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May, 1960-The Time Of An Embarrassed State Department
BY   DAVID  HOBOWrrZ
UNITED NATIONS (AJP) — May, 1960, will go down in history as the month In which the U.S. State Department became em¬ broiled in two embarrassing sit¬ uations—the U2 plane Over Russia and the Nasser shadow over the Suez Canal.
The two events are not unre¬ lated. They carry with them the terrible' revelation of the com¬ plete paralysis of the State De¬ partment as an institution aimed at resolving the world conflicts. In both cases, the department suffered great humiliation, the inevitable lot of those who assume power without fulfilling crucial responsibility.
IT  WAS  certainly humiliating
for Washington to have to resort to untruths In order to cover up blunder—as happened In the case of the V2 Intelligence flight in the USSR on the eve of the Sum¬ mit peace talks.
And it was equally humiliating — though ¦ less dramatic — to be forced to agree to diplomatic ac¬ tion on the Suez by a trade union group when the initiative for such action is the primary assignment of the State Department under our form of government.
In the first case, the State De¬ partment—like Peck's bad boy— stuck its hand into the wrong cooky-Jar at the wrong time, In the second case, in the Suez, it failed to eat its spinach—it evad¬ ed the right diplomatic diet.
THERE IS no need to argue the
merit of the two Issues—whether the Summit meeting Is good or whether spying Is right. The fact is that a commitment had been made to hold the Summit in an attempt to do something to bring the edgy world a little closer to peace. The State Deparment, whose duty it is to further these commitments, cut across. them wrlth a blunder which almost wrecked the world's first major effort to extricate itself from the Imminent peril of nuclear de¬ struction.
In the case ot the Suez Canal, too, the department was commit, ted by statements here in the UN and by government policy, to de¬ fend the right of an open canal. Here the policy makers failed, not by commission but by omission.
United Appeal Report
A total of $109,897 In United Appeal funds has been ear¬ marked to help the two Jewish sponsored agencies to meet the needs of the people they serve.
In the past year these agencies have served a total of 8708 people with help of the OA funds.
These services and financial figures were released this week as part of UA's "Thanks To You" report on the use being made of  contributed   funds.
The allocations and number served by Jewish agencies follows;
Jewish Center—6200 served, $60,976; Jewish Family Service- SOS   served,   $48,921.
In all, United Appeal reported that about 250,000 persons— one out of three in Franklin County benefit directly from UA services.
The UA office announced that a complete down-to-the-penfty
breakdown on the distribution of funds is contained ih a printed
sheet which waa delivered to every home in -the county. The
¦ printed sheet also includes a guide to proper use of UA services.
They simply did nothing. They, left it to Dag! With all his ef¬ forts, he, too, failed in his mission because he did not get the active support of the United States. As a result, the State Department had to swallow the bitter pill of bowing to a private pressure group In order to extricate the U.S. Navy and U.S. oil shipping from an Arab picket-line of dock- workers.
The dismal fact of our time Is that high officials think we can get rid of the world problems by sweeping them under the carpet, or make peace, like the little boy delaying his day's homework, on the perpetual deferment plan.
MANY HEBE at the UN hold that it was precisely this policy of
deferment that had kept the Mid¬ dle Blast embroiled In a cold war for over a decade now. In medi¬ cine, it Is an accepted axiom that delay in an infection Is dangerous and that, conversely, the quicker a disease Is caught the better the chance of coping with it.
Too many times in the post-war years the State Department had either been running away from a problem, as In the Suez Issue, or bumping its nose into it, as in the plane  incident.
It Is precisely for this reason that the old diplomacy has col¬ lapsed and the world now looks fo the heads of state to untie the knots irrationally tangled by the deferment diplomats.
NOW THE heads of state are
meeting in their first major ex¬ periment. They have a chance to get rid of their paralyzing agen¬ das and, with the thrust of bold imagination, take hold of a few ot the sorely-neglected problems of the world and set them on the path to a decisive conclusion.'
Our best iriformation Is that the British even now are prepared to make such a move with regard to the Middle Bast.
What is fundamental at this stage is not an agenda, but a be¬ ginning, an abandonment of the diplomacy of Paralysis for a dy¬ namic diplomacy of action and direction.
One thing is certairi — what takes place at the Summit may well determine the fate of man¬ kind.
Seas Amendment Termed Regrettable By President
Rabbi M. I. Rothman Is Temple Speaker
Rabbi Murray I. Rothman, spiritUEil leader of Temple Shalom of Newton, Mass., will be the speaker at thi Annual Congregational Dinner of Temple Israel on Sunday, May 22 at 6:30 p.m. in the temple social hall.
Rabbi Rothman, who is the brother of Rabbi Robert A. Roth¬ man, assistant Rabbi of Temple Israel, received his AB degree in the field of Social Science, and his rabbinical education at the Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, O.
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IN ADDITION to being ordain¬ ed there, he also was awarded the Master of Hebrew Letters De¬ gree. While at HUC, he was edi¬ tor of the "Hebrew Union College Monthly," and served as Hillel director at Ohio University.
In 1949 he was called to Pitts¬ burgh, Penn. to serve with Dr. Solomon B. B'reehof at the Rodef Shalom Temple, one of the oldest and largest Liberal Jewish Con¬ gregations  In the United States.
While in Pittsburgh he was ad¬ visor to Jewish students at the Camegle Institute of Technology and the University of Pittsburgh. He was president of the Religious Leaders' Fellowship at the latter institution.
BAJBSI BOTHMAN completed two years of military service in Nbvenjiber, 1963. He was a Navy Chaplain attached to the First Marine Division in Korea, and .-,'as cited and decorated with the Navy Commendation Medal with the Combat "V" by Its Command¬ ing General for ''expressing com¬ plete disregard for  hia  personal
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safety . . . visiting personnel on an outpost far forward of the main Une of resistance despite the fact that he was subjected to habile mop^r and small arms fire . . . service in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service."
Rabbi Rothman Is a member of the Newton Rotary Club, and of the Boards of the Newton Chap ter American Red Cross, of the World Affairs Council of Boston, and oi^ the New Eingland Region of the Anti-Defamation League. He was National Chaplain of the Jewish War Veterans for 196fi-i57.
Charles Y. Lazarus, president, will giVe hla annual report, cli¬ maxing the Congregation's il4th
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PRIVATE SCREENING OF DOCUMENTARY 'ISRAa' PUNNED
Mrs. Robert S. Curi, Columbus Women's Division chairman. State of Israel Bonds, announced that her committee has been re¬ ceiving many calls from com¬ munity women who wish to at¬ tend the private screening of the technicolor Cinemascope docu¬ mentary, "Israel," written by Leon Uris, and starring Eldward G. Robinson, which will be shown Thursday afternoon. May 26, at 1 at the Bexley Art Theater, 2484 B. Main St.
"THE PURPOSE of the rally, at which no solicitations will be made" Mrs. Curl stated, "Is to acquaint the women of our com¬ munity with the Israel Bond pro¬ gram, and the part they can play in our activities. Reservations for the event are being taken at CA. 1-3735."
The main speaker of the day will be Mrs. Meyer Gold, dynamic national community leader and speaker,   of  Chicago.
Mrs. Gold is the midwestem Is¬ rael Bonds Women's Division chalrinan, and a member of the Israel Bonds national executive board, whose president is Mrs. Jan Peerce.
SHE IS A past president of the, Chicago B'nai B'rith Women's Council, as well as presently be¬ ing active in BBYO and ADL work. Mrs, Gold is the. president of the Women'a Division of the Jewish Consumptive Relief Socie¬ ty of Chicago, and the chairman of the Annual Bazaar of Roose¬ velt University, as well as being an active member ot the Jewish Home for the' Aged, National Jewish Hospital, Brandeis Com¬ mittee, Temple Sholom Sister¬ hood, and Hadassah.
"I know the women of the Co¬ lumbus Jewiah community will want to meet Mrs. Gold, and to enjoy the unforgettable scenes of both ancient and modern Israel, wiiich are brought to the screen In 'Israel'" Mrs. Curl concluded.
WASHINGTON (JTA) — A White House spokesman has said that President Eisenhower con¬ sidered the "freedom of the seas" amendment in tbe .foreign aid authorization bill a "regrettable" move that might affect American- Egyptian  relations.
Bisenhower's views became known when the White House an¬ nounced that the President had signed the bill immediately be¬ fore his departure Saturday for the SUffimlt meeting ih Paris. The White House revealed that Elisenhower thought Congress erred in asking him to consider severing aid to Egypt because ot that country's anti-Israel ship¬ ping blockade and boycott.
In a statement on the new legfislatlon, issued by the White House, Eisenhower said: "The act embodies essentially all of the requests I have put forward as necessary for the successful con¬ tinuation of the Mutual Seciirlty program and, with one regrettable exception, the Congress has re¬ sisted the addition of amendments which would adversely affect our foreign relations or impair the administration of the program."
A White House spokesman said the "regrettable" amendment Eisenhower referred to was the amendment that expressed the sense of Congress in condemna¬ tion of Nasser's anti-Israel ship¬ ping restrictions in the Suez Canal and elsewhere. In the amendment. Congress asked the President to sever aid to Egypt if Nasser continued his discrimina¬ tory practices.
State Department sources, (Oontinned on pue '<)
Orders Probe Of Fraternity Bias
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (JTA) — Officials of Rutgers University here have ordered an Investigation of charges that some of the campus frat^biltles discriminate against potential ipembers on the basis of race, creed or color.
The charge had been made openly by the top student of the School of Business Administra¬ tion, Richard F. L«rt, of New¬ ark, who is a Jew. He accused the Delta Sigma Pi chapter here, and other fraternities, of bias by never ih'vlting Jewish student^ to join.
Dr. Mason W. Gross, Rutgers president, said he was "dis¬ tressed" by the information. He stated that Rutgers, which has had an anti-(^iscrlmination rule for fraternities, since 1950, "will not tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, creed, color or national origin."
Expertly Attended
Expertly attended by a round-the-clook medical and nursing staff, this youngster as well as all others in The Jewish National Home for Asthmatic ChUdren at Denver ore aided in their long- orlppled fight for breath and rehabilitation from instractable asthma, at this free, national non-sectarian institution.
Service Awards Are Given Hillel Leaders
More than IBO guests watched Hillel student leaders receive awards for outstanding service to the B'nai B'rith HlUel Foundation at its 35th annual Awards Banquet, Wednesday, May 18.
The HiUel Key, given only to graduating seniors who have merited the Foundation's most coveted award, was presented by Rabbi Harry Kaplan, director of the Foundation, to Nelson BYeed- man. Honorary HlUel Keys were presented to Dr. Theodore Beckman, past president of Hlllel advisory
board and Rabbi Lee J. Levinger, first director of the Hillel Foun¬ dation at the Ohio State Univer¬ sity from 1926 to 1935.
OUTSTANDINQ undergraduate leaders who received HiUel Honor Certificates from Rabbi Lester A. Segal, associate director of the Foundation, were Larry Haas, Sandra Finberg, SherriU MUler, Michael J. Berenstein, Pavld Stone, Barbara Forman, CJarolyn Forman, Sandra Levy, Iris May- bruck, Rosalie (joode, Eleanor Kuntz, Malcolm Oressei and law student Jack Turoff.
Mrs. Henry . Judson presented the book awards to Alan M. Schultz, Adrienne Marks, Cl^thia (3ohn, Carol Heuman, Judith Ler¬ ner, Lillian Fleisch, I^ynn Kahn, Robert L. Shapiro, Sidney Nent- zer, Sharon Pitluk, Nason Light- man, 'Vlcki Ress and Janice Gold¬
berg, leaders Who have done out¬ standing work In specialized de¬ partments of the Foundation.
The foUowing freshman stu¬ dents received honorable mention; Felice MiUer, Carol Weiss, Char¬ lotte Selgel and Kenneth Haber. United Jewish Student Fund book awards were presented to Diavid Stone, Marcia Dlznoff, C^rnthla Cohn, Judith Jacobson, Julie Tenenbaum, Don Caershman, Howard Fishkln, Bd Schotten¬ stein, Lynn Kahn, Bieanor Kunbs, Jackie Burg, Kenneth Haber, Marvin Berkman, Rosalie Goode, Connie Schimmel, Sharon Napers. Sidney Nemzer and Jane Munzer by the United Jewish Student Fund  chairman  Larry Haas.
MISS BUEIANOIU!] Perror, di¬ rector of the Hlllel PWyers, pre¬ sented awards to the iollowln^ members of this group; Adrlen];(»
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