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Princeton 41,,cts to End Bias
by Replacing Student Clubs
Algerian Rebels Hold Two
Kidnapped Jewish Agency
Officials; Demand Ransom
PARIS (JTA)—Two Jewish Agency representatives
kidnapped in Algeria last week are believed alive and
being held for ransom, it was reported here from
Algeria. The Algerian authorities are reluctant to
reveal any of the background of the kidnapping and
the steps they have taken in the matter.
As put together from various sources, it appears
that the two Jews — Jacob Hassan, director of the
Algerian office of the Agency, and Raphael Ben Gera,
a representative from the Jerusalem headquarters —
were on a fund - raising mission when they were
abducted. It is believed that they were carrying a large
sum of money with them and that this was seized and
their captors are asking a further ransom for their
release. They are believed to have been captured by
a unit of the Algerian rebel forces.
PRINCETON, N.J. (JTA) — Princeton University president Dr. Robert F.
Goheen announced plans for the building of an undergraduate quadrangle with
dormitory, dining and social facilities for 600 students. The dining facilities, which
will provide students with an alternative to membership in one of the
university's 17 supper clubs, will be available to upperclassmen who are not
members of clubs, sophomores and some club members who may room at the
quadrangle.
Dr. Goheen's $7,000,000 quadrangle plan was announced at an annual meet-
ing of the Princeton National Alumni Association. It followed close upon campus
criticism of the supper clubs, Princeton's equivalent of - fraternities, for discrim-
inating against some sophomores. A group of a dozen or so passed-over soph-
omores charged that they were the victims of anti-Jewish prejudice. While Dr.
Goheen refused to accept the charges of bias, the undergraduate University
Council consisting of supper club officers, admitted that exclusivity might involve
setting religious quotas on membership.
The Daily Princetonian, Princeton University campus daily, re-opened the
controversy over alleged discrimination against Jewish students by the univer-
sity's 11 private eating and social clubs with a charge that President Goheen
intended to tolerate the situation.
Two faculty members also entered the controversy, both urging prompt
university action in the arrangements under which Princeton sophomores can
be members of the clubs only by invitation.
The problem became public last month when 23 sophomores, 15 of them
Jews, complained that they had received bids only from one club, the Prospect
Club.
The 23 sophomores charged that this represented an effort to force them
into the "least desirable" of the clubs.
• The Jewish students signed a statement saying they believed they were
being discriminated against because the y were Jews. Membership of the Prospect
Club is predominently Jewish.
The Daily Princetonian editorial declared
that it "appears there is religious discrimination
in the club system at Princeton, and that while
the president deplores the practice, he is
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Israel Did Not Ask
Britain's Guarantee
for Existing Borders
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Israel did not ask Britain to
guarantee her borders with the Arab states, Moshe
Leshem, spokesman for the Israel Foreign Ministry,
declared here. He stressed that the Israel government
would welcome "some kind of general recognition of
the existing frontiers by any country." .
Leshem's statement came in comment on a state-
ment in the British Parliament by Foreign Secretary
Selwyn Lloyd rejecting Labor demands for a British
guarantee of Israel's borders. The Israeli spokesman
added that "Mr. Lloyd's statement contained nothing
new." The least new portion of the statement was
reiteration of the espousal of the Eden Guildhall plan
for settling the Middle East conflict through Israeli
territorial concessions to the Arabs.
Israel Dismayed by Border. Issue
LONDON (JTA) — British For e i g n Secretary
Selwyn Lloyd's reiteration of the Eden Guildhall plan
—which asks for the revision of Israel's borderS—as a
means of settling the Israel-Arab conflict caused more
dismay than surprise in Israeli circles here. Lloyd's
statement in Commons replied to a demand by Labor
Party leader Hugh Gaitskell for a Big Power guarantee
of Israel's borders.
These Israeli circles, which were always aware
that the Guildhall plan was London's official thinking
on the problem, had felt that it would be allowed to
remain dormant. Its 'resurrection was viewed as a
continuation of the old British policy of Arab appease-
ment, which has proved to• be one continuous failure
for the last 15 years. As one Israeli source put it,
"Lloyd's statement made it clear that British policy is
not set according to the true interests of a Middle
East settlement but only with a view of finding favor
in Arab eyes."
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Israeli circles here feel Lloyd's approach only
postpones the possibilities of a Middle East settlement
because it encourages Arab extremism and increases
Middle East tensions. Israel remains firmly opposed
to any attempt to court the Arabs at Israel's expense,
these sources emphasized.