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Strictly Confidential

By PHINEAS J. BIRON
Khrushehev and the Jews
a few days, the
Within

Khrushchev visit will belong to
the past, although the repercus-
sion will linger with us for a
long time . . . As these lines are
being written, Khrushchev has
not changed his decision about
meeting -a Jewish delegation
• . . Even if Khrushchev had
really wanted to receive a rep-
resentative Jewish leadership
and discuss with them the Jew-
ish situation in the USSR, he
would have been in a quandary
• • • For the trouble lies with
us and not with Khrushchev, to
a large measure . . . The Soviet
embassy in Washington re-

ceived requests from 17 Jewish
organizations . , . Each of these
groups claimed to speak in the
name of American Jewry .
The more modest ones just said
that they represented the most
influential segment of Amer-
ican Jews • . . We are told that
Khrushchev's advisers tore their
hair • • . They did not know
what to tell to the big chief ...
They were afraid that if K con-
sented to see one group, the
other would be insulted and the
whole thing would boomerang
. That's one aspect of this sad
business ... It needs no elabora-
tion . . • English-Jewish pub-
lishers are only too familiar
with this sort of undisciplined

B G Comment on Khrushchev Plan

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JERUSALEM, (JTA) — Is-
rael "will not lag behind any
other country in the world,"
if Soviet Prime Minister Nikita
S. Khrushchev's general dis-
armament plan is "accepted
and implemented faithfully,"
Prime Minister David Ben-
Gurion declared here.
Ben-Gurion made that state-
ment in answer • to press in-
quiries, adding: "Mr. Khrush-
chev's proposal is actually the
plan proposed many years ago
by the Prophet Isaiah. How-

ever, if efficient control is as-
sured, the Khrushchev plan
should be accepted. All nations
must participate in controlling
disarmament."
(In his address to the General.
Assembly of the United Nations
last Friday, Khrushchev com-
pletely omitted reference to Is-
rael. It is believed that Mr. K.
was discouraged from meeting
with Israel's Foreign Minister
Golda Meir to avoid Arab "re-
prisals." Khrushchev surprised
some delegates by his use of the
term "spiritual values.")

behavior . . . How often does it
happen in the advertising field?
. . . One publisher gets an ad-
vertisement from a firm that
heretofore did not place busi-
ness in the English-Jewish field
. . . As soon as his copy ap-
pears, he is submerged with
literally hundreds of requests
which spell out why he made a
mistake in dealing with this
particular publication when he
should have done business with
"us" . . . The poor advertiser
gets so bewildered and finally
says "a plague on all your
houses" and decides to com-
pletely withdraw from the En-
glish-Jewish field . .
Let us, for example, imagine
that Khrushchev had faced a
Jewish delegation in an off-the-
record meeting; where would
we be today? K would have
been asked what about Jewish
religion, and why is Jewish
culture being exterminated and,
most of all, how about letting
Jews go to Israel and other
countries willing to take them
in? • . . It would be naive to
expect that K would have
given conclusive answers to
these vital questions . . . He
would have talked around them
as he did when a JTA reporter
queried him on the status of
Soviet Jewry . . . Khrushchev,
who is an old hand in evading
direct questions, answered sub-
s-tantially what he would have
said to a Jewish delegation .. .
He said that the question of a
man's religion was not asked in
the Soviet Union-that it was a
matter of conscience of the in-
dividual . . . About discrimina-
tion of Jews in the higher levels
of government posts etc., K
replied that one fact which
would demonstrate the position
of Jews in the Soviet Union
was that among persons who
took a prominent part in opera-
tion moon were several Jews
. . . K added that Jews hold_ a
position of honor . . .
We doubt whether the lead-
ers of American Jewry would
have gotten answers much dif-
ferent from those K gave to the
JTA reporter at the National
Press Club in Washington . . .
Besides we fully agree with the
JTA interpretation that K's
statement at the Club was polit-
ically very important because
of Wm. Lawrence's comment
at the Club meeting, that Amer-
icans are concerned about the
Jews in the Soviet Union . . . It
is undoubtedly true that the
public inclusion of Jews in the
Soviet's great scientific achieve-
ment of the moon shot will echo
throughout Russia and is bound
to have an effect on those who
try to activate anti-Semitism in
the Soviet Union . . . Many
months ago, we pointed out that
a conspiracy of silence had been
drawn over the role which Jew-
ish scientists played in Russia's
surge to world leadership in
science . . We intimated that
Khrushchev and his flunkies
were keeping Jewish participa-
tion under wraps and that the
Soviet's public reports had ig-
nored the fact that so great a
percentage of Jewish scientists
were involved in Russia's space
achievements . . . K's statement
at the Press Club was and will
be helpful to the Jews in the
USSR . . . We believe that we
can leave Soviet-Jewish diplo-
matic negotiations in the future
to Nahum Goldmann who seems
to be biding his time and wait-
ing for the opportune moment
to tackle the problem. .

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