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Anti-Semit ► e pressure Exposed
In South's Integration Battle
By EDWIN A BELLER
(Copyright, 1956, by The Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
Anti-Israel Plots
on Two Fronts
Say Stevenson Opposes
`Out of Politics' Proposal
Egyptian Espionage
Plot in Switzerland
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
By DAVID LOVEN
(JTA Washington Correspondent)
(JTA Correspondent in Geneva)
(Copyright, 1956, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
WASHINGTON — Anti-Israel elements are
attempting to bring about a secret meeting
between President Eisenhower and Adlai Stev-
enson to take the Israel issue "out of politics."
The move is being made for bi-partisan agree-
ment in the name of national security with the
knowledge and tacit support of Secretary of
State Dulles.
A leading force in these behind-the-scenes
activities is the anti-Israel "National Committee
for Security and Justice in the Middle East."
This group includes Commander Elmo Hutch-
ison, former UN Armistice Commissioner who
sought to blame Israel for Near East tension.
Its leading spokesman is Alfred M. Lilienthal,
who agitated against Israel at the recent Re-
publican and Democratic conventions.
Democratic leaders close to Stevenson
thought it very unlikely the Demoratic nomi-
nee would meet with the President on this
matter. It was pointed out that Stevenson is
firmly on record as favoring arms for Israel.
Mr. Eisenhower has turned down such assist-
ance. The Demorcatic platform openly pledges
to offset Communist munitions shipments to
the Arabs "by selling or supplying defensive
weapons to Israel." The Republican platform
does not advocate arms for Israel.
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(Copyright, 1956, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
GENEVA — It all blew up over a story in
the French newspaper "Figaro." Their Geneva
correspondent Rene Mossue splashed the front
page with charges that the Egyptian govern-
ment was conducting what the spy conscious
Swiss would bluntly call "economic espionage."
Mossue went even further. He said that
Egyptian agents had made exhaustive inquiries
to find out what holdings Egyptian Jews had in
Swiss banks
It took over a week for the Swiss Foreign
Office in Bern to comment on the affair. It did
so with the kind of jargon typical of diplomatic
circles caught up in an embarrassing disclosure.
It referred to "so called" reports "brought to
the 'attention of" etc. . . . and found the pat
answers. But it did not answe• lVfossue's
charges.
But not so the Swiss press. With its usual
pedantic insistence for counting every tree in
the wood, they began to snap at the heels of
veteran reporter Mossue. It was whispered: "He
will be hauled over the coals for this one."
Lilienthal said at San Francisco that he
was told by some members of Congress that
his anti-Zionist group should be satisfied that
persons who felt similarly succeeded in keep-
ing arms- for Israel out of the GOP platform.
He identified his informants as Rep. Frances
Bolton, Ohio Republican member of the House
Foreign Affairs Committee: Sen. H. Alexander
Smith, New Jersey Republican on the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, and Sen. Arthur
V. Watkins, Utah Republican.
The elements so concerned about alleged
pro-Israel influences in domestic political
affairs paid no attention to the injection of
Arab propaganda into the Democratic and
Republican conventions. Material distributed
by the Arab Information Center in this country
to convention delegates included propaganda
carrying the letterhead of the "Egyptian Em-
bassy . . Washington, D.C."
A statement issued by the Embassy of
Saudi Arabia was also sent to delegates. It
alleged that Saudi Arabia does not discriminate
against Jews. "The fact is," it said, "that only
Zionists—regardless of their faith or nationality
—are not permitted entry into Saudi Arabia.
Indeed, American non-Zionists Jews have been
welcomed into the country. An example on the
record is Mr. Alfred Lilienthal, an anti-Zionist
American Jew who visited Saudi Arabia in
1953. . . It must be understood that the Arab
countries . . . view Zionism as a dangerous
subversive world movement."
The Egyptian Embassy in Washington is
receiving and redistributing quantities of anti-
Israel propaganda prepared by the anti-Zionist
'American Council for Judaism." This is the
group that stands condemned by the three
major rabbinical organizations.
Jordanese Murderers Increase
Tensions; 33 Israelis Killed
Since April 26 Pledge to UN
Yet with all the anxiety to disprove the
Mossue story, not one correspondent or diplo-
mat for that matter, was able to nail it as a
lie. What they tried to do, failing this, was to
belittle it, and indeed brought even more to
light in their attempts.
NEW YORK, (JTA) -- A warning that increasing
tension in the bitter battle over school desegregation in
the southern states will set up pressure on Southern Jews
was made to the Jewish Telegraphic Agency by a nation-
ally known authority on racial and minority problems.
The nature of the two-fold dilemma—the increasing
use of anti-Semitic hate-mongering by well-known bigots
involved in the fight for white supremacy and the in-
creasing insecurity of Southern Jews caught between
local pressures and their tradition and affiliations with
national Jewish organizations—was described by Alex-
ander F. Miller, national community services director of
the Bnai Anti-Defamation League.
Tracing the background of the use of anti-Semitism in the
current struggle, he noted that a number of Southerners had
begun to make use of the bigot's equation of Judaism, Zionism
and Communism almost immediately after the rebirth of ten-
sion which followed the Supreme Court decision on segregation
in the schools.
Mr. Miller also noted another development along the same
lines in cases where the Councils sometimes were fragmented.
In such cases, the formation of fringe groups and new Councils
was often carried out by persons with long records of anti-
Semitism. Exaniples he cited included John Kasper, Rev. A.
L. Shuler and Ace Carter.
The ADL spokesman described what he termed a jump in
the following evideuces of anti-Senitism within the past three
to four months:
the Ku Faux Klan, under its
A considerable revival of
new Grand Wizard, Eldon Edwards, has been noted. At least
75 Klan meetings have been held throughout the South within
the past 90 days, and evidence of anti-Semitic overtones at
these meetings has been abundant particularly at meetings
held in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and Texas.
At Clinton, Tenn., where violence raged over the admis-
sion of Negroes to local schools, two outside agitators present
were Kasper and Carter. Evidence of the anti-Semitic nature
of their activities was noted in the fact that local community
leaders in the town received phone calls in which they were
denounced as "Jews and Communists."
What did actually come to light were:
In Kentucky, Millard Grubbs, well-known as an anti-Semite
Egyptian
agents,
later
identified
by
the
has been active in the fight against school integration in Sturgis
1.
arrive
in
Switzerland.
to
"com-
Swiss press, did
and Clay, where violence occurred. An example of Grubb's
mit acts in favor of a foreign state."
linking of these issues was contained in a resolution,' certified
hairman of the Citizens Councils of Kentucky,
2. They did check on the "flight . of . capital"
last three
Adminis
from Egypt in recent months. This Includ ed by
the "record of the United
States
shows
checks on Greek and Armenian residents in Inc., which declared that Government of the
Money mob
Egypt and Egyptian nationals of the Jewish trations of the National
t
the
Zionist
Atlantic
clearly and without doubt tha
ic
and Christian faiths. get any cooperation from has control of both the Democratic party and the Republican
3. They did not
Swiss banking circles who are prohibited by Party."
' Mr. Miller pointed out that such persons, . while they
. might
.
law from giving out information regarding its
not be of any considerable importance in their own right,
b
in
clients.
in a position to do incalculable damage by inflaming a mo
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Continued on
4. The two agents were high ranking offi-
cers in the Egyptian intelligence service and
operated long enough in Switzerland to submit
reports back to their headquarters on their
work of economic peepholing here.
5. Their activity was a first step. It has
not stopped, and will continue here and else-
where. Work is afoot in Egypt to prepare a
"case" against "disloyal elements" when the
OTTAWA, (JTA)—The Canadian government has approved
time is found opportune.
the
sale
of 24 Canadian-made Sabrejets to Israel, it was offi-
At the present time no more can be said
confirmed here by Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent.
cially
about this Egyptian probing in Switzerland.
The sale of the jet fighter planes, consideration of which has
What can be said is that official circles in the
been under way since Israel made its request last Spring, was
throes of big public debate on traditional
approved by the Cabinet.
Swiss neutrality do not want this kind of
The Prime Minister's statement said that the planes will
thing blown up out of all proportion.
be shipped during the next six months. He added, however,
At the same time they recognize that the
that if "political circumstances" during that period of time
policy that has saved them time and time again
were to warrant it, the outstanding part of the jet order would
is one that cannot play any favorites even if
be cancelled or postponed.
greased in oil.
The sale was approved by' the Cabinet, it was understood,
One more such "slip up", and it is considered
the
basis that the defensive nature of the requested ship-
on
not unlikely that the usually patient political ment
has been "clearly established."
police will crack down more firmly on Egyptian
-
license from
The jets, manufactured in Canada under a
attempts at economic espionage.
are powered by Cana-
Co.
of
the
U.S.,
North American Aircraft
dian-built Orenda engines. They are expected to cost $6,000,000.
sale, raised no
to
deal
with
the
Israel's Cabinet is meeting
The U.S. Government, consulted about the
tense situation created by increasing murders Objections.
of Israelis by Jordan soldiers. Six Israelis killed
(It was reported this week that Canada's Prime Minister
in two days; include four distinguished archaeol- St. Laurent has accepted an invitation to address one of the
ogists and bibliographers. Jordan troops have sessions of the Canadian Jewish Congress Plenary Assembly,
murdered 33 Israelis and wounded 51 since the which will open in Montreal on Oct. 18).
cease-fire pledge to the UN on April 26.
.—See related story on Page Zie
Callback Proviso Included
In Approved Canadian Sale
Of 24 Sabrejets to Israel
.
(Detailed Story on Page 20.)