Annual Jewish IIgook Fair
Starts Tomorrow Evening

Moral Issue in
Middle East Crisis

Marked Spread of
• Anti-Semitism

The entire community is .invited to the
lectures by distinguished authors, and Ihe
book exhibitions at the Jewish Community
Center, 4095 W,. Davison, Dec. 3 to 6.

Program, Page 28

Editorial, Page 4

Commentary, Page 2

THE JEWISH NEWS

A Weekly Review

Editorials, Page 4

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of Jewish Events

Literary Notes:
Magazines,
The 'Test' of
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Society's
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Commentary, Page 2

Michigan's Only English - Jewish Newspaper --- Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle 4.

VOLUME 28—No. 13

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Middle East Mediation Rumor Called 'Smokescreen'

Premier Charges Britain, Soviet
Share Guilt in Dangers to Israel

Soviets to Finish
Delivery of Arms
To Egypt in Month

Israel Being Blamed for
Soviet-Egyptian Arms Deal

By MILTON FRIEDMAN

(Copyright, 1955, JTA, Inc.)

WASHINGTON—Many expected the Soviet-Arab axis
to cause America to accept Israel as an ally against Com-
munism. But this has not evolved. InStead, Israel is being
blamed more than the Arabs . for the Arab arms arrange-
ments with the Soviet bloc.

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Liberals Ask Aid for Israel

A considerable, number of liberal and moderately con-
servative Congressme4 of both parties have asked the State
Department to provide arms and a security pact to Israel.
But individuals such as Sen. William F. Knowland of Cali-
fornia, Senate Republican leader, are privately urging the
State Department to do nothing for Israel that would
offend Arab - feelings. Such men believe the United States
should prevail on Israel to make territorial sacrifices for
"Peace in our time". to buy off the Arabs from their Soviet
course.
Seri: Knowland favors armed U.S. intervention to

protect Formosa from the Chinese Communists. Never-
theless; the Republican leader responded to the Red threat
in the Middle East by oPpOsing U.S. arms sales to Israel.
•He said any attempt by this country to provide weapons
to Israel would only end up in an arms race with the
CommuniSts rushing more arms to the Arabs.

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As ConimUnist arms poured into Egypt, Sen. Allen J.
Ellender, Louisiana Democrat, indicated he thought it
would be "criminal" for the United States to send arms to
Israel. This influential Member of the Senate Appropria-
tions Committee said that "Jewish people all over the world
should be ready to subsidize Israel. The U.S. 'cannot afford
to subsidize Israel."

Magazine Takes Pro-Arab Stand

In an attack on "the liberal line," a new "conservative"
weekly magazine defined the "conservative" viewpoint on
the Israel-Arab situation.. The "National Review" said: "The
United States' has for years been upsetting the applecart in
the Middle East Without reference to the consequences for
the Arab countries. The Arabs point out that they have
Only Israel's word for it that her military build-up is for
purely defensive purposes. And, that being the case, the day
had to come when the Aral* accepting help from what-
ever source might - be available, would move to restore
the status quO'ante." . .

Delegations of Soiriet journalists, agricultural experts,
and home-builders have been recent speakers before Na-
tional Press Club luncheons. But none of them encount-
ered, the. barbed hostility in the question-and-answer
- period that confronted Israel Foreign Minister Moshe
Sharett. Reflecting the mood in Washington the majority
of questions were phrased with open hostility.

Sentiment among •high-ranking U.S. military leaders
was indicated by the "Army Tinies," -the largeSt and most
authoritative publication of its type. Major George Field-
ing Eliot urged that U.S. Marines, if necessary, take action
against Egypt to prevent the establishment of a Commun-
ist military base there. He expressed an opinion that this
was not the time, "for lengthy debate in the United Nations,
chatter about guarantees for Israel or what happens in the
El Auja zone in some patrol skirmish."

Warns of 'Korea' in Near East

"This is the time," Major Eliot said, "for the western
,powers, still in full command of the situation, to stand up
and be counted: not for Israel's blue eyes, and not on the
ground of this treaty or that, but on the firm, hard prin-
ciple that self-preservation is the first law of nature .. .
-did we defend Korea at the cost of thousands of American
lives only to give the Middle East for free to the Soviet
Empire?"

Major Eliot, however, did not urge the arming of
Israelis so they could defend themselves and American
interests against the same enemy against whom he would

dispatch the U.S. 'Vannes.

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
Soviet bloc is speeding up its
arms shipments to Egypt in an
attempt to complete delivery by
the end of this year, ,according to
reports reaching here.
It is understood that among the
arms already in Egypt ate MIG
15 jet fighters, tanks, artillery
and small arms. It is believed
that small coastal submarines are
included in the order, although
there is, as yet, no indication that
they have been delivered.
The Washington bureau of
Newsweek magazine reports that
the Israel request for arms is re-
ceiving "serious attention" in the
respective government offices.
However,- the - report, adds that
"no definite move - is expected
until after the Christmas holi-
clay." The same report reveals
that a proposal that the U. S.
give Israel a security guarantee
and at the same time announce
adherence to the Baghdad Pact—
which includes Britain; Iraq, Iran,
Turkey and Pakistan—is also un-
der consideration, but is meeting
with strong objections on the
part of some Washington offi-
cials.

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

JERUSALEM--The Israel government has not re-

ceived . any- offer for mediation between it and the
Arab states, it was learned here Tuesday on a most
authoritative level. There has been no British offer
of mediation and no mediator has come forth to offer
his services, the same source declared.
Commenting on reports emanating from Cairo
about the possibility of negotiations between Israel
and Arab states, the local source called them "a smoke-
screen." . The forthcoming, visit of Gideon Raphael ;
top Israel Foreign Ministry 'official, to ,Belgrade, which
has been spotlighted the British press as an indica-
tion of the possibility of Marshal Tito mediating be-
tween Israel and the Arabs; was described as a- "purebir
private" visit. - : -
The same source indicated the likelihOod. -of a visit
this week between - Premier David - Ben-GUrion. and
Maj. Gen. E. L. M. 'Biirris, - United Nations Truce Su:7
pervisor, over proposals by Gen. 'Burns and UN Secre-
tary General Dag Haminarskjold for reduction of teri-
Cta; in ;the Gaza-strip and the El Auja bocclek .ateag.

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Arms Shipments -By Soviet, Britain
Endanger Israel.
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Premier David Ben-Gurion charged. T'uesday that
both- Britain and the Soviet Union, by - shipping arms
to Egypt, were following, policies dangerous to the
security of the Jewish State.
Addressing Parlianient, Mr: Ben-Gurion declared
that both powers were selling arms which could be
used "only against Israel."
"Both Britain and the Soviet Union are aware of
Col. Nasser's political aims," he added, stressing that
the goal of- the Egyptian regime .is "annihilation of
Israel."
The Premier made his statement on a challenge

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Time Magazine Is Out of Step

Expose of Jewish Gentleman With Poison Pen

By NATHAN ZIPRIN

Copyright, 1955, Seven Arts Feature Syndicate

I had the pleaSure of commenting on a Jewish piece In . Look Magazine. This week I have
the sad duty of reacting to .another kind of "Jewish piece" in Time magazine. The Look piece
Was by a goy. It was sympathetic, thorough and educational. The Time piece is by a Jew whO
once .advocated as bitterly against the Abraham is rite as he thies now against Israel and the al.:.
most entire Jewry of America which stands with Israel and Jewry in crisis and in rejoicing. -
This columnist has long deeided to ignore W imam. Zukerman, the gentleman with a dual type-
Writer complex and record. ThiS self-proclaime d expert on Jewish -affairs is not our concern. Let
the AMerican Council for Judaism worry •about .hirn. But we and the Jewish community of Amer-
ica, are concerned about what Time Magazine h as chOsen to do with one of his ugly pieces, either
deliberately or through negligence. The gentle men in Time Magazine who pretend expertness
in evaluating world and local situations must b e adjudged partners to a misdeed when they
headed Zukerman's piece "U. S. Jews Hysterical Over the Middle East." If there is any hysteria,
it exists only in the petty heart of the author_ an d in the hearts of the Judaistic elementS he so
slavishly serves: We know of no hYsteria among - American Jews, nor of any such desPondency inn
Israel itself. Only a foe of Israel and
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a foe of th e American Jewish community could have had
the impudence to spread false witness against us in these most difficult days.
Zukerman, the pidus little gentleman whos e Peregrinations
have finally .led him• to the nest
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of the feathered: would have our fellow Americ ans beliee that we the overwhelmi•gly large
majority of American Jews who openly syinpathize with Israel, are frighteningly intolerant of the
opinions of others and that, what is more, we at e creating an emotionaliim whose basis is gener-
ated from a reality without. Now, of course, only the insensitive to semantics could escape the
meaning of that sort of tattle-bearing.

The gentleman with the poison pen not only tells our neighbors that we are hysterical, but
that our hysteria has been foisted upon us by Zionist leaders and an army of paid progagandisti
as a means of advancing a policy of avowed political pressure and of Stimulating fund-raising.
What he says now is that you and I and millions of Jews throughout the United States are agents
for a foreign government. This libel will not go unanswered.

The gentleman who mixed this potion of poison and untruth. is so small and cuts so insignifi-
cant a figure on the American JeWish scene, or elsewhere, that we.would not stoop to- answer
him. However, when a national publicatiOn such as Time undertakes to assay and evaluate the
mood of American Jewry, the least it could - do is to examine the purity of the fringes that the
gentleman offers them as pure gold.
The editors of Time Magazine know, or else they should make an effort to find out, that the
American Jewish community is as concerned about red infiltration into -the Middle East as every
American of every faith. When an American Jew speaks out against a Moscow-Cairo axis or
against the sale of red arms to the Arab world he doeS so primarily out of awareness that such
a development must in the end, if not checked, become injurious to the. interests of the United
States and to its pdsition in the world. arena. To impute other motives is to cast aspersions upon
a community whose patriotism is as great as that of the gentlemen of the American Council for
Judaism or of the Zukerman ilk.
By publishing the piece without comment, Time Magazine has done a disservice whOse cleans-
ing demands immediate action.

