Purely Commentary Senators Protest Continued Aid

By PHILIP SLOMOVITZ

to Egypt; Amendment Urges Cut

The Inhumanity of a Boycott
It is difficult to believe that hatred can lead people to "cut their
noses off to spite their faces." But this is just what the Arabs seem
to be doing in pursuing their boycott against Israel.
When haters will even deprive their own people of the benefits
of good health and medical care. just because such services come from
those they hate, then the very low depth of bigotry has been reached.
Note, for example, the New York Times report from Amman,
Jordan:
"The third conference of the Arab Physicians Federation
voted to boycott medicines made in nations having policies hostile
to the Arab peoples."
.44n effort is being made to amend the U.S. Export Control Act of
1949 to put an end to boycott activities and threats in this country.
Senator Harrison A. Williams of New Jersey, who - has introduced the
amendment, has stated in comment on Arab boycott actions:
"I think that we must consider concrete measures to end this
intolerable practice and I am introducing legislation to accomplish
this very purpose.
"I am asking Congress to amend the Export Control Act,
under which the Commerce Department can now regulate exports
in order to further the foreign policy of the United States. I want
it clearly spelled out by Congress that it is, in fact, our foreign
policy to oppose and condemn any trade boycott directed against
foreign countries with which the United States maintains friendly
relations.
"In addition to officially declaring our opposition to such
trade restraints barring commerce with friendly nations, the
provisions of my bill will specifically outlaw the giving of infor-
mation which could be used to further such boycotts or the
signing of actual boycott agreements. Under the protections of
this legislation, any American businessman can then, with
impunity, flatly refuse to divulge any information about his com-
mercial investments or dealings with any of our foreign friends,
and he can refuse to sign any agreements not to trade or deal
with those countries.
"By outlawing an Arab-conceived conspiracy in restraint of
trade, we will rector _ e and strengthen normal business relationships
with a true friend of the United States, the thriving democracy
of Israel."
The report from Amman should go a long way in dissuading nations
that are concerned over the inhuman propaganda from Arab quarters
to prevent the spread of the boycott. It should stimulate action in
support of Senator Williams' amendment.

that it will stop abusing Ameri- ' Republican, Tuesday accused the
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The sev-
can friendship while accepting
State Department of "callous dis-
erance of American aid to Egypt
American aid."
regard" of congressional direc-
was urged Monday in the Senate
Dr.
Prinz
made
that
statement
tives
prohibiting aid to aggressor
by a number of senators. It was
the result of anti-American acts in an address to the AJC's national nations, and called for a rigid pro-
in Egypt which culminated in governing council. He charged hibition against further aid to
President Nasser's outburst at a that U.S. "Food for Peace" as- Egypt.
Rep. Rumsfeld was a leader of
public meeting that the United sistance to Egypt enables the
Cairo government to divert vast last September's drive on the
States can "jump in the ocean."
sums of money for reckless mili- House floor to sever aid to Egypt.
Sen. John G. Tower, Texas Re-
tary and diplomatic adventures, The drive almost succeeded. He
publican. introduced an amend-
including military intervention in predicted that Congress would this
ment to the Foreign Assistance Act Yemen
and the Congo and mili- year "overwhelmingly approve"
providing for mandatory severance tary threats against Jordan, Saudi a
measure for mandatory serev-
of further aid to Egypt. The sen- Arabia and Israel." ? ? ?
ance of aid to Egypt unless Nasser
ator said Egypt has displayed a
Rep. Donald Rumsfeld, Illinois suddenly alters his policies.
"go to hell attitude" toward the
United States and that American
self-respect demanded that all aid I
Boris Smolor's
to the Nasser regime be terminat-
ed at once.
Sen. Hermana Talmadge, Georgia
Between You
Democrat, urged President Johnson
to shut off further aid to Egypt
,
immediately. He said "it sticks in
and Me
my throat" to aid nations which
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"scorn and thwart our foreign
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policy at every turn "
Communal Currents:
Sen. Hugh Scott, Pennsylvania
Republican, urged Congress to
How Jewish is Jewish Vocational Service? . . . This question is
end foreign aid to nations, like
now being asked in a number of communities where local leaders are
Egypt, "whose policies attempt
facing the issue of sectarianism of the Jewish vocational service . .
to humiliate and undermine
The intake policies of the Jewish Vocational services in about two
American policy, prestige, and
dozen of the larger communities vary . . . In Boston, the policy is non-
power."
: sectarian, except for job placement services for parolees and loans
He told the Senate that "the for small business ventures . . . In Buffalo, a recent study showed
U.S. Government has for too long that approximately 66 per cent of those seeking service are Jewish
condoned the irresponsibility of but the vocational service department does not inquire about religion
these governments and has assist- when application is made . .. In Chicago, placement services are non-
ed them despite their hostile words ' sectarian: sheltered workshop is non-sectarian; vocational counseling
and hostile posture. The time has services are extended to non-Jews only if a counselor is available
come to suspend further assistance and a fee paid . . . In Cincinnati, services are offered primarily to
to governments which misuse our members of the Jewish community; placement services are available
aid programs in order to weaken to all who seek them . . . In Cleveland, counseling services are avail-
the United States."
able to Jews only; placement services are open to the community, but
At the same time, Phillips Tal- only a small percentage of non-Jews are served .. . In Denver, non-
The Hebrew for 'Scoop' — Read from Right to Left
The newest Hebrew dictionary in Israel gives mapatz and masmer bot. assistant secretary of state for Jewish clients are accepted for referral to the Utility Workshop only
Near Eastern affairs, advocated from the Department of Vocational Rehabilitation of the State of
as the translations for the newspaper term scoop.
continued aid to Egypt as an "ef- Colorado . . . In Detroit, job placement services are unrestricted;
But newsmen in Israel are not too pleased with these terms.
A non-Jewish newsman, in conversation with a Hebrew journalist. fective tool" in influencing the counseling services are restricted to the Jewish' community; workshop
asked him to provide an acceptable translation for scoop, and the Nasser regime's military prepara- services are unrestricted . . . In Kansas City, priorities are given to
tions in a peaceful direction.
Jewish clients for vocational counseling and job placement; vocational
latter replied:
In a letter to Rep. Seymour Hal- rehabilitation and special projects are non-sectarian . . . In Los An-
'In Hebrew. as you know, we read from right to left. Therefore
pern, New York Republican, Tal- geles, priority of services is extended to Jews; to the extent that re-
scoop in Hebrew is poocs.
bot said "as far as the UAR is sources permit, services are extended to non-Jews with special prob-
concerned, one of the few effective lems . .. In Miami, sheltered workshop service is available on a non-
An Anecdote About Israel Reform Service
The Reform service in Jerusalem is unique. The rabbi and cantor tools we have to influence its gov- sectarian basis as long as Jewish clients are not denied an opportunity
wear taleisim and yarmulkes, but they are flanked by girl soloists—a ernment toward this objective, as for such service; vocational counseling is available only to Jews except
factor the Orthodox would not condone. There are some congregants well as responsible policies in if non-Jews are involved in a federal project operated by the agency
that are baldheaded, but most have their heads covered. There are other areas, is our P. L. 480 (Aid) . . . In Milwaukee, all services are available on a nonsectarian basis
except refugee services, group counseling and placement services for
very few prayers and the Torah reading is brief. There is only one Program."
individuals coming directly from the community; in workshops non-
Aliyah and the Maftir.
Earlier in New York, Dr. Joa-
Jewish clients are accepted as transitional clients on a fee for service
There is beautiful music and very pleasant instrumental accom-
chim Prinz, president of the
basis. . . . In Newark, the workshop program is nonsectarian; all other
panment.
American Jewish Congress, call-
programs are sectarian . . . In New York, the Federation Employment
The most noteworthy fact is that the entire service is in Hebrew
ed on President Johnson to ter-
and Guiding Service maintains an intake non-sectarian policy as re-
and on this score we heard the single criticism of Reform tefillot:
minate aid to Egypt unless
quired
by the State law . . . In Philadelphia, counseling services are
the abbreviated prayerbook does not have any English.
Egypt "offers firm guarantees
limited chiefly to persons with occupational handicaps with priority
service given to Jews; work adjustment and placement services are
offered to the total community . . . In St. Louis, non-Jews are accepted
on a referral basis for rehabilitation, counseling, training and place-
ment when there is an emotional, physical or severe vocational 'im-
pairment; services of long-term workshop are available only to the Jew-
NEW YORK (JTA)—Criticisms
The dispatches from the Soviet ager of the railroad depot at ish community . . .
voiced in the West against Soviet Union did not indicate whether Dzhanskoye, in the Crimea, and a
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persecutions of Russian Jews have Frekhtman has been freed, but it member of that town's municipal
Success
Story:
begun to show effects in the So- was believed Buchbinder was now council, had been sentenced "to
viet Union. newspaper dispatches out of prison. since his case has a long term of imprisonment."
U. S. Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman considers Israel
received here from Moscow indi- been appealed. according to the
The man, whose name as as a model for other countries in making use of the surplus food com-
eated.
r eport, to a high court.
modities which the United States is sending to developing countries
spelled out is obviously Jewish,
The New York Herald Tribune
On the other hand, it was
. . . In a report issued under his signature he says that Israel made a
was accused of having forged
reported that leading organs of the
reported earlier in London that
documents concerning the edu- "success story" of this form of American aid and should serve as
Soviet press have admitted that there is no relaxation in the So-
rational qualifications of rail- example for other lands where the United States is conducting its agri-
two Jews convicted under the
viet press tendency to emphasize
cultural aid program . . . Aid in the form of agricultural commodities
road employes, for bribes. A di-
Khrushchev regime of "economic
the Jewishness of various "crim-
rector of the high school was has become a major part of the overall U. S. economic assistance pro-
crimes" had been "framed." These
inals." The report was made on
accused of having shared the gra m to Israel during the last 10 years . . . Total agricultural imports
admissions were printed in Kom-
the basis of a study made of
bribes with Veizer, and also was
by Israel have averaged about $1,000,000,000 during the decade . . .
somoloskaya Pravda, official organ
Soviet newspapers reaching Lon-
sentenced.
Over the same period the United States has supplied approximately
of the Soviet Young Communist
don.
At Baku, the "criminal" was $500,000,000 worth of agricultural commodities . . . Wheat and feed
League, and Literaturyniya Ga-
The newspapers included the named as Izrail (Israel) Semeno- grains have accounted for more than one-half of the agricultural com-
zette, another major Soviet news- Moskovsky Komsomoletz, organ of
vich Bilmes. An electrical engi- modities given by the U. S. to Israel . . . Wheat has been the major
paper.
the Young Communists in Moscow; neer, he was accused of having commodity supplied to Israel, while feed grains played a major role in
in the first case. the Commu - Bakinsky Rabotchy, a daily pub - changed jobs nine times in 13 the development of Israel's livestock enterprises . . . Dairy products
nist organ admitted that a Jew lished in Baku; and Pr avda years, of having been "incompetent are the third most important item sent to Israel, followed by fats, oils, •
named Boris Yakobovitch Buch - Ukrainy, official organ of the in his work" and of being "rude cotton, meats, rice and tobacco . . . Considerable quantities of dairy
binder. director of a physical edu- Ukrainian Communist Party pub- to his colleagues." A local court products have been made available by the U. S. Government for use
cation school at Stavropol, who lished in Kiev.
acquited him of the charges, but in school lunch programs in Israel and for donations to the needy
had been convicted of permitting
Pravda Ukrainy carried a report Bakinsky Rabotchy demanded that there . . . Soybeans have been the principal commodity provided in
an employe to embezzle funds, had about a girl student at the Khmel- he be fired.
the fats and oils category . . . For all these surplus agricultural com-
been the victim of investigative niLsky Technical School, convicted
T h e Moskovsky Komsomolets modities Israel is paying with Israeli currency which remains in the
methods carried over from the of theft and expelled from the
carried a number of reports on country and is being used for developing Israeli projects as well as
days of Stalin personality cult. school. After the newspaper re-
Jewish youth allegedly involved for making loans to private enterprises in Israel . . . Some fifty loans,
In the second case, the Commu- vealed that one of the judges in with "gangs of speculators and amounting to $23,000,000, have so far been made to private U. S. or
nist literary journal reported the the girl's trial was a Jew, named swindlers." It also reported that a Israeli firms for business development and market expansion . .
"framing" of another Jew, R. A. Oksman, she was given a new trial 19-year-old boy, Boris Churgin, Similar loans have been made to industrial enterprises in the fields of
Frekhtman, convicted a year ago and reinstated.
was charged in the Sverdlovsk re- textiles, rubber, plastics, chemicals, paper, metals and machinery .. .
of black marketing operations in
Oksman, however, was dismissed gion with speculating in foreign "The Food for Peace Program, embodying the technique of providing
Ukrainia. Literaturniya Gazette from his job as a member of the postage stamps and with "an at- for the sale of surplus agricultural commodities for local currencies,
said Frekhtman was a war hero school's administration.
has been a success story in Israel," the report of the secretary of
tempt to go abroad illegally."
whose name had been attached to
The same Kiev newspaper re-
agriculture says . . . The success in Israel of this program "serves as
criminal activities by swindlers ported also that a man named THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
a model" for the operation by the U. S. of Food for Peace programs
whom he did not even know.
Mikhail Yakovlevieh Veizer, man- 2 — Friday, January 15, 1965
in other developing countries, Secretary Freeman emphasizes ...

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'Relaxation' of Jews' Persecution Claimed in USSR;
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