Let There
Be an End
To Arabs'
Anti-Jewish,
Anti-American
Propaganda

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Threats to Israel Shishe World _Public Opinion

Khrushchev's Attack,
'Surplus Arms Sales,
International Issues

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Israel's problems, created by Arab threats to destroy the
Jewish State and to exterminate the Israelis, and the support
given by the Communist countries, headed by Soviet Russia, and
by the present - British government, to the Arab states, came to
a new turn on world public opinion platforms this week.
Protests launched by the British Labor Party leader, Hugh
Gaitskell, against shipping of "surplus" British war material to the
Arab states appears to have forced a showdown in England, with
the possibility of a retreat by Britain in its established policy of
arming the Arabs at Israel's expense. There is talk in London
that the Eden Government may fall as a result of mishandling
the Middle East situation.
At the United Nations, where a demand was made last
week by Syria for the expulsion of Israel from the world organi-
zation, Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, Palestine Truce Supervisor,
reported that Syria violated the armistice agreement by firing
on an Israeli police boat in the Sea of Galilee before the Israeli
attack on the Syrian military post. Gen. Burns' report was based
on an admission of a Syrian cadet officer, now a prisoner of the
Israelis, that he had opened fire with a bazooka on the Israeli
vessel, and on official documents captured by the Israelis.
Soviet Secretary General Nikita Khrushchev's attack on
Israel, in a speech before the Supreme Soviet in Moscow, drew
resentment and condemnation in the Israel Knesset from Prime

Communist Attack on Israel
Draws Blast from Sharett;
Charges Strain in Relations

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

JERUSALEM—Israel Foreign Minister Moshe
in a scathing a t t a c k on Soviet
Communist Par ty . Chief Nikita
Khrushchev, said Monday that Mr.
Khrushchev's labelling Israel an
aggressor in the Middle East had
"imposed an additional h ea v y
strain on relations with the Soviet
government.
Taking the Communist leader to
task for his expression of "sym-
pathy" for the Arab states and his
Sharett
remarks that Israel and "imperial-
ists behind Israel" were threatening the Arab
nations' independence, Mr. Sharett declared in the
Israel parliament that the Khrushchev declaration
had "aroused not only deep regret, grievous
offense and bitter ridicule in Israel, but amaze-
ment and revulsion in the hearts of lovers of
truth throughout the world."

"Our demand for arms, first and foremost,"
the Foreign Minister continued," makes others
think twice before attacking Israel. We abso-
lutely reject the allegations that arms for Israel
mean an arms race in the Middle East—there
is no moral basis for such allegations."

He also reported briefly on his conversations
with the Soviet Foreign Minister, V. M. Molotov,
in Geneva, and said that Mr. Molotov's replies
to his requests for assurances that arms would
not be funneled to Arab states had "not satisfied"
him.
Mr. Sharett placed on record the American
public's sympathy for Israel's cause and its "lively
awareness of our problems." Relating his impres-
sions of the attitude of public and governmental
leaders obtained during his recent visit to the
United States, he said that there was no reason
to fear American pressure on Israel to give up

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Minister David Ben-Gurion and Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett.
While there is belief now that the Soviet delegates may sponsor
the Syrian resolution for Israel's expulsion from the United Na-
tions, the combined attacks on Israel now are exposed as a brutal
combination of evil forces.
Additional danger to Israel was foreseen this week in
Britain's decision to increase aid to Jordan—boosting the total
to $30,100,000—and the decision to speed the establishment
of a Jordanian port at Aqaba, near the Israeli port of Eilath;-and
in the announcement that U.S. war material is being sold in
Germany to Egypt.
In Washington, the JTA reports, there is growing criti-
cism of what is considered a lack of fixed U.S. policy in the
Middle East, coupled with warnings that an Arab-Israel war
must be warded off quickly. Demands are increasing that balance
of power be restored between Israel and the Arabs. The JTA
also reports from Washington that dissatisfaction has been ex-
pressed in State Department circles over the extent of the Arab
boycott and the refusal of Arab states to grant visas to Amer-
icans of the Jewish faith.
An editorial in the New York Mirror condemned Farid
Zeineddine, Syrian Ambassador to the U.S. for his attacks on
American Jews and declared he was "being fresh—too fresh"
when he said "why not let New York be a homeland for the
Jews."

Belgian Foreign Minister Challenges Britain

On Arms Shipments; Calls Ambassadors' Parley

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BRUSSELS—Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, disturbed over the use . of Belgian ports
as funnels through which large quantities of "surplus" British armaments are being poured into
• Egypt, has launched a series of steps designed to stem the flow of war goods to
Egypt via this country. Mr. Spaak has called into conference the Ambassadors of
Britain, France, Egypt and Israel and has also called for urgent reports on this
entire situation from the Belgian Ambassador in London, Paris, Cairo and
Jerusalem—as well as from Belgian Police. Meanwhile, however, a spokesman
for the Foreign Office blamed Britain for the "muddle." "There are still abundant
British war materials here, in Belgium ; " he said, "for which export licenses cannot
be refused. The only way to stop this is for Britain to ban the export of war
materials to Belgium. That is the only way to keep this material from reaching
any country in the future."
The Foreign Ministry also revealed that talks on this subject have been held
Spaak
"for some time" between the Belgian and British government. Belgium, he
'declared, while not a member of the Tripartite Declaration powers—France, Britain and the
United States—which guaranteed a Middle Ea st arms balance between Israel and the Arab
states in 1950, has nevertheless on its own initiative observed the declaration's principles as
far as possible. Reports that some British war materiel has gone recently to Israel via Belgian
or Dutch ports were denied Tuesday by an Israel spokesman here. "We have no money to buy
such quantities as Egypt has bought here," he said.

U.S. War Materiel
Also Sold to Egypt

British newspapers charged
this week that United States

"demilitarized surplus war
materiel" also is being sold to
Egypt.
The U. S. Defense Depart-
ment has admitted such sales,
in Germany, stating that such
armaments are sold for use
only as "basic metal content."
The Middle East situation is
being discussed by Britain's
Middle East envoys, in London.

Detailed Reports on

Pages 3 and 28

Anti-Semitic Party his
High in French Elections

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

PARIS—There is concern here amona liberal-minded and
Jewish elements at the striking successes of
s the Pierre Poujade
movement in the French elections. Starting two years ago from
scratch, the Poujadists have gained 49 seats in the Assembly,
and with the confused state of parliamentary representation will
be a force to reckon with.
In their bitter attacks on Pierre Mendes-France, Jewish
leader . of the leftist radicals, the Poujadists utilized vile anti-
Semitic propaganda and anti-Jewish references, largely in their
election speeches. Another disturbing aspect of the Poujade
group has been its use of strong arm men to disrupt meetings
of other political bodies—uncomfortably reminiscent of early
Hitlerite tactics.

