JWV Reports Rejection of 'Peace-Niks' Campaign,
An Issue on WhichArabs Met Defeat
BY SAUL CARSON
sembly. Although Israel cast the
Activates Communities to Erase Doubts About Vietnam
(JTA Correspondent at the
sole negative vote on that resolu-
BY MILTON FRIEDMAN
(Copyright, 1965, JTA, Inc.)
WASHINGTON — The U. S.
Armed Forces, through the treat-
ment accorded a Jewish War Vet-
erans delegation in Viet Nam this
month, revealed anxiety to mobil-
ize support for the war by the
American public including the
Jewish community.
JWV leaders reported that Jew-
ish soldiers and Marines in Viet
Nam voiced dismay at statements
by rabbis and some U.S. Jewish
organizations urging cessation of
bombings and commencement of
peace negotiations with the Viet
Cong. According to JWV National
Commander Milton A. Waldor, of
Newark, N.J., the Jewish fighting
men are dedicated to the war ef-
fort but are annoyed at homefront
dissent.
Waldor returned with a com-
ment that he was "disgusted by
Close groups, Jewish or non-Jewish,
so concerned about the right to
dissent, about the rights of the
peace-niks, that they seem not to
recognize that freedom requires
Jewish escort officer, Capt. Sidney
Linver of Toledo, to accompany
the veterans throughout their visit.
Capt. Linver is a regular Army
paratrooper who commands a 12-
man advisory detachment attached
to South Viet Namese forces. The
Viet Cong have put a price on the
Captain's head, knowing his role in
organizing effective counter-guer-
rilla ambushes and actions. The
Captain has fought in jungles and
rice paddies for many months. He
speaks Viet Namese.
Escorted by Capt. Linver, the
JWV leaders went by jeep and
helicopter to the Danang, Chulai
and Delta war zones. They wit-
nessed aspects of Operation
Starlight and Operation Harvest
Moon. They saw screaming jets,
laden with napalm bombs, dive
at target zones. They also saw
Capt. Linver and other Ameri-
cans organize games for Viet-
Namese children.
In a Saigon square, the group
noticed an Israeli flag flying with
the flags of 37 other nations help-
ing South Viet Nam. Israel gives
medical assistance.
Along with 60 Jewish soldiers
from the U.S. First Infantry Divi-
sion, the famous "Big Red One" of
World War Two heroism, the vet-
erans attended Friday night ser-
vices conducted by Major Richard
Dreyer, senior Jewish chaplain. At
the Oneg Shabbat, the soldiers
responsibilities. They are less ar-
ticulate about our country's right
and need to wage a vigorous war
against Communism in Viet Nam."
The JWV commander said his
group will seek "to mobilize and
activate the American Jewish
community to eradicate any
doubts about the vital necessity
for a decisive victory by what-
ever means required in Viet-
Nam. We will challenge the ap-
peasers, the naive and the con-
fused."
BY DAVID SCHWARTZ
(Copyright, 1965, JTA, Inc.)
A JWV offer has been made to
An Israeli Cabinet member last
report on Vietnam to the Con-
ference of Presidents of Major week got two bottles of whiskey
American Jewish Organizations free. He had bet that the new port
and the NCRAC. Waldor and other city of Ashdod would be finished
JWV leaders plan to address meet- before 1965 ended. He won his bet.
Ships have already started coming
ings throughout the country.
Defense Department sources into the new port, but the city will
have confirmed that the U.S. mili- not be formally opened until next
tary establishment, especially Gen. Spring.
William Westmoreland, command-
Usually, towns come into being
ing officer in Viet Nam, welcomed helter-skelter fashion. Harry Si-
the JWV visit. Waldor informed monhoff, in his book, "Jewish Not-
the General that Jewish veterans ables in America," tells how one
"unequivocally support the war American Jewish pioneer, Abra-
and urge all military steps, includ- ham Mordecai, founded the city of
ing air raids, necessary to obtain Montgomery, Ala.
victory."
Mordecai, who had served in the
Gen. Westmoreland replied that Revolutionary War, lived among
he deeply appreciated the JWV the Indians and married an Indian
expression and thought more un- squaw. He lived in an Indian town
derstanding of the war was needed named Acochanta. Usually Indian
at home. He made known that the towns never grew because of the
Army was sensitive to the response Indian roaming habits. They lived
of the American Jewish commun- largely on the buffalo or deer and
ity.
moved about according to the
Waldor and JWV national di- scarcity or abundance of the ani-
rector Monroe Sheinberg flew to mals on which they subsisted. The
Viet Nam at JWV expense. The coming of Mordecai, building a
only transportation and facilities white man's home at Acochanta,
provided by the Government were was a milestone. Other whites
in combat areas.
joined him and so Acochanta was
Gen. Westmoreland assigned a metamorphosed into Montgomery,
the city destined to become the
first capital city of the Southern
Confederacy.
Ashdod, on the contrary, was de-
signed in advance. The idea of
building the new port dates from
the very beginning of the Jewish
State. However, work on it was
begun only nine years ago. The
first to be taken to the site nine
years ago, were some immigrants
from North Africa and it is said
they quickly thumbed a ride back
to Tel Aviv, saying they had seen
enough desert land in North Afri-
ca.
But the picture now is changed.
The ugly duckling becomes a swan,
the desert blooms with the rose
and the stone, as the psalmist
says, which the builder makes into
a cornerstone.
Ashdod now has factories ready
SYMBOL of the 250,000 babies
to hum with the buzz of machinery,
born each year in the U.S. with
school houses ready to teach chil-
serious birth defects, Lori Ann
dren, bedrooms ready to be slept
Wagner, 5, Milwaukee, Wis., is
in. Next Spring there will be an
the 1966 National March of
official proclamation that Ashdod
Dimes Poster Child. She began
is open for business. It will be
life with an open spine and is
listed in the geographies, inscribed
paralyzed below waist. Now
on the maps, and children will be
she's !earning to walk. You can
born for the first time in. the city.
Rise of Ashdod
Dimes Symbol
help -finance research Into these
tragedies and support patient
care by giving to the March of
Dimes in January*
.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, December 24, 1965-9
munched kosher salami and voiced
appreciation that American Jew-
ish civilians cared about them and
came to visit. Some told of rela-
tives in the JWV and other Jewish
organizations.
The chaplain noted Capt. Lin-
ver's participation in prayers
and asked him to return for
other services. But the captain
politely explained that his de-
tachment was in action in a re-
mote village many miles away.
Chaplain Dreyer took the oc-
casion to voice resentment at what
he considered "ill-advised" peace
appeals by Rabbi Jacob Weinstein,
President of the Central Confer-
ence of American Rabbis, said
Sheinberg. According to Shein-
berg, the chaplain complained that
the recent San Francisco conven-
tion of the Reform rabbinate failed
to consider the chaplain's views on
Viet Nam.
Another source of irritation was
the departure for home of a
Brooklyn soldier who was an ex-
pert baker of water bagels.
On the Marine front, the JWV
leaders met Lt. Robert Reiner,
Jewish chaplain of the 3rd Marine
Division. He told how commanding
officers provided him with an
armed helicopter to visit Jewish
Marines at outposts. The Chap-
lain's assistant is a Jewish Marine
who is recovering from wounds
from a land mine.
Accompanied by Capt. Linver,
the veterans were flown to the
U.S.S. Enterprise, the nuclear-
powered aircraft carrier, off the
Viet Namese coast. The eight
Jewish sailors aboard pointed out
that they lacked the necessary two
additional men to make a minion
for prayer. They were thrilled by
the JWV visit, especially by the
presence of paratrooper Captain
Linver fresh from the fighting
zone ashore.
By talking with Capt. Linver,
the sailors, Jewish and non-Jewish,
could realize more vividly the re-
lationship of the carrier's air
strikes to the total war effort. It
was the first time the newly-ar-
rived carrier had welcomed aboard
a fighting man from the Delta
battle zone.
Capt. Linver said that U.S.
Jews wishing to help Viet Namese
villagers should send bars of soap,
plastic containers of calamine lo-
tion and simple toys like rubber
balls. Such items can be mailed
care of Capt. Linver, Advisory
Team 97, A.P.O. 96314, San Fran-
cisco, Calif.
United Nations)
(Copyright, 1965, JTA, Inc.)
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. —
When the annual Arab refugee de-
bate was culminated in the Gener-
al Assembly plenary session last
week, with a vote of 91-1 in favor
of a resolution extending the man-
date of the United Nations Relief
and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees by three years after the
end of next June, knowledgeable
sources here saw three important
points emerging from this year's
unusually bitter Arab refugee de-
bate.
These were:
1) Despite the fact that the
Arabs had come to the Assembly
this year, for the first time, with
the backing of two Arab summit
conferences and the formation of
the Palestine Liberation Organiza-
tion, Israel had managed by stub-
born persistence to hold the line
against a reinvigorated Arab drive.
2) On the other hand, the Arabs
had suffered a distinct setback.
On the one issue which they had
pushed to a vote—a proposal for
the establishment of a United
Nations custodian for the property
which the Arabs claim to have
abandoned in Israel—only 34 in-
cluded the entire Arab League
group, the Soviet bloc and the
Moslem countries. The United
States and other big Western
powers had joined Israel in voting
against this resolution.
3) The United States, in the
words of one non-American source,
"had come through magnificient-
ly." Not only did the United States
vote against its own relatively mild
draft resolution when that draft
had been amended with anti-Is-
raeli objectives on behalf of the
Arab attitude. The U.S.A. had also
worked out the best copromise
stand possible for Washington
when the final action had reduced
itself to a Nigerian resolution, the
draft finally adopted by the As-
tion, it was understood by all here,
including the U.S. delegation, that
Israel's stand had not been aimed
against the U.S.A. but only against
Arab insistence that the refugees
have a "right" to be "repatriated
to Palestine."
The close relationships during
this year's Assembly between the
Israeli and the American delega-
tions was stressed by many dele-
gations. It was noted that, under
the chairmanship of Arthur J.
Goldberg, there was no diminution
in the friendly relations between
Jerusalem and Washington and
that those relations are warmer
than ever.
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