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Arab Charges Rejected — Middle East, Tensions Diminish
Israel Interrupts Work on Jordan
Canal as Goodwill Gesture to UN
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The Egyptian demand that Israel should remove
its agricultural, settlement from the El Auja area in the demilitarized zone
was rejected by the UN Mixed Armistice Commission headed by Col. Hinkel,
on American. However, the Commission ruled that no police would be allow-
ed to remain in the settlement.
Satisfied with the fact that the Commission had acknowledged that the estab-
lishment of the settlement in the Israel-Egyptian demilitarized zone did not constitute
a breach of the Israel-Egyptian armistice agreement, an Israel spokesman expressed
surprise that no police should be allowed to guard the • settlement which is located in
a dangerous area. The Israel government immediately appealed to Maj. Vagn Bennike,
chief of the UN Truce Commission, to reconsider the ban.
The decision by the Israel-Egyptian Mixed Armistice Commission was reached after
Israel asked the American chairman of the Commission to visit the El Auju area in the
demilitarized zone and to see for himself that Egypt's charges against Israel were base-
less. The agricultural settlement to which the Egyptians took exception was set up in
the area recently and was visited a short time ago by UN representatives who raised
no objection to the establishment of the new group inside the demilitarized zone.
(The Egyptian delegation at the UN submitted a formal complaint against Israel
to the UN Security Council during the week-end.. However, the'delegation did not ask the
Security Council for any action or debate but said that Cairo reserved the right to take
up the problem later.)
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- -Foreign -Mita- ter Moshe Sharett announced that the Israe l government had
agreed in recent talks with Gen. Bennike to a temporary cessation of work on the
nine mile long canal along the Jordan River in northern Israel near the Syrian border.
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Out of Zion
As would Jewry marked Sim-
hat Torah last Friday, Jerusalem, the center of the Jewish
spiritual world, increased its production of Hebrew religious
textbooks with an assist from Israel bonds. Several new print-
ing firms, operated by orthodox Jews and engaged in the
preparation of religious literature and books, became the
newest tenants in recently-completed industrial compounds
constructed with the assistance of loan from 600,000 Ameri-
can and Canadian bond investors. Workers in the new print-
ing plants—like the orthodox young Jew in the photo, who is
shown setting type for a prayerbook—all wear skull caps
Avarmelkes). Several of the printers are Yeshiva graduates.
Observers here interpreted the Sharett announcement as a gesture of goodwill
toward the United Nations. Earlier Gen. Bennike had asked Israel to halt work on the
project, protested by Syria, until an agreement could be reached with the Syrian
authorities on how the project should be carried through.
The Israel Cabinet discussed the tense situation on the Syrian and Egyptian
borders, following reports by Acting Defense Minister Pinhas Lavon and Foreign Minister
Moshe Sharett.
Efforts by armed Egyptians to penetrate into the Israel settlement of Givath
Rachel,• in the demilitarized zone on the Israel - Egyptian frontier, were repulsed. A
formal complaint was lodged by Israel with the UN Mixed Armistice Commission.
The Israel government also complained against the crossing into Israel of Egyptian
planes flying over two Israel -settlements and taking photographs of the settlements.
This, it was pointed out, is a flagrant violation of the armistice agreement.
An Israeli spokesman emphasized that these incidents are considered by the Israel
government to be of a "serious character" in view of Egypt's increased anti Israel propa-
ganda. He also stated that Egyptian military forces had taken up positions inside the de-
militarized zone on the Egyptian side of the El Auja border, which is a violation of the
Israel-Egyptian armistice pact.
(A report from Cairo said that "Israel has begun withdrawing its troops" from the
frontier post of Auja el Hafir in the Israel-Egyptian demilitarized zone. The report was
taken to mean that Egypt considers its charges against Israel no longer valid.)
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Arabs Negotiate Merger to Replace League
MUNICH, (JTA)—The German press published reports from Damascus that in-
fluential Arab circles are engaged in negotiations for the creation of a "Greater Arab
Empire" to embrace all Arab states in the Middle East. The reports assert that Prince
Feisal of Saudi Arabia has stated that his government would agree to the amalgama-
tion of Saudi Arabia with any country willing to work for unity and a union of all
Arab countries.
(The formation of a United States of Arab Nations, within the next two decades,
replacing the Arab League and uniting the Arab countries behind a solidified front in
international affairs, was forecast in New York by Dr. Farid Zeineddine, Syrian Am-
bassador to the United States. The ambassador made his statement after • attending a
meeting of the Syrian and Lebanese American Federation of the Eastern States.)
200 Payments Made on Arab Refugees' BlOcked Accounts
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—International Photo
First 50 Years: A kiss from New York's May-
or Vincent Impellitteri as veteran entertainer George Jessel
watches i-s part of festivities as Sophie Tucker marks 50
Oars on the American stage,. Her golden anniversary dinner
1st New York, sponsored by 'the Jewish Theatrical guild, was
ceded by 1,500 persons.
JERUSALEM—More than 200 first payments on account of blocked bank accounts
of Palestine Arab refugees now residing in Syria and Lebanon were made during the
month of September it was annuonced here Tuesday by the United Nations Concilia-
tion Commission for Palestine.
More payments will be made to refugees in those countries, a commission spokes-
man revealed, and payments on applications arriving from other countries will be made
as fast as the applications can be checked and approved. More than. 150,000 pounds
sterling :had been pald.out by, the end of September to applicants from countries as far
away as. Austrialiat , and the United. States.:
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