Ben-Gurion Reportedly Intimates
Arabs Are Fifth Column in Israel
no reference to the specific
quotation attributed to him, said
JERUSALEM—Prime Minister that he was not responsible for
David Ben-Gm- ion was questioned press reports in his name, ex-
in the parliament here Tuesday cept those which he had person-
about an interview with him, ally submitted and signed.
printed recently in the Parisian
Ben-Gurion was also ques-
newspaper Le Figaro, in which tioned in parliament Tuesday
he had been quoted as saying about a concession given to a
that "Israeli Arabs prefer that French firm by Kol Israel, the
Israel be an Arab state and, if government-owned radio broad-
given an opportunity, • they would casting service, for the broadcast
support the destruction of Israel." of commercial advertising on
The question was put by Moshe both radio and television.
Carmel, a Knesset member of
He replied that establishment
the Ahdut Avodah Party. Ben- of a television . service here has
Gurion was asked whether he not as yet been discussed at the
desired to correct the report. in cabinet level but that he, per-
Le Figaro and what the political sonally, was against having TV
aim of such a statement was—if, in Israel. He expressed the hope
indeed, he had made the state- that "it will be a long time
yet" before television comes to
ment.
The Prime Minister, making I Israel.
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Israel Names Darom as Permanent
Representative to United Nations
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to The Jewish News)
'UNITED NATIONS. N.Y. —
Ambassador Avraham Darom, for
the last six years director of the
Latin American Department of
Israel's Foreign Ministry, as-
sumed here Tuesday the post of
Israel's deputy permanent repre-
sentative to the United Nations.
The permanent representative
is Ambassador Michael S. Comay.
Born in Chile in 1906, Darom
received a law degree from the
University of Chile, at Santiago,
practiced criminal law, lectured
at the university, later became
legal adviser to the Chilean
Ministry of Labor and was Direc-
tor-General of Chilean state
prisons until he went to Israel
in 1949.
After joining the staff of the
Israel Foreign Ministry, he served
first as Israel's diplomatic repre-
sentative at Athens, later as
minister plenipotentiary at Bel-
grade.
Washington Suburb
Enacts Anti-Bias Law
WASHINGTON (JTA) —
Maryland's Montgomery Coun-
ty, a suburb of Washington, be-
came the first in the State to
enact a law barring religious
and racial discrimination in
public places.
The County Council approved
the law—first of its kind any-
where in Maryland—by a vote
of 4-2.
The ruling is expected to
have bearing on action in the
forthcoming session of the
State Legislature at Annapolis
where several state-wide anti-
discrimination measures are re-
portedly being roadie 1 for in-
troduction. Many Federal gov-
ernment employees live in the
county.
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He also represented Israel at
the United Nations Conference
on The Law of The Sea at
Geneva, in 1960, and served on
Israel's delegations to the Gen-
eral Assembly here in 1949 and
in 1959.
A well-known author on crim-
nal law, Darom was the founder
of a quarterly journal, in Chile.
dealing with penology. He had
also been, for several terms,
president of the Chilean Zionist
Organization.
Chicago Rabbis
Offer Reward for
Information on Blast
CHICAGO, (JTA) — The Chi-
cago Board of Rabbis announced
this week a $1,000 reward for
information leading to the arrest
and conviction of those respon-
sible for the dynamite attack on
a North Side Orthodox synagogue
which caused extensive damage.
The attack on Congregation
Chevro Kadisho Machzikai Hadas
occurred Dec. 31. Intensive
efforts by police have failed to
produce any leads to the dyna-
miters.
The board, in announcing the
reward, expressed satisfaction
with the response of local law
enforcement officials and . added
that member rabbis were "'con-
fident the dishonor brought to
our community by this incident
will soon be erased and that the
speedy apprehension of the in-
dividuals responsible will restore
the good name of our city."
Rabbi Julius D. Goldman,
spiritual leader of the bombed
synagogue, said a "viciously
threatening" letter had been re-
ceived demanding the return of
the $100 donated by a Catholic
priest to a repair fund for. the
synagogue. Rabbi Goldman turned
the letter over to police.
Israeli Intellectuals
Urge Government End
Military Rule for Arabs
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A pub-
lic appeal to the government to
abolish "all discrimination and
cancel military rule" in Arab
areas, was issued by Ihud, the
Association for Jewish - Arab
Rapprochement. -
The appeal was signed by
three of Israel's leading acade-
micians: Prof. Martin Buber
and Prof. Ernst Simon, of the
Hebrew University, and Prof.
Yehudah Leon Shereshefsky, of
the Technion of Haifa.
The appeal requested the goV-
ernment "to honor its pledge
of complete equality" for the
Arabs in Israel. It charged that,
in the past 13 years, the gov-
ernment committed a c t i o n s
"which were bound to give the
inhabitants (of the Arab areas)
a feeling of second-class citizen-
ship."
National Council to Study
Problems of Religions
NEW YORK, (JTA)—A nine-
member council, to act as an ad-
visory body in dealing with poli-
tical and social problems involv-
ing religious differences, has
been appointed by the National
Conference of Christians and
Jews, Dr. Lewis Webster Jones,
president of the NCCJ, an-
nounced.
The council will aid imple-
mentation of a new NCCJ project
to raise the general level of dis-
cussion among religious groups
on such issues as Federal aid to
private and parochial schools,
birth control legislation, Bible
reading in public schools and
Sunday closing legislation.
Four of the members of the
council are prominent Protestant,
Roman Catholic, Eastern Ortho-
dox and Jewish theologians.
"LETTER BOX"
Comments on Dr. Adler's nor a tree—as the blind men of
the legend concluded when
Views on 'The Tenth Man' feeling
the tail, the sides or the
Editor, The Jewish News:
legs. —S.
Because I have regarded, and
(Editor's note: The author of
of course do regard, Rabbi Ad- this letter, who prefers to re- .
ler with great respect, admira- main anonymous, is a learned
tion and affection, I cannot but member of our community, an
feel it presumptuous of me to authority on playwriting and a
take issue with anything he man who had a share in pre-
may say on the subject of "The paring theatrical performances
Tenth Man."
and knows and understands the
I cannot agree that the art- theater.)
ist is not a .propagandist. Great
dramatistS have not avoided Unpunished Terror on TV
Preaching. Even Shaw's "Pyg-
malion"—light as it seems— Editor, The Jewish News:
Arthur Miller presented in a
certainly teaches man's respon-
sibility for his influence on television play, Jan. 21, two gen-
tiles who lost their jobs because
others.
Shakespeare is filled with a they looked like Jews. They got
thousand and one epigramatic married and bought a home.
Their gentile neighbors couldn't
lessons. "Romeo and Juliet"
concludes in an unconcealed stand those two "jews". any more
lecture on brotherhood. "King than the Jewish drugstore _owner,
Lear" is, in its entirety, a pow- whose windows were being brok-
ful sermon to honor parents— en and his son beaten up.
The gentile couple, taken for
as commanded. Hamlet's fa-
mous soliloquy shows the evil Jews, didn't have it any easier.
of self destruction and true Their_ shrubs were torn out and
value of life. Throughout all trash cans were turned over on
his plays, the author found their lawn by the neighbors, who
"the play's the thing to touch were trying to drive to drive
them out of the neighborhood.
the conscience . . ."
I differ with, Dr. Adler in Finally the "Jew" was beaten,up
on his wife's advice he goes
this, at least: fine and great and
to a neighbor to prove he is no
artists
can,
must
and
do
have
a
`Jewish Advocate'
moral to their story—and do Jew, whom, as he said, he hates
not merely "hold the mirror up too. The moral of the story was
of Boston Turns 60
BOSTON, (JTA)—With a spe- to life."
purely outlined since the anti-
With the rest of Dr. Adler's Semitic hoodlums got away un-
cial edition featuring messages
of greeting from Federal, State views, I think we - agree. The punished.
and local leaders in all fields, dramatist must portray truly
This TV show was on at 5 On:
the Jewish Advocate, leading the world in which we live. and s c or es of teenagers were
That
is
exactly
what
I
feel
English-Jewish w e e k l y news-
Watching and so this Jew-baiting
paper, started celebrating the Chayefsky has not done.
business is being made to look
There may be Jews who sit so "simple" it may become en-
60th anniversary of its founding.
Among the greetings were in the House of God and invoke couraging to some punks and a
messages from President Ken- vile, fantastic curses on their hint how to try to get rid of a
nedy; Governor John A. Volpe daughters-in-law! I have not met Jew just "for kicks."
of Massachusetts; and Mayor them and, if they exist, are
A Jewish playwright and a
they not very, very few indeed? Jewish
John H. Collins of Boston.
sponsoring . organization
There may be Rabbis com- owes the
Founded 60 years ago as the
society a stronger moral
Mt. Sinai Monthly, the Jewish pletely committed to material- obligation and a more convincing
istic
"success"—utterly
devoid
Advocate passed later into the
argument in the fight against
hands of the late Jacob de Haas, of any spirituality or inspira- anti-Semitism.
tion.
If
so,
I
have
not
known
prominent Zionist leader and
HYMAN SHENKMAN
former secretary to Dr. Theodor them—either Orthodox, Conser-
24274 Norfolk
Herzl. In 1916, de Haas was suc- vative or Reform.
There
may
be
Jews,
in
this
ceeded as editor and publisher
by Alexander Brin, who was day of science, still so super- Z9A Membership Drive
joined by his brother, the late stitious as to explain mental Boosts Total to 74,500
Joseph G. Brin, and later by illness as possession by disem-
More than 2,500 new mem-
Abraham Weisberg and Joseph bodied spirits. If so, they cer-
G. Weisberg. Brin is now editor tainly are few and far between. bers have been enrolled in the
and publisher, -while Joseph G. I regard their fantasies as no Zionist Organization of Amer-
more Jewish than that of the ica since Oct. 1, which, to-
Weisberg is co-publisher.
Rosenthals and Sobels—who gether with 72,000 members re-
Would. bring the Messianic era enrolled since then, brings up
Plan World Session
through .Communisrn. Should the total as of Jan. 15, to '74,-
write a play, based on that 500 members, it was announced
on Jewish Education one
trial? Of none of this can it be by Max Bressler, ZOA presi-
NEW YORK (JTA) — The said that these smallest of frac- dent.
first world Jewish assembly to tions is "true of life . . ."
Bressler voiced confidence
discuss problems of Jewish edu-
I think Dr. Adler and I that the ZOA will come to its
cation in the countries outside agree. If we differ, it is only 65th annual convention, which
of Israel will convene in Jeru- how tiny and eccentric a seg- is scheduled to open in Wash.:
salem on Aug. 12, according to ment . constitutes "life." The ington, D.C. on June 28, with
a joint announcement by Dr. elephant - is not a rope, a well, at least 125,000 members.
Nahum Goldmann and Label A.
Katz, chairman and co-chair-
man, of the WOrld Conference_
BY HENRY LEONARD
of Jewish Organizations, spon-
sor of the assembly. The assem-
bly will be in session for six
days.
The World Conference of
Jewish Organizations — known
as COJO—is the coordinating
and deliberating body of major
Jewish organizations on five
continents and has the twofold
aim of safeguarding Jewish
rights wherever they may be
threatened and the perpetuation
of Jewish consciousness and
identification by c o m b a ting
Jewish cultural disintegration
through assimilation.
OM
Israel Embassy in Paris Receives
Bomb Threats; OAS Is Suspected
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PARIS—Special police secur-
ity officers are guarding the
Israel Embassy after_ Embassy
officials r e c e iy e d bombing
threats over the week-end, pre-
sumably emanating from the
OAS, the secret French under-
ground opposed to independ-
ence for Algeria.
The Israel Embassy is located
in the heart of Paris. The
threats to blow up the head-
quarters of the Israel Mission
were reported to the police as
soon as they were received.
Special security guards were
assigned by the police immedi-
ately to guard the building.
"No, it's not a screen
test. My cousin
Moe is getting married."
Copr. 1961, Dayanv Productions
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