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Zero Hour in the Middle East!
B G Warns U.S.: Weapons
Needed in Next Few Days
Allied Campaign Divisions
Act to Raise Higher Goals
A number of divisions in the Allied Jewish Cam-
paign moved into high gear this week to secure increases
over last year's contributions for higher goals to meet
the trying situations facing Israel and the Jews in North
Africa. The over-all campaign aim this year is for a mini-
mum of $5,380,000 to meet the regular requirements of
$4,150,000 and an additional $1,230,000 for the United
Jewish Appeal Special Fund. Campaign plans include
the following:
The United Sttes will be responsible if war breaks out in the
Middle East, and America's answer to Israel's request for arms must
be made in a few days, Israel's Premier David Ben - Gurion warned
Tuesday.
Egypt appeared to be gaining control of the entire Arab world's
military powers, with the removal of Gen. John Bagot Glubb as head of
the Arab Legion. •
Only France emerged friendly to Israel—with the announcement of
her readiness to fulfiill the contract to supply the Jewish State with 12
jet planes.
Ben-Gurion Gets Vote of Confidence: War Faction Defeated
Direct JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News
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The annual Mechanarama Dinner, to take place Thursday;
March 22, is planned by the mechanical trades division. Going
over assignments, for a goal exceeding $1,000,000, are (left
to right), seated, _Samuel D. Jacobs, Division vice-chairman,
Jack 0. Lefton, division co-chairman, Leon Kay; standing,
Gerald Sucher, Harry Victor, Irwin Green, section head of
machinery and manufacturing, and Maurice Schiller, working
on special assignments in pre-campaign.
Nathan Balaban (center), chairman of the arts and crafts
division, meets, with Paul Broder (left) and Harvey Willens,
vice-chairmen with Arthur Robinson, to check the reserva-
tions for the annual division dinner slated to launch the
campaign for the arts and crafts division, Monday, March 19,
6:30 p.m., at the Fort Shelby Hotel. Hyman and David Safran
are moving into the entertainment section of the arts and
crafts division for the evening. Hyman, pre-campaign chair-
man, will speak on Israel and special needs of the 1956 cam-
paign, while David will show slides of his recent trip to
Israel with the Detroit Service Group Caravan. The dinner
is sponsored by 22 members of the division to help raise the
division's goal •of $211,000 in the 1956 campaign.
JERUSALEM—Premier David Ben-Gurion, addressing the Israel parliament Tues-
day, said that Israel will start no wars. However, if war is forced on it, Israel would
- see it through to victory.
Probe State Dept.
The premier spoke after the right-wing Herut
party
introduced a no-confidence motion against
Middle East Stand,
the government, charging it with being "fatalis-
,tically passive" in the "continually deteriorating
Eisenhower Asked
military and political situation." The motion
NEW YORK, (JTA) — An appeal
which, if adopted, would have meant an endorse-
to President Eisenhower to take a
ment of a pre7entive war, was defeated, 66 to 13,
hand in the present crisis in the
with 14 abstentions. The latter included General
Middle East, and to appoint a spe-
Zionist, Agudist and Communist deputies.
cial committee to investigate the
State Department's policy on the
"This government," Mr. Ben-Gurion said,
Arab-Israel issue, was made in a
"proclaims that we will not start any wars. This
resolution adopted at a meeting of
government has kept on saying for the last eight
the National Zionist Administrative
years,
since the inception of the state, that we
Council, ruling body of the Zionist
-have to prepare 'for a second round for which
Organization of America between
our enemies are preparing, but if war breaks out
conventions.
we will meet the enemy with all our force and
"The scandal of the recent ship-
beat him:"
ment of tanks to the slave-hunting
kingdom of Saudi Arabia is only one
"We always thought and now think that war
more symptom of the vacillation,
can be prevented," Mr. Ben-Gurion continued,
wavering and zig-zagging which
"but prevention of war is not in our hands. Should
calls for a thorough examination of
such a war come, both the governments of the
the workings of the Department of
Soviet Union and of the United States must share
State and for a serious re-appraisal
responsibility—the USSR for supplying arms to
of the United States policy in the
Middle East," the resolution said.
Egypt and the U.S. for failing to supply balancing
weapons to Israel.
"Recent events in Jordan deal an-
other blow to the appeasement pol-
"This government knew all the time that
icies pursued by the United States
war
was possible. We thought that we had the
and the United Kingdom in the
moral and judicial right to ask for arms, and if
Near East. The foreign policy fol-
war breaks out, the United States government
lowed in the. Near East seems to pre-
will bear the greatest responsibility if it does not
fer calamity to the bolstering of our
true .allies.
supply arms within the next few days."
"The time has come to stop this
policy which has brought us and our
allies to the very brink of disaster.
We, therefore, urge the President
of the United States to assign a spe-
cial committee to investigate the
Department of State and to report
to him. The investigation should
probe any links which might exist
between • the officials of the Depart-
ment of State and private commer-
cial concerns interested in that area
and their influence in official policy.
"Only a firm policy based upon
justice and our true national inter-
est could lead the peoples of the
Middle East away from the danger-
ous paths of Communist intrigue.
We reject emphatically the danger-
ous error that the appeasement of
the Arab states at the expense of
Israel would ever turn them into
allies of the democracies or strength-
en the position of the Free World.
We put the case of the American-
Israel relations before the people
of the United States, trusting the
sense of fairness of this great na-
tion."
New Attacks on Israel, Demand UN Action
The flare-up on the Israel-Egyptian frontier
which started Monday with sporadic firing from
Egyptian positions on Israeli positions Tuesday
prompted the Israel government to demand an
emergency meeting of the Israel-Egyptian Mixed
Armistice Commission.
One Israeli soldier was killed Tuesday when
his "army car struck an Egyptian land mine about
two kilometers from the Gaza strip demarcation
line inside Israel. One Egyptian was killed and
two captured when an Egyptian patrol penetrated
the Beersheba area in the Negev. Three Egyptians
were armed with submachine guns and carried a
number of documents revealing them as a spying
mission.
(On Wednesday, Israel filed protests against
Syrian and Egyptian attacks with the UN Security
Council).
United Nations Truce Chief Maj. Gen. E. L. M.
Burns arrived Tuesday in Cairo for talks with
Egyptian officials on the Egyptian-Israeli border --
situation which is continuously deteriorating. At
the same time it was announced over the Cairo
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