President-Elect Seeks Broader Immigration
Laws, Criticizes McCarran Walter Act.
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The
new Administration intends to
press for liberalized immigra-
tion legislation,
known here,
g a meet-
ing b e
n President-elect.
Joh
ennedy and Represen-
t
Francis E. Walter . of
nnsylvania.
Rep. Walter co-spo cored the
McCarran - Walter
on
Act, which has be
tedly
attacked as . gros•nate
by liberal polit• 1 g s. Sen.
Kennedy, duri his campaign,
also criticized. the Act.
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Division chairmen have been selected for the
annual donor event of the Ladies' Auxiliary of
the Jewish National Fund, to culminate with
the annual event at Temple Israel on Jan. '31,
Mrs. George Lerner, president of the Auxiliary,
announced this week. Chairmen of divisions
shown in the photo, from the left, are: Seated,
Mesdames I. Lawton, D. Stewart, William Klafer,
Julius Ring, A. Potiker and H. Portnoy; standing,
Mesdames S. Pearlman, I. Zeff, M. Winston, I.
Kardener and J. Grossbart. Not shown are Mes-
dames G. Bayer, S. Lifsitz, J. Seidman, B. Minns,
N. Rosin, William Hordes and Irving Schlussel.
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vid Ben-Gurion and Dr. Nahum
Goldmann, president of the
World Zionist Organization, on
the topics to have priority at
the forthcoming 25th World
Zionist Congress.
Speaking at a press confer-
A Salute to JN
and Its Editor
Many encomia have poured
into the office of The Jewish
News, in response to its Editor-
Commentator, on his column in
the issue of Nov. 25, including
the following editorial that ap-
peared last week in the Wis-
consin Jewish Chronicle of Mil-
waukee, Wis.:
"A Personal Paean on
Being an American"
To those of us to whom is given
United States citizenship as a
birthright, it rarely occurs to its
what a precious gift this is. To
the immigrant—from wherever he
may have stemmed — citi
was a mantle of statu
of glory, a fief i
st land
on earth. To th
e, it was an
everyday cloa •
old hat, shoes
well-broken
o the newcomer
who won i
was the prize of all
prizes; t
e born, it was some-
thing (
e had time to think
about)
ich he shrugged off a
somet
g that came along wi
all t
other things.
O
terature is filed with epi
whi
new Americans have writ
ten
praise of their new and
ado
d country. First to come to
min
as a prime example. i
Em
Lazarus'
New Collos-
sus'
d another, Irving Berlin's
song,
od Bless America.' And
there
any others. And lest
we misu
od, there ar
by native
This is preface,
ace it be,
in coment and praise of 'Fifty
Years an American: A Personal
Pagan of Thanks.' written by
Philip Slomovitz. editor and pub-
lisher of the Jewish News (De-
troit), who wrote in 'Purely Com-
mentary' that 'this column has
often taken note of historic events,
of anniversaries of friends and
community leaders. . . . Now the
time has come for a personal ref-
erencebecause the event is so
vital and soul stirring,' observing
that November 29 (marked) his
50th anniversary as an American
(which) 'calls for thanksgiving,
for a bit of reminiscing, for addi-
tional soul- and heart-searching.'
Being an American is a blessing.
How much so is beautifully ex-
pressed in Mr. Slomovitz' personal
expression of thankfulness."
(JTA)
Irving I. Rhodes, former De-
Irs.
1, acting
airman troiter, is the publisher of the
of the J ish
cy here, Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle.
questioned the
eement an- Edward Perlson is the editor.
nounced by
Minister Da-
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approached the Soviet Ambas-
sador in London with a view to
discussing with him the situa-
tion of the Jews in the Soviet
Union. However, no answer has
been received thus far from
the envoy, it was reported here
by Barnett Janrier, president of
the representative body of Brit-
ish Jewry.
At its meeting yesterday, the
Board of Deputies adopted a
resolution "taking the strongest
exception to the suggestion that
the British Government should
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Ben-Gurion, Golchnann Agree on Congress Topics
JERUSALEM,. (JTA)—Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion and
'Dr. Nahum Goldmann con-
cluded their• series of talks on
the forthcoming 25th World
Zionist Congress with a com-
munique disclosing agreement
on priority . for several key top-
ics in debate at the Congress.
The communique said:
"The Israel Prime Minister
and the President of the World
Zionist Organization agreed
that increasing Aliyah and its
encouragement in all countries,
the fostering of Hebrew educa-
tion in Jewish communities out-
side of Israel and strengthening
of Halutziyut must stand in the
center of Congress discussions."
The communique also said that
the two leaders agreed that the
Congress "should also outline
practical ways for implementa-
tion of these aims."
The two agreed, according to
the communique, that the Zion-
ist movement "will have to put
at the center of its activities
immigration and its absorption,
Hebrew education and Halut-
ziyut."
In an interview over the
Israel radio, Goldmann de-
clared that the differences of
opinion between himself and
Ben-Gurion "are not so great."
However, he stressed his op-
position to the idea, projected
by the Premier, that it is
"the personal duty" of every
Zionist to immigrate to Israel.
Goldmann firmly rejected
Ben-Gurion's charges that the
Zionist Organization has inter-
fered with Jewish immigration
to ISrael. `.`It •
ay,"
he declar
at the Zi•• t
Organiz•
other in
tutio
eeded in bringin
1,0
Jews to Israel. Thi
t reat achieve nt. But
engaged in
, the time
ease i
ree co
.
The President-elect conferred
with Walter, who said that they
about the refugee prob-
" he new
" of
ugees
om
Africa.
ThiS was taken by polit al
groups here as an indic on
th h esident-elect no ied
sman of hi
ten-
n t throng
ngress
lore liberal
ion meas-
ures whic
een pledged
by
ocratic party in its
ence, Mrs. Halprin said if. the
agreement would prevent Ben-
Gurion from speaking his mind
fully on such disputed issues
as Aliya and Halutziyut, it
would be unfortunate. "It would
have been wiser to permit Mr .
Ben-Gurion to .say what he
wanted to say at the Congress,"
she declared. "This way of treat-
ing situations of concern to the
•Zionist movement is not
health y. "
She questioned the basic 'real-
ity of the agreement, asserting
that "the differences between
the two men are fundamental
and great." She said if Mr.
Ben-Gurion did not express his
full views. it would amount to
"sweeping the problem under
the rug." •
Soon after, in New York, two
American members of the Jew-
ish Agency executive, Dr.
Emanuel Neumann and Louis
state-
mend
associa
hem-
selves from Mrs. Rose
al-
prin's statement.
Neumann said in his
te-
men( tha "any agreeme
be-
tween Prim • i •
and-
ident
orld
ionic
e crit-
ical a
ssion, - is
be
ome
e empha-
ed t at
• isassociates"
imself
Mrs. Halprin's
sta
and added that he
• to make it clear that
the statement "was made on
her own personal responsibility
and not on behalf of the Ameri-
can section of the Jewish
Agency executive, whose mem-
bers were neither consulted nor
informed that such a statement
was to be made, and released to
the press by the acting chair-
man."
German Jews Protest
TV Portrayal of Jew
BERLIN,. (JTA)—The Jewish
community here protested
against what it called a "dis-
torted" portrayal of a Jew in
a play appearing on the national
West German television net-
work.
In an open letter to the
Stuttgart radio company, Heinz
Galinski, head of the West Ber-
lin Jewish community, said that
the play had "depicted a Jewish
citizen in the manner of a Nazi
caricature." His protest referred
to a scene in the play in which
a salesman, ostensibly of Polish-
Jewish extraction, sold clothes
in a second-hand shop.
Galinski said the scene "must
give a completely false picture
to German youths" who had
never met a Jew. But Carl
Zuckmayer, a G e r m a n-born
United States citizen, who wrote
the play, "The Captain of
Koepenick," said he was "en-
tirely in agreement" with the
television portrayal. He said
the Jewish dealer was "a type
such as then lived in old
Berlin."
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Division Chairmen Chosen for JNF Donor Event