Arabs a Snit Over Duke's Plan Enthusiastic Volenteers Attend
to Address JNF Event for Queen Successful Allied Campaign
LONDON (JTA) — Minis- forest is being planted is Rally Sunday at Jewish Center
ter of State Julian Amery ac-
cepted an invitation to ad-
dress the Jewish National
Fund Guildhall dinner May
7. As Arab protests mounted
against the appearance of
Prince Philip, the Duke of
Edinborough, at the affair.
Prince Philip will speak
and will be presented with a
volume recording the plant-
ing of a 1,000,000 tree forest
near Nazareth in honor of his
and Queen Elizabeth II's
25th wedding anniversary.
Ahmed Anis, director of the
Arab League office here,
warned at a press confer-
ence that the presentation
would put a severe strain
on Anglo-Arab relations.
"It is of course natural that
British Jews should wish to
pay tribute to the Royal
Family," he said, "but it
would have been even more
appropriate if the 1,000,000
trees were plantecrin Britain.
The Arabs' real misgiving
is that the land on which the
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Arab land, unjustly expro-
priated. The legislation under
which the land was taken
away can only be described
as legalized robbery," he
said.
Anis claimed that there
had been widespread disap-
proval in diplomatic circles.
He said a protest to the Pal-
ace has been organized by
Arab students in London.
"The Crown should decline
acceptance of this forest be-
cause of the significance to
the Arabs," he said.
Christopher Mayhew, a
champion of the Arab cause
in and out of Parliament,
said in a statement that the
Palace advisers "should dis-
tinguish more carefully be-
tween showing good will to-
ward the Jewish community
in Britain and giving political
support to a state which in
the eyes of the world is al-
most as controversial and
unpopular as South Africa."
Michael Fidler, a Conser-
vative MP who is president
of the Board of Deputies of
British Jews stated that the
forest in honor of the Queen
and the Royal Consort was
intended as "a token of re-
spect and admiration" and
has no political significance.
The campaign to raise
money for the forest went
With a total of $12,063,211 recorded in subscriptions
on for over a year without
reaction from either the from 17,242 donors, at Sunday's report meeting, Samuel
Arabs or their friends here. Frankel, campaign chairman, urged indefatigable efforts
to reach the 8,000 prospects yet to be reached to over-
subscribe the 1972 contributions of $13,743,987. Frankel
is shown in the upper photo with, from left, Lewis Gross-
man, Richard Sloan, Arthur Howard, the guest speaker,
Answers to Quiz. Page 5
Michael Radomislsky, Mrs. Merle Harris, William Avrunin
1. Degania.
and Sol Drachler.
2. Briha (literally flight)
The middle photo shows part of the gathering of
was the name of the under- volunteer workers in whose behalf division chairmen sub-
ground
organization
that mitted the encouraging campaign reports.
helped bring thousands of
In the lower photo, Myron Milgrom is shown submit-
survivors of the Holocaust to
ting
his report in behalf of real estate and building trades
Palestine.
workers. Among those in front of Milgrom are George Keil
3. Gedud Haivri was the
and Jack Milan.
Jewish Legion consisting of
volunteers from America and
Europe. The Legion fought
with General Allenby in the
conquest of Palestine during
World War I.
4. Zeev (Vladimir) Jabotin-
sky.
5. Moshe Sharett, Golda
Meir and Abba Eban.
6. The Jewish Brigade was
formed during World War II
and consisted of Palestinian
and stateless Jews. It fought
in Europe and helped rescue
thousands of Holocaust sur-
vivors.
7. All Israelis vote at age
18 regardless of religion,
race, color or sex.
8. Yes. Through the na-
tional insurance law of 1954,
Israel provides old age pen-
sions, survivor insurance,
grants for the disabled, ma-
ternity benefits, etc.
9. Israel became a mem-
ber of NATO in 1972.
10. The two types of law
courts in Israel are civil
(state) and religious.
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