Our Fourth UN Ambassador: The appointment by PresidentlAnsdri of Supreme Court Justice Arthur J. Goldberg as U. S. ambassador to the United Nations makes Goldberg (left) the fourth American in that role. The others are (from left) Warren Austin, who served under President Truman; Henry Cabot Lodge, who was President Eisenhower's spokesman at the world organization; and Adlai Stevenson, who was named to the post in 1961. Ambassador Goldberg pledges to "help keep the candle of peace burning." Report of his swearing-in, other related stories, Pages 6, 32 Goldberg Credo: Loyalty to Self and to Kin Lends Substance to Basic Americanism HE JEWISH NE - r 1=2 CZ:II '7' A Weekly Review * Editorial Page 4 Capital Punishment: Jewish Tradition NA 1 1—i i in Opposition of Jewish Events Michigan's Only English-Jewish Newspaper —Incorporating The Detroit Jewish Chronicle VOLUME XLVII—NO. 23 Printed in a 1007,, Union Shop 17100 W. 7 Mile Rd., Detroit 48235—VE 8-9364—July 30 ,1965 Commentary Page 2 $6.00 Per Year; This Issue 20c U.S. Rabbis' Sermons in Moscow Raise Hope of New USSR Rules Granting Jews Religious Rights State Department Starts Action Against Egypt for Resale of Food Meant for Distribution to Poor WASHINGTON (JTA)—The State Department acknowledged that a quantity of corn provided to Egypt for free- distribution to the poor was sold, and announced that action has been instituted Fortas Named for repayment by Egypt for amounts illegally sold. to High Court _ State Department spokesman Robert McCloskey said the United States relied upon statistics pro- vided by the Egyptian ministry of agriculture. The department's version was that the corn, valued at $23,700,000, was provided for humanitarian reasons and the "beneficial effect" the deal might have on American-Egyptian relations. The department disputed the contention of the U.S. General Accounting Office that the food was granted on the basis of allegations of crop fail- ure and impending famine, when it was later revealed these claims were untrue. According to the State Department, cotton worms found their appetites unsatisfied by cotton and switched over ABE FORTAS, to corn during the year in question. prominent Washing- The grant was made in 1961. Egyptian misuse ton attorney, on of the food and deficiencies of verification by the Wed n esday was State Department were revealed to Congress by the General Accounting Of' fice. It could not he immedi- named by President ately determined how much repayment is being Johnson to succeed sought. The GAO charge was that almost half of Arthur J. Goldberg the 186,000 tons of corn provided was improperly as a member of exploited in Egypt. the United States Supreme Court. (Continued on Page 6) Permission granted to American rabbis to speak. in Moscow's Central Synagogue and freer distribution of a Yiddish newspaper in Vilna has raised the question whether there is an easing of restrictions on Jewish spiritual and cultural practices in Russia. Delivery of addresses to a crowded congregation marked the first instance of such free appearance of foreign rabbis in a Russian synagogue in 10 years. At the same time, the New York Times reported from Vilna, Lithuania, that the Birobidzhan Shtern has become available on Vilna newsstands. It is also re- ported that the first Hebrew publication to appear in the USSR in decades has been issued by Novosti Press. It is Shlomo Rabinowitz's "Jews in the Soviet Union." Three American rabbis addressed the congregation of the Central Synagogue in Moscow at services last Saturday, and six other U. S. rabbis joined the Sabbath services there, along with 500 to 600 local worshippers. All of the Americans represented the Rabbinical Council of America, which is composed of Orthodox rabbis in the United States. The three who had been given per- mission to speak to the congregation in Moscow were Rabbi Israel Miller, president of the Rabbinical Council of America; Rabbi Bernard Poupko of Pittsburgh; and Rabbi Bernard Bergman of New York. According to Rabbi Bernard Twersky, spokesman for the Council, and a mem- ber of the group that visited Moscow, the rabbis had asked Moscow's Chief Rabbi Ye- huda Leib Levin last Thursday whether they would be permitted to address the con- gregation. Permission was granted Friday night, with the stipulation that politics be avoided. Summarizing the three five-minute addresses. Rabbi Miller said: "We told them we were happy to be with them and gratified at the privilege of standing in the pulpit in which famous rabbis have preached. We tried to encourage them to speak up. The prayer before we spoke said, 'The Almighty should fulfil all the requests of the heart for good.' We told them their requests and ours were the same. "We said we were grateful to the Soviet Union for voting with the United States in the United Nations for the establishment of the state of Israel. There was applause at this. which the chief rabbi stopped. We said we had not come on a political mission but had come to seek our brethren!' After the three spoke, Rabbi Levin made a short speech in which he told the (Continued on Page 12) Goldberg's New Role Poses Many Problems (-Ambassador in Suite 42A: hs Home at the Waldorf State Dept. vs. Goldberg Over Zionist Appellation BY SAUL CARSON BY MILTON FRIEDMAN JTA Correspondent at the United Nations (Copyright, 1965, Jewish Telegrap:lic Agency, Inc.) (Copyright, 1965, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.) L f UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.—Suite 42A at the Waldorf Towers, an adjunct of the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, is going to - have a new occupant, though the official tenant is the same—the Government of the United States. The posh, nine-room apartment -had been the official home of War- ren R. Austin; was occupied for years by Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.; belonged -far a short, interim period to Am- bassador James J. Wadsworth; was taken over by Adlai E. Stevenson; and now it will be the address of Arthur J. Goldberg. Suite 42k is the residence of Washington's permanent representative to the United Nations. The home will be the same, but there is little doubt that a new style, perhaps even a new" dimension, will be added when the new man moves in. That style was evi- dent in a quotation voiced by the Ambassador-Designate during the ceremony in which President Johnson an- nounced his appointment. Quoting Thomas Jefferson, and alluding to his illustrious predecessor, Justice Goldberg said: "I succeed him. No one could replace him." (Continued on Page 32) U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations Arthur J. Goldberg, his wife and son, Robert, 24, look solemn in Washington, as the new American delegate to the world organization made his decision to quit the Supreme Court and to ac- cept a call from President Johnson to the role. WASHINGTON — State Department officials are eager for Arthur J. Goldberg, newly appointed head of the U.S. delegation to the United Nations, tacitly to re- nounce his recent assertion that he is a Zionist. American diplomats have started explaining to Arab governments that Goldberg's strongly pro-Israel address of May 3 and a subsequent statement in Israel reflected his private philosophy. They are stressing that a Supreme Court justice has no direct role in formulation of foreign policy. Noi,v that Goldberg is assuming a vital diplomatic post, he would be far more cautious in advocating com- mitments to Israel's defense and direct negotiations for Arab-Israel peace, according to the State Department. Goldberg was not persuaded by President Johnson to resign from the Supreme Court because of any con- cern in Washington, one way or the other, on the Arab- Israel problem. This scarcely entered the President's thinking, according to reliable White House sources. President J a saw Goldberg as the bearer of a liberal image in i Stevenson tradition. The United 'NO on Page 32)