Orthodox Rabbis Council to Honor Morris Karbals at Testimonial Campaign Objectives Statute Backing Likely; Bigots Launch Drive Dinner of Vaad Harabonim to be held Sunday . . . Story on Page 5 Editorial Analysis, Page 4 Story on Page 9 Allied Jewish Campaign's Objectives • USSR Conducts Saintly Drive . . Rabbis Are the 1=0 "T" PZ 0 1 — r Apologists Commentary Page 2 XLVI I. No. 2 MICHIGAN! A Weekly Review Midrasha's Explorative Values f Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper--Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle Printed in a 100% Union Shop 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd. Results of Vague but — VE 8 9364 - — Detroit, Mich. 48235 — March 5, 1965 — Editorials Page 4 $6.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c arriman Visit ermed 'Useful' (Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News) State Department Ignores Johnson Administration By MILTON FRIEDMAN (Copyright, 1965, JTA, Inc.) WASHINGTON — State Depart- ment officials were so eager to shield West Germany from conse- quences of German policies which angered many Americans that they ignored the Johnson Administra- tion's program to curtail the flow of dollars to Europe. The Bonn Government's appease- ment of Egypt by the abrupt can- cellation of arms sales to Israel provoked public opinion. So did Bonn's attitude on ending trials of Nazi war criminals. Consequently, a few American businessmen con- sidered reduction of the huge sums spent in West Germany for goods -k-1.0 machinery. In some cities, lers for Volkswagen and Merce- es-Benz automobiles were cancel- ed. Customers bought American cars instead. The State Department was fully aware that President Johnson has been urging Americans to reduce spending for foreign products be- cause of the payments deficit and gold drain. Yet the Department was infuriated when Americans . responded to Bonn's obnoxious be- havior by doing exactly what the President wanted. Diplomats were hypersensitive because they knew America's moral responsibility to provide arms to Israel had been evaded and passed off to Bonn. This was done be- cause the State Department wished v-------\avoid offending Egyptian Presi- - '-'-,____ lit Nasser. Soviet arms of ultra-modern de- sign are pouring into Egypt. New orders have been placed in Mos- cow. Yet the United States has evaded any systematic commitment to sell balancing arms to Israel on a continuing basis. Since the United States put this burden on Bonn, American diplomats feel they have to defend the Germans and extri- cate them from difficulties with "emotional elements" in the United States. This explained the unprecedent- ed State Department pro-German announcement that this Govern- ment deplores "private boycotts" because they are "a form of retalia- tion." The Department had never so dramatically denounced Arab boycotts affecting Americans. The Department was infuriated by full-page advertisements insert- ed in leading newspapers by the Jewish War Veterans. The ads 4 Continued on Page 7 JERUSALEM—The Israel cabinet held a special meeting Tuesday to discuss the five days of talks between Israeli government leaders and Undersecretary of State Averell Harriman, which ended Monday night without issuance of a formal communique. Harriman issued a statement before his departure in which he said "My discussions with Israeli officials have been friendly, frank and useful. They confirmed not only the points of tension which have recently arisen in the area with new intensity, but also Israeli relations with friendly countries. As a result of our talks," he added, "I believe the Israeli government is fully aware of United States govern- ment views and I am now able to report clearly to President Johnson the views of the Israeli government." Declaring that the exchanges would be continued through diplo- matic channels, the envoy added that "It is a cardinal tenet of United States policy to do whatever is possible to help promote stability and peace in the Near East. I am confident our talks have been useful, and I leave tremendously impressed with the vigor and determination of this country and its progress since my visit a decade ago." (In Moscow, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda, assailed Harriman's trip as an "anti-Arab" move. Pravda accused the United States of planning to replace canceled West German arms shipments to Israel "so that there should be no let-up in the common efforts to help Israel build up its military might." The conferences with Harriman continued right up to his departure. The communique did not go beyond generalities, since Harriman had come here wtihout a clear mandate from the Johnson administration for entering into hard commitments. Authoritative sources here said the talks marked "progress" in United States attitudes about supplying Israel with direct military aid. They said the issue was not settled because the United States views it as part of a wider situation and wishes to tie it to an agreed formula on Israeli Foreign Minister Golda Meir greets President Johnson's special envoy, Ambas- Israel's reaction to Arab plans to counter Israel's tap of the Jordan River for its national irrigation project. sador W. Averell Harriman, in Jerusalem, The United States, it was reported, feels that even if the Arabs try when he arrived for high-level talks on to divert a small part of the water, Israel should not consider this an act the Middle East situation following the West German cancellation of arms ship- of aggression. Israel has warned that it would so consider it. In the ments to the Jewish state. Continued on Page 5 Israel Complains to the UN on Terrorism From Jordan UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA) — Israel Monday filed with the Security Council a sharp complaint against Jordan, charging the Arab government with serious violations of the Jordan-Israel armistice agreement and with endangering the peace of the area. Israel revealed at the same time that saboteurs obviously being sheltered by Jordan have carried out three separate efforts at terrorism inside Israel in the last two months. The complaint was lodged by Israel's permanent represen- tative here, Ambassador Michael S. Comay. The Israel represen- tative requested that his letter of protest be circulated to all members of the Security Council, but avoided asking that the Council convoke any sessions on the issue. According to the letter, an attack very early Sunday morning at Kfar Hess, in Israel's central area, about five miles from the Jordanian border, was only one of a series of similar efforts. At Kfar Hess, two separate explosions damaged the small farm settlement's silo and blew up part of a house where members of the settlement were asleep. No one was injured. Israeli border patrols and army units traced the tracks of three men back to the Jordanian frontier. On Jan. 7, Comay reported, a group of armed infiltrators was intercepted by an Israeli patrol near Nechushah, another village, remote from Kfar Hess and less than two miles from the Jordanian border. One of the infiltrators was wounded and captured, while the others escaped across the frontier. The man caught admitted under interrogation by United Nations military observers that he was a member of a unit of anti-Israel saboteurs at work inside Jordan. He had explosives hidden in his gear when captured. On Jan. 21, Comay continued, explosives were discovered in place at the water dam in the new town of Arad. It is belived here that the saboteurs from Jordan are mem- bers of a group called the Fatah, comprised of so-called Arab refugees working under the domination of the Unified Arad Command established to carry out systematic attacks against Israel. France Starts Cairo Talks on Extending Trade Ties PARIS (JTA) — An official French delegation of eight representatives of various ministries has begun negotiations in Cairo for "the expansion of trade relations" between France and Egypt, it was announced here. The delegation includes officials from the foreign ministry and the ministries of industry, trade and agriculture, and is headed by Maurice de Courson, of the foreign ministry, who holds the rank of special envoy and minister plenipotentiary. The negotiations, is was announced, are taking place within the framework of the Franco-Egyptian trade agreement signed last year. Meanwhile, Cairo dispatches received by the French press reported that another delegation, headed by Emmanuel Mayolle, vice president of the French National Association of Industrial- ists, finished a 10-day visit to Egypt Monday, after concluding negotiations for French participation in Egypt's forthcoming five-year development plan. On behalf of the industrialists and bankers on the delega- tion, Mayolle was reported here telling the Egyptian press that the group "intends, upon its return to France, to call on French industrial circles to closely and sympathetically examine their possible participation in the realization of Egypt's five-year development plan." The French cabinet decided at a meeting here under the chairmanship of President de Gaulle, to end "the policy of active aid to Israel," the influential daily, L'Aurore, claimed. Attributing its report to "usually well-informed sources," the newspaper stated: "Israel no longer enjoys the good graces of the government. The long-term policy of active help is finished." L'Aurore asserted that the general tone of the cabinet meet- ing, which discussed in detail reports received last week from Cairo, Bonn and Tel Aviv, was one inclined to "let Israel find its own modus vivendi with her neighbors, or no longer count on us." There was neither confirmation nor denial of the report from official government sources.