The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 28, 1954, Page 4

Only Daily Newspaper in Key West and Monree County L. P. ARTMAN, Editor and Publisher wi. NORMAN D. ARTMAN Entered st Key West, Florida, as Second Class Matter TELEPHONES 2.5661 and 2-5662 Subscription (by carrier), 25¢ per week; year, $12.00; by mail, $15.60] ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON APPLICATION Bate et eee oa anonymous communications. ss ON FLORI ASS IMPROVEMENTS FOR KEY WEST ADVOCATED BY THE CITIZEN 2. y rset grow Seg d Goemaldalioe of comers and Cy, Goveranisits 5. Community Auditorium. é THOSE 186 SHIPS The government of the Soviet Union has apparent- ly moved closer to agreeing to return 186 naval craft sent them by this country under. the Lend-Lease pro- gram during World War II. After many years of fruit- less note exchanges, the Soviet Ambassador in Washing- ton informed the State Department several weeks ago tepresentatives of the United States for “discussion of technical questions connected with the transfer of 186 naval craft.” : ‘ By the time ygu read this, new developments might have occurred, or negotiations might have broken down once again, We do not believe the latest Soviet note should be taken as a guarantee that the Russians are ready to settle this Lend-Lease debt. However, their notes of late have been more encouraging than any since 1945 and indicate a willingness on their part to settle their World War Ii Lend-Lease debt. In one of the’ Soviet notes in the current exchange, the Russians pointed out that they had returned to the United States three ice-breakers, 2? frigates, 7 tankers and one dry cargo vessel, and that’ Russia agreed to re- turn 186 naval vessels. This admission was at least put- ting the Russians on record as obligated to return these . Vessels to the United States. The Russians have been attempting to tie in other settlements with the Lend-Lease settlement in an effort to use the return of the 186 naval vessels as a lever to pry the U. S. Government into an agreement on other matters. This the United States has consistently refused to do, and the. latest indications are that the Russians may be at last convinced the United States will settle the Lend-Lease account only as a single issue, and on its mer- its alone. If this indication proves an accurate appraisal, the Russians are preparing to remove one of the irritating obstacles in the way of better relations between the two countries. All Americans who know the facts have bitterly resented the Russian. refusal to return these ships. 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Shrill bask Business Manage: of public issues| publish WORRIS— TOUGH MAN TO PLAY AGAINST The Situation On Both Sides Teiise Armistice Is Observed In Holy Land SR. Editor's Note—Generations have of New, York, ‘had classified ‘the that representatives of the U.S.S.R. would agree to meet its are eel flan wep par mth —the territory centering around) Jerusalem, a tians, shrines, Holy Land has been torn by strife. There is an armistice, but it fre-' quently echoes to gunfire, Exactly what is the situation to-| day, on both sides of the armistice line? What hopes of peace exist? AP Correspondent Lynn Heinzer- ling was assigned to report the was accused of listing fefugee skis for the U.S. Army, for pos- sible use in a war with the Soviet ‘Union, She was also accused. ef being a “Zionist agent.” She had managed to place 3,575 refugees ‘in private employment when the classification was discontinued be- cause of the criticism. The Palestine Arabs. always were among the most literate of Middle Eastern peoples, Dr, Westwater: said. Now they are the captives of \circumstances. They have become scores of persons. This is the first ‘of his articles, By LYNN HEINZERLING JERUSALEM (#—There can’t be any doubt about who lost the 1948: Israel “dnd “Her “Arab' neighbors, The losers...are _ still’ sitting around’ the ‘battlefield, Tagged, sullen and resentful, These are the Palestine refugees '—868,350 of them officially—who' have endured their exile from nor-' mal life for nearly six years, Their Arab leaders say they must re- in Israel, Israel says they will never return, Grouped in an irregular, re- proachful semi-circle around the land frontiers of Israel in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and the Egyptian-| controlled Gaza strip, the refugees sit and brood over their misfor- tune, Each year, 25,000 new refu- gees are born, They live in tents, in shacks, in |mud or straw huts, in caves. Some |have found crowded refuge with | \friends, or relatives, They have) taken over mosques, old military barracks and stables. Many others, who fled from their homes in Pales- tine with money, are now asking for aid, United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees, It! spends some 25 million dollars each year for their food, education and medical attention. Only 271,583 of the refugees live in the 61 official UNRWA camps, stretching from Aleppo, Syria, in (spokesmen for the refugees con- Their best friend is UNRWA, forward to the day when all refu- one of the basic political realities of the Middle East. No political leader can ignore-them, Although mer n 121 million has been/spent on relief, demn UNRWA and most Arab gov- ernments offer only grudging. co- operation, p Dr. Izzat Tannous, genéral sec- retary of Palestine refugee com- mittees in Lebanon, ‘cfills the UNRWA ration one on which “an animal could hardly live.”> Refugee spokesmen insist that all jrefugees must return to their more than 600,000 Jewish immi- grants have moved into Israel in the meantime and others are still coming. Many of these immigrants have taken over Arab villages not destroyed and built hundreds of settlements. Tannous issued a pamphlet say- ing: “What kind of a democracy are ‘we living under, when a refugee Peaceful and free life? 2 “The refugees insist on their re- jturn to their homeland and the, Arab countries, for social, eco- nomic and political reasons, look gees will return to their homes.” The Israeli government, in a White Paper on the Arab refugees,| contends that for Arab political] leaders ‘‘the refugee question is al \purely political issue.” It adds: | “For Israel to take in a large \hostile population united by ties the north to the desert wastes of the best they can. At the start of each month, all line up and re- ceive from UNRWA 22 pounds of; beans, oil or fat and sugar, with! |@ Piece of soap. This usually lasts about 25 days, The refugees must \Scrounge or barter for their food jthe rest of the month. | Some. of them are militantly ex-) jPressive. Many, after five years,| jare apathetic and resigned to a/ life of uselessness. But all are| eager. for their children to know, 'something better than the drab life! into which they have fallen, | About 95,000 children are being! taught by 2,000 refugee teachers in other 55,000 have been admitted to private or public schools in| their countries of refuge. Dr. Robert Westwater, former! chief inspector of public schools in} Ottawa, heads UNRWA’s education jdivision. He safs a vocational) training program also is being ex.| |panded, but it is difficult to fnd/ jobs for graduates. Dr. Westwater| says he has encountered a “wide-| spread feeling that a man who! jWorks with his hands is low caste’’| and UNRWA is seeking to “‘estab.| lish the dignity of labor.” One effort to help reguess to find! ‘obs shattered on the opposition of * svakesman and a vert °° ties MIO SeEne! of blood with the surrounding’ extermination, would be little short of suicidal, But the case against! Tepatriation of the Arab refugees of security. The pattern of Arab life as it was before 1948 (in Israel) no longer exists and can- snot be restored.” Actually, many of the refugees would not want to live in Israel. One responsible source estimated that not more than 25 per cent, mainly landowners, would want to return, ‘ i UNRWA has a 200 million dollar fund for development projects in Arab countries es absorb- ing refugees. The ly major} agreements so far are with Jordan for an. irrigation. and power |scheme using the waters of the Yarmuk River and with Egypt for a project to irrigate 50,000 acres of the Sinai Desert with Nile River, water, If completed, the projects would make perhaps 275,000 refu- gees self-supporting. Z ie The Yarmuk project is being held in abeyance pending consid- eration of a new unified scheme for developing the resources of the Jordan River. This project, pre- Pared by the Tennessee Valley Authority at the request of UNRWA, would include Israel. This has raised suspicions and Ts ignn wee Teh 1 officials say only a few yards from his home’ cannot go back to it and live a} —" eee s egns fi Syria, with only 85,000 refugees, has the greatest possibilities for’ Tesettlement of all the Arab coun: | tries directly involved. Between} the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in northern Syria, millions of acrés of land in the El Jazirah plain are only partly cultivated.’ The late Husni Az-Zaim, who held! power briefly in Damascus in 1949, | said privately he could settle all| the Arab refugees there with 500 million dollars. United Nations officials say the Syrian government has cooperated more than any other Arab govern. ment in the spirit and aims. of UNRWA. But President Adib Shishekly, who ‘owes his office to coup d’etat, must give no oppor-! unity “to the opposition to ‘com> plain that he has~ recognized: the state of Israel and accepted the; principle of settling refugees out- side Israel. he He has agreed to turn over pub- | jlic lands for refugees as long as |there are refugees in Syria. and 2,000 refugees there. mostly Moslems, would upset this| balance. Jordan made 474,000 refugees citizens on the order of King Ab- dullah, who later was assassinated \for negotiating with Israel. The irefugees, together with the war-| jtime incorporation of parts of; Palestine with a population of 300,- 000 nearly doubled Jordan’s popu- lation. Be Amman, the capital, not many years ago a dusty, cesert village with mud roads and a Population! of 30,000 now has about 200,000. A building boom is on and many |refugees have found employment.| Befiey il F ied i Lae HE A ; F ordi- lar radio band. home?” nary. W ee and Jane " tone fell as she to- gaily, “tha is dead in Marching inta the living room| , Her 1006 ¢?) Staab’ thet fclow |and gone’ Nowadies S37 seehions bothered to ring or knock if the|gone to his room? I don’t care to able to take a roomer. And it's front door ‘was unlocked—she five him listening to what T have| selfish and inconsiderate not to it took one ook et Jane and her|t say. in the world youjyou Dappen to have rooms you pressi should take a stranger into aren't using” nose gave the impression of go- Aunt Mae took another ig og SB Sis without “He went out, I think,” Jane|deep, life-sustaining brea ng umph, said. said. “I heard the front door|“Jane,” she said severely, “I Ted switched off the radio. Tt) close.” think you are deliberately pre- was the first time. he and Jane's What Aunt Mae had to say had to misunderstand me. I aunt had met, and when Jane in-|, familiar ring. Did Jane realize|am aware that there is a ovens them, Ted red his] that people were talking? Di Toom shortage. When I think of infectious “grin and ‘Hello, | want to herself talked about? | the way things used to be in this tect pees i € 101 tt certainly looked like it Te tok: Addit ton sewerel “Talking?” Jane i unt mo- “Indeed.” Aunt Mae look smiled, “What ‘are they, talking] ments to work beck to Der orlg- up and down. “You're a-GI col-| about this time, darling’ inal point of departure. “Now,” while you some advantage.” “I beg your pardon?” It was difficult’ to startle Ted, but he/he did a htly floored by slig! Aunt Mae’s frontal attack. “You heard me,” she said. “And | hi 4 I assuime- you have sense enough| thought, about a matter like this|@head a Ris town ie Like, The World bedi plea tod what ¥ mean.” —And till undaunted, Ted continued! you know what ue little eher, milked mer where they turn:to give you an easy living, mi away your tendin; an education cok gi dont really want? It seems to me, young man, that the very least you could do, would be to put your time in to cy ae it precieely in her lap. sat very straight and breathed deep- ly. It was her contention that very few people either = or’ was the reason so many women had so . She had an amaz- facts and statistics to breathed properly and tha’ prove the point. You should have hand that th T'm amazed house. as for Today By James Marlow represented the end of much Eisenhower could be sure about stumbling around inside the ad- septa “a on changes, ¢ - moderate, ‘Eisephow a cinch to displease union leaders whe wanted the law wiped out and those businessmen who wanted it. made tougher or not‘ changed at. all, ‘i The most he could hope was UNRWA alteady has drilled fivejthat a majority of businessmen wells in the desert 30 a from and organized workers‘ would con- jDamascus, grown a small Ccrop)sider his proposals. reasonable and| : r and built 20 houses, Eventually it good and’ that Congress would feel its views .and very unusual if one turn to their former homes, DOW homes, now in Israel, even though|is hoped to settle between 1,000/the same way and translate them into law. ere is little hope of resettling| But he couldn't be sure before-| Mini e Ep the pootesis in octane And particularly he couldn’t testifying for the administration |where there already is an unem-|be sure‘that Congress, before quit- Would have fallen to the secretary are refugees from Europe. They|ployment problem. Another con-ting next summer, would make of labor, Martin P, Durkin. Durkin sideration is that Lebanon has a any changes or, if it did, that Stayed away, Christian majority of about 52 per,they would-be the ones he sug- cent, according to the last census; gested, Acceptance of 103,000 refugees, What that) when he handed Congressjministration and the President's jhis suggestions. for ,changing the own official family on the ques- Taft-Hartley: Jabor .Jaw,. \ he'd make quite.a = gf ea ie mad. | tion of amending Taft-Hartley, ‘Last.year congressional commit-| \tees held weeks of hearings on the, law, letting. all -interested parties —labor, business ‘and others—have \their say on what should or shouldn't, be done. When -@ committee is consider- jing legislation on a law as con- \troversi@k and basic as Taft-Hart- jley, it wquid be usual for an ad- ministration spokesman to state didn’t. ' Last ‘year no one from the ad- ministration appeared. The job of The result: Congress didn’t act on T-H in ’53. Later, when Durkin Eisenhower offered quit the Cabinet in September, it PEOPLE’S FORUM The Citizen welcomes op hp zresy of the views of its read- ers, but the editor reserves right to delete any items which are considered libelous or unwarranted. The writers should be fair and confine the letters to 200 words and write on one side of the pay letters and will be published per only. Signature of the writer must accompany the unless requested otherwise. WANTS TO READ MORE LETTERS Editor, The Citizen: A feature which I aly. ys look forward to reading In fact, most of the men in the! each day is your “People’s Forum.” It exemplifies a priv- ilege which each of us Americans is endowed with— |Jabal Husein refugee camp in the! { 4 hills above’ Amman are employed.) yh ee ‘. : Gaza in the south. The rest live/countries which are bent on its!pot om they agreed to work for, thé right to express oneself publicly without fear of (a8 little as 50 cents a day, they] prosecution. idisplaced most of the previous : is. | flour and some-rice, dried peas or rests not merely on considerations paorking force, Many: of the dis:| It’s surprising to me why more people don’t take ot ‘placed laborers, in’ turn, were, advantage of this opportunity—an opportunity for which people of many countries would give ‘life that their off- Five of the 10 men in the Jordan| SPring might taste of its sweetness. For several days I have been disappointed in find- ing no “People’s Forum.” -At the Fisk of sounding egotistical, I hope this will :gees and a part of Galilee. But, start more letters going into your office. jtaken into Jordan’s crack little farmy, the Arab Legion. | cabinet are Palestinians. Western! jdiplomats believe Jordan would! )settle with Israel for a token Te-| Patriation of perhaps 100,000 refu-' \Jordan’s voice is too weak to be heard in the Arab world. NEXT: An Eye For An Eye i: Paliical | Announcements | FIRST PRIMARY ELECTION MAY 4, 1954 For State Senator 24th District MILTON A. PARROTT Help Monroe County Elect A Senator ' Re-Elect EDNEY PARKER STH DISTRICT 5 But while I’m at it, I’d'like to make a short com- ag ment about Bill Gibb. _ Yes, he caused a mild sensation in your paper not | She said: “You know very well to make quit what they're talkipg about, Jane. story out of iown before- A would talk, and| Jane took teen into ne too, ever into your I don’t blame Carl too much, knowing what he’s like. Like so many college professors, seems to live in some other, E r fe g. 3 : fe ite fT ie j zg i it ig 3 ‘f i Hf “Fs zi if Z eel iy ebek i | “hi HP : rH iB i BB A i bees a lied - ' became pretty clear why he gone before the committee, | The administration winter, spring and summer been unable to make up its mind d EE working with Eisenhower’s White House aides on suggested changes, thought they had White House ap- Proval, and then found out they didn’t. Eisenhower said he had never broken his word to an as- sociate, So between last September and now the Eisenhower people have whipped up a list of changes, prob- ably fewer than .Durkin w: which the President could say re- Presented his considered opinion, Nevertheless, the difficulties en- countered by Eisenhower on this subject were fairly mild when com. pared with those of former Presi- dent Truman, under whose admin- istration, when the Republicans controlled Congress in 1947, T-H was passed, Truman went a lot further than Eisenhower, He wanted T-H taken off the books, which was what union labor leaders wanted. But jin the following years, when his Democrats ran Congress, he couldn’t do anything either, During his administration—when it was clear that enough Demo- crats and Republicans in Congress were joined together in opposing outright re janized labor might have been able to settle for some changes. But it wouldn’t, And it got noth- ing. Any changes this Congress might make won't end the dispute. Organized labor will certainly be in pitching next year for more This is a quarrel which will prob- br es on for cai since T-H a very heart of mana, mentlabor relations, - Head Of Pen Co. Freed From Jail CHICAGO #—Paul C. Fisher, 40, a pen manufacturer, was released from the Cook County Jail Tues- his demand too long ago. Maybe he was right. On the other hand, | S¢ is books without a specifie he could be wrong. I’m not. qualified to make a Public ‘constitutional rights, nm was .an nor whispered statement, pro or con, since I am not| —___ familiar with the facts involved, neither do I know the| MOURNFUL NOTE man personally, This I will say—he is a‘fine writer, and more peo- | ple should ‘pay. heed to his column. It is always full of january | good ideas and‘ suggestions, which, if acted upon, would jing illness, the | work advantageously for our city. I know I am not alone in thinking’ along these lines, I do-not -know if Mr. Gibbs is a Key Wester, but he | appears to be for the “Conchs.” His column should be For Member School Board on-the front page for all to absorb. ANTHONY H. PEREZ 628 Margaret Street, Key West, Fla. CHICAGO WA sign posted ia 4 Loop coltee shop ‘reads: “In memoriam “On J “Interment will mediately in its own promis” The new price is 15 cents a cup. LL sage