Mr. and Mrs. Louis Berry at Forest Israel Signs Agreement With U.S.A.
Dedication Ceremonies in Israel to Buy $30 Million in Surplus Food.

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Mr. and Mrs. Louis Berry attended the ceremony of the dedica-
Ion of the Louis Berry Forest as part of the Kennedy Forest, on
he outskirts of Jerusalem, during their visit in Israel last month.
/— the forest is being planted by the Jewish National Fund. Israel
government and JNF officials participated in the dedication
ceremonies.

Viscount Samuel Produces Another
Delightful Book of Short Stories

Editor's Note: Vzscount Samuel will deliver the annual Sophie
and Daniel M. Hass Lecture at Temple Israel, 8:30 p.m., Wednesday.
Already noted as author of the
most delightful narratives about the first British High Commis-
Israel and its people, Viscount sioner for Palestine. Sir Herbert
Edwin Samuel, now has another Samuel, who inherited his father's
fine collection of short stories to title and divided his time between
his credit.
Israel and the House of Lords in
In "His Celestial Highness," pub- London, resorts to politics. eco-
lished by Abelard-Schuman (6 W. nomics, the human side mineled
57th, NY19), Viscount Samuel with love, conflicts and contro-
again incorporates the humor, the versies.
His stories about Israel evidence
pathos, the themes related to
Israelis in their internal, domestic the deep interests of the author
interests as well as their universal who writes not only fiction but
who has produced many important
aspects of life.
essays dealing seriously with Is-
He is also the visionary, although rael's difficulties as well as her
he'd probably be the first to dis-
aspirations.
credit any effort to call him the
Thus, another of his stories deals
prophet of things to come, For
with
the emigrants from Israel
instance, in WASM—that's how he
abbreviates his invented World and his "The Yord'im" has its
delight of a visionary character.
Arab Salvation Movement—he an-
Then there is his narrative "The
ticipates a world Zionist congress
Merger: A Story of the Year
He
enjoys
a
good
laugh
in 1968.
2000" which takes the reader to
and that's how he puts WASM
the United States, to imaginary
in business.
characters and to a visionary de-
Just as he chooses in the story velopment, to an imaginary indus-
"Miss Henrietta" to deal with an trial development and to aspira-
imaginary Henrietta as president tions linked with a new type of
of the UN. Love is intermingled Jew.
with politics and there is glorifi-
Besides the title story and those
cation in his theme when he states mentioned the other tales in Vis-
as he records the end of Miss count Samuel's book are "The
Henrietta: "The effect of her death White Elephant." "Don't Buy a
is disastrous. Like Queen Victoria, Geisha!", "Freedom of Speech,"
who reigned for over 60 years till "The Loyal Detainees," "Au
her Diamond Jubilee, the whole Pair," "Introduction by a Corpse,"
world depended on Miss Henrietta. "Brother Jonas," "Kathy Kogan's
The fragile bubble of Israel's Country Club," "Israeland." •
There is universality on titles
economy collapses and, with it.
her Empire. And it is from that and certainly in the contents —
collapse that the Third Dispersion just as all of this author's narra-
tives emphasize not only the Israel
begins."
Some may view the humor as and deeply Jewish but also the
cynicism. Nevertheless, the son of over-all of general interest.

Gen. Bar-Lev Visits Wounded Soldier

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Israel
Abassador Yitzhak Rabin has sign-
ed an agreement with the United
States government for the sale of
$30,400,000 in surplus foodstuffs to
Israel in calendar year 1968.
Lucille Battle, Assistant Secre-
tary of State. signed the instru-
ment for the United States.
The transaction represented an
increase from the $27,000,000
transaction of last year. Repay-
ment will be in dollars over a 20-
year period. The interest rate is
2.5 per cent. Five per cent of the
total is to be paid in cash.
The Department of Agriculture

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 5, 1968-11

EARN

said in connection with the
agreement that, despite progress
in Israeli agriculture, the limited
water and land resources neces-
sitated imports. It was noted
that Israel, through its own
efforts, increased food produc-
tion by over 14 per cent in the
last year.
Food contained in the agreement
included 300,000 tons of feed
grains, 150,000 tons of wheat, 15,-
000 tons of vegetable oil, 200 tons
of tobacco and other goods

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Midnight Vigil
to Recall Martyrs

(Continued from Page 1)
nation camps.
In April 1943, on the eve of the
Passover, those Jews remaining in
the ghetto of Warsaw rose in re-
volt against the German army. The
battle, which lasted for 42 days,
ended with the ghetto pounded to
rubble. Virtually every able-bodied
man and woman involved in the
revolt died in the fighting.
The vigil pro-
gram commemo-
rates the tragic
loss. Rabbi Gro-
ner's keynote ad-
dress is entitled
"These Do I Re-
member." Cantor
Simon Bermanis
of Cong. Ahavas
Achim will chant
the memorial
prayer, El Mole
Rahamim.
Participants in
Rabbi Groner the candle-light-
ing ceremony are survivors of the
Holocaust who eventually settled
in the United States and the De-
troit area. They include Mrs. Leon
Feingold, NOrman Adelsberg, Mrs.
Nathan Nothman, Larry Brenners,
Mrs. Herbert Glogower and Martin
Water.
The community is invited to join
in this memorial program.

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