Helping Israel Face New Decade Eisenhower Administration Optimistic
About Nasser, Pessimistic on ME Peace
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WASHINGTON, (JTA)
top State Department official
spelled out the current position
of the Eisenhower Administra-
tion in the Middle East this
week as being one of growing
optimism about improving rela-
tions with the United Arab Re-
public and continuing pessi-
mism over any prospects for
easing the Arab-Israel deadlock.
Assistant Secretary of State
William M. Rountree, State De-
partment officer in charge of
Near Eastern Affairs, testified
to that effect before the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee.
He told the committee that "the
maintenance of the uneasy
peace between the Arab states
and Israel is assisted by the con-
tinued presence of the - United
Nations Emergency Force in
Gaza and Sinai and of UN ob-
servers elsewhere in the area."
He said • that the United
States was doing everything it
could to help work out a solu-
tion of the Arab-Israel prob-
lem, which he said was pro-
viding an opportunity for So-
viet exploitation. Adding that
the Russians were taking ad-
vantage of this "most explos-
Paratroopers serve as flag bearers during a parade in
Jerusalem marking the tenth anniversary of the state of Israel.
The government decreed a year's celebration as the new nation
began its second decade of existence.
Sight for Blind, Hearing for Deaf,
Envisioned by Technion Professor
A Technion professor is cur-
rently working on the perfection
of theories of sensory percep-
tion which could lead to the
development of devices to give
sight to the blind and hearing
to the totally deaf,—without
having to use surgery.
Dr. Franz 011endorff, profes-
sor of electrical engineering at
the Technion, Israel -Institute
of Technology, outlined plans
for electrodes applied external-
ly to the patient's temples which
would direct electrical stimuli
to sensory centers of the brain
and simulate vision or hearing
without using the person's de-
fective organs. Further develop-
ment would lead to an "elec-
tronic cap," as Prof. Olendorff
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by the patient.
The cost of manufacturing
such a perfected device would
be about the same as that for
a portable radio, he believes.
Prof. 011endorff's research in
electro-physiology earned him
the Weizmann Prize nine years
ago. More recently he was
awarded the Israel Prize for
Exact Sciences for his research
in the field of potential theory.
Prof. 011endorff has several
additional claims to distinction.
As a young man he published
a paper outlining for the first
time the principles which later
led to the development of radar.
A mathematical formula of his
for an electronic lens led to
the perfecting of the modern
electron miscroscope. At the
Technion he has directed re-
search leading to the construc-
tion of new electronic and high
tension apparatus, and is cur-
rently dealing with general
problems of modern electronics.
He is also preparing the third
volume of a book on electronics.
First Arab Woman
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — The
first Arab woman student in
the history of the Hebrew
University received her diplo-
ma at commencement exercises
here. In all there were five
Arab and Druze students
among the 428 graduates.
and Fancy
President Benjamin Mazar
awarded a number of degrees
for advanced studies. They in-
cluded: eight Masters of Law;
74 Doctors of Medicine; 71
Masters of Science; 37 Doctors
of Philosophy. For the first
time, the university also
awarded eight Masters of Phar-
macy and nine Bachelors of
Science in Agriculture.
The Arab woman graduate is
Huda Nashif who received a
Bachelor. of Arts degree, major-
ing in education and sociology.
She intends to take up social
work in the Israel Arab com-
munity and for this purpose
the university has granted her
a scholarship to study at the
University of Chicago's School
of Social Service Administra-
tion.
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U.S. Mid-East Policy
Criticized at Parley
of Jewish Congress
MIAMI BEACH.—Sharp criti-
cism of Administration policy
for "ineptness" in Middle East-
ern affairs and a "woeful lack
of national leadership" in the
area of civil rights was ex-
pressed at the national biennial
convention of the American
Jewish Congress here.
Isaac Toubin, of New York,
AJCongress executive director,
charged in a report to the con-
vention that the United States
has failed to develop a policy
that would offer an "alternative
of hope" to the millions of dis-
enfranchised Arabs suffering
under the burdens of militaris-
tic dictatorships. This failure,
he said, has contributed heavily
to the "rising influence" of So ,
viet Russia in the area.
Turning to the d o m e s t i c
scene, he said the moral impact
of the 1954 Supreme Court de-
cision outlawing segregation has
been "blunted" by failure of
the Executive Branch to take a
forthright stand supporting the
general goal of ending all forms
of racial and religious discrimi-
nation and segregation.
The AJCongress leader as-
sailed the inconsistency of State
Department policy as applied to
Eastern Europe and the Middle
East.
In the area of civil rights,
Toubin said, "the need for sen-
sitive and courageous national
leadership is desperate and is
woefully lacking. In neither
Montgomery nor in Little Rock
indeed, at no time since the
1954 Court decision—has the
President committed himself to
the inherent justice of that .de-
cision and its relationship to
democratic ideas."
Honor Israel Anniversary
at Ball in Washington
WASHINGTON, ( JTA )—So-
viet Ambassador Mikhail Men-
shikov and other leading diplo-
mats accepted invitations to at-
tend a ball to be held here in
celebration of Israel's tenth
anniversary and in honor of
Israel Ambassador Abba Eban
and Mrs. Eban. The ball will be
held on May 31.
The ball is sponsored by an
honorary committee which in-
cludes Vice President Richard
M. Nixon, Supreme Court jus-
tices, governors, senators, and
other leaders on the national
scene.
ive" issue, he said he thought
it was very difficult to see any
possibilities of an easing. of
the Israel-Arab deadlock.
The State Department official
declined to comment publicly
on a Senator's question as to
whether the easing of Middle
East tensions was a proper sub-
ject for the agenda of a summit
conference. He said he would
answer the question privately.
He disclosed that the Eisen-
hower Administration had re-
laxed restrictions on the ship-
ment of "quasi-military goods"
to the United Arab Republic.
He later told newsmen that this
would permit sending of spare
parts for military vehicles and
that the amount of equipment
to be shipped is small. He called
the easing an indication of "im-
proved relations" between the
United States and the UAR and
said "we hope that trend con-
tinues."
The State Department official
said the solution of the Arab
refugee problem depended on
the settlement of related ques-
tions and that it was "extreme-
ly difficult to" seek a solution
of the problem as a separate
question.
Asserting that he saw no
likelihood of an early solution
of the Arab refugee problem,
Rountree said he regretted
that "a permanent solution to
the lamentable problem of
more than 900,000 unfortun-
ate Palestine refugees has not
yet been found, despite our
persistent efforts."
In previous secret testimony
he denied a report that Israel
had asked for atomic weapons,
a rumor published March 18 by
columnist Dorothy Thompson.
Rountree said the report was
"without foundation."
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