An Earful of Logic From Comay to the UN

BY SAUL CARSON

their shootings. The promises in the Council visitors gallery is
(JTA Correspondent at the UN)
were broken almost as soon as not shown. Nor is Tonkin Bay men-
(Copyright 1964 JTA, Inc.)
they had been made.
tioned. But both matters are there
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y.—
But, even if Syria attacked first, —real if invisible. The Tonkin
Ambassador Michael S. Comay,
does Israel have the legal right to Bay incident puts the U. S. A.—
Israel's permanent representative
cross Syria's border? Undoubtedly, and indeed the rest of the West—
at the United Nations, revealed a Israel did do that through its air on the spot. And the demonstra-
juicy tidbit when he addressed the strike against Syria's murderous tion underlines one important
Security Council on the latest
gunposts. The Council members fact—Israel is not ready to squat
flare-up of fighting between Syria
were aware of one very recent, like a sitting duck below the
and Israel. He quoted from a re-
very important precedent. The heights where the Syrians have
port in a Lebanese newspaper, El U. S. counter-attacked recently in their artillery.
Jarida, dealing with last Septem- Tonkin Bay, in the Viet Nam
Comay's assertion of "doubt"
ber's Arab summit meeting at
Theater. The stark parallel be is an understatement He—and
Alexandria, E
which adopted tween America's action and Israel's Israel—not only doubt. They know.
the now famous declaration pro- was there for all to see.
They know they cannot be de-
claiming all-out plans for the final
There are things that happen in stroyed—and they know when and
liquidation of Israel. The Lebanese some UN sessions that are not how forcefully to act. And there
newspaper quoted a speech made spelled out even in the verbatim are Jews outside Israel who are
at that conference by Syrias presi- records. The near demonstration behind Israel.
dent General Hafez. Here—with a
four-word interpolation by Comay
Comay underscored—is that quota-
tion:

"Syria demands war against
Israel at the earliest date because
such a war in the near future will
be easier to conduct than a war in
the year 1970. We would be able
to fight , against Israel and to
liquidate it within 48 hours"—
this I would doubt—"and to de-
termine t h e suitable moment
which would enable us to gain the
victory before the Security Coun-
cil or the Americans Sixth Fleet
could intervene on Israel's behalf."

When Comay interpolated
those underscored words—"this I
would doubt"—it appeared for a
moment that trouble might deve-
lop in the Council's visitors gal-
lery. That section was crowded,
many of the people there being
Jewish, including a group of
youngsters wearing yarmelkes. Mr.
Comay's doubt, as to whether the
Arabs could lick Israel in 48 hours,
was applauded by people in the
audience. Several rows behind the
boys with the yarmelices sat a half-
dozen men in the uniform of a
foreign army—they too were visi-
tors entitled to listen in; but they
were Pakistani soldiers, and Pakis-
tan is anything but friendly to
Israel. Adlai E. Stevenson, presi-
dent of the Council, raised his
gavel ready to rap for order.lBut
the • slight disturbance subsilded.
and Comay went on, ignoring
the short demonstration staged in
his support. No delegate can take
cognizance of such an outburst,
even if it happens to favor - him.

Nevertheless, Comay gave
the Council—and the auditors,
with or without yarmelices or Pakis-
tani uniform—more than an ear-
ful. Syria's latest attack against
Israel, in which Israel lost four
dead (while Syria lost at least
seven when Israel's planes coun-
ter-attacked in defense) was only
one item in a long series of ag-
gressions.
During the preceding year,
there had been at least 127
Syrian gunfire attacks against
the peaceful Lsraeli side of the
northern frontier. Comay
himself was present, during a
visit to Israel, in the office of
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol,
when Lt. Gen. Odd Bull. the
chief of staff of the United Na-
tions forces on the spot, reported
he had received solemn assur-
ance from Syria's highest au
thorities that they would stop

Joel Carmichael's Impressive
History of Russian Revolution

Joel Carmichael once again
emerges as a brilliant historian in
"A Short History of the Russian
Revolution" which has been pub-
lished by Basic Books (404 Park,
S., NY 16).
As history, briefly reviewed,
this excellently compiled and well
written account presents the basic
facts, providing the necessary data
about the land that has become
such a sore spot in the East-West
struggle.
Supplementing the history is a
chronology of the Russian Revolu-
tion, commencing with 1914. Then
there is a splendid glossary of ba-
sic Russian terms relating to the
revolt and to the rise of Commu-
nism, and a number of capsule
biographies of important figures
in the ear under discussion.
Carmichael shows how "the
former band of professional rev-
olutionaries was radically trans-
formed from a group of intel-
lectuals into a corps of adminis-
trators."
He explains how the Bolshevik
leaders "ceased to be ideologists
and intellectuals and became men
of affairs," how the party's ideol-
ogy "was replaced by the party's
i nterests.
He contends that "the lofty
ideals of the Russian revolutionary
movement, the obsession with ide-
ologies and abstractions, were
transformed into social institu-
tions."
Reviewing the history of Rus-
sia preceding the revolution, Car-
michael• refers to the October
Manifesto of 1905 the conserva-
tive reaction to the liberals' dec-
laration took the form of pog-
roms on the Jews and hundreds

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roles of the Bolshevik leaders, the
eye-witness account of the revolu-
tion by John Reed and the major
relevant facts regarding the his-
toric events preceding and during
the revolution make this a valu-
able history.

TORONTO (JTA)—Atty. Gen.
Arthur Wishart declared that the
Canadian province of Ontario is
powerless under law to stem the
mailing of hate literature in the
province.
He said that his department has
examined every example of such
literature brought to its notice in
the past year and found no case
in which it could prosecute with
any reasonable hope of success. -
The attorney general made the
statement as he thumbed through
a two-inch pile of pamphlets and
letters, mainly attacking Jews,
Negroes and persons labeled Com-
munists. They included material
cursing Jews and threatening to
exterminate the whole Jewish race,
and an attack on Abraham Fein-
berg, rabbi emeritus at Holy Blos-
som Temple, written by a 20-year-
old Scarboro youth, David Stanley.
The writers of such literature,
the attorney general said in an
interview, undoubtedly are aware
that they cannot be touched by
the law.
Ontario was willing and anxious
to intitiate prosecutions that could
be successful, Wishart said. How-
ever, he pointed out that he could
see no way in which the province
could bring in its own legislation
to stop the hate mongers.

most 394 feet long and 98 feet THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, November 27, 1964-7
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Ahavas Achim Hall
to Be 'Launched' at
Dedication Dinner

Cong. Ahavas Achim will launch
its social season with a dedication
dinner-dance at the new social hall,
6:30 p.m. Sunday.
The arrangements committee,
headed by Sanford Gordon, has
planned a program featuring the
Sisterhood Choral group and a
Hanukah candle-lighting ceremony
led by Cantor Simon Bermanis.
Presentation of the golden key to
the new social hall will be made
by Richard Goldsmith, chairman
of the building committee, to pre-
sident Jonas Dworin. Rabbi Sey-
mour Panitz will conduct dedica- -
tion ceremonies, and Judge George
Kent will be master of ceremonies.
Cocktails and dinner will be fol-
lowed by dancing.
For reservations, call the syna-
gogue office, UN 4-6428, or dinner
chairman Larry Guttenberg, UN
4-2019.

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CO= LI NI

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UN. 1-5600

Although it was felt that the
existing hate literature was not ob-
scene within the meaning of the
criminal code, he viewed it as
criminal in its intent, in that it was
"obscene, in my thinking, dirty."

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ADL Finds Under 20 Pct.
of Colleges Have Tried
to Kill Frat. Discrimination

Fewer than 20 per cent of
American colleges and universi-
ties with social fraternities on
campus have taken action to eli-
minate discriminatory practices in
addition to discriminatory by-laws,
according to a report published
by the Anti-Defamation League of
Bnai Brith.
The report summarizes a study
of university policy on fraternity
discrimination made by the Illinois
Committee on Human Rights in
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of small towns in the Pale of
Settlement were ravaged, "They
were generally condoned." he
indicates, "or even inspired by
the police and created a disas-
trous impression outside Rus-
sia." He explains how historical-
ly the millions of Jews in Rus-
sia were "the scapegoat or safe-
ty valve for oppressive regimes.
In tsarist Russia, or even more
recently, the Jews ideal because
of the deep-rooted anti-Semitism
of the Russian — especially
Ukranian—masses; because, in
the early days of the revolution-
ary movement, they had played
a role disproportionate to their
numbers. Their unusual relative
importance—before 1905, which
saw the emergence of genuine
Russian forces—made them an
ideal target for conservative
spleen, and, later on, for mem-
bers of the revolutionary move-
ment itself."

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