Talks with Dulles Follow Mrs. Meir' s
Opening Address at General Assembly
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into our region, to states that immigration into Israel, the Is-
deny the right of existence to a raeli Foreign Minister stated
WASHINGTON
— Isyael
eign
Minister Golda
Meir For-
on I neighbor state, remotely likely with firm emphasis: "Immigra-
Tuesday met with Secretary of to bring about the desirable end? tion is a purely internal matter.
State Dulles and later told news- We believe that that is a ques- Israel and Israel alone will de-
men she and Dulles discussed tion which answers itself, and termine that policy. And that
problems of the Middle East of we feel entitled to ask Mr. policy is very well known: the
interest to both countries. She Gromyko whether the principle doors remain and will -always
he has adumbrated for all does remain open."
declined to elaborate.
Salah el-Din Bitar, Foreign
Mrs. Meier was accompanied not apply also to our part of the
Minister of Syria, told the Gen-
by Ambassador Abba Eban and world."
Declaring that there is "a eral Assembly that the only
Yaacov Herzog, newly-arrived
Minister of the Embassy. Ed- deadly spiral" in the Middle East reason Syria "was under the ne-
ward Lawson, U.S. Ambassador through the provision of arms cessity to buy' arms for its own
to Israel, participated in the to the Arab states, not only by self-defense" was because of "the
the Soviet Union but also by great quantities of arms given to
meeting.
Prior to receiving the Israeli "other" countries, Mrs. Meir Israel from Western Powers."
delegation, Dulles met briefly quoted Secretary of State John Like the Jordanian spokesman
with Egyptian Ambassador Ah- Foster Dulles to prove her con- who addressed the Assembly ear-
med Hussein. They discussed tention that the armaments race Tier, Bitar condemned widescale
Egyptian-American relations in the Middle East is "risky immigration to Israel.
Assailing Secretary of State
prior to Hussein's departure for business."
Mrs. Meir pleaded with the Dulles for his "unjust and unjus-
a visit to Cairo.
Ambassador Eban met later Arab states to shift from an titled attacks against Syria,"
armaments race to economic Bitar told the Assembly that it
Tuesday with Assistant Secretary
of State for Near Eastern Af- developments. She pointed out must remember that the United
that Jordan, Syria, Iraq and States "actually constitutes the
fairs, William Rountree in what
was described as routine. discus- Egypt have been spending principal center of Zionist activ-
relatively small amounts for ity in the world."
sion.
health and education but their
The spokesman for the Damas-
Earlier, in her first formal
"d e f e n s e" budgets have cus government accused the
address to the General As-
amounted to at least $930,000,- United States of interfering in
sembly this session, Mrs. Meir,
000 in the last three years.
the Middle East and said that
combining firmness toward the
On behalf of Israel, she as- Israel was the vanguard of im-
Arab states with pleas for
Arab-Israel peace, challenged sured the Assembly that the Jew- perialist and colonial policies in
Israel's Middle East neighbors ish State is as much interested the region.
The Saudi Arabian proposal, on
to adopt a realistic attitude in global and regional disarma-
and concede that the Jewish ment as are all other countries. which Mrs. Meir refused com-
However, she pointed out, viola- ment, called for a three-point
state is here to stay.
Addressing the Arab delegates tions of the UN Charter in the solution of Arab-Israel tensions,
directly, Mrs. Meir said: "Like Middle East constitute a "basic which included:
I. Establishment of a special
you, we have regained our na- factor in the unrest and tension
United Nations agency to send
tional independence and as with in our area."
Egypt, she continue, is -operat- all the Jews from Israel "back
you, nothing will cause us to
give it up. We are here to stay. ing the Suez Canal "under an to their homelands in Europe
Israel will exist and flourish even illegal system of discrimination," and elsewhere."
2. Outlawing Zionism "any-
without peace, but surely a fu- disregarding not only a Security
ture of peace would be better Council decision of 1951 provid- where and everywhere."
3. Rejecting all thought of
both for Israel and for her neigh- ing for freedom of passage
bors. We have not the slightest through the waterway, but flag- resettling Arab refugees and,
instead, sending all of them
doubt that eventually there will rant violating principles
be peace and cooperation be- adopted by the Council only a back into Israel.
tween us. We are prepared; we year ago.
The Saudi Arabian government
She pointed out that "Arab also expressed its strongest sup-
are anxious to bring it about
political terrorism and obstruc- port of Syria, absolving Syria
now."
Mrs. Meir also challenged the tion" and "the ramified boycott from any blame for accepting
Soviet Union on its Middle East operations of the Arab League arms shipments from the Soviet
policy and specifically named against Israel" affect even the Union.
Russia's _-9'oreign Minister, An- work of the UN specialized
It also denounced Israel's use
drei A. Gromyko. Citing the fact agencies in the fields of health, of the Gulf of Aqaba, and con-
that Gromyko has already told education and agriculture.
cluded its statement to the As-
Mrs. Meir reminded the As- sembly by declaring flatly: "To
the General Assembly that the
USSR places "much emphasis" sembly that Israel had addressed, the Jews as • a nation we grant
on peaceful co-existence between through Secretary General Dag nothing."
states, Mrs. Meir said that Israel Hammarskjold, questions regard-
The first policy speech in this
stands committed to co-existence ing Egypt's and. Syria's insistence year's Assembly by any of the
on "maintenance of a state of Arab governments, the address
"with all its heart and soul."
"But," Mrs. Meir asked, "is war with Israel." The Secretary came as a great shock to many
the massive and uninterrupted General has received no reply delegations here. The speech was
inflow of weapons of destruction from either Arab country, Mrs. delivered by Ahmad Shukairy,
Meir said.
Saudi Arabia's Minister of State
Alluding to the vituperative for United Nations Affairs.
call issued in the Assembly last
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•WHAT IS THE
week by Saudi Arabia's spokes- Urges Big Powers Halt
4. 41/4
man who called for the liqui- Arms Shipments to Arabs
dation of Israel, the Israeli For-
NEW YORK (JTA)—An ap-
eign Minister said that the Saudi peal to the Big Powers to dis-
Arabian statement "was perhaps continue sending arms to the
too ludicrous to be worthy of Arab countries was voiced by
The CITY OF HOPE is a
notice."
Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel's For-
NATIONAL MEDICAL CEN-
Dr. Yusuf Haikal, chairman of eign Minister, addressing a din-
TER devoted to a three-
the Jordanian delegation to the ner given in her honor by the
pronged frontal assault on
United Nations, preceded Mrs. Israel Bond Organization.
specific diseases — Cancer,
Meir at the Assembly session and
Speakers at the dinner, at
Leukemia, Hodgkin's Disease,
proposed that the Assembly un- which more than $650,000 were
Tuberculosis, and Heart Ail-
dertake
a
four-point
program
for
ments amenable to surgery.
raised for Israel through the sale
solution of the "Palestine prob- of bonds, included Governor Av-
IN ITS HOSPITAL, the
lem:"
erell Harriman and Mayor Rob-
CITY OF HOPE places its
Dr. Haikal's program proposed: ert Wagner.
specialized skills at the dis-
1. United Nations action to stop
posal of patients who cannot
Responding to tributes paid
"unrestricted Zionist immigra- to her, Mrs. Meir said that peace
take advantage of medical re-
tion"
into
Israel.
2.
Creation
of
sources in their own com-
in the Middle East will be at-
a United Nations committee for tained when the Arabs begin to
munities.
custody of Arab properties in realize that there is no possibility
In its RESEARCH INSTI-
Israel and the collection and dis-
TUTE, original inquiry into
tribution of these properties "for
the cause and cure of catas-
the benefit of their rightful own-
trophic diseases is conducted
NOW'S THE BEST TIME
ers, the Palestine Arab refugees."
by a full staff of research
3.
The
return
to
the
Arabs
of
specialists and technicians of
TO CHANGE TO BUICK
the territory "which Israel un-
the highest caliber. The ex-
perimentation carried on in
lawfully occupies from the part
the '57 BUICK!
these laboratories seeks to
of Palestine that the United Na-
forestall the mass fatalities
tions decided should remain
For the best deal
involved in these illnesses.
Arab." 4. The return of all the
anywhere .
SEE
Arab refugees "to their homes in
In its DOCTOR'S TRAIN-
Palestine and the compensation
ING FACILITIES, medical men
for their losses."
from various ports of the
CITY O-F HOPE Y.
.
country, as well as abroad,
are given the opportunity to
study the care and treatment
of major diseases.
Mail your support in this
partnership to
Detroit Business Men's
Group . City of Hope
14379 Livernois
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Replying to Dr. Haikal di-
rectly, Mrs. Meir told the As-
sembly "the only area in the
Middle East in danger of Is-
rael expansionism is the desert
within Israel. We intend to go
deeper into that desert and
make it more fruitful than
ever."
As for Dr. Haikal's call for
international control of Jewish
CHARLES WEINSTOCK
of destroying Israel and when
the Big Powers of the world stop
sending them arms.
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May Use Arms Against Israel
Jordan King Tells Parliament
LONDON (JTA)—King Hus-
sein of Jordan, in a speech open-
ing Parliament in Amman, indi-
cated that American arms sup-
plied him under the r ecent
United States $10,000,000 military
aid program may be used against
Israel.
Referring to the American
military assistance, the monarch
said that the responsibilities
which Jordan was assuming in
relation to the Palestine prob-
lem and the "Zibnist danger"
necessitated that the Arab state
take all measures to strengthen
her defenses. Thus, King Hus-
sein continued, Jordan would be
able to discharge her duties in
defense of the Arab world.
(It was also reported here"
that a shipment of U.S. tanks
and other heavy equipment for
Jordan was unloaded in secrecy
from an American ship at Aqaba
on Sunday.)
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