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HOW ABOUT THE HATE MOITGERS?
By L. D. ABRAHAMS
^ Well, what's going to be done about the hate-mongers? Anything? iSoon? When?
With those questions, legal lights of Canadian Jewish Congress were due to sit down with Ontario Attorney General Arthur Wishart last Wednesday as The Canadian Jewish News went to press.
A SUBSTANTIAL DELAY
According to Sydney J. Midanik, Q. C., legal adviser to the Canadian Jewish Congress, there has been "a substantial delay" since Federal Justice Minister Guy Favreau promised federal cooperation in bringing ha-temongers into court. That was on June 5.
Since then, there has been no action, even though a new load of hate poison was poured into Her Majesty's mails from Scarborough on the very day of the Favreau promise to set the RCMP on the trail, and even though, in the interim, a fully documented expose of life among the hatemongers, teeming with new evidence, appeared in the general press.
YES OR NO?
The purpose of last Wed-^ nesday's meeting, called on the initiative of the CJC, was to ascertain whether or not the Attorney General's ofHce intends laying any charges under the present Criminal Code or, if not, what steps are being taken to amend the Code to make such action likely by making it mbte feasible. ,
Mr. Midanik opined that! the idea of laying charges, under the present Criminal Code is generally believed dead. But this has not been confirmed offlcially, that is, from the Attorney General's office, the organ responsible for proceeding with prosecutions under the Federal Criminal Code.
NEXT STEP CLEAR
Once, however, it is officially confirmed that no prosecutions are - likely under the Code, the next step becomes crystal dear — amend the Code. This is why an official yes-or-no is essential and is being sought by leaders of the Jewish community.
CS^ANH FRANCE
Sb-atefi'c Positm CaH it Ms
NATHAN 0. HURWICH
John R. Devor, chairman of the Morris B. Koufmon Negev Dinner is pleased to onrwunce that Mr. Nathan 0. Hunwjch, President of the Toronto Jewish National Fund Council, will be participating as co-^hoirman of the Executive Boord for the Morris B. Koufmon Negev Dinner.
By M. J. NURENBERGER A SPECIAL REPORT TEL AVIV — Israel's in-ternational position has improved tremendously since Levi Eshkol bepame Prime Minister, observers here agree.
His recent visits to the United States and France have .been reckoned diplomatic triumphs of the first order and immensely successful in achieving strategic aims.
Both visits have bolstered not onTy the security of Israel but also the morale of Israelis.
LIKE TRUMAN ERA The understanding reached between Eshkol and U.S. Fkcsldent Lyndon B. Jolm-son has been seen as inrallelliig and equalling the understanding reached in the Truman erav;&etween the two countries — an understanding that made firm ^the foundations of the Israeli State itself.
KREMLIN THAW The present cye-to-eye atmosphere is so real tliat it looks as if even the Soviet iJnion is convinced that continued bucking and knocking Israel Is pointless and
can only succeed in one thing — It win undermine the Khrushchev coexistence line. Hopes are running Ugh here for Improved relations with the Kremlin.
GERMAN QUESTION
Diplomatic sources draw a sharp line of distinction bet ween Eshkol's position on the German question and that of his predecessor in office, David Ben-Gurion.
Last Friday^ Eshkol said In Paris: 'Though we yvould welcome meeting Chancellor Erhard, Eribiard would be uncomfortable". Cause
Treating the subject of the Arab refugees with the humanitarian concern it deserves, while at the same time keeping the political facts straight, is no easy job. But in last weekend's Globe and Mail Magazine staff reporter John Miller did it spectacularly.
In an article entitled "The Forgotten People of the Gaza Strip," reporter Miller paints a graphic picture of the actual conditions there which, with their squalid hopelessness, must "remain a blight on mankind's conscience." But he pulls no punches on who is to blame, and how shamelessly the refugees' ■ used as
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By'M. J. Niirenberger
Ei\€ORE:QLi:BE€ JEWRY
In pre-war Czechoslovakia, our own Jews, masters, at satire and self-caricature, were wont to say: In Czechoslovakia there are Czechs and there are Slovaks. But who are the Czechoslovaks? — The only Czechoslovaks are the Jews.
A similar anecdote was popular among the Jews in Belgium. And the saying went: In Belgium there are Flemings and Walloons (Dutch speaking and French speaking citizens). But who are the Belgians? — The
only Belgians are the Jews.
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A friend in. Montreal reminds me of these ban mots whenever we discuss the position of the Jews in Quebec.
At this moment, when French Canadian nationalism is rising to a point where e^vn the moderates iii Quebec talk about two nations forming Canada (the English and the French): when Cardinal Leger speaks . of a Quebec of French nation and not of a Canadian nation — somehow the Jewish community appears to be very much behind the times.
In Montreal too one could develop anecdotes a la Belgium and Czechoslovakia. There are French and there are English: a French majority; an English minority. Who are"7he Canadians? — Your guess is as good as mine.
Seriously, however, living in Quebec today, one cannot ignore the fact that a Quebecker must take a firm stand on the cultural struggle of ninety-percent of its people — the: French; One cannot hide, like the ostrich, by talking in generalities about Can-iadians without a hyphen. In Quebec it is the hyphen which will determine the future of any group, despite the fact' that, some insist oh ignoring the tide of ni- : tlonalism.
One shoiddnever confuse nationalism with separatism in Quebec. While mdst of Qtiebeeois certainly are nationalists, I don't believe they see the solution to their problem in separatism.' Sotne of them even contend that seceding from Canad-i would isolate, Quebec, create an isldtid within the English speakitig North America which would, more than ever, expose -the French Canadians to the danger of assimilation. Carkada is the onlv giiarantee for the survival of French culture in North America, no,tnatter how
paradoxical this contention mavsoimd.
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7 don't know whoJs right. But I do hiow that the Jewish commtmxt?roi\Montreal is the second largest : in the Common\i>eaUh.\^And an adiustment of its policies, its k^itude)^ its position towards the quiet, cultural revbltition pertncating Quebec is of an enper-^. gencv.character. ■ ■ ;' A
As I've said time attd a^ain, the Jews cantiot fe- ) maind ghetto within the Protestant ininority isjietto; for the fuhir^ intimaf be d
French center .linguistically, cidturally, even within Coniederationi I       ■ j
thus there is otie point on the agenda oi Quebec's Jewish commiihity — a serious adjustment, to thc.new : reality. '
political pawns by unprincipled Arab leaders while, at 4he same time, are being brainwashed into senseless hate against Israel.
Miller offers an admirably succinct explanation of how the refugees became refugees in the first place like this: "They were told by foreign ^rab leaders that their presence in Palestine might hinder Arab, armies; their absence would ensure-a clear path to victory. They left, by the hundreds of thousands, trekking to Jordan. Lebanon, S>Tia and what is now the Gaza Strip, every one of then! believing that they would return to their   homes   in   a few
months, after the Arab victory. The Arabs lost."
On the political usefull-ness of the refugees to Arab propaganda. Miller says: "In the case of the Gaza Strip refugees, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser finds it politically expedient to keep them where they are^ as a propaganda vehicle to use against 'the cruel, _selfish Israelis who keep these poor people from their rightful homes.'"
Further on. Miller describes the nature of the brainwashing the refugees are subjected to. "With Cairo Radio  and  the Egyptian
press preaching daily sermons of scorn against the Israelis," he says, "the Gaza refugees would like to see the Jews pushed into the sea. There has been little softening of attitude because parents have hammered the idea of the homeland jusi across the border into the minds of the children."
The Miller article should be read and filed away for ready reference by every Jew anxious to keep a clear idea of the case for a good Jewish conscience on the Arab refugee question readily at hand. The way the ^rticle describes the woeful
plight of the refugees should also serve as a reminder that the big, bold, imaginative solution is yet to appear, and that if it could possibly emanate from a Jewish source it could possibly be one of the major triumphs in the saga of Zionism. —
It is no mere polite gest ure on Israel Prime Minister Eshkol's part when he welcomes the expressed det-ermmation of the French government to work towards a'solution of Arab problems as a way of ultimately guaranteeing Israel's future. Arab and Israeli destinies are inseparable.
LOUIS SEGAL
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of the discomfort was Bonn's failure so for to adopt measures to curb activities of German nuclear scientists operating In Egypt
On the other hand, Eshkol expressed a frank desire to meet Khrushchev and, hi the light of a Pekfaig offensive against Israeli technical aid programs in Africa, prospects for such a meeting are now much brighter.
REBUFF FROM PEKING
In the course of these statements, Eshkol disclosed that several months ago a note fit)m his government to Chinese Foreign Minister Chou-en Lai had been completely ignored, signifying an open rebuff. It is thought highly unlikely that Moscow, now deeply in conflict with Peking over Africa, would wish to follow a parallel policy toward Israel.
Peking's foes must become Moscow's friends, and that puts Peking behind the Arabs and Moscow behind Israel — when the diplomatic line-up sorts itself out
Another sign of a warm-faig of the Soviet bloc attitudes toward Israel has been the recent visit of the Soviet ambassador to Israel,
for the first time, to the Israeli paramilitary youth camp at Gadna, accompanied by the Rumanian ambassador.
"NON-MISUNDERSTANDING" So far the Eshkol policy toward the Soviet Union is being described as one of "non-misunderstsuading" —a settling for mfaior triumphs but with a full rapprochement in line with the U.S.-Soviet continuing thaw, sedulously fostered.
Israelis have never been more hopeful of eventual peace In the Middle East, probably jointly sponsored by the two giant world powers.
NASSER LESS BELLIGERENT The less belligerent tone of Eg3q>tian President Nasser In the course of an interview he recently gave to the "London Observer" has been duly noted here.
Though Nasser rejected the idea of an agreement limiting increases In conventional arms, he declared that discussion concerning limitations on nuclear weapons were "something different". This is being interpreted here as acceptance in prin-dole. ^
DE GAULLE: WAR UNLIKELY
A Memorial "Shloshim'* Meeting will be held on Tuesday, July 14th in the Farband Auditorium to pay a last tribute to the late Louis Segal, General Secretary of Farband for 38 years, who passed away in New York on June 16th in his 69th year.
There was hardly an important Jewish body in America and in the world, of which he was not either an officer or an executive member.
In the American Je\vish, Congress in the prewar Nazi period, the American Jewish Conference during the wai", the World Zionist Actions Committee, in Ichud
Olami of the Labor Zionist Movement — in these, and in others too nvmaerous to mention^ he played an active and frequently a. leading role. A folks orator of tremendous power, he championed Jewish mass action in crisis after crisis that beset our people during those stormy and tragic years.
During the war, he led the Farband in an intensive war effort in support of the United States and Canada. At the same time he organized the Labor Zionist Committee for Relief and Rehabilitation that did a significant job in aiding the Jewish undergrotmd during
the war, and in the rescue and rehabilitation of many thousands right after the war. Shortly after V-E Day, Segal was one of the first American Jewish leaders to go to Poland and other countries in Eastern Europe, to bring help and encouragement to the Sha-arit ha-Plita. What he did then won him the love of many thousands of Jewish survivors, a love they repeatedly showed to him when he met with them in Israel, in the United States and Canada, and in other places.
Always practical minded, Segal was a founder of the Israel Histadrut Campaign, of the Labor Department of
the Jewish National Fund, of the Labor Council of the United Jewish Appeal, of the Bond Organization and of AMPAL. At the same time, he was involved in umumerable Jewish cultural enterprises.
Loiiis Segal will be sorely missed by the Farband, which grew under his dynamic leadership from a few thousand to over 40,000 families at the time of his passing. He will also be missed by the Zionist movement, by the government leaders in Israel and by Jewish life generally, for his wise counsel and dedicated service.
PARIS (JCNS). - Warlike declarations made by Israelis enemies about intentions to annihilate the Jewish State were "futile talk:*;" President de Gaulle is beilleved to ha*e told Mr. Levi Eshkol, durihg the Israeli Prime Mmister's visit to the Elysee Palace last week, according to reliable sources here.
President de Gaulle was understood to be of the opinion that the reality behind the Arab vociferations should not be over-estimated. In his view there is no imminent danger of war in the Middle East. Israel had become a well-esteiblished reality arid was accepted as such by the whole world and admired for her fine achievemerits.
"The Arabs have missed the bus"^ is the expression attributed to the President. However, he fully agreed wth Mr. Eshkol that Israel's defensive strength was a vital guarantee of peace in the area.
China, and her attitude
towards the Arab-Israeli conflict, was another subject sjaid to have been discussed during the de Gaul-le-Eshkol meeting.
Israel. Mi-^' Eaikol;itold the President, felt that thanks to France's renewed diplomatic relations with Peking, she could exert a healthy influence on Communist China, which had recently adopted an im-friendly attitude to Israel, though the Jewish State was one of the very first nations to recognize the Peking regime in 1950.
Mr. Eshkol had also the satisfaction of finding that President de Gaulle's evaluation of Mr. Khruschev's visit to Cairo last month vvas similar to the Israeli point of view. Both leaders were not impressed by the few public anti-Israeli utterances by the Soviet leader, and believed that behind the scenes Mr. Khruschev might well have tried to curb President Nasser's ful-minations and aggressiveness.
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14 NliHion Goal Set For^^^ ^ 1^^
"Toronto Landsmanshaf-ten and Fraternal Organizations are mobilizing their combined forces-this year to. swell the Toronto Israel -Bond Drive by a quarter millioh'^ dollars in Bond sales", pledged Louis J. Zuker, Chairman of Lands-manshaften to General Campaign Chairman Bert; Godfrey at the July 2nd Leadership Conference held at Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue. Mr. Zuker lirged each representative present to serve as an^; emissary for Israel Bonds to their, respective organizations at" executive and group; rrieetings beginning immedia tely, so that the final target -r-" Every Member an Israel Bond; Buyer*' might be realized by the end of the year.
Guest speaker, Syd Anple-baum. Director of the Overseas >-Division, Office of Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, and a former Torontbnian, received an.eiithusiastjc welcome from the assemblage as he presented his authoritative report on Israel's present position at home and abroad. Mr. Applebaum described in moving terms, thb ceremony   at   the White
House just a few weeks ago, when Mr. Eshkol was received with full honors by United States President Lyndon Johnson, "the 19-guQ salute accorded Mr. Eshkol as a Chief of Government was symbolic of the 19 centuries of Jewish dispersion iand suffering," commented Mr. Applebaum. "Now 'history has come full circle, when the young State of Israel is accepted as a nation like other nations, in the eyes of the greatest power in the woi-ld today —; the United States of America."
"Economic development is Israel's constant problem — to exist, to survive, to grow. Unified; and strengthened by the help of Jews outside Israel, we can ac-, complish this. Israel Bonds have provien to be the most effective means we have, providing Israel with pioneering capital to, expand her ecSfioriiic frontiers. Water^ is the key to Israel's potential ability to sustain an expected jpopulation of three million in 1970, The first phase of the Jordan Water Plan is already operational. The next ', water project is the one which Mr.
Eshkol discussed in Washington with President Johnson — the building of a plant for nuclear de-salina-tion of sea water, which will at the same time produce electric power for. Isra.ei's industrial escpansion," Mr, Applebaum revealed.
Harry J. Halperin, Executive Director of the Israel Bond Organization of Toronto, lauded the devotion and dedication.of a number b£ fraternal groups which had come forward during last year's campaign and instituted successful cairipa-igns within their own organizations. He further stressed the vital importance of Israel Bond Campaigns being undertaken by ALL Lahdsmanshaften this year, so that Toronto may keep pace with the 25% increases already achieved by other cities on the continent. Mr, Hal perin pledged the complete cooperation of the Israel Bond Organization of To-roiito in assisting Presidents and Bond Chairmen in their effortis, and by providing speakers and programmes for Bond meetings. "The sincere, warm dedicated^e-lationship which exists bet-
ween Landsrnanshaften and the State of Israel can be expressed in a tangible way
by participation in the Israel Bond Campaign— this is the plus factor that can
push our 1964 Drive well over the top." Mr. Halperin asserted.
LEFT TO RIGHT: Louis J. Zuker, Chaimon of Londsmartshaftfen, CommiN tee; David Green> President, Hebrew Niationcil Folks Farein; Syd Applebaum, guest speaker;. Bert Godfrey, (general Campaign Qiairman, State of Isfael Bond Organization of Toronto. ^