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of Syrian • Federation Approves Recall Envoy Requested New Center Repairs financial report* were the order pairs made to the Center building of business at the meeting of the during the year were listed. They Executive Committee of the Fed- Included the modernization of the eration for Jewish Service held kitchen, enlargement of the servlast Wednesday afternoon In the ing room, new electrical wiring for additional power, roof repairs, Regis Hotel. Isadora Chapman, Initial Gifts new windows and frames for the Chairman of the Philanthropies swimming pool and shower room, Campaign, reported that $491,020 plumbing, paving the parking lot, bad been pledged to date, which installing now ience and special represented. an increase of 23.2 repairs In facilities of the physiper cent cal education department. These The Federation's support of Included the Installation of new religious schools during the year light fixtures over the swimming Was. summarized In a report presented by Dr.' Morrla Margolin, pool, exhausc fan, celling and othchairman of the Bureau of Jewish er repairs. Art Cohn, chairman of the Dr. Education. He pointed out that Beth El schools lead In the num- Philip Sher Jewish Home tor the ber of students attending during Aged Committee, told of the rethe year for an average of 405 pairs made at the home. Improveyoungsters. Close behind Is Beth ments and repairs Included paintIsrael schools with an average of ing, pavement repairs and reup366 pupils. Temple Israel schools holstcring furniture, had an average of 200 pupils atPresent at the meeting were: tending during the year. Milton Abrahams, David E. Bebor, tsadore Chapman, Harry B. Cohen, A fhrcc-ycar comparative summitry of Federation grants to Arthur A. Cohn, Hyman Fere, Leo schools showed 'a trend of Increas- Fox, Dan Gordman, Dr. Abe ing subsidies to the schools, Dr. Grcenberg, William Grodlnsky, Elmer Gross, Louis Katz, Robert Margolin emphasized. Proposed repairs in the Jewish H. Koopcr, J. Harry Kulakofsky Community Center were approved Mrs. J. H. KulaUofsky, Dr. Morris by I hi! executive committee after Margolin, Calvin M. Newman, Elmer Gross, chairman of the Mrs. Henry A. Newman, Trnest A Buildings and Malntennncc Com- Nogg, Nnlhnn L. Nogg. Joe M. mittee, stated that the Center (,'ym. Tllco, John Rosenblatt, Hurry Sid floor needed sanding mid point- Tiinn, Marvin Trdler. Hurry Tnising. He hlso recommended that tln, Mrs, Sum N. Wulf nnd Kdwanl tbc auditorium nnd lobby lx> re- A. Ilnseii. Jack W. Maror, J'YcliT.itinn painted which was apprised Major Improvements nrr re- pri-Hlent prrsiriol
• Tbe people of Israel maintain their grim alertness against the threat of Arab attack*. The children shown above are getting alr Vmld training In a new Mttlement's Iximli shelter. Meanwhile, the United Jewish Appeal U pressing It* rumpulgn for Increased funds to carry forward humanltarliin programs In Israel for.Immigrant aid sod resettlement.
Israeli Miss Escapes Death 1
Telavfv (JTA)—Four Jordanian Infiltrators murdered an Israeli near too Lydda airport last weekend, but. his 21-year-old girl companion escaped death by posing; as a "Russian tourist." The girl, Helcne Frak, who came to Israel from Poland live years ago, described the details' of the attack and her escape to newsmen Sunday. She and her friend, Arich Grcuback, were traveling In a enr to Pctach Tikvah, when the headlights of their cars revealed an armed khaki-clad man standing In a ditch near the road, and three others seated in the ditch. Grcuback stopped the car and asked thorn to Identify.themselves,,Thny nuld they were Israeli soldiers ami ordered him baek to the car. He did qo hut, growing suspicion1*,
walked back to them. They shot and killed hint' with a burst t>f Sten gun fire. Then one of the men, who Bpokc Hebrew, came over to the car r.nd ordered Miss Frak to follow him. •She was led to a nearby road and was questioned all the while. She told them she was a Htisslan visiting Israel. The Hcbrcw-spcnklnc marauder consulted with the others In Arabic, nnd the young girl could hear them repeating the word "Russia." Having decided to release her, the men told he' to Inform anyone she might meet that the nllackers were Israeli soldiers. When she was left alone, lilie rnn to n nearby settlement, where she culled police, Their investigation revealed the footprints of four men hcariiiii: (•.iiilvvnrd t<> Jordan.
New York (JTA) '—• Charging that the Syrian Ambassador to the United States, >t. Farld Zelneddine, had "grossly violated his obligations as a diplomatic representative of a foreign nations," the American Jewish Congress urged the State Department, to demand the Syrian envoy's Immediate recall. In a letter to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, the president of the American Jewish Congress, Dr. Israel Goldstein, declared that the Syrian Ambassador's latest breach of diplomatic protocol was contained in a •speech made last June 26 at the Illinois State Normal University. Dr. Zoineddlnc said; "The American Jew Is. not an American emotionally or even ultimately. A, Zionist cannot have real allegiance to the country in which he lives." "This outrageous statement was not an isolated indiscretion," Dr. Goldstein stated. "It Is but the latest In a series "of outbursts by Ambassador Zclneddlne attacking the loyalty of American Jews and arousing antagonism t o w a r d them."
Hearings Urged In United Nations New York (JTA)—The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., was urged liy the Jewish Lnbor Committee Sunday to place the subject of Soviet mitl-.Semltl.sm on the ngen ila of the United Nations. In n communication from Adolph Meld, national chairman of the .II..C, and Nathan Chanin, chairman of its administrative committee, Ambassador Lodge was told that the statement made by several American Rabbis Who had Just returned from a visit to the L'SSR confirms what the Jewish Labor Committee has been saying for the past eight years. "The time has come for a full and open hearing on. the question before the tribunal of the United Nations," the JLC suggested. "There: is a calculated plan on the part of the. Soviets to finish the job begun by their predecessors—tHe Czars—and their former allies—the Nazis. The wiping out of a whole people by strangling their cultural ties, by liquidation of their cultural leaders, decimation of then* press, is not ait Internal problem but Is one with which the free world must bo concerned. "There exists now. the threat of pogroms against Jewish Poland, a Soviet satellite. Confirmed reports of assaults on Jews in other Soviet-dominated n a t i o n s give added fears that the Soviets arc preparing a major campaing to destroy the remaining vestiges of East European Jewry.
Sunday Radio Mark van Doren, poet, critic and Columbia University professor of English, nnd Maurice Samuel, author and lecturer, will cngugc in a series of informal dialogues on highlights of the first five books of the Bible In a 10-week Summer feature, "The Words We Live By," on Eternal Light over KFAII Sunday mornings at 11 .30 o'clock This will be the fourth Summer the two noted men of lottery have been featured on the program. Mr. Samuel's most recent work, "Certain People of the Hook," stemmed In large measure from their conversation.'! on last year's program series. The regular Eternal Light dramatic series will return to the air Sunday, Sept. 9.
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Camp Jqy-C-C Opens Sunday Tlio Jewish Community Center will hum witli excitement this Sunday morning as the first group of youngsters prepare to leave at 9 o'clock for tbeir first session at Camp Jay-C-C. The resident camp is sponsored by the Federation for Jewish Service and Is now In its 17th year of serving youngsters from Omaha and. Krushchev Charged neighboring areas. The summer camping program With Anti-Semitism for youngsters 6 through 14 has New York (JTA)—The ques- been extended this year to fivetion of what Is happening to Jews weeks and will Include new activiin the Soviet Union was posed In ties such as photography, boating Newsweek, leading-American and special events. weekly magazine, in its issue of Camp counselors left for camp last week. The publication reiter- Wednesday morning w i t h the ated the charge nK.de by the New camp director Saul Sllverman to York Times that Nlklta Krush- start their pre-camp training and chev, leader of the Communist to prepare for the first group of Party In the Soviet Union, has a campers who will arrive Sunday reputation for anti-Semitism. morning. "One of the Important but gen- Regular activities at camp will erally overlooked factors in the present upheaval In world com- be swimming, other snorts, arts . munism Is Niklta S. Krushchev's and crafts, nature lore and hiking. reputation for anti-Semitism," Improvements in equipment and Newsweek writes, the article says. the general condition of camp "Stalin's anti-Semitism was well- have been made for this year's known. Not so well known, except camping sessions. The sessions will In Communist circles, is Krush- extend until August 26. Registrachev's own record," the article tions for the first three week continues. "As boss of the Ukraine camping period or full season will during the war, he was almost as be accepted until Sunday. After hard on the Jews-as the Invading that youngsters can be enrolled Gorman armies had been. Some for the second period which will 300 Jews were massacred in Kiev, start August 12 and extend to Authe capital of the Ukraine, at the gust 26. Enrollment may be made end of 1944, while he was, in In the Center's camp office and for charge. further information call JA 1366.
Diplomats Shifted In Cairo Trouble Spot Washington (JTA)—Diplomatic and political circles here displayed extraordinary interest Monday In a report that President Elsenhower half decided to transfer Ambassador Henry A. Byroade from his post In Cairo to a new post as Ambassador to the Union of. South Africa. The report also stated that George V. Allen, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, will be named U.S. Ambassador to Greece. Speculation was rife as to the implications of this change, which is bound to affect American policy on the Arab-Israel s 1 1 u a t i o n : Notice of this chango has been given to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, since the Senate nyist confirm the new appointments. Special interest was displayed in the Capital Monday in the as yet unnamed successor to Mr. Allen. Interested Washington circles Monday.waited to learn the Identity of the mat. who will replace Mr. Allen as Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, in the hope that this would furnish a key to future State Department policy toward the Arab-Israel question. Byroade Transferred The removal of Henry A. Byroade as Ambassador to Egypt follows a growing conviction in government circles that Mr. Byroade failed In his Cairo post. He was c o n s i d e r e d by some an "apologist" for Egyptian Premier Nasser who did more to sell Nasser's ideas to Washington than vice versa. The growing relationship between Egypt and the Soviet Union was seen as the factor that finally convinced policy makers that Mr. Byroade had tq go. Hure. Named Ambassador Byroade's transfer to South Africa Is seen as a demotion because Egypt today is considered a number one trouble spot. Raymond A. Hare, veteran diplomat who replaces Mr. Byroade In Cairo, has a long record
of service in Arab countries He is known in diplomatic circles to be opposed to the Baghdad Pact because of the embarrassment the pact has caused Egypt, Saudi Arabia,-and other Arabs in the Nasser camp. Ambassador Hare began work In the Near East as executive secretary of the American Chamber of Commerce for the Levant In (Continued on Page 3)
Arab Unrest In Near East j By ninnft Grossmnn ' AJP—It must be quite clear now, even to the more biased observers of the Middle Eastern political panorama, that Israel is not —despite loud Arab claims to this effect—the. sole or even the major cause of the area's perpetual unrest and trouble. Were Israel never to have appeared, in any guise, on the scene, the Arab nations would still face a barrage of problems, some Inherent and ancient; other* contemporary and entire-" ly of their own making. Some of these are the- really critical problems of avoiding Communist penetration while conducting earnest flirtations with the Soviets. Mid-East Rivalry And the present tension between Iraq and Egypt, product of a century-old rivalry, accelerated by Colonel Nasser's overweening ambitions, is another case in point. For several weeks now them has been much written about activity on Israel's borders. Dcspita constant official Israeli and United Nations denials, the world's press continues to describe "mass* ing" on the frontiers of the Jew* Isli State and to wonder aloui about the probability of the recurrence of large-scale Arab hostilities and swift retaliatory a* (Continued on Page 4). t