Feeding PLO With UN Funds Condemned by U.S.
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — The
United States government strongly
condemned Tuesday the provision
of United Nations relief to Arab
refugees serving in the Palestine
Liberation Organization and the
failure of the UN organizations in
charge of refugee relief to remove
from its ration rolls the large
number of. refugees who are not
entitled to UN aid.
These statements were made by
U.S. Ambassador Harding F. Ban-
croft, the American representative
n the General Assembly's 101-
tember special political commit-
.ee, which has been debating the
refugee problem for over a week,
the discussion centering on the
annual report filed here a month
. ago by Laurence Michelmore, com-
missioner general of the UN Re-
lief and Works Agency for Pale-
stine Refugees.
In his annual report Dr. Michel-
more had informed the assembly
that in the year under review he
had made no progress of any sig-
nificance in rectifying UNRWA's
relief rolls as ordered to do by the
assembly a year ago. He blamed
this failure on lack of cooperation
by the "host" governments which
have jurisdiction over the areas
where the refugees are maintained
— Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and the
Gaza Strip. Dr. Michelmore had
reported also that his government
was channeling rations to young
refugees who are currently re-
ceiving training in the PLO.
After deploring UNRWA's in-
ability to aid the refugees fully in
accordance with their human
needs, Brancroft told the com-
mittee: "It is difficult to believe
the suggestion in the report that
there would be adverse reactions
among the refugees to the agency's
efforts to stop the trafficking in
ration cards and ration commod-
ities. The only objection it seems
to us would come from the traf-
fickers themselves. We hope
UNRWA will deal promptly and
vigorously with this problem. It is
outrageous that a few profiteers
should be permitted to cheat needy
refugees out of benefits provided
Hadassah Mission to USSR Urges
Continued Pressure for Jews
NEW YORK, (JTA)—Mrs. Mort-
imer Jacobson, president of Had-
assah, reported that a recent tour
of the Soviet Union had reinforced
her belief that Western protests
against Soviet oppression of Rus-
sian Jews did have an effect, and
should be continued consistently.
She headed a group of 24 Had-
assah leaders on tour as the first
American Jewish women's group
to visit the Soviet Union.
In urging continued protests,
Mrs. Jacobson said that one of
the impressions the Hadassah
leaders received was that stress
in such protests on restoration of
Yiddish culture for Soviet Jews
was not the answer to the problem
of Jewish survival in the Soviet
Union.
She said that Jewish children
and youth in Russia do not know
the language and that, it was more
important to press for such cultur-
al opportunities in Russian and
other Soviet languages.
The need, she said, is for Rus-
sian Jews particularly the younger
generation, to have the opportun-
ity to learn about Judaism, Jew-
ish history and Israel in the lan-
guages they use and understand.
"There is need," Mrs. Jacob-
son stressed, "for schools where
a Jew can study Jewish history
and the Hebrew language, as
well as regular subjects, in an
overall education program that
is recognized by the Soviet gov-
ernment."
She said that, if conditions of
today persist, Jewish life in the
viet Union will be "snuffed out"
*thin the next 10 years.
As other Jewish leaders have
ne, Mrs. Jacobson urged contin-
A pressure on the Soviet Union
Cemetery Is 'No Place
for Politics,' Society Says
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to The Jewish News)
TEL AVIV—A Tel Aviv burial
society refused Tuesday to allow
an inscription "Shifra, the Commu-
nist" on a tombstone in its cere-
tery, holding that "there is no
place for parties" in the burial
ground.
Shifra Abenkobitzer was a mem-
ber of the Palestine Communist
Party and later of the Israel Com-
munist Party from the time of her
arrival in 1927 until her death last
year at 65. In her will, she asked
that her tombstone bear the dis-
puted legend, but the Hevra Ka-
disha refused.
Her relatives said they were
considering asking court backing
to implement the will. They reject-
ed a suggestion that the inscrip-
tion should:read "Here lies Shifra,
Fighter for Fraternity and Jus-
tice."
to allow Russian Jews to partici-
pate in Jewish communal life
"without fear of anti-Semitism
and without fear of running afoul
of the law."
She said the group offered Sov-
iet authorities 500 scholarships to
enable that many young Russian
Jews to spend a summer in Israel
and that the offer was rejected
vigorously. The offer was made,
she said, at a meeting of the Sov-
iet-American Friendship League in
its building in Moscow. The res-
ponse, she said, initially was one
of " a state of shock."
She said the Hadassah leaders
had been told by Soviet officials
that the Soviet Union was "an
atheistic country" in which there
was no place for religion. In that
case, she said, the Soviet Union
is obligated, under the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights, to
allow Jews who wish to perpetuate
their Jewish heritage "to leave
the Soviet Union for some other
place where this right is guaran-
teed them."
$8,000,000 Bond Quota
WASHINGTON (JTA)—The Bnai
Brith Commission on Israel Sun-
day adopted a quota of $8,000,000
for the sale of Israel Bonds in 1967.
Sale of Israel Bonds during the
current year totaled $4,672,875.
by the international community."
Referring to the problem of
aiding members of the PLO,
Bancroft told the committee:
"Since the Palestine Liberation
Army came into existence, many
young men on the agency's
ration rolls have been recruited
into it — and yet have remained
on the ration rolls. The United
States delegation made clear last
year that we consider it inad-
missible for a UN agency to sup-
ply rations to men serving in an
army dedicated to the solution
of the repatriation question by
armed force and indeed to the
overthrow of the government of
a member of the United Nations."
Bancroft noted that Dr. Michel-
more had stated in his report that
he had worked out special finan-
cial arrangements through which
the "host" governments had contri-
buted $150,000 to UNRWA so that
rations provided to members of the
PLO would not come out of funds
contributed by other governments
to UNRWA. Seventy per cent of
general UNRWA funds are con-
tributed by the United States. He
recalled that the United States ob-
jected last year to the provision of
UNRWA aid to members of the
PLO and told the assembly:
"My government's position as
stated last year is one of principle.
We believe the assembly should
not give the impression that it
condones or regards with indiffer-
ence the involvement of any United
Nations agency with an organiza-
tion which avows such purposes."
R.,
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
Friday, November 4, 1966-7
Central America Is Hit by Hate Wave
MEXICO CITY, (JTA)—A wave
of anti-Semitic incitements has
spread over various parts of Cen-
tral America with leading news-
papers in a number of major cities
carrying violently anti-Jewish mat-
erial, the Federation of Central
American Jewish Communities
warned here.
According to the federation, the
popular newspaper El Imparcial
in Guatemala, allegedly pub-
lished by the vice president of that
republic, is carrying a serialized
version of the notoriously anti-
Semetic "Protocols of the Elders
of Zion," along with additional
anti-Jewish material.
Other Guatemalan papers ac-
cuse the Jews along with the Chin-
ese and Turks of seeking to "rob
the land of Guatemalan peasants
and enslaving their wives and
children."
In San Salvador, a Roman Cath-
olic priest wrote an anti-Semitic
article. In this case, however, he
was reprimanded by the local
archbishop. A large number of
them describing Jews as "a cursed
race" which came to the country
to "use the blood and sweat" of
the people.
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