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TORONTO, ONTARIO, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1960
ARAB LEAGUE ADMIT
Council In Cairo Adopts Very Mild Resolution On "Palestine Question"
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L(ONDON, Thursday, (CJN),—Nasser lost control of the Arab League Council, according to Arab diplomatic sources. His last war of nerves against Israel has boomeranged. The Arab League Council which concluded its deliberations in Cairo, this week, ended with a complete failure for the Egjrptian dictator. It did not endorse the Cairo policy against Israel.
NASSER CRITICIZED
Representatives of several Arab countries criticized Nasser for "threatening to go to war" against the Jewish state. Although the resolutions for the press are in the traditional anti-Israel tone, they are milder than usual, and diplomats noticed the lack of unity and the failure of Nasser in putting through a decision to back Egypt in any adventure against Israel.
In a secret session many voices were heard for peace with Israel, for the first time in the history of the Arab League.
The meeting took place in Cairo.
WILL NE0O11ATE fNlAMEtOOA
|ipr. S. B. Hurwich, of Toronto, #S elected National Presi-*mt of the Labor Zionist poyement of Canada, at the " ith national conventicm ' CGQdtided its ses^ons ^ . Sunday night. He will ;igcceed Mr. M. Bobrove, a ^i^treal attorney. ^•yiMtBr leaders elected to the I executive are: Kalman Dqra. israelson, J. J.
Prime-Minister David Ben-Gurion pMor to his fligfif to the U.S. addresses Pa rUament. Speaker K. tux is in the chair. Dipio* mats say Israel's chief exiecutive will hddVsecret talks in America on peace with Arabs. He will arrive oh Suiidoy iii the US.
The official pretext for Ben-Gurion'i visit is a lecture at Brandeis University.
J^Orontonim Elected P resident Labour Zionist Movement
Is; p. Walerstelh and Harry ail from Toronto. jH; The Montrealers on the Ex-i^ii^lye include: ..Esther .Kra< r S. Broder, A. Shurem, J. iholz, M. Oberman. The 'Mtemers on the executive Y. Friedman, N. Wiffman B. Add^an, all from Win-
the most important states mts made at the ccnventiMi iclude a declaration by Law-itnce Freiman, of Ottawa, ZOC Resident, that he would im-^xse a change for more demo-
cratic ^ression and representation in the ruling body of the Zionist organization in Canada. Mr. Freiman said that tie would see to it that the three main groups of Canadian Zionism obtain - representation conunesuerate with their influence and strength.
Mr. Moshe Sharett, former Prime Minister of Israel, declared that the Labovj movement in Israel will encourage private investment and private initiative, giving all Investors from abroad the full opportunity to become partners in the building of the Jewish State. He also made an important declaration about the cultural a«ms of Israel and the Jewish people, saying that only Hebrew is the national language of the Jewish people and of Israel. It is tragic that Yiddish has declined and is passing a-from the scene, but it is a fact.
By M. J. Nurenberger
WOULD NOT INDORSE C.C.F. The Canadian Jewish News
learns from impeccable.sources that the Labor Zionist Convention refused to endorse a resolu tion for all-out, official support of the C.CJ". It wishes to stay aloof, officially, from party-strifes on tlie Canadian .scene, as much as possible.
One of the nio%t important resolutions adopted ^at the convention was for more activity in the tield of building Jewish day-schools and strengthening of Jewish culture, in general.
UP 400 PER CENT
Jerusalem, (JTA)- — Agricultural production --in Israel jumped 400 per cent in the first 10 years of statehood, with a total expenditure on farm settlement and water resources development of 1,500,000,000 pounds ($750,0i90,000), a government survey reported.
ASSAILS PLANS TO DIVERT JORDAN RIVER
The Arab League Council "codemned" Israeli plans to divert the Jordan River to irrigate the Negev.
However, in a nineteen-point resolution formally ending three weeks of secret meetings, the Council put off action on the Palestine problem, which the Arab world considers its most pressing. A statement conced^ , tbiit
reach a^jnemehr-on qiiestloiu >f the "Palestine entit/' or on the formaHon of •ii:anny fi^ the body of PaledAiM The statentent iaid these two questions, after being fully discussed, had been postponed until the next session at the end of March.
The Council deplored the "latest Israeli aggression" at demilitarized zones on the Israeli-Syrian border. The statement said the Council had decided that all League members in the future should "jointiy defend any member state from Israeli aggression."
Se^ion Marked by Differences
The meeting, attended by the Foreign Ministers of the United Arab Republic, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Yemen, Libya, Morocco and the Sudan, ran into trouble at the start. Tunisia and fraq boycotted the sessions. Differences developed at the first open meeting Feb. 8 over the handling of various Palestine problems and. the delegates spent the rest of the time at twenty-two secret and informal meetings in hotel rooins in an effort to agree on an agenda. Agreement was never reached.
The principal differences were ■ said to have developed betwen the U. A. R. and Jordan on a policy, for Palestine. Under tile United Nations partition of Palestine in November, 1947, Jordan received, the area allocated to a_ proposed Arab state, -except for the Gaza strip,_ which came under control of Egypt
The U. A. R. delegation,
Truman Warm U. S. Against Appeasement
Calls on U.S. to Adopt Firm Policy — Israel Cabinet Aide Opens Bond Drive
MIAMI BEACH, — Former President Hairy S. Truman call-^ on the U.S. .Government to ado^ a 'Yirm policy for acbiev-
ing a setUement of. the conflict between Israel and the sur-rounAng Arab states."
Blr. Trumian asserted that the "bitter tension" between'Israel and her neighbors could be eased by the developmrat of
tlie Tigris, Euphrates and Nile Valleys as the basis for regimt-al cooperation jmd peace.
Gen. Hoshe Dayan, Israel's Ministtf' of Agriculture,, who comnunded the IsraeU anny jn the'" Sinai campaign in 1956.
^ced a hope that the big powers would exercise their in-f^ence in preserving peace in |k Bliddle East.
ll^However, General Dayan de-'(paired tiiat "if tiie Arabs start-■ *t1a;war now, I have no doubt
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Rabbi Ludovico Flciadimanni of Niagara- 'Falk, is'one of several spiritual leaders of Ontario who, in special messages to the editor, have expressed
blj^ journalistic standard- of The Canadian Jewii^ jMews
and who are urging the tnem-bers of their congregatiohs to
Uiat they would lose it." He said that Israel had not mobilized its ariny "even when the Arabs are moving their forces toward our borders."
Both spoke before more than 2,000 persons at a dinner ses-
to Ontario's Jcwi^ newq^aper in Enipdf.
Rabbi Fleischmami writes i.e: "Permit me\to congratulate you on the success of The
journdistic' stiandard -.is .,— above that of any AngloJew-ish publicatiem that appears south of the border."
New Arrests Of Jews In Egypt
TEL AVIV (ZINS) — The
Israel press reports new arrests of Jews in Egypt. The arrests took place in a number of cities, particularly Alexandria. Thirty persons, it is reported, have been detained. These
arrests are being linked with the present tense situation on the Israel-UAR borders as part of Nasser's aggressive policies and as a harbinger of futiure actions whose significance cannot as yet be^understood.
Bonn Minister In Nazi Role
London — (W.J.A.) 'Murder in Lvov", a new East German documentary film, was given its first showing by the East German television service on 8th February. Shortly after the film' had been shown, the East German News Agency claims, viewers . from Eastern and Western Germany "made hundreds of telephone calls to the German television service expressing indighation that Oberlaender was being allowed to remain in office."
Earlier, the West German News Agency reported finding of an 'Investigating Committee of Freedom - Loving Lawyers' on the past of Max Hartwig, now East German Deputy State Secretary for Church Affairs.
According to the Commitiee's report, Hartwig volunteered for the Waffen-SS- on 27th October 1939. He was trained with the SS Death's Head formation at Oranienburg and Weimur -Buchenwald and rose to the rank of sergeant (Unterschar-fuehrer). On 1st January 1943 he signed on for another eight years' service in the Waffen-SS. In 1945, Hartwig joined the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). He was for a time member of the Erfurt Area Executive and served as personal secretary to the late East German Deputy Premier Nuschke. When the State Secretariat for Church affairs was set up in 1957, he is said to have been appointed to his present post.
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TEL AVIV, (CJN.) —Finance Minister Levi Eshkol submitted to the Knesset (Parliament), a record budget of £1,574,300,000 Israeli ($859,611,000.) .;
Mr. Eshkol told the Parliament the ordinary budget was. $75,000,000 more for a "special year to expand several services
DR. SB. HURWICH
TOURISTS TO ISRAEL NEEDN'T DECLARE DOLLARS
TEL AVIV (ZINS)— Bejjinninf? with April 1st, tourists to : Israel will not be required to declare the sums of for-eijrn exchange in their possession. The Ministry of Finance is now pre-parinsr. regulations for carrying out this new policy before the be-RinninpT of the new tourist season.
including security.
As usual, details of the security budget weirie. not -given. The brdiriary budget included Ml allocation of f144.080,000 for the Defense Mirtittry. Else-whi^ in the*: estimatM : there was a cryptic appropriation of $75^,000 more for a "spec, iai budget." Part of this also goes l«>r security.
The Minister said that for the first time local revenue would govern more than half the development budget of $296,000,000. This had previously ben financed mainly by foreign aid.
This year's estimates count on $40,000,000 in West German reparations, $40,800,000 from North-America as grants and agricultural subsidies and $51,-000,000 as loans, a cohsiderable part of which is expected as Israeli Government bonds sold in the United States and Canada. ■■ •■ ■ .... -'
GERMANY: BAR MEDITERRANEAN TO SOVIET
TEL AVrV (ZINS) — Barrings the enfrance to the Mediterranean from both sides, from the Dardanelles in the east and Gibraltar in the west, to Soviet shipping in case Russia will make good its threat to close the road to West Berlin to the Western powers has been proposed by the (Sovemment of West Germany, according to a report in Haboker. This proposal, it is felt,, would serve to restrain the Soviet Union from adopting radical measures in the dispute over West Berlin and would make it clear that the We^em powers too can make things difficult for Russia.
Unrestricted entrance to the Mediterranean is a vital necessity for the Soviet IMion, since Russia's entire relationship with the Middle East is dependent upon it. Free access to the Mediterranean enables Russia to carry out all its plans for sending aid to the Arab coiintries.
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Chatham, OilAario. . Ht, .Jip9^ stress^ the importance of ptrfb-lishing a Jewish newspaper In English "at the time when the majority of Canadian Jews do not read Yiddish." He promises to urge all members of his community, to .subscribe . to The Canadian Jewish News.
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other letters were received and will be published in due time. Also the bulletin of the Jewish community of Oshawa saluted of our newspaper. Among the lay-leaders of our community, a letter of greeting was received from Mr. Sydney Seligman, president of tiie B'Nai B'rith Co-ordinating Committee of Toronto.
The Canadian Jewish News will gladly co-operate with any group interested in promoting a subscription campaign for the newspaper.
sion in the Fontainebleau Hotel in honor of General Dayan that ended the four-day international inaugural conference of the Israel bond organization. ^ Opening of Bond^Orlv* The event maAed the official opening of the organization's 1960 campaiga to sell $75,873,550 in Israel bonds for that country's economic de-iieloi^ent., Samud . J^|>e^
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AN EDITORIAL
Vague Declaration
Conflicting statements on the scope and validity of the Tripartite Declaration have been frequent since it was first promulgated in 1950. The Governments of Britain, France, and the United States then declared their intention to take action in the case of any aggression between Israel and the Arabs, .and to withhold arms from any State which was likely to commit aggression, in fact, a very keen arms race has been in progress for several years and little could be done to stop it, since the Soviet Union is bound neither by the spirit nor the letter of the Declaration. Moreover, for political reasons, the Western Powers themselves have continued to supply
armaments to-several Arab Powers. During the Sinai Campaign, the United States Government on the one hand, and the British
and French on the other, took diametrically opposite stands, then all three Powers have avoided clarifying their position on the question of what constitutes the Israel-U.A.R. frontier in areas where there are demilitarised zones. It is not surprising, therefore,
. that the British Minister for Foreign Affairs and the French Foreign Office should declare that the Declaration is
. still in force while Nasser declares that it is not. 'The British and French declarations imply that they still consider themselves Middle Ea&t Powers; the U.A.R. statement implies a desire to diminish British and French influence in the region as far as possible, since their openly aggressive approach is based primarily on Soviet support and encouragement and on United States complaisance. ,
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In his addre^ called attention to this country's efforts toward "the firm establishment" of Israel as a oation, but added that "we have not discriminated against any of the other countries of the Near East."
Since the end of World War I?, Mr. Truman said, the United States has supplied the Arab states with technical assistance and economic aid.
"We strongly believe," the former President isaid, "that they should grow in strength and ability and we have shown that we are willing to help them do it."
It was at this point that Mr. Truman said thai the "bitter tension" between Israel and the Arab states could be eased by tiie development of the Tigris, Euphrates and Nile Valleys.
In emphasizing the need for a peace settlement in the Middle East, Mr. Truman said that "oiu: nation has a duty, an Obligation to use its influence to bring about^a settlement of this conflict; I hoj^ that our policy will be firm on this point."
General Dayan declared it would "be a fatal mistake" for his Coiintry to ignore the fact that the Arab states were rieceiving a steady flow of arms. He deploi^ the fact that his country was not included in any security pact with the big powers to guarantee his nation's safety.
BEN . GURidN'S SUDDEN TRIP TO AMERICA. — WHY ISRAEL'S PREMIER IS COMING. — DIPLOMATIC MISSION?
. It seems.that the combined pressure exerted for the first time against Nasser's belicose attitude has prevented the immediate outbreak of a new Middle East and—perhaps —international war. Yet I am not convinced that Mr. Ben - Gurion's sole purpose in coming to America, now of all times, is motivated solely by a desire to re ceive a doctor's degree from Brandeis University.
Many faults may be at--tributed to the Prime Minister of Israel. But noone will dare state lh.^t he would neglect his duty as the pilot of Israel's boat in the stormy waters of the present in order to just receive some kind of an honorary University degree. Quite to the contrary, I am convinced that Mr. Ben-Gurion is coming to North America on one of those secret diplomatic missions for which such "occasions" are the ideal official pretext.
When a head of a state or a chief executive of a government wants to engage in serious talks without the trouble of diplomatic protocol, the ideal visit is such as Mr. Ben Gurion is making oa Sunday. He will not have to request an audience with President Eisenhower or any high official of the United States Governments Still he may have an opportunity of discussing in camera with leading American statesmen the true state of affairs io the Middle East and-tiie possL. bilities criT bringing j>eace to this- troubled .area.
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Gurion's dramatic trip to America is primarily directed at us, the NortIr American Jews. Although temporarily there seems to be a relaxation of tensions at the Syria-Israel . border, the danger is stiU there. The constant buildup of the Egyptian Army poses a threat to Israel. The American Jews, through their leaders, should be informed of the sitiiation as seen from the . political summit of the Israel capital. This, I believe, Is Mr. Ben Gurion's primary objective. ^ He knows that the niost steadfast ally of Israel is the. Jewish people (everywhere.. And among the Jewish people, it is American. Jewry that counts first because of its resources and special position. It nay be that Mr. Ben Gurion wishes to tell the leaders of American Jewry in a secret conference that the time has' come to use some of these resources,—political, financial and moral,—in order to finish, once and for all, the threat to the Jewish state. For, simultaneously with Nasser's,, blackmail, there are distinct signs that some Arabs are reajly for negotiations with the Jewish state. It is possible that some Jewish effort will be necessary to strengthen these possibilities. There is no doubt that Washingt<m could play a paramoimt role in such acceleration of . steps condiicivc "to peace in the Near East
Thus. Mr. Ben-Gurion's visit to North America may become an occasiph- for rallying our Jewish community behind a new, "supreme effort to help defend the Jewish state.
The jjfest's appeasement of Nasser certainly demands the .concieiiitration of all our power of vigilance and the mobilization oflour hearts arid, minds. Timidity, at this moment, is danger^ ous.' , \- ■
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