Showdown in Capital
Is Nasser Menace or Friend?
By MILTON FRIEDMAN
Copyright, 1963, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.
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WASHINGTON—A coming showdown between the State Department and Congress
on terminating aid to Nasser's Egypt will force the Administration to declare whether
it considers Nasser an aggressive menace or a worthy friend.
Demanding an end to aid for Nasser are 65 Senators, Republicans and Demo-
crats. Included are even Sen. Ted Kennedy, of Massachusetts, the President's youngest
brother, and Sen. Hubert Humphrey, of Minnesota, the assistant Majority Leader.
Insisting that assistance to Egypt should be continued are Secretary of State Dean
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18 UN Members Call for
Direct M. E. Negotiations
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UNITED NATIONS—Rwanda, on behalf of 18 cosponsors, late
Monday filed with the UN Secretariat a resolution, which was pre-
sented in the General Assembly's Special Political Committee Tues-
day, calling for direct negotiations between Israel and the Arab states
on the Arab refugee question, to be conducted with the help of the
Palestine Conciliation Commission.
Cosponsors include nine African states, five from Latin America, four West
Europeans—Denmark, Iceland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands. Last year's
resolution calling for peace negotiations to settle all Arab-Israeli disputes had 19
sponsors to begin with, and later two more joined as cosponsors. It is believed
that more members will be added to the sponsors' list this time as well.
With four Europeans- among the cosponsors, it is believed certain here that
all Scandinavian countries will vote for the draft.
The Central African Republic delegation was among those urging such a step.
New Arab Offensives:
More Intrigues at UN
By SAUL CARSON
JTA. Correspondent at the United Nations
(Copyright, 1963, Jewish - Telegraphic Agency, Inc.)
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—The Arab states have
put on a powerful campaign here this year, during the
debate on the Arab refugee problem, to admit a new
member into the United Nations, something called
"Palestine Arabs." They are not succeeding, but they
are frying hard. Their line is: The dispute regarding
the Arab refugees is not between Israel and the Arab
states; it is between Israel and the "Palestine Arabs."
This contention has been put forward repeatedly by the
Arabs for the last three years. The only difference
this year is that now they are really making an all-out
fight on the issue. It can be predicted that the move
will fail again.
Two long-winded procedural wrangles finally ex-
posed the Arab plan. Both fights centered around
Ahmad Shukairy, the head of the so-called "Palestine
Arab Delegation." He is here at the head of the 18-
member group, claiming a status similar to that accorded
rightfully to the fully accredited Arab delegations from
the "host" countries where the refugees live—Jordan,
Egypt (as the government having jurisdiction over
the Gaza Strip), Syria and Lebanon.
The first fight took place when the real Arab dele-
gations demanded that a long diatribe delivered by
Shukairy be circulated as an official United Nations
document. Thanks to the Romanian chairman of the
General Assembly's Special Political Committee, where
the refugees issue is being debated, that was done.
The Romanian, Mihail Haseganu, ruled, of course, in
line with the policy of the Soviet bloc, favoring any
Arab move. Shukairy's speech became an official docu-
nent. Then it was discovered that the document did
not identify the speaker on the title page of the long
paper as "Chairman of the Palestine Arab Delegation"
but merely as an individual. There was another fight,
precipitated by Syria and backed by all the Arab mem-
bers. Syria demanded that the title page be revised, to
show Shukairy's claimed status as head of a delegation.
This time, too, Haseganu seemed inclined to let the Arabs
have their way. But when Dr, Ralph J. Bunche, Under-
secretary for Special Political Affairs, took full respon-
sibility on behalf of the Secretariat for the failure
to call Shukairy a delegation chairman, that fight col-
lapsed. Syria feared to push the matter to a vote
in the committee, and the document stands as the
emission of an individual named Shukairy.
Now all this was more than a fight about unim-
portant wording. It was the Arab group's supreme effort
to give the "Palestine Arabs" the status of a full dele-
gation, virtually representing .a new, 112th member of
the 111-member United Nations.
By the time that fight collapsed, there were two
draft resolutions before the committee. One had been
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This year, however, the peace group is expected to confine its efforts to the refugee
problem only, in line with Mrs. Golda Meir's assertion that, while Israel would
prefer that the refugee issue "be resolved in the context of overall settlement,"
she would agree to confining Arab-Israeli talks now to the refugee problem alone.
If the Arab governments "are genuinely anxious to solve the refugee problem as
such," Mrs. Meir declared, "they should respond to this offer. A move in this
direction warrants strong encouragement from the international community."
With the introduction of the resolution there will be three drafts before the
committee. One was introduced by the United States, placing chief reliance for
containment of the Arab refugee question on further talks to be conducted on
behalf of the PCC, since the U.S.A. shares representation on the Commission with
France and Turkey. Another draft was introduced by three Moslem states—
Afghanistan, Indonesia and Pakistan, on behalf of the Arab states, calling for
PCC supervision over property allegedly left in Israel by the refugees. Mrs. Meir
made it clear that Israel would not permit intervention into her domestic affairs,
since such a move would infringe on Israeli sovereignty.
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ROME—Augustin Cardinal Bea strongly assailed Tuesday the Bishops at the Ecumenical Council
who are opposing adoption of the document rejecting Jewish responsibility for the death of Christ.
The 81-year-old prelate said he had received explicit instructions from the late Pope John XXIII to
bring up the statement at the Ecumenical Council for affirmative action.
He spoke after Arab Bishops had warned that approval of the schema was not needed and that it
would create problems for Catholics in Arab countries.
The Ecumenical Council at the Vatican started debate Monday on the subject of ecumenism, and,
particularly, on the fourth chapter of that subject which treats of the attitude of the Catholic Church
toward Jews, clearing the Jewish people of the age-old accusation of deicide.
The entire schema was presented to the Council by Bishop Joseph Martin, of Rouen, France, and
was greeted by prolonged applause from the assembled prelates. The ovation, however, was interpreted
as a personal tribute to Augustin Cardinal Bea, head of the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity.
who drew up the document, including the chapter absolving the Jews of blame for the crucifixion of Jesus.
Two lines of objections were voiced by nine speakers in the Council, as the debate got under way.
One group of Fathers objected to inclusion of the Jewish question in the schema, holding that the topic
concerns the Catholic Church relations with other Christian faiths and that, therefore, the Jewish question
should be dealt with in another context. Another group held that, in addition to treating of relations with
Jews, the chapter should deal also with relations between the Church and other non-Christian religions.
One of the first speakers in the debate was an American, Joseph Cardinal Ritter, of St. Louis, who
hailed the entire proposed schema as the end of the Catholic Church's 400-year-old campaign against
Protestantism.
An attack against the chapter dealing with relations with the Jewish people was voiced by Ernesto
Cardinal Ruffini, of Palermo, Sicily. He told the Council that, if it dealt with the Church attitude toward
the Jews, then it should deal also with the attitude toward "the many millions of Christians who are
following Marxism and thus contributing to atheistic materialism." He held that other non-Christian
religions are less hostile to Catholicism than Jews or Protestants and, therefore, merit mention in the
chapter.
Opposition to chapter four also was voiced by the patriarchs from Alexandria, Egypt and from
Antioch, Syria. The first insisted that no specific decree on condemning any kind of persecutions was
needed,. since the Church always opposed such bias, and that for that reason no mention of anti-Semitism
was needed. The second advised that, if a chapter on relations with Jews were needed, it should be placed
in another schema.
It was at this point that Cardinal Ritter endorsed the schema as a whole. The American was
supported, with particular reference to chapter four, by Archbishop Quintero, of Venezuela. Archbishop
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Bnai Brith Council Discusses Vatican Document on Jews
WASHINGTON, (JTA)—The significance of the recommendations on Jews now being discussed at
the Ecumenical Council was discussed at the meeting of the Bnai Brith International Council, the
coordinating body of Bnai Brith groups in 42 countries, Monday.
Label A. Katz, president of Bnai Brith and chairman of its International Council, said that if the
recommendations are endorsed, "Jewish communities would seek to work cooperatively with Catholic
Church authorities to implement its spirit and purpose." Bnai Brith Council members from Latin America
and Europe said the Church action could have most profound implications for uprooting anti-Semitism.
Reassessed Jewish Attitude on Jesus Advised
by Dr. Maurice Eisendrath at UAHC Convention
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