Humor from Borsht Belt E JEWISH Vital Lessons: From James Madison to the Present A Weekly Review Veterans' Program For Action in Middle East of Jewish Commentary, Page 2 - Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporp - VOLUME XXX—No. 14 .CFalk. „, 27 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd. — .4 eQ es A.1) cb. Bar-Ilan Tribute (4 ? Editorials, Page 4 ewish Chronicle sZN VE 8-9364 — er 7, 1956 $5.00 Per Year; Single Copy 15c First Jews Expellt.", from Egypt Reach - Israel; Tell of. 'Brutality': „ 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 Three Israeli brigades already have been withdrawn, and Ambassador Abba Eban.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- (Continued on Page 32) 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." (Continued on Page 5) Washington Correspondent Exposes State Department Official's Partisan Views on Middle East Situation By MILTON FRIEDMAN (Copyright, 1956, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) . 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 (Continued on Page 32)