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- rtijr:1 -rV:ap 1950 ■ Atf. p1:1 1 (MV PIT mg; nirzra riptigi ►i 3 rR1 -117nn ri-ranyl onyt? rir,)ixr; -nn rr T t .nytirp,rn Inp.; ;i re2t3 tr.rtz77? -nLri..7732? 47'?r1 X17 ttj1 k; (200,000) .'171-W71#? rrIP. or). ,ntn rR1- 117113 r1,4r ,it.vgn '2tP rr.1 , `Tr T ik. ;117.?ttin ri trOir.T i TIN wpm" rz. ,trti lv/? ► r;,:t .n4, :n3 7it.itz:741 ,rMiL? (rms,"7 ,iv rrol ra44in4) dan's position. But if the status quo in Jordan is Changed, Israel's national security will be in jeo- pardy. To this we cannot remain indifferent." She - termed "nomense" a sug- 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. Asked. if another major clash 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 Israel." oinityit9 rzip. .-nixt,ran nry ninttnn nir'rrn rrls. 74 Hebrew Corner .n4in riar npril wrtv r7 Holocaust and trivn UprsingMuseum nnx ,"!r:rprtg ro" The 'bus came to a halt in the grounds of kibbutz Lohamei Ha- riz,tTnn Inpnr) rPP" geta'ot (Ghetto Fighters). The driver opened the doors and dozens of boys '. 2+# )04?-?/"1 ;1 'Tint ? rinPri ,n:f4to4pipi1r'? vrirpn nrz 'Pp ri- nwt) ribk;'? trpprtg nrylVn niirr i4Inn 17171 nizprgn ritvp 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. Golda Meir Warns Nasser Israel Stands Prepared Behind Jordan ntptn iiwnn (340) Lord Samuel Marks His 90th Birthday lot -rixtrpin rz7 ritvp vtjr.1 ri'm) 1949 intr. , Itgzi .(17 tjfl) tr17,1N rq.z iib ri4'? rptirpn; n:On iitat?tp Inrintir1 wVP rinnz?7? ,r)*tr LAg: .rrIrinn rivar.)1 t1 ,41, t? r11. 3 1111 ,7 _ tv't9 17 P - 0 mirti - rizrp .n-rtt?inri - niannti 1 1.7 .4 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. Translation of Hebrew column Published by Brit Ivrit Olamit Around the TP6rld... A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. and Other News-Gathering Media. • World Zionist Congress • 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.