Congressmen G reel Israel;
U.S. Asked to Warn Arabs
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WASHINGTON — "Americans
stand ready to help Israel pre-
serve her security and aid her in
her economic development." Sen.
Edward Kennedy of Massachu-
setts declared on the Senate floor
in a speech greeting Israel on her
16th day of independence.
Sen. Kennedy was among a num-
ber of senators and congressmen
who Monday and Tuesday joined
the long list of their colleagues
from both parties who greeted Is-
rael on the floor of both houses
of Congress last week.
A speech of greetings by Sen.
Williams of New Jersey sud-
denly developed into a debate
of American foreign policy, both
in the Middle East and else-
where in Asia. Sen. Williams
stressed in his speech that the
United States should make crys-
tal clear to the Arabs that no
kind of aggression in the Mid-
dle East will be tolerated.
Sen. Gruening of Alaska took up
his colleague's words to point out
that Nasser's spending of enor-
mous sums on building rockets,
acquiring jet bombers and subma-
rines is clearly intended for ag-
gression. Sen. Gruening noted that
this as well as the Egyptian ag-
gression in Yemen is possible be-
cause of the large volume of
American economic aid to Nasser.
Unless the United States acts soon
to put an end to Nasser's aggres-
siveness and preparations. Amer-
ica will bear heavy responsibility
for the outbreak of hostilities in
the Middle East, the senator from
Alaska warned.
In the House of Representatives,
greetings to Israel's independence
celebrations were extended by
Rothschild Gets
Honorary Degree
Baron Edmond de Rothschild,
French financier who has been a
prime force in the economic de-
velopment of the State of Israel,
will receive the honorary degree
of doctor of laws from the Jewish
Theological Seminary of America,
May 24.
The degree will be conferred
by Dr. Louis Fin-
kelstein, chancel-
%h' for of the Sem-
inary, in recog-
nition of Baron
de R o t hschild's
"c o n t r ibutions
to human wel-
fare, to the ad-
vancement of the
State of Israel
and to the cause
of Judaism." An
Rothschild
a c c o m partying
citation will point to Baron de
Rothschild's "magnificent efforts
to preserve and advance in our
time the traditions of a great
family."
Following the convocation, the
baron will be honored at the Sem-
inary's National Community Serv-
ice Award dinner at the Ameri-
cana Hotel. Baron de Rothschild
will be principal speaker.
Baron de Rothschild is the 35-
year-old son of Baron Maurice
de Rothschild, the nephew of
James A. de Rothschild and the
grandson of Baron Edmond de
Rothschild.
He is president of the Action
Committee of the French-Israel
ASsociation for Economic Coopera-
tion and is president for Europe
of the State of Israel Bonds Or-
ganization.
The baron has made possible
the financing and management of
the Red Sea-Mediterarnean pipe-
line, which is the largest private
investment in Israel, and has pro-
moted the establishment of new
chemical and pharmaceutical in-
dustries in Israel. He also has
helped to restore the antiquities
of Ceasarea and to make that an-
cient city an international center
of tourism_
Congressmen Edward Boland of
Massachusetts, John Dingell of
Michigan and Samuel Friedel of
Maryland.
At the Israeli Embassy here,
where a special reception was held
in honor of Israel's birthday, a
selection of paintings by gifted
Israeli children was opened as part
of the observance in the capital.
Many of the local school pupils
organized special choirs to sing
Israeli songs. Hosts at the festivi-
ties at the embassy were Ambas-
sador Avraharn Harman and his
wife, Mrs. Zena Harman.
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Rally Urges Johnson
to Initiate Arab-Israeli Talks
NEW YORK, (JTA)—President
Johnson was requested "urgently"
here at a comprehensive Zionist
celebration of Israel's 16th anni-
versary, to implement "a commit-
ment" made by the late President
Kennedy "to use all the authority
of the White House to call into
conference the leaders of Israel
and Arab states to consider pri-
vately their common problems."
Dr. Max Nussbaum, chairman of
the American Zionist Council, co-
ordinating body of all Zionist
organizations in the United States,
voiced that request to President
Johnson at a rally in Town Hall,
observing Israel's 16th birthday.
He noted that the late Presi-
dent Kennedy had made that
"commitment" at a meeting of
the Zionist Organization of
America, during the 1960 Presi-
dential campaign, and called
upon the present Chief Execu-
tive to "redeem" that pledge.
Prior to Dr. Nussbaum's address,
the rally heard a message from
President Johnson, warmly greet-
ing the meeting and Israel's anni-
versary.
Cabled messages were received
from Israel's Prime Minister Levi
Eshkol; and Moshe Sharett, chair-
man of the Jewish Agency. Dr.
Nussbaum, who is also president
of the Zionist Organization of
America, presented the Council's
Louis D. Brandeis Award to Rabbi
Irving Miller, honorary chairman
of the Council "in recognition of
his outstanding services to Zionism
and the Jewish people." Dr. Miller
recently retired as chairman of
the Council after serving in the
post for 10 years.
The need for American Jewish
interest in Israel's development,
on the eve of its 17th year, was
also emphasized here in a state-
ment by Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz,
vice president of the Israel Bond
Organization.
He noted that, by achieving the
organization's goal of the sale of
$85 million of Israel bonds this
year, Americans can help advance
the large-scale Israeli develop-
ments already launched, seeing
those projects as "vital to Israel's
future."
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Israel 'Regrets' Excuse
by India for Cancelling
Independence Day Fete
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J Congress' President Nahum Goldman Accuses
Jewish Leaders of Failures to Save Holocaust Victims
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PARIS, (JTA) — Dr. Nahum
Goldmann, president of the World
Jewish Congress, said that all the
Jews of the free world, along
with their leaders, failed to take
adequate action to mitigate the
Nazi slaughter of European Jewry
during World War II.
Speaking at a meeting com-
memorating the 21st anniversary
of the Warsaw Ghetto revolt, held
in the largest public hall in Paris,
he stressed the responsibility of
the world Jewish leadership and
that of the Western allies in the
Hitlerian massacre of the 6 million
men, women and children.
He said that "if there is reason
to level charges, and some of these
have been leveled, they should be
addressed to all Jews of the free
world during the Second World
War. All of us, leaders included,"
he stressed, "failed during this
important test. Furthermore, the
history of the attitude of the
democratic powers in Europe and
in the United States does not con-
stitute a glorious chapter for either
the peoples or for modern de-
mocracy."
He stated that the reactions
"in the face of growing Hitler-
ism and of the anti-Semitic as-
pects of Nazism is a sad story
of failures and defeats, of lack
of political comprehension and
lack of courage." He added that
the Jews of the free world
"never had the daring to under-
take courageous action or to
make better known our demands
to the democratic governments
then in power."
Dr. Goldmann recalled the day
when he received a cable from
the Warsaw Ghetto addressed to
himself and Rabbi Stephen Wise,
the late American Zionist leader,
in which the beleaguered Warsaw
Jews wanted to know why Amer-
ican Jewish leaders had not "sat
day and night on the steps of the
White House" until the President
of the United States would have
given the order to bomb the con-
centration camps and the railways
leading to them.
He added, "we didn't dare act
then, because the majority of Jew-
ish leadership felt that was not
the proper time to disturb the
generals in the Allied war effort
against Nazism by similar protes-
tations."
The meeting was attended' by
several thousand Polish Jews now
living in France.
Histadrut Represented
for 1st Time at Conclave
of Global Union Group
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GENEVA. — Histadrut, Israel's
labor federation, is represented for
the first time in a conference of
the trade unions represented in
the organization for Economic Co-
operation and Development,
(OECD) which opened here Wed-
nesday.
Israel's delegates are Gideon
Neeman and Elie Marx Histadrut's
European representatives. Organ-
ized labor from both secular and
Christian trade union movements
of the participating countries are
represented on the OECD trade
union advisory committee. Mem-
bers of the OECD include the West
European countries, United States,
Canada and Japan.
The Histadrut invitation recog-
nized its wide experience with labor
in underdeveloped countries. His-
tadrut, as a joint member of the
advisory committee, is now taking
part in various training programs
of the OECD with which Israel co-
operates though it is not an OECD
member.
JERUSALEM—A foreign minis-
try spokesman voiced regret here
Tuesday over the explanation by
Indian officials for the forced can-
cellation of a 16th Independence
Day reception which the Israeli
consulate had planned to hold in
New Delhi. The explanation was
that the reception should have
been held in Bombay where the
Israeli consulate is situated.
While the spokesman declined
further comment, the Israeli press
sharply criticized the Indian ac-
tion, which was termed a further
yielding to Arab pressure.
The issue was raised at a cabi-
net meeting, but discussion was
White Water
postponed until Mrs. Golda Meir,
Tahquamenon Falls, near New-
Israel's foreign minister, recovers berry, is the second largest water-
from an indisposition.
fall east of the Mississippi, sur-
Members of the India Parlia- passed only by Niagara, according
ment had demanded that the gov- to the Michigan Tourist Council.
ernment apologize for "gross dis- The upper falls have a sheer drop
courtesy" in ordering the cancel- over sandstone of 48 feet and are
lation.
200 feet wide at rthe crest.
In New York Sen. Jacob K.
Javits called on the government -
to end a 14-year delay and ratify
the United Nations Convention
on Genocide.
Addressing a memorial meeting
for the 6 million martyred Jews.
Sen. Javits said that the world
must never forget the possibility
of a Nazi-like holocaust as the fruit
of dictatorship and hate, and he
urged continued protests against
anti-Jewish acts in the Soviet
Union.
The meeting, which was attend-
ed by some 2,500, also heard ad-
dresses by R. Sargent Shriver, di-
rector of the U.S. Peace Corps and
coordinator of President Johnson's
anti-poverty program; and Justice
Michael M. Musmanno of Penn-
sylvania, who was a member of the
prosecution staff during the Nur-
emberg war crimes trials.
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Israel, Argentina, Brazil and Men-
ico.
Treblinka, located 50 miles
northeast of Warsaw, ranked next
to Auschwitz in the number of
victims it consumed. Those who
died in Treblinka, mainly Polish
Jews from the Warsaw and Bialy-
stok area, were driven into the gas
chambers almost as soon as they
arrived.
The extermination camp proper
consisted of an area of only one` y____\\
square mile. There were some so-
called industrial activities at Treb-
linka at the SS-owned German
Earth and Stone Works (Deutsche
Erd-und Steinwerke, DEST), which
produced gravel from the area.
This work was done by Jews under
terrible conditions. The command-
er of this labor camp—not of the
extermination camp—was Lt. CoL
Karl Mummenthey. Atfer the war,
Mummenthey was sentenced by a
WJ Congress to Unveil
U.S. Military Court to life inI-
cl
prisonment which was reduced to
Treblinka Monument
When a delegation of the World 20 years by a clemency board.
Jewish Congress leaders partici-
pates in the unveiling of the mon- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
ument at Treblinka on May 10, 10 Friday, April 24, 1964
they will pay tribute to 700,000
DON FROHMAN CHORUS
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gas chambers. They will also
honor 12 who fled to freedom
from the camp's fearful carnage.
The WJC delegation will be
headed by Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
president of the Congress; Samuel
Bronfman and Israel M. Sieff, vice-
presidents; and will include Alex
L. Easterman, of London; Dr. Ger-
hart M. Riegner, of Geneva; Arm-
and Kaplan, of Paris, and World
Jewish Congress leaders from
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