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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Fr iday, March 17, 196 1 --
Algerian Jewry's Fate Held
_ziroitild the W
in Balance; Anti-Semitic Drive
A Digest
Resumed by Morocco Papers
of World Jewish Happenings
from Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency and Other News-Gathering Media.
United States
PARIS, (JTA)—Secret nego- holders of two citizenships— Campaign Against Jews
WASHINGTON—On
his way back to Israel after visiting
French
and
Algerian.
tiations about the fate of the
Renewed in Morocco;
South America and various Israeli embassies and missions,
Jews in Algeria, after the coun-
The question of the status of King Invites Arab League
Haim Yahil, Director General of the Israel Foreign Ministry,
try is given independence, are the Jews in Algeria, now all • PARIS, (JTA) — A renewed paid a courtesy call on G. Lewis Jones, Assistant Secretary of
now going on in Geneva be- holders of French citizenship, campaign against Moroccan State for Near Eastern Affairs . . . Following his sweeping execu-
was raised by the French repre-
t w e n representatives of the sentatives as part of a demand Jewry has been started in the tive order against religious and racial discrimination by the
Federal government and by companies holding Federal con-
Fr e n c h government and the that the Algerian nationalists Moroccan press which carries a tracts,
President Kennedy declared that his Administration will
report that about 120 Jews have
Algerian Front of National p r o v i de necessary guarantees allegedly left Morocco since the also seek to implement civil rights laws already on the statute
Liberation, it was reported here for the European community in death of King Mohammed V, it books, in addition to recommending new legislation when
an independent Algeria.
was reported here from Casa- necessary.
from French sources.
NEW YORK—Declaring himself disappointed at Israel's
The negotiations to clarify the blanca.
The report said that the Al-
status of the Jews in Algeria
Newspapers in Morocco un- approach to private foreign investment, Israel Rogosin, American
gerian
lead ers. the
are by
being concluded in Geneva friendly to Jews are blowing up Jewish industrialist, announced that for the time being he would
seemed nationalist
to have accepted
a group headed by M. Pont this report s a y i n g that the defer further investments in Israel and postpone moving there
idea that the European com-
lpidou,
a close personal adviser emigrated Jews are now in for permanent settlement . . . Yeshiva University dedicated a
enmity in Algeria would be
of
President
Charles de Gaulle. Marseilles. Even one of the David W. Petegorsky Chair in Political Science in memory of
entitled to maintain dual na- 1M. Pompidou
not Jewish, but government newspapers joined the late executive director of the American Jewish Congress, who
tionality after the country is is known to be is
keenly interested in the anti-Jewish noise charg- died in 1956 . : . Hailing President Kennedy's proposal for a_
declared independent. In this in Jewish subjects and particu- ing the Jews with "betraying Youth Peace Corps, Max Bressler, president of the Zionist
Organization of America, appealed to American Jewish young
framework, it was indicated, the i larly in the problem of Algerian
majority of the Jewish p o p ula- jJewry. The Algerian national- their homeland."
men
and women to enlist, giving as their preference service in
The renewed anti-Jewish cam-
tion in Algeria will be the l ists are represented in the talks
paign coincided with the arrival the underdeveloped areas of Israel such as the Negev, the hills
by Ahmed Boumandjel, one of in Morocco of Abdel Khalek of Judea, and the Eastern Galilee . . . More than 1,000 educators
their top negotiators,
Hebrew Corner
Hassouna, secretary-general of ' and laymen joined in the Jewish Education Committee's 50th
Leaders of Jewish organiza- the Arab League, who was re- anniversary celebration of organized communal Jewish • educa-
Lions in Paris are at the same ceived by King Hassan II, the tion in New York City . . . A police guard was placed at the
Wonderful
time conducting- talks with new ruler. Reports reaching Rabbinical Seminary of • America in Queens after the fifth sus-
In the early morning a small civil- French officials here to seek here from Morocco state that picious fire in 10 days was put out by firemen. After the fourth
Ian helicopter climbed above Eilat
fire the school director received an anonymous telephone warn-
and flew northward. Through the reassurances that Algerian Jews_ the young Moroccan King pro- ing in which Adolf Eichmann's name was invoked.
glass walls of the tiny craft could be will be considered an integral P osed to the Arab league leader
seen the Timna works and its reser-
ALBANY, N. Y.—The State Senate passed Governor Nelson
voirs. They proceeded northward. part of the European commun- that the next meeting of the
From a distance many ruined stone ity and that all guarantees given Arab League be held in MO- A. Rockefeller's revised bill for financial aid to students in
sectarian as well as non-sectarian colleges. Various Jewish organi-
buildings could be seen. This was the
ancient city of Advat restored by the by the rebel leaders to the rocco. The latter was under- zations had opposed the measure as contrary to the constitutional
Department for Improving the Coun- Europeans will apply to Al- stood to have accepted the pro-
try's Landscape and Developing His- . •
principle of separation of church and state and ineffective in
torical Sites. The helicopter flew g el ian Jews. The Jewish leaders P ima 1.
improving higher education.
over an ancient Byzantine church were told that President de
The League official said in
and a burial cave, made a circuit
Israel
over the fine acropolis and continued Ca lle was , determined to pro- an interview with the Istiqlal
its flight.. Beneath could be seen sand tect French citizens of the Jew- party newspaper, Al Alain, that
TEL AVIV—The Association of American and Canadian
dunes and more
d d
ore sanunes
an d then
the coast of Ashkelon • completely ish faith on the premise that the recent Baghdad conference Immigrants decided at its tenth annual convention to establish
covered with green. vegetation. The Algerian Jews were French citi- had shown that the Arabs were a unit of overseas members preparing to immigrate to Israel_
pilot told of the archaeological dis-
coveries unearthed at the place zens and as such entitled to the now able "to challenge Israel." under an association program. The convention also criticized
where ancient Ashkelon had once full protection of the French He also said the League was the Jewish Agency for "consistently failing in its commitments
stood. The Department of Improving
considering organization of a to aid Western aliyah." .
the Country's Landscape had assent- Government.
JERUSALEM—The Government Tourist Office announced
bled in one spot all the antiquities
conference
of Arab leaders but
discovered and planted an attractive Terrorist Bomb Causes Injuries :
that 14,756 tourists entered Israel during the first two months
gave no further details.
garden. Near the garden we saw the
(Direct JTA Teletvpe Wiry
of 1961, as compared with 9,800 for the same period of 1960 . .
statue of a Greek goddess We had a to The Jewish Nen • s)
.Morocco officials renounced 1,500 Torah scrolls have beeen collected from other countries
brief picnic amid the trees and went I
ALGIERS — Several
l Jew s
back to fly northward along ; the
the 1928 convention with the for use in Israel synagogues, but there are still about 400
coast of Haifa. From there we con- were reported Tuesday to have
Alliance Israelite Universelle. smaller synagogues in the country that lack a Torah scroll.
tinned by car which brought us to • been injured, two of them seri-
the cave-tombs at Bet Shearim. In I
An edict published in the The formation of a $3,000,000 investment company by a group
these caves, discovered some 25 years ously, when a terrorist threw
Official Gazette, which bears of Mexican Jews was announced here. The company, to be known
ago, many Jews were buried 2,000 a bomb into a cafe near the
years ago. The Sanhedrin sat at Bet
the seal of the late King as Fomento, will be financed by 14 participants who will provide
Shearim after the destruction of the Casbah. The cafe is a popular
Mohammed V, formally "in- half of the capital while the remainder will be raised by means
Second Temple. A beautiful garden
has been planted around the tombs one with Jews.
tegrated" the Alliance schools of debentures to be issued in Mexico.
that have been unearthed. Electric
Many of the victims were into the national educational
lighting installed by the Department
,Europe
for Developing Historical Sites re- taken to the hospital. The con-
.
network.
vealed to us the places to which Jews
PARIS—Forty Jews, including one woman, who are being
had been brought for burial from the dition of the two who were seri-
The
act
regularizes
an
"inte-
immediate surroundings and distant ously wounded was reported
held in Casablanca prison, were brought before a Casablanca
countries and even from remote
grave. The terrorist managed to gration process" which has ex- examining magistrate for alleged offenses against the security
Yemen.
isted for nearly a year. It is of 'the state.
Translation of Hebrew column elude capture.
understood that the Alliance
issued by Brit Ivrit Olamit.
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STOCKHOLM—Twenty-year-old Robert Naeslund, StoCkholm
Irk 1.• and the Moroccan government representative of the Swedish National Party, Sweden's largest
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already
reached
a
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Nazi group, and party leader Assar Oredsson, went on trial on
agreement dealing with the or- charges of anti-Semitism. Naeslund was accused of slandering
ganization's activities in the the Jewish people in a speech at a public meeting, while Oredsson
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country, and it is expected that was charged with putting upt anti-Semitic posters . . . King
an official edict will soon for- Gustav VI visited the Jewish Cultural Institute to view an
malize the situation.
exhibit of paintings by Pavel Fleischmann.
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LONDON—Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten, Chief of
the Alliance schools were inte- the Defense Staff, will be the guest of honor on April 24 at an
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and last week's edict . Israel Independence Day dinner, which will also mark the com-
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intend to continue in this direc- late Countess Edwina Mountbatten.
tion. The Alliance has in Mo-
VIENNA—Final touches to an. agreement under which West
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Moroccan Jewry depends, to a meeting of Austrian and West German officials in Vienna in
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network f or its educational Franz Etzel, West German Finance Minister, Bruno Kreisky,
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King Hassan II expressing the ments are "generally satisfactory" despite weaknesses of law and
hope that he would show the deficiencies in administrative practices, Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
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same solicitude to the Jewish president of the World Jewish Congress, declared . in a West
television network interview.
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AMSTERDAM—The creation of three commissions to study
by his late father, Mohammed
and act on key welfare problems. of Jewish life in Western Europe
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announced at the first meeting of the standing conference
the loyalty of the Jewish com-
on European Jewish Community Services here. Astorre Meyer,
munity to the new King.
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president of the Milan Jewish community, presided at the meeting.
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the Arab League secre-
MONTREAL—The Canadian Jewish Congress has accepted
tary, met with King Hassan and
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for Moroccan Jews. The representative there to discuss community organizational and
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Arab League secretary was structural problems and has appointed Dr. Joseph Kage, national
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King that making passoprts Canada, to visit Cuba ... The Canadian Jewish Congress hailed
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Jews would result in 'a "massive vincial government had amended the Fair AccommodStion Prac-
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migration" to Israel. Official tices Act to include provisions against racial and religious dis-
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TORONTO—An Israel Consulate, Israel's third representation
ment on talks between Hassouna
and the King, but Arab lan- in Canada, . was opened here. Israel maintains an Embassy in
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GUATEMALA CITY—Foreign Minister Jesus Unda Murilla
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accordance with Arab League will arrive in Israel in mid-April, repaying a visit to this country
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