Henry J. Morgenthau, Jr., newly installed chairman of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University who will return to the U.S. tomorrow, toured the deserted grounds of the University and the Hadassah Hospital atop Mt. Scopus during the week-end. Mr. Morgenthau travelled through the Arab Legion Lines with the special permission of the mixed Israel-Jordan armistice commission and was escorted by a United Nations observer.
Upon his return Mr. Morgenthau expressed regret over Jordan’s failure to open the road to the height overlooking Jerusalem. “It is an inhuman waste to have the Hebrew University and the Hadassah Hospital stand empty and useless when both the Arabs and the Jews are in desperate need of these institutions,” he said.
“Mt. Scopus is a symbol of the culture and learning which the Jewish people is ready to place at the service of all humanity. The laboratories of the medical school and particularly the outstanding cancer research equipment cannot and dare not remain idle. The institutions are vital instruments for peace and mutual cooperation among all peoples, and everything possible must be done to return them to the service of mankind,” Mr. Morgenthau declared.
Two members of the Jewish Agency executive will leave for Washington on Tuesday to attend the National Planning Conference on Israel, it was announced here today. They are Berl Locker, chairman of the Jerusalem section of the executive, and Levi Eshkol, treasurer.
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