Vol. XXXIV—No. 44.
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Israel Negotiates for Bypass Oil Pipeline Ixmdon (JTA)—Israel Govern, ment representatives have opened negotiations w i t h British an American oil companies on a plar to build an oil pipeline from El at to Haifa to by-pass the Suez Ca nal. It was reported here Mondn from Jerusalem. The pipeline could be built i one year and would cost $30,000,000 the report said. It would be 16 inches in diameter and woul carry 4,000,000 tons ot Oil a year. The line would terminate at Haifa
Present Peril By Rinna ClroMmnn Jerusalem (AJP)—The spectacular currently staged coup by Colonel Nasser against the vital backdrop of the Suez Canal has successfully arrested the world'* attention and has served, among other things, to distract this attention away from the still acuti situation on the very borders of the State of Israel. Israelis, In general have tended to reserve their opinion on the subject of Colonel Nasser's) coup, waiting, perhaps, until the vlolen response of the West crystallizes into action of some sort—action incidentally that may in no small measure effect the future of Israel herself. -People here talk about the Ca ' n a l of course, about the relative inevitability of Nasser's meglomanlac attempt to superimpose; triumph on fiasco, on the possible result his decision will have within Egypt, but the man in the street in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Beersheba is still more concerned with the present peril which accompanies his daily work and leisure. For the situation In Israel and the continued murder and pillage directed against her heart, are both dangerous and disturbing. It might have appeared for a while that the United Nations had acknowledged this danger fully—and possibly were even prepared to implement resolutions and alchemize talk into deed. Secretary General Ilammarskjold made his dramatic visit. He conferred and observed and dls(Contlnued on Page 2.1 Scientists'Say...
Fingerprints Show Racial Grouping Copenhagen (JTA)—The Jews in all parts of the world are members of a Mediterranean racial group having distinct genetic factors, not found among non-Jews, two- Israeli scientists reported here last week-end at the first In tcrnatlonal Congress of Human Genetics. The Israeli scientists, Dr. Leo Sachs of the Welzmann Institute, and Dr. M. Bat-Miriam of the Israeli Institute for Biological Research, used fingerprint patterns In their investigations. After examining 4,000 prints of immigrants to Israel from Poland, Germany, Iraq, Egypt, Morocco, Yemen, Bulgaria and Turkey, the scientists found a unique pattern of loops, whorls and arches which 'cduld not be" found In samples or fingerprints of non-Jews which they studied. Dr. MlUslav Dcmcrdk, director of the genetics department of Carnegie Institute in Washington and a noted export on racial science, declared that he never beforo knew that fingerprints could be used for establishing racinl origin. ."It1 is entirely ft now approach," Dr. 'Dcmerck snld. "I know Dr. Sachs. He is a noted scientist and I 1 avc complete confidence In hl"
where the oil would be refined at refineries which now operate at far less than capacity because of the Arab refusal to sell oil to Israel or to pipe It Into Israel. The Israel plan is for tankers to un< load In the Gulf of Akaba, at Elath, the report stated. At the same time, It was Indl catcd here that the Foreign Office has given no consideration, nor does it intend to give any thought, to the proposals for the digging of an alternate canal or the construction of an oil pipeline across Israel. Apart from the cost, it Is felt that such a canal or pipe line would have to be constructed only in the event of closure of existing facilities., If such a situation ever arose, the Foreign Office believes, the Arabs would be equally p r e p a r e d to halt supplies through a cross-Israel pipeline or blockade the Red Sea entrance to an alternate canal. Meanwhile; the influential weekly Economist calls on the government to consider an alternative channel to the Suez Canal and not to dismiss the Idea as visionary. The newspaper suggested that the de facto border area between Israel and Egypt along the strip from Akaba to Gaza could be placed under United Nations thorlty—with Israel and Egyptian agreement—and could carry pipelines, land traffic and possibly a canal. NEW BOYCOTT PLANNED London (WNS—Intimation of an inter-Arab boycott of Danny Kaye films was disclosed here In a report from Damascus, which said Syria had banned movies of the American actor because of his pro-Israel activities in the United States and Israel. At Damascus, the report said, a theater running "Up in Arms," starring Danny Kaye, cancelled the show in compliance with the government ban. Danny Kaye recently visited Israel as part of a world tour on behalf of the United Nations International Children's Fund. POLISH JEWS FHEE New York (WNS)—Categorical assurance by Poland's Foreign Minister that all Jews in Poland arc. free to migrate to Israel was reported here by The Day-Jewish Journal, Yiddish dally, in a report telephoned from Warsaw by its correspondent Dr. H, Shoshes. Dr. Shoskcs reported that after witnessing the long qucus of Jews before the office of the Israeli Consulate he contacted the Foreign^ Minister, who, in the course of a long conversation assured him Jews In Poland were free to leave for Israel without any restrictions.
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Anti-Semitism Up In France J'aris (JTA)—'Ajiti-Scmtism in gaining ground iu France and arousing increased concern in West Germany, the European office of the American Jewish Committee disclosed here after completion of a survey of* anti-Semitism in 12 Western European countries. The survey was based on the opinioiu of Jewish community leaders throughout Europe. •
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Incidents Threat To Cease-Fire United Nations, N. Y. (JTA)— Repeated shootings involving a total of at least nine dead and 20 wounded among Israelis, Jordanians and United Nations observers along the Israel-Jordan border now constitute "a greater,threat to the policy of cease-fire than had so far arisen," UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold Monday warned the Security Council.
faaury L. Schwartz has bean named Director ot Religious Education and Youth Activities at Temple Israel, it was announced by Abe Brodkey, President of Temple Israel. In an unusual document, in Mr, Schwartz with his wife Es- which ha reported to the Security telle and their two daughters, Council on various events that Naomi Ruth, 2 and Deborah Gail, have developed since the Council'! 3 months, arrived in Omaha dur- last resolution on June 4 authorlz. ing the last week of July. They ing him to continue his "good of' are making their home at 4803 ft flees" in relation to the Arab-IsChicago Street. rael dispute, Mr. Hammarskjold Mr. Schwartz received his B.A. reported to the Council In detail so and MSW at Washington Univer- that tho principal security bod) sity In S t Louis, Mo. He has also here may be aware of the litua' taken post-graduate social work tion. at Columbia .University .In New The Secretary General attached York City. He waa a student of the late' ifi his brief, two-page report eleven pages summarizing reports direel Rabbi Julius Gordon at Temple Shaare Emeth in S t Louis with from the field by the United Na whom he studied in the fields of tlons Truce Supervision OrganizaBible and Jewish philosophy for tion's, chief of staff, Maj. Gen. E. L, M. Burns. The Burns' reports sue years. s u p p o r t Mr. Hammarskjold's At Temple Shaare Emeth, Mr. warning to the Council that the Schwartz was a member of the Jordon-Israel Incidents have "InReligious School Faculty for nine volved clear elements of the ceaseyears. fire assurances." Gen. Burns' data After serving as teacher in var- shows: ious grades of the religious school, Between June 26 and July 28 IsMr. Schwartz was appointed by Rabbi Gordon as supervisor of the rael filed 130 complaints with the Israel • Jordan M i x e d Armistice Senior Department ot the ReligCommission, while Jordan count ious School, ered with 270 complaints. During Mr. Schwartz has also pursued the same period Israel casualties private studies with Rabbi Robert numbered nine dead and clgh P. Jacobs at Washington Univer- wounded; Jordan reported seven sity, and Dr. Norman Paris, Di- wounded; at least (We UN milirector of the St. Louis Yeshlva. tary observers were wounded, four At the same time Mr. Schwartz of them "seriously." was principal of the United HeTho Burns reports backing Mr. brew Temple In the Trl-citles of Illinois, and Director of Education Hammarskjold's characterization at the Jewish Child Welfare As- of the Incidents as "a greater sociation In St. Louis. threat" than has developed along Mr. Schwartz has had extensive experience working with young- the Israel borders since the ceasesters in directing teenage groups fire agreements were concluded of St. Louis' Jewish Centers As- last April Indicate, according to sociation. He has served as a di- observers here, that Jordan is by rector of a summer resident camp far the more culpable of the two (Continued on Page 4.) parties.
Yiddish Poet Tells of Red Imprisonment New York (JTAI—Of 85 Jew Lih literary and theatre figures working In Moscow after the war, at least 15 arc not longer alive, as a result of Soviet persecution of Jewish culture, Moshe Broderzon, renowned Yiddish poet, declared Sunday in Warsaw following his return from the Soviet Union. He spent five and a half years In Soviet prisons. A cable from Warsaw to tho New York Times reported that Mr. Brodcrzon said - ho was arrested by the secret police in Moscow on April 21, 1950, after the Soviet authortics dosed the only Yiddish-language newspaper there, disbanded the Jewish Antl-Fascldt Committee, and shut down tho ewLsh theatre studio where ho had worked. "We all knew what was happenng," he said. "We knew of the irresUi pf,,pth£C Jcwiih. waiters n<J urtists and lived in dally fear
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of our turn." When it came he was held for nine months In two prisons ,ln Moscow and interrogated nigh'fly for eight of the nine months. His Interrogators accused
Sunday Radio Mark van Dorcn, poet, critic and Columbia University professor of. English and Maurice Samuel, author and lecturer, engage In a series of Informal dialogues on tho. highlights of the first five books of the Bible on the summer series of tho Eternal Light program. It is broadcast each S u n d a y at 11:30 a. jn.fover KFAB. This is the fourth Summer the two noted men of letters have been featured on the program.
him of having said that antiSemitism existed in the Soviet Union and he recalled that he told them "It's • true—there Is antiSemitism In Russia." At the end of nine months he was sent to a camp in Taishet, Siberia, to serve his ten-year sentence, He was freed last September. He carried back to Poland lost week Q notice from the Soviet Prosecutor General that the "proceedings against you have been terminated and in this matter you arc now considered rehabilitated." He and his wife fled to the Soviet Union in 1939 when the Nazis invaded Poland. Both worked in the Yiddish theatre in Moscow and in 1940 the Russians made them Soviet citizens. Mr. Brodcrzon decided to stay on after the war because, he said, "I did not want to come back to the, place where three and a half million members of. my. iamlly.Jiad .been .lost"
"The electoral campaign and subsequent victory of the Poujade movement at the French polls last January have given definite impetus to anti-Semitism in France," the AJC reported. There has been a "noticeable Increase" In unfavorable comments about Jews, In the appearance on street walls of signs like "Jew, Go Home" and in the arrogance of the French.anti-democratic and anti-Semitic papers. New publications with anti-Semitic tendencies have, more over, appeared In France In recent months, the report emphasizes. "While Poujadlsts have not been effective in the French Parliament and while there has been some Internal dissension in the Poujade movement, there Is no real evidence that Its strength has diminished since last January," the AJC report stressed. "In fact, French troubles at home and in North Africa can give Poujadism an even greater appeal than before." In West Germany, the AJC survey noted, many Germans are now warning with increased urgency of the need to take vigorous counteraction against a renewed flow of neo-Nazi literature, against theGerman public's tendency to excuse and Ignore the evils of Hitlerism, and against the Infiltration ot former Nazis into important posts. They point out that present democratic progress in West Germany has been made In a period of outstanding economic prosperity and political stability and that the German public's attitude toward democracy has not yet been t o t e d by difficulties such as those which beset the Weimar Republic in the 1920's for example. Outside France and West Germany, anti-Semitic elements constitute a "nuisance" but pose no serious problem at the present time, according to the reports received by AJC from the European Jewish communities. In addition to France and West Germany, the survey Included Austria, Belgium, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. "Open anti-Semitism is stilt considered a 'political mark of Cain' In post-war Europe, a fact recognized even by the anti-Semites themselves," tho report continued. "As a result, they prefer to work anonymously and under cover, or deny their anti-Semitism even while engaged In anti-Semitic activities."
NEQEV SETTLEMENTS Jerusalem (JTA)—The Jewish Agency Is currently building eight new settlements in the Western Ncgev for 900 immigrant families, M. Talman, director Of the Negcv Authority, announced here. He said that the new settlers in the Ncgcv urgently needed physicians, teachers and agricultural Instructors. More livestock and irrigated lands will soon be givepi these settlers, Mr. Talman revealed, and a winepress will soon be built near Bccrshcba for the grates they arc growing.
Haifa Shipyard Tel Aviv (WNS)—Construction of a 30,000,000 pound ship yard a t Haifa is being planned by the I s raeli Government. , Technical questions Involved in the construction of the project will be studied abroad by 4n I s acll. delegation. ' _,