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KLUnmCK NAMED TO UN DELEGATION
WASHINGTON—PhiHp M. klutznick, president of B'nai B'rith, has begii named by President-Eis^d^er as one qf ten
VOLUME XXV, No. 32, ,AB 19, 5717
VANCOUVER/ ex., FRIDAY^ AUGUSrl6, 1957
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$240,000 UJA total when all cards completed
With the grand total in the UJA drive moving , tow $22p;000 the campk^^^ Steerii committee met this : to tackle the probleni qf bringing the drive to its fin^^ lA^th 85 perceritrbf the^ca^ pleted it is evident that the 1957 drive will be recorded as the greatest fund-raising effort in Cbie of the Jewish (xmununr^
ity of Vancouver. It is predicted that the fmal total will reaich $240,000. ^
The «aly tting necessaiy to as-SQfe this resol^i campa^n leaden em^baaze, Js fos'.canyassers who sfiD have cards to complete fliem wiflioat delay.
- Sulbstantial increases have '^been recorded in every section of the drive: The "A** <prdc section; w over $144,000 haisbeen 'raised to date, has
laccounted for an increase of some $13,000, out of a jtotal increase to idatej^f iabout $21,000 i)ver 1956 con-tributions. ' . -
The total in the Women's division |has now exceeded $26,000. This is â– the highest sum ever raised. by the jwomen aiid exceeds Ae previous high iby a considerable margin.
Osrer $35,000 has been raised in the Metropolitaii Division to date, compared with close to $30,000 raised last year. ^ General Canvass has brought in over $8600,: compared with a little over $6500 at the same stage lasf year.
i The Young Men's Division, headed by Morris Goldstone, has also recorded an- increase over last year with Wme $2280 raise(i to date.
Plans are now being made foV the annual UJA closing dinner to take place on^Wednesday, September 18.
Western Histodfiit conference ot Colgary September 1 and 2
WINNIPEG: "A tenfold effort in IsraeFs tenth year," will be the theme of the nuith Western'Ca imdiair^ConfCTence^^of'ifis^dwitff which will t^e place in Calgarji ok Labor Day weekend, September. 1 and 2. Leading personalities at this year's coitference wil bepr. Dov Beigunv national sec-; retary of Histadrut in Unitec States, Dr. S. Bi Hurwitch of Toronto, honorary president of His-tadrut in Canada/ aiid Harry Seiner piflbrb^ ideiit of His^drut in; (!!anada.
In announcing the conference plans. M. Al jGray^ western Histadru chairman, and Oscar Jason, executive diret^tor, have stated that "the «hift-iiig = i^cene " of international politic^ ssrv^ to emphasize the severe threat to Israel's existehde. Cognizant of all tjiese factors, we are detejrmined to. swing th^ ftiil^^eight pf^^ & drjjt campaign behind the Jewish
state." ^,^v';-/'':''^ :
; Ail communities from Ft. William to Vancouver have been invited to send their delegates to the Confer enc^ which will help to map the kind of mobilization r that will. make possible the tenfold effort called for by the theme of the conference. ^ .
Drl Doy Beiguh, who will be the main speaker at the conference, has been national secretary of the Hista-. ^t campaign in the United States since June 1955. He. was formerly active in Zionist affairs in Britain and^ attended the last two world Zionist congresses in Jerusalem. (During World War II, Dr. Beigtin served with the British armed forces in Europe and he was a member of the British War Crimes Investigation Unit. During and'after World War II, he was active in raising financial support in Britain and Europe for the Jewish National pjind and the Jewish Agency and also in obtaining large scale investments for building and industry in Israel.
An outstanding linguist and speaker. Dr. j^eigun has fluent command of 13 languages, including English, Hebrew and Yiddish. He has earned an enviable reputation as an orator ^th in Europe and in America. J
Dr. S. B. Hurwitch, who is no stranger to audiences in Western Canada, ha^ been one of the top leaders' of
the Labor Zionist movement in this country, fop.a gddd taany year^ He
URGE tEVIEW OF HOME PUNS BY COMPETENT AUTHORITIES
A recommendation to approve in principle the current plans for knew Jewish Home for the Agec in Vancouver subject to review by competent authorities on problems of the aged is under consideration by the executive o the Jewish Community Council I At a meeting of the executive o the Council last, week, where repre-sentatives of the executive of the Hoine submitted a report on their current building plans, it was suggest-ed that these .plans be reviewed by a competent authority such as the president of the Vancouver Housing Association. The Vancouver Housing Association is a Red Feather agency which has had considerable experience in building housing for the aged and whose president, Dr. Wallace Wilson, is considered one of the outstanding authorities. in Canada _ on- problems of the aged. It was further suggested that the Director pf the Jewish 'Home for the Aged in Seattle should also be consulted in relation to the biiilding pXans. .
During the course of an extended discussion a number .of other questions were raised mainly concerning plans to finance the (Sonstruq^^ of l%t^i^^i9|jias ^e>^a(nten-. ranl^: (S^^^
raised in regard to building facili-ties^-fire safety, etc. ;
Representatives of the Home in attendance included Abe Wosk, presi-;dent, Irving Becker and J. Stone. Dr. Harry Stein also attended in a con-isulting capacity. » .
: The spokesmen fpr th& Hpme Ippinted put that the building plans "to which they had now returned had jbeen previously approved by a gen-eral meeting of the Home. The subsequent changes which had been under ^consideration during the past year had never been brought up before the ;full membership of the Hpme for rat-
ification.
Morris Saltzman, chairman of the Community Council, who presided, suggested that nevertheless the cur-reht building plans should be re-submitted to the general membership of the Home for re-consideration. < Mr, Wosic expressed his willingness to have the plans reviewed according to flie suggestions made. He emphasized, however, diat he was not prepared to entertain any bndue delay in die implementation of tfie plans and warned against procras-tinafioiL . Mr: Wesk asked thd Council to accept the request of his executive to appoint representatives to the building conuniftee and admittance conujddttee of the Home. . In answer tQ a question he stated tiiat these representatives would .iiave foil ri^t of participation in the making of all decisions by these committees. The president of the Home underscored the need for action by pointing put that as many, as eight recent applicants to the Honae had been turned down due to lack of facilities in the present building.
Execiifiye niembeis of the Council; neverthlless adhieK^! to the posir, i tipi^l that ail aspecte of the bnilding
witit particular attention to the estimated costs and tide means pf financing tiie building and maintenance of the' sfnictare. While expressing' a willingness to approve the building plans in principle following the proper review and nvestigation, reservations were voiced about some of the problems raised at previous meetings with regard to the Home in connection with the execu-ive administration, membership and other questions relating to the constitutional structure of the Society as, well as the disputed problem of the Brier estate.
PHILIP KLUTZNICK
Americans to represent United States at the next session, of the United Nations General Assembly which opens, in September. Mr. Klutznick will be the only Jewish member of the delegation.
Mr. Klut2slk spoke this week in Zurich at the second European conference of B'nai B'rith before a gathering of 500 delegates from 10 European countries. He warned that European Jewry must not have a lost generatipn" but should rather try to achieve a real renaissance appropriate to its own cultural forms^ ^« Attending the conference are also 50 visitors from England, Israel and United States. 5
Isiwl boMnd ships^
TEL AVIV—Ships bound for Israel are now reported to be passing through ^e Gulf of Aqaba and Ac Suez Canal without diffici4ty. T*«&
: through the Strait Of: Tiran for the second time this wedc and jeached Eilat with a cargo of oil seeds, hides, etc. The S.S. Martha, a 500-ton Israeli chartered vessel was also due to arrive at Eilat this week.
Another ship, the Danish freighter S.S. Mars, was scheduled to enter the Suez Canal Wednesday, bound for Haifa with 5,000 tons of copra from the Philippines for Israel's oil industry. Last week the S.S. Hubro, a Norwegian vessel, reached Haifa via the Suez Canal and it was scheduled to sail for Japan, again via Suez, with a cargo of Potash.
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served' as national chairman of the Canadian Association for Labor Is-rael from its inception until Novem-jer 1956. He has visited Israel many imes both recently and in 1956.
Dr. Hurwitch also plays a leading role in the Canadian Jewish community as a whole. He is national secretary of the Canadian Jewish Coa-gress. .
All events of the ninth Western flistadrut Conference \«'ill take place at the Jewish Community Centre in (Continued on Page 8)
: (Compiled ,from Despatches); ; While United Slates was accused this week of plotting to overthrow the Syrian gbvem-ment, .a charge which Washington denied, another report from Tel Aviv, stated that the Soviet Defense Miirister, Marshall Geor-gi K. Zhukov, will soon visit
Syria. /
According to the report, Syrian Deferfse Minister KKaled el-Azm, who visited Moscow recentfy, reached an agreement witb Zhukov to bring a top-rank Soviet military team to Syria to help modernize the Syrian army.
Syria has received $ 12 0,-000,000. worth of Soviet arms to the end of ' July, according to the Israeli Foreign Office, at prices pne-third less than those of the world market.
According to a New York Times despatch fliis week: **nie iSoviet Union is. reported to be supplying some of the latest model MIG-19 jet fighter planes to Egypt and Syria and is sending two submarines to the Syrians as a Mediterranean supplement to die three already delivered to
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Egypt.** Israel does not yet have any confirinafion of tihe report (fiat Syria has iecdved two Soviet submarines.
In Israel, where Air Force Week is being celebrated this week. Air Force commander Col. Dan .Tuliowski, has stated that Israel's air arm can success fully compete against the new Egyptian and Syrian air weapons like the Soviet MIGS. JEWS OF SYRIA LIVE IN FEAR
TEL AVIV—The Jews of Syria, who number about 6,000 were said to be in the worst position of any Jewish community in the Arab countries according to a report by a reliable western traveliier who arrived in Israel this week after touring five Arab countries.
Jews in Damascss, Aliepo, and other communities are living in constant fear **comparable to that of the German Jews in the early days of nazi rale,*' he stated, adding that Syr
Israel
ian police arrest and torture Jews cs the flimsiest excuses.
The position of the Jews in Egypt was described as somewhat improved from the all-time low immediately after the Sinai campaign last fall. Half of Egypt's Jews have now emigrated and the number presently remaining is 22,000. Jews in Cairo were said to be in greater difficulty
than in Alexandria and they are suffering from unemployment due to large scale dismissal from their jobs. The Cairo Jewish school will run out of funds in four months, it was reported. *
The 5,000 Je>vs in Iraq, living mostiy in Bagdad, considered their position tolerable. But any" Jew Who plans a trip abroad must sign a statement pledging to return by a certain^ date or suffer the confiscation of his property.
UN CHIEF SAYS ARAB BOYCOTT IMPEDES EFFORTS -
UNITED NATIONS—Dag Ham-marskjo*Id, United Nations Secretary General, has indicated he felt that the Arab boycott against Israel was haim-pering his efforts at improving Israeli-Arab relations.
He made iu« obNervaiion in rej^y to a question at a [^ess conference which ftdlowed a reiteration by the Secretary-General of bis belief (hat tiiere had been and cimtinued to be ''^psychological fanprovement** of Middle East conditions. He cited the *Srery great quiet" existing on the Israeli-Egyptian border. When he was asked whether (he c<mlinning Arab economic warfare did not impair this "psych= ological** sitnation, he replied (hat it was indeed a ''dead weight** on efforts (Continued on Poge 5)
