Detroit Jewry's Communal
Development RefleCted in
History of Yiddish Theater
—Review on Page 12
' Israel's Role
in Pressing
for Amity;
Mounting
Antagonisms
Editorial
Page 4
Early History of Reform Jewish
Leadership Reveals Attitude on
Zionism, Traditional Practices
Status of Bukharan
Jewry in the USSR
Excerpts from JPS Volume 'Between
Hammer and Sickle' on Page 16
.f —Review on Page 43
New Charge of
Israel 'Hard
Role': Amazing
Attitude of
Political
Analysts
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M. E. Issue Back on UN Agenda;
Thant Report Scores Belligerence,
Arab Failure to Recognize Israel
Israel Joins UN Pact to Find
Data of World War's Victims
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (JTA)—Israel on Tuesday became the
sixth member of the United Nations to accede to an international
treaty which may help to trace and establish the facts of the death
of Jews during World War Two.
The formal document to which Israel acceded is one entitled
"Protocol for the Further Extension of the Period of Validity of the
Convention on the Declaration of the Death of Missing Persons."
This UN Convention provides "for the declaration of death for per-
sons whose last residence was in Europe, Asia or Africa and who have
disappeared in the years 1939.1945 under circumstances affording
reasonable grounds to infer death as a consequence of events of war
Or of racial, religious, political or national persecution."1
The convention does not. cover members of armed „forces who
were in those continents during the years of World War` Two. Five
other countries have thus far acceeded to the Protocol which was
opened for accession. These are: Cambodia, (Nationalist) China,
Guatemala, Italy and Pakistan.
A hope that the newly-convened, 22nd regular session of the
General Assembly may lead to a lasting solution of the Middle East
crises was expressed by Corneliu Manescu, foreign minister of Romania,
in his opening address as the newly-elected president of the assembly.
"The emergency special session," said Manescu, "has passed the
Middle East problem to the present session, whose duty and high
responsibility it is to concentrate its efforts upon a thorough study
of this problem that could lead to a lasting solution in keeping with
the vital intrests of the people of that region."
Ambassador Abdul Rahman PaMwak of Afganistan, retiring
president of the Assembly, cited the Middle East situation and de-
plored the failure of the special emergency assembly session to reach
full accord.
BY SAUL CARSON
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JTA Staff Correspondent
Secretary-General U Thant laid much of the blame
UNITED NATIONS
Tuesday for the two Arab-Israeli wars in the' last 10 years on the United Nations itself,
criticized the Arab states for their unwillingness to accept the existence of Israel, point-
ed to one important factor in the Middle East difficulties as the insistence of the Arab
states on maintaining belligerence between them and Israel, and raised as "a fundamental
question" the right of innocent passage through the Strait of Tiran and the Suez Canal. -
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These points, among many others on the subject of the Middle East crisis, were
included in the introduction to the secretary-general's annual report- to the UN General
Assembly. The annual report itself, comprised of a technical summation of the year's
events, is filed with the assembly two or or three months prior to the session's opening,
while the introduction, which contains the UN chief's personal observations on the
major issue, is usually circulated just prior to the session itself.
Thant pointed out in the section of the introduction dealing with the Middle East
that the four armistice agreements reached under UN auspices between Israel --and four
Arab states in 1949 had stated explicitly that the pacts were "only a step towards peace
and not considered a basis for a more or less permanent way of life in the Middle East."
The signatories to those armistice agreements, in addition to Israel, were Egypt, Jordan,
Syria and Lebanon.
The pacts, Thant noted, were not peace treaties.
On the other hand, he stated, "there has been no
indication either in the General Assembly or the Se-
Gussing's Report to UN
curity Council that the validity and applicability of the
Rejected Arab Charges
armistice agreements have been changed as a result
of the recent hostilities or of the war of 1956. Each
of Israeli Atrocities —
agreement, in fact, contains a provision that it will
Deplored Obstruction by
remain in force until a peaceful settlement between
Egypt on Status of Jews
the parties is achieved." He added that neither the
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16 Nobel Laureates Among 80 American
Leaders Pressing U. S. to Initiate Direct
Israeli-Arab Talks for a Peace Settlement
Eighty American leaders, distinguished in the fields of science, education, literature, law, economics,
art, architecture and public affairs, 16 of them Nobel Laureates, called upon the United States government,
"as a central issue of peace and security," to initiate renewed action within the United Nations and outside
it, to induce the Arab states to enter into direct negotiations with Israel for a peace settlement.
In a joint statement, in which they expressed supported for the five principles set forth by President
Lyndon B. Johnson on June 19, they urged that the U.S. "policy be fortified and pursued inside the United
Nations and outside it with all the authority of our strength as a nation."
Declaring that peace and security require that "in fact as in principle, there can be no return to the
status quo ante," they underscored' that "Israel's security is bound up with our own." They warned that
"without peace settlements entered into by Israel and each of the warring states, we are only storing up
fuel for new outbreaks, with no assurance that a new encounter can be contained or restricted either to
conventional weapons or to regional states."
They recalled that Israel by its own valor had "surmounted a climactic unified attack to destroy
it" and "thus it has forestalled the dangers of a military confrontation between the major powers."
Direct negotiations, they emphasized, "provide no privilege to either side; they are common practice
among sovereign states." Moreover, "in the delimited atmosphere of a direct confrontation between the
parties, insulated against the competitions and pressures of major or minor states, hard reality may proud
more effective counsel and impetus for a settlement than the public debates of the past 20 years."
A copy of the statement with the list of the signatories was sent to President Lyndon B. Johnson in
behalf of the initiating group and the signatories by Dr. I. I. Rabi, University Professor emeritus, Columbia
University, 1944 Nobel Laureate, physics.
The statement was made public in behalf of the signatories by five scientists who had initiated 'it: Dr-
Louis F. Feiser, professor of chemistry, Ilarvard University; Dr. Maurice Goldhaber, member. National.
Academy of Sciences; Dr. Robert Ilofstadter, professor of physics, Stanford University, 1961 Nobel Laureate,.
physics; -Dr. Rabi; and Dr. David Rittenberg, chairman, department of physicans and surgeons of Columbia
University.
In inviting signatories, the group said "its purpose is to support our government, and others, seeking a
settlement of the conflict in the Middle East, which is realistic and capable of stabilizing the area after 20
years and three wars."
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Ford Aids Israel 'Fund:
At
the annual stag day of the Detroit Service Group,
at Knollvi'/ood Country Club, Sept. 14, Max M. Fisher,
national chairman of the United Jewish Appeal, an-
nounced a $100,000 gift to the Israel Emergency
Fund from Henry Ford II. Fisher enumerated the many
generous gifts by scores of communities in the United
States, Canada, Great Britain, France and other coun-
tries, and stated that the Ford gift boosted the Detroit
total to the emergency fund to $6,400,000. The ac-
companying photo shows Fisher (left) accepting a
$25,000 gift from Ford to the UJA during a recent
UJA meetin& in New York. Paul Zuckerman was the
chairman of the highly successful campaign for the
Israel Emergency Fund.