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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspa per for Southern Jewry — Established
XXXII
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1957
Irish Delegate Says
Israelis Friends
Will Fight Sanctions
UNITED NATIONS, (AJP) —
In an exclusive interview with
the AJP correspondent, the chief
delegate of the Irish delegation
here, Frederick Henry Boland,
stated that his country along with
a number of others will fight
any Afro-Asian move to impose
sanctions on Israel.
Making this statement on the
very day David Ben Gurion an
nounced that Israel will not with
draw from Gaza and the Gulf
area without further guarantees
against future hostility actions
by Egypt Boland added that “Is
rael has more friends in the UN
than the Arabs realize and that
these friends can muster a suf
ficient number of votes to pre
vent a two-thirds majority for
sanctions.”
Asked to comment on Senator
Knowland’s attack on the Ad
ministration’s policies toward Is
rael in which he termed any ap
plication of sanctions as “immor
al and insupportable,” Mr. Boland
replied: “The Senator was mere
ly voicing the view held by many
of us here at the UN.”
Christians Surprise
Jews With Campaign
for Synagogue Funds
LAWRENCE, Kan., (JTA) —
The 35 Jewish families of Law
rence learned this week that a
quiet campaign has been organ
ized by a group of Christians to
raise funds for remodeling the
Jewish Community Center into a
synagogue.
A slightly flabbergasted presi
dent of the center, Herman Cohen,
said “we did not know about it.”
L. O. Ringler, spokesman for
the Christian group, explained
the project was started because
the Jewish families, and 80 Jew
ish students at the University of
Kansas, are the only religious
group in Lawrence without a
place to worship. The nearest
synagogue is in Kansas City.
“It gives a person a wonderful
feeling to have something like
this happen.” said Mr. Cohen.
HOW f S THIS
FOR AMBIGUITY?
NEW YORK, (AJP) — A lead
ing non-Jewish personality, in
close touch with the highest of
ficial sources in Washington, dis
closed here this week that anti-
Semitism was an element behind
the present Administration policy
versus Israel. The gentleman in
question is one whose integrity
is nationally recognized.
Bulgaria Stalls
On Paying Damages
For Israel Plane
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — The Com
munist-dominated Bulgarian re
gime is stalling on promises to
pay damages for the El A1 pas
senger plane which was shot down
near the Bulgarian-Greek border
in the summer of 1955, Israel
sources indicated this week.
Israel submitted damage claims
of $2,500,000 in the tragedy in
which all 58 persons aboard were
killed and the Bulgarian Govern
ment, after at first rejecting re
sponsibility, finally agreed to pay
damages. Israel sources said no
progress has been made toward
actual payment of the claims.
No. 9
. Mears;
Akaba-Gaza Seh
Sanctions Plan Finds Little Support
Major developments came fast
this last week in the Middle East
crisis and as this edition went
to press the fury over the Akaba
empasse seemed to be clearing
while the Gaza Strip dispute was
still up in the air.
Some of the highlights includ
ed:
1. Ambassador Eban’s plane
trip to Israel for clarification of
his nation’s stand with Prime
Minister Ben Gurion.
Morton Bearman of the firm of
Salomon, Hannegan, Portnoy &
Associates of St. Louis. Mr. Baer-
man, who is a personal friend
of the incoming president of Gate
City, W. H. Frey, is also a per
sonal friend of the Senator.
All friends of Gate City Lodge
are invited to hear the Senator
when he speaks at the Progres
sive Club Sunday night. Those
who do not attend the dinner
can come at 8:30 p.m. when the
rest of the meeting will get un
der way. Provisions have been
made to handle a large turnout.
Senator Symington to Speak
In Atlanta on March 3
The Honorable Stuart Syming
ton, United States Senator from
the State of Missouri, will be the
guest of honor at a dinner and
meeting of Gate City Lodge, to
be held at the Progressive Club
Sunday night at 7.
The occasion will be the annual
inauguration of officers for the
1957 term at which time Wm. H.
Frey will be installed as the new
president. Going into office with
him are Sidney Saul, pres-elect.;
Ted V. Fisher, and Edward N.
Glaser, vice presidents; Joe Ger-
stein, rec. sec., Irwin Greenbaum,
treas., Irving K. Kaler, monitor;
Sidney Parks, exec. sec.
Rabbi Harry H. Epstein will
deliver the invocation and Rabbi
Jacob M. Rothschild will conduct
the installation ceremonies.
Senator Symington, guest of
honor and guest speaker began
his long career of public service
in 1941 when he went to England
at the request of the War De
partment to study airplane arma
ment. Prior to that time he had
worked with various radio and
iron and steel companies in ex
ecutive capacities from 1925 to
1937. He had started in the steel
business as a moulder in Rochest
er, N. Y.. in 1923 studying me
chanical and electrical engineering
in night school and by correspon-
ence.
Senator Symington entered full
time government services as
chairman of the Surplus Property
Board in 1945; became Assistant
Secretary of War for Air in 1946;
nation’s first Secretary of the Air
Force in 1947; chairman of Na
tional Security Resources Board
in 1950; Administrator, Recon
struction Finance Corporation in
1951.
Gate City Lodge is indebted
for his presence in Atlanta to
2. Introduction of a sanctions
resolution against Israel in the
U.N. by an Arab bloc of six Mid-
East countries. With a mounting
tide of anti-sanction reaction pac
ed by Britain’s Prime Minister
Harold MacMillan’s flat rejection
of such action, the U.N. postpon
ed consideration of this measure,
perhaps indefinitely.
3. Highly publicized Sunday
meeting between Dulles and Eban
and a series of top level confer
ences on the subject in the days
following.
4. A compromise resolution on
the Gaza-Akaba issue acceptable to
all groups represented in the Is
rael Cabinet, thus averting a pos
sible crisis.
5. Mounting Senate opposition
to Eisenhower’s Middle East poli
cy, coupled Monday with the
maiden speech of Senator Herman
Talmadge of Georgia, who blist
ered the President with his well
documented material.
France publicly joined the anti
sanctions movement with a prom
ise to grant Israel enough credit
to buy from France those goods
which Israel normally buys from
the United States.
Close political observers in
Washington said the Eisenhower
Administration fight to force Is
rael out of its remaining positions
in the Sinai Peninsula has arous
ed a degree and strength of op
position at home and abroad to
an American policy which may
be without precedent in recent
history. .
Meanwhile in the United Na
tions, Michael S. Comay, member
of the Israel delegation announc
ed that Israel - is ready to pay
compensation to Arab refugees
in the Gaza strip and to find
means of settlement for some of
them. Mr. Comay declared that
Israel’s statistics show there are
between 705,000 and 725J000 in
all. Figures until now used by
the U.N. Relief and Work Agen
cy for Palestine have set the
totals as well over 900,000.
Columbus JWB-ASC
Reelects Berman
COLUMBUS — Dr. Dave Ber
man has been reelected for his
sixth term as chairman of the
Columbus JWB Armed Services
Committee.
Other officers elected include
Rabbi Albert Goodman, vice
chairman, and Maurice Kravtin,
secretary-treasurer.
6 This Time We Can Save Lives,’
Welfare Fund Chairmen State
“It may be hard to believe that
as we go about our business in
an atmosphere of peace and pros
perity, we are f ac e d with a
frightful emergency.” Welfare
Fund campaign chairman Bernard
Howard and Max L. Kuniansky
stated this week, “and it is this
emergency which gives the 1957
campaign a dual goal as well as
a dual opportunity.
“With regard to the emergency,
let us recount a little history.
During the six years of World
War II in Europe, 6,000,000 Jews
were murdered by Hitler. Many
who were ultimately lost could
have been saved — had there
been a State of Israel.
“Today, we stand again in an
era that bears a frightening re
semblance to the 1950’s. In Egypt,
Nasser’s plan is to drive out all
50,000 Jews; already 17,000 Jews
Savannah Setfor Large Delegations
To Southeast Hadassah
A delegation of approximately
50 Atlanta women were packing
this week for a trip to Savannah
where they will join some 250
other Hadassah members for the
Southeastern Region Conference
on March 3, 4 and 5.
Dr. Mildred Thompson, form
er dean of Vassar College and
retired professor of history at the
University of Georgia, who now
makes her home in Atlanta, and
the Hon. Nahum Astar, Israeli
Consul in Atlanta, will discuss
with three outstanding Savannah
citizens the problems of the Mid
dle East. Mrs. Henry Meyer will
chair the session.
On Monday night, Mrs. Charles
Weiner, regional vice president,
will preside at the plenary ses
sion. Rabbi Sydney K. Mossman,
spiritual leader of Congregation
Shearith Israel in Atlanta, and
Paul Kulick, executive director of
the Savannah Jewish Communi
ty Council, will discuss the book,
“Great Ages and Ideas of the
Jewish People.” This volume edit
ed by Leo W. Schwartz was pub
lished last fall by Hadassah and
highlights the impact of Jewry
upon world civilization.
Principal speaker at the con
cluding banquet of the Conference
on March 5 will be Mrs. Raphael
Tourover who replaces Dr. Mi
riam Freund, national Hadassah
president, who had to cancel her
appearance because of an emerg
ency trip to Israel.
Mrs. Tourover is a brilliant
lawyer who has served Hadassah
for many years. She is the Wash
ington representative of the na
tional Hadassah board, serving as
liaison officer between women
Zionist groups and the U. S.
Government. Among her accom
plishments was the release to Is
rael, through Hadassah, of sur
plus food from U. S. government
storehouses.
An ardent Zionist for mo r e
than a quarter of a century, she
worked closely with the late Su
preme Court Justice Louis D.
Brandeis. She was president of
the Washington Hadassah before
her election to the national board.
She served a term as national
vice president and has been a
delegate to several World Zion
ist Congresses.
Besides her work with Hadas
sah, Mrs. Tourover finds time for
Parley
other organizations. She has been
a member of the national execu
tive board of the United Jewish
Appeal and is active in the League
of Women Voters, the National
Conference of Christians and Jews
and the National Civil Liberties
Clearing House.
Golf Club
Loses License For
Barring Jews
LONDON, (JTA) — The Bel-
fairs of Gold Club of Southend,
a southern coast resort town,
bowed this week to municipal
pressure and dropped its black
ball vote which has been con
sistently used to bar Jewish ap
plicants for membership. The club
has lost its license permitting
members to play on the munici
pal golf course.
A change in membership ad
mission rules requires a majority
vote for rejection of an appli
cant. Previously only two votes
were required. The club has ap
plied for restoration of its mu
nicipal course license.
have fled oppresion in Hungary,
and in Eastern Europe and North
Africa Jews are in flight.
“We are a people who want
facts. We are interested in de
tails. And since we are asking
the Atlanta Jewish community to
back this great effort we have
undertaken to head, we have col
lected the following information:
“In Egypt, nearly all of this
country’s 50,000 Jewish popula
tion — Egyptians, stateless and
foreign — will probably be ex
pelled within the next few
months: all have lost their prop
erty and their communal institu
tions have been disbanded. Most
Jews, holding Egyptian citizen
ship, lost it under the laws of
November 23, 1956, similar to Hit
ler’s Nurenburg laws of the 1930’s.
“In Hungary, since mid-Novem
ber more than 16,000 Jews have
fled. Stateless, homeless, penniless.
12,000 wait in‘reception centers
in Austria. They wait in hope
that they will be able to go to
new permanent homes.
“In Eastern Europe and North
Africa, thousands of Jews have
found that the exits of those
lands have been kept slightly op
ened. Today, they can leave; but
with each day’s sun, the ques
tion remains: How quickly can
assistance be given them to keep
them on the road to freedom?
“As for Israel, this young
State is facing the deepest emerg
ency in its short history. On all
sides hostile, war-minded Arab
nations surround her. Her every
resource — financial, physical and
social — is mobilized to meet the
threats to her survival. Despite
this burden, Israel’s people stand
undaunted, holding their doors
open to other Jews in danger.
Remembering Hitler, they are de
termined that it will not happen
again.
“What does all this mean to us
in Atlanta? It means we must sup
port the great humanitarian ef
fort to save lives. We have pledg
ed that out of the 100,000 Jews
that are endangered we will set
out to save, as Atlanta’s share of
the rescue effort, 750 lives. At a
cost of $1,000 for saving each life,
we must raise $750,000 for the
Emergency Rescue effort alone.
“But that is not all we have to
do. We still must support the
welfare programs that are being
carried on in our own communi
ty. in other parts of the United
States and in many overseas coun
tries. We must hold the line on
requirements for service, health
and cultural agencies as well. And
to do this will take another $705,
000. Thus our total needs for 1957
are $1,455,000. It is the biggest
budget in our history. But the
needs are also the biggest. We
feel sure that we will not have
difficulty in fulfilling our goal
when all the people of our com
munity are familiar with the
facts.”
Rabbi Ben Schultz
In The News Again
NEW YORK, (AJP) — The
American Jewish League Against
Communism, of which Rabbi Ben
jamin Schultz is Secretary, and
news columnist George E. So-
kolsky, President, has come into
the news again following a long
silence.
The occasion this time revolv
es around Sidney R. Katz, execu
tive director of the Park Avenue
Synagogue, who, the League
charges, “refused on grounds of
self-incrimination to tell the
House Un-American Activities
Committee under oath whether
he is now, or has been, a member
of the Communist Party.”
Rabbi Schultz listed Roy M.
Cohen as vice president of the
League, founded in 1948, and Al
fred Kohlberg as treasurer and
honorary president.
Fund Names Special Services Chairmen
A Special Services group has been constituted for the Women’s
Division of the 1957 Welfare Fund campaign, it was announced this
week. The group will concentrate on reviewing present classifications
and categories of giving and will also be 'concerned with the addition
of new prospects.
Named to nead the group were Mrs. Jake Abelson, Mrs. Meyer
Balser, Mrs. Abe Goldstein, Mrs. Hyman Morris and Mrs. D. Lawrence
Wollner.