Arabs Defy UN Chief t'. Thant With Impunity
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fourth meeting, Syria notified
Bull it was "not yet ready" to
resume talks. That was on Feb.
ruary 9. There has been no fur.
ther meeting of ISMAC since.
Syria is still "not yet ready."
Bull has been trying again and
again. But the authorities in Da-
mascus refuse to get off dead-cen-
ter. Bull had gone to Damascus
several times, consulted with the
Israeli Foreign Ministry, went hack
truth."
lake. Jordan got away with that—
et Up Ties in Asia
A man who does not tell "the and was rewarded very soon there- Eban Presses Israel to S
Noting that most of the Asian
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel
whole truth" is of course a liar. after with membership in the
Such contempt for the Secretary- United Nations — later even with must take energetic steps to im- countries have been too occupied
with
their own internal problems
General has not happened here membership in the Security Coun- prove its diplomatic, economic and
cultural relations with the coun- to pay much attention to the Middle
very often. In some cases, when the cil.
Sovi"t Union had defied the late
Admittedly, it is noted here, tries in Asia. many of which are East, Eban said Israel "must go
Dag Hammarskjold and, earlier, there are other issues on the U.N. unaware of the Bible or Jewish his- out and put herself on their con-
Secretary-General Trygve Lie, even agenda besides Israeli-Arab quar- tory but have had long connection sciousness."
As a result of his visit, he report-
the USSR had not gone so far as to rels. But these are not minor bor- with Arab nationalists. Foreign
call the Secretary-General a liar. der skirmishes. Syria and Jordan Minister Abba Eban told the Knes- ed, treaties and agreements be-
tween
Israel and some of the Asian
set
here
Monday.
So far. Jordan has got away with are opposing the Secretary-Gen-
states will be activated "and given
this thing.
eral, ignoring his summonses,
.Eban talked about the need for
meaning
through concrete projects.
This is not the first time Jordan deriding him openly and covertly. cementing Israeli-Asian relations in
to Damascus again. At last word,
when Mr. Thant was asked about has deflect the UN Secretary-Gen-
the ISMAC meetings, he said Bull
Back in 1953, before Jordan
had got sick, was recuperating at eral.
his home in Norway. would try was even a member of the United
Nations. Israel had requested that
again "to bring the parties to- Jordan
and Israel get together to
gether" as soon as he was well
review
their joint armistice agree-
enough.
ment of 1949. Under that pact ,
That's that, as far as Syria is
either party could call for such re-
concerned. But it is not the only view,
and the Secretary-General
Arab state fighting Mr. Thant. Jor- must summon such
a conference.
dan is now in the act.
Mr. Hammarskjold did as required;
Back in December, Jordan had he summoned both Israel and Jor-
demanded formally that Mr. Thant dan to a review conference. Israel
make public certain decisions of agreed immediately. Jordan told
the Jordan-Israel Mixed Armistice him in effect to go jump
in the
Commission regarding an Israeli
complaint against terrorist incur-
sions from the Jordanian border.
Jordan has a right to demand such
documents—just as Israel has. Mr.
Thant did what Jordan had asked.
But Jordan was not satisfied. It
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sent one letter after another to
Under the above recommen-
Mr. Thant, repeating its request, dation, it is construed that those
unsatisfied with the MAC report as individual Zionists who do not
issued by the Secretary-General.
wish to enroll in existing Zionist
Finally, Jordan's charge d'afiaires organiiations, for ideological or
charged Mr. Thant with being a any other reasons, may enroll
liar. Here is what Jordan's last directly as members of the pro-
words on this issue (as of this writ- posed unified Zionist structure.
ing) stated: "I found the report
Jacques Torczyner, president of
was not, and I hope inadvertently, the Zionist Organization of Amer-
ica, voiced misgiving about the
plan for reorganization as it was
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He further maintained that "the
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ment today are not of an organi-
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The prestige of Mr. Thant's high , the course of a long address re-
office does not worry the Jordan- porting on his month-long tour
ians, does not concern the Syrians. of the Far East from which he re-
Nor are they particularly con- turned last week. lie had visited
cerned over the UN chief's in- Japan. the Philippine Islands, Thai-
tegrity or his fears of large-scale land. Cambodia, Burma, Australia
warfare. And their word given to and New Zealand.
Mr. Thant with all solemnity, to
Wherever he had gone. Eban
stick to an agreed agenda for a said, he had been greeted by heads
special session that he had sum- of government, while the press,
moned — that means - nothing to radio and television services de-
Syria.
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activities on the American scene."
Torczyner further said: "Instead
of finding the least common de-
nominator for Zionist activities
on the American scene, and trying
to enroll people who are only in-
terested philanthropically in the
future of Israel and the Jewish
people, the Zionist movement
should be a militant group for a
positive Jewish and Zionist pro-
gram. It should not be afraid of
being controversial and running
against the tide of a false euphoria
about the present status of the
Jews in the United States."
Mrs. Charlotte Jacobson, na-
tipnal president of Hadassah, fa-
vored the reorganization plan. She
termed the proposals presented
by the committee on reorganiza-
tion as "timely and practical.
They are certainly worth trying."
She maintained that "the recom-
mendations of f e r a degree of
flexibility and modernity that will
make it possible for the move-
ment to accommodate within its
ranks many views and many per-
sonalities who have been discour-
aged from joining our ranks be-
cause of a rigid structure that is
not workable in today's world."
Hy Faire, president of t h e
Labor Zionist Organization of
America said: "It is apparent that
the present structure—the Ameri-
can Zionist Council—lacks the or-
ganizational framework for the in-
dividual membership base to ade-
quately accomplish either of these
tasks. A new form and a new base
are the essential prerequisite for
development and growth." Rabbi
Herschel Schacter, president of
the Religious Zionists of America.
declared that "the Zionist leaders
must be prepared to grapple with
basic issues of program and re-
organization."
The two-day session concluded
with a declaration adopted by the
250 Zionist leaders from all parts
of the country who attended the
conference, recommending that
"each of the national bodies in
American Zionism promote sim-
ilar discpssions among their own
constituencies, so that out of such
discussions may emerge decisions
which will redound to the benefit
of American Zionism and its ca-
pacity to discharge its responsi-
bilities to the benefit of Israel
and of the American Jewish com-
munity."
Rabbi Israel Miller, president
of the American Zionist Council,
addressing the conference, scored
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