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"Aflenflc U f y Ild-Ecisf MEfery SI?eticftli NEW YORK (JTA)—Israel should feel more secure than it lias In the recent past but a "potential Middle East balance of terror" still liaunts the capitals of the region, according to an analysis by the Atlantic Monthly. The analysis said Israel should feel more secure because of the breakup of attempts at Arab unity, leading the magazine to conclude that "no one today expects an Arab drive against Israel." Israelis, according to the analysis, believe an important turning point in its relations with the United States was reached with the agreement for sale to Israel of the United Slates A4 Skyhawk bombers. The transaction means, said the magazine, that the United States has been persuaded for the first time that Israel needed an offensive air weapon and that, to Israel, the agreement mnnni t\n\> the United Slates accepted tlicJdca of independent deterrent power. The analysis suggested that with this deterrent promised" by the United Slates, the decision about atomic weapons development in Israel can be postponed,
New York (JTA)—The American Jewish Committee charged this week that discrimination is virtually exluding qualified Jews from executive positions in the nation's l e a d i n g commercial banks. A survey of the 50 largest commercial banks, made public by President Morris 13. Abram, showed that 45 of these banks had no Jews among their senior officers. Each of four of the other five banks had one Jew in such top posts. The fifth bank ATOMIC WEAPONS "The most optimistic view," the article reported, "is that the has four Jewish senior officers. Arabs and Israelis are using atomic language in a new version.of The total of eight Jews among psychological warfare." With no progress toward general agree- 032 bank officers represented ment on nan-proltterntini), "it is not surprising that such countries 1.3 per cent. as Israel and Egypt 'and India) should weigh the possibility of Of 3,438 midcllemangagement joining the atomic club." officials — executives below the If and when the decision is made, Israel will turn to its re- senior level down through the search reactor in the Negev which can produce the plutonitim vice-presidential bracket — 32 Jews were identified, about 0.!) needed for atomic weapons, according to the analysis. "A higher proportion of resources is spent for • military pur- per cent. The report noted that poses in the Middle E a s t than anywhere in the world," The article the talent shortage in banking was so acute that a leading listed the following data: Defense Budget Israel . . . . $271,000,000 Egypt 400.000,000 Iraq 3«,000,000 Jordan Saudi Arabia.. 108,000,000 Syria
Troops 250,000 1BO.000 112,000 30,000 20,000 01,000
Tanks 609 1,200 320 200 ...
Aircraft 470 450 250 40 150
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s. Jerusalem (JTA) — Bonfires Dr. Nahiim Goldmann r«iid that know why he had been absent. blazed throughout Israel this the building was "a symbol of It appeared he might have been v/cc!c to mark the- dedication of soiitarity of the Jewish people offended at not having been inthe new $(i,O00,00O home of Is- .whether represented here or vited to kindle the torch of the rael's Parliament, not," a reference to the East new Knesset, his apparent duo The dedication cere m o n i e s European Jewries, the only ma- as the body's oldest member. Though he is Israel's only living were attended by more than 5,000 persons, including Speakers jor Jewish group not represent- former Premier, he apparently was not invited to sit with tho of 44 overseas Parliaments nftd ed at the ceremonies. 47 representatives of J e w i s h The absence of Ben-Gurion visiting and Israeli dignitaries communities abroad. from the ceremony attracted at- during the inauguration. Premier Lcvl Eshkol told the tention. The former Premier A copy of the American throng that, wltlilu the walls of took his seat when the Knesset Declaration of Independence convened the next day for its the new s t r u c t u r e "will bo was p r e s e n t e d to Israel's formed the unity of a people re- firs' session in its new home and Parliament, by the American turning to their ancestral home." declined to reply to a question Congressional d e l e g a t i o n about his absence. Members of which took part In the dedihis dissident Israel W o r k e r s cation of the Knesset's new Party (Ilafi) said they did not home.
United States official said it was forcing some banks to seek to merge with other banks. New York (JTA) — New The report noted also that the York City Finance Adminisf e d e r a l government, has antrator Roy M. Goodman disnounced that about 95 per cent closed that ho was investiof the nation's 15,000 commergating the possibility of bias cial banks would be considered by New York commercial government contractors effecbanks against Jews after the tive November 30, because they American Jewish Committee handle federal funds. As such, had charged that there is a they will be required to refrain marked lack of Jews among from discriminating against emthe top management posiployes or job applicants for tions of those banks. Speaking on a television reasons of race, color, creed, program, Mr, Goodman said or national origin. there was an "implication" New York Problem that anti-Semitism is inThe study found a "pavtieulnrvolved. But he stressed that Iy extreme" situation in New the Committee's report conYork City, home of nine of the ceded that Jews may have 50 queried banks. One Jewish shunned the banks because banker was found among 173 of greater financial oppors e n i o r officials in the nine tunity elsewhere. Mr. Goodbanks. This was slightly over man said that, if it is proved one half of one per cent in a that the commercial banks community in which almost 25 are discriminating against per cent of the population and Jews, he would be "reluchalf of the college-graduate tant" to continue depositing population is Jewish. A 1905 in such institutions city revCommittee study found Jews enues which amount to more markedly underrepresented in than $100,000,000 daily in New York City's 50 mutual savpeak tax collection periods, ings banks. Jews were found to total 2.5 per cent among the more than 400 officers in such League college graduates of tha past five or six years and more banks. than 15 per cent of all such Qualified Jews graduates to age 50. The report rejected "hiring or In addition, the report said, upgrading according to a pre- among executives of the 50 leaddetermined quota" but contend- ing banks, 528 are Harvard ed that Jews were qualified for Business School graduates, 4\ executive positions in banks. per cent of them in top manThe Committee said that most agement posts. B a n k ' . n g rebanking officials have a college portedly is the most popular cabackground and Jews account reer of such graduates. Jews for about eight per cent of all make up 12 to 15 per cent of college graduates up to age 50 all l i v i n g graduates of that in this country. Ivy L e a g u e school but fewer than one per graduates are a high ratio of cent of men going into combanking executives and Jews mercial banking from the Harmake up 25 per cent of all Ivy vard Business School are Jews.
New York (JTA) — The full story of the Nazi massacre of Jews in the ravine of Babi Yar, in Kiev, in 1941, has now been revealed in the Soviet Union for the first time by an eyewitness writing in a Soviet magazine, The New York Times reported. Mrs. Al Fiedler, Chairman of the Federation of Jewish WomA soviet writer, Anatoly Kuznetsov, who was living in Kiev en's Clubs Booth for the annual Children's Memorial Hospital Starlight, Pa. (JTA) — Tho taken thoughtfully in the light and was 12 years old when the Bazaar, has announced that con- president of the American As- of a careful calculation of the Babi Yar massacre took place, tributions are now" being ac- sociation of University Profes- potential social costs and bene- has written the Babi Yar story cepted for the Bazaar which will sors said this week that the fits which may be involved." He in Yunost, a Soviet youth magabe held Monday, October 24, Jewish commitment to social added that "ho who resorts to zine. According to the Times justice requires that those who an illegal course of action must d i s p a t c h , this is the story 19GG. to civil disobedience bo prepared to accept the pen- Kuznetsov told: "Many merchandise items can resort must not show contempt for alties prescribed by law, though On September 28,1941, a week be used for the booth, including law and order and in such prohandmade articles," said Mrs. tests they must act to "inflict tho judge and jury may well after the German army occuF i e d l e r . "Merchandise dona- minimal harm upon the com- take into account the quality of pied Kiev, posters were put up tions should be marked with munity." Dr. David Fellnnan, a the protest in determining tho by tho Germans throughout tho the name of the donor, and may University of Wisconsin profes- nature of the punishment to ba city ordering "all the Jews of Kiev and surroundings" to asbe dropped off at any of the sor of political science, dis- meted out." semble at 8 a.m., the following following places." cussed the issue at tho Interday, at Babi Yar. "The posters national convention here of the ordered all Jews to bring docuChildren's Memorial Hospital Aleph Zadek Aleph, the B'nai ments, money, valuables and B'rith youth organization. Dr. 502 South 44th Street warm clothing. The Germans Fclhnan is an alumnus of tho warned on the posters that all first AZA chapter in Omaha. Mrs. Al Fiedler Jews failing to comply with the Passion for Justice 5611 Charles St. order would be shot. Many of the Jews, according to Mr. KuzIn outlining the limits of civil netsov, thought they were to be Mrs. Ed Rosen disobedience to : his Jewish evacuated to a zone away from OKI!) Cuming St. youth audience, Prof, Fellman the war front. lauded tho Jewish "passion^for Mrs, Ilobert Colin justice and freedom" and said Mr. Juznetsoy told how he 514 South C7Lh St. that "directly or indirectly all watched the Jews going to tho of us have been nurtured in tho ravine at Babi Yar the followMrs. Fiedler urges that cash timeless Jewish concepts of huing morning. At the edge of tho contributions lie r e t u r n e d man worth, individual dignity, ravine, he reported, German troops checked the documents promptly in the pink envelope.", morality and freedom." carried by the Jewa> He saw mailed to the women of lite Ho declared that acts of civil G e r m a n soldiers, helped by disobedience "must bjs undercommunity Uiis irafc. Dr. David Fetlntaa
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Ukrainian policemen, forcing the Jews to undress and inarch into tfie ravine. There, the writer" r e p o r t e d , machine guns mowed the Jews down. The author told of a Jewish woman who saved herself by crawling out of one of the graves at night. He reported that Germans ordered the shooting of Ukrainians who had got into the ravine by error, for fear that tho Ukrainians would spread tho word about what had happened at Babi Yar. • For years, the Soviet authorities have followed a policy of speaking of Nazi terror against Russians and Ukrainians, without mentioning Jews. The Great Soviet Encyclopedia mentions" only that, at Babi Yar, the Nazis shot "195,000 peaceful citizens." Former Prime Mi n i s t er Khruschcv, objected strenuously when the Soviet poet, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, w r o t e his poem, entitled "Babi Yar," in which he criticized the absenceof a monument at the site for tho killed Jews. Subsequently Yevtushenko had to alter his poem to satisfy Khrushchev's denial that Jews were the only victims of the massacre. Mr. Kuznetsov emphasized that tho Germans intended to executo only Jews. He added that a few Ukrainians and Russians wero shot as a result of confusion or because the Germans decided that they bad seen too much to be released.
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