A Visit to the Arabs on the West Bank
By PHILIP HOCHSTEIN
argely financed by the United
s tates.
(Copyright 1967. JTA Inc.)
Philip tiochstein, assisted by Mrs.
After seeing some of the camps
liochstein, made a study of the Pales-
tine Arab refugee problem in 1963-64.
n the \Vest Bank area again, talk-
Now, having retired as senior editor • 1
ng with many refugees and in-
of the Newhouse Newspapers. Hoch. ,
stein has returned to the Middle East • s pecting camp records, I am con.
with Mrs_ liochsteln to examine the
inced that UNRWA has more than
situation anew. The following is his
ondoned the Nasserite deception
first cabled dispatch.
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and exploitation of human misery.
The inclusion of the many
dead in the total refugee fig-
ure is but part of the decep-
tion. Anyone who asks but a
few pointed questions of a camp
director soon learns that many
non-refugees have qualified for
rations because the machinery
of control in the camps has been
in the hands of pro-Nasser Arab
politicians, who freely stretch
the qualifying rules set up by
UNRWA.
Immigration Topic
at Plenary Session.
Of Jewish Agency
The proposal had been adopted
earlier by the Joint Government-
Jewish Agercy Authority for Im-
migration and Absorption, of which
Pincus is chairman.
Under the plan outlined to the
meeting, some 500 young Israelis
will be dispatched to the Western
count•i^s to explain conditions and
prospects in Israel and to encour-
age inm•igration. At the same
time. gove rnment industries and
Jewish Agency departments will
draw up (11.iled plans t, absorb
these iniloi ., 4rants and to provide
them with housing and jobs.
The Agency executive plenary
will he followed by a meeting of
the gm erning council of the World
Jewish Congress and a meeting of
the Confere,ice of World Jewish
Organizations (COJO).
Dr. Nahum Goldmann. president
of the World Zionist Organization
and of the World Jewish Congress;
who is presiding at all three meet-
ings. said that the Zionist move-
ment was facing great problems.
partiellarly in taking up the pros-
pect of a possible huge immigra-
tion. mainly of youth to Israel.
Ile said there was an urgent need
for a large-scale immigration to
Israel carmQign and that there was
no organ i7.71I ion for immigration
besides the Jewish Agency. He
expressed the hone that the plen-
ary session would develop working
plans for that objective.
Discussing the COJO and WJC
meetings. he said that while un-
reserved Jewish support would be
expressed for Israel, as well as a
readiness to rally the Jewish people
throughout the world politically for
Israel. the meetings would also
consider the situation of Jewish'
communities in Arab countries.
Dr. Goldmann said that the al-
most unexpected surge of mass
Jewish support for Israel in recent
weeks had revived his lifelong vi-
sion of bring all Jewish organiza-
tions throughout the world under
one roof—not as an executive body
but rather for discussions and con-
sultations. where organizations
from right to left, could discuss
purely Jewish problems.
Austrialian Labor Party
Condemns Rising Nazism
MELBOURNE (JTA)—A resolu-
tion condemning a recent outbreak
of Nazi activities in Melbourne,
involving a terror campaign
against Jews, was adopted at the
annual conference of the Victorian
branch of the Australian Labor
Party.
The conference urged police to
take stronger measures to halt and
outlaw such activities which, the
resolution said included the use
of explosives and threatening
letters and telephone .calls.
"The ignominy may have been
greatest for Britain and France,"
Mr. Thomas writes, "but even
Egypt, whose army was smashed,
and Israel, whose victory depend-
French Suez expedition in 1956 ed rather more than was admitted
did not lead to a great triumph for at the time on Anglo-French help,
any of the countries concerned find Suez historically a little un-
and left no one happy with the settling. For the USA, Suez was a
diplomatic failure."
outcome.
"Suez," by Hugh Thomas, author
it becomes obvious that UNRWA
of "The Spanish Civil War," has
has lent the weight of its UN Ares-
been published by Harper & Row
, ' tige and its professionalism to is-
In this narrative of crisis diplo-
' suing reports to Nasser's big lie
macy, Thomas points out the Anglo-
propaganda.
JERUSALEM (By Cable)—After To illustrate, I saw the records of
a three-month study of the Arab one camp listing nearly 5,000 resi-
refugee problem in 1963-64, I con- dents but only about half of whom
cluded that the refugee problem were receiving rations. Children
was being callously perpetuated born in the last 10 or more years
by the Arab governments and that were not being provided with ra-
their cynical exploitation of their tions by UNRWA because the Arab
own people was being condoned by camp autorities have not permit-
the United Nations Relief and ted the reporting of deaths since
Works Agency for Palestine Refu- the camps were established shortly
We talked to refugees at ran-
gees, the UN agency set up to as- after 1948. Thus, the statistics for
sist in Arab resettlement and the camp included not only the dom. Not one complained of his
ration-less children but also the treatment at the hands of Israeli
several thousand ration-supplied troops. Many volunteered that no
one had suggested they should
dead.
leave. One young man who said
I asked the camp director
he had resided in a refugee camp
whether he did not know that his
for years while working in the
population figure was swollen by
Old City of Jerusalem as a tailor,
perhaps as much as 40 per cent.
remarked: "Those Israeli soldiers
He said one could never know .
• are terrible in war. But they're
(Direct .IT A Teletyr7 Wire
This is a fair example of the qual-
to The Jewish News)
gentle and kind in peace. They
ity of all UNRWA statistics which
JERUSALEM -- The p l e n a r y an uninformed public accepts as give us water and food and they
meeting of the Jewish Agency • authoritative and which even gul- help the women carrying children
executive ariproved Wednesday a lible members of Congress are to cross (the Jordan)." He agreed
proposal by its chairman, Aryeh likely to accept.
that the Jordanian government had
I.. Pincus to draw up plans for the
Applied to the UNRWA-purported provided no facilities on the other
absorption of 15-20.000 immigrant
families from the Western coun- refugee figure of nearly 1,500,000, side of the river—not even water.
tries.
New Book Probes 1956 Suez Crisis
By the use of contemporary doc-
uments and memoirs, and hitherto
unpublished information obtained
in interviews, he gives new insight
into what actually happended.
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
10—Friday, July 14, 1967
'67 NICKS
Kennedy Urges U.S. Ban
on Extremists' Arsenals .
THE BEST
FOR LESS
AT
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Sen.
Robert F. Kennedy, N.Y. Dem.,
urged the Senate Juvenile Delin-
quency Subcommittee to adopt leg-
islation to outlaw private arsenals
now in the hands of such extremist
ORR
B u I C I K S
M
underground groups as the Ku
Klux Klan, Minutemen, and Ameri-
can Nazi Party.
He said that "at a minimum, all
weapons in the possession of these
organizations or members of these
organizations should be registered.
Further, all large-caliber heavy
weapons should be removed from
private hands. Private citizens have
no need of anti-tank guns, mortars
or machine guns."
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ASSETS
Cash and Due From Banks
U.S. Government Securities
$ 626,595,665
504,875,541
Obligations of Federal Agencies
Obligations of States and Political Sub-
divisions
Stock in Federal Reserve Bank, and
Other Securities
Loans:
Commercial and Consumer
Real Estate Mortgages
1,131,471,206
21,145,637
475,538,046
Chairman—Consumers Power Company
Henry T. Badman
Chairman of the Board
M. A. Cudlip
Chairman—McLouth Steel Corporation
Harry B., Cunningham
President—S. S. Kresge Company
9,600,000
35,185,207
President—The Michigan Bell Telephone
Company
Chairman, Executive Committee—
The Dow Chemical Company
432,315,020
Bank Premises and Equipment
(at cost less accumulated depreciation
of $19,366,039)
Other Assets
William M. Day
Leland I. Doan
$1,183,202,738
Edward F. Fisher
1,615,517,758
Less Allowance for Possible Loan
Losses
Board of Directors
A. H. Aymond
Director—General Motor, Corporation
1,580,332,551
Everell E. Fisher
Vice President and Director—Prime
Securities Corporation
A. P. Fontaine
Chairman—The Bendix Corporation
40,766,673
28,924,945
$3,287,779,058
Total Assets
John B. Ford
Director—Wyanstente Chemicals Corporation
John F. Gordon
Director—General Motors Corporation
Joseph L. Hudson, Jr.
President—The J. L. Hudson Company
LIABILITIES AND CAPITAL ACCOUNTS
Ralph T. McElvenny
Deposits:
Demand
Individual Savings and Time
Other Savings and Time
President — American Natural Gas Company
$1,524,597,296
1,164,021,232
255,085,538
2,943,704,066
Other Liabilities:
Funds Borrowed
Unearned Income
and Sundry Liabilities
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.
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46,480,169
Ellis B. Merry
Chairman of the Executive Committee
F. W. Misch
Vice President-Finance and Director—
Chrysler Corporation
Peter J. Monaghan
Partner—Monaghan, McCrone,
Campbell IL Crowson.
. $ 65,238,000
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Capital Accounts:
Common Stock, par $12.50 (authorized
and outstanding 4,800,000 shares)
Surplus
.I.
Undivided Profits
I.
Reserve for Contingencies. s I
Total Liabilities and
Capital Accounts
.
Donald F. Kigar
Retired President — The Detroit Edison Company
George E. Parker, Jr.
111,718,169
3,055,422,235
Attorney at Law
Robert B. Semple
President — Wyandotte Chemicals Corperathea
Nate S. Shapero
Chairman—Cunningham Drug Stores,
Austin Smith, M.D.
60,000,000
120,000,000
Chairman—Parke, Davis IL Company
George A. Stinson
42,356,823
222,356,823
10,000,000
ere
President—National Steel Corporation
Dwight L. Stocker
Consultant—Brown Company
232,356,823
$3,287,779,058
Robert M. Surdam
President
Donald F.
Valley
Chairman, Finance Committee—.
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