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Israel To Stop Illegal Transfer Of Funds
The Israel Government will take all possible measures to stop "black market transfers" of foreign currency to Israel, Gideon Strauss, Consul for Economic Affairs in New York, announced.
"Some individuals and organizations have been transferring money at illegal rates, a practice which injures Israel's economy by depreciating its currency," Mr. Strauss said. "Naturally, it also injures the great majority of persons inside and outside the State who transact their business lawfully." He emphatically denied rumors that there is more than one legal rate of exchange for foreign currency, including dollars. All transfers and investments are approved only at the official rate for the Israel pound, $2.80.
Mr. Strauss also pointed out that no person either in his private capacity or as a member of any organization, philanthropic or otherwise, has ever been authorized to offer investors a special exchange rate. He declared that the full weight of the Israel Government's legal powers will be exercised against any persons who persist in illegal transactions of this kind.
To enforce its foreign currency regulations, the Israel Government will: 1. No longer approve the use of investors' funds for the purpose of importing commercial goods into the country. In other words, investors may transfer their funds only in the form of cash or equipment and materials for use in their own enterprises. 2. Deny to all investors involved in illegal currency transactions the benefits granted under the new law for the of private capital, re-approved by the Knesset
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Denial of the benefits of the investments law ds a very serious matter. Mr. Strauss said, since this law offers new investors such signi-'icant advantages as withdrawal >! profits, capital, interest and amortization annually in the currency of the original investment, up to 10% of the investment; income tax ceilings, for individual investors of no more than 25 %; double normal amortization rates; elimination of customs duties on imports of machinery, equipment and raw materials; and refund of
Scores Hospitals For Grudging Care Of Aged___
American hospitals are "very grudging" in offering their services to older persons, Dr. Martin Steinberg, executive director of Mount Sinai Hospital, charged in New York, at the American Geriatrics Society seventh annual meet-ing.
Many general hospitals, Dr. Steinberg said, tend to avoid aged patients by classifying them as "bad risks." He took general hospitals to task for considering many aged patients as cancer cases, rather than investigating their symptoms more closely as they mipht in the cases of younger patients. Nurses frequently complain, about having to care for older patients, Dr. Steinberg added.
The speaker urged that the alleged attitude toward treating the aped in general hospitals be corrected by a systematic educational campaign. He suggested that as a more immediate solution each hospital have on its staff a group of "agents or attorneys" for the aged to plead their cases effectively and to make sure that they were "first-class citizens" in the medical attention they received.
The Mount Sinai director spoke at a panel discussion on "The Integration of Medical and Social Agencies in Community Planning for the Aged," at the Home for Aged and Infirm Hebrews, 121 West 107th Street. Dr. Robert S. Beekman, attending physician at the Peabody Home for Aged and Indigent Women, said that each home for the aged should be affiliated with a near-by chronic disease hospital.
Mrs. Amy Powell, director of the Fieldi Memorial of tbe Faculty So-ra^fcer Boatoo, said that Import*!* tWnt* �-Welfare agency could provide for "cUef persons were security, "someone to understand" and friendship among persons of their owni kind.
Mrs. Helen Laue, assistant director of the Chicago Community Project for the Aged, urged that community leaders be made aware that the attitudes and ideas of the aged could change and that working with the aged could be rewarding.
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No. 38
ISRAEL TO ADOPT
CONSTITUTION BY
EVOLUTION
Israel's Knesset voted 60 to 38 to adopt a state constitution by evolution over an unspecified period. The resolution stated: "The first Knesset delegates the Constitution, Legislation and Juridical Committee to prepare a draft constitution for the State. The constitution shall be constructed article by article in such a manner that each of them shall in itself constitute fundamental law. Each article shall be brought before the Knesset as the Committee completes its work and all articles together shall comprise the state constitution."
The Knesset also voted by 51 to 24 to increase the minimum age for marriage to 17. A citizenship bill circulated to members of the Knesset this week will soon be tabled formally by the Minister of Justice. The law would read: "Every Jew has the right to immigrate to Israel" thus reaffirming finally the ordinance enacted immediately after Israel's Proclamation of Independence which abolished the Mandatory's discrimination between legal and so-called "illegal" immigration. A certificate to this effect will be issued to every Jewish applicant unless the Ministry of Immigration is convinced that the applicant is hostile or a health or security menace.
Leaders Seek To Set Role Of Zionism Here
The Zionist movement must place primary emphasis on the uni$yy.of Jewish, people and the coii^manity of -jfewiaV trvlitk a� throughout the world, rather' than on help to Israel alone, Rabbi Irving Miller, president of the American Jewish Congress, said in New York.
Rabbi Miller and Dr. Emanuel Neumann, former president of the Zionist Organization of America, speaking at the seventh annual conference of the Manhattan Region of the Z. 0. A. at the Hotel Statler, outlined a new role for the American Zionist movement. Rabbi Miller rejected the concept that Zionism should be merely an instrument to aid Israel, while Dr. Neumann said the leaders of Israel cannot direct the Zionist movement throughout the world, reports the New York Herald Tribune.
The significance of the statements by the two Jewish leaders lies in the fact that since Israel was established many Jews have questioned whether there ia further need for a Zionist movement, and if so, what its function should be. The primary objective of Zionism for decades had been the establishment of a Jewish state. Once that state was established there arose the question of the relationship of Jews in the Diaspora countries of the Jewish dispersion outside Israel) to the new state.
"I don't believe that the Zionist Organization can exist only to help Israel," Rabbi Miller said. "There are too many agencies already doing that. On the other hand, I want to repudiate the type of Zionism which is based on the negation of the Diaspora. The idea that a Zionist can only be one who prepares to go to Israel on the theory that Jewish life cannot be lived fully except in Israel, is wholly unacceptable."
After asserting that two cardinal points of Zionism have always been unity of the Jewish people and continuity of the Jewish tradition, Rabbi Miller said:
"The building of th� Jewish national home his always been the most important means to the ends of Jewish survival and continuity. While Israel symbolizes these things, it is none the less true that for many generations a majority of Jews will live outside Israel. Consequently, I am interested in the survival of Jewi outside as well as inside of Israel.
"Jews outside of Israel, in order to survive as Jews, must continue to be inspired by these two motifs �their relation to the Jews of the world and their role in the perpetuation of the Jewish tradition. Israel will, of course, be the primary symbol of these motifs, but only to the extent that it is translated to Jews in the Diaspora through the Zionist movement"
Dr. Neumann asserted that Jews in the Diaspora must do their own
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World Group For Brotherhood Is Launched
The World Organization for Brotherhood, outreach of the National Conference of Christians and Jews in the United States, was launched at the four-day international meeting at Paris, France, with appeals by world leaders for greater fraternity amon^ nations and men.
Addressing an evening session, Paul-Henri Spaak, former Socialist Premier of Belgium and now president of the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe, exhorted Socialists and Christians to unite in defense of a common civilization.
"If our ^oals on earth are truly the same�to organize human happiness through ever greater social justice�\\c must reach agreement cm the means of achieving them and put an end to a deadly division," M. Spaak said. "It must be possible to overcome the historical antagonisms that may harden into outmoded clericalism and anti-ck'ricalism."
M. Spaak said he could not help bointf encouraged by the Pope's message of June 2, 1948, in which Pius XII had recommended to Roman Catholics that they "join forces with those who, remaining outside their ranks, are none the less in agreement with the social teaching of the Catholic Church."
"Without education for liberty," M. Spaak concluded in regard to Europe's needs, "domination is possible but hope for human brotherhood is lost."
Former Premier Paul Reynauti of France told the session that the words of M. Spaak had made clear the gulf existing between the Eastern and Western- parts of Europe, reports the New York-Times.
"To be a Socialist in the East," said M. Renaud, "means putting up statues to Karl Marx, inventing historical materialism, persecuting the church openly or covertly and writing on banners; 'Religion is the opium of the people.' Here, on the contrary, you may hear a great Socialist-humanist call for a union of good faith between Christianity and Socialism."
The Most Rev. Emile Blanchet, rector of the Catholic Institute of Paris, read a message from Archbishop Maurice Feltin of Paris praising the World Organization for Brotherhood, with participation of the three principal religious communities in Europe, for rallying the most authentic spiritual forces. Msgr. Feltin asked that his message be read "to give evidence once agam of the loyal and strong desire of the Roman Catholic Church to joyn it since efforts with those of all men of good will for the building of a better and healthier world."
Roger W. Straus, chairman of the board of American Smelting & Refining Company and a co-chairman of the National Conference of Christians and Jews, called for " a total approach to the problems of inter-group brotherhood � the arts, sciences, education and religion teamed together."
Other speakers were Dr. Arthur H. Compton, noted physicist and Chancellor of Washington University, St. Louia; Henry R. Luce, editor and publisher; and Spyros Skouras, president of Twentieth Century Fox.
More than 200 Protestant, Roman- Catholic and Jewish leaders from the United States and all parts of Western Europe attended the opening of the conference convened as the first step toward establishing the World Organisation for Brotherhood. The conference luncheon was presided over by Dr. Arthur H. Compton. Others present were Albert Plesman, president of the Royal Dutch Airlines, and Thomas E. Braniff, Catholic co-chairman of the National Conference of Christian and Jews.
Dr. Compton, a former Protest-art co-<:hairman of the National Conference, said "the present moment is especially timely for a world organization to bring together those who are concerned with promoting the brotherhood of man under the Fatherhood of God."
"The immediate occasion for bringing such an organization into being." Dr. Compton said, "is the activity of powerful groups that are attempting to cause dissension among those whose efforts are directed toward making the lives of men and women worth while."
"We represent," he said, "thoM who consider it a matter of great significance that in the sight of
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NewU.S.LawExpandsDP Entries; Offers Refuge To Other Victims
The American franchise for lib-i-rty and a home was held out to additional men, women and children as President Truman signed the Displaced Persons Bill on June 16. Refuge to virtually every kind of victim of Europe's wars and persecutions is offered under the new law, which expands to 415,744 the total of those admitted or to be admitted under the special post-war legislation.
The bill rubbed out the provisions that have been denounced as un-American in the Displaced Persons Law of 1948, reports the New York Times. It asked only that the new immigrants be as industrious and loyal as their countrymen who came here in past generations.
It opened the gates wide for Jews stigmatized by Hitler, to Catholics who have crept out from under Russia's iron curtains, to Italians who fled Fascism, to the Yolksdeutsch who were turned out of the Sudetenlantl, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Rumania, Poland, and the Baltic countries early in the war era, to orphans, and to those in a few other categories of human misery.
The bill provides for the issuance of a grand total of 400,744 visas, including 172,230 which had been issued up to May 31, and for granting permanent entry to 15,000 students and other persons already here on temporary permits who cannot return to their homes without danger of death or persecution. The over-all total is 415,744.
The new law primarily offers a home to 341,000 displaced persons, the largest category affected. Officials familiar with the intent and provisions of the law believe that
it will lead to the effectual emptying of the displaced persons camps of Europe.
They estimate that 300,000 displaced persons are in these camps now. In addition to those who have already received its visas the United States would take about 120,000 of the 300,000. The others would go to Australia, Canada and South America. ^
Officials expect that about 20,-000 persons will be left as a tragic remnant unwanted or ineligible to emigrate for various reasons. These will somewhat have to be assimilated in Europe.
The eligible entrants under the new law may be divided into four main groups as follows:
1. The basic group of 341,000 refugees, compared with 205,000 provided for in the 1948 law.
2. The 54,744 so-called expellees or persons of German ethnic countries known as the Volks-deutsch. This compares with 27,000 permitted to enter under the old law. Under the old law persons in this group had to pay for their own transportation and many could not leave the camps. The new law gives them travel on the same basis as the basic D. P. group.
3. Orphans, 5,000 of them from eighteen Western European countries, including Germany and Austria, and from Italy, Greece and Turkey.
4. The 15,000 persons here on temporary visas who may qualify for permanent admission.
In the first and largest group 32,000 may be subdivided thus: 1. The 18,000 Polish veterans of
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