Court Action Started to Compel
End Jordan's Anti- Jewish Panel
L.
Protesting "defamatory and malicious material designed to in-
cite hatred against Israel and the Jewish people," the American
Jewish Congress last week picketed the Jordanian Pavilion at the
World's Fair. Led by Dr. Joachim Prinz, AJ Congress president, the
pickets were arrested for defying the Fair's anti-demonstration ban,
then released without bail. In court, Howard M. Squadron, attorney
for the Congress, said he would file motions challenging the Con-
stitutionality of the anti-picketing regulation.
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Louis Nizer. celebrated attorney
and author. has been retained to
represent the Anti - Defamation
League of Bnai Brith and to con-
duct its legal action for the re-
moval of the "offensive anti-Sem-
itic" wall mural at the Jordan Pa-
vilion in the World's Fair, it was
announced by Dore Schary, na-
tional chairman of the ADL.
The action will come before
Justice George Postel in Special
Term, Part I, State Supreme
Court.
An order directing Newbold
Morris, New York City Commis-
sioner of Parks, and Robert Moses,
president of the World's Fair Cor-
poration, to show cause why the
mural should not be removed or
the Jordan Pavilion lease can-
celled was signed on May 20 by
Justice Joseph A. Sarafite.
Israel's Labor
Ends Strikes
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to the Jewish News)
TEL AVIV—Israel tax officials
agreed Tuesday to end their lengthy
slowdown action and resume nor-
mal operations as labor peace re-
turned to Israel. The departure of
Premier Levi Eshkol for a formal
visit to the United States appar-
ently was a key factor in ending
the country's labor disputes.
A special committee will inves-
tigate the grievances of the postal
workers. At the same time, Hista-
drut and the government began to
prepare a list of arbitrators to deal
with each specific dispute.
Earlier this week, postal work-
ers in Tel Aviv ended their month-
long slowdown action and began
work on processing a mountainous
backlog of undelivered mail. The
Tel Aviv workers were the last to
nd the slowdown action.
The 150 postal workers at the Tel
Aviv Post Office returned to work
following a special appeal by Min-
ister of Posts Eliahu Sasson.
Sasson's appeal at a meeting of
the workers came after the Tel
Aviv postmen decided to continue
the monthlong slowdown which had
already been ended by other post
office workers in the country. It is
estimated that it will take about
two weeks to eliminate the back-
log of some 3,000 items of mail
which accumulated here during the
slowdown.
Mid-East Tension High
Since Khrushchev Visit
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Foreign
Minister Golda Meir told the Cab-
inet that Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushchev's recent visit to Egypt
had contributed to increased ten-
sion in the Middle East.
Mrs. Meir stressed that despite
Khrushchev's relatively moderate
anti - Israel pronouncements, the
danger lay in their being miscon-
strued by the Arabs as a sign of
Soviet support of Arab aggression.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, June 5, 1964
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Criticism of Loan
to Egypt Made in
House and Senate
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sharp
criticism against the United States
role in the grant of a $40,000,000
standby loan from the International
Monetary Fund to Egypt this week
was voiced here in both branches of
Congress May 28.
In the House of Representatives,
Congressman S e yin o u r Halpern,
New York Republican and rank-
ing member of his party on the
House Subcommittee on Interna-
tional Finance, called for an in-
vestigation as to whether IMF rules
had been violated by reported State
Department pressure for granting
the loan to Egypt on unusually lib-
eral terms. In an address on the
House floor, he expressed doubt
as to whether the legal provisions
pertaining to IMF loans permitted
the granting of the loan under the
circumstances reported.
In the Senate, Sen. Kenneth B.
Keating, New York Republican,
charged in a speech on the upper
chamber floor that the U.S. pres-
sures on the IMF were a "virtual
endorsement of Nasser's policies
of Arab expansionism." He deplored
what he said was State Department
haste to appease Nasser, contrasting
this action with the Department's
failure to help meet Israel's de-
fense needs.
The State Department denied
that it had exerted pressures for
the grant of the loan which, re-
portedly, had been opposed by
America's West European allies in
the LMF as well as by the U.S.
Treasury. A spokesman for the
State Department said: "At no time
did the Department exert any pres-
sure on the International Monetary
Fund or interject political consider-
ations into the negotiations lead-
ing to the standby agreement be-
tween the IMF and the United
Arab Republic."
The Fund's action was taken de-
spite an IMF rule which forbids
such loans unless the borrowing
country adopts strict internal fiscal
policies to strengthen its currency,
halt inflation and improve its in-
ternational balance of payments.
Egypt, it was pointed out by the
West European members of the
IMF, has done none of these things.
However, under the decisive role
played by the Department of State,
the loan was voted, according to
reports.
It was pointed out that the loan
comes at a time when Premier
Khrushchev, of the USSR, had just
offered Egypt a new line of credit
for a total of $277,000,000, in addi-
tion to the Soviet Union's previous
grants totaling $1,500,000 in mili-
tary aid and economic assistance.
It was also noted that the IMF
put through the loan just prior to
the official visit to he paid here,
begnining Monday, by Israel's Prime
Minister Levi Eshkol as a state
guest of President Johnson.
Moscow Won't Pay for UN Gaza Unit
UNITED NATIONS (JTA)—The
Soviet Union has reiterated its re-
fusal to contribute to the United
Nations peace-keeping operations
which include the maintaining of
an emergency force on the Israel-
Egyptian frontier along the Gaza
Strip.
In a statement issued by the So-
viet Mission to the UN, the Rus-
sians claimed that the assessments
for these operations were illegal.
The Soviet position was repeated in
response to a statement made in
London last week by the United
States UN representative, Adlai
Stevenson, who said that he was
convinced the Russians would pay.
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