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Profs Ouster Not Due THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
to Attacks on Israel;

Rapped College Leader

TORONTO (JTA) — A 32-yea
old political science professor wh o

These are the top prize winners in the National Jewish Welfare
Board's golden jubilee playwright contest, in which 172 one-act plays
on Jewish themes were entered. Eleanor Heflin Shibely (left), ac-
tress-writer of Long Beach, Calif., won the first prize of $500 for her
play, "A Gift from Papa," which portrays feelings brought to the
surface by the death of a father and the legacy he left. Dr. Charles
S. Levy (center), professor of social work at Yeshiva University's
Wurzweiler School of Social Work, won one of the two $250 second
prizes for his entry, "Crown of Glory," which is about a man who
is helped to find his Jewish self-identity and in turn is able to
hel phis granddaughter discover hers. Anita Leach (right), active

community worker of Lynbrook, Long Island, won the other $250
second prize for her play, "Shalom, Satan," an amusing morality
drama In which a rabbi gets an assist from a devilish bystander who
can be seen and heard only by the pure in heart.

U.S. Commerce Dept. Predicts Upswing
in Israel's Economy This Year

WASHINGTON, D.C. (JTA)—The
U. S. Department of Commerce be-
lieves that Israel's economic
growth which slowed down in 1966
and 1967, will pick up momentum
in 1968 with the result that Israel
will export more and will improve
as a market for imports of con-

Doubleday, UAHC
Jointly Publish
Holocaust Volume

With the Union of American
Hebrew Congregation, Doubleday
will bring out on Feb. 16, "Out of
the Whirlwind: A Reader of Holo-
caust Literature" edited by Albert
H. Friedlander, anthology of the
most significant writings on ,the
subject of the Holocaust — the
tragic extermination by the Nazis
of 6,000,000 Jews,
"Out of the Whirlwind" is or-

ganized in six basic parts, each
illuminating a certain phase in
Hitler's diabolic scheme of geno-
cide and each complete with an
introductory chapter putting the
selected excerpts in their proper
historical setting.
The editor of "Out of the Whirl-
wind," Rabbi Friedlander, was
born in Berlin and came to Amer-
ica in 1940. He was graduated from
the University of Chicago and was
ordained at Hebrew Union College.
He served the United Hebrew
Congregation of Fort Smith, Ark.,
for four years; then became spirit-
ual leader of Temple Bnai Brith

sumer goods and capital equip-
ment from America.
This assessment is contained in
an article in "International Com-
merce," a weekly publication of
the Bureau of International Com-
merce of the Department of Com-
merce.
According to Raymond S.
Yaukey of the BIC's Near East-
South Asia division, the downtrend
in Israel's economic growth reach-
ed bottom and began a gradual
rise in late 1967. The nation's cur-
rent economic plans call for annual
industrial production to grow from
the $2,200,000,000 comprising 22
per cent of Israel's gross national
product in 1966 to $3,600,000,000
or 27 per cent of the GNP by 1971.
Industrial exports are to rise even
more rapidly from $400,000,000
in 1966 to $800,000,000 in 1971.

The plan envisages total in-
vestments in industry amounting
to over $1,000,000,000 during the
five-year period, up to half of
which is to come from foreign
sources, Yaukey wrote. "The
growth targets it (Israel) has
set should pave the way for in-
creased U.S. sales of the indus-
trial machinery and capital
equipment that will be needed

in this effort."

has been an active anti-Israel, pro
Arab propagandist on the campus
of Waterloo Lutheran University,
is facing dismissal from the faculty ,
but not because of his political
views, it was learned here.
The popular assumption had
been that Lebanese-born Dr .
George Haggar was informed that
his contract with the university
would not be renewed next May be -
cause of his frequent public de -
nunciations of Israel and of Ameri-
can policy in Vietnam. This won
him support among the student
body, some 250 of whom submitted
a petition for his reinstatement on
the grounds of freedom of speech .
It was not Dr. Haggar's Arab
propagandizing but his vitrolit at -
tacks on the university's adminis -
tration, particularly the chairman
of its board of governors, that
brought about his dismissal, the
Toronto Globe and Mail disclosed
in an article based on campus in -
terviews. Dr. Haggar, who is
president of the 3,000-member
Canada-Arab community organi -
zation, characterized the university
that employs him as "autocratic,
bigoted and unprogressive."
He heaped scorn on his fellow
members of the faculty whom he
called "clerks" who are "ob -
sequious and expect others to be
obsequious too." He called the
chairman of the board of gover-
nors, Harry D. Greb, a local shoe
manufacturer, "a cobbler who
wants to run the university like a
cobbler's shop."
Haggar has filed a complaint
against his dismissal with the Ca-
nadian Association of University
Teachers.

Currency Restrictions
Attacked by 'Guardian'

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

LONDON — A "real and pro-
foundly muddled anomaly" exists
with respect to the currency re-
strictions imposed on British
tourists visiting Israel and the
West Bank and East Jerusalem as
well, the foreign office admitted
in an item published in the Guard-
ian Wednesday.
The paper noted that British
visitors to Israel are restricted to
a 50 pounds sterling ($120) travel
allowance while visitors to Jordan,
which is within the sterling area
have no restrictions imposed . . .
"Does this mean," the Guardian
asked, !`that tourist in East
Jerusalem and the West Bank can

Yaukey noted that the U. S. spend as freely as they wish,
share of Israel's imports has held since Britain has not recognized
fairly close to 25 per cent in recent Israel's sovereignty in those areas?
years and believes it will continue Emphatically not, replied the
to hold despite devaluation of the foreign office. In that case," the
Israel pound which gives a price Guardian persisted, "Doesn't this
advantage to the sterling bloc. He really imply that Britain recog-
noted in this connection a decided nizes Israel's sovereignty over its
preferences for U. S. products in occupied territory? Emphatically
Israel and the "record dollar pro- not, the foreign office replied
in Wilkes Barre. In 1961 he came
ceeds from U. S. remittances and again, but conceded that an
to Columbia University as asso-
Israel Bond sales in the U. S. 'anomaly' exists."
ciate counselor to Jewish students (totaling over
$600,000,000 in 1967)
and received his PhD in 1966
from Columbia. He is now rabbi which serve to underscore the Macmillan' Hopes Britain
prominence of the United States as Follows Israel's Example:
at the Wembley and District Lib-
a supplier in the eyes of Israeli
eral Synagogue in Harrow, Eng- buyers."
With Resolution, Courage
land.
NEW YORK (ZINS)—On his cur-
rent visit in New York, Britain's
Okla. Oil Firm to Prospect former prime minister, Harold
Macmillan, was asked about
on Israeli Coastal Plain
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The May- Britain's future; without colonies,
Make 'em holler uncle!
would
it become like Sweden?
flower
Oil
Co.
of
Oklahoma
signed
Call
According to the New York
up with the Israel National Oil
TE 3-3697
Times,
he replied: "The future, I
Prospecting Co. Monday to search
for oil near Natanya on Israel's hope, for Britain is more like that
of
Israel.
Recently, while the world
coastal plain between Tel Aviv

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debated, Israel's 3,000,000 imposed
their will on their enemies. They

did it with what any great people
needs: resolution, courage, deter-
mination, pride. These are the
things that count in men and in

Friday, January 26, 1968-29

Negro 'Hebrew Israelites' Quit Chicago

to Begin New Lives in Liberian Jungle

ades. Maybe we could get some
of them to contribute funds. We
are lovers of history and we
emigration to Liberia, a country
want to find our roots. They can
founded by freed American slaves,
to begin new lives where they feel be found only on the continent
their history started.
I of Africa."
The group, calling themselves
There are 162 persons in the
Hebrew Israelites, began their settlement. A few members have
trips last July—mostly from the returned to the United States.
Chicago area—and are now set- j Most live in a town of about 50
Cling in a 300-acre clearing in cen- blue and green tents set on raised
tral Liberia, 100 miles north of floors of logs and covered by
Monrovia.
thatched roofs.
The group's leader, Ben Carter,
The Liberian government has
who calls himself Ben Ami, said, I ruled that the immigrants may be-
"We'd rather live in the jungles come citizens if they remain for
of Africa than in a house in three years, but it is feared that
Cicero" (a suburb of Chicago).
the immigrants may become van-
Their settlement has disturbed guards for a large exodus of
the United States Embassy and Negroes that may upset the politi-
the Liberian government. The em- I cal balance. The government has
bassy worries that the colony I set up a panel to,..rule on the ad-
might become a source of anti- mission, settlement and assimila-
American propaganda; Liberia is tion of immigrants.
concerned that other American
Negroes—non-Jews—might immi-
grate and cause an assimilation
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