Bite Victim Aided in Israel While Jordanians Demur

I-TEL AVIV (JTA)—A world-renowned Austrian sci-
entist, Dr. Friedrich Kniezanek, was in a serious condi-
tion at Beilinson Hospital outside Tel Aviv Tuesday,
after a dramatic rescue from certain death through swift
action by members of the United Nations Truce Super-
vision Organization and Israeli health officials.
. Dr. Kniezanek, an expert on studying snakes, was

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"milking" an asp in the desert in Jordan, across from
Israel's frontier, Monday, when he was bitten by the
viper. There was no serum available on the Jordanian
side, and some serum was rushed to the border by the
Israeli authorities, who had been notified by UNTSO.
However, the Jordanians refused to accept the serum,
saying there was "no responsible official" on hand to deal

with the Israelis even on a life-saving mission.
Israeli authorities dispatched a helicopter to the
border, while the UNTSO personnel brought the scientist
across the frontier. Dr. Kniezanek was then flown to
Beilinson Hospital. Physicians at the hospital said his
condition was "very serious" because too much time had
elapsed before doctors could inject the serum.

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UN, U.S. State Dept. to Prob
Misuse of Arab Refugee Funds;
Red China Link Being Watched

Abdullah Signed Peace
Before Assassination,
Golda Meir Reveals

(Direct JTA Teletype Wire to The Jewish News)

TEL AVIV —

Mrs. Golda Meir, for many
years Israel's Foreign Minister, has disclosed that
Jewish negotiators signed a
peace agreement with King Ab-
dullah of Jordan shortly before
he was assassinated.
Mrs. Meir, now secretary
general of the Mapai Party, told
a meeting of students in Haifa
'that in November, 1947, the mon-
arch promised her he would not
join in the proclaimed Arab war
on the planned State of Israel.
She said they agreed in principle
to meet after the United Nations'
expected recommendation f o r
partition of Palestine to formu-
late ways of peaceful co-exist-
King Abdullah ence between Jews and Arabs.
She disclosed that she met King Abdullah
once more on May 10, 1948, when the Iraqi army
had already moved into Jordan in preparation for
'The assault on the infant Jewish State. He then
old her. she said, that "I thought I was free to
;decide by myself" on relations with the nascent
- Jewish State, "But I am not."

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HAIFA (JTA) — A group of Arab and Druse intellectuals and notables
established here Tuesday a committee for support of the State of Israel. The group,
which says it is not linked with any Israeli government body, plans to send a delega-
tion to the United Nations General Assembly to call on the Arabs to make peace
with Israel.
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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA) — Secretary-General U Thant announced that he has asked
Commissioner-General Laurence Michelmore, of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine Refugees to submit a report about the allegations that Arab refugees on the UNRWA
relief rolls receive ration cards while ,:erving in the Palestine Liberation Organization. The PLO
is the Arab League's fighting arm being trained - for war against Israel.
At a general news conference, Thant was asked about the Arab refugees enlisted in the
PLO. He replied that he had been informed of the ration card situation a few days ago and has,
consequently, requested Michelmore to report to him on that issue. He did not identify the source
of the report he had received. However, it was noted here that the last Middle East representative
listed on his appointment calendar in the last week was Ambassador Michael Comay, Israel's per-
manent representative here.

WASHINGTON (JTA) — The State Department disclosed it is carefully observing the ties
between Communist China and Arab extremists. It reported that Communist China has given the
Palestine Liberation Organization "some noisy propaganda support," but added that "we have no
solid information which would confirm the claim that Chinese Communist arms or personnel have
arri, ed in the Near East to help equip or train the PLO."
Assistant Secretary of State Douglas MacArthur II also said: "There have been reports of
uncertain authenticity that a small number of Palestine Liberation Army recruits have been sent
to Communist China for military training. We will continue to follow this closely."
In a letter to Rep. Leonard Farbstein, New York Democrat, the State Department official
stated: "We agree wholeheartedly with your opinion That the statements of Mr. Shukairy must be
treated with reserve. (Ahmed Shukairy is chairman of the PLO.) As you know, the United States
government has strongly urged the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees and the host countries to make every effort to assure that the PLO receive no support in

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P.E.N. Congress Hears Plea
for Yiddish Culture in Russia

Clergymen Seek Permission to Send
10,000 Siddurim for USSR Jews' Use

NEW YORK (JTA)—A plea to the International P.E.N. Congress—world organiza-
tion of poets, playwrights, essayists, editors and novelists—to call on the Soviet govern-
ment to permit the revival of Jewish culture in the USSR, in both the Yiddish and
Hebrew languages, was voiced here Saturday at the concluding session of the Congress,
which was attended by 600 delegates from 55 countries.
Th appeal was made by Aaron Glanz-Leyeless, of New York, noted Jewish poet and
president of the Yiddish P.E.N. Center, who was one of the speakers at ..he last plenary
session. Just prior to the opening of the Congress, the P.E.N. presidium had turned
down a draft resolution presented by the Yiddish P.E.N. Center, calling upon the Soviet
Union to give full rights to the Jewish minority in the USSR for the practice, pursuit,
development and publication of Jewish literature, the opening of Jewish schools teach-
ing both Yiddish and Hebrew, and the publication of Yiddish books, magazines and
newspapers.
The International P.E.N. Congress was boycotted this year by the Soviet Union.
Nevertheless, the presidium refused to take action on the proposal by the Yiddish Center,
turning the issue over for the consideration of the organization's executive council,
which is scheduled to meet next Septembr in London.
In his address, Glanz-Leyeless pointed out that, in the debate on the Yiddish group's
draft resolution before the presidium, one of the opponents, the American playwright
Arthur Miller, who is president of the International P.E.N., had conceded that he knew
there was discrimination against Yiddish literature in the Sovet Union. Miller is a Jew
who, in other forums, had pleaded for equalization of Jewish rights in the USSR. Inter-
preting Miller's stand as an admission that there is at least partial suppression of Jewish
literature in the USSR, Glanz-Leyeless said: "I hope Mr. Miller's reference will con-
tribute toward the restoration of the cultural rights of the Jewish minority in the Soviet
Union."
"We ask for the restoration in the USSR," he continued, "of the free use of Yiddish
for the publication of newspapers, books and magazines. We ask for freedom in the
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NEW YORK (JTA) — Two Christian clergymen — a Catholic and
a Methodist — announced they have asked Soviet authorities for permission
to send a gift of 10,000 Hebrew prayerbooks to Jews in the Soviet Union.
The clergymen are the Rev. Thurston N. Davis, editor of the Jesuit weekly,
America, and Dr. Harold A. Bosley, minister of Christ Church, Methodist.
Both are vice presidents of the Appeal to Conscience Foundation, an
organization founded a year ago to aid restoration of religious freedom for
Jews in the USSR.
Father Davis and the Rev. Bosley were members of an interfaith
team that visited the Soviet Union last winter to look into the situation of
religious freedoms there, especially for Jews. A member of the team was
Rabbi Arthur Schneier, president of the Appeal to Conscience Foundation.
Upon their return, all three clergymen reported that, in Moscow, they had
been promised by Peter Makartsev, of the Soviet Ministry of Religious
Cults, that 10,000 Hebrew prayer books, to replace old, tattered copies,
would be printed as soon as technical arrangements could be completed.

Pointing out that now, five months after that promise, the Hebrew prayerbooks
have not as yet been furnished to the Jewish community in the Soviet Union, the
clergymen said that, by granting permission to them to ship those books, the Soviet
government could "go a long way toward restoring world faith and confidence in
the USSR, and would help regain its prestige among the family of nations."
The clergymen said they sett their request to the Soviet Ministry of Religious
Cults last week through the Sov et Embassy in Washington. They added that "the
situation facing the Jewish conr, inity of the Soviet Union cannot remain the sole
concern of Jewry, but is a matter of concern to all men, regardless of creed."
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