By MILTON FRIEDMAN
WASHINGTON — Chairman
J. W. Fulbright of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee is
emerging as an enigma on
Jewish issues.
The important Arkansas Dem-
ocrat, a former Rhodes scholar,
is best known for his interna-
tional "Fulbright Scholarships"
that have broadened American
academic and cultural horizons.
On civil rights, his voice is mod-
erate, although his voting rec-
ord is nothing to upset Gov.
Orval Faubus.
Sen. Fulbright is said to have
sternly informed an Arab dele-
gation some time ago that they
must accept Israel's right to ex-
ist. He was later described as
adhering generally to the State
Department position on Israel.
This year his stand came into
sharper focus.
He very recently took the
Senate floor to oppose the
Morse resolution that would
condemn Saudi Arabian dis-
crimination against Jewish
Americans.
He thought "the Saudi
Arabians have ideas similar
to some which exist in our
country." Because of such
"similar tendencies" here "it
would be very self-righteous
for us to seek to impose"
anti-discriminatory sentiments
on Saudi Arabia, according
to chairman Fulbright.
In this way. the head of the
Foreign Relations Committee
fought the move by Sen. Wayne
Morse, a committee member.
Sen. Fulbright said he would
accept the Morse amendment
without a roll call. But this
would have meant that the
amendment would be subjected
to later review and possible dis-
card by a Senate-House confer-
ence committee under Fulbright
influence.
Commenting on Sen. Ful-
bright's "apparent lack of en-
thusiasm, Sen. Morse decided
the amendment would have a
better chance if there were a
recorded vote on the Senate
floor. The roll was called. The
Morse amendment to defend
Jewish rights lost by 47 to 43.
Sen. Fulbright voted against it.
Sen. Morse commented on
Sen. Fulbright's apologia for
Saudi Arabian bigotry. "I shall
state very quickly," he said,
"that the argument of the Sen-
ator from Arkansas adds up .. .
to an argument that the exist-
ence of other wrongs means
that we should permit wrongs
to be continued against our own
citizens .. . I believe we have
the duty of demonstrating to
the world that we are going to
do all we can to end such in-
tolerable discriminations any-
where against citizens in the
United States."
During hearings on For-
eign aid, Sen. Fulbright con-
tributed to a discussion of
whether Israel was actually
an "underdeveloped" coun-
try. Sen. Fulbright injected
that Israel "has more per
capita income than some of
our southern states."
Economic statistics proved
this statement misleading and
inaccurate. It was also recalled
that Sen. Fulbright has voted
against bills that would im-
prove the earning power .of
Southerners of the Negro race.
A State Department official
testified before the. Fulbright
Committee, making passing
mention of private contribu-
tions to Israel. Sen. Fulbright
wanted to know if the donations
were tax exempt. He asked also
if contributions to other nations
were equally exempt. It was
then pointed out to him that
this was really a matter of gifts
to charitable organizations rath-
er than to the Israel govern-
ment
Sen. Fulbright pursued a re-
lated line in his interrogation
of Ogden R. Reid, when the
qualifications of the new U. S.
Ambassador to Israel were un-
der examination.
He asked Reid: "Have you
ever received any honors or
recognition or gifts for serv-
ices to the Israel bond drives,
or the like? Have you con-
tributed to these drives, you
or your family?"
As Foreign Relations chair-
man, Fulbright fought the Reid
appointment on grounds that
he opposed "amateur •diplo-
mats." He favored State Depart-
ment career officers.
Through questioning of Reid,
Sen. Fulbright generated an is-
sue about the propriety of Is-
raeli diplomatic behavior. He
asked Reid: "Did you suggest
to the Israeli Ambassador that
he call upon me in behalf of
this nomination? Did you know
what he did? Have you dis-
cussed the appointment with
the Israeli Ambassador?"
A heading appeared in the
official committee transcript:
"Question of foreign interven-
tion in selection of a nominee?"
There followed Sen. Fulbright's
report that Ambassador Aba
Eban had called on him "but
without my soliciting his views,
he volunteered the opinion that
this (Reid) was a very accept-
able appointment . . ."
The Eban visit was described
by Sen. Fulbright after discus-
sion of whether_ it was appropri-
ate for foreign ambassadors "to
follow any course that might be
interpreted as an attempt . . .
to intervene in the selection by
the United States Ambassadors
to any foreign posts."
Reid was subsequently con-
firmed as Ambassador despite a
battle by Sen. Fulbright and
other opposition.
Colleagues of the Senator,
known to be friendly to Israel,
said that his attitude on the
Reid nomination should not be
taken to reflect hostility toward
Israel.
They described Sen. Ful-
bright as taking his relatively
new status as chairman "very
seriously" and said that he
was striving for "strict im-
partiality" on Middle Eastern
issues in line with State De-
partment suggestions.
The question whether this
pursuit of "impartiality" will be
at Israel's expense remains to
be answered.
State Department Backs
10,000 Immigration
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The
State Department indicated to
Congress its support for a bill
to allow admission of refugees
into the United States besides
the regular immigration quota,
on .special parole. However, it
recommended that the bill
should limit such admission to
10,000 a year.
Speaking for the State De-
partment, John W. Haynes,
head of the Consular Section,
told a House Immigration Sub-
committee that it is very im-
portant to enact some legisla-
tion at this session of Congress
to help relieve the plight of
refugees.
He was testifying on a bill
recommending the admission
of refugees under special pro-
cedures each year. Hearings on
the bill are continuing.
Young Israel Delegation
Sets Holy Land Seminar
NEW YORK, (JTA) — A
group of 45 members of Young
Israel left for a three-week
seminar in Israel sponsored by
the Jewish Agency. This is the
first time that a Young Israel
group has taken part in the
Agency's. Summer Institute pro-
gram as an independent unit.
Name Dr. Bruno Kreisky New Austrian Minister
VIENNA, (JTA)—Dr. Bruno
Kreisky, a Jewish veteran of
Austrian political life, was
named Minis t e r of Foreign
Affairs in the new coalition
Cabinet of Chancellor Julius
Raab.
Dr. Kreisky, who is 48, was a
State Secretary under Dr. Leo-
pold Figl, the previous Foreign
Minister.
Son of a wealthy textile manu-
facturer and banker, who be-
came a socialist during his stu-
dent days at the University of
Vienna, he was arrested for
political activities in 1935 and
on his release in 1937, returned
to the university to complete
his doctorate in law.
also arrested him when the
Hitler regime annexed Austria.
Later released and expelled
from the country, he took ref-
uge in Sweden where he re-
mained until 1945, part of the
time as an advisor to the Swed-
ish Government. He is credited
with having secured the Swed-
ish Government's agreement to
When the Socialist Party was
outlawed, he became a leader
in the socialist underground.
As such, he was a marked man
for the Nazis.
He served a 16-month prison
sentence in pre-war Austria for
socialist activities. The Germans
give refuge to Austrian con-
scripts deserting from Hitler's
Reichswehr.
The new Austrian Foreign
Minister is described as a close
student of international affairs
and a gifted linguist. He is
married to a Swedish woman he
met during his exile. They have
two children.
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No Russian Jew Seeks
Immigration to Israel,
Khrushchev Tells Imam
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Premier
Nikita Khrushchev has inform-
ed Imam Ahmed, the King of
Yemen, that no Jews from
the Soviet Union want to go
to Israel.
As to the emigration of Jews
from o t h e r East European
countries, the Soviet dictator
declared that emigration was
"the exclusive business of
these independent countries."
He denounced reports of a
mass Jewish emigration from
the USSR, and called them "ru-
mors spread abroad by im-
perialist circles" and "entirely
unfounded."
Khrushchev's "assurances" to
the Imam resulted from a mes-
sage which the king addressed
to the Soviet Premier regard-
ing the possibility of Jewish
emigration from Russia.
The letter from Khrushchev,
as reported by the New York
Herald Tribune from a dis-
patch in the Cairo newspaper
Al Ahram, further added that
Russian Jews in Israel were
seeking permission to return
to the Soviet Union.
"We will have to devote
much more energy and means
to the problems of internal
Jewish life and above all to
see that a New Jewish genera-
tion is being educated which
will not be ignorant of Jewish
history and of Jewish prob-
lems and will be intelligently
prepared to take over and de-
velop further the heritage
which they receive from our
generation." — Dr. Nahum Gold-
mann.
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7 - THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, July 24, 1959
`Friendly' Sen. Fulbright
Now Puzzles Jewish Circles