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London UTA) As many us ).") Soviet warships were reported this week to be sailing in the direction of Port Said and Alexandria in a display of strength apparently designed to intimidate Israel and s e r v e as a fthicld fur Egypt. The armada was said to include niissile-liring ship.'; and submarines. The vanguard of the lleet w.-is due to reaeh the port soon. The London Daily Kxprcss asserted that Soviet naval strength in Ihe Mediterranean li a d increased about. 30', since Ihe Six Day War last June and estimated Soviet naval strength there at 41 ships. Writing in the Kvening .Standard, Jon Kimchc snid a Soviet lleet consisting of eight destroyers, 12 torpedo boats ;ind 15 submarines liad been deployed
Hew Elillel Goonselor flamed at Nebraska I K/.ra Kohn, Assistant Professor of Social Work at the University of Nebraska, has been appointed counselor of the Nebraska University chapter of the B'nai B'rith ilillel Foundation, A native of New Jersey, Professor Kohn lias, served in Jewish Community Centers in the east, and came to Nebraska in IMG from .Unifiers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. "I am concerned that Jewish people have the opportunity on campus to express their Judaism in a way that is appropriate for college students." Kohn said in his acceptance of the appointment. Former Ilillel counselor, Rabbi Maurice Poincraiitx, has left Lincoln to accept a pulpit in California. While in Lincoln Rabbi Pomerantz served the Tiiereth Israel Congregation.
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in Kgyptian territorial waters between Port Said and Alexandria. The "increasing Soviet involvement in the Suez Canal situation." lie said, was reflected ;ilso in the fact that a considerable number of senior .Soviet staff officers are working on the K;;yptiaii General Staff and with Ihe air force, army and navy. Most of Ihe '15 senior officers who arrived in Cairo with Marshal Z a k h a r o v, he said, were to remain behind to work with. Ihe Kgyptians and the Russians already there. He asserted that more than 000 Egyptian pilots and tank crew members liiid been -sent to Russia for special training. The Daily Telegraph reported Egvpt was believed to have received 250 MIG-I'J and MIG-21 jet fighter planes, 400 medium and heavy tanks, 450 guns, including anti-aircraft w e a pans, Z"td ],!!(!() trucks. Tiic Telegraph said that there had been little buildup in E g y p t's n a v a 1 strength because Egypt suffered only minor sea losses in the .SixDay War. The newspaper said that Egypt had 17 Soviet-mnde, speedy patrol boats equipped with the Styx missiles of the type believed to have sunk the Klalh in the Port Said area last week.
Israeli Art Calendars' How Available, at .JCC. Mrs. Daniel Katzman, JCC Art Chairman, has announced that a limited number of Israeli Art Calendars, featuring the works of leading Israeli artists, are now available at the Jewish Community Center. These calendars are offered annually by the JCC Art Committee in an effort to make Israeli Art available to all. The calendars are available at the main desk in the JCC lobby, or by calling the Activities Office, 342-I3GB. A fee of 50 cents is charged to cover the cost of handling.
A film series, special speakers and a major concert featuring artists of the New Y o r k Yiddish stage, are part of the program planned by the Yiddish Culture Committee of the Jewish Community Center, u n d e r Washington UTA)—Efforts to the c h a i r m a n s h i p of Max free Rudolph Hess, once Hitler's Crounse. deputy and No, 2 man in the Mr. Crounse has announced Nazi hierarchy, now serving a that a program will be pre- life sentence in the Spandau sented each month throughout prison in Berlin, were vigorous the year to meet the increased ly opposed this week by Samuel interests of the Yiddish speak- Samuels, commander of the ing members of the community. Jewish War Veterans. In a statement Mr. Samuels said that Hess, one of the original stoim had "gone beyond the Hussein Will Ask troopers, realm, where in a claim for comcould be made." He is For U.S. Weapons passion the only war criminal left at Washington (JTA) — Jordan's Spandau, King Hussein will ask the Unit-; Moves to free Hess have been cd States to lift her arms em- supported by former United bargo and ship weapons to Jor- States Attorney General. Fran dan, it was disclosed by the cis Biddle who had himself Jordanian Embassy here. Arab passed judgment on the Nazi at diplomats said Hussein is ex- the Nuremberg war crinifs pected to meet wild President trials'in I'Mfi. Mr. Biddle said Johnson, Secretary of State. recently that lie. thought He'.s, Dean Rusk, and military au- who defected to Britain in 1911, thorities. Hussein is expected in had served long enough and Washington between November that Lord Oaksey, presiding C and I!. member of the Nurembeig The King will appear also be- court, agreed. Mr. Samuels notfore the .Senate Foreign Rela- ed that Hess was given a life tions Committee to explain (ha term and "would have been exJordanian position, it was dis- ecuted with other extremely closed. The meetings were dis- brutal Nazis had a question not cussed at a conference between been raised about his sanity." Secretary of Stale Rusk with To free Hess, he said, "would Foreign Minister Abclel Moncim mock the sacrifices of all those who opposed Nazism " Kifai, of Jordan.
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New York Indifference and negligence' on the part of the United States G o v e r n m e n t helped Adolf Hitler carry out mass extermination of Europe's Jews, a hitherto secret report to President Franklin D. Roosevelt charges. The report, submitted to Roosevelt in f'.Ht by then Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgentliau. was made public in an article in the new issue of Look magazine. According-to writer Arthur D. Morse, a detailed list of charges, directed < against the State Department, was handed to Roosevelt in a dramatic .confrontation with Morgentliau at the White House on January t(i, 1944. A draft of the Treasury Department staff paper was tilled "Report to the Secretary on the
Acquiescent of This Government in the M u r d e r of the Jews." Morse writes. MorgenHutu's condensed version, caplioned "Personal Report to the President." was read by Roosevelt in the presence of Morgenthan and two aides. The Report The "Personal Report" began; "You are probably not as familiar as I with the utter failure of certain oificials in our Slate Department, who are charged with actually carrying out Irescue' policy, to take any elleclive action to prevent the extermination of the Jews in Germancontrolled Europe . . . "Whether one sees this failure as being deliberate on the part of those officials handling the matter, or merely due to their incompetence, is not too important from my point of view. "However, there is a growing number of responsible people and organizations today who , . . see plain Anti-Semitism motivating the actions of these State Department officials and, rightly or wrongly, it will require lilJerusalem UTA)—The largest • tie more in the way of proof crowd in Jerusalem's modern for this suspicion to explode into history, estimated at more than a nastv scandal." 100.000 persons, assembled opposite the walls of Old Jerusalem, at the Jaffa Gate, to join in the traditional Hakiifoth. the ceremonial round observed at the service at the end of Sulckoth. The ceremony was led by President Zalman Shazar. Jerusalem UTA)—Prime MinAll methods of counting peo- ister Levi Eshkol will pay an ofple known to Israeli p o l i c e ficial visit to the United States failed and officials could only in mid-December, when he will say that the assembly in u s t be received by President Johnhave exceeded 100,000. The pre- son, it was reported here. There vious record was set on Novem- was no official confirmation of ber .'(0, 1947, when 30,000 Jews the planned visit. assembled in the Jewish Agency During his visit, Mr. Eshkol courtyard to c e l e b r a t e the reportedly will discuss with Mr. United Nations partition of Pal- Johnson the situation in this reestine recommendation. gion resulting from last June's President Shazar, carrying a Six-Day War. It is expected that torah scroll, danced to Hassidic the agenda will include also furmelodies played by a band, his ther discussion of water desalihead moving ecstatically to and nation, a project w h i c h Mr. fro to the rytlim of the melo- Eshkol and Mr. Johnson disdies. Dancing with him in the cussed when the Israeli Premier traditional circle were Chief last visited Washington as bead Rabbis Issar Yehuda Unterman of the Israeli Rovernmenl in and Yitzhak N i s s i m , Interior 19C4. Minister Moshe Shapiro, ReligIn Washington. State Departious Affairs Minister Zorah War- ment spokesman R o b e r t Mchaftig, Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Closkey, who was asked about Kollek, British-J e w i s h philan- the reported Eshkol visit, said: thropist Sir Isaac Wolfson, and "No one here seems to know many other dignitaries. anything about it."
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The original draft report, Morse writes, was "an l(!-pag« narrative prepared by threa Protestants" on the staff 'of Morgentliau. who had himself ordered the study alter the US. allegedly failed to act promptly in Hie rescue of 70,000 Riimaniau Jews. Charges Morgenthau's i n v i; s tigalon charged: "ill State Department officials have not only failed to use Ihe- Governmental machinery at Iheir disposal to rescue Jews from Hitler, but have even gone so far as to use this Govermnciilid machinery to prevent the rescue of these Jews. "(21 They have not only failH to cooperate with private organizations. . . . but have taken steps designed to prevent (private) programs from being put iiito t'utrci.
•'(.'!) They not only hnve failed to facilitate the obtaining of information concerning Hitler's plans . . . but . . . have gone .io far as to surreptitiously attempt to stop the obtaining of information . . . "(4.1 They have tried to cover up Iheir guilt . . . " The three investigators wers Randolph Paul, the Treasury Department's general counsel; his subordinate, Joseph E. DuBois. Jr., chief counsel of tho Foreign Funds Control Division, and John Pehle,' head of Foreign Funds Control, later appointed by President Roosevelt to direct a rescue operation for Jews.
JOG Will Present; ¥arietjf Film Series A series of foreign and international films, a Yiddish film series and a series of experimental and underground films aru included the film fare to bi» presented by the Jewish Community Center this season. Starting off the Cinema I Series of international films will be the presentation of "Shop On Main Street" Sunday, November 19. The Indian film "Kanchengjunlia" will be presented in December. "Impossile On Saturday" and the Academy Award winning short, "The Critic" ara scheduled for January. Melvin Linsman is the JCC Film Series coordinator.
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VIcMc Kaiz portrays (he Tin Man In the JCC Student Theater adaptation of the Wizard Of Or. which will lie presented this winter.
Jeff Garctz co-stars in the JCC Studio Theater production of "The Diary of Anne Frank" wliicli will be presented December 2, 3 and i.
Amy Lincoln has been east as the Wicked Witch in tlio Student Theater production of the Wizard of Oz which hai a east of more than 40.