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Israel Protests to U. S. Against
Byroade's Speech; 'Interference
In Internal Affairs' Is Charged
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
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JERUSALEM—The Israel government Tuesday pro-
tested formally to the United States against interference
in matters which concern Israel alone and warned that As-
sistant Secretary of State Henry A. Byroade's suggestion
last Saturday night that Israel should limit immigration
into the country as a means of reassuring the Arabs might
"impose a severe strain on Israel-American friendship."
The protest was made by Dr. Walter Eytan, director
general of the Israel Foreign Ministry, who summoned
American charge d'affaird's Francis Russell on instructions
from Premier and Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett and
conveyed to him the sentiments of the Israel Cabinet.
Dr. Eytan declared that the Israel government regards
the passage in Mr. Byroade's speech—made before the anti-
Zionist American Council for Judaism—as "unjustified in-
tekference in matters which are purely Israel's own con-
cern, subject entirely to her own sovereign judgment."
(Report of Mr. Byroade's Speech on Page 10)
Dr. Eytan pointed out that the right of 'every Jew to
immigrate to Israel is a fundamental principle of Israel's
policy and legislation. "The Israel government deeply re-
grets the attempt made by a United States official spokes-
man, despite that principle, which is liable to impose a se-
vere strein on Israel-American friendship," he stated.
(The address by Mr. Byroade was cleared by the State
Department and approved in advance of delivery by the De-
partment's top command, it was officially stated Tuesday in
Washington.)
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Byroade Charged with Hindering Peace
Detroit Salutes Israel's 6th Anniversary
The Jewish community of Detroit joins with communities throughout the world and
with libertarians everywhere in greeting the State of Israel on its sixth anniversary, to-
morrow. May the hands of the builders of a free state be strengthened, and may the
people who have learned to smile again, after witnessing the Nazi holocaust, be granted
security in their sovereign state.
This Sabbath, Yom Atzmaut — Israel Independence Day — has been designated
°`Yom Atzmaut Sabbath" by the Detroit Rabbinate.
The community's public meeting in celebration of Israel's sixth anniversary will
be held Saturday evening at the Adas Shalom Synagogue, with Rabbi Morris Adler
as guest speaker. A radio program has been arranged in celebration of the historic
day, 10-10:30 a.m. Sunday, over Station WJBK and WJBK-TV.
Yom Atzmaut stimulates increased efforts for the United Jewish Appeal, sup-
portetil in Detroit by the Allied Jewish Campaign. It also marks the inauguration of
the Development Issue of the Israel Bond Drive.
A direct JTA teletype wire to The Jewish News reports that preparations for the celebration
of Israel's sixth anniversary are in full swing in all parts of the country. Army, government,
municipalities and national institutions are participating in Independence Day festivities.
The army's chief display in Tel Aviv will be a parade along a four-mile path at Ramleh,
now a center for recently-arrived settlers. Besides a regular infantry column, special units of
the army will parade, including a camel corps which is making its first public appearance, and
units composed of non-Jews. Reservists also will march, and 100,000 are expected to view the
parade.
Other clebrations will follow the genial line of previous years and will feature public balls,
youth festivals and street dancing. Special memorial services will be held on Mt. Zion and in all
military cemeteries in honor of those who died in the war of liberation.
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Other Detailed Stories on Inside Pages
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The State Department was
sharply criticized here for the views on the Arab-Israel
problem expressed by Assistant Secretary of State Henry A..
Byroade in his address to the Council for Judaism.
Byroade's second speech on Israel and the Middle
East within the past few weeks is unlikely to be more
favorably received in Israel than his earlier one, the spokes-
man noted. He added that Sec. Byroade's welcome admoni-
tion to the Arabs to accept Israel as a fact and to make
peace is largely negated by his exhortations to Israel to
accept what is contrary to her very essence.
From the standpoint of American-Israel friendship,
Sec. Byroade's choice of a platform could not have been
more unfortunate,' the spokesman stressed. It is, he con-
tinued, as if a responsible spokesman of the Israel Foreign
Office chose for an address on the subject of ISrael's atti-
tude toward the United States an Israeli audience notori-
ously hostile to that country, for example the Communists
who, he asserted, by their relative insignificance compare
well with the Council for Judaism. In fairness to the Israeli
Communists, however, one might add that they never ques-
tioned the right of the United States to exist while -the
Council for Judaism has always violently opposed the es-
tablishment of the Jewish State, he pointed out.
The Israeli spokesman insisted that Sec. Byroade should
have known better than to put forward the singular idea
that Israel should lay down in advance an arbitrary limi-
tation upon immigration which is inadmissible at any time.
Commenting on Sec. Byroade's suggestion that Israel
pay reparations to the Arab refugees, the Israeli spokesman
referred to the fact that Israel had actually expressed its
readiness to contribute a "global sum" to a fund for the
reintegration of the refugees.
Cabinet Crisis in Jordan; UN
Rejects Arab-Soviet Proposal
The United Nations Security Council decided Tuesday to pro-
ceed to review the entire Arab-Israel situation, contrary to the
Arab-Soviet bloc's desire to limit discussions to attacks on Na-
halin by Israel.
In Jordan, the government of Premier Fawzi el Mulki fell
this week on the issue of the modification of policies toward
Israel. A New York Times report states that the Jordan govern-
ment "had become uneasy over advice from Britain, with which
Jordan is bound under a 1948 mutual defensive alliance, to ac-
cede to Israel's demands for bilateral peace talks."
Meanwhile, Israel has charged Jordan with wilful deceptiOn
of the UN in an attempt to discredit the Jewish state. Israel's
Ambassador Abba Eban said accusations of attacks by Israelis
on Jordan villages were "devoid of truth."
A report from London states that Lebanon and Syria have
reached an agreement on joint employment of their military
forces and have already moved in this direction along their
borders with Israel. •
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