By Philip New Wouk Novel
ammovitz
Is Titled 'Don't
wish to contribute to peace in the Middle East is to render such
nonsensical hostilities inoperative. Sterile Arab pressures must be Stop the Carnival'
Purely Commentary
Bonn Arms Suspension : Egyptian Blackmail
If Germany had just begun to negotiate with Israel on
Blackmail Inspires Boycott . . .
Cohen and Ecumenism ... Tribute
to Histadrut . . . M.E. Insanity
whether in the field of theology, economy or any other area
arms shipments and had decided not to undertake such a resisted
Doubleday announces the pub-
of international concern. This needs to be done not merely for the
"dangerous" task in view of Cairo threats that aid to Israel sake of Israel but for the sake of world peace, and indeed for. the
lication of a new novel by Her-
will compel Nasser to recognize East Germany, there would sake of the Arab peoples themselves. For the welfare of the Arab man Wouk, "Don't Stop the Car-
have been less cause for complaint. ,
nations will not be obtained through the elimination of Israel; on the nival," to be published on March
But Germany has obligated herself to provide Israel with contrary, Arab-Israeli cooperation would constitute a mutual blessing. 5.
Douglas Andrews, Doubleday's
Whatever the politicos of the Middle East and whatever the
certain armaments and they have been in the process of being
publicity manager, says about the
shipped to Israel to protect its population. more than half of number of Arab votes in the United Nations, the international com- new
Wouk book:
of nations cannot afford to be maneuvered into acquiescence
Whom are survivors from German Nazism. What we are now munity
in irrational behavior.
"It is unlike any other Wouk
experiencing is a suspension of an agreement. It Is a denial of
The international community already has been maneuvered into book. Set in the Caribbean (an
a sacred trust. It is a result of blackmail from Cairo.
many crises by the Nasser tricks, his abuses of the commonest decen- area Mr. Wouk knows well), 'Don't
Whoever is responsible for this new addition of insult cies. his constant harping on the chief plank in his platform: that Stop the Carnival' is an hilarious,
ironic comedy of tropical adven-
is adding to Germany's guilt for genocide, for the mass Israel be destroyed.
tures. misadventures and love af-
murder of Jews and for encouragement to those—in Cairo—
Can, as Arnoni admonishes, "sterile Arab pressures be resisted"? fairs. Clifton Fadiman in the Book-
who continually aver that their policy is again to institute There was an attempt to castigate Nasser in Congress. The Senate of-the-Month Club News calls it
negated the action of the House. At least now it is known that senti- `a comedy of disaster.' Ed John-
Nazism on an Egyptian basis.
That's why there is such resentment among all who have ment in Congress does not condone gangsterism in international son. one of Doubleday's top sales-
But the real rebuke must come from the White House and men. calls it one of the funniest
a sense of fair play, whether they are Jews or non-Jews. That diplomacy.
the State Department. Until that time. every time Nasser gains a bOoks he has read in a long time.
is why Germany's action must be viewed as a return to the victory.
even though he was defeated, as he did numerous times- I suspect Graham Greene would
barbarism of the Nazi days.
, primarily during the Suez Campaign and now in the Congressional call it `an entertainment.' I call
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revolt against anti-Americanism in Cairo—the Arab extremists will it sharp, on-the-beam satire."
gain and retain the power that goes with their "chorus of hate."
Is Germany Courting Another Boycott?
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Cancellation of orders from Germany by important American
firms sounds like the prelude to a renewal of the boycott against Histadrut's Inspirational Influence in Detroit
German-made goods.
The approaching end of the 1965 Histadrut campaign once again
The anti-German boycott was instituted on the eve of the second calls attention to the deep interest that has been created here in
world war and was one of the most effective weapons against Nazism. support of Israel's Federation of Labor and its allied activities. Always
If another boycott were to be started now. it would be a weapon in the forefront among the communities that have provided assistance
against blackmail: for, that's what's happened in Bonn where the Arabs to Israel's labor forces. the Det7oit affiliates in the allied Histadrut
blackmailed Chancellor Ludwig Erhard.
movements have uninterruptedly provided the means for many labor
It had been hoped that Bonn's constant asseverations that the West projects in Israel.
German government is opposing all manifestations of Nazism would be
This has been and continues to 7:e the result of an appreciation
proven sincere in every respect. What the latest Bonn actions of halting of the pioneering efforts of Histadrut. The many waves of immigra-
an agreement to provide Israel with some defense weapons does is to tion into pre-Israel Palestine and into the present-da y
since
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indicate that there is no concern by the Erhard government over the statehood have had major assistance frOm Histadrut from whose ranks
security of the small remnant that survived the Nazi holocaust, and come the workers, and into whose ranks have been drawn many tens
of thousands of newcomers.
their kinsmen. who have found haven in Israel.
If it should become necessary to extend a boycott against Germany,
There is deep appreciation for such efforts. That is why Histadrut's .
it will be a reaction against a total abnegation of all the hopes for appeals always receive warm responses here.
peace through the rejection of Nazism that was forced upon the Ger-
.
mans after the last war.
'Jacob Cohen' Becomes Ecumenical Symbol
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Ask New Pro gram
to Fnd Arms Race
at •Pacem' Parley
Three noted theologians — a
Catholic. Jew and Protestant —
joined with a Nobel Prize scientist
and a leading advocate of disarma-
ment to call for new programs and
new thinking to end the arms race
and carry out the hopes for peace
expressed by the late Pope John
XXIII in his encyclical "Pacem In
In a document"Therefore Choose
Life," published by the Center for
the Study of Democratic Institn-
tions. these five men declare that
Each of the Detroit and the suburban area telephone directories the cold war must be replaced by
has a single "Jacob Cohen" listing. There are several more Cohens internationally agreed on plans to
with "Jack" as first name. outlaw force and promote coopera-
New York's directories have scores of "Jacob Cohens." They tion between nations no matter
probably have difficulty being identified, except by their addresses.
what their political differences
The late Abraham Goldberg, who was one of the most brilliant may be.
Yiddish orators and a Jewish leader of note, faced the problem of
The five contributors to the pub-
identification in the New York directory among the many Abraham lication are Robert McAee Brown,
Goldbergs. He found a solution: he had himself listed as . Abraham professor of religion at Stanford;
Zionist Goldberg.
Thomas Merton, a monk who is
Ecumenism has given new status to Jacob Cohen. An unusual master of novices at the Abbey of
advertisement appeared in the New York Times Book Review Section. Gethsemane, Rabbi Everett E.
It was inserted by America, a national Catholic weekly review, and it Gendler of the Jewish Center,
Princeton; Hermann J. Buller, bi-
made this tempting offer:
ologist; and Norman Cousins, edi-
If your name is JACOB COHEN please accept a free subscrip-
tor, and honorary president of the
tion to America.
United World Federalists.
The body of the ad explained the reason for its offer by stating:
A sample copy of "Therefore
"Because the editors want to introduce them (the Jacob CohenS) to
the weekly magazine which uses Judeo-Christian principles as the Choose Life" is available without
basis for their analysis of current public affairs. The editors wish charge from the Center headquar-
they could extend a free trial subscription to all the other Cohens and ters, Box 4068, Santa Barbara,
to e
- very interested Catholic, Protestant and Jew in the U. S., but a California, or from the Center's
New York City office, 136 East
limited budget is available for this purpose. . .."
Now, this is, indeed, ecumenism! Think how interesting it would 57th Street.
The publication's call to imple-
be if we were able to say to every Patrick Murphy: "If your name is
Patrick Murphy please accept a free subscription to The Jewish ment the peace mesage of "Pacem
News. . . ." But there are budgets, and the things that are gotten In Terris" states the theme of the
free are not always valued as much as the items we strive to attain! Center's Pacem In Terris convoca-
And this is always the problem of who speaks for whom!
tion in New York Feb. 18-20.
Nevertheless, ecumenism has emerged as an interesting phenom-
"Therefore Choose Life" states
enon and on the eve 'of Brotherhood Week, when a valuable maga- the belief that the world is on the
zine is offered free to the Jacob Cohens, we have indeed reached a verge of a breakthrough to peace,
new stage in advocating interest in the Judeo-Christian ideologies. but it also voices dissatisfaction at
Except that there still' remains the basic principle to look for: who the failure of the public and world
will do the interpreting of the Judeo-Christian ideals? America does leaders to develop "guide-lines"
it for Catholics; we do it for Jews. We are interested , in our neigh- which will make Pope John's call.
bor's viewpoint, nevertheless our own must be protected. That's to world disarmament and coopera-
where the rub comes in in America's offer.
tion a reality.
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A View of 'Insanity From the Middle East'
M. S. Arnoni is a fearless thinker, and his journal, The Minority
of One, is well worth watching for expressions of view on major
world issues.
The current number of The Minority of One contains a logical
analysis of "Insanity From the Middle East " The editor states in
evaluating the situation involving the Jews and the Arabs:
When the September summit conference of Arab leaders in
Alexandria was concluded, there were indications that the conferees
had displayed some degree of realism in appreciating the futility of
massive aggression against Israel. Arab politics, however, has rules
all of its own, making the discernment of trends even more risky
than political guessing usually is. The minute one Arab government
displays the slightest degree of moderation vis-a-vis Israel, another
Arab government attempts to gain the reputation as champion of
Arab nationalism. Thus, President Nasser's reported awareness that
at this juncture Israel could successfully defend itself against an
all-out Arab attack. seems to inspire an increase in the frequency
of Syrian shootings into Israel.
In addition to the global military dangers inherent in the Middle
Eastern tensions, the implacable Arab hostility towards Israel
threatens to corrupt the very sanity of many international relation-
ships. The strong pressures which Arab diplomats brought upon the
Vatican against the exoneration of Jews from guilt in the Crucifixion;
and Jordan's later-refuted threats to blacklist all the Catholic bishops 1
who voted for such exoneration constituted nothing that can be fitted
into usual, if hostile. patterns of diplomacy; rather, these steps tes-
tify to the psychopathology of the Arab attitude towards Israel. The
same goes for Arab pressures, exercised in the United States, Eng-
land, France and elsewhere, imposing anti-Jewish personnel policies
upon banks and business enterprises trading with the Arab countries.
These pressures go beyond anything known in politically inspired
economic boycotts.
Virtually every agency of the United Nations has been abused by
Arab delegations misusing them for silly demonstrations of hostility
against Israel. The latest in these sterile undertakings was aimed
at keeping Israel out from the largest and newest U.N. group, that
of the developing nations. The activities of some U.N. agencies,
especially those of regional Middle Eastern scope, have been im-
paired due to similar obstructions by Arab diplomats.
Pathological as this hostility is, there exists the danger that its
sheer persistence will extract concessions. In fact, many such conces-
BY SAUL CARSON
JTA Correspondent at the UN
sions have already been extracted, and these go far and beyond
(Copyright,
1965, JTA, Inc.)
phenomena such as Algerian President Ben Bella's joining the chorus
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—The
of hate.
How unscrupulous Arab governments are in dealing with anything silver lining has happened. Under
that involves Israel was recently shown in the Louk Affair. The the cloud befogging the very exist-
weirdly equipped trunk in which Egyptian diplomats tried to abduct ance of the United Nations, due to
the disagreement on the financing
Mordekai Louk belongs, as far as the civilized world is concerned,
of peacekeeping operations, this
in a museum of Middle Age torture devices; but to President
year's General Assembly has been
Nasser it is a still-admissible tool of policy enforcement. Shariff
forced to act "by consensus"—or
Shaker, an Egyptian now residing in Paris and a former information
not at all. No votes were possible,
officer of the United Arab Republic, disclosed that the trunk was built
lest a confrontation result between
by former SS Colonel Helmut Harbinger, and other credible reports the United States and those powers
had it that at least on one occasion Nasser himself was present while —including not only the So v iet
the human cargo of the trunk was being unloaded in Cairo.
Union but also France and others
There is no need for further indications that Arab; hostility —who refuse to pay for operations
towards Israel has become pathological, in the literal sense of this like the United Nations Emergency
term. This sickness is bound to feed on each of its conquests. Every Force, the cost of the Congo fiasco
time a business enterprise succumbs to Arab pressure and forfeits and the Cyprus imbroglio. As a re-
its trade with Israel, every time a bank deposes a Jewish executive sult of this consensus routine, vari-
to comply with Arab dictate, and every time the activities of an ous actions were taken by the As-
international institution are hampered by wasteful anti-Israeli demon- sembly, carried unanimously. It
strations, Arab bellicosity gains encouragement. The challenge to may be of interest to look at the
*overnments, international institutions and private organizations that official announcement of one of
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Silver Lining Evidenced in Decision at UN
these actions as issued by the Un-
ited Nations.
In another action by consensus,
UNRWA was authorized to work
during the extended year along the
same budget it has had this year,
about $36,000,000. That "pledging
conference" will bring in the
money. The United States, as usual,
is expected to ante up about 70
per cent.
So where is the silver lining? It
lies in the fact, due to the absence
of debate and voting, the Arabs
had no opportunity to cavil at Is-
rael for weeks on end. And they
were ready.
Since the last time they ap-
peared here en masse for a debate
on the Arab refugee question,
there have been two Arab summit
conferences. The 13 Arab states
had decided not only to pursue
their own line of attacking Israel
verbally, but developed what they
called a "Unified Arab Command"
which would fight Israel militarily.
The man organizing that cora-
mand is none other than Ahmed
Shukairy, and he was ready to
come here and really shout, really
to rattle his armaments. The fact
that those armaments are discards
from the Arab arsenals, now sup-
plied with fresh material by the
Soviet bloc—that couldn't worry
Shukairy. A civilian commander
of a "military" force now, be
would have sounded a very high
note indeed. Now the Assembly
has robbed him of his high MO-
ment.
The Arab refugee item is dead
for this year.
Dayenu.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
2—Friday, February 19, 1965