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Syria, Lebanon Resume Operations
on Diverting Jordan Headwaters
TEL AVIV (JTA)—The Syrians
have renewed their preliminary
work on the diversion of the Ban-
yas water sources, one of the head-
waters of the Jordan River. It fol-
lowed two weeks of inactivity
caused by the destruction of a
number of tractors and other
equipment in an exchange of fire
with Israel. The Syrians brought
new equipment to the site, and re-
sumed clearing operations.
The evening daily, Maariv, re-
ported that the decision to resume
work on the Syrian project was
reached by the United Arab Com-
mand, after precautionary meas-
_---ures were taken, including the re-
inforcement of Iraqi forces de-
ployed along the Jordanian border
and the movement of forces within
Syria and Lebanon.
The Lebanese authorities, mean-
while, released details Monday on
the work going on within the coun-
try's borders close to Israeli terri-
tory, stressing that it was not con-
nected with any water diversion
plan.
It is assumed that the Lebanese
government's statement was in-
tended to allay the fears of Leba-
nese farmers in the area who fear
reprisals by Israel.
Israeli quarters, however, said
that the work does constitute part
of a water diversion scheme, and
that the Israeli warning against
such projects still stands.
In London Prime Minister
Harold Wilson told the House of
Commons that Britain had urged
Israel to take to the United Na-
tions the issue of Arab threats
to Jordan River water access,
rather than to seek a "military
solution." He made the state-
ment during debate on British
Middle East policy.
He also said that, while Britain
would like better relations with
Egypt, it had no intention of seek-
ing that goal by sacrificing its
ties with Israel, Iran or any other
Middle East nation with which it
had good relations. He said such
action would be a change in the
general basis of British policy in
the area.
Declaring that the question of
the Jordan River waters was one
of the immediate causes of ten-
sion in the Middle East, he re-
ported that Britain had made it
clear to Israel that, if anything
happened which the Israelis re-
garded as provocative, excessive
or dangerous from the viewpoint
of water access, there was a vital
need not to settle this problem by
any recourse to an imposed or
military solution.
If matters reached that point, he
said, Britain hoped Israel would
take the question to the UN.
Britain's Labor government
KKK Returns 'Favor,' Asks Probe
of ADL as Un-American Activity
TUSCALOOSA, A 1 a. (JTA) —
Robert Shelton, imperial wizard of
the Ku Klux Klan, United Klans of
America, announced he would ask
the House Un-
American Activi-
ties Committee in
Wash ington to
investigate t h e
Bnai Brith Anti-
Defamation Lea-
gue, National
C o n ference of
Christians a n d
Jews and other
groups.
He made this
Shelton
announcement in responding to a
decision adopted by the House
committee to make a full investi-
gation of the KKK and to continue
preliminary probes into the ac-
tivities of the American Nazi Party.
Rep. Edwin E. Willis, Louisiana
Democrat, who is chairman of the
House committee, stated: "Klanism
is incompatible with American-
ism."
The KKK imperial wizard, seek-
ing probes of the ADL and the
NCCJ, said: "These and many
other organizations have been fi-
nancing, provoking and agitating
the Southerner. The investigation,
is not a one-way street."
In Washington, President John-
son was urged to broaden his cam-
paign against the Ku Klux Klan
to include more vigorous federal
investigations into the activities of
,other "right-wing fanatics" such as
the American Nazi Party.
Commander Ralph Plofsky, of the
Jewish War Veterans of the U.S.A.,
said his organization welcomed the
anti-Klan drive launched by Pres-
ident Johnson as a result of KKK
terrorism, as well as the investiga-
tion of the extremist group by the
House Un-American Activities
Committee.
Citing the activities of such
"military-minded extremists" as
the American Nazi Par t y, the
Minutemen and the National States
Rights Party, Plofsky said that it
was absurd to permit "such pri-
vate armies" to exist with stocks
of arms. He recalled that adher-
ents to the Nazi movement are
known to have accumulated rifles
and pistols, while one Nazi was
arrested for illegal possession of a
machinegun.
In Buenos Aires, the DMA,
the central representative or-
ganization of Argentine Jewry,
hailed the Johnson administra-
tion for its "war" on the Ku Klux
Klan in defense of civil rights
in the United States.
In a message to U.S. Ambassa-
dor Edwin Martin, the DATA said
that the activities of the KKK have
been felt even in Argentina in the
form of propaganda and incitement
to violence, and lauded the John-
son decision as a move in support
of freedom and dignity everywhere.
Meanwhile, Morris B. Abram,
president of the American Jewish
Committee and newly appointed
U.S. representative to the UN's
Commission on Human Rights, was
identified as one of three men
marked for extinction last year by
"The Secret Six," one of many
colorful names for goon squads of
the Ku Klux Klan.
Abram, a native of Atlanta who
is a noted trial and appellate law-
yer now practicing in New 'York
City, was reported by Erwin Savel-
son of the New York World-Tele-
gram to have been cited for hav-
ing stood up against the Klan and
other white supremacists and for
having defended the rights of Ne-
groes. The two other men on the
KKK list were Sam Massel, vice
mayor of Atlanta and also a mem-
ber of the American Jewish Com-
mittee; and a Southern white
clergyman.
The proverb says: "Pay homage
to the physician before you need
him." — Ta'anit
does not share the American
view about President Nasser of
Egypt being a main force for
stability in the Middle East, it
was revealed in Jerusalem as an
aftermath to the high-level talks
held in London by Prime Minis-
ter Levi Eshkol.
Though Britain seeks a working
relationship with Nasser, it has
developed, the London government
advocated a firm stand against
him.
Informed quarters here said
that Eshkol told the Israeli Cabi-
net Monday when he reported on
his talks with Wilson and Foreign
Secretary Michael Stewart that,
though the British leaders are op-
posed to Israel's use of force to
prevent Arab diversion of the
headwaters of the Jordan River,
they take a more liberal view on
that entire issue than Washington
does.
Britain is now understood to be
more prepared than the United
States to agree that the diversion
plan, devised by Nasser, is aimed
primarily at the heightening of
tensions in this region.
Britain, it is understood, is also
ready to tatke stronger measures
against pressures on British firms
by the anti-Israel Arab Boycott
Office.
In Washington, it was learned
that Phillips Talbot, assistant sec-
retary of state for Near Eastern
affairs, might discuss the arms
supply and water diversion issues
on a visit in the Middle East, in-
cluding Israel. He returned from
the CENTO conference in Teheran
Thursday.
It was meanwhile officially an-
nounced that Secretary of State
Dean Rusk, on his way back from
the Teheran conference, will stop
in Geneva today for a one-day
meeting with the U.S. ambassadors
to Israel and other Middle Eastern
nations.
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misstate or suppress the news is
a breach of trust.—Louis D. Bran-
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