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VOLUME XXXI I I—No. 17

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American Express Co. Issue
Resolved; Agree to Improve
Representation in Israel

JERUSALEM (JTA)—The American Express Company, which
had been charged by Israeli officials with closing its offices in
Israel under the pressure of the Arab anti-Israel boycott ; agreed to
provide a full range of services in Israel to local and foreign
customers.
A joint announcement by the Israel Government Tourist Cor-
poration and the American Express Company reported that both
parties had agreed to a joint promotion campaign of Israel's tourist
attractions, following a series of disussions in Jerusalem. In order
to . improve services ; the company, which had previously cut down
on staff, undertook to "improve" its representations in Israel. The
joint promotion campaign will stress the traditional values of
Israel as well as newly developed sun-and-sea attractions.
In New York, after reading the joint statement of the Amer-
ican Express Company and the Israel Government Tourist Cor-
poration issued in Jerusalem, the presidents of the 17 major
American Jewish organgizations who several months ago mentioned .
American Express in their pamphlet "A Report on the Arab Boy-
cott Against Americans," made the following comment:
"We are confident that the new :joint plans of the Israel
Government Tourist Corporation and the American Express Com-
pany will be as beneficial to American Express as it will to the
development of Israel tourism. The action of American Express
exemplifies the best traditions of the American business com-
munity. It strengthens the unhampered floW of international trade
and commerce free of any extraneous considerations."

Senate Postpones Action on
Slaughter Bill for 2 Years

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Special provision for religious
representation on an advisory committee to guide a department
of agriculture study of humane slaughter methods was made
in a bill approved by the Senate Agriculture Committee.
The bill, passed by a vote of 10 to 5, called for a two-year
study of humane slaughter methods and subsequent introduction
of compulsory legislation to be recommended by the Secretary
of Agriculture as a result of the study. Congress would then
consider the proposal. The vote came after intensive consideration
by the committee of the humane slaughter issue, including
testimony against proposed legislation by Orthodox Jewish groups.
The Senate committee failed to accept the bill passed by
the House which would have required mandatory enforcement
of humane slaughter methods after December 31, 1959. •

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UN Blames Jordan in von Horn Rt.

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA)—Lt. Col. George A. Flint,
chairman of the Jordan-Israel Mixed Armistice Commission, who
was killed during fighting between Israelis and Jordanians atop
Mt. Scopus on May 26, was "probably shot by a bullet fired
from Jordanian controlled territory," according to a formal
report from Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to the United
Nations Security Council.
The report, sent to Hammarskjold by Maj. Gen. Carl C.
von Horn, UN truce chief in Palestine, implies, however, that
the Israelis may have been responsible for starting the shooting
which resulted not only in the death . of Col. Flint but also in
the death of four Israelis and the wounding of two other Israelis.
According to Gen. von Horn's report, the bullet that killed
Col. 'Flint was fired by a sniper on the Jordanian side who con-
tinued shooting long after the Jordanians had accepted the
United Nations request for a cease-fire. Gen. von Horn reported
that the . first complaint about firing was received from the
Jordanian side, which accused the Israelis of opening fire on the
afternoon of May 26. However, the report makes it clear that
there was contradictory testimony from the Israelis and Jordanians
"as to who fired first."
In the section - dealing with the procedures surrounding the
investigation of Col. Flint's death, Gen von Horn accuses the
Israelis of insufficient cooperation with the investigating team.
The report does not mention that the Jordanians had refused
to gufirantee the safety of Israelis who might be called to give
on-the-spot testimony. One of the sources of the difficulty in-
volving the Mt. Scopus disagreement between Israel and Jordan
is the fact that each side uses -a different map, and each side
insists that its map is the accurate one.
In a brief summary of his report Gen. von Horn declares
"peaceful co-existence between the Arab villagers and police on
Mt. Scopus is possible as long as contacts and conflicts are
avoided." However, the Chief of UNTSO declared, "patrolling by
the Israeli police in areas inhabited - or cultivated by the Arabs
has resulted in contacts and conflicts. Such patrolling is not
ordered by the 'UN commander.' "

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JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Israel Foreign Ministry loosed a blast
May 26 Israel-Jordan conflict on Mt. Scopus in which United Nations obsefiier Lt. Col. George
A. Flint and four Israeli policemen lost their lives. Observers here believe that the report,
submitted by UN truce chief Carl C. von Horn to Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold
and passed on to the Security Council by him will further complicate attempts to ease ten-
sion around the Mt. Scopus issue.
The von Horn report was scored for failing to mention unequivocally Jordan's
responsibility for the five deaths, though Jo rdan officially admitted having started the
fighting. The report said Col. Flint, chairman of the Israel Jordan Mixed Armistice Com-
m Jordan-held territory. The report was criti-
mission, was "probably" shot by a bullet from
cized for:
1. Failing to state that Issawia village, whence the firing on Israel police came on
May 26, was originally in the Israel sector of the height and should only have held 150
unarmed inhabitants. • ,
2. Stating that the Mt. Scopus .boundary dispute was. due to each side using a
different map, but failing to note that the map to which Israel adheres was signed by
Jordan, Israel and the UN, while the Jordanian version never was signed by Israel.
3. Incorrectly stating that Israel expanded its patrolling activities on Mt. Scopus.
4. Failing to note that Arabs from Issawia had been using without authority a road
through Israel-held territory—a fact which the UN recognized eight years ago.

Israel Bars Issawia Road to Jordan

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JERUSALEM—An Israel agreement to reopen the road from Issawia village on Mount
Scopus for use of the Arab villagers ran into a hitch Tuesday necessitating the postpone-
ment by Andrew Cordier, United Nations Secretary General Hammarskjold's executive
assistant, of plans to return to New York.
Israel had agreed to reopen the road which is entirely in Israel territory from sun-
rise to sunset daily, but asked that -a special Israel representative be permitted to inves-
tigate the truth about an Arab claim about the road.
The el!aiT, 1-:.-transmitted through the UN was that the road was practically the only
usable one for Arab villagers. . The road, which Israel closed to all but UN investigators
after the May 26 Jordan attack which killed UN official CTeolge Flint and four Israel
police, remained closed pending Jordan's reaction to the Israel request to ilispe the. read.
Initial agreement to ope--.- the road followed in the wake of Hammarskjold's
with Israel Premier David Ben-Gurion and Foreign Ministry officials. The agreement
was conditioned on the premise that villagers not create further incidents on the height.
Although the meeting of the Israelis wt.1-1 Hammarskjold resulted in no substantial
progress, the Israeli press reported that Israel indicated it would return to the Israel-
Jordan Mixed Armistice Commission if Jordan showed willingness to implement Article
VIII of the armistice pact, which guarantees Israel the right to resume normal operations
on Mt. Scopus.
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Blast Red Policy Toward Russian. Jews
at Communist Conference in iiiiTarsaw

VIENNA (JTA)—The Soviet policy toward Russian Jewry and their cultur' came
in for severe criticism at a top secret meeting of Jewish Communists from many lands
assembled in Warsaw last April to mark the 15th aniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Up-
rising, according to a reliable report received here.
The meeting; called April 20 by the Polish Jewish Communist leadership, involved
Jews from the Communist parties of at least Poland, USSR, United States, Israel, Argen-
tina, Romania, Hungary, France, Britain and Austria. Some 30 persons were present,
including Gen. M. Dragunsky and Eugene Dolmatovsky, both Jews and two of the three
members of the Soviet delegation to the anniversary observance.
The topic under discussion was "general Jewish questions and the problem of
Soviet Jews." The problem of Soviet Jewry became the paramount issue after Dr. I.
Nagler, a member of the central committee of the Austrian Communist Party, expressed
his party's - criticism of the handling of Russian Jews. He was supported by American
and British Communists, who took Soviet Communist chief Nikita Khrushchev to task
for his attitude toward the Jewish question.
The Russian representatives attempted to mitigate some of the criticism. Gen. Drag-
unsky, a conscientious Jew who spoke with great heat and a keen awareness and real
interest in the Jewish situation, asserted that the errors, inasmuch as they had already
been committed, were a heritage of the past.
Dolmatovsky, an author and poet, concentrated on the question of the Yiddish
language, arguing that there was no need to attach undue importance to the question of
the lack of Yiddish publications. "Language," he said, "is of no importance and all that
counts is the content of the writing, which must be devoted to the cause of peace and
disarmament."
Dolmatovsky further insisted that the entire idea of nationality was of minor
importance and that Soviet Jews were not "interested in what was a minor detail in
their passports." When they had concluded their speeches, the Russian delegates left the
meeting.
The Israeli Communist Party representative avoided discussion of the entire matter
and was taken to task for his attitude by the Polish Communists who accused their
Israeli fellow party colleagues of "isolationism among their own people."
Among the Poles, two exponents of the Stalinist group within the party, Zacharias
and Mersky, held out against critical comments in Communist publications regarding
Soviet treatment of the Jews, asserting that such comment would serve the aims of the
"imperialists." They were also critical of their own government's allowing Jews to
emigrate to Israel.
' The Argentinian representatives refused to be drawn into the debate, holding the
Polish Communists to be "revisionists." Likewise, the delegates from Romania, Hungary,
Yugoslavia and several other countries refused to speak. This was generally attributed
to fear. A complete report of the meeting was sent. to the Soviet Communist Party
and to most of the Communist parties of Western Europe.

