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Imbalance in arms shipments to the Middle East is responsible for a newly-created aggravation of the Middle
East problems, now dangerously intensified by the Lebanese crisis.
A JTA report from Washington this week quotes the Eisenhower Administration as having made plain again its
conviction that the dispatch of free American arms to Israel's hostile Arab neighbors did not require similar strengthen-
ing of Israel's military capacity.
JTA's Washington correspondent quotes State Department spokesman Lincoln White as having confirmed that
quantities of military jet planes and tanks were being given to Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon. He said the decision to send
the equipment was made several months ago.
Guarantees of 'ME Stability Can Bring
Lasting Arab-Israel Peace, Goldanann
Declares in First Speech in Germany
Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News
FRANKFURT — Dr. Nahum Goldmann, making his first public address
in Germany since 1932, told a Frankfurt University audience Monday that
lasting peace between Israel and Arab countries was possible only if the great
powers of the East and West joined in guaranteeing Middle East stability.
The world Zionist leader delivered one of the Loeb Lectures instituted
two years ago at the university for the teaching of Jewish history, democracy
and religion.
Dr. Goldmann told the audience of German professors and
1 -- 's that
the East-West conflict was accruing to the benefit of an aggresSivE aUn-
alism that was not only detrimental to Israel's peaceful existen
welfare of the Arab countries as well. He said that if the great pow..
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of combatting each other, would come to recognize the reciprocal '
Awls
inherent in their influence in the Middle East situation, the "intriguil. :Arab
game" of playing one side against the other would no longer be poSsible.
The Arab countries would then have to recognize the existence of Israel,
and no longer being able to use Israel as an object of hostility would have
to start solving their 'problems of poverty and political corruption, he said
He added that he felt that the u nity of the Arab states should be fur-
thered; asserting that this would be ben eficial rather than detrimental to Israel
because as long as the Arab states we re in conflict they would only vie with
one another in their hostility to Israel.
Commenting on the fact that he first spoke in Germany to a Zionist con-
ference 26 years ago, Dr. Goldmann said he was deeply moved to be in Frank-
furt where. he had spent many years of happy childhood. He credited the
revival of German relations and the reparations agreement with Israel as
"mainly earned by the great moral -personality" of Chancelor Konrad Adenhauer.
Simultaneously, other Sate Department sources said
that no U. S. jets had been giver). to Israel and that small
quantities of spare parts and similar military items have
been sold to Israel on an export license approval basis.
Israel officials did not share the State Department's
faith that such arms would never be used against Israel.
They were particularly concerned about the United States
plans for giving Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon a reported
50 jet planes. The Israel press predicted that Israel would
ask the United States to restore the upset created in
the Middle East arms balance by the gifts of American
heavy weapons.
State Department sources explained the latest arms
gifts by asserting that the United Arab Republic had
received heavy arms shipments. The United States, there-
fore, was strengthening the military position of pro-
Western Arab regimes. White specified the beneficiaries
as Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon, and also Saudi Arabia.
A Jewish Telegraphic Agency report from Jerusalem
states that Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion met
in a private audience Sunday with United States Ambassa-
dor Edward B. Lawson and that they are understood to
have discussed Middle East developments in the light of
the situation in Lebanon.
There was no way of confirming advance reports that
the Premier would raise with the Ambassador the question
of the Anglo-American decision to supply late model jet
fighters to Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan. Observers here
believe the Ben-Gurion Cabinet has not reached a final
decision whether to file a new formal request with
Washington for jet aircraft to balance its arms with
those of the Arab states.
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Ben-Gurion. Foresees Ominous Future for World
Jewry Unless It Has Intimate Link with Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — World Jewry, particularly American je wry, will not be able to survive without an intimate link with Israel,
Premier David Ben-Gurion warned at a ceremony where he was awarded the Hadassah's tenth annual Henrietta Szold Humanitarian Award.
Three thousand persons, including Israel President Itzhak Ben-Zvi and 400 members of the American women's Zionist organization,
watched while United States Ambassador Edward B. Lawson and Miss Loula Lasker, chairman of Hadassah's award committee, presented the
award to Ben-Gurion. The Premier will donate the $1,000 which accompanies t h e award to Sifrei Mofet, a publishing house which translates
world classics into Hebrew.
Ben-Gurion insisted that religion was no longer, and had not been for decades, a bond uniting and consolidating all Jews. Synagogue
and temple allegiance in the United States, he continued is chiefly formal. Only a small proportion of the people who attend synagogues are
familiar with the 613 Commandments of the Jewish faith, he said. Assimilation has developed to the ex t e n t that 90 percent of America's
younger Jewish generation does not know anything about Judaism, Ben-Gurion maintained.
"Never was such a great Jewish community in such danger of gentle extinction as American Jewry
today," he said. "If this great historic miracle had not taken place in our time and the State of Israel had
not risen, the great majority of the Jews of the United States would have been left without any bond to
Judaism."
The link between Israel and the Jews of America and other lands, the Premier said, is not confined to
immigration but includes an attachment to the sources of J'tdaism, a knowledge of the Hebrew language and
literature and an overall knowledge of the Bible in the original. "It also means," he said, "local support to
Israel in its political struggle and its work for development and absorption."
Ben-Gurion described the Zionist movement in America as confined to the older generation, and
charged that "it is a movement what does not know what to say to the younger generation." Reiterating
his oft expressed belief in the historic mission of Israel, he said that if the country can live in peace and
freedom, it will be "a light unto the nations."
In his address, Ambassador Lawson compared Ben - Gurion to Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln,
pointing out that, like them, the Israeli leader had "met destiny head on and unafraid. He dreamed the
patriot dream, which sees beyond the years. He has striven mightily for the Israel of this day and this hour.
He belongs to Israel, he belongs to America, he belongs to the world wherever men of good faith labor for
the common good of all."
See Commentary on Page 2, an Related Editorial on Page 4
David Ben-Gurion