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State Department Clarifies Middle East Policy
ulles Views Israel-Arab P-ace
As Essential to World Security
There Were 3 Hamans and
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — The policy of the State
Department with regard to Israel and the Arab states was
outlined by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles in the
course of a press conference here during which he touched
on various aspects of the international situation.
Secretary Dulles made it clear that the United States
Government is primarily interested in the Security of the
Middle East and hopes to bring about the conclusion of an
Arab-Israel peace settlement. It is difficult to establish
security in that part of the world without an Arab-Israel peace
pact, he emphasized.
Asked by an Arab correspondent to define the admin-
istration's "new approach" to the Middle Fast situation,
Secretary Dulles pointed out that the U.S. Government now
has a new approach to most problems. He spoke of it as "a
look" and said that he felt it possible to do better in the fu-
ture than in the past.
Asked whether he intends to visit Israel during his coming tour of
the Middle East, Mr. Dulles replied t hat he hoped so. He said he could not
speak in terms of specific countries and explains that accepted diplomatic
etiquette does not permit him to name the countries he will visit until he
has been invited to visit them.
Temple Beth El Advised of Sizeable
Bequest from Non-Jewish Woman
--International Photo
seph Stalin is the third of three dictators in this era who shook the world,
.en disappeared from the political scene. Power hungry Hitler died a sui-
.ide during capture of Berlin, his "thousand year Reich" equally dead.'
Oussolini met an ignominious end at hands of angry band of countrymen.
The Jewish News learns, as this issue goes to press, that Temple
Beth El has been included in the will of a non-Jewish woman in Florida
for a very sizeable sum.
Temple Beth El has been advised that this bequest, willed by a
woman whose identify is not presently known, may run into hundreds of
thousands of dollars. Details were not available at press time.
talin'sLegacy: Is Russian JewryDoomed
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
Dictator,
M. MALEN-
OV: Has another Ha-
to appeared to plague
wry and mankind?
What next in Russia?
Premier Joseph Stalin's death has unleashed speculation.
Those who know Russia will reserve judgment. They will. re-
call the days when the Jews, faced with the possibility of a Czar's
death or the replacement of a tyrannical Gubernator, would say,
"Do not gloat or rejoice, the successor may be worse."
This is the situation in Russia today. Perhaps it can not be
worse; but it is doubtful if it can be better.
What was Stalin's attitude on Zionism, Jews and Jewish prob-
lems? The facts are on record. While non-Russian anti-Semites
have tried to link the names of Jews with Communism—and only
recently a spreader of hate, speaking before a Detroit audience,
passed on the shocking lie that two-thirds of the Communist lead-
ers are Jews—the facts are on record that the Soviet leaders have
outlawed Zionism and the Hebrew language and have displayed
enmity towards Jewish cultural undertakings.
The late Philip Adler, who was unquestionably an authority
on. Russia and Russian politics, stuck to his view, acquired after
visiting Russia, that Stalin was an anti-Semite. We have had
proof of it recently.
Stalin inherited the Leninist anti-Zionist, anti-Bund and
anti-Hebrew language policies.
True: Lenin abrogated all Czarist restrictions on Jews. Stalin,
in January of 1931, in reply to a Jewish Telegraphic Agency clues-
. tion, declared: "National and racial chauvinism is a survival of
the barbarous practices of the cannibalistic period."
N. KAGAN OVICIU
Jew in Soviet Die-
)rship: Is he merely
ifferent or is he an -
It enemy?
But Stalin's declaration was not published in Russia until 1936
and in many Russian quarters the cry of "Jewish chauvinism"
was heard frequently.
The complete story is exposed in Solomon M. Sc:hwartz's "The
Jews in the Soviet Union," recently published by the Syracuse
University Press. Harry Schwartz of the New York Times has in-
dicated in recent weeks that Jews have been kept down in the
Russian army, in spite of their acts of heroism in the last war
far out of proportion of their numbers in the population, and
have been kept out of Soviet border plants, thus being placed.
under suspicion as a group,:
Solomon Schwartz writes in his expose of the Soviet minority
policy: "When the Bundist press .indignantly accused him of
being an 'assimilationist," Lenin c• id. not shrink from acknowl-
edging it." Under the sub-title "k. ta,lin on the Jewish Problem,"
Schwartz wrote:
"Stalin's uninspired polemic, crudely echoing Lenin's vjews,
harshly criticized the Bundist program of cultural autonomy for
two reasons: first, because extra-territorial autonomy was 'a re-
fined species of nationalism,' a 'nationalism masked and un-
recognizable behind its mask'; and secondly, because—an ex-
pression of Bundist 'separatism' and `nationalism'—it was claim-
ing autonomy for 'a nation whose future is denied and whose
present existence remains to be proven.' The almost literal fol-
lowing of Lenin's reasoning was striking. Indeed, Stalin's article
contained scarcely a single original idea. But it dotted the is
and crossed the t's in places where Lenin had chosen to be less
explicit ..."
While Stalin echoed Lenin on the Jewish as well as other
questions, he was more explicit in many respects. To quote again.
from Schwartz's "The Jews in the Soviet Union";
"Attempts to provide Jews with 'guarantees against assimila-
tion' (which the Bund dared to demand of Lenin) must neces-
sarily, Stalin insisted, disorganize and demoralize the labor
movement, and foster 'national narrowmindedness and the
spread of prejudice,' With respect to such tendencies there
could be no 'middle course,' no reconciliation.' Since the late
1920's when Stalin took over the leadership of the Communist
Party, his version of the Leninist doctrine has been as man-
datory for the Communist Party. and the Soviet government as
the original."
In view of the fact that the Bund was anti-Zionist, the all-
inclusiveness of the Stalinist anti-Jewish attitude was apparent.
He did not limit his attack on Zionism and the Hebrew language.
The Bund was not immune frem suspicion and attack..
What next? It is anyone's guess. The men at..the helm in
Russia are hard men. Georgi Malenkov, Vladimir M. Molotov, Lay,
rent Beria and Gen. Vassily Sokolovsky are tough • men.. The
Jewish codifler of Soviet ideology, Ilya Ehrenburg, has displayed
viler hatred of his own kinsmen than his non-Jewish associates
Stalin's brother-in-law, Lazar N. Kaganovich, the only other Jew
of importance in the Soviet dictatorship, also is a stranger to
Jewry, if not its enemy.
The fate of the remaining Jews in Russia may have been sealed
—for doom—years ago.
Are we due for severer crises? Tithe alone will tell. One thing
is certain: as in the instance of Stalin, who echoed Lenin, Stalin's
successors are certain to emulate Stalin. Thus, we • are far, far
from peace in this troubled world,