Israel Gets Only Articulate Backing

Israel by the laying of irriga-
tion pipelines. Now, the offi-
cial pointed out, the 90,000 per-
manent inhabitants of the area
can be helped toward freeing
themselves from their perma-
nent impoverishment.
As for the refugees, who are
now "freed of Egyptian intimi-
dation,"- they have the oppor-
tunity "to think constructively
of permanent resettlement, and
such plans can be worked out
without frustration by Egyp-
tian incitement."
A f o u r-partite Israel-Arab
agreement on mutual non-inter-
ference in the Strait of Tiran
and Gulf of Aqaba, or control
of the strait by a Users Associa-
tion, were alternatives seen here
for the waterway, after the
Aqaba area is occupied by the
United Nations Emergency
Force. Israel circles stated cate-
gorically that Israel has no in-
tention of keeping its armed
forces at Sharm el Sheikh after
arrangements have been made
for freedom of shipping. The
four-partite agreement suggest-
ed here would be between
Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and
Jordan, the countries whose
shores are -touched by the
straits and the gulf.
Israel's central economic or-
ganizations called on all gov-
ernments and world public
opinion to start steps immedi=
ately for ending the Arab eco-
nomic boycott of Israel. Failure
to stop the blockade and boy-
cott, declared a manifesto is-
sued by the organizations, "will
compel Israel economic organi-
zations t o resort to counter-
measures which may result in
serious political _consequences."
Among the signers of the
manifesto were the Chambers of
Commerce, the Manufacturers
Association, Farmers Federa-
tion, the Citrus Marketing
Board, organized labor, and the
General Cooperatives.

Friday, January 25, 1957

Disputed Areas Won't Be Abandoned
Until There Are Security Assurances

(Continued from Page 1)
sources. Instead, the American
spokesman referred to last
week's speech by Henry Cabot
Lodge, Jr., chairman of the
American delegation, who spoke
in general terms of the need for
UNEF development. The U.S.
spokesman, as has been his cus-
tom for last two weeks, again
reiterated that Washington "is
expecting from Israel full com-
pliance" with the Nov. 2 res-
olution calling for withdrawal
of troops from Egyptian terri-
tory. When pressed, however,
whether the U.S. insists on all
parties complying with all terms
i n the resolution, including
"cessation of all hostilities," he
said, "Yes, we want all parts of
the resolution observed."
With Israel ordered by the
United Nations General.. As-
sembly to withdraw its troops
within- five days from the
Sinai section of the Aqaba
area and from the Gaza Strip,
Israel Ambassador Abba Eban
conferred with UN Secretary
General Dag Hammarskjold
on the views of his govern-
ment with regard to measures
to be taken following the As-
sembly's decision.
The decision adopted by the
General Assembly, by a vote
of 74 to 2, with two abstentions,.
demanded that Israel evacuate
the above two areas, and re-
quested Mr. Hammarskjold to
report on the completion of
Israel's evacuation not later
than • Thursday. Eban told the
Assembly that Israel will insist
on UN assurance against a re-
newed Egyptian blockade of
Aqaba and against the use of
Gaza again as a base for attacks
on the Jewish State.
(Israel- stood firm, as the

five-day period for the UN-
ordered evacuation _of Gaza
and Sharm el-Sheikh ap-
proached, on its demand for
assurances that there will be
no further attacks upon her
by terrorist Arab gangs. The
Israeli. seven-page memoran-
dum submitted to the UN on
Thursday stated the areas
will not .be relinquished un-
til assurances of security are
given. There were indica-
tions that a two-thirds vole
may not be available for
further stringent actions
against Israel.).

Israel had articulate back-
ing in the Assembly debate in
its request 'that there should
be no return to the situation
which- preceded the Sinai-
Gaza campaign and that the
Aqaba waterway must remain
free for all shipping. Among
the member countries which
supported many of Israel's
contentions in the three-day
Assembly debate were the
United States, France, Can-
ada, Austria, New Zealand,
Costa Rica, Ireland, the Domi-
nican Republic, the Nether-
lands and Portugal.
Nevertheless, the delegations
of all these countries—except
for France which voted with
Israel, and Costa Rica and Cuba
which abstained—voted in favor
of the final resolution which or-
dered Israel to withdraw within
five days from the Sinai tip
in the Aqaba area and from the
Gaza Strip. The resolution was
presented on behalf of the Afro-
Asian block which is composed
of 25 member states of the Un-
ited
Under great pressure to pro-
duce, within five days, a viable
plan which would meet at least
some of Israel's demands for
security prior to withdrawing
its trooPs. Hammarskjold may
demand a new Assembly direc-
tive before he authorizes UNEF
to stay on as an occupying mil-
itary army of the United Na-
tions; acting as buffer between
Egypt and Israel. The United t

States has expressed itself as
favoring extension of the UNEF
stay, but is likely to leave the
move toward such Assembly
authorization to Mr. Hammar-
skj old.
Some delegates saw the
next moves as developing into
a series of "buck passing"
maneuvers between the Sec-
retary General and Washing-
ton, with the latter willing to
leave things in the UN Chief's
hands. Meanwhile, however,
the Assembly had Eban's firm
expression of Israel's attitude.
Eban _warned solemnly that
o n 1 y renewed Israel-Arab
warfare faces the world un-
less • Israel gets guarantees
against Egypt's renewed belli-
gerency. He posed three alter-
natives before the Assembly.
One alternative, he said, is
"that Israel go away, with no
measures and no related steps
to ensure that the blockade (of
Aqaba) will not be renewed."
Such a course, he said, would
result in "return to belligerency
and the danger of active con-
flict." The second alternative
was for Israel to remain where
it is. The third course, however,
he saw as "the middle course."
That, he s a i d, involves "the
withdrawal of troops and sim-
ultaneous arrangements a n d
measures to ensure permanent
freedom of navigation an d,
therefore, the absence of belli-
gerent acts in this international
waterway."

Ben-Gurion Rejects UN's
Detrimental Decisions

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire Service
to The Jewish News)

JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Al-
though Israel is under heavy
pressure, she will nevertheless
not accept any United Nations
resolution which is against
Israel's interests, Premier David
Ben-Gurion declared last week-
end. He stressed that Israel had
no intention of conquest. Had
such intentions existed, t h e
Israeli Army could have march-
ed through Egypt all the way
to Khartum, he said.
Ben-Gurion spoke at a con-
ference of the Association of
Collective Settlements, which
took place at Givat Haim: He
called upon the leaders of the
collective settlement movement
to establish settlements in • the
Aqaba and Elath areas. Without
such settlements, he said, Elath
could not be secure. He drew at-
tention to the fact that Elath
is the gate to Israel's trade with
Africa and Asia.
Israel will offer UN Secre-
tary General Dag Hammar-
skjold, in the current discus-
sions at the United Nations,
concrete suggestions about
maintaining freedom of pass-
age for all shipping through
the Strait of Tiran and the
Gulf of Aqaba, it was indi-
cated here. It is understood
that Israel will also offer
Hammarskjold a complete
plan for the resettlement of
Arab refugees in the Gaza
Strip as well as plans for
large-scale development pro-
jects aimed at raising the
living standards of G a z a's
permanent p o p u lation of
about 90,060.
Israel officials are making
it clear that this country is
not seeking the annexation of
Gaza. But they see the pos-
sibility that "the present pro-
cess of Gaza's administra-
tion," which is in Israeli
hands, might r be "given a -
suitable United Nations rela-
tionship in such a way as to
remove permanently the
nightmare of belligerency that
has been synonymous with
Gaza."
For the first time since Egypt
occupied the Gaza area, Israel
officials pointed out, there is
a possibility of integrating Gaza
development projects which
have already been begun by

I

Long Stay Seen for UNEF
JERUSALEM—Reports indi-
cating that United Nations Sec-
retary General Dag Hammar-
skjold is considering the possi-
bility of the UN Emergency
Force remaining in the Middle
East for a long period have been
received here from diplomatic
sources.
It was learned Tuesday that
Hammarskjold h a s addressed
ihqUiries to several countries
-which supplied contingents to
the UN forces to learn whether
they would be agreeable to a
tour of extended duty for their
troops.
It is understood that the re-
plies indicate a willingness to
keep troops with UNEF for pe-
riods over a year. Brazil, whose
units are en route to the Middle
East to join UNEF, is known to
have replied that it is willing
to send troops for two years,
provided the UN uses this pe-
riod to work for a permanent
settlement of the Arab-Israel
problem.

relations between Israel and
the Philippines was' announced
by the Foreign Ministry here
Monday night.
Informed circles viewed the
move as a major development
in Israel's campaign to establish
closer ties with Asian nations.
M. Shimoni, Israel's Minister
to Burma, is expected to be ap-
pointed to represent Israel at
Manila.

the Israel position, and was in-
formed of the American views.
Mr. Shiloah also met later with
Robert D. Murphy, Deputy Un-
der Secretary of State.

Troubled Area

`MEDITERRA NEAN.

Finletter Urges U. S.
Clarify Israel Stand

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire Service
to The Jewish News)

WASHINGTON—Former Sec-
retary of the Air Force Thomas
Finletter
called for a
return t o di-
plom a c y by
principle Tues-
'day and sug-
gested that the
Eisenhower
Doctrine f or
the 'Middle
East make
clear that the
Finletter U.S. will n o t
return to "policies and condi-
tions of days before the Israel
attack."
Finletter told the House For-
eign Affairs Committee that he
thought the Eisenhower resolu-
tion was defective in not clarify 7
ing that the U.S. is bound by
"certain principles in our deal-
ings with peoples of the Near
East on which we are not going
to compromise." He said that
among these principles on
which the Eisenhower resolu
tion should commit itself to up-
holding are:
1. Opposition to aggression or
preparations for aggression by
either Israel or the Arab states.
2. Maintenance of u n i nter-
rupted use of the Suez Canal
to ships of all nations.
3. Non-acceptance of e c o-
nomic and social warfare cur-
rently being carried on against
Israel and against Americans
and others of the Jewish faith.
He said he thought the Eisen-
hower resolution was good as
far as it goes, but that it does
not go far enough.
The question of Israel's with-
drawal from Gaza and the Strait
of Tiran was discussed by Israel
Minister Reuven Shiloah with
William Rountree, Assistant
Secretary of State for Near East-
ern Affairs. Mr. Shiloah stated

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—Central Press Photo

This photo shows the dis-
puted areas—Gaza (B) and
Sharm el-Sheikh (A) which
Israeli troops were given five
days to evacuate by the latest
United Nations resolution. It
was from Arab fortifications
at Sharm el-Sheikh that
Israeli ships or ships of other
nations bound for Israel were
fired upon under Egyptian
control. During the. Sinai
Operation, Israel took con-
trol of this crucial point and
now refuses to abandon it
unless the UN provides suffi-
cient guarantees that Israel's
security will not be threat-
ened. Fedayeen gangs had
made their headquarters in
Gaza and the Israel operation
of Oct. 29 wiped out the ter-
rorists.

Accredited Jewish Groups Issue
White Paper Aga]. nst Egypt at UN

NEW YORK (JTA) — Four
major Jewish organizations, ac-
credited to the United Nations
as consultative bodies and
representing a membership of
more than two million here and
abroad, have submitted to UN
Secretary General Dag Ham-
marskjold a "White Paper" on
the Egyptian governments vio-
lation of the "rights, status and
very existence" of Jews in
Egypt.

zations, consisting of the Al-
liance Israelite Universelle of
France, the American Jewish
Committee and the Anglo-
Jewish Association of Great
Britain; the Coordinating Board
of Jewish Organizations, consist-
ing of the Board of Deputies
of British Jews, Bnai Brith and
the Board of Deputies of South
African Jews; and the World
Union of Reform Judaism.

The document charged that
brutality, psychological warfare,
economic . strangulation, and de-
naturalization have been used
by the Egyptians against the
Jews in that country. .

French Engineers
tr)
Plan Enlargement
of Port of Elath

The organizations, in a letter
accompanying the White Paper,
charged that the Egyptian gov-
ernment has embarked "on a
campaign calculated to bring
total ruin to the old established
Jewish community of Egypt by
crippling all communal activities
and depriving Egyptian na-
tionals and stateless persons of
the Jewish faith, of their per-
sonal freedom and of their
homes and property, and forcing
many of them to seek asylum
abroad."
Irving M. Engel, president of
the American Jewish Commit-
tee, one of the bodies submit-
ting the report, said that the
Israel and Philippines
organizations which signed the'
Form Diplomatic Relations
document are: Agudas Israel
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The World Organization; Consulta-
e s t a blishment o f diplomatic L tive Council of Jewish Organi-

TEL AVIV (JTA1 —French
engineers here are planning en-
largement of the port of Elath,
to accommodate increased navi-
gation after freedom of passage
had been guaranteed perman-
ently in the Aqaba waterway,
and the establishment of a ship-
yard at Israel's Mediterranean
port of Haifa.
A three-man delegation of
French experts from the Dun-
kirk Engineering Company ar-
rived here to plan the Haifa
project. The Dunkirk firm had
previously laid out the plans for
the railway line to Elath. En-
largement of the port of Elath
will be blueprinted by the
director of the French port of
L'Havre. He had laid out Elath's
present facilities;

250 Egyptian Jews Among
1,100 New Israel Settlers
TEL AVIV, (JTA) — There
were 250 Egyptian Jews among
the nearly 1,100 immigrants who
arrived in Israel by sea and air
Tuesday. , Seventy-five of the
Egyptians arrived by air from
Athens and the remainder were
aboard the S.S. Jerusalem
which docked at Haifa with
about 1,000 men, women and
children from a number o f
countries.
Among the Jerusalem's pas-
sengers were 200 Hungarian
JeWs and a 'group of youths
from Latin American countries
who will spend a year working
and studying in Israel..
A number of families frorn.
Britain also arrived to take
up permanent residence at Kir-
yat Gat in the Lachish develop-
ment area southwest of Jeru-
salem.

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