House Reverses Ban on Aid to Nasser

WASHINGTON (JTA)—Senate
and House conferees agreed Tues-
day on the Senate version of an
amendment which would give the
President discretionary authority
to continue agricultural commodity
aid to Egypt.
The action follows a House vote
Monday which had the effect of re-
treating from the original House-
enacted ban on further food ship-
ments to Egypt. The Senate modi-
fied the House provision last week
in permitting the aid to continue
if the President determined such
action to be in the national inter-
est.
In a meeting with Democratic
Congressional leaders Tuesday, the
President .expressed his pleasure ,
with tkle House action in adopting
the Se -hates position on the aid
amendment. The supplementary
appropriations bill to which the
amendment is attached now returns
to both houses for final adoption.
Action on the bill was expected
Wednesday.
The House voted 241-165 against
instructing its conferees to hold
out for the stronger House posi-
tion.
Rep. Emanuel Celler, New York
Democrat, who had voted for the
ban in the House, pleaded with
his colleagues not to yield to pres-
sure groups who "have been after I
members from the New York

area." He said "this is not the
time for divided counsel."

Rex,. Robert Michel, Illinois
Republican, who authored the

to uphold the measure, argued
that U.S. aid to Egypt consti-
tuted "an indirect subsidy foe
intediational aggression." He
sedge's!: "Money extracted from
the pockets of American taxpay-
ers should not be used to support

tempt for the government and
people of the U.S.A. Minority Lead-
er Gerald Ford, of Michigan, said
the actions of Nasser warrant the
action taken by the House of Rep-
resentatives and urged the House
to stand its ground. Rep. Paul
Findley, Illinois Republican, said
activities inimical to our inter-
that a rebuke to Nasser is long
ests."
Rep. Leonard Farbstein, New overdue. Rep. F. Bradford Morse,
York Democrat, who also is a mem- Massachusetts Republican, main-
ber of the House Foreign Affairs tained that the U.S. not send as-
Committee, urged retention of the sistance to aggressor nations, such
aid prohibition. He said that the as Egypt. ;
Rep. Ogden Reid, New York Re-
U.S. had achieved no results by
assisting the Nasser regime in publican, and former U. S. am-
Egypt. Farbstein pleaded: "Let us bassador to Israel. was the only
not pursue a policy in the Middle Republican who voted for reversal
East that could lead to a crisis of the previous House decision,
like that in the Far East." He conceding that this was not the
cited Egyptian intervention in the time for divided consel and the
Congo and Iran, and said "the President should be given freedom
majority of Americans will not of action.
At his press conference which
tolerate insults and policies of
was hastily. summoned at the
Nasser any longer."
White House last Friday, Presi-
Other members of the House rose
dent Johnson urged that Con-
to support the aid ban. Rep. Sey-
gress approve the Senate ver-
mour Halpern, New York Repub-
sion of the aid-to-Egypt amend-
lican, charged that U.S. assistance
ment which had a 44-38 vote,
programs allow Nasser to divert
softening the House action.
his resources to aggression. Hal-
The President said it was of the
pern called the State Department
policy in the Middle East "utterly highest importance that he have
illogical," and challenged the de- the flexibility to deal with such
partment to show where the U.S. foreign policy problems. His re-
has made any headway in its Nas-• marks clearly were directed at
the House.
ser-oriented policy.
•Rep. William Fitts Ryan, New*Z- ,Sen. Wayne Morse, Oregon
fcmocrat, led the fight
b
asserted
that
Nas-
;
York Democrat,
seT has continued to show his con- against softening the House lan-

guage: The Senator asserted that
the United States allows Nasser.
to "finance aggression." He called
U.S. aid to Egypt part of "a shame-
ful program of appeasement to
dictators."
Sen. Jacob K. Javits , New
York Republican, joined in urging
the Senate to adopt the House
positiOn. He sajd "this cry of
indignation from the House of
Representatives, if sustained in the
Senate, may reach into Egypt and
make the people of Egypt feel
how very deeply we are offended
by what has occurred in their coun-
try with respect to us."
Sen. Javits also declared that
President Johnson had remained
silent despite appeals by various
Senators that he give his views
on Nasser's activities. Thus, he
stressed, the Senate has no alter-
ative except to back the position
'I6f the House. "If the President
won't act, then the Congress must,"
he told his colleagues.
Sen. John Tower, Texas Rep-
ublican, and J. Strom Thurmond,
Republican of South Carolina, also
spoke in favor of the House posi-
tion.
Nasser Threatens Bonn
With Breaking Relations
Over Stand on Israel
LONDON (JTA) — Officials of
the Arab League were reported
from Cairo as assuring President
Nasser of Egypt that most of the
Arab countries would break rela-

tions with West Germany if the
Bonn government breaks relations
with Cairo. They also said that
steps are being taken to prdpare
a meeting of personal represen-
tatives of Arab rulers to discuss
the relations between the Bonn
government and Israel.
sMeanwhile, Nasser Monday threat-
s
ened to break diplomatic relations
with West Germany if the Bonn
government continues to send
arms to Israel. The West German
government indicated that it may
be forced to break relations with
Egypt because of Nasser's invita-
tion to Walter Ulbricht, East Gerz
many's chief of state, if the
Ulbricht visit leads to Nasser's
recognition of East Germany.
(In Bonn, State Secretary Gun--
ther = von Hase, official spokesman
° for the West German government,
told a press conference that "the
problem is not our relations with
Israel, but the projected visit to
Cairo by Ulbricht. This visit has
priority over everything else. We
have special relations with Israel,
gging back to the 1952 Reparations
Ikgreement." He added that the
Bundestag, lower house of Parlia-
ment, will deal soon with the en-
tire question of West German mili-
tary aid to a number of countries,
and "will seek a satisfactory solu-
tion to this problem." He empha-
sized that West Germany wishes
to have good relations with both
the Arabs and Israel.)

aid ban, to instruct its conferees

Roberts Afoul
of the Law as
a'ti Agitator

\fi Russell Roberts is a notorious
gure in American Nazi Party
4anks in Detroit.
In June 1963, he assisted George
Lincoln Rockwell in organizing
the 'Nazi rally in Detroit.
But he has run afoul of the law
and has been arrested by Farming-
ton police for instigating a 14- ,
year-old boy to distribute his hate
literature for him.
His literature was aimed at
"niggers and Jews" and he had
given the boy a quarter to spread
his venom. The boy kept the quar-
ter and told his parents about the
bigot's intentions. The literature
then was turned over to the police,
and Roberts. is held on charges of
spreading slanderous leaflets. The
case is being handled by Oakland
County Prosecutor S. Jerome

Bronson.

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3 Jewish Authors Join

the Elite in National
Institute of Arts, Letters

(Dire ct JTA Teletype Wire
to The J ewish News )

NEW YORK—The National In-
stitute of Arts and Letters, which
limits its membership of "outstand-
ing creitive. achievement" to 250
persons, named three Jewish
authors Monday in electing 13 new
members.
They were Alfred Kazin, critic
and writer; Howard Nemerov,
award-winning poet, critic and
novelist; and Isaac Bashevis Sing-
er, fiction writer in Yiddish whose
work in English translation has
attracted widespread praise in this
country. • The three were half of
the six members chosen for the
department of literature. There are
now 240 members in the institute.

Pick 9th Jew for Mayor

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)

JOHANNESBURG — Deputy
Mayor Aleck- 7affe was I selected
by the majority parties in the
Johannesburg City Council for
election as mayor next month. He
would be the ,city's ninth Jewish
mayor.

THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, February 12, 1965-7

eel-lave My forYourselve;

Isidor Bush, who was eventually- to set-
tle in St. Louis, emigrated from Austria
In 1849, after the failure of the 1848

revolution. In New York, he briefly pub-
lished the first German - Jewish weekly of
Its kind4n the United States, the Israel's

Herold.c

In Se. Louis, Bush was variously a
"storekeeper, bank president, freight
agent and publisher of The Bushberg
Manual, a well-known handbook on vini-
culture. But his outstanding contribu.-
tions as. an American were in public life,
to which he devoted himself almost from
the day he first set foot on American soil.
. In 1861, Bush was "a delegate of the
Union Party to the state convention
which was to decide whether Missouri
would secede. He helped keep Missouri
in the Union. Moreover, though barred

from active service in the Civil War be-
cause of an unfortunate childhood acci-
dent, Bush served as civilian secretary
to General John Fremont.
As a member of the committee on
emancipation at the Missouri conventiEd
in 1863, Bush argued vainly for immedi-
ate freedom for the slaves. In 1865, how-
ever, Bush was vindicated, the majority
of delegates voting for the immediate
abolition of slavery. Missouri was thus
the first of the former slave states to
free its slaves-
Isidor Bush's ideals may perhaps best
be expressed by his eloquent address to
the Missouri state convention : "I pray-
you, have pity for yourselves.... Slavery
demoralizes, slaveor fanaticism blinds
you.. .. It has destroyed God's noblest
work — a free and happy people."

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