Israel Welcomes Peace Talks
with Jordan on Scopus Issue

;ERUSALEM, (JTA)—Israel number of limited problems want to identify itself with an
indicated an eagerness to enter which required, careful and im- approach that the Arabs might
find unacceptable.
into negotiations leading to im- mediate handling.
Asked if he felt that peace
(The Christian Science Moni-
plementation of the Israel-Jor-
dan agreement on the move- in the Middle East was now a tor, in a Cable from Paris said
ment of men and supplies little more certain as a result that . if the NATO conference
through the Arab Legion lines of his visits to Jordan, Israel, takes up the Middle East, works
to Mt. Scopus. Syria and Lebanon, he said that out a policy, and then shows it
Commenting on an announce- peace was a much bigger ques- will resist any further Soviet in-
ment that Hammarskjold would tion and he was concerned only cursions there, then Moscow
appoint a UN officer to negoti- with the immediate problems may be expected to hold down
ate with the parties for imple- for which he made his trip. He its Middle East expansion. On
mentation of that compact, Is- said he would name a special the other hand, if the summit
rael Foreign Ministry officials representative to .handle the meeting fails to show that
welcomed Hammarskjold's pro- agreement reached between Is- NATO has both a Middle East
posed action and said Israel had rael and Jordan on the Mount policy and has redesigned its
been waiting since 1949 to im- Scopus convoy controversy but military machine to take that
plement this agreement. he did not say when he would fully into account, Moscow can
interpret that failure as a green
They also noted that for the make the appointment.
Asked about Col. Byron light to continue in its Middle
past eight years Israel had been
waiting to implement Article Leary, acting chief of staff of East-African expansion," the ca-
Eight of the armistice agree- the UN Truce Supervisory or- ble said.)
The State Department re-
ment which calls for the estab- ganization whom the Jordanians
lishment of a special commit- charged with pro-Israel bias in fused to comment on a press
tee to settle a variety of mat- the convoy controversy, the report stating that Adlai E.
ters left up in the air after Secretary General said he saw Stevenson had urged the
no reason to go into that at this United States Administration
the war of 1948.
to seek NATO cooperation for
A new crisis involving the moment and that he had put his
United Nations machinery in full confidence in Col. Leary in a general political settlement
in the Middle East and that
Palestine flared following a writing. He said full inspection
four-hour meeting of the Is- of Mount Scopus convoys was the Administration indicated
rael - Syrian Mixed Armistice necessary to make sure the Is- that the NATO meeting was
Commission. The session dealt rael Jordan agreement would be not the proper forum to dis-
cuss the suggestion of the for-
with an Israeli complaint fulfilled.
mer Democratic Presidential
against Syrian killing of an Dulles Appears Amenable
candidate.
Israeli two weeks ago.
to Italian Proposal
Lincoln White, State Depart-
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
While the background of the
ment spokesman, said the 'De-
to The Jewish News
situation is not known, the -Syr-
WASHINGTON, — Secretary partment had no comment on
ians announced after the meet-
ing that they would not coop- of State Dulles told a press con- the report. A spokesman for
erate with Col. Christian Moe, ference Tuesday he approves Mr. Stevenson flatly denied the
UN chairman of the .MAC. This the basis of objectives of the report. He said:
"The Governor had doubtless
follows Jordan's non-coopera- Italian proposal to create a spe-
tion move which necessitated cial fund for Middle Eastern discussed many ideas in the
the flying of UN Secretary Gen- development. While he found it State Department, and probably
eral Dag Hammarskjold last a useful suggestion and an ac- this one. He has long been con-
ceptable concept, Dulles said cerned with new initiatives in
week to Jordan . and Israel.
The Israelis, for their part, the proposal needed more care- the Middle East and suggested
said little. Their communique, ful study. Dulles agreed with an arms embargo, and enlarged
more guarded than usual, noted Italian Foreign Minister Pella boundary guarantees, a year or
that there were both official and that more needs to be done to more ago." But so far as urging
unofficial talks during the meet- aid underdeveloped areas. Dul- that NATO make a new effort
ing. The communique mention- les also agreed that European in the Middle East, Stevenson
ed no decisions taken at the nations have legitimate ground "has made no such proposal."
meeting and even failed to men- for special concern for healthy
tion Syrian announcement in development of the Middle East Improvement Seen In
reference to Col. Moe. because of their close relation- Israel-Polish Relations
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
It was learned after a meet- ship to that area. He said the
to The Jewish News
ing of the Israeli Cabinet that question existed as to how to
JERUSALEM, — Satisfaction
UN Secretary General Dag work out such a program and
was expressed in government
Hammarskjold is expected to whether OEC or NATO labels circles here Tuesday over the
visit Egypt between Christmas would be acceptable. There was fact that considerable improve-
and New Year's unless some also a question whether it ment has taken place in recent
urgent problems—such as Egyp- should be financed as proposed weeks in relations between Po-
tian detention of an Israeli fish- by Italy through the Marshall land and Israel.
ing trawler and her crew of Plan loan repayments.
Government circles were well
Commenting on containment
six — are settled beforehand in
of "brushfire wars," in response pleased with the first official
New York.
pronouncement in many years
According to reports cur- , to another question, Dulles said by an Eastern European diplo-
rent here, Mr. Hammarskjold there has been a good deal of mat that his government recog-
admitted to Premier Ben-Gu- consideration of whether war nized the right of Jews to immi-
rion the UN's impotence in could be limited to certain grate to Israel.
relation to implementing its areas, and that NATO may
Such a statement was made
resolutions guaranteeing Is- study limitations of local wars.
(From Tel Aviv it was re- by the new Polish Minister to
rae' freedom of passage
ported that the Italian pro- Israel, Antony Bida, when he
through the Suez Canal. If
posal for a Middle Eastern presented his credentials to
one of the great power op-
development fund , was .. re- President Itzhak Ben-Zvi last
poses it, implementation is
ceived "favorably" in Israel, week.
impossible, Mr. Hamm a r-
but officials were reluctant to
The Polish cultural delega-
skjold is said to have con-
comment pending a study of tion which just left Israel sign-
ceded.
The Premier is understood to details. "It was noted, how- ed an agreement for an ex-
have warned the Secretary Gen- ever, that the basic premises change of books and newspa-
eral that withdrawal of the UN of the proposal were consist- pers between the two countries.
Emergency Force from the ent with Israel's policy," a A Polish medical team is now
Strait of Tiran might cause a New York Times report said. in Israel studying mother and
major incident since Israel will On the other hand, the New child care. Israel and Poland
not tolerate Egyptian attempts York Times reported from recently signed a trade pact ex-
to interfere with Israel shipping Cairo that the Italian plan panding trade, and Israeli ves-
was received by the Nasser sels are scheduled to call at Po-
from Elath.
(At the United Nations it was government "with consider- lish ports.
confirmed that after a visit to able suspicion.")
The NATO structure will Elath Confers With Lloyd
Stockholm on Dec. 20, Ham-
not
be used in any move for
LONDON, — Israel Ambassa-
marskjold will fly to the Gaza
Strip. While in the area he is Middle Eastern peace because dor Eliahu Elath conferred
also expected to confer with Arab states regard some Tuesday with British Foreign
NATO members as "colonial- Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. The
Egyptian authorities.)
istic" powers, it was indicated 90-minute session was officially
here. United States officials described as a review of cur-
UN Approves Urgent
speaking privately about rent affairs. Political observers,
Appeal For Relief Funds
plans for the forthcoming however, assume that the Am-
For Arab Refugees
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y., NATO meeting in Paris said bassador expressed Israel's ap-
(JTA) — The Special Commit- the gathering would study de- prehension over the British
tee of the General Assembly velopments in the Arab-Israel government's recent revival of
approved an urgent appeal for sphere but would avoid the proposals for the settlement of
funds to operate the United problem of Arab-Israel dif- the Arab-Israel conflict at the
expense of Israeli territorial ad-
Nations Relief and Works Agen- ferences.
The State Department rules justments.
cy program for Arab refugees
There is no doubt, these ob-
next year. The vote was 49 to out a NATO approach to the
zero. The Soviet bloc and many Arab-Israel situation mainly be- servers believe, that Israel's
Asian countries were among the cause of Arab emotionalism di- continued objections to such
rected against France, a key proposals offered by former
21 which abstained.
UN Secretary General Ham- NATO member. It was noted Prime Minister Sir Anthony
marskjold said on his return that the Arabs also find other Eden in his famous Guildhall
from the Middle East that he NATO nations objectionable speech were drawn to Lloyd's
had made his trip to handle a and the United States does not attention. .

Israel Wins First Round in Court
Battle Against Russian Oil Firm

LONDON (JTA)—Represen-
tatives of two Israeli oil cor-
porations, during their first
day in court in Moscow to
argue a breach of contract
claim, won from a three-man
Soviet arbitration board an
order directing the Soviet de-
fendant to give a full reply
to the claim.
The defendant, Soyuzneft-
Export, the Soviet Union's oil
export corporation, stopped de-
liveries of oil to Israel and
cancelled contracts on Nov. 6,
1956, a week after Israel
opened its Sinai campaign.
The ostensible reason given
by the export corporation was
that it had lost its export
license for Israel.
In seeking to establish its
claim in principle, Israel filed
suit for $2,396,440 in damages
for the uncompleted contract
of one of the companies for
the first half of 1957. The sum
makes this the largest claim
brought before the foreign
trade arbitration commission
in its 25-year history.
The Israel claimants are
Jordan Investments, Ltd., and
the Delek Israel Fuel`Corpora-
tion. David M. Schlosberg and
Zeev Argaman are the Israel
representatives appearing be-
fore the commission.
The case has attracted tre-
mendous interest, particularly
in Western countries, because
it poses a challenge to Soviet
government contentions that
Soviet export and import cor-
porations are independent busi-
ness enterprises, rather than
instruments of Soviet policy.
The Soidet export corpora-
tion was expected to plead it
could not fulfill its contracts
with the Israel oil companies
because of "force majeure,"
an act beyond its control.
This legal principle is used
by western non-governmental

enterprises, but the two Israel
attorneys were planning to
contend that in the Soviet
Union all businesses are gov-
ernment monopolies and, there-
fore, subject to government
control.
The two Israel firms had
contracts for 1957 and 1958
for the purchase of 1,150,000
tons of fuel and crude oil at
a cost of $18,000,000 represent-
ing about a third of Israel's
total fuel use annually.

Justice Henry Butzel
Named to Sinai Board

Justice Henry M. Butzel has
been chosen as honorar; board
member of Sinai Hospital, ac-
cording to announcement by Dr.
Julien Priver, Sinai director.
Two new and six re-elected
trustees of Sinai Hospital were
named recently. The new trus-
tees are Tom Borman and
Joseph Handleman.
Renamed to office are Charles
N. Agree, Jacob A. Citrin, Israel
D a v i d s o n, Mrs. Joseph H.
Ehlrich, Abe Kasle and Leonard
N. Simons.
This story corrects regret-
table errors in last week's is-
sue.

Take 21 Million Photos
of Concentration Camps

KASSEL, Germany (JTA)-
An official Israel team has
completed more than two
years' work taking 21,000,000
photographs of documents con-
cerning concentration camps.
The vast photographic lib-
rary which has been built up
on microfilm by the Israel
team contains the record of all
traceable deaths which oc-
curred in German concentra-
tion camps. The commission
received full help from the
West German authorities.

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