Hussian Jew Addresses Plea
to His Government in Moving
Message Sent to Jewish News
Damaging Mission
of Arab
Student
Propagandists
Dr. King's Honor
Symbolizes Justice
Editorials
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Vol. XLVI, No. 9
Prominent Detroit woman who has just returned from visit to Communist countries
brings message from Russian Jew, pleading with his government in defense of
I Israel and in favor of the Russian Jews' emigration from Russia. His statement has
• been translated from the Russian original for our readers. Complete text of his
appeal is on page 56, editorial comment on page 4.
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Status of USSR Jews Considered
Unchanged Under New Leadership
Jewish NIPS Be-elected in Britain;
Friends of Israel Entering Cabinet
LONDON (JTA) —'Political observers here, analyzing last week's
elections, said they expect no major changes in British government policy
affecting Britains 450,000 Jews or British-Israel relations as a result of the
transfer of power to a Labor government.
All of the Jewish members of Parliament were returned in the balloting,
which showed in final tabulations that Jews would occupy
24 of the 630 seats in the House of Commons—two Con-
servatives and 22 Laborites.
The possibility was seen here that, when Prime
Minister Harold Wilson completes his final list of minis-
ters outside the Cabinet, he would name Sir Solly Zucker-
man as the new minister for disarmament. Sir Solly, 60,
on leave from his post as professor of anatomy at Birm-
ingham University, had been under the Conservatives, the
chief government adviser ,on defense and strategy. Be-
cause his sympathies are known to be with the Labor
Party, he has never been given a post at the top of the
Conservative government, although the Tories have sought
Harold - Wilson his advice and knowledge. Sir Solly is closely connected
with the Weizmann Institute of-. Science, at Rehovoth, both on the level of
scientific cooperation and as an ardent supporter.
Fenner Brocway, he Laborite MP who spearheaded previous unsuccess-
ful attempts to adopt legislation against racial incitement, lost his seat in
Parliament. But the new Labor government is committed to support such
legislation. A number of individual Conservatives had favored anti-racist
legislation, but not the party as a whole.
Many of the leaders of the new Labor government have, on various
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LONDON (JTA)—Students of the Soviet scene saw no indication here point-
ing to any immediate change in the Kremlin's policies affecting Jews in the USSR,'
as a result of the removal of Nikita S. Khrushchev from his twin posts of prime
minister of the Soviet Union and first secretary of the USSR Communist Party.
It was pointed out that, whatever overall changes might follow Khrush-
chev's retirement in other fields, there is little likelihood of any early shift in
regard to the situation of Soviet Jewry. Little was known here thus far about the
attitude toward Jews on the part of the new Soviet leadership that has emerged
in the persons of Acting Premier Alexei Kosygin, First Secretary Leonid Brezh-
nev, or Mihkail Suslov, the Communist leader who delivered the report to the
Central Committee recommending Khrushchev's retirement due to "old age and
disability."
Suslov has been Khrushchev's top protege, and Brezhnev and Kosygin have
been members of his innermost circle. But, while it is held certain that they have
agreed with Khrushchev's anti-Jewish Tolicies, there is no proof that they were
personally anti-Semitic, as Khrushchev has been for years. On the other hand,
there was no reason to foresee any moves toward a more liberal Jewish policy on
the part of the new leadership, which may find itself much too busy with other
world affairs to involve itself immediately in the "Jewish problem."
Eshkol Hopes New Regime Will Lift Jewish Oppression
JERUSALEM (JTA)—A hope that the situation of Russian Jewry would be
ameliorated by the new Soviet government regime was expressed by Prime Minister
Levi Eshkol.
Addressing the Knesset, Eshkol said he hoped the new leaders of the Soviet
Union would find a way to restore equality to the Jews of the USSR "as individuals
and as a group." He said he also hoped that the new Russian leadership "would
respond to the demands by world, Jewry to permit Russian Jews to be reunited
with their families abroad." it
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Israel and United States Sign Desalination Pact;
Johnson and Eshkol Hail Historic Agreement
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The United States and Israel signed an agreement providing for a detailed
study of the feasibility of implementing in Israel a program for the use of nuclear energy for desalination
of sea water.
The agreement, hailed by President Johnson as "a second step toward the solution of Israel's detailed
water needs," was signed on the American side by Dr. Glen Seaborg, chairman of the United States Atomic
Energy Commission, and Kenneth Holum, acting secretary of the interior. Gen. Zvi Tsur, coordinating of the
water desalination program for the office of the Prime Minister of Israel, signed on behalf of his Govern-
ment. The agreement, according to a State Department communique, provides for:
"1. An invitation for proposals for the undertaking of a detailed feasibility study by a consulting engi-
neering firm issued promptly by the Governments; 2. That, based upon review of the proposals, and inter-
views, if necessary, an engineer be selected and appropriate contracts acceptable to both Governments be
executed; 3. That the cost of the engineering study be shared by the two Governments; 4. That a joint
board, consisting of an equal number of representatives from each of the Governments (with a representative
of the International Atomic Energy as an observer) be appointed to prepare the invitation, make recom-
mendations for selection of the engineer and the terms of the contract, and to perform such other functions
in relation to the engineering contract as will later be defined by the Governments, and to make recom-
mendations to the two Governments."
Upon conclusion of the agreement, President Johnson issued the following statement:
"I am pleased to announce that the Governments of the United States and Israel have agreed to a
second step toward the solution of Israel's critical water needs. The first step was taken last June, when
Prime Minister Eshkol and I established a joint United States-Israel study team to conduct technical services.
These have already been completed.
"Now we have agreed that our Governments Will share equally in the costs of a detailed engineering
study for a large water desalting project to meet Israel's present demands for more fresh water. Both Gov-
ernments will promptly issue invitations to American engineering consulting firms to participate in the
second step. A joint board, with each Government equally represented, will assist in making the selection
and will oversee the effort."
Israel Discloses Further Details; Eshkol Sees Benefits of 'Breakthrough'
JERUSALEM (JTA)—Prime Minister Levi Eshkol lauded President Johnson and the United States
Governent for concluding the U. S.-Israel agreement furthering the joint undertaking by the two govern-
ments in developing the projected use of nuclear energy for desalination of sea water.
Gen. Zvi Tsur, former army chief of staff, whci is the coordinator of the U. S. Israel project in
Eshkol's office, revealed upon his return from Washington further details of the joint undertaking as worked
out in conferences in the American capital between American and Israeli experts.
The agreement, he said, calls for the construction of a 200-megawatt. nuclear reactor and desalination
plant, with an annual capacity of 125,000,000 cubic meters of sweet water. The plant, he said, would
increase Israel's water potential by 10 per cent, and permit closer settlement of arid areas in the Negev Desert.
In his statement, Prime Minister Eshkol declared: "The announcement by the President of the United
States is to be welcomed because of the vital need to develop' and implement the pioneering concept of
desalting sea water on a farge scale. An achievement embodying a breakthrough in this field will benefit all
countries suffering from a shortage of fresh water. It is a fine thing that the government of the United
States is prepared to devote resources and efforts to this end."
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