Purely Commentary: A Very Sad Alliance at the UN We are saddened by the company our Government keeps at the United Nations. In the pursuit of an anti-Israel policy, our Chief UN Dele- gate, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., has made a partnership with the Arab and Soviet blocs. We are fighting Communism, but the Soviets are a kosher product in the process of gathering forces against Israel. All this has been done at a time when foreign diplomats have had the audacity to interfere in internal American affairs. For, example, the Syrian UN delegate, Farid Zeineddine, has been abusing American Jews. Last week, the Iraqi UN delegate Fadhel al Jamali, spouted this type of hatred: "To Mrs. Golda Meir I would say: Learn to live in. peace with the Arabs in the Middle East, or pack your bags and go back to Milwaukee — and Mr. Eban can go back either to South Africa or England, as he likes." That's the kind of talk that accompanies support for Mr. Lodge's anti-Israel resolutions — and we are supposed to retain respect for the UN and the unholy alliances within it in the face of such indignities! Suppose, however, for argument's sake, we dignified the ungentlemanly gutter language of the Iraqi and Syrians and the Egyptians and the Russians. (The Iraqi also spoke of "their internationale," referring to Israel. Can you imagine a better "internationale" than theirs with the Kremlin's? And to our disgrace, we, of the U.S., are now in it). Well, then, let us say that Golda Meir and Abba Eban are in the sidelines, and Israelis must fight their battle with new leaders at the UN. We would then bring silent witnesses to speak for the small, harrassed state. We would present the 70,000 'Yemenite Jews who are now in Israel and who were forced to find a home in their ancient homeland to avoid being condemned to second class citizenship. We would offer as evidence tens of thousands of Jews who, in spite of dating their residences in those countries for two thousand years — perhaps longer than the present enemies of Israel — were compelled to escape, to Israel, from Iraq, Syria, other Moslem areas in Asia and North Africa — and now from Egypt! And our great country is being enlisted as a subscriber to policies of the world's worst bigots, while remaining indifferent to Israel's need for protection and defense! That is why Israel resorts to the only weapon at hand: self-defense! * * The Inconsistency of Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. In order to protect the basic idealism of our great land, it is in order that the inconsistency of our UN delegate, Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., should be exposed to the light of day. Two more resolutions were adopted last Saturday night by the United Nations. One of them, which drew negative votes from Israel and France, again called upon Israel to get out of occupied territories held by the Jewish State in self-defense. The Arabs and the Soviet bloc voted for it. Then came the action on the second resolution, which called fot the stationing of UN observers in the Gulf of Aqaba, to prevent new clashes between Israel and Egypt. The Arabs and the Communists did not vote for this resolution. Yet Israel is expected to go along on any move made in the UN—even when it fails to receive the endorsement of those who" seek to strangle her! Is it, or isn't it, hypocrisy? Wherein lies consistency in your actions, Mr. Lodge? Unless there is an absolute guarantee that freedom Of the seas will not -be denied to Israel, that there will be an end to genocide on the part of both the Soviets and the Moslems, Israel must remain in the territories she now-holds. Any other move would spell suicide, and we doubt whether Mr. Lodge would subscribe to that. Israel and her kinsmen throughout the world certainly do not. * • * Israel Doesn't Stand Alone The lone French vote in Israel's behalf, at the UN, is not representative of all the sympathy that goes out to Israel in the present crisis. Britain's delegate voted in support of the demand for Israel's withdrawal, but the British press, and many statesmen in Eng- land, are publicly saying to Israel: "Don't move, until you have the guarantees that are due your people for their protection." Similar sentiments are expressed in other lands. And in this country, there are many men, even in Government, who tell Israel privately to stand firm in its determination not to be destroyed. And in our press: You know what Brig. Gen. S. L. A. Marshall and W. K. Kelsey have been saying in their columns in the Detroit News. In the Christian Science Monitor we read: "For years Egypt used the Gaza Strip as a nest for fedayeen raiders against Israel. Zionists, not implausibly, recall the United States' punitive expedition into Mexico against Francisco Villa in 1911 as precedent for their October attack. Egypt also has fired upon ships entering the Gulf of Aqaba, thereby adding to its virtual blockade of Suez against Israeli shipping in contraven- tion of a UN Council resolution of 1951. "The UN rightly does not wish to appear to reward Israel for an armed attack; but neither should it reward Egypt for arrant invasion of the rights of a recognized neighbor nation. If the UN allows Egypt to push it around the way Mussolini flouted the League of Nations in Ethiopia, it will end up with little honor and little influence. "If the nations of the Asian-African bloc want the UN to be a protector of the weak—as it was of Egypt in October—they must uphold the authority Of the UN when it is defied by a member of their own group. Those who seek the law's help must help the law, and the law can stand only as it stands for justice." The Philadelphia Inquirer, pointing to the audacity of Gamal Abdel Nasser, who consents to the sending of UN observation forces only on his terms, always dependent on his approval, asserted editorially: "We believe that it is of the utmost importance that Nassar should not be permitted to give orders to the UN police force; that the United Nations, and not this blackmailing friend of the Communists, shall determine where and how the UN troops are to be employed ,and how long they shall remain. "If the Hammarskjold trend of anything to make Nasser happy continues, we may look for early dissolution of the UN - force and a return to what Nasser badly wants, the status quo prior to the invasion of Egypt; a status quo clearly favoring him in resumption of his efforts to push Israel into the sea. "Crucial decisions in this matter will have to be made soon. A Sad UN Alliance • .. incon- sistency of the U.S. Delegate • 0 • Israel Gains Many Friends. By Philip Slomovitz How the United Nations will make them, and how the voice and influence of the United States will be exerted within the UN may have tremendous consequences reaching far beyond the Sinai Desert." The strong stand taken by the New York Times is well known. The Times stated editorially: ' "It is a great temptation, to which the Arab states and some of their friends have succumbed, to ascribe trouble in the Middle East to the introduction of the State of Israel. But we may sup- pose that the State of Israel is there not so much because Theodor Herzl and others conceived it and worked toward it as because the drift of history made it inevitable. If it was Dr. Herzl who conceived the idea some sixty years and more ago, it was Hitler who stimulated it, and the destruction of the Turkish Empire, followed by the weakening of the British and French domination, that made it possible. "At any rate the State of Israel, recognized as such by President Truman within a few hours of its proclamation, ad- mitted to the United Nations a year later and carrying a popula- tion of nearly two million persons, is a fact. It cannot be wiped out by any moral or physical force now in Bight. This being the case, some way by which Israel and its Arab neighbors can get along in peace must be worked out." The day after the last action by the UN, the New York Times editorial stated: "Neither Egypt nor Israel can defy the UN. We cannot believe that Israel intends to do so. On the record we .are not so sure of Egypt." That's the crux of the problems: it is the refusal by Nasser and his Ambassador • Fawzi to accept the UN force as a controlling force to prevent further outbreaks that is causing most of the trouble. We must return to a vital factor in our discussions. Only a week ago, we accepted the viewpoint of the Rev. Dr. Edward L. R. Elson, pastor of President Eisenhower's church, who said in the inaugural invocation: "Correct what is wrong, confirm what is right." We offer it as a guide to Mr. Lodge and his associates at the UN.' We hold them to be wrong, and we urge them to correct the wrong and confirm the right. Perhaps this quotation from the great Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes may be of help to them: "I think that in construing the Constitution we should re- member that it is a frame of government for men of opposite opinions and for the future, and therefore not hastily import into it our own views, or unexpressed limitations derived merely from the practice of the past." If our Constitution can be a frame for people of opposing opinions, so can the inadequacies of UN actions. What you have done so far, gentlemen, has been wrong. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country and to correct the wrong, by confirming the right. M. E. Oil Millions SAUDI ARABIA EACH . MEMOS ONE MI ON DOLLARS IN OIL ROYALTIES RECEIVE D FOR EACH MONTH IN 1954 Behind much of the Middle East strife and tension—vital- ly affecting Israel — are oil royalties and the supplies of oil. This map shows where more than a billion dollars in oil royalties went in the Middle East in 1956. More than a third of that sum went to King Saud of Saudi Arabia. Valuable Study of Clinically- Oriented Child Placement Recognizing that "the separa- tion of child from parent is perhaps the most tragic occur- rence in a child's life," Miss Glickman has utilized every available means at clarifying the problem. She classifies par- ents, diagnoses intake difficul- ties, describes types of place- ment facilities and outlines placement terminations. She offers excellent advice on work with families after place- ment and reviews ways of mak- ing contacts possible between the child and his parents and relatives after placements. There also are valuable analyses of activities with foster families. Miss Glickman's book is a NEW YORK (JTA) -- Com- splendid tertbook for social bined Campaign for American work students, and it should be Reform Judaism moved into the read and studied by active second half of its 1956-57 na- tionwide drive with the opening of a special effort for the rais- ing of an additional $1,000,000 -.•■■•■••■ •••• ■•■■■■ in cash to help its beneficiary institutions meet a rising need for religious guidance, trained Mediterranean Sea rabbis and skilled teachers. The Campaign raises funds for the activities of the Union of Am- erican Hebrew Congregations and the Hebrew Union College- Port Said Jewish Institute of Religion. A. B. Polinsky - of Duluth, Minn., general chairman of Combined Campaign, announc- ing the three-month special cash drive, made known at the same time that the current Cairo Suez effort has raised $1,100,000 since its inception in mid-Sep- E G Y P T tember. People interested in case work—professionals as well as lay people—will be guided to a better understanding of social service programs by the very informative 4 5 0-page book, "Child Placement Through Clinically Oriented Casework," by Esther Glickman, published by Columbia University Press (2960 Broadway, N.Y. 27). Miss Glickman utilized actual cases to which she applied psychodynamic principles. Start $1,000,000 Drive for UAHC social workers. It has equal value for community - leaders who are concerned with child welfare problems. Jews, Arabs Included in UN Emergency Force JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Both Jews and Arabs are serving in the United Nations Emergency Forces, it was reported here. The Brazilian contingent, in which most of the Jews and Arabs serve, includes one Jew- ish officer. The Arab UNEF soldiers are mostly Lebanese and Syrians and speak Arabic fluently. A huge percenti.ge of Moslems, including the entire Indonesian contingent, are of the Moslem faith. Vital Areas for Israel's Security 2nd Note Asks Extradition of Anneke's Kidnaper THE HAGUE, (JTA) — The Netherlands government has ad- dressed a second official note tc the Brussels government ask- ing the extradition of Mrs. Eliz- abeth M. van Moorst for the kid- napping of Anneke Beekman, teen-age Jewish war orphan, from Holland. This information was given the Dutch Parliament by Dr. No Samkalden, Minister of Justice. The police, he added, are still seeking the child who is believed to be in Belgium. Tel. Aviv Gaza Gulf of Aqaba Strait of Tiran eP SAUDI ARABIA RED SEA These are the crucial areas in the Middle East over which the United Nations wrangled for weeks in an effort to force Israel out of strategic points: 1. The Gaza Strip, which Israel is determined to keep free from terrorist activities; 2. Elath, which the Israelis are determined to keep as a free port, with untrammeled access by her own ships and the ships of all nations; 3. Gulf of Aqaba, which was previously bottled up by the Egyp- tians; 4. Strait of Than, the vital point needed to protect the freedom of the seas for Israel.