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Hungarian Jews Establish
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First with West Since '50

Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News

LONDON.—An agreement providing for the affiliation of
the Central Board of Hungarian Jewry with the World Jewish
Congress was released simultaneously here and in Budapest
Tuesday. The agreement is the outgrowth of conferences in
Zurich, Aug. 23-25, between Hungarian Jewish leaders and
WJC officers. Representing the WJC were its president, Dr.
Nahum Goldmann; the three chairmen of the Branches of the
world executive of the Congress, Dr. Israel Goldstein, of New
York, Israel M. Sieff, of London, and Dr. Arieh Tartakower,
of Jerusalem, and several others. The Hungarian Board was
represented by its - chairman, Andreas Sos' vice president,
Miklos Vida, and Budapest Chief Rabbi Benoschofsky, a mem-
ber of the executive of the Central Board.
The Hungarian group will be represented on the WJC
executive and will have the right to express its opinions, even
when it disagrees with the majority. To promote cooperation
between the Hungarian community and the Congress, a "World
Congress Committee in Hungary" will be elected. Dr. G. M.
Riegner, WJC representative in Geneva, has been invited by
the Hungarian community to be present at the first meeting
of - the WJC committee.
This is the first time contact has been restablished between
the Hungarian Jewish community and World Jewry since
1949-50, when the Eastern European Jewish communities "lost
touch" with the communities of the West.
The Hungarian Jewish community is estimated to be about
75,000 to 80,000, with most of its membership concentrated in
Budapest, More than 25,000 Jews have quit the country since
the revolt last October.

JOHANNESBURG, So. Africa, (JTA)—Russia's arming of Syria is "disquiet-
ing" to Israel, Brig. Gen. Moshe Dayan, Chief of Staff of Israel's Army, declared at
a press conference here.. He hesitated to answer political questions and pointed
out

that he was "a soldier, not a politican." However, when asked about the recent
developments. in Syria, he stated:

"The press reports seem to sum up the situation very well. The Russians are there, and

we don't like it. It is not only a question of C ommunism, but of Russian arms being supplied

to 'Syria. The fact that an Ahab state on our border gets all these arms from Russia is dis-
quieting to us. When you give an Arab state arms and more arms, while speeches hostile
to Israel are being made in this same Arab state, the result is likely to be unfortunate.
Instead of getting peace talks between Arab states and Israel, the trend is likely to go the •
other way."
Asked whether there was any truth to so me press reports about supposed secret peace
talks between some• of the Arab states and Israel, "somewhere in Europe," the Israeli army
chief replied: "If there are such talks, they must be secret indeed. I know nothing about them.
All I know is what is being dorie openly across our borders. There are concentrations of new
arms in Arab countries on our borders, and new air-fields are being built there. That I know."
Gen. Dayan stated that the situation on the Egyptian, Jordanian and Lebanese borders
is "better." Fedayeen raids have practically c eased, he said. Sabotage, however, is still being
practiced inside Israel, chiefly by gangs coming across the Jordanian and Lebanese borders.
"We believe that, today, these gangs are bein g directed mainly from Syrian," he stated.

Syria Reported Massing Troops in Huleh Area While
Israel Completes Final Stages in its Drainage Project

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Heavy Syrian troop concentrations were seen opposite
the demilitarized zone in the Lake Huleh area where Israel began the final
stage of the Huleh drainage project.
Israel's work in the demilitarized zone—Israeli territory—has been chal-
lenged by Syria in two protests to the United Nations. Both times the UN
truce 'staff has rejected Syria's charges that completion of the swamp reclama-
tion work would give Israel a military advantage in the demilitarized zone. At
Israel 's invitation, UN observers are now accompanying work crews into the
area.

Moscow's Unfriendly Attitude Scored by Mrs. Meir

Baron de Rothschild Reports Rise
in European Sale of _Israel Bonds

Baron Edmond de Rothschild (center) , of the French
branch of the Rothschild family,'reported in New York a(
the national headquarters of the State of Israel Bond Or-
ganization that more than $7,600,000 in Israel Develop-
extent Bonds have been sold in Western Europe since 1954
for the economic development of Israel. The baron is shown
conferring with Abraham Feinberg (left), president of the
Israel Bond drive, and Dr. Joseph J. Schwartz, its vice
president. Baron de Rothschild, one of the outstanding
leaders of the European campaign for Israel Bonds, has re-
turned to Europe to meet with other key Jewish business
and communal figures to draft plans which will intensify
the sale of Israel Bonds. M. de Rothschild said that "the
increase in the results during the current years reflects a
growing confidence in the economic development of Israel
and its - future as a stronghold of democracy." Acknowledg-
ing Baron de Rothschild's leadership in behalf of Israel
bonds, Dr. Schwartz recalled that the Baron's grandfather,
whose name he bears, has been responsible for the estab-
lishment of the first agricultural settlements in Israel more
than 75 years .ego and had founded its wine industry-at
Rishon Le Zion.

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Israel haS done nothing to warrant the unfriendly attitude displayed
by the Soviet Union lately, Mrs. Golda Meir, Foreign Minister of -Israel, declared at a luncheon
in her honor tendered by the Foreign Press Association.
Asked by the correspondent of Tass, the official Soviet news agency, whether Israel desired
to improve her relations with the USSR, Mrs. Meir said that Israel was willing to listen and
receive advice on how to improve relations with Moscow. "We are not clever enough to think
up more steps than we have aliready . taken," she said, and added that Israel was willing to
repeat everything she had already done in this matter.
Asked whether Israel's adherence to the Eisenhower Doctrine had strengthened peace in
the Middle East, Mrs. Meir answered: "I am afraid I cannot tell you. We still hope it will."
The Foreign Minister asserted that it was "only natural" that Israel have closer relations with
countries which allow Jewish cultural, national and religious life within their borders, as well
as those which permit their Jewish nationals to emigrate or visit Israel.
To a query by the correspondent of Radi o Warsaw about Israel's likely position in the
event the USSR proposed an arms embargo -- for the Middle East, Mrs. Meir replied that the
idea would be fine if made at the right time. However, she emphasized, if such a proposal
wetre made after large arms deliveries to Egypt and now Syria, "we could not accept it as a
bonafide propoSal." If made under conditions which made Israel feel safe from Arab attack,
she indicated, such a proposal would receive Israel's favor.
Israel feels extreme anxiety about the stream of Soviet arms to Syria not only because
the receiver has been preaching the destruction of Israel for the past ten years, but also
because the supplier is one of the great powers which, by radio and press, has displayed hos-
tility toward Israel, Mrs. Meir said. Asked wh ether Israel would like to receive arms from the
United States, she replied: "Any objective observer would understand that Israel cannot
remain weak in the face of the rapidly growing strength of her neighbors."
Asked why Israel's arms demands today were not voiced with the same insistence as two
years ago, at the time of the Czech-Egyptian arms deal, the Foreign Minister said: "Maybe
because we learned in 1955 that nations did not queue up to send us weapons." She noted that
Israel had strengthened herself in the last two years—both as a result of arms received from
friendly nations and by arms "acquired" during the Sinai campaign.
The Israeli stateswoman told the newsmen that Israel holds by its position that the Arab
refugees should be resettled, in the "present host countries"—the Arab states in which they are
now living—where there are no- difficulties such as differing languages, religion or way of life.
She indicated that Israel would have the backing on this matter of many nations which under-
stand that the refugee question could have been solved had not Arab leaders seen using the
refugees as a political weapon for their own aims.
The greatest needs of the Middle East, she reiterated, are freedom from poverty and dis-
ease. She suggested that competition among the great powers in the Middle East concentrate-
on supplying tractors and irrigation equipment rather than munitions.

Egypt Threatens to Return Troops to Gaza and Sinai Peninsula

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to Jewish News)

TEL AVIV—Official Israeli circles expressed. concern Wednesday over statements by Maj.
Gen. Amer, Egypt's War Minister, that Cairo w as preparing to return its troops in full force to
the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip.
According to information . received here, the Egyptian authorities have already completed
arrangements for the return to Gaza of several battalions of troops composed of Palestine Arab
refugees. Egyptian troops will take up their positions in Sinai.
Meanwhile, according to an announcement by the military authorities, Israeli patrols have
captured a huge camel-powered arms convoy attempting to pass from the Sinai Desert to Jor-
danian territory, through southern Israel. The caravan, loaded down with rifles submachine guns
and ammunition passed near United Nations emergency force positions at Kuntileh without

being challenged.

