THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, Sept. 4, 19 59 — 32 eb USSR Makes Issue of New Pipeline Sett. Fulbright's Pro-Nasser Line Creates Stir in Senatorial Ranks (Continued from Page 1) told the Arabs that the pro- jected pipeline was not impor- tant to Israel but was merely a vital part of an aggressive Israeli design. Israel, which now has an oil pipeline from its Gulf of Akaba port of Eilat to the Haifa re- fineries on the Mediterranean coast, is building a 16-inch pipe- line which would be able to carry enough crude oil to per- mit the Haifa refineries to work at full capacity and meet the country's domestic fuel require- ments. The pipeline was com- menced originally to circum- vent the Arab anti-Israel boycott which seeks to cut off all oil supplies from Is- rael. Formerly, Israel had to buy crude oil at a consider- able cost from Venezuela be- cause supplies from nearby sources to the East could not be transited through the Suez Canal. The pipeline permitted Israel to buy crude oil in a more favorable market, carry it by tanker to Eilat and transport it from there to Haifa through the pipeline. The Moscow Radio stressed that the Israeli pipeline was "the first in the Arab East out- side the supervision of the Arab countries." It said that the Arabs had been able to halt British and French support of Israel against Egypt during the Sinai campaign by severing oil supplies to Western Europe. Today, Moscow said, Israel is "trying to snatch this strong defensive weapon from the hands of the Arabs" and was, in effect, creating an alternate oil route for the West to frus- trate the Arab defense. The Moscow propagandists tied their attack on the Israeli pipeline to charges that Israel was preparing the groundwork for "coming aggressions against the Arabs." They asserted that "the voices demanding a repeti- tion of the aggression against the Arabs have recently become louder in Israel," and added that "Moshe Dayan, former Chief of Staff, is one of those voices." The broadcast warned the Arabs that while the United States Government is again "flirting with Arab nationalism and attempting to be a friend of the Arabs," it was, at the same time, encouraging Israeli "aggressive circles" to. frighten the Arabs into following poli- cies desired by the West. The Moscow radio, broad- casting an article from the offi- cial Soviet government organ "Izvestia," bit t e r l y attacked Israel and claimed that the Israeli Government "is doing its best to drag the country into military hell." The "Izvestia" article, as sum- marized by the Moscow radio, is especially bitter against Is- rael's Pr e m i e r David Ben- Gurion. It charges him with "stubbornly pursuing" a pro- NATO policy and "consistently risking the possibility of a war with the Arab states." • JTA reports from the United Nations that Israel took directly to the Security Council its grievances over re- cent United Arab Republic violations of the principle of freedom of passage through the Suez Canol, and has pro- tested against mail seizures. In two separate actions, Aug. 21 and 23, Egyptian authori- ties seized shipments from Australia to Israel, carried through the Suez on Nor- wegian vessels, consisting of meteorological equipment and parcel post mail. Yosef Tekoah, Israel's acting permanent UN representative here, sent a long letter to Armand Berard, of France, this month's president of the Coun- cil, accusing the UAR' of "con- tinued acts of piracy" which, according to the Israeli, place Egypt "in open challenge to the world community" and consti- tute a "constant threat to peace" in the Middle East. The open complaint to the Council was made by the Israel representative a f t e r many months of discussions of the Israel complaints on the level of "quiet diplomacy." • Tekoah's letter to M. Berard, which asked that the grievance be circulated to all members of the United Nations, included the Inge Toft case. Senate' Debates Aid to Nasser; Egypt Assailed for Anti-Israel Blockade on Shipping WASHINGTON, ( J T A ) — Chairman J. W. Fulbright of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee praised the Nasser regime's operation of the Suez Canal but drew opposition from other Senators who attacked Egyptian discrimination against Israeli shipping. Sen. Fulbright, A r k a n s a s Democrat, lauded the Nasser government for its operation of the Canal. He said it was now TURKEY .011/111. CYPRUS MOSUL a: ITATAKIA LEBANON • :bran 0 SYRIA KIRKUK • / 0 DAMASCUS IRAN O Baghdad 'Mediterranean Sea IRAQ Basra Haifa Cairo SUEZ JORDAN_ TEL AVIV JERUSALEM Ashdod Dead Sea Beersheba , KUWAIT - Persian ISRAEL EGYPT 1° Red Sea Eilat JORDAN SAUDI ARABIA BAHR E IN Guff of Aqaba This is the route of the first oil pipeline in the Middle East not subject to Arab rule. It occasioned the renewed Moscow attacks on Israel. The pipe runs from the Gulf of Aqaba, on the Red Sea, to Haifa, Israel's Medeiterranean port. Construction will begin soon on Israel's new 16-inch pipe. Baron Edmond de Rothschild of France is one of the promoters of the new Israel pipeline., being run "efficiently." Sen. Hugh Scott, Pennsylvania Re- publican, interjected that the Canal might be operating "effi- cently, but so was Hitler's government." Senator Fulbright thought that a loan should be made available through the World Bank to "encourage" President Nasser of the United Arab Re- public because of his resump- tion of relations with Jordan and other steps. He thought such large loans might help re- concile the Arabs to the con- tinued existance of the State of Israel. While he deplored the inter- ruption of legitimate traffic in the Suez Canal, Sen. Fulbright thought "affirmative steps," in- cluding loans, should be taken to support the UAR in the in- terest of U.S. foreign policy. He hoped it would facilitate a solu- tion ultimately of Arab-Israel differences. Senator Scot t told the Senate he differed with Sena- tor Fulbright because the Suez Canal was not now be- ing operated "legally." He said Nasser acted in the Inge Toft case in violation of an international convention, United Nations principles and the cause of Near Eastern peace. He questioned the wis- dom of a World Bank loan to the United Arab Republic. Addressing Senator Fulbright, Senator Scott said that, as long as Nasser refuses Israeli com- mercial transit in the Canal, he would not spend his time prais- ing Nasser for bringing peace to the Near East. When. Sen. Scott mentioned that 25 members of the Senate wrote the State Department on June 24 about the anti- Israel blockade of Suez, Sen. Fulbright raised a question of politics. Sen. Scott, in a heated exchange, said it was not an issue of "politics" or "partisanship" but one of Israel's fundamental rights. Senator K e n n e t h Keating, New York Republican, associ- ated himself with Sen. .Scott. He attacked Nasser's "uncon- scionable" actions against Israel through the Suez blockade. Senator Keating told the Senate no loan should be made by the World Bank to Nasser unless he opens the Canal to all nations, no matter how "ef- ficiently" he might operate the Canal otherwise. If any loan is to be granted, said Sen. Keat- ing, the Canal must be a thoroughly international water- way. State Department sources welcomed the speech by Sena- tor Fulbright, which was seen as a counterweight to pro- Israel efforts to block a pend- ing World Bank loan to the UAR to improve the Canal. World Bank sources previous- ly revealed the- Bank had been given no official indication of The U.S. Government view of the UAR's anti-Israel tactics in the Suez Canal. The Bank is moving ahead with the pro- posed loan, with a final decision anticipated within four weeks. The UAR Finance Minister is expected in Washington then, to participate in a meeting of the Bank's board of governors. The Bank acknowledged, with no comment, a letter from 13 Congressmen—including Martha Griffith of Michigan—who op- posed the loan. The Congress- men held that the loan might "appear to condone" the UAR's anti-Israel blockade. State Department sour c es said that Bank authorities are aware that the expression of the Congressmen does not neces- sarily reflect the Department's own view. The Department has also made this clear in Cairo, where the UAR had voiced a protest against the Congres- sional expression. Three Republican Senators asked Secretary of State Christian Herter to obtain firm guarantees of free tran- sit for Israel shipping in the Suez Canal, before the United States approves a World Bank loan to the United Arab Re- public for Canal improve- ment. The Senators were Jacob K. Javits, of New York, Keating, and Scott all Republicans They reminded Secretary Her- ter of a letter from Assistant Secretary of State Macomber, on July 3, in which Macomber said the U.S. executive direc- tor of the World Bank was aware of developments involv- ing Israel in the Suez Canal issue. In light of this, the Senators noted that the Bank is moving forward with consideration of a loan to the UAR. Representative Seymour Hal- pern, New York Republican, al- so addressed a letter to Secre- tary Herter asking him to consider the views of 13 mem- bers of the .House Banking and Currency Committee on the is- sue of a World Bank loan to the United Arab Republic to improve the Suez Canal. The Congressmen voiced opposition to the loan because of the UAR's anti-Israel blockade of the Canal. Milton Friedman, chief of the JTA Washington Bureau, reports that World Bank in- formants were inclined to dis- count the significance of a let- ter from 13 members of the House Banking and Currency Committee—including Congress- woman Martha Griffiths of De- troit—asking the Bank to re- frain from making the loan to the UAR until the UAR recog- nized Israel's rights to freedom to passage. They said the letter should have been addressed to Robert B. Anderson, U.S. Sec- retary of the Treasury, rather than to Eugene R. Black, Presi- dent of the World Bank. Secre- tary Anderson, it was pointed out, is in charge of American relations with the Bank, and the Bank looked to the Adminis- tration, rather than to Congress, for advice. The State Department is gen- erally _believed to be in favor of the loan to Nasser because of improvements in American relations with the Nasser regime. In their letter to Black, the 13 Congressmen stressed that the Suez Canal should be open to all nations. "Instead," they pointed out, "it is being used as a weapon in relations be- tween the UAR and the State of Israel." The barring of the Inge Toft from transit be- cause the ship carried Israeli cargo was cited as "the most recent of a long series of il- legal actions which violate the Constantinople Cony en ti o n and the Unit e d Nations Security Council decision. As long as the Suez Canal "is being used for belligerent ac- tion" by the UAR, said the sig- natories, "we -are deeply dis- turbed that an international agency is considering a loan to improve and enlarge it." The Congressional communi- cation pointed out that "Nas- ser's violent declaration threat- ening to exterminate Israel im- plies that he will bar Israel shipping whenever he wants to. His own statement on July 22 shows that he is disturbed by Israel's growing trade with Asia and Africa and that he in- tends to block it." A belief was expressed that the international committee should not provide the UAR with finances for Canal im- provement "lest it appear to condone a clear violation of international decision, an in- tolerable aggression by one nation against a neighbor." The members of Congress insisted that no "money be used to finance an international artery until it is recognized as such without limitation or restric- tion." The International Bank for Reconstruction and Develop- ment, known as the World Bank, was urged to abstain from mak- ing a projected $40,000,000 loan to the United Arab Republic for the improvement of the Suez Canal as long as this Arab country is using the Canal as a political weapon "to strangle the economy of Israel," by Rep. Emanuel Celler, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. He said the issue "is whether the right of passage (through international commitments of the Suez Canal) can be arbit- rarily- violated, and whether such violation shall be en- couraged by the granting of the pending loan." Rep. Celler cited the seizure by the UAR of mail and scientific equipment from ships bound for Israel. He said this act could not be tolerated by adherents of international law. (The New York Times quoted a spokesman for the Bank as asserting that "neither the management of the Bank nor the board of directors has made any decision on the loan. We may make the loan or we may not:") Israel Won't Tolerate Nasser's Blockad.., Golda Meir Warns; Blames UN TEL AVIV, (JTA—There can be no peace if the United Na- tions permits "flagrant attacks" by one member of the 'UN against another, and "Israel has no intention to tolerate" such a situation, Mrs. Golda Meir, Israel's Foreign Minister, de- clared while discussing Israel's grievance against United Arab Republic interference with ship- ping through the Suez Canal. Mrs. Meir made the statement in an address at a Mapai Party election rally here tonight. Prime Minister David Ben- Gurion was scheduled to ad- dress the rally also, delivering the first election address since his return from a Fr en c h Riviera vacation. Recalling UAR interference with shipping to and from Israel through the Suez Canal, Mrs. Meir said: "One cannot ask Israel to tolorate such attacks and, at the same time, tell her she cannot exercise the right of self-defense because such an exercise of right would mean war." "In the face of Egypt's non- stop aggression since we estab- lished our State," continued the Foreign Minister, " and especi- ally in regard to the closing of the Suez Canal to Israeli ship- ping of cargoes, Israel has exer- cised patience; even more pa- tience than anybody could have expected." Jordan Fights Nasser and Jeruslem's ExMufti for Arab Supremacy LONDON,(JTA) — The deci- sion announced several days ago by King Hussein of Jordan to convoke an Arab states "sum- mit meeting" in the Jordanian- held Old City of Jerusalem is a phase in the fight for Arab supremacy between young Hus- sein, United Arab Republic, President Gamel Abdel Nasser and Haj Amin el?Hussein, ex- Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, ac- cording to the press here. King Hussein is anxious to show both Nasser and the Grand Mufti that he is "master of his own house" and that the West Bank of the Jordan, now under his jurisdiction, will re- main part of Jordan, the Times of London declared in a dis- patch from Beirut.