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PICTURE OF DARWIN’S DESTRUCTION — B’nai B’rith Presi
dent David M. Blumberg (left) and Australia's charge d'affairs Gordon
Upton view photos of what was once the city of Darwin, after Cyclone
Tracy struck the northern Australian town Christmas Day. Mr. Blumberg
presented a $1,000 donation to aid the city’s recovery efforts.
Soviets Cancel Trade
Agreement with U.S.
By Joseph Polakoff
WASHINGTON, (JTA) —
Key Senate and House members
B’nai B’rith to Remain With UNESCO;
Will Campaign for Policy Reversal
WASHINGTON, (JTA) —
The B’nai B’rith Jan. 20 applauded
the actions of cultural and intellec
tual leaders who have severed their
connections with UNESCO in
protest over sanctions imposed on
Israel But B’nai B’rith president
David M. Blumberg said that his
organization, which holds non
governmental status at the United
Nations, would not quit its
relationships with UNESCO but
would "campaign for a reversal of
its politicization.”
This action was endorsed by the
B’nai B’rith Board of Governors at
its annual meeting here.
Blumberg said B’nai B’rith
would appeal to UNESCO’s 40-
member Executive Board when
that body meets in Paris next May.
Such an appeal, he said, is
bolstered by the boycott of
UNESCO programs by leading
scientists, artists, musicians,
academicians and others “until the
agency re-affirms its non-political
character.” He called the boycott
“the most effective counter-
sanctions" to compel a UNESCO
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A similar view was expressed by
Dr.William Korey, head of B’nai
B'rith’s UN office. Korey said
Congressional proposals to cut off
U.S. allocations to UNESCO "are
useful in sensitizing public opinion
but the money itself is easily
replaced by Arab oil wealth.”
He added, "The loss of cultural
and intellectual leaders is not.
N.Y. Governor
Names Abram
To Commission
Morris Abram, former Atlanta
attorney who became president of
the American Jewish Committee
and of Brandeis University, has
been named by New York Gover
nor Carey to investigate the state’s
nursing home industry.
Abram, who is chairman of the
United Negro College Fund, will
chair a commission formed mainly
as a result of reported scandals in a
nursing home chain operated by
Rabbi Bernard Bergman, once
president of the Religious Zionists
of America.
Without their support and involve
ment, UNESCO loses its purpose
as a non-political force for univer
sality and intellectual cooperation
in the promotion of culture and
becomes an irrelevant body.”
Resolutions adopted by the
B’nai B’rith Board of Governors
included a call for government
regulations to safeguard
democratic institutions from sub
version by “any massive infusions
of Arab oil and other cartel
money" into the U.S. economy.
Such regulations might be needed
to prevent any large take-over of
newspapers, broadcasting stations
and other media with recycled
petro-dollars, the Board declared.
Jan. 15 expressed surprise and
most reserved immediate comment
on the Soviet government’s
repudiation of its 1972 trade agree
ment with the United States and
its refusal to accept conditions bas
ed on recently adopted American
laws.
Senator Russell Long (D. La.),
chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee which heard Secretary
of State Henry A. Kissinger say on
Dec. 3, that the compromise he
had reached with Senators
Jackson, Abe Ribicoff (D.Conn.)
and Jacob K Javits (R.NY) was
satisfactory to him, indicated
through aides that they felt the
Soviets also had agreed to the
compromise arrangements.
Rep. Charles A. Vanik
Allon’s Talks in Washington
by JOSEPH POLAKOFF
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Ef
forts to promote a warmer at
mosphere in UJS.-Israeli relations
appeared to envelop the intensive
series of discussions Israeli
Foreign Minister Yigal Allon was
holding with U.S. political leaders.
The relationship has been cooling
in the past few months with reports
of American pressure on Israel to
accommodate Arab demands
although the Arabs themselves
have been making no move
towards meeting Israel’s needs.
An example of psychological
conciliation appeared Jan. 15 when
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger volunteered to newsmen
after his first round of talks with
Allon at the State Department that
Georgia Trade Unions Create 7, 500
Scholarship Fund Honoring Mabiy
by ADOLPH
The unlikely affinity between
Georgia and Israeli laborers
received a terrific testimony last
week at a soiree of the Georgia
Trade Union Council for
Histradut.
The testimony took the form of
an awards reception honoring
Herbert H, Mabry, president of
the Georgia State AFL-CIO, with
creation of a $7,500 fund from
which will come scholarshps in
perpetuity for the education of
future Israeli workers. '
By far most of the amount
represents donations from a dozen
or more trade unions. A segment,
however, $500, was donated in
memory of Harry Lander and Joe
Landau, two stalwarts of the
Atlanta Arbeiter Ring, or
Workmen’s Circle. This organiza
tion is responsible in large part for
thel groundwork of the Histradut
identification by the Georgia
Trade Union Council initiated
about twelve years ago through
Joseph Jacobs, Irving Gordon and
Harold Bauman, Workmen's Cir-
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cle leaders with special contacts in
the AFL-CIO.
The romantic “shidduch” which
has developed into a deep love
affair and appreciation between
the Georgia workers and counter
parts in the Jewish State was aided
and abetted by Eddie Rosenberg of
New York, a veteran represen
tative of the Histradut, who has
appeared often in Atlanta and
other centers in the South on many
occasions.
Mr. Rosenberg, who described
his career as a merger between
socialism and his feeling of
Jewishness, working for a new
society, was present for the
January 15 event.
He received a recognition award
himself during the evening from
George Caudell, business manager
for the North Georgia Building
Trades. Caudell paid a tribute to
the now-retired Histradut rep
"with whom I have walked on the
Golan Heights, the beaches of
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the United States was not exerting
any pressure on Israel. This led
some analysts to remark that his
saying so without being asked in
dicated that some pressure had
been applied. They recalled Presi
dent Ford's remark on his inter
view in Time magazine that he
would not give a U.S. guarantee to
Israel before Israel made "some
real progress" in negotiations with
the Arabs.
“Some real progress" continues
unclarified and undefined. On Jan.
_ 16 an Israeli Embassy spokesman
described the Allon talks with
Kissinger as “very good, cordial
and friendly” both in atmosphere
and content.” Another straw in the
gentle breeze of improved
relationship is that President Ford
was to see Allon at the White
House despite the President’s ab
sorption' in economic and enegy
problems and dealing with a new
Congress. Ford also saw Allon
when the Foreign Minister was
here in early December.
(D Ohio), who led the emigration
phase of the trade legislation in the
House, said that he regretted the
Soviet action and hoped the Soviet
government would change its
mind. “We can in no way force
credits or most favored nation
treatment on any nation," Vanik
said in a brief statement. A joint
statement issued by Jackson,
Vanik, Javits and Ribicoff noted
that the Soviet Union’s repudia
tion of the trade pact was a "disap
pointing development.”
It added: “We in the Congress
remain committed to the view that
a broadening of trade relations
must be accompanied by progress
in the area of human rights. We
shall not diminish our efforts to
help those who seek freedom.”
They also said that “with of
without a trade agreement we have
a right to expect the Soviet Uniori
to honor the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights." They said they
did not know why the Soviets have
chosen to “scuttle" the agreement.
But they said the compromise of
Oct. 18 which “was freely entered
into by all concerned,’ appears to
have lost its appeal to the Soviets
only when it became apparent that
the Congress would not approve
government credits for multi
billion dollar development
programs in the Soviet Union."
The Senators said that since the
Oct. 18 exchange of cor
respondence between Secretary of
Stale Henry A. Kissinger and
Jackson the assurances contained
were reaffirmed by Soviet Com
munist Party Secretary Leonid I.
Brezhnev in Vladivostok, and
Kissinger in Washington. "At no
time have we been informed by the
Administration to which the
assurances were made that they
have been withdrawn.” Sen. Clif-
fod P. Case (R.NJ) issued a state
ment saying that the Soviet action
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PRINCIPALS AT AFL-CIO HISTRADUT AWARDS
RECEPTION: Caudell, Rosenberg, Mabry, Gordon and Honanno.
—PHOTO in JOHN B MONTGOMERY
A Weekly Newspaper for Southern Jewry.
VOL. Lf One Section, 12 Pages Atlanta, Georgia Friday, Jan. 24, 1975
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