► oe r- r- LONDON, (JTA) — Ahmed Shukairy, the discredited former Saudi Arabian representative to the United Nations who was fired from his post by King Saud last year, will show up at the UN General Assembly again this year, leading a so-called "Palestine Arab Delegation," ac- cording to a decision reached by the political committee of the Arab League. The commit- tee,- meeting in Cairo, has given Shukairy carte blanche to or- ganize his own "delegation," dispatches from Cairo reported here. In a statement in Cairo, after he had been selected by the committee, Shukairy said that the "Palestine Arabs" have de- cided "to take direct action to liberate Palestine." The League's political committee authorized him to start organizing a "Pal- estinian entity," sort of a gov- ernment in exile, to fight for the ousting of the Israelis from Palestine. However, both Jordan and Saudi Arabia opposed that move, fearing that such a set-up would jeopardize Jordanian rule. About half of Jordan's population consists of Arabs who claim to be refugees from Israeli Palestine. During the last two sessions of the General Assembly, a group calling itself the "Pales- tine Arab Delegation" has ap- peared at the United Nations. Members of the group have been permitted to address the As- sembly's committee dealing with the Arab refugee problem, but were recognized only as indi- viduals. Richard Crossman, Laborite member of the British Parlia- ment, reporting on a recent visit to the Soviet Union, charged that "the sufferings of the Jews of Kiev" during the Nazi occupation "have been expunged from Russian history as a topic which causes too much discomfort a n d arouses too much suppressed emotion." In a broadcast over the BBC, the member of the House of Commons said that he had want- ed to visit Babi Yar, the gully outside of Kiev where the Nazis slaughtered more than 75,000 Jewish men, women and chil- dren in one of the worst massa- cres of Russian Jews. He said that when he talked to his Rus- sian hosts in Kiev, he had asked whether the Jews of Kiev had not suffered particularly at the hands of the Nazis. He said they replied with anger that the Jews of Russia were no different from anyone else. His temper rising, Crossman reported, he asked "then why are they the only people who have to put their religion on their identity papers?" The re- ply was that "this does not make them any different. They have their own republic in Siberia and are represented on the So- viet Council of Ministers, so they are not different from the Georgians or anyone else." Crossman said he retorted that there was a difference, since the Georgia province was "the homeland of the Georgians while the Jews do not want to live in that confounded repub- lic." His hosts commented, "well, that's their own fault." By then, said the MP, he realized that the sufferings of the Russian Jews had been expunged from Rus- sian history. Former Mufti Objects to Shukairy's Appointment (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) ex-Mufti declared in a cable to the League that Shukairy's ap- pointment was "a gross viola- tion" of previous League deci- sion regarding Palestine. Rabbis Devote Yom Kippur Sermons to Soviet Jewry NEW YORK, (JTA) — In a special pastoral letter addressed to all members of the Rabbinical Assembly, the international as- sociation of Conservative rabbis, Rabbi The o d or e Friedman, president of the organization, called on his colleagues to de- vote their Yom Kippur sermons to the situation and problems that confront the Jewish com- munity in Russia. A sharp protest against the death sentence imposed by a Soviet court against Rabbi B. Gavrilov, of Pyatigorsk, was sent to the Soviet Ambassador in Washington by Rabbi Abra- ham N. AvRutick, president of the Rabbinical Council of Amer- ica, an Orthodox group. The let- ter, voicing the sentiments of the several hundred rabbis who are members of the Council, re- quested the Soviet envoy, Ana- toly F. Dobrynin, to ask his Government to remit the death sentence and to stop persecut- ing the Jewish people in the USSR. An officer of the Council de- clared that, unless a positive answer were received from Am- bassador Dobrynin "in a few days," the U.S. Government will be asked to intervene on the issue with the Soviet delegation at the United Nations. JERUSALEM. — An A r a b League plan to send to the UN General Assembly a unified "Palestine A r a b delegation" headed by former Saudi Arabian delegate Ahmed Shukairy has evoked the bit- ter opposition of the former Mufti of Jeru- Terming the treatment of salem, it was Jews in the Soviet Union as reported here "cultural and spiritual geno- Tuesday. cide," Dr. Israel Goldstein re- The former ported to the American sec- Mufti, a col- I tion of the World Jewish Con- laborator with I ' gress his impressions of his the Hitler re- visit to the Soviet Union, gime during Hungary, Poland and Ru- the war who mania. He said that he had heads the Arab found that the Jews in the Higher Com- Soviet Union did not share in mittee, an- the incipient relaxation in the nounced in general atmosphere stemming Beirut he op_ from "the liberalization policy Ex-Mufti posed S h u- initiated by Khrushchev." kairy's appointment to speak on "While the Soviet leader had behalf of the "Palestine Arabs." repudiated other phases of the The ex-Mufti added that the Stalin terror, he had not as yet "Arab Higher Committee" would repudiated the anti - Semitic appoint its own delegation which phase, and the policies of the would proceed to the UN. The present regime give cause for misgivings," Dr. Goldstein re- ported. He urged the USSR to carry out a five-point program to equalize the treatment of Jews: 1. Jewish religious congregations be permitted to establish a central Jewish religious address, organize on a federal basis, choose the reli- gious and lay heads, and that these be permitted to attend Jewish reli- gious conferences abroad, and that Jewish religious representatives from abroad be permitted to attend conferences in the USSR. 2. The training school in Moscow for rabbis and other religious offi- cials be permitted to invite and accommodate additional students. 3. Permission be given for the Jewish prayerbook printed in 1957, in a limited quantity, to be re- printed now in a larger number of copies. 4. Facilities for the baking of matzoth before last Passover to be discontinued, and those who have been imprisoned to be released. 5. Where new cemeteries are re- quired, the right of Jews to have separate burial grounds, as in the old cemeteries, to be respected and provided for. Dr. Goldstein expressed the hope that the Khrushchev re- gime would be remembered for a "full restoration to the status quo ante in the encouragement of Yiddish culture and in full equality for Jews with other re- ligious denominations in the exercise of their religious tradi- tions." In his visits to the smaller Jewish communities in Poland, Romania and Hungary, Dr. Gold- stein found that their future "as Jews is dim. While synagogue worship is permitted, the reli- gious education of the children is at best under a severe handi- cap as a result of the atheistic character of Communist govern- ments and of the government schools," he reported. "Mar- riages outside the Jewish faith are widespread. Because of the meager numbers and the diffi- cult conditions of Jewish life, few Jews whom I met were willing to say that it is unlikely to continue as a group entity for more than another generation." A GOOD MAN TO KNOW ! 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