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Israel Dragg%/.4 Into Lebanon
Crisis; Captured Guerrillas
Backed Anti-Chamoun Revolt

Cordier on Special Scopus
UN Team: Leaves for Middle
East to Untangle Problems

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UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.— Andrew W. Cordier, assistant
to UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, has been named
a member of the special "Mount Scopus Team" and left
Wednesday for the Middle East to help untangle the Jordan-
Israel dispute in the area. He will be gone for a week.
Several months ago, Hammarskjold appointed Dr. Francisco
Urrutia of Columbia as his personal representative in the Mount
Scopus dispute. The Columbian diplomat negotiated a special
agreement between Israel and Jordan for settlement of the
continuing argument. but the Urrutia agreement has not been
fully implemented. Later, Hammarskjold named Dr. Ralph J.
Bunche, one of his under-secretaries. as a member of the "Mount
Scopus Team, and Dr. Bunche visited both Amman, capital of
Jordan, and Jerusalem. Now, apparently as a result of the
May 26 slaying of Col. George A. Flint, chairnlan of the Israel-
Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission„ Hammarskjold was
Sending still a third emissary to the trouble area.
Ambassador Abba S. Elan, ,head of the 1.§ra*-4vd
conferred with Secretary General 'Dag - .HaminarSkt6T
neither of the conferees would -reveal the subject of their
discussion, it was understood that:Eban took up with the UN
chief the Jordanian attacks agai
- -Israelis atop Mt. Scopus
and the situation in LebanOri•

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Premier David Ben-Gurion, Army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen.
Chaim Laskov and top Foreign Ministry officials discussed the situation which
developed from the interception of more than 20 heavily armed Lebanese moving
from a training camp in Syria to southern Lebanon where they were scheduled
to begin guerrilla operations against the Chamoun Lebanese government and
army.
The Lebanese guerrillas were turned over to the Lebanese authorities after
a meeting of the Israel-Lebanese Mixed Armistice Commission. Several of t h e
16 guerrillas were wounded.
Israeli authorities brought to the meeting samples of arms and ammunition
found on the captured Lebanese and other evidence including depositions of
what Syrian officers had instructed them to do in the way of guerrilla activities.
Present at the session, in addition to the Israeli and Lebanese delegates, were
the United Nations chairmen of the Israel-Lebanese MAC and the Israel Syrian-

MAC.

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In anticipation of further attempts by Lebanese rebels and Syrians to use
Israel as a passageway for arms and men to be employed in the continuing battle
to unseat the Chamoun government in Beirut, the Israel army and border police
have stationed - additional forces along the northern and northeastern border.
A report on the interception of the Lebanese rebel force is being prepared
for submission to the United Nations Security Council.
Israeli authorities protested against invasion of Israel territory to both the
Israel-Lebanese and the Israel-Syrian Mixed Armistice Commissions.
The autliorities,in Galilee report3d the capture of two more armed Lebanese.
Oftwa.:- killed..and one wounded :as Israeli border units continued rounding up
scattered - meMbers of the band, believed to liave numbered 61.
Interrogation of the prisoners revealed that they were young men between
20 and 23 living in Lebanese villages along the Israel b or d e r and working in
Beirut as laborers. When the rebellion brOke out and a curfeW was clamped on
the. -COUntry, they were confined to their own small area
and were reached there by agents of Ahmed el Asad,
Report of 1114001e -**4„ whit. -KhruShChey
one of the leaders of the rebellion.
Reveals ..ned - Lealler"s Anti-Jewish Bias
The young Lebanese were recruited -for service "to
defend" their villages against the government. They
NEW YORK, (JTA)
A group of • American businessmen,. physicians, lawyers, and
were marched into Syria where, at the village of Bani-
teachers, who spent 28 days in the -Soviet_ -Union *last summer; released' a verbatim report
of their talk with Nikita • Khrushchey ; head of the SOviet government; during which he
yas, they were issued French-manufactured guns, bay-
expressed his view on the status of the t Jews in :the USSR and on- the posSibility of Jewish
onets and ammunition and American-made gas mask
emigration from Russia to Israel -. The rePort is in the form_ of questions "put to Khrushchev
kits. After three days of training, they were marched
and his answers. The pOrtion referring to the Jews follows:
back to Lebanon to begin a campaign of rebellion,
Question: We have heard in America.- that Jews are not permitted to go .freely to Israel.
ambush and sabotage. They were told that large quan-
Answer: It is true to some extent and to some extent not true. We don't allow just
tities of explosives would be sent after them.

anyone to leave the Soviet Union, We issue passports - only to thes
e whose visits are
expedient. We . recently, though, allowed a- great number of Jews to go' to Poland and we
knew that many of them would go : MOO -Israel from' there. I am' sure the time will come
when all Jews, or Russians, for that manner ; who -want to go to Israel will be able to do
so. I know there are many Jews who have*. gone to Israel who want to come back here as
life is not very sweet for them there,.
_ Question: Is it - possible Or Je* With relatiVes in Israel to go there?
-
Answer: Yes, I think this
.Recently
Recently the Priine Minister of Denmark asked
us to grant permission" 'for. three Jews to 4eave the' Soviet Union and we granted his request.
Of course, we thihk that 'Israel is taking too* hostile an - attitude towards the Egyptians.
They recently attacked Egypt and they often make raids against them.
.
Question: But Egypt refuses: to permit_ boats to pass through the Suez Canal and the
Gulf of Aqaba and often .raids - Israel territory, and is there not blame on both sides?
_
Answer: Yes,
is a complicated - question, You .must understand the situation of the
Arabs who lived on :their own land , anti. were forced out by Israel. They are suffering
and cannot have good, - feeling towards Israel. Also ; - there was the UN decision on the
boundaries of Israel, but she violated these boundaries and grabbed territory. There needs.
to be cooperation on both- sides to solve the problem.
, Question: Can any minority group such as the Jews open a theater anywhere in Russia?
Would you encourage thig?
Answer: This is a very.:old*question. 'There used to be many Yiddish theaters in many
cities, Moscow, Odessa, Kiev, Lvov,. During' the war we lost many Jews. It was a tragedy.
hi Western Ukraine- for • example, -which came over from Poland, large numbers of Jews
paid money to the Nazis- to escape and fell into the hands of the executioners. They were
executed when they got to Poland. We wanted to unite them and established Birobidjan for
this purpose. All that is left now Birobidjan are signs in Yiddish at the railroad stations
but there are no Jews there.
There are many Jews in the government and even in the Central Committee of the
Party. They are assimilated into the .Russian culture and language. If we had seven-year
schools for Jews in the Jewish language where could the graduate go? We would have to
establish ten-year schools, special universities for them. Other Republics have their own
territory and their own language and we encourage this but the Jews are dispersed and
engulfed in the culture where they live. Our position is that it all depends upon the will of the
Jews. If they want to create a state within our borders like Birobidjan nobody is against this and
it exists to this clay but the initiative must come from the Jews there. They could have their
own language, schools and traditions. The state language would be Jewish and they would have
the benefits of anything they wanted. But to set up separate schools all over Russia would be
too expensive.

The leaders of this small guerrilla force decided
to use Israel as a passageway because they believed
that Lebanese army units would be less watchful along
this border than on the Lebanese-Syrian frontier. The
captur6d Lebanese were particularly bitter against
Asad, on whom they placed responsibility for their
present plight.
When they were first intercepted by four Israeli
border policemen patroling the area between Metullah
and Kfar Giladi, the Lebanese cut and ran back toward
Syria. Ina subsequent marshallina of Israeli policemen
Throughout the border region, they
b were rounded up
in small groups. 'The one man was killed and the second
wounded in separate actions when the groups they were
with refused to halt upon orders of the Israeli military.

Tunis Dissolves Jewish
Council: Only Religious
Issues Assigned
New Body
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PARIS, (JTA)
The Council of Jewish Communities of
Tunis, central representative body of 70,000 members of Jewish
communities in Tunisia, has been disbanded.
The Council has been 'replaced by a "Central Jewish Con-
sistoire," which is empowered to deal - only with religious affairs.
The authorities have named Rabbi M. Cohen, a little known
member of the Jewish community, as Chief Rabbi to succeed
the late Chief Rabbi David Dombaron. His appointment and
the very limited powers to which the Consistoire is restricted
is considered it, Paris Jewish circles an indication that the
Tunisian government has embarked on a policy of limiting the
Jewish communities to religious activities.

