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$2,000,000 Spent on Purchases by JDC in 1951
The Joint Distributi|pn Committee spent more than $2,d00,-000 during 1951 in countries out-
. side of. Israel to meet the needs of thousands of aged, ill and
; handicapped immigrants in the Jewish state, it was reported recently by Moses A. Leavitt, JDC Executive Vice-Chairman.
Telephone switchboards, galvanized iron wire. X-ray machines iand jeeps were among the thousands of individual items piirchased each month' for JDC Maibeh project on behalf of "hard core" newcomers to the Holy Land.
Purchases in the United States during the past year totalled more than $.604,000, in addition to hundreds of thousands of - dollars spent in Europe, Africa and Asia Malben's total budget for 1951 was $8,000,000. In 1952, the agency will spend nearly $10,-000,000. Funds for JDC's overseas relief, resettlement and reconstruction programs are provided by the United Jewish Appeal,
To build and equip Malben's network of 85 tuberculosis sanitaria, hospitals, clinics, dispen-sanes and other institutions in Israel, JDC agents have scoured tHei world's markets for structural steel, cement, timber, electrical wiring and pipe. For Malben's Village for the Blind—a unique
community in Which 100 sightless family-heads have been helped to become self-supporting—JDC has purchased dried seagrass from Hong Kong (used by the blind to stuff mattresses); raffia from Madagascar and rope yarn from India (for weaving mats). It has bought specially-equipped bicycles in Great 'Britain for use in physical therapy centres; pponge in Tunisia for its custodial care centres; and kegs of ;jails in the United States for its carpentry project, one of a dozen rehabilitation schemes aimed at training handicapped immigrants for liv.es of usefulness and self-support.
A single day's orders recently included the purchase of prefabricated houses from Sweden (to house physicians and nurses attached to Malben's new TB hospital in Israel, the largest in the Middle East); window-glass from vCjrprus (to equip an institution for chronically sick patients); and kitchen sinks from Holland (for a new old-age home). The same day, quotations were sought on
asbestos sheeting, . alarm clocks^ coarse-grained plywood, broom handles and Venetian blinds. Brooklyn factory got the order for the Venetian blinds.
In a world of mounting prices^ export controls and supply short ages, JDC's purchasing officers seek quotations and bids wherever they can be found. Currently, most of JDC's procurement is done in Europe, where prices are usually lower and where export regulations are not so stringent;
In spite of these obstacles, however, JDC supplies continue to pour into Israel to build and equip Malben installations, and to restore more of Israel's handicapped immigrants to health and independence. In a country where the lack of a door, hinge represents an intricate problems in international exchange, th$ continued flow of supplies from JDC symbolics a secure future to thousands of handicapped, chronically ill and aged immigrants who seek its help.
U.N. Group Fails to Ban Race Propaganda
NEW YORK — (JTA) — The World Jewish Congress has hailed the action of the United Nations Sub-Commission on Freedom of Information and of the Press in d|>pting an International Code pf Etiiics for the press last week. However, the Congress expressed regret over the Sub-Commission's failure to include a provision stressing the professional journalist's duty to refrain from disseminating racial or religious propaganda.
In a statement before the Sub-Commisison, Dr. Gerhard Jacoby, consultant of the World Jewish Congress to the U.N. Economic and Social Coujncil, said that the adoption of the code was an important step in the direction of miplementing the Universal Dec-aration of Htunan Rights. However, he pointed out that the code as adopted did not include a proposed article to discourage the use of public media of informa-; ion for propaganda contrary to the'principles of human rights.
NEW YORK—Despite a severe shortiage of traine:d teachers in her own schools, Israel is dispatching some pi her best instructors abroad and is using her facilities to the utmost!to train teachers from other countries in an effort fo bolster HebreW eiSuca-tion in the diaspora, particularly in Latin. America. ; •
This was disclosed in .an announcement by the Department for Culture 'and Education of the World Zionist Organization, that 15 Israel grade school and kindergarten instructors have been sent to Jewish cpmmuniti^ in Brazil, Uruguay and Chile and that 34 Latin American teachers have just returned tP their communities after completing a winter seminar on Hebrew"^ education in Israel. The Department also announced that- it had granted fellowships to 10 teachers from Argentina- and Mexico, enabling them to remain in Israel for year to perfect their knowledge of Hebrew and,pedagogy.
The relatively small Jewish community of' Brazil, the announcement stated, has received 10 teachers from Israel. Thriee other Israel teachers have gone to Chile, two to Uruguay and several principals and pedagogic instructors will be sent shortly to Mexico. Israel will also be send-ng a headmaster to the "Tahke-moni," in Antwerp, Belgium, one of the oldest-Hebrew day schools n Europe.
The departure of the Israel educators to posts abroad was facilitated by the Government Department of Education which released hem at a sacrifice to Israel's own short-handed school system.
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Hitler "Episode Held
ive
In li951, Canadian factories shipped a total of 413,722 motor vehicles, an all-time record. The igure for 1950 was 390,836.
CLOTHES FOR ISRAEL — DRIVE — March. CANADIAN LEGION, FAIRVIEW BRANCH —
Campaign f or' Veterans
LIONS' GATE LODGE B.B. — Reno Carnival Night — April 6
CAN. FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY — Membership Affair
— April 20
HABONIM — Third Sedor — April 20 B.B. LADIES BAKING CONTEST — April 22
PERETZ SCHOOL — P-TA Spring Dance — April 26
VANCOUVER JEWISH KOSHER POULTRY SOCIETY CAMPAIGN
TO RAISE FUNDS FOR POULTRY HOUSE
HERZLIA CHAPTER OF HADASSAH — Mother-Daughter Tea —
Moy 11
YOUTH ALIYAH HADASSAH — Spring Tea — May 28. NORDAU CHAPTER HADASSAH Foshion Show — June 11 BB NO. 668 — Yom Kippur Dance — September 29
FRANKFURT—(WJA)-TWest-ern attacks on German trustworthiness, in particular articles m the *New York Times' and'the 'Daily Express' as well as the atest full-dress debate in the Trench National- Assembly have been the subject of much com-iQent in the German press. Most characteristic perhaps is an editorial by Paul" Sethe in the 'Frankfurter AUgemeine' endeavoring to analyze the fear of Gerr many abroad and stressing that Influential and thoughtful sections of public opinion abroad could not be ignored or lightly dismissed.
Where such public opinion erred, Sethe declared, with an air of injured innocence,- was in setting down Hitler and his era as an ex-* pression of permanent Germjan characteristics; whereas in reality they merely stood for an historical "episode," admittedly shame-) ful and evil, but nonetheless unrepresentative of the German people as a whole or over a long period of time. The "old legends" of German guilt in 1870 and 1914, Sethe claims, have long since been exploded, even by Allied historians, and the West also shares the guilt for Hitler's climb to power. "Don't shut your eyes to the truth merely to maintain an unreal feeling of moral superiority" is the leader-writer's parting admonition to the Allies.
Moreover, says Sethe, entiri^y apart from the rights or wrongs of the matter, the German gorge was beginning to. rise over Allied "nagging'* and* this would
A Yemenite child makes a gift of o wild lily to o youngster of Czechoslo-vokian origin at Chavat Honoor, near Jaffa, a Youth Aliyah home sponsored in Israel by the Mizrachi Women's Organization of America. Brotherhood and friendship omong children from eighteen londs flourishes at Chovat Honoar in on atmosphere of traditional Judoism. This Siindoy is ^orld Jewish Child's Day aimed to build friendship between Jewish children in Israel and all over the world. . '
OK 13 GROUPS FUND RAISING
FOR ISRAEL IN U.S.A.
NEW YORK -Jewish Agency Control and
(JTA) — The Committee, on Authorization of
Campaigns has published a list of 13 organizatipns which have been authorized to conduct campaigns in the U;S.A. for the benefit of Israel.
The Committee, headed by Dr. Nahum Goldmann, chairman of the Jewish Agency, was established three years ago' at the request of the Israel Government and has been instrumental in assuring the priority of the United Jewish Appeal as the major source of philanthropic funds for Israel's immigration, absorption and colonization programs.
Following are the organizations which received authorizations for 1952: American Committee for the Weizmann Institute ol Science; American Friends of the Hebrew University; American Fund for Israel Institutions; American Red Imogen Ddvid for Is-
eventually lead to a drastic weakening of the Western defence fibre, which must be based on mutual trust.
*Der Stern' in Hamburg has started a series of critical articles on the finally concluded "comedy of denazification" under the banner headline "The Great Humbug." The paper has a circulation of 509,000 copies.
rael, (membership campaign only);'American Technion Society; Federated Council of Israel Institutions; Hadalssah; Jewish National Fund (traditional collections only); Material for Israel, Inc. (materials only); Miz-. rachi Women's Organization of America; National Committee for Labor I&rael (Histadruth Com-paign); Pioneer Women, the Women's Labor Zionist -Organization of America; Women's Lieague for Israel, (New York area).
A new vocational training centre in Nathanya will be equipped with a complete line of modem-. American machines, tools and training equipment by the Women's American ORT (Organiza-* tion for Rehabilitation through Training). -
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