Jewish Post, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 April 1960 — Page 5

Friday, April 15, I960

The National Jewish POST and OPINION

Friday, April 15, 196®

Aliya Row Threatens To Split North Americans Si Bira@3 Group

South African Jews Confused, Anxious, Dismayed By Unrest

TEL AVIV (P-O) — The settle ment section of the Association of American and Canadians in Israel, which represents over 1,000 farmers in kibbutzim and xnoshavim, have threatened to quit the group. The threat to resign from the association is in protest against the groups' failure to issue a call for immigration from Canada and the U. S. at its recent convention, the Jerusalem Post reported THE FARMERS among North American settlers will meet shortly to decide whether to or ganize their own group. Another suggestion which is being tossed around is for the association to hold a referendum among its members to decide whether It

JERUSALEM (P-O) — Israeli Foreign Minister Mrs. Golda Meir told a delegation of the Anglo-Jewish Association that "Israel is determined not to yield the right to speak on any Jewish, subject.” "If there are Jews abroad who find them selves embarrassed by this attitude let them be embarrassed,” the Israeli Foreign Minister said. The state- Mrs. Meir ment was made in a reply from a question by a delegation mem ber concerning the now-famous Note the Israeli Government sent to a number of Governments at the height of the swastika epidemic. The. Note said in part that "the Government and people of Israel are sensitive and alert to anything that affects our brethren in the lands of the Diaspora.” A delegation member thought the Israel action could be regarded as interference in the internal affairs of British Jewry. Mrs. Meir said Israel considered itself fully‘justified in speaking out on Jewish maters, even if they did not specifically deal with Israeli issues. The Anglo-Jewish Association's President, R. N. Carvalho said that: "I was satisfied that the Ribicoff Has No Chance for V-P new YORK (P-O) — Pulitzer Prize winning author, Margaret L. Coit, writing-in Look Maga 2i ne said that despite Gov. Abraham Ribicoff's "brilliant record” he will not be nominated for the vice-presidency because he is Jew-

ish.

should issue calls for immigration from North America. Instead of issuing the usual expected platitudes at its recent ninth annual parley, the associa tion created a bombshell by not issuing a call for North American immigration. SEVERAL speakers at the as sociation’s convention questioned the advisability or necessity of issuing a call for North American aliya. About 1,200 of the 8,000 American and Canadian settlers in Israel live on the land. SHMUEL BEN-ZVT, of Ein Hashofet, who is a leader of the agricultural settlers, told The Jerusalem Post that the settle-

Note did not speak for British Jews, although the timing of its submission was most unfortunate.”

Dag Spanks Abdul NEW YORK (P-O)—Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold gave his problem child U.A.R President Nasser a mild spanking for seizing an Israeli cargo at the entrance of the Suez Canal. Hammarskjold referred to the Greek freighter Astypalea which contained 400 tons of Israeli cement destined for Eritrea. Unloading of the cargo was started last week. Hammarskjold said the action "goes against” United Nations principles.

ment section of the association had no place in "an organization dealing only with refrigerators and housing requirements." He claimed that the resolution passed by the convention was "only a formalistic way of avoiding the issue of immigration.” THE RESOLUTION which was adopted read: "The convention reaffirms its aim to encourage immigration here from North America and to do all in its power to creat conditions here which will facilitate the settlement and integration of those coming here.” The New York Times put its report of the convention on page one — on the same day that Ben-Gurion's arrival in Boston was reported on an inside page The convention report was headlined: "Israeli settlers bar bid to others.”

S,A. Editor Escapes Arrest JOHANNESBURG (P-O)— Ronald Segal, son of a prominent Capt Town Jewish family, and editor of the South African liberal quarterly "Africa South,” escaped last week to British Bechaunaland. There has been a warrant out for Segal's arrest because of his liberal views on apartheid. Last year the South African Government deprived Segal of his passport and him from attending meetings for the next five years, the London Jewish Chronicle reported. Segal's late father was once chairman of the Cape Committee of South African Jewish Board of Deputies. His mother is a leading Zionist women worker.

JOHANNESBURG (P-O)—The South African Jewish community is confused, anxious and dismayed by the intensity of violence resulting from the clasli of white and black nationalism in the country. Within the next few weeks the community’s leaders hope to establish what they consider should be the Jewish "line” toward the fast-moving dramatic events here, the Johannesburg correspondent of the London Jewish Chronicle reported. BOTH OF Johannesburg’s leading Anglo-Jewish newspapers, the Zionist Record and the S.A. Jewish Times broke precedent and for the first time commented on the bitter racial unrest in South Africa. For years the Government’s apartheid policy had been regarded by the papers as outside of the scope of Jewish communal discussion. THE ZIONIST Record said: "One overriding goal must constantly be before us: how to achieve permanent peaceful relations between all races in South Africa. This is as vast and complex an undertaking as faces any country in the world. "However, we need not despair of finding solutions as long as we hold fast to moral principles and recognize that both White and Black have a stake in this country and must be given their fair share in its life and economy.” THIS LINE of thought is in contradiction to the government policy which is that the "blacks” can have no rights in “white South Africa,” but only in their "own areas,” the London Jewish Chronicle noted. In a front-page editorial the S.A. Jewish Times calls on the Jews of South Africa to remain calm. COMMENTING on the disturbances, Chief Rabbi Professor Israel Abrahams stated in Cape Town: "The recent riots cannot be judged in isolation. Every person must regret and condemn violence and deplore the loss of life. But this is only a first step. The problem of the disturbances is far greater than the immediate catastrophe. It has deep roots in the past and it menaces the entire future of South Africa. "It is a profound challenge to the whole population, in all its multifacetted aspects, to rethink our racial problems and to seek radical solutions. Peace can only be founded on justice, and justice must clearfy appear to be done to hll groups and sections. Peace postulates co-operation,' and co-

operation can only be achieved by consent. \ “IN SPITE OF the calamity inherent in the present crisis, it presents a glorious opportunity to solve the greatest of human problems—race 1'elations—in our country and to set thereby an example to the world. The solution will call for great courage and wisdom.” o S.A. Jews Ask 'How Can l Go To Israel* JOHANNESBURG (P-O) — There has been a flood of inquiries at the aliya department of the Soiuh African Zionist Federation in Johannesburg about emigration to Israel. In Cape Town, the Israeli Minister to South Africa, K. P. Salmon, said many South African Jews are asking: "How can I make my home in Israel? Even with its highly developed organizational life the South • African Jewish community did not possess the framework which would make it possible for a large number of their middle-class persons to make their homes in Israel, Salmon told the Johannesburg correspondent of the London Jewish Chronicle. There are 110,000 Jews in : Sou tli Africa.

Answer Requested On B-G-K Meeting JERUSALEM (P-O) — The Is raeli Foreign Ministry instructed the Israel Ambassador in Moscow, Aryeh Harel, to request a formal reply from the Soviet Government to Premier BenGurion’s proposal for a meeting in Moscow with Premier Khrushchev. Ben-Gurion first broached the subject of a visit to Moscow some .i four months ago, at a meeting f with the Soviet Ambassador, Mik- S hail Bodrov.

Doubtful that Mid-East Will be Raised at Summit PARIS . (P-O) — The UB. has convinced France in private preSummit talks that it is not desirable to raise Middle East problems with the Soviet Union, the Jerusalem Post reported. A big Quai d'Orsay official told the newspaper’s Paris' correspondent that France now believes it is unrealistic to hope the Soviet Union might join in a fourpower guarantee of the ArabIsrael borders.

Reporters Walk Out of Press Conference Over Leak NEW YORK (P-O) — The Israeli Press, London Jewish Chronicle and POST and OPINION walked out of a press conference with Dr. Nahum Goldmann and Dewey Stone, • at which the final formation of the new Jewish Agency for Israel Inc. was announced. The/ reporters walked out as a protest of "giving first the story exclusively to the New York Times,” and then calling the press conference three days later. Richard Yaffe, United States and United Nations correspondent for the London Jewish Chronicle and the Israeli Daily, "Al-Hamishmar” as spokesman of the reporters told Goldmann and Stone that "we were shocked to learn about the exclusive interview in ftie Times when all of us followed the story day by day, digging for facts that were on numerous occasions banned from the press.” Dr. Goldmann apologized, however as the reporters walked out of the conference room. Reporters from the Times, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Yiddish Press & Public Relations Officers of several Jewish Organizations stayed. Goldmann and Stohe announced the new method of distribution of funds raised by American Jews that will be now controlled by the 21 American board members who agreed that Jewish Agency in Jerusalem should be the "sole agent for the implementation of the projects supported by the American corporation.”

MRS. MEIR SAYS

Israel Will Continue To Speak for Jewry

Why Does The POST and OPINION Carry More Advertising Now Than At Any Time In Its History? The Answer Is Simple, OUR ADVERTISERS GET RESULTS!