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THE SOUTHERN ISRAELITE
Friday, July 26, 1957
Pakistan Premier Urges Arabs
To Accept Israel; Mediate
Fighting Clergyman Evans Wins
First Round Against Bigots
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — A
significant future role for Pakis
tan in the Arab-Israel situation
was indicated here in the wake
of detailed conversations involving
Prime Minister H. S. Shurawardy
and President Eisenhower. The
two leaders discussed the roles
their nations could play in bring
ing Arab-Israel peace.
Prime Minister Suhrawardy re
vealed Sunday on a national tele
vision program that he was “a-
fraid there is no other alterna
tive” but for the Moslems to ac
cept Israel’s existence as a fact
of life. He said. "The Israeli prob
lem has got to be solved if we
are ever going to be certain about
peace in the Middle East. I think
that it is the duty of all persons
of goodwill to do whatever they
can in bringing about the solu
tion.”
Outlining what Pakistan and
the United States could do, the
Prime Minister said “they could
bring the two parties together;
they could try and reason with
them.” He suggested that the
United States could act as an in
dividual mediator. He thought
that Pakistan would also be will
ing to be a mediator. He admitted
that Pakistan has opposed recog
nition of Israel.
Mr. Suhrawardy said he thought
“that the creation of Israel was
wrong. But after all,” he added,
“there is Israel, and everyone re
alizes there must be an agree
ment between the Arab world,
between the Arab nations that
resent the existence of Israel, and
Israel itself. Now an agreement
of this nature connotes that they
recognize the existence of Israel,
that they recognize that if there
is an agreement between the two
parties, then one of the parties is
not exterminated.”
Limited Debut for
Television in Israel
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Tele
vision on a limited scale was
introduced in Israel this week,
Variety reported in its current is
sue. The show business weekly
said that the new media was
presented for the first time at a
home and garden exhibition held
at Beit Dagon, near Rishon Le
Zion.
Special equipment was shipped
from New York by Radio Corp.
of America to enable the show
ing to be held, Variety said, ad
ding viewers on the grounds saw
entertainments and educational
material over closed circuits on
21-inch sets.
Sponsor of the project was the
Agricultural and Development
Co., owners of the exhibition
grounds, in association with R.C.
A.
Although negotiations for the
introduction of television have
been going on for four years,
the weekly said, the Israeli gov
ernment has declined to give li
censes for private radio and TV
stations. Efforts of a United
States corporation to install a sta
tion on a private basis, with com
mercial programs patterned on
American models, have been
thwarted by government authori
ties, the trade paper said.
Tourism in Israel
Back to Normal
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Tour
ism in Israel climbed back to
normal levels in May and is ex
pected to increase considerably
this summer, officials indicated
this week. They stated it was
the first time this year that tour
ist figures matched those of 1956.
The State Department ban on
imposed visits to the Middle East
by American citizens and the gen
eral unrest in the area in early
1957 were blamed for the decline
of tourism. This ban was recently
lifted.
The government said that 4,000
tourists had arrived in May and
4,300 in April. They expect from
5,000 to 6,000 a month will come
to Israel in July and in each
month following during the cur
rent season. They estimate for
eign currency income from each
tourist at about $150.
He said he was “afraid there
is no other alternative” than for
him to advise all Moslem nations
to accept Israel as a fact of life.
Defining the role Pakistan desires
to play in the Moslem world, he
said: “All that I have been want
ing to do is to bring the Moslem
world together so they can sit
down at the same table, discuss
matters among themselves. These
disputes which exist between the
member nations may be resolved,
with regard to international dis
putes we may be able to put for
ward suggestions which may help
to resolve them.”
In Israel, Premier Suhrav/ardy’s
statement that he is willing to act
as mediator between Israel and the
Arabs received a mixed reaction.
A Foreign Ministry spokesman
said it represented progress in
asmuch as it indicates that a Mos
lem political leader sees the ne-
essity of advising other Moslem
leaders to recognize the existence
of Israel, “It is to be hoped that
the realization of such necessity
will also be adopted by Arab
leaders,” the spokesman said.
However, he added that Israel
feels that any Arab-Israel talks
should be direct and not through
a third party.
BOSTON, (JTA) — Tributes
from local and national leaders,
including President Eisenhower,
were received by the Jewish Ad
vocate here as it celebrated its
55th anniversary with a 100-page
edition. Much of the praise cent
ered on Dr. Alexander Brin, ed
itor and publisher of the weekly
for 40 years.
In an editorial, the Boston Daily
Globe observed that the Advo
cate’s influence “has gone far
beyond the Jewish community
which it serves.” The Boston
Daily Herald remarked editorially
that the Jewish community here,
the Jewish nation in Palestine and
the whole community of Boston.”
SERMONETTE
Religion
by JACQUES BACK
An AJP Feature
Religion, by its very nature
and definition is the organ
ized idealism of mankind. It
bespeaks our ideals and con
duct, of aspiration, of emo
tion and achievement. Relig
ion is the philosophy of life,
the mind behind the mech
anism of things. It is the love
divine that even in trial and
pain is chiselling out with
sharp-edged tools the spiritu
al beauty that we must suffer
to achieve.
Religion is the slumbering
instinct that is always within
us — in every man — yes,
even in the basest man — a
mysterious Self, that men call
Soul — or Spirit — the cen
sor at the door of the Mind,
that admits and excludes and
sits judgment. It is alive; it is
real. It speaks for itself; it is
there.
Convention of Liberal
Judaism Discusses
Religion in Israel
AMSTERDAM, (JTA) — The
longing for religion in Israel is
widespread and any description of
the Jewish State as one divided
into “an Orthorox minority and
a majority of those outside the
synagogue” is a false one, Dr.
Hugo Bergman, Israeli scholar,
told the World Union for Pro
gressive Judaism convention this
week.
He asserted that religion must
be tested by life “and Israel is
the place for Judaism to be put
to the test before us and before
the world. Here we manifest Jew
ish belief really is, in politics, in
relation to our minorities, in the
kibbutzim, in our relationship
with Jews in countries outside of
Israel, and with mankind as a
whole.”
Israel expects the Jews in oth
er countries to understand "that
your problem, the problem of
the Jewish community as a whole,
is decided in Israel,” he asserted.
Jews outside of Israel, for that
reason, should not regard their
ties with Israel “as a concern of
welfare work which can be ‘set
tled’ by giving money,” Dr. Berg
man said. “You should identify
yourselves critically — I stress
critically — with religious life
in Israel.”
Ebony Pictures
JTA Teletypist
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Miss
Mary Harwell, chief teletypist at
the world headquarters of the
Jewish Telegraphic Agency here,
was the subject of a biographical
picture sketch in the current is
sue of Ebony, national Negro
monthly magazine.
Miss Harwell, an employee of
the JTA for the past 13 years,
is responsible for the main flow
of some 10,000 words of news
copy between JTA headquarters
here and Jewish communities
throughout the world. In a trans
mission-crammed day, Miss Har
well sends by Morse code and di
rect teletype, news of Jews of the
world to the English-Jewish
press in this country and Cana
da and to Yiddish, Hebrew,
Spanish, and Portuguese language
Jewish newspapers on six conti
nents.
Student Zionists Call
For Arab Friendship
BARRYVILLE, N.Y., (AJP) —
Over two hundred delegates from
44 campus chapters of the Stu
dent Zionist Organization, as
sembled in their fourth annual
convention here .adopted a re
solution calling upon members of
the organization to seek the
friendship of Arab students at
their colleges.
The newly-elected president,
Gilbert Kollin of Columbia Uni
versity, pointed out that “Arabs
who understand the peaceful
goals of Israel and the promise
of a better life for all peoples
of the Middle East which Israel
exemplifies, cannot long remain
enemies through ignorance of Is
rael, Zionism and Judaism.”
NEW YORK, (AJP) — The
staunch pro-Zionist Rev. Richard
E. Evans won the first round last
week in his battle against a
certain group within the Pres
bytery of New York- which is
seeking to displace the famous
Labor Temple’s interfaith and in
terracial programs so that the
N.Y. City Mission Society con
gregations could be installed in
the building.
Dr. Evans, who is director of
the old landmark on east 14th
Street and who has fought to
maintain its universal character,
declared that the instigators of
the move to displace the Labor
Temple program have exhibited
“the worst kind of sectarian
selfishness.”
A resolution expressing deter
mination to insure the continu
ance of Labor Temple’s unique
ministry and reaffirming full
confidence in the leadership of
its director, Dr. Evans, received
almost unanimous support at a
recent meeting of the Labor
Temple Administrative Board.
Negotiations between the Pres
bytery of New York, which
Church Extension Committee con
trols Labor Temple, and the N.Y.
City Mission Society, have been
directed toward the displacement
of the current programs under
Dr. Evans’ direction.
Warm praise for Labor Temple’s
role as a meeting place for people
of all races and faiths, was ex
pressed at a meeting held last
week by leading educators and
Presbyterians Evict
Pro-Israel Minister
NEW YORK, (AJP) — The
Rev. Dr. Richard E. Evans,
known as a staunch Zionist and
a friend of Israel and who has
directed the Presbyterian Labor
Temple on East 14th Street since
1951, was dealt a severe blow by
the Presbytery of New York
when it voted this week to termi
nate its relationship with the fa
mous institution.
Dr. Evans, who has never per
mitted any Christian missionary
activity to take place in the
Temple, charged that the institu
tion had been “victimized by a
parliamentary trick of shabby,
dubious character” and that the
Presbytery had “won out on a
technicality unworthy of the
best traditions of the Presbyterian
Church.”
The new move will turn the
former interdenominational La
bor Temple under Dr. Evan’s di
rection into an out-and-out
Christian missionary institution.
city officials. Among them were
the Hon. Charles Abrams, Chair
man of the N.Y. State Commis
sion Against Discrimination; Noi-
man Thomas, Will Durant and
Dr. Frank Graham.
Dick Evans, as he is known to
his friends, is known to Jewish
communities in various parts of
the country for the tour he con
ducted year ago in behalf of the
Zionist cause. In addition to his
Labor Temple activities, Dr.
Evans is chairman of the World
Parliament of Religions and pres
ident of the Interfaith Committee
for Peace in the Holy Land.
CAMP BLUE STAR
Samuel H. Rosenberg, director
of the Atlanta Bureau of Jewish
Education, was the first guest to
participate in Camp Blue Star’s
Living Judaism program.
As the camp opened its tenth
season with boys and girls from
twenty-five states, Cuba and
Mexico, Mr. Rosenberg met with
individual camp groups to discuss
different facets of Judaism. He
led the staff in a discussion of
the role of Judaism in modern
society. The Teen-Age Village
campers covered the subject of
Jewish living in a camp setting.
Mr. Rosenberg attended New
York University and Yeshiva. He
is co-author of “A Guide to the
Prophets” and has written nu
merous articles on the subject.
He was accompanied to camp by
his wife Ruth and younger
daughter Claire Mae.
* • *
Irving Borstein, Atlanta, and
Mrs. Phillip Blum, Kingsport,
Tenn., are directing the pioneer
camp for campers 7 to 10 years
of age; Miss Edie Klein, Athens,
and Mrs. Elmore Solomon, Au
gusta the senior camp for boys
and girls from 11 to 13. Mr. and
Mrs. Donald Newman, Los Ange
les, and Ronald Frank, Holly
wood, Calif., are in charge of the
counselor-trainee program.
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