Anti-Nasser Amendment to Surplus Food Bill
Creates Serious Rift; Israel Issue Is Rejected;
War Threat Seen Over Endangered Water Plan

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
House of Representatives Tuesday
adopted an amendmot to curtail
further shipment of itirplus foods
to Egypt. despite appeals by the
Administration for continuation of
assistance to the Nasser regime.
The Johnson Administration lost
Its first legislative test on the
question of American policy to-
ward Egypt when Republicans and
many Democrats combined in sup-
port of the anti-Nasser amendment.
The amendment. offered by Rep.
Robert H. Michel. Illinois Republi-
can, was first defeated on a vote
by division, but was adopted when
a roll call was demanded. The final
vote was 204 to 177. The measure
amended ari agriculture appropria-
tion bill increasing funds for the
Commodity Credit Corporation
fund. This corporation provides
the surplus commodities to Egypt
under Public Law 480.
Frantic appeals by the White
House and State Department failed
to stem the anti-Nasser revolt by
House members. Speaker of the
House John McCormack, Massa-
chusetts Democrat. appealed in
vain for defeat of the amendment.
He said the amendment would
hamper the President in conduct-
ing foreign relations and' tie his
hands in dealing with Egypt.
The bill now goes to the Sen-
ate. where a number of Sena-
tors of both parties are already
on record against further aid to
tlr Nasser regime. If the amend-
ment is retained by the Senate.
--,_President Johnson would be

forced to veto his entire agricul-

tural appropriations bill to kill
it. The date Department was
described °by informed sources
as "furious" over the House vote
and is said to have voiced ap-
prehension lest the House alone
"drive Nasser into a real freqzy
of anti-American actions."
Chairman George H. Mahon. of
the House Appropriations Com-
mittee. opposed the amendment,
asking Congress not to be influ-
enced by Egyptian-Israeli differ-
ences.
Rep. Seymour Halpern. New
York Republican. replied that the
issue was much broader, and in-
volved support by the American
taxpayer of "the Castro of the
Nile." He compared Nasser with
Cuba's Fidel Castro. citing Nas-
ser's anti-American expressions
and actions. his support of Com-
munist policies, backing of pro
Communist Congolese rebels, and'
"gangster-like tactics." He said
Nasser "made a mockery of our
aid program" which only subsid-
ized Egyptian arms acquisitions
from Russia and policies of sub-
version and intrigue undermin-
ing the peace of. the Near East
and Africa.
Rep. Leonard Farbstein, New

York Democrat, and member of
the House Foreign Affairs Com-
mittee, differed with his own Ad-
ministration by backing the
amendment. He said that Nasser
has disregarded previous expres-
sions by the Congress, and that
nothing less than mandatory action
severing aid would at this point
uphold the dignity of the United
States. Rep. Benjamin Rosenthal,
New York Democrat, who h a s
joined the Foreign Affairs Com-
mittee, agreed with Rep. Farbstein
and indicated that the true inter-
ests of the United States were not
consistent with further assistance
to Egypt.
Rep. Gerald Ford, Michigan
Republican and minority leader

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
32—Friday, January 29, 1965

for his party,

called for a stand
and rallied sup-
amendment. Rep.

against Egypt,

port

for the

Silvio Conte, Massachusetts Re-

publican, cited the burning of
the U.S. library in Cairo and
Nasser's backing of Communist
causes on the world scene.
Another Democrat who differed

with his party's position was Rep.
William Fitts Ryan, of New York.

He had offered a parallel amend-
ment, but the one proposed by

Rep. Michel, member of the Ap-
propriations Committee, was called
up first. Rep. Ryan stated that the
lessons of recent history taught

patrols inside the Scopus com-
pound, wounding at least three
Israelis in two separate attacks.
U.N. Truce Chief Goes

To Damascus to Confer
On Syrian-Israel Border

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Lt. Gen.
Odd Bull, chief of staff of the
United Nations Truce Supervision
Organization, left his headquar-
ters Tuesday for a visit to Dam-
ascus to confer with
leading
Syrian military authorities about
the situation on the Syrian-Israeli
border.
The .UN truce chief, it is un-
derstood, will discuss particularly
the problem of resurveying a por-
tion of the Syrian-Israeli frontier
where grave fighting developed
last November between Syria and
Israel after Syria claimed that
Israeli military patrols used a bor-

der path that edged into its ter-
ritory.
Last month, a majority of the
UN Security Council voted a res-
olution, vetoed by the Soviet Un-
ion, calling for a resurvey of that
path. Israel has repeatedly assert-
ed that it is willing to cooperate
in that demarcation, but Syria is
understood to be insisting that
the entire length of its frontier
with Israel be resurveyed.
Lt. Gen. Bull was reported to

TEL AVIV (JTA)

—

Premier

"endangering our water resources
which give life to our land." The
Premier watched the exercises of
the Golani brigade for an entire

Bond - Conference
to Hear Humphrey

Vice President Hubert H. Hum-
phrey will be the principal speak-
er at the 1965 State of Israel Bond
Inaugural Confer-
International

ence to be held Feb. 19-21 at the
Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami, it
day. He expressed confidence that was announced by Abraham Fein-
the heroic, though brief history berg. president of the Israel Bond
of the brigade was an assurance Organization.
of its efficiency for any emergency.
The Vice President will address
The brigade was formed under the conference at a dinner Feb. 21
Israel's War' of Independence.
at which the guest of honor will be
Israel warned Lebanon that. by Sir Isaac Wolfson, noted British
agreeing to act as "pawn" for industrialist and philanthropist.
Egypt in the project to divert the
The conference will formally
headwaters of the Jordan River. open a drive to sell $100,000,000
it may face "the dangers of puni- in Israel Bonds during 1965 in the
tive action by the injured party." United States, Canada, Latin
The warning was voiced by Shimon America and Western Europe, to
Peres, Israel's Deputy Minister of help finance Israel's programs of
Defense. He discussed the reports wider industrialization and immi-
from Beirut that Lebanon has fin- grant absorption. During 1964.
ally, decided to build a pumping the Israel Bond campaign pro-
station at the source of the Waz- duced a record $85.380,350 in
zani Springs. diverting those wat- sales. exceeding its quota of $85.-
ers into the Litani River, and thus 000.000 for the year.
reducing the flow of water into
the Jordan River.
HEBREW CORNER
Lebanon's relations with Israel
rave been relatively tranquil. The A Museum for the
Wazzani diversion project. under-
taken under Egyptian pressure. D ead ea Scrolls
Jerusalemites or tourists walking in
will put Lebanon in the position the
vicinity of the Hebrew University
of "taking on the danger of be- stop to look at an odd shaped building.
building resembles a pagoda. In
coming a party to a conflict not The
actuality the building does not house
of its own choosing," Peres said. a sanctuary for prayer but a museum
for the Dead Sea (Heb.: "hidden - from
Stressing the fact that the Li- the way they were stored away in jars)
and a home for the archaeologi-
tani River waters flow wastefully scrolls
cal library of 30,000 volumes.
This building has been erected by the
into the Mediterranean Sea, Peres
of Samuel Gutesman who at the
said: "This project. like other anti- sons
time helped in the purchase of the sea
Israel moves initiated by Nasser, scrolls. The children ordered famous
architects to prepare the plan
is devoid of any economic sense American
for this building which is called the
whatsoever. Lebanon," he said, Shrine of the Book.
The roof of the pagoda building is
"has no right to usurp waters that built
in the form of the original earth-
belong to Israel." Dispatches from enware covering of the jar in which the
'scrolls
found. The building is
Beirut reported that Lebanon has situated were
in the midst of an artificial
asked its Parliament to grant the pool. By the side of the pool are steps

government authority to request
help from non-Lebanese Arab arm-
ies if the Wazzan project should
result in war with Israel.

The Israeli Foreign Ministry
said Israel will reject "out of
hand" a reported move by Jordan

to request placement of the Is-
raeli enclave atop Mount Scopus
under the jurisdiction of the
United Nations Truce Supervision
Organization. Under the 1949
armistice agreement between Is-

rael and Jordan. Israel has full
jurisdiction over the pre-war Had-
assah Hospital. Recently, Jordan-
ian soldiers have fired on Israeli

leading to a small courtyard. On the
right of the courtyard are the rooms
of the archaeological library and on the
left a gate of bronze.
When the door is opened a long dark
vault is suddenly revealed. In the middle
of the vault are many urns of teak.
When the building is finished the scrolls
will be placed in the urns.
t ep in the place
There are more steps
the
which descend into the depths of th
ground to underneath the pool You g
I
down the steps and you see . walls
of
uncut Jerusalem stone around you. In-
side the walls are many entrances. You
peep into the entrances and find that
these entrances lead to caves. In these
caves is a reconstruction of the lives of
our forefathers. There you see how they
fought and how they lived i And above
all how they hid away that which was
most precious to them—the "hidden
scrolls.
—Translation of Hebrew Corner
Published by Brit Ivrit Alamit,

Jerusalem

De Gaulle Reported
Mulling Formation of
Palestinian Federation

CASABLANCA (JTA) — Gen-
eral Charles de Gaulle, president
of France, was reported here al-
legedly planning to suggest the

have obtained assurance from Jor- formation of a "Palestinian Fed-
danian officials that efforts would eration" as a solution to the cur-
be made to maintain quiet on the rent Arab-Israeli conflict. The
Jordanian Israeli border.
report was printed here by Mar-
He met with Jordanian officials
oc Information, a French-lan-
in Amman after urgent represen- guage daily newspaper.
tations by Israeli officials follow-
Agence France Press-e, the offi-
ing a series of Jordanian attacks cial French news agency, declared
on the long-quiet frontier in re-
here in commenting on this re-
cent weeks.
port: "The relationship between
Arab countries and Israel is one
of the basic problems being con-

-

that leaving the matter to the dis-
cretion of the Executive Depart-
ment was useless. and that the
time for severing aid to Egypt was
past due.
Secretary of State Rusk has
made an urgent appeal to the Sen-
ate to defeat the House amend- Israel Bonds Is Seeking $100 Million
ment. Senator Fulbright concurs
with Rusk and opposes the amend- in '65 to Launch Development Plan
ment.
NEW YORK , JTA)—American 1965 through the sale of State
Eshkol Indicates Israel
and Canadian Jewish leaders voted of Israel Bonds to finance the first
May Have to Fight for
Sunday to raise $100,000,000 in , phase of a five-year plan for ex-
* * *
panding the industrial development
Jordan River Waters

Levi Eshkol, reviewing an infantry
brigade. warned that ISrael might
be faced with a serious struggle
possibly arising from "encroach-
ment of our sovereignty" or efforts

Israel Foreign Ministry officials
voiced the hope that Jordanian
authorities would taker effective
measures against any further bor-
der incidents.

sidered both by the French , gov-
ernment and by Gen. de Gaulle

himself. Paris thinks that.. if geo-
political errors occurred when the
State of Israel was created, one
must now consider the situation
a fait accompli, and try to find
a solution within the framework
of Israel. '
The action came at the close of the problem as it stands now."
Asking what "kind. of "Pales-
of a three-day national planning
conference at the Waldorf-Astoria tinian Federation could be cre-
Hotel, following a request from ated, the agency continues in its
Prime Minister Levi Eshkol of comment: "Such a federation
Israel. Israel's leader called for the seems an impossibility in the near
adoption of a $100.000.000 quota future. Yet one must mention that
for the worldwide Israel bond many Arab representatives unof
campaign in the current year "to ficially describe the situation as
enable Israel to provide employ- an evil that cannot be cured by a
ment for the waves of immigrants war limited to the Middle East—
from East and West who, we hope, any such war would go much fur-
ther - than that."
will join us in the years ahead."

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