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VOL. XXIV. No. 23
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FRANK SIMONS
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Sabbath Scriptural Selections
This Sabbath, the tenth day of Adar Rishon, 5714, the following Scriptural selections will
be read in our synagogues:
Pentateuchal portion, Ex. 27:20-30:10. Prophetical portion, Ez - ek. 43:10-27.
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Licht Senshen, Friday, Feb. 12, 5:46 p.m.
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Established U. S. Position: 'Israel Is Here to Stay
"Israel as a state is here to stay and the
the United States is here to help insure that
existence." •
This statement was made by Henry A.
Byroade, U. S. Assistant Secretary of State
for the Middle East, Africa and South Asia,
at the meeting of the American Jewish
Committee in New York.
But when the editor of a Catholic maga-
zine, speaking before the American Friends
of the Middle East—an organization that
has been exposed as an Arab front aiming
at Israel's destruction—sought to establish
the aim of Americans "to get the Arabs to
accept the fact of Israel," there were de-
nunciations by Arabs who nearly broke up
their own meeting. •
The New York Times report of this
meeting is worth quoting, for an understand-
ing of the issue involving Israel's quest for
peace. A portion of the story in the Times
of Jan. 29 follows:
An American editor ignored yesterday an
Arab proverb—"He who meddles with peace
gets the first sting"—and stirred anger among
Arabs attending the second annual conference
of American Friends of the Middle East.
John Cogley, executive editor of The Coin-
ina.onweal, a liberal weekly published by Ro-
man Catholic laymen, found the role of
peacemaker as difficult as the conciliation
of an Arab-Israeli dispute. He was greeted
cooly by a gathering of 200 persons at the
Delmonico Hotel when he declared that Ameri-
cans should aim "to get the Arabs to accept
the fact of Israel."
A dozen Arab officials approached the dais
and denounced the speech. One, Rafik Asha,
Syria's Permanent Delegate to the United
Nations, protested angrily to Dr. Phillip K.
Hitti, presiding at the luncheon, that the speech
was "most unfortunate."
Dr. Hitti, chairman of the Department of
Oriental Languages and Literature at Prince-
ton University, sought to mollify the Syrian,
delegate, holding that Mr. Cogley was free to
express his opinion, but Mr. Asha was not
satisfied.
The room buzzed with muttering as rep-
resentatives from Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia,
Syria, Iraq, Jordan and Afghanistan and
their supporters debated the isue. Many car-
ried their protests to Garland Evans Hopkins,
executive vice president of the organization.
Like Dr. Hitti, he sought to reassure the
protesting individuals that his organization
did not necessarily endorse the speaker's
views. He denied afterward that the body had
undergone a change of perspective, and em-
phasized that it was neither pro-Arab nor
pro-Israel but that it considered United States'
interests in the area as payment.
, The organization's purpose remains, he
said, as when it was formed by the efforts of
Miss Dorothy Thompson, lecturer and writer,
"an unbiased interchange of opinion .... -free
from political pressure and racial or religious
discrimination."
Mr. Cogley, whO departed before , the pro 7
tests accelerated, was praised afterward by
Harold Minor, former United States Ainbassa-
dor. to Lebanon, for Ahe•."humanitarian" as-
pects of his speech. But Mr. Minor 'voiced *dis-
agreement with other views, holding that this
country was responsible for creating Israel at
the cost of inequities to Arab nations.
What exactly are the inequities to the Arabs?
This country has helped create seven Arab states
s,nd has assisted them with funds, with subsidies
running into the millions from the oil interests,
with encouragement that has . led to their rise
to great power in the annals of the nations of
the world.. Neyertheless, defying established
American policy of recognition of Israel, the
Arabs refuse to discuss peace terms with the
young state and their American defenders refuse
to endorse the views . of a• peacemaker who
pleaded for the acceptance of the irrefutable
"fact of Israel." A former American Ambassador
to Lebanon gives the war-mongers similar
encouragement and thereby he and his fellow
anti-Israelis are fostering a war spirit instead
of assisting in this country's aim of establishing
peace in the Middle East.
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Mr. Byroade spoke the truth when he said
that our Government's "balanced course is diffi-
cult." This. country is, indeed, faced with "a
situation involving great strain and ernOtion,".
as Mr. Byroade has stated the case. The Assistant
Secretary of State for the area that includes
the state of Israel also made this assertion:
"I do not believe success to be unobtainable
in reaching the objectives of peace and se-
curity in the Middle East—as some would
believe. As we proceed in these matters—and
as questions arise in your minds—I ask you to
judge each issue as to whether it is a question
of method in reaching those desired objectives
or a question of fundamentals as to our atti-
tude towards Israel which I have given you in
all sincerity as being facts which will not
change."
It stands to reason that all of us must accept
the existence of a situation that involves
fundamentals as well as method. What those of
us who are so deeply concerned over Israel's
security ask is that in the consideration of
fundamentals our Government take into con-
sideration the war threats to Israel, the shocking
proposal by the Satidian king that 10,000,000 of
his fellow-Arabs be sacrificed in a move to
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destroy Israel, and the dangerous proposal to
Stevens'Russian Assignment'
Admiral
send arms to those who would sound the death
knell for Israel. We ask, as a fundamental
consideration, that those seeking war should
not be given the means of creating war, and
that the little state whose existence i recognized
"Russian Assignment" by Leslie C.. Stevens, Vice Admiral, ,
as part of United States foreign policy should USN, Retired, Naval Attache at the U. S. Embassy in Moscow •
be given a chance to life, liberty and the pursuit 1947-49 (Little, Brown Co.—Atlantic Press), is a most revealing
of happiness.
book. Anyone who doubts the tales of woe that come from and
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about Russia will find proof here of spying on guests from abroad.
ThOse who begrudge Jews the right of con- of the total lack of freedom, of a people's suffering.
Like many others, Admiral Stevens has confidence that the.
cern for their kinsmen in Israel utter the most
shocking expression of inhumanity. The hand- Russian people will rise up to destroy the oppressive government.
ful of Jews who have entered the debates over "As I looked out across the Black Sea towards the darkness that.
the justice of sending arms to Israel must submit was Russia," he concludes his report on his experiences in Russia,
to being branded as anti-Jewish and anti- "I realized that the chances of my ever seeing that land again were
American. By denying the right to Americans very slight, and, because of that, a sort of. sadness and depression,
—because they are Jews—to utter opinion on that which the Russians call toska, settled over me. Yet I know
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this country's foreign policy, while themselves that as surely as light follows darkness, the problems created in
somehow
entering into such a . political discussions, they decent people by the forced maintenance of power will
emerge as reactionary, un-American, inhuman. in the end destroy that power."
In a single reference to JewS, Admiral Stevens asserts: "Jews
It is encouraging that:, an official for our
are not popular in Russia, which prides itself, however, on its
Government has placed it on record that it iS equitable treatment of Minorities—in the press."
American policy that: - "Israel as a state is here
Here is another most revealing statement worth quoting from
to stay and the United States is here to help. this challenging book:
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insure that existence."- We are grateful for this
'While walking home from Sverdlovsk Square we were close
assurance and we ask, in the interest of its on the heels of Paul Robeson, who is greatly admired in Russia
facilitation, that our Government should refuse for his fine singing. He was talking in English with a blonde girl
to arm the Arab states as long as they aim to who accompanied him, he . in his deep musical voice and she with
conduct a war against Israel, and that our State La marked Russian accent. She seemed to be an Intourist girl or
Department and our United Nations delegates her equivalent, who was making arrangements for what he might
strive to compel a peace agreement between see the following day. After the services he has rendered com-
Israel and the Arab states as speedily as possible. munism, I would have expected him to be lodged in the Kremlin,
or at least in the Moscow Hotel rather than the National, and to
be dined and lionized and surrounded with admirers. His appar-
ent mess of pottage seemed to be rather thin, for his leisure time
appeared to be managed like that of any other foreign visitor ill
the hands of Intourist."
'Jews Not Popular in Russia'
Histadrufs Major Role
Israel, at best, is on the defensive. The
latest outbursts of vandalism and murders of Lincoln.
anted. to 'Visit Jerusalem
Israelis within their borders by infiltrating
By : DAVID SCHWARTZ
Jordanians offers added proof that strong
(Copyright, 1954, Jewish Telegraphic Agency)
defense is needed to protect the small state
During the campaign for Lincoln's election, the American
whose unnatural • borders make it open to
poet Whittier wrote a poem which received wide notice at the
attack on a wide front.
time, one of the stanzas of which was:
This means that manpower must be
Give thcflag to the winds,. Set the hill all aflame,
trained, physically and ideologically, to pro-
Make way for the man with the patriarch's name.
vide the defenses needed - .for the state's
Whittier was associating Abraham Lincoln with the Abraham..;
security. •
'of the Bible. Philip Slomovitz once showed me a book which re-!
The working elements in 'Israel, especially vealed some sympathetic interest on the part of. Lincoln to the
those who risk their lives in pioneering idea of the revival of a Jewish state. I. think we might surely have
histor-.
ventures that have called for the creation of . counted on Lincoln's support, if he were living today.. The
Jerusalem..
new settlements on • • the disturbed borders,. Ian Gamaliel Bradford. tells us that:he "remembered"
last evening of his life.
continue to man the . front lines. It is in this on the
Lincoln, it will be recalled, was assassinatedon.the .eve of the•-.
area that Histadrut retains a position of Union victory: Grant had already taken Richmond, the capital:
leadership in the defense of the young na- of the Confederacy, and Sherman , was on his victorious march to
tion. It is because of this that it continues the sea. It was all over—but the shouting. Going to the-theater
to merit support from American Jewry. It on the fateful night, Lincoln was seeking relief from the cares of
is on this score that the sum Histadrut asks office. He spoke to his wife about touring the world and he men- •
from Detroit Jewry in its current drive tioned specifically that he would like to sde the _Holy Land and
should be considered as not too large as an especially Jerusalem. He always wanted to .see Jerusalem, he said
Lincoln.
encouragement . to the front-line pioneers in to , Mrs.
mug have meant much to Lincoln. Probably no
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Israel.
In another area, too, Histadrut has dis-
tin.guished itself—in the •field of Arab-Jew-
ish relations. Responding to vicious anti-
Israel attack by Judaism Council spokesmen
in Baltimore, recently, Dr. Israel M. Gold-
man, in a radio broadcast, stated:
"The government and Histadrut, Israel's
Federation of Labor, have helped the Arabs
establish more than 50 consumer and producer
co-operatives, as well as several loan societies.
They have increased the number of public
clinics and hospitals and augmented Arab
health services."
In this fashion, Histadrut has created a
place of merit fOr itself on the Israel scene.
President of the United States was so saturated with the , spirit
of the Bible than Lincoln, although he was not a churchgoer. He
was a deist, not affiliated with any denomination. When the re-.
vivalist Peter Cartwright, who ran against .him for Congress,
painted the tortures of hell for the unchurched and called out to
1 h o going
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