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Vatican Tells Israel Sabbath
fixity Won't Be Affected by
Proposed Reform of Calendar

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—An assurance from the Vatican circles that
the fixity of the Jewish Sabbath as the seventh day of the week would not
be affected by the projected calendar reform which will
be brought before
the Ecumenical Council for discussion was received by the Israeli Com-
mittee to Combat Calendar Reform.
Only the coordination of the dates of the Catholic Easter and the
Greek Orthodox Easter will be discussed by the Council, it was indicated.

London Denies Use of Square
for Anti-Fascist Public Daily

(Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News)

LONDON—The Minister of Public Works Tuesday turned down an
application by the anti-fascist Yellow Star Movement to use Trafalgar
Square for a public meeting on Sunday, Sept. 2.
A Ministry spokesman said the application had been refused "for
the same reasons as set out in a statement issued concerning meetings by
the National Socialist Organization, Mosley's Union Movement and the
British National Party." This said it was not desirable for the square
to be used for controversial meetings at a time when London is full of
visitors.

The Yellow Star movement had planned to fly the Star of David

in the square. At a meeting last Sunday, the
decided that if their
application was refused, protest meetings would group
follow.
The seven-week-old Yellow Star movement opposing anti-Semitism,
fascism and other racist movements, decided at a rally here to launch a
nationwide campaign for signatures to petition Parliament to enact
legislation making public incitement to race hatred and discrimination
an offense.
The resolution, which will be submitted to Home Secretary
Henry
Brooke, declares that incitement to hatred between
racial groups "leads
to humiliation and violence,

loss of liberty and even life."
The Yellow Star organization, whose name is derived from the emblem
which Jews were required to wear under the Nazis, was established in

East London this summer by the Rev. William Sargent who witnessed
from a nearby church a meeting in Trafalgar Square sponsored by Colin
Jordan's National Socialist movement.
As part of the campaign for anti-racist legislation, the Yellow Star
movement is seeking permission to hold a meeting in Trafalgar Square
Sept. 1 under the slogan: "Racial Hate—No: Human Brotherhood—Yes."
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The projected World Calendar, which is to be discussed by the
Ecumenical Council at the Vatican in October, had originally envisaged
a 13-month year, each month with four weeks and with one "world
day"
year, which would not have been reckoned as an ordinary
day of each
the week.

As a result of the extra day, the Jewish Sabbath. recurring every
seven days, would after one year occur on a Friday, and in subsequent years
fall one day earlier. The Chief Rabbinate of Israel. concerned with the effect
that this would have on the observance of the traditional seventh day as the
Jewish day of rest, set up a special committee enjoined to combat any

reform The
of the calendar which might tend to alter the fixity of the Sabbath.
technical expert was a Jerusalemite, Zvi Wahl, an authority on
the Julian, Gregorian,
Moslem and Hebrew calendars who submitted alterna-
tive proposals to the Ecumenial
Council and to the United Nations.
His
proposals would achieve' a universal calendar without affecting the fixity
of the Sabbath.
He provided the Vatican with a detailed table for a permanent
Easter which could be celebrated universally by all the churches.
According to advice received by the Israeli Committee to Combat
Calendar Reform, the Greek Orthodox (Pravoslav) Church has agreed
to accept a fixed date for Easter in accordance with the recommenda-
tions of the Ecumenical Council.
Rabbi Yitzhak Nissim of Israel appealed to the Vatican to
refrain Chief
from recommending the adoption by the forthcoming Ecumenical
Council of calendar reform.

Thousands of Jewish War Veterans Convene
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Here Next Week for 67th Annual Convention

Several thousand men and - women, members of 700 Jewish War
Veterans Posts and Auxiliaries functioning iri nearly all the States in
the Union, will converge into Detroit, starting on Sunday, for a full
week's sessions of the JWV 67th annual national convention.
Lawrence Gubow, U.S. Attorney, president of the JWV Convention
Corporation, who made known the convention program, announced
that registration will commence Sunday at the Sheraton Cadillac Hotel,
and that the formal opening of the convention will take place Wednes-

day, at the Sheraton Cadillac, where a joint session of the 67th annual
convention of the JWV and the 35th annual convention of the JWV
Ladies Auxiliary will take place.
The keynote address at the opening session will be delivered by
Michigan's Governor John B. Swainson. Speakers at the opening session,
in addition to Gubow, will include the national commander, Theodore
Brooks; the head of the national auxiliaries, Mrs. Miriam Shor;

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JWV Convention Speakers:

The Jewish War Veterans' convention
state and local speakers, including, from the left: Governor
ns will be add ressed
sessio
John B. Swainson;
U.S. Attorney Lawrence Gubow , president by prominent nat ional,
JWV convention corporation;
of the 67th national

Mayor
Cavanagh;
Senator Philip A. Hart; Lewis Weinstein, chairman of the National Community Relations
Advisory Council, and National
JWV Jerome
Commander
Theodore
Brooks.