THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, December 7, 1962
Arab Delegate's Bigotry Arouses Resentment in UN
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Chile and live there as equal
David Ben-Gurion, F i n a n c e citizens. Hence I reject his
Minister Levi Eshkol and other words. How can he ask for
leaders of the Israel govern- such a thing? We are based on
ment:
the principles of freedom. We
The Chilean diplomat, Don
believe in no racism. Under
Ramon Huidobro, sharply rep-
the Lima Charter, all Latin
rimanded Shukairy and stated
Americans are pledged to re-
in an address before the UN
spect and cherish all reli-
Political Committee on Mon-
gions."
day: "I am sure his words do
Comay, refusing to enter into
not represent the feelings of personalities, told the commit-
the many Arabs who came to tee that Egypt, which was corn-
Educators, Jewish Leaders Recall
Achievements of Dr. Weizmann at
Columbia University Memorial Fete
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
NEW YORK — The political
achievements of Dr. Chaim
Weizmann, the late first pres-
ident of the State of Israel, and
his place in Jewish history—as
well as the outstanding position
he attained in the world of
science—were emphasized here
Tuesday night at a commem-
orative assembly held at the
Columbia University on the
10th anniversary of his death.
An overflow audience of
Jewish communal leaders and
scholars attended the assembly
which was sponsored by Co-
lumbia University with the co-
operation of the Jewish Agency
for Israel. Principal speakers at
the gathering were Dr. Nahum
Goldmann, president of the
Jewish Agency for Israel and
the World Zionist Organization;
Richard H. Crossman, member
of the British House of Com-
mons; and Professor David Rit-
tenberg, chairman of the bio-
chemistry department of Co-
lumbia University. Professor
Salo Baron, director of the
Center of Israel and Jewish
Studies at Columbia University,
delivered the • introductory re-
marks.
Goldmann said that Weiz-
mann "taught the Jewish peo-
ple to rely primarily on its own
efforts, not to think that the
Balfour Declaration meant that
Great Britain would make a
gift of a Jewish homeland to
the Jewish people, but that all
political achievements create
only opportunities which be-
come realities if the people in-
volved make use of the oppor-
tunities."
Goldmann added that "to
maintain the necessary balance
between the vision as the final
idea and the slow day-to-day
progressing realization of this
dream was his main message
and legacy."
Crossman told the assembly
that "the decisive factor" in
obtaining the Balfour Declara-
tion which committed Britain
to support of a Jewish home-
land in Palestine was Weiz-
mann's success in impressing
the then Premier Lloyd George
•
and Lord Balfour "with the
strength of the demand through-
out world Jewry for a return
to Zion." He said he felt that
Weizmann, if he was alive today,
would be "deeply disturbed" by
"the ideological conflicts which
so often now disturb the rela-
tion of Israel in the diaspora
and in particular by certain Is-
raeli attitudes toward Zionism."
Rittenberg described Weiz-
mann as "an intensely practical
man" who was nevertheless
"able on many occasions to
detach himself from this world
and immerse himself in the
world of pure science." His es-
tablishment of the Weizmann
Institute in Israel was "one of
his g r eat contributions to
Israel was "one of his great
contributions to. Israel," Ritten-
berg said.
Conference on African
`Roads to Socialism'
Draws 4 from Israel
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
DAKAR — Four Israelis took
part Tuesday as individuals in
the first Conference on African
Economic Development Plans
and Roads to Socialism.
The Conference was sponsored
by Giorgio Lapira, mayor of
Florence, Italy, and Leopold
Senghor, president of the Sene-
gal Republic.
Those attending included offi-
cial delegations from 19 African
countries and individual partici-
pants from the United States,
Italy, France, West Germany and
Britain. The only Arab delega-
tion present was that of Tunisia.
The Israelis were Mark Jar-
blum of the International Depart-
ment of the Histadrut, Professor
Jehoshua Prawer of Hebrew Uni-
versity, Akiva Eger, director of
the Afro-Asian Institute Trade
Union Cooperative Studies; and
David Libon, economic adviSer to
the . Cameroun government, who
came as a member of the Cam-
eroun delegation.
Moshe Sharett, chairman of
the Jewish Agency Executive,
cancelled his trip here at the
last minute after deciding to
Visit the United States.
plaining of all e g e d Israel
"aggression," had been quarrel
ing with many other UN mem
bers. He specified Egyptia n
aggressions and breakage o f
more diplomatic relations wit h
Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Iran
Turkey and Saudi Arabia. H e
took particular exception to th e
Egyptian's characterization o f
Israelis as "Nazis," declarin g
"it takes sheer Nazi mentalit y
even to make such a corn
parison." He accused the Egyp
tian government of employin g
Nazis now in its propagand a
apparatus especially.
When Comay had answered
the Egyptian, Shukairy took the
floor and delivered another
diatribe lasting a full hour. It
was Shukairy's fifth speech in
three days. Comay replied to
Shukairy briefly by noting "this
man's hatred" and asking the
delegates whether they would
be willing to admit into their
countries persons with that
much open hostility to their
governments.
The annual United Nations
debate on the Arab refugee
question was opened before the
General Assembly's Political
Committee with the United
States reported as still ponder-
ing its position on future moves
to resolve that question.
Opening debate erupted into
a series of procedural questions
in which Israel and the Central
African Republic lost their bids
to keep a spokesman for the
"Palestine A r a b delegation"
from speaking immediately.
Dr. John H. Davis, Commis-
sioner General of the United
Nations Relief and Works
Agency for Palestine Refugees,
opened the proceedings with
a 15-minute statement in which
he said education of the refu-
gees and financing of relief
work for them were the key
issues. He did not mention
possible work projects. The cur-
rent UNRWA mandate expires
next June 30 and the United
States was reported to be con-
sidering a suggestion that the
mandate be extended for one
or two years instead of the
usual three.
After a haggle over whether
Amile el-Ghoury should speak
for the "Palestine Arab delega-
tion," a roll call was taken
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which ended in approval for
him. Referring to Israel only
as "the Zionists," Al-Ghoury
made the customary Arab
charges that Israel had violated
international law by "robbing"
the "Arab people" of their prop-
erty. He assailed United States
support of the "unlawful Zion-
ist occupation" and supplying
Hawk missiles to Israel. He
"highly commended" Dr. Davis
for an earlier report that "works
were not feasible for the refu-
gees and that "the Arab people"
wanted only repatriation of the
refugees to Israel as the solu-
tion.
Dr. Edward Teller
Gets 'Fermi Award'
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Dr.
Edward Teller, the 54-year-old
Jewish physicist who is known
as America's "father of the H-
bomb," was presented with the
1962 Atomic Energy Commission
Enrico Fermi Award worth
$50,000.
The citation accompanying the
award, which carries the highest
monetary prize granted by the
U.S. Government, praised the
Hungarian-horn s c i e n t i s t for
"contributions to chemical and
nuclear physics, leadership in
thermonuclear research and ef-
forts to strengthen national
security."
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