THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Friday, August 4, 19 61 6
$35 Million Property Claim Against
Egypt Filed by Jewish Family
LONDON, (JTA)—An Anglo-
Jewish family whose properties
in Egypt were expropriated by
the Egyptian government during,
the 1956 Suez campaign was dis-
closed to have filed a claim for
compensation of 12,500,000
pounds sterling ($35,000,000).
The claim was filed by Ellis
Smouha with the Foreign Claims
Commission which makes pay-
ments in such cases from the
27,500,000 pounds sterling ($77,-
000,000) which Egypt paid to
Britain in settlement of all claims
by British nationals for property
in Egypt.
Smouha told the commission
that his father, a Manchester
resident, went to Egypt on a mis
sion for the British governme
in 1917. At the end of Wor
War I, he began to acquire pr
erty in Alexandria which even
ally became "Smouha City," a
Red Party Draf
Charges West of
Anti-Semitism
name bestowed by the late King
Fouad who once said that the
elder Smouha was the only for-
eigner who brought his money
with him to Egypt and did good
for the country.
Ellis Smouha said it had been
his father's intention to sell the
num-
property gradually
us prov
ber of years a
a
satisfactory
or all m
bers of his mily. However, h
added, t
family had come t
the co
ion, even before 1956,
that
uld soon become • pos-
sib
foreigners, parti I larly
fo J s, to live comforta • and
h f t worry in Egy
H • said this
ncl •
wa
eaChed despit
t th
father was
eld
very •
esteem by11 ns
eltf
.o
population
e govern
t."
The family ma a sma start
toward transf in g the' prop-
erty but lo
erythin s a re-
suit of the expropr"
pr'
The
claimant said that
thing had
been returned to
family, not
'even the income llected by the
ent over the
csyptian gov
s:
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Refer-
ence to anti-Semitism is made
in the text of the draft pro-
gram of the Soviet Communist
Party to be presented to the
22nd congress of the party in
October in which pledges are
made to improve conditions of
life in the Soviet Union.
"Imperialist reaction makes
extensive use of chauvinism to
incite nationalist conflicts, per-
secute entire nationalities and
national groups through anti-
Semitism and racial discrimina-
tion against Negroes," the draft
says. Nothing is mentioned
about the suppression of Jew-
ish culture in the Soviet Union.
(A resolution calling on the
Soviet Union to allow Jewish
schools to function in that coun-
try was unanimously adopted
in Rio-de-Janeiro at the sixth
International Congress for Free
Education attended by dele-
gates from 32 countries, includ-
ing several new African states.
The resolution was proposed by
Dr. Shaul Levin, director of the
Education Department of the
Tel Aviv Municipality.)
The draft also attacks reli-
gion. It says: "Clericalism is
acquiring ever greater impor-
tance in the political and ideo-
logical arsenal of imperialism.
The clericals do not confine
themselves to using the church
and its ramified machinery.
They now have their own big
political parties which in many
capitalist countries are in
power. They set up their own
trade union, youth, women's
and other organizations and split
ranks of the working class and
all working people. The monop-
olies lavishly subsidize clerical
parties and organizations, which
exploit the religious sentiments
of the working people and their
superstitions and prejudices."
Youths in Cleveland
Jailed for Vandalism of
Jewish Center Building
CLEVELAND, (JTA) — A
large number of boys are under
arrest and will be tried in Ju-
venile Court here on charges of
having participated in vandal-
ism against the Jewish Com-
munity Center in S h a k e r
Heightg.
Police said the youths had
entered the building, broke
windows and had destroyed fur-
niture and fittings worth more
than $1,000.
Detective Sergeant R alph
Schaar said that furnace gas
jets had been turned on by the
vandals and that an explosion
could have wrecked the entire
building when a fire was started
with candles. He described the
vandalism as "spontaneous"
and said that he felt "no malice
was involved."
Restoration of Ancien
WORMS, (JTA)—Reconstr
tion of the Rashi Synago e,
dy
the house of worship and
by
founded in the 11th cent
the famed Biblical an
Tal-
mudic commentator abbi
be
Shlomo Ben-Yitzhak, w
an-
completed this fall, it w
al-
nounced by Worms Mtin
e
ity, which is carrying ou
project jointly with the Rh
land-Pfalz state government.
The cost of reconstruction of
the historic building, which was
estroyed by the Nazis on the
nfamous Crystal Night in No-
ember, 1938, is estimated at
ashi Synagogue Nears Corn letion in Germany
anno ced completion of the
utschemarks ($
300,000
vajplabl i al reno tion of the old Jewish
000). Mos of
e ce tery in the city. The burial
objects h
nd was badly damaged in
fri ds
were say
bombing attack during the
ty.
of the J
Second World War.
unicipality a
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