House Passes Johnson Foreign Aid Program Historic Hias Building in New York
With Halter Clauses on Assistance to Egypt
Up for Sale; Agency Plans to Move
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
House of Representatives has given
its final approval to President
Johnson's $3,370,000,000 foreign
aid program for the next fiscal
year, including several clauses
aimed at further restricting aid to
Egypt.
Powder Keg Seen
in S. America by
DAIA's Leaders
BUENOS AIRES (JTA)—Lead-
ers of the DAIA, the central rep-
resentative organization of Argen-
tine Jewry, opened the eighth na-
tional convention of the DAIA
with a warning of the dangers of
anti-Semitism in the country.
The 220 delegates from 27 com-
munities attending the conclave
in Mar Del Plata were told by Dr.
Isaac Goldenberg, DAIA president,
that there was political unrest on
the South American continent
potentially dangerous because it
posed a coup of anti-Semitism. He
said "anything can happen at any
moment." The DAIA must offer
guidance to Argentine Jews on
political issues, he stressed.
Herzl Gesang, DAIA general
secretary, discussed the role of the
DAIA in the defense of the physi-
cal and spiritual welfare of Argen-
tine Jewry. He cited a DAIA
message sent to Interior Minister
Juan Palermo, protesting against
an openly anti-Semitic meeting
staged in Buenos Aires by two ban-
ned extremist groups, the Tacuara
and the Guardians of National
Restoration.
Gregorio Fainguersch, presi-
dent of the Buenos Aires Jewish
Community, reported that "in
our community life we have
overcome the divisiveness exist-
ing in the United States Jewish
community and other Jewries."
He said "our centralization con-
stitutes • our greatest achieve-
ment" and he warned about the
dangers of assimilation.
Dr. Anselmo Marina, Buenos
Aires provincial governor, told a
banquet session that the Argentine
government would "defend the
ideals of liberty, justice and
peace." He added that "these
ideals were proclaimed in Israel's
Declaration of Independence but
they are ours, too." He told the
banquet guests that he considered
Zionism to be an "expression of
the will to live independently as
a nation with feelings of love."
Yeshiva Buys School
for Deaf Children
NEW YORK—The Yeshiva Insti-
tute for the Hard of Hearing and
Deaf has acquired new quarters for
the coming term at 2115 Benson,
Brooklyn.
The Institute, which began its
operation in September 1964, is the
only Hebrew day school of its kind
in the United States. Besides of-
fering religious training, it will
offer a complete educational pro-
gram through a fully qualified and
licensed staff in the field of hear-
ing deficiencies.
A campaign to raise funds for
the necessary equipment was an-
nounced by the Institute's presi-
dent, Rabbi M Ebstein. "Now is
the time that we must give these
children the religious education
necessary to maintain their rich
Jewish heritage. Even though the
cost of the necessary equipment is
large, and through necessity, the
classes are small, we must join to-
gether to give the American Jewish
community a school that will serve
the-religious and professional needs
of these unfortunate children," he
said.
Man alone suffers so excruciat-
ingly in the world that he was com-
pelled to invent laughter.
—Nietzsche
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
8—Friday, June 4, 1965
These clauses were written into
the bill by the Foreign Affairs
Committee of the House, and
political observers in Washington
attribute to these amendments
part of the credit for the speedy
passage of the bill by tl,e House.
In particular, it was felt that
much was achieved in easing Con-
gressional feelings by the inclusion
of a paragraph which states that
foreign assistance should be termi-
nated to any country which per-
mits damage or destruction to U.S
property by mob action or by fail-
ing to take adequate measures to
prevent such action.
It was made clear that this was
a reference to Egypt and Indo-
nesia, where mobs burned down
U.S. libraries and American gov-
ernment property.
Another section of the bill, as
approved by the House, expands
the restriction on the supply of
American agricultural surpluses
to Egypt. Existing legislation
already forbids the sale of such
surpluses unless the President
determines that such sales are
essential to American national
interests.
The amendment now approved
states that should the President
make such a determination in favor
of sales to Egypt, the maximum
amount that could be supplied
must not exceed one year's require-
ments. In the past the U.S. signed
a three-year surplus agreement
with Egypt.
The third change in the bill
concerning the Middle East is an
amendment to reduce by 5 per cent
the $16,000,000 requested by the
administration as the U.S. contri-
bution to the budget of the United
Nations Relief and Works Agency
for Palestine Refugees.
The House Foreign Affairs Com-
mittee made it clear that the re-
duction is aimed at supporting
efforts to trim the refugee lists
and take steps for the solution of
the refugee problem.
Six Nazis Are Charged
With Babi Yar Murder
BONN (JTA)—The arrest of six
former SS (Elite Guard) leaders
charged with participation in the
murder of 34,000 Jews in Babi Yar,
near Kiev, in Russia, was an-
nounced here.
The six former Nazis were mem-
bers of a special operations unit
which, like other similar Nazi
units, followed behind the advanc-
ing German armies, murdering
thousands of civilians. The unit to
which the six Nazis belonged killed
nearly 80,000 victims.
New Fatah Attacks Add to Tensions
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
TEL AVIV — Fatah terrorists
from Jordan and Lebanon struck
again Tuesday night at Israeli col-
lective settlements, causing dam-
age to property but no casualties.
They placed explosives under a
house in Kibbutz Iftah in the upper
Galilee and damaged 2 water tank
in the Bet Govrin Kibbutz in the
Lachish area.
Officials said that tracks from
Iftah led to the Lebanese border
and from Bet Govrin to Jordan.
(Cantor A. A. Rosenfeld of
Detroit and his family last week
planted a JNF forest at Bet Govrin.
Cantor Rosenfeld returned from
Israel May 22.)
Premier Levi Eshkol received a
full report Wednesday morning
and was expected to warn Israel's
Arab neighbors against such ac-
tivities in answering questions
during parliamentary debate on
recent Jordanian activities.
Israel lodged a complaint with
the Israeli-Lebanese Mixed Armis-
tice Commission.
NEW YORK (JTA)—The United
Hias Service announced it con-
siders selling its historic building
on Lafayette St. here and will
move to a modern building in the
neighborhood early next month.
Murray I. Gurfein, United Hias
president, emphasized in a state-
ment that "the move into our new
offices will result in considerable
saving of funds and will help us
to meet the financial crisis con-
fronting our agency due to the
loss of $425,000 in Claims Confer-
ence funds, almost 20 per cent of
our budget." He said that a
number of offers were being con-
sidered for the building on La-
fayette St., and that it was ex-
pected that a sale would be con-
summated soon.
For New. Yorkers, the brown-
stone, Byzantine United has
Headquarters building, south of
Cooper Square, is a familiar
sight, rich in tradition. From
1854 to 1911, it was the Astor Li-
brary, the nation's leading ref-
erence library, a gift from John
Jacob Astor, who died in 1848.
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In 1920, the library building was
sold to has who used it both as
an immigrant shelter and central
office. In the years before 1958,
United Hias and its predecessor
agencies sheltered in the building
thousands of Jewish migrants.
The newcomers waited in the
shelter days, sometimes weeks, un-
til satisfactory arrangements were
worked out with relatives or re-
settlement communities.
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elected to that house in 1894.
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