USSR Accuses Israel of Plot to Topple Syria Regime U.S., Britain Named; Israel Rejects Charges JERUSALEM (JTA)—The Israel Cabinet Monday categorically re- jected accusations leveled by the Soviet Union that Israel was plan- ning to topple the Syrian regime in a conspiracy with the United States and British governments. Official government circles here had disclosed earlier Monday that the Soviet government, in a note handed to the Israel ambassador in Moscow, Katriel Katz, warned the Israeli government against "in- terference in Syrian affairs." It is understood that the contents of the note, which was delivered to Ambassador Katz by a senior offi- cial of the Soviet Ministry for For- eign Affairs, was similar to the warning carried by the Tass News Agency and other Soviet radio and press media last week which claim- ed that Israel, Britain, the United States and "certain imperialistic circles In Jordon" were plotting to overthrow Syria's left-wing govern- ment, The warning said that the USSR would not stand aloof from alleged Israeli "provocations" in the Near East, "a region located in direct proximity to the bor- ders of the USSR." The Soviet charges were discuss- ed in talks between Ambassador Katz and the Soviet government and between the Israel Foreign Ministry and Dmitri Chuvakhin, the USSR ambassador in Jeru- salem. Foreign Minister Abba Eban said that it was the Syrians who have been concentrating their forces on Israel's border and making aggress- ive statements—not the Israelis. It has been Syrian marauders who murdered two Israeli farmers in- side Israeli territory only three weeks ago. Statements like those of the Soviet Union, he declared, only increase the tension in the area. The Cabinet approved Foreign Minister Eban's position which was also expressed Monday morning in Paris by Prime Minister Levi Esh- kol, who was en route to a visit to Africa. Observers here explained the So- viet move as a double-pronged ef- fort to establish the claim that, if the Syrian regime remains in pow- er, it would owe its existence to Moscow: if it falls, even due to internal reasons, the Soviet govern- ment will be able to claim that it was the work of "imperialistic plotters." Premier Eshkol Rebukes Moscow for Anti-Israel Allegations PARIS (JTA) — Israel's Prime Minister Levi Eshkol, who stopped here en route to a visit to Africa, said that there was "absolutely no basis for insinuations and allega- tions in a Tass statement that, in relations with other states in the Middle East, Israel acts as anagent of any other coun•ry." Commenting on the charges car- ried by the Soviet news agency that Israel, the United States and Britain were "plotting to over- throw" the Syrian government, Esh- kol said that the allegations of Is- raeli troop concentrations on the Syrian border were "entirely with- out foundation." "Time and again Israel has ex- pressed the sincere desire as a so- vereign state in the Middle East for peace with her neighbors," Eshkol said. "It is Syria which is constantly engaged in provocations on the frontier. From Syria, infil- trators come to murder peaceful agricultural workers on Israeli ter- ritory as in the recent Alm•gor in- cident. It is Syria which, from time to tune, proclaims the inten- tion to attack Israel. "It should not be too difficult," the Prime Minister added, "for the Soviet Union to ascertain the aggressive military order of bat- tle on the Syrian frontier with Israel, its range, categories of its weapons and concentration in areas where it is forbidden under the armistice agreement." "One cannot avoid the suspicion," he said, "that Syrian allegations are being made with the purpose of hiding malicious designs. Is- rael's fervent desire for peace and quiet on the frontiers oblige her to maintain the maximum possible restraint on humanitarian grounds. It should be clear to Syria and to her friends and indeed to interna- tional opinion that she must abstain from acts of provocation, sabotage and murder." Eshkol recalled his suggestion in Israel's Parliament earlier this month that the abstention in Mos- cow from offensive statements. could help to strengthen peace in the Middle East. "I regret to say that the latest Tass statement and articles in a similar vein in the Soviet Union in the last days, do not constitute a positive contribu- tion in this direction." In the United Nations, Israel accused the Syrian government of "direct and open incitement to war, contrary to the Charter of the United Nations" against the provisions of the Israeli-Syrian armistice agreement el 1949 and in violation of "the basic prin- ciples of international law." The charge was made in a letter to Dr. J. G. de Beus, of the Nether- lands, this month's president of the Security Council, from Ambassador Michael S. Comay, Israel's perman ent representative to the United Nations. Comay's letter was a reply to one addressed to Dr. de Beus last week by Syria's ambassador, George J. Tomeh, who denied his government's responsibility for raids into Israel by El Fatah, the Arab terrorist group, and charged Israel with aggressive intentions. Among other claims, Syria con- tended that, during March and April, it had filed 220 complaints against Israel with the Syrian-Is- r aeli Mixed Armistice Commission. "It is unclear," Comay wrote, "whom this statistic is meant to impress or mislead. These are routine complaints, and the Mixed Armistice Commission has a back- log of approximately 60,000 like them. It might be added that Israel complaints against Syria for the last month, April, alone total 358, some of them of grave character." On the other hand, Comay point- ed out, Syria's president Dr. Nured- din al Atassid called for open war against Israel only 10 days ago, while Israel's Prime Minister Levi Eshkol had reiterated' his govern- ment's "sincere desire for peace" only last week. Comay's letter did not call for a meeting of the Security Council on its dispute with Syria, request- ing only that his letter be circulat- ed as a Security Council docu- ment. On Tuesday, Nikolai T. Fedo- renko, the Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, reiterated Soviet government charges that "imperialist powers and their agents," including Israel, are at- tempting "to meddle with the internal affairs" of Syria. At a lengthy news conference here, he repeated a number of the anti-I s r a e 1 charges previously voiced by the Soviet news agency, Tass, including the accusation that, recently "high ranking United States officials held conferences with the government and military staff of Israel." "The peoples of the Arab states," Fedorenko said, "are well aware of the danger to the cause of peace and to their independent develop- ment by the new intrigues of the imperialist powers, their reaction- ary agents in the Middle East and the ruling quarters of Israel, in particular the attempts to meddle with the internal affairs of the Arab Republic of Syria. For its part, the Soviet Union, of course, cannot and will not remain in- different to the attempts to violate peace in a region located in direct proximity to the borders of the Soviet Union." In Jerusalem, a foreign min- istry spokesman reported that Is- rael was continuing its campaign to impress foreign governments with the danger to regional peace stemming from Syrian sabotage. He said Foreign Minister Abba Eban had met in recent days with ambassadors of France, Britain. and Russia and informed them that Is- rael took a grave view of the situa- tion created by Syrian attacks. He will meet with other envoys, induct- Mg Walsworth Barbour of the United States, for the same pur- pose. Political sources emphasized that Israel would stop being concerned only when all Syrian aggression ended. Four Israel Arabs Arrested; Court here Monday and charged with spying for Syria. They were accused of transfer= ring material to Syrian intelligence since 1958. All pleaded not guilty and were detained for further hear- ings to be held June 14. Soviet Campaign Against Israel Watched With Interest in D.C. WASHINGTON (JTA) — Com- petent circles here are watching with utmost interest the campaign which the Soviet press started against Israel under the pretext that Israel is preparing for "pro- vocations" against Syria. Soviet newspapers are also attacking Is- rael for acquiring jet bombers from the United States. A statement from Moscow dis- tributed here by Soviet diplomats alleged that "high ranking United States officials recently held con- ferences with the government and the general staff of Israel." It claimed that "aggressive and ex- tremist forces in Israel are being spearheaded against neighboring Arab states" and that "provoca- tions by Israel in areas bordering on neighboring countries have be- come more frequent." The Soviet statement quoted press reports as stating that "the Israeli army has been alerted, leaves for officers and men have been canceled, Israeli troops are being concentrated on the borders with Syria. The Chief of General Staff of the Israeli Army, Yitzhak Rabin, is making provocative speeches against Arab states, evi- dently depicting matters as if Is- rael can lay down what policy countries bordering on her must pursue," the Soviet statement as- serted. The Soviet Army organ "Red Star" carries an article criticizing the U.S. sale of arms to Israel. The .newspaper said America was try- ing to "drive a wedge between the Arab - countries." Another newspa- per "Sovietskaya Russiya" said "The new American-Israeli agree- ment on arms supplies to Israel has constructed a direct bridge between Washington and Tel Aviv." Leaders of Israel, it said, "wish to serve as a spearhead directed by imperialism into the heart of the Arab national liberation move- ment." Charged With Spying for Syria HAIFA (JTA) — Four Israeli Arabs who were arrested in the northern part of the country, were THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS brought before the Haifa District 40—Friday, June 3, 1966 Hausner's 'Justice in Jerusalem' Exposes Nazi Crimes, Describes Statesmen's Indifference and Resistance Gideon Hausner attracted world attention when, with great skill, he conducted the prosecution of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem. He was named Israel's attorney gen- eral two weeks before the an- nouncement was made in the Israel Knesset, May 23, 1960, by Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion, that Eichmann had been captured and brought to Israel. From the moment the trial began in Jerusalem on April 11, 1961, Hausner was in the lime- light, exposing the Nazi crimes, proving Eichmann's major role as "the strongest personification of satanic principles"—a view of the mass murderer by a leading Ger- man. Many books were written on the subjeCt of the Eichmann trial, and numerous articles have appeared in magazines in many languages, throughout the world. Hausner's complete story of the trial, of the data that was gathered, of t h e charges against the accused, of the accusations that Jews had not resisted sufficiently and other ele- ments that emerged from that his- toric case, all are offered in a thorough account he has written in his book "Justice in Jerusalem," just published by Harper & Row. The immense value of Haus- ner's great book lies not only in the splendid review of the GIDEON HAUSNER proceedings, the analysis of the case against Eichmann, the rec- . ord that was compiled, the testi- mony on both sides, the evidence of Nazi guilt; but even as much, if not more, in the evaluation of the issues emerging from anti- Semitism, of the world public opinion, of the roles that were played by world leaders. Since the Eichmann trial, Pope Pius XII was among those accused of having failed to act to help prevent the - atrocities. Hausner deals with the position that was taken by the head of the Catholic church, and he points, in one in- stance, to the courageous stand of Bishop von Galen who spoke out against the planned mass murder of insane people by Hitler. The von Galen stand led to abandon- ment of the Hitler plan. Hausner writes in referring to this incident: "The fact that the Supreme Pon- tiff and the overwhelming majority of the clergy held their peace while the crimes were being com- mitted disturbed many consci- ences. Moreover, it was proved that a strong and courageous stand on the part of the church against another Nazi crime, the destruc- tion of the insane, did stop the murders. This will be recorded to the credit of Bishop (later Cardi- nal) von Galen. We can only specu- late heartbreakingly how many Jewish lives could have been saved by a similar stand on the part of Rome through an encyclical ex- pressly forbidding Catholics to murder the innocent Jews." There is a detailed account of the revelations of Kurt Ger- stein, whose testimony forms a major part of Hochhuth's "The Deputy." Hausner tells about Gerstein's expose of the Nazi crimes, his arrest, his suicide by hanging on June 7, 1945, in a Paris prison, to avoid further torture by his Nazi captors. The world's diplomats are not exonerated of guilt in the death of a third of the Jewish nation because of their silence. Allied leaders are blamed, American, British and Russian statesmen are held responsible for what had transpired. Because Hitler's representatives were received with diplomatic hon- ors wherever they went, they ac- quired status of glory for Nazism, and their guilt thus is linked with those of the Nazis themselves. In- stance after instance is quoted to substantiate this charge and be- cause Washington, London, Moscow and other world capitals resorted_ to claims of "technical difficul- ties" for their failure to bomb Auschwitz and other concentration camps, as had been suggested, they stand accused of sharing guilt for the holocaust. Eichmann him- self is quoted as having said that if the world's powers had "stretched out their arms even a little to take in the Jews, not a single deporta- tion train would have left for any concentration camp." Hausner's charge against Pius XII is that his inactivity was tanta- mount to "a temporary abdication of spiritual leadership." Hausner rejects t h e charge that Jews failed to resist. He points to "the most deeply rooted drive of all (among the Nazi victims) : to endure, to hold out, to live through it." He quotes numerous instances to indicate how Jews held on to their faith, how they resisted. He mentions the names of Jewish Council members who chose death rather than compile lists of other Jews who were to be murdered. He States: "In the hundreds of me- morial books in the destroyed communities there are reports of similar acts." - Hausner states there were good reasons for Jewish requests that the concentration and extermina- tion camps be bombed. Chaim Weizmann had made such a re- quest. But these appeals were ig-. nored or rejected by both Wash- ington and London. John J. McCloy is quoted as having told Dr. Ku- bowitzki (Kubovy).—he died two weeks ago—that "such an opera- tion could be executed only by the diversion of considerable air sup- port essential to the success of our forces now engaged in decisive operations elsewhere." Hausner declares at this point: 'The saving of Jewish lives was, apparently, „neither 'essential' nor `decisive'." Hausner's "Justice in Jerusalem" is a most important work. It sheds light on an historic case, it exposes criminals, it shows how indiffer- ence contributed to the tragedy and it defends the Jewish will to live and the extent of an honored resistance. This volume deserves a place among the best sellers. —P. S.