Border Alerted N Pureiy Commentary B-G Makes Defense Moves r ig n By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ Friday, March 22, 1957 O No Such Scenes During Israel's Administration When the United Nations Emergency Force took over the Gaza Strip from the Israel army, riots and demonstrations ensued and the UNEF had to resort to tear gas to quell the demonstra- tors. Here is one of the scenes, showing the Gaza refugees clamor- ing for UN food: There were no such scenes when ISrael was in control for four months: for the simple reason that Israel devoted herself to setting up a civil administration and to creating self-governing units among the Arabs. BLit the moment the ineffecive UN re- presenatives stepped in, they apparently were accompanied by the rabble-rousers from the Nasser palace who conducted a sort of cheer-leading shout of "Long Live Nasser." The manner in which such demonstrations are conducted in Moslem countries is well known. In the pre-Farouk days, the story was told about two comtending forces who vied with each other for power. A crowd was "employed" to shout for one party down the main Cairo road. By the time it reached the end of the road it was paid to traverse with its political shouts, representa- tives of the other party were on hand to re-employ the demon- strators for their own purpose, and the mob traveled back again, down the same road—this time shouting for the opposition party. That's Levantine politics! That's the type of demonstration that was possible only where blackmail is the order of the day. But Israel does not accept blackmail. Two differing worlds are engaged in a struggle. Israel per- sonifies the progress of - the West and of modernity. The Arabs, led by a handful of effendis who are determined to hold in sub- . mission their vassal fellaheen, are holding on tenaciously to the backwardness of the Middle Ages. This is a fight between the Middle Ages and Progress, and , unfortunately, the progressive nations are so frightened by the spectacle of great achievements in Israel challenging the ill-fed and disease-ridden Arab states to emulate them, that they are risking loss of the battle for free- dom, justice and civilization to a group that is led by a man who has been knocked out -for a count of ten and whom the vision- lacking U. S. and UN have uplifted to a position of triumph. There is also the conflict between the Israelis' passionate craving for justice based on Biblical prophecies and the cold legalism and vagueness of UN's Secretary General Dag Ham- marskjold and the ambiguity of LT. S. thinking. These are difficult issues to merge. That is why Israel's struggle will be a long and bitter one. * Let's Have an Endlo-Double-Talk As we go to press, a JTA teletype wire from London forms us: "The Washington correspondent of the Manchester Guardian said in a report that newspaper published Wednesday that it may be "stated with authority" that President Eisenhower's •:cater of-March 1 to- Premier :David Ben-Gurion 'was- drafted by Mr. Dulles in the presence of Mr. Eban.' That, he added, `is why Mrs. Meir spoke of coming to the United States to col- lect 'a debt of honor.'" Yet, there are some who still speak as if there were no prom- ises made to Israel. Lets have an end to double talk, * * * * * (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) TEL AVIV — Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, accompanied by his chief military advisors, made a surprise visit Wednes- day to two -key settlements on the Gaza Strip border• The visit followed a decision by the Pre- mier to shift his headquarters from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv to be in closer contact with the Israeli Defense Ministry and to concentrate all his time on the security problem. The switch in the Prime Min- ister's headquarters was based on his determination to ensure the safety of the border areas and to be ready for more seri- ous action in line with his state- ment published Tuesday in Newsweek Magazine that he would go to war if both the United Nations and the United States permitted Col. Nasser to resume his campaign of bel- ligerency and blockade against the Jewish State. Ben-Gurion told settlers at Nahal Oz and Nirim, principal targets of Egyptian fedayeen raids before the Sinai campaign, that "compelling reasons" had forced Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. He was accompanied by Maj. Gen. Moshe Day a n, Israeli Army Chief of Staff; Brigadier Haim Laskov, in command of the Israeli Southern defenses, and Shimon Perez, Deputy De- fense Minister. The Premier also told the set- tlers that the best security for the border areas was continuing strengthening of the army. Nasser's End in 6 Months Predicted (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) LONDON—Col. Gamal Abd el Nasser will remain in office in Egypt for only six -months, ac- cording' to a noted British cor- respondent who recently re- turned from Cairo. Stephen Barber of the London News Chronicle reported Wednesday that Nasser's "repu- tation and above all that of the army which sustains him haS been badly dented." The corre- spondent added that "Egypt faces bankruptcy. Urban unem- ployment grows. • The small but significant middle class clerks and artisans are fretting. The one-time pashas and politicoes swept aside in a Cromwellian cleanup following Farouk's oust- ing lurk ever in the wings." Cair6 is alive with rumors of abortive coups d'etat quickly quashed, the correspondent re- ported, but the fact remains that Nasser has made no major pub- lic appearance since last Octo- ber. His security chief; Interior Minister -Zacharia Moheddin, the:correspondent said, "refused to answer for his life if he vis- ited Port Said." • - U. S. Desirous of Preventing New ME Outbreak, Wilcox Tells Council (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) WASHINGTON—Francis Wil- cox,. Assistant Secretary of State for United Nations Affairs, told the National Council of JeWish Women on Tuesday that "it is not sufficient to put out the fire (in the Middle East), we -must prevent it from breaking out again." Wilcox asked, "Can anyone seriously believe that lasting peace will be possible so long as the boundaries between Is- rael and her neighbors remain unsettled and feelings of in- security pervade the entire area? Can lAre hope to avoid serious difficulties inz, the future unless real progress is made toward solution of the Arab refugee problem and the de- velopment of the area's natural resources?" The Assistant Secretary, ad- dressing the 22nd - national con- vention here, said that squarely before the U.S. "is the necessity for agreeing on interim arrange- ments . for the use of the Suez Canal and moving On to a solu- tion of basic problems which gave rise to the -present crisis."• Removing the basic causes for Arab-Israeli hostility is a "for- midable task," he said, but the U.S. is determined to use every means within the United Na- tions and without to find solu- tions to the problem. Outlining the U.S. position on Gaza and Sharm El Sheikh Wilcox echoed Secretary of State Dulles' reaffirmation Mon- day that the U.S. stands firmly by its hopes and expectations it had expressed with regard to the Middle East. He -said the U.S. stands by the "exercise of responsibility of the UN in Gaza, free and innocent passage through the Straits of Tiran by ships of all nations in accordance with in- ternational law and settlement of the Suez Canal problem in accordance with six principles adopted by the Security Coun- cil and accepted by Egypt. He also reaffirmed U.S. • back- ing of statements by UN Am- bassador -Henry Cabot Lodge before the General Assembly on March 1. Lodge then expressed U.S. willingness to support the role of UNEF in the Gaza Strip "until there is a definite settle- ment respecting the Gaza Strip or some_final general agreement between the parties." Earlier, the Council stood firm on its policy to support greater Federal spending for education and welfare legisla- tion, despite a personal appeal: from Treasury Secretary George Humphrey for economy' In a special message, Hum- phrey urged the group to sup- port budget cutting measures. In response to the note, • the Council passed a motion sup- porting more Federal spending. for., education and progress to combat juvenile delinquency. The Council, meeting here for its 22nd national -convention, also heard Dr. Eveline Burns . of the Columbia University School of Social Work 'speak on the place of the volunteer in social service work. Elliot L.- Richardson, AssiStant Secretary of Health, Welfare and Educa- tion, commended the organiza- tion for its recreational pro- grams for the aging. Francis Wilcox, Assistant Sec- retary of State for United Na- tions Affairs, spoke to the Council Tuesday on "The United Nations and Public Understand- ing." Israel's Married Women Get UN Convention Status UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA)---Israel signed the United Nations convention on the status of married women. The signa- tures for Israel were mE.de by Mordecai Kidron and Tamar Shohan Sharon. Israel is the eleventh nation to sign the convention. =No 1 ••••...M-0111.11.411111110 ■ 04.1111INMIONISINNIMP tt IMMO 11•111 ■ 44.11.1•0•111111.0111111101111111.94•004171•1.1 ■ 110 Boris Smolar's ' APO' 'Between You ... an Me' (Copyright, 1957, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) The Home Front The war which is developing between the American Jewish Committee and the anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism may have reverberations at the 50th annual meeting of the AJC next month, because within the ranks of the American Jewish Committee are a number of people who are also members of the American Council of Judaism . . . Lessing Rosenwald, founder of the Council for Judaism, is one of them . . . These people, al- though a very small minority, may let their voice be heard at the AJC annual meeting in criticism of the. present AJC adminis- La Fontaine's Story With a Moral Lesson for Statesmen tration . . ; They are members of the AJC because of tradition, Several -weeks ago, a correspondent called the attention of although they disagree with the pro-Israel policy. of the, organ- the New- • York Herald Tribune ,to the fable of Jean La Fontaine ization . . . Incidentally, it was courageous of the American Jew- in which 300 years ago, the 'French author described how . easy it ish Committee leaders to come Out once and for all and say pub- is to step upon the Weaker fellow- -arid to make a scapegoat of licly that the Council for Judaism is conducting propaganda which him. It Was retold in relation to Israel. Two weeks later, Senator "provids fodder to anti-Semitism" . . Even - more serious is the Paul Douglas of Illinois used it as a moral in his address to a charge that the Council propaganda is "dangerous to the status, ' gathering that - protested against proposed sanctions on Israel, at and even the security, of American Jews. . • In its answer,: the New York's Madison Square Garden. More recently, again _in Council for Judaism fails to defend itself against these very grave relation to Israel, the - story, "The Animals Stricken With the accusations .. . The leaders of the Council for Judaism. are ap- Plague," was retold by Bill Kelsey in the Detroit News. _Here is Shazar Arrives in Argentina BUENOS AIRES, (JTA) — parently little concerned whether they play. into the hands of Kelsey's version of _it: Zalman Shazar, vice chairman anti-Semites . . . Nor do they seem to be worried by the'fact.that The animal kingdom was suddenly smitten with .a terrible , disease of enormous fatality. 'The lion called together A' council. of the Jewish Agency 'executive, their anti-Zionist argument of "double loyalty" endangers. 'the 'He told the assembly-that evidently the gods had battered them ; !as a• punishment for sin, and that it was up to them - to select the greatest sinner among -them and sacrifice him to appease the divine anger. He acknowledged that in his career he had killed a good many sheep who had done him no harm, and on occasion had eaten a few shepherds, even. But he thought each animal should own up to his misdeeds, and let the council decide on the degree of guilt. Whereupon the fox argued in tihe lion's favor. What crime was it to kill some stupid sheep? As for shepherds, they were 310 friends of the wild animals. - The lion was too good a king to offer to sacrifice himself for the communal good. Then other animals confessed and were excused. At last the donkey recalled that one day while he was walk- ing past a field owned by a monastery his hunger, and perhaps the prompting -of a devil, got the better of him, and he stole a mouthful of grass from that pasture, to which he admitted he •' bad no right. That settled it. The donkey it was who had caused the fatal contagion. So he was put to death. The moral deduced by La Fontaine was: "According . •to whether you are powerful or poor, the court's judgment will find you white or black." This still is the ease with Israel in relation to the Middle arrived there to participate in a national conference on- Jewish education in Argentina. The par- ley is being organized by the Buenos Aires Jewish Commu- nity in cooperation with the Federation of Jewish Commu- nities of Argentina. East. Israel is held guilty: she builds roads, seeks the better- ment of human- beings and strives for peace. But she does not have oil. Those who have oil are white, otherwise they are painted black. But more people are becom- ing aware of the La Fontaine fable, and the people in the high places — including the transgressors in the State De- partmenthad better beware: fate has a way of avenging the offended. security of Jews in this .country . . .. However, they are now branded as a Jewish group "embraced by anti-Semites" -and as persons whom the Arabs consider allies . . . Since the branding was done this time not by Zionists, but by the American Jewish Committee—which considers itself a non-Zionist .body—the effect is bound to be really strong. * * * Friendly Competition There is competition between Jewish and Irish organizations in this country over Robert Briscoe, Jewish may-or of.Dublin . Briscoe originally agreed to come. to the United States for the United Jewish Appeal . . No sooner did the news of his antic- ipated arrival in the U.S. become known, when various Irish societies in New York and in other American cities began to flood him with requests to appear under their auspices . . . The result is that his appearances are now being handled not by the UJA but by a special representative ... The Irish societies are espec- ially interested in having Briscoe speak in .various American cities in an effort to stimulate tourist trade between the United Sates and Ireland . . . His visit in the U.S. is now all the more important to those Irish Americans who admire Eamon De Valera . . •Briscoe;••an observant Jew, is a' founding member of De Valera's Fianna, -Fail Party which made a terrific 'comeback ion last month's elections in Ireland.