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E• en H Ids 'Co promise' Stand;
Brit in Not F vored as Medi r=for

Israel Denies Syrian Claims
Iii Attack on Military Post

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

. JERUSALEM—The Israel Foreign Ministry published
a denial Tuesday of Syrian claims that an Israel raiding
force which knocked out four Syrian outposts on the eastern
shore of Lake Tiberias Sunday night, had suffered 100
casualties. The Israelis announced early Monday that the
raiders had suffered four dead and 12 wounded in action.
Referring to the Egyptians' claims after recent action along
the Nitzana-El Auja border, the statement said that Syria
was taking a leaf out of Egypt's book, but was somewhat
more modest, claiming only 100 casualties instead of the 200
broadcast by Cairo.
The Israel army -is a people's army, the Foreign Min-
istry stated, and it "is inconceivable that people should be
presented with anything but the truth concerning army
casualties." Original figures made public are accurate, the
statement stressed.
Israeli spokesmen explained that the attack on the
Syrian army positions were made after Syrian gunners had
fired on Israeli fishing vessels and an Israeli police escort -
launch.

Direct JTA Teletype W ire to The Jewish News

LONDON—The debate in the British House of Commons Monday on the Middle
East served only to underscore the British government's determination not to attempt to
balance Soviet arms shipments to Egypt wi th arms for Israel, and not to extend the
security pact to the Jewish State.
Suumming up for the government, Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden refused to
withdraw anything he had said on Nov. 9 when he proposed a "compromise" and sacri-
fices to Israel and Arab States as prerequisites for peace negotiations. He further re-
fused to clarify what he had meant by the se gen,eral terms, insisting that they were
matters to be settled by negotiators. This c ontinued reluctance to spell out his proposals
strengthened feeling here that he was urging Israel to make major sacrifices.
Intense interest, which normally accompanies debate on this level was absent Mon-
day. Laborites continued to press the government for support of Israel. in many instances
with support of Conservative members. However, it is obvious that the British govern-
ment's position is rigid and that Prime Minister Eden will not be moved. The Prime
Minister insisted that an Israel-Arab "settlement is essential to the interest of both
parties and the need for settlement is more urgent than ever in the interests of both
parties." He insisted that his Nov. 9 speech in London's Guildhall was an attempt to
bring both sides to the realization that the "condition could not go on indefinitely as they
were at this very hour, without danger of war increasing."
The minds of Arabs and Israelis must be turned toward peace, he continued, and the
purpose of his speech was to underline the po ssibility of peace and the fact that the United
States and Britain were prepared to help in the realization of a peace settlement.
Both sides had to move from their fixed positions and these rigid positions were not
only territorial, he stressed. He said he had not and would not attempt to describe
specific concessions because this was the province of negotiating parties and because any

Byroade's Psychology and the Growing. Depression in Israel

Will Jan. 30 Be Another Munich?

By MILTON FRIEDMAN

(Copyright, 1955, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

WASHINGTON—Henry A. Byroade, U.S. Ambassador to Egypt, sees himself as a sort of
international psychiatrist.

Dr. Byroade's analysis of the Communist-Egyptian arms deal was that it would
enhance peace prospects because Egypt's "fears" of Israel might subside as Egypt became
stronger and more "secure." Egypt, according to Dr. Byroade, has an inferiority complex
arising from its military defeat by Israel.
The Byroade prescription calls for the cession of Negev territory
by Israel to repair Egypt's damaged ego. This formula would enable Egypt
to regain prestige and equilibrium, thus facilitating a return of American
influence.
Israel looks on this remedy with growing depression and "illusions",
of persecution. The Byroade school of psychiatry apparently prescribes
"shock therapy" treatment for Israel. Leaders of Israel have taken a clinical
look at the prognosis and told the international psychiatrist, in effect,
"Doctor, heal thyself." No territory will be ceded by Israel to satisfy
Egyptian neuroses.
Friedman
State Department policy planners, fearful of growing Soviet influ-
ence in Egypt, have indicated a tendency to take Byroade's ideas seriously. At the same
time the "Spirit of Geneva" has given way to the "Spirit of Cairo," an equally phony
peace offensive conceived by Egypt to mask war preparations against Israel. •
The British and American Governments, in the opinion of some Israelis, have
been duped by the Arabs into thinking that the Arabs rather than Israel are for peace
at this juncture. Moscow peace doves are zooming across Egyptian skies. Such "doves"
are jet-propelled, nomenclature MIG-15.
Will Jan. 30 bring another Munich? That is what Israel wants to know. On
that date British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden meets in Washington with Presi-
dent Eisenhower to discuss Arab-Israel peace as a major agenda point. Eden shocked
Israel on November 10 by citing the 1947 Palestine partition plan, involving a sacrifice
of territory by Israel, as a "compromise" proposal for "peace in our time." It could
not be determined from the British Embassy if Eden will bring an umbrella to Wash-
ington.
The United States, however, considers the 1947 plan obsolete as a basis for negotia-
tions because it leaves the Negev to Israel virtually intact. The plan cedes a portion
of the Galilee to the Arabs. U.S. diplomats point out that the Negev rather than the
Galilee is the current scene of strife. Arab claims to the Galilee do not at present
constitute a "live" question, according to these State Department thinkers. They feel
Israel sacrifices should be made, instead, in the Negev where Egypt wants a land
connection linking it with Jordan.

such detailed presentation would kill all chances of getting talks
off the ground. He added that there was "no pressure from us on
any country to do a particular thing or to make a particular con-
cession."

Referring to the Tripartite Declaration of 1950, he said that
Britain stood by it in its entirety. "By it we stand to assist Israel
if she were attacked or (to take) action to assist an Arab country
if attacked by Israel."

On the arms question, he said that weapons were pouring into
the Middle East states from all parts of the world adding: "Per-
haps it is not wise, but I think I should say that Israel is not, in
my belief, at a disadavantage today in relation to any Arab state,
or indeed to any combination of Arab states who are on her
frontier. I think that is about a true estimate of the situation."

(The New York Times reported from Jerusalem that Israel
had been assured that "Britain has no designs to press her into
cession of Negev territory." The cabled report, by Harry Gilroy,
stated that "Israel is believed to have little faith in Britain as a
possible mediator because of her military connections with Jor-
dan and Iraq and old relationships with the Arab nations.")

New Fund for Middle East
On Eisenhower, Eden Agenda

LONDON, (JTA)—When President Eisenhower and
Prime Minister Eden discuss the Middle East situation in
Washington next month, it is believed here that they will
have before them detailed plans for the establishment of a
central fund to aid the economic development of Middle
East countries. Official sources here say that there is al-
ready agreement between the two countries that more
must be -done by the West if it is to combat Soviet influence
by economic aid, than has been the case in the past.
The British Foreign Office is concerned to settle, once
and for all, the question of a joint military, political and
economic approach to the Middle East. While this has been
agreed on in the past, it is said here that public statements
by United States officials have tended to dissipate the effec-
tiveness of Anglo-American solidarity on Middle East ques-
tions. One major step which is expected here is formal
American adherence to the Bagdad pact in the very near
future. There is little belief here that this move will be
accompanied by any formal extension of a security guaran-
tee to Israel.

Federation Accepts UJA Emergency Quota of $1,230,000

- Spurred on by the urgent appeal made here last week by the United
Jewish Appeal leaders, Rabbi Herbert A. Friedman and Dewey D. Stone,
the executive committee of the Jewish Welfare Federation unanimously
agreed to accept the UJA emergency fund quota for Detroit of $1,230,000—
above and beyond the $4,100,000 raised in the 1955 Allied Jewish Campaign,
Judge Theodore Levin, Federation president, reported this week.
News of the COMmittee's action will be conveyed directly . to UJA
leaders in New York this week-end at the national UJA conference by
members of the Detroit delegation. Among them are expected to be Mrs.
Abraham Cooper, Mrs. Lewis B. Daniels, Max M. Fisher, Mrs. Seymour
J. Frank, Mrs. Joseph H. Ehrlich, Josenh Holtzman, Mrs. John C. Hopp,
Abe Kasle, Mr. .and Mrs. Milton K Mahler, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel H.
Rubiner and Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Srere.
Mr. Rubiner, executive committee chairman, will bring the com-
mittee's resolution before the board of governors of the Federation at noon,
Wednesday, Dec. 21, at the Fred M. Butzel Memorial Building. to gain
approval of the board for a 1956 Allied Jewish Campaign goal that will

provide the UJA. with the kind of help it is seeking to carry on the full
program of immigration to Israel, while Israel—facing the greatest crisis
in her history—is dealing with her major concern of looking to her own
defense.
John E. Lurie, 1955 campaign chairman, praised the men in the trades
and professions for the way. they are getting together to prepare for the
campaign that will mark the biggest all-out effort of the Metropolitan
Detroit Jewish community since 1949.
Max M. Fisher, treasurer of Federation and 1955 chairman of pre-
campaign, in his plea to the executive committee to accept the UJA
emergency fund quota as Detroit's share in the $25,000,000 national emer-
gency drive, said: "We need a new word for 'emergency,' because the
situation which faces Israel today is the gravest in her history. Israel is
determined to continue to take in those Jews who must come there from
North Africa and elsewhere and if we don't relieve her of the cost of this
immigration and absorption program this year, she will never be able to
handle her own defense program. This is a crisis that cannot wait—the
time for giving our biggest gifts ever is now."

