Basic Principles of Universal Declaration of Human THE JEWISH NEWS A Weekly Review Rights Editorial Page, 4 VOLUME XXXIV Keep Religion Out of Schools UN's Major Attainments of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper—Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle — No. 15 toZ n t po rn 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.--VE 8-9364—Detroit 35, December 12, Commentary Page 2 1958 $5 Per Year; Single Copy 15c Truce Chief Blames Arabs for Huleh Attack Israel Calls for UN Action Against Syria in Preference to 'Exhaustive' Retaliation UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA) — Israel Ambassador Abba Eban Monday told the United Nations Security Council that the .Israel government considers the bombardment last week of Israel villages by Syrian artillery as "an act of war." He emphasized that a repetition of military attacks by Syrians would lead to "drastic and exhaustive" retaliation. Eban pleaded with the Security Council to help avoid such a . step. "The Government of Israel," he said, 'is ardently anxious to avoid this contingency, if it can." He spoke at the opening meeting of the urgent session of the Security Council convoked to deal with Israel's complaint against Syria's aggression in attacking Israeli villages in the Huleh area, pour- ing some 800 artillery shells into them. Revealing that during the attacks one UN observer was injured by Syrian fire—in addition to one Israeli being killed and three others wounded—Eban told the Security Council that the monetary damage . _to the bombarded villages is estimated at one million Israeli pounds. He pointed out that on all borders, except that dividing Israel from the Syrian region of the United Arab Republic, tranquillity has pre- vailed for about two years. "The prolonged maintenance of quiet during 1957 and 1958 had proved conclusively that if Arab governments decide as a matter of policy to let Israel live in peace, there will be peaceful. conditions On the Arab-Israel frontiers," Eban declared. "The government of the United Arab Republic has full capacity—if it also has the will—to prevent the recurrence of situations such as that which Israel now brings to the Security Council." Eban related factually the events that occurred last week.. To back up his report of extensive damage, he furnished to members of the Security Council photographs taken after the Syrian attack on the Israeli villages. He pointed out that the geography of the area favors the Syrians, whose gunposts on heights overlook the Israeli settlements in the valley. Then he continued: "While I have described the advantages which topography bestows upon Syrian forces, I do not mean to indicate that it was beyond Israel's capacity, in the exercise of her inherent right to self- defense, to silence Syrian artillery attack. But because of the special conditions of terrain which I have described, military measures of self- defense against attacking Syrian artillery would require a response more drastic and exhaustive than the easy assault which the Syrian forces organize from their points of geographical advantage. The government of Israel is ardently anxious to avoid this contingency if it can. "We have therefore buried our .dead, tended our wounded, begun the reconstruction of our shattered farms and homesteads and have turned to the Security Council for peaceful redress, and still more for vigorous deterrence." The Israeli diplomat mentioned the UN Charter's recognition of a state's need to defend its territory. This was interpreted by all at the Security Council table as an obvious reference to Article 51 of the United Nations. That clause permits a country to defend itself under certain circumstances. Mr. Eban was understood to be pleading with the Council to warn the UAR against further aggression and make it unnecessary for Israel to invoke Article 51. He quoted the Cairo Radio to show that the. UAR is not only boasting of last week's attack but (Continued on Page 3) Mistrial Declared in Atlanta Bombing' Case Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News ATLANTA, Ga.—Fulton County Superior Court Wednesday declared a mistrial in the case of George Bright, accused of bombing the Atlanta Jewish Temple last Oct. 12. The action was announced by Judge Dur- wood Pye after the jury had been "hopelessly deadlocked" and had deliberated for almost 24 hours, covering a four-day span. The jury fore- man reported the division of the jury by 9 to 3 as unchanged and each member of the jury individually told the court there was no pos- sibility of a change in decision. The accused, Bright, once boasted that Jews would be "shot down in the streets." This information came from an underground FBI agent who testified in the state's case against Bright. Leslie E. Rogers, the undercover agent, said he attended meetings early this year (Continued on Page 5) ill'elcome Ambassador Tsur at Hanukah Fete Declaration of Human Rights: Ten years — on Dec. 10, 1948 — the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The entire world now observes this date as Human Rights Day, and President Eisen- hower has proclaimed the week of Dec. 10-17 as Human Rights Week, in observance of the 1 Ot h anniversary of the Human Rights Declaration, which affirms that "recognition of the inherent dignity and the inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world. The UN also has adopted a Con- vention relating to the Status of Refugees, relating, like the young boy in the photo insert, to those who have escaped persecution or discrimination and have found new homes in other countries. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights reminds us of our own Bill of Rights, which the United States adopted 167 years ago on Dec. 15. Israel's Ambassador to France, Yaacov Tsur, will be welcomed by Detroit Jewry at the Hanukah celebration this Saturday evening, at the cabaret-style festival at the Masonic Temple. Sharing the pro gram with the Ambassador will be G e o r g e Jessel and members of the Detroit rabbinate, in addition to several entertainers. Detailed story ou Page 2