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Bulganin Threatens Israel; Capturedillistorical Museum Receives,
mi Documents Reveal Annihilation Plan JNF Golden Book Certificate
(Copyright, 1956, JTA, Inc.)
While the talk of Soviet
"volunteers" coming to Egypt
was apparently being soft-ped-
alled, Moscow made a simul-
taneous three - pronged move
aimed at keeping the West off
balance. Letters from Premier
Nikolai Bulganin to Prime Min-
isters Eden of Britain, Mollet
of France, and Ben Gurion of
Israel roundly berated the "ag-
gressors" in the Middle East,
demanded immediate with-
drawal of troops, objected to
the stationing of the newly or-
ganized UN police force any-
where save on both sides of the
Israel-Egypt armistice lines, de-
manded payment of reparations
to the Nasser government and—
in at least one version of the
text — raised serious questions
about the "future existence of
Israel as a state."
The BUlganin letter to Israel's
Premier rejected Israel's con-
tentions out of hand and accused
Israel of a policy that "is ac --
tually dangerous for peace and
is most perilous for Israel." It
added that the soviet govern-
ment "considers it essential that
measures be taken to exclude
the possibility of new Israeli
provocations against neighbor-
ing states."
The first outlines of Admin-
istration policy were given by
President Eisenhower at his
press conference. The U.S., he
indicated, would seek to
counter the Soviet "volun-
teers" threat through the
United Nations which, he
pointed out, was not neces-
sarily limited to the adoption
of resolutions. Once the pres-
ent conflict is ended, he
added, he intended to inten-
sify efforts to bring about
closer contacts between Israel
and the Arab states. And he
renewed, conditionally, an of-
fer made last year by Secre-
tary of State Dulles for a U.S.
the Middle. East situation, S. L.
A. Marshall, Detroit News mili-
tary analyst, who has left for
the Middle East to study the
situation there, and Joe
Michaels, NBC correspondent
who just returned from Israel,
exchanged -views on the crisis.
They were in agreement that
Israel "did what she had to do."
They deplored the possibility of
a return to the status quo ante
as dangerous to world peace and
expressed the view that Britain
and France now will be firmer
in their demands that Nasser's
dictatorial plans should be
checked by the UN and the
world's democracies.)
At the United Nations, Mrs.
Golda Meir, Foreign Minis-
ter of Israel, started a round
of conversations with other
Foreign Ministers and vari-
ous delegations. Mrs. Meir
saw Christian Pineau,.Foreign
Minister of France, and later
conferred with Lester B.
Pearson, Canada's Minister
for External Affairs. Mr.
Pearson is the author of the
General Assembly resolution
which established the UN in-
ternational police force.
Mrs. Meir had declared Israel
is ready to send representatives
"any time, anywhere, right now,
to start negotiating peace with
Egypt and the other Arab
states, without any prior con-
ditions whatsoever."
Mrs. Meir stated that it is up
to the United. Nations to use
"all its moral pressure toward
a peace in the Middle East."
The Israel Foreign Minister
declared she has brought with
her "nothing sensational" as far
as a peace plan is concerned.
"It is the - same insistence on
peace that we have been re-
iterating since 1949," she said.
"There is only one central, stra-
tegic question, and that is
also receive
copies of - these documents.
East • crisis, will
The documents show that not
only had Egypt prepared vast
armaments at its bases, intend-
ed for Israel's annihiation, but
that the supplies of clothing,
personal effects, and other such
material were much larger than
could possibly have been used
by Egypt's Sinai forces which
numbered, at most, about 40,000
men. One item cited by Mr.
Eban was blankets — of which
1,000,000 were captured by the
victorious Israeli army as it
swept through the - Egyptian
At the Brandeis Centennial celebration, Nov. 14, arranged
bases. "Certainly, these men by the Jewish National Fund and the Detroit Historical
could not have used a million Museum, at the Museum, to honor the 100th birthday anni-
blankets," Mr. Eban pointed out. versary of the late Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis,
"There were enough supplies a JNF Golden Book certificate was presented to the Museum.
there to equip an army much The inscription in the Golden Book in Jerusalem was made by
larger—a force that could be William Hordes on the occasion of the American Jewish Ter-
rapidly expanded."
centenary. Mr. Hordes is shown here presenting the certificate
The documents consisted of to Henry D. Brown, director of the Museum, and George W.
photostatic copies in the/original Stark, president of the Detroit Historical Society. Others in
Arabic, plus English transla- the photo, who participated in the Brandeis Centennial pro-
tions. An introduction to the or- gram, are, from left: Ben Harold, president of the JNF Council;
ders stated: "Every commander Prof. Samuel M. Levin, of Wayne State University, who de-
is to prepare himself for the livered the principal address of the evening,' and Leonard N.
inevitable campaign with Is- Simons, vice-president of the Detroit Historical Society.
rael for the purpose of fulfilling
our exalted aim- which is the,
annihilation of Israel and her
destruction in the shortest pos-
sible time in the most brutal
and cruel battles." A closing
A Digest of World Jewish Happenings, from
clause in the orders warned "our
aim is always: the destruction Dispatches of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency and
of Israel. Remember it, work
Other News Gathering Media.
for its fulfillment."
Knesset Rejects Herut
United States
Criticism on Withdrawal
NEW YORK — Hadassah, women's Zionist organization,
of Israeli Troops
JERUSALEM (JTA)A chal- received a special award for its work in the field of adult
lenge to Premier David Ben education, from the School of Education of Long Island Univer-
Gurion's government, posed by sity . . . The American Jewish Committee has appealed to
a Herut criticism of the Pre- Acting Secretary of State Herber Hoover, Jr., to take "immediate
mier's decision to withdraw Is- and effective action towards halting the current mass deportation
raeli troops from Sinai and to of Jews from the Russian-Polish border to exile and imprison-
accept an international police ment in concentration camps in Siberia ... An extraordinary con-
force, was beaten back in Par- ference of presidents of major American Jewish organizations
liament by a vote of 66 to 13. will be here Nov. 26-27, at Delmonico Hotel, to consider the
A Communist demand for a de- Middle East crisis . . The Joint Distribution Committee has
peace."
bate on the government's for- contributed 20,000 Swiss francs to the International Red Cross
"The Arab states," she con eign policy was sloughed off to aid Hungarian refugees of all faiths.
tinued, "will not want to talk 77 to 3.
zuarantee of Israel-Arab fron-
WASHINGTON—The Bnai Brith's 113th annual meeting here
about peace if they think they
tiers.
adopted five proposals directed at stabilizing peace between
can destroy Israel. But if they British Envoy Urges
Israel- and the Arab states and calling for a halt to fedaye, a
One comment on U.S. adher- know that the State of Israel Negotiated Peace
WASHINGTON (JTA)—Brit- attacks on Israel.
ence to a policy of working is here to stay—and it is here
through the United Nations to stay—then peace talks might ish Ambassador Harold Caccia
KIAMESHA LAKE, N. Y.—The National Women's League
came from noted nationally be started. And we are ready. called ,for a negotiated peace of United Synagogue of America, at its convention here, was told
syndicated columnist Walter It is that simple, as far as we settlement between Israel and by Jules Cohn, coordinator of the National Community Relations
Egypt which both sides could Advisory Council, that there is no evidente of "any appreciable
Lippman. He stressed two dif- are concerned."
accept because it would give growth. of anti-Semitism" in the U. S.
ferent ways of going about such
Israel proved to the United
a policy. "One is the way the Nations through captured top them justice. He said one could
Administration first took, then secret Egyptian army docu- not have a truce. compromise in
Israel
modified somewhat, but has ments, that massive concen- which, both sides were fully
TEL AVIV — Louis Lipsky, American Zionist leader, was
never seriously reconstructed," trations of troops and materiel satisfied. He thought neither honored at the Weizmann Institute at Rehovoth by being named
he said. "This was in essence in the Sinai Peninsula had side would be fully satisfied, an honorary fellow of the Institute, the 14th to be named in the
to treat Britain, France and Is-
been organized for the pur- but that such a settlement as Weizmann- Institute's history. The veteran Zionist then delivered
rael as aggressors, to treat pose of annihilating the Jew- he envisaged would be for their a lecture on "Theodor Herzl, Chaim Weizmdnn and the Jewish
Egypt as the innocent victim, ish State and not for defense. own good. He spoke at the Na- State" . . . Nearly 1500 immigrants who arrived in Israel in the
and to commit the whole United
last few days were taken to new settements in various parts of
Ambassador Abba Eban, tional Press Club here.
States influence to the single chairman of Israel's delegation
A charge was made by Mr.- the Country . . The Soviet Union has refused to deliver crude
issue of the withdrawal of mili- at the UN, sent copies of the Caccia that Egyptian President oil to -Israel in spite of a long-standing trade agreement betWeen
tary forces.
captured Egyptian documents to Nasser has put himself into the the two nations.
"The other way, which in the president of the Security position of being "a tool of
view of Nasser's record should Council, with a request that the Russia." He- said Russia had
Canada
have been the original way, is copies be circulated among all supplied President Nasser with
MONTREAL—Canadian
immigration officials announced that
to commit our influence in the members of the United Nations. arms "at. a time when President 316 North African Jewish families, totalling 777 persons, will be
U.N. insistently and decisively Dag Hammarskjold, Secretary Nasser was openly proclaiming
admitted to Canada under a special immigration program re-
to a solution of 'the problems Generla, who has been given his policy for the ultimate de- quested by the Canadian Jewish Congress.
struction
of
the
State
Of
Israel
which caused the explosion."
prime responsibility as the UN
(In a television discussion of negotiator regarding the Middle and his ambition to establish
Europe
an empire stretching from the
WIESBADEN—The budget committee of the Hesse legislature
Atlantic to the Persian Gulf."
has voted $2,100,000 above the previcuis appropriation to provide
Sweden Removes Ex-Nazi
for Nazi victims from Germany who emigrated• during the Nazi
From Command of Troops
STOCKHOLM (JTA) — Maj. epoch and are returning for permanent settlement in this country.
PARIS—The World OSE Union's executive committee de-
Sigmund Ahnfelt, commander
of the Swedish unit assigned to cided to strive to reopen OSE institutions in Israel in agreement
the United Nations Middle East with and the assistance of the Ministries of Health and Social
police force, has resigned his Welfare.
post in the face of criticism di-
TRIER, GERMANY — The cornerstone for a modest new
rected at him. The criticism synagogue was laid by communal president Benno Suesskind in
dealt with the fact that, until this Moselle city also known as Treves.
1938, Maj. Ahnfelt had been a
Latin America
leading member of the Swedish
Nazi • youth movement.
BUENOS AIRES—The 'Argentine Zionist Assembly adopted
The announcement of his res- the principle of individual affiliation with the proposed Argentine
ignation was made in Parlia- Zionist Federation.
ment by the Defense Minister
who said that the reason for the
resignation was that a question Gov. Herter Names Five to State - Posts
had arisen whether it was
BOSTON, Mass. (JTA)—The Massachusetts Commission
"wise" to keep Ahnfelt in com- names of five prominent. Jewish Against Discrimination; Eli
mand of the force and risk a citizens named to various state Chayet, of Brookline, as special
An enthusiastic response was recorded on Israel Action Day
challenge by one of the bellig- posts have been submitted for Justice of the District Court of
Sunday, when volunteers from many local organizations, and erents.
confirmation to the Governor's Western Norfolk to succeed
scores of individuals, joined in an effort to boost Israel Bond
Dagens Nyheter, a leading Council by Gov. Christian Her- Bernard Bachner, who resigned;
- sales, prior to the visit of Israel Foreign Minister Golda Meir,
Swedish newspaper, credited ter here.
Rep. Louis H. Glasser, of .Mal-
next Monday, to $500,000 for the month of November. In the the Jewish Telegraphic Agency
The appointments are George den, for another term as Public
upper photo, Mrs. Joseph Katchke and Mrs. Philip Helfman
with playing a leading role in Cashman, of Wellesly, to suc- Administrator o f Middlesex
(left) are shown enrolling, volunteers from Adas Shalom Sis-
bringing about the resignation ceed Judge Philip Rubenstein, County, and Samuel Epstein,
terhood. In the lower photo, Morris Novetsky, acting president
of Maj. Ahnfelt by inquiring at who resigned; Emanuel Gold- of Boston, as Trustee of the
of Young Israel of Oak Woods, hands out assignments. Ernest
United Nations headquarters berg, of Newton, to succeed Massachusetts Mental Health
Curtis, third man in line, is Bnai Brith Bond chairman.
about his record as a Nazi.
Cashman as member of the Center.
Israel Bond Action Day Volunteers
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