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Coriclave Stirs Anxiety in U.S.
Mastermind of U. S.-Saudi
Deal for Dhahran Extension.
Revealed as Nazi Associate
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright, 1957, JTA, Inc.)
- WASHINGTON Saudi Arabian Kind Saud's Secretary of
State has been revealed by captured German archives to have
been a leadear of a pro Nazi Arab collaboration committee.
He is Sheikh Yusuf Yasin who this year obtained renewed
agreement of Washington to the barring of Arrierican personnel
of Jewish faith from the U.S. Air Force base at'Dhahran, Saudi
Arabia.
A search of previously secret German documents captured
by the U.S. Army in Berlin reveals a memorandum on Arab
collaboration with Hitler. It was submitted to the German
Foreign Ministry on Aug. 27, 1940, by Nazi Minister Fritz
Grobba.
The memorandum pertains to negotiations with Hitler's
leading Arab supporter, the so-called "Grand Mufti," Ha' Amin
el Husseini.
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Not only does the document expose the membership of the
present Saudi Arabian official on the Arab committee for pro-
Nazi collaboration, but it shows that the current President of
Syria was also a member. He is Shukri Kuwatli,
According to German records, the Grand Mufti, Sheikh
Yusuf, Kuwatli and others worked with the Nazis against the
Allies, and backed the pro-Hitler revolt of Rashid Ali al-Gailani
in Iraq.
A "general uprising" in Palestine was envisaged. Arrange-
ments were discussed for provision of munitions through Axis
channels for use against the British forces and Jewish inhabi-
tints'
At the time he represented Saudi Arabia on the pro-German
"Committee of Collaboration" under the chairmanship of the
Grand Mufti, Sheikh Yusuf was private secretary to the present
King Saud's father.
Today Sheikh Yusuf continues his interest in the "Jewish
problem" by seeking to persuade Secretary of State Dulles to
keep Israeli shipping out of the Gulf of Aqaba.
Although the world-wide _ Nazi movement was thought to
have collapsed with the fall of Germany in 1945, Arabs organ-
ized by the Hitler apparatus are still striving to complete the
Nazi blueprint against world Jewry.
Syrian President Kuwatli is today collaborating with an-
other totalitarianism—Communism. The German records raise
serious questions about the reliability of the Arabs as friends
of Western democracy.
An Aug. 20, 1940 directive from the German Foreign Min-
istry to its ambassadors abroad reported that "leading Arab
personalities have in recent times repeatedly approached our
foreign missions" to advance collaboration and collusion.
Berlin recommended that the Arabs be assured of "Ger-
many's full sympathy in their people's fight for liberation."
German propagandists were instructed to champion the "libera-
tion of the Arab world from imperialism."
Today the Soviet Union is operating under almost pre-
- eiSely the same strategy in its campaign of collusion with
. Arab extremists. The Soviet goal is the same as Hitler's.
Domination of the Middle East is seen by Khrushchev as stra-
tegically vital.
One "top secret" document revealed that in 1940 an agree-
rnent on Palestine was formulated. In it "Germany and Italy
recognize the right of the Arab countries to solve the question
of the Jewish elements in Palestine and the other Arab coun-
tries in a manner that conforms to • the national and ethnic
interests of the Arabs, and to the solution of the Jewish question
in the countries of Germany and Italy."
On Aug. 6, 1940, Franz. von Papen, German Ambassador in
Turkey, cabled Berlin of his meeting with the Grand Mufti. The
cable made known that the pro-Nazi Arab clique that included
the present Saudi Arabian Secretary of State wished to cooper-
ate with Hitler by organizing a revolt in Palestine.
Von Papen reported that an understanding was reached
With Saudi Arabia on the removal of pro-British King Abdullah
of Transjordan and the annexation of that territory to Palestine.
_ The Grand Mufti wrote Hitler on June 21, 1940, that Arab
Palestine which had been "fighting the democracies and inter-
national Jewry, is ready at any time to assume an active role"
in collusion with Gerrhany.
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Coptic
ic Church Head Found Guilty
JERUSALEM, (JTA) The Jerusalem District Court found
the Rev: Joakhim el Anthony, head of the Coptic Church in
Israel, guilty of two counts of espionage in behalf of Egypt.
In a 30
verdict, the court foimd that the prosecution
had proved page
that Anthony gathered information on Israel mill
tary dispositions of value to the enemy. When he was arrested
last October as he prepared to cross the Israel border into
Jodan, Anthony was found to have notes on
military positions
iu his wallet.
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WASHINGTON (JTA) — The United States is seeking to evaluate reports that
the Soviet Union is organizing military assistance pacts with Egypt and Syria as an
answer to the Eisenhower Doctrine.
U.S. officials are studying information that the Defense Ministers and army chiefs
of Syria and Egypt are gathering in Moscow at the personal invitation of Soviet e-
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fense Minister Marshal Zhukov. Last week Syrian Defense Minister Khaled el Aze
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suddeny lew to Moscow. His delegation included Syrian Army Chief of Staff Gen.
Tewfik Nizam el Din and other top officers. Marshal Zhukov met them personally at
the Moscow Airport.
It was confirmed in Cairo that Marshal Zhukov sent a personal invitation to Maj,
Gen. Abdel Hakim Amer, Egyptian War Minister and Army Commander in Chief, to fly
to Moscow. Amer accepted. An increased flow of Soviet warplanes and heavy weapons
have arrived in Syria and Egypt in July.
Moscow Rejects Israeli Protests Against Press, Radio Incitement
JERUSALEM (JTA)—News was received here that the USSR has brushed aside an Israeli
protest against Soviet press and radio incitement against Israel, even as Israeli official circles
were speculating that the tone of the latest Soviet radio attacks on Israel forecast
in line.
a new change
An official protest by Avi Shlushch, Israeli Charge d'Affaires in Moscow, to the head of
Moscow's Israel Desk, was ticked off with the remark that "we have to rely on Syrian infor-
motion" about recent clashes on the Israel-Syrian border "since Syria is a friendly nation." The
Soviet official told Shlushch that he was glad to have Israel's version, though he depended on
Syria for authoritative information.
Meanwhile, boasts on the Soviet radio and press—echoed by Radio Cairo—that Moscow had
averted an attack on Syria allegedly planned by "Israeli-imperialist" forces by its strong warn-
ings, were being carefully studied
here. Until recently, it was noted, the Soviet radio haechoed
and embellished Arab charges
that Israel
aggression against Syria and that French
troops were concentrating in Israel in support of such a push. Mosco's ne w concentration on
what it called averting attacks, however, was
seen as a favorable sign.
Soviet Deputy Premier Visualizes No Arab-Israel Improvement
Not even the Soviet Union could influence the Arabs now to improve their relations with
Israel; Anastasias Mikoyan, a Deputy Premier of
the USSR, told Rabbi Solomon Freilich of Mt.
Vernon, N.Y., the rabbi said here this week.
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Rabbi Freilich, who is now-touring Israel, visited Moscow
earlier in themonth, as well as
Poland and Czechoslovakia. Mr. Mikoyan said that an improvement in Israel-Arab relations
would be a long time in coming.
Reporting on a visit to the recently-opened yes
hiva in Moscow, Rabb i Freilich said
that 20
students were enrolled when he visited and another
12 were due to enter next month. A large
number of youngsters have applied for entrance, he added.
Dutch Government Will Not Interfere with
Shell Oil Group's Withdrawal from Israel
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
(Earlier Story on Page 32)
THE HAGUE—The Dutch government has rejected an Israeli request
that
it intervene with
the Royal Dutch Shell group to prevent .withdra wal of the Shell Oil Co. from
Israel.
Chanon Cidor, Israeli Minister here, made the request last week, pointing out that such a
surrender to blackmail as would be represented by yielding to Arab pressure in this case could
eventually have serious consequences for Dutch oil interests. He said that the Israel government
would be "pleased" to learn that the Netherlands government was willing to make a stand
against political blackmail of this nature.
A Dutch Foreign Ministry spokesman said that the government could not exert influence
on Royal Dutch Shell as it had no say in the affairs of that company which is a private commercial
organization.
Break Groundfor High Sc.hoolLMidrasha Buildin
Pictured at- the recent ground-breaking Schools; ISADORE J. GOLDSTEIN, execu-
ceremonies for the new •Hebrew High tive secretary. Erection of the building
School-Midrasha building of the Unite d which adjoins the Esther Berman Branch at ,
Hebrew Schools are, left to right: ALEX Schaefer and 7 Mile Rd. is made possible
KOHNER, architect; ALBERT ELAZAR, by an allocation from the Jewish Welfare
UHS superintendent; PHILIP GILBERT, Federation and private gifts by friends
of
LOUIS ROBINSON BERNARD ISAACS, the United Hebrew Schools. The building
superintendent emeritus of the Schools; will have 14 classrooms and a
student
MAURICE ZACKHEIM, honorar UHS loung
ye, will be a center of secondary and
board chairman; HARRY COHEN, IRA G. higher Jewish learning in the city
and will
KAUFMAN, JULIUS BERMAN, MAURICE house the Mittelshul, or
LANDAU, ABE KASLE , president of the School.
Yiddish High