Eshkol Makes Known Vast UJA Plan Malcolm X Urges Negroes to Use Jew as Progress Lesson
NEW YORK—Malcolm X, black ally and psychologically with nections with Africa and African
Aimed at Aiding Schools in Israel
culture were destroyed by the
nationalist leader, suggested that the new African nations."
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to the Jewish News)
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NEW YORK — Prime Minister
Levi Eshkol revealed Wednesday
night that the United Jewish Ap-
peal is planning a capital fund
drive to build a network of high
schools in Israel and to correct
an educational imbalance which,
he said, "holds grave peril for our
future."
Speaking at a dinner tendered to
him and Mrs. Eshkol at the Wal-
dorf-Astoria Hotel by the UJA's
National Campaign Cabinet, Eshkol
said that the addtional UJA fund-
raising task will serve to close the
educational gap which exists in
Israel between children of Western
origin and those from North Africa
and other underveloped areas.
"Of every 100 children entering
elementary school the number
whose direct or parental origin is
Asian or African is 43. In high
school it drops to 25, at the uni-
versity level it is only 12, Eshkol
said.
"This situation holds grave
peril for our future. We cannot
— nor do we wish to — exist as
a nation divided between those
who have and those who lack
education. We must aspire to
make free secondary education
available to all our children ac-
carding to their ability and de-
sires."
Because Israel must make vast
financial expenditures to absorb a
continuing and record flow of im-
migrants, to maintain an inordin-
ately large military force to deter
Arab aggression and to conduct
a huge development program in the
Negev and the Galilee to provide
living space for its new immi-
grants — "it would take perhaps
10 to 15 years before Israel could
assume full financial responsibility
for providing free secondary
schools and higher education,"
Eshkol warned.
"We must, therefore, imme-
diately find other ways outside the
government budget of widening
the access to post-primary educa-
tion. For this we shall require the
partnership of all those to whom
Israel's future is dear.
"I therefore welcome the addi-
tional task the UJA has under-
taken beyond your work for cur-
rent immigration which I urge you
to continue with an vigor. You are
launching the Israel education
fund. I wish your initial confer-
ence success and I am confident
that — when convened in Septem-
ber — it will adopt a practical
program to help solve this prob-
lem."
Joseph Meyerhoff of Baltimore,
general chairman, stressed that the
education drive would be con-
ducted "in addition to UJA's regu-
lar annual fund-raising campaigns
for vital immigration and absorb-
tion needs in Israel and for pro-
grams of humanitarian aid to needy
Jews in more than a score of
;countries overseas."
Max M. Fisher of Detroit,
UJA's associate general chair-
man, announced that the UJA
plans to inaugurate its Israel
education fund at a national
conference to be held Sept. 17
and 18 in New York City, with
Abba Eban, Israel's Deputy
Prime Minister, as principal
speaker.
(Phillip St ollm an and Paul
Zuckerman were the other De-
troiters who attended the UJA
dinner).
Eban, Israel's former Ambassa-
dor to the United States and am-
bassador plenipotentiary to the
United Nations, had previously
served as Minister of Education
and Culture in the Israel Cabinet.
According to Rabbi Herbert A.
Friedman, UJA executive vice-
chairman, the decision to under-
take the Israel education fund
campaign came after a year and a
half of intensive study and a num-
ber of on-the-spot surveys by out-
standing American educators.
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Britain
and U.S.
By BORIS SMOLAR
Editor-in-Chief — JTA
(Copyright, 1964, JTA, Inc.)
There are pronounced differ-
ences between the State Depart-
ment and the British Foreign Of-
fice over the position of Egyptian
President Gamal Abdel Nasser
and his regime . . . The British
government considers Nasser a
constant source of trouble in the
Middle East, and anticipates even
more thouble now after the visit
of Soviet Premier Khrushchev to
Egypt .. . The State Department,
on the contrary, sees in Nasser a
stabilizing factor in the turbulent
area . . . Israel for long regarded
Nasser as a dangerous adventurer,
and unsettling influence in the
region, and a major cause of the
Middle Eastern arms race . . .
These seem to be the views which
Israel's Premier Levi Eshkol has
brought to Washington on his visit
this week there are the invitation
of President Johnson . . . Con-
trary to the tranquilizing tone of
the statement made in Washington
by King Hussein of Jordan during
his brief stay there, Israelis view
developments in the Middle East
as moving towards a new and more
dangerous climax . . . Responsible
Israelis consider that King Husse-
in's visit to Washington was to be
a decoy for a concerted Arab plan
to prepare for a major attack on
Israel in a couple of years from
now .. .Talks by some Arab lead-
ers about not going to war now
are, therefore, considered all the
more dangerous for Israel, espec-
ially since Nasser uses every avail-
able opportunity to reaffirm his
determination to wipe out the State
of Israel . . .
Sizing up the military potential
of the Arab states, especially
Egypt, and their arms supply even
before Khrushchev promised Nas-
ser more aid during his visit to
Cario, Israeli leaders see the fol-
lowing picture. During fiscal 1963-
64, Egypt alone spent over $700,-
000,000 on arms .. . About 40 per
cent of here development budget
has been diverted from construc-
tive to military purposes .. . She
has about 250 first-line military
aircraft, all of Russian make . . .
The Navy has seven destroyers,
two frigates, six minesweepers and
10 long-range submarines . . . She
is trying to nter the field of mis-
sle warfare with an ambitious pro-
gram of rocket production, based
on Russian and West German re-
search scientists . . . Recently.
Egypt purchased f r om Russia
"Komar" gunboats fitted to carry
surface-to-surface missiles . . .
Syria has brought some too . . .
Judging by these preparations,
Israeli defense experts believe
that Egypt intends to attack Isralei
with rockets on a mass scale,
when the time comes . . It also
plans to bombard Israel's long and
densely populated costal area with
missle-lauching naval vessels and
aidcraft . . . In addition, Iraq
has 250 aircraft of various types,
British and Russian, old and new,
while Syria has another 200 air-
planes . . . Khrushchev's pledge
to Nasser, during his 16-day state
visit to Egypt, to give him more
military aid, makes Egypt's mili-
tary potential even stronger.
the 20 million American Negroes
who are struggling for equal sta-
tus take a lesson from the ex-
perience of the Jews in achieving
an important place in American
society within a relatively short
time.
Recently returned from a pil-
grimage to Mecca and a tour of
many newly independent African
nations, Malcolm X said:
"The American Jews have
raised their own status in this
country through their philoso-
phical, cultural and psychological
migration to Israel.
"In the same way, the Ameri-
can Negroes can raise their own
status by becoming deeply in-
volved philosophically, cultur-
Before his trip to Mecca, Mal-
colm X withdrew from Elijah
Muhammad's Black Muslim or-
ganization to form a new move-
ment open to Negroes of all re-
ligions.
He said, prior to the journey
that the Jews have strengthened
their own group consciousness
through close identification with
Israel and that "This knowledge of
one's self has enabled the Jews to
become a highly effective man in
this society and explains the
psychological foundations of his
tremendous success.
"This is an important lesson for
the American Negroes who have
no sense of cultural or historical
identity because they don't know
who they are. Their historic con-
Zionist Library Gets Bust
of Late Louis Lipsky,
American Jewish Leader
NEW YORK (JTA)—A bronze
head of the late Louis Lipsky, well
known American Zionist leader,
was presented to the Zionist ar-
chives, library of the Jewish
Agency for Israel. Harry Scher-
man, president of the Book of the
Month Club, made the presenta-
tion at ceremonies marking the
first anniversary of Mr. Lipsky's
death.
The sculpture of Mr. Lipsky is
by the famous sculptor Robert
Berks. whose head of the late
President Kennedy was recently
purchased by Huntington Hart-
ford for permanent exhibition in
the organ room of the Gallery of
Modern Art. Among others of Mr.
Berks' well known sculptures are
heads of President Truman, Albert
Einstein, Chaim Weizmann, Leon-
ard Bernstein and the nine-foot
high statue of Justice Brandeis on
the campus of Brandeis University.
Tributes to Mr. Lipsky were
given by Dr. Nahum Goldmann,
president of the World Zionist Or-
ganization; Scherman, the donor,
an old-time friend; and Mrs. Rose
L. Halprin, chairman of the Jew-
ish Agency, American Section, who
accepted the bust from Scherman.
Recalling Mr. Lipsky as a Zion-
ist leader, teacher and writer, Mrs.
Halprin said she was certain that
Mr. Lipsky would have approved
the choice of the site for the place-
ment of the bust, the Zionist Ar-
chive and library, for he was a
scholar as well as an activist.
slave owners."
He said that any anti-Semitism
in Harlem is attributable to Jew-
ish businessmen who conduct their
businesses in Harlem but live in
other parts of the city. "They en-
joy good housing. Their children
attend good schools and go to col-
leges. This the Negroes know and
resent."
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Neo-Nazis Prosecuted
in Chile for Ignoring
Govt. Decree to Dissolve
SANTIAGO, Chile (JTA)—The
Chilean Secretary of the Interior
began prosecution of the neo-Nazi
National Syndicalist Revolutionary
Movement (MRNS) when the
movement ignored a government
order to dissolve by May 15.
Jamie Silva, undersecretary of
the ministry, said the action had
been started to compel respect for
constitutional and legal rules bar-
ring activities of organizations
wtih armed members. The minis-
try filed action with the court of
appeals under the Law of Internal
Security of the state.
Frank Pfeifer, organizer in Octo-
ber 1953 of a smaller neo-Nazi
group, the National Socialist party,
accepted the government's disso-
lution decree. Ramon Caliz, who
founded the MRNS 12 years ago,
said that the movement had 5,000
members throughout Chile. He
called the trials of former Nazis
for war crimes in West Germany
"savagery, a new Inquisition."
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