NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
leaders of nine major national
Jewish organizations expressed
satisfaction over the explana-
tion offered by the United
States Information Agency in
reply to charges that the
Agency had deleted from a
television film on President
Johnson a scene showing a rabbi
out of fear that the film would
meet with disfavor in the Middle
East.
Replying to a letter on the
matter written to each one of
the organizations by Donald M.
Wilson, acting director of the
USIA, the groups' leaders said
that they were "impressed" by
the evidence in the letter that
the USIA "has faithfully re-
flected the American nation
with its ethnic and religious seg-
ments to peoples in all parts
of the world."
Ascribing the original alle-
gation to "a misunderstanding"
between the agency's television
officials and television writers
Rod Serling and Bill Froug,
Wilson explained in identical
letters to the nine organizations
that, although "a reference was
made to placement problems in
the Middle East in connection
with a suggestion of possible
inclusion of footage of a rabbi,"
the matter "quickly became
academic when Rod -$ e r l i n g
himself changed the concept of
the program — entirely for
artistic reasons."
Noting that it was the policy
of the USIA to treat fairly with
all ethnic and religious seg-
ments of the American society,
Wilson said that "nonetheless,
to the extent there has been any
misinterpretation of this clear
Agenecy policy by our officials
and to guard against any future
misunderstanding, I have re-
affirmed our policy to all de-
partment heads."
The joint reply by the or-
ganizations, which was trans-
mitted to Wilson by Lewis H.
Weinstein, chairman of the
National Community Relations
Advisory Council, and Rabbi
Uri Miller, president of the
Synagogue Council of America,
was signed by the heads of the
following organizations: Amer-
ican Jewish Congress, Central
Conference of American Rabbis,
Jewish Labor Committee, Jew-
ish War Veterans of the United
States, Rabbinical Assembly of
America, Rabbinical Council of
America, Union of American
Hebrew Congregations, Union
of Orthodox Jewish Congrega-
tions of America and the United
Synagogue of America.
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Jew-
ish schools throughout Greater
New York began a contest in
community Life. Participating
children will be eligible for the
regional prizes, including a
$350 U.S. Savings Bond, at the
final contest on March 15.
Books will be awarded to all
regional participants.
The contest is sponsored by
the Educators' Council for Fed-
eration, a group of rabbis and
principals of Jewish religious
schools who spearhead the ef-
forts of New York's 710 Jewish
schools on behalf of the Feder-
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of New York.
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LONDON, (JTA)—A memo-
rial to the 10,000 Jews murdered
by the Nazis in the city of
Bratislava, Czechoslovakia, was
uneviled there in the presence
of government officials and rep-
resentatives of the Jewish com-
munity, it was reported from
Prague.
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that the agency did not arbitrarily censor a scene depicting a
rabbi from a film to be shown in Arab countries. Wilson
enumerated a list of the USIA materials exhibited in the Arab
States, which depicted rabbis, Jewish religious services, and
well-known American personalities of the Jewish faith. The
acting director expressed his appreciation to the JWV for
facilitating refutation of the censorship charges.
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to Make $20-Million
Loan to Jew's Firm
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
LONDON — The Norwich
Union Insurance Co., which be-
came the target last year of
international criticism for forc-
ing a Jewish board member to
resign under Arab boycott pres-
sure, disclosed Wednesday plans
to make a ten-million -pound
($28 million) loan to a firm
headed by a Jew.
The loan will be made to
the London Merchant Securi-
ties, a property and invest-
ment group headed by Max
Rayne, who t o 1 d reporters
that "this shows there is
really no anti-Jewish feeling
in the Norwich Union."
The firm forced the resigna-
tion of Lord Mancroft from its
London advisory board, an ac-
tion that led to parliamentary
debate and • a stiff rebuke to
diplomatic representatives of
Arab League boycott member
countries in London.
Subsequently, t h e insurance
company offered to reinstate
the Jewish peer, but he rejected
the invitation.
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3—THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS—Frid ay, January
Community Life
Contest Started in
N.Y. Jewish Schools
Report Jewish Groups Are Satisfied
With USIA Explanation of Film Scene