The Canadian English-Jewish Weeldy
VOL XII
QARDENVALE. QUEBEC, MAY 22. 1959
No. 34
Deny Charge That Khrushchev Says Some Day Any Arabs Not Invited To Eban U. N.
Farewell; Soviet Bloc Declines
Jews Wish To Go To Soviet Union Or Lands
One May Leave Russia
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-- isrsaii~" oxiiCiBiB incucavea in ere was no evidence that large numbers of Jews in Israel wished to return to the Soviet Union or the Soviet bloc countries. They were reluctant to contradict directly recent statements attributed to Nikita S. Khrushchev, Soviet Premier, on the subject of Jewish migration, says the New York Times, but officials responsible for the movement into and out of Israel said there was no un-usuai number of applications for
War I ~as ^Zionist pioneers. ~Today~ many of them are leaders in the Government and the Jewish Agency for Israel.
Since 1958, 40/000 Jews have been permitted to leave Poland for Israel Of that number approximately 2,000 have emigrated from Israel, says the New York Times. But according to migration officials, only seventeen families returnee to Poland. Dr. Joseph Goldin, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Interior, said his office had received no substantial number of.
exit permits.
Neither did they have any knowledge of widespread discontent, beyond what they described as "certain normal grousing," among immigrants from the satellite areas. Mr. Khrushchev was
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as having told a group of American war veterans recently that it was "possible" that Soviet Jews would be allowed to go to Israel sometime in the future.
He. was also quoted as having said that^many JesrA, were, asking., to return from Israel to their countries of origin. Migration officials at Jerusalem pointed out that except for a handful of family reunification cases, there would have been virtually no direct immigration from the Soviet Union either to Israel or Palestine since the Russian Revolution* The majority of Russian Jews in Israel came there before World
permits for Iron Curtain countries or to the Soviet Union. He said there were some "single cases" planning to return to satellite areas, but he thought the total was less than ten.
Any Israeli citizen may obtain a permit to leave the country. During M58. some.. 7J�1. Israelis -emigrated. More than half of those went to the United States. Zionist leaders in Israel have long-dreamed of "rescuing" large numbers of Jews from the Soviet Union and bringing them to Israel, but Mr. KnrushcheVs statement attracted very little atten-,-tioJi-there.__.______^-___
Kol Israel, the Government radio station, pointed out Mr. Khrushchev had reportedly made a similar statement to Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt a year ago, and there has been no immigration of Jews from the Soviet Union since then, say* the New York Times, Immigration from Eastern Europe/par-tictiiarly Rumania, has virtually ended after several thousand Jews from those areas arrived there late last year.
According to Premier Nikita S. Krushchev, "many Jews are finding themselves in difficulties in Israel. Many of them ar* asking for visas to return." he was reported to have tola a group of seven Americans. The Americans were veterans of World War II who were in the Soviet Union for a reunion with the Soviet soldiers they met in the closing days of the war in the link-up ot the United States and Soviet armies on the Elbe River.
The Soviet Premier commented that a great number of Soviet Jews were craftsmen and intellectuals who would "find it difficult living in_ Israel. as fanner*/' (ItJTs not clear which Jews Mr. Khrushchev was referring to," says the New York Times. The Soviet Union has refused to allow emigration to Israel. The only significant movement was through Poland two years ago. The emigres were former Polish citisens returning from the Soviet Union under a repatriation agreement signftd in-November^ 1956. Almost all Jews among the repatriates went on to Israel until the Poles halted ..the exodus.)____ _____..
"Many thought that they would try to find the promised land and they did not find it," Mr. Khrushchev said. "Among the intellectual Jews in the country, a great ma-
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restrictions on travel abroad by Soviet citizens," Mr. Khrushchev said. "We have a shortage of dol-lam and we are saving them/'- he said. He said it was easier to get into the Soviet Union than into the United States.
"We have raised the curtain completely," he declared as he sat with his arm around one of the veterans. "There are more American than Russian tourists, but I think that will be only temporary," he said. "America is richer at present, but we shall catch up and surpass America. Then we shall see how many Russians will travel."
Mr. Khrushchev recalled that when-there waa-a-poasibilitF-that-
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Palestine. There are no restrictions here for their talents. A large percentage of the intellectuals in the Soviet Union are Jews, many in responsible positions. They are doing everything, including -work on the atomic bomb. They played an important role in the development of nuclear weapons. They have every* thing they wish."
The Premier said that before World War II there were 4,000,-000 Jews in the Soviet Union aa4 tfe <ta*o* eeMT4aken laeV January indfcftteo/ that there wwr* BOW about 2,000,000. The rest were .killed during the war," he declared. "Bodies of many Jews were found in mass graves by the advancing Soviet armies," he said, "and the retreating Germans did not have time to burn them."
Premier Khrushchev was previously quoted as having said that his Government was "playing with the possibility" of permitting Soviet cititens of any nationality to leave the country if they wished, says the New York Times. The American veterans met Mr. Khrushchev in the Kremlin with his chief translator. When they asked him whether Soviet Jews would be permitted to go to Israel if they wanted to, Mr. Khrushchev replied: "In general, we are play? ing with the possibility that in some) future time we shall allow any person of any nationality to leave."
Such a move would be regarded as a major shift toward liberalization under the Khrushchev regime. During1 th* time earlier-this-year when several thousand Jews were being1 permitted to leave for Israel from Rumania and Poland there was no such emigration from the Soviet Union.
"Generally speaking the Soviet Union already has begun to ease
Boris Pasternak might leave the Soviet Union after having been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature last year, it was the Russian author himself who declined to go. As the Premier put it, "It would have been tantamount to death for him."
- Mr. Khrushchev told his guests they were wrong to say that Americans were free to leave their
- country whenever they wished, says the New York Times. He cited the cases of Paul Robeson, the Negro singer, and W. E. B. Dubois, the Negro writer, both of whom waited for several years to
^obtain-passports for-trlps-abroad.
Born In Lithuania, Was A Top Expert On O.S. Antiques
U. Thant, Burmese delegate to the United Nations, said that "only peaceful coexistence between the-Arabs and Jew* could offer any hope of reconciling these two great peoples in the Middle East/'
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Mr. Thant, who spoke at a farewell dinner at the United1 Nations for Abba Eban, Israeli representative at the United Nations, conceded that there were "many great difficulties" in the way of a settlement of Israeli-Arab problems, says the New York Times. Mr. Thant declared it would be better "for all of us who are both friends of the Arabs as well of the Jews" to face them and to help find "a just and last-ing solution."
The Burmese Ambassador expressed the hope that Mr. Eban, who is leaving his country's foreign service and will return to Israel this month to become a candidate for the Israeli Knesset (parliament), would "help in -creating a congenial atmosphere in this great search."
Tribute to Mr. Eban was paid also by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, who was a member of the United States delegation to the General Assembly when Israel was admitted to the United Na-tions_Un_<years ago, also on May ~"1I] "former" G5V,ThoTnalf" E. Dewey; Senator Jacob K. Javits, Republican, of New York; Sir Piersoh Dixon, a British permanent delegate to the United Na-
tions; and .Henry Steele Com-mager, historian.
The dinner was given by the Is--raeli- delegation to permit Mr. Eban, who has served simultaneously as Israel's Ambassador to Washington, to say goodby to his colleagues at the united Nations. Forty-five members of the United Nations were represented at the dinner. The Soviet Union and the eight other members of the Soviet bloc declined invitations, says the New York Times. Delegates of the Arab states, which have not recognized Israel, were not invited. In a speech prepared for his response, Mr. Eban said that, even after Israel had achieved "snr-
vfvil" there were many dangers. He recalled issues that had come
before the United' Nations since 1949 � "The Negev and Jerusalem, the Hula marshes, frontier clashes one upon the other, maritime freedom, the Sues Canal, Gaxa, Elath � the very list gives a somber impression of the constancy and vehemence of our struggle."
"In terms of- broad historic-justice," Mr. Eban said, "Israel owes gratitude to the United Nations and honor to its flag." Mr. Eban predicted that by 1960 six new African states would become members of the United Nations and he said that "Israel has known jio experience more moving 'than to Join" withf other young states in seeking that union between political freedom and economic dynamism which holds the secret of true national freedom."
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leading dealers i* zswresA antiques, died fa Brooks Memorial .Hospital, in Brookllne, Mass., after a long illness. He was 75 years old and lived in Brookline. Mr. Sack, who retired several years ago, for many years had headed Israel Sack, Inc., at 6 East Fifty-seventh Street, New York. He began his business in Boston in 1906 and moved it there in 1931. His sons, Albert, Harold and Robert, now carry it on.
Although not born in the U.S., being a native of Lithuania, he was considered one of the foremost authorities on American antiques, says the New York Times. He had a large part in the growth in appreciation and value of antiques of American origin. This was in opposition to earlier feeling in the country that American antiques were inferior to foreign ones.
Mr. Sack, after he was conscripted into the Russian Army, escaped to Germany and then to England. There he worked for a time as a cabinetmaker to get money for passage to America. In 1903 he arrived in Boston, where he went to work for an antiques dealer.
Two years later he began his own antiques retail business in Boston. From that time he never ceased in his efforts to have American museums install American sections.
He played an important part in the formation of fine American antiques collections in the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Deerfield Village in Deerfield, Mass., the Henry F. du Pont Winterhur Museum and the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, Mo. He also had a part in the furnishing of the Katherine Prenti* Murphy Booms of the New York Historical Society.
For the late Henry Ford, Mr. Sack completely furnished the Wayside Inn., in Sodbory, Mass. Mr. Sack also supplied many an-tiqpee to the Henry Ford Museum ia Dearborn, Mich. One of the pieces he sold to the museum was a highboy once owned by Mrs. Mary Ball Wa4hingtoar mother of George Washington.
He was instrumental in having a silver bowl, made in 1768 by Paul Revere, presented in 1949 by a Massachusetts citizen's group to UM Boeton Muaeum of Fine Arts. The bowl had been presented by the Sons of Liberty to the Massachusetts Bay General Court to commemorate its vote of defiance of King George III of Fng^aii says UM New York Timea.
Mr. Sack also had much to do with the funianiac of colonial WOttaautarg, VaTHe furnianed
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