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Ceylon Takes New Pro-Arab Step: Ends Boycott
Detroit Group Invests $253,000 in
Israel Corp.; Zuckerman on Board Agreement; Won't Send Ambassador to, Israel

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, June Z3, 1961

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- NEW DELHI, India, (JTA)
Investments in Israel made
—The Minister of Finance in
new headway here when a
Ceylon issued a directive to
group of prominent Detroiters,
the treasury that all govern-
meeting at the home of Mr.
ment requirements of cement
and Mrs. Paul Zuckerman,
should be obtained from the
27651 Fairway Hills Drive,
United Arab Republic and that
Birmingham, on June 15, sub-
all transfers for the supply of
scribed the sum of $253,000 for
cement should include a con-
shares in the Israel Investors
dition that only offers from
Corporation.
UAR sources will be con-
Announcement was made that
sidered.
night by Samuel Rothberg, of
The purpose of this directive
Peoria, Ill., president of the
is to promote trade between
corporation, • that Zuckerman
Ceylon and the UAR as en-•
had been named a member of
visaged in the trade agreement
the corporation's board of di-
recently entered into between
Zuckerman
rectors. Rothberg
The gathering was ad- `')
dressed, in addition to Roth-
berg, by Aryeh Eshel, Dep-
uty Permanent Representa-
tive of Israel to the United
Nations whose special field
WASHINGTON, (JTA) — The the Kremlin. The possibility of a
is the area dealing with State Department reiterated its closer accommodation with UAR
Latin American affairs.
stand against "coercive tactics" to President Gamal Abdel Nasser
Ambassador Eshel described secure Arab compliance with the arises out of current strained re-
the progress made in Israel in anti-discrimination clause of the lations between the UAR and the
the last decade and declared Mutual Security Act. Soviet Union. American officials
that Israel's security is linked - In a communication to Rep. are watching closely as the Cairo-
with the • economic advance- Seymour Halpern, N.Y. Republi- Moscow rift widens.")
ment. He expressed the hope can, the State Department criti-
that American. Jews will con-. cized the resolution adopted by Paris Conference
tinue to share in the many ef- the New York State legislature
forts for the establishment of calling for American .action Studies Situation
new industries and the im-. against Arab blacklisting of U.S. of Jews in Algeria
provement of established ones ships carrying cargo to Israel.
PARIS, (JTA) — Leaders of
in the Jewish State.
While recognizing that the the French Federation of the
Rothberg, who commended "general purport" of this resolu- World Jewish Congress met
Detroit_ Jewry for its leadership tion was "wholly consistent with here for a two-day series of
in United Jewish Appeal, Israel U.S. Government attitudes," the conferences to analyze and dis-
Bonds and other causes, • oUt: State Department pointed out that cuss the present situation and
lined the plans of the Israel In- "certain promises therein are not the future of Algerian Jews.
vestors Corporation and ex- wholly accurate." The communi-
The principal aim is to
plained how this project, in- cation to Halpern was signed by attempt to help Algerian Jewry
augurated two years ago, already Brooks Hays, Assistant Secretary in mapping its actions -in the
has registered prOfits, for the of State for Congressional rela- near future, as a result of the
investors and economic gains tions.
negotiations -between Fr an c e
for Israel.
Hays said it remained the view and leaders of the Algerian
Investments have been of the State Department that ef- Mo s l e m independence move-
made by Israel Investors Cor- forts to tie U.S. aid to require- ment in regard to the future of
poration in Bank Leumi, El ments that Arabs lift discrimina- Algeria.
Am on g the participants in
Al - Airlines, Fertilizers and tory policies would intensify re-
Chemicals, • Dead. Sea Works strictions and "play into the the conferences are Dr. Nahum
and other leading Israeli in- hands of. the Soviet bloc by Goldmann, president of the
dustries, Rothberg reported exacerbating Middle East ten- World Jewish Congress, and
Walter Eytan, Israeli Ambassa-
to the local investors. He sions." -
_ said he has made three trips . According to Hays, the State dor to France.
Jacques Lazarus, World Jew-
to Israel this year without Department is convinced "that
cost to the corporation, in avoidance of coercive tactics is ish. Congress representative in
order to stimulate the eco- more likely to produce an atmos- Algiers, is here to report to the
nomic venture, and he empha- phere conducive to a settlement federation about the current sit-
sized that the corporation he of the fundamental Arab-Israel uation in Algeria, while other
heads -operates at so low an tensions than would unilateral r e p o r t s will deal with the
expense that it reflects the economic pressure from the Franco-Algerian negotiations at
Evian. After the conference, - it
great devotion of its board United States."
and all connected with it to
(A report from Washington is believe,d,,Goldmann will meet
to the New York Herald-Tribune with- Louis Joxe, French Minis-
the cause advanced.
Zuckerman explained that said: "The United States is cau- ter for Algerian Affairs, who is
Israel Investors Corporation is tiously wooing. the United Arab this country's chief negotiator
an American company regis- Republic in surplus food negotia- at the Evian talks, to review the
tered with the S. E. C.; that it tions as that Middle East country future prospects of the Algerian
was created at the request of seems to be slipping its ties with Jewish community.
the Israel government which is
encouraging pr iv at e invest-
ments in Israel; that among the
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State Dept. Against 'Coercive' Line
to Force Arabs to Abandon Boycott

Moslems Kill Jew
in Morocco Attack

PARIS, (JTA)—The murder
by strangulation in Casablanca
of a 50-year-old Jewish taxicab_
driver, Maklouf Dhriqui, by two
Moslems, was reported here.
He was strangled by a leather
belt. The general view among
Jewish leaders in Casablanca
was that the murder was the
work of anti-Semites. The vic-
tim was a friend of the vice-
president of the Em Habonim
Fund, which helps needy Jewish
children. No trace has been
reported of the killers.
The m u r d e r followed the
earlier killing of a young Jew
in a Moslem cinema. He re
ceived two knife wounds and in
that case too, there were no
arrests. Last week a Jewish
tradesman in Casablanca was
stabbed by a M o s 1 e,m from
whom he sought payment of a
debt.

the two countries. The treasury
has raised a query whether
such a condition would not be
an infringement of other inter-
national commitments.
Circles interested in both
Ceylon and Israel -affairs are
puzzled and disappointed by
the continued misunderstand-
ing in Ceylon-Israel relations
caused by the unilateral steps
taken last year by the Govern-
ment of Ceylon. While main-
taining diplomatic r e l a ti on s
with Israel and professing in-
terest in continued friendly
ties, the government last year
canceled the accreditation of its
minister to Israel.
While the reason for the step
—unprecedented between coun-
tries not divided by any con
flict—have never been fully
and frankly explained, it seems
to have been motivated mainly by
Ceylon's desire to avoid anta-
gonizing the Arab states and
jeopardizing its considerable
tea exports to those states.
It had been hinted, however,
that the accreditation of the
Ceylon diplomat had been ef-
fected in an irregular manner
by a previous government and

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that his recall was designed
only to ,remedy that administra-
tive flaw and was not to be
construed as a concession to
Arab boycott threats.
It had therefore been hoped
that a new Ceylon envoy would
soon be accredited to Israel in
a regular fashion. As many
months have passed since the
recall and such a remedial step
has not been taken by Ceylon,
the feeling is gaining ground
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