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Bonds To Seek $1 Million

Canada Lifts Israel Arms Ban
350 Chaplains To Aid
Service Personnel
Celebrate Passover
NEW YORK  Jewish military personnel with the U. S.
Armed Forces on five continents and in 63 overseas countries
will participate in Passover seders and holiday services to be
organized for the 39th year by the National Jewish Welfare
Board (JWB)-government-authorized agency for serving the re-
ligious and morale needs of American Jewish servicemen and
hospitalized veterans.
Eddie Cantor
To Be Guest
At Bond Dinner
A minimum sales program of
one m-illion dollars in Israel
Bonds to Greater Bostonians in
a whirlwind campaign to be
launched shortly were an-
nounced today by General
Chairman Lawrence G. Laskey,
following a meeting of the Ex-
ecutive Committee.
The opening of the $1,000,000 Is-
rael Bond selling drive in the Huh
will be held Saturday night, April
28  with  a  dinner for  Guardians  in
the Imperial Ballroom of the Hotel
Statler.
Eddie   Cantor,   will   be   guest   of
honor. It will be Cantor's first Hub
-appearance in several years and Mr.
Laskey  expects  an  overflow  gather-
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Passover, commemorating the re-
demption of the ancient Hebrews
from Egyptian bondage, will be ush-
ered in with the first seder start-
ing at sundown, Monday.
The U. S. Air Force will fly a
rabbi from the states to a GI seder
in Iceland, and will transport a Jew-
ish chaplain from KcGuire Air Force
Base, N. J., to services in Bermuda
and the Azores.
These flights underline the vast
distances Jewish chaplains will fly
to services and the activity of air-
lifts flying Jewish personnel over
great areas to services in Korea,
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VOL. XI NO. 31
MARCH 22, 1956         Price Ten Cents
BMC Leaders To Hear
'Look' Editor Sunday
Leading business, industry and professional men in the com-
munity will gather at the Hotel Kenmore Sunday morning for
the annual breakfast meeting of the Combined Jewish Appeal
Business Men's Council.
For

Blames Stalin
Doctor's Plot"
Ji.   We   Were Sc
BERLI -The sensational anti-Stalin address by Nikita A.
Khrushchev, head of the Soviet Communist Party, which leaked
through diplomatic channels, included the charge that Stalin at-
tempted to blow up the "Jewish doctors' plot" of January, 1953,
to major proportions and con
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Is "Climate Of
On Middle East Shifting?
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By ROBERT E. SEGAL
These past few days, the big news about the Middle East
is not what is actually happening in that tinder, box of an area
but what is happening in America to that nebulous something
often referred to as "the Climate of Opinion" about the Middle
East.
Yesterday, the question was: "How goes the battle for the
procurement of armaments and for strengthen-,
ing defenses on both sides of the Israel-Arab
States line?" Today, the question is "What has
happened suddenly to editorial expressions and
reportorial accounts about the Middle East?"
The people read Life and rub their eyes.
Life cries: "Israel Is Here To Stay" and adds:
"Unless the Arabs accept this, there can be no
peace." This is an editorial that lays it on the
barrelhead in the old-fashioned way. "The time
has come for friends of the Arabs to tell them
. . . something they seem unable to understand
. . . The American people, who' helped create Israel, who were
the first to recognize her, and who hold warm feelings of friend-
ship for her, are going to see to it that she stays ... It is you,
the Arabs, who insist there is no peace. Israel does not say she
intends to destroy the Arab world, but it is you who proclaim
your intention to destroy Israel."
Continued on Page Six
SEGAL
vert it into a huge anti-Semitic
trial involving high Soviet
officials.
Khrushchev made these charges
in a recent address attacking the
Stalin myth at the Communist Con-
gress in Moscow.
The fiery Communist boss also
charged Stalin with deliberately or-
dering the murder of two promin-
ent Jewish generals of the Red
Army, Gen. A. Yakir and Gen. Jan
Gamarnik. The latter was a brother-
in-law of the late Chaim Nachman
Bialik, Jewish national poet.
The Soviet party chief stated that
Stalin was personally responsible for
the mass executions of Soviet army
and navy officers and industrial man-
agers. He declared that Josef Stalin
had attempted to blow up the "Jew-
ish doctors" anti-Semitic plot to
major proportions in order to move
against Nicolai Bulganin, the present
Premier, Foreign Minister V. M.
Molotov and other highly placed
Soviet officials.
After Stalin's death and Lavrenti
Beria's execution by the present
leaders of the USSR, it was announc-
ed that the "doctors' plot" had been
concocted by officials in Mr. Beria's
Ministry of State Security.
The doctors, most of whom were
Jews, were released at the same
time that the government publicly
announced their vindication.
Bernard Landers, is chairman of
the affair.
Guest speaker will be William Att-
wood, National Affairs Editor of
LOOK Magazine who wrote "The Po-
sitions of the Tews in America To-
day."
Continued on Page Four
3 Shipments
Are Released
OTTAWA  Canada this
week lifted its ban on arms
shipments to Israel, following
an announcement by Prime
Minister Louis St. Laurent.
Three shipments worth about $165,-
000 have been released to Israel and
two others are still under advise-
ment, the Prime Minister revealed.
This action, taken by the Cabinet,
follows the release a fortnight ago
of 12 Harvard trainer planes for
Egypt.
Political observers here consider
the approval of the Israel ship-
ments as extremely significant in
view of the Canadian Govern-
ment's earlier announcement that
it was coordinating its arms supply
policy on the Middle East with
that of Washington  and  London.
The Canadian Premier said that
the three arms applications released
for shipment were: spare parts for
Sherman tanks, worth more than
$136,000; less than 2,000 rounds of
25-pound artillery ammunition worth
$30,000 and 40 electronic devises,
worth  about $1,250.
He said the shipments were Hie
remainder of a $565,000 order placed
in 1954. The other items had been
delivered.            
If and when a decision is made
on the two new Israeli applications
currently under consideration by the
Cabinet, "an immediate announce-
ment will be made," the Prime Min-
ister pledged.
Continued on Page Forty

SEDER NIGHT  A member of the staff of National Jewish Hospital
at Denver, free, non-sectarian medical center for tuberculosis and chest
diseases, lights candles to celebrate the Seder for child patient. Each
year some 400 patients, members of the Board of Trustees and of the
staff, and community leaders join in the observance. In many instances
non-Jewish former patients who attended their first Seder at the hospi-
tal seek invitations when they happen to be in the area, at this time
of year.
S716--PASSOVER GREETINGS-1956