Saudi Arabia Threat of Force to Halt Israeli Ship Passage c! Through Tiran Strait Poses Test of United States Pledges i delivered his warning to the it is easy enough to foresee estimates made available to its the final stage of the transfor- editors. State Department. The USSR statement asserted mation of the UN Force in Mrs. Meir Reports Impending that the attempt of the Eisen- Egypt into "Nasser's border `Business Meeting' with Soviet hower Administration to "guar- guard," as some of the officers JERUSALEM, -(JTA) — Mrs. antee" Israeli transit in the call it. This will be the clear Golda Meir, Israeli Foreign Gulf of Aqabl" was really a result of the as yet un- Minister said she would soon guarantee of "violation of announced deal that has been hold a "business meeting" with Egyptian sovereignty." virtually signed and sealed be- Soviet . Ambassador Alexander Israel's allies, Britain and tween UN Secretary Dag Ham- Abramov at which one of the marskjold and his assistant principal ubjects was expected France, responded promptly Ralph Bunche, on the one to be the growing anti-Israel to the new challenge. British hand, and Egypt's President campaign in Soviet newspapers. Foreign Under Secretary Lord Gosford told the House. Nasser on the other. Israeli sources view the So- "The Egyptian controlled po- viet press campaign with deep " of Lords that Britain assum- ed the Aqaba Gulf would lice," Alsop added "will more- concern. Mrs. Meir and the So- remain open to all shipping over have the right to use arms viet envoy met for the -first but that His Majesty's Gov- against border crossers. But the time since the latter's return to ernment was considering UN elements in the border pa- Israel. He had been recalled what should be done if an trols will not enjoy this rather immediately after the start of essential military privilege." U.S. Denies Authorizing attempt was made to inter- the Sinai campaign in a Soviet Tanker's Visit to Elath fere with shipping. indication of hostility. Shortly Egypt Moving Into Red Orbit Eisenhower Administration France is ready to loan Israel Says N.Y. Herald Tribune after his recall, the 'Soviets sources have insisted that the $15 million for an Elath-Medi- WASHINGTON, ( A J P ) abruptly suspended a corn- United States did not direct the terranean oil pipeline whether "Egypt, linked with commun- mercial agreement by which Kern Hills to visit Elath, al_ the projected line is 16 inches, ism through agreements which Israel had received substantial though no denial was made of as Israel is planning it, or 32 mean she will have a Red- quantities of Russian crude oil. the obvious fact that the tanker inches -as France would prefer, armed army, navy and air (Jacob Tsur, Israel Ambassa- would not have made the trip Finance Minister Levi Eshkol force, has been moving steadily dor to France, left Paris for a if the State Department had op- told the Knesset Finance Com- closer toward the Communist two week' private visit to Mos- posed it. mittee. orbit through a series of corn- cow where he will spend Pass- He said a 32-inch line could mercial and cultural pacts and over with the family of Joseph The Eisenhower Administra- tion back-tracking rested on carry 25 million tons of oil an- exchanges with Moscow and Avidar, Israeli envoy to Russia. Mrs. Avidar is Ambassador the fact that the American- nually and would cost $60 mil- her satellites. owned tanker made the trip lion. The problem, he said, was "Cairo's arms deal with the Tsur's sister.) under charter to an Israeli not getting the money but as- Communists in September 1955, (Contrary to repeated denials suring enough crude to supply tied up. nearly 18 per cent of by State Department spokes- company. With a timing that could such a pipeline. The clear infer- Egypt's income from exports men, Israeli officials here in.. scarcely be coincidental, the ence was that France would not in 1955; 21 per cent in 1956, sisted that the State Depart- -Soviet Union came out with a invest so heavily if the line and a similar amount in the ment had "clearly agreed" in advance of the procedure to statement opposing freedom of would never be used for lack first half of this year." navigation for Israeli shipping of crude oil, which could only The • above was reported by the passage of the American Elath. to in the Gulf of Aqaba. The come by tanker the N.Y. Herald Tribune on tanker through the Gulf of statement appeared in "Iz- Israel Keeps Watchful Eye the basis of foreign intelligence Aqaba). vestia," the official government On New Jordanian Politics ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ■•■•■ organ, on the same day that JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Israel the Saudi Arabian ambassador assumed a posture of watchful Boris Smolar's waiting this week as' neighbor- ing Jordan was buffeted, by new political eruptions which carried the threat of dismem- berment of the synthetic Hash- By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ emite kingdom. Young King ,Hussein, disturb- (copyright, 1957, Another State Department. Vagiyr. ed by the steady drift of Jordan Jewish Telegraphic Agency, inc.) into the Soviet- camp via his DOCtrine of - Immaculate Assumption ' -: oil. tanker Kern pro-Russian premier, - Suleiman After it had been publicized that Non-Zionist Views 14111s -had made the voyage through.. the Gulf of Aqaba to Elath Nabulsi, abruptly ousted him. The American Jewish Committee has reexamined its policy with the approval of the State Department, Lincoln White, The King's gamble was that the on Israel . . . At its 50th_ anniversary conference it adopted a the State Department, stated that it was not an British-trained Arab Legion Statement of Views not. much different from the one adopted speaking for official U.S. Go'vernment-sponsored deliberate test of the Arab would remain loyal to him if eight years ago, following the establishment of Israel . . . The blockade. He said the freighter's trip should be regarded instead Nabulsi called out the street reexamination took place in the light of events during those as a logicall application of U.S. policy to regard the Aqaba Gulf mobs.. eight years . . . Few in this country know that the American Syria and Saudi Arabia Jewish Coinmittee—non-Zionist as it has been—is an original en- as an international 'waterway. causes us to*wonder whether this is not another State which, along with Egypt, would Which- . dorser of the Balfour Declaration which promised the establish- Department resort to vague language and to expressions of policy seize chunks of Jordan should ment of a Jewish National Home in Palestine It also supported the opportunity arise, began to which could be interpreted a dozen ways.- the Partition Plan, which brought about the establishment of No one in his•right mind would interpret approval of a ship's move troops. A spate of ru- Israel, and played an impOrtant role in securing the adoption of voyage as placing our Government in the shipping business. mors were circulated from the this plan by the United Nations . . . Its founders, Louis Marshall . Therefore, why even- imply anything about a U.S. Government- Arab capitals that Israel plan- and Felix Warburg, were members of the Jewish Agency execu- ned to invade Jordan, apparent- sponsored business? If our spokesmen were more frank, so that tive when Dr. Chaim W,eizmann headed it ... Thus, the American those who seek Israel's destruction should understand hilly ly to provide justification for Jewish Committee has a long-standing record of supporting the that no one approves their aim to demolish-the state and destroy any Arab seizures of Jordan Zionist cause without being a Zionist group .. • It now stands on its people; there might be an end to this game of shadoW-boxing. territory. Israel officials said ,there record as pledging aid in the upbuilding of Israel with a view Our State Department continues to play hide-and-go-seek to help the "development of its capacity to provide a free and with a definite - American pledge: to guarantee freedom of navi- were no Israeli troop concen- dignified life for those who desire to.make it their home . . . It trations along. the Jordanian gation for all nations, including Israel. Its latest statement adds to the double talk which caused the -New Republic to state, in border and that there was no has lived up to this record through active intervention of its in an editorial, "The. Israeli. Showdown' ': "Both President Eisen- change in Israel's long-standing leaders with the State Department every time Israel was On hower and Secretary- General Hammarskjold have said they position tevard Jordan which trouble or needed American financial or other assistance . `assume' Egypt will not 'interfere with passage, an attitude de- is based on the 1949 armistice one point only there were major differences of opinion between the American Jewish Committee and leaders of the Israel gov- scribed cynically as 'the doctrine of the immaculate assumption'." agreement. * * * A Foreign Ministry spokes- ernment ... The AJC opposed propaganda emanating from Israel man, however, warned that that American Jews should not feel as secure as they do and Israel's •Rights—"On -God's Side" should learn the lesson of what had happened to the Jews in A group of churches have reprinted and are distributing the agreement was signed Germany who also left secure for generations . . This was with Jordan as an indepen- widely a column by Paul ,Kenyon, "It's the Truth!", address to straightened out after Jacob Blausteiri, then president of the dent country. Any change "Uncle Sam," stating: in Jordan's sovereignty, he American Jewish Committee, went to Israel and talked over mat- Dear. Uncle: You have been a nice old man for a long, long said, would raise a question ters with Premier David Ben Guriori. .. . The pledge - made by time. Though one of the youngest of all nations of the world, as to whether the armistice Ben-GuriOn to Blaustein is being kept and the bond- of friendship you have risen to the very top among them all in a comparative- agreement would remain val- between the American Jewish Committee and Israel is stronger ly short time. This was not an accident of hiAtery, Uncle. There than ever . . . The "open war" which the AJC recently declared id. is a God over all who directs all things in human history unto While Israel took no special against the stand of the anti-Zionist American Council for Juda- a pre-determined destiny. Old Nebuchadnezzar, ancient Po- military precautions, military ism testifies best to this. tentate of the Babylonian Empire, once had to learn that les- * * * * * son the hard way. God put him through the Divine-meat-grind- • circles expressed fear that un- Jewish Action rest in Jordan might have a er of judgment, and when he came out the other end he said: An American Jewish . immigrant, member of an Orthodox negative affect on the border "And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing; situation, which .has been rela- congregation in New York, emerged as the central figure in and He doeth according to His will in the army of heaven, tively quiet for several Months. breaking the Arab blockade against Israel in:the Gulf of Aqaba and among the inhabitants of• the earth: and none can stay His . . . He is Samuel Wang, owner of the oil -tanker which carried UN-Nasser Deal to Patrol hand, or Say unto Him, What dOest Thou?" (Daniel 4:35). Now Sam, it is possible for nice people like you to get tied Gaza Border Revealed by Alsop 16,500 tons of Persian Gulf oil to the Israel port of Elath as a up with bad company and be on the wrong side. And that is UNITED NATIONS, (AJP)— test case of the principle of innocent passage 'of ships from the just what you are doing these days. You see, Sam, if you would Columnist Joseph Alsop's re- Red Sea to Israel . . . A man of 41, Wang was born in Poland a read your Bible, and take God's Word . as your guide, instead port from Gaza — revealing . a and came to the United States in 1940 ... His father, owner of UN-Nasser deal on joint bor- bakery, and all other members of his family were annihilated of playing around with a lot of godless infidels who call them- selves "The United Nations," you would know that fact. The der patrols caused quite a by the NaziS when they occupied Poland ... He himself attempt- fact is that God is restoring His ancient nation Israel to their • commotion here. During a spe- ed to reach Palestine as an illegal immigrant, but was unsuccess- cial press briefing, a UN ful .. . Upon immigrating into the United States, he became a own land, which- He gave them in the days of Abraham. Israel has a God-given title to the land. It does not belong to the Arabs, spokesman took great pains to diamond polisher and later entered the import business . • . How- the and never did. You can -play politic's to -try and preserve a explain that no concessions had ever, in 1951 he switched to the shipping business and is now. been made to Egypt. However, owner of a fleet of tankers and freighters ... Interested in -Zion. hopeless peace, Uncle, but you cannot change Gocrs plan. I'm he was unable to contradict the ism since early youth, he visited Israel several times after the Praying for you, Uncle Sam. You'd better get on God's side. establishment of the Jewish State . . . It was from his firm that - This is not a new appeal by religious-minded people. for the points raised by Alsop. The well-known columnist Delek, the national oil company of Israel, rented the Kern Hill recognition of Israel's rights. But it is more 'timely today than ever before. The gesture—by the author and the distributors of reported that "it is still a secret tanker which will now go down in history as the first ship of of Aqaba hiS views—has the gratitude .. of all who believe in Phophecy- in Cairo and the Western capi- United States registry to reach Israel through the Gulf ' ' isr6eli to —kept closed by the Arabs strip -Gaza tals; but here in the and m -jtistice; - WASHINGTON, (JTA) .— Saudi Arabian - warning that 1-5 force would be used to stop any E.4 Israeli ships seeking passage 5 through the Tiran Strait posed g an inescapable test of the val- Widity of the Eisenhower , Admin- istration pledges on which Israel withdrew - from the Sinai Peninsula, The warning Was delivered 1 by the Saudi Arabian Ambas- sador in a message he brought personally to the U.S. State Department, which had been waiting for nearly a week for '-4 Arab reaction to the trip of the American - owned Kern Hills tanker through the waterway to Elath on April 6. A report from Cairo said that ott both Egypt and Saudi Arabia protested formally to the Eisen- hower Administration against the passage through the Tiran Strait and the Gulf of Aqaba of the Kern Hill, which deliv- ered 16,000 tons of desperately- needed crude oil from Iran to tanks at Elath. The warning posed the sharpest threat of a renewal of Arab-Israel hostilities since the end of the Sinai cam- paign. Israel has a small naval flotilla in the Gulf of Aqaba. With chances for Israeli tran- sit through the re-opened Suez Canal apparently doomed by President Nasser's refusal to budge in, his determination to exercise total mastery • of the canal, Israel has staked much of her maritime future on the development of Elath as a gate. way to Asian and African trade. There was little doubt that Saudi Arabian guns on the east side of the Gulf of Aqaba would be answered by Israeli guns, should the Arabian king- dom seek to make good its threat. The Eisenhower Administra- tion had already moved to pro- tect its status with the Arabs, particularly with King Saud of Arabia on whom the Adminis- tration pins great hopes since the. Eisenhower-Saud conversa- tions early this year in Wash- ington. ••••0 01•1111114.11•11H.M111.!ft CM1 1 i 0 411 111 4..11 4.11 04=1141.11•1•VailS 11111101.11MM " '' ''' ........................ Purely Commentary 'Between You ... and Me' . .