41 11.P.NNT OW N Lit tk ilt
A UN •Death
-
E
Sentence for
Israel Will
Mean a Soviet
A Weekly Re
Union Victory
ish Events
Israel's
Offenders
Editorial, Page 4
Michigan's Only English-Jewish
VOLUME XXX
No. 25
. 0<ii-1-77. 27
17100W. 7 Mil ,
Opposition to Sanctions C
The Detroit Jewish Chronicle
, February 22, 1957
American- Pthblic
;Opinion: A
. Collectiv
.
Accus
Commentary, Page 2
$5.00 Per Year; Single Copy 15c
s'ec
Israel Holds
to Hope
For Solution of Crisis
With time running low and a showdown virtually at hand this week-end in the muddled Middle East situation, Israel
is, holding on fast to hope that a solution will be found and that a compromise will develop, on the basis of new proposals
made by Israel Premier David Ben-Gurion to American Ambassador to Israel Edward Lawson. It is expected that the con-
ferences now being held in Jerusalem by Israel government officials with Israel AmbasSador to the U. S. Abba Eban—who
was recalled to Israel on Tuesday—may lead to concrete plans for a rapprochement between Israel and the United States,
and therefore also with the United Nations. Late -reports, however, are that Israel will not abandon her positions without
the requested guarantee.
All United Nations discussionS—including those that we re planned by the Afro - Asian bloc for the introduction of af
resolution to impose sanctions on Israel—were postponed until Friday.
President Eisenhower's return from his vacation in Thomasville, Ga., his conferences with Republican and Democratic
leaders and the concern shown in the issue throughout the world have turned the past few days into one of the most tense
periods in years, bordering on a major international crisis. The President's address to the nation on Wednesday, did not ease
the tensions, in view of the sternness of his warnings. .
Secretary Dulles' statements, at his press conference on Tuesday, reaffirming that no assurances are available from
Egypt that there would be no further attacks upon Israel, seemed to strengthen Israel's contentions that she must have
Polish Jewry lacing Liquidated;
25,000 Apply for Admission to
Israel to Escape Anti-Semitism
Israel's - great responsibilities to oppressed Jews everywhere multiplied this week
with the revelation, from Warsaw, of a growing exodus of Polish Jews seeking haven
in the Jewish State.
It became known this week that more than 25,000 Jews already have applied
for visas to Israel. The pre-war Jewish population of Poland of 3,500,000 has decreased
to anywhere from 35,000 to 70,000—the accepted figure being around 50,000.
In a cable from Warsaw to the New York Times, Sydney Gruson states: "In re-
cent months the trickle of Polish Jews to Israel has become a flood. It has included
Communists and non-Communists, manual laborers and doctors, office workers and
professors." Gruson quotes the following from an article in the newspaper Po Prostu
titled "Rising Ghosts (Anti-Semitism)":
"We are witnessing the self-liquidation of the Jewish community that has ex-
isted in Poland for nearly 700 years."
Anti-Semitism in Poland had become so violent and rampant in the past six
months that the Polish government itself became seriously concerned over the con-
sequences. Jews have been beaten up and it has become evident that there is no
security for the remaining Jews in Poland—even for those who declared themselves
Communists.
Gruson states in his cable to the New York Times that "there is no longer any
effort to hide the existence in Poland of what Juliusz Burgin, a leading Communist,
described as 'raving anti-Semitism'." Burgin wrote in the weekly Przeglud Kultur=
alny: "The exodus is a fact containing a frightful charge against our people's author-
ity,' our party and all of us. It is a fact that the preponderant part of the Jews who
remained in Poland after the Hitlerite slaughters have reached the conclusion that in
conditions that prevail after 12 years of the people's authority they are unable to
work, breathe and live. We are concerned with a 'fact that, ih the history of racist
persecutions, deserves the special appelation, exodus."
Po Prostu, analyzing the reasons for the new' anti-Semitism in the land that was
noted for its violent attacks on Jews, comes to the conclusion that the StaliniSts,
driven from power in Poland last October, had spread the lie that the "Jewish a&
ministration had pauperized Poland after World War II,' Po Prostu added that while
Jews held key positions in the government, they suffered equally with other Poles and
that the "majority of Jews in Poland had nothing to do with the authority for the
crimes of the former period."
Gruson's cable adds: "Belatedly, in the opinion of many Poles, the government
and the Communist party have launched a vigorous campaign against anti-Semitism
that had been demanded by the liberal wing of the party. All concerned have con-
ceded that terror was being used until recently against Jews, particularly in small
towns. According to Jewish sources, the arrest and jailing of several persons for anti-
Semitic activity has quieted the situation in the last few weeks."
Meanwhile, another exodus is in the offing. Several Jewill communities already
have been liquidated completely—amona them Yemen, Bulgaria and several others.
Israel has assumed the entire burden of establishing homes for the oppressed and
dispossessed, and the pressure under which Israel exists today is adding to the bur-
dens of the young and struggling state and is increasing the responsibilities of Jews
throughout the world who are asked to come to Israel's assistance.
In Israel, the people stand firm and declare that they are ready to fulfill the
obligations assumed in the Declaration of Independence and Statehood of May 14,
1948, for the "ingathering of the exiles."
firmer guarantees before her troops are withdrawn from
the presently-occupied areas.
Dulles did not commit himself on the questioll---
sanctions' in --reply to point blank questions addressed to
him by the press. Asked if Congressional opinion would
affect Administration Executive action, he said it would
depend on the kind of - sanctions to be imposed.
He said he did not anticipate a contingency of using
American armed forces or the U. S. Navy to proVicle
Israel the guarantees she seeks. UN Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold, he said, is negotiating with Egypt on
the question of Aqaba passage. Dulles added that he saw
no reason to believe Egypt would not honor the principle
of free passage of all ships, including Israel's, • when the
Suez Canal is opened. But he did say that this country
had no assurances from Egypt that the Tiran Straits
would be regarded as a free international waterway.
The Secretary of State said he was hopeful there
would be a cessation of belligerency. He doubted Egypt
would search -American ships passing through the
Straits for "contraband" unless Egypt was suspicious of
the ships. He said he could not give the precise meaning
of the phrase "innocent passage" used in the Feb. 11 U. S.
aide memoir to Israel and said the phrase was first used
(Continued on Page 24)
—International Sound Photo
Eban, Before Departure:
Israel
Ambassador Abba Eban is shown here meeting with re-
porters after he left the conference with Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles on the question of Israel's withdrawal
of troops from Gaza and Aqaba. The next day, Eban left
for Israel to present a full report to Premier David Ben-
Gurion and the Israel Cabinet on his talks with Dulles.