Arms-for-Israel in Doubt in Spite of Suez Crisis

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Jordan Now Is Asking for
Removal of Maj.-Gen. Burns

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Western action by Egypt would
cause a more favorable view
in Washington toward Israel's
appeal for defensive arms.
State Department spokesman
Lincoln White refused to say
if Israel was considered a mari-
time power whose interests were
important enough to be con-
sulted by the United States on
the Egyptian seizure of the Suez
Canal Company. This emerged
under questioning a f ter Mr.
White announced that the
United States was in touch on
the Suez issue with England,
France, and will be in contact
with other countries. Asked if
Israel might be consulted, he re-
fused to answer. But he implied
Israel would not, saying that
everyone knew which countries
were the major maritime pow-
ers.
(In the fantastic description
of the dictator, under the title
"Egypt's Nasser: Hope or Men-
ace?", in the Reader's Digest,
Edwin Muller, glorifying Israel's
enemy, asserts that, as a young
man, Nasser "may live to see
himself voted out of office."
What a dream—for a country
in which the voters today have
the right to say either "yes" or
"no," a la Hitler and Stalin!
(Resentment was expressed
in many quarters over the glori-
fied picture of Henry A. By-
roade, who recently was trans-
ferred from the U.S. Ambassa-
dorship to Egypt, by Hal
Tribble, in a special dispatch
from Cairo to the Detroit Free
Press. It has been felt that By-
roade was responsible for many
of the anti-Israel moves in the
Middle East.)

"take care" of destroyers. Ship
destroyers b e cam e Egyptian
property the moment they were
transferred by the British gov-
ernment, a Navy spokesman
said. A hitch has developed in
destroyers' s ailing schedule,
however, because of an error in
loading wrong size ammunition
for their guns. It was learned
that munitions were supplied by
British Naval stores.
as
Jordan and the other Arab
states are reported prepared to
press for the removal of Maj.
be
is
Gen. E. L. M. Burns as United
Nations truce chief, according
to a dispatch from Amman. The
ca
Arabs are said to feel that Gen.
Burns favors Israel.
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(Commenting in the Canadian
House of Commons on the re-
port that the Arab states were
demanding that Gen. Burns be
removed, Minister for External
Affairs Lester B. Pearson de-
clared that the Canadian gen-
eral's record spoke for itself and
constituted the best denial of
Jordan's demand. Mr. Pearson
asserted that an extension of
Gen. Burn's term was a matter
for the general and the United
Nations, not for the Canadian
Government.)
(It was indicated this week
at the United Nations that Maj.
Gen. Burns is secure in his job
for another five months, in spite
of Jordanian demands for his
removal. His contract; due to
expire Aug. 31, has been ex-
tended until the end of the
year. He assumed his post Aug.
3, 1954. Extension of his con-
tract is said to indicate the
confidence in which he is held
in UN quarters).
Egypt is concentrating troops
in the Gaza area and in the
Sinai desert close to the Israel
Arms Issue Debated
LONDON, (JTA)—The entire border, according t o reports
London press, with the excep- from Cairo.
tion of the Sunday Times, came
(Israel has submitted a letter
out with articles asking that, in of .p r 0 t e s t to the Security
the light of the nationalization
Council charging that "inces-
of the Suez Canal by Egypt and
sant attacks" along the Jordan
the threatening speeches against frontier have created 'a situa-
the Western Powers by Egyp- tion o f "extreme gravity."
tian President Nasser, Britain
The letter, which also scored
supply Israel with arms and
a campaign of anti-Israel-prop-
seek a closer relationship with
aganda by leaders of the Jor-
Israel.
dan Government, was • sub-
mitted only for circulation
Leading members of all poli-
tical parties in England simi-
among members of the Se-
larly advocate that Britai
curity Council.)
should now sell Israel all of the
The report coincides with the
arms she wants. Some foresee fear expressed in the London
the possibility that the Egyp- press today that Egyptian Pres-
tian dictator, in his mood of ident Nasser may attack Israel,
desperation, may .embark on a and with reports from Cairo by
sudden attack of Israel. They British correspondents that -if
therefore suggest that Israel be Nasser is successful in nation-
given arms without delay.
alizing the Suez Canal, his next
In the worldwide excite- move will be aimed against
ment which followed Col. Israel.
Nasser's announcement of the
"Pressure for decisive action
seizure of the Suez Canal, it against Israel, always strong at
has been overlooked that in moments of crisis, is bound to
his three-hour address he re- grow if Nasser's Suez gamble
ferred to Israel as "imperi- comes off—especially since hii
alism's tool" and pledged that latest speech at Alexandria con-
Egypt would not rest until tained one of his most bitter at-
the entire Middle East area tacks on Israel," a cable from
between the Atlantic and the Cairo to the Manchester Guard-
Persian Gulf was Arab—an ian says. "Resentment at the
obvious 'threat against Israel. existence of Israel and the sense
The general feeling in Eng- of national humiliation at the
land, as expressed in the Sun- way it was achieved still
day newspapers, was that it smoulder deep in Egypt's con-
would be absurd now for the sciousness," the Cairo corre-
United States and Britain to spondent emphasizes.
The News Chronicle, in an
leave Israel under-armed in the
face of a possible assault of editorial, said: "We, with France
Egypt. The Sunday Times, an and the United States, should
exception, says that the problem make it clear that any attack on
of Israel and her Arab neigh- Israel or closing of the Suez
bors is quite distinct from that Canal to international shipping
of the Suez Canal problem and would result in retaliatory mil-
"will still have to be settled itary action on our part."
equitably when Col. Nasser's
Prime Minister Sir Anthony
folly is defeated and expiated." Eden announced to a cheering
Nothing short of an act of war Commons that all exports of
will cause the British Navy to
interfere with the sailing of war material to Egypt have been
two Egyptian destroyers now stopped. It was made clear that
loading ammunition and other Britain will no longer ship arms
stores at Portsmouth Harbor previously sold to Egypt under
Royal Navy spokesman said
the 1950 Tripartite Declaration.
Tuesday. The spokesman was
asked to comment, in wake of The tripartite agreement pro-
Prime Minister Sir Anthony vided for arms sales to Middle
Eden's statement in commons East n at i o n s to maintain a
Monday, that the Navy could, regional power balance.

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Israel Gives Egyptian Spy
Jail Sentence of 15 Years
TEL AVIV, (JTA)—An Egyp-
tian spy was sentenced to 15
y ear s' imprisonment by an
Israeli military court here. He
confessed that he had worked
for Egyptian intelligence and
had served as an interpreter for
Mustafa Hafez, chief of Egyp-
tian intelligence in the Gaza
strip area, who was killed re-
cently by the explosion of a
"parcel bomb" in his office.
The spy, who was captured
while, trying to buy maps of
Israel in a Ramle book shop,
asked the court to sentence him
to death because he could not
go on living "from prison to
prison." He explained that he
had been imprisoned in both
Jordan and Gaza for theft be-
f o re joining Egyptian intel-
ligence.

Egyptian Jews Arrive in
Transit Immigration Camp;
Seek to Reach Israel
PARIS, (JTA) — Nearly 100
Egyptian Jews arrived at the
Jewish Agency transit camp at
Marseilles during the month.
They joined some 5,000 North
African Jews waiting for tran-
sportation to Israel.
Despite the fact that several
boatloads of immigrants leave
Marseilles for Haifa every week,
a constant stream of arrivals
from North Africa keeps the
camp at the near 5,000 mark at
all tunes. Most of the North
African Jews arrive with little
more than clothing which they
wear and that is mostly in rags.

Condemn Jordan for Attack
On Israel Children's Home
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice
Commission condemned Jordan
for the hand grenade attack on
a children's home at Maaleh
Hamisha, in the Jerusalem area,
last week. The MAC also called
on Jordan to keep it informed of
the preventive and disciplinary
steps it had taken in reference
to the incident.
The chairman of the MAC,
Lt. Col. M. Tanguay, urged the
Jordanian authorities to take
measures to apprehend the in-
filtrators. H e stressed t h e
gravity of the attack on the
children's residence • and noted
Jordan's responsibility and its
f a i l u r e t o keep cease-fire
pledges to United Nations offi-
cials, although he was careful
to state that he did not mean
that the J or d a n authorities
were implicated in this in-
cident.

Await Announcement
On Arms from Canada

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

OTTAWA. — The Canadian
government hopes to announce
"within a few days" its decision
on Israel's application to pur-
chase 24 Canadian manufac-
tured Sabre Jet fighters, Lester
B. Pearson, Minister for Exter-
nal Affairs told commons on
Tuesday. Mr. Pearson said that
Canada's consultations with
other countries on the matter
had been delayed by Suez
C anal developments several
weeks ago. Prim e Minister
Louis St. Laurent said that
Canada would not sell Israel
weapons on its own hook, but
only in conjunction with other
Western nations.

(See Editorial, Page 4)

Hammarskjold Warning
On New Border Violence

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

An already taut situation on
Israel's borders, which flared in-
to new violence as Jordanian at-
tacks mounted, drew a stern
warning from an obviously wor-
ried. Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold in Geneva. The
UN chief, who had just com-
pleted talks with Israeli, Jor-
danian and Egyyptian leaders
designed to shore up the shaky
cease-fire he had negotiated last
April, decided onan immediate
return to United Nations Head-
quarters in New York, in order

to continue his efforts at a fol-
low-through on the cease-fire.
In a statement issued in the
Swiss city prior to his departure
for New York, the Secretary
General "deeply" regretted the
incidents which occurred on the
Jordanian - Israeli demarcation
line immediately after his leav-
ing the two countries. He added
that he was grieved by the in-
juries suffered by three United
Nations observers "who have
been seriously injured while on
duty in the cause of peace." Two
of the UN officials were wound-
ed when a land mine exploded
in the Mt. Scopus area and one
was injured in an attack by the
Jordanians.
The situation along Israel's
frontiers had deteriorated into
violence as Arab troops along
three boredrs opened fire on
Israeli workers and soldiers.
Miraculously, there were no Is-
raeli casualties. in addition, two
teams of United Nations ob-
servers sent to investigate a
shooting fray in the Jerusalem
area, were fired on by Jordanian
troops. One observer, Lt. Col.
M. Thalin of Sweden, was
wounded and an aide suffered
shock.
A UN truce observer, Svend
Rasmussen, 30, a Danish UN
civilian employee, was killed
by a mine at Nahal Oz near the
Ga2a. border, Saturday.

not let the people take the law
into their own hands.
"Either the United Nations
must stop this policy of terror-
ism or the perpetrators must
be punished. The Arabs must
not be allowed to continue do-
ing what they are d o i n g.
Either the other side stops the
perpetrators of these crimes or
we will have to punish them."

Report U.S. May Abandon
Base in Saudi Arabia
The United States may adopt
a firmer attitude toward Saudi
Arabia in connection with nego-
tiations on the renewal of air
base rights, it was indicated by
informed sources in Washington.
These sources said that King
Saud has displeased the State
Department by demands for
huge monetary compensation in
exchange for the lease. The
United States may consider the
possibility of using British-con- \-a
trolled territory in the Arabian
area for establishment of a new
base. This would allow aban-
donment of the present base at
Dharan, in Saudi Arabia.
It was reported by two mem-
bers of Congress that Secretary
of State John Foster Dulles in-
tends to make a statement de-
nouncing Saudi Arabian dis-
crimination against American
Jews. The Congressmen—Hugh
Scott, Jr., of Pennsylvania and
Laurence Curtis of Massachus-
Two United Nations truce ob- setts—made the announcement
servers and a Jordanian repre- after a conference with Secre-
sentative on the Israel-Jordan tary Dulles.
Mixed Armistice Commission Non-Confidence Motion
were wounded when they hit a Defeated In Knesset
mine in the Israeli-held area of
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
Mt. Scopus.
Ben - Gurion government has
The two UN officers, both beat off a motion of non-confi-
Canadian nationals, were sever- dence in its economic policy.
ely wounded and were removed
The vote in Parliament was 59
to Hadassah hospital here. The
to uphold the government, 23
Jordanian was only slightly in- against and six abstentions. The
jured and recrossed the lines to General Zionists and Herut
obtain medical treatment.
teamed up against the govern-
The Israel government ex- ment, while the Communists and
tended, its sympathy to the Agudists abstained. At the end
wounded men, through Maj. of the session the Knesset ad-
Gen. E. L. M. Burns, Canadian journed for the Summer, to re-
chief of the UN truce organiza- turn after the High Holidays.
tion. • The two observers are
Protest Jordan Bias
Maj. George A. Flint of Outre-
NEW YORK, (JTA) — The
mont and Maj. Marcel Breault
American Jewish Congress has
of St. Hyacinthe.
Jordanian anti-aircraft guns called upon the U. S. National
damaged an Israeli reconnais- Commission for UNESCO to
sance plane and forced it to land urge the international agency to
refuse to submit to Jordan's de-
inside Israel.
mand that UNESCO personnel
The plane, fired on while it of Jewish faith be excluded
was over Israel territory but
from that Middle East King-
close to the demarcation line,
dom.
landed near Motza village, about
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five miles west of Jerusalem.
An Israeli border patrol shot
In "The Diaries of Theodor
and killed an Arab in the Cen-
tral Jordan Valley. The patrol . Herzl," edited by Marvin Low-
challenged the Jordanian when enthal,. (Dial Press), under date
he attempted to cross the demar- of March 14, 1897, we read this
cation line, but he refused to reference to the Suez Canal
problem, with a prediction of
halt.
Lt. -Col. Thalin, the UN ob- the need for another road to
server shot by Jordan villagers India:
"The Egyptian Emissary,
while investigating an Israel-
Jordan clash, was operated on at Mustafa Kamil, who has visited
Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem me before, called on me again.
for wounds of the chest and He is on another tour around
Europe to arouse sympathy for
spine.
the Egyptian people, who want
Israel's Foreign Minister, Mrs. to free themselves from British
Golda Mayer, conferred with domination. This young Orien-
United Nations truce chief Gen. tal makes an excellent impres-
.E. L. M. Burns for 90 minutes. sion: he is educated, polished,
Gen. Burns also met with intelligent, and eloquent. I note
Gen. Ali Abu Nuwar, com- him down, for he may one day
mander-in-chief of the Jordan play a role in the politics of the
Army. He was accompanied to East—where possibly we shall
both meetings by Henri Vigier, meet again.
his political advisor, and Col. J.
"This descendant of our an-
Leary, his military advisor.
cient oppressors in Mizraim
Premier David Ben Gurion, in (Egypt) is now himself sighing
a special interview with. the over the sufferings of bondage,
Jerusalem correspondent of the and his road leads him to me,
N e w York Herald Tribune, the Jew, whose journalistic aid
warned that the United Nations he solicites. Since at present I
must stop the Arab "policy of can do nothing for him, I as-;
terrorism" against Israel, or Is- sured him of my well-wishes.
"Though I did not tell him so,
rael will punish the "perpetra-
tors of these crimes." Mr. Ben I believe it would • be a good
Gurion was quoted by the cor- thing for our cause if the Eng-
lish were forced to leave Egypt.
respondent as stating:
"Israel has three alterna- They would then be obliged to
tives: To send every one back seek out another road to India
where they came from — to in place of the Suez Canal,
abolish the country, in other which would be lost to them or
words, to make war, or to see at least rendered insecure. In
that the perpetrators of terror- that event a modern Jewish
ism are punished. We shall not Palestine—with a railroad from
leave the country, we shall Jaffa to the Persian Gulf —
never start a war and we shall would. resolve their difficulty.

Herzl On Suez Issue