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. C * • * 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." NATIONAL BANK OF DETROIT 342. 7100 14500 W. 7 MILE AT LODGE X-WAY low" 1 tll11111 It ttt it ttlllll 11111111111111 1111 CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET—JUNE 30; 1967 Main Offloo, Woodward at Fort 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 I ... - e . .. I •-• rr• 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 • • 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—. S. S. Kresge Company Assets carried at approximately $299,000,000 (including It. S. Government Securities carried at S90,889,607} were pledged at June 30, 1967, to secure public deposits, including deposits of $40,038,767 of the Treawrer, State of Michigan, and for other purposes required by law. Michigan's Largest Bank Member Federal Deposit lestrence Corpsmen