Poland, USSR Refuse to Aid UNRWA; Generals Ousted for Policy Opposition
UNITED NATIONS, N. Y. (JTA) have split the Communist leader-
-The Polish government, which ; ship in Poland and have resulted
has never contributed to the work in a purge of the Polish Army high
of the United Nations Relief and ; command, according to informa-
Works Agency for Palestine Refu•1 tion received here from Warsaw.
gees in the 17 years of that organ- The Daily Telegraph reported
ization's existence, announced on that three Polish generals had been
July 27 that it was bypassing the' dismissed for opposing that gov-
agency and would render its own ernment stand. The ousted officers
"immediate assistance to the popu- were listed as Gen. Manciewicz,
lations of Jordan, Syria and Egypt commander of the Air Defense
suffering as the result of Israel's , Force, his chief of staff and his
military assault." , deputy for political affairs. They
Like the Soviet Union, which reportedly refused to distribute
made a similar announcement July , anti-Israel material to units under
26, the Polish government, in its ; their command.
The purge, the first in many
communication to the secretary-
general, made no reference to the years, coincided, according to the
fact that it had voted for a General Daily Telegraph, with two speeches
Assembly declaration appealing to by Marshal Marian Spychalski, the
all nations to increase their sup- Polish defense mihister, denounc
port of UNRWA to enable it to ing Polish supporters of Israel. The
cope with the refugee situation. defense minister's speeches re-
vealed that there was widespread
The Polish letter, like that of
belief in the Polish armed forces.
the Soviet Union, argued that
and in those of other Communist
"the responsibility for all dam-
ages and tragic consequences of bloc countries. that Israel's June
victory over Soviet-backed Egypt
the aggression against the Arab
states should be borne entirely j had revealed the inadequacy of
by Israel." Soviet training and equipment.
The letter announced that Po- Meanwhile reliable reports re-
land had decided to contribute 430 ceived from Warsaw indicated the
million zlotys in kind. (At the un- . Stalinists and anti-Semites among
official rate, this would be the leaders of the Polish Communist
equ i va l en t o f $430,000.) The aid government seemed to be winning
will he in the form of medicines. the internal struggle.
I
In addition to the three Polish
food. blankets, clothing and house-
army generals, several politicians
hold articles.
United Nations auditors reported also were reported to have re-
that UNRWA had a deficit of signed. According to the reports,
51,170,369 in its operations for 1966. there is a determined effort by the
It reported income from govern- old-line elements to return to the
mental and non-governmental situation of 1956 when Poland was
sources of S36.328.051 and expendi- under almost direct Soviet domina-
tures and commitments for the tion. If this proves to be the case,
year totaling 537.498.420. The de- the sources said, Communist Party
iicit was covered out of the work- leader Wladyslaw Gomulka, who
ing capital fund of the United Na- led the battle for greater freedom
tions. for Poland from Soviet domina-
The Soviet Union informed Sec- tion, may be in trouble, despite
rotary-General U Thant July 26 his lenthy and vehement anti-Israel
that it saw "no need" to send aid
orations and his attack on Polish
through that agency and would Jews last June for rejoicing in
provide assistance to the Arab Israel's June victory.
peoples "through appropriate
Polish Jews received another
channels."
warning Monday night against
Ambassador Nikolai T. Fedo- supporting Israel in the after-
renko told the secretary-general in , math of the Israeli victory in the
a letter that the Soviet Union "is IJune war.
providing substantial assistance to : The renewed warning emerged
the Arab countries with a view to from a mass meeting in Warsaw
eliminating the consequences of which marked the 24th anniversary
aggression committed by Israel." of the 1943 Warsaw uprising
The Soviet government and wel- against the German occupiers. The
fare agencies, he asserted, were meeting adopted a resolution reit-
providing aid to Egypt. Syria and crating the June 19 ultimatum by
Jordan which "have endured suf- Gomulka to Polish Jews to back
fering as a result of the criminal the Polish regime's total support
actions of Israel's armed forces." of the defeated Arab countries. In
The Soviet envoy said aid by warning the Jews, the Polish Corn-
other countries "is. of course wel- munist leader had said that
come.• but he asserted that "the "Poland will not tolerate a fifth
question of eliminating the conse- column in the country."
quences of Israel's aggression
The resolution adopted Monday
cannot be in any sense reduced night and reported by the Polish
to a simple matter of charity." He Press Agency, declared: "We are
repeated Soviet demands that Is- , in full solidarity with Wladyslaw
rael unconditionally withdraw its Gomulka's speech and accordingly
forces from Arab territories, pay
compensation to the Arabs and
" a: state that Polish citizen may have
stand condemned as an aggressor. only one fatherland, Poland. We
All the members of the United also state that we shall not remain
Nations had been asked to make indifferent toward people who, in
special contributions this year to the face of a threat to world peace,
UNRWA in view of the extent of hence also to the security of
the refugee problem. The Fedo• I Poland, support the aggressor."
renko letter was the Soviet reply I Soviet Yiddish Writers
Support Moscow's Anti-Israel
to that appeal.
Stand on Middle East
Polish Generals Purged
LONDON JTA)—The Sovieische
for Opposition to Communist
Heimland, the only Yiddish publi-
Middle East Policy
LONDON (JTA)—Sharp differ- . cation in the Soviet Union, pub-
ences over the wisdom of official lished in its current issue a letter
Polish government policy in sup- from a group of Soviet Jewish
porting the Arab states against Is- writers supporting the Soviet gov-
rael and in unreserved backing of ernment's position in the Middle
Soviet policy in the Middle East East dispute.
The letter made a reference to
the "aggressive policy of Israeli
ruling circles" in urging the un-
conditional withdrawal of Israeli
forfces from Arab-occupied terri-
tories but was generally much
And Promptly Stop Itching, milder than current Soviet propa-
ganda blasts against Israel. It
Relieve Pain In Most Cases.
made no reference to the charges
Science has found a medication
of Nazi-like atrocities which have
with the ability, in most cases—
consistently marked Soviet anti-
to relieve pain, itching and shrink
Israel propaganda.
hemorrhoids. In case after case
The letter noted that Soviet
doctors proved, while gently re-
Premier Kosygin "told the United
Nations General Assembly on
lieving pain,actual reduction took
June 18 clearly that the Soviet
place. The secret is Preparation
Union was not against Israel"
• H. It also soothes irritated tis-
but
only opposed its "aggressive
sues and helps prevent further
policy," "The Soviet Union has
infection. Just ask for Prepara-
always supported the right of big
tion H Ointment or Suppositories.
and small nations to national in-
Ad,.
Now Possible To
Shrink Hemorrhoids
dependence," the letter stated.
"This is why the Soviet Union
voted in 1947 for the UN decision
to create an Arab and a Jewish
State in Palestine."
"We urge all progressive Jewish
writers and cultural workers, in-
deed Jews throughout the whole
world, to raise their voice for
peace in the Middle East and for
withdrawal of Israeli troops behind
the truce lines and for promotion
of an atmosphere of respect for the
rights of all countries and peoples
in this area," the letter said.
It linked the issue with the death
of the Six Million by the Nazis with
the statement that a people which
had suffered such a tragedy
"clearly knows the dangers of mili-
tary conflicts." The writers also
cited the late Albert Einstein as
having warned "Israeli rulers in
his time that Israel's independent
existence could only be ensured in
conditions of good neighborly re-
lations with the Arab states." The
letter cautioned also that "the
Israeli people have no need for
foreign territory. Occupation and
annexation are the road of adven-
tureers."
Aaron Vergelis, editor of the pub-
lication and long-time Jewish apol-
ogist for the Soviet regime, was
one of the signers. Others were
Hirsh Osherovich of Wilno, Abra-
ham Gontar, Shike Driz, Z. Wend-
roff, Nathan Lurie of Odessa,
Chaim Maltinsky of Minsk, Boris
Miller of Biro-Bidjan, Chaim Mela-
mud of Czernowitz, Moshe Noto-
vich of Kazan, Yechiel Falikman of
Kiev, Solomon Roitman of Yosh-
kar and Yechiel Schreibman of
Kishinev.
The anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish
campaign in the Soviet press,
continues unabated. The most re-
cent example of Israel-baiting
and Jew-baiting in the Soviet
press was noted here in a series
of articles with a Cairo dateline
being printed daily in Pravda,
official organ of the USSR Com-
munist Party. Summarizing the
recent events in the Middle East,
the Pravda writers not only dis-
tort the facts of the June war
known to the world at large, but
also engage in concentrated at-
tacks on Israel and Jews in gen-
eral.
In Paris, the Union of Jewish
14—Friday, August 4, 1967
THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
War Veterans protested to the
Soviet ambassador in Paris against
the recent appearance of an anti-
Semitic cartoon in several Soviet
newspapers. A copy of the pro-.
test letter was reprinted Tuesday
in Neue Presse, a newspaper in
Paris published by Jewish Com-
munists.
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