Setback for Extreme Bight
Reported in French Analysis
The extreme right in France re-
ceived a severe setback in the re-
cent presidential election and
seems to pose no real problem to-
day, although it still possesses nui-
sance value and of course must be
watched, a report on the election
received from European headquar-
ters of the American Jewish Com-
mittee in Paris indicated.
While attention centered on the
rebuff to Ciharles deGaulle when he
received less than 50 per cent of
the total vote cast in the first
election, Dec. 5, French Jews were
concerned with the candidacy of
Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignaneour, who
for 18 months had been trying to
rally the forces of the extreme
right, including racist and anti-
Semitic elements. But he re-
ceived just over 5 per cent of the
total vote, not much more than
half of what he expected.
In polling a total of 1,269,095
votes from the 20-million cast in
metropolitan France, the report
states, Tixier-Vignancour (or T.
V., as he has come to be known)
failed to hold the full potential
of his most solid element of sup-
port: those Frenchmen furious
with deGaulle for the loss of
Algerie Francaise, who number-
ed almost 2,000,000 in a 1962
referendum.
Taier-Vignancour appealed to
other groups as well, with the fol-
lowing results:
Royalists: The nominal head of
the Royalists, the Count of Paris,
supported deGaulle but Royalist
newspapers like Aspects de la
France backed Tixier.
Poujadists: P o u j a de himself
threw his support ultimately to
Jean Lecaunet, centralist candi-
date who came out third in the bal-
loting, after deGaulle and Mitter-
and.
Petainists: Tixier had hoped to
win over the million and a half
Frenchmen whose organizations
honor the memory of the former
chief of the Vichy regime. But the
leading Petainist, Maitre Jacques
Isorni, also supported Lecaunet.
Tixier himself served briefly in
the Petain government, was later
arrested by the Nazis.
Integrists: This group bases its
political stand on a Catholicism in-
terpreted in a conservative, reac-
tionary manner. Georges Sage, one
of its leaders, supported Lecaunet.
The Tixier candidacy, the report
says, had among its most ardent
backers the right-wing extremist,
activist, and neo-Fascist grouplets,
like those of Europe Action,
even though the candidate himself
denied from the beginning that he
himself was racist or anti-Semitic.
However, the anti-Semitic weekly
Rivarol, springing from the tra-
dition of the late collaborator
Charles Maurras, threw its weight
behind Tixier at the outset. His
leading campaign organizer was
Jean Marie Le Pen, former deputy
who helped formulate Poujadism's
anti-Semitic trends a decade ago,
now one of three directors of a
company that puts out records
glorifying Nazi leaders and Ger-
man Army and SS songs.
Pioneer Ophthalmologist
Herman Bendell, a Jewish physi-
cian who served in the Civil War,
was a pioneer in the field of oph-
thalmology. He also served in a
number of government and diplo-
matic posts.
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Eshkol to Visit France? Diplomats Raise Possibility
REFRESHMENTS
PARIS (JTA) — Prime Minister
Levi Eshkol may pay an official
visit to France during 1966. The
possibility was raised by high-
level Israeli and French diplomatic
circles here.
Top political circles in France
have already indicated their
"readiness" for such a visit, which
would be the first of an official
character by an Israeli premier
since Israel was established 18
years ago. A final decision, how-
ever, will have to be taken by
the French only after their new
government is installed.
Former Prime Minister David
Ben-Gurion had visited Fran c -e
twice, and Eshkol was in Paris
in 1964. But those visits were offi-
cially considered as having had
a "private" character.
Israeli diplomats are due to con-
Israel Exchange Teachers
Number 942 in Years Nine
NEW YORK—Over 60 of the
143 Israeli exchange teachers now
in the United States serving in 72
Jewish schools of all types—Re-
form, Conservative and Orthodox
as well as all-day schools and Yid-
dishist schools—attended the an-
nual conference for the exchange
teachers recently held under the
sponsorship of the Department of
Education and Culture of the Jew-
ish Agency for Israel.
In the nine years since its in-
ception, 942 Israeli teachers have
participated in this exchange pro-
gram sponsored by the Agency's
department of education and cul-
ture in cooperation with the Amer-
ican Association for Jewish Edu-
cation. The Israelis teach in the
United States for periods from one
to three years. Apart from the
values in any cultural exchange
program, this teachers' exchange
program has also helped meet the
shortage in trained teaching per-
sonnel in the American-Jewish
educational field.
Maine Jewish Community
to Give Loans to Students
PORTLAND, Me. (JTA) — The
Jewish community of Portland,
which numbers 3,500, announced
that it would give financial assist-
ance to worthy Jewish students
needing such support to complete
their education.
The community's Hebrew Free
Loan Committee will give educa-
tional loans to students enrolled
or accepted for admission at a
college, university or vocational
school above the high school level.
Loans initially will be limited
to $500 in any school year and a
maximum of $1,000 to any student.
Repayment will not be required to
begin until two months after the
student completes his education.
This is believed to be the first
time a Jewish community has un-
dertaken to provide this type of
program. The new loan policy has
been approved by the Jewish Fed-
eration of Portland and the Jewish
Family Services here.
N-Research, Not Arms,
Wisest Course Open to
Israel, U.S. Expert Says
TEL AVIV (JTA)—Dr. Herman
Kahn, head of the Hudson Institute
for Strategic Research in the Unit-
ed States and a leading expert on
nuclear warfare, said here that, if
he were an Israeli, "I would ad-
vise you to engage in nuclear re-
search but not to manufacture nu-
clear weapons."
Dr. Kahn, who is on a visit here
to give guest lectures to the Israeli
War College, made the statement
in an interview after a visit to
Nahal Sorek, where Israel has an
atomic reactor.
He said also that, if Israel and
the Arab states had nuclear arms,
in theory this would stabilize the
Arab-Israel conflict if all the gov-
ernments were sensible and re-
sponsible; but, otherwise, their con-
flict could cause untold tragedy.
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An official Eshkol visit to Paris
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Paris with high officials of the French balance of the recent visit
French Foreign Ministry and to President de Gaulle by Marshal
other top-level personalities in the Amer, Egypt's vice president. The
French government. An effort is visit would be viewed as another
to be made to finalize the plans demonstration of continuing and
for an Eshkol visit and to work unchanged ties between France
out practical arrangements. and Israel.
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