dictates of his own cons-
cience and the U.S.
became the first nation in
the world to recognize the
declared state of Israel .. .
There were warnings,
which were summarily
dismissed, that Commu-
nist Jews would invade
the new state. This por-
tion of the Clifford article
is of such great impor-
tance that it must be plac-
ed into the record of
realities in Jewish aspira-
tions and tasks of settling
the homeless Jews in the
security of Jewish
sovereignty ...
Mr. Clifford reveals the
interesting fact that Pres-
ident Truman was hor-
rified by the negations to
his personal policies as
outlined to Dr. Chaim
Weizmann who had made
the Zionist appeals to him
on several occasions. He
resented being placed in a
position of being judged
as a liar. Mr. Clifford ex-
posed the true condition
of President Truman's
honorable approach to
the Zionist hopes in his
American Heritage article
•• •
Thus, May 14 becomes
an important date on the
world and the Jewish
calendars because it was
then, in the civic reckon-
ing that Jewish statehood
was reborn, and it was
then, in the best interests
of American traditions,
that politics ceased to
play a role and humanism
was the guiding factor af-
firmed by a great Ameri-
can president. This is how
history was made. It is histo-
ry that continues to be
shaped in the highest polit-
ical and human values.
Recapitulation of the great
occurrence of May 14, 1948,
keeps receiving emphasis in
the continuity of Israel's
uninterrupted services to
the Jewish people and to
humanity. This has gained
importance with the rescue
from humiliation of the
hundreds of thousands of
Soviet Jews. It becomes ad-
ditionally remarkable with
the rescue and transfer from
oppression of Ethiopian
Jewry.
Blessed be the days of
redemption.
Cutlers: Pioneering
If the term pioneering in
any form could be applied to
people, it fits next to the
name Cutlers. This is in
tribute to Helen Cutler who
died in Chicago last week at
the age of 99.
For perhaps 75 years of her
life she was among the most
active in our Detroit com-
munity. Her Jewish Nation-
al Fund leadership made her
an activist, providing
guidance for us all.
For nearly as many years,
her husband Philip was an
inspiration in Zionism which
began with his father, from a
long line of rabbis, in the
last decade of the last cen-
tury.
It is a duty to recognize
pioneering and, therefore, to
memorialize appreciatively
the names of the Cutler cou-
ple. 0
Mother Wins Battle
Over Headstone
Tel Aviv (JTA) — The
bereaved mother of a soldier
killed in the Lebanon war
has won a six-year battle
with the Israel Defense
Force to have the inscription
on his headstone revised.
The standard inscription
on the graves of Lebanon
war dead states that the
soldier fell in "Operation
Peace for Galilee," the offi-
cial name given the invasion
of Lebanon when it was
launched in June 1982.
But Ofra Spiegel, 58, of
Ramat Gan, has repeatedly
petitioned the Defense Min-
istry to change the wording
on the grave of her younger
son, Lt. Yoav Spiegel, who
was killed in 1983 when his
jeep overturned in Leb-
anon's Shouf Mountains.
She asked that "Lebanon
War" be substituted for the
official nomenclature, say-
ing she could not live with
the "lying words" on her
son's grave.
"It was not an 'operation'
but a prolonged war, in
which 650 boys died," Mrs.
Spiegel told reporters. "It
was not peace but exactly
the opposite. And my son did
not fall in Galilee. He fell in
another country, a country
they sent him to, Lebanon."
The Defense Ministry
agreed to change the wor-
ding just hours before the
High Court of Justice was to
consider her petition. It will
inscribe the words "fell in
Lebanon" but not "Lebanon
War."
Mrs. Spiegel assented to
the compromise.
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