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(Copyright, 1962,
Jr%lsh Telegraphic Agency,
Inc.)
By BORIS SMOLAR
Syria Threatens Israel on Jordan Diversion Issue
LONDON, (JTA)—Syria has
warned the major powers that
if Israel proceeded with plans
for diversion of Jordan River
waters, this would be a threat
to peace and security, it was
reported here from Beirut.
Syrian Premier Maar o u f
Dawalibi received the envoys of
Br i tai n, the United States,
Romania and Russia, the only
Security Council member states
represented diplomatically in
Damascus to hand them a
memorandum which asserted
that Israel was continuing con-
struction work to pump Jordan
River waters from the Sea of
Galilee into channels leading
to the Negev.
7 Foreign Affairs
Jewish organizations in the United States are perturbed over
t wo developments showing negative trends in West Germany....
I inle is the new attitude of the West German Government toward
krael which is considered "unfriendly." . . . The second is a
rcport that 38 former members of the Nazi Party are now serving
a' ‘Vest German ambassadors in various countries, and 20 other
etticials of the Hitler regime are holding other diplomatic
7 positions abroad. . . . Although the latter information was made
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public in details—with the names of the diplomats—by the East
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(;erman Government, the West German Government has failed
0 far to deny it. . . .This, together with marked laxity in the
teelition of the denazification program generally, is taken as Dayan Proposes
7-3 an indication that some new powers are operating behind the
scenes in the Bonn regime. . . . As to Bonn's new stand toward 5-Point Farm
t! Israel, it is no secret that the West German Government now Program for Israel
'.pants no diplomatic relations with Israel, although Bonn sought
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
such relations a few years ago. . . . But what is worse is the
to The Jewish News)
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determination by West Germany to place obstacles in the path
JERUSALEM — Agriculture
E– i , 1 Israel's admission to or association with the European Com- Minister Moshe Dayan proposed
mini Market. . . . These obstacles, it is understood, are being Tuesday a five-point program to
laid by Bonn as a result of threats by the Arab States which restrain crop surpluses which
seek to intensify their boycott against Israel. . . . About 30 would not reduce the population
per cent of Israel's total exports in 1961 went to Common of agricultural settlements.
Market countries, and that Germany happens to be Israel's No. 1
He said he opposed any pre-
tistorner among these countries. . . . If and when Britain and vention of increase in such popu-
other countries of the European Free Trade Association join lations.
the Common Market, the volume of Israel's export trade with
He told a press conference that
the Common Market . lands would jump to about 60 per cent. he favored reducing the number
. . Some sort of trade arrangement between Israel and the of part-time farmers in urban
Common Market would thus seem to be of vital importance to areas, greater industrialization
. . . Germany's negative stand on Israel's application for in settlements, encouragement of
association with the Common Market is thus considered as outside employment, particularly
definitely hostile. . . . The feeling among Jewish organizations between seasons to prevent "con-
in the United States seems to be that now. when German repara- cealed unemployment" quicker
tions to Israel are nearing their end, the West German Govern- response by Israeli farmers to
ment unaccountably expects Israel and Jews in other lands to changing market conditions and
write off what happened to European Jewry under the Nazis.... increased• exports of citrus, and
In fact. some elements in Germany are now becoming bolder in subtropical fruits and vegetables
pushing the idea that the Jewish world has been compensated which are off season in Euro-
for the Nazi annihilation of 6,000.000 Jews. . . . Propaganda of pean markers.
this kind as well as Germany's blocking Israel's link to the
Common 'Market is provoking resentment among Jewish groups
Last year the distribution of
in this country.
Jewish pupils in Israel's ele-
Domestic Issues
mentary schools was 240,970 in
Wehster's Third New International Dictionary, which is state schools, 96,437 in state
living severely criticized for inclusion of derogatory definitions religious schools, and 24,300 in
of the word "Jew" is now attacked also by libraians and by other recognized schools.
the American Bar Association. . . . The Library Journal, which
I as isle circulation among Librarians, said that the editors
of the Dictionary failed to make the new edition a yardstick of
good usage that a dictionary should be. . . . The American Bar
Association Journal charges the editors of the new edition with
iitterl ■ abdicating any role as judge of what is good English
. . . The editors of this edition found it necessary, for
surne reason. to inject anti-Jewish slang and disparaging anti-
Jewish definitions which were omitted from the previous edition.
. . . Thus, a Jew is described in the new edition as "a person
bclie%ed to drive a hard bargain." The word "Jewish" includes
definition "to cheat by sharp business practice." . .. The word
kike" also appears in the new edition as a definition of a Jew.
. . In using these definitions, the editor of the new edition
hides himself behind the added qualification that they are
"usually taken to be offensive." . . . However, he fails to give
a good reason why these very same offensive definitions did not
appear in the previous edition and why it was suddenly necessary
to hotive them in the new edition. . . . The American Bar Associa-
tion Journal, in charging the dictionary with using "debased
verbal currency," points out that the profession of law is espe-
cially sensitive to the yardstick used by a dictionary. . . . It
emphasizes that -many arguments in court and out have been
settled by "resort to a good dictionary.",... The G. & G. Merriam
Company, publishers of the dictionary, claim that the criticism
leveled in the journals of the lawyers and librarians is not
affecting the sale of the volume. . . . A fourth edition of the
dictionary--to be published 25 years hence—is now in prepara-
tion with about 100 readers working on it to find new words
or new meanings.
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The memorandum, as pub- "thus causing a new threat to
lished later in a Foreign Minis- the Arab world."
try statement, recalled that
Syria also contended that
Syria had resisted similar ef- Israel could -not, under interna-
time, by Israel
ael againin. 1953 and tional laws, change riparian
At that states rights by unilateral ac-
time, Syrian gunners repeatedly tion and that the project would
fired on Israeli workers.
increase the salt content of the
The memorancrum said that Sea of Galilee "thus harming
the Israel-Syrian arm is tic e Arab lands." The memorandum
agreement provided that neither added that "the plan was no
party should achieve any gains less dangerous to the Arabs
by unilateral action. The mem- than the creation of Israel.
orandum argued that success- Premier Dawalibi told newsmen
ful diversion of the Jordan that Syria had other measures
River would enable Israel to in mind to "face the situation"
absorb a few million people but declined to elaborate.
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