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In Georgia, South Carolina
Redemption of Israel
Bonds Continue Heavy
Israel Bonds purchased In 1951 man of the Georgia-South Caro-
are now being redeemed at a lina Region.
very fast rate, it was announced The bonds introduced in the
by A J. Weinberg, general chair- United States by Israel in May
of 1951 are now being redeemed
as they fall due each month, at
a rate of 90 to 180 bonds per
month In Georgia and South Ca
rolina, Mr. Weinberg revealed.
By the end of 1983 Georgia and
South Carolina will share In the
$24,000,000 that Israel will repay
by that period.
“Because of the redemption of
Israel Bond*,” Mr. Weinberg
stated, Israel is meeting its obli
gation to the people who have
Invested in the future of Israel.
“It is most encouraging,” Mr.
Weinberg continued, ‘that during
the year of redemption Banking
institutions, Trade Union# and
various Funds have found Israel
Bonds a good source of Invest
ment. It is also most pleasing that
sales of Israel Bonds nationally
and locally are running at the
highest rate of sales since the in
ception of the bond campajp 1 -
This shows faith in the '~
Israel has floated 1
try and in 49 other
the Free world.”
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The Southern Israelite
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry — Established 1925
Vol. XXXVIII
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1963
No. 88
Humphrey Lauds UJA UN Assembly Opens Perpetual
At Three-Day Parley Arab, Israeli Issues on Agenda
NEW YORK (JTA)— Senator
Hubert H. Humphrey of Minne
sota, a ranking member of the
Senate Foreign Relations Com
mittee, hailed the United Jewish
Appeal this week as “one of the
greatest voluntary instruments
for life saving and life building
ever created by Americans.”
In a deeply moving address
that was the highlight of a three-
day gathering of 400 Young Jew
ish leaders attending the Third
UJA “a supreme expression of
man’s acceptance of the concept
that he is, and must be, his bro
ther’s keeper.”
Speaking at the banquet session
of the Conference, which was
presided over by Alan Sagner,
of Newark, N. J., chairman of the
UJA Young Leadership Cabinet
and the Conference, the Minne
sota Senator called on the young
Jewish leaders, most of them be
tween 25 and 40, to complete the
tasks of Jewish rescue and re
construction “begun by your
elders,” and also to “fight con
stantly $or human rights and
peace.”
The three-day gathering of
young leaders, drawn from major
communities across the country,
and members of a Young Leader
ship Council of 8,500, also heard
major addresses by Avraham
Harman, Israel Ambassador to the
United States, Rabbi Herbert A.
FYiedman, UJA executive vice-
chairman, and Mr. Sagner. At the
same time detailed presentations
of Middle East problems, along
with immigrant absorption needs
in Israel and urgent refugee re
quirements In Europe and else
where were made by authorita
tive speakers at various confer
ence sessions.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (J-
TA)—The 18th session of the
United Nations General Assem
bly opens here with the per
petual Arab-Israeli issues among
the 77 items on its agenda.
It was confidently predicted
here Tuesday that the three UN
bodies dealing with Arab-Israel
problems will continue their
existence at the present levels
into 1964. These bodies are:
1. The United Nations Relief and
Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees, which has more than
1,000,000 Arab refugees on its
relief rolls; 2. The United Na
tions Truce Supervision Organ
ization, which maintains its
headquarters in Jerusalem’s No-
Man’s Land; 3. The United Na
tions Emergency Force, which
guards the Israel-Gaza Strip
border as well as the Egyptian
shores of the Gulf of Akaba.
There was no doubt In highest
World Socialist Parley Appeals to USSR
For Equal Treatment of Russ Jewry
AMSTERDAM (JTA)—An ap
peal to the Soviet Union to erase
“any trace of anti-Jewish dis
crimination” in Russia was unan
imously approved this week by
delegates from 20 countries at
the World Congress of the Social
ist International.
The delegates acted after hear
ing a severe condemnation of the
Soviet Union on that issue from
Moshe Sharett, chairman of the
Jewish Agency executive and
chairman of the Israeli delega
tion to the meeting.
The delegates also urged the
Great Powers and the United Na
tions to act to halt the escalation
of arms capacity in the Middle
East aimed at Israel. They called
for direct peace talks between the
Arab countries and Israel and
condemned the shipment of Soviet
arms into the Middle East and
Egypt’s use of former Nazis for
advanced weapons development.
The resolution on Russia urged
Moscow Rejects
Appeal of Matzo
Convicted Trio
LONDON (JTA) — A Moscow
Appeals Court has rejected an ap
peal by three Moscow Jews from
convictions of selling matzoth, it
was reported here this week from
the Soviet capital.
The three defendants were
Golio Bogomoiny, a Jewish ritual
butcher, sentenced to one year;
Klavdiya Blyakman, 52, six
months; and Malka Brio, 59, six
months. The Soviet authorities
have refu*ed for the past two years
to allow state bakeries to bake
matozh for Passover. The prison
sentences Imposed last July by a
People’s Court, are being appeal
ed to the Supreme Court of the
Russian Federated Republic.
the Soviet Government to extend
to the Jewish community “equal
treatment accorded to other re
ligious groups and nationalities in
the Soviet society,” to consider
reunion of families separated by
“fascist persecution and war” and
allow Jews to join their relatives
in Israel and other countries.
The Dutch delegation, in intro
ducing the Soviet resolution, said
that the Dutch Socialist party did
so in the hope the resolution “may
help alleviate the position of the
Jews in Russia.” The Middle East
resolution, introduced by the
British delegation, called the con
tinued Middle East tensions “a
source of instability” which ham
pered the area’s social and eco
nomic development.
The resolution condemned “the
renewed threats to destroy Israel”
and urged a new initiative by the
Great Powers for peace in the
area. The Congress also urged the
European Economic Community
and the European Trade Associa
tion to act for speedy signing of
a Euromart agreement with Is
rael.
Harold Wilson, leader of the
British Labor party, told the del
egates that on his recent visit
to Moscow, he had raised the
issue of the disabilities of Soviet
Jews and that there were already
“some results.” He added that
they were “certainly insufficient,”
particularly in reference to spec
ial cases of elderly Jews seeking
to rejoin relatives outside of
Russia.
diplomatic and Secretariat cir
cles here this week that the
necssary budgets will be voted
for all three groups.
Israel will come to the Assem
bly this year with a delegation
composed largely of experts who
are well known here. Mrs. Golda
Meir, Israel’s Foreign Minister,
will head the delegation after
her arrival here, scheduled now
for September 24. During her
absence, Ambassador Michael S.
Comay, Israel’s permanent rep
resentative, will carry on his
duties as delegation chairman.
Other members of the delega
tion will be Ambassador Arthur
Lourie, coming here from his
post as Israeli envoy to London;
a group of leading Foreign Min
istry officials; and three mem
bers of the Knesset, Israel’s
Parliament.
Israel will participate in the
debates on a number of general
matters, not directly connected
with the Middle East, Including
several agenda items dealing
with various phases of disarma
ment. Another important group
of items on the agenda concerns
African affairs, on which Israel
is also expected to be heard.
These items include South Afri
ca’s policy of apartheid.
One issue on which Israel is
expected to play an articulate
role concerns human rights. Is
rael is expected to show parti
cular interest in resolutions ban
ning racial discrimination and
religious intolerance. These reso
lutions will involve considera
tion of the Soviet Union’s dis
crimination policies against Jews
in the USSR Israel will pursue
that subject vigorously when it
comes up for debate.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (J-
TA)—Israel Monday reaffirmed
its support for United Nations
resolution condemning South
Africa’s policy of apartheid,
and assured the UN that it has
taken steps to bar the shipment
of Israeli arms, amunition or
strategic materials t> South Af
rica, “directly or indirectly.’’
The Israeli Government’s posi
tion was stated in reply to a
letter sent to all member-states
by the UN’s Special Committee
on the Policies of Apartheid.
The letter requested govern
mental statements on the general
issue.
Israel’s Government, the re
ply stated, “has noted with deep
concern the further deterioration
in the situation** la Booth Africa.
The Israeli letter noted that “the
people of ji
horrence of
all
a deep ab-
of dis
crimination on grounds ot race,
color or religion, deriving from
age-old spiritual yiTnao SM wail
as from lengthy and tragic his
torical experience."
In addition to barring Israeli
arms to South Africa, the letter
declared, the Israel Government
is “at present actively consider
ing the taking of further meas
ures as part of the general ef
fort of member states of the
United Nations, aimed at bring
ing about the abandonment of
the policies of apartheid by the
Government of South Africa.”
Refugee Problem
Arabs Reported Ready
toNegotiateLiquidation
JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Jor
danian daily El Jihad this week
reported that several Arab Gov
ernments have informed the
United Nations and certain Wes
tern Powers that they would ac
cept large scale financial com
pensation in return for a liquida
tion of the “Palestine refugee
problem,”
The development, the paper
said, was first revealed In the
course of debate in the Lebanese
Parliament’s Foreign Affairs
Committee headed by Foreign
Minister Philip Takla.
According to the report, mem
bers of the committee said they
received “most accurate informa
tion on the matter” and that some
Arab Governments proposed the
liquidation of the United Nations
Relief and Works Agency services
and the striking off of the item
from the agenda of the UN Gen
eral Assembly In exchange for
annual financial compensation or
a lump sura to the host coun
tries.
(Arab League efforts to set up
some form of Palestinian state
were deadlocked this weekend
when the League’s Political Com
mittee in Cairo voted to turn the
Issue over to an Arab Foreign
Ministers Meeting scheduled for
next February. Observer* at the
meeting said that the Jordanian
delegates demanded that the
question be handled by the for
eign ministers.)
Ex-Nazi Tells
Of Gassing
Of23,000
HANNOVER (JTA)—A former
Nazi police officer, appearing as
a prosecution witness in the trial
of two former Nazis accused of
helping to murder 233,000 Lodz
ghetto Jews in 1942, testified this
weekend that he thought the
Kulmbach extermination camp
was a recreation center for sick
Jews.
The prosecution witness, Ott-
mar Roese, testified that he had
been told there was an old castle
at Kulmbach “where ailing Jaws
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