`No Phony Tolerance in His Makeup'
Knesset Suspends
Immunity of Former
Deputy Health Minister.
Israel, Jewry Lose a Friend in Adlai Stevenson
• When Adlai Stevenson died July
14 at the age of 65, his mourners
crossed all boundaries of nation-
ality and religion. Because his
quest for peace through the United
Nations was so universally ap-
parent, even those who once criti-
cized his "lack of sympathy" for
Israel now could cite instances of
his good will.
Thus, American Jewish organ-
izations joined in the worldwide
grief for the United Nations am-
basador who, even at the time of
his sudden death, was on his way
back from a meeting of the UN
Economic and Social Council in
Geneva, where Soviet anti-Semit-
ism was among the topics he would
be considering.
Mr. Stevenson had appeared
frequently as the major speaker
at events conducted by American
Jewish organizations. During his
t w o unsuccessful presidential
campaigns, in 1952 and 1956, he
had very broad backing from
leading Jews and from Jewish
voters in general around the
country.
In May of 1956, for example, Mr.
Stevenson said in a campaign
speech in the Los Angeles West
Side Jewish Center:.
"In view of the situation that
has developed, since Secretary (of
State John Foster) Dulles present-
ed General Naguib of Egypt a re-
volver three years ago, it is hardly
surprising that Russia, with an eye
on the oil of the Middle East, is
now cynically fishing in these
troubled waters and supplying
Egypt and the Arab states arms
and aid.
"And I think events in the past
year have clearly shown that the
Big Three no longer have a com-
mon policy in the Middle East. In
fact, as I say, we seem to have
little policy at all except to give
our bleSsing to the Secretary. Gen-
eral of the United Nations as he
tries to patch up the armistice
agreements. A result of this di-
vided policy is that the Soviet
Union has become a power in the
Middle East, and is probably there
to stay, which the Arabs as well
as the rest of us may have cause
to regret as time goes on .. .
"In my judgment, prompt and
emphatic steps should be taken
to make it unequivocally clear:
1. That Israel is here to stay; 2.
That we will not tolerate armed
aggression by either side and
that we stand ready to intervene
to prevent it; and 3. That Israel
should no longer be- deprived of
the means of self-defense. The
necessary weapons and training
should be supplied to Israel to re-
store a balance with her un-
friendly neighbors."
Mr. Stevenson was a member
of the American delegation to the
UN when the state of Israel was
created and had traveled through-
out the country.
As head of the U.S. delegation
to the United Nations, Mr. Steven-
son distinguished himself as a
friend of Israel at a series of Se-
curity Council sessions only last
December. At these meetings it
was Mr. Stevenson who saved Is-
rael from condemnation by the
Council as a result of Syrian corn-
plaints charging Israel with "overt
aggression."
The Syrian complaint had been
based on an exchange of heavy
fire with Israel on Nov. 13, 1964.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
8—Friday, July 23, 1965
It was at a party given by Am-
bassador Comay two months ago
that Saul Carson, Jewish Tele-
graphic Agency correspondent at
the UN, last saw Mr. Stevenson.
"He was a very warm man,"
Carson recalled, "and wanted to
be liked. He desired particularly
the liking of the Jewish people.
There was no phony tolerance of
Jews in his makeup. His friend-
ship was real."
Carson cited the close work
Mr. Stevenson had done for
years with Philip M. Klutznick,
former national president of
Bnai Brith, who became full am-
bassador as his principal aide
in the U.S. delegation to the UN.
It was he who got Newton
Minow, formerly a young assistant
in his Chicago law office, appoint-
ed by President Kennedy to the
chairmanship of the Federal Com-
munication Commission. Back in
World War II, he helped remove
the last vestiges of anti-Semitism
in the commissioning of naval of-
ficers when he served as special
assistant to Secretary of the Navy
Frank Knox. Jewish War Veterans
National Commander Ralph Plof-
sky recalled that particular con-
contribution.
In short, according to Carson,
"Adlai Stevenson could say truth-
fully—although he was much too
urbane ever to utter such a cliche
—that some of his very best friends
were Jews. They were indeed."
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Adlai Stevenson is shown outside the 'U.S. Embassy in London 45
minutes before he collapsed and died walking in Grosvenor Square.
The UN ambassador was 65.
On that date, after Syria had
bombed a number of Israeli set-
tlements near its border, Israel
retaliated by sending plane -s into
the air, bombing Syrian gun posts
in Syria. Israel did not deny that
action, and there were expecta
tions that the Council might con-
demn Israel.
However, after almost a month
of debate, inside the Council and
behind the scenes, the United
States and Britain presented a
mild resolution calling on "both
sides" to observe. their armistice
agreement, and making no men-
tion of the bombing by Israel.
In the end, the resolution was
vetoed because the Soviet Union
voted against the measure. But
eight members of the Council did
vote for the American-British reso-
lution. Mr. Stevenson was given
wide credit for having headed off
the move for the censure of Israel.
In the absence of Ambassador
Michael S. Comay, Israel's per-
manent representative to the UN,
who was in Israel for consultations
No one undersells
with his government, a spokesman
for the Israeli Mission said: "We
extend our deepest condolences to
the United States government, Mr.
Stevenson's family, the United
States Mission and the United Na-
tions upon the untimely and great
loss of this outstanding states-
man."
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Rabbinical Council Joins
Presidents Conference
NEW YORK (JTA)—The Rabbi-
nical Council of America, repre-
senting more than 850 Orthodox
rabbis across the country, has join-
ed the Conference of Presidents of
Major American Jewish Organiza-
tions, it was announced by Dr.
Joachim Prinz, chairman of the
conference. The Rabbinical Coun-
cil will be represented at the con-
ference by its president, Rabbi
Israel Miller.
The affiliation of the Rabbinical
Council brings to 21 the number
of national Jewish religious and
Lay groups that makes up the
Presidents' Conference.
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JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Knes-
set, Israel's Parliament, decided to
suspend the parliamentary immuni-
ty of former Deputy Health Minis-
ter Yitzhak Raphael, who will now
stand trial on charges of soliciting
and accepting a bribe in connec-
tion with the building of a hospital.
Raphael, who had himself sought
the lifting of the immunity in order
to clear himself of the charges,
sharply criticized the attorney gen-
eral, who, he said, was being
guided by "extraneous considera-
tions," since the charges were
"completely refuted by police in
vestigation."
The National Religious Party,
Agudat Israel and Poole Agudat
Israel - abstained on the vote on
lifting Raphael's immunity. Justice
Minister Dov Joseph decried
Raphael's attack on the attorney
general and on Judge Moshe Gau-
lan, who headed the committee ap-
pointed by Premier Eshkol, the re-
port of which implicated Raphael.
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