Arab Boycott, Discrimination Hit
by World Jewish Spokesmen

WASHINGTON, (JTA)—Dip- future State Department
policy toward the Arab-Israel
ing the drill, which was the lomatic and political circles here
displayed extra-ordinary inter- question.
largest ever held in Israel.
The removal of Byroade as
est in a report that President
The Israel government, in an Eisenhower had decided to "Ambassador to Egypt follows a
official communique, charged transfer Ambassador Henry A. growing conviction in govern-
that Jordanian authorities were Byroade from his post in Cairo ment circles that he failed in
responsible for the organization to a new post as Ambassador to his Cairo post. He was con-
and training of some 200 Arab the Union of South Africa.
sidered by some an "apologist"
refugees, residents of border
The report also stated that for Egyptian Premier Nasser
villages and convicts, into ma-
who did more to sell Nasser's
rauding gangs which have been George V. Allen, Assistant Sec- ideas to Washington than vice
retary
of
State
for
Near
Eastern
killing and wounding Israeli
versa.
citizens in forays and ambus- Affairs, will be named U. S.
The growing relationship be-
Ambassador to Greece.
cades across the border.
tween Egypt and the Soviet
Speculation was rife as to Union was seen as the factor
The official statement said
the implications of this change,
that the marauders were trained which is bound to affect Amer- that finally convinced policy
at Arab Legion camps and that ican policy on the Arab-Israel makers that Mr. Byroade had
their raids were executed with situation. Notice of this change to go.
Ambassador Byroade's
the full knowledge of the Le- has been given to the Senate
transfer to South Africa is
gion.
Foreign Relations Committee, seen as a demotion because
The Israel - Jordan Mixed since the Senate must confirm Egypt is considered a number
Armistice Commission con- the new appointments.
one trouble spot. Raymond A.
demned Jordan for the sabo-
Special interest was dis-
Hare, veteran diplomat who
tage mining of an Israeli pa-
played in the Capital in the
replaces Byroade in Cairo, has
trol car in the Afula area last
as yet unnamed successor to
a long record of service in
Sunday night. The car was
Allen. Interested Washington
Arab countries. He is known
wrecked and a police sergeant
circles waited to learn, the
in diplomatic circles to be op-
was wounded.
identity of the man who will
posed to the Baghdad Pact be-
cause of the embarrassment
Foreign Minister Golda Myer- replace him as Assistant Sec-
the pact has caused Egypt,
son summoned United Nations retary of State for Near East-
Saudi Arabia and other Arabs
truce chief Maj. Gen. E. L. M. ern Affairs, in the hope •that
in the Nasser camp.
Burns to the Foreign Ministry this would furnish a key to
to hear Israel's views of the
Hammarskjold Seeks
latest series of `Jordanian ar- orandum to the Yugoslay. Two Israeli civilians were killed
World Jewish Congress. Asks
Strengthening of Armistice
mistice agreement violations. Foreign Ministry expressing Is- in the ambush*,
UN Council' to Act on Boycott
(Copyright, 1956, JTA, Inc.)
Two Israelis were murdered and rael's views on the tension in
The MAC called upon Jordan
GENEVA, (JTA)—The World
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — A de- two others wounded in three the Middle East.
to adopt immediate and effect-
Jewish Congress has laid the teriorating situation in Israel's incidents along -widely sepa-
The memorandum emphasized ive measures to prevent reoc-
probleth of the Arab world boy- relations with her Arab neigh- rated parts of the Jordan bor-
that
Col. Nasser constantly re- currence of such incidents. The
cott campaign against Jewish bors is highlighted here with der.
fuses to participate in direct commission established that the
firms before the United Nations the arrival of United Nations
(Israel's Premier David Ben-. negotiations with Israel leading ambush corresponded to the
Economic and Social Council Secretary General Dag Ham-
Gurion is believed to have told to peace talks, and that he has pattern of attacks on Israel lines
session here. In a memorandum, marskjold f o r conversations
UN Secretary General Dag publicly threatened Israel with of communication conducted
Dr. F. R. Bienenfeld, head of with Israeli leaders. He will
Hammarskjold, during his Jeru- annihilation.
from Jordan territory, and that
the Congress legal department, consult with Jordanian authori-
salem visit this week, that only
It is understood that the Is- there was no doubt that the in-
called the Arab boycott - cam- ties and go on to Cairo for con- direct negotiations between
paign a "serious matter'' which versations with the government Israel and the Arab states can raeli memorandum did not ask filtrators who carried out the
Marshal Tito to mediate the ambush came from Jordan ter-
may prove to be a "grave irn- of Egyptian President Gamal lead to peace,)
Arab-Israeli dispute, but asked ritory.
pediment.to international trad- Abdel Nasser. It is understood
* * *
him for help in arranging direct
MAC warned Jordan to take
ing in the future." He urged the that Mr. Hammarskjold brings
At the United Nations, Is- face-to-face talks with the lead- into consideration its continuous
EconomiC and Social Council to with him proposals for the
exhortations to terminate the
consider and institute counter- strengthening and expansion of rael Ambassador Abba Eban ers of the Arab states.
indicated at a press confer-
repeated incursions into Israel
measures. ,
the armistice agreements. The ence that Israel may take the
Canada
Waits
for
Support
.
territory. The Jordanian repre-
He :charged that the boycott gravity of the situation was un-
sentatives withdrew from the
ca
. mpaign by a committee of derlined by two developments— matter of the intensified Before Sale of Jet Planes
OTTAWA, (JTA) — The Can- meeting of the Commission in
representatives of the Arab sharp recurrence of Jordanian Egyptian obstruction of free
states violates the UN Charter attacks on the Israel - Jordan passage through the Suez Ca- adian government will not sell protest against an earlier cen-
nal to the United Nations Israel jet fighter planes except sure by that body.
which forbids discrimination for border and the tightening of the
reasons of race or religion. Dr. Egyptian blockade of • the Suez Security Council. Mr. Eban in • conjunction with sales by
Cabinet Crisis Averted
referred specifically to the other Western Powers, Prime
Bienenfeld insisted that the Canal.
A new Israel government
question of the detention of
Minister Louis crisis was averted when the
WJC demand for protection
In Tel Aviv, the 21-year-old the Greek ship Pennegia,
St. Laurent Cabinet gave in to a demand
againit such discrimination not
told the Can- by the religious parties that it
only affects Jews but peoples of girl, Helene Frak, who escaped bound for the Israeli port of
death
by
posing
as
a
"Russian
Elath with a cargo of cement.
adian Parlia- submit to Parliament a bill au-
all races and religions.
tourist," described the Jordanian
ment. He indi- thorizing municipalities to re-
The Egyptian delegation at
British Government Urged
attack in which Aryeh Greuback the UN immediately issued a
cated his deci- strict or forbid the raising of
to Check Arab Blackmail
was killed.
sion stemmed hogs and the sale of pork.
statement declaring that the
LONDON,. (JTA) — Active • Miss Frak, who came from Egyptian authorities did not re-
from'conversa-
The Hapoel Harnizrahi Min-
Poland
five
years
ago,
and
proof of the Arab boycott's ef-
tions with isters in the Cabinet threatened
fuse permission to the Pennegia
ficacy was demonstrated in Lon- Greuback were traveling by car to pass through the Suez Canal.
United Nations to resign when a Ministerial
don this week when it was to Petach Tikvah when the The statement claimed that "the
Secretary Gen- Committee dealing with the
charged by R. N. Carvalho, pres- headlights of their car revealed cargo of cement of the ship was
eral Dag Ham- problem • came up with a bill
ident of the Anglo-Jewish As- an armed, khaki-clad man not confiscated and on the con-
marskjold and merely giving the local councils
standing
in
a
ditch
near
the
sociation at a meeting of the
UN truce chief, the right to restrict hog raising.
trary permission was given to
organization, that Arab states road and three others seated the captain to proceed through
Maj. E. L. M. Justice Minister Pinchas Rosen,
through blackmail and other ap- in the ditch.
Burns, a Can- .Progressive leader, sided with
the Suez Canal." The statement
Greuback stopped the car and also alleged that the ship has
proaches have convinced a num=
St. Laurent adian national. the religious ministers on the
ber of British firms to cease asked them to identify them- never been detained at Port
Replying to a question in the
doing business, with Israel. He selves. Saying they were Israeli Said, and if it is still there it House of Commons concerning ground that the agreement on
which the coalition government
soldiers,
they
ordered
him
back
urged the British government
"is due to the captain's arrange- Israel's three - and - one - half-
to give "strong and reassuring to the car. When Greuback grew ment with the headquarters of month - old request to buy 24 was based had guaranteed gov-
ernment support of the hog ban.
advice" to British companies suspicious and walked back, he his company."
Canadian-made F-86 Sabre jets,
The Cabinet also adopted the
approached by Arab representa was shot with a burst of Sten,
Replying to the Egyptian Mr. St. Laurent said: "We would draft of a law empowering the "
tives seeking to extend the gun fire.
have been quite happy to join
Miss Frak was ordered from statement, a spokesman for the with other Western powers in Finance Minister, in consulta-
blockade of Israel.
Israeli
delegation
pointed
out
tion with the State Bank, to fix
A report on the extent of the car and was questioned. She
doing something to restore a
told them she was visiting that the Pennegia arrived at balance, but we do not feel that the rate of interest and to make
- Arab propaganda in colleges
and universities in this country Israel from Russia. A Hebrew- Port Said on May 25, whereas when other Western powers it a criminal offense to charge
was made to the Board of Dep- speaking marauder consulted on July 11, Egypt admitted that were not prepared to join in more than nine percent interest.
The nine percent legal interest
uties of British Jews by its de- with the others in Arabic, then the ship is still in Port Said.
that responsibility it should be limit is being exceeded through
fense committee. The report told her to go. First, however, Yugoslavia Will Not Back
a responsibility left to the gov- all kinds of fictitious deals.
indicated that of 315 educational she was told to say that her Egypt's Stand on Israel
ernment of Canada which has
institutions surveyed, M had no attackers were Israeli soldiers.
Eban Confers With Dulles
LONDON (JTA)—Yugoslavia not the immediate interest in
Running to a nearby settle-
organized. Arab society and that
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — Is-
is not inclined to share Egypt's the area which other Western
Arab student activity in the way ment, Miss Frak called the
rael's "dire need" for arms was
stand on Israel, it was reported powers have."
of meetings and propaganda police. Their investigation show- here from Belgrade in connec-
restated by Ambassador Abba
He
explained
that
the
Can-
was confined to only a few. ed the footprints of four men tion with the current visit of
Eban to Secretary of State John
adian
government
would
not
Nevertheless, the report added, heading eastward toward Jor- Egyptian President Nasser to
want to do anything which "in Foster Dulles during their first
the situation calls for continued dan.
In another skirmish, eight Yugoslavia and his talks with the slightest way" would jeop- meeting since Mr. Eban's return
watchfulness. "One interesting
ardize the Arab-Israel cease-fire from Jerusalem. Eban also dis-
armed
Egyptian infiltrators Marshal Tito.
result of the survey," the re-
The
report,
which
appeared
in
agreement. "We gathered that cussed with Dulles Israel's ap-
port noted, "was that it revealed clashed with an Israeli patrol
the
Daily
Telegraph
here,-
re-
it
is still a very delicate situ- plication for a $75,000,000 loan
that in many of these institu- near the Gaza Strip, inside Is-
from the Export-Import Bank
tions personal relations between rael territory. After a fierce veals at the same time that ation which might be unfavor- for water development projects.
Jewish and Arab students were exchange of fire, the Egyptians Arieh Levavi, Israeli Minister ably influenced if 'a country like
It was reported here from
retreated across the border. No to Belgrade, was originally in- Canada were to attempt to take
cordial." •
Cairo that Egypt is to receive
vited
to
attend
the
reception
the
lead
in
changing
what
is
in
Israeli
casualties
were
reported.
The Arab states also are in-
A special meeting of the Is- given by Tito for Col. _Nasser my opinion an imbalance of several submarines from abroad
tensifying their boycott cam-
within the week. The Egyptian
paign against British firms rael Cabinet was convoked by but the invitation was with- armaments."
newspaper Al Shaab did not
which deal with Israel or have Premier David Ben-Gurion in drawn, after discussion and
Jordan Censured by MAC
specify how- many submarines
apologies
at
the
last
minute,
view
of
the
deteriorating
secur-
Jewish employes in senior po-
Egypt would get or from where.
The
JERUSALEM,
(JTA)
—
"in
order'
to
avoid
embarrass-
ity
situation.
The
meeting
was
sitions, it was revealed here in
Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice But presumably they are com-
a survey of Arab anti-Jewish held while civil defense services ment."
Other • reports received here Conimission censured Jordan ing from the Soviet bloc as part
in Jerusalem, carried out a mock
activities.
of the arms - for - cotton deal
It was learned that the Arab air raid in full dress drill. The reveal that Levavi, acting on for an ambush last week by
countries have been taking turns Premier and all the members instructions from the Israel Jordanian infiltrators along the Egypt and Czechoslovakia made
at applying pressure on various of the Cabinet took Shelter dur- government, submitted a mem- road from Eilath to Beersheba. last year.

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tion, Col. Reigelman told- the
committee that the government
policy excluding American Jews
from service in Saudi Arabia
is a complete denial of the Fed-
eral service non-discrimination
policy. He proposed that the
government direct all depart-
ments to end all cooperation
with Arab discrimination. He
also suggested that all contracts
and .agreements should include
non -:discriminatory provisions.
In. New York the U. S. Gov-
ernment agreement with Saudi
Arabia under which American
citizens of the Jewish faith are
not being assigned to military
service or employed in defense
installations in that country was
criticized by the American Civil
Liberties Union.
Patrick Murphy Malin, ACLU
executive director, released a
letter sent to Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles scoring the
practice as a violation of the
American principle of freedom
of .religion and urging that it
be ended in the new agreement
now being negotiated with Saudi
Arabia.

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State Department Shuffle
Displaces Byroade, Allen

British firms. One company
which has openly resisted- this
type of pressure is Pilot Radio,
an Anglo-American enterprise
which has refused to knuckle
under to boycott threats and
close up a subsidiary it recently
opened in Israel. The Leyland
Motor Corporation, which sells
buses to Israel, has been threat-
ened with boycott unless it
withdraws from the Anglo-
Israel Chamber of Commerce.
A number of well known
firms, with heavy commitments
in Arab trade,' have surrendered
to the boycott. The British
Overseas Airways Corporation
and Scandinavian Airlines have
refused to accept Jews as pas-
sengers in planes stopping in
Arab countries, while BOAC
discontinued service to Lydda,
Israel's major airport, on the
excuse that there are insuffici-
ent planes available for the run.
At the same time, BOAC has
increased its service to Lebanon.
After 30 years of doing busi-
ness in Israel, the British-
American Tobacco Company has
disposed of its plant in Tel
Aviv.