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First Jews Expellt.", from Egypt
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Democracies' Struggle for Peace
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish. News)
Justice Still Hangs in the
Balance at United Nations
By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ
NEW YORK.—Will double standards of political
morality continue to dominate the diplomatic scene, or—
are we soon to see a serious effort to compel genuine
peace negotiations among the contending forces in the
Middle East?
This is the major question that is perplexing all who
are watching developments at the United Nations and
who, from this vantage point, are keeping their ears close
to the diplomatic arena to be able to decipher what is
happening in Washington. The eyes of the world liter-
ally are focused upon both Washington -and the United
Nations, but the situation remains a puzzling one.
It is daily becoming clearer that Israel is bending
backwards to please the United Nations and, more es-
pecially, the White House, whence has come such terrific
pressure to compel Israel to yield all her gains both in
the Sinai Peninsula and -the Gaza strip. Three Israeli
brigades already have been withdrawn, and Ambassador
Abba Eban. consistently assures the UN that his govern-
ment will abide by the decisions of the international
organization:. -
Nevertheless, an antagonistic attitude prevails, and
the Afro-Asian bloc in the UN continues to ignore facts
and to spout hatred for the Israelis.
The test came last week when Israel, backed by the
more liberal forces in the UN, demanded action against
the ruthless policies of the Nasser regime, whose assault
upon the Egyptian Jews became more pronounced with
the series of expulsions, the confiscation of the proper-
ties of deported Jews and the holding of heads of fami-
lies as hostages. But the U. E. State Department quick-
ly denied that it had taken diplomatic action in Egypt
to protect the Jewish population. All it did was to
express "concern" and to seek information. That was
not the attitude shown in relation to the Communist
atrocities in Hungary.
With half of Egypt's Jewish population affected by
the new Egyptian policy, it was to have been expected
that our Government would take steps to prevent an-
other act of genocide. That is why the question is being
posed everywhere, as Joseph and Stewart Alsop have
stated, "today, the American Government is bending
every effort to restore Nasser to a position of command-
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HAIFA—The first group of expelled Egyptian Jews-29 men, women and children
—arrived aboard the SS Israel from Naples, Tuesday. The expellees uniformly report-
ed that Jews in Egypt were being subjected to "cruel and inhuman" treatment.
They said that hundreds of Jews were under house arrest and hundreds more
had been rounded up and thrown into prison. All Jewish property has been confis-
cated, the expellees stated. The group included Jews of Egyptian, British, Italian
and other European nationality who had been given from one to four days notice
and then deported from the country with a maximum of 20 pounds in cash.
One Jew of Italian nationality reported that he had been in a small cell with
15 others until the Italian consulate intervened in his behalf. The prisoners were
not allowed to open one tiny window . in their fetid Bell, he related, and their fare con-
sisted of bread and beans.
Leon Cohen, former resident of Alexandria, said he was called to the local police
station and given a choice between deportation and arrest. When he chose to leave
Egypt, he was piaced under house arrest until he departed.
Morris Baruch Marzuk reported that he was arrested in Cairo, thrown into a
Cairo prison and stayed there without seeing his family until he was placed on a
ship leaving Egypt.
A woman spokesman for the deportees told reporters that all 29 were Egyptian
born and that their parents had been born in Egypt.
S. Z. Shragai, head of the Jewish Agency immigration department who arrived
in Israel with the immigrants, declared that 30,000 Egyptian Jews had been out-
lawed and lost all protection of law; heads of businesses were forced to sign them
over to Egyptians, and all assets were taken over by the Egyptian treasury.
He asserted that Grand Rabbi Haim N ahourn had resigned in protest against the
persecution of Egyptian Jews following a brief and unsatisfactory interview with
President Nasser.
Some 1,200 Jews exiled from Egypt have already reached various European cen-
ters, Shragai disclosed. About 500 of them have indicated a desire to go to Israel.
Yehuda Braginsky, head of the Agency's absorption department told newsmen
that expellees were all penniless, and that ISrael would have to expand great sums
of money to resettle them. He praised American Jewry for proclaiming the special
.$100,00,000 rescue fund drive beside the regular United Jewish Appeal goal.
Golda Meir Lodges Protest at UN
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., (JTA)—Egypt has ordered 21,000 Jews of its total
Jewish population of 50,000 to leave the country within a period ranging from seven
to thirty days, has imprisoned approximately 1,900 Jews-900 of whom are being held
as hostages in undisclosed concentration quarters—and has seized or frozen Jewish
assets amounting to well over $100,000,000.
. These were among the charges made to Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold by
Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel's Minister of For eign Affairs, who complained to the United
Nations that the Cairo government is viol ating the Geneva convention of 1949 for
the protection of civilians in time of war, as well as the UN Convention on Genocide
and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
"The situation of the Jews of Egypt," Mrs. Meir stated in her letter to Ham-
marskjold, "is a direct challenge to the moral conscience of the United Nations and
the world. My government again requests you, in the humanitarian interest, to ap-
porach the Egyptian government as a mat ter of extreme urgency and to persuade it
to desist from this barbaric course."
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Washington Correspondent Exposes State Department
Official's Partisan Views on Middle East Situation
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright, 1956, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
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WASHINGTON = Is EdWin M. Wright of the
State Department "the poor man's Toynbee"? Many
consider Wright an American counterpart of the
British historian whose views on Israel have excited
international controversy.
Wright's espousal of anti-Israel arguments has
attracted thousands of intellectuals. It has also
aroused the indication of American Friends of Israel
who feel a U. S. official should be objective rather
than partisan.
A Nov. 20 address by Wright caused the Arabs
themselves to challenge Wright's "facts." Wright
set himself up, in Washington's Islamic Mosque of •
all places, as a foremost authority on Mohammed-
anism, cabbages, kings, and many things. His de-
scription of Moslem philosophy was such that the
chairman of the meeting, who . was of the Moslem
faith, was forced to rise and disagree.
It was the same Wright who was proved wrong
in his estimates of Egypt's Nasserism when he served
as chief intelligence adviser of the State Depart-
ment's Near Eastern Division. Henry A. Byroade,
Who was recently removed as U. S. Ambassador to
Egypt, considered Wright the leading expert on the
Arab-Israel issue. Byroade emerged as the apologist
for Nasser vvho tried to sell the Egyptian diCtator
to the West.
"In Heaven Allah, on earth Wright of the State
Department." In such words do some Arabs describe
Wright. His advocacy of the Arab cause at the State
Department is well-known among them. Earlier this
autumn, Wright made a highly-controversial speech
in President Eisenhower's own church, reflecting
critically on Israel and aspects of the Jewish faith.
It was against this background on Nov. 20 that
Arabs and others attended the Mosque of their choice
to hear Wright speak. The Mosque was Washington's
magnificent new $1,540,000 Islamic center, supported
by Arab embassies.
Wright is chairman of the board of the Middle
East Institute and dean of the State Department's
Foreign Service Institute. His views are of particu-
lar importance because of his role in training young
diplomats. His mosque address pertained mainly to
his educational activities.
He entered troubled Moslem waters when he
took a few minutes to review thousands of years
of theocracy and philosophy highlighted by the rise
of Islam.
A tendency to "abiolute sovereignty" in Arab
lands today was reported by Wright. A member of
the audience rose and requested an example. This
reporter thought of Nasser's Egypt or King Saud's
Saudi Arabia ruled as it is by a single despot. But
Wright's mind, conditioned by his affinity for the
Arabian - American Oil Co., bypassed Egypt and
Saudi Arabia. It lighted upon peaceful Lebanon,
the most democratic Arab state, as an "illustration
of absolute sovereignty."
Lebanon is a state that would make peace with
Israel if other Arab nations would permit it. Wright's
attack on Lebanon had to do with Lebanon's alleged
retroactive modification of a law involving the trans-
mit of Arabian oil across Lebanese territory. Saudi
Arabia and Egypt are displeased with Lebanon.
Fearing Nasser and Communism, Lebanon has moved
toward America. Wright, however, saw Lebanon
rather than Egypt or Saudi Arabia as an outstand-
ing example of extremism.
Wright revealed his connection with the training
of U. S. foreign service officers on Middle Eastern
matters. Among those briefing these formative young
minds, Wright said, were oil company officials.
There is no record that the U. S. Zionists have ever
been invited to brief such sessions.
It was made known by Wright that the U. S.
Government annually trains a seminar of about 30
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