U Thant Is • Faced With Mid-East Dilemma
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substantive, due to the financial
arguments involving the United
States and the Soviet Union. In
1965, the UNRWA chief was
stopped by the Arab states who
had insisted on new regulations
that would permit them to define
relief eligibility. The issue is still
in limbo. Thant would not wel-
come tangling on this issue with
the "host country" governments.
Then there is the "third genera-
tion" matter. The Arab states keep
insisting that, as more and more
refugees claim relief — the num-
bers increasing due to their large
birth rate — all who are children
of the children of the original
refugees should be added to the
relief rolls. Thant's advisers
want him to keep out of that argu-
ment. The issue was debated in the
Assembly by Israel, and other dele-
gations that felt that, somehow,
somewhere, an end should- be
brought to the swelling of the
UNRWA rolls. Thant, by him-
self, cannot settle a problem that
the Assembly had tried to solve
— and failed, so far.
The PLO presents a clear-cut
case, but it is clear only to the
Arabs. To them, a refugee is a
refugee is a refugee. If he is
otherwise entitled to UN help,
say the Arabs, he should get it.
The fact is that the Palestine
Liberation Organization is open-
ly recruiting refugees for enroll-
ment in its organization, an out-
fit that has only one task — to
make war against Israel.
How would Americans feel if the
`Penitent' Nazis
Freed in London
LONDON (JTA) — Four former
members of the tiny Nationalist
Socialist Party, who pleaded guilty
to setting fires at London syna-
gogues, were ordered released by
Judge A. Aarvold in Old Bailey
court. Judge Aarvold ordered their
release on grounds that they had
indicated they were penitent and
had promised to stop their anti-
Semitic activities.
The four were John Evans, 24,
David Throne, 20, Michael Trow-
bridge, 23, and Raymond Hems-
worth, 18. Evans, Thorne and
Trowbridge pleaded guilty to
setting fire to the Brondesbury
Synagogue causing estimated dam-
ages of 120,000 pounds ($336,000).
Evans and Hemsworth pleaded guil-
ty to setting fire to the Bayswater
Synagogue. Thorne's plea of inno-
cent in the Bayswater synagogue
arson was accepted by the prosecu-
tion. A fifth suspect, Gorden Park-
er, was found innocent of both
charges and released.
Prosecutor Edward Cussen said
that the Brondesbury synagogue
was gutted on March 13 last year
after a fire started by Thorne,
Evans and Trowbridge. He said a
similar attempt was made against
the Bayswater synagogue last June
30 but only the doors were dam-
aged.
Evans told the court that he had
joined the National Socialist group
in October 1964 but that he now
realized that its doctrines were
"horribly wrong" and completely
against everything which was "re-
spectable and decent!' He said if
it was not for the propaganda of
Colin Jordan, leader of the British
Nazis, and his wife, he would
never have committed the offenses.
Detective Inspector Albert Wick-
sted told the court that Thorne,
Evans and Hemsworth were of
previous "good character" but that
Trowbridge had two previous con-
victions, one for using insulting
language at an election in 1905 as
a National Socialist representative.
The judge told the defendants
"you are young men whose minds
seem to have been snared by a
philosophy which permits and even
encourages the burning down of
holy and venerated places. Having
been so snared, you were used by
unscrupulous people to further
their own evil design."
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, April 15, 1966-5
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United States were to furnish food,
shelter, educational facilities and
vocational training to the very
Viet Cong which was fighting our
forces in South Viet Nam? Would
our taxpayers tolerate such aid,
even if it were established that the
Viet Cong, too, need food and
shelter?
Here, again, is an issue that
Israel has raised at the United Na-
tions. Israel found support among
other delegations for the view that
the UN cannot be in the position
of feeding and sheltering elements
training for war against a mem-
ber state.
These, then, are the hottest is-
sues facing the United Nations
currently in regard to the refugees.
There are others. UNRWA's de-
ficit is worrisome to those who run
the agency; the fact that the United
States is gradually, although very
lightly as yet, cutting down on
some of its UNRWA contributions,
irritates the Arabs. They charge
openly that the USA is working
in the direction of liquidating
UNRWA. That is untrue. But the
fact is that Washington, especially
in the Congress, is getting quite
tired of paying 70 per cent of
UNRWA's bills year after year —
and being verbally attacked by the
Arabs at the same time.
Thant may well decide to
accept the invitation to visit the
Middle East. Some think he could
perform a miracle and get the
Arabs to get off their high horse
and start talking sense — not only
in regard to the refugees but re-
garding other possible steps to
ease tensions as between their
states and Israel. Others doubt.
They recall that the late Dag Ham-
marskjold had tried — and failed.
Hammarskjold's 1959 plan to
develop a broad program to aid
the Arab economies, so that the
Arab states could absorb the refu-
gees, never got off the drawing
board. The Arab leaders oppose
any steps that would wipe out the
Arab refugee issue. Instead, they
still insist on war against Israel,
and the PLO is envisaged as a
front-line military force composed
of refugees fighting to "return
home" to Israel.
These are the principal issues
in front of Thant as he ponders
the Arab invitation. Arabs who
hope to put him in their corner
have succeeded in putting him on
a very hot spot. On the one hand,
it could be of great credit to his
career if he were able to work out
an Israeli-Arab detente, even one
limited to the refugee question
only. His term of office expires
next year, and a Middle East suc-
cess would almost insure his re-
election to the post of Secretary-
General. But failure, after a trip
to the Middle East, could work
against him.
British UN Ass'n. Backs WJC Human Rights Plan
LONDON (JTA) — A resolution
on human rights offered by the
World Jewish Congress was
adopted by a large majority
by the general council of the
United Nations Association of Brit-
ain and Northern Ireland. The ac-
tion was taken at the council's
annual meeting in Cambridge.
The resolution called on the
British government to ratify at the
earliest possible time the United
Nations international convention
on elimination of all forms of
racial discrimination. The dele-
gates also approved another reso-
lution, incorporating a World Jew-
ish Congress amendment asking
the British government and the
high commissioner for refugees
to persuade West German authori-
ties to implement indemnification
arrangements for refugees in "the
most liberal and speedy manner
possible."
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