International Tribute to Meyer W. Weisgal Wednesday; Arabs Lose in Move at 'Rome to Harm
Dinner Will Pay Honor to Weizmann Institute Executive Israel in World Civil Aviation Parley
Next Wednesday in New York, writers, artists, educators. musi-
Meyer W. Weisgal, guardian of cians, religious, labor and business
the spiritual legacy of Chaim Weiz- spokesmen of 16 countries.
mann, will receive the tribute of
Sir Isaac Wolfson, one of
the international community as the
Britain's leading industrialists
and philanthropists, heads an
master builder of the Weizmann
Institute of Science on the occa-
international delegation which
sion of the 20th anniversary of the
will attend the dinner.
Institute and his own 70th birthday.
Speakers at the dinner will in-
More than 2.000 leaders of clude Dr. I. I: Rabi, 1944 Nobel
American. Israeli and European Laureate in Physics: Dr. Jerome
communities will participate in B. Wiesner. chairman of the sci-
the annual dinner of the American ence division of M.I.T., who is a
Committee for the Weizmann In- co-chairman of the international
stitute of Science on Dec. 9 at committee: Sir Isaac Wolfson,
Hotel Americana to offer the acco- Honorary Fellow of the Weizmann
lade to the chairman of the Weiz- Institute, and Abba Eban, Deputy
mann Institute of Science, planned Prime Minister of Israel. • •
by an international committee of ' Dewey D. Stone. chairman of the
board of governors of the Institute
world-renowned leaders.
For Meyer Weisgal. the Dec. and chairman of the international
9 dinner will be a climactic event committee, will preside. I s a a c
in an extraordinary career of • Stern, violinist. Jan Peerce. Metro-
50 years in the service of the
politan Opera star. and the Phila-
Jewish State. the last 20 of them delphia Orchestra will be heard
as the builder of the Weizmann in a musical program.
Institute of Science.
Last month Weisgal was honored
For 25 years the closest political in Israel by leaders of the State
and scientific associate of Israel's at a series of functions.
premier scientist-statesman a n d
T h e international committee
first President, testimony to the sponsoring the events in Israel
caliber of Weisgal's leadership is and the United States is headed
offered in the distinction of the by President Harry S. Truman.
international committee of more serving with former Prime Min-
t flan
inters of Israel David Ben-Gurion
460 statesmen, scientists,
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The Unique Meyer Weisgal
By DAVID•SCHWARTZ
Copyright. 1964. JTA Inc.
Meyer Weisgal, the man who
built the Weizmann Institute of
Science in Isra&,.has been honored
on his 70th birthday with the de
gree of doctor of philosophy.
Now he won't have the problem
that faced him years back when he
went to Canada to speak for some
Zionist cause. The chairman ap-
book about his career and states
he would employ no ghost writers.
"I use a ghost writer," he says. "to
do a letter for me; when I want to
tell somebody to drop dead, I pay
somebody to put it in polite lan-
guage."
and Moshe Sharett, Prime Min-
ister Levi Eshkol and Mrs.
Chaim Weizmann.
ROME (JTA)—Egypt, as the representative of six other Arab
states. was defeated here after a hot debate in a sub-committee of the
International Civil Aviation Organization, where the Arabs opposed
Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner. dean of approval of air routes from Kenya and Nigeria to Tel Aviv. ICAO
the school of science of the Alas- is an agency of the United Nations.
The Arab states, with Egypt in the forefront, objected to the
sachusetts Institute of Technology.
former special assistant on science routes. insisting that the flights to and from Israel and the African
and technology to Presidents Ken- countries would pass over Arab air space. The debate on the issue
nedy and Johnson, is co-chairman culminated Monday, when United States, British, Swiss and French
of the international committee, representatives supported Israel. Finally, on a ballot pressed by Egypt,
together with Dr. Emanuel R. the Israeli view was approved by a vote of 13 to 9 with 11 abstentions.
Piore, vice president and group
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executive of International Business
Machi es Corporation.
ory associate chairmen are
a Mein Foreign Minister;
Pinhas Sapir. Minister of Finance;
and Abba Eban.
Serving as Associate Chairmen
are: Dr. Marcus Arson, Argentine:
Abraham Feinberg, president of
the American Committee for the
Weizmann Institute, the United
States: Joseph N. Frank. Canada;
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, Switzer-
land: Israel Klabin. Brazil: Ivar
Philipson, Sweden; Marcus J.
Sieff, United Kingdom; Dr. Victor
Soriano, Uruguay: Philip Sporn.
United States; Sir Isaac Wolfson.
Bart., United Kingdom.
Leading members of the Israel
Cabinet are members of the Inter-
. national Committee.
Detroiters on the international
committee include Louis Berry.
Walter P. Reuther, Nate S. Sha-
pero and Philip Slomovitz. The
late Abraham Srere also enlisted
as a committee member shortly
before his death on Nov. 20.
This is the way Weisgal more
or less normally talks. Polite
language is not his forte. When
you are within a block of him,
you know it's either Weisgal
there or some bomb has ex-
ploded in the vicinity. But it
works. It gets things done.
There are other things about .
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him that are uninhibited. When he
was editor of the New Palestine.
he would do so many fantastic
things as pay Winston Churchill
51.000 for an article. It was un-
heard of for a Jewish paper to
pay such sums: but, as Weisgal
said. Zionism got publicity from
the Churchill article all over the
, country as a result. It was a cheap
price to pay for so much propa- - ;
c,anda.
Some of his ideas didn't work
out well. He got Dorothy Thomp- '
MEYER WEISGAL
, son interested in Zionism, and
proached him and said he would later she turned against the. move-
introduce him as Dr. Weisgal. ment. Weisgal was always putting
on grand spectacles in which Max
"I am Mister, and Mister is good Reinhardt and Kurt Weill and
enough for me," said Weisgal. other celebrities participated. Not
The chairman demurred. The re- all were financial successes. Defi-
sponse would he better, if he were tits. Weisgal says, never bothered
presented as Doctor. he said. him. "Bankers come into the Weiz-
"All right." said Weisgal, "If it mann Institute of Science and
will help. call me Doctor." marvel how it was accomplished. I
A minute later the chairman tell them I did it by deficit spend-
was back. "But in what?" he asked, ing," says Weisgal.
"are you Doctor."
Instead of being a fund-raiser,
As a boy, Weisgal was too poor Weisgal classifies himself as a man
to go to college. but he liked col- with an dea. "I need a million for
loges so much. he sold papers in a good idea and I know a man who
the area of Columbia University. has the money. so I tell him and he
Anyway, it would have been quite says he has only four hundred
like him to choose that area just thousand, so I say. 'all right, I'll
ing is one of his outstanding qual- fit as at 45—or 60. He is not ready,
ities. Weizmann was his ideal, be- he says, "for the damned rubbish
cause Weizmann represented learn- heap." He is particularly anxious
ing and he has done such a good to do his book now. At heart, he
job for the Institute, because it is says, he is a journalist.
dedicated to learning.
The fact is, Weisgal as editor of
But he is no academic pedant. the New Palestine, many years
One of the most striking things ago, proved that he was a very
about Weisgal is his uninhibited good journalist. but what is so bad
speech. This is reflected in an in- about being a fundraiser, Moses
terview appearing in the Jerusa- wrote a book but he was also a
lem Post. In it. he rejects the great fund-raiser. He told the Is-
idea that he is "a damned furid- raelites to borrow from the Egyp-
raiser." lie speaks of writing a tians before the Exodus, and he in-
stituted the system of tithes. And ,
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