Officials Investigate Failure of Emergency Aids at Israel Lydda Airport (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) Military airports and supervised Tuesday morning, landings were at Lydda I TEL AVIV—Officials opened the improvised service. Early resumed . LAUSANNE, Switzerland, (JTA)—Indonesia was suspended an investigation Tuesday to from membership in the International Olympics Committee for learn the cause of failure of Lasting Honeymoons refusing, last year, to permit the participation of • Israel and emergency landing equipment during a heavy rain and wind- Ceylon in the Asia Olympics games. Start Here . The motion for suspension of Indonesia was made by the storm Monday night which kept Indian delegation. The suspension, ordered by a subcommittee airlines from landing at Lydda of the international organization meeting here, is, however, sub- Airport. Seven of the planes were ject to review by the entire committee when it meets next sum- DI f-7111 mer at Nairobi, Kenya. forced to make landings at mil- itary airfields. Air crews and orderlies were dispatched to those fields to serve the pas- State Dept. Criticized in Congress sengers with hot tea and cakes. TRAVEL AGENCY planes had been forced to for Barring Friedman from Briefing The 18246. WYOMING • DETROIT, MICH.- circle over the Lydda Airport -• WASHINGTON, ( J T A ) — reporters whose writings dis- for hours awaiting clearance to Democratic Congressman Wil- please the Department. land. Liam F. Ryan of New York told Air Force Commander Ezer Congressman Ryan recounted the House of Representatives to the House the sequence of Weizman , was present during that the barring of the Jewish events leading up to the barring the emer fency landings at the Telegraphic Agency's_ chief of Friedman on Jan. 28 by W as hi ngton correspondent, Mil- Robert C. Strong, director of ton Friedman, from a State De- the Department's Office on Near Gerrm..ns Want to Join partment briefing on the Arab Eastern Affairs, who conducted Israelis in March CORVAIR & CHEVY II Refugee question was "nothing the session for correspondents. JERUSALEM, (JTA)—A re- For the very best deal on a new car — plus less than a blatant effort to Pointing to the fact that JTA quest by a group of German . . . extra good service, prompt delivery — pressure a respected newsman has always enjoyed full status soldiers to participate in Israel's please call me — to write in a manner more to as a news gathering agency, annual pre - Passover national the Department's liking." Ryan termed "ridiculous" the four-day march has been re- In a speech on the floor of contention by Strong that the ferred to the Defense Minister the House, Ryan said he was citing of JTA dispatches by for a ruling. Groups from a FLEET MANAGER filing a written protest to Sec- Israeli diplomats in their dis- number of countries have al- I'm As Near SHORE CHEVROLET CO. retary of State Dean Rusk over cussions with him or members ready announced their partici- As Your Phone 12240 Jos. Campau what he termed "an incredible of his staff was evidence that pation in the march, which is TW 1-0600 Res. LI 8-4119 incident" and he urged his col- the news agency was in the held under the auspices of the leagues to do likewise. service of a -foreign power. "The Israeli Army. Calling Friedman a "distin- same could be said of the New guished expert on Jewish af- York Times or any other fairs," Ryan warned that the medium whose reports are action taken against the JTA quoted in diplomatic discus- correspondent could be repeat- sions," said Ryan. ed against other "responsible" • HARRY ABRAM Russian Tells Israel Delegation USSR Will OK Matzoh for Pesach Jews will be permitted • to bake matzohs for the coming Pesach, Genady Gavrikov a rep- resentative of the U.S.S.R. Em- bassy, told a delegation of top. Young Israel leaders at .a meet- ing in the Soviet Embassy in Washington on Feb. 6. The delegation also request- ed that the special flour needed for baking matzohs be made available as soon as possible. The delegation discussed with Gavrikov plans for a visit by Young Israel officials to the Soviet Union to observe the freedom of religion which is granted to Jews in the baking of matzohs. Let's Get Detroit Moving Elect Alvin J. IWREY Councilman Non-Partisan Ballot No. 37 IWREY for Councilman Committee: David Stulberg Phil Minkin Irving Blum Lou Gordon Norman Katz Ben Siegel Joseph Orley Lawrence Bensman Lou Markowitz Alvin S. Rappoport Soviet Poet Says He Altered Poem to Deny West Fodder (Direct JTA Teletype Wire - to The Jewish News) • PARIS — Yevgeny Yevtushen- ko, - the Soviet poet, admitted Wednesday that he had made changes in his world famous poem "Babi Yar" for political reasons because the West had used the.poem for a propaganda effort to "pretend" that anti- Semitism was widespread in the Soviet Union. The poet came to Paris for a press conference held in con- nection with the publication of the first edition in French of his poems. Babi Yar was the site of the ravine near Kiev where the Nazis slaughtered an estimated 40,000 Jewish men, women and children during the war. The poet denied he had made the changes in his poem which -had been widely interpreted in the West as an attack on con- tinuing anti-Semitism in Russia to please the Soviet government. He argued that "times have changed in Russia and no one any longer has the power to oblige an artist to modify his work against his will." He explained that he rewrote the part in his poem which charges Russia with anti-Semi- tism "in order not to furnish a bludgeon for our enemies." He said he had originally written the poem to show that "anti- Semitism is one of the seeds of Fascism everywhere in the world." Pressed by many of the French journalists about the status of anti-Semitism in Russia, the poet said that anti-Semitism "is no more of a problem in Russia than it is in many other coun- tries. Every nation has its fools." Boston. Jewish Agency Gets Research Grant BOSTON, (JTA) — The Com- bined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston has received a special $60,000 research grant from the non-sectarian Charity Fund of Boston, it was an- nounced here by Dr. Benjamin B. Rosenberg, executive director of the CJP. The grant is for the purpose of helping launch a program of basic research and planning related to a number of problems of community -wide importance, according to Benja- min Ulin, president of the CJP. RETAIN ... COMMON PLEAS JUDGE GEORGE D. KENT Number 13 on the ballot • Member Executive Board Cong. Ahavas Achim • Member Downtown Lodge Bnai Brith (former trustee and member executive board) • Member American Jewish Committee • Member Mosaic Lodge, F. & A. Masons • Former Chief Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney—Homicide Division PREFERRED BY: Civic Searchlight and Citizens League Sponsored by Friends of Judge George D. Kent 9 — THE D ETROIT JEWISH NEWS -- Friday, February 15, 1 963 Drop Indonesia from International Olympics for Boycotting of Israel