THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, August 1, 1958-3
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"Ne-**eks Arias_
rms from Demiieracies;
Expects Representation at UN Summit
Cabinet Outlines Its Stand on
Security Council Conference
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Bonn to discuss Middle Eastern
issues with the West German
Government.
It is understood that Ambassa-
dor Tsur stressed Israel's desire
for neutrality and its anxiety
for peace. At the same time, it
was learned that he asked the
French Foreign Minister to see
to it that Israel's interests
should be protected if and when
a summit conference takes
place.
Shimon Peres, director gen-
eral of Israel's Ministry of De-
fense, arrived here from Jeru-
salem Wednesday and later pro-
ceeded to London and Wash-
ington. France Soir, leading eve-
ning paper, reports that Peres'
mission is to obtain arms for
Israel in the Western Countries
in view of the possible arms
embargo on the Middle East. If
such an embargo is imposed,
the paper says, Israel would
remain at disadvantage with the
Arab states who have received
modern arms from the Soviet
Union as well as from the
United States.
Israel Gains
Ground in ME
Summit Talks
Summary of Latest Events
from Reports by Jewish
News Correspondents
Israel this week appeared to
be gaining ground in important
quarters in support of the move-
ment to have her representa-
tives accredited for participa-
tion in a summit conference
at which the Middle East situa-
tion is to be reviewed and plans
made for eventual peace in that
area.
With France's Pr e m i e r
Charles de Gaulle as the lead-
ing advocate of Israel's role in
such a conference, other sup-
porters included United States
Senators and spokesmen for
many delegations in the United
Nations.
Support for Israel's participa-
tion in a summit conference
was given at Bonn, Germany,
by the West German Govern-
ment, with Felix von Eckardt,
head of the Bonn press office,
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's
close adviser, stating that if
Arab countries are to be repre-
sented in the conference pro-
posed by the USSR's Premier
Nikita S. Khrushchev, the West-
ern powers should insist that
Israel, too, should be present.
Herr von Eckhardt, advo-
cating Israel's important role
in the Middle East, said that
Israel's achievements, by prov-
ing what she could accomplish
through skillful use of .economic
aid from the West, should serve
as an example to nations that
have suffered from poverty for
centuries. He pointed to the
assistance given Israel by the
West German Government
through restitution agreements
that call for payments to Israel
of $714,000,000 over a period of
12 years. Herr von Eckhardt's
views coincide with those of the
French Government, whose For-
eign Minister Maurice Couve de
Murville, left for Bonn to confer
with Chancellor Adenauer on
the proposed summit confer-
ence.
In Washington, Senators Hu-
bert Humphrey, Wayne Morse,
John Cooper Sherman and
Bourke B. Hickenlooper strong-
ly supported the proposal for
Israel's participation in the
summit meetings. Only Senator
Ralph E. Flanders of Vermont
emerged antagonistic to Israel.
There were strong expres-
sions of views in behalf of
Israel's participation in the con-
ference in the House of Repre-
sentatives.
The report from London that
the United States now is favor-
ing a limited arms embargo on
the Middle East caused a U.S.
Senate source in Washington
to caution that such an embargo
might prove disastrous for Is-
rael. The JTA correspondent in
the nation's capital reports that
the Senate source said that if an
East-West accord is reached on
suspension of munitions ship-
ments to Israel and the Arab
states, Israel might be scrupu-
lously denied Western arms
while the Soviet bloc made
clandestine shipments to the
United Arab Republic.
Sen. Carl T. Curtis (R., Neb.)
proposed a Washington summit
conference of Arab leaders
without inviting Soviet Premier
Khrushchev so as to eliminate
the latter from putting himself
in a role of peace maker or rep-
resentative of the Arab nations.
While President Eisenhower
pointed out to Krushchev that
the United States would adhere
to the United Nations Charter
"which lays down conditions
under which nations not mem-
bers of the (Security) Council
may participate in the discus-
sions of the Council," James
Hagerty,' the 'White House
spokesman, said that Israel's
participation in a UN summit
conference was "entirely up to
the Security Council," the
United States being only one of
11 nations belonging to the
Council.
From Paris it is reported,
however, that de Gaulle will in-
sist on Israel's participation,
his letter to Khrushchev having
indicated that since other "in-
terested parties" were being in-
volved in the planned meeting
"it would in my opinion be in-
dispensable also to invite other
states of the Middle East, at
least Turkey, Persia, Israel who
are also directly concerned."
Another pro-Israel indication
came in a report to the French
Parliament's Foreign Affairs
Commission by Maurice Schu-
mann, head of the group, re-
porting on a briefing he re-
ceived from the French Foreign
Ministry. Schumann, outlining
French policy on the Middle
East, said that the Security
Council must consult "all inter-
ested countries — the Arab
countries and Israel" — in the
current crisis.
JTA reports from London
that the British government is
said to be considering a pro-
posal to the Soviet Union that
she join in an agreement to
guarantee Israel against Arab
incursion and thus remove a
major Middle East sorespot. The
British press underlined that no
Middle East policy has any
meaning for Britain unless it
includes Israel.
But the British government
nevertheless remains evasive
on its attitude towards Israel's
participation in summit meet-
ings, Commander A. H. P.
Noble, government spokesman,
having said in a Commons dis-
cussion of the issue that "it is
up to the Security Council to
decide."
It is reported that at the
Baghdad Pact meeting in Lon-
don the U.S. Secretary of State
John Foster Dulles held that a
summit parley should feature
a general discussion of the Mid-
dle East problems — which
would include the Arab-Israel
question — but that Britain's
Prime Minister Harold Macmil-
lan wants a limited agenda.
Dulles told the Baghdad Pact
nations that the United States
would be ready to discuss with
Russia at the summit confer-
ence any proposal for an arms
embargo for the Arab states,
and perhaps Israel, but not for
Turkey, Iran and Pakistan, the
surviving Middle Eastern mem-
bers of the Bagdad Pact.
(The New York Herald Tri-
bune reported from London that
American sources indicated
prior to the opening of the
Baghdad Pact Council meeting
that "under no circumstances
would the United States gamble
with Israel's future in a new
understanding between the So-
viet Union on the one hand and
the United States, Britain and
France on the other. Suitable
guarantees for the frontiers of
Israel must be given.")
American circles in London
believe that a proposal for a
United Nations guarantee of the
Arab-Israel border could pos-
sibly be expanded into a general
United Nations guarantee of
borders in the Middel East.
Premier David Ben-Gurion
sent a personal letter to French
Premier Charles de Gaulle out-
lining Israel's position on vari-
ous problems that may arise in
connection with the summit con-
ference. Ben-Gurion reportedly
requested Gen. de Gaulle's sup-
port of Israelis position on these
subj ects.
The letter, it is presumed,
sums up the views which Is-
rael's Foreign Minister Golda
Meir would have presented to
Gen. de Gaulle personally had
she not fallen ill. It is under-
stood that Premier Ben Gurion's
letter is not a substitute for
Mrs. Meir's visit to Paris. Mrs.
Meir is recuperating satisfac-
torily and it is hoped that she
will be able to fly to Paris next
week ... However, it is felt that
the French Premier should have
Israel's views as early as pos-
sible, since the Big Powers are
engaged now in determining
their attitudes toward the sum-
mit conference.
A regular Israel Cabinet meet-
ing that was set for Sunday was
postponed for a day due to
Tisha b'Ab.
Shimon Peress, director gen-
eral of the Israel Defense Min-
istry, who 'visited Paris, Rome
and other Western capitals last
week, returned here, but went
back to Paris.
In addition to its efforts to
obtain arms from the United
States and France, Israel is at-
tempting to purchase weapons
from Britain, informed sources
disclosed. This renewed effort
at arms accumulation is a direct
reflection of Israel's concern
that sooner or later she will be
entirely encircled by Nasser's
empire.
Israel is seeking submarine-
killing equipment to guard
against the augmented under-
seas fleet obtained by Cairo
from the USSR.
The British are pictured as
pressing Israel for an early re-
newal of permission to resume
the cross-Israel airlift to Jordan,
apparently on the expectation
of a long stay in the Arab coun-
try and a need for the shortest
possible supply route.
Israel's Cabinet Outlines
Stand in Present Crisis
JERUSALEM. — (JTA) —
The Israel Cabinet, at its meet-
ing on Monday, outlined its
stand on the proposed UN
summit conference and its posi-
tion is reportedly based on the
following:
- 1. As a Middle East country
Israel should be invited to
any meeting discussing the
area's future.
2. Decisions taken in Is-
rael's absence will not be
binding on Israel.
3. Israel is not interested
that the Israel-Arab conflict
should be specifically discuss-
ed at the summit conference.
The Great Powers could con-
tribute to a solution of this
specific problem by inducing
the Arab to start talks on a
permanent Israel-Arab settle-
ment.
4. In 'view of the patent in-
ability of the United Nations
to insure full compliance with
Ambassador Eban Flies
such decisions, Israel does not
to Paris for Consultations
under the present circum-
stances favor an arms em-
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Israel
bargo on the Middle East.
Ambassador Abba Eban left the
Escapees from Egypt Welcomed
g:RM.
Sol Kraiem, left greeting his brothers and sisters, who fled
from Egypt to Greece, as they arrived in New York with the
assistance of United Hias Service. Center, top, Raphael, 17,
and Isaac, 23. Below, Mary, 20, and Victor, 12. The entire
family left Egypt, owing to the hostile attitude of the regime
toward Jews, the four shown above making their way to
Greece, and the father, mother, and an older brother getting
to Italy, where they are still waiting for the chance to get
to the U.S. Officials of United Hias state that there is good
hope that they will be permitted to enter our country in the
near future. Brother Sol is a permanent resident in the
U.S., and is married to an American wife.
United States for Paris. At Idle-
wild Airport, he stated that he
would attend a meeting in Paris
dealing with "the whole Middle
Eastern situation" and expects
to return here within a few days.
(Reuter's news agency re-
ported that Israel Premier
Ben-Gurion sent top-ranking
Israeli diplomats "to main-
tain close touch with Western
leaders during preparations
for the summit conference."
The report said that the Is-
raeli diplomats were sche-
duled to meet in Paris "to
keep tabs on summit talks
which may include Israel."
It added that "their talks will
also involve consultations
with the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization.")
The request that the United
States should proclaim support
of Israel so that its Arab neigh-
bors would realize the perman-
ence of the Jewish State was
voiced by Senator Hubert H.
Humphrey, chairman of the Sen-
ate Foreign Relations Near Eas-
tern Subcommittee, in a tele-
vision appearance.
Sen. Humphrey suggested that
a large oil pipeline be construct-
ed across Israel from Elath to
the Mediterranean so that the
West will not be entirely de-
pendent on oil transit through
United Arab Republic controll-
ed territory.
Five-Point Agenda Set
For Summit Parley
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.,
(JTA) — Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold offered his
top echelon staff to prepare for
the Security Council summit
conference an agenda compris-
ing five points — of which four
would affect Israel directly and
immediately. These points are:
1. Peaceful evolution of the
Middle East; 2. Guarantee of the
independence of all the coun-
tries in the area against inter-
vention from without; 3. Limi-
tation of arms deliveries; 4.
Economic cooperation, economic
help and development to be of-
fered all the countries in the
Middle East; 5. Withdrawal of
all foreign troops from the
Middle East.
Hammarskjold is forming a
special advisory committee on
the overall problems of the
Middle East, ranging far beyond
the immediate crisis involving
Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq.
The new committee is to in-
clude representatives from the
seven nations now composing
the United Nations Emergency
Force Advisory Committee, sup-
plemented by representatives
from some of the countries that
are prominent in the UN Obser-
vation Group in Lebanon as
well as some that have con-
tributed sizeable forces to UN-
EF.
The UNEF Advisory Commit-
tee is composed of representa-
tives of Brazil, Canada, Colom-
bia, Ceylon, Norway, Pakistan
and India. In addition to these
countries, at least Sweden and
Yugoslavia are expected to be
represented on the overall Mid-
dle East unit.
(The New York Times re-
ports from Tel Aviv that a new
Israeli political movement call-
ed Semitic Action has proclaim-
ed solidarity with the new Iraqi
regime. The movement is head-
ed by Nathan Yalin-i'vlor, who
was a leader in the Stern Gang
which engaged in acts against
the British before the estab-
lishment of Israel. Appealing in
behalf of Semitic Action for
Jewish -Arab cooperation on the
basis of ethnic backgrounds.
Yalin-Mor contends that it is
impossible to stem Arab nation-
alist liberation and Israelis
might as well try to live with
it).