8—Friday, July 21, 1967
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS 1 U.S. to
Press Israel
for Damages on Liberty
India, Self-Named Champion I WASHINGTON (JTA) — Mem-
of the Senate Foreign Rela-
of Peace, Called Cairo Parrot j bers
tions Committee said Secretary of
NEW YORK (JTA)—An Amer--
can political scientist charged
that "one unhappy by product" of
the United Nations effort to cope
with 1 he Middle East crisis has
been the unmasking of India's
posture of olympian morality and
neutrality—so carefully cultivated ,
among liberals throughout the
world--as sheer pretense."
In ,an evaluation in the current
New Leader, William Korey also
declared that from the start of the
current crisis May 18, "the Indian
government has parrotted the
Cairo-Moscow arguments, however
contradictory and whatever the
alterations required by swift chang-
ing circumstances." •
Korey traced the developments
from the first meeting of the Se-
curity Council on May 24 when
Western countries were shocked
by the sudden withdrawal of
United Nations Emergency Force
units from the Egyptian-Israel
, border and Sharm el Sheikh, the
Sinai prornintory controlling pas-
sage through the Strait of Tiran,
followed by the Egyptian closing
of the strait to Israeli shipping.
Indian delegate Parthasarati
promptly rejected proposals that I
the council seek to mitigate
Egyptian belligerence with a
warning such action would be
"precipitate" and insisting that
Egypt was "a firm believer in
cooperation" with the UN.
The next day the Indian minister
for external affairs, M. C. Chagla.
"fully bared New Delhi's neutral
stance in a speech in parliament."
in which he said the Egyptian de-
mand for t'NEF withdrawal was
made necessary by Israel's "aggres-
sive designs." Chagla did not
acknowledge what was widely
known at UN headquarters, "that
India had played a major role in
forcing U Thant to pull out the
peace-keeping troops. -
Despite sharp press attacks. •
India refused to budge from its pro-
Nasser stance. That this reduce , '
t he ef fectiveness of the UN. in
which the Indians have a vital in-
terest. seems to have been for-
gotten." Once bostilities broke out
and reports emerged of Israel's
early successes on the battlefield.
India switched positions. It "had
urged inaction" by the council
"when an effort might at least have
been made to prevent a war." After
June 5 India. together with the
Russians, "suddenly called for
council action." in "an extra-
ordinary somersault."
On June 6. the Indian delegate
"demanded a return to the con-
ditions responsible for the fighting
in the first place. His speech was
packed with anti-Israel vitupera-
tions rarely heard at the UN ex-
cept from Arab spokesmen."
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Korey noted that the Indian
stand at the UN was in line
with Indian policy toward Israel,
involving creation of "a host of
obstacles to trade and cultural
contacts." Indian businessmen
have been warned periodically
that "Import and export licenses
will not be issued for commerce
with Israel." This general anti-
Israel approach "has been trans-
lated into a pronouncedly pro-
Arab policy on key Near Eastern
issues."
India, for -example, on July 12,
1965, "officially recognized the
Arab League and accorded formal
status to its diplomatic mission in
New Delhi—the first to do so of all
the non-Arab states where the
league had offices. Since the Arab
League openly advocated Israel's
liquidation, it was somewhat un-
seemly for a champion of peace to
rush to recognize it."
Korey noted that such behavior
was clearly not caused by the ef-
forts of Israel, which has sought
in various ways to be helpful.
"Between 1958 and 1964, more than
200 Indians participated in Israeli
courses for trainees from develop-
ing countries," and Israel has re-
peatedly offered other forms of
help.
1State Dean Rusk had promised
Committee Chairman J. W. Ful-
bright. Arkansas Democrat, that a
bill for full damages and compen-
sation for all deaths and injuries
arising from the Israeli attack in
June on the U.S.S. Liberty will be
submitted to Israel.
Sen. Fulbright told Rusk when
he appeared before the committee
that many members of Congress
remained "extremely upset" over
the Liberty affair. He asked the
secretary to explain the adminis-
tration's attitude. Rusk said all in-
quiries into the Liberty attack
indicated the incident was "in no
way justified" and added that "I
do not believe we have had ade-
quate justification from Israel."
Rusk promised to submit to the
Senate body the report of a U.S.
naval court of inquiry and all in-
formation obtained from the Israeli
government. The Liberty was at-
tacked while operating off the
battle zone in a clandestine man-
ner as an intelligence ship, accord-
ing to authorative sources. Israel
has maintained that the ship was
mistaken for an Egyptian vessel
and the attack halted the moment
that appropriate identification was
made.
Stalin's Hatred of Jews Brought About
His Own Death, Report Reveals
A secret report in the hands of
the State Department reveals that
Josef Stalin's death was the in-
direct result of his own hatred of
the Jews.
James K. Anderson, Detroit
Constitution Study Unit
Votes for Repeal of N.Y.'s
Blaine Amendment
ALBANY, N.Y. (JTA)—A New
York State Constitutional Conven-
tion subcommittee has recom-
mended repeal of the controversial
Blaine Amendment, the clause in'
the existing constitution which
prohibits the use of public funds
for church-related schor.ls.
The report was drafted by the
subcommittee on church and state
of the committee on Bill of Rights
and suffrage. It was carried in
the subcommittee by a six to one
vote after a series of hearings
around the state. The report will
be debated in the full committee
before it goes to the convention
which has been charged with re-
vision of the State Constitution.
News staff writer, wrote in Tues-
day's News that the report is said
to have come to the Americans
from a Soviet defector who re-
ceived the information from An-
astas I. Mikoyan, a former head
of the Communist Party who wit-
nessed the events surrounding
Stalin's death.
Soviet Chief Rabbi Succumbs
to Kremlin, Accuses Israel
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
JERUSALEM—An exchange of
letters between Moscow Chief
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Levin and
Israeli Sepharadic Chief Rabbi
Yitzhak Nissim, in which Rabbi
Levin repeated Soviet charges of
aggression against Israel in the
June crisis and war, was published
here Wednesday. Rabbi Levin
quoted the Soviet press on such
accusations.
In his letter, Rabbi Levin, ap-
parently acting under Soviet press-
ures, wrote Rabbi Nissim that he
Brooklyn Hasidic Sect
to Buy Outstate Farm
MONSEY, N.Y. (JTA) — A
small sect of Hasidic Jews com-
prising 60 families is moving from
Williamsburg in Brooklyn to Rock-
land County where the sect plans
to buy a farm area for around
$1,000,000.
Members of the Mahzika Hadass
("The Upholders of Tradition")
have lived in Williamsburg since
they fled from the Nazi holocaust
in Hungary. They have lived
among 65,000 other Orthodox Jews
but many of Williamsburg's Jews
have been leaving in recent years
because of the deterioration of the
section.
The area is located about three
miles from the Village of New
Square where another Hasidic
sect from Brooklyn founded a com-
pletely religious community sev-
eral years ago. The area is zoned
in a way which will provide ade-
quate space for homes for the 60
families.
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apparent reference to reunifica-
tion of new and old Jerusalem
which made the Wailing Wall in
the Old City available to Jews
for the first time in decades.
Polish-Argentine Jews
Rap Gomulka Remark
(Direct JTA Teletype Wire
to The Jewish News)
BUENOS AIRES—A special con-
vention of Polish Jews living in
Argentina adopted a resolution
Wednesday protesting against an
attack on Jews in Poland for having
welcomed Israel's victory over the
Arabs last month.
The attack had been made by
Wladyslaw Gomulka, Communist
Party chief in Poland, who de-
nounced these Jews as "fifth
columnists."
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Rabbi Nissim, in his reply, said
the Soviet charges were a defama-
tion. Be urged Rabbi Levin, as
well as alll Russian Jews to join
in Israel's "great joy" at the ful-
fillment of prophecies which fol-
lowed the six-day June war, an
sprinkling systems.
"Stalin said they all would be
deported to Siberia — to Birohid-
jan, the Siberian area created 20
years before as a separate Soviet
Jewish region.
In addition to proposing repeal
of the Blaine Amendment, on
which organized Jewry in the state
"Lazar Kaganovich, the only
is deeply split. the proposition
Jewish member of the Politburo
would make the state constitution
and Stalin's brother-in-law, then
conform to the federal constitu-
walked up to the seated Soviet
tion. It would do so by adding a
leader.
provision that "the state or any
Kaganovich
"Contemptuously,
political subdivision thereof shall
pulled
out his party card, tore it
make no law respecting an estab-
lishment of religion, or prohibit- to shreds and threw the pieces
into Stalin's face.
in,g the free exercise thereof."
"With that, Stalin became purple
A number of federal aid to ed-
ucation programs, which include with rage."
When Lavrenti P. Beria, Stalin's
assistance to pupils of religious
and other non-public schools, have secret police chief, aligned him-
been based on the assumption that self with Mikoyan, Stalin "rose
they do not conflict with that from his chair and began scream-
Federal constitutional church-and- ing incoherently.
state position.
"Then he fell unconscious onto
The Bill of Rights committee of a sofa.
"The Politburo members thought
the state convention was expected
to add a provision to the repeal his seizure was only temporary,
proposal report to enable state but when he did not regain con-
taxpayers to bring suit to test sciousness for about an hour, doc-
the legality of appropriations aid- tors were summoned.
"Stalin was dead."
ing non-public schools.
This was not the first time
that Rabbi Levin approached
Israeli envoys in Moscow on
such issues, but it was believed
that this was the most vehe-
ment of his interventions.
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A secret meeting of the Polit-
buro was called by Stalin in
winter 1953. "As in the 'Doctor's
Purge,' Stalin announced that
the Jews in the Soviet Union
would be the traget.
"'The Jews will be kept hermet-
ically isolated there. They never
will be able to come out.'
"Mikoyan was the first to ob-
ject.
"'This would be a bad thing to
do,' he cautioned. 'Communist
parties in the Communist world
would lose half their members.
The Soviet Union would be com-
pletely isolated. You would be
continuing Hitler's policies.'
had asked ambassador Katriel
Katz to bar Israeli diplomats in
the Soviet Union for "spreading
anti Soviet literature" in syna-
gogues and breaking Soviet laws.
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