Major issues
Before the UN
Ben-Gurion
and the
Jews of
Denmark
Jews as
Victims of
Sensationalism
Commentary
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Vol. XLI I, No. 4
The Arab refugee problem is expected to emerge as one of the most pressing issues to come up be-
fore the United Nations General Assembly which opened on Tuesday with the election of Zafrullah
Khan of Pakistan as president. The new president h as continually voted against Israel on all issues that
have come up before the UN. The fate of the UN Emergency Force on the Gaza Strip also will be
decided by this UN General Assembly. Mrs. Golda Meir and Michael S. Comay head Israel's delegation.
Their major hope is for increased support for a resolution, similar to the one that was sponsored last
year by Afro-Asian nations, calling for direct Arab-Israel peace negotiations.
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World Jewry Asked to Help in
Algerian Refugee Integration
PARIS, (JTA) — An appeal to world-wide Jewry in general, and to
the Jewish community in France particularly, to aid the integration and
settlement in this country of the more than 100,000 Jewish refugees who
have come here from Algeria was issued by the Fonds Social Juif Unifie,
major Jewish welfare organization in this country, following the conclusion
of a two-day special conference of French JeWry, held at Grenoble.
The FSJU directorate announced that the Jewish Agency in Jerusalem,
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Rep. John. J. Rooney, New York
through
its immigration department and Youth Aliyah, has offered to "give
Democrat, made known that the House Foreign Operations -
to all Algerian Jewish refugees who wish to settle in the JewiSh
Appropriations Subcommittee restored an anti-bias clause de- • • shelter"
State.
"All
such immigrants," stated the Agency offer, "will be assured
leted by the State Department from the Foreign Aid Act for
work
and
lodging."
Israeli work contracts, according to the Agency offer,
fiscal 1963 appropriations.
could be furnished to prospective immigrants while they are still in France.
Rep. Rooney got the subcommittee, on which he is a
Israel, the Jewish Agency informed FSJU, is prepared to grant scholar-
member. to restore the anti-bias wording aimed at the Arab
ships to 100 university students from the ranks of Algerian Jewish refugees
states. The subcommittee, headed by Rep. Otto E. Passman,
here, and to furnish free high school education to all Jewish refugee chil-
Louisiana Democrat, reported out the bill and revealed that
dren between the ages of 12 and 17. Ordinarily, high school education in
drastic reductions had been made in funds requested by the
Israel is not free.
Administration.
Julien Samuel, director-general of the FSJU, reiterated, upon his re-
The clause inserted by the Subcommittee, and accepted
turn
from the extraordinary sessions at Grenoble, that the influx of the
by the full committee in the bill sent to the floor, said: "It is-
refugees
from Algeria has created "extraordinary problems." One of these
the sense of Congress that any attempt by foreign nations
problems,
he said, is centered about the fact that "many of the Algerian
to create distinctions because of their race or religion among
repatriates
are still closely bound to their ancestral religion and are pious
American citizens in the granting of personal or commercial
in
their
religious
praCtices." For that reason, he said, the French synagogues
access or any other rights otherwise available to U.S. citizens
will
have
to
play
a heavy role in the efforts to integrate the refugees into
generally is repugnant to our principles; and in all negotia-
Jewish communal life in this country."
tions between the United States and any foreign state arising
Samuel particularly besought French Jewry to "contribute heavily to
as a result of funds appropriated under this title these prin-
a special fund established to aid the tens of thousands of the refugees who
ciples shall be applied as the President may determine."
are special hardship cases." He thanked the Joint Distribution Committee
Rep. Rooney said he insisted on this wordina because
for
the financial aid given the French Jewish community since the problem
he felt that if an Arab state discriminated against American
b
of
the
refugees from Algeria started.
citizens purely on the basis of religion the state should be
"The
Grenoble conference," said Samuel, "has demo'nstrated the de-
denied U.S. assistance financed by American taxpayers."
termination of French Jewry, as well as Jews outside this country, to
implement concrete plans which should result in the integration of the
Algerian Jewish refugees into French life at the earliest possible time."
Report Kennedy Plans to Bring
JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN FRANCE CONFER ON PROBLEMS
31. E. Leaders for Peace Talks
GRENOBLE, France, (JTA)—The influx of over 100,000 Algerian Jews
Is President Kennedy Planning to press for "mediation" between
into
this country has posed the most grave problems of care, relief and
Israel and the Arab states?
survival
faced by French Jewry in modern times, the Jewish community
This question is now receiving more than the usual attention as a
of
this
country
was warned.
result of a report that the President has in view to invite both President
At
the
conclusion
of a two-day conference in this city summoned by
Nasser of Egypt and Prime Minister Ben-Gurion of Israel for official
Fonds Social Juif Unifie, the major French Jewish welfare organization,
visits with him in Washington.
called to evaluate the problem, analyzing its implications and planning
Yediot Achronot, the Tel Aviv weekly newspaper, reports that it has
for concrete actions on the part of the Jews of France.
it on good authority that President Kennedy is anxious to do something
More than 30 French, Jewish, local and provincial organizations and
soon. to fulfill his pledges to the Zionists of America to strive for an
Arab-Israeli peace agreement.
institutions were represented at the parley by 160 delegates. This was the
The new rumors do not take into account the increasing rifts between
first all-France meeting of the kind in modern times, and was considered
Nasser and other Arab leaders, which might eventually eliminate Nasser
evidence of the deep impact made upon the Jewish community in this
as spokesman for the Arabs. .
Anti-Bias Clause, Deleted by
State Department ! Restored in
Foreign -Aid Measure for 1963
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Hadassah Convention Asks U. S. to Aid in Middle
East Peace Efforts. and Join Fight Through UN on
Anti-Semitism; Adopt New ',INF Settlement Project
By Jewish News Special Correspondent
PITTSBURGH, Pa.—The more than 2,000 delegates from all states, speaking for the 318,000 members
in 1,320 chapters, unanimously adopted resolutions requesting the United States Government to take firm steps
in two areas -- in efforts to stem the rising tide of anti-Semitism and in taking steps to bring peace and
stability in the Middle East.
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Expressing "anxiety and alarm" over "the mounting military build-6p of Israel's Arab neighbors,
especially Egypt," the - convention asked the U.S. Government to make it "unequivocally clear" that the U.S.
"will not permit any act of aggression in the Middle East"; to take steps to remedy the "dangerous arms
jmbalance which constitutes an invitation to aggression"; and to support all efforts to encourage direct Arab-
Israel peace negotiations," especially those proposed by United Nations member nations.
The resolution on anti-Semitism called upon the U.S. Government to "exert its influence, particularly in
the forums of the United Nations, to impress upon the community of nations the necessity of asking such
measures as are necessary to stop persecution wherever it exists." The resolution declared: "The world must
be made to understand that persecution of any group of people anywhere, because of their color, race or creed,
threatens the freedom of people everywhere."
The convention decided to embark upon 2 $2,100,000 project to create a new Jewish National Fund
settlement in the Arava area of the Negev—south of the Dead Sea — to be known as "Hevel Hadassah." This
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Revival Planned by
Party .That Brought
nitlerism to Power
HAMBURG, (JTA) — Plans for reconsti-
tuting the prewar German National Peoples
Party, considered a reservoir of right-wing and
other conservative elements in West Germany,
were revealed here Tuesday.
The party's "preparatory commission" today
confinted it had sent out notices to its leading
cadres, calling for a national convention to be
held next Sunday to revive the organization.
An influential political grouping during the
Weimar Republic, the old German National
Peoples Party was instrumental in bringing
Hitler to power in 1933.
The police chief of Weinheinz who stated
that not enough Jews had been killed by Hitler
was declared not guilty of making anti Semitic
remarks, by R court at Weinheim, in the State
of Baden.
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