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VOl. XXVIII
ATLANTA. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1953
UNIVEKSIIY
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No. 44
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s Behind Israel
Mayor Hartsfield is shown in New York boarding the plane
which is taking him and a group of other U. S. mayors on a study
tour of Israel and the Middle East. Mayor Hartsfield, national
president of the American Mayors Association, is a leader of the
tour. He is seen with an advance copy of The Saturday Evening
Post, to be released this weekend, containing an article about
him. The article, which tells the story of America’s Number One
mayor, was authored by Ralph McGill.
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scended upon Washington for
lopping pff aid to Israel, the Unit
ed Nations this week conducted
hearings on the explosive Israeli-
Arab problem. These develop
ments were noted:
1. In Israel, new Arab assaults,
including the mining of an Israel
railway line between Lydda and
Haifa along the rim of the old
"bloody triangle” created new ten
sion.
2. In Jerusalem, Britain’s sharp
note of protest to Israel over the
Kibva incident was rejected by
Israel which, in turn, belabored
I Britain for the latter’s failure to
keep its Jordanian puppet in line
to end tension on the border.
3. Israel called a halt to work
on a hydro-electric plant, as the
UN Commission had demanded,
which was one reason given for
the U. S. application of economic
sanctions.
4. In the UN halls, the Arabs
won the first skirmish in their at
tempt to place all blame on Israel
by seeking to have the issue con
fined to the Kibya incident alone.
5. The UN Peace Commission
revealed that the Arabs had been
guilty of about 126 border inci
dents within the last year to
Israel’s 27.
6. United Nations truce ob
servers checked Israel positions in
the Jerusalem area and reported
they had found no troop concen
trations there. They were to make
checks in the Jordan held
area. The Jordan-Israeli Mixed
Armistice Commission sharply
condemned Jordan for the mining
of the railway train.
7. An “honorary consul” in Bei
rut reported a Swedish passenger
plane had been - shot down by
Israel on the Israel-Syrian fron
tier with the loss of 35 lives. The
Swedish legation later said the
plane was a two-seater and that
there was no trace of any bullets
in the wreckage and moreover the
plane came down more than five
miles from the border.
8. President Eisehhower Mon
day heard the Secretary General
Abdel Hassouna of the Arab
League ask for the continuation of
the suspension of aid to Israel.
9. The conviction that the dis
pute between the State Depart
ment and the Israel Government
will soon be resolved and that "full
American economic aid will be
given to Israel” was expressed in
a statement issued Monday by
Harold Riegelman, Republican
candidate in. the New York mayor
alty race, following a conference
with Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles. The conference,
which lasted more than an hour,
was also attended by Henry A.
Byroade, Assistant Secretary of
Sttae for Near Eastern Affairs,
and John Jernegan, Deputy As
sistant Secretary of State. Mr.
Riegelman’s sttaement was issued
with the approval of the State
Department.
10. Numerous American or
ganizations including B’nai B’rith
and the Zionist Couucil, pushed
full-scale support for Israel, con
demning the pre-judging attitude
of the State Department.
Program Completed for Southern
JWB Parley in Miami Beach Nov. 7-9
Samuel I>. Gershovitz, executive
vice president of the National
Jewish Welfare Board, and Chap
lain Samuel Sobel will be two of
the featured speakers at the
Southern Section-JWB Annual
Conference November 7-9 in Mi
ami Beach.
Mr. Gershovitz is an authority
on the Jewish Community Center
movement and the JWB Armed
Services program.
Chaplain Sobel recently return
ed from Korea after a year as the
only Jewish chaplain with the
Zionist Council
Seeks To Mobilize
Goodwill For Israel
Sol P. Benamy was elected
chairman of the Atlanta Zionist
Council Sunday, in a meeting held
at the Mayfair Club.
Lewis Cenker, Mrs. George
Chait and Mrs. Sidney Janus were
elected vice-chairmen of the coun
cil. David Gershon was reelected
treasurer and Mrs. Hans Joel,
secretary. The chairman was giv
en the authority to appoint four
additional officers to round out
the executive board of ten.
Representatives of Hadassah,
Labor Zionists, Mizrachi, Mizrachi
Women, Pioneer Women and
Z. O. A. in attendance at the coun
cil meeting agreed that their im
mediate task is remobilize the vast
resources of good will towards
Israel in the hearts and minds
the people of the Atlanta area.
Following adjournment of the
council the executive board
called into immediate session to
tackle urgent problems concern
ing Israel’s present and future.
First Marine Division. He was the
recipient of the Purple Heart and
the Bronze Star Metal.
Their talk will take place at
the Saturday night dinner and
Sunday luncheon meeting, respec
tively, according to Mrs. Milton
Sirkin, chairman of the conference
committee.
An Oneg Shebat will be held
SAMUEL GERSHOVITZ
Saturday afternoon when Synago
gue-Center Relationships will be
discussed.
Workshop sessions will take
place Sunday morning and after
noon.
“A Gift for David,” dramatic
playlet, written especially for the
occasion; will feature the Centen
nial Banquet Sunday evening,
commemorating the centennial of
the center movement. Business
sessions will be held Monday.
Council for Judaism Hails U. S.
Reprisal Action Against Israel
NEW YORK —■ A strong statement supporting the action of the
United States Department of State in regard to the Israel-Jordan crisis
has been issued by Henry S. Moyer, national vice-president of the
American Council for Judaism.
The statement, embodied in a letter addressed to Secretary of
State John Foster Dulles by Mr. Moyer, expressed “appreciation of the
forthright, prompt and courageous initiative you have taken in at
tempting to prevent this “possible threat” from becoming, in fact, an
actual menace to the security and stability of that important area of
the world.”
Hadassah Delegates Reassured
WASHINGTON (JTA) —• The
belief that the clouds hovering
over American-Israel relations
will pass away has.been expressed
here by Sen. Alexander Wiley,
chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, in an ad
dress before 4,000 delegates to the
Hadassah convention here last
week end.
Sen. Wiley said that the friend
ship between Israel and the United
States “is too deep, too warm—
to permit it to be harmed.” He
asked for patience and under
standing. At the same time, he
emphasized that Congressional
leadership “will not presume to
usurp the prerogatives of the Ex
ecutive Branch” and pointed out
that members of the Congress
“are not in the business of day-
to-day formulating and imple
menting of foreign policy." This,
he said, is the province of the
State Department,
Declaring that “extremism
breeds extremism" and “raids
breed reprisal,” the chairman of
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee said that in place of
conditions necessary for an Arab-
Israel peace, there were the chok
ing economic blockade, the clos
ing of the Suez Canal to Israeli
commerce, the barbed wire ten
sion, and the host of other artifi
cial conditions which have bred
the present crisis." It was the
world which suffered as well as
Israel and her neighbors from
Arab-Israel border war, he stated,
adding that the Communists may
exploit the situation to “pay their
devilish mischief."
Governor Talmadge Accepts Honorary
Chairmanship for Massed Testimonial
Governor of Georgia Herman
E. Talmadge has accepted the
honorary chairmanship of the Ben
J. Massell testimonial dinner at
the Progressive Club’ November
18.
The meeting is being sponsored
by the State of Georgia Bonds for
Israel Committee, according to I.
M. Weinstein, Southeastern Re
gional chairman.
Serving on the state-wide com
mittee are Philip Halperin and
Herman R. Kaminsky of Fitzger
ald, Sol Schwartz and Casper
Stock of Rome, Max- Estroff of
Augusta, Dave Gordon and I. H.
Allen of Athens, Henry Peskin of
Winder and,, a host of others.
In Atlanta, a special commit
tee has been formec^'to assume
leadership of the celebration. The
group includes Joseph B. Jacobs,
I. M. Weinstein, Frank
Louis Aronstam, Barney Medintz,
Sam Goldberg, P incus
Harry Harrison, A. J. Weinberg,
Dr. A. A. Weinstein, Abe Gold
stein, Dave Slann, A. L. Feldman,
Kurt Homburger, Simon Selig Jr.,
Max Cuba, Berry Rittenbaum,
Charles Rinzler, Meyer Balser andi
Sam Eplan.
“Inasmuch as Mr. Massell was
among the first to recognize the
historic nature of Israel’s struggle
to win economic independence and
of the vital importance of the
Bond drive in this struggle,” de
clared Mr. Weinstein, “it is logi-
that we should do him honor
by associating his name at this
dinner with the cause which
means so much to him.”
Mr. Weinstein pointed to prom
ising economic progress made
possible in Israel with Bonds for
Israel dollars. These will give un
employment to thousands and
furnish many services through the
increase in electric power and the
expansion of industry, develop-
of mineral resources of the
Negev, building of transportation,
development of new irrigation
projects.