Abba Eban Elected to UN Committee
Despite Strong Opposition From Arabs
Gift Matzoh Parcels From Kin Abroad
OK'd for Relatives of Soviet Jews
"UNITED NATIONS — Abba aid to underdeveloped countries
"leading figure in Israel's
Eban, Israel's Premier Deputy, as a follow-up group to the UN
political life." They asserted
was elected Tuesday by the Conference on science held in that countries in the Middle
United Nations Economic and Geneva last year. Eban was one
East "don't want him."
Social Council of the nominees.
After a long argument, the
to membership
Iraq and Algeria fought council decided that secret bal-
on the UN Ad- Eban's candidacy bitterly on loting should be held on any
visory Corn- grounds that he was a "con- candidate in controversy. Seven-
m i t t e e
on troversial figure" and a teen of the nominees were
Science a n d
deemed not controversial and
Technology af-
were elected by acclamation.
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Zionists
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Meet
ter very strong
Eighteen council members
Arab opposi- m Jerusalem March 16
cast secret ballots, and Eban was
tion.
JERUSALEM, (JTA) — T h e elected by a vote of ten in
Secretary, World Zionist Actions Commit- favor, four against, three ab-
General U tee, ruling body of world Zion- stentions and one ballot de-
Thant had ism between Zionist congresses, clared invalid.
Eban
nominated 18 leading world ex- will meet for one week in Jeru-
The committee will start hold-
perts on the role of science in salem on March 16. The budget ing meetings here in February.
of the Jewish Agency for next Among those elected by ac
year and "the basic issues of the clamation was the Egyptian
Zionist movement" are on the minister for scientific research,
agenda.
Salah El Dine Hedayet.
UN Action Asked
Against USSR
Anti-Semitism
Egyptian A. F. Pilot Lands Plane
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presented by the Indian member on Israeli Field; Requests Asylum
of the Subcommission, Arcot
Krishnaswami; 2. a statement
made by Morris B. Abram, U.S.
member, implying that the
Soviet Union discriminates
against Jews as an ethnic group;
3. A statement filed with the
subcommission secretariat by
Label A. Katz, president of Bnai
Brith, on behalf of Bnai Brith
and the Board of Deputies of
British Jews.
Two members of the sub-
commission, one representing
the Soviet Union and the
other from Poland, maneu-
vered the debate in such a
way as to condemn racism
without touching on religious
bias. In the context of that
debate, Abram cautioned the
subconunission that the pro-
posed treaty must outlaw dis-
criminations against ethnic
groups as well as bias linked
with race or color.
"The Nazis," Abram pointed
out, "made a specialty of ethnic
discrimination. They prepared
elaborate charts by which they
graded ethnic groups into a sys-
tem of values. At the top were
the Aryans, lower came the Lat-
ins, still lower the Slays, the
Jews and the gypsies. This vi-
cious ladder of discrimination
was undoubtedly one of the
worst evils in the Nazi system
and furnished the basis for the
genocide campaign which de-
stroyed millions of Jews, Poles,
Russians and other Slays."
Then, obviously pointing at
the Soviet Union, Abram noted
that there are "some states
where laws forbid discrimina-
tion in the most forceful terms"
but where policies are carried
on which "may well have the
effect of obliterating an ethnic
group." Ethnic differences are
absolutely dependent on lan-
guage, schools, publications and
other cultural institutions in
order to survive. Cut an ethnic
tradition off from these, and it
will die, however nourished the
body of the citizen is by food,
clothing and shelter and how-
ever well treated he may other-
wise be. An ethnic group has
the right to survive as a group
as well as individuals."
"We should be able to pro-
hibit a state which makes pro-
vision for German-language
schools for that ethnic group
from denying Yiddish or Hebrew
schools to its Jews," he de-
clared. "A state which can per-
mit national and regional or-
ganizations of some ethnic
groups must permit the same
for others. A state which per-
mits recognized leaders of every
other group to travel abroad to
conferences and Holy Places
should not be able to deny that
right to others. A state that finds
facilities to publish textual ma-
terials in the language and tra-
ditiOns of some groups, should
not be able to deny this right
to any."
TEL AVIV (JTA)—An Egyptian air force captain on Sunday
landed his airplane at an Israeli airfield and asked for asylum.
He turned his aircraft over to the Israeli authorities.
The pilot, Cpt. Muhamed Abbas Hilmi, was flying a piston-
engined YAK-II.
Egyptian army planes tried to intercept Hilmi. But the
Egyptian interceptors fled back to their own territory when Israeli
air force fighter planes rose to protect Hilmi and escort him to
a safe landing at Israeli air base.
This was the first instance of an Egyptian pilot surrendering
voluntarily, together with his ship, to Israeli authorities.
His intention of landing in this country had evidently
become known to the Egyptians. But the Israeli fighters were
also on the alert, and assured the pilot's safe arrival and landing.
NEW YORK (JTA)—The So-
viet government has informed a
shipping agency here that So-
viet Jews will be permitted to
receive gift parcels of matzoh
from relatives a n d friends
abroad.
During the past two years
when the Soviet state bakeries
were barred from baking mat-
zoh, such gift parcels were not
delivered to the addresses.
Gabriel Reiner, president of
Cosmos Parcels Express Corp.,
a shipping agency licensed by
Intoirist, the official Soviet
travel organization, said that he
was notified of the change in
Soviet policy towards the ship-
ment of gift parcels of matzoh
following negotiations between
his firm and the USSR govern-
ment.
It was assumed here that the
Soviet customs authorities
would be authorized to receive
matzoh parcels from any ship-
ping agency or through the U.S.
Parcel Post service.
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