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Israel's Clgims in - UN Debate

Beigin Warns Israel Is Isolated
In Danger; Urges Alliance With
Britain Against Common Enemy

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
TEL AVIV — The Israel government's policy of retaliation to
.Arab border raids was scored here Tuesday as "too late" by Mena-
hem Beigin, leader of the right wing Herut Party and one-time head
Of the activist Irgun Zvai Leumi.
"I'have plans for wide military operations to root out the enemy
from his positions," Mr. Beigin told the opening session Monday night
of the fourth national conference of the Israel Herut party. Some 470
delegates and hundreds of guests, including newsmen, city officials
and diplomats, were present: The conference closed Thursday.
Israel faces three . dangers, the Herut leader declared: Firstly,
- all war fronts are under the united Arab command; secondly, the
Arabs have arms superiority, and finally, Israel is isolated politically.
Israel can overcome this isolation, he insisted, particularly
when
her interests coincide with that of France and the United States.
He said Russian agents are training Egyptian troops in use of arms
which are directed at all democracies as well as Isrel.
If Britain is willing to "go along with Israel against , the common
enemy" then Israel should go with Britain despite past history of
strife between the British government and the Israel
community, said
the erstwhile leader of one of the more ferociously anti-British
under-
ground movements in Israel.
Mr. Beigin recommended to the conference that all negotiations
for a merger with the General Zionists be dropped
because the Cen-

trists will, not agree to including in a common program the
Herut

demand for Israel extending on both sides of the Jordon River, and
because General Zionists want a two thirds majority on all operating
bodies of the proposed united party. Mr. Beigin also called for an

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"open door" policy on foreign investments and the elimination of
foreign currency controls.

U.

S. Ambassador. Gets Honorary Bar-Han Degree

TEL AVIV, (JTA) — United States Ambassador Edward B.
Lawson was awarded an honorary fellowship at Bar-Ilan University,
Israel's American sponsored Orthodox university, at ceremonies in-
augurating the academic year.

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Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
WASHINGTON — The manner and form desired by the United States for

presentation of Israel's views during the United Nations Security Council dis-
cussion of the Suez Canal issue— which is to start this Friday--has not yet
been decided by the State Department, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles
told his press conference here Tuesday.
Mr. Dulles made it clear, however, that he certainly thought Israel's case,
because of Egyptian denial of Israel maritime rights under the 1888 International
Pact on passage of ships through Suez Canal, would come in some form or
manner to the attention of the Security Council. He indicated he is not inclined
to favor Israel's "full participation” in the Security Council debate.
The question of Israel's participation in the Security Council discussions on
the Suez issue, Mr. Dulles told the press conference, may come up again this
week after being adjourned for decision when it came up in the Council last
week. He added that the question must be handled with care to prevent
"everybody" from coming into Security Council Suez affairs. State Department
sources later said that by "everybody" Secretary Dulles referred to Arab States
hostile to Israel.
Newsweek, the weekly magazine, reported on Tuesday that Britain is putting
"sharp pressure" on Israel not to raise the blockade of Israel shipping issue at
this week's Security Council debate on Egypt's seizure of the Suez Canal. "The
British fear this would cost the backing of Iraq and Jordan whose support, open
or undercover, is considered vital to the West's cause," Newsweek said. This
same publication reported that the United States has now come - to the "firm
decision" to force the fall of Col. Nasser, Egyptian president, as soon as some
kind of Suez solution is patched up. "Weapons used against Nasser," Newsweek
says, "will be mostly economic: The State Department will stop asking Congress
for Egyptian cotton," aid will be withdrawn and Israel's perennial request for
arms will get a warm reception."

Israel Quits Armistice Commission Over Jordan Ruling

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Israel walked out of the Israel-Jordan Mixed Armistice Com-
mission when the United Nations chairman of the unit accepted
the Jordanian explana-
tion that an Arab Legionnaire had gone "insane" and fired a Bren gun with which he

killed four Israeli delegates to an archaeological congress and wounded 15 others at

Ramath Rachel On Sept. 23.

The Israelis rejected a Jordan offer to have the soldier examined by medical author-
ities, noting that a request by the UN to examine the man two days after the incident
had been turned down by Jordan authorities. Now, they argued, an examination would
reveal nothing useful.
Jordan notified the Jerusalem consular corps" that they would no longer, be given
unquestioned passage to• and from the Old City. Consulate officers will be required to ob-
tain passes, a development which diplomats are expected to protest. The move is be-
lieved to be in retaliation for a decision by the consular corps not to cross from the Jewish
part of the city to the Old City at night.

U.S. Attitude on Israel's Part in UN's Suez Debate;
Israelis Take Issue With Dag Hammarskjold's Report

WASHINGTON, (,172 61)—The State Department
was reported anxious to prevent Israel's participa-
tion in the discussion of the Suez Canal issue at the
United Nations Security Council. The discussion is
scheduled to start today with Foreign Ministers from
the United States, Britain, France and the Soviet
Union attending. Israel has applied to the Security
Council for the right to speak in view of Egypt's
blockade of the Suez Canal against Israeli shipping.
The feeling at the State Department is that
Israel's entrance at this juncture into the conflict
between the Western Powers and Egypt would
confuse the basic issue and constitute a handicap
for the West. The opinion is expressed in State
Department circles that Israel should at this time
rely on the Western Powers to safeguard her
long-range Suez interest and should stay in the
background.
It. was indicated in U.S. official circles that
Israel should be content with the fact that both
President Eisenhower and Secretary of State John
Foster Dulles voiced disapproval of Egypt's
blockade of the Suez Canal against Israel. Israel's
presentation at the Security Council of its own
viewpoint would bring all the Arab countries into
the case on Egypt's side and create a united front
behind Col. Nasser, one American official asserted.
Israel Ambassador Abba Eban said that he
noted with satisfaction the statement by President
Eisenhower in which the President expressed
disapproval of Egypt's anti-Israel Suez blockade.
Mr. Eban made this comment after a meeting with
Secretary Dulles. He revealed that the Suez
blockade situation was discussed in the meeting
with Dulles. Ambassador Eban had been scheduled
to return to Israel for consultations this week, but
may be delayed by the meeting of the Security
Council.
President Eisenhower was the target of a bitter
attack in the Egyptian government newspaper Al
Gomhouria. Referring to Mr. Eisenhower's condem-
nation of Egypt's Suez blockade against Israel

UNITED NATIONS, N,Y. (JTA)—The need for
establishing "freedom of navigation for Israeli ships
in the Suez Canal," was stressed by United Nations
Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold in a report
to the UN Security Council. The report emphasized
that Egypt continues to ignore the resolution adopted

shipping, the paper said it was the United States

by the Council exactly five years ago.

and not Egypt which had "dark spots" on its history.
It asserted that Israel was "created" by America
and Britain, and charged "Israel aggression is
carried out by American weapons purchased with
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Liberals Back Israel's Rights

LONDON (JTA)—Israel's right to free passage
through the Suez Canal were discussed by British
Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd and Israel
Ambassador Eliahu Elath on the eve of Mr. Lloyd's
departure for New York to participate in the UN
Security Council's Suez discussions.
A resolution calling for a management of the
Suez:. Canal that will "guarantee free passage for
ships of all nations, including Israel" was submitted
to the Liberal Party conference at Folkstone by
its executive.
L. F. Behrens, president of the party, sharply
attacked the British government's Suez policy and
warned that Britain's position bad been "terribly
weakened" by its failure and the failure of other
great powers to act "when Israeli shipping was
illegally forbidden passage through the canal."

Mallet Supports Free Passage for Israel

PARIS (JTA)—Premier Guy Mollet confirmed,
in an interview with Israel Ambassador Yaakov
Tsur, his previously announced position advocating
full liberty of navigation for Israeli shipping through
the Suez Canal. The Premier's declaration came at
a 45-minute meeting with the Israel diplomat during
which "economic questions" Concerning . Israel and
France were discussed.

Hammarskjold Reports on Cease-Fire

Mr. Harnmargkjold devoted his report to the
"unsatisfactory implementation" by Israel and the
Arab states of the cease-fire agreements which he
obtained during his visits to these countries. He did
not ask for a Security Council meeting to act on
the situation, nor did he offer new recommendations
for improving conditions in the area. However, in
more forceful terms than ever before, he took the
Arab governments and Israel to task for not
checking border violence, and for not forestalling
frontier incidents.

While affixing no blame to either side, the report
countered Israeli contentions that Egypt's Suez block-
ade justified Israel's unwillingness to invoke Articles
7 and 8 of the Israel-Egypt Armistice Agreement,
with regard to the Nitzana demilitarized zone, where
the Mixed Armistice Commission is to have its head-

quarters, the lack of which has led to suspension of
MAC meetings.

Also countered was Israel's contention that border
police in that area could not be pulled back because

they were needed to protect farmers and that
Israeli fortifications at two points near the Syrian
border were justified since Syrians received quan-
tities of offensive arms. The Secretary' General
closed his lengthy report with a statement that
possibilities for peace "are still there, and the _UN
must continue to impress on the governments in the
region their serious duty to use them."

Israel Takes Issue with Hammarskjold

JERUSALEM ( JT A) —Th e Israel government
criticized the report of UN Secretary General Dag
Hammarskjold to the Security Council as an indica-
tion that the United Nations had not merely failed
to put an end to the Arab campaign of hostility to
peace in the past year, but that it apparently failed

even to understand the nature of the threat. It

characterized the Arab campaign as one opposed
to a peaceful settlement or the establishment of

tranquility along Israel's borders.

