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Soviet Pressure, Cabinet Shuffle

Arab League Agent
Spreads Anti-Jewish
Propaganda in U.S.

By MILTON FRIEDMAN

(Copyright, 1956, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)

WASHINGTON — The representative
in America of Algerian and Moroccan
nationalist movements has attempted to
influence the U.S. Justice Department
against American Jewry. He is El Abed
Bouhafa, a paid agent of Saudi Arabia
and the Arab League.
Bouhafa has publically maintained that
Algerian and Moroccan nationalists re-
present no threat to
North Africa's half-mil-
lion Jews, But Regis-
tration File No. 466 of
the Justice Department
tells a different story.
In a statement to
the Justice Department,
Bouhafa denounced as-
sertions of the Anti-
Defamation League of
Bnai Brith as "vicious,
slanderous, and typic-
ally Gestapo-like." He
Milton Friedman said he "wishes to go on
record as saying that
any harm done to him, to his wife, or his
children will be blamed on that Zionist
organization. It is certainly regrettable
that in such a country of freedom, justice,
and democracy such fascistic or totali-
tarian methods should be permitted . . .
such wicked charges and campaigns by
American Zionists . . . (do) not help to
promote Arab-American friendship . . .
these Zionist groups are but aiming at
spoiling (such friendship) . . ."
The Justice Department files show
that Bouhafa's work for the Algerian
National Movement and the Committee
for Freedom of North Africa are financed
by the Arab League in Cairo, Egypt. He
has received funds from the Saudi Ara-
bian Embassy in Washington. According
to the Justice Department file, he "is
naturally very closely associated with
Arab diplomats in Washington and in the
United Nations . . ."
The files reveal that Bouhafa, spokes-
man in this country for North African
"freedom" is "supervised, directed, or con-
trolled by . . . Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia,
Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and
Lybia."
A 1952 report of the Anti-Defamation
League quoted Bouhafa as saying "The
American Jews are snakes worse than
Hitler." It named him as the "contact" of
Robert H. Williams, an anti-Semitic palm,
phleteer, in an attempt to export anti-
Jewish propaganda writings to the Arab
states.
Bouhafa's most recent activities have
been in Communist Yugoslavia where he
worked on a plan to make Marshall Tito
a mediator in the Algerian-French dis-
pute. He also sought Communist muni-
tions for the Algerian underground
forces.
The "main activity" currently financed
by the Arab League in the United States
is concentrated on Algeria. Algeria's
140,000 Jews have already begun feeling
the impact of Arab guns and bombs.
Bouhafa, according to the Justice Depart-
ment file, is responsible for "preparing
documentation on this (Algerian) ques-
tion for use of the Afro-Asian delega-
tions in their defense of the case before
the United Nations, in issuing statements
to the press or sending petitions to the
organs of the U.S. Government."
Recorded in the files are •Bouhafa's
links with Istaq1a1 Party leaders; Messali
Hadj, head of. the Algerian movement,
and the Tunisian Neo-destour party. The
files record payment of many thousands
of dollars by the Arab League to Bouhafa
who "reports to the Arab League any
developments ...

Taken from JTA Teletype Wires to The Jewish News

The arrival this week in Egypt of Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitri Shepilov has been interpreted by

various sources as a sign that Russia will join the Arab states in fighting for implementation of the 1947
United Nations' Partition Resolution on Palestine. This would reduce Israel's present territory by 30
percent.
Coupled with the Cabinet changes in Israel, which this week saw the resignation of Foreign Minister
Moshe Sharett and the naming of Mrs. Golda Myerson as his successor, Shepilov's visit could mean
Israel's "crisis of the hour."
Cairo radio broadcasts relayed from London report that Shepilov on arriving in Egypt emphasized
Soviet friendship for the Arab countries and declared that the Soviet Union is against "colonial expansion"
and "imperialist monopoly," especially "oil monopolies."
At the same time, official radio Egypt attacked U. S. Secretary of State Dulles for stating that
while the U. S. is refusing arms to Israel, it has no objection to sales by other nations. Whether America
gives planes and arms directly or delivers these planes alternately via France and Canada, our view
toward America would not change," the Cairo broadcast stated.

See Sharett Resignation Stories—Pages 2 and 32

Sharett's Successor
but Not for Long

Mrs. GOLDA MYERSON
was named this week to suc-
ceed Moshe Sharett as Is-
rael's Foreign Minister. How-
ever, she indicated that she
considers the post temporary.

Talks on Emigration Continue in Morocco

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

WASHINGTON„ (JTA)—The problem of

Jewish emigration from
Morocco was discussed with the State Department Tuesday by a delega-
tion of Jewish leaders, headed by Irving M. Engel, president of the
American Jewish Committee.
The delegation was received by George V. Allen, Assistant Secretary
of State for the Near East and Africa. The question of the plight of Jews
in Syria and Tunisia also was raised. The delegation in addition to Engel,
included Dr. John Slawson, executive vice-president of the American
Jewish Committee, and Murray I. Gurfein, president of United Hias
Service.
From Morocco, it was reported that a representative of the World
Jewish- Congress is conducting "discreet" talks with Moroccan authorities
which may result in finding a way to secure emigration for at least the
2,000 Moroccan Jews now concentrated in a transit emigration camp at
Casablanca. These Jews had liquidated their homes and reached the camp
before the Moroccan government had issued its ban on collective Jewish
emigration.
The World Jewish Congress, according to the report, also is seeking
to convince Moroccan authorities to permit the emigration of other
Moroccan Jews who have liquidated their homes in the hope of being.
able to leave for Israel.
Negotiations also are being conducted for the i__;uance by the
Moroccans of individual passports to some or all Jews caught by the ban
on emigration.
Speaking on the ban which ordered the dissolution of Kadimah, the

Continued on Page 22

(Stories on Pages 2 and 32)

Middle East Area of the Missions

USSR Benefits from UN's Nails-Biting

(Copyright, 1956, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)

By SAUL CARSON
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—Secretary-General Dag
Hammarskjold's "peace mission" of last April is now
history, and those continued "good offices" which the
Security Council wished onto his shoulders are effectively
on ice. One week Mr. Hammarskjold sees an Israeli dele-
gate, a week later he confers with an Egyptian ditto.
Nothing emerges from those meetings for
a very good reason—because nothing is
happening.
This has been a year of missions.
Israel's Foreign Minister Moshe Sharett
:had come here, after nudging the Big Four
in Paris and Geneva. Mr. Hammarskjold
went to the Middle East twice. Britain's
Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, had
Saul Carson gone to Washington. But now the missions
are oriented in another direction. Moscow is the center.
His Royal Highness, the Crown Prinbe of Yemen,
Self al-Islam el-Badr, went to Moscow. The Crown Prince
has never been here. But his uncle, brother of the Yemen-
ite King, is here now and is well known. The uncle, H. R.
H. Sayful Islam al-Hassan, is a busy little body. Most
of the time he is busiest acting as the shadow of the prin-
cipal Egyptian representative, Omar Loutfi, When Syria's
bitter Ahmed Shukairy was here recently to thump the
Security Council table and shout that "Palestine is only
the southern part of Syria," H. R. H. al-Hassan tagged
along after Shukairy too.
By itself, the Yemenite Kingdom is about as insignifi-
cant an appendage on the world's body politic as one
could imagine. Backward economically, socially and intel-
lectually, it is a desert fief whose borders are not even
well defined. But it is a recognized entity in the Arab
world. It does have a voice. What is more, here it has a
a vote—not only in the General Assembly but also in the
Afro-Asian bloc of nations. So Yemen cannot be dis-
counted. It exists. When the Soviet Union signed a treaty

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of friendship with Yemen last Oct. 31, the ceremony was
held in Cario. Thus Yemen was affirming to the world
that it is part of the Arab hegemony which Egypt wants to
strengthen, and that its orientation is toward Moscow.
Now the Crown Prince has gone to Moscow and been
told by Pravda that the Soviets are fond of the little
Kingdom because, along with Egypt, Syria and Saudi
Arabia it "is actively struggling to conduct an independent
national policy against the interference of foreign powers
in the internal affairs of the Arab states. And just before
the Crown Prince arrived in Moscow, the Kremlin con-
firmied the report that the new Foreign Minister, Dmitri
T. Shepilov, is about to go on a mission of his own, a
mission that would take him to Cairo, Damascus and
Beirut. It was about the same time, too, that Beirut an-
nounced that it would stage a series of trials in which
somewhere between 20 and 45 people would be accused
of being "spies" on behalf of Israel.
Thus the pieces of the Mosaic fall into place. Shepilov
was reportedly the architect of the arms-for-Egypt plan
evolved in Cairo by which Egypt acquired vast armaments
from the Soviet world's munitions broker, Czechoslovakia.
Yemen is in Egypt's corner, and its Crown Prince goes to
Moscow to get flattery and, just possibly, some arms too
that would be used perhaps against Israel. Then Shepilov
visits at least three of the anti-Israel capitals—while one
of those capitals whips up a series of Soviet-type purge
"trials" against "Israel spies."
Washington still dawdles on the Middle East. London
still bites its nails and takes one setback after another-
Shepilov's visit to Cairo was dated to coincide' with Egypt's
celebration of the day the British were driven out of Suez.
France, often showing that it would like to do something
for Israel, is impotent because its own Middle East
troubles, in Algeria especially, are overwhelming. The
United Nations bows down to Arab demands that a
"mutually acceptable" peace settlement between Arab
states and Israel is unthinkable, unmentionable. The UN's
mission toward peace is dormant, if not dead. The USSR's
mission—a mission to further troubles—is in full swing.

