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VOL. XXXI
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1956
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Prime Minister Eden Addresses
Tercentenary Dinner in London
LONDON, (JTA) — Leaders ot logue of the Tercentenary E?c-
British political, social and re- hibition and an account of the
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ligious life and outstanding per
sonalities in Jewish life in Bri
tain joined last week in marking
the 300th anniversary of the re
turn of Jews to Britain. The con
tributions of Jewry to Britain
and the welcome the Jews had
received in this land were hon
ored at a tercentenary banquet
in London’s historic Guildhall.
Prime Minister Sir Anthony
Eden, in an address to the din
ers, said that no people in history
had been a “magnet for so much
cruelty and persecution” as the
Jews. The world, he continued,
is forever in the moral debt of
the Jews for the pogroms prac
ticed against them by dictators
and for the “depths of unimag
inable bestiality” turned on
them by the Nazis.” From all that
suffering we pray that one lesson
has been learned: the freer de
velopment of racial tolerance.
Tolerance Is a test of civilization,”
the Prime Minister asserted.
The Duke of Edinburgh, pro
posing a toast to the Anglo-Jew-
ish community, declared that the
“Jewish community’s record in
this country is truly remarkable.
Every part of our national lifo
has been enriched by your con
tribution over the years.” The
members of the Jewish communi
ty, the Duke pointed out, “have
achieved great things which have
left or made a lasting impression.
Perhaps the greatest achievement
of the community as a whole
throughout the 300 years has
been its success at fitting itself
into the life of its adopted coun
try, yet at the same time retain
ing a sense of common interest
and reverence for all the best
traditions of the Jewish faith and
culture.
“The community has proven
again and again that it has the
same interests at heart, the same
loyalities as its fellow subjects.”
After citing the record of the
Jewish community in both World
Wars, the Duke said: “This year
Jews and Gentiles in this coun
try alike can thank God that they
have come through so many years
without a stain on their honor.
Intolerance on the one hand and
provocation on the other has of
ten tried to make its appearance,
but the good sense of both com
munities has always kept them
in check.” He concluded his toast
with the statement that “Britain
and the Commonwealth are rich
er for the talents and the achieve
ments of the Anglo-Jewish com
munity.
The Bishop of Chichester, rep
resenting the Archbishop of Can
terbury, head of the Church of
England, expressed the hope that
“not the least of the fruit of this
gathering would be the determ
ination to resist tyranny and in
tolerance wherever it lifted its
head within range of British in
fluence and to insist that at least
in the British Commonwealth,
the colonies and protectorates,
racial and religious discrimina
tion would find no room.”
Chief Jewish speakers at the
banquet were Lord Samuel and
Lord Reading, Minister of State
for Foreign Affairs. Lord Samuel,
who replied to the Duke of Ed
inburgh’s toast, noted that Bri
tain and other countries which
treated their Jewish citizens well
“flourished” while those who
abused the Jews had “declined.”
This was not surprising, he add
ed, since the Jews made out well
in an atmosphere of liberty, tol
erance and equality of justice—
just the type of atmosphere in
which great nations developed.
Lord Samuel presented the
Duke of Edinburgh with a book
containing the descriptive cata-
purposes of the anniversary cel
ebration. He requested the Duke
to present the volume to Queen
Elizabeth II, who is a patrol of
the Tercentenary council.
Among the other distinguished
guests present at the banquet
were Cardinal Griffin, head of
the Roman Catholic Church in
Britain, and Eliahu Elath, Is
rael’s Ambassador to Britain.
Overseas Jewish organizations
represented at the affairs includ
ed the American Jewish Tercen
tenary Committee, Central Jew
ish Board of Bombay, Executive
Council of Australian Jewry and
the Rhodesian and South African
Jewish Board of Deputies. Re
cordings of the speeches were
broadcast later throughout Bri
tain and overseas, over the fa
cilities of the British broadcast
ing Corporation.
ST. LOUIS, (JTA) — Canada
was described as a bright spot in
the emigration plans of the Unit
ed Hias Service for Jews from
North Africa at the concluding
session here of the convention of
the National Conference of Jew
ish Communal Service. The con
vention, attended by more than
1,000 Jewish social workers from
all parts of the country, heard a
report on Jewish migration from
James P. Rice, acting executive
director of United Hias. Edward
M. Kahn, executive director of
the Jewish Social Service Feder
ation and the Jewish Welfare
Fund of Atlanta, was elected
president of the Conference.
The convention also discussed
anti-Jewish 'discrimination and
heard reports on attempts to in
troduce religious instruction into
the public schools. Leo Pfeffer,
AN AJP ROUND-UP OF WORLD NEWS
The News Picture
By David Horowitz
Reports from Tripoli, Libya,
indicate that the U.S. is losing
its battle to win the North Afri
can Arab state over to the West.
British and U. S. officials in Trip
oli are becoming alarmed over
Egypt’s extensive efforts to woo
Libya away from her pro-West
ern stand. Meanwhile, U. S. arms
continue to flow into Tripoli har
bor. An Egyptian spokesman in
Cairo has declared that Premier
Nasser, in a deal with Red China
—whose Peiping Government he
recognized on May 16—could get
all the arms Egypt needed even
if the UN imposed an embargo on
weapons to the Middle East. This,
observers held, was Nasser’s ans
wer to the Eden-Bulganin state
ment relative to Palestine. Pledg
ing the end of his military rule
over Egypt and the conversion of
the nation into a “cooperative
society,” the Egyptian dictator
declared that Egypt would main
tain a course of neutralism be
tween East and West and a “pol
icy of force” against “plots” by
Israel. At the UN an Egyptian
press officer confided in the com
piler of this column by revealing
that before the latest Gaza re
taliation Premier Nasser was se
riously considering negotiating a
peace treaty with Israel. From
Israel came news that Premier
Ben Gurion has drawn up a new
political program, published in
Davar, which calls upon Israel
to “refrain from initiating war
even if provocation by Arab
rulers is intensified.”
Syrian Ambassador Ahmed
Shukiary shocked Security Coun
cil members when he referred to
Palestine as “part and parcel of
the Arab homeland” of Syria. He
also created a stir in the Coun
cil chamber when he called upon
the UN to disregard “the estab
lishment of Israel, its member
ship in the UN” and all resolu
tions relative to Palestine. “Then,
and then only,” he insisted, “the
UN could look forward to a solu
tion ‘on a mutually acceptable
basis.’ ” The Arabs’ new spokes
man in the Security Council, re
placing Dr. Charles Malik of Le
banon, is the Iranian Ambassa
dor Djalal Abdoeh. Threats and
blackmail still remained the or
der of the day for the Arab rep
resentatives.
Supporting the United Kingdom
resolution, Ambassador Abba
associate general counsel of the
American Jewish Congress, told
the parley that there is great pres
sure developing to evade the U.S.
Supreme Court’s decision banning
religious instruction from the
public schools. Opposition to this
decision, is noted, was widespread
although the majority of Ameri
cans are opposed to sectarianism
in the schools.
The problem of discrimination
against the admission of Jewish
students to colleges and univer
sities is not as great now as it
has been in the past, A. Abbot
Rosen, executive director of the
mid-west region of the Anti-De
famation League, told the con
vention. With the lessening of
bias in industry against Jews and
other minorities, Mr. Rosen said,
schools which discriminate have
lost the propos of the argument
that they train students for
specific fields and that they do
not accept students who cannot
be placed in such fields for reas
ons beyond the colleges’ responsi
bility.
Moishe Barsella, director gen
eral of the Israeli Ministry of
Social Welfare, told the convent
ion that social welfare plays a
vital role in Israel’s domestic
life. He reported that last year
the government gave special wel
fare assistance to 200,000 per
sons, including 54,000 Arabs. He
appealed to American technical
knowhow to strengthen and ex
pand Israeli social services.”
Eban told the Security Council
that “full compliance with the
Armistice Agreements is the ob
jective defined by the U. K. re
presentative and others who have
followed him as the purpose of
the Council’s current efforts.”
U. S. warships have become a
familiar sight in Haifa port the
past several months. There is at
least one warship anchored in
the harbor at all times. The U.S.
has rejected Israeli offers to
establish bases in Israel, it is
reliably reported. Israelis are
celebrating the 100th anniversary
of the Hebrew press. Newspapers
are devoting much space to the
first Hebrew publication, the
“Hamagid,” published in Odessa
in 1856. By a vote of 55 to 29,
the Knesset recently rejected a
motion to discuss legislation to
restrict pork consumption in Is
rael. The religious parties had
pressed for a country-wide ban
on the Biblically-prohibited scav
enger. Y. Braginsky, director of
the Jewish Agency’s Absorption
Department announced in Jeru
salem that Israel plans to bring
100,000 Jewish immigrants to the
country this year from French
North Africa.
The new Soviet Foreign Min
ister, Pravda editor Dmitri T.
Shepilov, is said to be the man
who paved the way for the
Czechoslovakia arms deal with
Egypt last year while visiting
Cairo. Shepilov, unlike his pre
decessor Molotov, is a tall heavy-
set man Fifty years old, he rep
resents the new Soviet “era of
peace.”
THE NATIONAL SCENE
William B. Rodman, North
Carolina’s Attorney General, has
urged Congress to reject the en
tire civil rights program. Rod-
man contended that the program
had been aimed at the South with
an implication that below the
Mason-Dixon line there was a
general determination to discrim
inate against individuals or groups
on grounds of racial, religious or
national origin. He claimed such
implications were not true. Rep.
Emanuel Celler is one of the ex
ponents of the civil rights pro
gram.
Reactionary and anti-Semitic
elements in Washington are now
planning to exploit the Murray
M. Chotiner and Simon E. Sobel-
off cases. Literature is being pre-
Leon Ginsberg, San Antonio,
international president of Aleph
Zadik Aleph, who will be in At
lanta this weekend on his tour
of the South. (See page 5.)
Rabbi Sidney K. Mossman, now
of Detroit, was in Atlanta last
weekend to install the new of
ficers of Shearith Israel Congre
gation, which he will serve as
spiritual leader after late sum
mer.
WOMEN LEADERS MEET ISRAELI GENERAL . . . Mrs. A. J.
Weinberg (left) greets General Shlomo Shamir, her guest of honor,
at the recent tea at her home in behalf of State of Israel Develop
ment Bonds. Also seen with the general, who is credited with or
ganizing Israel’s Navy and Air Force is Mrs. Jake Abelson, vice-
chairman of the Abe Goldstein Testimonial Dinner Committee.
pared for widespread distribu
tion)
John Foster Dulles’ son, 38-
year old Avery R. Dulles, having
studied for the Catholic priest
hood in the Society of Jesus
since 1946, will be ordained a
priest on June 16. Francis Card
inal Spellman will conduct the
ordination ceremonies at Fordham
University. Young Dulles will be
one of 36 Jesuit priests to be
ordained on the occasion.
The first findings in a study
of the biological effects of atomic
radiation on man and his envir
onment, will be made known on
June 12, Dr. Detlev W. Bronk,
president of the National Acad
emy of Sciences, announced in
Washington this week. “These
findings are of importance to
every man, woman and child,”
Dr. Bronk declared, “and repre
sent the carefully-considered
judgment of more than 100 lead
ing scientists who have studied
this serious problem for many
months.”