The Hungarian authorities today banned the publication of separate Zionist and Agudist weekly magazines hero. The authorities informed the Jewish groups that because of the paper shortage only one publication will be allowed for all Jewish groups.
The Mizrachi Organization of Budapest today announced its withdrawal from the ?Orthodox community board because of the body’s stand on various Zionist matters The Mizrachi demanded that the Jewish National Fund and Keren Hayesod collections be sanctioned in the synagogue and that the Hatikvah be sung? and the blue-and-white Zionist flag be displayed in the synagogue on solemn## in occasions. The non-Zionists, expressing their support of Israel, refused to accede to the other requests, asserting that both funds were not Israeli but Zionist, and that until Israel adopts the anthem and the flag as national symbols they remain Zionist and as such are not acceptable in the synagogue.
President Arpad Szakasits today received a delegation of Hungarian Labor Zionists, headed by Bela Denes. The delegation included a Histadruth representative who greeted the President in the name of Israeli labor. Szakasits asked the delegation to convoy to Israel his “warn sympathy” and “profound solidarity” with the people of the Jewish state in its fight for “liberty, culture and human existence against imperialist violence and barbarism.” He added that he is “convinced of the ultimate victory of Israel’s just cause.”
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