Nasser's Atom Ban Pledge Seen in Light Jews Who Sold Matzoth Appeal
of Aid from NASA for Space Weaponry to Court; Judge Evades Press
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright, 1963,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
WASHINGTON — Egyptian
President Nasser's pledge to
adhere to the nuclear weapons
test ban treaty may not be
worth the papyrus it is written
on.
When Nasser assured the
United States he would sign the
treaty, the public had no ink-
ling of secret discussion of an
American program to help
Egypt develop rocketry and
space technology.
Nasser has everything to
gain and nothing to lose by
shrewdly playing a "ban the
bomb" role at this juncture.
His pending negotiations with
the U.S. National Aeronaut-
ics and Space Administration
would train and equip Egypt
for aerospace electronics and
science. Such specialties have
a clear military potential.
Many of the trainees would
be members of the Egyptian
armed forces.
Initial talks between Egypt
and NASA have been held.
Nasser is seeking a "space
capability" and is considering
a plan for erecting a ground
station in Egypt for joint track-
ing of U.S. space vehicles.
NASA help is sought so that
Egyptian rocketry can be built
up through American financing.
American electronics gear is
preferred by Egyptian military
technicians. Several American
electronics firms are already
engaged in important projects
in Cairo and nearby, according
to U.S. industrial publications.
Some 200 Egyptian technicians
and scientists have arrived in
the United States for study.
The State Department, con-
vinced that aid to Nasser is
effectively wooing him away
from Soviet influence, has
sought to keep the NASA ne-
gotiations quiet until papers
are signed.
Congressional criticism is
feared because Congress is on
record against aiding a nation
like Egypt which diverts its own
funds to buy Soviet arms and
train military personnel in the
Soviet bloc. There is a suspicion
of the role "Arab socialism"
would take in an East-West
showdown.
The State - Department's posi-
Moscow Publishes
New Monograph on
Sholem Aleichem
LONDON, (JTA) — The late
Sholem Aleichem was praised
"not only as a great Jewish
classic but a great figure in
world literature," in a new mon-
ograph on Sholem Aleichem
issued by the State Publishing
House in Moscow.
The book, by Hersch Remenik,
a Soviet Jewish literary critic,
was published in Russian in a
deluxe edition, lavishly illustrat-
ed, according to a Moscow dis-
patch received here.
Treating Sholem Aleichem in
the traditional Communist ap-
praisal as a "proletarian" writer,
Remenik, in his introduction to
the volume, declared that "al-
though much has been written
about Sholem Aleichem, there
is still room for a new apprais-
al." The great Yiddish author
was called by Remenik "both a
writer and a social critic."
In connection with the pub-
lication of the monograph, it was
noted here that, since the So-
viet regime came to power, 502
editions of Sholem Aleichem's
works have been published in
the USSR in 20 languages, in-
cluding Yiddish. However, is was
pointed out that the Yiddish-
language editions were the
smallest in number of copies is-
sued. Altogether, a total of
225,000 copies of the Sholem
Aleichem in all of the 20 lan-
guages have been distributed to
date.
tion is that German technicians,
including ex-Nazis, are actually
aiding the security of Israel
and the West by working in
Egyptian military research. If
Egypt were not receiving such
help from Western sources,
State Department officials say,
Nasser might turn further to-
ward Moscow. American diplo-
mats believe they are exploit-
ing a chance to disengage Egypt
from dependence on Russia.
Willy Messerschmidt, Hit-
ler's leading aircraft designer,
has announced in Munich that
he will build a jet fighter
factory in Egypt. Since Mes-
serschmidt works under
NATO licenses, it is appar-
ent that he had tacit Wash-
ington approval.
Nasser's eagerness to obtain
help from both East and West
may have ' been behind his
pledge to avoid testing nuclear
weapons. This was an easy com-
mitment for him to make, be-
cause he is not ready to make
such tests. Nor has he respected
previous pledges, like his prom-
ise to open the Suez Canal to
the shipping of all countries,
and his undertaking to disen-
gage forces in Yemen.
On the Record
By NATHAN ZIPRIN
FOOTNOTE TO A COLUMN ..
Some columns ago we were
critical of the extremely tal-
ented American Jewish novel-
ist Philip Roth for having
spoken words of unwisdom at
the recent Dialogue in Jerusa-
lem between American and
Israeli intellectuals.
Roth was quoted as having
said that his great passion was
writing, not Jewish interests.
A reader in Israel who wrote
in to say that he agreed with
this columnist's views on the
Roth statement wonders wheth-
er we were "malicious" in omit-
ting an assertion at the parley
by the young novelist that he
had received and rejected an
invitation to visit Germany. The
correspondent writes that Roth
told the gathering that as a Jew
and as a human being he would
not let his feet step on a soil
that is soaked with Jewish
blood. Frankly, the press re-
ports did not disclose that por-
tion of the speech. If that is
what he said, this columnist's
hat goes off to Philip Roth. If
that is what he said, he has, in
the eyes of this columnist,
cleansed himself of all the un-
wisdom he may have uttered
in Jerusalem.
As far as this columnist is
concerned, he has long vowed
that he would rather see his
eyes withered than having them
behold the land whose unmen-
tionables slew our six million.
* * *
ON THE ZIONIST FRONT ..
Dr. Abba Hillel Silver at the
recent ZOA con 'ention in Is-
rael, the first in the history of
that organization, remarked
that Abraham of Biblical fame
was 70 years when God told
him to go forth to the land.
Since Dr. Silver was honored on
the occasion on reaching 70, can
it be inferred that he meant to
convey intention to settle in
Israel before long? . . . A Jew-
ish journalist now living in
Israel predicted in a recent
letter to this columnist that the
ZOA convention would make no
impact- upon the busy builders
of Israel. No one will pay any
attention to the ZOAnites, he
wrote in a chord true to his
cynicism. Now that cynic is
singing a new song. In a letter
I just received from him he
writes that the ZOA convention
has done more to establish good
feeling between Israelis and
American Jews than many of
the speeches and verbal out-
pourings of "the so-called"
American Jewish leaders.
Sen. Kenneth B. Keating
and Rep. Seymour Halpern,
both New York Republicans,
are co-sponsors of the so-
called Keating-Halpern
amendment to sever aid to
nations using their own re-
sources to - acquire Soviet
arms. But the State Depart-
ment, anxious to get Nasser
off the hook, persuaded
Chairman J. W. Fulbright of
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, to drop the
Keating-Halpern amendment
and the whole policy state-
ment from the foreign aid
bill.
Halpern charged that this at-
tempt "to exempt Nasser from
moral responsibility in his cyn-
ical strategy to get military aid
from both East and West stands
exposed by the public parade in
Cairo on the 11th anniversary
of the Nasser revolution. There
were publicly exhibited Soviet
SAM-2 ground-to-air missiles,
and 50-foot long, two stage
rockets, as well as new super-
sonic -Soviet jet fighters and
bombers. It was meanwhile re-
vealed that 500 Soviet techni-
cians are in the Yemeni prov-
ince of Nasser's domain build-
ing a huge jet airport with ob-
vious military and strategic po-
tentialities."
According to Halpern, "these
things do not suggest a peaceful
Nasser, devoted to raising the
living standards of the Arab
masses. They smell of totalitar-
ianism and aggression and
war."
Halpern would not give
Nasser "one cent of the
American taxpayer's money
until he terminates his Soviet
military acquisitions and the
training program of sending
young Egyptians to Soviet
military schools. Until then,
any thought of a NASA to
Nasser agreement is absurd.
When you buy a dictator like
Nasser, he does not stay
bought."
Keating said that what was
needed "is the establishment of
more stringent guidelines, more
definite policy priority in our
foreign aid program, not an
elimination of these guidelines
altogether."
He said that "if the Senate
committee does not reverse it-
self (on scrapping the Keating-
Halpern amendment) and pro-
vide policy guidelines, I, and
a number of others, will move
to insert such language on the
floor of the Senate."
It would appear that the
pending "NASA to Nasser" pro-
gram is in for trouble.
Soviet Scientist
Veksler Shares Atom
for Peace Award
NEW YORK, (JTA) — Dr
Vladimir I. Veksler, world-
famous Jewish - Russian scien-
tist, will share this year's
Atom's for Peace Award with
an American, Dr. Edwin M. Mc-
Millan, it was announced • by
the Ford Foundation, sponsor
of the annual award. The re-
cipients will share the prize of
$75,000 and each will receive
a gold medal.
According to the announce-
ment, both scientists worked
out, independently of each
other, the same idea, one that
has facilitated g r eatly the
power of "atom smashers." The
prizes and medals will be
awarded to the two scientist in
Washington on Oct. 24. Mc-
Millan is director of the Uni-
versity of California's Law-
rence Radiation Laboratory.
800 Jews in Singapore
The Jewish community of
Singapore, which dates back
to the early part of the 19th
century, today numbers some
800 persons. The first syna-
gogue was built in 1878.
LONDON (JTA) — The three
Jews who were given prison sen-
tences by the Soviet authorities
last month, for allegedly selling
home-baked matzoh before last
Passover, have lodged an appeal
against the sentences in a Mos-
cow court, it was reported here
from Moscow.
The three, appealing the sen-
tences for alleged profiteering
in the sale of matzoh, are: Gol-
ko Bogomolny, a shochet, who
was given one year in prison;
and two women, Mrs. Klavdiya
Blyakhman and Mrs. Malka
Brio, who were sentenced to six
months each. A fourth Jew, Emil
Katz, 82, was convicted along
U.S.-Israel Pavilion
at World's Fair Not
an Israel Exhibit
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — The
pavilion at the 1964 New York
World's Fair to be set up by
the America - Israel W o r 1 d' s
Fair Corporation in New York
will not fly the Israeli flag,
nor will it be officially linked
with Israel, it was announced
by a spokesman for the govern-
ment committee dealing with
Israel's representation at in-
ternational exhibitions.
with the others, but was set free
because of his state of health
and his age.
Judge N. A. Ryasky, deputy
president of the Moscow court,
declined to reply to inquiries
by newsmen over the appeal.
Israel Institute
for Blind Trains
Ethiopians, Burmese
Groups of teachers from
Ethiopia and Burma have been
trained in methods to educate
the blind at the Jewish Insti-
tute for the Blind in Jerusalem,
Israel's major institution con-
cerned with educating and re-
habilitating its blind citizens.
The two groups of foreign
teachers consisted of five Ethio-
pians and 11 Burmese.
The Jewish Institute for the
Blind is now engaged in a
major expansion program to
cope with many hundredS of
blind in Israel needing educa-
tion and training. Support for
this program is being chan-
neled to the Israel institution
by Keren-Or, the Institute's
American arm, 1133 Broadway,
New York.
A GOOD MAN TO KNOW !
The spokesman said that last
year, because of budgetary
considerations, the government
regretfully canceled its pro-
posed participation hi the Fair,
which was estimated to cost
$3,000,000. The pavilion to be
set up will be the responsibility
of the p r i v at e corporation
which will exhibit the products
of -a number of. Israeli ex-
porters.
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