leader,
"you will immediately be visiting
the saddest museum in the world."
Kibbutz Lohamei Hageta'ot was
founded in 1949. The members who
decided to build their homes here
were, in the period of the Second
World War. in various European
countries and suffered greatly under
Nazi rule. Many participated in
Ghetto uprisings, in the partisan
battles . and underground move,
ments. Not a few underwent the
hell of concentration and extermina-
tion camps.
From the very . beginning, the
members of the kibbutz decided to
set up the documentation center
whose function was to collect docu-
ments of the extermination of
European Jewry and the destruc-
tion of hundreds of Jewish com-
munities.
In 1950 the first exhibition of
books and documents of that period
took place. Since then over 200,000
people have visited the place from
all parts of the country and also
from abroad. In the exhibition there
may be seen, among other things,
an exact large scale plan of one
extermination camp. The plan was
prepared by one of the few persons
who was in this camp and survived.
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The 25th World Zionist Congress meeting in Jerusalem
during. Dec. 27-Jan. 10, will be attended by 500 delegates from
Israel, the United States, Western Europe, Canada, South Africa,
Australia, New Zealand, Latin America,
India, Algeria, Iran, and the Congo . . ••.
Concurrently, there will be a meeting
of the administrative committee of the
World Jewish Congress, an international
conference of Jewish journalists, and a
meeting of the Conference of Jewish
Organizations . . . Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
president of the World Zionist Organi-
zation, declares it is now formal Israel
Government policy that all Israeli diplo
mats are to remain in permanent con-
tact with Zionist organizations of the
countries to which they are assigned
. — The Israeli Foreign Ministry • in-
structed all Israeli consulates to grant.
visas without charge to delegates and
other Congress participants from over-
seas . . . The Mapai party has nominated
95 persons for election as delegates,
with Prime MiniSter Ben-Gurion head-
Dr. Goldmann
ing the list . . . Chilean Zionists have
elected two Mapai and two General Zionist delegates, but have
petitioned the World Zionist Organization to permit the sending
of a fifth delegate, from Mapam.
United States
WASHINGTON—George Lincoln Rockwell, American Nazi,
and six of his "troopers" lost their bid for an immediate trial
on charges arising from anti-Jewish picketing in front of Kennedy-
for-President headquarters. Judge Barlow granted a prosecution
request to continue the case until December 1, because two key
witnesses were absent.
ATLANTIC CITY—Mizrachi Women of America re-elected
Mrs. Moses Dyckman as president, at their 35th annual conven-
tion. A 1960-61 budget of $1,280,000 was voted, including $200,-
000 for the Jewish National Fund "Freedom Forest" in Israel.
. . . Mrs. Rose Halprin, acting chairman of the Jewish Agency,
urged American Zionists to give their children a Hebrew educa-
tion. Addressing the national convention of Histadruth Ivrith of
America, she called this a minimum obligation of every - Zionist.
NEW YORK—A record level of Israel-United States trade
was reached with a total of $73,000,000 in the first half of 1960.
Cargoes from the United States accounted for well over half the
total. tonnage unloaded at Haifa in this period, according to the
American-Israel Chamber of Commerce and Industry . . . The
National Jewish Welfare Board adopted a 1961 budget of $1,563,-
300, providing service to almost 650,000 men, women and chil-
dren belonging to JWI-affiliated Jewish community centers; to
100,000 Jews in the United States Armed Forces; and to 20,000
Jewish patients in Veterans Administration hospitals, and a like
number of their dependents.
Israel
JERUSALEM—A two year prison sentence was imposed on
a Jordanian - taxi driver who confessed to being an "infiltrator"
after speeding through the Mandelbaum Gate from the Old City
of Jerusalem, which is under Jordanian jurisdiction . . . The
$6,000,000 loan from the American Development Loan Fund to
Israel for telecommunications will permit an expansion of Israel
telephone service which would otherwise have been impossible
in the near future, Postmaster General Haim Ben Menahem
declared . . . Seventy industrial enterprises are planned in six
new townships in the Negev, with an anticipated total popula-
tion of 60,000 . . . A new method of diagnosing complicated heart
cases has been developed at the Hebrew University-Hadassah
Medical Center by Professor Fritz Drey fuss . . . Salt water has
been found usable for irrigation of sugar beet and cotton
fields. Development of equipment for use in a water desalina-
tion process developed by Israeli scientist Alexander. Zarchin
is being carried out by a United States firm, Fairbanks Whitney,
under, an agreement with the Israel government . .. An area of
12,500 acres in the WeStern part of Jerusalem, where many
public buildings have been constructed in recent years, was
formally claimed as the property of- the Moslem Trust Fund,
with headquarters in the Old City under Jordanian jurisdiction.
. . . Israel's controller of foreign currency has recommended. that -
restrictions on trading in gold be lifted.
TEL AVIV—Four persons, all members of the Israel Coln-
munist Party, were arrested and ordered detained for 15 days,
pending investigation of police charges of their being involved
in alleged embezzlement of 200,000 Israeli pounds ($121,000)
from the Postal Bank office here.
Europe
BRUSSELS—A memorial to the Jews of Arlon who were
deported and murdered by the Nazis was dedicated this week
at the town's new Jewish cemetery. Civilian and military authori-
ties of the province and municipality attended.
ULM, West Germany—Two members of the Tilsit Comman-
does were convicted of mass murders in Lithuania during 1941.
One was sentenced to three years imprisonment, and another
to five years. The court ruled both were fully aware they were
shooting innocent civilians.
RECKLINGHAUSEN, West Germany—An exhibit depicting
the role of Jews in world culture was opened here under the
sponsorship of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, and other West
German personalities. President Heinrich Luebke, in opening
the exhibit, said it was not only a cultural event, but also an
occasion "to pledge our unceasing efforts to try to make up to
the Jewish people."
Canada
MONTREAL—The Hebrew day schools have proved "the
only way to inculcate Jewish culture among young Canadian
Jews, and to integrate Hebrew lore with Canadian civic aware-
ness," according to Salman S. Gordon, national president of
the Canadian Association for Hebrew Education . . . Lawrence
Freiman, of Ottawa, was re-elected national president of the Cana-
dian Zionist Organization at its 35th annual convention.