Friday. July 7, 1961- Page Four THE ARIZONA POST Ediiorial Comment EL-AL MAKES AVIATION HISTORY | panorama ' Tucson Leaders Were Missing illllllllHlilllllll bv David Schwartz One hundred and four American Jew- These young leaders came from 42 com- p|j' ish communal leaders between the ages ACCORDING to the Israel of munities in the United States , but there census in an papers, the taker P. 30 and 40 recently completed intensive were no young leaders from Tucson. Israel asked Premier Ben- tour of Israel and Eu- three-week study In the last few years our Jewish com- Gurion, as required by the auspices rope under the of the United munity has been fortunate to find, and to Israeli law, “What is your re- Jewish Appeal. develop, some new young leadership. This ligion?” is a very healthy sign for the community. Was Ben-Gurion going to The young communal leaders learned However, leadership to be effective spend an hour answering of the problems of Israel, the problems \ L:: t' vf:V-'. / : must be leadership with a basis of knowl- him? No doubt Ben-Gurion Jewish communities in Europe and of edge. could speak three hours on they achieved an appreciation of how subject, And the Tucson Jewish Community the but he had had American Jewish communities can extend enough controversy answer- Council should embark on a planned pro- aid. ing the question, “Who is a gram of seeing that both its young lead- Zionist?” So B. G. smartly “These 140 young American leaders of ership and its veteran leadership acquires told the census taker: tomorrow,” said Rabbi Herbert A. Fried- this knowledge, not only by local efforts “Just put down I am a man of the UJA on completion of the and local meetings and seminars, but in Jew.” trip, “have received a never-to-be-forgot- attendance at national conventions. • • • ten view in close-up of Israel’s way of life, Young leadership is the life-blood of any IT’S ALL in the point of and of the status of Jews in various Eu- community and the Council must bring view, friends. Esau sold his ropean and African countries. along young men and women to keep the birthright for a mess of pot- Some . The members of the UJA mis- Council and community strong. tage. have upbraided sion have been moved, impressed and in- In the future the Council should work Esau for doing that, but people really spired by what they saw. Going home to see that its leaders not only attend there are who like a nice mess of now, determined to work and give more, national conventions, but also are sent pottage better than a birthright. I they form a solid basis for future UJA abroad to bring home a more vibrant and suspect that birthrights .• knowledgeable leadership. leadership.” aren’t really all they are ffL cracked up to be, anyway. Joins British Peerage I was reading in the papers the story by Yigael Yadin, the archaeologist who uncov- The Arizona Post's ered Bar Kochba scrolls re- Marks-The New Jewish Baron cently. He tells how he ad- monished the workman to be LONDON Sir Simon Marks, the 72- Michael Marks started from a stall in very careful with the parch- — Report year-old chairman and managing director an arcade. He had a good selling line World ment. It very valuable, price, everything was of Marks and Spencer, Ltd., was made a “Don’t ask the is a pen- he stressed. Kennedy, Nasser Exchange Letters peer of the realm in the new honors list ny.” One man replied, “I will President Kennedy has exchanged at least five letters published on the Queen’s birthday (the Lord Marks is not the first “Jewish guard it as though it were a with UAR President Nasser, it has been revealed. All the official one) on June 10. Jew” to become a Lord. Nor even the first bottle of whiskey, adding, letters dealt with Israel-Arab issues, with Kennedy urging There one, could be more valua- Zionist. is Lord Rothschild for “What a peaceful . The Gallup Poll reveals that 72 He was recommended on the Prime ble for solution. and there are some others who took their than that?” polled public and percent of Americans believe that Eichmann is re- Minister’s list for charitable Jewishness and their Zionism to the House It’s all in the point of baron, ceiving a fair trial and that 71 percent believe that the services, and becomes a which is Lord Marks is the most view.” of Lords. But • holding of the trial serves a useful purpose. The school the lowest rung in the hierarchy of the Zion- • • identified of the Jewish Lords with AN AMERICAN board of two populated Jewish suburbs of Milwau- peerage. JEWISH heavily ism and Israel. tourist recently visiting Is- kee have rejected the stand of its school superintendent He will be known as Lord Marks of In his Manchester days—he is a gradu- rael came across a beautiful who urged a ban on Christmas observances in schools. Somewhere or other —a peer’s title must ate of Manchester University and lived orange grove. He paused to The National Community Relations Advisory Council be connected with some country place, or there until M&S moved their headquarters admire and then could not meeting in Washington has called the U.S. to act against resist shaking a tree “seat,” even if he was born in an apart- to London after the First World War—he and the Arab boycott against American citizens. Lewis H. Wein- Weizmann, treating himself to an ment in Manchester, as the new Lord joined Dr. Chaim at the time stein of Boston was reelected national chairman. And on organic chemistry at Manches- orange. The owner observ- Marks was. reader ing, in New York Reform rabbis of America denounced the John time, called out, “Reb Yid, the ter University, and gave him his Birch Society for repeating “some of the worst evils of Mc- half of Marks & Spen- Torah commands: Thou Marks is the first aid unstintedly. ” devotion and technical shalt not steal.’ Carthyism”. Rabbi Albert G. Minda of Minneapolis was cer, one of the best known, and most pat- enough to The business was already good “What a wonderful land elected president of the Central Conference of American chain stores in the world, an ronized enable Marks to give his time to a cause, Israel is!” exclaimed the Am- Rabbis. In other actions the CCAR urged all parties “to in Britain. This is not to say early instiution and he had the zeal of an Zionist erican Jew. “In what other exercise the utmost patience and diplomatic skill” on nuclear that Lord Marks has not made his own, to give it gladly. country can you sit eating testing, disarmament and other world wide disputes. distinctive mark on the individual and Lord Marks’ charitable activities are not oranges right off the tree Frederick F. Greenman, 68, president of the American life of our generation, both on the general to Israel, or Zionism. Such ex- and at the same time hear confined Jewish Committee, died in New York last week. Walter and the Jewish level. But one could not clusiveness would not be true in character. words of the Torah!” the my to Reuther of the United Auto Workers was honored by write about Lord Marks without telling important British institutions, not- I take hat off this Many American Jew. What a won- Israel Bond Organization in Detroit. The UAW recently something about Marks & Spencer. College of Surgeans, of ably the Royal derful point of view! bought SIOO,OOO in Israeli bonds. have It writing about which he is an honorary fellow, • • • would be rather like Spy Conviction Is Upheld Lord Montgomery without mentioning the benefitted from it in away which enabled ITTAMAR BEN AVI, the of has unanimously upheld Eighth Army, or about Lord Beaverbrook them to enlarge and improve their work. son of Eliezer ben Yehuda, The Supreme Court Israel espion- without mentioning the Daily Express. His help to the Royal College of Surgeons the man mainly responsible the conviction of Prof. Kurt Sitte on three counts of for count. expert on cosmic The firm was founded at the end of the is of such scope that the results, in terms the revival of the Hebrew age. It dismissed a fourth The ben- language, for some wag- not Jewish, was convicted of transmitting last century by Michael Marks of Leeds, of experiment and research, may well time radiation, who is a propaganda campaign the father of the present Lord Marks. efit humanity at large. ed information to an unidentified foreign power. Israeli for the Latinization of the officials have expressed shock at the Bonn Government Hebrew alphabet. He thought appointment of Karl Werkmeister, former Nazi diplomat, W. German Position Endangered this would make it easier for to Sweden. most to But as ambassador learn Hebrew. persecution like all innovators, Ittamar A group of non-Jewish victims of Nazi has was often assailed by self- announced the planting of a forest in Israel in honor of Dr. Eichmann Trial Stirs Problems doubts himself. Was he cra- Henrich Gruber, the German Protestant Bishop who testi- credited with sav- WASHINGTON—IsraeI’s trial of Adolf the N.A.T.O. dog? N.A.T.0., watchdog zy? he asked himself. He fied in the Eichmann trial. Dr. Gruber is us that when he receiv- until his by the Ges- Eichmann is secretly deplored by some of freedom, finds Bonn a growing prob- tells ing thousands of Nazi victims arrest something like a thousand ed .