Explore Solution to Sabbath Programming Problem
With exactly four weeks remaining for
a definite decision to be reached on the ques-
tion of Sabbath programming at the Jewish
Community - Center, a special committee
selected by Max M. Fisher went into action
this week to explore all available avenues for
a solution to the problem.
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75th Birthday
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Fisher announced the appointment of
Mandell L. Berman as chairman of the spe-
cial committee, with Stanley J. Winkelman
as co-chairman. Committee m e m b e r s, in-
cluding Fisher, are: Max Biber, Avern Cohn,
Rabbi Leon Fram, Samuel Frankel, Morris
Garvett, Charles H. Gershenson, Sidney J.
Karbel, Louis LaMed, Rabbi Leizer Levin,
Milton J. Miller, Rabbi Jacob E. Segal, Abra-
ham Srere and Phillip Stollman.
This committee already has met this
week to determine the basis on which the
Center is to be opened on Saturday after-
noons beginning Nov. 4.
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UNRRA Statement Branded 'Political' Document
Israel Gets Severe Blow
in UN Report Absolving
Arabs on Refugee Issue
By SAUL CARSON
Lands Found Biased Against
American Citizens Will Lose
Cooperation of Peace Corps
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Director Robert Sargent Shriver, Jr.,
of the Peace Corps, made known that despite elimination of anti-
bias provisions from the Peace Corps Act, the Corps will refuse
to operate in nations that discriminate against American personnel
on a basis of race or religion. •
In a letter to Rep. . Leonard Farbstein, New York Democrat,
Shriver clarified the Peace Corps' policy toward discrimination.
Shriver said "The House-Senate conference committee did delete
an anti-discrimination clause from the Peace Corps legislation."
But he stressed that "this act will not change the Peace Corps
policy of selecting volunteers without regard to race or creed.
Neither does it change the Peace Corps policy of not going into
any country which might discriminate against Peace Corps Volun-
teers because of race or creed."
Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—Dr. John W. Davis, director of the United Na-
tions Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near. East, told
the General Assembly here Wednesday that "the basic feelings" of the Arab
people, non-refugees as well as refugees, "demand the right of choice" between
repatriation to Israel or compensation by Israel.
Declaring that these 'are "rights" under a 1948 resolution by the Assembly
and saying these rights have never been implemented," Davis absolved the
Arab "host governments" where the refugees live—Egypt, Syria, Jordan and
Lebanon, from responsibility for the fate of the Arab refugees.
He declared: "When account is taken of the entire array' of complicated
problems confronting -the host governments, not only with respect to refugees
but encompassing the whole struggle for development and progress, it seems
clearly unrealistic to assume that the major responsibility for solving the refugee
problem should now rest with the host governments."
Thus, Davis was seen - as dismissing totally the alternAive of resettling
the Arab refugees in Arab lands—an alternative clearly indicated in the same
1948 resolution which speaks of the possibility of repatriation or compensation.
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Appeas.emeinut and Cynicism on Arab - Israel Issue
EDITOR'S NOTE: Israel's position at the United Nations and in our nation's capital has assumed extreme gravity, in view of the pressure
of the State Department for concessions to the Arab states while insisting upon Israel's yielding on the refugee and other issues, and because of the
report due Oct. 15 on the refugee problem. The protest registered with the head of the United States delegation to the UN, Adlai E. Sevenson, by
Israel's spokesmen, Mrs. Golda Meir and Michael S. Camay, against the selection of Mongi Slim, of Tunis, president of the UN General Assembly,
as Dag Hammarskjold's successor, because of his anti-Israel actions, was an indication of Israel's concern over the latest developments in the Arab-Israel
conflict. The following articles, by our JTA correspondents at the UN and in Washington, throw new light on the developing situations.
Will an Enemy of Israel at the UN State Department Role as Appeaser
Become Hammarskjold's Successor? of Nasser to the Detriment of Israel
By SAUL CARSON
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright, 1961, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
(Copyright. 1961, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—How long does it take for a tear to dry?
What speed transforms mourning into electric ambition?
How desolate was this House the day word came of Dag Hammarskjold's
death! And how cynical did it become within 24 hours!
Hammarskjold's broken bones were not yet interred in the soil of his
home in Sweden, when the fight for succession had begun. Oh, to be sure,
there was sincere grief when the. first cables arrived, reporting the tragedy.
Tragedy it was. Not only to diplomats. Also to many others, like this corre-
spondent, who, for so long, had known this great man. Never, ,in all the
years this writer has been reporting the work of Dag Hammargkjold, has
Hammarskjold been accused, in this department, of doing anything but the
duty as he saw it. In the truest sense of the word, Hammarskjold was the
man who—to use one of his favorite phrases—insisted on "the will to peace."
He hit hard on that theme in regard to Arab-Israeli as on all other matters
affecting war and peace. Yes, he had at times displeased Israel and friends
of Israel. But never was his will to peace doubted.
Yet, as - soon as he was gone, delegates here were willing and OadY to
WASHINGTON—Appeasement of the Arabs at Israel's expense by pressure
at the United Nations to give one million Arab refugees a "choice" of returning
to Israel disturbs Congressmen of both parties.
The State Department is telling Congress that Israel must open its
borders to all the Arab refugees who want to live in the Jewish State.
The State Department view was given to the House Appropriations
Committee in testimony on foreign operations appropriations for 1962. The
Department announced that "friendly relations with the United Arab Republic
are an indispensable requisite to the resolution on important area problems?'
The Department's new thinking was spelled out by Howard R. Cottam,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economy Affairs. Cottam said: "The U.A.R.
is perhaps the largest and strongest militarily and economically of the Arab
states and the role that Mr. Nasser plays with his Arab brotherS is a vital one.
He also is increasing his participation on the international scene. He needs
external assistance . . . it is our policy to assist him in order to avoid the
alternative of total reliance on Soviet aid." (See Commentary, Page 2.)
Cottam made .known that the Administration was concerned about the
Arab refugees for political as well as humanitarian reasons. He pointed out
that the United States is a member of the UN Palestine Conciliation Commis-
sion and "charged by resolution of the last UN General Assembly to formulate
a report 'by Oct. 15 whereby the refugees could be offered the alternative of
'repatriation to their homes or compensation."
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forget that prime principle, that fundamental need for a will - td'peace expressed
in absolute fairness to all sides involved in any dispute. :Without shame,
delegates from countries considered among Israel's most trustworthYCIriends
were willing to consider the election of Tunisia's Mongi Slim as the acting
executive chief of the United Nations.
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