THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS — Friday, October 5, 1962
ri I Johnson's Refugee Plan Revealed in Washington
Partial Repatriation, Secret Plebiscite Proposed
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
WASHINGTON — Details of
what is purported to be the
special plan for the solution
of the Arab refugee problem
prepared by Dr. Joseph E.
Johnson. special envoy of the
United Nations Palestine Con-
ciliation Commission, were re-
ported in the press here Tues-
day.
The report was credited to
the Chicago Daily News foreign
service. It said that Dr. John-
son, who, prior to his plan
visited Israel and the Arab
countries, has submitted to Is-
rael and the Arab states the
following proposals:
1. Appointment of a new UN
administrator and staff charged
with the duty of carrying out
the 1948 UN Assembly resolu-
tion for repatriation to former
homes in Israel or resettlement
of the refugees in the Arab
countries.
2. Individual refugees and
heads of families would be
given confidential question-
naires. They would make a
"preliminary choice" retaining
the right to change their minds
later. Possible choices would in-
clude return to former property
in Israel, resettlement in Arab
countries, resettlement else-
where in the world.
3. The UN agents would con-
sult Israel on possibilities for
repatriation in Arab adn other
countries specified in the pre-
liminary questionnaires regard-
ing resettlement.
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4. Israel would be asked not
to set a maximum number of re-
turning Arabs it would admit.
However, Israel would retain
the right to reject individuals
as security risks subject to UN
over-all surveillance and review.
Refugees would be expected to
uphold the laws of Israel. An
impartial body to hear disputed
cases would be established.
5. A special UN fund consist-
ing of voluntary contributions
from 'governments and the
world public would be set up
to help the refugees become
integrated. Israel would be ex-
pected to make a substantial
contribution to the fund.
6. Israel, with help from the
UN and friends, would be re-
quired to pay indemnities to
Arabs who lost property in
Israel.
All refugees would be en-
titled to a UN fund indemnity
covering the hardships under-
gone by them, something like
a veterans bonus.
7. The Arab host govern-
ments, UAR, Syria, Jordan and
Lebanon, and Israel, would be
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Nasser Saber-Rattling Stirs
B-G Retaliati©n Threat
JERUSALEM, (JTA)—Prime
Minister David Ben - Gurion
warned the Arab world that if
war is forced on Israel by mis-
calculating Arab leaders, "every
one of us is ready to hit back
and we will do everything so
that the war will be waged on
the attackers' territory within
a few days."
Replying to threats from
President Nasser of Egypt of
the range of his new rockets,
the Prime Minister used a
phrase from a popular Ameri-
can song, "everything you can
do, I can do better," in saying
that what Nasser could do with
missiles, "we can do with more
skill, ability and knowledge."
He made his strong state-
ment in an address at Sed-
jera, one of the first Jewish
settlements in the lower Gal-
ilee where the Prime Minister
himself worked 55 years ago
as a young immigrant to the
pre-state Jewish community in
Palestine.
He asserted that Israel's army
was stronger than those of the
neighboring Arab countries but
that it was doubtful whether
"there is one Arab leader who
appreciates this and who is
therefore not planning to attack
Israel." For this reason, he said,
Israel "must maintain a strong
deterring army."
The Prime Minister came to
the settlement from a world
meeting of Jewish War Veter-
ans. In his address to the vet-
erans he stressed the need of
unity between all Jews when he
called the main factor in pre-
serving Jewish life and Jewish-
ness throughout the world.
At a special Cabinet meet-
ing, the Prime Minister re-
ported on his recent month-
long tour of Scandinavian
countries. The Cabinet ap-
proved the appointment of
Joseph Almogi as Minister for
Housing and Development to
succeed the late Dr. Giora
Josephthal. The new Housing
Minister, who had been Min-
, ister without Portfolio, is a
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At the Prime Minister's re-
quest. Abba Eban will continue
as Acting Foreign Minister
while Mrs. Golda Meir is abroad,
in addition to his post as Edu-
cation Minister. Previously, the
Prime Minister had assumed the
acting Foreign Ministry port-
folio during Mrs. Meir's ab-
sence. She is now in the United
States as head of the Israeli
delegation at the current Gen-
eral Assembly of the United
Nations.
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U.S. Jewish Groups
to Honor Clergyman
Who Defied Nazis
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Lead-
ing Jewish organizations will
honor West Germany's out-
standing, anti-
N a z i clergy-
man, 71-year-
old Rev. Dr.
Heinrich
Grueber, Lu-
theran dean
of Berlin, who
is in the
United States
for a two-week
visit.
Dean Grue- Rev. Grueber
ber was the only Christian
clergyman to appear in Israel as
a witness against the late Adolph
Eichmann. He opposed Hitler's
anti-Semitism during the war,
and had been put into a concen-
tration camp.
On Wednesday, he was hon-
ored at a dinner tendered for
him by the American Jewish
Committee, and the next day he
was guest of honor at a lunch-
eon given by the World Jewish
Congress and American Jewish
Congress. Friday morning, he
visited the headquarters of the
Theodor Herzl Institute, and
this evening he will visit the
Scarsdale Temple, in suburban
Westchester County.
Other events on his schedule
are a reception by the Amer-
ican Federation of Jews from
Central Europe and the Leo
Baeck Institute; the award of
an honorary degree at the New
York school of the Hebrew
Union College-Jewish Institute
of Religion; and a reception by
the National Conference of
Christians and Jews.
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invited to name representatives
to a council of advisers to the
UN administrator.
It would be expected that
refugees who have established
new lives with family connec-
tions would prefer not to move
to Israel.
ROME, (JTA) — Pope John
XXIII voiced very high praise
for the religious values of the
Old Testament this week, in an
address at the Vatican to the
Italian Biblical Association.
"Man awaits and listens to
the Word of God," said the
Pontiff, "with the same devo-
tion with which the Jewish
people received the reading of
the Holy Book, given to them
by Ezra after the fortunate re-
turn of the people from cap-
tivity in Babylon. Beloved
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teaching and to the worship of
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