Vol. XXXII
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OMAHA, NEmtASKA, I'ltHIAV, AVIlll,
Sunday Radio &TV Warburg States Eternal Utflit program will not be broadcast this Sunday.
Now York <WN.S> — Israel "noeds the help of free men as never before" to survive as a land of refuge and liberty for the hundreds of thousands who have come to it "In a modern exodus from lands of oppression," Edward M. M, Warburg, General Chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, declared In a Passover message to American Jews. Mr. Warburg's message, addressed to campaign volunteers nnd contributors In the more than 5,000 communities taking part in the UJA's 1951 nationwide drive, called attention to Passover as a "festival of Freedom" and stressed Munich (JTA)—The Joint Dis- that "at this moment tho freedoms which Israel's people won tribution Committee announced hew that It would close the Foeh- so dearly and prize so much are renwald camp, last remaining under greater attack and in more Jewish DP camp in Germany, a* serious jeopardy than at any time BpotUght on well as its camps in Austria and since the new State's establishItaly. The JDC also revealed that ment in 1948." It has allocated 1650,000 to help He urged American Jews to the DP's emigrate to countries of mark the Passover holiday with their choice or, in the event they 'greater contributions than ever cannot do that, resettle them on before for the United Jewish Apa permanent basis In the countries peal," asserting that "this aid la where they now find themselves. crucial If Israel is to continue to The funds will come from monies strengthen its free way of life and assigned to the agency by the to survive as a 20th century IMMIGRATION XAW Conference on Jewish Material democracy In an area of hostile Washington <JTA>—Sen. HuClaims Against Germany. 'Die feudal and military dictatorships. bert H. Humphrey charged In a conference received the funds as Senate speech that the State Dereparations payment* by West partment la exploiting a fear of Germany to World Jewish organforeigners to the degree that virtnc izations, In recognition ° ' tually all prospective Immigrants, harm done the Jewish people by seeking admittance under the 1953 the Nnzl regime. The West Gerr Emergency Refugee Act are benvin Government will also match New York (WNS)—In Wash- ing barred. He referred to the 1h»'$650,000'to be spent by the ington Henry A. Dyroade, Assist- Act which provides authority for Jl)'- with 5714,000 of its own. ant Secretary of State for Near the admission in excess of usual The Fochrenwald camp Etill Knstcrn Affairs, charged boforc quotas of 2£!),000 persons and • I-.MWS some 1,300 Jews, while the the House Foreign Affairs Com- 5,000 orphans. The Senator deJDC centers nt Afiten and I I.-illoin mittee that tin; Russians have scribed the administration of the in Austrln, hnve approximately taken the side of the Arabs in act to bar rather than admit ImCOO. and the Italian assembly cen- tile U. N. He assured the commit- migrants as n "tragedy." ters have another 150 among tee that the State Department will tlicin. Tills remalniiic "hard core" require guarantees from Arab na- HUNT CONTINUED The Hague (WNS)—Tho hunt is all that Is left of some 2.10,000 tions receiving military assistance n'livivors of the Nazi holocaust from this country that such arms for Anncke Beekman, Dutch-Jewish orphan spirited out of Holland V'IO were collected In DP camps will not be used against Israel. nflT the collapse of Hitler's reU. N. Secretary Hammarskjold into Belgium by her Catholic fosKiM^. ..•.•'.' told the National Press Club In ter-mother, Is being continued by )<i n statment by Moses W. Washington he was optimistic both the Belgian and Netherlands IJocUHman, JDCs European di- with regard to a settlement of the police, tho Netherlands 'Minister of Justice declared. rector, it was noted that, thanks Israel-Arab dispute. t'i funds provided by the Claims The United States this week ; The Belgians were rendering all Conference, It Is possible to "Rive pledged $27,000,000 for tho relief assistance In the matter, said the flint consideration" to the camp of refugees of the Palestine war Minister in denying reports In the inmates.* "Their tragic lot makes and urged other members of the Catholic press here that the Bel, It Imperative to speed their ro- United Nations to be more open- gian authorities had refused to cor>"]>!lltation by moving them into handed In their own contributions. operate further with the Dutch police In searching for the eirLivi.nlnl 'communities away from While the Communists won 44 tit.1? demoralizing camp atmoshcrc of all votes cost In the PROPERTY RELEASE itiiy have breathed for far too percent first municipal election In NazaWashington (WNS)—Congress long." Mr. Bcckelmun declared. reth, all-Arab city In Israel, lead- was asked by the American Jewers of the Jordan Government ac- ish Committee and the American clalmed Soviet delegate VlshlnCongress to approve legissky for his defense of the Arab Jewish case In tho U, N. Security Council. lation permitting Jewish; charitable/ organizations in the United United Nations, N. Y. (JTA)States to use $3,000,000 in cash, Dr. Italph Bunehe, who as UN Germany To Provide formorly the property of persons mediator, brought about the Arabkilled by the Na^is. Israel armistice agreement") in Telephone Equipment Prof. Herman A. Gray, appear10'iO. may plan an nctlve rolo in Cologne (JTA)—A contract for ing in .behalf of t the American the comlnB months in seeking setJewish.Committee, told, a sub-comtlement of the Middle East situa- S.1.T>00.000 worth of telephone and mittee of the Senate Judiciary tion. It wns reported here this teletype equipment was signed In Committee, headed by Son. Everett the orflccs of Dr. F. K. Shlnnar, w •.::. Dlrksen, that the money would bo "'he Nobel Prize winner was bend of the Israel purchasing mis- used for relief and rehabilitation sli.ted for promotion from direc- sion in Germany. The contract of the victims of Nazi persecution torship of the UN Trusteeship 1)1- obligntes German manufacturers who have survived. Abraham S. vifilon to the post of Under Secre- to supply a variety of equipment, Hyntnn testified for the American tary of the UN, In this Job, his as- including electronic devices, as Jewish Congress. signment would be that of UN reparations goods to Israel. trouble shooter nnd one of the The materinls will bo used to In- INDEMNIFICATION first Questions that would come stall automatic interurban teleBonn (JTA)—Bureaucratic obhis way would be that of solution phone exchanges in Israel's cen- structionism nnd legalistic hairtral iiector, ns well as to tic in the of the Arab-Israel Impasse. splitting, which reflect 111 will J>r. Bunche has already been most far-flung of Israel's settle- and deep-seated toward put nut on the Job of coordinating ments with the main centers of Nazi victims, arehostility thwarting inan approach towards settlement population and defense by a radio- demnification for individual claimthrough economic development of telephone network. The initial au- ants throughout West Germany tomatic exchanges will be set up th." area. and West Berlin, it Is charged with Oilier chances in the organiza- In tho area between Tel Aviv nnd bitterness by the ortional setup of the United Nations Aero, including the Haifa Indus- Increasing ganizations and experts most conwould nee Benjamin A. Cohen, of trial nnd port zone. Chile, transferred from the InThe teletyiw machine;; will on- cerned with tho complex problem. The F e d e r a l Indemnification formntlon department to the As- able business firms in Tel Aviv, sistant Secretaryship for Trustee- Jaffa, Jerusalem, Uecrsheba and Law, adopted by Parliament nine months ago, still remains n dead ship Affairs; Col. Alfred G. Kat- Tiberias to conduct business trans2ln, of South Africa, In charge of actions over the wires, for the letter because not one of the nethe personnel department, nnd first time In Israel. The machines cessary Iinplcinantatlon regulaHubert Marjolln, of France, to lie will be owned by tho Post Office, tions has l>con Issued. Actual paychief of the department of eco- which will rent them to individual ments hnve dropped substantially below the level of last year. nomic and social affairs. users on a monthly fee basis.
European Refugee Camps to Close
Global Report
Russians Charged With Arab Position
Bundle May Get New Post in U.N.
jopy Id Asntwl Mat* 4 DsDUi
Plan East Peace
Israel Endangered
"Message of Israel" will be presented over KOIL. from 10 to 10:30 a. m. Rabbi Abraham Show of Oheb Shalon Congregation In Baltimore will .speak. "Message of Israel" Is under the joint auspices of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the United Jewish Layman's Committee.
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New York (JTA)—Warning of Imminent c h a o s in the Middle East, from which, only Russia stands to gain, 19 distinguished American leaders made public a . scries of proposals submitted to President Eisenhower as the basis of a new United States policy, to be carried out with United Nations assistance, and designed to pacify the explosive situation. A copy of the 171-page memorandum entitled "Security and the Middle East" was sent to Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, with a request that it be brought to the consideration of the appropriate organs of the United Nations, as well as to United Nations Middle Kant delegates. Oppose Anns The signatories oppose arms offers or grants now either by the United States or our Allies to the Arab governments on the score Washington (JTA)-The State that such arms would be used Department announced its stand either "against their own people, on the current developments in should rebellion against starvation the Arab-Israel situation in a lead to violence," or "against Isstatement in which It was em- rael to divert the Arab people phasized that the United States from the real source of their anGovernment will seek to strength- guish—their Incredible poverty." en the armistice control machinery Instead of the present concenof the United Nations. tration on arms and military alThe full text of the statement liances, the signatories urge a firm offer to the Arab world of largeroad as follows: "All of our efforts arc directed scale assistance, beginning with a to the ultimate goal of a peaceful $350,000,000 United States pledge adjustment of relations between to a $500,000,000 United Nations to develop the resources of the Arab states and Israel. Bo- fund tho Middle East. This offer should fore the goal Is reached both Israel bo made conditional on the acand the Arab states will have to ceptance of two prior agreements: modify their present attitudes. 1. Settlement of the Palestine war. "The first step forward should 2. Permanent resettlement of Arab be the renunciation of force as means to attain political objectives refugees in Arab countries. Arab Refugees and tho substitution of cooperation by the parties among themselves "In advance of the 1954 session and with the United Nations truce of the General Assembly, the Unitsupervision organization in the ed States should make known to context of their armistice obliga- the United Nations and to the tions, Arab states Its view that "the only "Our objective touring the cur- feasible and fruitful, solution of rent Security Council discussion Is the Arab refugee p r o b l e m ! * limited to bringing about such co- through resettlement In A r a b operation and to discovering c o u n t r i e s , ! ' the memorandum means to strengthen. the armls< urged. Further, that the United tlce control machinery of the States, which has thus far supplied United Nations. We believe the. more than one-half the funds for interests of all concerned will be the welfare of Arab refugees, shall served best by such a forward state its readiness to continue such support, stipulating that funds so The statement was Issued to the given be ear-marked for a permapress "by Henry Suydam, press of- nent resettlement program under the U. N, at a cost of $300,000,000. ficer of the State Department. Resettlement Fund Both the Arab countries and Israel should be asked to participate In this program, Israel through a fair contribution to the $300,000,000 resettlement fund by way of The first report meeting by tho compensation for abandoned Arab members of the Men's Division of land In Israel. The Arab countries the Phllantroplns Campaign will through the assignment of tracts be held Thursday, April 29, at 8 of land in their territories now unp. m. In the Jewish Community populated or under-populatod but capable of being developed to supCenter. Harry Sidman, chairman of the port a substantial population. Men's Division reports considerThe resettlement program, as able headway has been made. envisaged, would be conducted by Plans for speeding up our job will a United Nations resettlement be discussed, he stated. agency, whose function would be both to arrange for the orderly transfer of the refugees and their Tercentenary Exhibitretraining as necessary. New Work (WNS)—The Jewish Museum of the Jewish Theological The signatories include: Dr. Seminary of America inaugurated Henry A. Atkinson, general secreits observance of the 300th year of tary, Tho Church Peace Union; Jewish life In this country with an Frank W. Buxton, former member, exhibit, which opened on April Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry; Dr. Donald B. Cloward, ex20th, entitled "Biblical Themes in ecutive secretary, Council of ChrisAmerican Folk Art." This collec- tian Social of the Amerition of 28 pieces, assembled with can BaptistProgress Convention; Dr. Fredthe cooperation of Edith G. Hal- erick May Eliot, president, Ameriperl of the Downtown Gallery, will can Unitarian Association; the Rt. bo on public exhibit through June Rev, Charles K. Gilbert, Retired 15, nnd with the continuing ex- Episcopal Bishop of New York; hibit of American Jewish Minia- the Rt. Rev. Henry W. Hobsoq, tures and the children's exhibit, Episcopal B i s h o p of Southern "Sweet land of liberty—300 years," Ohio; tho Very Rev. Ivan tee will inaugurate a series of special Holt, Methodist Bishop of Misevents marking the tercentenary souri, who is president of the celebration. World Methodist Council.
State Dept. Stand On Middle East
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Men's Div. to Hold Report Meeting