THE DETRO IT JEWIS H NEWS -- Friday, July 2 1, 19 61

$250,000,000 Sought
bY Wartime Buyers
of Jewish Property

Coalition of Israel's Political
Parties Opposes B-G's Lavon Stand

BONN, (JTA)—A bill calling
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—In the Justice Minister Pinhas Rosen
for the payment of 1,000,000,000 face of Prime Minister David countered with a vigorous de-
deutschemarks - ($250,000,000) to Ben-Gurion's insistence to the nial of Ben-Gurion's charge.
indemnify so-called "loyal" pur- contrary, Israel's Cabinet reaf-
Prior to the vote in the Cabi-
chasers of Jewish property dur firmed approval of a report net Ben-G urion explained his
ing the Nazi regime has been made to the Cabinet last Jan. "irrevocable" stand which had
drafted here for introduction at 31, absolving Pinhas Lavon of I led to his resignation and the
the - next session of the Bundes- responsibility for a "security subsequent fall of the govern-
tag, lower House of Parliament. mishap" in 1954.
ment. That step, in turn, was
The Knesset will hold another followed by the dissolution of
The bill, drafted by the domi-
nant Christian Democratic Union, special meeting, to deal with the Government, and the neces-
reportedly has the support of the explosive Lavon issue. There sity of new elections. Mean-
deputies representing the Social were predictions that all of the while, Lavon had been ousted
Democratic and Free Democrat parties lesset, except from his post as secretary-gen-
parties.
Ion's Map Party, will eral of Histadrut, Israel's Feder-
The "loyal" purchaser
coalition t
eject the ation of Labor.
Jewish property are
ans mister's eff s to nul-
Israel has been governed by
who were forced, of
World' lify the. -indings of
e earlier, a caretaker government since
War II, to return s
property seven-man minister
commit- Ben-Gurion's resignation which
to Jews or to Je h successor tee that had clear
Lavon.
followed a Cabinet decision to
organizations. T
claim they Ben-Gu n ha
ready told uphold the ministerial commit-
a
had bought th
erty
ewish pr
1 eeti
of the Knes- tee's findings. Rosen had been
in good faith, ring v id
ecess pending chairman of that committee.
values.
u,. 15 elections,
Rosen rejected Ben-Gu-
Altogether,
ers that the min-
"loyal" ptirc
mittee "exceeded its rion's claim that, by clearing
four times th
reference and usurped Lavon of a charge that as
the newly pro
idical prerogative." But Defense Minister • in 1954 he
gave the order which led to
the security disaster, the com-
mittee in effect "convicted"
a senior army officer for the
mishap.
Rosen retorted that, if the
OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY
Prime Minister wanted to find
AND DETROIT CITIZENS LEAGUE out who actually gave the de-
cisive order, he could have
ENDORSED CANDIDATES
called the un-named senior of-
ficer to account under normal
6th REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT
investigative procedures. If that
- - Also Endorsed by
had been done, the Justice Min-
ister said, Lavon would have
Wayne County AFL-CIO
been obliged to testify.
The Justice Minister also
charged that the Prime Minis-
RICHARD
ter's complaint about the lack
of validity of the committee's
ACCOUNTANT — C. P. A.
findings on procedural grounds
Was not made when the com-
mittee was set up and began
its investigations, but only af-
ter the committee brought in a
report which the Prime Minis-
ter found distasteful.
The government also was
criticized for the manner in
which it announced the
launching of its meteorologi-
5th SENATORIAL DISTRICT
cal rocket, Shavit--II. The
Cabinet decided that, in the
future, reports on experi-
ments of international signi-
TEACHER
ficance be submitted first to a
ministerial committee for ap-
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proval prior to, public an-
nouncement.
The Cabinet approved a series
of recommendations by a special
committee which examined pro-
posals restricting government
sales of arms to foreign coun-
tries. One clause would ban r
sale of Israeli arms to a thir
party, if the nation buying t
arms from the one that h
purchased from Israel wou
use such weapons to maintai
a colonial regime.
This rule was proposed as
result of recent reports—denied
both here and at Bonn—that
West Germany had re-sold to
Portugal a large quantity of
Israel-made Uzzi submachine-
1, according to
't,
said to have
s e d the Is
li-originated
weapons against
independ-
ence movement i
ngola, Af-
rica.
"Expert on Apportionment"
Forei
Golda Meir
explai
all previous
ar
Ministry was
Authority on Constitutional Law, defender of civil
e there was
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doubt" about
ed deal, she said,
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Ministry's veto of
will fight for a State Constitution responsive to the n
eal was always ac-
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without question."

Comfort Ye, Comfort Ye,
My People

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and welfare institutions, and
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Today our mourning is tem-
pered with solace as we con-
template God's mighty deed
in restoring Zion. We hear
the Prophet calling—Comfort
Ye, Comfort Ye, My People!

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