France, Sweden, Australia Swing Support
to Israel in UN Suez Canal Controvers
UNITED NATIONS, (JTA)- could prevail against this right."
Dr. Victor Andres Belaunde, of
A contrary view of the Suez
Direct JTA Teletype Wire
To The Jewish News
Peru, President of the United issue was taken in a formal ad-
Nations General Assembly. af- dress by Dr. Raul Porras Bar-
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.-
firmed his conviction that the renechea, Foreign Minister of Three more Foreign Ministers
General Assembly, in its cur- Peru, who called Egypt's claims —French, Sweden and Austra-
rent session, could "find a solu- of the existence of a state of lian voiced firm support Wed-
tion to all questions in the Mid- war a "pretext." Outlining his nesday for Israel's grievance
dle East."
government's general foreign against the United Arab Re-
He told the Jewish Tele- policy, Dr. Porras said:
pUblic's Suez Canal blockade.
graphic Agency that "to find the
"Among the other problems
All three made their posi-
peaceful solution to all the ques- which claim the attention of the tions clear in addresses before
tions in the Middle East is my international community today the plenary session Of the
most ardent desire. I want to is the problem relative to the General Assembly.
help. I want to bring about an situation in the Suez Canal and
Maurice Couve de Mourville,
environment in which the long- the means adopted by the Foreign Minister of France,
ing for a peaceful solution to Egyptian government, under the came to the subject in the
all problems will be possible. pretext of a state of war, to first few minutes of his speech,
Peace is my aim. My method? obstruct, contrary to the gen- telling the Assembly that
My method is comprehension, eral principles of international while France was gratified with
understanding, courtesy, respect, law and the Constantinople Con- the relatively stable situation
love—for every member state, vention of 1888, free passage in the Middle East, currently
for every delegation."
of ships which trade with Israel the Paris government was con-
The 75-year-old Latin Amer- and, in addition. the passage of cerned about the Suez Canal
ican statesman called on all goods and mail directed to that situation.
members of the General Assem- nation.
"Certainly all the problems
bly to help him achieve his aim.
"As a country devoted to law, in the Middle East are far
9 am asking all to discuss all and as a country which upholds from being solved," he said,
issues sincerely, honestly, kind- international rights and obliga- "as is evidenced by the re-
ly," he declared. "I ask all to tions in accordance with the newed difficulties • concerning
put into practice the words of classic tradition of international free transit through the Suez
Abraham Lincoln, to work with law, the government of Peru, Canal for Israel cargoes. The
me here 'with malice toward which has admiration for the Constantinople Convention of
none, with charity for all'."
government of Egypt and the 1888, reaffirmed by the United
Dr. Belaunde said he felt Egyptian people, and enjoys old Nations, remains for us the
he had the right to seek help historical bonds with Egyptian charter in this matter.
from all who had voted unani- culture, desires, as the repre-
"Real progress, however, has
mously to install him in the sentatives of the Big Powers
Assembly presidency. He fre- have already called for, re-
quently reasserted his belief establishment in this part of
that a Middle East settlement the world that old principle of
could be accomplished at this freedom of the sea, which is
session of the General As- one of the first and most im-
sembly.
portant principles of interna-
BERLIN, (JTA) With im-
"I don't claim to be always tional law."
pressive ceremonies in which
*
right," he admitted, "but on the
the participants included Ber-
possibility of peace—on that. I Mrs. Meir in Talks
lin's Mayor Willy Brandt, fed-
know I am right." He said that
eral officials, and leaders of the
if the members of the Assembly with Herter on Suez
Jewish community, a new, mu-
WASHINGTON.
(JTA)—Mrs.
"help me do the right and re-
nicipally-built Jewish Commu-
dress the wrong," a settlement Golda Meir, Israel Minister of nity Center was dedicated here
could be reached and "this Foreign Affairs, met here with Sunday. .
could be the Assembly of Secretary of State Christian A.
The Center is on the Fasasen-
Herter to discuss mainly the
Peace."
strasse, off the fashionable Kur-
United
Arab
Republic's
anti-
The Peruvian diplomat asked
replacing the old
speedy action on adoption of Israel blockade of the Suez fuerstandamm,
Great Synagogue of Berlin
two draft covenants on human Canal.
Continuing efforts in support which occupied the site until
rights. He noted, in reference
destroyed by the Nazis on
to the fact that the Assembly of Israel's application for a "Crystal
Night," Nov. 9, 1938.
has adopted only the preamble World Bank loan, Israel Fi-
Handing
the key to the Cen-
and 17 articles out of a total of nance Minister Levi Eshkol is
83 since 1954, that "the diffi- scheduled to meet this week ter to Heinz Galinski, head of
culty is that everybody wants with U.S. Treasury Secretary Berlin's Jewish community,
the best possible formulation of Anderson, official delegate of Mayor Brandt expressed the
the United States to the Bank. hope that the new structure
the articles in the covenants.
"We have a Spanish saying," Eshkol will also meet with Un- "will become a symbol of toler-
he added, "to the effect that 'the dersecretary of State Douglas ance." Ernest Lemmer, Minis-
best is the enemy of the good.' Dillon, in charge of economic ter for All-German Affairs in
I say: Let us have the good aspects of U.S. foreign policy the federal government's cabi-
net at Bonn, pledged the gov-
even if it is not the best. Let for the State Department.
(A three-man delegation of ernment's continued fight
us get those covenants adopted
here so that the members can the U.S. Congressional Alloca- "against any new return to
approve, sign and ratify. Moral tion Committee arrived in Is- barbarism."
Galinski recalled the glorious
standards, as enunciated in our rael for a brief visit while en
Declaration of Human nights route from Lebanon and Jordan past of old Berlin's Jewish com-
are fine, excellent. But the to India, where it will inspect munity which numbered 175,000
world waits for those expres- the efficiency of the absorption Jews. Only 7,500 Jews live here
now.
sions to become juridical facts. of American aid.
(The congressmen toured
Then human rights can be en-
"The building on these blood-
forced—for all."
Jerusalem, and inspected immi- drenched grounds," said Galin-
Immediately following Dr. grant housing schemes, the He- ski, "is a document of a new
Belaunde's earnest plea for brew University, and Mt. Herzl. spirit in Germany." He warned,
peace, the Foreign Minkter Last week, members of the however, that there are some
of his own country of Pe•u Congressional Sub-committee on Germans who "still preach anti-
upheld Israel's right to free- International Operations visited Semitism."
dom of navigation throp.11 Israel in connection with the
The West Berlin municipal
the Suez Canal. This right
aid which the Israel govern- government contributed 2,000,-
denied moments later by the ment receives from the United 000 marks (about $476,000) to
Foreign Minister of Lebanon. States.)
finance construction of the new
As the General Assembly con-
tinued to listen to addresses on
the torrid Suez issue, one of the
explosive items of this year's
session, Rachid Karame, Leba-
OF
nese Foreign Minister, announc-
ed his country's support for the
United Arab Republic's position
barring Israel ships and goods
from the Suez.
He maintained that the stand
on behalf of freedom of naviga-
tion, voiced here now by more
than a dozen leading delegates,
including Israel's Foreign Min-
ister Golda Meir, were only
"tendentious allegations."
TO THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES
Karame told the Assembly
of Detroit, Huntington Woods, Oak Park,
that the Arab refugees must be
given "the right to return to
Livonia, Pontiac, Flint, Saginaw, Southwestern
their homes" in Israel. "No
Michigan and Windsor, whom we are happy
argument to the contrary," he
to serve in the best interests of our people.
said, "such as the smallness of
the 'territory or its resources,
been facilitated by the discreet
and effective presence of the
United Nations Emergency
Force which, as requested by
the Secretary General should
be allowed to continue its ac-
tion."
Osten Unden, Foreign Min-
ister of Sweden, brought in
the Suez Canal issue in the
context of the refusal of some
members of the UN to accept
the jurisdiction of the Inter-
national Court of Justice at
the Hague.
The Stockholm statesman
then said that the question of
the court's jurisdiction "leads
to the question whether that
controversy of many years
standing between Israel and
Egypt, now the United Arab
Republic, concerning the free .
passage through the Suez Can-
al, could not be brought to a
solution by having recourse to
the international court.. I am,
however, not quite convinced
that an elucidation of the legal
aspects of this controversy
would touch the principal
points of the dispute.
"The government of the
United Arab Republic is bas-
ing its alleged right to estab-
lish a blockade against Israel
Synagogue Rebuilt as Jewish Center
Dedicated in Berlin Ceremonies
THE STAFF
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center. The portals of the old,
destroyed synagogue were saved
from the wreckage, and now
frame the entrance to the cen-
ter. Inside the cornerstone are
photographs of the old syna-
gogue, as well as earth from the
sail of Israel.
The center includes a 600-seat
auditorium, a library, class-
rooms and a refectory. The offi-
cial consecration of the center,
in traditional Hebrew ritual,
will take place during the High
Holy Days.
On Nov. 9, the 21st anniver-
sary of "Crystal Night," an ex-
hibit will be opened, illustrat-
ing through photographs, the
Nazi persecutions of Jews, dur-
ing which 177 Jewish syna-
gogues were destroyed.
ships and cargoes on the the-
sis that a state of war exists
between the two countries and
that the Suez convention as it
has been applied in practice
does not prevent the United
Arab Republic in a state of
war from taking blockade
measures for security reasons."
He warned that if the issue
did go to the international
court and that if the court
held the UAR thesis invalid,
i
"could it not be feared that
the United Arab Republic
would take sharper measures
with a view to justifying the
alleged 'state of war.' "
Unden declared that as far
as he could see "this problem
in its essence is hardly a ques-
tion of juridical subtleties in
connection with the concep-
tion of a 'state of war.' " In-
stead, he said, "the question
is whether it could be consid-
ered reasonable that two mem-
bers of the United Nations for
years find themselves in a war-
like relationship. If there is
war it should be the duty of
the states involved to make
peace. This is simple common
sense, . so much more so be-
cause the blockade cannot be
of any practical vahie for the
United Arab Republic, while
it does harm the shipping in-
terests of many other • coun-
tries.
"Sweden, too, is suffering
from the blockade. In evi-
dence of this I should like to
mention that the Swedish Sea-
man's Union has requested its
government to work for the
cessation of the blockade."
Richard G. Casey, Austra-
lian Minister for External Af-
fairs, approached the Suez is-
sue and also referred to the
Arab refugee prOblem. He
seemed to endorse the plan
of Secretary General Hammar-
skjold for integration of the
Arab refugees into the econo-
mies of the Arab lands. He
said that the "fundamental
problem in the Middle East
is to increase production at a
faster rate than the rise in
population in certain Arab
countries."
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27 - THE DE TROIT JEWISH NEWS — Frid ay, October 2, 1959
Assembly President Believes UN
Can Solve All Middle East Questions