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VOL. XXXI
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1956
Welfare Fund Round-Up
Activities of the various di
visions of the 1956 campaign ac
celerated during the past week as
the campaign organization gather
ed momentum under the stimulus
of emergency needs.
Under the leadership of Mrs.
Adalbert Freedman, Mrs. Ed
Krick and Dr. Rose Lahman, the
Business and Professional Divis
ion held a report meeting Thurs
day, March 29 at the Temple.
Youth Division leaders, Phyllis
Alterman, Gloria Greenberg,
Robert Rosenthal and Murray
Soloman, also meet at the Temple
Thursday to complete the divis
ion organization.
A third Thursday meeting was
that held by Post 112 of the Jew
ish War Veterans for the purpose
of mobilizing forces to put a
large team of its members into the
field. Working in the General So
licitation, JWV members would
give added impetus to the drive.
Nahm Astar, Israel’s Consul for
the Southeast, was guest speaker.
Cards were also distributed at
the meeting.
Scheduled for Friday, March
30, are report meetings of Men’s
Special Gifts, Men’s Advance
Gifts II, and Women’s General
Solicitation Division. Under the
leadership of Irving Kaler, Mer
ton Levin, Hyman Meltz, Sol P.
Benamy, William B. Schwartz,
Jr., and Philip Shulhafer, the
Special Gifts Division has already
completed a third of its cards.
Men’s Advance Gifts II, headed
by Sidney Feldman, Elliott Gold
stein, Bernard Howard, Nathan
Lipton and Barney Medintz re
ports th$t this division has al
ready completed 60% of its as
signments.
Men’s Advance Gifts I has
scheduled a meeting at the Wel
fare Fund at noon on April 4.
Under the leadership of Louis
Aronstam, Meyer L. Balser, Abe
Goldstein and Thomas Makover,
leaders and workers will complete
details ’of the arrangements for
their dinner meeting to be held
at the Standard Club on April
8th with Ira Hirschmann as guest
speaker.
ARTWORK FOR AJCC—Here is a drawing, depicting center pro
gramming, of Peril Pelzig who arrived this week on the Israeli Liner
Zion with the mosaic material for Atlanta’s new Community center.
See pages 4 and 8 for other material on the mosaics.
On April 5 the Youth Division
leaders and colonels will meet for
the purpose of distributing cards
and assignments. The Youth Di
vision’s enthusiastic leadership is
inspiring this group and they are
determined to establish a new
campaign record this year.
The Women's Division Special
Gifts group, under the leadership
of Mrs. Jake Friedman, Mrs
Abner Lichtenstein, Mrs. Harold
Marcus and Mrs. J. M. Rosen-
feld, will hold its annual fund
raising brunch on Monday April
9. Ira Hirschmann will be featur
ed speaker. Mr. Hirschmann has
just returned from Europe and
North Africa and has had a num
ber of articles in the New York
Times describing conditions of
fear and insecurity in Morocco,
Tunisia and Algiers, whdre thous
ands are awaiting emigration to
Israel. Mr. Hirschmann will give
a first-person eye-view account
of the situation.
Under the leadership of Mrs.
Henry L. Caplan, Mrs. Bernard
Howard, Mrs. Henry Meyer and
Mrs. Hyman Morris the planning
group of the Coverall Division
will meet to set details for the
big Coverall Day to be held on
Sunday April 29. On this day, sev
eral hundred women will cover
the residential districts of the
city on behalf of the Welfare
Fund to make possible the widest
participation among women con
tributors.
AJP ROl
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NO. 12
4 *ews Picture
The Western Powers under U.S.
leadership chose erev Pesach —
namely, 3 p.m. Monday afternoon,
March 26 — as the time for the
urgent Security Council meeting
which called upon the Swedish
Secretary General Dag Hammar-
skjold to play “detective" in the
troubled Palestine zone. The Is
raelis, displeased with the fact
that the U. S. had consented to
a meeting on the eve of the first
seder, are critical of this latest
Western move in the Council to
mount a new UN survey of the
Israel-Arab issues. Mr. Hammar-
skjold, who leaves next week for
the three-week survey, has been
requested to arrange with the Is
raelis and Arabs for the adopt
ion of new measures aimed at
reducing the existing tensions.
From London comes news that
Britain has completed a plan for
“effective” military action within
24 hours of the outbreak of a
war between the Arab states and
Israel.
Take good note of the above.
This correspondent has it from a
reliable source in the Middle
East that the British plan is
nothing but a scheme of a des
perate nation losing a foothold in.
a vital area to encourage Arab-
Israeli friction into a full-scale
war and then exploit the situa
tion by swift military action “to
limit the conflict” through her
occupation, not of Egypt or of any
Georgia B’nai B’rith Lodges
Convene in Dalton April 14-15
DALTON — Dalton Lodge 1791
will be host to the Georgia As
sociation of B’nai B’rith Lodges
April 14 and 15.
Sessions will be held at Temple
Beth El, according to Paul Ten-
enbaum, Dalton, president.
The program includes an open
ing business session at 8 p.m. Sat
urday, followed by a cocktail hour
and a skit staged by Hillel Stu
dents from the University of
Georgia under direction of Rabbi
Sanker.
Mr. Tenenbaum added that all
meals will be kosher.
Room reservations may be made
by writing convention chairman
Jack Frank or Lester Goldberg,
president of the Dalton B’nai
B’rith Lodge.
Cite BB Vet Work
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The
Veterans administration has pre
sented a certificate of apprecia
tion to B’nai B’rith for ten years
of continuous voluntary service to
hospitalized veterans across the
nation.
By David Horowitz
of the Arab aggressor states, but
of Jewish Palestine, especially of
the oil-rich Negev. To implement
her plan, Britain stands prepared
to employ her army, navy and
air forces now concentrated in
Cyprus and elsewhere in the
Eastern Mediterranean. The ques
tion arises: Does Britain believe
that the U.S. will support her
scheme in Palestine? Also, is the
Israeli Government fully alert to
these British plans which will ap
pear to have the sanction of
France and the U. S.?
The New York Times, editorial
ly, “doubted that the British
would act alone” in the face of
the UN and the Tripartite agree
ment. Meanwhile, it was announc
ed in Washington that the foreign
officers of Britain, France and
the U. S. plan to meet during the
first week in May to deal with
the Middle East crisis. Before
that time, however, the Arab
leaders including king Husseein
of Jordan are planning to meet
and discuss Soviet-Arab relations.
Leon Crystal, veteran Jewish
Foreign correspondent, is back in
N. Y. following an extensive trip
through the Soviet Union. Having
contacted the various Jewish lead
ers in Moscow and elsewhere, Mr.
Crystal indicated that Soviet Jews
still live in fear and under cer
tain pressures. Jewish literature
and books, he said, are taboo. The
older generation will die out leav
ing no Jewish heritage for the
young. Despite the apparent op
position to one-man leadership as
was -symbolized in the now-dis
graced Stalin, Crystal said, Nikita
Khrunshchev is still the one real
boss who gives the orders.
“The Jews Under Stalin’s Suc
cessors” is the name of a new
fact-sheet just published by the
American Jewish Committee. It
reveals, what Crystal has also dis
covered, that “contrary to recent
Soviet propaganda, Russia’3 mi
norities, particularly the two mil
lion Jews not free to leave Rus
sia or its satellite countries, are
still victims of discrimination and
persecution with their religious
freedoms severely limited, their
cultural life throttled, and thous
ands still prisoners on charges
—continued on page 6
Dragged Back Into Some Ghastly Time Machine
So much political material comes out of Israel, we
had asked our exclusive columnist to avoid the,
subject when possible and stick to depicting life as
she, her family and friends live it. She apologizes
for not following our suggestion in this material.
(But we’re not sure she has deviated at all.) Not
that she isn’t a writer of terrific acumen, witness
this powerful column— a devastating challenge to
any who doubts the dire importance of our pro
viding the utmost of support for Israel at this
moment! —THE EDITOR
Major-General Burns, Chief of
Staff of the Truce Supervision
Organization must be one of the
most uncom
fortable men in
Israel. Canadi
ans, never hav
ing had an em
pire, nor been
dependant on
foreign oil, are
not brought up
in the tradition
of political intrigue with a smile.
Neither are they given to infan
ticide.
Yet the unfortunate General
Bums finds himself in a position
where he must not only truss up
the infant State of Israel into
just the right position for the
vultures when they choose to
swoop down on her, but he must
muffle her screams as well. And
all the while protesting that the
infant is nothing less than a man-
eating tiger, who is merely being
bound to prevent her from at
tacking the peace-loving vultures.
I shouldn’t care to be in Israel
as a senior officer of the United
Nations (whose purpose is to
bring peace and justice to the
world), and have to write reports
blaming the Jews every time the
Syrians attack or kill Jews on
Lake Kinneret, which is Jewish
territory.
Obviously, Gen. Burns has to
write these reports, just as he
must ignore Israel’s protests at
the massing of Egyptian troops
on the Gaza border. But as a
trained observer, and an experi
enced soldier, he knows even bet
ter than Ben Gurion what is hap
pening on the other side of Is
rael’s borders.
As an honorable man, he must
find it hard to look into the
face of an Israeli child as he
walks along the'streets of Jeru
salem. For he must know that his
reports, which give a free hand
to the Arabs, and encourage the
withholding of weapons from Is
rael, mean a death sentence for
thousands of Israel’s children, and
the destruction of their homes.
I must apologize for writing
about politics, because I know
that that excellent man, the edi
tor of “The Southern Israelite,”
doesn’t like it.
Personally, I too would prefer
to remain sweet and cheerful, and
concentrate on the view from my
kitchen window, but I can’t, be
cause I’m so hopping mad.
Last week I was walking along
Herzl Street in Haifa, when I
heard a peculiar shrill noise ris
ing above the traffic. It aroused
an unpleasant sensation in my
mind, but I couldn’t place it un
til I saw people beginning to run.
It was an air raid siren. The same
noise I had heard in London for
at least five years of World War
II.
It was part of the “war games"
being staged in Haifa,, and they
took it in dead earnest. I instinc
tively hurried past some big glass
show windows (they can turn you
into a pin cushion if a bomb drops
nearby). I had just found shelter
in a secluded hallway, when the
battle broke out overhead.
It was too hideous. I felt as if
I had been dragged back into some
ghastly time machine. There were
the same small children holding
hard onto their mother’s hand, and
looking hard into her face, to be
sure that it really was all right.
The same mothers, trying to make
reassuring noises.
The same air raid warden stand
ing outside on the street, and the
same zooming of planes over the
rooftops, the battle of machine
guns and the crash of bombs.
I felt like a caged lion. It was
all I could do to stop myself from
ripping the mail boxes off the
wall.
I was in London in 1938, when,
just as now, right-minded people
begged and pleaded for a firm
stand to be taken before it was
too late. And inadequate states
men buzzing about here and
there, just like today, making
“statements" which sound as co
herent as paralytics talking
through cotton wool, while the
inevitable, the foreseeable, the
preventable, kept right on happen
ing.
As far as we’re concerned here
in Israel, the inevitable and the
foreseeable is staring us right in
the face. There isn’t much time
left to prevent it.
SHALOM V’ ITHTRAOT