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Nehru's Amended Position, U. S.
Senators' Defense of UJA Gives
Israel New Strength in Crisis

Israel's role in the new Middle East crisis and the issues involved in the settlement of the aggravated situation
in that entire area, with the peace of the world at stake in the airing of the problems at the United Nations, has
assumed many new aspects this week. The virtual about-face in the previous anti-Israel position by India's Prime

Arab States Now Told
byNehru to Recognize
Israel's Continuation

NEW DELHI (JTA)—Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru of
India made clear his belief that the Arab states would have to
recognize the existence of the State of Israel and come to terms
with it. At the same time, however, Nehru declined to withdraw
from India's equivocal position of itself recognizing the existence
of Israel by refusing to have diplomatic relations with it.
In a press conference here, the Indian leader warned that
could become a "world affair" and voiced
an Arab-Israel
the hope of a peaceful settlement between
the Arabs and Israel. He said, however,
that such settlement "obviously involves
the continuation of Israel and its accept-
ante by the Arab countries."
The Indian premier took cognizance of
the "cold war" being conducted in India
by foreign missions and expressed his
strong disapproval. He did not single out
any particular country as an offender
but made his comments after an Indian
journalist had referred to faked docu
ments recently circulated by the embassy
of the United Arab Republic. The embassy
recently expanded a sharp anti-Israel
Nehru
campaign throughout the country.
Other evidence of a changing appreciation here of the Middle
East situation was seen in an editorial in the Times of India
which declared that "if there is an irresistible case for recognizing
and supporting Arab nationalism there is an equally impressive
case for insisting on a more realistic Arab acceptance of the fact
of Israel."
"To insist that Israel is a threat to Arab nationalism is ridic-
ulous," continued the paper. "Israel's desire for peaceful negotia-
tions has yet to be answered by a similar desire on the part of
the Arabs. References to 'liquidating' Israel have more than any-
thing else created the impression of an intolerant, aggressive and
uncompromising nationalism that might not unreasonably cause
apprehension beyond the limited and uneasy boundaries of Israel.
If Arab nationalism wishes to be recognized as a responsible and
constructive force, it must prove its willingness to live in peace
With Israel."

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Minister Nehru, who now urges the Arab States to recognize Israel's existence,
is one of the major developments of the week.
Airing of the issue in the United States Senate has been accompanied by
attacks on the United Jewish Appeal by Vermont's aging Senator Ralph Flanders,
resulting from instigations by anti-Israeli elements in this country to 'investigate"
the UJA's tax-free status, but the replies to Senator Flanders on the floor of the
Senate seem to indicate that he stands alone in his anti - Israel and anti - UJA
position.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported from London on Tuesday that
the talks there between Israel's Foreign Minister Golda Meir and Britain's Foreign
Secretary Selwyn Lloyd were rated by informed circles in the British capital
as a definite milestone in the turbulent history of Anglo-Israel relations and at
least a partial success for Israel's diplomacy. The meeting between the two leaders
actually began last week when Eliahu Elath, Israel's Ambassador to Britain,
presented Israel's position in the Middle East crisis to British Prime Minister
Harold Macmillan. It was reported that Mrs. Meir had already received an answer
from the British government to problems presented by Elath.
It was understood, JTA reports, that in addition to a greater understanding
of Israel's needs Britain seemed prepared to cooperate in obtaining a certain
amount of security of Israel's integrity. Hopes were expressed that as a response
to the Y Meir-Lloyd talks, the first at so high a level since Israel was established,
Britain would contribute in more concrete forms to Israel's security and might
support Israel's demands for a collective guarantee for the Middle East.
Mrs. Meir left for Israel via Switzerland for a few days of rest.
The reported change for the better in Israel-British relations was regarded
as partly a result of the severe blow suffered by Britain during the past two
months in the Arab world. Despite lingering anti-Israel attitudes in the British
Foreign Office, it was reported that the British cabinet was prepared to consider
a completely new phase in relations with Israel.
Upon her arrival in London, Mrs. Meir warned that her country would
have "seriously to weigh the new situation and the measures to be taken for
the security of its frontiers and its integrity" in the event that the United Arab
Republic takes over Jordan. She declared that the situation required a collective
guarantee to all the countries of the Middle East by "the greatest number of
countries interested in the peace and stability of the area."
It is understood that Mrs. Meir made a strong plea for arms for Israel,
particularly anti-submarine equipment capable of dealing with the submarines
Col. Nasser recently received from the Soviet Union.
In calling for international guarantees of the boundaries of Middle Eastern
countries, Mrs. Meir said the situation called for guarantees to be given all
independent countries and stressed that this should certainly include Israel. In
this, Mrs. Meir was referring to proposals by United Nations Secretary General
Dag Hammarskjold for guarantees by Arab States of each other's territorial
integrity without reference to Israel.
She said in response to questions on the utility of the 1950 Tripartite
Declaration that the changed situation in Jordan and Lebanon and the annexa-

Nehru's statement is considered of great significance in the
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present world crisis in the solution of which the Arab-Israel
controversy is almost certain to be injected. The New York Times,
in an editorial, "Nehru on Israel," commented as follows:
"Prime Minister Nehru has done a public service in stating
bluntly that the Arab states will have to accept the fact of a
permanent Israeli nation if there is to be real peace in the Middle
East. A settlement, he said, 'obviously involves the continuation
NEW YORK (JTA)—Five major Jewish cultural organizations called upon the Soviet
of Israel and its acceptance by the Arab countries and other government to adopt and put into effect a three-point program for the restoration to the
countries around it.' This is good sense about Israel, and coming Jews of Soviet Russia of their rights which were abrogated by Stalin. They submitted their
from Prime Minister Nehru the words ought to bear weight. appeal to Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko, who is now in New York.
"It is hardly to be expected that this judgment will be well The statement was issued as Jews throughout the free world prepared to observe the
received in Cairo, where we have too often heard the bellicose sixth anniversary of the execution, on Aug. 12, 1952, of 24 leading Soviet Jewish intellee-
utterance of a determination to drive the Israelis into the Medi- tuals, following a secret "trial" on trumped-up charges. The trial, the Jewish groups charged,
terranean. Mr. Nehru has not endeared himself to Arab hotheads "climaxed a campaign of cultural genocide against Soviet Jewry initiated in 1948," which was
by his words -of wisdom. preceded by a "ban on Hebrew instruction and literature in the early 1920's." The groups
"What he says has unusual importance, however, because proposed that the Soviet government take immediate steps:
the Bandung Conference, in which Mr. Nehru was a prime mover,
1. To lift the discriminatory prohibition and ban on Jewish cultural life, Jewish litera-
pointedly excluded Israel from its invitations. The present 'Asian- ture and press, and permit the Soviet Jews the freedom to live creatively and re-establish
African' bloc, similarly, has never suggested that Israel participate Jewish cultural and community life; Yiddish and Hebrew publications and schools.
in discussions of regional interests. What Mr. Nehru has done is
2. To permit the Soviet Jews to have contact with their relatives and brethren through-
to get the record straight with the clear indication that Israel
out the world.
cannot be ignored out of existence.
3. To grant the right to emigrate to those Soviet Jews who desire it, in line with the
"It is unlikely, also, that the timing of this declaration was
principles of the UN Charter.
accidental. The current crisis over the Middle East was uppermost
"For the lives that have been destroyed there can be no reparation," the statement said,
in the Prime Minister's mind. He is suggesting one avenue of "but at least their reputations can be rehabilitated and an end made to the campaign of cul-
approach that cannot be left out of the debates in New York. tural genocide." The statement was signed by: Congress For Jewish Culture, H. Leivick,
Some of Mr. Nehru's associates in that Asian-African group will chairman; Hebrew P.E.N. Club, Isaac Rivkind, vice president; Histadruth Ivrit of America,
do well to take his words 'to heart when they join the Assembly Morris B. Newman, for the praesidium; Yiddish P.E.N. Club, Dr. Shlomo Bickel, chairman,
discussion."
and Yiddish Writers Union, Chuna Gottesfeld, president.

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