Recapitulate Tumult Over • Israel's Atom
Reactor; 'INTo Secret' Deflates Sensation
(Copyright, 1960, Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, Inc.)
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NEW YORK, (JTA) — A
world-wide tumult over a new
Israeli atomic reactor was
touched off this week by irri-
tated Government officials in
Washington, secrecy-prone Gov-
ernment officials in Jerusalem,
and sensation-hunting newspa-
pers in several countries. .
The short-lived but high-
powered incident brought big
headlines that Israel had be-
come the latest member of the
"atomic club," expressions of
annoyance and charges of de-
ception from United States De-
partment of State Sources, and
varying expressions of amuse-
ment and indignation from
Israel.
The incident apparently
was closed when the State
Department issued a state-
ment, exactly one week after
the first rumors were pub-
lished by a British daily not
noted for its reliability. The
State Department defined the
United States position toward
Israeli clarification of the re-
ports of Israel's nuclear capa-
city.
The statement said the United
States Government welcomed
Israeli assurances that the sec-
ond reactor was destined to
serve only peaceful purposes
and it noted that Prime Minis-
ter David Ben-Gurion had ex-
pressed a willingness to wel-
come visits from students and
scientists to the reactor when
it is completed three of four
years from now.
The target of all the excite-
ment was an atomic reactor
plant, which has been under
construction near Beershe
The first plant, built at
Rubin with United St
aid
under the American
ms-f o
peace program, ha
capaci
of about 1,000 kil
tts.
Its capacity t
oduce pluto-
nium, the ke ingredient in
nuclear explo
is trivial.
,
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State Dept. Defends Off al Visit
by Pro-Nazi Editor from ebanon
WASHINGTON — An official
invitation extended to a well-
known anti-Jewish and pro-Nazi
Lebanese editor to visit this coun-
try, has been explained by the
State Department as part of a
program to foster "mutual under-
standing," it was reported here
Tuesday. The Lebanese is Said
Freiha, owner and editor of the
Beirut daily Al-Anwar, which
recently published a cartoon
suggesting that Adolf Eich-
mann's real crime was his fail-
ure to exterminate al Jews. The
United States Government in-
vitation extended to him was
questioned by the Jewish War
Veterans, among other groups.
In a letter to the JWV from
the State Department, G. Lewis
Jones, Assistant Secretary of
•
Ben-Gurion, Goldmann
Address World Parley
of Jewish Journalists
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Prime
Minister David Ben-Gurion and
Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president
of the World Zionist Organiza-
tion, Tuesday addressed the
opening session, of a pre-Con-
ference of Jewish Journalists
attended by 60 delegates from
the Jewish press in all lan-
guages published in 22 coun-
tries, including Israel. The par-
ley decided to hold a world
conference of Jewish journal-
ists in Jerusalem in 1962.
The Prime Minister said that
up to 30 years ago, Yiddish had
been a major unifying factor
but that now three-quarters of
all Jews no longer use it. Lack
of a common langua e he said,
is an obstacle of
world Jewr
d that a
union o
ewish journal'
could
ngthen the ties b
tween
worl
G
ann said no of
pie ad been influenc:
as much as
rnalists. He
erzl, Nahum
ordon, Viadi'
y
nd others..
rd-
in, preside
dish
riters Un
ork,
plored the la
given
the press
to Jew-
ountries.
URN THE
r.,
11
UPSIDE DOWN YOU WON'T
FIND A FINER WINE THAN
Milan Wineries, Detroit, Mich.
State for Mid
astern ,.
explained that,
the Exchange Program directed
at increasing mutual understand-
ing, and on the assumption that
much of the anti-American crit-
icism in the Lebanese press stems
from ignorance, a group of Leb-
anese journalists was invited
observe the recent presid
elections.
The candidates for
mvita-
tion, Jones d e c l a
d, were
chosen by the Unit
tates Em-
basy in Beirut i
ooperation
with the Lebanes ress Associa-
tion. Among t e nominated
was Said Frei
"one of the
most widely
and influen-
tial journalists n the Middle
East," Jones st d. He added
that Freiha's a
es, written
since he r etur ' to Leb-
anon after a month's
country, "while by no means
wholly uncritical, have reflected a
better understanding of the Amer-
ican policies on the international
scene."
The Assistant Secretary of
State concluded his letter by say-
ing that "I deplore, of course, the
type of pernicious journalistic
comment contained in the excerpt
from Al-Anwar."
The group of Lebanese journal-
ists also included Wafik Tibi, edi-
tor of the daily Al-Yom, who
used his United States Govern-
ment-sponsored visit here to
spread anti-Israel propaganda.
Tibi has been director of the Leb-
anese paramilitary group "Na-
dajaz," a Fascist Moslem organi-
zation. His newspaper has been
openly anti-Western.
West Germany Outlaws
High Lawyers' Fees
to Restitution Claimants
KARLSRUHE, West Germany
JTA) — Contingent fees, called
`success charges" by German
awyers who have been billing
indemnification or restitution
claimants on the basis of how
much money they succeeded in
getting for their clients, were out-
lawed here in a decision by the
Supreme Court, West Germany's
highest tribunal. •
The decision may have a far-
reaching effect on the net sums
to be received by claimants, all
of whom are victims of Nazism,
the vast majority of them Jews.
In ruling on an appeal against
such a "success fee" charged by a
German attorney, the court de-
clared that "the charging of ex-
horbitant fees is contrary to the
spirit of the Restitution Law.
The court stated that, while
"contingent" or "success" fees
may be customary in other coun-
tries, they are illegal in the Fed-
eral Republic of Germany.
The second reactor, being
constructed with French help,
will have a capacity of 24,-
000 kilowatts and could, theo-
retically, produce enough plu-
tonium in three or four years
to build an atomic bomb—by
1968 or 1970.
While excitement mounted
for a few days and State De-
partment sources indicated
mounting annoyance at Israeli
reluctance to explain every-
thing, Israeli officials pondered
the matter.
Then Ben-Gurion made a
statement in •
nesset, Is-
rael's Par
t Israel
wa
second
g
d that
uld be
ed solely to
aceful
oses.
imultaneously, Is 1 Am-
assador Avraham H
an met
with Secretary of S
Herter
to convey the me
mation.
From Be
me re-
its of
about
is that Is-
r 1 ha
d the United
tes
ment. The al-
1 ed
was built around
r o
at Israel informants
d United States offi-
s that the atomic reactor
project was a textile plant.
It turned out there was a tex-
tile plant being built near
It was evident tha
tempt had be
ten m
has been
onstr
1, to cloak
project
any security
measures.
Visito
ere free
at
the hu framew
g near
BeershOm and b
s listed
it a o
to
ions.
T
sti
Ar.
als
th
wit
arkabl calm.
or
Sa
chief aid
resi-
de
of the
d Arab
Re s blic, comm
that if
Isr. 1 had o
ld have an
atom bo
ould not use it
becau
"might inflict cas-
on Israelis too."
Algiers'Jews Bur
- Desecrated
orahs
ALGIERS, (JTA)
ewish ritua the prayer
for the dead will
recited.
ish communit
It was expecte .hat the Al- •
pleted pl
giers Ch
Rab
possibly in
scroll
wi
Christian and
th
ioting two we
cleri
issue a call
ancient synag
or intercommunal
sbah quarter.
The plans, pr
d by
wish Consistory
Algiers
a silent processio
e
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