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ri Israel Barred from U. S. Arms Assistance

across national boundaries"
were responsible for, the insta-
bility in the Middle East, he
did not use the term "aggres-
sion" in referring to the Israel's
consider themselves menaced by Sinai Campaign. He described
Communism. These two states this as "the relatively large at-
consider the Soviet bloc less of tack by Israel in October."
a threat than the West.
Mentioning the Middle East
Arms will not be sold nor as the birthplace of Christian-
given to Israel under the ity, Judaism and Mohammed-
present concept on the Eisen- anism, the President referred to
hower doctrine because Israel Jerusalem and Mecca and said
has used its existing arms to "it would be intolerable if the
attack a neighboring country, Holy Places of the Middle East
State Department sources said should be subjected to a rule
Tuesday.
that glorifies atheistic material-
It was explained that na- ism."
tions using arms aggressively
will be barred from benefit- Israel Cabinet Discusses
ing under the new plan. State Eisenhower's Doctrine
Department sources said that
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
only Israel is in the category Israel Cabinet heard a report
ineligible for military assis- by Premier David Ben-Gurion
tance.
on the political situation and a
• Arab diplomats were re- review of the latest interna-
ported showing a friendlier tional developments concerning
response to the Eisenhower Israel. It is assumed that the
doctrine as U. S. officials major part of the session of the
sought to persuade the Arab Cabinet was devoted to discus-
states that they, rather than sions of Eisenhower's plan for
Israel, would benefit.
the Middle East.
A resolution avoiding any The consensus of well - in-
mention of foreign aid is receiv- formed circles is that the gov-
ing attention at highest Demo- ernment does not regard the
cratic headquarters, it w a s Eisenhower plan as. advancing
learned Tuesday. The language Arab - Israel rapproachement.
in the substitute would appear Some circles feel it retards the
also to bring into question solution of the Arab-Israel prob-
whether the President could lem.
automatically 6rder American
The afternoon press predicted
military power to counter possi- a cabinet crisis in the event
ble Communist aggression with- Premier Ben-Guri6n presses for
out further Congressional ac- the acceptance of the Eisen-
tion. Under terms of his own hower plan. The left - wing
resolution, the President prom- members of the coalition Cabi-
ised to consult with Congress in - net have reportedly served no-
case of an "overt armed attack," tice that they would regard
but the suggested substitute such acceptance as running
would appear to retain more counter to Israel's ,policy of non-
power over use of military force alignment with either East or
in Congress.
West, which is the cornerstone
of the coalition government
Commissioned by Ike
agreement.
to Aid in Near East
Generally, Israelis seem to
James P. Richards (D., S.C.),
former Congressman, who was favor the principle of stopping
Soviet penetration of the area,
chairman o f
as well as offering large - scale
the House of
assistance in development of the
Representa -
Middle East. It is felt, however,
tives Foreign
that shipment of Soviet arms to
Affairs C 0 m -
the countries of the region rep-
mittee, was
resents the most dangerous
commissioned
form of Soviet penetration and
by President
that any effective plan must
Eisenhower a s
halt this trend.
special assis-
The Israeli press, reflecting
tant and advis-
the general attitude in the coun-
er o n Middle
try, has adopted a reserved at-
East problems.
titude toward the President's
Richards w ill Richards
have the rank of ambassador proposals, although some news-
and will head the President's papers, such as the Jerusalem
mission to the Middle East to Post attempt to underscore the
help block any Communist ag- most favorable features.
gression there.
Israel Expects 100,000
Israel diplomats her e re- New Settlers in 15 Months
frained from making any com-
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
ment on President Eisenhower's
JERUSALEM. — One hun-
proposals. They were awaiting
clarification from the State De- dred thousand immigrants are
partment on the many vague expected to come to Israel in
points in Mr. Eisenhower's ad- the next 15 months and a spe-
dress. Israel Ambassador Abba cial plan to place 40,000 of them
Eban said Israel would have no in agricultural settlements has
comment until a study has been been prepared, Finance Minister
made of the President's address Levi Eshkol announced Tues-
and the preliminary clarification day.
given him Friday ,by Assistant
The plans were reported to a
Secretary of State William meeting of representatives of
Rountree.
farm Settlements who were told
Mr. Eban stressed the "pre- that the program was based on
liminary" nature of the infor- better use of existing land and
mation given to him by Mr. equipment.
Rountree. He said that during
Eshkol said the pr o g r am
his talk with Mr. Rountree he would save millions, of dollars.
also inquired about the relation- He said the Israel government
ship of the Eisenhower plan to will finance the housing for the
proposals for economic assis- 40,000 newcomers. The settle-
tance.
ments will provide training and
It is understood that apart give immigrants full member-
from the separate question of ship after a two-year training
possible U. S. armed interven- period.
tion in the Middle East, Israel
will explore the "military as- B-G, U. S. Ambassador
sistance and cooperation" prom-
ised by Mr. Eisenhower to "any Hold Urgent Meeting
nation or group of nations which
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News
desires such aid." Israel sought
JERUSALEM — An urgent
without success to buy arms in
this country after Russia pro- meeting between United States
vided Egypt and Syria with Ambassador Edward B. Lawson
huge quantities of heavy arms and Israel Premier David Ben-
Guri•n took place Tuesday at
and jet planes.
While the President equated the request of the American
Arab attacks and Israel defen- envoy.
Although the meeting, which
sive reactions with the comment
that "raids back and forth lasted several hours, was

Eisenhower Doctrine WonlchA Deter
Arab Aggression Against Israel

• Continued from Page 1 •
be turned down if it seeks to
invoke the new doctrine by ask-
ing U. S. aid against Arabs.)
Areas where the U. S. policy
will be carried out by or
through the United Nations
rather than through the doc-
trine were defined by Dulles.
He said the United States would
look to the United Nations for
maintenance of Arab-Israel arm-
istice lines, promotion of tran-
quility, care of Palestinian Arab
refugees who are a "great
charge" to the "conscience" and
status of the Suez Canal.
In event of future "aggres-
sion" by Israel, Dulles indicated
the United States would handle
it as before through the United
Nations. He noted, however,
that results of what recently
took place would make it un-
likely there will be such a repe-
tition. He mentioned a desire to
transfer economic funds from
other areas to help Arabs make
up for lost oil royalties.
• Dulles' statement to the For-
eign Affairs Committee that even
if Israel were attacked by Rus-
sian-armed Arab nations the
new Eisenhower doctrine would
not apply was elicited by Con-
gressman James G. Fulton who
asked if the United States
would respond to the request
for American assistance in the
-event of aggression by Arab
armies. Dulles replied that un-
less an aggressor nation was di-
rectly under control of interna-
tional Communism the new doc-
trine would not apply. He made
known in a separate statement
that he did not consider Egypt
or Syria under such red control.
Dulles told the committee that
under the doctrine provision of
military equipment to Israel,
while technically permissible,
would not be- done. He said it
has been the policy of this and
the previous administration not
to be an important supplier of
arms to Israel or to neighbor-
ing Arab countries. He said
there is no present intention to
alter U. S. policy in this respect.
The exclusion of the Arab-
Israel issue and the Suez prob-
lem from the Eisenhower Doc-
trine was criticized in a state-
ment by the newly formed na-
tional Democratic A d v i s or y
Committee which charged the
President With "brushing aside
the root problems" of the Mid-
dle East.
The Democratic Advisory
Committee, among whose mem-
bers are former President Tru-
man, Adlai Stevenson, Governor
Averill Harriman and other
leaders of the Democratic Party,
stressed that the responsibility
for a program to deal with the
Arab-Israel a n d Suez issue
"rests squarely upon the shoul-
ders of the President." It ex-
'pressed the hope that President
Eisenhower "will move with
dispatch to prepare such a pro-
gram and to submit it to the
country.
The opinion among Congres-
sional leaders was that the Eis-
enhower Doctrine could mean
much or little in terms of Is-
rael's security. Some pointed
out that President Eisenhower
has put Israel on a thin diet of
hope by implying that any fore-
seeable Arab attack on Israel
was likely to be a matter not
for the operation • of the new
United States Doctrine, but only
for the United Nations.
The President failed to name
individual nations when he re-
ferred to the Communist men-
ace confronting Middle East na-
tions. The fact is that Israel has
been more openly threatened by
the Soviet Union in recent
months than any other state in
the region. Iraq, an Arab state
which is anti-Communist as well
as anti-Israel, has also come
under sharp Communist criti-
cism. Egypt and Syria do not

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shrouded in complete secrecy, it
is assumed that the question of
Israel's withdrawal from Sinai
and the future legal status in
Israel-Egyptian relations were
the major topics discussed.
The meeting between Premier
Ben-Gurion a n d Ambassador
Lawson took place immediately
after Ben-Gurion met British
Ambassador John W. Nichols.
It is believed that the confer-
ence with the British Envoy was
devoted to the grave situation
which is developing along the
Israel-Jordan border as a result
of the renewed attacks within
Israel territory by Arab com-
mandos from Jordan.

Israel Remains Under
Pressure to Withdraw

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By SAUL CARSON

JTA's UN Correspondent

UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. —
The United States still insists,
despite all of Israel's recent
warnings about the danger of
the return of Israel-Arab rela-
tions to the old, pre-Sinai cam-
paign status quo, that Israel
withdraw fully and completely
behind the 1949 armistice lines.
Washington wants thiS with-
drawal to take place uncondi-
tioned by any other requests
Israel might have at present.
These points were made clear
here Tuesday by an authorized
spokesman for the United States
delegation.
The spokesman commended
Britain and France, "welcom-
ing" their troop withdrawals
from, Egyptian territory. But,
declared, the American dele-
gation "expects" that Israel's
withdrawal of troops to points
behind the old demarcation lines
will take place "promptly."
On the other hand, it was
indicated here that the United
States delegation does not favor
the introduction of a new reso-
lution censuring Israel for its
slowness in complying strictly
with t h- e General Assembly
resolutions which ordered troop
withdrawals "forthwith." The
U.S. spokesman stated that he
does not believe that any "per-
suasion" or pressure is needed,
g.s. far as Israel is concerned.
Two reasons were given by
diplomatic sources here for
American reluctance to back the
Israel censure move, already
initiated by the Arab bloc with
support of the Afro-Asian group
and the Soviet members. First,
Washington fears that presenta-
tion of an anti-Israel resolution
here, while the new Eisenhower
Middle East doctrine is being
discussed in Congress, may put
the administration on the spot.
Washington does not want pro-
Israel members of Congress to
use the Israel-Arab issue as an
excuse for not supporting the
President's new Middle East
policy; nor does it want the
Arab countries to "suspect" the
administration of a pro-Israeli
attitude.
Secondly, Washington as well
as some of the other western
countries, especially France and
Britain, fear that injection of
the Arab-Israel issue here at
this time might hamper re-
newed negotiations on the Suez
Canal between Britain a n d
France on the one hand, and
Egypt on the other hand. Such
negotiations, if they materialize,
would be conducted under the
aegis of the United Nations, and
the western powers don't want
to antagonize Egypt and give it
an excuse for stymying renewal
of Suez talks.•
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, Abba
Eban, chairman of Israel's per-
manent delegation, had another
meeting, for the second time in
72 hours, with . Secretary Gen-
eral Dag Hammarskjold. As cus-
tomary, none of the participants
would talk about the subject
matter discussed. However, it
was understood that Eban came
to give I-Iammarskjold the an-
swer to an inquiry made Satur-

day as to the reasons why Israel
has not met the time table by
completing its troop withdrawal
from El Arish.
Eban is reported to have told
the Secretary General Saturday
that he would inquire from his
government about the answer
to that question. Tuesday, pre-
sumably, he had brought Jeru-
salem's answer.
The powerful group of
Afro-Asian delegations here,
totalling representatives of 24
member-states, was preparing
to press for punitive action 11.11
against Israel, as word reach-
ed • the United Nations that
there has been "a hitch" in
Israel's promise to start its
withdrawal of troops from the
El Arish sector of the Sinai
Peninsula today.
Pressed by the Arab bloc,
which makes up a strength of
11 members inside the Afro-
Asian group, the latter met to
urge action before the General
Assembly for a new resolution
chastising Israel because it had
allegedly failed to live up to
earlier promises to withdraw
from Egyptian territory "forth-
with."
Other issues affecting Israel's
situation were being pressed
here. These included, reportedly,
an Israel demand that a buffer
zone be established between its
borders and Egypt's. Israel was
known to be contacting numer-
ous delegations here, not only
in regard to the buffer proposal
but also with its demands that
the United Nations guarantee
Israel against a renewal of ship-
ping blockades by Egypt in the
Suez Canal and in the Gulf of
Agaba; UN assurances t h at
Egypt will call off the raids by
fedayeen commandos who have
been raising havoc inside Israel;
and a guarantee that Egypt will
not once again build an army in
the Sinai, behind the shield of
the United Nations Emergency
Force.

New Withdrawals
Yet To Be Negotiated
The scheduled arrival of
United Nations emergency force
observers at El Arish this week-
end does not mean the with-
drawal of Israeli army units
from that Sinai strongpoint, Is-
raeli circles asserted. Tuesday.
El Arish is the demarcation
point on the withdrawal agree-
ment to the present stage, with
additional withdrawals sched-
uled to be negotiated between.
Maj. Gen. E. L. M. Burns, UNEF
commander, and Gen. Moshe
Dayan, commander of the Is-
raeli forces.
The present Israeli position
maintains Israel control of Sheik
El Sh•rm from which, prior to
the Sinai campaign, Egyptian
gun positions had dominated the
straits of Tiran and barred Is-
raeli transit to the Red Sea.
Egyptian sources had asserted.
previously that Gen. Burns
planned to establish UNEF
headquarters at El Arish shortly
after the Israeli withdrawal.
There was no confirmation in
Israel of American press reports
that Israel was scheduled to
withdraw from El Arish next
week.

Ban on Travel by U.S.
Citizens to Middle East
Lands Remains Effective
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The
'United States has made no de-
cision on permitting a resump-
tion of travel by Americans to
the Middle East, a State Depart-
ment spokesman said here.
Travel by U.S. citizens to Israel,
Egypt, Jordan and Syria has
been . prohibited, except when
judged in the national interest,'
since late October.
State Department spokesman
Lincoln White said the Depart-
ment has "u n d e r constant
study" the questions of per-
mitting unrestricted travel and
of returning U.S. Point Four aid.
officials to the region. But he
said no decision has been taken.

