Friday, December 6, 1963—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS—,8
British Firm Wants Lord Maneroft Bach,
Foreign Office Spokesman Raps
Arab Boycott Tactics in England
to Palestine and as long as the
rights of the Arab people of
Palestine have not been restored
we will continue to boycott
Israel. The boycott is a measure
of self defense and is executed
against Moslems, Christians,
Jews and anyone else in the
world dealing with Israel."
Socialist deputies in parlia-
ment meanwhile were reported
angered about what they consid-
ered a move by the government
to dodge questions on the issue
in the House of Commons. Ques-
tions which had been submitted
to Prime Minister Sir Alec
Douglas Home were transferred
to the Foreign Secretary.
The cabinet met Monday
afternoon and was believed to
have discussed the issue. One
of the questions passed to the
Foreign Secretary was pro-
posed by Sir Barnett, who
asked what action the govern.
ment was taking to prevent
the Arabs from using coercion
against British firms to dis-
miss officers and employees take action about the Arab
having connections with Israel. blockade of the Suez Canal. The
The first question on the af- Financial Times agreed that "ap
fair was submitted in Commons peasement never pays" and said
by Laborite Bruce Millen, who that the Arab boycott in the
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bring pressure on British firms
to The Jewish News)
asked the Minister of Health Mancroft incident had "plainly
LONDON — The Board of the to comply with the boycott. The
whether he would order regional backfired."
government
hopes
these
prac-
Norwich Union Insurance Com-
The Telegraph said that the
hospital boards to avoid placing
panies offered Tuesday to re- tices will not continue."
"whole sorry incident" had
insurance
with
firms
which
prac-
The influential Jewish orga-
instate Lord Mancroft, the Jew-
ticed discrimination on grounds served a useful purpose by
ish business leader whose forced nization the Trades Advisory
of race, religion or color. In a drawing public attention to the
resignation under Arab boycott Council indicated plans to
written reply, Parliamentary "blackmail system" of the Arab
send
a
deputation
to
confer
pressure touched off sharp criti-
Secretary Bernard Braine re- Boycott Bureau. The Telegraph
cisms of the insurance company with Edward Heath, president
plied that "it is not usual to called the "hurt surprise" ex-
and demands for a parliament- of the Board of Trades on
pressed by the Arab Information
insure hospital property."
discrimination in trade, in-
ary inquiry.
Center in London over the press
Meanwhile,
there
were
mount-
The offer was disclosed by dustry and commerce.
and government criticism "lame
ing
reports
of
actions
being
Sir Barnett Janner, a parlia-
In still another development ;
and feeble."
taken
against
Norwich
Union
by
mentary deputy and president officials of the insurance firm
The Guardian of Manchester,
many
business
enterprises,
Jew-
of the Board of Deputies of met with Minister of State Lord
however, said that the focusing
ish
as
well
as
non-Jewish.
A
British Jews which had publicly Drumalbyn to discuss Lord Man-
spokesman for Norwich Union of public attention on Arab
rebuked the insurance firm. Sir croft's resignation. The Arab
denied reports that the firm is boycott activities "will almost
Barnett said:
stand was outlined in a state-
losing 2,000,000 pounds ($5,600,- certainly cause them to tighten
"We have been informed that ment by Edward Rizk, minister
000) worth of business daily, rather than relax. That may be
the Norwich Union has offered at the Lebanese Embassy and
due to the Mancroft resignation. one of the most durable and
to restore Lord Mancroft to his head of the Arab information
He conceded, however, that serious consequences of the
position as a director."
center in London.
"some
large Jewish enterprises affair."
The British peer turned down
He told ,the press that "as
have
warned
that they would
the offer in a letter to the com- long as peace has not returned
withdraw their patronage if
pany's president, Sir Robert
there is no retreat by Norwich
Bignold, in which he wrote
Union" on the Jewish financier's
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that, "I am sure the implications
resignation.
Boris Smolar's
of your invitation will be under-
or
British newspapers which had
stood both at home and abroad. I
severely criticized the Arab
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I feel, however, that after all
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countries differed in editorials
that has happened, my reasso-
Wednesday on the significance
ciation with the Norwich Union
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of the Mancroft case. The Day
could not lead to a proper
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Herald said that the Norwich
working relationship. I must
Union
"Fiassco"
should
warn
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therefore, with regret, decline
other firms to take a tough
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The United Jewish Appeal is now mapping plans for new that the United Nations should
letter.
strategy in its fund-raising campaign for 1964 . . . Its leadership
In another development, an has decided to tell American Jewry of the "other side of the
official of the British Foreign coin" in the life of many thousands of immigrants in Israel .. .
Office strongly condemned
has become necessary because too many American Jewish
Tuesday Arab pressure on This
tourists
are returning from their visits to Israel with reports
British firms to comply with about the
prosperity they found there . .. These visitors speak
the boycott against Israel. with enthusiasm
about what they have seen during their brief stay
The criticism was made by
Lord Carrington at a meeting in Israel which was spent primarily among city people . . . While
inaw
with Arab envoys to Britain. it is true that economically Israel has never looked any better
Declaring that Britain had no than now, it is also true that there is, in this prospering Israel,
PONTIACX1ICHIGAN
desire to take sides in the Arab- a social problem involving as many as one-fourth of all the
Israeli dispute, Lord Carrington immigrants who have come into the country in the 15 years of
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said the government's objections Israel's existence . . . This is not noticed by the American Jewish
were based solely on opposition visitors, because few of them hardly go to any other place than
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to outside interference in Brit- Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa and the economically more stabilized
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ish domestic affairs and on the points in the country . . . They, thus, don't know that 20,000
right of freedom of trade to immigrants still live in the primitive maabara dwellings of the
transit camps of 10 years ago . . . They don't know that 25,000
British firms.
He said that in particular the people are still living in asbestos huts and that they have to have
government "strongly resented a solution to their housing problem . . . They are not aware of the
pressure on British firms to tragic fact that over 30,000 families—of five to eight members
discriminate on any grounds per family—are living in one or one-and-a-half room apartments
among their British staff and of very small sizes . . . The American Jewish tourists certainly
also disapproved of actions by don't know that there are families of eight among the immigrants
Arab embassies designed to dependent on the earnings of their unskilled father, which average
about $20 per week . . . Nor do they know that the untrainable
and over-aged heads of such families, who cannot get regular
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employment, must settle for the WPA-type of work which provides
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them with labor for 17 days during the month, the income of
Encyclopaedia Judaica which is about $40 per month for the entire family of eight
More than 70 scholars and persons .. . And what about the thousands of social cases who
professors in over a score of are either blind, have TB, or in some other way incapacitated
universities in the U.S., Israel from earning an ordinary living, and must depend on inadequate
and Europe are compiling the relief grants? . . . And the tens of thousands of teenagers in
new 10-volume Encylopaedia immigrant families, who are finished with primary school, not old
enough for the army, have no secondary school to which to go,
Judaica.
and no recreational facilities, and are in danger of becoming
The announcement, made by "street children?" . . . Tourists who are impressed with the
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, honor- brighter side of life in Israel hardly know of this darker side,
ary president of the Encylo- which is not so obvious on the surface.
paedia Judaica, and Joseph
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Meyerhoff, president of the
Proper Perspective
Encylopaedic Judaica P r e s s,
The UJA leaders therefore have decided to bring into focus
states that according to the
visible and invisible picture of the situation of the immigrants
present estimates the 10 vol- the
. . . They felt that American Jewry, which finances to a great
umes will be completed at a extent
the immigration to Israel and the absorption of newcomers
total cost of $1,500,000.
in Israel, has to get full perspective and be aware not only of
The editor-in-chief of the the achievements but also of the problems of which little has been
encylopaedia is Dr. Benzion spoken . . . Such a "new look" is all the more imperative because
Netanyahu, professor of medi- of the continued flood of immigration which has been increasing
eval and modern Hebrew liter- and which will continue to be high in 1964 . . . Each new flood
ature at Dropsie College in of immigrants involves not only the need for new funds to cover
Philadelphia.
immigration costs and to help the newcomers become absorbed in
Prof. William F. Albright of the country • . . It adds to the accumulated problems which have
Johns Hopkins University is
not as yet been solved for thousands of the older immigrants .. .
chairman of the editorial coun-
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Is American Jewry doing its best to help solve these problems?
cil. Prof. Abraham Neuman, .
.. American Jews will be told that once they helped the Jewish
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president of Dropsie College, Agency to bring the immigrants, they cannot simply drop them
and Benzion Dinur of Hebrew
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. . . It will be pointed out that, if a minority percentage of the
University, formerly Israel's
newcomers cannot make their own successful integration, and
with Christmas shopping still to be done, see
Minister of Culture and Educa-
require assistance for whatever reason, UJA must raise more
Manufacturers Bank for a Personal Loan. Borrow
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funds to help further . . . In 1963, the UJA raised about $3,000,000
board of editors.
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contributions to the UJA will definitely be much larger . .
alone at your nearest Manufacturers Bank office.
Already some of the larger givers have pledged themselves to
contribute more in 1964 . . . UJA contributors whose gifts are not
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