Euromart Extends
3-Year Pact with
Dissatisfied Israel
BRUSSELS (JTA)—The Council
of Ministers of the European Eco-
nomic Community decided to con-
tinue for a year the tariff conces-
sions accorded to Israel under a
three-year agreement with the
European Common Market which
expired Saturday.
The council made the unilateral
decision after Israel decided not
to pick up its one-year extension
option in the pact, underlining its
dissatifaction with the limited use-
fulness of the current agreement
and its need for a wider solution
of the problem of trade ties to
Euromart. Israel filed some time
ago a request for associate status
with EEC.
The executive commission of the
Council, the policy making body
for the EEC, previously recom-
mended associate status for Israel.
The Council, at its meeting, left
action on that application for a
later date.
St. John's 'The Man Who
Played Cod' Published
"The Man Who Played God," a
story involving the founding of
modern Israel, leading to the sig-
nificance of today's dramatic head-
lines, by Robert St. John, has been
published by Eagle Books as a
selection of the Literary Guild. It
is the story of one Hungarian Jew
who risked the stigma of being
called a collaborator to purchase
from the Nazis freedom for nearly
two thousand of his own people.
"The Man Who Played God"
could be the story of anyone thrust
into the position of making agoniz-
ing, soul-searching decisions. The
novel grew out of the author's
own war-time experiences and ac-
quaintances: the owner of a Paris
lingerie shop who had to decide
whether to continue in business
when the only potential customers
were Nazi soldiers—a decision so
impossible for her to make that
she committed suicide; the Ro-
manian radio announcer who was
offered freedom for his Jewish
wife if be would broadcast the
news bulletins that the Nazis
wrote for him.
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Boris Smolar's
'Between You
. . and Me
By BORIS SMOLAR
(Copyright, 1967, JTA, Inc.)
COMMUNITY CURRENTS: The American Jewish community will
never be the same after the present dramatic outpouring of millions of
dollars in most generous gifts to the Israel Emergency Fund of the
United Jewish Appeal and in the unprecedented buying of Israel Bonds
. A new chapter has now been opened in the history of the American
Jewish community—a chapter which changes entirely the image of
American Jewry . . . No longer can one now say with certainty that
the interest of American Jews in things Jewish is declining ... Suddenly
masses of Jews — young and old — who never before thought much
of their Jewishness stood up to be counted during the days when
Israel was in a fight for its existence . . . Never before contributing
to any Jewish cause, they rushed to offer contributions to the Emer-
gency Fund for humanitarian needs in Israel without even being
solicited . . . Not to speak of those Jews who were always in the
ranks of contributors and exceeded themselves this time to the
highest level of giving . . . An evaluation of this phenomenon — in
the sense of Jewish awakening — is still to come . . . Organized
Jewish communities, as well as Jewish organizations, have now a
new field to study . . They have lists of thousands and thousands
of Jews who never wanted to be part and parcel of the Jewish com-
munity and who did not respond to calls of Jewish responsibilities
. . • Many of these "self-discovered" Jews will respond from now on,
after having been awakened by Israel's six-day war which shook them
and shook the world . . . The Jewish Federations and Welfare Funds
will now find their way to such elements of Jews in their communities
who have long been given up as not Jewishly interested . . . They will
have to take inventory of the factors that brought these elements
en-masse to the cause of Israel in time of a crisis having never before
displayed any interest in Israel at all ... New avenues for the future
of Judaism in this country may be opened after due consideration
is given to the various factors that awoke such strong Jewish emotions
among so many Jews whose Jewish feelings were practically non-
existent or were getting weaker and weaker.
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INSIDE UJA: The total of the many millions of dollars contributed
by American Jewry to the Israel Emergency Fund of the United Jewish
Appeal will probably not be made public for a long time to come .. .
Nor will the public know of the immense role played by Rabbi Her-
bert H. Friedman, the UJA executive vice-chairman, in the historical
hectic days when American Jewry had to be mobilized for -unpre-
cedented giving . . . Rabbi Friedman proved himself in those days
a person of extraordinary ability as an organizer and a man who can
inspire others to rise to the highest heights in moments of need . . .
It is no easy matter to stimulate individual donors to give a million
dollars, or a half-a-million dollars, or even a quarter of a million
dollars each . . . Rabbi Friedman succeeded in securing over the
telephone the first million dollar contributions from persons whom
he wanted to serve as examples to others in unprecedented giving in
the first critical days of Israel . . . In addition, he summoned the
.
LONDON (JTA)—The Moscow
City Communist Party leader,
Nikolai Yegorychev, has been
ousted from that post for de-
manding that the Soviet Union
adopt a more belligerent policy
in the Middle East, it was re-
ported here from Moscow.
A brief official announcement
said he had been "transfered to
other work" without any details
as to the reasons. However ru-
mors circulated in Moscow had
it that the removal was a result
of his demand in a Central Com-
mittee of the Communist Party
meeting for a stiffer Soviet
Policy to help the Arabs against
IsraeL
According to the rumors, Ye-
gorychev argued his position
with such vigor that proponents
in the Central Committee of a
more moderate line were in-
furiated.
Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism
as related to vitalism, humanism,
mysticism and Marxism is out-
lined in "The Scandalous Ghost,"
an important new Wayne State
University volume.
The author, Prof. Jacques L.
Salvan of the WSU French depart-
ment, deals with the basic human
attitudes and contends that Sar-
tre's thinking is grounded on pre-
suppositions borrowed from the
philosophy of evalution and Hege-
lian dialectics.
Israel Information Center Dedicated in Austria
VIENNA (JTA)—A new Israel
Information Center was dedicated
here in the presence of Israel
Ambassador Michael Simon, civic
officials and leaders of the Jewish
community. Addressing the dedi-
cation ceremonies, Ambassador
Simon called on the Austrian
government to take a firm stand
against attempt by the Arab states
to get Israel branded as an aggres-
sor in the Middle East war.
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Friday, July 14, 1967-29
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Moscow Leader
Urging Stiffer Arab
Backing, Dropped
`Scandalous Ghost' Views
Sartre's Existentialism
top WA leadership — as well as the leaders of the Israel Bond
Organization and of the Council of Jewish Federations and Welfare
Funds — to set the atmosphere for the Israeli Emergency Fund
He also lost no time in establishing a "hot line" between his office
and 52 key cities . . Jewish community leaders in these cities were
thus kept constantly informed on campaign developments and gave
in return information on the progress of the campaigns in their com-
munities . . . At the same time he introduced a new form of con-
fidential communication by distributing video-tape bulletins to 50
communities . . . Within a few days it became apparent that the
response of the American Jewish community to the UJA's Israel
Emergency Fund was unprecedented both in speed and in flow of
dollars . . . For two weeks, the national headquarters of the UJA
in New York was a beehive of activity with the top - leadership and
the entire staff working from early morning to the late hours . . .
Locally, each organized Jewish community conducted feverish action
in marshaling maximum aid for Israel's humanitarian needs . .
Louis Fox, president of the Council of Jewish Federations and
Welfare Funds, and Philip Bernstein, CJFWF executive director, were
in constant touch with welfare fund presidents and executive direct
tors of 230 organized communities who were briefed at an emergency
meeting in New York and who performed a magnificient job . . .
There was the closest cooperation between the CJFWF and the UJA
headquarters during the tense weeks of the campaign for the Emer-
gency Fund, both seeking — and succeeding — to make the campaign,
in swiftness and degree of response, the greatest voluntary -fund-
raising drive in the history of the UJA and of the United States.
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GRADUATION SEASON: The graduation season has coincided with
the weeks when entire American Jewry was imbued with the spirit
of coming to the aid of Israel's humanitarian needs . . . Never before
have so many Jewish graduates declared themselves eager to go to
Israel to be of help there in humanitarian, agricultural and indus-
trial work . . fact, there has always been very little interest in
Israel among the 350,000 Jewish students in American colleges and
universities as well as among the thousands of Jewish faculty members
. . . The victorious war in Israel has given much food for thought to
many Jewish students and professors who never displayed any inter-
est in Jewish matters . . . This time they were stirred to volunteer
for any kind of work in Israel as long as it could help Israel . . .
It did not matter to them whether they would work in a kibutz as
farmhands or in the city as bus drivers replacing those Israelis who
were not yet demobilized . . . Thousands of them registered to work
for the summer in Israel; among them were graduates of schools of
medicine, physics, chemistry, engineering and business administration
. .. Should this be taken to mean that American Jewish youth are not
lost to Judaism, as some pessimists claim they are? . . . Is this an
indication that American Jewish youth is reachable for things Jewish
if one only knows how to awaken their Jewish feelings?
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