`Bible and Sword,'
Religion, Politics
in Middle East

'Affront' in
Arms Sales

THE JEWISH NEWS

A Weekly Review

Commentary,
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of Jewish Events

Expose of Major
Issues in Middle
East Controversy

An American
Principle at Stake

Editorials, Page 4

Michigan's Only English - Jewish Newspaper — Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle

VOLUME XXI

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Hope for Amity Mingled With New Tensions

Bulganin Applauds Israel's Peace
Moves, But Gives Egypt More Arms

Kashrut in Moscow!

Chief Rabbi Schliffer Reveals
Sensational Dietary Plans

NEW YORK, (JTA) — Soviet meat shops in Jewish
neighborhoods will soon be selling kosher meat in Moscow
and the government will...open kosher restaurants, Mos-
cow's Chief Rabbi, M. Schliffer, announced at a Shevuot
service, according to a cable to the New York Times.
The dispatch from Moscow said that Rabbi Schliffer
had declared that the kosher meat shops would sell kosher
meat at regular prices and that the Jewish community
would be required to pay the difference in cost. He also
said that the government plans to permit the opening of
a new Jewish theological seminary. There has been talk
lately of the government's reopening theaters for Jewish
performances and publishing new papers in the Yiddish
language. These reports are unconfirmed, the Times said.

Oren Reveals. Tortures in
Czech Jail for 41/2 Years

TEL AVIV, (JTA) — Mordecai Oren, who came home to
Israel after four-and-a-half years in Czech prisons, told a
meeting of the secretariat of the left-wing Mapam Party of the
"Gestapo-like inquisition" which had induced him to confess
to crimes he never committed. The secretariat meeting was
held in Oren's home of the Mizra collective settlement.
Mr. Oren began his story by describing his last mission
in Czechoslovakia = intervention on behalf of arrested Social-
ists. He was taken into custody aboard a train bound for
Vienna, from where he had intended to return to Israel. The
immediate pretext for his arrest was an expired entry visa.
Later, he said, he was questioned as to why he had intervened
on behalf of the jailed Socialists. Then, he felt, he was probably
ohosen to become a cog in the huge machinery constructed to
try the late Rudolf Slansky—Czech Communist leader who
was executed for treason—and his associates. The Slansky
trial, in which Mr. Oren was involved, heard Czech government
charges that Slansky had, among other things, been implicated
in an international Zionist conspiracy to betray the state.
Mr. Oren revealed that he had been interrogated for days
on end—in one instance he went without sleep for three weeks
and was given only coffee and cigarettes in order to keep him
awake, with fresh interrogators taking over the questioning
every few hours. As he was nearing collapse, he related, he
came to understand that no one in Israel would know his fate
and he, therefore, requested permission to write. This request
was not granted, he said, until a high official told him he could
write home, but only on condition that he say in his letter that
he really was a traitor and asked an apology. of the Czech
people for the crimes he had committed against them.
He wrote that letter—he added—in order that those at
home would know he was still alive and with the hope that
they would understand that his self-description as a "traitor"
was false. The Mapam leader then went on to say that he had
been turned into an object through which Zionism, Mapam and
Jewry could be attacked. "Had they really wanted the truth,"
he said, "they would have completed my investigation in 22
minutes, but they wanted the opposite and that took them
t2 months until they made me confess to everything they
wanted." They succeeded in this aim, he charged, through Ges-
tapo measures—nearly no food, no water and no sleep.
Another episode described by the returned Mapam leader
bo the meeting was his trial. It was a secret military trial and
he ,was denied every possibility of making an adequate defense
—no lawyers of his own, no documents and no defense wit-
nesses. The lawyer furnished him, he added, was only another
prosecutor, who asked the court that Mr. Oren be meted out a
just punishment. The epilogue to the episode, according to Mr.
Oren was even more ironic—he was supposed to pay defense
counsel 600 kronen for that defense.,
The Mapam leader stressed that he did not sign a charge
sheet in which he was to have confessed that Mapam was not
a workers' party and that it was anti-Socialist.

Hope was expressed in the world's capitals this week of increasing possibilities
of gradual reductions of tensions in the Middle East:
• In London and in Washington, diplomatic circles were especially heartened by
the visit in Israel of an Egyptian newspaperman, Ibraham Izzat, who was received
by- Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and other Israeli officials and who can•
ried with him a message of peace. Mr. Ben-Gurion offered to meet Nasser anywhere
—even in Cairo.
While Egyptians believed that the Israelis would mistreat an Arab, the fine re-
ception given to Izzat is expected to serve as a signal for changes in attitudes be-
tween conflicting forces.
The general comment in Washington was that such an interchange of good feelings
would have been "impossible a few years ago," Izzat having toured Israel "as a
guest of the Israeli government."

In Washington, a United States official was quoted as saying that the tour would
lead the Arab reading public to the realization that Arab propaganda to the effect
that Israel is about ready to fall apart is wide of the mark.

In Jewish quarters, additional hope was expressed that Nasser's authorization for
Izzat to return to Israel for a second visit will lead him to the recognition of the
exaggeration of his report that the Arab minority is mistreated in the Jewish State.
At his press conference on Tuesday, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles des-
cribed as "encouraging" the visit of Izzat and an Egyptian radiO commentator's re..
ported intimation that peace with Israel was possible. Mr. Dulles said he was "happy"
over these developments but was really not yet in good position to evaluate theni.
But, he said, if any kind of napprochment is emerging, it is in line with U. S. policy
and objectives.

Mr. Dulles said that the momentum established by the mission of UN Secretary
General Dag Hamarskjold shoud be maintained but that he did not know if Mr.
Hammarskjold should .return to the Middle East at the present time.
While it was observed in Washington that the Izzat visit reflected the easing of
tensions established by the Hammarskjold visit, there was hesitation in believing
that the cease-fire would lead ready to a final peace settlement.
•
It is now believed that Mr. Hammarskjold is not too keen on a return visit to the
Middle East at this time.
At his Tuesday press conference, Mr. Dulles expressed "regret" at Nasser's
recognition of Red China. He said such recognition would not appreciably improve

the Peking regime's chances of gaining admission to the United Nations.
Mr. Dulles said he had no information on the report that Egypt might buy arms from Red
China. Asked about the status of U. S. support of the Egyptian High Aswan Dam project, he
indicated that the matter might still be pending. But he made it clear that if Egypt secured
Soviet cooperation on the dam, it was unlikely that the United States would participate.
Meanwhile, removal of 21 army surplus half-truck vehicles from an Israel-bound ship,
created additional resentment _against the imbalance of arms provisions in the Middle East.
The vehicles were turned back to the dealer who sold them to the Israel Purchasing Corn-
mission, and, instead, an order was placed for $150,000 worth of half-truck spare parts.
Sepators Hubert Humphrey, of Minnesota, and Paul Douglas, of Illinois, registered strong
protests- against the removal of the vehicles fr •m the Israel ship. Announcement was made
that Israel will not file an official protest. U.S. action was taken on the ground that the ve-
hicles were not covered by a valid export license.
A report to the New York Herald Tribune from its Moscow correspondent, B, J. Cutler,
stated that Soviet Prime Minister Marshal Nikolai A. Bulganin on Friday night told Israel.
Ambassador Joseph Avidar that he believed Israel wants peace in the Middle East.
Cutler's cable states that Bulganin's comment was made to Avidar, who is the former
deputy chief of the Israeli army, at a reception in the French Embassy, while the two men
were discussing the British-Russian talks in London, last month, after which the Russians
issued a communique calling upon Arabs and Israelis to work for peace.
Marshall Bulganin is quoted by Cutler as having said, "jokingly," -: "R is all for you that
we do this. We even had to go to Landon to talk about you."
Cutler cabled that Bulganin's remark, "we believe that you want peace," was "judged by.
diplomats in the room to more friendly to Isra el than the recent tone of ' the Soviet press,
which has played up border clashes and blamed them on aggressive circles in Israel."

Speaking in Alexandria, on Friday, to a glass of graduating naval cadets, Egypt's Premier
Gamal Abdel Nasser said his country is free to buy arms from any one it chooses and he
warned that Egypt will resist any curbs on arms. _

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, United Nations truce chief, left for
New York Wednesday to report to Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold on the results of Gen.
Burns' latest talks with the heads of the various governments over agreements negotiated with
them by Mr. Hammarskjold and Gen. Burns during the former's visit to the Middle East.
The Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission condemned Jordan in severe tones for
the ambushing- Tuesday night of two Israeli civilians on a road near Wadi Ara, some 15 miles
southeaest of Haifa. The MAC, with the Amerioan chairman, Commander Elmer Terrill, vot-
ing with the Israelis, charged that a "team of armed aggressors" had crossed the Israel-Jordan
demarcation line and attacked the Israelis.
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