Friday, November 16, 1956 -- THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS-22

UN General Assembly Faced with Near East Crisis

JERUSALEM, (JTA) T h e
Israel Cabinet discussed a let-
ter from President Eisen-
hower which was handed to
Premier David Ben-Gurion Sun-
day night by United States Am-
bassador Edward B. Lawson.
The details of that letter were
not made public.
UN Assembly Opens; Middle
East Crisis High on Agenda
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.
(JTA)—With the Middle East
crisis high on the agenda...as an
issue of extreme urgency, the
eleventh annual session of the
United Nations General Assem-
bly convened here in an atmos-
phere of great tension.
Efforts at further solution of
the Israel-Arab conflicts in gen
eral, and Israel-Egyptian rela-
tions- in particular, have now
been transferred from the
special emergency session of
the Assembly to the regular
meeting.
Israel is represented here _this
year by the largest and strong-
est delegation it has sent here
cince the state was established
in 1948. Ambassador Abba Eban
is again chairman of the delega-
tion, but is expected to relin-
quish the chairmanship to Mrs.
Golda Meir, Israel's Foreign
Minister, who will arrive before
the end of the week.
At the emergency session of
the General Assembly, Mr.
Eban made it clear that Israel
is ready to enter into nego-

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tiations with Egypt to settle
all outstanding • questions be-
tween them. He declared that
Israel would welcome a call
by the General Assembly "for
a freely negotiated settle-
ment" between the two coun-
tries. However, he added, it
was for Egypt and Israel and
no others to determine the
conditions for their peaceful
co-existence.
Swedish Commander of UN
M. E. Force is Former Nazi
STOCKHOLM (JTA) — Maj.
Sigmund Ahnfelt, head of the
Swedish Army contingent to .be
sent to the Middle East as part
of the United Nations police
force, was once a Nazi, the
newspaper Dagstidningen r e -
ported. The newspaper said that
in the late 1930'S-, Ahnfelt taught
at a Nazi youth leaders' school
and was editor of the Nazi
youth- paper "Storm Torch."
Ahnfelt says that he left the
Nazi Party in 1938.
(At United Nations headquar-
ters in New York a high UN
official, when asked for com-
ment on Maj. Sigmund Ahn-
felt's alleged Nazi background,
said that the United Nations has
not yet been told by Sweden
exactly what contingent it is
contributing to the UN corn-
mand or who will command the
unit. The UN official implied
that once a government contri-
bution of troops is accepted, the
individual members of that con-
tingent will be assigned by the
government - concerned without
specific control by the UN.) .
Israel Says UN Will Be
Tested by Attitude on Peace
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Israel's
Foreign Minister Golda Meir
emphasized that the United Na-
tions will be tested and 'judged
by its desire to solve the Middle
East situation by forcing the
Arab states to enter into direct
peace negotiations with Israel.
She spoke at a mass meeting of
the Mapai Party. The UN, she
said, will retain its moral valid-
ity only if it carries out the
fundamental principle of the
UN Charter--_,establishing peace
between states.
Israel's Sinai Soldiers
Cross-Section of Nation
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Israel's
citizen-soldiers, who form ,the
great majority of the State's
military forces, are a cross sec-.
tion_of" the nation, and those
who took part in the Sinai pen-
insula operations are no excep-
tion, according to Lt. Col. Moshe
Pearlman, Army information
spokesman. His description- of
the Army's personnel and the
manner in which they carried
out their task was carried on a
Kol Zion Lagolah broadcast
from Jerusalem, monitored by
the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
here.
One thing was made clear by
Col. Pearlman. He said that no
one should imagine that the
fighting was a "romp." It was
no walkover, he added, , and
there was considerable hard
fighting at certain crucial points.
Col. Pearlman noted that "we
are not a nation of militarists."
Israelis, he said, fight only when
they have to, and not because
they are particularly pugna-
cious. But, he went on, in the
understatement of the year,
when they have to, they do and
"I'm glad to say we don't do too
badly."
Israel's reserve laws being
what they are, the information
spokesman'.said, those who took
part were not only ,men. Wo-
men of the Israel Army also
participated in the operation.
He also noted that the Israelis
had prepared themselves for the
probable eventuality that they
would have to deal with the
large numbers of Arab residents
in the Gaza strip. Within twen-
ty-four hours of the fall of Gaza
itself, specially-trained Israel
military government units were
on their way to take over the
task of administration from the
front ale troops. :who took. -the
town.
.The Arabs.werkt back to_ work
in their fields, he said, and they
were already set to receive the

benefit of some up-to-date agri-
cultural advice, arranged by the
Israel Government, cognizant of
the problem of want which
plagues the Arabs of the area.
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Russia's Victory
Viewed by Alsops
In a revealing analysis of the
victories scored in the Middle
East by Soviet Russia, Stewart
and Joseph Alsop, writing in
the Free Press yesterday, de-
clared that the U. S. State De-
partment's angry threats to Is-
rael that she would be ex-
pelled from the UN forced
Ben-Gurion to consent to with-
draw his troops from Egypt.
Pointing out how the French
and British yielded, the Al-
sops declared: "So the Israelis
caved in, too, and Humpty-
Dumpty Nasser was triumph-
antly put back on the wall
again."
The Alsops wrote that there
could have been doubts over
the planning of the Anglo-
France-Israeli intervention in
Egypt, "but in fact, the oper-
ation was succeeding rather
brilliantly when everything
that had been gained was lost
again by a premature cease-
fire. The main success was due
to the Israelis, rather than to
the British and French."
Israel's position was dra-
matically describe in a• series
of - radio and TV broadcasts
direct from Israel.
Ben-Gurion States His Views;
Kollek on Brief Visit Here
In his interview with Edward
R. Murrow, Israel Prime Minis-
ter David Ben-Gurion said his
consent to the withdrawal of
his country's troops from the
Sinai Peninsula was given as a

result of assurances from Presi-
dent Eisenhower that an inter-
national- force would prevent
recurrence of assassins' infiltra-
tion into Israel. He 'said there
is only one choice for the free
world—between attaining peace
or continuing to back Nasser.
Murrow - also interviewed
Ozer Weizmann and Israel's
military chief of staff. Moshe
Dayan. -
Israel Foreign Minister GOlda
Meir, in Paris, on the way to
the UN, said there will be no
peace in the Middle East until
Jews and Arabs sit together to
make peace.
Ted Kollek, director of Prime
Minister Ben-Gurion's office in
Jerusalem, on a brief visit in

Detroit-this -week, - revealed that
all the Arab nations were pre-
paring "an iron ring around Is-
rael," with the intention of
turning the country into a gas
chamber, of poisoning wells,
placing bombs in crowded thea-
ters and through fedayeen to
destroy the land and the people.
That made it necessary for Is-
rael to act - days- ahead of the
planned Egyptian action against
her," he said. "We decided it
is preferable to be wrong in
life than right in death," he
added.
Israel presently is refraining
from • reprisals against other
Arab states in order to avoid
Soviet intervention. But feda-
yeen activities from iJordan and
Syria have resulted in many
deaths and are adding to the
Israeli tensions.

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