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Jewish Workers
Die in Hungary
Riots, UM Hears
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.,
(JTA) — Jewish workers were
massacred in the two Hungarian
cities of Papa and Miskolc “sole
ly because they were Jews,” Hun
gary’s chief representative at the
United Nations, Peter Mod, ad
mitted this week at the United
Nations General Assembly meet
ing which was called to deal with
the bloody events in Hungary last
October.
Efforts to elicit facts about
pogroms in Hungary had been
made during the Investigation con
ducted by the UN’s Special Com
mittee on Hungary which filed its
report last June. Many witnesses
are understood to have been
questioned at closed meetings
about anti-Semitism but at least
one of the members of the unit,
Prof. Enrique Rodriquez Fabre-
gat of Uruguay.
In his address to the UN Gen
eral Assembly defending the pre
sent regime in Hungary, Mod
stated: “In the centers of Szomod
and Tat, in the Department of
Gyor, the Nazi Party, which in
ternational public opinion will re
member, was reorganized. The
swastika reappeared on walls of
houses. Chauvinistic incitement,
irridentism, anti-Semitism and
white terror were the corollaries
of the appearance of the Fascist
and reactionary parties. The coun
ter - revolutionaries massacred
workers at Papa and Miskolc sole
ly because they were Jewish.”
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1957
Hungary Jews
Join WJC
LONDON, (JTA) — An agree,
ment providing for the affiliation
of the Central Board of Hungar
ian Jewry with the World Jew
ish Congress was released simul
taneously here and in Budapest
this week. This is the first time
contact has been re-established
between the Hungarian Jewish
community and world Jewry since
1949-50 when the Eastern Eur
opean Jewish communities “lost
touch” with the communities of
the West.
The agreement is the out
growth of conferences in Zurich
August 23-25 between Hungar.
ian Jewish leaders and WJC of
ficers. Representing the WJC were
its president, Dr. Nahum Gold-
mann, the three chairmen of the
branches of the world executive
of the Congress, Dr. Israel Gold
stein of New York, Israel M.
Sieff of London and Dr. Arieh
Tartakower of Jerusalem, and sev
eral others. The Hungarian board
was represented by board chair
man Andreas Sos, vice president
Miklos Vida and Budapest Chief
Rabbi Benoschofsky, a member of
the executive of the central board.
The Hungarian group will be
represented on the WJC execu
tive and will have the right to
express its opinion, even when it
disagrees with the majority. To
promote cooperation between the
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Hungarian community and the
Congress, a “World Jewish Con
gress Committee in Hungary” will
be elected.
THIS NEWCOMER TO AMERICA AT A HIAS SHELTER IN N. Y.
SYMBOLIZES THE HOPE AND THE ASPIRATIONS OF JEWRY
UPON THE EVE OF JEWISH NEW YEAR 5718.
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Moscow Jews Seek Knowledge on US
Jewry: Many Would Emigrate
BOSTON, (JTA) — The young
Harvard law student who spoke
10 to 12 hours a day to the
Russian crowds in the street dur
ing the recent Moscow World
Youth Festival has returned with
a report that “almost every Jew
I spoke to over the age of 25
expressed the desire to leave Rus
sia and go to Israel.”
George S. Abrams of Newton,
Mass., told the Jewish Advocate
of Boston that the Jews in the
crowds he talked to in Moscow
besieged him with questions
about many other aspects of
American Jewish life.
Abrams said that the three syn
agogues in Moscow were well at
tended and that at the central
one, where he went for worship,
many Jews told him of the horrors
experienced under Stalin and of
their fear that, while conditions
had improved under the post-
about Jewish life in America. He
said they wanted to know what
Reform Judaism was, whether
every American Jewish family
attended synagogue services and
Stalin leadership, life ,would re
turn to what it had been under
Stalin.
The law student said that Mos
cow Jews were “intensely cur
ious” about Israel and that the
older Jews wanted “desperately
to leave Russia and go to Israel,
but had no hope that they would
ever be allowed this privilege.”
Citing Prime Minister David Ben
Gurion’s speculation that 1,500,
000 Russian Jews would emigrate
to Israel if they had the oppor
tunity, Abrams said he felt the
number would be even greater.
Denver Medical Center
Opens Expansion Drive
DENVER, (TTA) — Launching
of a three.year campaign to pro
vide 100 additional beds needed
for victims of cancer, tuberculosis
and other disabling diseases has
been announced here on behalf
of the American Medical Center,
formerly known as the Jewish
Consumptive Relief Society. The
announcement was made by Rep.
James Roosevelt of California,
chairmen of the Center’s national
development committee.
U.S. Fears Syria
To Close Pipe-Line
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WASHINGTON, (AJP) — State
Department experts, viewing the
deteriorating Syrian-U. S. rela
tions with alarm, tfcis week show
ed concern over the fate of the
oil pipe-line running from Iraq
and Saudi Arabia through Syria.
Anticipating the worst, they have
asked Britain to estimate how her
economy and that of Western Eur
ope would be affected if Syria
closed down the pipe lines.
ZOA Delegates Hail Truman
as Modern Cyrus
Former Pres. Sees Great Future for Israel;
Hits “Wishy-Washy” Administration Policy
By David Horowitz
NEW YORK, (AJP) — Thund
erous ovations greeted Harry S.
Truman as he walked into the
packed and flag-bedecked Wald
orf-Astoria Banquet Hall Satur
day night accompanied by Mrs.
Truman.
It was the first time that the
former President had appeared be
fore a ZOA Convention, sharing
honors with Abba Hillel Silver
in addressing the enthusiastic as
sembly of delegates.
The great friend of Israel, ac
claimed by both Dr. Emanuel Neu
mann and Abba Hillel Silver as a
modern Cyrus and one whose name
will live forever in Jewish his
tory, appeared in a jovial mood all
evening and exhibited a spirit as
if he really “belonged.”
Abba Hillel Silver, who proced-
ed Mr. Truman with a masterful
and inspirational address — possi
bly the greatest in his life — stat
ed that though he and Mr. Tru
man have not always seen eye to
eye on certain issues, they had
two things in common. Both, he
said, had recently become grand
parents and both had gained in
popularity out of office. This re
mark brought a chuckle to Mr.
Truman and laughter from the
audience.
Before Dr. Neumann introduced
Mr. Truman he read out a num
ber of messages which included a
rather “lukewarm” telegram from
President Eisenhower. Though
Truman had applauded every oth
er message read, he sat silent
without making a move after Ike’s
message was read.
In his history-making speech,
Truman called Israel a country
“founded on the love of human
freedom, just as our own country
was based on the ideal of free
dom. “Here in the land of Moses
and the prophets,” he said, “was
a rebirth of a nation, dedicated,
as of old, to the moral law and to
the belief iin God. I had faith in
Israel,” he added, “before it was
esstablished. I have faith in it
now. I believe it has a glorious fu
ture before it — not just as a
sovereign nation, but as an em
bodiment of the great ideals of our
civilization.”
Referring to the time when he
recognized the State of Israel the
moment it ,was proclaimd, Mr.
Truman declared: “In recognizing
the new State of Israel, and in giv
ing careful consideration to its
needs and its problems after 1948,
the sentiments of the people of the
ical party or religious belief. And
United States, regardless of polit-
I believe I was only expressing
I also believe I was acting as the
President of the United States
ought to act — that is, in the in
terest of the United States.” He
then added: There was something
deeply moving and deeply stir
ring to every American in the
creation of the new State -of Is
rael in the ancient land of Pales
tine.”
Criticizing the Eisenhower-Dull-
es Administration the former
President said that “we cannot
overcome race prejudice by ship
ping arms to one side of the con
troversy. The ‘wishy-washy’ at
titude” of our government, he
stressed, “has caused all this
trouble” we are witnessing in the
Middle East today.
Mr. Truman expressed the be
lief that, with proper U. S. leader
ship, “the present disorders and
frictions involving Israel could be
solved through the United Nat
ions, of which Israel is one of the
newest and one of the most de
voted members.”
Judging by the enthusiasm and
action taken at this 60th Jubilee
Convention of the ZOA, there is
no doubt in the mind of this writ
er that a new promising era in
the history of American Zionism
now commences as world Jewry
prepares for the High Holidays
5718.