Ex-German Minister Will Propose His Government
Establish Diplomatic Relations With Israel

TEL AVIV, (JTA)—Former
West German Defense Minister
Franz Josef Strauss told a press
conference at Herzliah that on
his return to West Germany he
would ask the federal govern-
ment to negotiate establish-
ment of normal diplomatic re-
lations with Israel.
He said his visit, which be-
gan on May 27, had convinced
him the time had come for full
diplomatic relations between
the two c o u n t r i e s, stating
"There is no place for halfway
solutions now."
He conceded that this stand
differed from the one he took
in earlier statements on the
matter in which he had said
that he favored "normalization"
of relations by establishment of
consulates and trade missions.
He told the 50 correspondents
and television cameramen that
such normalization was the
official West German position
and that he could not say other-
wise on his first day in Israel.
He said that as a parlia-
mentarian, • he would press
the West German Govern-

ment to seek a full solution
to the question of diplomatic
ties. Noting that one of the
reasons for West German re-
luctance to recognize Israel
was the possibility of Arab
countermoves, he said West
Germany did not disregard
such threats, but added "we
don't want others to dictate
to us what we should do, and
we don't think that establish-
ing relations with Israel is a
threat or a hostile act to any-
one." He was introduced to
the correspondents by Shi-
mon Peres, Israel's Deputi,
Defense Minister.
The West German leader re-
plied to a number of questions
about the controversial role of
West German scientists in aid-
ing Egypt's weapons program.
He said he did not - think much
of the West German scientists
as a factor in Egypt's rearma-
ment, asserting that in compari-
son to what the United States
could supply West Germany
and what the Soviet Union
supplied to Egypt, the activities

Strauss in Israel; Greeted by
Officials, Assailed by Pickets

of the scientists lagged far be-
hind.
He said that the West Ger-
man scientists now working in
Egypt were of "the old school"
and were not in possession of
the latest developments in the
field. He said that this informa-
tion was obtained by him from
West German sources.
He agreed that the activi-
ties of the scientists caused
tensions in the delicate Mid-
dle East area but he insisted
that their work did not neces-
sarily mean a change in the
military balance of power, in
any case, "not in the near
future." He reiterated his
statement, nevertheless, that
the West German govern.
ment was discussing a law to
forbid West German scient-
ists from working on such
projects as middle develop-
ment_ in countries of a deli-
cate area like the Middle
East.
He also said that West Ger-
many had "much interest" in
Israel generally and in its
security problems specifically
because any local skirmish
might develop into a worldwide
flareup. Therefore, he asserted,
West Germany had a moral and
political obligation to under-
stand Israel's security needs
and to act accordingly. He did
not elaborate on this point.
He denied emphatically
charges that he had been con-
nected, during the war, as an
artillery unit commander at
Schoengau, with the murder of
forced laborers and prisoners-
of-war. He said no one was
killed in that area except from
bomb explosions and other war
activities. He added that, con-
trary to the charges, there had
not seen any concentration
camp near Schoengau.

2,000 U. S. Jews
to Settle in Israel

NEW YORK (JTA) — More
than 2,000 American Jews
settled in Israel during last year
and the same resettlement is ex-
pected to -take place this yea'',
S. Z. Shragai, head of the immi-
gration department of the Jew-
ish Agency, reported at a press
conference. He lauded the im-
migration of Chassidic Jews
from the United States and said
that these . immigrants have
established several imposing set-
tlements in Israel.

Betty Friedan's 'The Feminine Alystique
Offers Enchanting P anacea to Our Women

Betty Friedan's popularity as
the author of "The Feminine
Mystique" brought a record at-
tendance to the annual meeting
of the Jewish Welfare Federa-
tion's Women's Division, held
at the Jewish Center Wednes-
day.
Mrs. Friedan spoke on aspects
of her thesis which have
aroused such wide interest.
In "The Feminine Mystique,"
published by W. W. Norton Co.,
Mrs. .Friedan encourages "the
search of women for them-
selves, asserting that "the time
is at hand when the voices of
the feminine mystique can no
longer drown out the inner
voice that is driving women on
to become complete."
"When women as well as men
emerge from biological living
to realize- their human selves,
those leftover halves of life
may become their years of
greatest fulfillment," Mrs. Frie-
dan declares. She states:
"In the light of woman's
long battle for emancipation,
the recent ' sexual counter-
revolution in America has
been perhaps a final crisis, a
strange breath-holding inter-
val before the larva breaks
out of the shell into maturity
—a moratorium during which
many millions of women put
themselves on ice and stopped
growing. They say that one
'day science will be able to
make the human body live
longer by freezing its growth.
American women lately have
been living much longer than
men—walking through their
leftover lives like living dead
women. Perhaps men may
live longer in America when
women carry more of the
burden of the battle of the
world, instead of being a
burden themselves. I think
their wasted energy will con-
tinue to be destructive to
their husbands, to their chil-
dren, and to themselves until
it is used in their own battle
with the world. But when
women as well as men emerge
from biological living to real-
ize their human selves, those
leftover halves of life may
become their years of great-
est fulfillment."

This challenging book decries
the false image of woman, wo-
man's own self misguidance,
the need for a thorough iden-
tity for woman, the urge for

Report Egypt Will Use Radioactive
Warheads to Contaminate Israel

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

WASHINGTON — Radioac-
tive waste material for use in
rockets to contaminate Israeli
soil is being shipped to Egypt
from India; according to a re-
port published here in the cur-
rent issue of Parade Maga-
zine.
The report said that several
years ago Canada and its tech-
nicians built for India an atomic
reactor 16 miles outside of
Bombay. Radioactive waste ma-
terial from this reactor is now
being shipped in lead baskets to
Egypt, said the report, so it can
be used in the warheads of the
V-2 rockets .German engineers
are constructing for Nasser.
Such war heads upon explosion

•

Ben Bella, Nasser Again Pledge
to 'Liberate' Palestine from Israelis

LONDON, (JTA) — Algeria's
Prime Minister Ahamed Ben
Bella and Egypt's President
Gamal Abdel Nasser have once
more pledged, in a joint com-
munique, their mutual "deter-
mination to continue the
struggle for the liberation of
Arab Palestine," according to
an Algiers dispatch received
here.

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Former . West German Defense Minister Josef Strauss
(right, upper photo) is shown being greeted by an Israel
official upon his arrival at Israel's Lydda Airport. He said
upon his arrival that the Bonn government feared to enter into
diplomatic relations with the Jewish state for fear the Arab
states will enter into a similar agreement with East Germany.
The lower photo shows placard-carrying pickets at Lydda Air-
port Gate protesting Strauss' arrival. The German's visit con-
tinued without untoward incidents.

would contaminate the earth on
which they land even though
they would not produce an ac-
tual thermonuclear blast effect.
Meanwhile, Rep. James Roose-
velt, Democrat, of California, on
Wednesday gave added momen-
tum to the Halpern amendment
to sever aid to nations like Egypt
which divert their own resources
to build aggressive missiles and
purchase Soviet arms, by becom-
ing a co-sponsor of the amend-
ment with its sponsor, Rep. Sey-
mour Halpern, New York Repub-
lican, setting off a bipartisan
drive for its adoption.
Roosevelt urged that Ameria
not be "hoodwinked by some
shrewd manipulators who feed
on both sides of the international
street."

The communique was issued
in Cairo, prior to Ben Bella's
return to his own capital after
a lengthy visit to Cairo. This
is the second time the Algerian
and Egyptian leaders have is-
sued such a communique on the
"Palestine" problem, pledging
joint efforts to "liberate" Pales-1
tine from the Israelis.

her to be as well trained and
as well educated as man.
Mrs. Friedan is convinced
that "when women do not need
to live through their husbands
and children, men will not fear
the love and strength of wo-
men, nor need another's weak-
ness to prove their own mas-
culinity. They can finally see
each other as they are. And
this may be - the next step in
human evolution."
Her background equips Mrs.
Friedan . well for the task she
had undertaken in her truly
exciting book. The mother of
three children, she was a stu-
dent of the eminent Prof. Kurt
Lewin, specialized in clinical
psychology and the social
sciences, has done much free
lance writing and assisted in
experiments in group dynamics
at the University of Iowa.
Richly annotated, her "Femi-
nine Mystique" indicates that
she has made a thorough
study of her subject. The nu-
merous case histories point
to a deep-rooted understand-
ing of the needs under dis-
cussion. She takes issue with
Freud. She delves into many
aspects of psychiatric ap-
proaches and proposes solu-
tions that would provide a
substitute for analysis for
modern women.
On the subject of the "literal
application of Freud's theory
of femininity to American
women," Mrs. Friedan declares:.
"The fact is that to Freud,
women were a strange, inferior,
less than-human species. He saw
theme as childlike dolls, who
existed in terms only of man's
love, to love man and serve his
needs. It was the same kind
of unconscious solipsism that
made man for many centuries
see the sun only as a bright
object that revolves around the
earth. Freud grew up with this
attitude built in by his culture
—not only the culture of Vic-
torian Europe, but that Jewish
culture in which men said the
daily prayer: 'I thank Thee,
Lord, that Thou hast not cre-
ated me a women,' and women
prayed in submission: 'I thank
Thee, Lord, that Thou hast cre-
ated me to Thy will.'
"Freud's mother was the
pretty, docile bride of a man
twice her .age; his father ruled
the family with an autocratic
authority traditional in Jewish
familieS during the centuries
of persecution when the fathers
were seldom able to establish
authority in the outside
world
The focusing by Freud of all
his theories on sexuality is
probed and challenged. "It is
recognized now;" she asserts,
"that Freud never gave proper
attention, . even in man, to
growth of the ego or self . ."
She advocates: "Drastic
• steps must now • be taken to
re-educate the women who
were deluded or cheated by
the feminine myStique
What is needed now is a na-
tional educational program,
similar to the GI bill, for
women who seriously want to
continue or resume their edu-
cation . . . When . eneugh
women make life plans gear-
ed to their real abilities, and
speak out for maternity
leaves, or even maternity
sabbaticals, professionally run
nurseries, and the other
changes in the rules that may
be necessary, they will not
have to sacrifice the right to
honorable competition and
contribution anymore than
they will have to sacrifice
marriage and motherhood."
"The Feminine Mystique" is
a valuable study not for women
alone but for men as well. It is
a remarkable study of serious
modern problems and deserves
the unique attention this book
has received.

