HE JEWISH NEWS INFANTILE PARALYSIS A Weekly Review of Jewish Events Urgent Call To Action For Israel Noteworthy Contributions Editorials, Page 4 Michigan's VOLUME 28—No. 17 Only English - Jewish 27 Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.--VE. 8-9364—Detroit 35, December 30, 1955 ' Jewish Chronicle $5.00 Per Year; Single Copy 15c 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 (Continued on Page 24) 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 . 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. . 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