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No. 1 Editorials Page 4 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd.—VE 8-9364—Detroit, Mich. 48235—February 26, 1965—$6.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c Harriman's Visit to Israel Viewed as U.S. 'Calm-Down' ActionForced y onnCrisis (Direct JTA Teletype wire to The Jewish News) World Pays Frankfurter Tribute; Jurist Requested the Kaddish Leaders in all walks of life, Jews and non-Jews, in this country and abroad, in Jerusalem, London, Paris as well as in New York and in Washington, joined in paying tribute to the memory of form- er Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, who 'died Monday at the age of 82. Mr. Justice Frankfurter will be remembered as a devoted Zion- ist who labored closely with Justice Louis D. Brandeis in be- -*thalf of the great cause of Israel's redemp- 'tion. Frankfurter was a member of the Jewish delegation to the Versailles Peace :;Conference in 1918 which framed Jewish proposals for the establishment of the Na- tional Home in Palestine. Isidore Levin of Detroit, who was one of his star pupils at Harvard when Frankfurter was professor of law, was one of his chief secretarial as- sistants at Versailles. Frankfurter retained his deep interest in Zionism and in Israel and five years ago delivered a major address at the annual dinner of the Weizmann Institute in New York. Frankfurter had expressed a wish that Jewish funeral rites should be conducted for him and that the kaddish should be Felix Frankfurter recited. This was expressed by him to Gar- son Kanin, the playwright. It was incorporated in an essay included in a volume of tributes to Frankfurter published by Morrow last : (Continued on Page 6) WASHINGTON — United States officials said Tuesday that the purpose of an emergency visit to Israel this week by Undersecretary of State W. Averell Har- riman is to urge restraint on Israel and world Jewry on the German arms issue, rather than initiate any United States munitions supply program for Israel. Harri- man arrived in Israel Wednesday. President Lyndon B. Johnson, characterized by officials as concerned about the plight of West Germany in the wake of both Arab and Jewish reactions to Bonn policies, quickly consented to the State Department suggestion that Harri- man be dispatched to "calm down" Israel. This will be Harriman's first trip as ambassador at large, his new designa- tion. He still holds the title of undersecretary of state because the Senate has not yet acted to confirm the redesignation announced very recently. The special mission will be described as at the personal direction of Presi- dent Johnson. This, it is believed, will strengthen the envoy's status when he meets with Israel Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and other Israeli leaders. It was stressed here in an obvious effort to avoid criticism from Egyptian President Nasser that Harriman does not plan to convey any commitment for a United States arms program for Israel to substitute for the canceled Bonn con- tracts. The main purpose of the Harriman visit, according to high-ranking State De- partment sources, is to meet urgent West German appeals for the United States to quiet the furor resulting from the revela tion of the German-Israel arms agree- ment and its abrupt cancellation. Egypt reacted with extreme diplomatic moves favoring Communist East Germany when the agreement was revealed. Israel took strong objection to the cancellation of the agreement, a move by Bonn to appease Egypt. West German Ambassador Heinrich Knappstein requested American interces- sion with Israel and the Arab states last week when he met with Secretary of State Dean Rusk. The State Department issued a statement requested by West Germany, voicing disapproval of American Jewish boycott moves. German approaches to Washington have stressed that the United States avoided Arab wrath b.y urging West Germany to undertake the Israel arms sup- _ (Continued on Page 5) Germans Find Collaborators in Washington to Sweep Nazi Era Under Rug as Appeasement Rules in Capital ( By MILTON FRIEDMAN JTA and Jewish News Washington Correspondent (Copyright, 1965, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) (_ WASHINGTON — Has a chain reaction of appeasement of Egypt's Nasser been ignited by the Johnson administration's rescue of Nasser from the wrath of Con- gress on the aid issue? It is now evident that the German Embassy in Washington reported fully to Chancellor Erhard in Bonn on the role of President Johnson in the recent Egyptian aid controversy. Egyptian newspapers boasted that Nas- ser's power and influence were recognized and strengthened by the "surrender" of President Johnson who had beseeched Con- gress to continue surplus commodity ship- ments to Egypt. The White House gave in after Nasser threatened to collaborate more elasely with Communism. The American surrender encouraged Nasser to take an even tougher stand with West Germany to force cancellation of German arms con- tracts with Israel. Chancellor Erhard of West Germany, noting the Washington trend, capitulated to Nasser's blackmail. He acted on the belief that Germans were more concerned with preventing East German penetration of the Near East than in the preservation of Israel. The irresponsible German role in the Near East is now the subject of world at- tention. But the American commitments to preservation of peace and stability in • that. region are losing meaning in the new turn of events. The time has come to remind Washing- ton that Israeli security cannot rest solely upon a changing and cynical Germany. Israel depends on a vague series of guaran- tees voiced at election time and on other occasions by various presidents. Some time ago, the United States provided Hawk anti- aircraft missiles to Israel. But more recently, the State Depart- ment has been preoccupied with avoiding Arab criticism. Israel was urged to seek its defensive needs from West Germany. Washington urged the Germans to sell Israel used American equipment. The State Department meanwhile encouraged con- tinued American economic aid to Nasser on grounds that this promoted peace in the Near East. Nasser, thus strengthened, di- verted more of his own funds to the pur- chase of additional ultramodern Soviet arms. He sought to hire more German rocket scientists and military technicians. A dangerous situation is developing in the Near East through the series of capi- tulations by Washington and Bonn to Nas- ser's blackmail. Had President Johnson. heeded Congress rather than the State De- partment, Nasser might have been put in his place. Now he is the Near East's "Man on Camel-back." Washington complicity in German atti- tudes has been . overlooked. The United States, of course, did not concur in Bonn's cancelation of German arms contracts with Israel. Nor did America tell Bonn to refuse to extend the statute of limitations cover- ing trial of Nazi war criminals. And no Washington official urged Bonn to send German rocket scientists to work in Egyp- tian military industries. The United States, however, in its ob- session with rehabilitating West Germany as the cornerstone of NATO, collaborated in sweeping the Nazi era under the rug. The fiction of a totally "New Germany" has been written on both sides - of the Atlantic. The reparations agreement brought Bonn a cloak of immunity from critcism. Nazis returned to high posts, Nazi indus- trialists defied decartelization orders. The State Department did not want to offend German sensibilities or remind Europe of Nazi barbarism at a time when Europeans were asked to accept a new German army as their shield and protector. State Department officials justified the role of Germans in Egypt, minimized the aggressive intentions of the Nasser regime, and debunked Israel's fears. Israel is the world's only nation, menac- ed by Soviet arms in the hands of pro- Communist neighbors, which has such trouble obtaining American defense assist- ance. Why should Israel be forced to rely upon second-hand U.S. tanks from West Germany? The United States has enough tanks to sell directly to Israel. It is nothing less than American ap- peasement of Nasser which led to the top- level decision to pass off responsibilities for Israeli security needs to the Germans. Every single item ordered by Israel from West Germany could have been shipped directly from the United States. The State Department was frantic to avoid direct in- volvement with Israeli defense require- ments. The question now to be asked is what will happen if a power-mad Nasser launches armed aggression against Israel? Will the State Department tell Israel to apply to the Germans for help?