8—Friday, July 29, 1966
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Senate Amendment Denies Aid
to Arab States Not Paying Debts
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
WASHINGTON — The Senate
adopted an amendment to the
foreign aid bill last weekend which
would deny American aid to eight
Arab states and 38 other nations
who are in arrears in their assess-
ments to the United Nations.
Under the terms of the amend-
ment the president has discretion
to override the ban if it is in the
"national interest." The measure
still has to be approved by the
House.
Iraq, Sudan, Egypt and Yemen
are in arrears for the regular UN
budget, the UN Congo force and
the UN Emergency Force in the
Gaza Strip. Lebanon and Saudi
Arabia owe for the Congo assess-
ment and Jordan owes for UNEF.
Earlier the Senate adopted
unanimously a House-approved
amendment to the foreign aid
bill aimed at preventing use of
United States assistance to Egypt
for aggressive purposes by the
Egyptian government.
The amendment was proposed
by Sen. Jacob Javits, New York
Republica n, and Sen. Ernest
Gruening, Alaska Democrat.
The amendment reads: "No as-
sistance shall be furnished under
this act to the United Arab Re-
public unless the President finds
and reports within 30 days of such
finding to the chairman of the
Senate Foreign Relations Commit-
tee and to the speaker of the
House that such assistance is es-
sential to the national interest of
the United States, and further that
such assistance will neither direct-
ly nor indirectly assist aggressive
actions by the United Arab Re-
public."
A final vote on the foreign aid
bill will be taken soon by a joint
conference of the House and Sen-
ate.
Sen. Gruening later proposed a
new amendment to the bill which
forbids any aid to Egypt. This
amendment does not give any dis-
cretion to the President to an-
nounce this aid as essential to the
national interest of the United
States, as is the case with the
amendment introduced previously.
State Dept. Aide
Says U.S. Trying to
Work Refugee Plan
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Joseph
Sisco, assistant secretary of state
for international organizations, told
the Senate subcommittee on refu-
gees July 20 that the United States
was seeking to persuade the Arab
countries where the Arab refugees
live to accept increased responsi-
bility for the refugees. Sisco re-
cently returned from a visit to the
Middle East.
He and Raymond Hare, assistant
secretary of state for South Asia
and Near East affairs, testified on
United States contributions to the
United Nations Relief and Works
Agency for the Arab refugees.
The State Department officials
stressed that the administration
opposed any further cuts in United
States contributions to UNRWA.
The officials referred specifical-
ly to a House action cutting $700,-
000 from the administration's $22,-
900,000 request for UNRWA. They
contended such a cut would re-
quire undesirable reductions in
health and education services.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Mas-
sachusetts Democrat and chairman
of the subcommittee, proposed that
$700,000 of the United States con-
tribution be used to build a voca-
tional training school for the re-
fugees to be operated by one of
the four Arab "host" governments.
Sen. Kennedy noted his proposal
would be consistent with the
United States government's con-
tinuing effort to induce the host
governments to undertake more
responsibility for the refugees'
long-term needs.
Sisco told the subcommittee
that he was in general agree-
ment with the Kennedy proposal
and would give it study. The
Senate is now debating the for-
eign aid bill and is expected to
approve the $22,900,000 figure.
The Kennedy proposal might
then be given consideration
when Senate and House leaders
meet to iron out differences in
their respective versions of the
foreign aid bill.
Sen. Jacob K. Javits, New York
Republican, criticized the "milk
and hotiey" policy of the adminis-
tration on the refugee question.
He also criticized the administra-
tion for not supporting the 1961
Afro-Asia resolution in the United
Nations urging direct peace talks
between the Arab countries and
Israel.
Sen. Kennedy and Mr. Sisco cri-
ticized irregularities in UNRWA
relief rolls. The Senator argued
that UNRWA, the UN and the
United States should stand firm on
removal of Palestine Liberation
Army recruits from the refugee
rolls.
The State Department official
criticized the fact that 10,000 to
12,000 such recruits continued to
obtain UNRWA rations. He also
said that the presence of refugees
in the PLO army could raise deli-
cate political issues and could
work seriously to the disadvantage
of needy refugees.
In his prepared statement, Hare
said that while Israel might be
prepared to accept some of the
refugees, he believed that a large-
scale return of the refugees to
Israel was inpractic'ahle on . se-
curity grounds, as Israel had in-
dicated.
He said that Israel had also cited
the- large number of Jews who,
since 1948, felt comnelled to leave
their Arab countries of origin for
resettlement in Israel.
Israeli Travel Agents
Retaliate Aoairogt Britain
for Nixing Vig , Request
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
TEL -AVIV — Israel's travel
agents decided Monday to stop
handling applications for visas
for the British Embassy here in
protest against the refusal by the
British Government to ease appli-
cation procedures for Israelis
traveling to Britain.
The Israeli government has re-
quested Britain to eliminate the
visa requirement for Israeli citi-
zens. British subjects do not re-
quire visas to visit Israel.
The organization charged that
Israeli travel agents were unable
to do their jobs in processing visa
requests for Britain in view of the
"bureaucratic and illogical formali-
ties and, still worse. the degrading
investigation of applicants." They
urged the foreign ministry to ex-
pedite efforts to attain reciprocity
of visa regulations.
According to the Israeli travel
agents, about 25,000 Israeli tourists
were expected to visit Britain this
year. After announcing their pro-
test, the agents said they were in-
formed that Lord Geddes, chair-
man of the British Travel and
Holiday Association, was discuss-
ing the entire matter with home
office authorities in London.
Senate Body to Review
School Prayer Question
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The
Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
will hold public hearings beginning
Monday on the constitutional
amendment proposed by S e n.
Everett Dirksen, Illinois Repub-
lican, to allow voluntary participa-
tion in prayers in public schools.
The proposed amendment is
co-sponsored by 47 other Senators.
The hearings will take place for
seven days. The subcommittee is
headed by Birch Bayh, Democrat
of Indiana.
Blood Libel Lie Is Still Current in the Soviet Union
In the July 15 issue of New
Statesman, Gabriel Lorince reports
the reappearance in Russia of the
myth, of ritual murder, the classic
example of which is chronicled by
Maurice Samuel in "Blood Accusa-
tion: The Strange History of the
Beiliss Case," to be published by
Knopf Aug. 15.
Lorince reports that Mrs. Maria
Rykova, mother of three who lives
in the small Russian town of
Mtsensk, recently precipiated a
wave of religious persecution by
killing a three-year-old boy with a
kitchen knife because his parents
accepted a loan of 300 rubles from
the state bank to buy a cow. It is
against the basic tenets of Russian
Baptists to accept money or assist-
ance from the state. A strong be-
liver, Mrs. Rykova demanded that
her Baptist neighbors return the
money and accept one of her cows
as a gift; she killed the boy when
they refused.
The article continues: "The peo-
ple of Mtsensk immediately con-
nected Maria Rykova's tragic act
with her faith, and the murder of
the little boy began to gain new
and terrible significance. People of
neighboring villages and towns like
Orel and Tula soon spoke of dark
blood rituals and Baptist murders
in Mtsensk—a sinister echo of the
Aviation Inspectors
From Cairo Hail Airport
Facilities in Israel
TEL AVIV (JTA) — Two in-
spectors of the International Civil
Aviation Organization's regional
office in Cairo, one of them a Mo-
roccan citizen, left here Monday
for Cyprus en route back to Cairo
after a week-long inspection of
Israel's Lydda Airport facilities.
Before their departure, Ahmed
Azouri, the first Moroccan ever to
visit Israel on behalf of the Cairo-
based ICAO, and S. Haufa, a West
German official of the ICAO, prais-
ed the "efficient running of Lydda
installations" and said that every-
thing was "well up to international
standards." Azouri is an expert in
the field of airport operations, and
Haufa is a meteorologist.
In meetings with the two offi-
cials, Naftali Ben-Yehuda, director
of the Israel Transport Ministry's
civil aviation department, raised
the problem of the lack of suffi-
cient contact between Israel and
the ICAO regional office in Cairo.
Azouri and Haufa promised to
forward the complaint to the
ICAO headquarters in Montreal.
Both officials expressed apprecia-
tion for the warm reception ac-
corded them in Israel.
Toronto City Council
Bans Beattie From Park
in Bylaw Amendment
TORONTO (JTA) — By a vote
of 14-4, and after an hour's debate,
the City Council here amended its
parks bylaw to ban neo-Nazi leader
John Beattie from speaking in the
city's parks until his case is heard
before the courts for violating the
bylaw's no-hate clause.
Beattie was charged last month
following a Hitler-style tirade in
Allan Gardens where he was pro-
tected by police from a howling
mob who drowned out his words.
He has since again applied for a
permit to speak in September. The
four dissenting councillors argued
that while they detested Beattie's
views, he had a right to free speech
until convicted of breaking the
law.
Earlier this month a deputation
of taxpayers and clergymen joined
the Canadian Jewish Congress in
asking the city to hold up further
speaking permits to persons under
charge of violating the bylaw.
The city council's amendment
extends not only to the anti-hate
incitement clause but all other
parts of its bylaw such as using
obscene and abusive language.
anti-Semitic myth of the Protocols
of Zion, once deliberately spread
by the tsarist Okhrana. As there are
no Jews in Mtsensk, the crowds
have turned upon the Baptists, an-
other religious minority."
"The Protocols of the Elders of
Zion," one of the most vindictive
anti-Semitic books ever written,
was created by the same men who
earlier perpetrated the classic ex-
ample of the myth of ritual mur-
der, the Beiliss case. In September
1913 Mendel Beiliss, an employee
in a brick factory in Kiev, Russia,
was brought to trial on the charge
of having viciously murdered a
Christian boy to use his blood for
ritual purposes prescribed by the
Jewish religion. This bizarre trial,
the outgrowth of an accusation
against the Jews that arose
during the Middle Ages, is the sub-
ject of "Blood Accusation.'
Samuel spent more than three
years delving into the source ma-
terial of the case, including steno-
graphic proceedings and confiden-
COMMIE
-
ICA.VJI_DS
Handsome reproductions of historic Jewish art,
tial reports. He learned the Russian
language especially for this book
so that he might read the docu-
ments in their orginal form. Samuel
explains that the purpose of the
Beiliss frame-up was to give legal
sanction to the ancient libel of
ritual murder and thus to create a
climate for the suppression of a ris-
ing liberal spirit in Russia. Sam-
uel's account of a trial involving
both criminals and czar is en-
hanced by documents showing its
effects on a disbelieving world and
by an epilogue that compares anti-
Semitic manifestations in Russia
today with those of czarist times.____
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