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War in Middle East Now. Considered Unlikely

Good Prospects for Israel in UN
Eisenhower, Dulles Plan Strategy

Israel Asks Face-to-Face
Peace Session With Egypt

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News)
- JERUSALEM—Israel intends to propose formally that
the United Nations convoke a face-to-face conference
between Israel and Egypt, under terms of Article 12 of the
Egypt-Israel Armistice Agreement, with a view to, restoring
peace between the two countries. Article 12 provides that
the Secretary General of the UN must call such a conference
when he receives such a request from either of thd parties.
A top Foreign Ministry 'spokesman announced Tuesday
night that the proposal for such a conference, under Article
12, was submitted a fortnight ago by Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion'to Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns.

Yiddish-- Broadcast by Arabs .
Asks for Peace With Israel

Youssef Hilmi, secretary of the
LONDON (JTA)
Egyptian Peace Movement and a member of the World
Peace Council, appealed in a Yiddish broadcast from
Bucharest to the Israelis for a combined effort to* settle the
Arab-Israel dispute. Mr. Hilmi suggested that the effort be
launched with a conference of the Arab countries, Israel,
the countries which were represented at . the recent Bandung
Conference and the Big Four Powers.
The purpose of this conference, according to the broad-
cast, would be to work out a solution providing for the
right of Israel to be an independent, democratic ,state and a
"similar right for the Arab people." Hilmi was said to have
asserted that "No problem can be solved by war; let's
cooperate. to achieve peace."

Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News
WASHINGTON—On Tuesday, for the second consecutive day, President Eisen-
hower consulted with Secretary of State Dulles on major world problems, including
the Middle Eastern situation, in connection with policy formulation and statements
to be made in the President's message on the State of the Union, to be sent to Congress,
at the opening of the new Congressional session, next month.
Government sources thought it likely the President and Mr. Dulles discussed ways
of countering Soviet Mideast strategy.
In this context, according to these sources, Israel's appeal f o r arms might' have
figured. State Department authorities feel that an . announcement of arms sales to Israel,"
after the Israeli attack on Syrian Galilee p ositions, would further antagonize Egypt
and undermine strategy aimed at wooing that country away from Communist influence.
After the first Eisenhower-Dulles meeting, State Department authorities said that
no decision had yet been reached on Israel's arms list. On the other hand the admin-
istration is certain that Congress will approve the projected financial aid to Egypt for
the building of the Aswan Dam, although some debating of the suggested American
aid to Egypt is expected in Congress.
The U. S. Department of Agriculture announced that authorization issued to Israel
last June for the purchase of wheat or wheat flour has been extended a n d increased
to $2,214,000. Since purchases totaling $1,145,000 were previously - made, the action will
permit the purchase Qf AA additional $1,068,000 worth of wheat or wheat flour, including
certain ocean transportation costs.
The National Academy of Sciences reported that Israel will participate in a project
to be undertaken by leading world scientists who will conduct t h e most comprehensive
investigations in solar activity, meteorology, /Ticket exploration of the upper stratosphere,
geomagnetism, gravity measurements, latitude and longitude determinations, iono-
spheric physics, aurora and glow, cosmic rays, glaciology, oceanography and seismology.

Happier Prospects in 1956 Predicted for lsraelin Democratic World

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (JTA) — The prediction that no Arab-Israel war is
likely in the near future and that Israel's prospects for friendly consideration by the
democratic world will be better in 1956 than ever before was made here by a number
of diplomatic observers, despite the fact that Syria demands Israel's expulsion from
UN membership.
Israel will probably draw Security Council censure for her reprisal attack on
Syria's outposts on Lake Tiberias, but no doubt exists in United Nations circles that
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Arab Diplomats Called 'Worst Offenders
In American Jewish Committee's Rebuke
To Anti -Jewish Propagandists in the U.S.

NEW YORK (JTA) — Attacks against American Jews by Arab propagandists "can only
contribute to disunity among Americans and con fuse the issue in the Middle East," the American
Jewish Committee warned.
Declaring that "there is no doubt that A rab propagandists are seeking, by their use of
anti-Semitic propaganda, to weaken the status of Jews in America," the AJC reported that allied
with the Arab propagandists are . many of America's right-wing propagandists who "in happy
accord with any anti-Semitic campaign, are publicizing the Arab view." The result of such activity
is "obstructing the development of a sound American policy" for the Middle East, the report said.
"The American Jewish Committee is a non-Zionist organization, but it deeply resents any
iMplication that Zionists or other Jews in the United States are disloyal to their country," the
AJC statement emphasized. It named Arab diplomat's as the worst offenders. These include
Mohammed Fadhil el-Jamali, chairman of the Iraq delegation 'to the UN General Assembly;
Farid Zeineddine, Syrian Ambassador to the United States; and Mohammed Habib, press attache
at the Egyptian Embassy in Washington. Arab diplomats, the AJC points out, "for years have been
using the forum of the United Nations for similar attacks on American Jews, accusing them of
`dual loyalty', 'dual nationality', 'dual allegiance'."
The AJC report states that among the anti-Semites who have jumped on the. Arab band-
wagon are Gerald L. K. Smith and Conde McGinley, in addition to such organizations "as, the
openly Hitlerite National RenaiSsance Party." Most of the 'Arab propaganda seems to emanate from
-Cairo, the AJC says, citing the Egyptian-inspired pamphlet, "Jewish Atrocities in the Holy Land,"
A second pamphlet, "The Story of Zionist Espionage in Egypt," obviously written in Cairo, is
being distributed by Smith, McGinley and other extreme right-wingers whose hatred for American
Jews "has inspired their devotion to the Arai) cause."
The AJC calls attention to the anti-Semitic, anti-Israel arguments used by America's
anti-Semites who continuously equate Communism with Zionism, insisting that Zionism and
Communism both seek "world supremacy."- "The anti-Semites have eagerly picked up and
amplified these arguments, though how they will find evidence of Zionist-Communist rapport in
the shipment of Czech arms to Egypt remains tc be seen," the AJC points out. It deplores the
adoption "by more respectable elements of American public opinion," such as the American
Friends of the Middle East, of the false charge by America's anti-Semites and Arab propagandists

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Poster Boy:

Tommy Woodward, of Baltimore,
aged 5, the 1956 "Poster Boy" of the March of Dimes, helps
Bnai Brith open its annual campaign in behalf of the Na-
tional. Foundation for Infantile Paralysis by making a special
trip to Chicago just before the holidays for a visit with Philip
M; Klutznick, world president of Bnai Brith, and Mrs. Louis
L Perlfan, president of the Bnai Brith Women. The nation-
wide campaign, opening Jan. 2 and continuing to Jan. 30,
will feature Tommy's picture on all the posters and adver-
tising material. The Bnai Brith campaign is being directed by
the National Commission on Americanism and Civic Affairs.

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that the so-called "Jewish vote" exerts an influence on American foreign policy in the Middle East.

Set Up '56 Allied Drive Machinery

Judge Theodore Levin, president of the Jewish Welfare Federation, this week an-
nounced that machinery is being set Alp for the 1956 Allied Jewish Campaign, under the
chairmanship of John E. Lurie, who headed last year's drive. Max Fisher has been named

co-chairman of the 1956 campaign. Detailed stories, Page 2