Bourguiba Renews Call to Arabs to End War With Israel;
Blames Nasser by Implication for Instigating June Fighting
President Habib Bourguiba
Labor Day
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VOLUME LI—No. 24
LONDON (JTA) — Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba again called for an end to the Arab insistence on a continued state of
belligerency against Israel, and by implication blamed Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser for precipitating the June war by refusing
to recognize the existence of Israel.
His blast came as the foreign ministers of most Arab states convened again at Khartoum, Sudan, to plan the long-postponed Arab
summit meeting, now underway. Dispatches received here from Khartoum said that some of the Arab foreign ministers were disturbed
by the timing of Bourguiba's statement on the very eve of their planned summit meeting.
in Tunisia, Bourguiba said: "Policies adopted hitherto have led all Arabs to consider Israel as an aggressor.
Addressing a rally
On the contrary, it is believed that it was Egypt which created the causus belli, insisting that the very existence of Israel constitutes an
aggression. The State of Israel has been recognized by both the United States and Soviet Russia. It is a United Nations member, and its
existence is challenged only by Arab countries. In these circumstances, it is useless to continue ignoring this reality and claim that Arabs
must wipe Israel off the map. In so doing, one drives himself to near-total isolation."
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Peace Hopes Vanish With Nasser
Boast of Retaining His Objectives
Synagogue Council Asks
Trust Instead of Enmity
in Labor Day Message
In a message to the labor movement in the
United States, Rabbi Jacob Philip Rudin, president
of the Synagogue Council of America, described
Labor Day as "in many ways the saddest in our
history."
The Synagogue Council statement, along with
statements from the National Council of Churches
and the United States Catholic Conference, is dis-
tributed nationally by the American Federation of
Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations.
Rabbi Rudin declared: "In city after city, the
antagonism between white Americans and black
Americans has fearsomely erupted into mindless
destruction which has left behind fire and death.
There is being written a shameful and unworthy
chronicle that is a stain upon our hearts and upon
our land."
The Synagogue Council's message states that it
is unhelpful "to shout accusations at each other
across the graves of the dead and the rubble of
our destroyed cities." "The fact is," the statement
declares, "that none of us is guiltless."
Rabbi Rudin called on the American labor move-
ment to be "at the center of the struggle to re-
move the blight of estrangement and alienation."
He stated. that Labor has a large and crucial role
to play "in bringing harmony where there is present
disharmony, trust where there is now enmity, co-
operation where there is now antagonism."
"The.time is now long since past when America
can withhold a job from a man because of the color
of his skin, or deprive him of the opportunity of a
decent education or deny him the right of living
in a house that will be for him a pride instead of
a shame," the Council statement declared. "To
right these egregious wrongs is surely our pre-
eminent task, and we look particularly for leader-
ship to the American labor movement in the critical
days ahead."
While Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser was quoted by the correspondent in Cairo of Le
Monde of Paris, Eric Rouleau, as having informed "several Egyptian personalities" that he aimed at peace
with Israel "in the shortest possible time," hope for an end to the conflict appeared remote again when
the Egyptian dictator, upon his arrival Tuesday for the Arab conference in Khartoum, in the Sudan,
stated that his chief aim was to attain "a unified Arab stand" and added: "If the vistas change, the
objective is the same—realization of an Arab victory, whatever the price."
Only eight chiefs of Arab states came to the Khartoum conference, and while the anticipation
was that there would be serious efforts to reach accord with Israel, the peace hopes vanished when there
was renewed emphasis that King Hussein and Nasser were willing only to put an end to "belligerence"
but neither would concede to a recognition of Israel's statehood.
Meanwhile there was confirmation of arrests of 50 Egyptian army leaders. Chief among the arrested
army and air force officers is Egypt Field Marshal Mohammed Abdul Hakim Amer, former commander-
in-chief of all the Egyptian armed forces and former first vice-president of the United Arab Republic.
Marshel Amer had been dismissed from his high posts by Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser
as the scapegoat for Egypt's defeat by Israel in June's Six-Day War. His arrest and that of the others
were seen here as an effort by Nasser to stem the tides of rebellion against his rule, which had been
reported from Cairo in recent weeks. The arrests seemed to signify a crackdown on anti-Nasser plotters
while Nasser himself was attending the Arab summit meeting at Khartoum.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency reports from
London that the fourth Arab summit meeting was
minus some of the "revolutionary" Arab leaders. They
discussed two principal but related issues: "elimina-
tion of the consequences" of Israel's victory in June's
Czechs Deny Itiaking
Jordan Case Arrests;
More Probe Demands
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Czech authorities
denied a report published in a London newspaper
Prague
that seven persons had been arrested in
in connection with the mysterious death of Charles
H. Jordan, executive vice chairman of the Joint
Distribution Committee. The report appeared in
London's Sunday Observer and was written by
Edward Crankshaw, political correspondent of that
newspaper.
American Embassy officials in Prague have not
been informed of any arrests or detention by the
Czech authorities. It is understood that the U.S.
Embassy in Prague has ruled out the possibility
that Mr. Jordan had taken his own life. It was
noted here that Czech newspapers, which earlier
claimed that the death of Mr. Jordan was a suicide
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Six •)ay War; and the possibility of measures, includ-
ing an oil embargo, against the United States, Britain
and other nations accused of being supporters of Israel.
Jordan's King Hussein was the first of the rulers
to arrive Tuesday morning, followed closely by Presi-
dent Nasser, each of them bringing what they called
"compromise" plans for moving Israel's occupying
troops out of the vast areas won by Israel during the
N‘a
Hussein is reportedly proposing that, after Israel
evacuates its troops from former Jordanian territory
including the Old City of Jerusalem and the west
—
bank of the Jordan River—Jordan would demilitarize
the west bank area, give Israel a corridor for access to
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Sickle=-Robeson Inspired Jeers
!Between Hammer and and
many people could not be admitted for lack of
nor edited
seats. certain that his remarks were neither censored , Jews
third installment in the
On the stage were seated some of the surviving Jewish beforehand. He started
out by saying, actually
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serialization of the revealing
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among
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the
center,
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published by the Jewish Pub-
Surkov and Polevoi, leaders of the Union. At lated into Russian, it was greeted w i
and Sickle," by Ben Ami,
the organizers,
writers
the center of the speaker's table on the stage sat Paul plause. But I noticed immediately that
lication Society of Americ a.
Polevoi in particular, looked embarrassed. Robeson went
BEN AMI
By when
feel
someone tells them that Robeson, the American Negro singer, a famous figure
say that his grandchildren in the United States
The way Jews
in the Tashkent market in the Soviet Union who happened to be in Moscow at on
to
were half-Jewish and half-Negro and that he loved to
not all of them bought medals
the time.
sing the m lullabies in Yiddish, a rich an d wonderful
but that there were also Jews who fought heroically,
The evening was opened by some o f the Jewish
place,
he told the
language (another storm of applause). Then
lus t by the episode of Paul Robeson's appearance.
writers, who repeatedly described Sholem Aleichem as
la illustrated
audience how impressed he had been several years ago,
in
1959,
the
Soviet
authorities
decided
to
demon-
of
the
greatest
Jewish
writers
of
all
time.
They
Early
Jewish
one
in
Aleichem
y
strafe their good will toward the Jews by celebrating
stressed time and again that he had defended the
and not only by his plays but
theater
in the Soviet Union; and
the
Sholem Aleichems centennial birthdate. A series of
parti-
nd
grt
theater
a,
in
ea
by the high standard of the
ploiting bourgeois Jews who had thrived in the Jewish
cuter, its greatest actor, Shlom o Mikhoels (a name hat
cities of the Soviet Union. is act, which was followed
towns.
In
their
view,
Sholem
Aleichem
had
really
was avoided until that moment, especially in a Jewish
by the publication of three Yiddish booklets, portended a
heralded the development of socialist and communist
g been a victim of St alin's li quida-
gathering, for,
fresh start in the minds of some Jews; but even those
ussian literat ure.
ne in R ns
litera tur e, Just as Gorki h
b rought back memories of past guilt ).
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had
no
illusions
about
these
Sholem
Aleichem
eve-
from Shole m
ad do sele ctio
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who
artists t
me
So
slings would not have missed this
attending
them. was a great Aleichem, to the great delight of the audience. Then came lie then described how Mikhoels had been
celebration
played
Shakespeare's
one
of the finest
for King Lear, and said that it had
of
The crowning feature
' turn. H e was greeted with wild applause, be
Shakespeare
performance
he
had
ever
seen.
Robeson
Koonnyi
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famous
colon-
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in
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festive eveng
no
small
matter
for
a
Jewish
audience
to
does continued: "But don't imagine that you are the only ones
performance was presented under it was
gala
hall. The
naded
the United
auspices
of the
Writers Union of the USSR, the most honored by the presence of the great Robeson. He
body in Soviet Literaure. I obtained a ticket not speak Russian and was assisted by a female translator who love Jewish literature and culture. In on
the
prestigious
mere chance. The hall was packed when I got there who stood by his side. He did not use notes and I am (Continued Page
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