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Iltunitley's Views on Israel

By NATHAN ZIPRIN

(The Chet Huntley report will. be
heard in Detroit, over WWJ-TV , from
4 to 5:30 p.m. Sunday. In a brief
preview of his account of his Israel
visit, on the Dave Garaway program
on .Tuesday morning, Huntley said
he is calling his report "A Stiff-
Necked People — Israel in the Next
Ten Years." He said that there is an
absence of juvenile delinquency in
Israel because all boys and girls in
Israel know they a. - e wanted, and
they join in the common effort—to
win the land, to make it produce, to
bring in more people).

Millions of Americans this Sunday will be glued to
their television sets watching NBC's Chet Huntley in a
90-minute film report he made in Israel. The film and
the narrative will cover what an NBC official called a
spectacular story.
This writer interviewed Chet Huntley, a Montana-
born gentleman who started out being a physician and
ended up as one of the country's leading reporters on
radio and television. I had known that Chet had spent
only five days in. Israel and realized that modesty would
forbid him to claim full or even adequate evaluation of
the scene. But this, too, I knew: if it is true, as the Yiddish
idiom has it, that a guest comes for a while and sees for
a mile, it is equally true that a good reporter sees beyond
the mile. This faith was borne out in the course of our
more than one-hour talk at the office of NBC in New York.
He was aware that reconvering of the - Negev,
security, acquisition of greater fresh water facilities,
shoring of the economy, • developing of natural re-
sources, absorption of immigrants, ingathering of new-
comers and peace with the Arabs were not only
problems of the day but of the future as well.
He was sure the strain and conflict of religious dis-
parity would abate in time, when both sides in the con-
troversy display greater patience and understanding of
each other's position. He called Israel, "a truly remark-
able melting pot."
Chet was particularly impressed by the young Israelis
who, he observed, were "displaying a marked tendency
toward religious values" they are reputed never to have
possessed or to have lost.
Because the youth appears troubled that "God did
nothing to prevent six million Jews from falling to Hitler,"
he went on, "it believes that God expects man to use his
brain, brawn and sweat" instead of relying on help from
heaven. When I told him this postulation was verbal
duplication of a traditionally Jewish religious doctrine,
Chet remarked, "I guess it is true, after all, that God •
helps those who help themselves, and the best proof of
it is in Israel, where miracle and reality seem to blend
always."
He had found the people in Israel generous, courteous
and appreciative of the efforts made on• their behalf, by
American Jewry. But he also encountered "Snide corn-
ments about Jews in America" whose motivation; he felt,
was not ingratitude for. the vast outpouring of Jewish
funds from the United States "but emotional preference
for investment and settlement by American Jews."
When speaking of Israel to the physical sense,
Huntley was extremely rich in adjectives. He used
with great abundance such. words as gay,cOlorful,•
merry, green, pastoral. He called Haifa "magnificent"
and the hills "breathless.". And Speaking of a country
trip he made, . he remarked that the "Tel Aviv to
Rehovot countryside is as green as Ireland and every
acre productive.' But when he spoke of the people the
recurrent note was pride, determination, fearlessness.
The 1,-,hrase "there is no fear in Israel" recurs at least
dozen tlf-ime,c., in my notebook.
As we shock hands at the end of the interview, I
recalled the BiblikAal verity that the "Guardian of Israel
neither sleepeth nor slumbereth." Chet's quick and signi-
ficant reply was "Yes,. Israel's modern guardians too are
ever wakeful. To appreciate their dedication one must
see them work the laud by day and guard the frontier
and settlement approaches by night."

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Gravely concerned for the safety of more than 5,000 Je
iii Beirut, the Israel Association of Sephardic Jews called today on a number of gov-
ernments and the Joint Distribution Committee to give immediate aid to Jews threat-
ened by both mob violence and a possible coup d'etat -which would put pro-Nasser
forces in control of the Lebanese Government.
In a cable +o the JDC, the Sephardic organization urged that the Lebanese Jews
be evacuated as soon as possible. Other messages, to the American. British and French
Embassies in Beirut, appealed to them to act, if necessary, to protect the lives and
property of Lebanese Jews.
The Lebanese Jews have enjoyed the best conditions of a Jewish community in
any of the Middle East Arab states and there was little reason to fear for their safety
until the rioting spread to Beirut today.
With Nasser-controlled elements sparking the bloody rioting—easualties are re-
ported to have mounted into the hmpire4s—there is a possibility that a sudden revolt
will toss Lebanon into the United Arab Republic camp as a third province of the
Nile empire. In that event, Lebanese .Jews may find themselves facing a 24hour evac-
uation ultimatum--as did the Jews of Egypt during the Sinai-Suez crisis.
As news reached here of the sacking and burning of a second American library
in Lebanon in three days and the blowing Up of an Iraq Petroleum Company pipeline
at Mansour, new reports were received that Syrian terrorists had crossed the border to
aid the mobs held at bay by armed troops and police. One attempt at a revolution—a
mob demand for President Camille Chamoun's resignation—was suppressed by the
army.
Israelis closely followed developments in the Lebanon where the hard pressed
government of President Camille Chamoun told the Western powers that arm- and
enemy agents were entering the country by land, sea and air and called on the
States, Great Britain and France to "take up their responsibilities" under the tripar-
tite declaration df 1950 because Lebanon had become "the object of attack from
abroad."
Dr. Charles Malik, the Lebanese Foreign Minister, formally accused the United
Arab Republic of "massive interference" in Lebanon.
In Washington, State Department officials said that Lebanon could not invoke
the Tripartite accord unless aggression came from Israel. Similarly, the Eisenhower

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UN -Upholds Israel on Latest Mt.Scopus Controversy

JERUSALEM, (JTA)—The United Nations Truce Supervisory Organization sustained Israel's
contention that Jordan had no authority to veto equipment or personnel of the fortnightly convoy
to Mount Scopus and the convoy proceeded without incident after a two-day halt.
The Jordanians had halted the-convOy, which provides supplies and personnel relief to the
garrison guarding Hadassah. and Hebrew University buildings in the isolated enclave in Jordan-held
old Jerusalem with a complaint against two of the 15 civilians in the convoy. Jordan had charged
that the two men, A. Cohen and A. Levi, had -previously been jailed in Jordan as infiltrators.
Maj. Gen. Carl C. Von Horn, UN Truce Supervisory Chief. rejected the Jordan charge after
48 hours of conferences with Israel and Jordan officials, as well as with UN Secretary-General Dag
Hammarskjold, who is now in Geneva.
Gen. Von Horn agreed with the Israel contention that under the recent Mount Scopus agree-
ment tentatively negotiated by Dr. Francisco Urrutia, as Hammarskjold's personal representative
in the dispute, the convoys were the sole responsibility of the United Nations and that Jordan's
role was limited to assuring safe passage to and from Mount Scopus. .
Israel had no difficulty demonstrating that both Cohen and Levi had been with previous
convoys as inspectors of the Hebrew University Library and Hadassah hospital and that an official
list of infiltrators of both Jordan and Israel, recorded by the UN, did not include Levi and Cohen.

illatikvah Author tionored:

Naphtili Herz I mber, author of
the dedication of a memo-
Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, was honored this week
rial bronze plaque on the house in New York's Lower East Side where he died in 1909.
Shown at the dedication ceremonies, associated with the celebration of Israel's tenth
anniversary, are (left to right) Israel Consul-General Simcha Pratt; Ira Guilden, national
campaign chairman of the State of Israel Bond drive; Dr. Israel Goldstein, chairman of
the American Committee for Israel's Tenth Anniversary Celebration, and Hulan E. Jack,
Borough President of Manhattan, who joined in the tribute.

