NEW YORK (JTA) — Jacob chairman, Michael S. Comay, crude device of prohibiting the
S. Potofsky, president of the Ambassador U On Sein, of import of matzoh which have
Amalgamated Clothing Work- Burma and Ambassador Ger- been offered as a gift to those
families behind the Iron Cur-
ers of America, strongly con- shon Collier, of Sierra Leone.
Citing this year's Soviet tain who wish to preserve their
demned the Soviet Union for
its efforts to eradicate Jewish ban on matzoh-baking in state heritage. -
culture and its "outrageous factories as one of the .anti-
This is not a simple curtail-
blow" at 3,000,000 Jews of the Jewish steps taken by Soviet ment of religious traditions but
Potofsky
said:
"I
authorities
,
an
outrageous blow at an ex-
USSR by severely restricting
their right to bake and obtain condemn this effort to eradi- pression of man's hope for lib-
cate Jewish culture and tra- eration from bondage. contem-
ma tzohs.
Potofsky addressed the tra- dition from the heart of Rus- porary as well as ancient."
In another address, Dr. Sol
ditional "Third Seder," con- sian Jewry, even if that cul-
Stein, executive director of
ducted by the National Corn- ture and tradition is saturat-
ed
with
the
ideals
of
free-
the National Committee for
mittee for Labor Israel, the
Labor Israel, cited the pro-
American fund-raising arm of dom which the Soviets ap-
parently
exalt
as
their
ulti-
gress made by Israel during
Histadrut, the Israel Federa-
the past 14 years.
tion of Labor. More than 2,000 mate goal.
"The Soviet regime has gone
guests attended the festivities
Other speakers included Isa-
at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. to extremes to cut off normal iah Avrech American repre-
A number of United Nations contact between the Jews of sentative of the Histadrut ex-
Ambassadors participated, in- that country and their fellow ecutive, Aharon Becker, gen-
cluding Israel's UN delegation Jews everywhere even by the eral secretary of Histadrut and
Yehoshua Levi, the Federa-
tion's treasurer. A cable was
read from Yitzhak Ben-Zvi,
president of Israel. appealing
for increased aid to Israel's
531,000,000 worth of American pioneering forces.
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A highlight of the "Third
cies affecting relations with agricultural surpluses under
Israel, opened Tuesday at the U.S. Public Law 480. These Seder" was the lighting of six
candles
in memory of the six
Amman capital of Jordan be- purchases would be reportedly
tween leading cabinet members spread over a period of three million Jews who died during
of Jordan and Saudi Arabia, years at the rate of 5177,000.000 the Hitler regime, and the
chanting of the Russian poem
according to a dispatch received annually.
here from Amman.
At the same time. another "Babi Yar." which denounces
Jordan's Foreign Minister Has- dispatch from Amman, Jordan, anti-Semitism.
sem Nuseibeh is host of the con- reported that a $9,800,000
ference, while Saudi Arabia is chemical fertilizer plant, largest Don Frohman Chorus
represented by Prime Minister of its kind in the Middle East.
Mumford High,
Wasfi Al Tell and Ahmed Shu- will be built in Jordan by a
May 27
kairy. The latter. holding the West German corporation.
rank of Saudi Arabia's Minister
of State for United Nations
Affairs. has been for years the
most volatile of Arab attackers
against Israel at the United
Nations.
The United Arab Republic
is reportedly meeting with
"positive" reactions on the
part of the United States Gov-
ernment in efforts to borrow
a half billion dollars to fill
the gap in the UAR's foreign
currency requirements, ac-
cording to Cairo reports re-
ceived here Tuesday.
UAR Minister of Economy
Kaissouny is now in Washing-
ton soliciting such a loan from
the United States. In addition.
trying to arrange purchase of
the Cairo report stated he is
German Cleric Urges Ties with Israel
WOLFSBURG. West Ger- Arab countries would promptly
many. (JTA)—Dean Heinrich extend diplomatic recognition
Grueber, Berlin Evangelical to the East German regime in
churchman who testified for reprisal.
the prosecution in the Adolph
Eichmann trial in Jerusalem,
said it was a "shame" that the
West German government con-
tinued to withhold diplomatic
recognition of Israel.
Dean Grueber expressed that
Opinion in a discussion here of
the significance of the Eich-
mann trial for Israel-West Ger-
man relations. The issue of such
diplomatic ties has emerged
TO TAT
intermittently during the past
several years. It is generally
believed that the West German
Government has refrained from
acting to establish such ties
with Israel out of fears that
,
A lgerian Provisional Govt.
Denies Anti..Israel Threats
3 - THE DETROIT J EWISH N EWS
Union Chief Hits Russian Matzoh Restrictions
as 'Outrageous Blow' Against Three Million Jews
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Algerian-Jewish Peace
Urged at Paris Meet
PARIS (JTA)—The Interna-
tional League Against Racism
and Anti-Semitism has adopted
a resolution asking for Moslem-
Jewish rapprochement in Al-
geria.
The League. which held a
plenary session in the UNESCO
building here. attended by 200
delegates from Metropolitan
France and North Africa, heard
reports from Algeria which as-
serted that the Jewish and
Moslem communities can con-
tinue to live peacefully and co-
operate under the new inde-
pendent regime. The delegates
also recalled that many Alger-
ian Moslems opposed Vichy's
racist anti-Semitic laws, and
assisted persecuted Jews.
Germany Investigates
for Nazi Crimes
WIESBADEN, Nest Ger-
many. (JTA)—The Wiesbaden
prosecution office disclosed it
had begun investigation of the
Nazi careers of eight former
members of the security police.
he eight are suspected of
taking part in the execution of
31.000 Jews and Russian pris-
oners of war in the Lublin dis-
trict during World War II. The
prosecution office said several
hundred witnesses had been
interrogated. The principal sus-
pects were listed as former
Criminal Commissars Hermann
Worthoff. George Lothar Hoff-
mann. Johannes Mueller and
Bruno Meiert.
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